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(foluinbia sentinel. HARLEM. GEORGIA rvm.ll'Hhli KVHRY THVKbDA Y. Umllbt-H <** Alk-ln»OJl. nommoatt A tradition ha* long prevailed that th** waters of Lak** Tahoe, i alifornia, would n<*t sustain a human Ixxly. and that many daring swimmers bad |>*r iahad by venturing into its treacber out depths. Professor L*< <*nte ami the young men of hi* scientific expe dition have exploded thia delusion by swimming in the lake. . —1 " 1 Aa an illustration of the fact that school attendance during epidemics largely contributes to the spread of in fectious diseases. It is stated that dur mg the late serious outbreaks of diph lheria io the ironstone villages of England the closing of a school proved in every instance an effective means of bringing each local epidemic to an end Now that hydrophobia is a burning question, a wholesale druggist of Phil adelphin affirms that the drug elefaiii pane is an infallible preventive of it, ami cites a numlier of instances in which Its efficacy was demonstrated. The active medical principle of the plant is found in its root and is known aa Inulin, and this druggist believes that It completely neutralizes the virus communicated by a rabid dog. Commending vegetarianism. Dr. B W. Richardson says “The oftener wo go to the vegetable world for our food, the oftener WO go to the first, arid therefore the cheapest source of supply The tendencies of ail ad vanced scholars In thrift should be to find out plans for feeding all the com munity, as far as possible, direct from the lap of earth; to Impress science Into our service so that she may pre pare the otioicesl viands, minus the necessity of making a lower animal the living laboratory for the sake of what is Just a little higher than canni bal propensities.” Signor Farlni, the explorer of the Kalahari Desert, in Africa, makes an interesting statement bearing on I‘as teur's inoculations for hydrophobia. He says that in the region mentioned a similar operation i< resorted to in cases of poisonous snake bites. Every native, when he goes out hunting, carries with him some dried poison glands <>f a snake. If he is bitten, lie immediately introduces a small portion of tills sluff mar the wound ami goes to sleep. The limb swells, Lui after two days it regains its normal size and the patient recovers. Animals are treated the same way. People who are slender and nervous tom*times express a dread of the effect that "shock" might have upon them In case of accident. At a recent meeting of the New York Mate Medi na! Aaaoclatlou, Dr \\ Brown, re ferring to individual susceptibility to shock, said that ••some persons of fleshy habit and apparent health will suc cumb sooner to a minor injury, pro ducing shock, than some others of deli cate habits and nervous temperament, the nervous system in the latter giv ing way less readily." \lso. shock is less in persons suffering from chronic disease than in healthy people, though the former are less likely to make com plete recoveries One of the features of misslsn work in Japan is the opposition encountered from a society organized three years ago to prevent Hie spread of Chris tlanily This society has been very active, especially tn the northern part of the island, in enrolling persons and families who are willing to promise not only that they will never accept Christianity, but that they will do all they can to prevent others from ac cepting it. In some towns nearly everybody has been so pledged The missionary is made to feel its influence in many ways. Sometimes lie finds he cannot t;eiit a house or secure a preaching place. The society often gives much trouble ly interfering with Christian burial. Th< Pennsylvania Railroal Com pany sends a Ira n out of New Y. rk at 9 o'clock every morning that beats the time of tlie “Flying Dutchman ’ Considering the distance covered, it is the fastest train in the world When the care worn business man journevs from New York to i’ln’.a lelplua. Chi cago or M Louis he find- in the par lor cais a luxurious home on wheels. As he is liemg whirled a ng at Hie rate of sixty miles an hour ot i etter not a jolt disturbs his serenity The rails lest on a twsi balla-ted with ,>;;d rock, and the joints are made with a kind of chair and Osh-plate, of the company’s own make, that cause the mile* of track to lie as unbroken i- one long jointless rail. There is no lust, little noise, and not a c.nder. Dr. T. ,M. Coan, writing of the cereal f.nxls and milling, reiuaiks that "the virtues of wheat are unlocked first, by the miller; second, by the baker. In ; both processes more improvement has taken place within the last twenty years than during the whole previous history of civilize I n an." The mill atone is being replaced by a Hungar ian invention which pulverizes the 1 grain by rollers with less heat of friction. Are the offspring of short parents short, and do the children of tall per son- grow to be unusually tall? Such a question u s otch scientist recently asked himself, and he set to work to gather some statistics of stature. His i data consists of the heights of 930 adults and of their respective parents, 205 of each sex in number, or alto gether of 1,340 observations. It. was shown that difference lietween the height of the two parents might be disregarded, having on the whole an Inconsiderable effect on the height of the offspring. I’ was also shown that marriage sele, tion takes little or no account of shortness or tallness. The general result was that where the mean height of the two parents was greater than me llocrity their children tend to be shorter than they. Artem vs Martin is the librarian of the Ini ted States coast and geodetic survey. He enjoys the further dis tinction of being one of the most thorough mathematicians in America. Before he was called to his present place he was a market gardener, own ing a small piece of land on Lake Erie, where he raised kitchen truck to be carted to Erie City, where he regular ly occupied a stall and served custom ers. Suddenly it was announced that ■Mr. A. Martin, of Erie, had been made an honorary member of some learned •ociety of (.real Britain No one in Erie seemed to know wiio ho was. A few days later Michigan university i made him master of arts. For some time after this he tended Ins stall, and was only a few months ago appointed to his government, i,flirt-. Nothing I short ot tlie most abstruse malbeniat- . ical problems are said to give him any amusement "It will be nows to many people,"says tn exchange, "to be informed that there are several nourishing common Ities of Mormons in New England and that they are rapidly growing. How ever, it must be promptly added that they are not of the p dygamotis vari ety. They belong to the fold which is known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, ! and which has its headquarters in Lamoni, la., with Joseph Smith (son I ot the original Prophet Joseph) as its j President. Hence they are commonly ! termed Josephltes. They have con- I gregations in Fall River, Boston, New , Bedford, Providence, Plainville, Broc ton, Dennisport, Little Compton, Scit- i uate and in many places throughout ’ Maine and Nova Scotia. These Mor- * mono are intensely hostile to the doc trine of plural marriages. Oae of their elders gave valuable assistance to Senator Edmunds in framing his Anti-Polygamy bill; they have sent their prophet to Utah as a missionary, and their organ published Miss -Kate Field’s fierce onslaught against the •twin relic.’” A Washable Wall Paper. It is stated in tVuDnferrs’ Jouiinl that a firm in Lancaster, England, have brought out a novelty which the ! name of "Teetoreum" has been given- Wlnle it possc—es an artist e .ip.e ar ance, It can be repeatedly and thorough ly washed with soap and water with out suffering any injury, being entire ly impervious to damp. It is very durable, is as cheap as ordinary w ill paper, an I can be applied in (he usual way; while inasmuch as it cheeks the inroads of damp into a room, it can lay claim to hygienic qualities. It has always been possible to clean by di verse m *ans, the different articles of domestic furniture; and the only structural portions of a room which one has not been able thoroughly to wash have l»een the walls. With the new material in use the walls may tie .scoured .is freely as the floor; and the consequent advantages in the case of hospitals, schools and other buildings, in which perfect clean lincsM issues sential. will be considerable. A Dangerous Medicine. Young Physieiaa (to Patient) Did you follow my directions in t iking the little pills one every three hours? Patient Well er v. u see doc Young Phv-sician Great lleavi-nsl! you didn t take them oftener than that? Patient I didn’t take any My lit tle boy got hold ot the bottle in the and ate them ail up. Y-ung Phys.clan (hastily ) Where is Hie I >y ? Patient The last I heard of him he was out in the backv.ird atuain • cats, i AV*c 1\..-A- 7’ ( ’ Is Life Werth Llviag I Is 1 ile wo* th living t Ask the lad. Barefooted, homeleo*, starved, ill-clad. And hear the answer yon will get, "My dorg an' me Las fun—you bet.” la life wo-th living ’ Aak tlie wretob Upon the gallows doomed to stretch Hie hangtn 'n'e rope, and hoed hie cry, •'ll »’it » ' Don't let me die !” la lite worth living? Aak tlie Hamp, VVh >*« honie'a the gutter cold and damp And lioar him lell you with a jerk, Il .a old |>ar i, for I don’t work.” h life worth living • Aak the dude, Whom old Dame Nature somehow aperrr’, And a*-e him stick his cane and say, “Aw— wenlly —life m— aw-quite gay.'* la life worth I ring ? Ask the fool, Die giggling maidens freeh from school, The toiler, invalid, the alave; <> * life, sweet fife they over crave, la life worth living* Aak the wise Philosopher who vainly tries lo aolve the myatery about Ihe matter and —remains in doubt. la life worth living • Aak Ihe great. The mdlionaue. the kings in alate, Ami note their looks of utter wo Aa in despair thev shriek. "No! no!" —//. C. IM'je, tn IMroit Kru Prtu. . » -i"' -a- J.— CHARLEY’S TOOTHACHE. A young newly-married Denver man went to hid home on Welton street, the other night, taking with him a severe case of toothache. As I soon as he got into the house he threw himself into an easy chair and began to groan. At about the same time his face on the side where the aching tooth had many years before attained i a homestead began to swell. In about thirty minutes his left cheek bore a strong restnbiance to an old-fashioned apple dumpling prepared by the hands of a generous mother for a large fami ly. The more the jaw enlarged the louder the young man howled and rolled about in his chair. His wlfs was several years younger than he, . and her sole ex per ance with the tooth ache had hitherto been limited to one or two mild attacks caused by an ex cessive consumption of caramels. She had usually cured her pain with creo sote, and so soon as Charley had found time between his groans to tell her what was the matter with him she got the creosote bottle and told him to open his mouth and let her see the tooth which was troubling him. He complied, but as she could not tell by the looks which one of the teeth was making the trouble, and as Charley could not enlighten her, she thought that she’d better pour a little of the stuff into the neighborhood of where she thought it probable that the tooth was located. Just as she got this idea into her head she happened to think that there was another toothache panacea in the house. It was in a small phial which a peddler had left there for trial. She thought that it would be a good j plan to mix a little of this stuff with creosote, and put the mixture on the ' infected jaw. So she made a nice lit- | tie combination in a tablespoon, and telling Charley to open his mouth she poured it in. She was a little excited ■ and nervous, and her hand shook and I so the Quid penetrated to every nook I and corner of the young man’s food receptacle. There was a yell of agony which awoke every dog in the neigh borhood, and Charley performed a ! •hornpipe in the middle of the floor, I and accompanied it with a series of j words, the majority of which his wife had never heard before. It was an hour before Charley got quieted sufficiently to sit down, and about that time a lady neighbor ven- j tured in to ask if they had sickness In 1 the family. She was told of the afflic tion which had overtaken Charley, and she was all sympathy at once. She had suffered just so herself, and the only way to cure the trouble was by making cold applications upon the outside of the c eek So she went home, and Charley’s wife made u neat little bag and filled it with I chopped ice, and then tied it on his face with a long red stocking. This had the effect of changing the nature of the pain and make Charley feel as though he was having needles thrust into his brain. He could feel the hair stand right up on the top of his head, and his eyes protruded from their sockets to such an extent that bis wife thought Char ley was going crazy. Pretty soon the ice began to melt and to drip down upon Charley’s shirt bosom, and to meander around his col lar and course slowly down his spine, and Charley in his delirium felt as though he had been fishing and fallen overboard. Then lie began to pace uj and down the room and kick the foot stool. and stare out of the windows, and look unkindly at the eat; and just at this juncture a friend of Charley and Mrs. Charley arrived. His name was Arthur, and heh.ul been a drug clerk before he became a dude, and in consequence his most intimate friends all call him “Doctor." He was much interested when he found how his fr.end was suffering and he smiled a superior smile when Charley's wife explained what she had done for him. What was neede l. he said, was a counter-rritanL The teeth and the interior of the mouth were inflamed, and there was un doubtedly fever there. A hot plaster of some kind on the outside would be just tlie thing. He said that if Char ' ley's wife would get him the materials !he would prepare something which would ease the pain aimostimmediate |iy- So they all went to the kitchen and Arthur turned back his cuffs and be gan to work. First he ripped open the bag which hail contained the ice and laid it out flak Then he put on a coating of mustard and moistened it with hot water. Then he put on a layer of red pepper and then sprinkled the whole with water so that it made a nice thick paste. He tied that upon Charley's face and then put a bandage soaked with hot water over that, and then tied the red stocking on once more. Then he went home and Char ley went to bed. During a period of about twenty minutes after Arthur had bowed him self out Charley howled, swore, danced and he stood upon his head. His wife at first asked him “if it ached worse." Then she didn’t dare get within speak ing distance of him, until in a mo- ment of wild frenzy he tore the plas ter from his face and dashed It at a picture of "Two Cherubs," which wae hanging upon the wall. Then Charley fainted, and she hod a chance to look at his face. There was the swelling, the mustard, the pepper and a two days’ beard all mixed to < gether. The removal of the plaster [ had also caused the secession of a con siderable section of cuticle, and, take it altogether, It did not look like the same face which Charley’s wife used to think ‘‘too sweet for anything." She thought that his face must be sore, and she remembered that once when she was a little girl she burned her finger one day and her mother put cold molasses on the injured mem ber and that took the pain away. Sc she took the syrup pitcher and poured its contents on Charley’s face. Two ladies who lived down the block called just then to see who had been injured in the house, as they had thought they had heard some one groan there. One of these, when she found out the cause of the trouble, said that sweet oil and lime water was good for burns. She had some all prepared at home, and she kindly offered to go and get it. While she was gone the old lady thought that flour was good for burns, so they threw a handful of breadstuff upon the molasses. Then the other lady came with the sweet oil and lime water mixture, and they poured that on. Just then the family washer woman called to see if they wanted to have their washing done the following day. As Charley seemed “to suffer some pain,’’ they asked the washer woman, who was old and Irish, and they thought ought to be wise, as to what to do. She said that “blueing” was the best thing in the world, and eo they added another color to Char ley’s face. Well, the two ladies staid with Char ley’s wife that night, and they have since declared that Charley is the worst-tempered man whom they ever saw. Charley is better now, but he says that he will not get out of the house for a month to come unless he wears a mask.— Denver Tribune. He Enjoyed the Trip. “Have I ever been to Yurrip?” ex claimed the middle-aged and bald-head ed passenger; "should say I had. Half a dozen times. Like it? Rather. 'Tain’t so much Yurrip I care for as the ocean voyages. How I do love those ocean trips, though!" “Don’t you get sea-sick?” ‘•Sea sick? I shou d say I did. Why, I just lie in my berth five days out of the eight and hope the ship will sink in ten miles of water. There seems to be a whole slaughter house inside of me. I feel like a sick egg. But I enjoy it, all the same, you bet.” “Enjoy a voyage under such circum stances? How do you make that out?" “Well, you see, my wife she’s al ways along with me. She gets sick, too —sicker’n I do. In fact, she gets so awful sick that she can't talk till after we’ve anchored on the other side, and if I were to try for a week I couldn’t tell you what blessed days of relief they are for me.”— Chicago Herald. Acquainted With Music. “Does he know anything about mu sic?” "Well, I should rather think he ought ta” “How so?” ••Well, for one thing, he’s the father of twins not more than six months old. and. for another, his wife was dead -set on having a sealskin for her birthday, and didn’t get it"— Chictigc Ledger. SCIEJITIUC SCRAPS. Sir John Lubbock, in some observa tions on the intelligence of the dog, suggest that dogs might be made to understand by means of a system like that used for deaf mutes. He had a dog which would pick out a card contain ing a request for food or drink. In the Royal Arsenal at Soudan is an old Chinese elghteen-pounder bronze gun, lined with an iron tube, the native workmen having anticipa ted by many years the contrivance which the artillerists of Europe have almost universally introduced in some shape or other during the present gen eration. During eighteen ascents of lofty mountains—from 5,000 to 15,000 feet in height—Mons Vernet has made a number of physiological observations on himself. He finds that the strong exertion —both in mounting and decending —caused an average rise in bodily temperature of about three degrees; a rise in the pulse from about 75 to 83 in a minute; and an increase in respiration from about 21 to 25 in i minute. At a recent meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales was ex hibited a curious beetle —which is found under the fur of the common rat in Tasmania. The belief was ex pressed that new and interesting species with similar habits might be discovered in Australia if the smaller mammals were examined when freshly killed. Two allied species from Peru are known, one being found in the fur and nests of mice. A Belgian botanist has published a treatise 250 pages long, on the sting ing nettle. According to the author, a long life would be needed to acquire all the knowledge to be gained from this humble plant “Even then, it may be presumed, the next generation, with improved methods of observation and research, would find as much work to do.” The chief interest of the stinging beetle to botanical students is in its microscopic anatomy. In some recent scientific experi ments on the effects of cold two frogs were frozen solid in a temperature of about 20 degrees, and kept in that condition for half an hour. On thaw ing slowly they recovered perfectly, but it was found that longer periods of exposure invariably killed the animals- The experiment was tried of freezing hermetically sealed meat, so as to kill its bacterial organisms, and thus render it incapable of putrefying. It was found, however, that so low a temperature as 80 degrees below zero would not destroy the vitality of micro-organisms. It was thus made clear that the attempts to preserve meat for a long time by a momentary freezing of it must be abandoned. The Perpetual Candidate. Judge David Key, of Tennessee* told a good story of a man in the mountain region of his State, who was a stereotype candidate for local officea of all descriptions, but who would never give a decided opinion upon any question. On one occasion when he was a candidate for the position of sheriff there was great excitement on the enforcement of the school tax. He addressed quite a gathering at a mus ter, but evaded the only question that the audience wanted to hear about, and just as he was closing a fellow shouted: "Tell us about the school tax. Are you for it, or are you not?” The crowd cheered, and the orator, thus pressed for a declaration of opin ion said: “Gentlemen, you have a right to ask for an answer. I have no conceal ment to make. lam a frank man, and to you I say in all frankness, if it is a good thing lam for it, and if it is a bad thing I am agin it”— Ben Perley Poore. An “lllefant.” An old Scotchman, when takin? his bairns to be baptized, usually spoke of them as laddies or lassies, as the case might be. At last his wife said he must not say it was a laddio or lassie, but an infant So the next time that j Sandy had occasion .to go to the clergv man the latter said: “Weel, Sandy, is it a laddie?” “It’s nae a laddie,” was the answer. "Then it’s a lassie.” “It's nae a lassie.” said Sandy. “Weel, mon, what is it, then ?” said j the astonished preachor. “I dinna remember vera weel,” said the parent, “but I think the wife said it was an illefant.” — Wrote Poetry. Phrenologist: “Your bump of im agination is abnormally large, sir. You should write poetry.” Citizen: “I do write poetry. Only yesterday I took a poem to an editor, I and that bump you are feeling is where he hit me. Don’t bear down co hard.” EPISODES OF ARMY LIFE. Interesting Extracts from Gen. Grant’s Memoirs. First Impre sions of a Battle —The Crisis- at Fort Donelson. Gen. Grant, in his “Memoirs,’’ de scribes bis life in the array of invasion and the battles of the Mexican war in I considerable detail. Perhaps the most I interesting portions of his narrative i xre the descriptions of accidents in i which he took a leading part, and his ; iomments on the men of the day. His first impressions of a battle are I thus given: j “As we lay in our tents upon the seashore, the artillery at the fort on the Rio Grande could be distinctly heard. The war had begun. There were no possible means of obtaining 1 news from the garrison, and informa- I tion from outside could not be other wise than unfavorable. What Gen. Taylor’s feelings were during this sus pense Ido not know; but for myself, a young Second Lieutenant who had never heard a hostile gun before, I felt sorry that I had enlisted. A great many men when they smell battle afar off chafe to get into the fray. When they say so themselves they generally fail to convince their hearers that they are as anxious as they would like to make people believe, and as they ap proach danger they become more sub dued. This rule is not universal, for I have known a few men who were always aching for a fight when there was no enemy near, who were as good as their word when the battle did come. But the number of such men is small.” An incident in the battle of Monter 'ery, Mexico, is given: “We had not occupied this position long when it was discovered that our ammunition was growing low. I vol unteered to go back to the point we had started from, report our position to Gen. Twiggs, and ask for ammuni tion to be forwarded. We were at this time occupying ground off from the street, and in the rear of the houses. * My ride back was an exposed one. Be fore starting 1 adjusted myself on the side of my horse farthest from the enemy, and with only one foot holding to the cantie of the saddle, and an arm over the neck of the horse exposed, I started at full run. It was only at street crossings that my horse was under fire, but these I crossed at such a flying rate that generally I was past and under cover of the next block of houses before the enemy fired. I got out safely without a scratch.” Grant thus describes his course at the crisis of the battle of Fort Donel son: “I saw the men standing in knots, talking in the most excitable manner. No officer seemed to be giving any di rections. The soldiers had their mus kets, but no ammunition, while there were tons of it close at hand. I heard some of the men say that the enemy had come out with knapsacks and hav ersacks filled with rations. They seemed to think that this indicated a determination on his part to stay out and fight just as long as the provisions held out. I turned to Col. J. I). Web ster. of my staff, who was with me, and said: “Some of our men are pret ty badly demoralized, but the enemy must be more so, for he has attempted to force his way out, but has fallen back; the one who attacks first now will be victorious, and the enemy will have to be in a hurry if he gets ahead of me,” I determined to make the as sault at once on our left. It was clear to my mind that the enemy had start ed to march out with his entire force, except a few pickets, and if our attack could be made on the left before the enemy could redistribute his forces along the line, we would find but little opposition except from the interven ing abatis. I directed Col. Webster to ride with me and call out to the men as we passed, “Fill your cartridge boxes, quick, and get into line; the enemy is trying to escape and he must not be permitted to do so.” This acted like a charm. The men only wanted some one to give them a com mand.” How the Pen Travels. A rapid penman can write thirty words in a minute. To do this he must draw his pen through the spaee of a rod, sixteen and a half feet. In forty minutes his pen travels a furlong. We make, on an average, sixteen curves or turnes of the pen in writing each word. Writing thirty words in a minute, we must make 480 turns in each minute; in an hour, 28,000; in a day of only five hours, 144,000; in a year of 300 such days, 43,200,000. The man, therefore, who made 1,000,-00 strokes with his pen was not at all re markable. Many men—newspaper writers, for instance—make 4,000,000,- 000. Here we have in the aggregate a mark 300 miles long to be trac d on paper by such a writer in a year.