Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-04-23
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AGES OF LITERARY DlES.--Gariyle Is IA
years Of age; Tenuyson is 50; Charles Reade
IS; Anthony Trollope, 54; William H. Rus
sell known better here as Bull Run Rus
sell ], 50; Wilkie Collins, IS; and George
Augusta Sala AZ.
HERE is independent journalism, aecor-
ding to the Louisville Courier standard:
ave say to our Democratic friends in
every part ofLouisville, stand by your non-
iuee if he is the devil himself You may
not like him, but in the long run il will be
the best, and you willliYe to owlas much. "
Bills THAT FAILED Among the bills
that failed of passage in one or the other
House Of Congress, at the late session, were
the following The bill in relation to the
redistribution of the currency; the bill re-
moving disabilities from several hundred
Southern people; the bill establishing
Goyempent monopoly of the Alaska fur
seal trade; the bill defining the meaning Of
the eight-hour law; General Frenonts El
Paso railrosd scheme. aud the resolution Of
sympathy with Cuba.
FOREIGN OBJECTS N THE LUNGs.-A
metallic tube, composed Of tin and copper,
one half an inch long and weighing eleven
grains, was recently, in fit Of coughing,
expelled from the lungs of a girl twelve
years Of age, living in New York city. The
tube, being the whistle of an India rubber
air ball, was two years ago accidentally
forced into the upper part of the larynx,
and thence, in the attempts to remove it by
emeties, was lodged in the lungs. During
the whole of the period mentioned, the girl
suffered from an oppressive sensation on the
chest and from continued coughing. During
one Of the paroxysrns the tube was elected.
This occurrence gives strong Illustration
of the remedial force of nature, which is
sometimes successful in affording relief when
all the resources of surgery and medicine
have been tried and failed
CoLoRING MARBLE. Some months ago
an inventor in New York, while seeking
some means OF making barrel slaves imper-
vious to petroleum, accidentally used piece
of marble to wedge the barrel he was expert
mentins upon, into its place in the vat con-
tanning the solution with which he was try
ing to fill the pores of the wood. On taking
out the marble he noticed that it was beau
tifully stained, but threw it aside without
| further thought About month later he
picked it up, examined it, tried to wash it
clean, failed, broke it with hammer stroke,
and 10 the color had penetrated the whole
mass This discovery has been pushed on,
and it is now claimed that six hundred diff
ferent hues can be permanently impaired to
marble.
TOBACCO AND Badness. DIR. Hoffman
argues, in the Pacific Medical and Surgical
Journal, that the use of tobacco, by impe-
ding the circulation and preventing the free
and natural supply of nourishment to the
hair, occasions badness. In support of
this theory he says. "A gentleman under
forty years of age, and patient of mine,
who had been in the habit of using tobacco
to excess for many years, and who had been
for the laat five or six years both bald-headed
and gray-haired, found it necessary a few
months ago to quit the use Of tobacco en-
tirely. He has entirely recovered his health
which was bad while he used tobacco; he
also has recovered entirely from his badness
and his gray locks have been replaced BY an
unusually luxuriant growth of natural hair,
of as fine black hue as one could wish to
see; he has also lost that salow, bees-wax
hue of skin and sickly paleness of color
which slaves to the weed so generally have.
All of this might be expected as very
natural result, except the growth of hair
and its change Of color, which in this case,
at least has occurred as one of the results Of
leaving off a noxious habit
THE English language must appear fear
fully and wonderfully made to foreigner.
One Of them looking at picture of num-
Der of vessels, said, see that flock of
ships" He was told that flock of ships
was called fleet, and that q fleet of sheep
was called flock, And it was added, for
his guidance, in mastering the intricacies of
our language, that flock of girls is called
bcvy, that bsvy of wolves is called a gang,
and that gang of angles is called d host,
and that host of porpoises is called shoal,
and shoal of bufaloesi is called herd, and
herd of childred is called troop, and
troop of partridges is called covey, and
coyey of beauties is callel galaxy, and a
galaxy of ruffians is called a horde, and
horde of rubbish is called heap, and a
heap of oxen is called drove, and drove
of blackguards is called mob, and a mob
of whales is called school, and school of
worshippers is called congregation, and a
congregation of engineers is called a corps,
and corps of robbers is called band, and
a band of locusts is called swarm, and a
swarm of people is called a crowd.