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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-06-03
By THE n1ILwAUH1H
Medical and Surgical Institute.
Just published, q Course of Lectures on the

PHYSIOLOGY
OR MARRIAGE"
The Physiological, Nor
al and Legal relations of
the sexes in Marriage !;
the Obligations, Duties,
aud Disqualifcafion' Of
the Conjugal Union IN
regard to Health and
Ion..,. pr.gnauev
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What every Family Should Keep in the House
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all those who have tried il TO be the vesy best
remedy for the cure of Consumption. 1t also
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-06-03

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dealers IL Family Medicine generally.
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-09

NO,!,SI1. have sold my interest in tho rychonro
BankinS ana Insurance business herenr,r" -, NIL,
ocny Sa r % Co. to Raye9 ncKn Co.. con Sn
Kinlhy Il Co. - - "ess ny lavtns, Mac
i shall occupy the office heretofore occunioa hr 49,.
mnne 70 ony notes ma MORTGAGES loan money o ron
Ottawa, March ist 1S,0-tr r. a sIitstvvvsSst.ste
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The Eve Of an Eagle.

The eyes of all birds have popularity of
structure which enables them to see near or dis
tant objects equally we'll, and this wonderful
power is carried to the greatest perfection in the
bird of prey. When we recollect that an eagle
will ascend more than a mile in perpendicular
height, and from that enormous elevation will
perceive its unsuspecting prey, and pounce on it
with unerring certainty; and when We see the
same bird scrutinizing, with almost microscopic
nicely, an object close at hand, we shall at once
perceive that he possesses power OF accemodat-
ing his sight to distance in a manner to which
our eve is unified, and Of which it is totally in
capable.
If we take printed page, we shall find that
there is some particular distance, probably ten
inches, ut which we can read the words and see
the letters with perfect distinctness; but, if we
move the page to distance of 40 inches, or
bring it within distance of five inches, we
shall find 1t impossible to read it at all. A sci
entific man would call ten inches the focus or
focal distance of our eyes. We cannot alter this
focus except by the aid of spectacles.
But an eagle has the power of altering the TO-
Gus of his eye Just as he peases; he has only to
look at an object at the distance of two feet or
two miles in order to see it with perfect distinct
ness. OF course, the eagle knows nothing OF the
wonderful Continuance which God has supplied
for its accommodation, but employs it instructive
" and because he cannot help it. The ball of
his eye is surrounded by Is little plates, called
sclerotic bones; they form complete ring. and
their edges slightly overlap each other. When
he looks at distant object, this little circle of
bones expands, and the eye ball becomes fiat
ter; and WREN he looks at a very near object, the
little bones press together, and the ball of the
eye is thus squeezed into rounder or more con-
vex form the effect is very familiar to every
body; person with very round eyes Is near
sighted, and only sees clearly an object that is
close to him; and person with fat eyes, as in
old age, can see nothing clearly except at It dis
lance the eagle. by the mere will, can make his
eyes round or fiat, and see with equal clearness
at any dislauCe.
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Efug and g.cnu Folks.

Fat man-Doctor, see how | wadlle, and hear
me wAeeze . Can any thing be done to remove
this load Z ! should weigh 100 pounds whereas
1 weigh 2i0 pounds.
Doctor-If you will observe, tor one wear,
these rules, You will come down to the 1860
pounds, and enjoy better health, with increased
cheerfulness and activity: Reduce the quantity of
your food one quarter, and increase the proper.
ton of animal food. At the end of three months
reduce the quantity another quarter. Rise ear.
ly sleeping little, and walking an hour before
breakfast Exercise into proiusc Precipitation
at least once day.
Lean Man.-But, doctor what can be done FOX
me- should weigh 100 pounds but can only
Just turn $50.
Doctor--Nothing easier, if you will observe n
few simple rules: Eat freely Of GA. meal and
graham must, cracked wheat and stewed fruit.
Retire at nine o'clock; and rise when you get
ready. Cultivate jovial fellows and do your
share Of the laughing.
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what is the Reason

Take twenty boys of sixteen, in any town in
the state, and let them go to work, three or four
in dry goods stores boot and shoe establish
ments, and printing offices. In ten years they
will have become men of twenty-six and the
majority OF them will be about as far along in
the business as they ever will be. One or two
only in each Of the above branches will be estab-
lished in business for themselves or connected
with some firm doing good business, and the
rest will be barely getting living and growing
about their poor luck. Now we assert that there
is good reason for their poor success, and that
" luck " has little If anything 10 do with it.
If we take the trouble to ascertain the real
facts in their several cases, we shall find that
those young who became masters i'll their
trades, or leading men III their pursuits, were
not afraid TO work, and were determined to sue.
coed. They looked beyond day and week
They made themselves useful and valuable to
their employers by being always faithful, relia-
BILE, and willing to do what they could for those
for whom they worked When press OF busi-
ness came they were ready and willing 10 work
extra hours, and without stalking or grumbling,
well knowing that business must be attended to
when it came, and there were plenty of dull
times during the year, which would more than
counterbaance any extra brisEness of the busy
season. To sum it all up, these young men
identified themselves .ith the establishments
where there they were employed--hccame use
full to their employers, in fact. fixtures, who
could Ill be spared, and in due course of tirne,
having gained experience, were Invited TO take a
hand with the already established house. or else
boldly struck out Tor themselvct.
Here, then, is tho lesson which j.. il YOU wish
to become successful masters, learn first to be-
come faithful servants
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Information.
SPlRI'TUALlSNl.
4 Negro woman who Keeps an Earth
quake ON Hand.

Stanford Ky) Core spondence Of the Louisville Courier
There is now living within ten miles of Stan
ford on the road to Somerset, at NiXs old stand,
a negro woman. of light copper color, heavy
set, and about 81 years Of age, who is spirit
medium" She was raised at the place where
she now lives, and has been known as "medl-
UNI for nearly ten years. During the lifetime
of the late John Craig, NJ. d., who was citizen
of this place, and who an ardent spiritualist,
this woman visited his house at the Doctors in
stance, and gave quite a number or 'seances
for the edifcation of some Of our citizens AT
these meetings many wonderful things were
done (if accounts are to be credited), such as
tipping and turning tables, convcrsing with the
dead, moving ponderous bodies, playing on
musical instruments, ETC. Her powers are vari.
ed, as she is both a talking and a writing medl-
UNI, a clarvoyant, etc. Many strangers who
have travelled the road to Somerset have stopped
at the house where she makes her home, and
have been wonderfully surprised at her "spirltu-
al" manifestations. A few days since, party OF
gentlemen from this place went out to see her.
Some of them were exceedingly skeptical before
going, but returned saying, show strange-what
can it be?" We heard one of the gentleman,
whose word we could not doubt say that the
woman moved table violently against him,
with only the end of one finger resting upon it (;
she called up the spirit of brother of his who
was killed during the late war, and gave such a
manifestation of his living presence as to as
found him, as the woman and all who were with
him, were entire strangers to his deceased broth
er, and any facts connected with his brother S
fate. She gave the full name of our informant's
grandfather, to whom she and all the company
were utter strangers. When the 'circle" was
finally broken, the house shook and ratified as
though an earthquake had done it, and immedi-
ately after all was silent as grave. The facts
are vouched for by some of our cltizens who are
men of honor, sense, and high standing. What
was it
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-09

nANir< TcNs'ItA NS;E.. DAYTON IIS
The undersigned, having purchased the aboNs, i b
building have completely cmod0cd and rrGi TOD IN
Tyi nj ana now SGsn to the patronage public offer.
The rooms comforts be and drv md norc, w. otei.
VIII given toward providing the table with nj, ha
OF the season. good stable in Connection viii ts n
where horses viii be well and properly cared for S 'oV
po,,o, 7, c,uoc, ,Makl NSON IL JENNINGS
80 ~ -. w. 10y % Ao'o Proprict,
t.-MaEnson jennings take this opportunity ofm
forming e pxoo at they have opened grocery siope an
the east end OF their hotel where thcv keen on S'iu o
,s N @ OF g. reduced consisting of eyerv
they are determined to sell cheap or c6eaner ,hm Wc
u me county They are now selling Coffee Su%ar NY ou.e
ny oW SuTar from ~ to 10 lbs the dollar Mo
10 y. ~, ps sv Hoar They respectfully request The MIN
May 2S-3m NJ j.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-09

TIE CORAL SNAkE.-lt is in the district of
Central America that we must look out tor the
swi,est death.dealers. Foremost among them
is the coral snake. II is not large snake be.
INK only about four feet long, with thick,
blunt, stumpy till; but its colors, its rich irid
markings of coral and pearl scales that ac-
tualiy seem 10 glow and sparkle, make it the
mos, beautiful of reptiles. The East India da.
mond il nothing 1t Unfortunately also, it
is one of the sowest reptiles of its kind. 1t can
scarcely wriggl- Believers in spasmodcal pro.
vidcnces maintain that nature made II great
mistake for it is n fact that more fatalatics are
recorded from bites Of coral snakes in Central
America, than from the bites Of all other snakes
put together. The truth is, that the other dead.
ly reptiles the tuboba or III dda,D Otdacd. can
and do ly at the first noise of coming footsteps;
the coral snake literally cannot. He hears the
toot.step coming, but he finds it impossible to
get out of their way; he neither rattles nor his.
SEES to warn away the approaching victim, and
unless the hitter can see the glowing colors OF
the reptile OF. the grass, no is dead man in a
few minutes ii his steps stray within three or
four feet Of the coral snake. All the Fremont.
tory symptoms Of dissolution set in almost in.
stantly after the bite, and death always takes
place within half An hour.-N A. Wood
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-09

John Elves wss nephew of Sir Hervey ELVES,
baronet, who died in 1864, and was himself
miser, having maintained his household ON $3.50
agar, at time when his fortune WAS 81, 25GOoO,
besides landed estate. Sir Hervey, though he
disiked sociability, was member of a club which
occasionally met in his own village of Stoke, in
Suffolk. To this also belonged two other baro-
nets, named Sir Cardwell Firebras and Sir John
Barnerdiston. To these three-all of them rich
and miserly-the amount of reckoning was a
matter of anxiety. One evening while they were
discussing the items and proportioning the re-
spective amounts of payment, they were so loud
that member in the street called out to anoth-
err; "For heavens sake, step up stairs and assist
the poor. Here are three baronets, worth
million sterling, quarreling about half-penny."
Elves mother actually starved herself to death,
though her fortune was one hundred thousand
pounds. John ELVES inherited the property of
mother and uncle, large estates, worth 1850,
600 IN cash, and, partly to curry favor with his
uncle and also because avarice was hereditary In
the family, used to dress badly and walk on cold
days up and down the hall, to save the expense
of fire. Once possessed of the money, he plung-
ed into extravaganza and meanness, playing cards
all night for thousands, and going to Smithfeld
market early in the morning to meet drove of
his cattle from the country, and, in the cold or
rain, haggle with butcher for a shilling. He,
too, was a member of the House OF Commons,
and used to ride ON horseback from Berkshire to
London, living on hard boiled eggs and crusts of
bread, to save inn expenses, taking the roads OH
which turnpikes were the lowest, and feeding
his horse on the grass from the roadside hedges
He knew nothing of accounts, trusted everything
to his memory; was prey to sharpers, who bait
ed him with promises of high interest, and lent
freely to peers and members of Parliament, los
ing $750,00O by them alone. But he would walk
five miles in the rain rather than pay shilling
for ride in a hackney coach, and would then
sit in his wet clothes rather than light fire to
dry them In those days every gentleman wore
a wig. Elves used one which had been thrown
into the street as worn out, and after years,
when it was completely dilapidated, wore his
own hair to save the purchase of new or even
secondhand one. His shoes he never suffered to
be cleaned, lest they should be worn out the
sooner. In London, where he had a great many
houses, he would live in one which was inlet
his furniture consisting OF couple of beds, two
chairs, a table, and an old woman (she died OF
starvation) who cooked for him. He died in 1 7S9
aged n, leaving 100000.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-09
Remarkable Instance Of KleptO.
mania.

There is in this city rich lady who, If the
New York correspondent of the Philadelphia
Public Record may be believed has mania for
stealing parasols This remarkable lady, it APP
pears, has been married for some four or five
years, but her husband till the present time, has
never had the least suspicion Of her singular
failings Mrs. Smth-to call her, for conven-
fence sake, by a wholly impersonal name--had
in her large and elegant house little boudoir
which she always kept closely locked. 1t was
one OF those apartments which, in New York
houses, are always called "hall bedrooms"
When examined the other day, by some detec-
tives, the walls Of this apartment were found
decorated with nearly Il hundred parasols, of all
sizes and varieties from the cheapest to the most
expensive. There were several richly decorated
with lace, valued at fifty dollars apiece. The
keptomaniac has been several years forming this
unique collection; and on two occasions,
when detected in the act by s.orekeepers, she
managed to hush up the matter by restitution
or purchase of the stolen property. She had an
odd habit of giving names to her favorite para
soils, selecting them from poems, novels and
plays The latest addition to the stock-an ele.
CANT white parasol with heavy tringe-was called
"Frou-Frou," others bore tables with such ma mes
as "Pickwick," Little Dorrit," Lady of the
Lake." elaine" "Clara We're de Vere," Evan.
geline,' "Ophelia," "Rosalind" and the like
and then one large specimen, bordering on
the umbrella Species bore the gloomy name of
"Lady Macbeth" The husband of the lady in
question is undecided what course to pursue in
this curious emergency. AS to the fair klepto.
maniac herself, she processes to be overwhelmed
with contrtion and remorse. The family will
certainly remunerate the spoliated parasol dealers
for their losses. and the matter will probably be
hushed up.-Nc,o York. Erentny Post.
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NR. M. LENDER, Homeopathic Physccian, Otta'
wa ILL., Office in Freenan's Block. Offers his services
to the friends of the Homeopathic system in Ottawa in all
branches his profession Particular attention given to the
treatment of women and children. febl6-y
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ATToRN GVs.

7 h. RICE, Attorney at Law. WIN practice in the
~ Federal the State courts In La Sale and
adjoining counties Once second floor, metropolitan BLOCK
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The MONKEY AND THE HAwK.-!The cook of
a French nobleman had monkey which was so
intelligent that by severe training it was taught
to perform certain useful services, such pluck.
ing fowls, at which it was uncommonly expert.
One fine morning pair of parridges was given
it to pluck. The monkey took them to an open
window of the ktahen and went to work with
great diligence. He soon finished one, which
he laid the outer edge of the window, and
then went quietly on with the other. A hawk
that had been watching his proceedings from
neighboring tree, darted down upon the plucked
partridge, and in minute was up in the tree
again, greedily devouring his prey. The monkey
hoped about in great distress for some minutes.
when suddenly bright thought struck him.
Selling the remaining partridge, he went to work
with great energy and stripped of the feathers.
He then laid it on the ledge. Just where he had
placed the other and closing enc Of the shutters,
concealed himself behind it. The hawk, who by
this time had finished his meal, very soon swoop.
ed down upon the partridge; but hardly had his
claws touched the bird, when the monkey sprang
upon him from behind the shutter. The hawks
neck was instantly wrung, and the monkey, with
a triumphant chuckle, proceeded to strip off the
feathers. This done, he carried the two plucked
fowls To his master with confident and self
satisfied air, which seemed to say, Here are two
birds, -ir-iust what you gave mt" What the
cook said on finding one OF the cartridges con-
hertcd into Il hawk, is more than We are able
10 tell.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-02-12
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A correspondent Of the New
York Tribune asserts that Gen.
Grant intends, II the nomination
Of Judge Hoar is not confirmed
by the Senate, to withdraw his pa
tronage and favor from such OF
the Senator's as vote against his
wishes. He has also intlmated,
says this correspondent, that he
will remove from Office the friends
Of these Senators, and will refuse
to appoint any others. The verac-
ity Of this writer will soon be test.
ed, as the announcement has been
made that Judge Hoar has been
incontinently rejected.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-02-12

The DIsINTEGRATIoN QUESTION
TIE Telegraph Of January 6 has the
following ON this question: ut has
been quietly assumed by the seceS-
sionists that the mind of the Brit
lsh people has been already made
up on the subject, and that its YER
dict Is in their favor. The assump-
ton is utterly baseless. What sim
gle colony can the disruptionists
name from which Englishmen are
anxious to be paFled2 Doubtless,
the Dominion Of Canada has an ex.
posed frontier which Il might cost
us q great deal 10 defend /; but, If
you polled England tomorrow, the
answer would be as haughtily and
promptly for keeping Canada as Il
was eight years ago, when, after
the affair Of the Trent, the Guards
were ordered of to Quebec. Is It
Victoria that we want TO get rid of
Victoria, which has scarcely cost
us a shilling, and which has added
immensely to our national wealth ?
Is it even New Zealand? AS the
public knows, we have not been
partisans Of that colony In recent
controversies ;'but, If tho English
people themselves arc asked
whether they shall keep IL or lot it
go, who doubts the answer? Had
we to think even Of the present
time alone, ''NO-athousaud times
mop would be the response. But
In the very course Of nature these
new communities will, In another
quarter Of o century, have become
great States. They may, by timely
and temperate measure Of cOncilia-
ton, be induced to remain in loyal
union with the old land from which
they spring, and which, to this day,
they show no desire 10 repndiate
or abandon. Practically, our
choice is between such an empire
Of confederated English States as
could hold Its own against the rest
of the world combined, and the
disintegration Of that nucleus Of
such an Empire which is already
established. We may preserve,
while we develOpe, the British
Empire or we may wantonly of
fend and outrage colonies which
will then become the Americans Of
the fntuFe-no longer integral por-
tions of a self.governing Confede-
ration under q constitutional mon
arch, but hostile and jealous rivals,
smarting under the bitter recollec-
ton that their profercd loyalty
was met by some men with cynical
repugnance, and by others with poo
lite contempt. 1t 10 inconceivable
that English statesmen can favor
the last alternative but the danger
lies in drifting We drifted' into
q war; wo may yet DRIFT upon
rocks more serious, If we disregard
the warnings. which, at each cast of
the lead, proclaim that we are get
ting nearer to the reef"