The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-02
The July H0rper.

Hxrper's Magazine for July opens with finely
illustrated article on the Naudois, those sturdy
Christians of northern Italy, who for So many
years defied the power of Rome. Another illus
trated article is on Ocean Steamers, by jacob
Abbott The history of Frederick the Great is
continued. with five illustrations. Other illus
trated articles are Jane Austen: a Dream Of
Fairies The Old Love Again. Hamilton Busbey
contributes another spirited article on the Run
ming Turf in America Geo. Holder some very
interesting Recollections Of Thackery; Dodge an
amusing article on Walking Sticks and Fans;
Capt Marcy a vigorous article on Rupert's Land
tPembina :; and Thos. c. Salto delightful re-
miniscenee Of James Fennimore Cooper. Besides
these, we have half a dozen new stories. some
fine poetry, Editors Table, nc.
We can do no better for our readers than to
make column or two Of extracts The follow
ing is taken from n. c. Dodge's article Canes.
Since 1851 commerce in ordinary walking.
sticks has more than quadrupled. In Hamburg,
Berlin, and Vienna-the present central depots
for export-the manufacture employs many
thousands of work-people Its control is in the
hands Of the Jews. The Meyers, members of
one family of German.Hebrews, are at its head
in Austria and Germany proper, and by manage
msnt, peculiar to their race, have absorbed all
competition. First gaining ascendency at home
by the style and cheapness Of their wares, they
next assailed foreign markets. In Bombay they
undersold the Chinese dealers Scattering thin
light bamboo rods along the route to India, the
native productions in Egypt and Arabia gave
place to the more convenient Viennese manufao-
ture. The French occupation of Algiers intro
duced their graceful walkng-stcks to the Moor
ish gentry of Northern Africa. Paris began to
adopt them. Madrid Naples, and even London
followed. They drove the English canes out of
the Brazils, and on the western coast of South
America, where Belgian manufactures had en-
joyed immemoral monopoly, they found de-
mand which it taxed all their resources to supply.
Curiously enough, California in the use OF the
Eiennese walking-cane, preceded the Eastern
States. Mine-explorers and gold-diggers of the
Sierra Nevada country gave ton to fashion in
New York and Chicago The importation of the
Meyers canes at the present time into the Unit
ed States has swallowed up, like Aaron's serpent,
all Others. They are found everywhere. No Jew
clothes.man fails to keep them among his stock
of goods. Light French ratans, heavy English
crab.sticks. curiously carved Brussels thorns,
and even the choice Alcaslan orange-sticks have
disappeared. The Jew specially always sue.
ceeds, and the walking-stick, manufactured now
for thirty years by the Meyers millonaires, fur
nishes no exception.
Ala tue present Manufacture OF canes great
quantities and varieties of materials are consum-
cd Fhero is scarcely grass or shrub, reed or
tree, that has not been employed at one time or
another The black-thorn and crab. cherry tree
and furze-bush, ssp.iny oak and Spanish reed
(AruHGo 0oaGr,) are the favortes Then cone
supple-jacks and pimentoes from the West In
dies, ratans and palms from Java, white and
black bamboos from Singapore, and stems of the
bambusa-the gigantic grass of the tropics-frOm
SOrppO m he ont at carts in
freed from various appendageS, searched to dis
cover defects, assorted into size, and thoroughly
rid of moisture. y years seasoning is required
for some woods, two Tor others Then comes the
curious process. OF manufacture. Twenty differ
ent landings hardly finish the cheapest cane
The bark is to be removed after boiling the stick
in water, or TO be polished after roasting it in
ashes; excreScences are to be manipulated into
points Of beauty; handles Strengthened and
shanks shaved forms twisted and heads rasped
tops carved or mounted, surfaces charred and
scraped shanks smoothed or vanished, and bot.
toms shaped and ferruled. Woods, too, have to
be studied, lest chemical applications that beau.
tfy one might rum another kind. Some are i'm
proved under subsection to intense heat others
destroyed. Malacca canes have frequently to be
colored in parts so that stained and natural
surfaces are not distinguishable; heads and hoofs
for handles are baked to retain their forms; tor
toise-shsll raspngs conglomerated by press.
ure into ornamental shapes, and photographic
transfers, done by hand, are extensively used
upon walkingsticks for the Partisan market
The following are clippingsher and there from
the July Harper, taken almost at random
CURE FOR OBEsrTY.-Mr SCHNEIDER is the
latest addition to the list of persons who have
undertaken the treatment and cure of excessive
fatness IN the human race-this condition be.
ing considered by him as a disturbance of the
animal economy, in consequence of which the
carbon taken in is accumulated in the form of
fat. Diet and exercise, as might be expected
constitute the basis Of his treatment. As in the
method of Mr. Banting, which sono years ago
was so much in vogue, the diet advised for fat
persons consists OF food containing q large per-
centage Of nitrogen, to which some vegetables
without starch, and cooked fruit, are to be add
cd for the purpose of mOderating the excitaticn
due to animal nourishment This diet ia TO be
varied, according rs individuals are of sanguine
or Emphatic temperament. The use of certain
wines is permitted; beer is, however, entirely
forbidden. Coffee and tea are allowed, with az
little sugar as possible. Cheese, potatoes rice,
peas, maize, maccaroni, tapioca, arrowroOt, and
soups are not allowed The use of sulphate of
soda is recommended, NJ moderatng the trans
formation OF heterogeneous materials and stimu.
iating the oxidation Of fat; and the use of mine.
raj waters containing the sulphate of soda in So
luton is considered Of the greatest i'm portance
in this respect. The waters OF Marienbad which
are especially rich in this SALT are stated to bave
usually, the most happy effect Their USE to.
gether with that of some alkaline pills, and n
strict adherence to the conditions above men.
TONED, caused decrease in weight Of from