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MISY DICEIN6ON'S LECTURE.

4 number of the most eminent clergymen in
the city have extended al invitation to Miss
Anna Dickinson to deliver lecture On the
Social Evil. We understand that this lecture
is directed mainly to tho end of exciting efforts
to reach and reform the abandoned women who
are the chief sufferers from the Evil. The lecture
may therefore have T. good tendency. Never
theiess, wo think that the invitation is
not to bo commended. Miss Dickinson
is a young, unmarried woman,-tne last
person in the world to nave any knowledge of the
social evil, unless she has mnde it. @ special
study, aud this is the last study in the world
which young, unmarried woman should mako
specialty,-at all events for public entertain
ment. The clergymen who have signed the in
vitation have given countenance to public dis
cussion Of the Social Evil by well-informed
young lady. We presume that most Of them,
upon reflection, will conclude that this is not the
sort Of thing that the approval OF the church
should be accorded to.
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Most people have read Charles Reade's "Ve1y
Hard Cash with a comforting conviction that
the cruelty to madmen which he there holds up to
our horror is thing Of the past. It has been
reserved for Pennsylvania to prove that mad
houses are tortu1e-housea still. Tho State main
tains an enormous asylum at Harrisburg for her
insane poor, and subsidies number Of private
asy1ums besides, on condition that the latter
shnll care for the same class. These retreats
are full Of the rich, who can afford to
bribe the officials to admit them. The
poor Iunatics ere crowded into prison-cel1s aud
aImshouse-rooms. No attempt is made to cure
them. They linger on. cursed and abused, until
kind death gives them relief. The alnshouses
present the most frighttul proofs OF mans in
humanity to man. The State Board OF Public
Charities has just published report, studded
thick with revolving facts. In one poorhouse the
insane are kept underground. in cages seven Feet
eouare. For bed and table and chair they have
loose straw, which is changed when the Over
seer, Who ia German aud cannot speak word
Of EnglAh, chooses to have it. Tbs only venti-
lation is through the dark passage-way. The
air Is inconceivably foul. The horrible smell
clung to the clothes Of the Board for hours after
thsy left this hols. The only light ottatnabla
strueglea through iron4bsred holes ~ By 10
inehea, h tha ft6tt of ths takss. Ct the ill
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During the recent passage Of the Cunard
steamer Algeria from New York TO Liverpool, q
storm, beginning on the 2sd and continuing until
the 9Th, Threatened the destruction Of the
steamer. On the 26th, whils the gale WAS at its
fercest, and while the officers Oh deck we're
strapped to the bridge and to the wheel. q dis
naan.led brig was discovered ut q distance. The
steamer vas directed towards the wreck, and;
despite the fury OF the Storm WIS brought
within reach Of it. Capt Lott, Of the Algeria,
addressing his crew, told them that he would
order no one to 60 to the rescue, but, il
any chose to volunteer, he would permit
them to 60. 4 boats crew, under Third Officer
Hartford and Boatswain White, volunteered, and,
after being three tines capaized, the Ife-boat
was launched, and started in the dark upon its
errand Of mercy. An hour later it returned
with eight rescued sailors. So violent was the
storm that 1t took some hours to get these men
and the crew. Of the. 1ife-boat On board the
steamer; but they we're al eventually rescued,
KID tta staArnsr tssu1ued het yo7ass. The pas-
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FIOUNCEs AND FURBELOWs,

1t ls not 30 very long since Pepys was writing
in his quaint diary. OF the plum-colored vel7e'
Of which his new clothes we're made. Gold
smith used to prattlo to his friends about the
rare canary-colored coat he had done his ta11o1
out of. Washington, stripped Of his powdered
and beribboned queue, his knee-b1eeches, his
silk hose, and his silver buckles. would be Wash.
ineton no longer. We always think Of him in
this way, even when the scene and time are that
bitter winter at Valley Forge. Little by little,
this barbarous richness OF dress has faded away.
The brooches have grown longer; the hose
shorter. Rufles have descended from the
Losons Of gentlemen to those Of blacklegs.
Rainbow hues have faded into sober b1nck and
white. So universal has been the change that
the only difference in appearance between guest
and servant nowadays ia in color Of face and
texture OF glove. English Judges, however,
smothered in their colossal and curly wigs,
serve as reminders Of the days that are gone. AZ
man has emerged from the bewigged, bepow-
dcred, beruflod stage of development, woman
has snatched at the gauds the sterner ser throw
aside, and has made gods Of them.
Tie modern woman Is helr to Ill the ages Of
fashion, aud wears the hair Of all the ages on
her head and the clothes OF ali the ages on her
body She deyotes hours Of each day to dress
and dressing She keeps the poor out Of her
church by playing peacock there herself. It is
q fair question whether woman's passion for
bright colors aud elaborate garments, long after
civilized man has outgrown the feeling, is not a
proof OF her present inferiority to him. Man
kind and some insects develop in precisely con-
tra1y ways. We 20 through the butterfly stage
first, and then grow into the sober chrysalis.
All barbarians are fond OF gaudy show. Red
flannel and g]ass-beads tue full dress OF Amer
nifcence is ca:chword- Woman will doubtless
grow out Of her bondage to dounces and fur
bellows. She will learn that it is no more 8
breach Of good taste for 3 woman to Wear one
dress through the parties Of q season than for
man to wear one d1ess-suit. She will appreciate
the fact that no combination OF colors can be as
eteaduy effective and beautiful tho heavy folds
Of black silk that sweeps from broad shoulders
and healthy waist to the ground. Her cumbrous
castle Of hair will come down, and her locks will
fal in curls or be knottcd loosely at the back of
her head, after the unvarying Greek model. Then
ne shall have the Venus that Greek sculptors
fashioned out of fancy, plus life and d1apery,
Walking the earth again.
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/, aons should therefore be promptly poked bE
their loving friends as 5000 as they show signs
! OF their bcsetting evil. DR.. Seqrard suggests
+ as cures Of hysteria, th1usting the patients
! arms into very hot water, or clapping ice on the
LICK or the neck when it is not expected. An
hrsterical wife could probably be at once ro~
| stored to health by having ice heapet on
| her ueck-especiaily if her dress we're new The
! learned Doctor believes that vitality is much
| greater in America than In Europe. Men
and animals recover here from injuries
which would be surc deaih there. we
10 not bleed as readily as our trans
Atlantic brethren. We, therefore, do not
die as readily. This sounds odd. The COM
mon impression would probably be that, if two
men were equally hurt, the American would have
less chance Of living than the Englishman. Per-
hapR We arc stronger than re know Col. Hig-
ginson tries to ahow, in the last number Of the
1Von,an's Journal, that American women OF the
present day are as strong as their grandmothers
were, despite all tho talk about their degeneracy.
Not only are We as strong as our forefatheEs, but
Me may have, under certain conditions, that
peculiar halo which marks the saints among
them in pictures, and is supposedtn have marked
the body. DR.. Brown-sequard says Light
can be evolved as a taan6f fornation OF nervous
force" In casea Of disease, light has appeared
at the head Of the patient and been radiated into
"a ! Efata cf "a
Il prerequisite to such q phenomenon. It has
been suggested by commentator on this lecture
that the ldoa hero giyon explains the sanity
halol I've know that the halo was used origi-
naly as = mere mark OF power. Monarchs were
represented with it. The leaders Of mankind aro
apt to be men OF great nervous energy. That
energy may have sometimes been transformed
to Pickering light, and 80 may have suggested
the idea OF tho painted glory around q great
mans head.
Descending from men to brutes, We find that
The latter can often be quoted when ii the
widest state OF excitement by : rubbing or
even touching OF the nose. Rarey is said to
have tanned horses by breathing into their
nostrls. The ro-acious Catlin, the describer OF
the Indians OF the West, says that wild horses,
1assoed on Texan plains. are made perfectly
tame BY their captors' breathing into their nos
tri1s The same authority gravely avows that,
il man catches bufalo-calf and expels mir
from his lungs into its nostrils it will follow him
like dog for five or six miles, These cases
all rest, OF COURSE upon the known influence
.hat an irritated neryo in any part of the
body has upon the brain. They suggest 4
needed improvement on our present barbarous
way of killing mad dogs. Policemen, instead OF
hunting the animals through crowded streets,
and emptying their revolyers in the chase. might
seize the dogs firmly and breathe into their
nostrils. Instant recovery would ensue. There
would be no owners sosrowing over their pots,
and no dead dogs lying about the streets. But
policemen, the world ever, are the slaves Of d
blue-coa.ed traditions and they cannot keep up
with thB rapid strides Of science.
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TIE ODDITIES or MEDICAL SCIENCE.

THE ODDITIES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.
Dr.. Brown-Seguard's series Of lectures at the
Lowell Institute, in Boston, hare been full Of
curious facts in medicine. The nerves OF hear
ing hsve peculiar influence upon those OF
speech. Their irritation will sometimes mako
person utter the most mai dpropos things. A
prominent member OF the English Court was
obliged to leave it Oh account Of her unfortu-
nate habit Of saving, .'yoa are very stupid" or
:" This is madness in you," 10 the Queen and
everybody else. She did it inrolunta-
ri.y. DR.. Edouard C. Seguin, whom the
New York Eoening Post calls "Tle most
distinguished living authority on the subject
OF idiocy." knows OF clergyman who had to
abandon his profession because he invariably
began the Lords Prayer bv saying: "Our
Fathor which art in Hearen-lo: Elm stay
there" Dr.. Brown-sequard had one parient-a
Yong lady-vho interlarded her talk by slowly
saying: "Hoo! hooi hoo! hoo!" Hysteria
has bean cured by rubbing or pressing various
par.a OF the pody,-the big toe, the thumb, the
skin back ct the ear, etc. The place
seams to sazy with each patient, 80
:hat 1t u reosssazy to experiment In
dspeadeaAy II 'a.ah ~easet H5s:er.aA pss-
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men confined here, none OF whom were danger
ous1y mad, four we're stark-naked. One had
panta1oons and = ragged knit shirt The sixth had
asingle garment.-s coarse blue frock, reachine
to his knees. This mau entered his cell,
two years ago, in porfect bodily health
He is NOW unable to stand. Enforced
c1ouching has stifened his knee-joints.
Women nre treated in the same why.
Naked, or clad in 3 single garment, they Lie On
filthy straw in deus too low to permit their
standing erect. One such victim, an idiot from
her birth, Was clothed-if clothing it cnn be
called-in 4 bit OF coarse bed-ticking, which
reached from her azmpit to her hip. Another
was without 8 single garment, in bitter
winters night; covered with vermin. and blue
with cold, brought down lar below the le7el Of
the brutes." Still another, driven to insanity
by being seduced and abandoned, has lain
in b damp cell for twenty-one years. She
has been crippled by the ha1dships Of
her daily life, than daily
death, and NOW moves like frog from place to
place. There are other sickening details-sto1ies
Of harmless idiots kept naked, chained to tho
floor, chained with both hands to tho ceiling,
beaten, maltreated in every way in Uhi:h 3
brutal man can torture helpless creature
wholly in his power. AL this ia bad enough, but
the wretched story conld probably be duplicated
in half the States. We hava as yet devised no
way TO insure that lunatlcs shall b. treated as
well as brutes. The old jest becomes true and
sad when it ie said Of them that it would be
money in their pockets if they had never been
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The explorations Of Hayden, Langford, and
others, have given the American people q vague
notion OF the marvels Of that eldn region that
lies about the sources Of the Yellowstone. So
! wonderful has the section been regarded, that,
just two years ago this month, Congress- passed
IN act setting apart IN area some 60 miles square
as J" q National park or pleasuring ground, for
the benefit and enjoyment Of the peo-
pie" Mr.. N. P. Langford, q gentleman OF
leisure, and scientific tastes, WAS appointed
to oserye as Superintendent, without any salary
OF emoluments, md also without my appropria~
ton With which to render the park accessible,
and preserve it from spo1iation. The park has
not even been surveyed. Under this state OF
things, Mr. Langford could not permanently re-
side there, and the result is that thousands OF
Indians and hunters, and the natural beauties
Of the Park have been defaced by tourists for
specimens.
4 Lii is now before Congress to appropriate
e100, 600 to construct roads to and through the
Park, to prescribe severe penalties for it's de-
facenent, aud TO provide for its complete pro-
tection. It is estimated by Gov. Potts, 1T Mon
tana that 500 persons visited the Park last year,
aud Mr. T.angford THINKS they destroyed and
carried Off property to the value OF the entire
appropriation asked for. The Superintendent
says:
The testimony Of al has been that, for extent,
beauty novelty, mud variety, its physical wonders ex
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S250, ,000, 600. Tho last expense in the three
epochs is that OF dying. There were, accord-
ing to the last census, 4o2,2G3 deaths
in the United Sta,es. It is utter
II impossible for man to lie re-
specially and be buried decentlv short OF $50.
The undertaken is an expensive luxury, and the
doctor who helps you out Of the world the flow
crs. wraaths, and crosses the carriages which
escort you tho lot in which you are laid away
and the stone which is put above you to hold
you down, while it tells al1 sorts OF stories about
you, arc also expensive iuxuries. Although the
person who makes all this tronble doesn't pay
tho bills himself, nor care anything about them,
some one has to pay them; and this item cosrs
tie country $73 839, ,450 annually.
Summing up, therefore, wo find the total bill
as foliowa:
Getting born: 500 co., 900
nt!tuR !naEr1ea. ..-.....:-.-.-.- 2auuOu,9Uu
ue'tA8 '3,s39.3Jo
Total. ,s543, 934 450
It is question which the Philosophical So
clety, tho SundayAfternoon Lecture Society,
and other organizations in this city laboring for
the good of mankind, might we'll considar.-how
this expense can be sparol. Two Of tho items
the debtor mover authorizes, and the third is
necessity and q protection to society which
ought to be provided gratis. The amount
which marrying costs, if saved and put at inter-
eat, would come to gooaly SUN. We arc aware
that the averages TO have made are high, since
ell people are not bern, do not marry. aud can
not be buried IN frat-class style; but, on the
other hand. there are incldertals to birth, mar
1iage, and death-which a1e the sum and sub
stance OF mortal career, afler al1--that re
could not include. They are all costly, and the
practical societies We have named might discuss
them to advantage from this point Of view.
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This does not include the inducements which
are offered during cou1tship. and the influences
which are brought to bear to tempt the feminine
party Of the second part into the marital con-
tract, such as buggyrides, oyater-suppe1s, opera
going, theatre expenses, bouquets, lid gloves,
and small bijoutetie, without which no approach
can be nude to the female affections. These
would probably snal tha tot0 70 { tound
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The record Of tho astronomical snd meteoro-
logical observations made during :ha year 1871,
st the United States Nsva, Observatory at Wash
inEton is just issued in attractiTe form from the
Government Printing Office. It is accompanied
by handsome engraving Of the new Telescope
which has recently been placed in position there
and is the best refractor in the world, bearing
away the palm even from Chicago. The work
itself is only OF interest to ASTRONOMERS !; and
they know it's scope without the nesd Of special
description
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senRers subscribed $500 for the heroic sailors
who had thus successfully braved death to rescue
their fellow-men, but the pocun;ary reward WIS
as nothing to the honor which will forever At
tach to the names Of the heroes
The wrecked vessel vas the Norwegian brig
Fodlin, and had been dismantled thirty six
hours before it Was discovered by the Algeria
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enormous.

The suffering in lows continues to demand
the kindly aid Of the public. So great has been
the destituuon, that, besides food, fuel and
clothing, these unfortunate people arc in want
Of corn, wheat, cats, and other grain for seed
for the present year. By the want Of these they
are threatened With famine for the next year.
Let those who are willing 10 relieve really des-
titute community continue their contributions,
and, II possible, aid these people by sending
them seed that they may cultivate their crops
for the coming season, and provide for them
selves heIeafEer
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The consolidation Of the Erenizg Post and The
Erening Nail has spoiled two midding good
papers. and put nothing in their Place. The
consolidated concern ia 80 charmed BY the spec
tacle Of the Christian advocate chasing Its owu
tail that Il hss adoptad the sa1na practice
chAafbk tha Adtosai4's lid. not As e1r.
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:co-religlous situation In Germany are not unlike
those already expressed in The TRIBUNE. and lie
agrees with us. too, that there is but one solu-
ton to the religious question-in the present
age-the recognition By religious organizations
Of the fact that their kingdom is not OF this
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BRYANT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

The reading public OF this country will receive
with great satisfaction the announcement that
the venerable William Cullen Bryant, OF New
York, assisted by Mr. Sydney Howard Gay, vet
eran journalist and scholar, have now in prep
aration Popular History Of the United States.
In no branch Of literature is there such want Rs
this book is intended to supply. We have no pop
u1ar history Of America. and We can imagine no
pzouder climax to the literary fame OF Mr. Bry-
ant than this Invaluable and long-needed his
tory Tho work will include the early history Of
the continent. down to the union and independ-
enco of the Colonies. It will then give
the history Of the first century of the
United Republic. The work is intend
cd for popular use and information,
and will be written with that ability and fairness
for With Mr. Bryant aud Mr, Gay ara alike dis
tinguished. We have had numerous American
histories, but never complete nor q popular
Que. Our history has been written in sections,
and without connection. We have bad oiogra-
ply in profusion have had ablo works covering
particular periods Of titne and particular ereots
but general history Of the United States, COM
ing down to contemporary events, such aa the
ordinary citizen or family desires, has never been
produced. Bryauts history will in all probability
be the standard history for the next half cen-
tury- Such book is doubly appropriate, coming.
az 1t does at the close of the first century OF the
United States, and at the restoration OF the
Union in all it's strength after the terrible ordeal
OF civil war.
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Information from Springfield is to ths effect
that 3 lobby from Chicago is demanding the re-
enactment OF the Mayors bill, SO that Mayor
Colvin may displaee Dixon as presiding officer
OF the Council. The rage Of the Peoples party
seems to hnye been thoroughly excited. Much
"a they hato Colvin, they desire to reverse the
defeat OF last Monday night, even by restoring
the Mayor as presiding officer Of the Council
On general principles, the Mayors bill ought to
be re-enucted, but the Peoples party showed no
solicitude on that score until Dixon was
elected. As regards the mere Presiden-
cy OF the Council, however, it must
be- said that with Dixon IN the chair the public
business will be conducted in an orderly manner.
Who can say hor will be done with Mayor
Colvin in the chnir? Tho brief experience OF
that gentlo1uan as presiding officer was attended
with extraordinary incidenta. II tho Aldermen
Gid not respect him then, and he did not respect
the Council, how will they be more acceptable to
each other heEeafter2 What will be accom-
plished by merely disp1acing Dixon to make rpom
Tor Co!yin? Who will be the gamer BY that?
, 1874-03-22

One very important factor in the stubborn op-
position to the temperance movement is the im-
rnense profit in the retail liquor business. The
New York Graphic furnishes soma very aignii-
cant figures IN this connection. Rum costs Fer
gallon, for best, S7.s5, and retails at SO profit
91.15. Gin costs $3.50, and retails for 50 :;
profit, $4.50. Brandy costs s12 and retails for
536 profit. S2+4; and on the poorest quality tho
profit is 9105o. Champagne costs 1928 per bas-
ket and retails fer $40 profit, $40. Cheap ale
costs, per hogehead, SIS and retails at a30.40 !;
profit. $3.50. On better ale the profit per hogs
head is 971.20, and On stock ale 366.20, or 265
per cent Of tho cost. These figures are based
on the supposition that pure liquors are used
But pure liquors are rarely used, go that the
profits on the adultarated stuff must be simply
enormous.
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We published some days ago an account Of the
disaster to the steamship Pennsylvania on her
trip from Liverpool TO Philadelphia During
a terrible storm Of several days duration, d tre-
mendous sea swept the decks and carried over
board every officer Of the steamer. This oo-
CURED at midnight. Fortunately, Mr. Brady,
who had been IN officer On the lost steamer
Atfantic, was on board rs a passenger, and be
took command and brought the vessel safely
into port, The officers ofthe Company promptly
thanked him, and presented him with q check for
$1,000. which be declined. The applause won by
Mr.. Brady has since been somewhat weakened
by the fact that he has brought suit against the
vessel and cargo, claiming 81 000, 600 as salvage.
There is no doubt that at first he was disinter-
ested, but it is probable that he has been put up
to make this claim by some barrator in the legal
profession who expecta to share the proceeds.
It ia not likely that he will recover much in the
wsy Of salvage for his labors TO save his own life
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CInHF Observation-Disclosures street, between Mad
tson md Wsshinenu Engagement Of the JOG 3foh;rs
md Chnrl.s Chrasdes Panlon,ime Troupe. " Tbs "1A
= the Witp.n
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MYERS, 0pERA-HOUSE Monroe street. between
peatbora and satc. Arlington, Cotton aud kelnhc's
Mn,tIe.e Mins11e!<y and conicalities. BaEnura'a
Eabr Elephant The Watchdog" !" etc.
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DR~KkHS'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM-io. 1<a
Eoust Ga. 4 street. Science end Art.
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ADELpH1 >THEATRE-corn:r ct Wanash aSeFbe Fbe
seven Eiaterxn Io-Lo, and The De Glosdans
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AcADEsy OF MUs1cl4nlstcd .trcet between ns,e. No.
''The Grand Duchess Of Gcsulstein
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-03-26

10 the Circuit Court of Taylor county a
few days ago, a prisoner was arrnigncd
charged with the larceny Of seventy five
dollars from a gentleman living in Fair.
mont. He was vigorously prosecuted,
and it was shown that the money was found
10 his possession at the time Of bis arrest.
He was, however, defended with SO much
ingenuity and skill as to secure lrium'
plant acquittaI BY the jury, The attorney
for The prisoner then banded over to the
lIairmont man the fee he had received Tor
his services in the cnse, which was simply
the money which had been found in his
clicut'spossession, and which the FaIrmont
man had lost; and then everybody was
happy Register