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A Fatal Experiment.

The power of the imagination is truly
markable-indeed, almost beyond be-
lief and many people are great slaves
to its whims and caprices. One-half the
ills that flesh is heir to are superinduced
by the fancy of the sufferers, as hundreds
are known to have died by mere symp-
toms of cholera, yellow fever, and the
plague, induced by dread alone of these
terrible maladies. People of strong
nervous temperaments are often great
slaves to the tyranny of mind over mat
ter. Young medical students are very
fond of illustrating this fact by practical
jokes upon unsuspecting people.
We very well remember case in point
which occurred in this city not long ago,
but which we do not remember to have
seen in print. It was that of an amateur
butcher engaged III slaughter-house,
and who, in placing his meat upon a
hook, slipped in the blood upon the
floor, and hung himself instead of the
meat upon the barbed point. His
screams were deafening, and when he
was released from his frightful situation
his agony was intense. He was quickly
carried in the arms of three men to the
nearest physicians office, and SO great
was his pain Gin imagination) that he
cried piteously upon every motion made
by the doctor In cutting the coat and
Sn1rt-SleeVe 1fOm ABOUT the wounded
arm. When at last the arm was barred
not scratch was there. The hook point
had merely grazed the skin and torn the
shirt-sleeve.
! These thoughts were suggested to us
| by an experiment just tried at St. Peters:
/ burg, Russia. A criminal condemned to
death was handed over to the surgeons
of the hospital for the purpose of a Ger
tain experiment. He was taken to the
dissecting room and laid upon a marble
slab, his hands, feet and body were Sc
curely tied to the table upon which he
lay. He was then told, after being care
fully blindfolded, that he was to be bled
to death. A pail was brought, the sur
| geon snapped his lancet upon the mair
artery of the arm, while an attendan
stood by pouring small stream of blood
warm water upon the arm, which ran of
into the pail. The poor criminal heart
the steady stream flowing into the pail
and soon grew weak and faint, thel
swooned, and in exactly twelve minutes
was dead
Here was an unmistakable evidence O
the power of the imagination, illustrat
ing in q remarkable manner the reflec
tions mentioned above, for IN this in
stance not one drop of blood had beef
taken from the body of the criminal
His fancy had proved as fatal to him a
though he had actually bled to death. :
| NesU York Weekly.
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The society Bow.

Another kink is in the kind of bow,
which is the height of elegance, because
it is Sc foreign" You are not to bend
your head with the least degree of rever-
ence. That's only suitable in saluting
your acknowledged superior, but you are
to look the party you address coolly In
the eye, smile your sweetest, and gently
incline your head to the left shoulder
with little backward movement at the
same time. It's little difficult to do mt
first, and practicing before the glass you
look as silly as you feel ]; but never mind
it,s s the thing" and such matters are ag
contagious as the measles SO you'll get
Il after little It's easier than saying
ssGood morningl' at o'clock. Newly
elected M. C.'s bring their wives here
every winter. It takes man months to
find out the tricks and the manners"
which distinguish society people (; but the
average woman, either from the prairies
of Nebraska or the pine regions Of North
Carolina, viii catch all necessary g airs -
in single winter, and be ready to instruct
the next new conner Washington Let
HpY.
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Donkey Bows.


The donkey is the great institution of
Egypt. The long-eared creatures crowd
the narrow strets of those far-of cities,
ambEng along sometimes with fat Turk
balancing himself with difficulty on the
ungainly saddle. Again one PAGES along
carrying an amused traveller intent on
sightseeing. And often, on the banks
of the wondrous Nile, under the shadow
of the palm-trees, beneath the golden
light of the Egyptian skies, you may see
one bearing woman with child clasped
in her arms, so like to that old familiar
picture that you have looked upon many
times, of Mary and the infant Jesus in
their fight into Egypt It is a more
beautiful and touching sight than any
other in that Eastern land.
Ihad almost compared the donkey-boys
of Egypt to the news-boys of New York /;
and, indeed, I do believe them to possess
many traits in common. Their rough,
Independent life, their intercourse with
every class of humanity, their shrewd
cunning, all may be found on this side
the Atlantic in the streets of our own
city.
They are quick to catch foreign
phrases, and many of them can speak,
though imperfectly, three or four lam
guages.
When his passenger is mounted, the
owner of the donkey-that is, the donkey
boy-always runs behind his property,
urging him forward with stick which
he carries and with one magic word, well
comprehended by the donkey, sounding
like " Haa !" The boy will often run a
long distance, apparently without fa-
hgue, now and then breaking out into a
wild kind of singing. They are the
happiest race of boys in the world.-.St.
| Nicholas,
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Our Faces--.Open Books.

The mysteries of the schools, or the
learning of the ancients cannot be studied
by all, but pages from the great book of
human nature are scattered all around us,
in ever. changeful diversity. There is no
repetition, no sa1neness there but all are
original copies. for the author is Omnip-
otence. Enter the schools where the
:. coming man " is being prepared for his
high destiny, and we note the open eye,
the unrufded brow, and the 11ndeveloped
features, all denoting innocent childhood
and immaturity. Into another, Of diff
ferent class Of children, and oh, how
forcibly does the care-worn brow, the
sharpened and pinched features speak of
poverty and suffering, ofttimes of crime |
Loiter in places where business men
congregate. and there may be seen char
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-16
Cotton Manufactures of the Country

The Commercial ana Financial
Chronicle has some valuable and inter
esting statistics of cotton manufacture,
which shows that there are in the United
States SAT cotton mills, having 1876, ,975
looms, and 9,415, 1888 spindles, which
consumed during the past year 567, $780,
873 pounds of cotton, and manufactured
goods as follows; Thread, yarns and
twines, 149. 100000 pounds sheetings,
shirtings, and similar plain goods, 707,-
600, 600 yards twilled and fancy goods,
osnaburgs, jeans, ETC., SOC, 900, 600 yards !;
print cloths. 588, 900, 900 yards ging-
hams, 80, 900, 900 yards duck, 30,0O0.-
900 yards bags, 100000. OF these
mills, $50, running 8,927,754 spindles,
are in the Northern States and 1877
mills, running 497, ,629 spindles, in the
Southern States. There are 4S9 mills,
running 1888, TIL spindles, in the six
New England States, and producing
three-fourths of all the cotton goods
made in the country, distributed as fol-
lows:
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Facts To BE Remembered.

One thousand shingles laid four inches
to the weather viii cover 100 square feet
of surface, and five pounds of shingle-
nails will fasten them on. One-fifth
more siding and flooring is needed than
the number of square feet of surface to
be covered, because of the lap in the sid
ing and the matching of the floor.
One thousand lath will cover
seventy yards of surface, and eleven
pounds of lath-nails will nail
them on. Eight bushels of good lime,
sixteen bushels of sand, and one bushel
of hair will make enough good mortar to
plaster 100 square yards. A cord of
stone, three bushels of lime, and a cubic
yard of sand will lay 100 cubic feet of
wall. Five courses of brick will lay one
foot in height on a chimney, six bricks in
a course will make fue four inches wide
and twelve inches long, and eight bricks in
course viii make hue eight inches wide
and sixteen inches long.
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POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

ALLEN T. CAPERToS, the Senator-elect
from West Virginia, graduated at Yale
with Cassius NJ. CLAY.
Ex-Gov. PHILIP F. THOMAS, of Mary
land, will be the 's Father of the new
House, having served his first term in
1894.
CNcINNATI Times "Young Brown
blackgllarding Butler is suggestive of a
four year-old pinching the tail of Cali
fornia mule"
Louisiana and the fortunes of the Kellogg
party, and has bought farm in White
county, Ca, where he proposes to en-
gage largely in sheep-raising.
BEN BUTLER uses diplomacy even in
selecting a seat in a railway car. He
says : 81 sit in the forward end of the
car for two reasons !: To avoid the bad
breath and foul air which one finds col
lected in the rear of the car and, next,
because there is far less danger in case
of telescoping. I prefer the left side,
because every car door opens to the left,
thereby throwing the draught to the
right.
JUDGE MCMILLAN, the new Senator
elect from Minnesota, was born in Fay
cite county, Pa, in 1926 graduated at
Duquesne College in 1849 read law in
the office of Edwin NJ. Stanton and
Judge Shaler. Came to Minnesota, set
thing at Saltwater, in 1852 was elected
District Judge in 1858 was appointed
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
in 1864 elected to the same Office in
1866, reelected in 1872, appointed and
elected Chief-Justice in 1874. He has
never held other than judicial Office.
A CAREFUL WoS1AN.-One cold night
last week lone old woman arrived in
Detroit from some town in Indiana, in
search for her son, and she put up for
the night at a hotel on Woodbridge
street. Soon after daylight a servant
girl, passing along the hall, found the
old lady's room open, and entered the
room to discover that both windows were
up, and that rag had been tied over
the gas-burner after the light had been
extinguished. When the woman was
aroused and asked to explain, she said
+" I've seen this ere gas before, and
don't believe you can be too careful
| about handling it. Detroit Free Prese.
Missouri Republican I" Many 9
country editor whose subscribers have
failed to come down with the cord WOOD
as LaSH LINZ 1A4OAA A0fAA 70
with a new hope when it was reported
that Congress had restored the frankine
privilege as to public documents. They
| felt that the time was approaching
when delinquent subscribers could &c
to somebody else and sell their core
wood and welcome, for would they no
have Patent Office reports enough t.
keep every stove red hot from Novembe
to March But alas for human editoria
hopes! Congress has srejected the bill, th,
editors stove is cold, the delinquent sub
| scriber has hibernated, and the bleal
| winds of winter howl wild and disma
wall through cracks where zero steals in.
ALL of the twenty-five Senatorial va
eancies which will occur on the 4th OF
| March have now been filed. We Civ
/ below list of the retiring members ane
their successors, showing the parties t,
j which they belong, and the gains an,
losses of either party. The names Q
| Republicans are In Roman, Democrats i
Italic, and Independents in SMALL cAP1
TAILS:
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What the Body Requires.

The Inter Ocean, in answer to cor
respondent, says: "The requirements
of the body vary with age, sex, occupa-
ton, health, work done, climate, and
race. Therefore any attempt to decide
just how much a person should eat or
drink would be fruitless. In the first
place it may be stated generally that a
healthy person requires from 700 to 800
pounds of perfectly dry food a year,
day. In addition to this is required
about six pounds of liquid. DIR. Play
fair has made extensive observations on
this subject, and gives the following
table of daily diet, according to work
done
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acter displayed in its most selfish aspect
ali eager for gain, many plotting how to
emulate certain Tammany leaders, and
vet elude the penitentiary. Has it any in
fiuence on features, do You ask? Let
lynx eyes, corrugated brow, hooked nose,
and compressed lips answer.
Visit the library of the scholar, or the
sanctum of the poet, and strikingly do
the spacious head, lofty brow, and
thoughtful face of the one, or the dreamy,
absorbed, spiritual face of the other, re-
veal their inner life and profession also.
Walk along Broadway, and mark the ex-
preston and look of the elegant, refined
lady, and then visit the dingiest tene-
ment-house that New York contains, and
note the difference in the look of its in
mates. es.-An,aual of Phrenotogy and
Physi0gn0a11y.
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Fine Company.

A female member of the Goldfish aris-
tocracy, in regaling country friend in
the presence of her son Ga wicked youth)
with an account of grand party she had
recently given, said, ''Would you be-
heve it, we had two Generals, o Judge,
a popular author, a musical composer,
and a man who writes playsa" Yes, .
chimed In the aforementioned wicked
youth, tsand there was Deputy Sheriff
who said he wanted to see dad, and they
went out before supper, and dad hasn't
come home yet" When the youth went
to school the next day, with his head all
tied up, he tried to make the teacher be
ieve he had the toothache.
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Newspapers in Paris.

The number of journals, daily, week
ly, etc., published in Paris, amounts to
754. OF these, So refer to theology ; 63
to Jurisprudence 10 to geography and
history 56 to light reading 25 to pub
lie instruction and education 50 to
literature, philosophy, ethnography and
photography IL to painting to
photography to architecture to
archaeology II to music s to the
theater 81 to fashions 4 to hair dress
ing 78 to different trades, etc. SO to
medicine and pharmacy At to sciences ;
% to military and naval affairs 1S to
agriculture 10 to the horse 10 are un-
classed. There are 81 political journals
and IL political reviews.
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I'm the Way He Should Go.

ssWell, my son." said Detroit father
to his ght-year-old son the other night,
Sc what have you done to-day that may
be set down as good deed ."
s'Gave poor boy five cents,' replied
the hopeful.
g sAh, ha that was charity, and charity
is always right. He was an orphan boy,
was her"
s. didn't stop to ask" replied the
boy s. gave him the money for licking
boy who spit In my dinner basket ="
Detroit Free Press.
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'sScience teaches that the best pro-
portions of food for the body generally
are, of fat, nine parts of fesh-forming
materials, twenty-five parts, and of
starch and sugar, sixty mine parts. When
we eat of food which is deficient in any
necessary ingredient, we generally com
bine it with another that contains an ex-
cess of it. Thus, we combine bread
with butter, lean meat with potatoes,
salad with eggs On the other hand, we
should never mix together great variety
of food containing an excess of carbon
aceous matter and deficiency of nitro
genous.'
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THnER NorED IrAr1ANs. - Garibaldi

HHzsE NUTEU IIAIl1AN5. ~ N1tt1Ils1lt14 .
routine bill of fare is the following ;
Breakfast, coffee and bread dinner,
soup, one plate of meat or fish, fruit ;
supper, none. Plus TX. is similarly Q
frugal eater, differing only from the first
In being a wine-bibber (don't call hum
drunkard). Victor Emmanuel IS heavy
lover of food and wine, eating lndlffer,
emily of most things, from the trlpe ana
garlic of Piedmont TO the snakes and
mussels nuculian style) OF Rome, N
elusive. All these are at present happily
LIVING in the latter city, after much hurly-
b41rly and battles fought and won, and
the caricaturists depict them together,
arm II arm. sauntering through the Corso,
with toothpicks in their mouths.
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Pounds cotton

It viii be seen from this table that
Maine, with much more water power
than all the rest of New England, yet
has less cotton mills and spindles than
any other New England State except
Vermont. Massachusetts, has half the
cotton spindles in New England, and
over third of all in the country. Even
little Rhode Island has twice as many
spindles as Maine, although her mills
average only half as large as the Maine
mills
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FRESH TOPICS

1HE standing committee of theDiocese
OF Indiana have voted against the con-
firnation of DIR. DeKoven as Bishop of
Illinois.
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The Door man had to go without his

The poor man had to go without his
he cared little about that, while listening
with tears in his eyes to the thrilling
story his son had to relate to him. He
must have been proud of him that day,
as he wrapped him in his own warm over
coat and took him home to "mother. ;"
And how that mother must have wept
and smiled over the lad, and kissed him
and thanked God for him - Grace
Gj.eealUOOd
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A KEENE's Station On. ~ man felR
dead upon hearing of the failure Of q
bank where he had deposited $500, and
his wife also died within week. non
the same cause combined with the losz of
her husband.
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THE fiery, untamed Florence McCar-
thy, ex-preacher, ETC., has abandoned
religion and taken up law. He has been
admitted to the Chicago bar, and won
his first case in Justices court the
other day.
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The New Senate.

The following is q list of the Senate of
the Forty-fourth Congress. There are
of straight Republicans Gin Roman) Al ;
of Independent Republicans (in SMALL
cAPs1 &: of Democrats (in itGlics) % /;
vacancy, total, IA. The year in which
each Senator's term expires is set oppo-
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a SON of Alexander Hamilton, now
hVlng IN New York, at the age of 80,
claims that his father wrote the whole of
Washington's farewell address, with the
exception of the first three lines.
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CHTT-CHAT FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
Counting che. FIngers.

Counting the Fingers.
Davy, dear, your fingers hold;
Listen till my story's told.
" Thumbs rogue, and whispers, Come,
Let US steal the sweets" says Thumb
g Straight First Finger bends to hear;
She's rogue when Thumb is near.
st Second Finger saws, I'm go:'
Cries Third Finger, Count me, too
g Little Finger stands alone,
Says, The sweets not oiIr 3xn.'
I" Thumb says, Let no Finger say
Where tho sweets have gone to-day
T." Finger First then cries ont, No!
Not word from me shall co.
+" Second Finger shakes her head;
She would suffer death instead.
IS Finger Third is full of fear,
Lest the marks of guilt appear.
81 Little Finger cries, For ahame!
shall ten where lies the blame.
"tH we all are made to smart
With the rest IN bear my part
g. And I think that through and through
Little Fingers right-dsn't your"
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THESE are hard times with Illinois
railroads. Eleven lines in the State,
embracing total mileage of 2, 1856 miles,
have gone into bankruptcy within the
last few months, and are now in the
hands of receivers.
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A Little Hero.

In the city of Hartford, Ct, lives the
hero of the true story I am about to re-
late-but no longer ss little" as the per-
ilous adventure which made him famous
in his native town happened several
years ago.
Our hero was then bright, active boy
of fourteen-the son of mechanic. In
the severe winter of 1886 the father
worked in factory about mile from
his home, and every day the boy carried
him his dinner across a piece of meadow
land. One keen frosty day, he found
the snow on this meadow nearly two feet
deep, and no traces of the footpath re-
manning. Yet he ran on as fast as possi-
BILE, plunging through drifts, keeping
himself warm by vigorous exercise, and
brave, cheerful thoughts. When in the
midst of the meadow, fully half mile
from the house, he suddenly felt himself
going down, down
He had fallen in a well. He sank
down, down into the dark, icy water, but
rose immediately to the surface. There
he grasped hold of a plank which had
fallen into the well as he went down.
One end of this rested on the bottom of
| the well-the other rose about four feet
/ above the surface of the water The
poor lad shouted until he was almost
speechless, but all in vain, as it was i'm
|
such o depth, and at such distance
from any house. So at last he concluded
that if he was saved at all he must
save himself, and begin at once, as he
was getting extremely cold in the water.
/ So he went to work.
First he drew himself up the plank,
and braced himself against the top of il
and the wall of the well, which was OF
brick and quite smooth. Then he pulled
offhis coat, and taking out his pocket knife
he cut off his boots, that he might go tc
work to greater advantage. Then, with
his feet against one side of the well, anG
his shoulders against the other, he
worked his way up, by the most fearful
exertion, about half the distance to the
top. Here he Was obliged to pause tx
take breath and gather up his energies
for the work yet before him. Far hardel
was it than all he had gone through, fo
the side being from that point covered
with ice, he must cut with his knit,
/ grasping places for his fingers, slowl,
and carefully, all the way up. 1t was al
most a hopeless attempt, but it was al
that he could do. And here the littl
hero lifted up his heart TO God ans
prayed fervently for help, fearing tha
he could never get out alone. Doubles
the Lord heard his voice calling from
the deep, and piled him. He wrourh
no miracle to save him, but he breathe,
into his heart yet larger measure o
calmness and courage, strengthening hin
} to work out his own deliverance.
After this the little hero cuts his wa,
upward inch by inch. His wet stock
: ings froze to the ice and kept his fee
) from slipping, but his shirt was quit
worn from his shoulders ere he reache
a the top. He did reach it at last crawle
Z out into the snow, and Law down for
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ARKANSAS.
1S77. Powell Clayton.
1879. 8. W. Dorsey.
CoHNRCTICUT.
1879. Orris s. Ferry.
1881. VIM. W. Eaton.
FLORIDA.
|1879. Simon b. Conover.
1881. Charles W. Jones.
ILLINOIS.
I1877. John A. Logan.
I1879. Richard j. Oglesby.
IOWA.
1877. George G.. Wright.
1879. William B. Allison.
KENTUCKY.
I1S77. John W. Stevenson.
1879. Theo. c.. Nc CTee5-y.
MAINE.
IIS77. Lot NJ. Morrill,.
1881. Hannibal Hamlin.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
l1S77. George s. Boutwell,.
1881. Henry L. Dawes.
MINNESOTA.
II877. William Window.
1881. 8. J. R. Mcmillan.
MISSOURI.
1879. Lelcis Y. Boqy.
1881. Francis NJ. COckTelt.
NEVADA.
1879. John p. Jones.
1881. William Sharon.
NEW JERSEY.
1877. FIT. Frelinghuysen.
1881. Trhos. +. Randolph.
NORTH CAROLINA.
1877. Matthetp W.Ranso77l.
1879. Aug. s. Merri8loqI.
i OREGON.
1877. James X. Kelly.
1879. John H. Mitchell.
1 RHODE ISLAND.
I1S77. Henry b. Anthony.
1881. Ambrose f. Burn
side.
| TENNESSEE.
1S77. Henry Cooper.
1881. Andre1c johnson.
! VERMONT.
1879. Justin S. Morrill,.
1881. George F. Edmunds
| WEST VIRGINIA.
1879. Henry G.. DdUis.
1881. -Atten Z. CdPertSn.
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| INeiet0ys Booth.
William ". Eaton.
Thomas r. Bayard.
iC. ". Jones.
| Joseph Il. Mcdonald. .
HANNIBAL HamIin.
| F1a. Pislck7aey Vhyte.
Henry L. Dawes.
IIsaac P. Christiancy.
Is. j. r. Mcmillan.
branch X. Bruce, c.
lFTGsscia III. CockrelE.
| IAlgernon 81 Pad lock.
| William Sharon.
7g.e0. r. Randolph.
FfGascis KerstGgt.
IAlEess @. Thurman.
| William a. Wallace.
la. e. Burnside.
| lAndreto johnson.
Samuel Is. Marcy.
George F. Edmunds.
| Robert Il. Withefs.
Ia len n. CdpertoSs.
Angus Cameron.