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baltimore Dental College IN lSli. once no.
moved 10 southeast corner Elm aud Lamar
streets, over knhn's clothing store. IS
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over Postofilco. IL
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HIDES Asp PELTRIEs,

V. r. Evans, OF this city, reporter TO tue
with the Following - .s. -.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30
OTTAWA FREE TRADER: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 80 1875.

found several, and such rags" l burned
them all, and called the daughter OF the house
to get me dishcoth She looked round on
the tables; "Why," said she, there was about
dozen here this morning." and she looked
in the wood.box and on the mantlepiece and
felt in the dark corners Of the cupboard
"Well,' said, III saw some old, black, rotten
rags lying round and burned them, for there
is death in such dish-clothes AS those, and
you must never use such again. took
turns" at nursing that family four weeks, and
| believe those dirty dishclohs were the
cause of all that hard work. Therefore, say
to every housekeeper, keep your dishcloths
clean. You may wear your dresses without
ironing, your sun-bonnets without CLASHES
but yon Iaust keep your dishcloths clean.
You may only comb your heads on Sundays,
you need not wear a collar unless you go
from hOme-but you must wash your dish
cloths. You may only sweep the floor when
the "sign gets right" the windows don't
need washing, you can look out at the door;
that spiders web ON the front porch don't
hurt anything-but, as you love your lives,
wash out your dish cloth Let the fOxtail get
ripe in the garden (the seed is foot deep
anyway let the holes in the heels OF your
husbands !ootrags go undarned, let the sage
go ungathereu, let the children's shoes so
two Sundays without backing, let two hens
set four weeks on one wooden egg-but do
wash your dish.clothes. Eat without table
cloth wash your faces and let them dry; do
without a curtain for your windows, and cake
for your tea-but, for heavens sake, keep
your dlshcloths clean.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30
In the Jaws of "a Panther.

FROM tit houston kleAhs) ieegTdph'
Last Monday morning man and wife, who
lived about nine miles east of Willis, left
home on business, leaving the house in
charge of the oldest child, about twelve years
of age. Toward noon the girl heard the in
FAINT, aged fourteen months, which had been
laid while asleep on a bed in an adjoining
room, utter scream. She Immediately ran
to its relief, and imagine her feelings upon
opening the door to see huge panther, with
the babe In It's mouth leaping from an open
window, Immediately over the bed She
sprang upon the bed and then out Of the win
dow, screaming at the height of her voice,
and, upon being Joined by the other children
about the house, pursued the panther at her
utmost speed They followed about forty
rods, to pair of bars which separated the
clearing from the forest, at which, the girl
says, she approached to within fifteen or TWEEN.
ty feet of the panther, when it rellnquished
its hold Of the child, leaped the bars, and
made its way to the woods. The infant was
picked up, much strangled by the grass and
sand which had filled its mouth and eyes, but
soon recovered, and is now well, save few
scratches about its body, which have the APP
pearance of having been made by the pau
theirs teeth. These marks are very plain,
and there are several blood. blisters where the
teeth, in slipping, came in contact. The girl
says the panther dropped the child once be-
fore arriving at the fence, and it is supposed
the giving way of the clothing was the cause,
as II was much torn.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

CATION are involved, their influence seems to
be wanting. Instances bong, however, on
record that sometimes there has been moth
er whose love tor natural objects has had an
effect on the mind of her son, it may be infer
red that were women generally of more sci
entiac tendencies than they are now, the ma
ternsl influence might be as distinctly shown
as in the Cases of the non.scientltic men OF
intellect.
Science certainly has not at present the
same attractions AS literature for women, ey.
cept few cases here and there. Perhaps
that may result from the circumstance that
so few possibilities OF scientific instruction
or work have, as yet, been open to them. Bat
as time passes on, and the chances of scientific
education develop, women may come to find
Ia the pursuit of science something which
will afford them interest, and will open up to
them vast fields Of intellectual usefulness,
quite within the range of their powers The
day may come when some future Mr.. Gallon,
making statistical inquiries as to the nature
and nurture of scientific men of his time, will
have to record that the maternal influence in
The direction of the minds of scientific men is
not, as now, conspicuous by its absence
Home Journal.
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Death I'm the Dish-Cloth,

\ lady says in the Rural World that during
this month and next, when some of you are
sure TO be down with the typhoid fever;
when neighbors are negleeting their c'n
work to nurse you; when doctors are hupt
ing In cellars and old drains for the caule
let me whisper in your ear-look to yoar
dish cloths. If they be black ami stuff ahd
smell like a "Doneyard," it is enough-thrcw
them in the fire, and henceforlh and forever
wash your dishes with cloths that are while,
cloths that you can see through, and see II
Won ever have that disease again. There are
sometimes other causes, but have smelled a
whole houseful Of typhoid fever in one dish
rag | had some neighbors once,-clever,
good sort of folks; one fall four of them were
sick at one time with typhoid fever The
doctor ordered the vinegar barrels White
washed, and threw about forty cents worth
Of carbclic acid in the swill-pail and depart
ed. went into the kitchen to make Cruel
/ needed a&ish cloth, and locked about ana
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

Very few, probably, of the thousands who
throw old shoes after bridal parties as they
are leaving home know anything of the orr
gin of the custom. Like almost all of our
common customs, It's origin is ancient, and
can be traced to Bible times 1t was the Gus
tom for the brother of a childless man to mar
nv his widow, or at least he had the refusal OF
her If he chose TO reject her the ceremony
was public, and consisted in her losing her
shoe from her foot and splitting in his face.
HIS giving up the shoe was a symbol of his
abandoning all dominion over her, and her
splitting in her face was an assertion of her
independence. There was an affair OF this
kind between Ruth and Boaz. In some parts
of the East 1t was a custom 20 carry a slipper
before a newly-marred couple as token of
the brides subsection. The custom as il ex-
lists with us 10 very old in England and Scot
land The usual saying is that 1t is thrown
for luck, and that Is the idea in this country
but originally ii meant remuneration of au
thority over the bride by the parents. 1t was
formerly custom among the Germans for
the bride, when she was conducted to her
bed-chambcr, to take off her shoe and throw
il among the guests Whoever got il in the
struggle to obtain it received 1t us an omen
that he or she would soon be happily married.
Trala, in his history OF the isle of MIN"
saws: "On the bridegroom leaving his house
it was customary to throw an old shoe ater
him, and IN like manner an old shoe atterlhe
bride on leaving her home to proceed to
church, In order TO insure good luck to each
respectively, ard If by stratagem either ofthe
brides shoes could be taken of by any in.
spector on her way from church it had to be
ransomed by the bridegroom" In Kent,
England, after the couple had started on tieir
a.. lad lrut M in an "A
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

Avoid bathing within two hours after a
meal Avoid bathing when exhausted by IA
tigue or from any other cause. Avoid bath.
ing when the body is cooling after perspira.
ton; but battle when the body is warm pro-
vided no time is lost in getting into the
water. Avoid chilling the body by sitting or
standing naked on the shore or in boats after
having been in the water. Avoid remaining
too long in the water; leave the water imme
diately if there is the slightest feeling of
chillness Avoid bathing altogether in the
open air, If, after having been short time in
the water, there is a sense Of chilliness with
of the hands and feet The vigor-
GUS and stong may battle early in the mern
ing on an empty stomach. The young and
those that are weak, had better balhe three or
hours after meal; the best time for such
is from two to three hours after breakfast
Those who are subject to attacks of glddness
and faintness, and those who suffer from pal
ptation and other senses of discomfort at the
hart, should not battle without frs, con.
sulting their medical adviser.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

Thomas Haviant, d wealthy French trades
man, has probably left the most remarkable
will on record. Among number of singu-
lar requests was one lnsiiluting at the annual
village fete a race with pigs, ridden bv bows
or men. The rider of the winning pig was
TO have prize Of SiOO, on condition that he
wear mourning for the deceased during two
years after the race. The municipality ac-
cepted the bcquest, and the race was held ac-
cOrding to the conditions
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

SNAKE SKIN SHoEs.-We saw last Satur.
daS, says the Winchester (Tenn) Journal, a
mite pair ef No. A shoes, the vamps of which
were made of rattlesnake hide, and the quar-.
tiers Of chlcken-snake hide. Also several
other snake hides neatly tanned, and three
fee long and eight inches wide. They be-
lonyed to j, Henderson, who lives on the
big Coon" in Jackson Co.. Ala He makes
a speciality of catching all kinds of snakes,
ratteskakes in particular, and, without injur.
ing or killing them, proceeds to take of their
hid's. These he tans in about two months,
and then makes them into shoes, slippers etc.
He Uses weed which grows on the mountain
to nesmerize the snakes. He says they will
readily become harmless under the influence
of the weed, which he fastens TO the end of
a lolg stick, and, then rubbing it for awhile
about the snakes head, soon has it insensl-
BILE, and then he ties it preparatory to skin.
ming 1t.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

According to the ruling of the Postofiice
Department anything whatever, except the
address, printed or written upon the side Of a
postal card iRtcsded for the address. renders
such card unavailable, and the same cannot
be legally forwarded unless prepaid at the
letter rate-three cents. But if by inadyer-
tence it reaches its destination without such
prepayment, II is chargeable with double the
letter rates, under the provisions of the Postal
laws
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

The British scientific publication relates
the following:
Many of our readers have doubtless had
more or less trouble, at some period of their
lives IN repairing water pipes where the wa
ter could not be shut off conveniently at the
fountain head, or some intermediate point.
In going to my office few days since, my
way led past place where man was re-
pairing lead pipe which had been cut off ac-
cldently in making an excavation. There
was pressure OF water of more than fifteen
feet head. His plan seemed to me to be- novel
and ingenious. The two ends of the pipe
were plugged, and then small pile of brok
EN- ice and salt was placed around them; il
five minutes the water in the pipe was frozen,
the plugs removed, a short piece OF pipe in.
serted and perfectly soldered, and in, five
minutes the ice IN the pipe was thawed and
the water flowing freely through"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

The hogs in Missouri are dying 10 an ex-
tent that almost threatens total extinction in
some counties of the state. The attack is
first described by swelling If the abdominal
past followed by total blindness.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

A correspondent Of a Cabsdian paper
writes as follows: | have obtained all the
lard oil that have needed for several years
by making hole in the bottom of the kep
and lacking thin piece Of muslin over II,
which will let the oil run OF Oil made in
this way Is OF the best and purost quality, and
leaves the lard firIner and better than before.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

Hog cholera is very destructive in Cham
paIgn county. One farmer recently los,
81, 0j0 worth in a single day
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While we guarantee asiGood Work as
any city joebers, we challenge compar-
son OF Prices With any ;otner establish
ments
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-30

L.. COURT EY, Attorney at Law Orpce
Ottawa. Ills. julySi5
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- r.. LIMO LIN, Attorney AT Law. Office over
ID. No 10 La Sale street, west side OF the Court House.
Ottawa, Ills. julyS'75
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It's BOWEN MotoSyv
DOW ZEN ~ N1oI.DN tIY, At,orncysh nd,
ID Counse. at Law. No. Court St Viii prom otiu
and diligently attend to all business entrusted their r
July 10Th. 1873. '
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8. NICHOLSON. y. r. SNOW.
DICHOLSON ~ SNOW, Attorneys and
IL Counselors Law. Will practice in the courts OF La
Sale and adjoining counties. Office, west Of Court House
Ottawa, Ills. NOVA
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EDWIN n. LEWIS, Attorney and Counselor
IL at Lew, Glover q Cooks Block. Ottawa, H. APPS
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III Il. NJ EAD. Attorney and Counselor at Law
IL. Ottawa. H. Office west Court House Square apr;
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EORliF, ~. ELDIx + DIG p, Attorney
NJ at Law. Office In r. o. Block. Ottawa, ILL., aprl7
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T. W. d. CRANR a. q. FRENCH,
CR n r. ~ FIR ENCI, Attorneys and Coun.
sellers Law In the office formerly occupied by BiCk.
ford, Bowen Mal0ney, east side OF Court House Square
Ottawa. Ills Prompt attention given TO all business en-
trusted to us. uhl915
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ERANK j. ItAWFORD, Attorney
Law. Room II, $50 CLARK ST. S. W. cor. Monroe, Oh
cago. Notary Public. martha
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~ EW III ~ II. MOORE Il, Attorney AZ Law
ison streets, ottawa, III. in,~nr-.,' "u
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profetssnnal Cards.

HIRAM L. GLIB EIx,r Attornev a, : o,,
IL Room No. Post Oiice Block. sse H n" 70
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
After Marriage.

A philosopher writes "The girl is
generally educated on novels, and her
first disappointment comes in on the
quiet indifference of the husband after
the honeymoon. You love me no lon
ger, said bride of few months to her
better half in his gown and slippers.
why do you say that, Puss?' he asked
quietly, removing a cigar from his lips.
You do not caress me nor call me pet
names you NO longer seek so anXiously
for my company was the fearful answer,
My dear, continued the aggravating
wretch, did you ever notice a man run
ming after car? How he does run
over stones, through mud, regardless of
everything till he reaches the car and he
seizes hold and swings on. Then he
quietly seats himself and reads his paper. ,
'And what does that mean2' An illus
tration, my dear. The car is as import
ant to the man after he gets in as when
he is chasing it, but the manifestation is
no longer called for. 1 would have shot
any one who put himself in my way when
in pursuit of you, as 1 would now shoot
any one who would come between us,
but as a proof of my love you insist upon
my running after the car. Learn to
smoke, my dear, and be a philosopher.
The two combined clear the brain, quiet
the nerves, open the pores, and improve
the digestion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
AN GRK-EoLoe1cAL DIALOGUE.
Immense Water.SpOuts.

The Austrian steamship Jennie, which
recently arrived at the port of New York
from Mantanzas, narrowly escaped being
swamped by several immense water
spouts, while off Cape Hatteras. The
officers of the vessel say these water
spouts were the largest they had ever
seen. The largest covered an area of half
a mile and were at least 1000 feet in
hight. "They reached far up into the
air." said an old salt, "and were there
met by an inverted cone, Just like the
others, which seemed to come down from
the heavens to meet them" They were
described as tall columns, apparently of
mist or spray, but in reality dense bodies
of water, reaching from the sea to the
clouds, and moving along with great
rapidity before the wind. Sometimes
they were straight, and at other times
inclined, but always whirling around with
great rapidity. The crew broke several
by firing guns into them, the concussion
Of the air causing them to burst, when
they tumbled back into the sea with a
fearful splash. The water was fairly white
with foam.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
WHOLE NUMBER 42l,

on the sill, ami the sash drawn closely
upon it. If the slip has been well fitted,
there will be no draft in consequence Of
the displacement of the sash at its lower
part, but the top of the lower sash will
overlap the bottom of the upper one,
and between the bars perpendicular cur
rents of air, not felt, will enter and leave
the room.
How TO LIGHT A DARK RooM.-To
light dark room looking out on a mar
row yard or street, let the glass be
roughly ground on the outside, and set
flush with the outer wall. The light
from the entire visible sky, and from the
remotest parts of the opposite wall, will
be introduced into the apartment, re-
fected from the inumerable faces or
facets which the rough grinding has pro
duced. The whole window will appear
as if the sky were behind it, and from
every point of this luminous surface
light will radiate into the room.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

The GOLD AND SILVER FIELD.-The
last monthly report of the Bureau of Sta
tices contains statement Of the amount
of precious metals produced in the States
and Territories west of the Missouri river
during the year 1874. The total value
was $74, ,4O1, ,055 the value of the gold
dust and bullion being $26, ,35S, ,776, of
silver bullion 35,6S1, All, and of ores
and base bullion, $12,715,5 800. About
two-thirds of all the gold came from Cali
fornia, while Nevada produced about six
sevenths of all the silver. Nearly half
the precious metals came from Nevada,
and something over one fourth from
California. The totals divided by States
and Territories were as follows Nevada,
$35, AS, ,233; California, $40, 300, ,531 !;
Utah, S., 5,914, ,27S Colorado, 81, 191, 404 !;
Montana, 50, 439, ,49S Idaho, 81, ,SS0,005 !;
British Columbia, 81, ,636, ,55S; New Mexi-
co, $685. ,S7S ; Oregon, $609, 1910; Wash
ington Territory, $155, ,535 Arizona, $780,
066.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
Heat...Its Effects on the Human System.

very interesting paper by DIR. +. L.
Harvey, United States army, on the eff
fects of high temperature on the ma
-tives of temperate climates appears in n
recent number of the Medical Record.
he was stationed at Ringgold barracks,
New Mexico, for long time, ard testi
fies from personal observation to the en-
erving effects of the terrible heat of those
regions. He says: 1t is doubtful if
individual man is capable of adapting
himself to every contingency of climate.
1t is certain that protracted residence
In hot and malarious regions exercises a
persistent deleterious influence on most if
not all northern constitutions. The races
of Europe find Louisiana an extreme eli
mate, and they and their descendants are
no longer to be recognized after pro-
longed residence there. Acclimation
to malaria is myth. Its pernicious eff
fects upon the human frame are percep-
tible at once, and the longer the system
is exposed to such action the more thor
ough its subiection. A European trans
planted to the South, complains bitterly
of the heat and becomes tanned; his
plump, plethoric frame becomes attenu-
ated his blood loses fibrine and red
globules his mind and body become
sluggish gray hairs and other marks
show that age has come ON prematurely
the man of forty looks fifty years of
age the average duration of life is short
ened-as shown by insurance tables
and the race in time would be extermin-
ated if cut off from fresh supplies of en-
igrants from the home country. The
European in the Antilles struggles with
existence. Morell tells us that the Eu-
ropean inhabitants of Jamaica, of Cuba,
of Hispaniola, ETC., have made no pro
gress since their establishment there.
The mortality among the troops and off
GERS of the English army is greatest
among those who have remained longest
in India. Such is the graphic, and nc
doubt, faithful picture of the effects pro-
duced by the combined and continuous
action of malaria and high temperature
upon the natives of temperate climates,
drawn by some of the best medical writ
ers of the age From the nature of my
experience the following conclusions ap-
pear to be valid:
l. That certain parts of our country are
characterized by climatic conditions, tc
which, as rule, the Northern climate is
incapable of adoption.
2. That acclimation to malaria is al
utter impossibility.
3. That the unaided heat of hot eli
mate, acting continuously upon the sys
tenn of the natives of temperate climates
exerts, as rule, pernicious effect,
causing impairment of the functions
of digestion, assimilation, and san
guanification, including more or less
anemia, diminution of the number o.
respirations of the heart, loss of weight
premature blanching and loss of the hair
a decrease of mental and physical vlgor
and to some extent shortening of life.