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An Operation by Physicians Who do
not Advertise.

Since the Academy of Medicine at
Evansville expelled veteran physician
for regularly advertising, the journal,
at that place, tries to carry out the
rule in spirit by excluding the irregular
advertising in reporting case as fol
lows:
A DIFFICULT OPERATION.
There was an operation performed in
the city the other day-a surgical oper-
atlon-and If we did not have q whole
some dread of the "Drake Academy of
Medicine before our eyes, we would re-
tation of the leg-the lower part-about
hall way between where the shoe stops
and the garter begins. The patient
was weak, and couldn't afford to lose
any blood she needed all she had to
begin business of living again, so the
doctors (members of the Drake Medical
Academy, consequently cannot be
named), agreed soiemnly that she
should not lose any at all. DR.
1--WE are writing according TO the "code"
now. SO We can't name him), produced
sort of rubber strap, which looked
like the doctors suspenders, sewed end
to end. Dr.-(a member of Drake
Medical Academy, SO we can not men
ton names), held the leg up while DR..
1--WE don't mean to be personal, but
it was neither of the other doctors),
strapped the rubber on. This done,
Dr.-(who, being q member of the
Drake Medical Academy. cannot allow
the use of his name,) put something
else on, while Dr.-(who is nameless
because member of Drake Medical
Academy took the rubber strap off. A
physician was present belonging to
Drake Medical Academy, we withhold
his name, armed with knife, and be-
gan to cut. He was ably assisted by a
medical gentleman of this city ,unmen-
tionable here, as he holds a meanber-
ship in Drake Medical Academy. The
arteries were taken up by Dr.
(who belongs to Drake Medical Acad-
envy, and is thereby "nameless here
forevermore), in a most skillful man.
ner. When our reporter left the patient
was doing well. The whole operation
was very creditable to the doctors (who,
being members of the Drake Acdeamy
of Medicine, cannot have their names in
Dript1
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Important Points in Draft Horses,

We start out with the proposition
which we have before discussed, that
great size is not necessarily point in
favor of draft horse, and is often an
objection. Next we state that draft
horse is not to be judged by his ability
to trot fast. Fine action, in the sense
in which the words are applied to road
sters, is not to be expected of horses
designed for heavy work Again, an
unusual disposition to lay on flesh or
fat, however desirable in an animnl de.
signed for food, is not especially to be
commended in an animal designed for
labor.
Especially for use in America, sound
ness IS very important point in any
horse, and as much SO among draft
horses as among those for other pur-
poses. Thereshouldb be no predisposition
to disease of any kind. There SHOULD be
such constitution that reasonable exer-
ton to which working horse is subject
shall not produce sickness nor unsound
ness of any kind. Perhaps the point in
which there is the greatest lack among
most draft horses is the feet. Among
the first things at which we should look
If about purchasing a draft stallion,
would be his feet. It is to be hoped
that importers and breeders of draft
horses may pay especial attention to this
matter.
Good eyes are another essential. 1t
is a not uncommon fault with many
draft horses, that their eyes are small,
dnll, sunken, or vicious looking. Good
temper is especially to be desired. A
dull, stolid brute, without any manifes-
tation of energy or spirit is to be avoid
ed on the one hand, as is a bad-temper-
ed, vicious brute on the other hand.
Among the faults of lesser conse-
quence, but one we think worthy of no.
tice, and one we think in which q breed
of horses with very many excellencies,
the Clydesdale, could be improved, is
in having long bair on the legs. We
see no good in this hair; it certainly
adds nothing to the beauty of the ami
NAL, and it holds mud, wet snow, ice,
etc., to an unpleasant amount. If this
trait were bred out We think a gain
would be made Western Rural.
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The Hebrew Maid.

always liked the Hebrew maid. Her
nose made no difference to me. It is
rather in her favor that she eats no pork
it always was a bad habit anybody
who has seen hog of fourteen hundred
pounds lying in mud-hole can appre-
ciate the Hebrew maiden's prejudice.
But she has eyes, hair, complexion,
and heft that please me well. As far as
I am aware, there are no authorizations
necessary to the full acceptance in the
faith. A perfect woman, nobly planned,
with many shackles in her hand. She
fattens up handsomely. Who ever saw
lean jewish maid or matron? If it
isn't written in the Koran it ought to be,
that. the presiding Allah. when he saw
how piously Judith, Miriam, Hagar,
and the rest of them gave up their pork
and beans, ham and eggs, sausage,
scrapel and spare rib, he said !: "Bis-
hallah Mashallah or any other Allah;
since my h6ndmaid has put aside the
swine she shall inherit his heft." The
domestic virtues of Israel are seen here
in their perfection. The men smoke
the women dress two Hebrew lovers
are fond to see; they appear to be con-
Quoting a most civilized bargain. No
simpering schoolgirl is that broad
shouldered, broad-beamed young crea-
ture whose ancestors ministered in the
temple and passed two Thousand years
of bondage IN the perpetual acquisition
OF art and property. She marries with
her eyes wide open and an invisible pair
of scales between them. She weighs
him by carats. She tests his property
and his faith. When she yields to his
suit he has married faithful wife, q
fruitful mother, and woman of bust
ness. Her appetites grow with her
years and progeny. Business SONS grow
from this Jessica. She grows old as
iron rusts, merely oxidizing in her strong
rich tresses, and their hoary theocracy,
that is still the only grand and poetical
religion, descends about their cave of
Macpelah, where in the primitive rock
of law and creation they are gathered
to their fathers. The Jews are by
nature convivial people, and therefore
they prefer our watering places more
and more every year. Most of them
come to us through German stock.
They are always in contact with other
races, yet do only touch their voyage
down the ages, through the races, is an
odyssey such as the phantom ship
achieved-that craft of sailors fears
which bears upon the doomed human
vessel, strikes her without shock, taen
opens and sails away. Her prov is ever
the Roman beak, the Hebrew mob
Geo. Alfred I0Dnsend.
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boy, footsore and bruised by frequent
falls on the hard, rough mine floor, hur-
ried on in the subterranean labyrinth.
Suddenly, in turning the angle of one
of the corridors light again flashed
upon his sight and then another and
another. A voice shouted a prolonged
call /:
"J-a-m-e-s G-a-ll-a-g- h-e-ri Hel-l-o-o,
Jimmy p
The inevitable echoes had scarcely
taken up the cry when the boy returned
the call with all his soul in his voice /:
Here I am /! Come this way!
His answer was heard, and in few
moments sturdy miners had found the
boy. But he did not know that he was
rescued. He had fallen to the ground
unconscious, his strength having gone
out with his last wild cry. He was soon
taken out into the pure air, where his
frantic mother and the most of the
villagers had assembled to await the
result of the search. The people were
wild when It was announced that the
boy was found, and his brave rescuers
were borne aloft by the crowd. 1t was
long time before young Gallagher was
restored to consciousness, and then it
was only at intervals that he was in his
right mind. In these sane intervals he
related the story of his fearful suffer
ings, and learned that he had been
nearly two days and one long night
wandering among the horrors of the
mine. His lucid spells lasted but a
short time, when he would be seized
with frantic rawlings, in which he would
plaintively beg of Barrett not to hurt
him, and then shrek
"The rats are eating me up! Drive
them away! Drive them away r
The moments in which he was sane
became less frequent and, finally, days
passed without one CLEAN of reason
lighting up the darkness of his mind.
The surgeons found it necessary to am
putate one hand and three toes that lad
been gnawed by the rats, and to per-
form other painful operations to save
the boys life. One day last week, his
physical condition being such as to per-
NIT it, they decided he must be taken
to an asylum for mental treatment, and
expressed grave doubts of his permanent
recovery. The brute Barrett, when the
result of his cruelty became known, was
compelled to flee the place in the night
to escape the fury of the exasperated
populace, and personal effects left by
him were burned as an expression of
the indignation of the people against
him.-D,aanaore, Pa. Cor. ~ Y
Herald.
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Indian Pigmies.

The general report of the operations
| of the Great Trigonometrical Society of
India during 1873 "a contains an ac-
count of an interview which Mr.. Bond,
one of the staff, had with a couple of
the wild folks who live in the hill
iuugles of the western Ghasts, to the
southwest of the Palanei hills. A
! strange, dwarfish people had often been
heard of as frequenting the jungles
near the station of Pemalei, in the
northwest corner of the Tinnevelly dis
| trict. but until Mr.. Bond caught these
| two specimens no traces of them had
been seen by the members of the sur
vey. These two people, a man and q
woman, believed themselves to be 100
years old, but Mr.. Bond believes the
man to be about 25, and the woman Is
years of age. "The man." Mr.. Bond
states, lis feet 81 inches in height,
26t inches round the chest, and is!
inches horizontally round the head over
the eyebrows. He has a round head,
coarse, black, woolly hair, and dark
brown skin. The forehead is low and
slightly retreating, the lower part of the
face projects like the muzzle of a mon
key, and the mouth, which is small and
oval, with thick lips, protrudes about
an inch beyond his nose; he has short
handy legs, a comparatively long body,
and arms that extend almost to his
knees, the back just above the bullock
is concave, making the stern appear
to be much protruded. The hands and
fingers are dur;py and always con-
tracted, so that they cannot be made t o
stretch out quite straight and fiat. The
palms and fingers are covered with
thick skin more particularly SO the
tips of the fngers), and the neck is
small and imperfect the feet are broad
and thick-skinned all over; the hairs
of his moustache are of a rrayish white,
scanty and coarse like bristles, and he
has no beard. The woman is four feet
six and half inches in height, twenty
seven inches around the chest (above
the breast), and nineteen and half
inches horizontally around the head
above the brows the color of the skin
is sallow, or of a nearly yellow tint
the hair is black, long, and straight,
and the features we'll formed. There is
no difference between her appearance
and that of the common woman of that
part of the country. Shs is pleasant
to look at, well developed, and modest.
Their only dress is a loose cloth, and
they eat flesh, but feed chiefly on roots
and honey. They have no fixed dwell
ing places, but sleep on any convenient
spot, generally between two rocks or in
caves near which they happen to be
benighted. They make fire and cook
what they have collected during the
day, and keep the fire burning all night
for warmth and to keep away wild
animals. They worship certain local
divinities of the forest-Rakas or Ra-
kerr, and Pc (after whom the hill is
namad, Pemalei.) The women cooks
for and waits on the man, eating only
after he is Standardization Medical
Record
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When to cut Hungarian Grass.

Cut the grass as soon as it is fairly
out of blossom, certainly before the
seed forms to any considerable degree.
Hungarian hay, when ripe or nearly
SO, is popularity supposed to be injurious
to horses. We believe there are good
grounds for SO believing. If cut at the
time we have designated you need have
no fear in feeding it, and if properly
cured you will find it superior to
timothy hay in it's nutritious qualities.
Hungarian grass when heavy, say
three or more tons per acre, is difficult
to cure without turning. If you have a
hay tedder you will have no difficulty in
curing in two to four days. The usual
way is to let it lie until dry enough for
raking and then get it up in the usual
way. This, however. bleaches the
leaves-the most valuable part-more
or less and detracts seriously from the
value of the hay. If you cut the grass
down in the morning turn this in the
swath just before night. What you
cut in the latter part OF the day may be
turned next day, SO the green part will
take the dew. Then it may be raked at
the proper time according to the ap.
pearance of the weather. If too green
to be hauled put il into compact cocks
to sweat and turn rain, and it will come
out all right.
Hungarian we think does not bear
stacking quite SO green as clean timothy,
since it becomes more compact in the
stack or NOW. But we have had it
show strong heat after being put in
the NOW and had it come out all right.
Indeed, English farmers do not mind if
their hay heats to very considerable
extent in the now Western Farm
Journal
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LATE TO CHURCH.

Along the road, on either eide
re eiuer bodehs are budding
Inc meadow lands a rosy tide
vi clover bloom is flooding.
lne sunny landscape is so fair
80 80 sweet tine biosspm-scented air
mar when went to church today
ASouiu out choose the longest way,
i-o 1s sang the bobolinks. and round
sauntered on, but soon found =
mind ne there was some one coming
uiu not turn my head to See
ahu Yet knew who followed mo
before Tom CALEB me" X title stay
ana let me share with you the way ~
We did not mind orr steps grew slow.
- " ne tleed when the bell stopped ringing
VI naihS OF being late but 10
When Ne had reached the church the singing
= was over Ard the prayer done,
: ne sermon fairly was baeunI
sooult We 90 in, should we stay eut,
fress boldly on, turn about!
Tom led the way, and up the aisle
Itolowed-all around were staring
Ard here and ihare caught a smile
triei to think IVES not caring;
And yet blrshed, know and showed
A face that like a poat,y eloweJ
Ecr every one seemed saying, Kate
We all know why You so telr
Another Sunday, come what will,
mean to be az church in season:
But to regret this morning still.
trust never shall have reason
For should wear wedding dress
year from now, perhaps you'll guess
what Tom sad TO when. TODAY
we walked to church the longest wsyl
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HAM1ET.-In answer to a Jrrespon-
dent, the Monde Illustre gives the follow
ing particulars of the Danish prince :
The historian SAKE EXAMINATIONS, who
lived in the twelfth century, states that
Hamlet was the son of king of Jutland,
named Horvendil, and that his mother
was the Qaeen Gerutha. Fenge, the
brother OF Horvendil, having assassi-
mated Hamlet's father to seize the
throne and marry his widow, Hamlet
feigned madness, and in the meantime
prepared to take vengeance on his guilty
uncle. King Fenge suspected the SIMS
ter designs of his nephew, and sent him
to England for the purpose of having
him assassinated. Hamlet. however,
succeeded in gaining the friendship OF
the English king, and returned the fol-
lowing year to Denmark. There he
slew, with his own hand, the assassin of
his father, was proclaimed king, and fell
some time afterwards in a battle against
Hang Aa9le s's had " assumed ae the style of
ROYALTY
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ChrOnOmetry of Mind.

Sir Henry Holland, in his recently
Fragmentary Papers, touches upon
some minor but very interesting ques-
tions of psychology. In one of these
disquisitiens he treats of mental opera
tions in relation to time He says
Within a minute I have been able to
coerce the mind, SO to speak, into more
than a dozen acts or states of thought
SO homogeneous that no natural associa,
ton could possibly bring them into sue
cession. In illustration note here GER
tain objects which, with a watch before
me, have succeeded in COMPRISING,
distinctly and successfully, within thirty
seconds of time-the pyramids of Chi
zeh, the Ornith orhycus, Julius Caesar,
the Ottawa Falls, the rings of Saturn,
the Apollo Belvedere. This is an expe-
riment I have often made on myself,
and with the same general result. It
would be hard to name or describe til e
operation of mind by which these sue
cessive objects have been thus suddenly
evoked and dismissed. There is the vo-
ition to change; but how must we de-
fine that effort by which the mind,
without any principle of selection or
association, can grasp SO rapidly sue
cession of images thus homogeneous,
drawn seemingly at random from past
thoughts and memories? I call it an
effort because it is felt as such, and
cannot be long continued without ia
tigue.
In commenting upon this the writer
in Nature says: This is curious sub
ject which easily admits of experiment,
but it will be found that the velocity
with which thoughts can be made to
oIvy
upon the degree of similarity or connec-
zion between them. Judging from my
own experience and that of three stu
dents, well qualified to test the matter,
1 find that where the objects thought
of are as homogeneous as possible, the
number which the mind can suggest to
itself in minute varies from twelve.
the result of Sir Henry Holland, up to
about twenty. Any one who tries the
experiment, however, will find that there
is an almost insuperable temptation to
go off on lines of association. To avoid
these, and yet to think rapidly, re-
quires a very disagreeable effort, be-
,coming more and more painful by repe-
tition. When the thoughts are restricted
within certain grooves, as it were, the
result is more rapid succession. Thus
one student was able to think in min
nte of thirty different kinds of actions,
forty-six animals, fifty places, or fifty
persons. I can myself think without
much effort of thirty-two animals or
forty persons or places in minute.
Even in these cases, however, it will be
found that the rapidity greatly depends
upon the degree in which the objects
have been associated. When thoughts
have been very closely and frequently
linked together, the number which may
be compressed within minute is much
greater. fiad that can count about
ninety-six in half a minute, which, with
out allowing for the two places of fig
ures, gives 1872 thoughts per minute. !
can think of every letter in the alphabet
in five seconds at most, which is at the
rate of more than 800 per minute. Fin
ally, by counting the first ten minutes
over and over again, have compressed
nearly 400 changes of idea within the
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THE simple faith of Virginia Chris
'tian is aided by his faith in man. He
was asked if he thought Stonewall Jack
son.was in heaven. "Wal," said the
gentleman, "I reckon he is, if he
started for that place. He always man.
aged to get round in time"
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AT this season of the year cramps and
pains in the stomach and bowels, dysentery.
diarrhea, &c, are quite common, and should
be checked at once. Johnson's Anodyne Lni-
ment is the best article that can be used in all
such cases, and should be keptin every family.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28

GREAT harm and discomfort is caused
by the use of purgatives which grippe and
rack the system. Parsons Purgatlve Pills are
free from all impure matter and are mild and
health giving in their operation.
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Dyspepsia and Piles are prevailing and
stressng Diseases Dr. TUFTS Liver Pills will GER
,inIy cure them. To be had of any druggist.
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WE want agents TO sell Boots, Shoes Clothing, &c
Address G. q. D. PurcnasIpg Co, baltimore, Mo
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pluck, begged an Introduction. The
captain is now President of France and
the brave girl Madame MacMIahon.
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A WISE CHILD.-While we are in the
dining room we must not forget little
miss of five or six summers. who IN
consciously perpetrated one of the best
jokes of the season. Wine was being
passed around, and she was invited to
take some but declined.
Why do you not take wine with
your dinner, Minnie ?" asked a gentla-
man who sat near her.
"Tause l doesn't like it."
But take little then, my child, for
your stomach's sake" he urged.
81 amt dot no tommik's ache !" in
dignantly responded the little miss in
the most emphatic manner. AS both
question and answer were distinctly
heard by those around, everyone burst
into laughter, which SO frightened the
little maid that she cried.
The same little miss upon being one
day bantered because she was a girl,
and having represented to her that boys
we're much more useful creatures in the
world, although they we're usually more
trouble, was asked if she did not wish
she were a boy. ''No indeed" she
quietly replied "I'se worse now than
most boys" IN Y. Mail.
MEsMERIzING A RoosTER.-An exper-
iment which 1t may amuse the boys to
repeat has been described by several
correspondents to popular science
journal. Place cock upon table or
board, and. holding his wings close
down his sides, let second person bend
down his head until his beak touches
the board on which he lies, and draw a
line of white chalk straight out from
the point of his beak. This done the
bird may be released from all restraint,
and he will not stir so much as fea-
Their. may, further writes one,
"you may clap your hands or shout
close to him, without arousing him from
his lethargy, from which, however, he
will ultimately recover" Another ex-
perimenter writes "I have seen a
row of fowls rendered quite senseless
by drawing a chalk-line beginning at
the top of the beak) slowly ross a
table, and have, myself, successfully
performed the experiment. The birds
are simply mesmerized.
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WHEN a woman has buried her sixth
husband it sounds sort of heartless to
hear her walk out of the cemetery ex-
claiming "Nextr'
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NSAI.ARYOnIy. Agents wanted hGhe aud
} EFmnTr Address q. b. Christian, Marion, o.
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TJou CoRSFII's PILE OINTMENT.-Sold by drug
llNE eists VIM H. Cornell. Prop'r, st. Louis, Mo.
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WORTH TEsTING.-Save the tea leaves
for few days. then steep them in d tin
pail or pan for half an hour, strain
through sieve, and use the liquid to
wash all the vanished paint. 1t re-
quires very little "elbow polish" as
the tea acts as strong detergent.
cleansing the paint from all impurities,
and making the varnish equal to lew.
1t cleans window sashes and oil-cloths :;
indeed, any varnish surface is improved
by its application. It washes window
panes and mirrors, much better than
water, and is excellent for cleansing
black walnut picture and looking C lass
frames. 1t will not do to wash unvar-
nished paint with it.
A CALIFORNIA hunter who went ten
miles to where game was plenty, and
then found that he had brought box
of pills instead of percussion caps, re-
turned home in disgust
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| GEO. P. RoWELL g. Co.

"HEN writing TO advertisers please ntion
w the name of this paper. No. 81 5. N. U.
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-yERy FAMILY WANTS IT. Money IN it,
X, old nv agents Address NJ. N. Lowell Erie. Pa
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"ANTED AGENTS. Sample, and O,Itat fres
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