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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

NJ. Tissandier mas invented self-regis-
.ering rain guage, which seems TO be val
liable instrument The rain fall is conveyed
into an upright cylinder, within which is .
movable Goat. supported by a cord which
passes over pulley. Al the other end Of
the cori is weight sliding mp and down
upon rods and carrying pencil, which is
made to mark line upon an endless paper
band, propelled horizontally BY two cylin-
ders, one Of which rolls up the paper - the
other gives it Of. As the AoAt rises its
compromising weight falls, marking curve
upon the moving paper band The paper
is propelled by clock, which, BY certain
line. upon The paper correspondent TO lis
rate OF revolution. marks also the time dur
ing which the rain has been falling. When
there Is no rain. Of course, the line regis
tered upon the papor band becomes hori-
xont.l- The inventor claims that the rain
fall for Al entire year can be registered up
On single band Of paper, no other care
being necessary than The occasional winding
of the clock
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09
LITERARY
AN OLD SAILORS YARNS.

AReminiscence Of the African Slave Trade.
AS YOU know. sir, began the old sailor.
IL were tellin' you how many of them down
cast schooners what so out onto the Banks
after Goldfish and ha,lihut come TO grief, NEST
Of en- bein ruined GOWN at their anchors,
and some of en- bein' lost in gales: bu,
there another way as seine OF EN- has gone;
leastwise. knows OF one that went another
way, and il you likes III spin you the yarn
right off.
Il says knows it. but praps / ought to
say heern tell 81 it; bu. hasn't no doubts
it were true. cause man a, the pint of
death ain, apt for TO go of a.yarnin'. lest it
were lynn Jim Baker. and he. b'lev,s.
KEEP up his reputation TO the last.
"Iou see. sir, | never wernt into this
schooner as I'm goia for TO tell you about,
but had the yarn from q chap that were.
and he didn't have ne reason for to put of
a purser's story oato ME, and therefore l
calculates its true. tells you this. cause
il there's one thing Ina per'iclar about, 1t
is tina, all there here yarns N a-spinnin to
you shall be strictly true: but really be-
heyes that this here one is as true as all the
rest, ami so you may receive II, and now II II
git il under way.
I'D shipped INTO the Stephen Whitney
the very last passage she ever made
cause she fetched up on rocks ji>t TO the
north ard IL Cape Clear-the Cow and Iaif-
they called 'eu.-aud lief, her bones there,
which all OF us got OF, Of her safe, the water
bein so cold tina, she swung round bread
side to. ani.we put plank out and walked
ashore with our cunnage. comfortable as II
we'd been alongside oi the pierhead. ali ex.
cep, one or two that fell on the plank and
were grounded to death 'tvixi her hiige and
the rocks. ii bein very fcggy and moderate
weather. which afterwards blowed On and
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09
MILK A CARRIER OF INFECTION.

At Jarrow the outbreak (of typhoid fe-
very was Enthusiastically sudden. Sud
denly on August, Is, it was found that with
in the limited district Of the urban medical
officers authority, no less than 81 cases Of
typhoid fever lad occurred in 20 different
families. more than half the cases being
among children. The houses were, with
two exceptions, clean, and well supplied
with good water from the mains of the water
company. 1t soon, however, appeared, that
in pretty well every case the milk was sup
piled from the same source. The farm was
at once visited. 1t was found that six of
the farmers family we're laid up with the
typhoid fever. The water used in the dairy
was derived from well in immediate prox-
unity to cess pit; the water was evident
~ contaminated with filth by soaka ge, so
much so, indeed, that it became putrid on
standing two days. The dairy was used as
a wash house; the linen from the infected
persons was washed in it; and the person
who MIXED the cows was in the immediate
attendance on those who were laid up with
the fever. There was here, in fact, every
disgusting circumstance combined which
could make the milk the vehicle for carry
ing the fever. The unusual horror of these
arrangements, and the violence Of the out
break, together with the extreme prompt
tude with which the medical officer in few
hours traced out the causes Of the fever
and arrested its progress, make this little
history more sharply instructive, and more
Immediately impressive than some Of the
more protracted and large epidemics to
which we have referred. The whole facts
are in small compass and the causes and
effect are seen side by side. and in contem
poraneous action.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09
SUB SlLENTIO.

Hush! the night is calm and quiet
And the crescent moon hangs low;
Silence deep and wide hath power,
And the south wind wanders slow
Through easement where the curtain
Family rustles to and fro,
Like spirit softly signing
Fits 1t all the chamber round,
Where the dim lamp fading, dying,
Just dispels the gloom profoundly
Hangs above two happy dreamers,
BY loves perfect promise crowned.
Even through the gates Of slumber
To the shadowy land OF rest,
He still clasps his long sought treasure
Closely, closely to his breast,
With the ardor of a passion
Long denied and long repressed.
With his lip still warm with kisses
Close aud clinging as his own,
Signing still in happy dreaming
For the Joy his heart hath KNOWN
Sweetly, peacefully, he slumbers
In the arms about him thrown.
And She gazps at him thinking
Not OF all her dreary years
Only of this isle of glory,
Reached 10y many doubts ana Tears,
Over loves trail bridge OF rainbows
Fading III = mist OF tears.
Then she nestles still more closely
To the heart SO kind and dear,
Whispe ing, "Love me, love me darling,
All my hope and rest is here,
And without thee earth is nothing
But desert cold and drear,
ooh. that ever, night my slUmbers
Might Inc SO supremacy blest.
Bounded by the dear embraces,
Kissed from passion into rest;
Iwould ask no better heaven,
Sheltered thus and thus carvssed."
Fan them gently, odorous south wind,
And hegone on Unions fleet.
Nothing in Thy nightly journey
Shall thy wandering vision greet,
Half as perfect in fulillnent,
Salts yinc and complete.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

4 new electric light, experimental upon
some weeks ago oDthe roof Of the Siemens
Halske works at Berlin, proved SO successful
tina, ordinary writing could be read by its
aid al the distance of a mile When the
light was thrown toward the clouds BY
means Of mirror luminous train appear
ed thereon, which much resembled the tail
of a comet; and drew together great crowds
Of spectators in the streets. Signals made
by the instrument we're also repeated upon
the clouds. becoming thus visible at very
great distance. The experiments were
made in the presence. Of large number Of
officers Of artillery and Of other brat cnes Of
the government service; and we're contin-
ued tor nearly two hours The instrument,
which is provided with locomotive engine,
will be sc. up in the Tegel artillery. poly
gon for further experiment, the German
war department having the intention of pur-
chasing several of the machines Cor military
use. both afoat and ashore.-ReUue .Hlii1ire
d Etrencsr.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09
THE BITE OF A RABiD ANIMAL NOT
ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY NY
DROPHOBlA,

When man is bitten by rabid dog, the
wound does not differ in any visible char
acter from that inflicted by healthy ami
NAL. 1t is seldom severe, and often slight.
the animal frequently making only single
momentary attack. The wound thus made
heals without difficulty, and is not specially
painful or otherwise troublesome. In q
majority of instances no further trouble
comes of it. The danger from the bite Of .
rabid dog consists in the incubation of the
animals saliva, which, owing to the disease
under which he is suffering, contains .
subtle but communicable organic poison.
But there are various circumstances which
may interfere with the poison 8 taking effect.
First, the individual may be, habitually or
at the time, insusceptihle to its action.
There is reason to believe that the human
species, as whole, are decidedly less sus-
cepGble to the poison Of hydrophobia than
Of NJ. Renault, at the veterinary school Of
Abort, the proportion of dogs themselves,
bitten by rabid animal, who nfterward be-
come rabid, is not more than 33 per cent.
Secondly, when the bite is inflicted upon
parts OF the body covered with clothing, the
saliva, which is the only vehicle Of the pois-
ON, may have been arrested by the gar
ments, and may not have come in contact
contact with the wound at all. Thirdly,
the poison may have been extracted from
the wound Immediately afterwsrd by the
free discharge of blood. or by the instine-
tive manipuiations of the wounded person,
or may have been neutralized by surgical
appliances. AT all events, statistics seem
to show conclusvely that the bite of rabid
animal BY NO means invariably causes n.y.
drophobia-[Appletons American Cyclic
pedia, revised edition, article "Hydrophe
bia"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

A Boston correspondent says that the Ii
brary of Harvard College has recently had
added to it some fine specimens Of illumi ma
ted manuscripts. Notable among these is a
volume containing sixteen;sermons Of Greg
CRY Nazianzen, probably Of the thirteenth
century; vulgate copy Of the Bible, in
very fine script, and richly illuminated, and
also the Gospels in Latin, from the library
of the Rev. DR.. Hawtray. Provost Of Eaton,
purporting to be Of the eighth century IF
so;" sayte slip in the handwriting Of the
Librarian Of the College. the latter is
probably to the oldest manuscript on the
American continent"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09
POETRY.
MEA CUlPA.

MEA CUlPA.
Ny faults are great. would not have them less,
For they are ties that bind me to my kind
would not have one sin undone,
Nor have the many laid on One:
1mpeccable, were as dead in mind.
The life Of Christ was ever sorrowful;
He never smiled. for he had never sinned,
The thief who hung at His right side
Was thrilled with glory when he died,
For crime " OH Eden kiss'd him in the wind.
The pleasant and the beautiful OF Earth,
The perfect and transcendent things OF Heaven,
Would be but images. of woe
Enwrapt in gloom, but that we know
We each have sinnd, and each may be for
given.
Then ask ne lot to throw my burden down;
My scarlet robe would not have made white;
If on the Earth my looks are cast,
lll see, when they are raised at last,
A brighter lustre than the stars of night!
GEORGE BLAKE.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

1--WE lately met nm old negro trudging, I"
says an Americsp writer. "wiih heavy
side Of bacon, that be bapbought swinging
voer his shoulder. We noticed that be vas
miserab.y clad, and We felt sorry for him, .
cold wind was blowing. We demonstrated
with bin. why do zen spend your pony
for meat. You'd better buy coat The
old man stopped. looked ~ fnll in the face
for few moments. and said in the most
solemn tones: .Masss,' vixen * my back
for credit il gibs il; when speak 70 dis
laying his hand upon his stomach) il calls
for de cash"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

The French meteoroligists have selected
as their Mount Washington the peak Of
Bigorre. The buildings have already been
begun by the Socieie Ramona, which first
urged the enterprise. and will consist of q
subterranean apartment, as well as a house
upon the surface. The openings of the
building and excavating will be emily on the
southern side The barometer and mag
netic apparatus will be in separate circu-
lar structure, with which communication
will be had by means of a tunnel.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

A gentleman. NOT : Cen, ennial, recently
in motion and IN m earnest and sympathetic
tone, said: There II : lady in the next car
who has tainted Has any gentleman here
flask Of liqnor:" Instantly dozen tasks
were produced and the anti Centennial took
one and retired, and returned the 6ask emp
~ soon after. The gentleman whose task
70. and when The sympathetic genflemss
came in again : half hour latter. and with
. wild look in his eye, announced that that
there woDen ish tainted some more Dse
drep II whisky esald b lsssd-
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

The rivers in New Zealand are in fair
way to be stocked by salmon from the Col
umbia river. Some forty thousand salmon
eggs were sent out, under the direction of
the United States fish commissioner, to the
Acclimatization society Of Hawkes. bay Ma
pier PROVINCE On reaching Auckland,
however, the gentleman in charge of the
ova found its ice running short, and fearing
the Matching of the eggs before they reached
their destination concluded to put 10000
into the rivers near Auckland, under the
supervision of Mr. Firth, who is said to be
in charge, under government. of the hatch
ing pools. The transfer, was successfully
made, and the little salmon doing we'll at last
accounts.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

lizards, and six mole crickets. A meal Of
like size was brought every day for a
month At one time there were fifteen field
mice, two little birds, and young rabbit.
Last year made the same experiment with
the same result, one meal consisting Of
twelve young nightingales, one lark, three
moles, and one hedgehog. The parents al
ways ate the heads Of their prey, and picked
from the bodies Of the dead birds some of
their feathers. In the case Of the hedge
hog the only part not eaten by these vora
cious little creatures was the skin of the
back, which was too much for their maws
In one month the five baby hawks rid the
world. by actual count, Of four hundred and
twenty rats and mice, two hundred mole
crickets and one hundred and fifty eight
lizards We're not the twelve poor little
nightingales and the lark we'll paid for?"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

''Pa, will you get me . pair Of skates II I
prove to you that dog has ten tails." ayes
my SON" "Well, to begin with, one dog
has one more tail that no dog, hasn't hei"
Eyes" well, no dog has nine tails; and
il one dog has one more tail than no dog,
then one dog must have ten sails!" He got
the skates
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09
THE LAKE JEWELLERS,

One Of the most remarkable discoveries
made in Africa, by Lieutenant Cameron, was
Of several villages of lakedwellers. Many
ages ago it was customary with certain
tribes Of people then in Switzerland to
build their houses on piles placed in the
Swiss lakes, but so long had the practice
beer discontinued that antiquarians were
forced to gather what knowledge they could
Of the habits of these people from specimens
of their work found in the bottoms of the
lakes. The survival in Africa Of this curl
GUS custom Of living in lake-hous viii be
Of no small interest to antiquarians.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

Now then, T" said a ph ysician, cheerily, to
. patient, ''you have got along far enough
indulge in little animal food, and-"
mo you don't DOCTOR" interrupted the pat
lent; 1--WE suffered enough on your gruea
and slops, and I'D starve sooner than begin
on hay and oats"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09
sctENcE+

Mr.. Stiles successful solution Of quinine
in cod-liver oil, for medical purposes, is at
tracing considerab lie degree Of attention in
the European scientific press-as indicating
valuable and convenient method of admin
istering other alkaloids. The invention
consists simply in using pure oleic acid as
solvent for the sulphate Of ouinine, and
then mixing the solution with the cod-liver
oil. Oleic acid is quite tasteless and phys
ioloeically inert
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an unguarded
moment, asserted that the activity ofani-
mails is marked by unerring good sense;
and now he is asked if he never saw a brin-
die dog chasing his tail.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

A lively girl had a basbful lover whose
name was Locke. She got out Of patience
with him at last, and in her anger declared
that Shakespeare had not said half rs many
things as be ought to about Shy Locke.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

A philosopher being asked what was the
first thing necessary toward winning tho
love Of q woman, answered, ian opportuni--
ty,"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

A Fifth avenue window informed friend
at the funeral that she couldn't tell whether
she would wear mourning or not until her
husbands will was read,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

Anyone who visits Childwald, EnglasA,
can read in the cemetery there, the follow
ing epitspb:
Here lies me and my three daughters.
Brought here BY using SeidIiis Waters.
If we had stuck 10 Epson salts.
We wouldn't have been in these here
vanilla"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

1.-The Centennial will carry with it u high
moral teaching. say the Philadelphia pa
pers. This refers, Of course, TO the thou
sand pound chunk of birthstone TO be exhib-
tied by Nevada.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

In 1875 says NJ de Laurie. II took
Eve little sparrow hawks from high tow
er and put them in . cage on the balcony
The parent birds Immediately brought them
feed. and VAS not surprised to see that this
feed consisted q twelve mice, four large
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09
MlT AND HuM0R.
l. DONNELLY. Jr.. Editor.

Soft hearts often harden, bat soft heads
never d..
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24
COffee-Its Kinds and Qualities.

Coffee, says a writer of a magazine
article, is not the seed of the coffee tree,
but a horny substance that incloses
within it the seed. The tree is not
large, generally from six to ten feet
high in cultivation. The leaves are
polished and evergreen, and grown in
pairs. The flowers are little clusters
of fragrant white stars, and in a coffee
plantation there Is no time when some
can not be seen. The flowers are sue
ceeded by green berries, which ripen to
a beautiful red. In 1859 the whole pro-
duction of coffee in the world was esti-
mated at 7l3,o00,0 pounds. OF this
Brazil furnished 400, 600, 600 Java, 140,-
100000; Ceylon and San Domingo,
each 10000, 600; Cuba and Porto Rico,
25,000,000; Venezuela and Sumatra
each as much, and all other countries
only 100000 BY far the greatest
part Of the coffee used in the United
States is Brazilian or Rio coffee, retailed
largely as Java and Mocha. In flavor
Java is much milder than either of the
others, and Mocha is richer and spicier
than Rio, while Rio is the strongest of
the three, and, indeed, is the strongest
of all cofiees. No cup of coffee can be
really excellent unless all imperfect
grains are removed before the coffee is
roasted. The common cheap ground
coflees. contain usually a little coffee,
and the bulk is supplied mostly with
either peas or rye. Chicory is too high
priced to be used to any great extent,
and the people who think that if their
coffee is not really pure it contains only
a little chicory, are probably drinking
peas and rye, made dark and bitter with
burnt sugar. The higher sounding the
title of the coffee, the poorer the quality
! of the general thing.
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AHuge Block of Silver.

The City of Havana brought to New
York on Thursday a block of pure sill
yer weighing 1900 pounds and worth
$4,000 in gold. The block is a foot in
diameter, and has six sides each three
feet long. 1t is perfectly smooth and
highly polished. 1t belongs to Pho Ber-
mejillo & Co., bankers of the City of
Mexico, who have consigned it to Co
mez, Sionda & Co., of 9 Old slip, to be
exhibited among the Mexican products
at the Centennial. 1t was exhibited at
the Mexican exhibition in Mexico last
year. The silver forming this immense
block is said to have been dug from the
Real Potosi, one of the Oldest mines in
Mexico. The treasures lies in a hexa-
gonal box in the hold of the steamship
City of Havana. The purser of the Ha-
vana says that the silver block, in its
box, lay a day and a night u~nguarded
on a wharf at Vera Cruz. at wouldn't
stay long on a wharf in New York." he
added. The silver is to be examined by
the United States Appraiser tomorrow,
and then it is to be deposited inthe New
York Safe Deposit Company's vaults to
await orders from the Mexican Centen-
NAL Commissioner.-New York Sun.
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son, aged IL years, instantly, and badly
injuring the other members of the fam

son, aged IL years, instantly, and badly
injuring the other members of the fam
lily.
LIST OF THE EAD AND WOUNDED.
Killed-Mrs. +. Richards, johnson
Richards, aged IL years; Lizzie Rich
ards, aged 16 years; Mrs. Z. II. Ed
wards and child. Alfred jackson, aged
A years; Thomas Allen and son, and
Mrs. John Looney.
Injured-Joseph Clementson, leg
broken; Edward Thompson, hip in
jured child of Fred. Plude, arm broken;
Amanda Morcom, head cut; Thomas
Mayor, badly cut in the face; Mrs.
Tregonin, arm injured; Joseph Mason,
slight injury on the head; child of Will
liam Fiddick, head cut; Dora Thomp.
son, arm injured; Mrs. Joseph jackson,
injured; Mrs. James Edwards, face
hurt; James Treganza, injured slightly /;
Frank Thompson, arm bruised; Miss
Eliza Rodda, badly injured. Several in
the family of Thomas Allen are reported
as badly injured.
The loss on property is estimated at
$4,000 or $4,000.
HAZEL REEF
is a small country village of a thousand
inhabitants, situated nine miles north
west of Galena, and just over the Wis
consin line. 1t is the center of a valua-
BILE lead mining district. In the little
cemetery now covered with the ruins OF
humble homes is the grave of the poet
Percical, whose d%iscolored maidstone is
splashed with the blood the more recent
victims of a periodical visitation of God,
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JULIA WARD HOWE finds in q ,recen

JULIA WARD HOWE finds in ,recen
leap-year party this lesson: "Place a
man under the same disabilities which
everywhere restrain women from free
natural action, and he at ono feels his
impotence, and is as much crippled by
the artificial restriction as any woman
can be. On the other hand, give to
women, for one hour even, the freedom
which men claim, and they will show
quite the same power of enjoying and
using it, and will possibly display more
delicacy and generosity in its USE"