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Science and Common Sense

to commend tia remedy of indisputable
aticacy, and the most certain means Of re-
storation to health and pristine vigor?
There are many diseases of an acute and
febrile type that we do not propose to cure
by means of Electricity; but from all that
Electro Physiology teaches us, in regard to
the n.odw operana of the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-30

THE project Of an 1nter-Oceanic ship
canal across the Isthmus of Darien looms
up occasionally amongst the enterprises
that engage the worlds attention, like the
tunnel under the Strait of Dover, aerial
navigation, double discounting the whole
solar system by the Use of the electric
light, heating large cities by steam, &c.
Admiral Ammen recently read
a paper at the opening meeting of the
American Geographical Society in New
York. This paper was prepared in COM
p,iance with request made the Society
by the French Congress of Geographers
for some practical data on the proposition
to unite the waters of the two oceans.
The Admiral expressed the belief that no
possible route exists comparable with
that presented in the surveys made by
the United States Government, by the
Nicarauga Lake and San Juan River.
The Lake, with a surface of $500 miles
and drainage of nearly 10000 miles,
would furnish water supply for lockage
30 times in excess of any possible de-
mand. The estimated cost of the work
was So, HIS, which the Admiral con-
cludes should be borne jointly by the ma
tions interested. The Government of
Nicarauga have offered liberal conces-
sions to this Government for the purpose
of facilitating the work
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External Remedies are the
Safest

and best that can be applied in diseases, on
account of the facility which we possess Of
watching their action and their results i;
and of these remedies Electricity, in the
form of mild, continuous, and prolonged
currents, as realized exclusively by
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-30
Curative and Preservative

effects of Voltaic Electricity, we may most
reasonably infer that all those chronic all
.nents and all diseases dependent on de-
pressed condition of the nervous forces, ex-
haustion Of nerve power, or the diminished
energy of vital functions, as treated upon in
our publications, are happily most suscept"
bic Of cure by means Of
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Thousands of Younq Men,

niddle-aged, and even the old, who suffer
from nervous and physical debility. There
are also thousands of females
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The Italians have been paying the Eng
ish sixty francs for coke no better than
our coal.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-30

IT is reported that the soothing effects Of
electricity have been added to the duck
ing tub as a mode of punishment in the
Columbus Penitentiary. The candidate
after being stripped of his clothing is
blindfolded and seated in the tub con-
tanning about three inches of water. In
this one pole of the battery is placed,
while a sponge is attached to the other.
The body of the man under torture is
then touched rapidly with the sponge in
divers places, and as he is still blind
folded he can never tell where or when
the lightning is going to strike next, and
therein lies the fun of the thing to the
attendants. When the victim worries
and screams from an application at one
point his yells Of agony are pitched in a
different key an instant after by being
touched up in some remote and unex-
pected quarter 1t must be not only
exceedingly funny but extremely edify-
ing and instructive to the inquiring
mind, to thus see science utilized. The
Comanche and Pawnee Indians have a
method of producing about the same
grotesque effect upon their prisoners, but
it is more bunglingly done, although nc
more irhuman. They puncture theil
victims with pitch-pine splinters, which
when fired produce about the same voca]
and gymnastic effects as the electric
battery at Columbus. With the Utics
Crib in our Lunatic Asylums and the
electric machine in the Penitentiaries as
means of torture, the State of Ohio
demonstrates her advanced civilization
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PULVERMACHER.
ADDREsS!

To the Wedl;, Nervous, and
DebiIitated, achO Suffer from
HZ-HeoJth consequent on
lingering, Chronic, Nerc-
oaea or Functional Diseases.
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RECENTLY a young Cuban attorney
arrived New York and exhorted his
countrymen in that and neighboring
cities to take advantage of the amnesty
and return to their homes. As he Of
fered to pay the expenses of their pas
sage, some four hundred exiles in New
York and Philadelphia agreed to return
with him, and he chartered vessel for
thc:r accommodation. Subsequently,
however, the suspicion flashed across
Their minds that the young lawyer was
an agent of the Spanish authorities, and
with emarkable unanimity they per-
cmptorily turned their backs on him and
left HIM with { chartered vessel on his
hands. Most of these exiles were active
ly engaged in the rebellion, and the anx-
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derived from Pulvermacher's Appliances,
and bring forward testimony in their favor
from the most
Learned Physicians and Sci
entific Men
in Europe and this country. We also dem.
onstrate why relief and cure result from
their use after every other plan Of Treatment
has failed. Reader,
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PuIyermaCher's Electric
Belts and Bands.

These conditions they will cure, while drugs
viii not and we offer the most convincing
testimony direct from the afflicted them
selves who have been restored to
Health, Strength, and Energy
after drugging in vain for months and years.
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The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
THE OMAHA WAY.

The members of our city council may lie
able to find something interesting In the
following which We clip from the Omaha
Bee. 1t is an extract from the proceed
ings of the city council:
One of the principal directors to this enter
prise had said the main sewers ought to be
built by the city at large, as the same peo-
pie would have to pay them In four or five
years. This objector was a rich man, who
came into the council a year or more ago aud
asked TO be relieved of certain taxes and by
bull-dozing and belaboring the council he
succeeded.
ats an infamous faisehsod," san, out Mr..
Hanscom from the rear of the ROOM
he being the gentleman referred TO by
HascalI.
The fun now began.
"Thats your old Argument replied Has
call.
ats Infamous lie" reiterated III anscom,
"lou're another liar, aud an Infamous
scoundrel to boot think that Will s ,tisfy
you." said Hascali, 81 'het y of his voice
All now became excitement, and as a
Chicago r. ibune reporter would say, 1.-THE
pale air became eske1 with approbrious
epithets, which were hurled back and forth
between the two men SO quickly that the re.
porter's pencil, travelling At elS,. gait, vas
unable TO In them all in They struck
back and forth like two pusilists-their vers
bal blows being sent straight from the shou,.
der, so TO speak
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22

The National Greenback Labor Party il
by no Means myth in Boston. 1t ha:
climbs in every ward, and from the account:
Of their meeting, a. published in the city
papers NEARLY all unfriendly) We infer thai
their strength must be considerable. They
receive Gen. Butler into their ranks with
open arms, and at Il meeting on the l2tl
inst, reported m the 1ruoIer next day, III.
following resolutions were adopted:
Resided, That We is.I with fe-liag> of un
mingled pleasure aud J-lis:Ir the .nnou &C.
ment of Gen. Butler that lac h abandoned
the Republican part:, and witn open arms
We welcome him to the Tauks of the people.
Resided. That We te-dcr public reception
TO Gen. Butler.
1t was then voted that the uaexpendsd bal
ance In the hands OF the treasurer be turned
over TO the Committee on the Reception o.
Gen. Butler, and that any one wishing &c
contribute further toward tins object might
send contributions 10 the treasurer, + N
Chamberlain, 7J8 Washington street, Bos
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22

malls remarked Governor Anthony TO MI
NJ, that have reached me in advance OF
your V sit have beer OF the most flattering
character
And this from paper OF December 10Th,
giving a prior conversation Of Governor
Anthony on the subject in which he refers
to papers Of still earlier date, and confesses
10 having suggested the matter
to Mr.Siray "three or four weeks ago.
which, OF course, was prior to his trip to
Washington.
The "Industrolit," published at the Agri'
cultural College by John 4. Anderson, said
December %, 1877:
Two better men cannot be named than
Col. John A. Martin, OF Atchison, and 'o'.
George A. Crawford, of Fort Scott"
The discussion Of names for the commits
sfonership TO Paris had taken such wide
range that in it, issue OF December 2oth,
1877. the G,nB,o lUeGbh -aid:
I'VE rnsy .ts well ST, e, in order 70 st9p all
SD ,cul:.tirn. that E"u. Alfred Cry was
agreed upon a. the best qualified 10y the
Kansas delegation some time silce.'
That lime since" was in November
during the Governors visit to Washington.
He boosted Of it, made the Stale pay for it,
shipwrecked on it, and now tries TO sneak
out Of it By false statements. "No appoint
ment was thought Of until two months OF
more after the 9th OF November 1917
Tell it TO the marines.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
OUR NOMINEE.

The selection of John A. Anderson, a
Manhattan, day before yesteday, was one
of the best that could have been made
After Phillips, he was our choice out Of
all the candidates presented, and, as We
said several days ago. We shall take pleas
IRE in giving him a most hearty and cor
iial support.
As THE TINES said yesterday, there was
danger that some weak man would be Sc
lected as compromise; and it is a very
rare thing for the friends of different can
didates to compromise on the strongest
man, as they did in this csse-not strong
est in the number of votes originally cast
for him, but in intellectual ability.
The Republicans of the district have rea-
son TO rejoice over the result of the conven-
ton. If every consideration of locality and
availability had been laid aside, and the
choice had been made purely on the grounds
of ability and fitness for the place, there is
no, man in the district who could have
been more appropriately taken than John
A. Anderson.
A report in full of the proceedings of the
convention is given elsewhere in this is
sue.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
JOHN a. ANDERSON.

A.ilr balloting eleven times, the Con-
go .aGaLConvention OF this district yes
r--ay placed in nomination Hon. John A.
=.son, OF Manhattan, President Of the
...,GI;urai Co!lese,-ihe final vote tInd-
twenty-five Tor Anderson, TO fo-ty- lone
Fhillips.
Jar first choice was the present able and
ga. ie.. member, Hon. ". A Phillips, be-
csuse We believed that by reason Of
his experience he could accomplish more
T.. his district than any new man. On ac-
at of local reasons We have desired
H. see the nomination Of a Lcay-
eavorth man, and We are convinced,
If the delegation from this county had
zone 10 Manhattan in the Interest OF some
well known man, Of recognized ability,
thai euch choice could have been Ell
fected.
But aside from local considerations We
think, as We have previously stated, that
the best, by all odds, among the new names
brought out, was that Of John A. Ander-
son. He Is man who il large enough Tor
the whole- district, and one who will do
Al. l. -, of 1hIl-
ity, OF integrity, and of extraordinary men
tai power. He is not only a fair man, but
a strong man, and in all the quail
tiles that 20 TO make an able and
effective member of Congress, he stand
above all the other new candidates pre-
scented to the convention, and the peer OF
any man in the State. To brilliant talent
he add. an unimpeachable moral char
acter, and unconguerable energy.
He is genial, social, whole-souled man
make friends wherever he goes, and is best
liked where he Is best known. He is gen.
tleman of culture and education, and is a
fair srecimen OF "the scholar in politics.
He is a ready, forcibie, speaker, and is
strong enough to cope with the best men in
C.ngrtas. lie will make repre-
e. .a'.r- 1t no. only his district but
T. e. ste will have reason 10 lie
p.1-d L.
Wh, b. aw the determination ON the
part OF tic Convention to SET aside Mr.
Phiiiir~ our only fear was that some
'icLeap a-n would be taken up on ac-
ca. q ".ocaiity" or Availability" but in
the se.ec'i of Anderson the convention
has made choice that shows proper re-
gard for ability aud fitness, and has given
the Republicans of the First District a
candidate around whom they can rally, in
the conscio-IsDeFs of supporting man
who is big cough for the place.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
IHEMExiCaN RoRpER.

The Tco EeptJlics, of Mexico, says tina,
the invasion Of Mexican territory by United
States troops will inevitably lead to a col.
lirion and TO war between the tSo coun.
tries. In the last invasion of Mackenzie
his army of 600 or 700 men were confront.
ed at first by only fifty men, under Col
Valdez, being afterwards reinforced by Col
Nuncio with 100 more, which, aggregated
did not number one-fourth of the strength
OF Mackenzie's forces. There is not a
shadow of a doubt" says the Mexi
can journal, "had the oppos
ing forces bsen anything like
equal, there would have bsen an engage
ment, lives lost and war initiated BY the
American people. The country was rife
with indignation, and reinforcements were
pressing to tine support of Valdez and Nun
clio, and had Mackenzie not returned imme
diately TO Texas, a conflict would have beer
inevitable The Republics intimates that
it is next to impossible for the Mexican au
thorities TO prevent the Indians from pass
ing from an unexplored mountain wilder
ness in Texas, stretching 10 the length o.
four hundred miles in which there is but
one settlement.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
GLE n.

St. Louis prides herself upon being the
cIeanest city on The continent, and attributes to
this fact her comparative immunity from
pestilence. The RepuLiioaa of the 18th
says:
1t is widely known and certainly true that
~. Louis 10 the best drained and severed
city in the world. Nature provided a splen-
did drainage system for the site on which
the city Is built, and this has been intelli-
gently followed In the construction OF our
sewers. 1he result Is that they always wash
clean, while every rain secures the street
cutters as well as Il could be done by hand.
So, Notwithstanding our stereotyped growls
over coal dirt, dust and mud, We can with
justice claim the clcsnest city in the world.
This Is the secret Of the di-appsara nee OF
cholera rs an epedimic. and of the decreasing
fatality Of cholera infanium. 1t will ac-
count also for the perfect security against
the dreadful yello~-fever plague which is
universally felt. st. Louis is too clean TO
breed those spidemics which feed on filth.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
BALLET WOMEN.
How They We're Eng aged ut the Wal.
nut street. 1heater, PbiIadeIPhis,
for n Week of ..ChicagO.,
IPhiladelpnia Timesl


nut street Iheater, PbiIadeIphis,
for a Week of s.ChicagO.',
philadelphia Times.I
There were 30 women at the Walnut
Street Theatre stage door yesterday, in re-
spouse to an advertisement for 100 females
TO fill up the stage in the play of Chicago y
which Josh Hart will produce on next
Monday. Mr.. Frank Hart sat at table on
the stage Mr.. Goodwin leaned back and
surveyed the proceedings, and woman mum.
Der one stepped up.
Ever been on before ~ "Oh, yes, indeed,
sir, / led the ballet at Scranton and Wilkes
barre when the BLACK Crook was presented
there" ''Dance?" "Of course can dance"
"Name?" Margaret Allen" "Step back,
Margaret" Am engaged ~ Certainly
sixty cents performance; see board at stage
door for the call for rehearsal"
'IIow much will you pay ?" asked a
hatchet-faced woman who was at Milan,
subsequently at the Princess, in London,
and more recently with John L. Ford on the
Southern circuit, playing old women. allow
much did you say, sir? You offer me sixty
cents night. My dear sir, you don't APP
preciate TO whom You speak. / had 500
fiorins week OF La Scila. Sixty cents
;n S, a' noa iV .vs no 'II IL. A No.
inueo' sn wei, m nHe
no cnoi'e ah ~ 'nrs tna''ei o'anu oaeh :.
s,. % 80, 'ne"' In nnsat n L u
.an. s.. IA, au 'oi' 'n ANo"' 4
ne.u s'In nm
nnu sue , una aLeoI .G vi " "
..oman, P"ie enees, viii sieal' "1'uer
ny s!e, Ho"i noiio"s,
a nes,.a ;,n n ahiIi A" 10 oriy vi .ei
am WIN '.o ~, I,i ~ aL .ne ..ess .u' y
noaans On 70 'ne me-. .n'e"'oa'e 'u' neA' d.
PaSa gown she "ore
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
AUSTasIA,S POSlrION.

In the occupation OF Bosnis, OF course, the
Aus:rians are conquering the ceded terri
tory steadily and surely but their forward
march Is very far from being holiday par
ade. The official dispatch transmitted
to Vienna by the general commanding the
Seventh Army Corps shows that there has
been some tolerably severe fighting and an
unofficial dispatch to the Political Cores
pOndeace points to serious difficulties still to
be overcome before the died of gift signed
at Berlin will be ratified by the people who
have been bartered away. The outbreak
at Livno, in Herzegovina, is of a sort espe-
cially hard to deal with adequately. Its
animating motive is dual, consisting OF pa
triotism and religious fanaticism, and on
either count the Austrians will not find it
easy to put down. And after the country
s conquered will come the ugly business of
governing il.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
DO Young Ladies swear ,

During the progress Of trial inWinoua,
Mimi, in which young woman named
Hattie Ely is concerned as plaintiff, some
testimony was taken as to her practice in the
matter OF profane language. Miss Ely, it
should be added, belongs to good family.
A Miss Flad.l Hand testified that about one
week ago she was passing Mr.. Ely's house
in company with Miss Mamie Lowe, a sis
ter Of the defendant. They heard Miss Ely
call some one "foOl, with two very pro-
fame epithets prefxed; witne did not
know who the person was she and Miss
Lowe heard loud voices; thought il was
Mrs Fly, but did not know who it was !;
Miss Ely afterward apologized for using
the language, and said it was Miss Stilkey
to whom she was talking. On the cross ex-
animation witness said she had heard ladies
swear; she had heard girls at boarding
school swear, and she had heard them be-
fore and after she went to boarding school
Further than this witness peremptOrily de-
clined to answer any questions on that
point, and she was excused.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
TIE S-rTEPAys FOX RakER.

Gen. Taylor publishes voucher show
Ing that Governor Anthony took from the
contingent fund.-" Of the State S25i, 80 Tor
travelling expenses, November 9th, 1877
and sts.es that this was the trip which Sc
cured the Gray-Baker appointments TO
Paris. The Governor, replying in an edi-
torial (, the Commonwealth, August llth,
says, ;hs S234.50 went to pay the Cover
nor's trzyeling expenses in visiting the
charitable educational ard penal institutions
OF The State Tor the first eleven months of
his ;z.-s"
rs ssatement don't better the case. He
Ia ~ rc7e right to Use contingent fund"
10 his expenses in Kansas than to
W. iE5 .on. The Governor ordered suit
=. a. against other officers for drawing
n on vouchers not Itemized. 1t is
IA -Or.unate he did not itemize the S23i.j
for then We could soon settle a little ques-
tion o. veracity. We assert that the Governor
very prompt to draw his money and new
er waits through eleven months on the
State or anybody else. In the next place
We assert that he travels through the State
on a pass, and is the guest of the various
Institutions aid OF private citizens during
his visits and that his travel and his stay
cost him nothing, that he did not spend
the S25i.50 in visiting these institutions
and that he would not spend that sum in
such visits in ten years, at the rate ii costs
him TO visit them. The date Nov. 9th,
corresponds with the date of b is return from
Washington where he went to get the prom
Use of the Gray Baker appointment. Tha:
little negotiation Tor the influence of the
Commemorate he made the State pay for.
We might further add that the law does
not make ii the duty of the Governor to
visit the State Institutions. II he does visit
them it is Tor his personal satisfaction and
his salary is intended TO meet his personal
needs.
The State provides and pays for the man
agement Of its Institutions through State
Board of Charities. 1t is an impairment |
of6ciousness for the Governor TO interfere |
with their duties and TO impose his par
doned convicts on them in the keeping of
the books, a. at Osawatomie. Itadds inju-
~ to insult for him to bring in bills against
the State for money he never expended in
the rounds of his official interference and |
impertinent meddling. But really the
money went to secure as Gray Baker.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
DON'T waNT rnE MEArmENs.

Anent the proposition TO import large
number OF Chinese TO take the places OF the
striking shoemakeis, the Chicago Journal
has the following sensible remarks:
The proposition To bring small army OF
Cinnamon TO hicago, TO take the place of
the striking boot and shoemskers should not
receive tn. least fan or from manufacturers
In the first place, it would he a gross out
laboring men u bring cheap Chinese labor In
competition with them, and IL would be es.
pecially 30 under present circumstances,
when those work in men who have employ.
ment, a e oblig, Il, by the hard times, 10 labor
br mere living ages, and when
50 many Of our working classes
are unable TO obtain employ
ment at any price. live and let live
should be the general princip.e that should
actuate all the ernplo; ers of labor towards
their employees. Besides, IL is very evident
that the Introduction OF the Heather Chi
nee" element into this country, as exempli-
fled in California, would lie as lmpolitic as
1t would be mischevious We trust that Chi
cago will steer clear Of il. IL would be a con-
tinual source OF irritation and trouble. Evil,
and nothing but evil, would come OF ii. We
already have a surplus of respectable labor,
and the idea of rendering It's condition still
more trying by the introduction of servile
heather labor should not be seriously enter
tanned for a moment.