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The Osceola times., 1878-08-17
The nehool DOy.
We bought him box for his books and thing
And crichet bag fot his bat;
And he looked the brightest and be- Of king.
Under his new straw hat.
We handed him into the railway train
with troop Of his young compssu,
And We IN sde a. though II we're dnst aud rain
Were nliing our eyes with tears.
We looked In his inaocsnt face 10 ~
The sigh Of q sorrowfui heart;
But he only shouidercd his hat with gles
Aud wondsled when they would start.
'Tvas not that he loved not o. heretofore,
For the child was loyal snd true;
And the parents love tue love that ID old,
And the children the love that is new.
And We came 10 know that love isa flower
Which only sroweth down;
And We scarcely spoke for the spacs Of an hour
As We drove back through the town.

In the second book OF the bible We
read that "Shimrach ran violently for
ward, fell upon his face, and threw dust
upon his head"--just hero the report
breaks off short, and We are lett in pain
full doubt as to whether the ancient
Shimrach reached second-base or not.
BLANCHE TO Ethel, just returned
from their summering-"Why, how thin
you look 2" Ethel-"Of course, my
dear; four toilettes day, and the Ger
man four times . week, are not iatten.
ing, besides, one doesn't wish TO come
back to society looking like . dairymaid."
In 1873 Europe underwent . vista
tion Of grasshoppers far worse than that
experienced here. They are referred to
In Spanish and German monastic
archives, and ara described - having
hidden the sun, and devoured crops on
one hundred acres In one hour After
devastating France they were supposed
to have perished In the Atlantic.
EDISON married . factory girl, ten
minutes after asking her to b. his wife.
Then he went down to the factory and
worked all night on an invention, for
getting all about being married till one
OF the boys called his attention to the
fact. He is - absent minded - the
minister who blew the foam OF glass
Of water In the pulpit before taking .
drink.
A SIMPLE fire escape has been recently
invented, it, object being to catch per-
sons who are compelled TO precipitate
themselves from the upper stories Of
burning buildings. 1t consists simply
OF . net sustained on poles, which arc
held up by persons on the ground.
Contrivances OF this kind kept at polics
stations ready for instant use on alarm
of fire, might be the means Of saving
many lives.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17

These we're the years in which yellow
jacks chief ravsges occurred, but the
disease has been in New Orleans every
year and fall since 1917, except three
years during the war, when Gen. Butler
kept the city SO clean and SO isolated
from West India vessels, which almost
always import the fever that New Or
leans during 1862, '63, and ga remained
perfectly healthy, not single case OF
the maladv appearing SO much for
quarantine During several years not
mentioned above the fever was pretty
bad in New Orleans; SIS, for instance. in
1922, when 2S9 deaths occurred; 1929,
2l5 deaths; 1887, 442; 1889, 452; 1S4l,
54l 1S4S, $50. In 1877 : the fever broke
out in.the most filthy quarter of the city.
There were 223 deaths, but the disease
was successfully stamped out by car
bolic acid. At present the prospect for
great epidemic is promising.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17

A distinctive symptom and char
acteristic Of yellow fever is suppression
OF the urine. Another symptom, which
can be readily recognized by any physi-
cisn, nurse or other person who has ever
been with a yellow-fever patient, il a
pt culiar odor or nasty smell from of the
patient, and which can ever be perceived
in the streets during an epidemic, it is
indescribable. and belongs to no other
fever, and with doctors experienced in
yellow fever is of itself sufficient for q
diagnosis. The patient secs that the
poison has alse struck the nervous sys,
tenn; he is tremulous, easily excited, and
startled by the least noise. The fever
takes generally frem twenty four to
forty eight hours, the sufferer becoming
delirious and rsving in large proper.
tion of cases. If asked why he screams
he can give no adequate reason. Usually
on the third day tue fever abates, and
there il calm-the third stage-which
lasts from few hours to day, and is
the turning point of tho disease.
This calms ends either in conva-
lescence or else in the fourth or
fatal stage, that of collapse or black
vomit, from which not one in fifty ever
recovers. The vomit, which seems to
come up without effort, looks life coffee
grounds, and is the death warrant of
THE POOR PATIENT.
About the fourth or fifth day the eyes
turn yellow. The skin also assumes q
yellowness like that of bruise, or q
bright jaundice yellow. However, the
patient does not turn yellow in more
than in one case in six. As to the causes
Of the scourge, the old atmospheric the
ory has gone by the board, and the best
writers now seem to have settled dewn to
the belief that the poison Is of animalcu-
lar origin, these animalcules generating
and spreading over surfaces like grasshop-
pers and caterpillars, and being
introduced into the human blood.
II they exist, the most powerful
microscope has hitherto been
unable to discover them. One fact that
seems to point to their existence is that
the same extremes OF heat and cold that
kill all other insects also kills yellow
fever, whose contagion cannot exist aud
becomes innocuvus at 800 and 212o. Vel.
low fever is always killed out after good
freeze. Yellow fever never spreads above
600 feet above the level of the sea. Ac>
climatization does not prevent, and no
person has second attack. The perioi
of incubation Is generally four to nine
days, though persons have been known
to carry it in their system twenty three
days, and then take it. Without treat
ment seventy five out of every hun.
dred will die. With treatment
and good nursing, however, about
one in three is the average mortality.
Ia the great epidemic of 1867, in
rome Texas towns, one.half died who
took the fever. As to the cure, no REM
edy has yet been found, and all treat
ment SO far, even by the best physicians.
is as empirical as the causes of yellow
fever are unknown beyond conjecture.
history OF EPIDENnCs IN NEW ORLEANS.
According to the best writers, the
great epidemics that have scourged New
Orleans in the past may be tsbulsted as
follows, with the time of breaking out
and whole number of deaths:
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17
YELLOW FEVER.

Causes, HymPtous and Treatment.
As there is now alarm in all the
southern cities subject to its inroads a
few facts from the best and latest author
ties who have had personal experience
with the disease may be of interest. A
day OF two OF lapguor and bad feel
ings" generally precede an attack OF
yellow fever. Then comes chill much
like that Of common ague, but accomps.
MED by pain in the head and spine.
The chill lasts frC m q few minutes to q
few hours, and constitutes the first
stage, or that wherein the morbi6c
causes are invading the system. The
next is the tebrile stage which follows
the chill. Generally 1t is noted OF .
very high grade, the pulse being 100.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17

perhaps on account Of dry winters and
intermissions in the trade winds, hss
been greater than formerly, the summer
OF 1877 having been the hottest in the
history of the state. June IL, 1876, the
thermometer rose to so, and June IL,
1877, to 990 Those tive years have also
been marked by an unusual mortality,
owing, possibly, to the heat and to a
miasmatic north wind.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17
Some Facts to Rene mbcr About the III

The sun is $4,000 times as large a.
this earth.
The sun is 400 times as far off as the
moon.
A lady who weighs 100 pounds here
would weigh 300 pounds II on the
surface of the sun.
The heat given of by the sun would
melt 2S7, 200, 600 cubic miles Of ice every
second
The diameter of the earth bears the
same relation to its distance from the
sun as the breadth of hair TO l25 feet.
A railroad train travelling without
stops at the rate OF forty miles an hour
would get to the sun 10 263 years.
The sun is believed to become some
$50 feet smaller every year.
This contraction would be sufficient to
generate the enormous quantity of heat
which it radiates.
Another theory Is that comets and
meteoric matter falling into the sun may
be its ailment to 0fiset the tremendous
loss which combustion certainly involves.
II would reqaire the combustion oi
thirty feet of coal over the entire sur
face Of the sun every second to generate
the same heat.
The stars are supposed in average
larger than our sun and TO have planeta.
ry systcms like his.
The nearest star is 1900 times a. far
off as our sun.
1t takes light eight minutes to come
from the sun, but Il must have required
10000 years to come from the farthest
visible stars.
When the eleven>year storms on the
SUI occur, the magnetic needle On the
earth is variable and sometimes consider
ably detected.
The earth is flying arond the sun at
the rate of I, 900 miles minute.
The sun and all the stars are moving
through space, accompanied by their
planetary systems, at . rate varying from
20 to 200 miles q second.
Some of the son spots (cfateFs) are
100, 900 miles in diameter, and one Of
them would easily swallow up the whole
Of the planets, Jupiter himself only max
ing mouthtul.
Maedler's curious and brilliant specu-
lation il that tie star Alcyone Il the cen-
trail sun Of our universe, and that our
sun and the visibie stars are swinging
around It in orbits measured BY millions
Of yeafA
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17

A YOUNG and comely white girl of
sixteen was publicly whipped at Eliza.
beth City, Va, by a big negro constable,
for stealing pair Of shoes. A crowd of
ioafers assembled to see the girl stripped
to her wait and the twenty-five stripes
laid on. The law authorizing such
punishment went into effect only on the
LIST Of July, and will be repealed at the
next session of the legislature.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17

SOME of our best lawyers make a prac.
tice OF never defending a case before
certain justices, because they know the
decision would be for the plaintiff II
they piled up indisputsble evidence on
the otheI side. Tney merely cross.
examine the witnesses so as to lay the
foundation for their defense in higher
court on an appeal, and then allow
judgment to be rendered. Cleveland
Herald.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17

ACCORDING to DR.. Treves, exact or
scientific study has tendency to deaden
and sterilize the poetic faculty. Dealing
constantly with stern facts and well-defin-
ed mental processes, renders ali organic
zation in the nervous centers more per-
feet, promoting distinctness of ideas, a
more exact method of thought, and that
general structural condition which is un-
favorable for the display of those mental
qualities which the poet must possess.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17
LABOR.

one hundred and nino report ths
lsborsrs working very well, tSlesn
moderately we'll. and thrse not veil
The trouble 10 politics. One hundsed
and thirtsen report their gereral moFale
a. better than Tor the past ave yeazs, or
since they were made Tree i've about
the same nine not 20 god Many nen-
tions are made Of moro temperate heoata
and ecoacmlzlag dSspn.itiona. :
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17
WHEAT CROP

Ninety seven report it harvested. one
abandoned, twenty nine none raired:
EIehty-seven report 1t threshed out and
protected from the weather or exposed.
The average yield per acre IL s ~ bSshsln,
thirty-three per cent less than last year,
and averaging about halt a usual crop.
The quality Is poor, because Of rust-
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17

SPEAKING of the hot weather Just ex-
perienced east of the Rocky mountains,
the San Francisco Chronicle says there
has never been well.au thenticated
case of sun'stroke in California, although
it is not unusual for the thermometer to
rise to ll20 in some parts of the state,
and TO l060 and 1852 in Sacramento aud
Marysville. IN June, 1859, from the
effects Of sirocco blowing from Colorado
desert, the thermometer marked 1929 in
Stanislaus county, and 1Sa0 in the shade
at various places in San Bernardino and
Santa Barbara counties. At the mines
1l00 10 l14' In the shade has not been
uncommon yet 30 pure and dry is the
atmosphere there that thousands OF
miners here worked all day in the sun,
during the greatest heat, without pros
tration. In San Francisco the tempera-
tue is much lower than in the interior
of the state, and seldom rises much above
70"; but during the last years the heat,
The Osceola times., 1878-08-17
CORN CROP.

Seventy eight report the condition Of
the corn crop as being very fioe. thirty.
five in moderately good condition, and
fifteen crops inferior. Ninety six report
it we'll cultivated. thirty.one badly cul.
tivated. An additional planting Of six
and half per cent. was made In June.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11
A Good Opinion.

Mr.. Gladstone who is not apt to Judge
either hastily or erroneously,has been making
public his opinion of trades unions 1t is
noticeable that he does not speak positively
in regard to their influence upon the wages
of workingmen; but ne believes them to
represent an honorable desire for self-sup-
porting independence, and suggests that
they should make it point to adopt lib
eral principles, in treating of matters that
touch them in their profession" One of
the strongest objections the opposers have
brought against these combinations is the
authority they attempt to exercise over
those who do not enter into them. This
becomes species of tyranny, as decided
TO complain. Mr. Gladstone says that
it is essential for these unions, if indeed
their object is the good of the whole to
"fully and absolutely respect the liberty -
of all who do not desire to join them. Much
evil has been done by the arbitrary exercise
of the power which has been thrown into
the hands of a majority by means of such
combinations. The great statesman ex-
presses the hope that in the future co-opera-
tive manufacturing societies may succeed,
because laboring men, by uniting in socie-
tie. of this kind, place themselves, to a GER
tain extent, in the position of capitalists,
and form kind of link between labor and
capital which will tend to promote good re-
lations between the two. A better under.
standing by each of their mutual depend
ence will contribute to do away with the
antagonism which is causing such serious
difficulties at the present time.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11
Another Road System.

Baltimore county, Md, has just adopted
highway system which, in some respects,
seems to be an improvement on our own.
1t is practically a return to the Maryland
county road system of twenty-five years ago.
Three road commissioners are provided for
each election district, each having special
charge of sub-district,and receiving two dol
lars day, when examining or experimenting
new roads and bridges, besides actual expen-
ses not to exceed fifty dollars year. The
$4,000 annually for roads and bridges, by
tax of between ten and fifteen cents on
one hundred dollars two-thirds of it to be
spent in the district where it is raised, aud
the rest to form a general county fund from
which to draw, if need be. Any taxpayer
who prefers can work out two-thirds of his
assessment under the superintendent of the
road commissioners, and they are to make
all roads at least thirty feet wide with suit
able boundaries and guide-posts, spending
three-fourths of their fund for repairs be-
tween April 18th and October LIST in each
year The county commissioners are TO
have charge of all bridges, and every new
one of more than twenty-feet span must be
of iron or covered wood, New roads are to
be built by the lowest bidder making
sealed proposals, but, even after the road
and county commissioners have approved
the application of twenty taxpayers desir
ing it, an assessment of benefits and dam
ages must be made aud entirely collected
before work can begin.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11
Mathman & NnmnaL.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER II, 1873.
" Home, Sweet H0me.o

Kearney, the agitator, on his recent arri-
val at San Francisco, was received with
open arms and every demonstration of Joy
by his friends and Acknowledgment"
At Oakland he was met by the working
mems party, headed by Mayor Andrus and
At San Francisco he was met by a process
sion of the w. p c., of which he is Presi-
dent, aud escorted to a substantial stand
erected at the sand lot, where the crowd
was SO great that many were in danger of
being suffocated or crushed to death. Kear
ney was introduced by Wellock, Vice-Presi
dent of the W.'P. G. As he took the plat
form, Kearney was greeted with blaze of
fireworks of every description. In com
mencing, he desired to reterate the cry that
" the Chinese must 60" as likewise must
the land pirates, railroad robbers and po-
litical bummers. He remarked that the
workingmen of Massachusetts were prepared
to take off their hats to those of California.
The workingmen of Massachusetts had to
walk up to the polls holding marked ballot
in full view. 1t was the orators opinion
that in three years bloody revolution will
spring up in these United States. "The
workingmen Of the East are standing on a
volcano, which will soon belch out" They
were afraid to be seen talking with Kear-
ney upon the street, because their employers
threatened to discharge them if they did.
He then said he was fatigued by his four
months labor in the East and would tell
them all about it the next Sunday after
noon on his native soil, the sand lot. The
baud escorted Kearney to his home, and
Frisco was quiet again
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11
The Stewart Body Theft.

A correspondent Of the Springfield Re
publican says: "Stewart's body has not
been found yet. At least the papers say so.
There is, however, strong impression in
some quarters that Judge Hilton knows
where the body is and keeps the secret in
order to catch the thieves. The police and
detectives, however, seem to know nothing
about it, and are nonplussed. The excite
ment over the affair has subsidized. Very
few people ever cared anything about it..
When it was found that Stewart had died
without leaving one dollar for public pur-
pose, or one cent for real charity, public
expressed the general feeling when he said
Stewart is the deadest corpse in New
York Had the body of Horace Greeley
or William Cullen Bryant been stolen, pub
lie indignation would have risen to volcanic
heat, and would have precipitated an out
break. 1t is said to be an open secret that
Mrs. Stewart has been good deal irri-
tated by the course of Judge Hilton in this
affair." She was vexed at the conditions he
coupled with the offered reward. She did
not care to assist the police in the discharge
of their duty. She wanted the body of her
husband, and if $4,000 would not bring it,
100000 should. She felt almost remorseful
at the thought that she had received a for
tune of millions from her husband, and yet
had been so remiss and neglectfu that his
bones had been dragged from the tomb and
carried off in a bag. Of course this is not
printed in the papers nor spoken on author
ity; but it is whispered The New York
papers do not tell what they think about
this business. The Stewart advertising is
altogether too important an item for the pa
pers to lose. Hilton is about the most I'M
popular man in New York. 1t is now gen.
orally thought that the failure of the Wo-
mans Hotel was designed by him, that he
never intended it should succeed, and that
the odious rules were devised on purpose to
strange the enterprise. But the hotel under
its present management is admirably kept
has considerable patronage, and is spoken
vall IF
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11

HAVE worn American cotton for my
shirts more than year. | told my shirt
maker where to get it. He absolutely knew
nothing about it. 1t wears better than Eng
lsh and is more honestly made-beter
cotton, believe. Up to last spring | be-
leved that English piano-fortes were the
best in existence. But, having to buy a
new one, CHANGED to hear of Steinways.
was so pleased with them that | bought
two-a grand and cottage. They are far
finer and more brilliant in tone than the Ent.
fish makers of whom | bought my form,r
grand. The mechanism is perfect AMI
they show that English manufacturers have
made comparatively no progress the las.
twenty-five years. American cutlery is,
hear, being sold in Sheffield. In fact, we
are beingc out everywhere.-Engiish Con-
hibuor 10 London Week.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11

TIMELY lIINr.-A passenger upon the i'll,
fated Pomeranid, says that while the boat
he was in was rowed through the water, he
saw many people with life-preservers put on
the wrong way, so that they were floating
with the head downward. This would show
that it is quite necessary for people to know
how to use these life-saving articles, since
in days of travel like the present there are
few who are not at some time exposed to
perils by the sea. Fifteen minutes instruc.
ton and practice would suffice, and might
one day be the means of preserving a life
precious, perhaps, to some one, II not ones
self.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11

CHURCH WoRK.-The New York Times
tells neat little story about the Rev. DR..
Stephen A. Tyng's habit of keeping all his
church members hard at work. His fond
ness for this sort of thing has long been pro.
verbal. He gives them classes to teach in
the Sunday-school, gives them poor families
to look after, mission boxes to fill, and never
let's any of them sit about idle. The story
goes, and is vouched for on good authority,
that wealthy resident of Madison avenue
went to DIR. Tying few days ago and said
al want to become a regular attendant al
your church, DOCTOR and take a pew and
pay for it, for like your preaching very
much. My family will also attend the
church. But | do not want to go into the
church work, and teach in the Sunday
school, and all that sort of thing. | just
want to come in quietly and pay my bills
and go my way" q" All, see. You've come
to the wrong church, my friend. There's a
church Just around the corner called The
Church of the Heavenly Rest That's the
church you want" The seeker went further
in search of the Heavenly Rest.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-11
The Mail Service Threatened.

The insuficency of the post-office appro-
priations is likely to cause embarrassment to
the department and serious inconvenience
to the public. The service is now performed
at as low a rate as possible, and in no other
public department are such parsimonious
salaries paid as in this. Congress cuts
down the appropriation four hundred thou.
sand dollars below the most economical
amount at which the post-office business can
be efficiently performed, and the inevitable
result must be abandonment of some of
those facilities of distribution and delivery
from which the business communities de-
rive so much advantage. Formal notice is
now given that the department will be COM
PEELED to discontinue the postal car system,
the value of which can scarcely be under
stood by persons not familiar with the de-
tails Of the postal service 1t is sufficient to
say that the system by which the mail mat
ter is assorted ready for distribution while
the railroad trains are proceeding on their
trips saves from twelve to twenty-four hours
in the time of delivery. Is it worth while
to deprive the country of this great benefit
for the sake of saving few dollars through
pretentious but mistaken economy?