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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-04-23
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WEEKLY OR MDNTlllA FANMENfS
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EukNIrt RI, Carpets, sc ON weekly or monthly
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-04-23
tfnsltal snsirumsnls.

Insltal sns,rnmfnls
A RARECHANCE..-Th Weber pianos used only
n a TOW weeks during lie sinN OF tir Italian Ourra
Company in New York by Miss kellogg Marie ROKe Cary
Mnnta-uo. Frapoll Tom Karl Ncr Coulcy. &c and cs.
pcciny ~ cited by them Tor their sNmpatc uc rrhuess
Of tone Will be sold az very great bargain This i
chance cdom met with Fully warranted Tor hye wears
Please call At WEBER wAKEROOMs 18th av. and 10Th st
An ASSORTMENT OF second hand s,einway
ly warranted, At bargain also the largest selection
m the country of second hand pianos other makers
ranging $50 inward Beware Of bogus instruments repre-
s"nir a. genuine Stsnway pianos at auction aud pri
GREATOFFER!- I'VE WILL. DURING THESE
"a hard times dispose OF 10 new Pianos and ORGANS II
hrstcass makers at lower prices for cash Or instnmens
than ever before offered. Pianos. 7octaye Sl95. ~
octave $3.50, organs stops so stops, So, II stops
So, cash. IN perfect order not used wear
HORACE WATERS Sons. ~ East IAN st
A n SOHNER a. CO.'S, Ii9 East llth st. piano
"A manufacturers lass pianos at extremely low
price. cash several good second hand pianos 1T
soliMkk& 60 lfH Ea-i lith It.
A DOUBLE-BANK pedal organ. siol. new organ.
- e'n nctaNr, uN,fstring piano 500, low rents,
organs ON S3mOnthly m>tHllmcnts. pianos 80
GORDON SoN>, ~ East IAN i.
A DUMAHAUT. late : BALL "a CO.,
~. II EAST lirll ST.
thickern{s StrlnwAY ami other pianos and organs
low Tor cash ON installnent- hni tor rent
LADY will -ell carved rosewood 7octnvc piano
%tfortr and stool 80 40 Ea.t 3rh st. near 81 sv
ITPRIGHT and square pianos for s75 10 $50, g.
" AMI slu monthly I'LL paid rent ~ upward.
BhIIs = Union square ON aNl near ian st.
CR MONTH will buy new piano - new Bur
w dcu organ BILLINGS co. ~ East lith st
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-04-23

NUKNISHED rooms gentlemen only, 81 per week.
Il t73 Greenwich ~ date Groors hoeb, lodging. he
ENTLE.iEN and ladies can he accomm ted
~ with board and pleasant roOms terms moderate 55
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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
Bark Ornaments.

The uses for bark are numerous.
Wall pockets, brackets, picture frames
and 1owerpot covers may all be made
of it. Rustic work is fashionable, and
there are large factories for its produe-
ton, city people paying high prices for
articles which any country boy with a
few tools. and the skill to use them,
along with Il glue pot, might easily make
at home. Cedar is the material mostly
used; its rough bark and many knots
rendering it especially picturesque. A
rustic music rack or newspaper stand
can be made of five stout cedar canes,
the knots cut close or nearly so and the
bark peeled Off. Cross four of the
canes. two and two, making two Roman
AA's, connect these by fifth and a
shorter cane, and faSten them together
with long, slender screws. Varnish the
frame in the natural color, or stain
black to represent ebony as yeu prefer.
The ends should be left open, but the
sides if you choose may be filed in with
sheets of birch. or hemlock, or other
flexible bark; or, better still, with stout
gray linen or canvas bound with colored
braid, lined with colored flannel to
match, and with some quaint design or
else your monogram applique in flannel
in the centre of each side. In minia-
ture this stand will serve as a letter or
card rack, the sides in such case being
OF fancy cardboard worked in bright
wool.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
The Discovery Of Quinine.

Before the year 163S-that is to say
$50 years subsequent to the discovery
of America-not even the Spaniards
were acquainted with the febrifuge
qualities of cinchona; but in this year,
or thereabouts, the Countess de Chin
chin, the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of
Peru, was cured of violent intermit-
tent fever by drinking an infusion of
the bark, and this led to its introduc-
tion into Europe. The new remedy,
however, was badly received in France
and Italy. The Faculty set their faces
against it. Physicians who dared pre-
scribe its use were prosecuted, and it
was only the patronage of Louis the
XIV. which ultimately rendered it pop
ular in France. This monarch, suffer-
ing from intermittent fever, was cured
by an English empiric named Talbot,
by means of a secret remedy. This
was no other than einchona bark. Louis
XIV. purchased the secret for the sum
of 5000 livres, and bestowed yearly a
pension of 1000 livres on the English
man, besides giving him letters of no
bility. Three years subsequently the
remedy was published. Itwas highly
concentrated vinous tincture of Gin
chona bark. Cinchona trees grow in
the densest forests of Peru. In these
forests there are no roads. Friyhtful
precipices intersect the path of the cas-
carillero. or bark-gatherer. across which
it is difficult to pass, even when unem-
barrassed by load. So soon as the
treasure of bark has been secured, these
difficulties and dangers proportionately
increase, so that the comparatively low
price at which cinchona may be pro-
cured in itself a matter Of surprise.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
EeNnrp OF Hair Washes.

Ladies, fair ladies, beware of hair
washes, says the London World. A
medical friend informs US That it has
lately been discovered that the active
ingredient of all washes for subduing
gray hair IS lead. which, uniting gradu-
ally with The sulphur of the hair, forms
a black sulphuret Of lead, which is
really the darkening agent. We all
know how deleterious and even fatal is
the application of lead in any chemical
shape to the pores of the human body;
what, then must be the mischief pro-
duced by its being continuously and
often daily rubbed into the skin of a
lady's scalp? Here, however, is prac-
tical illustration, vouched for by Mr..
Browntield, of Norwich 1.-THE wash
had been used for two years, but only
moderately, and during all that time
there was generally n,alaiSe and loss of
musical power. About three months
since, two days after an effectual appli-
cation of the wash, a slight epileptic
ft occurred, and six weeks afterwards
a similar application was followed by
palsy; but by this time suspicion was
aroused, and by the steady application
of antidotes the symptoms are now dis
appearing. The profits of selling these
washes are said to be so tempting that.
since the secret of the darkening agent
has oozed out, numerous air-dressers,
both in town and country, are manu-
featuring thep md pressing them upon
their customers
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
Poetic Picture Of London,

Do you know city, reader. with
miles-thousands of miles-of streets?
with hhouses-huge blocks of brute mat
ter pierced with holes, no more, as re-
CARDS any hidden law of beauty, yet
attwilight toning down into grandeur,
and at midnight massing into noun
tains of black marble, with a monoton-
Gus splendor of repetition worthy Of
Hades, and not to be matched this side
Of purgatoryp For buttresses Of
shadow, and rank and file of colossal
darkness yelling life, is there anything
to equal London by nightp 1t may be
ruin-it may be dead empire, but there
it is, eluding the eye, mocking the
sense and filling the brain with a repe-
tition which is incontestably sublime.
Talk of Paris, with its glittering white
ness, its fountain squares, its columns
and arches, It's monster domeS, its
swift, narrow river, chained and SUBJ
jugated with bridges, its stainless,
SAPPHIRE air, and light, laughing, rest
less clOuds-what is that to London on
a bright March clustering day, with its
million chimneys, each one with its
own banner of white smoke, its torrent
rush of endless crowds, rough and
tumultuous, and its great canopy of
vapor, fire-veined, now sun-smitten,
now driven up in tempest heaps, now
thinning and growing glorified with
light?-G. w. Ihornbury.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
Experiments With the Turkish Bath.

Some interesting observations were
related at the last meeting of the Brit
ish Medical Association, by William
James Fleming, NJ. B. (Glasgow.)
These experiments were performed by
the author upon himself, and consisted
of observations on the effect of the
Turkish bath at temperatures of from
13O to 40 degrees Fab, upon the
weight, temperature, pulse, respiration
and secretions. The results showed
that the immersion of the body in hot
dry air produced loss of weight to an
extent considerably greater than nor
NAL, amounting on the average to the
rate of about forty ounces an hour.
This was accompanied by an increase
in the temperature of the body and a
rise in the pulse rate, with at first a fall
and .hen rise in the rapidity of respi-
ration. The amount of solids secreted
by the kidneys was increased, and COIN
cidently the amount of urea. The
sweat contained a quantity of solid
matter in solution. and among other
things considerable amount of urea.
The most important effect of the bath
was the stimulation of the emunctory
action of the skin. By this means the
tissues could, as it were, be washed by
passing water through them from with
in out. The increased temperature and
pulse rate pointed to the necessity of
caution in the use of the bath when the
circulatory system is diseased.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
A Georgia Camp Meeting.

From Macon, Ga, correspondent
sends the New York Sun picture OF
camp meeting near that place: "It
is night, and under an extensive leaf
arbOr swaying mass of black forms
oscillate TO every passing emotion,
while torches of pine throw yellow
glare around and under the canopy,
and cast long shadows on the ground
outside the covering. In front of a
rough stand, used as pulpit, isa small
enclosure, thickly strewn with leaves
and pine straw, and in this enclosure
the favored few lie in frances or shout
prophecies, and tell what wonders the
Lord has done for their souls. Around
this enclosure a multitude of men and
women form the holy dance In this
the men turn their faces outward and
the women towards the centre Of the
circle, and taking hands each step in
time to the hymn that all are singing.
Their singing is wild and weird, and
yet there is a charm in the song of the
negro, who, untaught, sings in strict
time and with full, round tones that
seem to swell up from the heart. 1t is
like the mournful whoop of our whip
poor-will.' Your correspondent has
seen negro woman carried from the
holy dance in such trance as they
call it. that her body was perfectly
rigid, not bending in the least, al
though one man carried her head and
The other her feet, and she lay in this
condition several hours. While these
poor deluded creatures were wallowing
in the straw before the pulpit at this
camp meeting, one old woman, very
fantastically dressed, with queer bon
net, covered with plumes of various
colors, broke from the altar in a holy
frenzy, and ran shouting from under
shelter. Just outside the arbor she
climbed to the top of a tall, burnt pine
stump about five feet high, and there
she stood, and tapping her arms much
as a fowl would its wings, she cried
out: Hallelujah Hallelujah Glory
to God Glory Glory! If l just
had two wings and few more feathers
on my head I'd fly away to Glory !"
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
Poor Girls.

The poorest girls in the world are
those who have never been taught to
work. There are thousands of them.
Rich parents have petted them; they
have been taught to despise labor and
depend upon others for a living, and
are perfectly helpless. If misfortune
comes upon their friends, as it often
does, their case is hopeless. The most
forlorn and miserable women upon
earth belong to this class. 1t belongs
to parents to protect their daughters
from this deplorable condition. They
do them great wrong if they neglect
it. Every daughter should be taught
to earn her own living. The rich, as
well as the poor, require this training.
The wheel of fortune rolls swiftly round
the rich are very likely to become
poor, and the poor rich. Skill TO labor
is no disadvantage to the rich, and is
indispensable to the poor. Weli-to-do
parents must educate their children to
work. No reform is more imperative
than this.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
"Just What I Expected. -

At an entertainment given in boston
by the Hellers, at the suggestion of a
lady in the audience, the magician
placed his hands on the shoulders of her
male companion and dem anded that
Miss Heller, who was exercising her
power Of "second sight," should read a
letter that was in that gentleman's
pocket. The latter became obviously
nervous, and would have left the hall,
but the audience, comprehending the
situation, burst out in roar of laugh
ter, and loudly called for the reading of
the entire correspondence in his pos
session. Miss Heller read: Dearest
George: Meet me by moonlight alone
on the Common when the clock strikes
nine"
The victim, amid the yells of the au-
dience, started down the centre aisle,
closely followed by his wife, who mere
ly stopped to thank Mr.. Heller, and ex-
claimed, with an ominous shake of the
head: " just wi at expected from the
old deceiver ~
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
A Sacred Old Relic.

A colored man turned auctioneer to
work off two old stoves for dealer on
Gratiot avenue. One was sold without
trouble, but, as the other ''held over'
OH him, he mounted a barrel and
began:
Gem'lem and women, dis yert
stove was once de property of George
Washington"
A laughter of derision greeted his
statement. Singing out the biggest
man in the crowd, the auctioneei
asked:
"Doan' you believe that George
Washington once owned dis yers
stove 2"
mo, SIR"
"Dat's de same as callin' me a liah
sab, and you'll hev to chew dem words
sah."
He jumped down and waltzed cvel
10 the stranger, but was knocke" down
in a York minute. That was plenty
for him, and, after feeling of his head
to see how much of it was let, he
mounted the barrel and called out:
"How much do / hear for dis stove
once de property Of Gin'ral Grant
De stove dat Washington owned was
busted up doorin' de wa '"-Ffee Press
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
Jananese Breaches Of Promise.

After a japanese lover has proven
false to his VOWS, the deserted maiden
rises at about 2 O'Clock in the morning
and dons white robe and high sandals
or clogs. Her Golf is a metal tripod. in
which are thrust three lighted candles;
around her neck she hangs a mirror
which falls upon her bosom; in her lef,
hand she carries a small straw figure,
the effiGy of her faithless lover, and in
her right she grasps hammer and
nails, with which she nails it to one Of
the sacred trees that surround the
shrine. Then she prays for the death of
the traitor, vowing that if her petition
is heard she viii herself pull out the
nails which offend the god by wounding
the mystic tree. Every night she
comes to the shrine, and each night she
strikes in two more nails, believing
that every nail will shorten her lovers
life, for the god, to save his tree, will
surely strike him dead. 1t is a curious
illustration of the hold superstition yet
has on the Japanese mind.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
Twelve Good Men and True.

The jury then retired to consider
their verdict, says Punch.
Foreman-Well, gentlemen, what
shall it be? For the defendant or plain
tiff? I say for the plaintiff-damages
s1, 900.
Number Two-Nonsense; you mean
the defendant. He was in the right,
and nothing shall make me give in if 1
stay here all night.
Number Three-Don't say that, be-
cause have dinner party at II
Number Four-And I promised my
wife to be back at 6.
Number Five-I say ditto to Mr..
Foreman. Only make it a farthing
damages. Nothing shall move me from
that.
Number Six-Which was the plain.
tiff?
Number Seven-Why, the one who
refused to pay the bill: Cont you
know?
Number Eight-Lor' bless me, ]
thought he was the defendant
Number Nine-Come, gentlemen, it 6
getting late. Make up your minds.
don't care which you give it for; in
fact, 1 thought both sides in the wrong.
Number Ten-Did your I thought
both sides in the right.
Number Eleven-It's no use talking.
1 tell you I mean to stick to the de-
fendant.
Number Twelve-And I to the plain.
uf. Damages, E1,000. Not a penny
less, mind you, not a penny lessl
Foreman-I see, gentlemen, we must
decide it in the usual way. 1 will toss
the shilling if you will be good enough
to cry heads or tails.
The jury returned after few min.
utes' absence. Verdict for the plaintiff
damages, 40 shillings.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
Preparing Feathers for Use.

Make bags of coarse unbleached cloth
lone to contain the geese and duck
feathers, and the others for chickens
and turkeys feathers. When plucking
the poultry cut off the wings first; and
if not needed for busters strip off the
feathers from the parts nearest the
body, and then peel off the feathery
part from the quill, but take care that
no skin or flesh adheres to any of the
feathers. Put the bags into a brick
oven, if you are the fortunate possessor
of one, and keep them there, excepting
when the oven is used for baking pur-
poses-taking them out into the wind
occasionally, and beating them with a
stick. When you have collected enough
to fill pillow, cut the shape you desire
out of bed-ticking, and stitch it round
on the wrong side with coarse, we'll
waxed thread, leaving small space at
the top to put in the feathers. Now
lay it on table, and rub over it on the
wrong side a piece of beeswax, just
warmed a little, so that it will besmear
the ticking. If you cannot obtain the
beeswax, common yellow soap will do
as well.
If you do not wish to use the feathers
either for pillows or sofa cushions, they
can be put into beds that have become
little empty. The geese and duck
feathers make the best beds, but the
mixed feathers do well fer cushions. If
any of the skin OF. flesh adheres to the
feathers they will have putrid odor,
which may seer; to be an 1nsurmount-
able objection to their use; but if after
family wash is finished, the bag, tied
up closely at the neck, is put into the
boiler of soapsuds and boiled few mo-
ments, moving it about with the clothes
stick, and lifting it up and down and
squeezing it out few times, and is
then taken out and hung in the air, and
shaken hard, for several days, when the
feathers become dry they will be light
and free from any bad smell; and they
can now be put into the oven, and thus
kept from moths and be always ready
for use.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
Hints to Husbands.

Athid the many suggestions to wives
and mothers which we give from time
to time, we take pleasure in sandwich
ing the following very judicious hints
to husbands, which we find in an ex-
change:
Avoid unnecessary contradicting
your wife. When we smell at rose it
is to imbibe the sweetness of its odor;
We likewise look for anything that is
amiable in man. Whoever is often
contradicted feels an insensible aver
sion for the person who contradicts.
Never take upon yourself to be a CEN
sor upon your wife's morals, nor read
lectures to her except affectionately.
Let your preaching be good example,
and practice virtue yourself to make
her in love with it.
Command her attention by being al
ways attentive to her; never exact any
thing from her that you would not be
willing that she should require from
you; appear always fiattered by the
little she does for you, which will ex-
cite her to kind offices.
When a woman gives wrong counsel,
never make her feel that she has done
so, but lead her on by degrees to what
seems rational. with mildness and gen
tleness; when she is convinced, leave
her all the merit of having found out
what was just and reasonable.
Choose well your male friends; have
but few, and be cautious of following
their advice in all matters, particularly
If inimical to the foregoing instruc-
hons.
Never be curious unnecessarily to
pry into your wife's concerns, but OBJ
tain her confidence by that which, at
all times, you repose in her. Always
preserve order and economy; avoid
being out of temper, and be careful
never to scold. By this means she will
find her house more pleasant than any
other.
Seem always to obtain information
from her, especially before company,
though you may pass yourself for sim
pleton. Never forget that husband
owes his importance to that of his wife;
if he degrades her he Injuries himself.
Leave her entirely mistress Of her ac-
ton, to 60 and come whenever she
thinks fit. A husband ought to make
his company so amiable to his wife that
she will not be inclined to seek any
other; then she will not look for pleas
ure abroad, if he does not partake it
with her.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
Burning Ones Own Hoase.

The Supreme Court of Maine recent
ly considered the question whether one
who sets fire to his own house can be
convicted of arson:
The evidence showed that the defen-
dant set fire to dwelling-house at the
instance of the owner and for her bene-
tit, in order that she might procure the
amount for which it was insured. The
court held that the indictment was not
sustained, and that arson cannot, under
the common law, or any statute follow
ing that law, be committed by a person
In respect to his own property. Arson
by the common law is an offense
against the security of the dwelling
house. 1t is described by Lord Coke to
be malicious and voluntary burning
of the house of another by night or by
day." 1t has been said that wife who
burns her husbands house is not guilty
of arson. The statute in Maine follows
the common law, but in New York,
where the wilfully setting fire to or
burning any inhabited dwelling-house,
is made arson, it has been held that
burning ones own house was sufficient
to constitute that crime. But previous
to this decision it had been held that it
was necessary, to constitute arson in
the first degree, that the house be the
property of another. In England, Par
lament has so modified law that owner
ship is immaterial. In the principal
case, the defendent, in committing the
offense, acted as the agent of the
owner. The same question arose in a
Tennessee case, and it was held that it
was no arson to procure ones own
house to be burned, and that the guilt
of the agent was only co-extensive with
that of the principal. In Michigan it
has been held that husband livin-
with his wife, and having rightful
possession jointly with her of a dwel :
ing-house, which she owns and thCy
both occupy, is not guilty of arson Ly
the common law in burning such dwell
ing-house, and this rule is not changed
by statute securing to the wife her
seperate property"