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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-11
HEIGHT N WEIGHT.
The Philosophy o. Human Length, Breadth
and Thickness.

You ask a very practical question -
How much should a person of given
height weigh Is there a standard be-
tween height and weight A healthy
child, male or female, grows in length by
more than one half its size during the first
two years; 1t increases from 80 cent. 90
go inches) TO about 10 cent. (31. 10 inches.
1t trebles or quadruples its weight that is
to say, 1T weighs 8 to 4 xii. at birth equals
y to 10 poundsl; 10 XII. (25 lbs in the
trst year IL xii. go lbs. J in the second.
On the average, a child from O months to
) years. grows in length about o cent. each
year equal 2.4622 inches); the weight of
the body goes on increasing to the eighth
year, rising in boys to 20 xii. $50 lbs } and
IN girls to 10 xii. (47i lbs) From this age
70 years. until puberty, boys increase in
height 55 cent. e. 1855 feet), each year,
reaching, at the age of l2 years, q height
of l3S cent: lover 4.52 feet) and girls I35
cent. 4.42l feet on the average. Boys
gain about 2 xii. % lbs in weight per
year, girls n little more, 30 that in the l2th
year children of both sexes weigh on the
average about 80 xii. (75 lbs.) From
thirteen to twenty years youths grow some
80 cent. dis inches), girls 20 cent. as
inches). Tho increase Of weight is even
more rapid han before, reaching SO xii.
ti45 lbs in boys eighteen years old, and in
girls of the same age 81 xii. Q271 lbs.)
In the twenty-ffth year, the man 1853 cent.
lover OF feet) in height, and weigh SO Kill.
tl57f lbs, while the women is 1877 cent.
v5.l5 feet in height, and weighs SO xii.
tisT9 lbs.) Man in the fortieth year attains
his maximum weight, 63.6 xii. Q59 lbs.).
and then begins to lose flesh. Women con,
tinue to grow heavier, reaching about SO
Kill GAO lbs. J, until the fiftieth year. Be-
tween forty-five and sixty men become
more corpulent and women rapidly grow
Cider in both the size of the body dimin-
ishes. "5(Wagner.)
1t is desirable for all persons, whether
suffering in health or otherwise, to know
us near as possible what the normal weirht
should be. We are indebted to the late
DR.. Hutchinson for weighing alone 1900
men at various ages. There is, indeed. an
obvious relation between the height and
The weight SO pertinaciously weighed and
measured starting with the lowest men in
the tables, it will be found that he in
creased weight was as nearly as possible
pounds for every inch in height beyond
sixty one inches.
The following figures show the relative
height and weight of individuals measuring
hyn feet and upward =
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-11
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I BEAUTY
ID on. 1.s
Secretofa Fair Face.
An Item of Interest to Every Lady VIII
Desires to be More Beautiful
than she now Is.
Unfortunately not one woman in n hundred, sub
iccied to the whims OF an American climate possess
cs that basis and starting point Of real benuty-a
pure and clear complexion.
What nature has thus denied. art must 10 called
upon to furnish.
1t can be done; it is done daily. Prof. W. E.
Hngan placed beauty within the reach Of every un-
blessed daughter OF Eve when he discovered that
surprising article known in fashionable circles as the
tructe ct Of beauty, and called
MAGNOLIA
BALM
MAGNOLIA



Tho MAGNOLIA Balm Is n sure device for creating
a purc and blooming complexion.
1t concenls all natural blemishes in the most sur
prising and effective manner.
1t removes all roughness, eruptions, redness,
blotches, freckles, and tan with magical power.
1t drives away all evidences of fatigue and ex-
element.
It makes the plnincst fncc beautiful.
II gives the complexion q dazzling purity and
makes the neck, face, and arms appear graceful.
rotund, and plump.
1t makes n mntron OF IS or 10 look not more than
70 years old, and changes the rustic maiden into a
cultivated city belle.
The Magnolia Balm remorss all Llemisl,s and con-
ceaLs ecery drd,otdck 10 beauty: and, ,ehiie ii Is az
harmiess az todfer, IL fs so hJe-like IN ts Effects that
dc eiesea obseper cannot defeet ills use.
Ladies' who want to make themselves attractive
can make an absolute certainty of it by using
HAeAN's MAosoLIA BALM, and we know Of no Other
way. 1t is the cheapest preparation in the world,
all things considered, and may DO bad at any drug
store.
, 1878-05-18
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from the Daly OF wednesday.
CAPT. MASON ON THE CHINESE
OUEsrIoN.-Jt Is impossible to trace
or give a sketch faithfully of the
discourse of our visiting orator. lie
opened by giving the rank, charac-
ter and responsibilities of states
man. as a member of a great and
free republic. He seemed perfectly
acquainted with the Chinese ques
ton. AS statistician and scholar
he had the thread of his argument
at his fingers end Why such man
should be q working bootmaker we
cannot understand. He predicted
that revolution was impending IN
the United States, which not only
would shake but would penetrate
the entire civilization Of the world.
1t was not labor alone, but capital
and commerce that was laid on the
altar of avariee and greed. Blind
and narrow is the horizon which en-
circles the future of this great ma
ton. Every merchant, said the
speaker, is a sufferer in a greater
degree than the mechanic, for the
Mongol draws the fountain OF labor
on the one hand. and the fountains
of circulation on the other. Last
year, he continued, twenty-one mil
lion dollars went to China, and our
total product of gold and silver did
not reach nineteen million dollars,
exclusive of the State OF Nevada. Ii
the residents of Seattle had known
that such man was going to speak,
we think Yesler's Hall would have
been crowded.
A SAD AFFAIR.-On the trip
the steamship California made
from Sitka to San Francisco, Mr..
Sherwood, the first officer, was
discovered to be insane. He is
very strong man and was with
the greatest difficulty overpOw-
cred. He had shown no signs
of mental weakness, until one
night, when off the coast OF
Washington Territory, he burst
into tears, crying out that he
would not let Capt. Thorne or
anyone else take him past San
Francisco, and that he suspected
a plan to do SO. He ran to the
carpenters chest, and seizing an
axe, attempted to kill the man
at the wheel, loudly exclaimins
that the helmsman Was steering
so as to- G Nv him n'st the ""ld-
, 1878-05-18
WALKING ALONG. Without mucl

WALKING ALONG. Without much
fuss or flourish of trumpets. rail
road is approaching Snake river and
viii pass down Boise valley anu tap
the rich valley of Eastern Oregon.
jay Hauid is the leading spirit and
will push It on to an early compile
ton. The day is not far distant
when the trade of the rich Eastern
as we'll as the rich Willamette val
ieys will demand f. ciiities for trans
portatIon in such tones as to lie
needed by capitalists.
For KIrTITAs. Seven young men.
farmers on WILDLY Island and the
Stillaguamish, left this city this
morning on horseback bound for
the Kittitas valley. They are going
over to take look at the country.
and, if favorably impressed they in
tend to locate. Their names are:
Afessrs. James Gillespie and Charles
=. Kenneth, of Whidby Island, G..
T. Sweetzer. G.. T. Meagher. Jacob
Jenne, T. Jenne. and j. c. Kenneth.
of LaConner. Two more men will
leave here Tomorrow for the same
section.
A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE. 1t would
be difficult for any outsider to make
up his mind as to the result of the
pending election in Oregon from
the estimates of the two candidates
for Congress on their respective ma
jorities. The OregoeiGn says: Mr..
Hines expects two thousand, while
Mr.. Whitaker looks for three thous-
and. A difference Of five thousand
votes is so wide and lrreconcilable
that we fear an electoral commission
Will be necessary.
New QUARTERMAsTER. - By the
last steamship there arrived Gen. c.
G. Sawtelle, U. S. A, who comes
from Washington direct to take the
place of chief quartermaster of the
department of the Columbia. Gen.
Sawtelle will assume the duties of
his position at once.
GoJNG ABRoAD.-Mr. S. G.. Reed,
Vice President of the o. S. N. Co.,
accompanied. by Mrs. Reed, will
leave Portland OH the 18th inst. for
a tour in Europe. Cnpt. Ainsworth,
the President, has j1st returned
from like tour.
ARRIvED.-The bark Lizzie
Williams arrived here this morn
ing and the bark Montana this
afternoon. The Lizzie brings a
quantity of freight for Seattle
merchants.
New HAcK.-The New England
Hotel received to-day by the bark
Lizzie Williams, fine new concord
coach. of the same class as the one
now used by the Occidental.
BOB TUENBULL, formerly n police
officer of this city, who has been
sick for some time past, is again cut
on the street.
, 1878-05-18

A VERY rapid, safe and easy way
to make money, is to procure terri
tory to introduce the latest useful in
vention that is wanted every day, by
every one, everywhere, who has a
not full sized sewing machine.
with table and treadle, for only
Eighteen Dollars,
MANUFACTURED BY TEE PEERLESS MFG
co. OF PHILADELPHIA,
does the same work as machine you
pay eighty dollars for, rapid, smooth
and firm work, and makes seam so
strong the cloth will tear before the
stitches rip apart. Agents only need
show them in operation to sell in
every house they enter. Thirty dol
lars and upwards cleared daily by
smart agents. No such machine
was ever offered at any such price
HIGHEST AWARDS AT CENTENNIAL Ex-
HIBITIoN. THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES
USING THEM
Demand increasing every day
where they become known. Min
listers. judges, lawyers, editors tail
ors, machinests, &C., reccomend
them perfect. Rights given free to
first applicants. If there isno agen-
CIV in your place write for 1t or buy a
machine for your family or relative,
there is none better or SO cheap.
Machines sent to all parts of the
country, on receipt of price. s18.
Read advertisement beginning.
, 1878-05-18

man.
palneu ~ sIoftuhe.
On arriving francisco
he was sent il y to an
asylum, whc .lleve, the
gratifying nent was
made, that Y is OF q
temporary aad that
the patient ,oOn be as we'll
as ever. .oout three trips
since, Mr.. D~lerwood was taken
sick, and then, for the first time
in many years, was for a short
while of, duty. His malady is
evidently the result of some
physical disorder, which will
undoubtedly pass away with re-
turning health, and he will be
again "on deck" the same gen
tleman as cver,-P0rtlanI Staad-
0rd.
A MOTHER SAvED. "A short time
since we mentioned the fact that an
old lady from Seabecl1 passed
through this city to visit her son in
prison in Umatilla county, under
Indictment for murder. We are
now happy to announce that the son,
John Noble, after fair trial, has
been acquitted of the crime with
which he was charged, and the o!d
msther's heart has been gladdened.
Lr. MOORE DROWNED The dead
BODY of Lit. f. Dewitt Moore. of
Co. F., 21st Infantry, was found la
the Klamath river, on Thursday
last. 1t is not known how the fatal
casualty occurred. The deceased
was q native of Philadelphia, grad
uate of the Military Academy in
1872. and served with distinguished
gallantry through the Modoc war as
adiutant to Col. Mason.
ATTACHMENT An attachment suit
was instituted yesterday in Justice
Snyder's Court, by I. ". Buzby
against O. J. McCallister. The
property attached being claimed by
a third party, il was released. The
suit was only for small amount,
some $40.
An auction sale of quantity OF
household furniture took place on
Occidental Square this afternoon.
, 1878-05-18

Estimates place the surplus
grain productions Of California,
for export this fall, at an i'm
mense amount in the aggregate.
An experienced grain-dealer
ventures the statement that San
Joaquin county alone is in a fair
way to produce 100000 bush
els Of grain, which at the prob
able price at the opening of the
season, ought to be worth $751;
100000 before removal. If we
concede that these figures are
eXtrayagant, they at least indi-
cate the character of the antici-
pations that are ulged in by
those best situated to form
opinions.
, 1878-05-18

John Bright said in a recent
speech at Rochdale that one
third Of the whole land of the
United Kingdom, being no less
than 100000 acres, belongs to
935 men.
Where the division between
the toes is not complete, and
they are partially joined, they
are called twin toes. They are
reputed to be very lucky.
, 1878-05-18

A WARNING-Sa Said young man
whose business specnlatlons were un>
successful: My wife's silver tea set,
the bridal gift of rich uacie doomed
me to financial ruin. 1t involved a
hundred unexpected expenses. which
trying to meet, made me the bankrupt
that am" His is the experience OF
many others less wise. who do not
know what is the goblin in the house
working destruction. A sagaclous
father Of great wealth exceedingly NOR
tilted his daughter by ordering to he
printed on her wedding card: I" No
presents extept those adapted to an in>
come of $1,000" Said he: "You
mnst not expect to begin life in the
style am able by many years OF labor
10 indulge; and know of nothing that
will tempt you more than the well In
tended but pernicious gifts of rich
friends"
You need not be afraid of giving
too much. The old darkey who
said, IF any oh you know OBJ any
church wat died ob liberality. jes
tell me war it is, an 1 mill make a
pilgrimage to it, an by de soft light
OBJ de pale moon l will crawl upon
it'll moss covered roof an write npon
de topmost shingle, Blessed am dc
dead who die in de Lord
A man was arrested recently in
New York for stealing newspapers.
He had mania for his apparently
profitable thievery. He had stolen
in 13 months. 1l,00D newspapers.
and his room looked like the hu-
morous column of st. Louis paper
New Orleans owes Mrs Gaines
81, eco, 600; and she says when she
gets the money she is going to pub
lish newspaper. 1t is strange that
she should want to spend in 81,
months the money she was nearly {
whole lifetime in securing.
, 1878-05-18

Passengers from Portland and up-Sound ports
will take Puget Sound Mail steamer and make
connection, with ''City of Panama at Victoria
Steamer "DaEo.a" goes through to Olympia.
These steamers leave Victoria at noon on the
day advertised Tickets are good only on the
steamer for which they purchased and are
not transferable. For freight or passage apply
on board, or TO II. l.. T1BBhLS,
General agent for Puget Sound.
Port Townsend.
, 1878-05-18

FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION.
OFFER FOR SALE TO THE TRADE ONLY .
TENNENT'S ALE. Pints and Quarts.
BASS ALE
GUINNESS PORTER Piuts and OTIS.
EENNESSEY BRANDY in Octaves.
and l, 2 and 3 star i'll cas@.
MARTELL BRANDY in Octaves. and
!. 9 and 3 star in case.
oTARD DUPUY BRANDY in Octaves
and cas,a.
CALIFORNIA CRAZE BRANDY in
Octave.
SCOTCH WHISKY in case and bulk.
IRISH . 6
CHAMPAGNE
Chas. Fare. in pitts and quarts.
Landsberger' California, lmperiai
and Private Cuvee. in pts Il qts.
SHERRY - Finest Old Golden. Old
Garvey and California in case aud
bulk.
PORT - Imported and California in
case and bulk.
BOURBON WHISTLES - Hotaling's
genuine J. ii. Gutter in case and
bulk; White House, Universal, Mil
Ter. etc. etc.
TOBACCO - Ping, Granuiated and
Long Cut.
CIGARS-The largest Stock and Best
Assortment On Puget Sound.
t We are the only house in Wash
ington Territory shipping Furs direct
to London, England. and are paying
the highest cash prices. nov lGtf
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-03-09

ried over debt of $4,000 to be paid by thu
next council out of 81 1880 left in their hands
This is exactly what compelled the presen
council to make an extraordinary levy of some
$4,000 to meet accruing and unavoidable in
debtedness.
1t is true, the present council might have
initiated its predecessor and used the revenues
of the year to pay this debt and showed debt
over ON to the next council to pay; but when
men like G.. W jackson, c. 5, Phelps and ii
J. Logan, who constituted the finance commit
tee saw such an alternative presented to them
they said "No-that would be shallow
dodge il not dishonest. Let us meet the diff
Guilty square in the face. Let us pay the debt
honestly and leave enough in the hands Of the
next council to enable them to proceed with
the city's business without embarrassment; ;"
and that is just what they did.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-03-09

James Gordon Bennett is not content with
solving great geographical problems by the
employment and fitting out of Stanley for the
Job, but has bought the British steamer Pan
dora and proposes TO man and equip 1t and send
it to the north to solve the problems in regard
to the north pole and Symmes's hole. lie has
made application To congress 10 be allowed Ia
Amcricanizc his vessel sufficiently to allow him
to fy the American flag, which OF course will
he granted. There is a rumor that he proposes
to put Stanley at the head of the expedition
but that is hardly probable. Stanley may have
all the necessary qualifications for a successful
land explorer, but is utterly without experience
As a navigator, and could hardly fail To meet
with disaster in a region where the highcs,
skill and most thorough experience aS navi
gator alone can hope Ia succeed.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-03-09

A sickcning tragedy occurred near Fiske's
Landing, in Monroe county, Ill.,, on the 3D.
inst A man named Moritz Kaiser, with u
wife and six children, living on rented farm,
having been refused IA renewal of his lease on
account of non.payment of rent, and being un-
able to procure another farm, became desper-
ate and in the night killed his wife and chill
dren and then, after carefully laying them out
in row, set fire to the building and lying
down in the middle, either took poison or so
stupefled himself with liquor, that he was
burned with the rest of them. The fire was
not checked until all the bodies were badly
burned and distigured, but soon enough to
show that all except Kaiser himself had had
their skulls crushed in and were dead before
the fire got 10 them. The old mans body alone
was twisted and distorted showing that living
nerves and muscles had writhed before the
blaze. The consuming element had gone too
far, however, to tell whether he had inflicted
upon himself any injury before he lay down
to die.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-03-09
Foreign News.


The negotiations between Russia and Tur
close by the signing of the 'prellminarles o
peace on the Sd inst, the terms thus agreed up
on being now referable to ST. Petersburg fo
final approval. The treaty contains 30 articles
and though not published in full its substanc,
is made known. The important points arr
that Turkey is substantially dispossessed of al
its European possessions except a part of Rou
milia; the borders of Bulgaria, which is erect
ed into an automatic kingdom but made vir
tual dependency of Russia, are enlarged so Il.
to extend to the Egean and include Salonica
the Dardanelles and Bosphorus are to remain
neutral: Turkey is to pay an indemnity Of
1,410000,000 roubles-(about $l,00O,000,00O
but all of it except 3l00O0,000 to be paid in ter
rtorial cesslons, said cessions including large
slice of Asia Minor, taking in Batoum and
Kars. Servia and Bosnia are independent, and
Montenegro and Herzegovina, it is understood
are to be swallowed up by Austria. And so on
As the Egyptian contingent and the Turkish
fleet remain untouched, and the straits contin
ue neutral, England is left without excuse for
going to war, and her peace party is jublant
though the government continues undated in
its war preparations
The conference, it Is understood, is to meet
at Berlin about the 2jth inst, and will proba-
bly, be presided over by Bismarck. Only the
signatory powers to the treaty of Paris will be
allowed to send delegates.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-03-09
CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL.

i The Ottawa Board Of EducationI at theil
meeting on Tuesday evening, passcdtln order
THAT vote be taken at the next annud election
for township school trustees on TIL second
Saturday of April, on the question of cstab
fishing a high school for Ottawa Township
Ottawa having voted a year ago to surrender
her special city school charter and organize
under the general school law of the ,tate the
question whether the township shall have q
high school becomes necessary to Id submit
ted to a vote of the people.
The township is at present dividca we be-
! licve into nine school districts, which are sup
ported by n tax levied upon the Wide town
ship, this year amounting to some $4,000. In
maintaining these nine schools we have no
doubt the whole tax will be expended. Yctby
the same (and even less expenditure, we have
hitherto had the same primary schools and a
high school. The high school involves tie
employment of two or three additional teach.
crs and other items costing in all possibly three
or four thousand dollars.
The question is, can Ottawa afford to aban.
don her high school? We do not believe there
is a city in the state Of 5000 populationand ov-
er that has not got its high school. 4 city o.
that size Is considered low grade and behind
the civilization of the age that is without a
high school \ number of wealthy farmers
have bought property here and moved into
town to be able to send their children to our
city high school, and hundreds of wealthy
farmers all around Ottawa would cheerfully
pay high tuition to get their children into
the city high school could room be made for
them.
The high school contemplated by our gencr-
al school law is one in which scholars who ell
ter the common school at seven years OF age
can graduate at about 49, after which they are
ready to be apprentiCed to mechanical trades
or occupations, enter stores or otherwise upon
the active duties of life, or, If they can afford
It, prepare for college. Unless intending to fol-
low II professional career, however, gradual
of our high school hitherto has been regarded
as having education enough to fit him for am
of lies ordinary pursuits except purely Pre-
icssIonal or literary. But if we do away with
the high school, our children at the age of 10
or II will have reached the end of their studies
and unless their parents happen to be in suif-
cently comfortable circumstances to be able to
pay for expensive tuition, there is no more
within their reach. OF course, in
this view, no poor man Of common sense can
vote against the high school. The rich who
mainly pay the taxes are alone prompted by
self interest to oppose it; but we take satistac
ton in knowing that the body of our more
wealthy men have too high regard for the
welfare Of our people generally and the good
name of the town to vote down the high school
simply because it draws a trltle annually from
heir abundance to aid in the education Of
hose who otherwise would be condemned to a
life of comparative ignorance because unhap.
ply their parents were poor.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-03-09

Hon. Benjamin +. Wadc-"b bluff old Ben
Wade'-died on Saturday last at his home at
Jefferson. Ohio, after an illness of about four
weeks. He was born at Springfield, Mass, in
1900, and was therefore about IS years of age.
With rather limited education and thin purse
he had gone to Ohio when but % years of aye,
settling in the Western Reserve" HIS in.
domiIable energy and pluck was such, how.
ever that his defects Of education were over.
come and a, the age of % hc was admitted to
The bar as lawyer profession in which he
soon took and always held Il high rank. He
engaged early and earnestly in politics, and
held almost every position in turn from county
attorney up to |. 5. Senator. lIls political ca.
reer, however, was so cyentful and conspicu.
GUS that it would take up too much space to
recall it, Though generally extreme in ms
ideas, his personal integrity was never cues
TONED, and while he may have cherished many
errors there will bc no dissent from the verdict
thai they were more of the head than the heart