The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31

plenty of gardeners or farmers Who
gladly take the manure away 20
quentay as to PREVENT it being anui0
or disagreeable. "
We have no doubt that al residenfsA
vallages. manufacturing towns, ETC., can,
by arrangement like the above, secure
an abundant supply Of pure, rich, fresh,
healthful milk at less than thres cents
per quart, and at the same time sdd
greatly to their home comfort, and sa1e
the health, if not the lives, Of their little
ones.
TIE NEwsPAPEB-THE REaRxr or
SovEREIeSs.-The newspaper grests The
eye of the youthful intellect st ike eaxli-
est dawn and goes with the boy and the
man and the old man daily through ali
the years down to the grave. Il Is grow
ing faster than anything else on earth.
In 1704 there was one paper IN the
country, with q circulation Of 16. 600. In
1880 there are 6000 Newspapers, with
circulation Of 1906, ,000, 900 in popu-
lation of 10000, 900. In the earlier
period an Office printed few dozen
copies per hour. It Is making 5he air
radient and scintillating with ide1s.
multifarious, multiladinons, and snhn1ts
in variety and character and power. The
pulpit, the PLATFORM. the forur1. the
school, the college and every institution
for the development Of taoueht aud zke
dissemination of knoWledge in the world
are not equal to it IN power. There Is no
preacher, no lecturer, no lsByex. no IN
stitution which the united energies q Q
hostile and adversary press cannot
crush and utterly destroy. Well might
the great Napoleon declare that 3 neHe-
paper was the regent Of soversigns and
tutor of nations and that four hostize
newspapers are more to be dreede than
a hundred thousand bayonet
an address BY Congressman Be
MIRrH.-Dr. Greene, in his
Of Health, says there 4 10t
motest corner or little Iie<
minutest blood-yessel q te
body that does not feel
from the convulsion occes 4 s. -
hearty laughter. The lffe 5sEsIS
the inner man, is shake z1 ~
most depths, sending nsu tides Il
and strength TO the surfacs kE< Eszaz
persons who indulge <<hsrsin x5l6
blood moves more rapid snd ctnyorz
different Impression to ali he Organs
OF the body, as It visits them On that par
ticular mystic journey when the m21 Is
laughing, from what It does st o<hsr
times. For this reason, every good.
hearty laugh which person indulges ii
tends TO lengthen his life, conveying, zz
it does, new and distinct stimulus tc
the vital force. Doubtless the time vii
come when physicisns, concedine more
Importance than they now do 70 the IN
huence of the mind upon the Vita forces
of the body, win make their prescriptions
more with reference to the mind, and
lees to drugs for the body, and VIII, ia
so doing, find the best and most effective
method Of producing the required effects
upon the patient.
SnGrsa AS PREvEsTzvE or Co1suzrf-
TIoE. The statement has been made that
during the last twenty-five years not
single singer has died Of c6nsumption 1t
st. Petersburg, although this disease hss
outstripped all others, and now holds
the first place among the causes of desth
IN the Russian Capital. From this and
ence in favor Of the exercise involved IN
singing as preventive measure ssnznzz
consumption A London medical writer,
however, argues that there Is room Tor
question as to the relation Of cause and
effect IN this matter, for. though i may
either happen that singers are not con
sumptive because they can use their
throat and chest freely. or that consunap
tive persons are not singers becsrse the
weakness which precedes disease n
capacitates the chest and Throat FOR exo<
ton, neither of these potheses- though
true up to certain point holds good Ia
alI cases; in fact very little obserxatzqr
viii suffice to show that good singing
voice may co-exist with weak cr dis
eased chest, whereas the persez&S
healthy may be really unable 70 sing
Crac1ixd rHE NosrH PoLE. .--I.iedt. Hey-
precht's proposition Tor circle q eessfs
ipe stations aronnd the north pole fekion,
is about to be practically carried oat. eega
Ndiure The Danish government h4s 70
solved to establish 3 station af . Pernlflk.
10 west Greenland tile Russian Hc1fr<z-
ment has granted subsidy for N observe
atory at the mouth Of the Le11, ard ane
other on the new Siberian isIandz; Souet
Wilezek will defray the expenses Of
station on Nova ZembIa under the C5rtc
ton of Lieut.. Weyprecht; the 6. 5. Sie-
nal Service Burea, under Gen M{cz. hsz
received permission 10 plant a observe
tory at Point Borrow. in Aleske and 4 e
expected that Canada will have strzil7k
establishment on some point of her Arctic
coast. Atthe Hamburg Confezencs Il H1s
announced that Holland HorIa furnish
the funds for a station IL SpifzbeEzz1;
and II is expected that Norway viii teee
an observing post on the extlenity e re
einine, and it Is hoped that soma sozt II
agreement will be established 70 fkxe y.
the observations made after uui51fl1
method, otherwise their FaIue 4ill -
greatly decreased
A Paomsrsa YorTnsA scepss<zce 1I-'
der the charge Of the BridrS3ze< rr=