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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-24
Whitewashed Babies.

A missionary stationed 1t one of tho
South Sea islands determined to give
his residence coat of vhitewash. To
obtain this in the absence Of lime, coral
was reduced to powder by burning. The
natives watched the .,rocess of burning
with interest, believing that the coral
was being cooked for them to eat
Next morning they 6eheld the mission
ary's cottage entering in the rising sum
as white - snow. They danced, they
sang, they screamed with joy. Tho
whole island was in commotion. White
wash became the rage. Happy WAS tho
coquetts who could enhance her charms
by dsub of tho white brush. Conten-
tions arose. One party urged their su-
rerior rank; another obtained possession
Of the brush, and vsliantly held it
against all Corners; third tried to up
set The tub to obtain some Of the pre-
cious cosmetic. To quiet the hubbub,
more whitewash was unde, and la .
week not n hut, a domestic utensil, q
war club, or garment but was as white
as. snow; not an inhabitant but had
skin painted with grotcsque figures; not
i pig that was nor whitewashed, and
even mothers might be seen in every di-
rection capering joyously, and yelling
with delight at the superior beauty OF
their whitcwashed babies. - Chauo er's
Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-24
The Fiend and His Land-Mower,

"Whirr-r%r-r"
Blast him!
"Z-z-zz-z z"
Blast him again!
R-r-r-r-r ri"
Turn over in bed and vow that you
will shoot his hens, poison his dog and
leave fish bones where his cat will find
them and choke to death.
Why2
Why, that tripple-plated, bomb-proof,
iron coated and hard-hatted next door
man who went to bed at shutdown for
no other purpose than to get up at S A.
M, and gallop his old lawn-mover
around!
"Rsttlel Whirr! Bang! Wr.rr-rr!"
Oh! he's there! He simply stopped for
moment to spit on his hands and get
ready for new twist. Just 5 o'clock
by the bells, and some fool of doctor
has told him that the morning air is
good for him! He knows that he is dis
turb'ng every man, woman and child
within block of him; but what does
he care2 ....
"Clickety- to-clickety. click-click!"
There he goes2 He's got his coat of,
his pants in his boot-legs, and he's think
ing how nice it must be to live IN the
country and canter around over the
dew-wet sward. Country be hanged
Land-mowers and next door neighbors
be hanged The man who sold him that
lawn-mower warranted it to be noiseless
Just remember that when you get shoot
ing! Noiseless oh, yes!
"M-m-m.ini Bur r-r-rr! Z-z-zzer
The baby wakes up with howl
Why shouldn't hei Can . baby stand
more than horsel' Everybody wakes
up. If you think people can sleep on
and dream Of the gates Of heaven while
q man is pounding sheet iron with
hammer you have lived in vain"
"G-u-r-r-w
Good. His old machine has struck
stone. Hope the contact has wrenched
off every wheel, twisted every spring
out of place, and flung the villain head
over heels against the fence Nobody
but villain would have lawn to NOW
in the first place, and nobody but q
mutton head would 60 sloshing around
on an empty stomach in this malarious
climate. His health7 What is his
health compared to the peace of his
neighbors2 Who cares whether he gets
fat and lives on, or grows lean and dies1
He ought
"Clickety .te-c!ick click click +
k<, al
ing more noise than ever Hit him
with brick. No, don't do it Such .
man as that couldn't appreciate de-
cent clip OH the ear with u missile made
by human hands. Draw bead on him
with shot gun2 Never Keep your
ammunition for owls. Owls have sense
enough to stick by the roost until seven
o'clock. Argue with him? Not much;
you couldn't convince such man. that
he ought to be run over by drove OF
Texas steers any more than you could
make Turk believe that he ought to
pay 100 cents on the dollar
"Gurggg! z-z-z-z! Bang Rat
te-r-r-r-rip!"
Let him alone There is a Provi-
dence, and that Providence sometimes
gives villain rope to play with, just
to see I'm squirm when he is brought
up with sharp turn. That mower
may explode If not, the morning air
may bring ON sore throat, too'hache,
neuralgia and colds. May no have them
all jump in ON him at once and stand BY
him like an Indians memory, and may
every neighbor whom he has disturbed
by his vlllanous noise grow fat and
sleek and rich, and live 70 beat him for
the only Office he ever cared or."-Do-
troit Free Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05
Care of Mich Cows.

During the intense hot weather of
summer, cows, unless in very extra
pasture, with plenty of shade and good
water, fail very much in their product
iveness. When once partially dried
up it is hard to bring them into
full flow again during the season.
The greatest care should be taken to
give them plenty of some kind of nu-
tritious soil-feed, corn. oats, or whatev-
er green feed farmer may happen to
have. Feed they must have or dry up
there is no such thing as milk and
butter without feed.
If cows are obliged to work hard all
day in short pastures during hot wealth
er, to obtain barely enough to keep
them alive, they will become too much
heated and fatigued to keep up full
flow of milk, and whoever expects any
profit from cows in hot weather must
feed them enough, so that, as the heat
of the day advances they may retire TO
the shade for comfort and repose. Ex-
cessive heat is more injurious to mich
COW than short feed. Cows require
plenty to eat without great exercise to
get it, and repose. 1t is more profita-
bic to feed shorts, oil-meal, or grain,
where pastures are short, than to suffer
cows to dry up.
Cows should be driven very slowly,
particularly in hot weather. that they
may not be overheated; and if yarded
nights, should always have full sup
ply of clean water. Cows give more
milk and do better when kept con-
stantly in the pasture, unless they are
soil-fed in the yard or stable.-AmericaD
Rural Home.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05
The IIse Of Milk.

DIR. Crosby, of the Bellevue Hospital.
pronounces milk an article of diet which
all persons may use under nearly all
conditions. There are those who say
that they cannot take milk, that it makes
them bilious, etc., but he declares that
this is not true. A person who is sick
may take milk with the greatest possible
advantage, because it contains in form
easy of assimilation all the elements
essential for maintaining nutrition
1t is the natural aliment of the young
animal and certainly answers good
purpose for the Old animal provided 10
is used properly and not poured into a
stomach already over-tilled, as though
it had in itself no substance or richness.
New milk, he does not hesitate to say,
may be taken, as far as disease is eon-
eerned, in nearly every condition.
Perhaps it will require the addition of
a spoonful or two of lime water. The
addition of a little salt will often pre-
vent the after-feeling of fullness and
. ''wind in the stomach" which some
complain of. If marked acidity of
the stomach is present, then perhaps
a little gentian may be requisite TO
stimulate the stomach somewhat, and
it may be necessary to give it in small
quantities and repeat it often; but ice
cold milk can be put into very irrita-
BILE stomach, if given in small quanti-
ties and at short intervals, with the hap
piest effects. 1t is used in cases of fever
which formerly it was thought to
feed and when scalded it has a de-
sirable effect in summer complaints.
But it is an article of diet for people
in health and who wish to remain in that
happy condition, that milk should be
most appreciated. Fer the midday
lunch of those whose hearty meal comes
at night, or for the supper of those who
dine at noon, nothing is so good. The
great variety and excellent quality of
prepared cereals give a wide choice of
food to use, with milk. Bread with
berries, in their season, or baked sweet
apples, )boiled with rice, cracked wheat,
oatmeal, hulled corn, hominy, taken
with a generous bowl of pure cold milk
makes the best possible light meal in
warm weather for children and for all
adults who have not some positive ply
steal idiosyncrasy that prevents them
from digesting it. The men of firmest
health and longest life are the men of
regular and simple habits and milk is a
standard article in such diet.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Viceroy of India telegraphs that
Ayoob Kahn did not follow up the British
retreat. Gen. Burrows force has arrived at
Candahar. When the messenger left Ayoob
Kahn was encamped where the action was
fought. This seems to confirm the news that
Ayoob Khan has suffered heavily. The
London Times Calcutta correspondent
says: Everything seems to point to Gen.
Burrows having been outgeneraled, and
the battle of Phushki Nakud will probably
be hereafter cited as one more instance of
the story, old as British history itself, Of a
gallant army being ruined by the infatuation
and incompetency Of its leader and treachery
Of its allies, as there can be little doubt that
Walis's (natiye) cavalry went over to the
enemy"
The Joint track of the Denver and
South Park and Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad was completed into Leadville on
the LIST, when both companies began running
regular through trains. Their track is also
completed and opened to Hortenze, twelve
miles from Buena Vista,On the GunnisOn eX-
tension.
DR. TANNER entered upon the thirty
fifth day Of his fast at noon on the LIST. He
was perceptibly weaker than on the previous
day and suffered greatly from nausea and
vomiting, indicative of an infamed condition
of the stomach.
The war of rates between the Louis
vile and Nashville and the Chicago, st.
Louis and New Orleans Railroads has re-
duced passenger fares from New Orleans to
=, n I
cage, $500
SNOW fell in the Catskill Mountains,
New York, ON the night of the 3Oth.
The Bank of Colorado at Leadville
has suspended, the Cashier, C. Thornton
Lee, having absconded with all the available
funds. 1t was always considered weak
institution and had but small amount of
deposits.
A WEAK imitation of a Spanish bull
fight came off in New York City on the 3lst.
The exhibition was given by real Spanish
torreos and the so-ealled bulls were Texas
steers. 1t was rather tame affair, no blood
being split, either human or animal.
A REPORT comes from Youngstown,
o., Of an involuntary balloon ascension taken
by a couple of young folks from the rural
districts. A man named Henry was giving
short excursions from terra firma by means Of
a captive balloon. The couple mentioned had
taken their places in the basket when in some
unexplained manner the air-bag broke loose
from its moorings and shot up with great
rapidly. When the balloon bad reached
high altitude, it drifted in a northeasterly
direction. 1t was followed by many people
with telescopes, and finally it disappeared
from sight.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05
SparrOws Fighting With Stones.

A citizen of the West End, in every
way worthy and reliable, has sent us
the following interesting statement of a
singular fact he has often observed in
reference to English sparrows:
1.-The writer has son who has a
pigeon box. Out of a within he fastened
upon the front of it piece of looking
glass, perhaps a fourth of square foot
in size. Some English sparrows built in
this box, and took up all their spare
time in fighting the image of themselves
in the glass. They would fight by the
hour and pant with labor and heat. f,-
ing violently against the glass, taking
breath and trying again and again.
They were not observed at first to do
so, but lately they take a good-sized
gravel in their mouths and strike the
glass again and again with all their
might. There is no doubt of the fact.
We have picked up the gravel occa-
sionally when they would drop it.
Sometimes the gravel is as large as a
dried black-eye pea. The writer's idea
is that this is their way of fighting when
the battle becomes tough. Cannot think
their object to be to break the glass
What do the naturalists say?"
Who viii explain? We're the sparrows
trying to break the glass? Did they
know the mirror was glass and could
oe broken?-Hieim0Rd fTa.J DisYatel
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05

children educated there. But the farm
ers need education themselves, and this
is precisely of the kind that the colleges
are able to furnish-practical and ex-
detrimental knowledge of agriculture.
Have these, then. no claim upon the
colleges, or does their age debar them
from the privileges? Certainly not. But
the farmers cannot attend the colleges.
Then, let the colleges 90 to them. Let
the Professors 90 abroad, rs their teach
ers of old did and teach from house to
house. bet them i'm the-pf0psEs
experiment with their crops and stock
on the college farms and teach there
sIu,h students Jas. may come to them;
but in the winter season let them go
out here and there, and BY lectures
and public meetings inform the farm
ers of. what has Tbeen done andy
new light hasbeen asst apon srehthings
rs have heretofore been dark. There
is no scarcity of material to work with;
the mass of it fairly Overwhelm the
mind of one who has some knowledge
of the unsettled Questions which prevent
accurate and profitable work and the
many farm operations which are carried
on with uncertainty and at haphazard,
and in consequence, unprOiitably. The
fact is, the field is so vast that one feels
as if life were too short to make be-
ginning in the work; but this has been
begun here and there and solid foun-
dation is being built up for future work.
The main paIt is to interest the vast
clientage of youth and grown men and
women who are to be reached and
brought into the schools and colleges or
under their beneficial influence. To do
this there seems to be no easier nor
more effective methods than To intro
ddce agricultural studies into rural
schools, Gust as mercantile or art stud
les are included in the courses of city
schools,) and for the agricultural col
leges to come down from their pillars
and become familiar with the farmers,
as well rs to make known to them the
value of an acquaintance with the Sc
crets of their art, the necessity which
exists for an enlarged knowledge of ag-
ricultural practice and science, and the
fruits which may be gathered from
good use of this knowledge. 1t is vain
to think that farmers will not come and
apply for this knowledge; that is. and
has been, always thus; the knowledge
must be carried to them, and it was for
this purpose that the millions of public
money were appropriated. The agri-
cultural colleges are public servants and
if the public do not come to them, for
whatever reason, they are bound to 90
to the public.--N T. Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05
Remarkable Things German Profess
sOr Has Been Doing.

llf}f.R tn E.t---t tlttt
According to q correspondent of the
New York Nation, Professor Heiden-
hahn has been doing some remarkable
things at Breslau in the way of hypno-
tism. This scientist had been invited
by the city fathers to repeat and ex-
plain in a rational way the marvellous
results which Herr Hansen, the / snish
magnetizer, had been producing in
a series of public exhibitions. Many
well-known citizens had been hypno-
tized by the Dane, the plOd7is OperaHdj
being for each one to look fixedly ut q
bright glass button held by himself
about eight inches from and above his
eyes. The subject hypnotized became
insensible to pins thrust into his hands,
initiated sounds and motions made be-
fore him and performed many strange
and absurd antics. On awakening, he
was unconscious, as well as incredu-
lOus, of what he had done. Professor
Heidenhain declared his ability to re-
peat all of Hausen's performances, and
his doings have created a sensation
among the Germans. The hypnotic
state could be brought on by slight,
constant and uniform, or repeated. IT.
ritation affecting the eve, ear or skin,
passes" with the hand-the warmth
of which is often elective at q distance
"a tuning-fOrk. q watch or a distinct
fxation point, with thoughts occupied
only by the object felt, seen or heard.
In one case each of FIVE Polish soldiers
was told to hold lOud-ticking watch to
his ear and listen intentlv. In five min
utes two of them had fallen into a pro-
found cataleptic sleep and become in
sensible to pain. On awakening, they
declared that they had not been asleep.
A constant touch on the back of the neck
made some subjects perfect initiative
machines, reproducing exactly every
word, look and motion of the person on
whom the attention was fixed. As soon
as the finger was taken from the neck
the repetition stopped instantly. But
stranger still, Professor Heidenhain and
his colleagues succeeded with some sub
jects in hypnOtizing one-half of the
brain and body. while the other half
remained normal. One side of the face
would smile, while the other side re-
manned unchanged in cataleptic state.
One arm and leg could be moved ct Will,
but not the others. One eve would see
distinctly ard the other imperfeetly OF
not at ALL Professor HeideRhain's ex-
periments were made only with men
and he succeeded with about one sub
iect in twelve. The first timewa found
to be the most difficult to hypnotic a
subject. After the first time some grew
more sensitive to the influence. while
others finally lost the power Of being
affected. Some acquired the faculty Of
hypnOtizing themselves. Professor Held
enhain maintains that the production Of
hypnOtism is not injurious. t. the sub
iect. The Professor brother was
hypnotized on an average two or three
times a day for two months and claims
to be none the worse for it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Cardinal McCloskey is to have built
for him a S75, 900 residence.
Mr. Moody, who is recruiting his
health at Mortified. Mass, will make
Washington his next field of labor.
The Reformed Episcopal Church is
not engaged in mission work at home
or abroad, and does not intend to be
until all Of its churches here are freed
from debt. ........---.
The First Baptist Church, Philadel-
phia, is proud to number among its
Sunday-school teachers venerable lady
seventy-three years Of age. She has been
in the SundaS-school ever since it was
organized, which was siXty-fve years
ago. She was then in the infant class.
The following appears in the Chi
cago TribUue: Wanted-An active,
earnest, faithful, devoted Young Pres
byterian minister, who viii be happy
and useful in good parsonage, with
$500 salary, in a pleasant, healthful vii
lage. Such a man may write letter
to c. w. Van Deren, Chatham, III.
New jersey is a strong Presbyterian
State. 1t contains aSynod of eight Pres
byteries, Sol ministers, 267 churches,
46, 207 church members, and $4,000
Sunday scholars in Presbyterian schools.
The people contribute large sums for
congregational and benevolent purposes
5000, 900 for the former and S17o, 900
for the latter in a year.
Lieutenant H. X. Lemley, United
States Army, will, under appointment
of the Government of the United States
of Columbia, found National Military
Academy at BogOta The President
has accorded him a three years leave of
absence in order that he may accept
this duty. He viii sail up the Magdalena
and will cross the Andes on mule-back
The academy at BOgota will be in a for
tress convent two hundred years old.
Professor Baldwin, of the Kirksville
Normal School, Missouri, said recent
ly at a meeting of the State Teachers
Association that at least one-half of the
teachers of the country are mere school
keepers. One-half the better class of
teachers, he added, either fail into Tuts
or leave the school-room for some other
profession. Only One-fourth of the chill
dren of this republic are in the hands of
live, competent teachers.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05
Inherited Antipathies,

Cows hate dogs instinctively, from
their earliest calfhood upward used
to doubt once upon time whether the
hatred was not of artificial origin and
wholly induced by the inveterate human
habit of egging on every dog to worry
every other animal that comes in its
way. But l tried mild experiment
one day by putting a half-grown town
bred puppy into a small enclosure with
some hitherto unwOrried calves, and
they all turned TO make common head
way against the intruder with the same
striking unanimity as the most ancient
and experienced COWS. Hence | am
inclined to suspect that the antipathy
does actually result from vaguely in
herited instinct derived from the days
when the ancestors of our kline was a
wild urus, and the ancestor of our dogs
wolf, on the wild forest-clad plains of
Central Europe. When COW puts up
its tail at sight of a dog entering its pad
dock at the present day it has probably
some dim instructive consciousness that
it stands in the presence of dangerous
hereditary foe; and as the wolves could
only seize with safety a single isolated
urus, so the cows now usually make
common cause against the intruding
dog, turning their heads in one direc-
ton with very unwonted unanimity till
his tail finally disappears under the OPP
posite gate.
Such inherited antipathies seem COM
mon and natural enough. Every species
knows and breads the ordinary enemies
of its race. Mice scamper away from
the very smell of a cat Young chick
ems run to the shelter of their mothers
wings when the shadow of hawk
passes over their heads Mr.. Darwin
put small snake into paper bag,
which he gave to the monkeys at the
Zoo; and one monkey after another
opened the bag, looked in upon the
deadly foe of the quadrumanous kind,
and promptly dropped the whole pack
age with every gesture of horror and
dismay. Even man himself-tho
his instincts have all weakened so
greatly with the growth of his more
plastic intelligence, adapted to wider
and more modifable set of external cir
cumstanGes-seemst oretain vague and
original terror of the serpentine form.
st. James Gazette.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05

THE boiling Republicans of the TWEEN
,iefh Ohio Congressional District, which COM
prises the city of Cleveland, have nominated
.. b. Lockwood for Representative in OPP
position TO Hon. Amos Townsend, renomi-
mated by the regular convention.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05

A DUBLIN correspondent states that
he improved condition Of the country, and
prospects of abundant crops, have caused
he Relief Committee to prepare TO dissolve.
There is little doubt, he says, that the money
IN hand will be enough to meet all pressing
Iamands
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05

JONATHAN WAsLEY, Superintendent;
Frank Williamson, inside boss, and John
Reese, District Superintendent of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany, descended into Keely Run Colliery at
Pottsville, Pa, to examine the ventilation.
All were suffocated by foul air, and num-
Der of workmen who attempted their rescue
barely escaped with their lives.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05

THE Mexican General Vale, with a
considerable force, has taken the field against
Fictorio and his band, who are now on that
Idle Of the border. The Mexican commander
: said TO hold an authorization from our
Government to follow the red rascals into
our territory should the exigencies of the
case render it desirable to SO.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05

THE Ohio Greenbackers have nomi-
mated State ticket as follows: Secretary Of
state, Charles A. Lloyd, of Seneca; SUI
preme Judge, d. W. C. Louden, of Brown
County; Clerk of Supreme Court, Charles
3owsall, of Columbiana; Member Of Board
# Public Works, Amos Roberts, Of Knox
County; School Commissioner, r. b. Smart,
II Ross County,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05

PROF. RILEY, in an address before
he Mobile Cotton Elk .hange, said he had
found thearmy worm in most fields through
cut a large extent Of territory visited by
him. He says if the planters poison the worm
md the weather is good, however, there
NAV be G very good crop.