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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
Grecian Beauty.

Much has been said in praise of Gre
clan beauty, and the men are hand
some in every sense of the word; we
might well imagine them to have been
the models of Phidias and Praxiteles.
Their large eyes, black as jet, sparkle
with chances of fire, while the long silky
eye-lashes soften the expression and
give dreamy appearance of melan-
choly. Their teeth are small, white,
and well set; fine regular profile, a
pale-olive complexion, and tall, elegant
figure realize an accomplished type of
distinction. As to the women, they
seem to have left physical perfection to
the men; some possess fine eyes and
hair, but as rule they have bad figures,
and some defect in the face generally
spoils the good features. 1t is among
them, however, that the old Oriental
customs are most strictly preserved;
while the men are gradually undergoing
the process of civilization, they, in a
moral point of view, remain stationary,
and are just as they were fifty years ago.
1t may, indeed, be said that, with the
exception of Athens, the women pos
sess no Individual existence, and count
as nothing in society; the men have re-
served every privilege for themselves,
leaving to their helpmates the care of the
house and family. In the towns, where
servants are kept, they are of the poor
est class of peasant, who know nothing,
and receive miserable wages. The
families are generally large-seven or
eight little children demand mother
constant attention. The morning be-
gins by directing the work of each SER
want, repeating the same thing a hun
bred times, scolding, screaming, even
beating them, to be understood. In the
evening, when the children are sleeping,
if there remain some little time, the poor
wornout mother sits down to her spin
ning-wheel to spin silk, to sew or knit,
or, if it be summertime, to look after
her silk-worms and cocoons, happy il
she has not to do the work OF her in
competent servants over again.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
Seif-dOctOring.

The desire to be ''his own doctor"
seems, like hope, to "spring eternal in
the human breast" and often leads to
most disastrous consequences. Many a
man who, if his horse or COW is sick,
sends at once for the veterinary practi-
toner, will run the risk of prescribing
for ailments of his own that are on the
face of them quite as serious and as
much in need of professional treatment.
He will take the advice of an ignorant
neiohbor as to what is ''good for'' an
illness, when he would laugh at the idea
of going to the same person for counsel
in any other business or concern what
ever. In the days of our grandmothers,
when the household materia medica con-
sisted of ''roots and yarbs,' with few
simple drugs like EPSON salts, this do
nestle or clay" prescribing was less
dangerous than in these days, when con-
centrated and powerful agents have be-
come so common and familiar. The
household remedies of the olden time
were rarely liable to do much harm,
even If they did no good. The cure was
generally in reality left to nature, though
the sroots and yarbs' got the credit OF
T. But most of the drugs of our day are
not of this inert or negative character,
and the danger in their use by the igno-
rant is a real and serious danger. The
most powerful medicines that unprotes-
sional people of a former generation
ventured to fool with bore about the
same relation to those nowin vogue that
@nnnowder does to nitro-glycerine; yet
the latter are used even more recklessly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
60 Tranceyoyance."

Some interesting scientific expert
ments demonstrating the truth of the dis
puted phenomena of clairvoyance have
recently been made by DR.. G.. M. Beard,
of this city. The sensitive ~ was a
lady, the wife of a lecturer on mesmer-
ism. A first experiment failed, but on
a second trial the lady, whose eyes were
covered with cotton and closely ban
daged, was able to name accurately
cards drawn at random from a pack and
held by the doctor upon her forehead
She also read the title-page of volume
which the doctor took from his pocket.
Other experiments with coarse print
were equally successful, but she was I'M
able to read fine print.
DIR. Beard calls the faculty trancevoy-
ance, and thinks that it may be devel-
oped to such a degree that the person
gifted with it can read entire pages of
ordinary print held against the forehead.
The lady, describing her sensations
when in the trancevoyant state, saws that
an electric light seemed to be thrown
forward from the back of the brain up
on her forehead, illuminating it and en-
aiding her to see it distinctly. A further
study of this curious power of reading
without eyes will no doubt be of great
value to the development of the still
rudimentary science of brain and nerve
action. Such experiments as those of
DR.. Beard are heavy blows at the
theories of the materialists who claim
that all mental action is physical phe-
nomenon depending on the organs of
sensation. What power is it, will they
tell us, that reads coarse print when the
eyes are practically blindedP There
must be faculty of perception in the
brain quite independent of the organs
of sight, which, under certain rare con-
ditions, comes into play. What is it
that sees without the aid of optic nerve or
retina? Here is aquestion which opens
q wide and interesting field for specula-
| tion.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
Paper Pulp from Wood.


The following Interesting description
of the process of making wood pulp is
from an account of the opening of the
Thorold Pulp Paper Company's estab-
lishment, published by the Thorold Post,
Canada:
The wood, four feet in length and of
any thickness, is brought in at the base
ment, placed in the barking-jack Zone
stick at a time), where two men, with
draw-knives, rapidly peel off the bark.
1t is then conveyed by the elevator to
the first floor, sawed in two-foot lengths
with cross-cut ssw, where il is stabbed
THAT is, small portion of wood on OPP
posite sides taken off, to permit its
resting firmly in the grinding engine. 1t
is then passed to the boring machine
IAN upright and a one-haf inch auger,
with foot attachment driven by power)
where the knots are bored out. The
wood is then placed in racks of the same
size as the receptacle in the grinding
engine and carried out to the ground.
The grinding engines are upright, and
receive at a filing one-twentieth of a
cord of wood. Sri. t.5. ....l a.
The wood is placed in receptacle,
and by simple, variable automatic
feed process is pressed Aatwise between
two outward revolving rolls, composed
of solid emery, which are flooded with a
spray of water, carrying off the ibrilized
pulp in a stream through revolving
screens to the tank or stuff chest in the
basement. 1t is then pumped up into a
| vat that forms part of the wet machine.
Va 1of s,
large cylinder with fine brass wire cloth,
which picks up the particles of pulp out
of the water and places them on the felt
Gan endless piece of wooden goodswhich
makes between rolls, for different pur-
poses, continual circuit of the wet MAJ
chine). On the cylinder is turning a
heavy roll, called the concha; between
the two, where they meet, the cylinder
leaves the pulp, with most of the water
pressed from it.
The pulp now makes its appearance
on the felt above the concha roll in a
beautiful sheet, thirty-eight inches in
width, and is carried along in steady
flow distance of about eight feet,
where it passes between but not beyond
two heavy rollers, the upper iron, the
lower wood; it adheres to the upper roll,
which is constantly turning, wrapping
it up, and when sufficient thickness is
attained is cut off by knife being
pressed to the roll, attached to the ma
chine for that purpose. 1t now leaves
the roll in thick white sheet, which is
received by the boy in attendance on a
table conveniently attached to the ma
chine, and folded into sheets fourteen
by twenty-six inches. 1t is then placed
on scales until the Weights one hundred
pounds, when it is placed in the press
and firmly tied into square, compact
bundles. 1t is now ready for shipment
to the paper mill, to be made into print
ing and tea paper The wood paper
pulp has been placed in the market and
found q ready sale.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
A SQuaW'S PatrimOny.

I. A suit has been brought in the United
States Circuit Court at Pittsburgh, in
volving the title to q large amount of
property. Many readers will remem-
Der the case of Cuba You-Q Quit, daugh-
ter of William Mowry, formerly of Pitts
burgh, which was tried about two years
ago, and in which the defendants were
successful. The recent suit is similar in
nature, but varies in one important par
ticular. In the Cub You-Quit case the
plaintiffs failed to prove q legal mar
riage between the mother of the girl and
William Mowry, but in the present case,
instituted by cousin of Cuba YOU
Quit, it is claimed there will be no diff
Guilty on that score. The history of the
case is as follows: Alexander Addison
Mowry, brother of William Mowry,
settled in Saginaw Valley, Michigan, in
1S44 or thereabouts. That section of
the country was then wilderness, in
habited only by Indians and few white
traders. Addison Mowry, who was a
sort of hale-fellow-well-met, followed
the general custom of the whites and
took to himself as wife O-Gaw-Baish-
Kow-Mo-Quay, who was noted for her
beauty and lntelligence; but, unlike
many others, it is alleged that he had a
formal marriage ceremony performed
by Seth Willy, at that time Justice OF
the Peace in East Saginaw. He died in
1852, leaving to survive him his Indian
widow and his and her daughter, Nancy,
or, in the Indian tongue, Waw-Se-Ge-
Zhe-Goquay. The plaintiffs in the
present suit, Nancy and her mother,
now come into court and demand that
those who have long occupied lands in
Pittsburgh of great value, once the
property OF Addison Mowry's father, be
elected and the property given to the
widow and her daughter as heirs of Ad-
olson Mowry. The attorneys in the case
include some of the ablest lawyers in
Pennsylvania and Michigan. The value
of the property in dispute is estimated
at from SS,000,000 to S10,000,000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
1T VIII Be Useful.

The instantaneous photograph pro-
cess is now used in Paris, to take, with
out his knowing it, the portrait OF any
suspicious looking person presenting a
draft or check at the banks; and also
by means of clock-work to expose a Sc
ries of sensitive plates for hours in sue
cession, so as to inform an absent en-
ployer how his clerks conducted them
selves-whether they attended to bust
ness, or smoked, lounged and went out F.;
and to give an account of the children
behavior when their mother or school
master shall leave them to themselves
Its success will probably bring it into
general use. A jealous husband can &C
to Chicago feeling assured that the tell
tale camera will give an account OF the
wav in which his wife spent her time.
1t will be very useful to wives who
spend the summer with the children in
the country, enabling them to know
how deeply Charles Augustus and
William Henry had occasion to regret
their absence and whether they really
did ''read in the lonely library until they
were sleepy and went to bed before 10.'
1t would also be useful in furnishing the
public with illustrations of the way pub
lie officials do public business in city
halls, State capitals and Washington
departments. Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
Rebuking Pride.

Music is good servant to devotion,
but bad master. The late DIR. Mullen
berg once impressed this sentiment upon
youth, with such distinctness that it
was never effaced. The Doctor, then
The rector of an Episcopal Church
school, had introduced q boy-choir into
the chapel services. One of the choris-
tiers, whose duty it was to get the num-
Der of the psalm and hymn, went to the
Doctors study one Sunday morning for
the purpose. The young man, while
the rector was turning over the leaves
of the prayer-book in order to make
selection, remarked, awe did pretty
well in the choir last SundayP"
:" Yes" answered the Doctor, without
raising his head.
"That anthem went finely continued
the chorister, fishing for praise.
"Yes," said the Doctor, still turning
over the leaves. ..... =,
"What shall we sing to-dayP" asked
the youth, somewhat chagrined, ard
thinking the rector's search long one.
"Why," replied the rector, lifting his
head, "let us sing to the praise and
glory of - inserting the youth $
name, this psalm and that hymn"
The lesson was never forgotten. The
youth became clergyman, and in tell
ing the story added that whenever he
felt the old vain-gloriousness rising, he
thought of the rebuke his teacher ones
gave him. YOUTHS COMPANION.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
PITH AND POINT.

They're still on the hunt for oleo-
margarine. Tallow ho!-Hart0rd
Journal.
You can not cultivate a mans ac-
quaintance by continually narrowing his
feelings.-N. O. Picayat'se.
The citizen who keeps his own COW
can have his fresh milk at sixteen cents
per quart. Detroit Free Press.
-'It is an i'll wind that doesn't blow
somebody some good.'' The boy--4Sso
sister has the scarlet fever gets long
vacation.-Salena Sunbeam.
-" This is the widow of my discon-
tent" said the old man who had mar
ried a fashionable young woman who
had planted her first husband under the
sod of sorrow and bankruptcy
6eaUslie Herald.
Ella Wheeler, in poetry, says: 81
often dream of love, holy as the moon
LIGHT on grave" We should like ia
know if moonlight on grave is any
more holy than moonlight on wood
shed roof.-Boston Post.
-"Y You are fond of the British poets,
Miss c.. ?" ooh, awta1IJy SOL" "Have
YOU read LambP" "Yes; and with such
pleasure!' care you fond of HoggP"
ssYes; but | so dread trichinosis!"
Curtain. -SomerUilIe Journal.
=" How things do grow this wealth
err" said the deacon to Brother Amoa.
eyes, they do" replied the brother.
s'Last night I heard you say you caught
forty fish, and this morning | heard you
tell Mr.. Smith it was one hundred and
fifty. "-RocheSter Herald.
A Lowell woman accidentally swal-
lowed pin the other day and in ex-
actly three minutes afterward it came
out of the ear of the cat she was hold
ing in her lap at the time. This is a lie,
but we wanted to get up one of those
stories that our readers could believe
Loa0eU Citizen.
-"Just think of i'll" exclaimed
Jones; "Pingrey's new block is one
thousand meters long!" "1s that SOP?
asked Fogg, adding, "By the way
Jones, how long is meterP" "Blamed
if l know" said Jones, "but Judging
from the distance my gas-meter cover;
every month it must be something i'm
mense. "-Boston Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The first cotton mill in Californi, :.
iii process of erection.
"A solid mountain of fine red, brown
and white sandstone has been disco
cred near Regain, ON the Texas g. PaciSo
Railroad. '0
The underground military wires in
the German empire, according to tela-
graphic operators, conduct electricitv
far better than the overland lines.
"A silk association has for some t;r,o
past existed in Utah, and extensive
preparations have been made for the
manufacture of silk. Skilled European
operatives have been sent for, and tba
factory will probably open about the
middle of June.
The following recipe for imitation
of ground glass is from an Antwerp
scientific journal; Paint the glass with
the following: Sandarach, IS drachms.
mastic, 4 drachms; ether, "a ounces,
benzine, to Is ounces. The more hem
zine the coarser the grain of the imita.
ton glass will be.
-Contagion is largely propagated nv
means of the clothing, and clothing Is
best disinfected by heat. No form NJ
contagion can withstand dry heat oi
220 degrees. The clothing Should be
placed in box or a closet maintained
at that temperature for perhaps an bonr
Carbolic acid will not destl Y the effect
Of vaccine virus but for the lime being
A very interesting EXP 5riment with
a new telephone invented by Robert M
L
| York City, was tried recently between
New York and Philadelphia over the or.
binary telegraph wires. The result was
a surprise to all who were present. Con.
versation, even to a whisper, in Phila.
delphia, was heard with perfect distinct.
ness of articulation, such as is perfectly
| practicable for commercial purposes.
The principle claimed by the inventors
is that of molecular disturbance and the
suppression of all vibration.
"A valuable plastic material has
been introduced in Germany for orna-
mental and other purposes. Five parts
of sifted whiting are mixed with solu-
ton of one part of glue, and, on those
two being well worked up into paste,
a proportionate quantity of Venetian
turpentine is added, in order to prevent
brittleness; small amount of linseed
oil is also put with the mixture, to obvi-
ate its clinging to the hands, and the
mass may be colored by kneading in any
color that is desired. The substance
thus formed may be pressed into shapes
and used for the production of bas-reliefs
and other figures, and may be likewise
worked by hand into models-the hands
to be rubbed with linseed oil and the
mass to be kept warm during the proc
ess. On becoming cold and dry, which
takes place in a few hours, it is as hard
| as stone,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25

than the former ever were. The spread
OF popular information upon physiologt-
cal and medical topics has made many
persons more self-confdent and careless
in these matters, while the agents they
use require vastly greater caution. A
little knowledge is not always danger
Gus thing, but when it leads man to
think that he can ''doctor' himself, in
ailments of any serious nature, the old
and often abused proverb is indisputably
true.-Boston Journal Of Chemistry.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
THE BOSTON GIRL.

told her of a maid whose mind
Wasfilled with acknowledgements and fancies
A lovely being of the kind
They write about in old romances.
{" Knowest thou said /, "this maiden fair, :.
Whose beauty doth my thoughts beguile!'
She answered with dreamy air.
"Well, l should smile!''
+" Her cheeks possess the roses hue,
No form is daintier or completer,
No hair so brown, no eyes so blue,
No mouth is tenderer or sweeter.
The favored youth who gains the hand
Of this fair girl will neer regret it,"
With modest grace she added: "And
Don't you forgetit."
sob, thou dear mistress of my heart!
My angel let me kneel before thee
And say how heavenly sweet thou art,
And how devoutly l adore thee"
She turned away her lovely head,
And with a languid look that fired
My soul, in murmured accents said
"Vou make me tired"
Brio a. Brdc in SCribner
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
A Man Who Sets Type With His Teeth.

The most remarkable newspaper man
in the United States lives at Angels
Camp, in Calaveras County. His name
is S. S. Waterman. He is twenty-four
years old and has been paralyzed ever
since he was born. He was born in An.
gels and has never been away from the
town but once, when he went in search
of medical aid, but failed to find any.
His paralysis is of the upper and lower
limbs, which he can not move. His
speech is also affected and it is only with
difficulty that he can talk at ALL Early
in life he manifested liking for nova
BILE type, which he placed in position
with his teeth. He soon began to cut
type out of wood, holding the engraving
tools between his teeth when he used
them. He has made a good deal OF
block type in this way, with which he at
present conducts small job printing
business. He also sets metal type with
his teeth. Waterman was one of the
founders of the Mountain Echo, weekly
paper now being published in Angels,
He set q good deal of the type on this
paper with his teeth, and, having good
education, manufactured his editorials
and other articles as he went along. He
is now out of the newspaper business
and confines himself entirely to job print.
ing and engraving. He does all the
programme and invitation work for the
town, frequently engraving special de
signs for his jobs. His presswork, o.
course, he can not do with his teeth, ant
employs q boy to do that part of the
work for him-the only part that he car
not do himself. - STOCKTON (Ca1. Mail.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
M, circumstance, that he often

s5ricious circumstance, that he often
hung about the instrument, and looked
upon # langingly, like hungry man
g41a0ng ovsi a beefsteak in a restaurant
yyndow. Ihere was no doubt that this
na1 had music in his soul, perhaps IN
his fingers enus, out did not dare to
make trial of his strength after the
rules of harmony had suffered SO many
years of neglect. So the fiddler kept on
with his jigs, and the greasy Mexican
paved his discordant guitar, but no
man had the nerve to touch that piano.
There were doubtless scores of men in
the camp who would have given ten
ounces of gold-dust to have been half an
hour alone with it, but every mans nerve
shrank from the jeers which the crowd
would shower upon him should his first
attempt prove failure 1t got to be
generally understood that the hand
which first essayed to draw music from
the keys must not SLOUGH its work.
= y
1t was Christmas Eve, and Goskin,
according to his custom, had decorated
his gambling house with sprigs of noun
tain cedar and shrub whose crimson
U0IItoS uiu HOo oOCiu ~ u1u iiuloduiOi VI
English holly. The piano was covered
with evergreens, and all that was want
ing 10 completely fill the cup of Cos
kin's contentment was a man to play
that piano.
"Christmas night and no piano
FOUNDER he said. "This is a nice
country for Christian to live in.''
Getting piece of paper he scrawled
the words:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
-Green canaries were exhibited at Q

Green canaries were exhibited at a
recent bird show in Berlin, Germany.
Others were red, light brown and gray.
The variations of color had been caused
by the daily use of cayenne pepper in
their food. The pepper was at first Civ
en- in small quantities, and the birds APP
peared to like it, but the feathers soon
fell, giving them a melting appear
ance. In q short time new feathers of
divers colors sprouted. The variations
were ascribed to the different qualities of
the pepper and the quantity given.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25

"A little bunch of lilies of the valley
sent from New Orleans by mail has been
received in fresh condition in Proyi.
dence, II. l. They came inclosed in a
potato, the inside of which had been
dug out leaving o thin shell.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25

"A ringed and feathered little Indian
princess smilingly presented Q purse of
her own manufacture to the Duke of
Sutherland during his recent visit to the
Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. 1' g
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-11
A Daughter Rescued.
A Frankfort (Ky,) physician writes:

A Frankfort (KyJ physician writes:
Some months ago the daughter OF one Of
our prominent citizens was pronounced &
hopeless consumptye, She was very much
reduced in flesh; terrible cough, her hfc
gradually wasting away. | recommended
her to use DR. Swaynes Compound Syrup
Of Wild Cherry" which she did In d
short time she was tree from all cough and
other symptoms, and is now rosy and
healthy. Price % cents and 81 bottle OF
6 bottles So The large size is the most
economical. Prepared only by DR.. swaync
d Son, Philadelphia. Sold by druggists
An occasional dose Of "Swaync's Pills
should be taken to keep the bowels free.
They are excellent for torpid liver and bill
ious complaints, Sold by all the Cairo
druggists. i2J