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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-28
An Official Docum ent.
COUNTY RECORDERS OFFICE

COUNTY RECORDERS OFFICE,
Indianapolis, Aug. IS, 1878.
DR. A r, WHITE-Dear Sir: After
using various remedies for Chills, without
relief, [ commenced the use Of your Dan
dehon Alternative. and one bottle effected a
cure. can cheerfuils recommend this as
an excellent medicine, and worth the con-
fdenee Of the public. Yours truly,
". \. DCNNINGToN.
For sale by @. SpeideI. Rock Island,
and Richards & Sohrbeok. Moline.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-28
IGLIE OIa,

CHICAGO. Feb. 28.-The storm which
prevailed here all of yesterday and
throughout the night has now ceased, a
light drizzling snow being all that remains
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-28

Illustrated Marriage Guide, 26O pages.
cloth and gilt binding, so cents: same in
paper covers, 25 cents. Manhood, 10
cents; " Womauhood, 10, cents: Pan phlet.
cents-seeurely sealed, by mail, Send
money or postage stamps. DR.. WHITTIER,
the great specialist, eli St. Charles
St Louis. No
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-28
milwaukee, Market.

MILWAUKEE. Feb u
Wheat-S@1c higher; No 2 hard 05H No o.
96x cash; 9715 March; 9sh April; No ), e41ss;
No 4, rs.
Corn-SS.
ORts-s0M
Rye-92.
Barley-s5.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-28

''Tis beauty truly blcnt whose red and white,
Natures own sweet and cunning hand laid on
PozEonis powder iinpArts 8 richness
making the skin soft as down.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-28
New York Market.
NHw YORK, Feb. 2s.
FINANCIAL.
COMMERCIAL

Wheat-A@Hc better; fairly active; No red
March 1sh01 1919; April 2e1s91 S0X; Asy
1914 al 19A-
Corn-A8Ac better; moderately active; mixed
we stern spot 55h 15Th; futures 541a 467H
Oats-Shade stronger; western 4SG47
Potk-Nominal.
Lard 10 80.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-28
NEW YCEE.

Accidents TO stsamers-De1ayed Trains.
etc.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-28
TEL.EGRA.P.E.HTc.
To-Dav's Dispatches.

I7s,sgraphed sosAs Roek Island argus. /
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

The artists adieu to his picture
be hanged.
If q boy gets on the wrong track
it shows that his fathers "switch" has
not had fair chance.
A fool in high station is like man in
balloon. Everybody appears little to
him, and he appears little to everybody.
cold age is coming upon me rapid
ly," said an urchin, who was stealing
apples from an old mans garden, as he
saw the owner coming furiously toward
him with stick in his hand.
An article appears in one of onr ex-
changes on the "Free Importation of
British Pig" If the British pig is
coming to reside among us. we presume
he intends to make his living by his
pen.-New York Commercial.
His name was Presto Magico, aud he
was giving his great entertainment in a
small village. "Will any one in the
audience let me have a fve-dollar
note?" he asked, with his blandest
smile. The entertainment ended alb
ruptly, as the audience rose and left
with precipitate haste. 1t was more
than they could stand.-PhltdaeLpR
| Sun.
Johnny had little sister who was
suffering with the toothache, and her
mother put some camphor in it to eas
| the pain. The young man watched I'll
operation and then went out and tol
the neighbors that his sister had MOI
in her teeth and his mother put campho
in her mouth to drive 'em away.-Stea.
benCitie Herald.
The life of queen is supposed to be
one long summer day, breathing the
fragrance of sweet peace and content
ment, without cloud to mar the sun
shine. and so forth. There never was a
greater error. The London World says
that Scotch piper plays under Qneen
Victoria's window every morning at s
o'clock" How the fend manages to
escape after each serenade is a mystery.
-No'ristorn Herald
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20

his feet, as the thought of a misfortune
to be averted had increased the speed
of the postman. There was no longer
even the shadow of doubt; the fated
man had taken the path which led
straight to the Moulin-Brule. Pere
Martin calculated that by passing over
another path, which, however, was
rough and dangerous, he could yet ar
rive before him.
He fastened on and reached the fatal
spot when the night was already ad-
vanced. The place was well fitted for
an ambuscade. There was species of
cut through the rocks. On both sides
bushy trees formed an almost impene-
trable shade rapidly moving clouds at
each instant veiled the moon, the wan
rays of which added to the sinister
character of the landscape.
He paused; amid the rustling of the
foliage agitated by the wind he thought
footsteps; il was, doubtless, George
Andre, whom he had preceded only by
few instants; ho was about going to
meet him when tho report of gun
rang out and ball struck him full in
the breast.
The assassin emerged from neigh
boring thicket; but on approaching his
victim to finish and rob him no found
himself in the presence Of now actor
and vented his disappointment in hor.
rible oath; ho had recognized George
Andre. Tho blndo Of n knife flashed
in his hnnd, but ho wnH not allowed
timo to use IL club dcacondod vigor.
ously upon his hoad and fcllcd him tc
the ground.
A woman, distracted with terror, nj
this moment threw horeolf on tho post
mana body.
"Ohl how wrclchcd mn |" cried che
81 rorrsnw il; he hnn killed him !"
Madam Andre hnd not been nble e.
Rubduo her uncnpincaa aud, NJ thc hpui
phc uppoHod her huabnnd ought 10 nr
rive, sho had como TO wait for him; nj
the report OF tho gun, she had run for
ward prccipilntcly.
"Jcnnnc," rnid hor hunbpnd 80 her
"rcassuro yourself; ! nm unhurt Z"
1T wns not youp Who then has h'
nsBasSinatod p
They bent over Martins body, ant
| ItIbRulItl Illlll III ili' iHp'HllElh "INFI
ut that instant illuminated his face nn'
uniform.
The husband and wifo carried him t'
their homo, where he lived only twenty
four hours. IIe related how hc ha'
allowed 60 bc stolen from him theln.to
in which Georges Andre had announce
his return, and how he had decided Il
prevent, Mt any price, the consequence
of his negligence, even if ho should b.
compelled to offer his life in exchang
for that Of the factor Of family whom
he had involuntarily helped to place il
peril.
Obscure victim of duty, he had adde'
another act to the list OF those unknown
sacrifices which are made daily, withou
being encouraged by the hope Of al.
recompense, without even having TO
indemnifcation the remembrance the,
should leave behind him.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20
Trici.iua in Man.

For some thirty years subsequent to
the first description of the capsule by
Hilton, aud some twenty-five years after
the Identification of the parasite itself
in man, the same were looked upon as
mere harmless curiosities, and that,
although Leidy discovered the parasite
in the flesh of swine in 1S47, still it was
not until 1860 that the connection was
established between them, appearing,
as they had, in two totally different spe-
cies (men and swine.) The honor of
this important discovery belongs to DR..
Zenker, of Dresden, Germany. The
disease was discovered in servant girl,
admitted as typhus patient to the City
hospital in Dresden. She died, and
ler nesh was found to be oo-Ar1 atoly
infested with trichin@. Leuckarts and
other experiments have shown
that temperature of l40 degrees
Fahrenheit is necessary to securely
render trichine inert. Direct heat ap'
piled to the slides holding specimens OF
trichinous pork, by means OF the Schultz
heating table, has demonstrated under
the microscope that temperature OF
fifty degrees centigrade (l22 degrees
Fahrenheit) is necessary to the certain
death of the trichine. Leisering's ex-
periments with trichinous pork, made
up into sausage meatand cooked twenty
minutes, gave positive results when fed
to one rabbit and negative by another.
He sums up his experiment as follows:
l. Trichine are killed by long con-
tinued sailing of infected meat, and
also by subjecting the same for twenty
four hours to the action of smoke in a
heated chamber.
Q. They are not killed by means of
cold smoking for period OF three days,
and it also appears that twenty minutes
cooking freshly prepared sausage meat
! is sufficient to kill them in all cases.
The various kinds of cooking, how
ever, are quite different in their effects
on trichinous pork. Frying and broil-
ing are most efficient, roasting coming
next. Boiling coagulates the albumen
on the outer surface, and allows the
heat to penetrate less readily; it should
be kept up, therefore, for at least two
hours for large pieces of meat. Whether
boiled, broiIed or fried, pork should
always be thoroughly cooked. Prac
tlcally speaking, lHe cookluR, salllus
and hot smoking which pork in its va
rious forms receives in the United
States must be, in the vast majority o
cases, sufficient to kill the trichin@ ant
verdent infection of the person con
suming the meat. Everything lik
those reported in Germany are unknown
here, and trichiniasis in fatal form
undoubtedly rare disease. IN the v
: ciuity of the great pork packing estat
lishments near Boston the "spare-ribs,
containing the intercostal muscles, al
very largely bought and eaten by tn
: people near by, and trichiniasis anon
| them has not in a single case been r,
, ported, SO far as I have been able
3 learn. The cuts being thin and we
5 cooked any trichin@ in them are quit
S certain to be killed. Even when tn
A chime are introduced into the intestin
S canals, too, they are sometimes expellt
by diarrhea, and the invasion of Il
4 system by a small number does no harI
g VAmerican Microscopical journal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20
A Thorough Job.

Judge M, a we'll known jurist
living near Cincinnati, was fond OF re-
latin2 this anecdote. he had once oc.
casion to send to the village for car
penter, and a sturdy young fellow ap-
peared with his tools.
81 want this fence mended to keep
the cattle. There are some unplaned
boards s-.use them. 1t is out of sight
from the house, so you need not take
time to make it neat job. will only
pay you dollar and half"
The Judge went to dinner, and COM
ing out found the man carefully planning
each board. Supposing that he was
trying to make costly job OF 1t, he
ordered him to nail them on at once
Just as they were, and continued his
walk. When he returned the boards
were planed and numbered ready for
mailing.
81 told you that this fence was to be
covered with vines," he said, angrily'
ST do not care how it looks"
81 do" said the carpenter. gruffy
carefully measuring his work. Wner
it was finished there was no part OF the
fence so thorough in finish.
"How much do you charge 7" ASKED
the judge.
"a dollar and half" said the man
shouldering his tools.
The Judge stared. "Why did yo'
spend all that labor on the job, If no
for money!
"For the job, sir"
"Nobody would have seen the poo
work on it."
"But | should have known it wa
there. No; I'll take only the dolla
, and half" And he took it and wer
away.
Ten years afterward the Judge ha
: the concract to give for the building
certain magnificent public building
There were many applicants anon
3 master-builders, but the face of OF
3 caught his eye. -,
8 "It was NY man of the fence"
: said. 81 knew we should have on
0 good, genuine work from him. l ga
l him the contract and it made ri
e man of him."
!. 1t is pity that boys were not taug
j in their earliest years that the highe
d success belongs only to the man, be
o carpenter, farmer, author or arti
1. whose work is most sincerely and thu
oughly done.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20
WISE WORDS.
Labor is life.

Labor is life.
All true work is sacred.
Doing nothing is the most slavisk toll.
We wish for more in life, rather than
more of it.-Jeln Mgelor.
Good food makes good blood, and
good food is the life of the body.
To select we'll among old things, is
almost equal to inventing new ones.
Stay not until you are told of oppor
tunities to do good-inquire after them:
Action may not always bring happi-
ness; bnt there is no happiness without
action.
To correct en- evil which already
exists is not so wise as to foresee and
Nature has sometimes made fool,
but q coxcomb is always of mans
own making.
The men who mix the least with their
fellows become at least the most
thoroughly one.sided.
It is always better to keep out of
quarrel than to make it up ever so
amicably after you have gone into one.
To have in general but little feeling
seems to be the only security against
feeling too much on any particular oc-
cas:on.
Words are things and small drop
of ink, falling like dew upon thought,
produces that which makes thousands,
perhaps millions, think.
There is a great difference between
nationality and race. Nationality is the
miracle of political independence. Race
is the principle of physical analogy.
Life is leaf of paper white;
Whereon each one of us may write
His word or two and then comes night:
Though thou have time
But for line, be that sublime;
Not failure, but low ain, is crime.
1t is most certain that all tongues
would be silent if all ears were not
open and hence il was an opposite say
ing OF the ancients, that the teller and
he arer of slander should both he hanged
the one by the tongue and the other
by the ears.-RobeH SOpth.
We all have to struggle mapfully in
the tide and some of us almost float
away and are found with feeble breath,
but the Lord vii lprovde. OF the man
who is true to himself it can be said as
!, of old it was said of Asher: "Thy shoes
= = shall be of iron and orass; and as thy
y days, so shall thy strength be-"
n know not what the world may thinl
a of my labors but to myself it seems
q that / have been but child playing OF
IS the seashore, now finding seme pebbl
a rather more polished, and now SOM
Z she'll more agreeably variegated tha
in another, while the immense ocean {
,e truth extended itself unexplored pefol
II me-lSir isaac Neoton. Et h
is The worlds history is divine poer
e. of which the history Of every nation
is q canto and every man word. l
its strains have been pc ling along dow
ID the centuries, and, though there ha'
,ss been mingled the diseords of warriI
us cannon and dying men,yet to the Chr
set tiap philosopher and historian-t +
50, humble listener there has been
yer divine melody running through the sol
hes which speaks of hope and halcyon ds
to come.-Jamss A. Garfield,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20

It appears that if any one wants to go
out in the ocean three miles from the
American or British shore and cut a
telegraph cable he can do so with i'm
punity. No country would have iuris-
diction over him. 1t would not seem
that there could be much danger of
cable-cutting so far out, but the cleo
trio congress in Paris wants protective
measures taken,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20
An Unexnected Rise.

1 stood on the porch at evening,
when the slu wont silently down,
And the June bug bright in the starry night
Flew merriy through the town.
h, sweet were the gentle zephyrs
That blew from the balmy South,
And red were the lips and sweet thu
That took from the pretty mout
Her tiny waist was encircled
By my arm so strong and trut,
Said l. "whose ducky are you, love p
"Yours," she murmured, "and whose nre
yc-'"
Oh, the hallowed' hours of that evening,l
Oh. the cruel caprice of fate
Her father, unkind, came up from behino,
And fred me over the gate.
Chicago Tribune.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

Mr.. Arthur is the sixth President who
weat wifeless to the White House. His
predecessors in this respect were Jeffer-
son, jackson, Van Buren, Tyler
and Buchanan, alt but the bachelor
Buchanan having been widowers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20
Life's True Significance.

Deeper than all sense of seeing
Lies tho secret source of being,
And the soul with truth agreeing,
Learns to live in thoughts and deeds;
For the life is moro than raiment,
And tho earth is pledged for payment
Unto man for all his needs.
Nature is our common mother,
Every living man our brother,
Therefore let US serve each other;
Not to meet the laws behests,
But because through cheorful giving
We shall learn the art of living;
And to live and serve is best.
Life is more than what man fancics !
Not game of idle chances;
But it steadily advances
Up the the rugged heights of time,
Till each complex web of trouble,
Every sad hopes broken bubble,
Hath meaning most sublime.
More of religion, less ofprofession;
More of iirmness, less concession;
More of freedom, less oppression,
In the church and in the state;
More OF life and less of fashion;
More oflove and less of passion;
That will make us good and great.
When true hearts divinoly gifted,
From the chaff of error gifted,
On their crosses arc uplifted,
Shall the world most clearly see
That earths greatest time of trial
Calls for holy self-denial,
Calls on men to do aud be.
But forever and forever
Let it be The souls enlcavor
Love from hatred to dissever,
And in whatsoe'er we do,
Won by loves eternal leauty,
10 our highest sense of duty
Evernore lc firm and true.
--iSrdtford Herald
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20

Vaccination as practiced in China has
two peculiar features. The subject is
not operated on the arm or leg. but in
the nose; and the government, while it
does not compel people to submit to
the operation, practically reaches the
same end that it would by doing so, by
offering to parents for every child vac
cinated premium of 100 copper cash,
which amounts to about ten cents, and,
for poor Chinaman in his own country,
a sum not altogether to be despised.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20

In p6tatoes there are seventy-fye
parts water to every hundred pounds.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-20

Priestly was the first to remark that
gases are diffused through each other.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-02-10
HOW DIAMOND MINES ARE
WORKED.

The system of working the diamond
mines is described by the operator as
follows: The ground being picked loose
by natives and broken up, is hauled out
OF the mines in tubs running on inclined
wires; from these tubs it is transferred
to sitting cylinder, which removes the
coarser stones, the remaining soil being
mixed with water and slowly stirred in a
fiat pan of circular form, by means of
arms fitted with teeth, this pan varying
from six to fifteen feet in diameter, ac-
cordIng to the amount of work to be
done. The effect of this is to leave the
diamonds, which are harvest, at the bot
tom; the lighter soil escaping over the
edge OF the pan, to be taken up by a
dredger and trucled away. At the end
OF days work the contents of the circu-
lar pan are cleaned out and washed UP in
hand-sieves, when in turning over the
sieve on the table the diamonds can be
at once seen from their brilliancy, some
being of most perfect octahedron shape
and as clear as crystal.
The rough diamonds are almost invar-
iably below ten carats in weight, the
average being about the size of a pea;
indeed, in the Bultfontein Mine, ten
carat stone is looked upon as curiosity,
though specimens excee ling one hundred
carats in weight have on rare occasions
been secured. The value of stone de-
pends entirely on its color, shape and
freedom from spots or flaws; those Of
faultless shape and perfect whiteness
taking the precedence of all others. The
diamonds exceeding twenty carats in
weight are mostly of various shades of
yellow, large white diamond being a
comparative rarity.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-02-10
THE JIM RIVER.
THE LONGEST STREAM IN THE WORLD NOT
-yAvIGABLE.

The Dakota river, vulgarly known as
''Jim'' river, is a stream worthy of more
than passing notice. Geographical
writer's have hitherto paid little attention
10 this great water course with its COM
mon place nickname-mostly, we pre-
sumo, because they have never had their
attention directed to the fact that it is
the longest river in the world not capable
of being naYigable in any of its parts.
Having directed attention to this striking
feature of its physical make up, an ex.
planation of how it acquired its homely
pseudonym may prove Of interest. The
early French traders and missionaries
who came this way gave it its original ap-
pellation, and among them it was known
as River Aux jacques. This was after
wards anglicized into plain James river,
and speedily vulgarized into the more
pungent title of Jim river. Congress in
1861 took the subject in hand, having,
perhaps, a vague idea of the part which
this extensive stream is to take in the
future of the new West, and decreed that
"it shall hereafter be called the Dakota
river" But congressional enactments
are not always strictly obeyed, and in
this case there seems to be no disposition
to accord to the Dakota its legal cogno-
men. 1t is known as the Jim, it is spo-
ken of as the Jim, and printed the jim
oftener than any other way. But there
is not much of any thing in name. The
river is there, and it will doubtless flow
on forever, whether it is known as the
Dakota, the James, or plain Jim. We
have stated that it is the longest river in
the world which cannot be navigated in
any portion by steam vessels. This we
believe to be fact. It rises near lat
ltude 4S, and traverses 525 miles of coun-
try. 1t is an exceedingly crooked stream,
constantly doubling itself and crossing
and winding along its prairie bed. Al
though we have no official measurement
of its crooks and curves, its actual length
cannot be less than 1000 miles. Through
out large portion of its length it main
tains nearly uniform depth and breadth,
and moves with sluggish current.
These are few characteristics of the
Dakota river, which waters a country of
Incompatible native richness.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-02-10
SIX THOUSAND YEARS OLD.

The Ashmolean Musium, at Oxford,
contains one of the Oldest monuments of
civilization in the world, if, indeed, it is
not one of the very oldest. This IS the
Intel stone of tomb which formed the
last resting place of an officer who lived
in the time of King Sent, of the second
dynasty, whose date is placed by NJ.
Mariette more than six thousand years
ago. The stone is covered with that
delicate and finished sculpture which
distinguished the early periods Of Egyp-
tian history, and was immeasurably su-
perior to the stiff and conventional art of
the latter ages of Egypt which we are
accustomed to see in our European
museums. But it is also covered with
something more precious still than sculp-
ture, with hieroglyphics which shows
that even at that remote Egyptian writ
ing was complete and finished art, with
long ages of previous development lying
behind it. The hieroglyphic characters
are already used, not only pictorially and
Geographically, but also to express sylI-
ables and alphabetic letters, the name of
the King, for instance, being spelled
alphabetically. In the hands of the
Egyptian scribes, however. Egyptian
writing never made any further progress.
With the fall of what is called the Old
Empire (about B. G. 3500) the freshness
and expansive force of the people passed
away, Egyptian life and thought became
fossilized, and through the long series of
centuries that followed Egypt resembled
one of its own mummies, faithfully pre-
serving the form and features Of the past
age, and of a life which had ceased to
beat in its veins. Until the introduction
of Christianity the only change under
gone by Egyptian writers was the in7en-
ton Of a running hand, which in its ear
lier and simpler form is called hieratic,
and in its later form tlomotic.