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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
The Night AR Superstition.

DR.. Oswald, in the last number of the Pop
uldr Science Monthly, engages in vigorous
onslaught on the popular fallacy that the all
at night is deleterious to health. Those who
are in the habit Of shutting off the supply Of
fresh air from their bedrooms upon retiring
for the night, little dream of the injury they
inf1ict upon their health. The practice oil
sleeping in an unventilated apartment is be-
lieved to be the most prolific single cause OF
impaired health. Here is what the DR.
Oswald has to say by way Of admonition to
people who have been taught to believe that
the air at night is not to be breathed
! Beware Of the night wind; be sure and
close your windows after dark !" In other
words, beware Of Gods free air; be sure and
infect your lungs with the stagnant, azotized
and offensive atmosphere of your bedroom.
In other words, beware of the rock spring
stick to sewerage Is night air injurious? Is
there single tenable pretext for such an
idea? Since the day of creation that air has
been breathed with impunity by millions of
different animals-tender, delicate creatures,
some Of them-fawns lambs and young birds
The moist night air Of the tropical forests
is breathed with impunity by our next rela-
tives, the anthropoid apes-the same apes
that soon perish with consumption in the
close though generally well-warmed atmos-
phere Of our northern menageries. Thou
sands OF soldiers, hunters and lumbermen
sleep every night in tents and open sheds
without the least injurious consequences;
men in the last stage Of consumption have
recovered by adopting a semi-savage mode of
life, and camping out doors in all but the
stormiest nights. Is it the draught you fear,
or the contrast Of temperature? Blacksmiths
and railroad conductors seem to thrive under
such influences. Draught? Have you never
seen boys skating in the teeth of snow
storm at the rate of fifteen miles all hour?
"They counteract the effect of the cold air
by vigorous exercise" Is there no other way
OF keeping warm? Does the north wind
damage the fine lady sitting motionless in
her sleigh, or the pilot and helmsman of
storm tossed vessel? 1t cannot be the in
clemency of the open air, for, even in swell
tering summer nights, the sweet south wind,
blessed by all creatures that draw the breath
Of life, brings no relief to the victim of aero
phobia. There is no doubt that families who
have freed themselves from the curse of that
can live out and live healthier
in the heart of great city than its slaves on
the airiest highland Of the southern Apen- |
mines.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
The Difference.

The male and female clerks in Washington
are thus contrasted: It is common enough
to see a male clerk sauntering through the
corridors during Office hours alone and unat-
tended, but a female clerk never. They al
ways are found in pairs When female
clerk wants to leave her desk and 60 out into
the corridors, similar desire is sure to seize
another female clerk, and they go out to-
gether. There has never been a case record
ed where female clerk has left her work
during office hours and appeared in the COR
ridOrs alone. There are always two of them,
generally with arms twined affectionately,
and, at the same time, gracefully, about each
other, slowly pacing the corridors. This fact
is singular, and may be important. There
may be scientific, perhaps a psychological,
reason for this phenomenon. 1t can't be be-
cause of their social natures, for when they
leave the departments for their homes this
dual condition of affairs no longer exists.
They 60 along the streets alone, but in the
corridors of the department they are found
in pairs This phenomenon is an interesting
one, and should be investigated, and no doubt
rich results would be obtained and much
light thrown on the vexed problem of fe-
male nature.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
What is a Cold?
["Johnny Bouquet in Sunday Tribune.
Chambers Journal

In the first place. we must be paradoxical,
and affirm that it is not cold at ALL 1t is
rather heat, if L might so express myself
that is, it is form of fever, but, of course, a
very mild type, when it is uncomplicated by
other diseases. 1t is certainly, in the majori-
ty of instances. due to the effects of cold
playing upon some portion of the body, and
reacting upon the mucuous membrane
through the intervention of the nervous ap-
paratns. What is called cold, then, is in
reality fever; and though in the majority
of instances, it is Of such trivial nature as
to necessitate few precautions being taken
during its attack, yet in some cases it runs a
most acute course, and may be followed by
great prostration Even when the premoni-
tory symptoms of cold are developing them
selves-when, for example, what medical
man calls rigor, or, as is popularity design
ated, shivering is felt, when we would
suppose that the animal tempera-
ture is below par, it is at that very moment
higher than the normal; thus showing the
onset of fever.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
Mocha Coffee.

If the official returns of the coffee trade
are to be trusted-and presumably they are
not greatly in errOr-the coffee consuming
public of this country has been for a long
time past very much deluded. There are
multitude of people in this part of the world"
says the New York Times "who are laboring
under the belief that the beverage which
they drink at breakfast, and possibly after
dinner, is Mocha coffee. Their grocer tells
them that the article he sells is pure Mocha,'
and they have no means of knowing that he
is deceiving them, if, indeed, he has not been
deceived himself Some, with peculiar
fastidiousness, insist upon having a mixture,
and want One-half or one-third OF Mocha and
the remainder of Java cOffee-a request which
the grocer seemingly complies with; that is,
he takes the coffee from two separate COM
partments. Now, the last completed returns
OF the coffee production of the world are
made UP to the year 1873. In that year the
estimated growth was 1882, 800 pounds,
of which Brazil produced 497 1877 300 pounds,
or very nearly one half Next came the
Dutch East Indian possessions, where the
crop amounted to POI 500 200 pounds; while
Ceylon, South Africa, and the West Indies
furnished nearly all the rest. Arabia, it is
true, appears on the list, but its total growth
the Mocha District and the rest of the coun
try combined, was only about 100000
pOunds-that is, not quite One-half of one per
cent. of the growth of the world. When it is
considered that coffee is extensively used in
Arabia, that Mocha comes within the posses
sions of Turkey, country peopled with
coffee-drinkers, and that we have nc direct
means of communication with Arabia, one
may well hesitate before he accepts the cur
rent Mocha fiction of the grocers 1t is high
ly probable that not 10000 pounds of this
article are brought into this country in the
course Of a year, an amount that would not
furnish a days supply for the inhabitants of
this city. We all, Of course, know the flavor
of Mocha coffee, and hence cannot be de-
ceived, though in reality, probably not one in
q thousand of us ever tasted of it,"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
THE MEASURE OF LIFE.

II hives were measured by the good
In words or deeds that men achieve,
How few OF Adams children could
Expect the Psalmist's $ term to live.
II lives were measured by the joys
by men conferred on other men,
How few would pass the age of boys,
How few would care to live again.
II lives were measured by the sins
And sorrows that we scatter round,
We might outlive the tabled Djinns,
And with Methuselah be found.
II lives were measured by mistakes.
BY brave designs that come to naught,
By all the countless pains and aches
Ourselves upon our hearts have brought,
Then might we scoff at darts of death,
The weight OF growing years defy,
Herenely draw our useless breath,
And live till Time himself should die.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
Greek EmbrOideries.

These we can perfectly appreciate by
studying Hopes Costumes of the Ancients,
Millingen's works, ETC., also the Greek fictile
vases in the British Museum. On these are
depicted their gods, their heroes, their wars
and their home life. The worked or woven
patterns on their draperies are infinitely
varied, and range over several centuries of
design-and they are almost always beauti-
full. 1t is melancholy to have to confess that
in this, as in all their art, the Greek taste is
inimitable; yet we may profit by the lessons
it teaches u.s. These are variety without re-
dundancy grace without affection; simpli-
city without poverty; the appropriate the
harmonious, and the serene; rather than that
which is painful, astonishing or awful. These
principles were carried into the smallest arts,
and we can trace them in the shaping of a
cup or the decoration of q mantle as in the
frieze of the parthenOn itself.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
An Old story.

This is the London Truths version of AN
%a Ciu story i heard rather good story of
Golliihon Council. A park with lake has
zen presented to the town where this Coun-
III ~ noios sway. One of the councillors moved
sllat hundred gondolas be ordered for the
mequenters ~ of the lake. Another councillor
:; b;a once arose. He said that he agreed with
nls honorable colleague that gondolas were a
to Necessary adjunct to lake, but he thought
boer y" order at once one hundred involved a
tbot tbeaty expenditure of municipal money, and
ha fnat, therefore, he would move that the num-
i"a Iei oe reduced to two, and that they sbould
i'a'e the increase to nature - = f'a
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
HOW CAN 4 WOMAN TELL!

lie told me his love in the morning,
With his dear hand clasping mine,
And he said, God speed the dawning
When, sweet. shall call thee mine.
But my fond heart questioned softly,
Though loving him true and well,
viii his love Outlast all changes?
All, how can a woman tell:
When the years shall bring their trials,
And the cares and The pains outweigh
The joys i'll the little household,
As clouds might obscure the day,
VIII the hand that held mine so fondly,
When naidenly lis befell
As earnestly shield f. ON sorrow
All. now can woman tell?
When the silrery threads are creeping
Through my tresses one by one;
Nhc0 lose my youth and beauty,
A. many Il wife has done
VIII his heart be mine as truly
As when in the fiowery dell
lie gave me his trusted promise?
Al, now can woman tell?
glance 1t my sweetheart waiting,
His eyes they are clear and true;
i will love him, my heart says gladly,
Il will trust him the wide world through
VIII be to him joy and comfort,
will all other wives excel,
! will keep him with loves sweet magic
lhis much may woman tell!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
One Hundred and Forty Years Old.
New York Times.

An audience gathered in the African NJ. Z.
Zion Church, Newark, Thursday night, to
listen to lecture by DIR. Albert Delaney.
centenarian Dr. Delany stated that he was
born in Sierra Leone, in 1850, and that his
father is still living in Freetown, that colony.
at the age of 14O years. Delany is about
six feet high, and black. He used good Ian
guage, and talked with considerable fiuency:
His wife accompanies him. DR.. De.any said
that he is one of the 100 native ministers
who attended Livingstone in one OF his ear
lier expeditions into Africa, and his discourse
was on Africa and the man to whose expl0ra-
tons we owe much of our knowledge about
that tropical country. r4aEfEt,a q
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
THE MAIDEN OF ARCHANGEL..

Far away in northern Russia,
Past the Dwina's frozen streams,
Lives and loves Russian maiden;
sees her lover in her dreams.
IN the Arctic town, Archangel,
Where the northern lights are bright,
SIS and sighs Russian maiden
Through the silent winter night.
Far heyond the moaning forests,
Where the Polar tempests roar,
Works and waits Russian maiden
On "a bleak and barren shore.
Sad and lonely in her cabin,
At her task she softly huns;
Patiently Russian maiden
Waits for one who never comes.
Day by day the fish-net mending,
Counting stitches, one by one,
"Re is coming" says the maiden,
Coming with the midnight sun"
Gaily on the White sea sailing,
Years ago sailor lad
Left "A pretty Russian maiden,
Left her signing, left her sad.
Years ago faithiess sailor
Left a bleak and barren shore;
Soon forgot a Russian maiden,
Where the Polar tempests roar.
Still she waits and counts the stitches,
sees again the midnight sun;
Slowly p 81 the Russian maiden
Drag the seasons one by one.
Still the pretty Russian maiden
Sees the sailor in her dreams,
Far away in northern Russia,
Fast the Dwina' frozen streams.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
Family Names.

A gentleman had five daughters, the first
of whom married man by the name of
Poor, the second a Mr.. Little, the third Mr..
Short, the fourth Mr. Brown, the fifth a
Mr.. Hogg. AT the wedding of the latter her
sisters with their husbands were there, and
the old gentleman said to his guest, Il have
taken pains to educate my daughters that
they might act well their part in life and do
honor to my family. / find that all my
pains, care and expectations have turned out
nothing but Poor, Little, Short, Brown
Hogg." af* Al
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
Strength of Insects.

At a meeting of the Maryland Academy of
Sciences recently, DR.. Theobold showed a
species of a beetle and gave the following
figures: Weight of beetle, 2 grains weight
moved by it, 81 ounces-2.640 grains, or
1,32O times the weight of the beetle. A
man weighing $50 pounds. endowed with the
strength of this insect, should, therefore, be
able to move $4,000 pounds, or nearly 100
TONS at ~ a n
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21
A Southern Toast to the School.
raleigh. IN. CO News

IHdtISI, IN. J.D NeWSJ
A. ii. Merritt, of Chatham, chairman of the
Senate Judiciary committee, at the close of
his eloquent speech at the University supper,
gave the following sentiment, which was
greeted with great applause: THE common
school system and the University; two,
but inseparable Hand-maidens of intelli-
gence and virtue, which bear their welcome
blessings alike to the cottage and the palace,
and bring the poor to the level of the peern
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-04-21

The following estimate is made of the total
amount OF mail matter passing through the
mails during the year 1880: Number of let
ters, 512,93l ,224; postal cards, 163,0489 912;
newspapers, 496, zoo, 1872 Pieces of all classes,
Cos 800 500
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26

Philip Truschal,a German lad, who
had been year in this country. and
was employed by his uncle, a fsrist.
in Flatbush, N. Y, chose hsrribls
death on Tuesday. While alone In
the greenhouse he deliberately crawl
Ell in upon the live Goals in small
furnace until most Of his body was
inside. He was found with his legs
sticking outside the furnace door.
while his head, chest and body were
simply reduced to crisp. He left a
note bidding good-by to all. and ad.
ding. "If one is tired of life, he need
only do as am about to do"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26

PRAISE YOUR WIFE.-Praise your
wife, man f; for pity's sake give her
little encouragement; it won't hurt
her. She made heme comfortable,
your hearth bright and shining food
sgreeable-for pity's sake thank her,
if nothing more. She dent expect
it +; it will make her eyes open wider
than they have these ten years, but
it will do her good, and you too.
There are many women to day thirst
for words of praise, the language of
encouragement. Through summers
heat, through winters toll, they have
drudged uncomplainingly. and so
accustomed have their fathers,
brothers and husbands become to
their monOtOnous labors that they
look for and upon them as they do
the daily rising Of the sun, and its
daily going down. Home every day
may be made beautiful by an appre.
citation of its holiness. You know,
if you can take from your drawer a
clean Shirt whenever you want 1t,
that somebody's fingers have ached
in the toll of making 1t fresh and
agreeable, Sc smOothe and lustrOus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26
NUMBER 5.


Not q day passes, probably In
which we do not listen to several of
those polite Abs which usage sane.
tions. Fer instancs: ssClgars do not
affect me in the least /; indeed, ! am
quite partial to the aroma, y SAYS the
white-lipped girl to her gentleman
friend, whe smokes constantly at her
side; her sufferings only equalled BY
those Of the other girl who persists
IN riding with her back TO the horses.
and says that the motion does not af-
feet her In the'least, Though knowing
that many times before she has been
reduced to . stats Of miserable sea-
sickness by similar proceeding.
mot at home to-day, John - and,
the footman receives and delivers the
messaee to visitors as unconscIousIy
as though there were no moral
wrong involved in the transaction.
L recently beard an animated conver-
satlon concerning the propriety and
morality OF polite lying. Several,
including minister, asserted that
both politeness and kindliness de-
manded that we frequently say that
which we do not mean, admire that
we do not like, assent to that with
which we do not agree, and in many
ways speak and act lies to ayeid
wounding the feelings of other peo.
pie. One lady present, who immedi-
ately receiver the sobriquet ef"Puri-
TAM" maintained that while it is not
necessary to say all that we think
While we need never give adverse
opinion unless it is positively called
for; while we need not obtrude our
likes and dislikes, nor express our
unfayorable criticism while, indeed,
we should seek for something which
we can honestly admire and praise in
every one, all shams and subterfuges.
all sesmings that were not realities,
and especially all words spoken with
intent to deceive are, in plain Saxon,
lies, and no amount of kindliness of
purpose can change their character.
A lie is lie-nothing more, nothing
less.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26
Never the Same

No. my dear girl, don't be In a
hurry to marry you will never find
such love as awaits you at home.
Your husband will love you In his
mans fashion but you will not be
little Lily. who was baby once, who
learned to walk and talk, and was
prettier than any other baby ever
was; nor the little girl who was so
wonderful genius when she played
her first tune on the piano, or work
cd her first book mark. He who
falls in love with you will have
known twenty pretty girls and will
have been in love with half of them.
In some things sou will fall shor: OF
some one he has knt wn. Your eyes
will not be as fine as those Of Miss
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26
Keep the Life Pure.

Once upon time an Arabian prin-
cess was presented by her teacher
with an ivory casket, exquisitely
wrought, with the instruction not to
open it until year had rolled around.
Many were the speculations as to
what it contained, and the time I'M
patiently waited for when the jewel.
ed key should disclose the mysterious
contents. 1t came at last, and the
maiden went away alone and with
trembling haste unlocked the treas
ure; and 10! reposing on delicate
satin Innings, lay nothing but
shroud of rust; the form of some.
thing beautiful could be discerned,
but the beauty had gone forever,
Tea.ful with disappointment, she
did not at first see a slip Of parch-
ment containing these words:
"Dear pupil: May you learn from
this a lesson for ysur life. This
trinket, when inclosed, had upon it
single spet of rust; by neglect it
has become the useless thing you
now behold, only blot on its pure
surroundings. So little stain on
your character will, by inattention
and neglect, mar bright and useful
life, and in time will leave snly the
dark record of what might have been.
If you now place within jewel Of
gold, and after many years seek the
result, you will find 1t still as spark
ling AS ever. So with yourself;
treasure up only the pure. the good,
and you will eyer be an ornament
to society and source of true pleas
ure to yourself and your friends"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26

Mrs. WIN. d. Prentiss, of Lowell.
Mass, was surprised the other day to
read of the marriage of her husband
on the 5th ultimo, to her own sister,
Miss Rhoda Louisa Derby. The
guilty pair denied this report, but
wife No. went to the clergyman
who. it was said. married them, and
had her very worst fears confirmed.
The tive sisters have been living to-
gether since the second marriage.
Miss Derby acknowledges the crime,
but says she was drunk at the time.
Prentiss has been arrested.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26

Lavinia, and you will not make cake
as his mother does. But here. in your
girlnood's home, you have been per.
lection. even If prudence kept yeur
parents from saying SO; they cannot
believe anyone quite &c nice as their
Lily. Ahl there Is time enough.
Linger a little where some one else
shoulders the burdens and gives you
all the ease; where the love is love
that does not change because Of new
face; where the fonder you are the
mere yeu are adpred. Il may be ali
that you hope lii the newelifs you
long for, but-feshay not and assur.
edly the childish freedom from care
will never come again when once van
are the one to shoulder the burdens.
Do not. then, be In 50 great hurry
To assume them. siag ct hesnea iitfil
longer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26
Vennor's Appearance---H He Came
to be Prophet.

Before me stood Vennor, the young
probabilities man below the me.
dunn height, and of stout build,
modest in manner, of pleasant ad
dress. Vennor has a hardy, weather
beaten countenance, and is of sandy
complexion, and presents an appear
ance that does not indicate a man
above 30 years of age.
"What position do you occupy in
the government service ?" asked
your correspondent of Mr.. Vennor.
VennOr replied: Zone of the late
Sir William Logan's staff of field ex.
plorer's and naturalists. was ap-
pointed on the survey of Canada by
Sir William in 1865, when spent
four months in hut on the Great
Manitoulin Island. in Lake Huron.
l have been out continually since,
exploring different sections of Cana.
da. Besides geology 1 study orni.
tholegy, and have men out at private
expense making collections. [ am
engaged now on work ON the Birds
of Canada.'"
In answer to the question as to
what prompted him to make weather
predictions Vennor said: sit was on
account of mistakes made by sup.
posed authorities when 1 was in
quest of information myself. Finding
these altogether unreliable, 1 com.
menced a series of observations fer
myself and sooL Jared much BETTER"
"When did you make your first
predictions ?"
"ln the fall of 1876" answered
Vennor, ''and on my return from a
survey of the Madawaska and Bon
nechere rivers in eastern Ontario.
The attempt was so novel and start
ling that the press termed it tVen.
nor's daring prediction Ny predic.
tons were fulfilled almest to the
letter and much more closely than l
had dared anticipate"
Vennor stated the grounds on
which he makes his predictions to be
as follows: First, on the principle
of recurring periods in the weather
at irregular but ascertainable inter-
walls; second, from close study of
charts for the winters for past seasons
embracing a period of fifty years
third. from upward of eighteen years
out of doors and camp life, and orig
inal observations of the habits of
birds ana animals; fourth, from i'm
pressions intuitively formed and not
describable.-Montreat Letter.