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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-15
Hair Bleaching.

A young lady stepped into a hair store
on Grand River avenue and asked the
proprietor:
''Can you bleach my hair?"
"Yes," answered the young man who
owned the establishment, ST can"
What will it cost?"
'.From Sc to $40; We cannot tell be-
cause there is great difference in the
| time it takes to bleach hair"
"And how long will it takeP"
ST cannot tell you that either; but We
| would rather sell you bottle of the
bleach and have you do your own hair.
| We don't like to assume the RESPONSE
bility."
| Here the wife of the proprietor looked
up from wig she was making.
"It is pity TO bleach your hair, shs
said, regarding the young girl III will
b-eak off and fall out as soon as it is
bleached. Let me advise you to keep
your good hair the color it is. ann
making wig now for lady who had
her head shaved ut the BARRIERS. She had
her hair hleached and it all broke of and
looked like stubble."
ssThere is worse than that about it,
said her husband. ssThere is now in the
asylum at London, Ont, lady from
Goderich, who has been hopelessly in
sane for three years from using the
bleach, and there are two well known
ladies in this city who are in very seri-
Gus condition from brain troubles caused
by its use." :.
"Then it is as dangerous as hair dyer"
suggested another party present.
cit is hundred times more danger
Gus. but it does not affect all constitu-
tions alike; some never show any effect
from it, or if it makes then i'll, neither
they nor their friends understand the
cause of it. It is worse than foolish to
destroy their hair in that way; it is
wicked. I am in the business and keep
the bleach for sale because they will
have it, and, as say, there are lots Of
folks it never hurts"
"What is the process Of bleaching the
hair?"
s.You wash it out first with soda wa
ter and then apply the fluid to the roots
and all through the hair. Some times
two ounce bottle will turn the hair light,
but it must be applied at regular inter
walls. as fast as the roots grow out. We
have the French bleach in bulk, but it is
sold by other hair dealers in small bot
ties, ST. bottle
"What do they do with dark eyebrows
when the hair is light"
"Pencil them with the lFrench
eyebrow crayons. We have them both in
red and blonde"
Ozark eyelashes often go with light
hair, naturally" said the wife of the hair
dresser. my hair is light and never has
| been bleached, and my eyebrows are al
| most black"
The young lady who had evoked this
| information concerning the hair conclud
ed to let her head alone. A few questions
asked at the leading hair store on Wood
ward avenue ELECTED about the same in
formation concerning the process. but it
was considered non-poisonous. The
'swater of gold doris the name
of the white and harmless looking liquid
which the hair dresser calls "bleach,
and which would hardly cell as readily
as it does if it were labeled poison
Detroit Post and Tribune.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-15
Scarlet Fever and Sewerage.

In q recent paper on some OF the con-
diticns which modify or increase the in
fective character of scarlating, DR.. Car
penter takes the ground that while
rigorous isolation is required whenever
and wherever the disease occurs, In its
early stages,it is unnecessary to continue
this for many weeks, as is often done.
He thinks that the isolation might be
restricted to fortnight. He gives the
case of school at Croydon, where scar
latina appeared over and oNsr again.
"The unused cesspocl had become the
recipient of the wsshings of a slaughter
house, and that and cold water had found
a way into the ceespool, and further ex-
animation showed that it occurred once
a week, displacing the aerial contents of
the ceespool into the closets and urinals
of the boys, and explaining the cause
for complaint, which. at the time they
were made, seemed unaccountable. The
cesspool was filed up, the slaughter
house sewer was unstopped and made to
discharge its sewerage in the right di-
rection, that is, into the sewer. The
house has been occupied as a school
since 1862, and there has not been any
outbreak of scarlatina among the occu-
pants from that time to this. It must be
evident that the cesspool in the school-
yard was intimately associated with the
temperance of scarlatina; that it con-
tanned some material which continued
its vitality, being fed with water oon-
tanning blood products which material
was displaced by the introduction of
fluid every week. There is large pri-
vate school at Blackheath. where several
outbreaks of scarlatina appeared. A
close examination revealed the fact that
the doors in the lobby acted as suckers
on q piston-rod, and drew air backwards
or forwards out of or into the class
rooms, towards or from the bath room
and latrines. Separated from the boys
closets, and leading out of the latrines,
was water-closet which was locked up.
It had been provided for the tutors, but
was seldom used. An examination OF
this water closet gave most perceptible
evidence of sewer smell, especially when
large volume of water had been dis
charged down the latrines. It was quite
flushed. or the bath emptied, some part
of the sewer became closed receiver.
and emptied foul air from the main
sewer into the latrines by this water
closet, aud from thence into the class
room. We have only now to provide
that some of the factors of scarlatina
shall be- In the sewer for them to find
their way into the classroom in the
manner indicated. When the disease
appeared in the school it was very prev
alent in the district lower down the hill.
Since 1874, the defective drainage hav-
ing been rectifed. no succession of cases
have appear ed at all in the school, and
the one imported case has lot been fol-
lowed by any general outbreak. San.
itary Engineer.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-15

Well, I laid under that tree all night, an
when l woke in the mornin' thar sot my
wife right thar by me. She didn't say
word when I woke up, but she sorter
turned her head away. got up and
looked at her. She still didn't say
nothin' but I could see that she was
chokin'.
IT wish had suthin to drink. SIS /.
"Then she tuck cup what she fotch
with her and went down to whar spring
billed up, an dipped up cupful an
fotch it TO me. Jes as she was handin' it to
me she leaned over ter hide her eyes, an
| seed tear drap in the water. I tuck
the cup an drunk the water an the tear,
an raisin' my hands vowed that / would
never after drink my wife's tears agin
that I had been drinkin' them for the
last twenty years, an that was goin' to
stop. You boys know who it was that
left me drunk. You was all in the gang.
Give me another glass of water, Mr..
Bartender. ."-Arkansaw Traveller.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-15
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Steel nails ere the latest novelties.
Bricklayers in Houston, Texas, receive
Sc per day.
New York uses from 5000 to 10000
tons of ice day.
Figs are worth So per bushel in st.
Augustine. Florida.
The potato blight has appeared In
Wayne, Pennsylvania.
The latest use of electricity is its ap-
plication to bleaching linen.
Ohio's wheat crop is stated at only one
half what it was in 1882.
Seville, Florida, expects to ship ct
least / 200. 900 oranges this season.
The San Domingo sugar crop is short
80 per cent, and financial crisis pre-
walls.
The annual products of the British
about $40 ,000, 900.
Minneapolis is reported to ship annu-
ally, beyond her local consumption,
,650, $40 barrels of -four.
A cypress log twenty-seven feet in CIR
conference has been sent from Florida
to the Louisville exhibition.
The New England mackerel trade Is
almost in panic. There is decrease
of 183, ,454 barrels from last year.
Over 800, 900 dozen of eggs have been
imported into the district Of Oswegatche,
n. Y, during the last two months.
There are 682 furnaces in the country.
Of these only 334 are in blast, yet the
stock of pig iron has increased IA. .935
tons since the first of January.
Erath county, Texas, has an infant in
dustry which needs protecting just now.
It is littls girl, six years old, who is an
expert telegraph operator.
Tea culture is carried on in several of
the Southern States, and according to .
letter from that section, the number of
families that regularly use tea of domes.
tic production is steadily increasing.
About s25, ,0oO, 900 are invested IN the
bakery business in this country, DIVIDED
up among 1000 establishments. The an
nual production is worth $40, ,00O, 900.
and S45, 600 900 of raw materials used.
Augusta has 133, 800 spindles actually
turning. These are set in ten mills,
which have capacity of q. 600 addition
al capacity. Besides these, another mill,
with capacity of 80, 900, is now being
built.
Business appears to be dull in Eng
land. A decrease of 81. .500. 900 imports
and 50, 500, 900 exports. for the month Of
July, as compared with the correspond
ing period of last year, is discouraging
sign of the times.
Stones which have long been numer-
ems on the soil of South Carolina are
now being manufactured and used for
| fertilizing purposes. The deposits OF
these stones. which were long considered
worthless, are now said TO be more valu.
able than the guano beds OF Peru.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-15

A party explored the Blowing Springs
Cave for few hundred feet recently and
returned with a tale OF marvellous dis
The party was organized by Mr.. J. P.
McMillin, Of this city, to continue the
investigation. He was accompanied by
Mr.. Mark Long, the well-known civil
engineer. They were supplied with coal.
oil torches, pine knots, lanterns, ropes
and all other equipments, besides taking
along levelling rods and transits.
Although the river is very low the water
laves the mouth OF the cave. and the en-
trance was obtained ouly by crawling
through the water, when at once the
scene changed and they stood in an inn
mense chamber. The party entered at 9
A. M. and remained in until P. NJ, and
were walking nearly the entire time. By
actual measurement they traversed dis
tancs of 1885 feet, and from all appear
ances the wonderful caveextended to an
indefinite length. Their explorations
met with the happiest results and the
wonderful sights which met their aston
ished gaze seem more like views in fairy
land.
They first entered succession of large
chambers from which huge stalatites
hung suspended in countless myriads
and glistened in the Pickering lights like
diamonds. About 200 feet from the
mouth they encountered another cave.
bat it extended only short distance.
Returning to the main cave, they pro-
ceeded further, and following branch
to the right they came upon huge sub
teranean lake. They were unable to
proceed further in that direction, and
again returned to the main cave and ad-
vanced. Ahead of them was heard the
roar of rushing waters and they soon
encountered waterfall, its height being
27 feet. A branch led to the left, aid
within short distance they beheld an
other waterfall, the cliffs rising to sheer
height of $50 feet. The water came over
with roar like thunder, the volume be-
ing fully IL inches in diameter. With
ceed any further in that direction, and
returning to the main channel again ad-
vanced, until their explorations were
brought to sudden stop by precipit-
Gus wall of solid rock rising to height
of fully 100 feet.
They then stood in an immense cham.
Der, fully 200 feet wide, almost circular
in shape; walls of solid stone rose on all
sides, and the roof spenned it as dome.
From the centre of the dome stream of
water poured, falling in the centre ol
the chamber; the stream was fully IL
inches in diameter. and was 10y cold and
clear as crystal. The party stood almost
speechless with admiration at this sub
lime spectacle, but were barred from
further progress by precipitous wallis
Chattanooga Times.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-15

tunity was too good to be lost, and so the
languishing swain clasped his lady love
IN his arms and imprinted kiss upon
her lips. The sound could not have
betrayed them, but they had forgotten
that unfortunate camera; and amid the
rather inconsiderate laughter OF those
above, they, in hot confusion, beat q
hasty retreat.
1t Is certainly, one wonld suppose,
quite within the right of engaged lovers
to find fault with each other for bestow-
ing favors of this kind in other quarters.
An engaged young gentleman got rather
neatly out of scrape of this description
with his intended. She taxed him with
having kissed two ladies at some party
at which she had been present. He
owned it, but laughingly assured her
that thsir united ages only made 81.
The simple-minded girl only thought of
10 and II, and laughed off her pout. The
willy rascal did not explain that one of
the girls he had kissed was 10 years Of
age and the other 2.
With the merry, time-honored custom
of kissing under the mistletoe our read
ers, are all, of course, familiar. Nor is
it necessary to more than allude to the
well-known understanding that lady,
finding q gentlemen asleep, may salute
him with kiss and then claim as. a re-
ward pair of gloves. We have known
young men to go asleep in the most care
less way imaginable, in full cognizanoe
of this danger, and lose several pairs of
gloves before they happened to awake.
Many young ladies. would probably
think tho act of kissing a gentleman
whom they ohanced to find asleep rather
a breach of the proprieties than other
wise; but there are few in
stances in which they could not rely
upon the full and free forgiveness of the
persons against whom the offense was
committed-who, indeed. in ninety-nine
cases out of a hundred, would be only
too willing to submit to such sweet chas-
tisement, whether asleep or awake and
to pay the penalty without murmur.-
Chambers Journal.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-15
No Nonsense about Him.

There is no nonsense about the tiger,
as there is about the lion. He does not
go about imposing on poets. Wolves
may, if they like, pretend that they are
only dogs gone wrong from want of q
better bringing up, aud the lion swag-
ger as il he were something more than q
very large cat; but the tiger never de-
scends to such prevarication, setting
himself up for better than he is, or
claiming respect for qualities which he
knows he does not possess. There is no
ambiguity about anything he does. All
his character is on the surface. ST am, !"
he says, "a thoroughgoing, downright
wild beast, and if you don't like me you
must lump me. But in the meanwhile
you had better keep out of my way"
There is no pompous affectation of SD
perior intelligence" about tigers. If
they are met with in iungles they do not
make believe for the purpose of impress
ing the traveller with their uncommon
magnanimity or waste time, like the lion,
in snperhuous roarings, or looking
kingly." On the contrary. they behave
hooestly and candidly, lik the wild beasts
they are. They either retire precipitately
| with every confession of alarm, or in
their fine outspoien way Ego for the
| stranger" Nor when they make off
| do they do it as if they liked it or had
any half mind about it-as the lion, that
Livingstone tells US trots away slowly
till it thinks itself out of sight and then
bounds off like greyhound-wasting
time in pretentious attitudes or in trying
to save appearances. They have no idea
of showing off. IF they mean to go they
go like lightning and don't for moment
think of the figure they are cutting. But
| if, on the other hand, they mean night.
| ing, they give the stranger very little
leisure for misunderstanding their inten-
tions. The tiger. therefore, deserves to
he held in respect as model wild beast,
for he knows his station, and keeps it,
doing the work that nature has given him
to do with all his might. Life has only
one end for him, the enjoyment of it and
to this he gives the whole of his magnifi.
cent energies. Endowed with superb
capabilities for taking lives and preserv.
ing his own, he exercises them to the ut.
most in this one direction, without ever
| forgetting for an instant that he is only
q huge cat, or flying in the face of Prov.
idence by wishing TO be thought any.
thing else.-Belgravia.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-15

Stinson, young man Just attained his
majority, was arrested at Louisville re-
gently, while attempting to throw him
self head fl J. from the top of freight
car. He ss: he had tried to make
man of hin self, but had failed, and was
''no good, and wanted to die. he was
taken to Jail, and within 10 minutes had
climbed to the top of the corridor. He
threw himself to the fagstones below,
fracturing his skull and dying in few
minutes. Being Respondent for some
time, he bade his family goodbye inithe
morning. saying they would probably
see him no more.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-15

st. Louis is shipping considerable
quantities Of olsonargarine 10 Holland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-05
CRIMINAL TRIALS,

Arraignment of Stout, the Darlington Muir
derer-Other Cases at Rockville.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
ROCKVILLE, Jan, 4.-Judge Heller of In
dianapolis, arrived on late train yesterday
evening, and last night Buck Stout, who
killed Taylor Dunbar at Darlington on Nov.
"a, 1882 was brought before him. Stout was
arraigned, the indictment read, and a plea of
not guilty entered by his lawyer. During
the reading of the indictment, which is long
containing five counts, Stout was exceed
ingly ill at ease, and perceptibly WINGED
every time the words 'killed Taylor Dun
barr were uttered. The trial is set for Thurs
day, the 18th inst, when both sides claim
they will be ready. John II. Burford, of
Charlottesville, will assist Prosecutor How
ard in prosecuting, and John R. Courtney
and Duncan Puett will defend. 1t is
said that when the case comes to trial
Stout will file his petition for aid from the
State because he is a pauper, and Courtney
and Puett expect to be appointed for the de-
Tense. motion for a special venire of
thirty-six jurors was not granted. but the
county clerk will see that enough men are
present to give competent jury without
delay. There are about sixty witnesses for
the State. Just what line of defense Wal be
made is not yet known, but probably the old
dodge of insanity, in some form, will be
used. Stout says he feels much safer here
than IN Observation-Disclosures there is not so
much danger here. He has told various
parties here that he expects nothing else
than to be hanged
The grand jury brought in an indictment
for m rider in the first 1apree aoainSt Marian
the Lid murderer, and yesterday he was
taken before Judge Brtton, when he waived
arraignment, and his case was continued
until the March term OF court
The man Robert Bailey, who was almost
killed at Rosedale not long since, not yet
having died. as was expected, the grand jury
has indicted John Keys, Joseph Dunkerly
and Eli Saville for assault with intent to
kill. They are now awaiting trial on that
charge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-05
THE SWOLLEN RIVERS.


Increasing Distress Caused by the Inunda-
lions in Central Europe.
BERLIN, JAN 1.-The inundations are tax
ing the form of great public catastrophe.
The distress is increasing hourly. The mill
tary and civil authorities are making the
greatest exertion to mitigate the misery of
the disaster. There is no sign yet that the
crisis OF the calamity is reached. High tenn
perature and rains continue. At Ludwig
shafen, opposite Mannheim, where the great
Rhine dam gave way, last night, the lives of
hundreds of people were imperilled. A
steamer rescued many hundreds, including
sick. The deepest distress prevails.
A Geneva telegram says the Paris & Lyons
railway, on the French frontier, is washed
away so badly that direct railway service
between Switzerland, France and Italy is
interrupted.
A Paris dispatch says the rivers Saone and
Daubis have inundated several villages
Thirty-two houses have fallen at Longe-
pierre.
Vienna dispatch says the Danube has
inundated Pressburg, thirty-four miles from
Vienna.
A Wesbaden dispatch says: "The Rhine is
beginning to fall. Thirteen persons were
drowned at Friesenhiem. In ALL sixty or
seventy lives have been lost by the floods.
The water penetrated the foundations OF the
Notifications at Mayence. The barometer is
rising"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-05
The Cities of the World.

The following statistics of the number OF
inhabitants ofsome of the principal cities in
Europe have been recently issued. There
are ninety-two cities in the whole of Europe
each containing more than 100000, but only
four of which have more than 1000, GOO, viz.
London, 9, 1892, 4i0; Paris 2,225. go; Berlin,
l, 222, 500; Vienna, 1,103. ITO. OF the other
capitals, st. Petersburg possesses SIC, $40; Con-
stantinople, 800, 000 Madrid, 1851, 280 Budam,
Pesth, $50, $50; Warsaw, 339 $40; Amsterdam,
81, 010; Rome. 300, 40; Lisbon, 246 $40; Paler-
mo, 244 $50; Copenhagen, 234, $780, Munich,
10000; Bucharest, 221 800; Dresden, 900, 800;
Stockholm, 16S, no; Brussels, 161, 800 Venice,
132, $780, Stutgardt, III, 800. In addition to
these, Moscow contains Gil, $40; Naples, 493,
no; Hamburg 410, 100; Lyons, 372, 800; Mar
settles, 1851, $50; Milan, 321, $40; Bresau, 272,-
$40; Turin. 252, $780, Bordeaux, 90, $50; BARGE
Iona, 215 $50; Odessa. 1913, $40; Elberfeld, $780,
480; Genoa, 179, 510 Lille, III, 940 Florence,
1853, 900; Riga, 1853, $40; Prague, 162, $40; Ant
werp, 150,650; Adrianople, 100000 Leipsic,
149 $50; Rotterdam las, 900; Cologne, 144,770;
Magdeburg, 1877, 12O Frankfort, 1856 $50; Tou-
louse 136, $50; Client, 127, $50; Messina, 1885,
500; Hanover, 122, $40; Nantes, 12l $50; Liege,
1880; The Hague, 113. AGO; Oporto, los, $40,
and Rouen 1040l0.