The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-23
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A child incubator is the latest French in
venti0n. A DR.. Tavernier, noticing the i'm.
mense success Of the chicken cubators, re.
solved to make experiment in the found
ling hospitalto which he was attached.
| The Doctor constructed his child incubator
on precisely the model of the ordinary
chicken incubator. He then selected "a
mserably made infant" who had come in.
to the world at an injudiciously early period.
The infant was placed in the incubator,
with a nursing. oOttle, and kept in dark
room. 1t ceased to cry on the second day,
and, to the surprise of the Doctor, though il
had been preternaturally sleepless child
II sank into deep and quiet sleep. II re-
NAMED eight weeks in the incubator, dur
ing which time 1t never onca cried and never
remained awake except when taking nour.
ishnent At the end of sixty days, when
it was removed from the incubator, it had
the appearance Of a healthy infant Of at
east a year old, He then tried child of
six months, addicted to the usual pains and
COLES, This child conducted itself as its
predecessor had done, never cried, spent its
| whole time in sleep, and grew as il il had
made up its mind to embrace the career OF
professional giant 1t had doubled its
weight in six weeks, rvsembled child of
| three years, and could actually walk by
| holding on to convenient piece of furniture.
The Doctor now has an incubator of the
| capacity Of 400 infants, and in it has placed
every one of the 500 infants varying from
eight days to eleven months, who were in
the hospital.
The Crystal Palace at Sydenham has
| Iong been famous Tor its fireworks, but the
manager is said o have outdone himself on
he evening of the Queens birthday. One
OF the ingenious novelties was huge ser.
cent chasing butterfly, both at last dis
appearing in a shower OF golden fire. The
masterpiece OF the display, however, was n
representation OF the siege of Gibraltar, $50
described by the Globe: ION one side
rises the rock, with all its outlines sharply
marked in lines of fire. Stretching away
| from its foot the sparkling sea, and in the
| distance lie the Spanish ships, also traced
| III lire. Tremendous Is the bombardment
| mt equally terrific the reply OF the indomi.
table garrison, until the Dons are at last
silenced, and the bands of the British
troops strike up variety Of patriotic airs. -
Yes, and "a city council is not only what
| is the matter with hall the city schools in
Texas" but city council is what is the
| matter with every other Interest in half
the cities In Texas. Three. fourths of the
sickness in Dallas is due to the supineness
Of the city council in not giving us suitable
sewerage. The muddy, miry, disgusting
appearance and condition Of the streets Of
Dallas In wet weather, and their dusty, suf.
tocating condition in dry weather is due
the city councils inertia in not giving us
pavements; We might 30 on and elabo-
| rate ana ill couple OF columns on the an.
perlcrity, the craftsmanship and the wis.
dom Of our city council, but in mercy we
desist.-I Estray Record.
The Sandwich Islands are 70 share with
British Columbia this years Chinese east.
ward emigration. News having been re-.
ceived OF the repeal of the Hawaiian law
prohibiting the direct importation Of Chi.
namen from Hong Kong into Honolulu
passages were quickly engaged Tor three or
tour thousand Of the yellow men to King
| kalakaua's dominions British Columbia
Is also '" receive sh,ploads Of them.
Pittsburg happens to remember that Il
possesses anu egvcts an extremely inter-
esting building. II 10 the old block.hvu 4
once known as Fort Dusquene, which held
All important place In certain times which
,ried mems souls, and Is now hemmed in
by dtlapidated tenements and itself occu-
pied by poor family. 1t is proposed to
m I'VE II INTO o park.
| A Oalavera tCal.) man asserts that he Kill.
led the largest rattlesnake on record las,
week. IL was nine feet In length and
twelve inches around; II had twenty. ,our
rattles that could counted, besides some
that were worn OIL, aud the rattles were
three inches across. He was killed only
after being shot three times.
The Meanest dead. heading yet repor, ed
isin Portland, Me. where the board Of mayor
and alderman have voted themselves ad.
mission TO all places OF amusement free, ana
have decided TO wear a badge "of some an
propriate design" 30 that their identity
may be known to the doork~eper.