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Daily globe., 1883-05-27
COCK ROICH TEL,

It is scarcely agreeable to think that
the cockroach could ever become an
active agent in medicine Yet it is used
almost universally in Russia as a diu-
etic in certain diseases, and it is also
frequently used in European medical
practice as cure for Bright's disease.
The Professor of Materia Medica in
Jefferson College recently stated that
cockroaches are not entirely unknown
in the medical practice in Philadelphia,
though physicians do not care to have
it known that they prescribe so unpop-
ular an insect in their practice, and few
druggists will acknowledge that they
keep it in stock. The Professor saws
that cockroach tea may be used with
good effect in certain cases. It's medi-
cal properties resemble those of can
tharides, and when prescribed it is in
the shape of pill, made with the pow
der of the dried insect. The cockroach
is no more offensive than cantharides,
both being of the same class of insect,
and the smell is not so Objectionable as
that of the Spanish fly.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS.

Prof. G. S. Sargent, who has done so
much to acquaint the public with the
rapidity of the destruction of our for
ests, in an address before an agricult-
ural meeting at Northampton, Mass,
pointed out that the worst feature OF
the terrible fires which devastate our
woods is that they destroy not only the
growing trees, but the fertility of the
soil itself. All over the country, but
especially in the West, the cream of a
forest growth that has been rising for
centuries is being skinned off by the
greed of the lumbermen, or by Grimm
al carelessness with fires.
The value of the annual forest
products is estimated at $500,000, 900.
Most of this is obtained in way that
destroys the forests and leaves the
woodlands, that might have been made
to yield perennially, a veritable skim
milk country. In Switzerland the pine
lands are kept perpetually productive
by system which allows only the full
grown trees to be cut and gives a dis
trict that has been cleared thirty years to
recover before another ak is allowed tC
fall. In Maine, fires in the woods are
made the subject of the strictest statu-
tory regulation. Heavy penalties are
laid on those whose carelessness causes
the destruction of timber. The penal
ties are enforced, and habits of careful
ness about fires have become one of the
instincts of the people of that State.
The lawlessness of the skin-hunters
and heedlessness of the casual tourist,
which are annually destroying millions
Of dollars worth of timber that can
never be replaced, should be immedi-
ately subjected to similar regulations
by the National Government. And
some adequate authority ought to put a
check on the shortsighted greed of the
lumbermen, who are skimming the
country at one stroke of its forests and
entailing climatic results of the gravest
kind. The Roman who planted trees
for posterity was an old fool if these
lumbermen are wise.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
FEMININE DEFORlIITY.

The extraordinary peryersion of taste
and sense proved by the general opin-
ion of what is desirable in female form
may go far to prove that the principle
of evolution is balanced by that of
retrogression. The caye-men have left
proofs Of the possession of faculties not
possessed by savage people of the pres
ent day, which may be taken as show
ing in the case of those who, incapable
of improvement, die out before the
march of civilization, that these latter
are not going over the same ground OF
progress, but relapsing from a superior
condition. The singular state of ideas
respecting beauty of form in all mod
ern civilized countries can hardly i'm
ply anything but retrogression in one
of the senses at least. Judging Of the
opinion of the ancient Greeks as ex-
pressed in their sculpture, a modern,
ideal. well-dressed young lady, proba
bly, by natures intention as fine, OF
finer, than anything they ever saw,
would be to them, could they revisit the
earth, subject of amazement. Tiny
hands, white till they look bloodless,
and pointed nails; feet with no more
shape than spoon; but, above all, a
waist like pipe, having scarcely any
natural reference to the form above or
below-in reality, hideous! The deep
ly-rooted preference for this deformity
must surely be mark of retrogression.
1t is common for deluded mothers,
looking at the grandly growing girl, to
say: "The child is becoming monster
she must be Immediately put into stays" !"
A little girl of u, being for the first
time jammed into the abomination, COM
planned that she could not breathe. The
answer of her mothers French maid
was: I'll faut souffrir pour etre belle, :"
and so commenced the deformity of the
poor child's body and mind. There
ought to be no such thing as waist as
now understood. In early youth fexi-
bic slimness is natural characteristic /;
later it does not commonly exist, being
replaced by beauty of greater digni-
ty; and when small waist is formed by
art it is at the expense of health and
beauty. Every young lady who COM
presses her waist out of its natural
shape and size should be made to un-
derstand that she does it at her peril,
whether she feels the pressure OF not,
for from habit she may not be at all
times conscious of it; she should know
that she will pay fearful price in loss
of health and height and elasticity of
movement, without which there can be
no healthy pleasure and no real beauty.
Halls Journal of Health.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
NEURA1GIA is Il "WARsINe.

One of the London medical journals
declares that the great prevalence Of
neuralgia-or what commonly goes by
that name-should be regarded as a
warning indicative of low condition of
health, which must necessarily render
its subjects peculiarly susceptible to the
invasion of diseases Of an aggressive
type. It is always essential that the
vital forces should be vigorous. and the
nerve power especially in full develop
ment; but neuralgia indicates lower
depressed state of vitality-a poor and
weak state-and should be promptly
placed under treatment.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
Il GLORIOUS SCRIMMAGE At FOOg-
Ball.

Ayoung candidate for the honor of
bearing her Majesty's commission
writes as follows to his sister: Before
the match was begun the other side
was supposed to be best, but when
half-time was called neither side had
scored anything. However, they soon
got try, but failed to kick a goal, and
then We vent on again pretty evenly
till five minutes before time, and then
I made pretty good run and dropped
a goal. They made desperate effort
and got very close to our goal. A fear
full scrimmage followed; the ball came
out, I collared it, made last rush into
four OF five fellows, huge crash and
time was called. I fell awkwardly ON
fellows knee and it ricked a suspen-
sory igament near my thigh, but had
my left elbow well jammed into his
mouth and on Withdrawing it two teeth
had gone, his lips were cut and his
mouth full of blood. There was a fell
low partly underneath both of us who
smashed his collar bone, while fourth
got up with bleeding nose"
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

coiored population, to whom emancipa-
ton for the first time made corsets an
indispensable article of dress. From
1865 to 1872 there were perhaps 1O,-
600, coo of corsets sent to the United
States, at cost, with the duty added,
of about the same number of dollars.
The manufacture of cheaper goods and
Of inferior materials has since then re-
duced the consumption Of Wurtemberg
corsets in this country to about $780,
900 year. Chicago Tribune.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
THE GRANTS IN yEW YORK

Mrs. Grant is greatly liked in New
York society. Her hearty manner and
healthy laugh are one of the secrets of
her social success. She never permits
any one to be dull at her receptions
She looks out for the wall lowers"
shifts people about, introduces them,
opens conversation between strangers
and comes to the rescue whenever talk
begins to flag. Gen. Grant is develop
ing into very domestic creature. He
is fond of his library and delights to sit
there with his books or chat with his
chums. What New York says of the
Grants is that they are good-hearted
and very steadfast friends.-Formey's
Progress.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

would give his last cigarette ei er to a.
comrade OF to stranger, like myself;
and in his secret heart he has vowed to
earn the cross Of st. George tomorrow.
TIL the very end Of the war never
took quite heartily to Lieut.. Brutokof
the very opposite of the swell young
hussar [ have described. The first
time [ met him, I knew that I disliked
him down to the ground. His manners
well, he had none to speak of-and
his voice was a growl, with hoarse-
ness in it begotten of schnapps. He
did not look as if he washed copious1y,
and he was the sort of man who might
give some color to the notion that the
Russian has not yet quite broken him
self of the custom of breakfasting off
tallow candles. But he turned out not
g ba1 Glow on further acquaintance,
ed fcr:l share his ration with stray
G2g.--lrcaibc!d Forbes, IN st. NicA-
ojaS.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
THE HERO OF THE PLAY.

Two old college chums met at Aus.
tin, Texas, after separation of five
years. Il am a reporter on the Tele.
graph" said one. The other replied
Come to my hotel in the morning and
you'll get frst-rate tragedy to write
up. You will know so much about the
chief actor that you will be able to
make interesting reading of it." The
reporter kept the appointment, though
regarding the promise of demand
upon his professional services as a joke;
but he found his old acquaintance dead
by suicide.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
4 GMALL "TT TOR

One of our daisies, little Hattie R.,
is a precocious child, and remembers
all she hears. She had been listening
to the schoolgirl talk of her older
sister and some of her young friends,
and treasured up in her own mind some
of their expressions. Last Sunday she
went to church for the first time, and
on her return her father asked her what
she did. 81 got tired" she answered
promptly.
'And what did you do then?"
"Oh, [ mashed the minister!" re-
piled the infant, with perfect gravity
Detroit Post
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
ANECDOTE OF MIR. LINCOLN.

"Old Abe" once replied to question
early in the war as to how the Union
reyerses affected him by saying: "I
feel very much like great stalwart Il
inois neighbor of mine who was out
logging in his bare feet. A log rolled
over and crushed one of his big toes
before he could escape. All drawn up
with pain, he replied to a question of
how he was with: well, I'm too big to
cry, but it hurts too confounded bad to
laugh. '"-Spri4aqfeld Republican.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
VIRGINIA REBELS DURING THE WAR


Though in home life, as I have said
before, there was less change in diet
during the war than III any other par
ticular, the soldiers could doubtless tell
a different tale. Though, take it all in
all, I suppose they Jared as well as SOL
diers generally do, sometimes fasting
and occasionally feasting; whenever
they came home on furlough the "fatted
calf was literally slain for them, and
wherever they went through the coun-
try unbounded hospitality was offered
them. Fond wives, and mothers too,
were continually striving to mitigate
the hard fare Of their loved ones by
sending them boxes of home food and
other comforts as frequently as posi-
bic. On one occasion an ingenious Ia
dy, who had manufactured liquid shoe
blacking, put bottle of it in a box she
was sending her son, Lexington ca
det, who hastily drank it off on first
opening the box, under the impression
that it was bottle of wine. I remem-
Der humorous letter from soldier
friend during the war, describing "a
swell dinner" his mess had just pre-
pared and enjoyed-the first course,
frogs caught in the Chickahominy
swamps; second course, apple dump
lings, the dough composed simply of
-four and water, and served without
sauce.-EGchG71ge.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

A LITTLE girl recently went to visit
her grandfather in the country. She
is fond Of milk, but firmly refused to
drink any while there, without giving
any reason. When she returned she was
asked: "You had nice milk there to
drink, didn't you?" II guess didn't
drink any of that milk, she Indignantly
replied. "Do you know where grandpa
get it? I saw him squeeze it out of an
~ ro,;-!"
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

come," returned Brown, "be serious.
Didn't you think that bravura passage
with pizzicato and appoglatura embell-
ishments was lovely?" "Guess 1
didn't see il" answered Fogg, as before;
there was only feathers and flowers
and things on the one in front Of me. :"
What are you talking about, man ?"
exclaimed Brown. "That girls hat. of
course. Wasn't you? ?" "Good morn
ing," said Brown, as he turned the
corner.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

SHEEP viii endure severe cold if
kept dry; but exposure to storms,
either rain or snow, is very hurtful.
The water remains in the wool, and in
an atmosphere little, if any, above
freezing, it chills the body long time.
1t is for this reason that an open winter
is generally unfavorable for feeding
sheep. If kept housed they are too
warm, their appetite fails, and they lose
flesh, 10 matter how fed. The coarse
wooled sheep are more impatient of
wet than the fne-wooled, the heavy,
oily gum on the wool Of the latter keep
ing the water from penetrating to the
skin.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

THE London Fire Brigade has but
fifty steam engines and 500 fremen.
The estimated value of the property to
be protected is $6,O0O,OOO,OOO, and
Londoners pay an insurance premium
of 120th part of per cent. Ten years
ago Capt. Shaw asked in vain for an
annual appropriation of 5000, 900, which
is only 100000 more than he gets to-
day.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27
MUSIC IND MILLINERY

"Good morning, Fogg," said Brown,
briskly. "How did you like the opera
last night?'' "Oh, $780," answered
Fogg, moodily; "nothing striking about
it excepting the {. lm-sticks." "Come,
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

IMITATION diamonds are now so per-
feet that the real ones are at discount;
no one of wealth is suspected of wear
ing any but the real stones, and many
wealthy woman takes advantage of this
notion and wears the mock jewels with
out fear of detection or of theft.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

In 1850 Lord Russell introduced q
bill abolishing the Viceroyalty of Ire
land. It passed the first reading by 295
to 70. But, Notwithstanding the large
majority, the pressure of other business
caused the postponement of the second
reading, and nothing further was done
about it.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

UNCLE SAM has 4,0O8. TAI farms un-
der his jurisdiction, with 130,972, ,673
farm animals, of which 10, ,357, 1881 are
horses, y, ,443, ,952 are milch COWS, and
%, 337, ,956 cattle.
Daily globe., 1883-05-27

"WHEN once we see the cross" saws
Rev. Joseph Cook, "it is no cross to
bear the cross"
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-18
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attorney to have been done
by McCutcheon. Counsel for defendant
appeared that day, but too late; decree
had been granted. Judge Wade heard
the case and granted decree, ourt adj
iourned that morning and Judge Wade
and Secretary McCutcheon left on the
ll:3O q. m. train that day. No other WI
ness was examined in the case except
McCutcheon. Do not know who united
the Secretary and his so-called niece. 10
not know whether she was his nelce,
cousin or otherwise. Same person VINO
came with him and who it is said he in
troduccd as his neice. Be she niece
cousin or otherwise, he has married her.
Do not think Helena is satisfied with the
tusiness, Herald and Independent are
not Indifferent, but extremely cautious.
The next conundrum we leave Helena
papers to answer. Do not know whether
McC utcheon is satisfactory to J. Schuyler
or not perhaps "birds Of a feather" Az
to his retention the "powers that be-
must solve that question.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-18
ARfESIAN WELLS.

Now would be q good time for some
one to attempt the boring of artesian
wells. If there is no person who feels
able to undertake the experiment, let 2
number club together, select some good
point and share the expense. We think
there can be but little doubt that water
could be, y procured, and should one be
successfully put down it would be Of in
estimable value as means of retaining
vast tracts ofland which otherwise would
remain waste for many years, if not for
all time, 80 far as agricultural products
are concefned. The time will come,
when water for irrigating will become
scaseeeven inthis we'll watered valley and
the annoyance, expense and trouble to
procure it, will be immense. The cost
of an artesiau we'll would not be much
more than an ordinary irrigating ditch,
which has to be repaired every year,
while the advantages, not alone for irrl'
cation but for domestic purposes, would
be far superior. The supply would not
DEPEND upon rains or fall Of snow, and
no drouth could ever occur. A farm of
.l6O acres of land in Gallatin Valley with
! steady dow Of water from an artesian
wei would eahance it's value two fold.
We think it is worth an effort, and if
private enterprise is not willing to under
take it, a public effort should be made at
least to give our valley a test, but it
strikes us that q valley surrounded by
high mountain ranges must have an
under current, the source of which is
high enough up to furnish the pressure.
Denver is jubilant over the success OF
artesian wells in that country as offering
them a relief from impure water and i'm
proying the sanitary condition Of the
city. There are now five of them in
operation there they have proved a sue
cess in Utah and along the Union Pacific.
The Oregon Short Line secures its supply
of water in the lava beds for distance
of eighty miles, which, however, do not
overflow because the lava is 80 porous.
In not one of these places are the condi-
tions any more favorable, if indeed they
are equal, than in this valley, and we
hope and trust that private or public en-
terprise will take hold of this matter and
demonstrate the feasibility of such wells.
The advantages and benefits are worth
the effort. -.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-18
Escape OF Prisoners.

Tuesday night, at about half-past nine
O'clock six prisoners who, on account OF
the crowded ooHdition of the penitenti:
airy at Deer Lodge were confined In .
small building in the yard which sur
rounds the prison, made their escape.
they were all short term men. Their
absence was discovered soon after they
got away, and officers have been on their
trail ever siace==so far, however, with
out success. Below will be found the
names and descriptions of the slippery
rascals:
Louis Hermanson, Norwegian weight,
1888; height, 5 feet u inches; age. fifty
nine; gray hair, gray eyes and complex
ion dark.
james Stephens, Englishman weight,
III; height, 5 feet lOi inches; age,
twenty-three; eyes blue. hair dark,
complexion fair; heart and cross on left
arm anchor on right thigh.
Richard Pettis, Frenchman; weight,
$50; height feet S inches; age, thirty
four hair black, eyes blue, complexion
fair; sword cut on right knee pistol ball
wound on calf of left leg. -
William Morgan, Quarter-breed
weight, 1873; height, feet Il inches
age, seventeen black hair, dark eyes,
dark complexion gun-shot wound on
upper calf of left leg; two scars from
burns on breast. .-.-..
Frank Sailor, alias G. B. Aubrey, Mis-
sourian; weight, IT'S; height, 5 feet in
ches; age, q; black hair, black eyes,
complexion dark.
A reward ofelOO each is offered fol
their arrest by Acting. Governor MoCut-
cheon.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-18
the LATEST NEWS.

On the 10th inst. furious storm swept
along the Missouri valley, and was felt
at St. Louis. Some damage was done to
property in Minnesota. The growing
crops suffered greatly from the terrific
wind and hail. No estimate can yet be
given of the damage. Some of the hail
stones were as large as eggs. Dakota
was also visited and the crops in the
southern portion of the territory are sad
ly damaged. At Bismarck only wind
was felt. At Maryville, Missouri, thir-
teen Of tle best business houses were
unroofed, the court house and jail badly
wrecked, and the city hall and Presby-
terrain church almost totally destroyed.
Towns in New York, New Jersey, Vir-
einia, Vermont, New Hampshire and
Nebraska were visited but not with such
damaging effect as Kansas, Iowa, Min
nesota, Missouri and Dakota.
A horrible tragedy occurred. near
Joliet, ILL.,, July 18th, where wealthy
and well-known farmer butchered in
cold blood his wife and two children and
then blew his own brains out. The his
of this dark deed is as sensational as
writer of fiction could wish. A number
of years ago Andrew White was one Of
the most prominent property holders OF
Chicago, and made himself an immense
fortune, with which he retired to stock
farm near Dwight where he has lived
most of the time since. His steady at
tention to business affected his mind,
and he had to be sent to a private asy-
lum. Last week he escaped and speedily
made his way to his former home near
Dwight on his mission of vengeance,
purchasing a large revolver. Reaching
the house in the middle of the night, he
watched till morning, when he advanced
to the front stoop and called out to his
wife to come down and welcome him.
The family, consisting of. the wife and
two children, aged ten and eighteen
years, rushed at once to the porch. He
allowed each member OF the family 10
caress him, and a moment after said !:
"You want my money, my fortune
damn you, take that !" and he sent a bull
let crashing through his wife's brain, and
IS she fell dead on the porch, he turned
and buried bullets in the brains of his
boy and girl. When he had done this
he laid down the revolver and gazed
upon the fearful deed he had perpetrated.
For . moment the horror Of the act
seemed to restore his reason, and with q
desperate cry he fell upon the corpse Of
the wife, kissing it and weeping over it.
His hallucinstion returning, however, he
dragged the bodies Of the dead into the
dining-room and laid them out on the
table. The murderer then seating him
self on the table near his wife, placed the
revolver to his head and pulling the trig-
ger fell dead beside her.