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National Republican., 1883-03-12

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National Republican., 1883-03-12
Gold, Silver and Notes.

The statement of tho United States treas
urer shows gold, silver, and United States
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Don't Die i'm the Uouse.

LYoN's Patent Heel Stifener the only in
vention that makes old boots straight as new.
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Small Rcd.ChamherS.

There is reason to believe thatzmore
eases Of dangerous and fatal disease
are gradually engendered annually by
the habit of sleeping in small, unventi-
lated rooms, than have occurred from
a cholera atmosphere during any year
since it made its appearance in this
country. Very many persons sleep in
eight-by-ten rooms; that is, in rooms
the length and breadth of which null
tiplied together, and this multiplied
again by ten for the hight of the
chamber, would make just $40 cubic
feet, while the cubic space for each
bed, according to the English appor.
tionment for hospitals, is 2100 feet.
But more, in order 'to give the air of a
room the highest degree of freshness,ss
The French hospitals contract for a
complete renewal of the air Of a room
every hour while the English assert
that double the amount, or over 1900
feet an hour, is required. 1000 feet of
air every hour! and yet there are null
titudes in the city of New York who
sleep with closed doors and windows
in rooms which do not contain a
thousand cubic feet of space, and that
thousand feet is to last all night. at
least eight hours, except such scanty
supplies as may be obtained of any
fresh air that may insinuate itself
through little crevices by door or win
low, not an eighth of an inch in thick
ness. But when 1t is known that in
many cases a man and wife and in
fant sleep habitually in thousand-feet
rooms, it is no marvel that multitudes
perish prematurely in cities; no Won
Ter that infant children wilt away
ike flowers without water, and that
5000 Of them are to die in the city
Of New York alone during the hun
ired days that shall include the 18th
If July, 1888. Another fact is sugges-
live, that among the 100000 persons
who sleep nightly in the lodging
houses of London, expressly arranged
IN the improved principles of space
md ventilation already referred to,
{ has been proven that not one sin
'le case of fever has been engender-
d in two years! Let every intelli-
gent reader improve the teachings of
his article without an hours delay.
. The Builder
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full, based as it Is upon the belief shared BIZ
the most skillful medical men Of the day,
that the only way to get rid of the noI-
and system is through the liver, kidneys and
bowels. and therefore that those agents
which are known to act most efficiently in re-
storing healthy action of these organs are the
ones most to be relied upon. For this pur-
pose the Golden Medical Discovery is pre-
eninently the agent that fulflls every indica-
ton of treatment rennired.
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Japan's Most Famous Artist.

One hundred and twenty-three years
ago-in the year just before the first
observed transit of Venus-there was
a looking-glass maker in Yedo, who
was made happy by the information,
ats a boy" Neighbors and friends
rushed in to congratulate Mrs. Middle
island, the happy mother whose son
North-house (IIokusai) was to become
the most famous artist in Japan.
AS the boy grew up he was fond of
drawing, and always had pencil or
brush-pen in his hand. He made pic
lures of babies on their mothers backs,
Of chubby children playing, of the own
erless wolfish dogs and bob-tailed cats
Of Yedo. Nearly all the japanese
artists before North-house had painted
Dnly lords and ladies of the court,
mobiles costumes and gorgeous silk
dresses, and gold-lacquered vases and
palanquins belonging to the mikado.
Many of their subjects were Chinese,
but silken curtains and red temples
and pagodas, with abundance of gold
clouds in the picture to cover up the
plain, or common parts, were what one
saw on the most famous works of art.
But Hokusai was a man of the
people. He cared next to nothing
about Chinese heroes, or high lords of
the court-except to make fun of them
and so he struck out in new line.
He pictured farmers and mechanics,
matched cottages and shops and mar
kets, pack-horses and street dogs, and
everything in humble life. He especi-
ally entered into the juvenile world
which is only as high as a yard-stick-
and while his brother artists scared
into the mountains and clouds Hokusa
kept on the ground, with the result
that even the babies understood his
drawings, and dyers bought his books
for their patterns. To study some Of
the dainty pictures dyed into a
Japanese lady's skirt, or to read
japanese fairy tale on brides robe,
Is often to recognize Hokusai's pictures
reproduced in color.
Hokusai opened a studio in Yedo in
1910, and labored steadily until 1S49-
about five years before Commodore
Perry entered the Bay of Yedo. His
chief books of pictures are his mangua,
DR. album of sketches. Occasionally he
made journeys, and the fruits of his
travel were his "Hundred Views of
Fully anna" besides many pictures of
natural scenery. His drawings are
more simply and less finished than ours,
but are much clearer than those Of
most japanese draughtsmen, so that,
Of them all, Hokusai is best understood
by foreigners.
Hokusai is dead, but thousands OF
Japanese still chuckle over his carica-
lures and in American metal work,
silverware, wallpaper, embroidery, and
hundred forms of decorative art, the
strokes of his pencil are visible, with
character all their own St
Nicholas.
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Why don't you use st. Patrick's Save?
Try it. Use it. 25c. at all druggists
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Wells Health Remover restores health, vigor,
curesDyspepsia, Impotence. SexnalDebility.$ 81
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Brave and Faithful Guardian of Our
Homes and Property Rescued from I'M
uiueut Peril.

A Brave and Faithful Guardian of Our
Homes and Property Rescued from InI-
uipent Peril
force who has performed dutv twelve the Union
r. r. Depot on Exchange place in Providence X 4
gives his unsolicited testimony Hear HIM:
81 have been dreadfully troubled with disease of the
Kidney and Liver during the mast six months at times
WIS so severev afflicted that was unabe To stand on
49, taa, a. 49,, 90, al - , = 90 49,, - - ,o,,.
Wy ee 10 my iee' anu 'o"e' paris Vi my ess W. eF
badly swollen; my urinary organs we're in dreadful con
itlon, my blood was IN n wretched state and it had
become az iunoverished and circulated 40 noorv thar
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Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions-W Wells
May Apple Pills-antibilious .catbartic. 10 25e

Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions-WolIs'
May Apple Pills-antibilious .catbartic. 10 zoe
Compare the dose and quantity of Hoods
Sarsaparilla and you have conclusive proof
of its superior strength and cheapness. Tryit.
Skinny Men.
Wells Health Remover restores health vigor,
curesDyspepsia, Impotence, SexualDebility.$ 81
To make new hair grow use Carboline, a de-
odorized extract of petroleum. This natural
petroleum hair remover, as recently improved
is the only thing that will really produce new
hair. 1t is delightful dressing.
Don't Die in the House.
Trough on Rats" Clears out rats, mice,
reaches. bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, chip
hunks, gophers. 15c.
The best fitting collars and cuffs you can
get are the Chrolithion. Now for sale at all
frst-class stores.
LYoN's Patent Heel Stifrener the only in
vention that makes old boots straight as new.
Why don't you use st. Patricll's Salve :?
Try it. Use it. 25c. at all druggists.
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Some Quaint Epitaph

Here lies my wife Sallie, let her lie,
She's at peace, and 80 am L.
Beneath this stone, lump OF clay,
Lies Arnbella Young,
Who on the 26lh day Of May
Began to hold her tongue.
In Yazoo City, Miss, is this incrip-
ton:
Here lies inferred Priscilla Bird
Who sang on earth till 81;
Now up on high above the sky
No doubt she sings like go too.
This one appears in Sutton church
yard:
Here lies the BODY OF Samuel Proctor,
Who lived aud Gied without a doctor.
AT Oxford, n. H., is the following:
To all my friends bid adeu
A more sudden death you never knew,
As was leading the old mare 10 drink,
She kick cd and killed me quicker'n wink
An inscription in Peters church
yard, Herefordshire, England, reads,
Sickness WINS my portion,
Physic was my food
Groans was my devotion;
Drugs did me no good.
The Lord took pity on me,
Because he thought it best
He took me to his bosom,
And here lie at rest.
Even Westminster abbey, the
burying ground of monarchs, is not
without its queer epitaphs. Over
the poet Gay appears:
Life is a Jest, and all things show it,
I IN | know
In New Hampshire cemetery is
a tombstone with this inscription:
Richard jenkins here doth lay,
(Lately removed from over ye way;)
His body's here-his souls in Heaven.
1867.
Mrs. Jenkins, who had a numerous
family, had on her stone:
Some have children, some have none,
Here lieth the mother of twenty lone.
The briefest epitaph is on the tomb
stone of child who died in Bayfield,
Wis. The child was killed during a
thunderstorm. On the stone are the
words:
Struck
by
Thunder!
An old topper in Durham mas this
inscription on his tombstone:
Beneath these stones reposc the bones
OF Iheodosius Grim,
He took his beer from year to year,
And then his bier took him.
| This is over the grave Of a victim of
Waterloo:
Here lies the body of Alex. Mcpherson,
Who was an extraordinary person;
Who was two yards high in his stocking feet
And kept his countermen;s clean and neat
He was slew
at the battle of Waterloo
Plumb through
The gullet Ii went in at his throat
And came out Mt the back of his coat.
In Limerick cathedral, Ireland, may
be seen the following inscription on 1
handsome tablet:
'Mementi Mori. Here lieth Little Samuel
Darlington, that great Under Taker OF
Famous Gifts clock and Chime Maker; he
made his own Time go early and Late, bu
now he is returned to God his Creator Tho
10Th of November. Then he scest, And FOL
His Memory this is Pleast, By His Son Ben
1893"
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Eva, noticing flock of noisy, chat
tering blackbirds, said, Mamma, |
guess they're having sewing 'ciety !"
Journal.
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THOUGH SALT RHEUM
FAMOUS CASE IN BOSTON.

my little ryear-old girl had powerful eruption
on her face and head. Under her eyes it regular
scaldng red and like burn. Back of her left
had to shave her hair close her head. Five six
physicians and two hospitals gave up her ncura
ble that she might outgrow it. When began to
maturate l became alarmed. In three weeks, with
Hoods Sarsaparlla the began to heal two bottles
made her eyes clear To-day she is as well as
lam" JOHN CAREY. l6i ID Street, South Boston,
ATTEST: know John Carey. He is an honest. good
man. whose statements worthy of entire credit.
believe what he says about his chld's Sickness
CLINTON ii. COOK, Milk Street. Boston.
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A TOOthSOme M0rsel.

This from the Madison Owls. Demo-
crat conveys its own moral: Hold on!
We are cognizant of the fact that an
aching tooth was last night cured by
the application of st. Jacobs Oil. The
young fellow got mad over his raging
tooth in the ballroom, and rushed
straightway to drug store, where he
applied the good old German Remedy;
in ten minutes the toothache had gone.
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HOOPS SARSAPARILLA.

Sold by Druggists 81; six for So. Prepared only by
&. 1. HOOD Il CO.. Apohecares. Lowell. Mass.
BEST Cough Bplsnm in the WOrld.o Try it.
Price lOc. Il. w. kINsMAN Co, Augusta. Maine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
Medical Action Of Vegetables.

Asparagus is a strong diuretic, and
forms part of the cure for rheumatic
patients at such health resorts as AK
les Bains. Sorrel is cooling, and forms
the staple of that soupe aux herbes
which a French lady will order for her
self after a LONG and firing journey.
Carrots, as containing a Quantity Of
sugar, are avoided by some people,
while Others complain of them as indi-
gestible. With regard to the latter ac-
cusation, it may be remarked, in pass
ing, that it is the yellow corr of the car
rot that is difficult of digestion-the
outer, a red layer, is tender enough. In
Savoy the peasants have recourse to an
infusion cs carrots as a specific for jaun-
dice. The large sweet onion is very
rich in those alkaline elements which
counteract the poison of rheumatic govt.
If slowly stewed in weak broth and
eaten with a little Nepaul pepper, it will
be found to be an admirable article of
diet for patients of studious and seden-
tary habits. The stalks of caulitiower
have the same sort of value, only too
often the stalk of a cauliflower is so ill
boiled and unpalatable that few persons
would thank you for proposing to them
to make part of their meal consist of so
~uninviting an article. Turnips, in the
same way, are often thought to be in
digestible, and better suited to COWS and
sheep than for delicate people; but here
the fault lies with the cook quite as
much as with the root. The cook boils
the turnip badly, and then pours some
butter over it, and the eater of such a
dish is sure to be the worse for it. Try
a better way. What shall be said about
our l%ettuces? The plant has a slight
narcotic action, of which a French old
woman, like a French doctor, well
knows the value, and when properly
cooked it is really very easy OF diges-
tion.-Medicul Record.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
The turning Of the toes /. not /. favor.

The turning Of the toes is not a favor
ADJ sign. Some associate it with men
. weakness. A shutting gait is an
other telling sign of character. But to
60 into details would require a volume.
A school to teach youth to walk has
been established in Philadelphia. A no.
BILE, graceful carriage is a more useful
accomplishment than dancing. If shoe
makers will only help the teachers Of
such a school by making sensible shoes.
there might be hope of seeing here the
graceful step one notices among the
humblest Spanish peasants. But art
VIII v impart the polish which true
Culture gives. 1t is the soul within that
lilumes the face, that gives the persua-
slve charm to the voice and perfection
to gesture and to step. Here ethics and
aesthetics unite: 1t is 'by his person
atty" as Goethe says, that man acts on
man. If one wishes to charm or COM
mand by either of these functions it will
be through the culture of the moral SEN
slbllities, largely. By such q training,
q person will come to WELD by his walk
and talk, his eye and his unconscious
gestures, a power over his fellows alike
masterful and beneficent.-Prof Thor
wtg, IN chronological Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
A Scarf Pin for a Dude.

A prominent member of the band Of
gilded youths of which the city is so
justly proud is IN a high state of excite
ment, and with difficulty held back by
his friends from making a personal as
sault upon his jeweler, who he con-
ceives, has been putting up a job on
him. The facts, as gained during his
lucid intervals, are these: He is much
addicted to attending the dramatic
performances which occur in this
city, his speciality being in steadily
observing the female chorus in comic
opera, and the sylphs of the corps de
ballet in their ingenious gyrations. 1t
struck him that it would be a good no.
ton to wear a scarf pin suggestive Of
his love for the lyric stage, and he &C.
cordingly interviewed his jeweler upon
this momentous subject. The artificer
in precious metals was prompt to meet
the demands of the occasion, and in due
time presented his customer with a neat
design, consisting of a bar of music
delicately fashioned in gold, with the
treble clef in black enamel, and two
notes in diamonds reposing between the
third and fourth lines from the bottom.
The customer, whose only knowledge Of
music was, as it suggested, the accom-
panying incident Of female singers,
highly approved this work of art, pur'
chased it, stuck it in his scarf, and went
down to the matinee. After the per.
Torrance he displayed his new posses
sion to the ladies, who admired it much
At last he showed it to the prettiest anG
brightest one of all, who Immediately
exclaimed: elbow very neat and ap'
propriate!" '.Do you think soP" in
quired the delighted youth. Certainly
l do, and those beautiful diamond
notes; they fit you so well. Do, do
that makes dodo, you see. How ingen
ious and how very true!"-and sh'
tripped away.-Bostom Journal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
"Carriage" and Character.

Your coach is a deceptive index of
your true condition in life, but by your
carriage you are known and read of
all men. It is more than a figure of
speech when the Bible associates charac-
ter with ones s'walk and conversation"
and again, when it says, .'having done
all, stand" The drill masters first
command is, "Stand well!' The
apostles last injunction is the same.
Gods special blessing is on the upright.
Such are likely to be downright. Posi-
tive characters and weak nes are thus
distinguished. The reveler rests, the
miser stoops and the v%oluptuary yawns,
but the true man shows his inward dis
position by his outward bearing. He
stands not as the pugilist or fencer, with
one side advanced, as in a hostile atti-
tude to give OF take a blow, but acquo
pectore, uniting self-possession and Dig
nifty with ge%ntleness and grace. Ones
mind is more than his manners. The
latter are acquired and are often SO
artificial that we call them mannerisms,
and regard them offensive. But ones
mind or air is inclusive of far more than
those arts and articles learned in the
schools. The whole outward appear
ance, including the dress, goes to make
up this atmosphere which n carries
wherever he goes. His habits make his
''habit," the garb in which he is known
day by day, a "second nature" as we
say. His custom becomes a costume,
Which he rarely lays aside.
The why, nervous man moves with
rapid gait; the phlegmatic man with
heavy step, and SO on with various tenn
peraments. Then there are other prin-
ctlples that form a test, illustrated, for
instance, in the stealthy, creeping
movements of the thief, the hating step
Of the inquisitive, or the aimless walk OF
the day dreamer. II know that that
man has been a soldier" said one.
"How?" II know it by his walk" He
carried the trunk and shoulders steady
firm while the motion of walking
brought into action the lower limbs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
How a Woman Gets Out Of a Room.

Did you ever notice how long it takes
a woman of the always going and never
gone order to get out Of the room?
Something thus: She has risen to de-
part, a matter which really won't be
accomplished for the next half hour.
She talks: "And as I was saying
(steps towards the door, 'tshe says to
me, says she" (steps back AGAIN., ~
never said anything of the kind" lsteps
toward the door,. "What 1 did say
was that (steps back again and talks).
You think it's really all at an end and
that she's really going. (She takes
three very slow steps towards the door.)
'.Why, no, I didn't. If she said that
she said what wasn't so. 1 never said
any such thing" Comes back. Starts
in afresh. Apparently forgets she has
to go at all.) "Well, 1 know you
wouldn't believe any such thing of me.
I think she might-well, she should be
more CAREFUL Turns again to go.)
"Well, I told him it wasn't so.'
(Swings slowly around.) "Well, I
must be going. No, indeed. You don't
say so. Do you? Well, I never. Now
(goes at it again hammer and tongs)-
it's always been the way with her in
everything. Why, do you know, I've
done more for her-helped her fix her
dress-well, 1 must be going" bland
on the door knob. Keeps it there.)
'sYes. Well, you may just say it's no
such a thing. WASN'T there and didn't
say it." "Opens the door.) "How
much did it costp Igave three dollars
for mine. Well, 1 must be going. Yes,
1 know" (Keeps the door open and
let's the draught in.) "Why if he had
been there I guess 1 should have known
it. She don't know half the time what
she is saying" (Closes the door all
but a chink and remains inside.) lit
isn't likely that I would have gone and
done such a thing" (Swings door to
and fro.) "Well, you can say this for
me, that I never said So" (She is still
at the door knob.)-M Y. Graphic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12

Philosophy by q Doctor.

A short time ago, when travelling, the
celebrated DR.. Barthez was taken sick,
and according to the manner of all
physicians, he called in a fellow prac-
titioner to attend him.
When the strange doctor put in an
appearance DR.. Barthez discovered, to
his stupefaction, that his colleague was
none other than an old servant of his.
s.How is this! You a doctor! Since
when? and what can you do?"
"Sir, 1 picked up a little medicine in
your service, and l have great success
here" 4
els that possible?"
eyes, and more so than you could
have yourself" !;
And seeing the establishment of his
old master, he continued: |
"How many inhabitants do you think
this town numbers?" i
II do not know; 10000 perhaps"
eyes, about that many. And how
many do you think are really intelligent
and capable of approaching your
merits?" 4
81 do not know" I
''Let us say a thousand, and that is
ample. Well, the thousand are yours,
and the rest belong to me-" i
Barthez became thoughtful for a mo-
ment, and then answered: sit is trues
and you are right. And this is the way
of the world, Notwithstanding its con-
slant improvements; in spite of the re-
criminations..o all honest and modest
doctors, the multitude will always be-
long, be they great or small, humble or
exalted, politicians and doctors, ig-
norant or wise, in health or sickness, to
charlatans, who are invariably gifted
with that imperturable assurance,
which, under the name of brass fasci-
mates and conquers the public, who ac-
cept their theories and cover before
their assumed superiority Detroit
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