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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
An Instant Remedy for Poisoning.

If a person swallow any poison whatever,
or has fallen into convulsions from having
overloaded his stomach, an instantaneous
remedy is heaping teaspoonful of common
salt and as much ground mustard stirred
rapidly in teacup of water, warm or cold,
and swallowed instantly. 1t is scarcely
down before it begins to come up, bringing
with it the remaining contents of the
stomach; and lest there be any remant of
poison however, let the white of an egg
or teacup of strong coffee be swallowed
as soon as the stomach is quiet, because
these very common articles nullify large
number of virulent poisons.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
WHISPERING LEAVES.

Whispering leaves whispering leaves,
Pray tell me the secret so long unrevealed;
What It's through the years you've breathed i
ears,
Yet ever, forever concealed?
I'm longing to know when soft zephyrs blow,
What 'tis you keep whispering, whispering low
! pray you unfold the mystery old
I'm listening and longing to know.
Say, is it love that steals through the grove
And riding the breezes caresses you, play?
say, is it this which yields you such bliss
And makes you so happy and gay?
I'm longing to know, when soft zephyrs blow,
What It's you keep w hispering whispering so
Q say, do you chide those lovers who hide
Their vows in your shadows below?
Murmuring leaves, musical leaves,
Reserve then the secret now centuries old
But pray tell me why you sob and sigh
When storm spirits sweep through the wold;
m waiting to know why tbs when they blow
You moan and you cry in the voices of woe;
. say, do you fear that those you love dear
They'll fling to the torrent below?
Beautiful leaves, ephemeral leaves,
Hide then your secrets in language unknown;
But I've learned of you well truth that you tell
In speech far more plain than my own;
The seasons we know must come and must go,
The bloom and the beauty of life with them flow
And like you we all must fade and must fall
And lie in the valley below.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
BIOLOGY.
Contributions of the Microscope to the
Science of Lite,

At the regular meeting of the California
Academy OF sciences DR.. George M. Stern
berg, U. S. A., member of the National
Board of Health, will give a popular ad-
dress on biology-that is the science of liy-
ing-directed especially to microscopic ami
NAL and locomotive vegetable life The
lecture will be illustrated by photo-micro-
graphs, showing bacteria and very minute
unicellular organisms highly magnified A
large number of microscopic specimens will
be displayed through powerful stereopti-
con, exhibiting on large SCREEN as far as
possible. the lower forms of cell structure
also red and white corpsules of animal and
human blood. Everything connected with
this intensely interesting subject claims the
keenest interest from all scientists laboring
for the general benefit of humanity Since
the recent discoveries by Koch, communi-
Gated March %, 1882, in an address before
the Physiological Society of Berlin, which
Professor Tyndall pronounces of the very
deepest import, wherein he detailed his ex-
periments and original researches which led
to his discovery that tubercular consump-
tion, one of the most destructive maladies
that assail mankind, has it's origin in little
red-shaped animal parasites or worms, which
he has named bacillus tuberculosis, and as
dotCuI AdS ldCcly SuOWu lIdU OdcWt cause
splenic fever in cattle, the attention of the
world has been drawn to this subject Pas
teur has demonstrated how ill effects from
these parasitical germs may be guarded
against by process of vaccination similar
to the modification of smallpox baciM when
cultivated in bodies of the bovine race and
used as is vaccine virus. Most fevers origi-
nate from similar causes and their germs are
hrpatha6 in How imnOrtant that fhpra iS
pure fresh air to all. DR.. Sternberg enjoys a
worldwide reputation for his original re-
searches and contributions to this branch of
science while investigating the germ of yell
low and other malarial fevers, and his ad-
dress will be be exceedingly entertaining
and instructive as well as of the deepest
scientific interest. It is understood that
many live specimens of infusoria will be
shown in motion through the stereopticon,
adapted in combination with microscopic
slides
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
MOther-LOve in Birds.
Hartford Times.

very pretty story comes from neigh
oorlng town, and it is true. A nest of the
orchard oriole Improperly called the Eng
lish robin was discovered by the owner of
the lot, whose child wanted the young birds,
ana the child was gratifed. The nest was
taken home, to the delight of the child and
IN .he grief of the parent birds, and the fiedg-
ilngs were placed in a cage outside the
mouse To the surprise of the person who
put them there, he found one day that the
mother bird had discovered her lost children,
al ana was feeding them through the wires OF
one case. This proof of parental affection In
ord was continued, till at length the per-
sun who had removed the nest and put it IN
cage was moved to restore it to its place on
une tree, with the young birds in it. The
uao0unded delight of the old birds proved
a!uli compensation for the sense OF his-or
rather his child's-loss
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
CREDULITY.

suppose, said the fireman, rubbing the CRIME
From off his dark complexion,
Suppose you were trying to make up time,
And not a tank on the section!
And suppose that the water was down to three
With the gauge somewhere up in high G,
What's done in a case like that!'
"Donen' smiled the lofty engineer,
I'D just haul open the throttle!
I've run train on a bottlo of beer,
And then thrown III the bottle!
There s engineers on passenger trains
That made up times on flask.
IL : only matter of pluck and brains;
But tell me, why did you ask ?"
Because said the fireman, rubbing his nose,
And giving the shovel yank,
think by the way she snorts and blows
There's not drop in the tank
And now would really like to see
,, A beer-bottle start her pump;
Here one that the section boss gave me
Now work it, or else you jump!'
one bound, and the lofty engineer
Went out of that engine van,
anu when he struck it didn't appear
Which was the chief end of man.
nope, the grimy fireman said,
AS he opened the throttle wide,
nope he isn't really dead,
But I'm engineer II he died!'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
What is Virtue!

The Emperor Sigismund, in conversation
with Theodoric, Archbishop of Cologne,
asked the Primate how he ought to act SO as
to obtain happiness.
I've cannot, sire, expect it in this world" /"
what, then, is the way to gain happiness
hereafter" ?"
"You must live virtuously."
What do You mean by that expression ?n
II mean" answered the Archbishop, shat
you should always pursue that plan of con-
duct which you promise to follow when
laboring under a fit Of gout or indigestion" !"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
How Giants Are Made.
New York Journal.

| New York Journal
'4hey are all humbugs," said Col. Ruther-
ford Goshen, speaking of giants. "They are
all braced up in some way or other to pre-
sent an extraordinary appearance, and de-
ceive people into the belief that they are
really of great size. There are quite num-
ber of so-called giants on exhibition now in
various parts of the country with travelling
companies or in museums, but they all have
weak points This, however, is only natural,
for they are the result of degeneration
Some are conspicuous for their facial imper-
tectiOns and some have extremely large
hands and feet, while others are tall and
very thin so that if it were possible to re-
duce them to proportionate size they
would be like ordinary persons. Chang, the
Chinese monstrosity, has mouth that could
not be enlarged without danger to his ears
His actual height is about six feetsix inches,
and his shoes are made in such way as to
raise him about five inches higher. In the
first place, one inch is devoted to sole leather
then inside the shoes are number of insoles !;
he puts on one stocking, then more insoles,
and over all another stocking, and then the
outer shoe. These make him show for near
~ eight feet, if you accept that measure
ment. He wears yoke on his shoulders to
give them show OF breadth. He is well
gotten up and will pass for an average giant.
The largest people in this country are Mr..
and Mrs. M. T. Bates. Mrs Bates is the
taller of the two, being seven feet one inch
in height Her husband measures six feet
eleven inches. There died recently man
in Union county, Ohio, six feet eight inches
high, but there are no others in the United
States of that height"
Col Goshen himself may be called giant
He is AZ years old, and is presented to the
public as being eight feet high, but that is
showman's measure. He himself does not
claif.s to be more than seven feet three
inches His girth around the waist is six
keE
To be giant does not imply that one
must consume fabulous quantity of food,
Or drink water by the barrel or anything of
that kind. On the contrary, they are some
times quite delicate eaters and drinkers.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
Wy LOVE BEHIND THE COUNTER

Let Swinburne, that ncarnate improperly.
Berhyme Faustine and rave of dark Dolores:
And modest Ternyson. with his variety
OF lady love birds versify their glories-
They, Kings OF song for Queen may blot theil
paper;
My IDOLS but a Little Linendraper
odd is it not? When one has run such races
Hoping in each the Only She as goal,
Followed unnumbered paniers scanned the faces
Promised by ankles soothing to the soul;
To find at last, flesh not a whit idealized
Behind a counter the ideal realized.
But she hath sun-lit hair and mild brown ewes
And SHAPED" hands, and oh such dainty feet
And in her white, face mouth there sighs
As red and mutable as warm and sweet.
The virgin splendors of her bust and throat
Shine through the mists of lace that round them
float.
And lines that show her full yet finely shaped
Under her vestment. fluent, fall and rise
sometimes fancy her fay escaped
From airy folk, who, robbed in earthly wise,
Her elfn voice and manner held as treasures
Has changed her wand for one of our yard
measures.
| often see her when, at early morning,
She orders, in bewidering array,
The purple. scarlet, and fine linen adorning
window which, whate'e the sex may say,
Is never SO attractive, will swear,
As when it would be blank were she not there.
VI.
If were rich-extravagant idea
Or impudent-whch isn't so absurd
might inspired of love and Latakai,
Find heart enough to whisper her one word.
But wealth Has fate to poet ever granted it
While, as for impudence, never wanted it.
Thus, when she says, What can do for you
sir?"
Although know she thinks it glorious fun
am SO lame in speech can't accuse her
Or ask, What can you do you haven't done,
Unless it's make me happy ?" So / try
To look as though my love were-all my eye.
often wonder-will the hand of Time.
Shake down this perfect fruit, as to a favorite
To me, so idle that but be-rhyme
Her sweetness, when l ought to try to SAVIOR it
All, darling girl, / would you thought the same!
Meanwhile do not even know your name
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26

Wheat Product OF the United States.
; The average of land devoted to the culti-
vation of wheat in the United States has
within the last ten years extended from 49,
100000 to more than 36,000,OO0. In the
year 1880 the States grew 60,000,00O quar-
ters of wheat, Of which upward of 22O0O, 900
were exported
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
The Many Things into Which Paper is
Made.
New York SUM-

A tall man, with sharp features and
thoughtful air. sat in small study and gazet
gravely at brown object that lay at hi
feet.
1T is a paper railroad cross tie" he said.
The reporter raised it with some difficulty
1t was Of very close fiber, and so highly
polished that it resembled rosewood. It.
inventor tapped it with his nail, and said
ut doesn't look much like paper, does
it?"
1T seems more like iron. Is it possible il
is made of paper?"
"Oh, yes almost anything can now be
made of paper. A paper ball can be rem
dered so solid that nothing will indent it but
a diamond tool. Car-wheels are now made
of paper. Its strength is astonishing. You
can suspend 339 pounds from Bank OF
England note and it will not part. Bath
tubs, pots, plates knives, forks, cooking
stoves, priting-presses, steam-engines and
chimneys are made Of paper nowadays, and
there is absolutely no limit to the uses to
which it may be put"
Have paper cross-ties ever been used ?u
mot yet The cross-tie is my invention. y
How did you happen to think of it?"
well, / didn't happen to think of it,
vent substitute for the wooden cross-tie or
sleeper, and kept steadily at it until I was
successful. l thought Of paper. There are
scores Of mills in the country where paper
straw, prairie grass and other fbrous sub
stances are converted into straw boards The
process is simple. The straw is reduced to a
pulp and run into boards. These straw
boards are sold all over the country as sub
stitutes for wood. My invention utilizes
straw board The cross tie is constructed of
sheets or layers of paper or straw board,
laid one upon another, cemented and COM
pressed into molds. 1t makes a perfect
cross-tie. 1t is practically water and fire.
proof, as it is manufactured under 500 de-
grees of heat Atmospheric changes have no
effect on it. 1t can be made as cheap as
wood at the present time, and will last at
least twenty-five years."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26
BLUE EYES FOR BEAUTY.
Only Those Born With the Bright Iris
Able to be at the Tip.top of Style.
[St. Louis ost-Dispatch. !

ITO be in the fashion to-day, you must
have dark hair, blue eyes, not particle ol
color, and lips as red as the cherry" Thus
speaks a prominent writer on the fashions
The artificial production of the black eye is
matter Of every day occurrence. The best
of friends occasionally do a little of this
kind of tinting for one another, but from
black or dark brown, or gray, or hazel, or
green to blue, is horse, that is to say an
eye, of another color, and at this stage of
the new era in beauty it does almost seem
impossible that the ingenuity of man would
be able to accomplish the result. Such was
the opinion of DR.. A. d. Williams, an occu-
list, to whom the subject was broached this
morning by a Post Dispatch reporter.
"There is no art by which the color of the
iris can be changed" said DIR. Williams.
"The iris consiste of curtain which is on
the inside of the eye and the back part of
which is supplied with pigment which
varies in color, as we see daily, and is in
characteristic harmony with the hair and
complexion of the owner. The only change
which can be effected in the appearance Of
the eye is accomplished by the use of bella
donna. Ladies who have light eyes, which
they wish to darken, drop into them solu-
tion of belladonna, which has the effect of
largely dilating the pupil. The light color
of the iris is thus displaced by the deep
black of the pupil and the appearance of the
eye is greatly changed. Many ladies prac-
tice this habit, which is not harmful, though
it causes considerable discomfort. After a
lady has given her eyes dose of belladonna,
its immediate action is to dilate the pupils
and they remain so, no matter how intense the
light may be. Thus you see the ball room
beauty who has increased her charms in this
way suffers considerably, her eyes admitting
such quantity of brilliant light as to fire.
quently render almost blind for the time
being"
''How long does this nnnatura dilation
last?"
Generally about week. Where very
weak solution has been employed it will
pass away in couple of days. Very few
ladies, however, who employ belladonna, use
the weaker solution"
"But blue eyes are positively unattain-
able?"
'Yes, sir. There is no process by which
the natural color of the iris can be changed.
The pigment cannot be reached in any way
that is now known to science"
"Could not the ladies wear blue eyes over
their brown ones?"
wise. A healthy eye would not allow of
the wearing of false one over it. There
would not be room for it. The artificial eye
can only be placed over one which has been
shrunked by disease. No; there is no way
oy which the color of the eye can be
changed; none whatever"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-26

odd is it not? When one has run such races
Hoping in each the Only She as goal,
Followed unnumbered paniers scanned the faces
Promised by ankles soothing to the soul;
To find at last, flesh not a whit idealiZed
Behind counter the ideal realized
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-12


Now. do you know the best time to
do a job IMP"
The reporter acknowledged that he
didn't.
well, I'll tell you, said the pro-
lessor. .'Between 5 and 4 O'Clock in
the morning, particularly if the night
is black. People sleep soundest in the
hour Just before daylight. You can go
through a big house easy in an hour
and scoop everything, from the jewelry
IN the secret Safe above she pantel to
the six-shooter and gold super (watch)
under the boss's pillow, And this brings
US to our first lesson, which will show
you how to get into house. There are
three ordinary ways of doing this: by
the DOORS, by the lower windows and by
the windows on the upper floors. If
the upper windows are to be worked,
all you have to do is to climb the porch,
push up your window and crawl in.
Never Try todoanything withouta part
ner. Leave your shoes with him on the
lockout below You will want light,
and you may use either matches, a can
dle-end or a bulls-eye lantern, The
bit of candle is the best to use. Its
light will-not wake a sleeper Then
prosecute your work as Judgment die
tates, being sure to search the open
places first and the drawers next. y st.
Louis Post DisDatch
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-12
Proposed Change of New Yorks Name,

1rOp0Seu Onango OF N5W 1ork Name.
"Now or never" we may say with
regard to the final controversy as to
whether we shall continue to call the
metropolis by a name intensely proyin-
cial or adopt the beautiful name given
to this island by its native lords and
owners. If ever the change is to be
made from New York to "Manhat-
tan, it must be in view of the inevita-
bic consolidation of. New York and
Brooklyn, which has become more and
more prominent topic of talk since the
recent magnificent betrothal OF the two
Giles, There Is no reason why the
names of New York" and BROOKLYN
should not survive the union OF the two
cities under the name of Manhattan, "
just as the old LOCAL names survive in
London-as. for instance, k-nsington
with 365, 81 inhabitants, Lambeth with
2QS, 342, Marylcbone with l59. 254, and
Islngton with 2l3, 77S., Fer the Goo 600
people n Brooklyn.to accept the name
of New York In place of that 10 which
they are attached, would be to turn the
bridge into highway for the conquest
of Broo!>ln by New York. the conquer
ers Imposing the name OF their own city
as permanent badge OF superiority and
snbluTaton.
Let the names of BROOKLYN and New
York remain in common usage, endear-
ed by peculiar associations and memo
ries, and let tile much more beautiful
and fitting name of Manhattan cover
the whole Of the great metropelis that
shall eytond ftpm sAlanhauan Beach"
prophetic designation to the Highlands
OF We5.chester, the Switzerland of our
great CITY, that is to be the pride of the
continent and the envied of all the rest
Of the WORLDLY J. Mail and cypress.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-12
GLEANINaS.
Cornell University is to have aprofes-
sor of physical culture

Cornell University is to have aprofes-
sor of physical culture.
Philadelphia has two baseball clubs
composed OF colored women.
James A. Harris, the orange king OF
Florida, received SOS, 900 net Tor his
orange crop this year,
In Hudson, Columbia county, N. T.,
is the largest apple orchard in the world
80, 900 trees on 800 acres.
The dressy young man, to be in tone
now, must have narrow stripe OF braid
down the side of his pantafoons.
Jeweled bracelets. worn on the LETT
foreleg. are the latest novelty for arlsto-
cratic dogs,
A white squash can be sold in Boston
and yellow squash can't be sold IN
New York.
Some unpatriotic scoundrel has daab-
ed paint upon the Soldiers Monument
in Saratoga.
Swinging apple trees with a weak
solution Of soap and earbelie acid Will
kill lice
In twenty three years the wheat acre
age of Colorado has increased from ten
acres to fifty thousand.
Portland. Ore, is to have this year a
81 900. 900, bridge and railroad work
shops costing $5.00O,OOO.
Princess Sara Winnemucca, of the Pi-
utes. thinks that Indian Agents ought TO
be army officers.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-12
Thu I,i,ne-Kiln Club.

As soon as Pickles Smith had ceased
coughing in that mournful way peculiar
to himself, and Trustee Pullback had got
through disputing with Samuel Shin
about the age of Judas Iscariot, the trl-
angle sounded and Brother Gardner
arose ard said:
death has once more invaded our
ranks, | yesterday received letter
containin de inf0rmashun dat Brombns-
tus De Witt, an honorary member of dis
club, residin' at Bowling Green, State
of Kentucky, had expired from airth
away Has any member anything to
offerP"
Judge Cadaver offered resolution OF
sympathy for the bereayed widow and
fatherless children.
Syntax johnson moved that Paradise
Hall be draped in mourning for the
space of sixty days.
The Rev. Penstock moved that what
was the Lime-Kiln Clubs loss was the
deceased brothers eternal gain.
Buckingham Jones suggested that the
club contribute the sum OF S5,0O0 to-
wards monument with an angel
"
percbed on top.
Gem len, said the President, as ne
waved them down, Il knew Bromtus-
tus well In fack, he am de only man
who ebber stole my dog. de has eaten
at my house, an | has slept in his an
tooken breakfast at de highest second
class hotel. We shall adopt skedule
about as follows: We am grieved dat
Brombustus has passed away. but
would he have amounted to shucks had
he libed?
...He was kind to de poor, but he stole
chickens from de rich.
"'He was honest an upright, but he
nebber had chance to trade bosses OF
beat a street kyar company
:. He had many virtues, but dey wal
offset by many vices While ne would
have Established an orfan asylum II ne
had de money to do it, he invariably
| tried to pay his dues wild trade dollars
or counterfeit halves.
- While we hope he am better OH, we
shan be ober anxious to inquar' fur him
when we reach de mex world
'tGem'lin Brombustus Dewitt was an
average man. He libed in de average
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-12
Nav Washes Iannaru.

The veteran editor of popular jour
nal of Central Kentucky came down
(says the Cincinnati NeWSJournaD to
see that the dramatic festival goes off all
right. A party Of lively and lovely blue
grass bellies were on the train, and of
course hewas soon in their midst. and in
less than an hour he was flirting despe-
rately with the prettiest of the lot, She
mischievously encouraged the venerable
gentleman's advances. 1t is the rule, on
approaching a tunnel, for the brakeman
to hight up the car, and on nearing the
one at Grants Bend, Craddoek went out
to the brakeman and begged Of him to
omit that duty for once. Failing to per-
suade the man, he grew anxious and
eager, and finally offered S. to back his
request The brakeman became curious
and insisted on knowing his purpose,
when Craddoek confessed that there was
a girl i'll the car that he would freely
give 50 to kiss just once, and while he
knew she woulin't permit it in thelight,
he was confident hecould kiss her before
getting through the tunnel if the lamps
were not lit. The brakeman was obdn-
rate, and so the amorous old sinner did
not kiss his miss, but missed his kiss.