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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-29
Cause and Cure of Badness.
BOSTON Medical JO11rnaJ

Boston Medical Journal
O. Lassar has continued his obser-
vatiOns on badness, the nature of pre-
mature badness, and has further CON
vinced himself of the communicable
ty of at least the form associated with
dandruH. When the hairs which fall
Off in such cases are collected,
rubbed up with vaseline, and the oint-
ment so made is rubbed among the fur
of rabbits or white mice, badness
rapidly makes itself visible on the
parts SO treated That this is not due
to the vaseline was shown by annoint-
ing other animals with the vaseline
alone, which produced no effect what
ever. He considers that the disease is
spread by hairdressers, who employ
combs and brushes to their customers,
one after another, without any reg
ular cleaning these articles after
each time they are used. During fire.
quent visits to the hair-dressers, it
can scarcely fail that brushes are
used which have been shortly before
dressing the hair of one affected with
so common a complaint as scaly bald
ness. Females he thinks, are less of
ten affected with this form of bald
ness, because the hair-dresser more
frequently attends to them at their
own homes, and there uses their combs
and brushes. In order to prevent, as
far as possible, the commencement of
alopecia premature, the hair should
be cut and dressed at home,
and with ones own implements,
and these thoroughly clean.
When it has begun, the following
mode of treatment is suggested: The
scalp is to be daily we'll soaked with
tar or fluid glycerine potash soap,
which is to be rubbed in for fifteen
minutes firmly. The head is then to
be drenched with, first, warm water,
and gradually colder water A two
per cent corrosive sublimate lotion is
next to be freely applied. The head
IS then to be dried, and the roots of
the hair are to have half per cent.
solution of napthol in spirit rubbed
into them. Finally, a pomade of one
and half to two per cent carbolic or
sallcylic oil is to be used on the head.
This treatment has now in many
cases brought the disease not only to
stand, but the hair has been to a
considerable extent restored.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-29

Experiments have been made near
Coblentz with a view of making
ravens take the place of carrier pig
cons. The ravens have the advantage
over the pigeons of being less liable
to attacks of birds of prey. Some
ravens cover distance of forty miles.
but the London field thinks it very
improbable whether they could ever
be trustworthy as messengers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-29
Cheap Pictures.
st. Louis Republican.

'Doyo know how these pictures
are painted?" inquired an art connois-
seur yesterday of 81 reporter, refer
ring to the paintings displayed in the
art auction house."
The newspaper man confessed his
ignorance, and asked to be inform
ed.
"Well, I will tell you story re-
gardipg their construction as it was
told me by thoroughly reliable par
ty. He said he knew an artist in Chi
eago who was a good painter, but had
wrecked himself by drink Broken
down he took to painting pictures for
auctioneers, and this is how he did it:
He would spread long piece of can
vass along the room and then mark it
off in sections the size he intended to
make his pictures. Next he would
mix up about a dozen pots of paint
as many colors as it was necessary for
him to use. Taking brush from one
pot he would paint daub, a tree CT
something on each section; then he
would take another color and 90
along the strip of canvass daubing
water or houses on each picture. and
so on until he had turned out the
whole string, all alike you know. In
this way he managed to turn out
twenty pictures a day. He received
Is cents for each picture. Ny inform
ant assured me this was all he was
paid. Well, that would be about SIS
for the days work. This would be
enough for the artist to go off on a
drunk with. and that is what he would
do, and remain drunk for few days.
Then his funds would be out and he
would go to work again. In this man-
ner he managed to keep afoat, and be
drunk the greater part of time You
can understand how these fellows
can sell pictures for a triae and yet
thrive If they sell a picture at all
they make money on it, as it costs
them rext to nothing The frames
they get for about so cents apiece as
they buy so many at time. Why,
$2,50 pays them well for picture" "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-29
Carving a Canadian Goose.
Toronto Mail


''Mr. McCloud will please carve the
goose?"
These words We're addressed to
young man who made one of a party
at breakfast-tablet the other morning.
The table was standing in a house on
King street, near Widmer, and the
breakfast-deelnae1' would be a better
fitting word-was given in honor of a
young couple who had been married
about an hour before There was no
threat contained in the words above
quoted, but nevertheless they sent
thrill of terror through the young man
to whom they were addressed. He had
never cut up anything before except
few capers when out with the boys at
night, and the idea of carving a goose
before company made him SO nervous
that he fancied the other gaests were
beginning to regard him as akin to the
bird he was called upon to mangle.
However, he was ashamed to show
his ignorance of a useful accomplish
ment, so he drew a long breath and
the carving-knife toward him. AS he
arose to his feet the eyes of the party
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
Can We Have 1t?

Mr.. Editor Our churches have their Christ
mas, Fast, Easter, Children's, Thanksgiving
days, and now why should they not have one
day in the year that shall be given to the dis
cussion of honesty in business affairs? Now
don't all rise up, We ministers and say all Sun
days are such daysD We would like to sug-
gest, Mr.. Editor, through your paper, that
every minister in the state within the next
month"; devote Sunday to this subject, and
announce two weeks beforehand that he will
occasion at his church maybe in more senses
than one, tooO We won't select the texts for
the day. but let the people be told, what is
meant by the description of Christian man,
in the words, " He that sweareth to his own
hurt, and changeth not" and how it bears upon
some very homely" cases, such as WHEN Il
professedy Christian man agrees to take, or
sell certain piece Of property on a future day,
and then "backs down." because there had
been nothing paid, and so, by law" he could
do So Discuss the morality of always try ing
to get thing at the lowest possible price with
out regard to real worth, and then always try
ing to get the most for the same thing; and so
on. But not to enumerate further, let each of
our ministers ascertain the questionable prac-
tees in every day business lire to be found in
his own community, and then take, at least one
day to pour the hot shot and shell of the Bible
upon them. 1t may reduce the Ghosts TO a
Gideon band OF " three hundred" but the
" Mdianites " about the churches will be " de-
livered into the hands " of Just such faithful
ones. Let the reader ask his minister IL we
can't have one day of such plain preaching
this month. KY H.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
Tin Plates and Me Tariff.

Tin plates, the " tin of commerce and
from which articles of tin ware are made,
seems to be denied by some protectionists
the benefit of the cardinal principles of
protection. The ostensible ground for
laying a low tax on tin plates is that there
are no tin mines in this country. AS any
one familiar with the making of tin plates
knows, the tin with which the thin iron
plates are coated forms but small frac-
ton of the total cost. Everything that
enters into the production of tin plates,
except pig tin and palm oil, is found in
this country in large quantities and of
superior quality. The value of those two
articles is only about twenty per cent of
the finished prodact. Pig iron, coal, lead,
lumber, wages, etc., make up the eighty
per cent of the cost which should be
furnished by this country and would now
be furnished had the principles of protec-
ton been extended to this article as well
as to iron, steel and long list of other
things, the greater portion of which was
formerly imported, but which is now made
at home. For the year ended June 30,
1882, there were imported from England
100000 boxes of tin or about 200 900
tons; and for the calendar year of 1882, as
appears from circular just issued by the
iron interest," there was imported 100000
tons. This country takes about two-thirds
of the entire product of the English mills.
The tariff of 1864 provided that "tin
plates" should pay a duty of two and
one-half cents per pound. Mr.. FesseAden,
then secretary of the treasury, apparently
with an eye to the canning industry in
Maine, by very singular construction of
the tariff act, ruled that the duty of two
and one-hslf cents was intended to be
laid upon tin plates galvanized or coated
with any metal by electric batteries or
otherwise" and under a clause which
provided for /" tin in sheets or plates " (by
which pure tin was evidently meant)
placed the duty on tin plates, iron coated
with tin, at fifteen per cent advalorem.
The astute secretary may have seen tin
plates galvanized or coated by any metal
by electric battery or otherwise" but such
merchandise is not known to the trade.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
A Novel Bridge.

The Canada Southern railroad bridge
over Niagara river is to be built at q
point about three hundred feet above the
present suspension bridge. Thenew struct-
ure will employ new principle never
before illustrated by any large work act
ually finished. Bridges after the new de-
sign are known as cantilever bridges.
Each end is made of a section extending
from the shore nearly half way over the
chasm. Each section is supported about
its centre by strong tower. The outer
arm, having no support, and being SUBJ
ject like the other to the weight of trains,
a counter advantage is given by the shore
arm being anchored or weighted. The
towers ON either side will rise from the
waters edge. Between them will be a
clear span Of five hundred feet over the
river. The shore arm of each cantilever
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04

having been built and anchored, the other
arm will be constructed in sections of
twenty-five feet, the whole being made
self-sustaining as each section is added
The ends of the cantilevers will reach
only three hundred and seventy.fve feet
beyond the towers, leaving gap of one
hundred and twenty-five feet to be filled.
The link will be supplied by an ordinary
truss bridge, which will be swung into
place and rested on the end of the canti-
levers. Here provision will be made for
expansion and contraction by allowing
play between the ends of the truss bridge
and of the cantilevers. The total length
of the bridge will be eight hundred and
ninety-fve feet. 1t will have double
track and will be strong enough to bear
two of the heaviest freight trains extend
ing the entire length of the structure, and
under side pressure of wind at seventy
five miles per hour, and even then it is to
be strained to only one-fifth of its ultimate
strength. The top of the stone structures
will be fifty feet above the water level,
and from these the steel towers support
ing the cantilevers will rise one hundred
and thirty feet. From the tower founda-
tions up, the whole bridge will be of
steel, every inch of which will be subject
to the most rigid tests from the time it
leaves the ore to the time it enters the
structure.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04

MATCHES are among other articles
which have been in the internal revenue
limbo for twenty years and which were
released July LIST. The government has
been collecting annually between three
million and four million dollars on these
articles of universal use. The rate has
been one dollar to ten thousand matches,
and in this case as in the case of tobacco
and other articles the question is, viii
the people get the benefit of the abated
tax or will it go to still further swell the
profits of makers and dealers. The match
business of the United States is monop-
olized by the Diamond Match Company.
What the Western Union has been among
telegraph companies, the Standard Oil
Company among oil producers, the Dia-
mond Match Company has been among
the makers of friction matches. The tax
has amounted to S1.44 gross. The re-
tail buyer should be able to get such a
package at correspondingly lower price
and fractions of gross should be proper
tionally cheaper. 1t must soon appear
who will have the benefit of internal rev.
enue reduction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
To GENERAL GRANT belongs the honor

To GENERAL GRANT belongs the honor
of inaugurating policy of peace and ed
ucation in respect to the Indians, the
fruits of which are seemingly wonderful.
General Crook has Just ended little war
with few hundred fugitives beyond
the Mexican line. 1t is probably the last
time that our troops will be called upon
to ght the Indians" The reservation
system instituted by General Grant, with
its teachers, missions, farms aud house
holds is changing before our eyes the
character of these savages. They are
rapidly learning the ways OF civilization
and are far towards the goal of their am
bition-an enlightened American citizen
ship. The Indian problem, which years
of blood and violence in vain essayed to
solve, is at last solved by the peaceful
method of the great warrior. The great
est fighter of the age is its greatest pacif-
icator. We wonder how Grant, if presi-
dent, would deal with Mormonism. That
he would terminate it, we have no doubt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04

THE Chicago Tribune thus forecasts the
elections in the next presidential cam
paign. 1t gives to the republicans the
following states New York, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota, Ne
braska, New Hampshire, Vermont, Wis
consin and Rhode Island, making total
of two hundred and one votes. 1t con-
cedes to the democrats New Jersey, Con-
necticut, Colorado, Indiana, Nevada,
Oregon, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland,
Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, West Virginia, Tennessee,
Texas, California, Arkansas, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Louisiana
casting a total of two hundred votes
The Tribune says: "This is giving the
democrats all the states the republicans
do not actually need, and more, of course
than they will carry; but transfer New
York and Ohio, or either of them, from
the republican column, keeping in mind
what bearing such transfer will have on
other states, and it will be found impos
sible to fill the gap from the other col
umn with any degree of probability what
ever. The fight is right in the big states.
1t is conceded by the New York Sun tina,
possibly the republicans may carry Con
necticut, Colorado, Oregon, Virginia, Cal
ifornia and that they have a fighting
chance in Florida and North Carolina
1t also admits that South Carolina, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana in an honest cleo
ton and with fair count would be repub
lican. But there are great many things
yet to happen before any one can give
even shrewd guess on the result of the
campaign of 1884. The democrats hav,
their preliminary battles to fight in theil
own ranks on the tariff issue in the cleo
ton of speaker next December, demo
cratic house of representatives has yet Il
show its ability to restrain the tiger
and to legislate judiciously, two nationa
conventions are yet to be held to nomi
nate candidates for the presidency, anc
each one of these things will have yer,
important bearing upon the question O
the vote of states big or little, and espe
cially upon the vote Of New York, which
will very likely again be the pivot upor
which the result will turn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
General Durbin Wards Speech.

The following is the press report Of the
speech of General Ward, the defeated candi-
date for the nomination to the Ohio demo-
cratic convention; Gentlemen-l regret ex-
tremely that you call me here now. IL re-
minds me that when after | had fought for
years in the field and was wounded so that
you see that lame arm has to lie at my back,
they attempted to muster me out OF the SER
vice. | went to Washington city and mustered
myself in again and continued to fight in the
field through several campaigns, and So tell
you now, gentlemen. | am TO say what you
have compelled me to say. Being called to
this position, refuse to be mustered out Of
service and | say to you that as you have
chosen to prefer another for governor you have
left no place for me in the state of Ohio but
senator in congress [cheers and therefore
openly proclaim myself here whatever may be
the result, as candidate for United States
senator for Ohio, Long-continued applausel.
did not desire TO say all this and | besougnt
the committee that called upon me not to
bring me here lest would say that which
might be disagreeable to them and the conven-
ton; but desire to say, gentlemen, that am
too much OF Napoleon To give up a battle be-
cause happen to be a loser. Let me add one
word more and then close. Cries of go onl' |
shall use not one dollar ~ procure my nom
nation TO the senate Of the United States.
shall appeal TO the strong, hard, horse sense of
the democracy of this state and will say to
them, as they refuse me the lower places, | now
ask that one; and, il get it, say to you now
that shall favor the doctrine that to the dem
ocrats who win the victory belong the honors
One word more and then | close, and that
word Is one OF justification to myself. Not
one man in this state has done the work in
thirty years that | have done who has not
been recognized by nomination for governor,
or nomination for senator. The first YOU
have not given me- and now in my old age
will keep on and die in my tracks. Had been
allowed to have some reward for the work |
have done, would not complain that those of
greater talent and perhaps greater services
should take the rewards; but when have re-
ceived nothing thus far come boldly forward
in my old age and ask for the last honor that
shall ever ask from the American people,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04

ridiculous" A recent visitor to Coopers.
town, however, reports that time has al
ready obliterated animosity, and that
Cooper is there held in honor.
BENNINGTON BANNER I" 1t is said that
a Canadian slate company is now under
selling the Vermont companies on their
own ground. When some of our brothers
read this item from northern exchange,
especially if they own an interest in slate
quarry, will they Immediately sit down
and write free trade article advocating
the abolition of the tariff on knit goods,
for instance ? This importation of slate
is made Notwithstanding the tariff, the
wages in Canada being SO low that the
dominion can produce the roofing, pay
the duty, pay the discrimination against
them in railroad tariff, and then undersell
Vermont quarries at home. If the slate
workmen of the United States care to be
reduced to the condition of their Cana.
dian competitors, they should vote the
democratic ticket and support free trade
papers"
HARPER's WEEKLY -" Those who
have visited Mr.. G. Washington Child's
summer residence at Bryn Mawr, on the
Pennsylvania railroad, about half an hours
ride from Philadelphia, will appreciate
the extent of that genteman's generosity
in laying plank walk from the house to
the railroad station for the convenience of
excursionists who desire to see the place
and to regale themselves with the extern
sive and beautiful views over a rolling
country which it affords. Probably there
is not in the United States more nearly
perfect specimen of Queen Anne villa.
1t is built of brick, is finished throughout
in light woods, chiefly butternut and
chestnut, and is surrounded by noble
terrace of cut granite. But the interior
is charming, not because of elegance and
costliness of decoration, but because of
the simplicity of its quiet and tasteful
effects. 1t is needless to add that, unlike
some of his titled friends in Europe, Mr..
Childs does not exact fees from visitors"
The 81. James Gdzette (English) saws !:
1t seems that America, after all, is una
BILE to make good her claim to the possess
sion of the tallest trees in the world.
Every one has read of the marvels of the
Yosemite Valley and of Yellowstone
Park, the huge national sporting ground
of the United States. But what are the
giants of California in comparison with
tree which has lately been discovered in
Australasia ? 1t has long been known
that in Tasmania there are eucalypti
measuring two hundred feet from the
ground to the first branch, and more than
three hundred feet in total height and
there is, or lately was, on Mount Yelling
ton, near Hobart Town, tree of this
species the trunk of which was eighty-six
feet in circumference. But still more
| gigantic monarch of the woods has been
recently discovered in Victoria. 1t is a
we'll proportional specimen of the Euca.
lsptus amygddlina, and its top is nearer to
the sky than the cross of st. Paul's Cattle.
dral, for it is no less than four hundred
| and thirty feet above the ground"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04

IT is often said that the Mormons are
an exceedingly contented people. But
it is not in the nature of things that they
should be forever so. The bondage
which enslaves them is worse than that
of the Israelites in Egypt. There is not
on the earth to-day another such priest
ridden people. Over the one hundred
and twenty-five thousand Mormons there
are no fewer than twenty-five church Of
ficials There is president, two coun-
sellers, twelve apostles and sixty patri-
archs, "whose business it is to bless, in
writing, at two dollars head twenty.
five presidents of Stakes of Zion y two
hundred and fifty bishops three thou
sand and forty-fve high priests; eleven
thousand and five hundred and forty-fve
elders; one thousand two hundred and
eighty-six priests; one thousand five hun
dred and seventy-six teachers, and four
thousand one hundred deacons Here
is an ecclesiastical aristocracy which, so
long at it can keep its place on the neck
of the ignorant people, will make the in
stitution of Mormonism strong and i'm.
movable. But the history of every des-
potism shows that a time comes when the
crushed people, as if its vitals were at last
being reached, turns and rises, and with
resistless power brings the tyrant to the
dust. Is there not some way by which
this sleeping giant within may be helped
from without ?
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-09-13
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