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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-09

"A remedy for the cholera. which il
is said was the result Of many expert
ments made by DIR. Hahnemann, the
founder Of homeopathy, consists OF w.
ratrum album, in five-minute doses Of
eight or ten globules each, in water.
No water or other drink is to be allowed.
Vomiting is to be checked by frequent
solutions Of three to five drops of spirits
Of camphor, and arsenicum metalicum
album is to be used in like quantities.
should the body become cold. - Chicago
Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-09

"A Corey Island cook has Deon
awarded $45O for the invention Of . new
chicken soup.--M y. Sun.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-09
The BastiIe.

The Bastile was originally the castle
of Paris, and was built by order OF
Charles w., between 1870 and 1883, by
Hugo Aubriot, Provost of Paris, at the
Porte st. Antoine, as defense against
the English. 1t was q massive stone
structure, and on each side of its lower
sides it had four towers of five stories
each. over which ran gallery, which
was furnished with cannon. When it
came to be used as State prison, which
was during the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries, it was provided with
vast bulwarks, bitches, drawbridges
and strong barriers. 1t was partly in
the towers and partly in cellars under
the level of the ground that the prisoners
were confined. They were SO effectual-
ly removed from the outside world as
often to be entirely forgotten. In some
cases it was impossible to discover
either their origin or the cause Of their
incarceration.
The Bastile was capable of contain
ing from seventy to eighty prisoners, a
number frequently reached during the
reigns of Louis XIV. and XIV
Although small compared to the num-
Der which an ordinary prison contains,
these numbers were considerable when
it is borne in mind that they rarely con-
sisted of persons of the lower ranks, or
such as were guilty of actual crimes,
but of those who were sacrificed TO
political despotism, court intrigue,
ecclesiastical tyranny, or had fallen
victims to family quarrels, and were
lodged here by virtue of letters de
cachet = noblemen, authors, savants,
priests and publishers. These letters
Of arrest were issued in the name Of
the King, but the names of the individ-
uals were inserted by the Ministers,
who were the depositaries Of these let
ters. The arrests under them became
gradually more arbitrary, and mon of
the greatest merit were liable to be
thrown into prison whenever they hap
pened to displease Minister, a favorite,
or mistress. Chicago Tribune.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-09

Mr. Thomas Kennedy, of SIAM
ford, Conn, has devised an ingenious,
though perhaps not very effective,
means for subduing the rebellious spirit
in his seventeen-year-old daughter.
The father objected to her keeping
company with young men, but his ex-
postnIations had no effect on the girl.
At last they quarreled, and the parent
seized pair Of shears and cut off his
daughters beautiful black hair, giving
as reason for doing it that he believed
it would keep Der away from the boys.
Hartford Posi-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-09

George Parker, farmer aged thirty
years, died at McMinnville, Oregon, =
few days ago, from the effects Of in
fammation, produced by swallowing
cracked cherry pits.--Denuer Iribuns
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-07
EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY.

When WEAKNESS with life my spirit fills,
When deep disgust consumes me with my lot,
draw some store of confor. from the ills
haven't got.
To find that fortune at your coming flies,
To be bankrupt in health. in fame. in purse,
Is bad enough; but, philosophize,
II might be worse.
necessarily we make great ado.
The mouth of Misery is wide asape;
But happier we, fancy, If We knew
What we escape.
The common woes OF life are bad enough,
Nisfortunes fall as easy Us the dew,
And still for every morning steak that's tough,
There might be two.
This one is sick; his maynard fate cries out
Against the leech, the calomel the bed.
inconsiderate person cease to pOut-
You might be dead
And this one hath the mitten; ne has wooed.
Vainly, alack, his wooing it has sped,
Well even in this there's comfort. rightly
viewed
He might be we'd
And here is one who whines: his all is swept
Away in panic; he has had 10 fail
He should l think, be cheerful, that he's kept
Safe out of Jail.
But late lost twenty dollar bill
I. And did l wiring my hands that l had blum
Not /. indeed-rm very thankful still
Twas not hundred.
Sooth, should e'er capsize when walks are bad.
And my good ciavicle involve in wreck.
Serenely, should say, How very glad
It's not my neck.
trust me-better not to make ado
At the few miseries of our common lot
There's millions of emf we only knew
We haven't got.
u f F., in the Manhattan
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Bravery of Andrew Johnson.

" Just preceding the war, said Tennes-
see man, Andrew Johnson had many
enemies in Tennessee, and once when he
was billed for an evening speech at Nash
vile, the report was spread that if he dared
to speak he would be either rnobbed or
egged, and perhaps assassinated. When
the hour for assembling came the house
WAS already thronged and Andy Johnson
was on the platform. He promptly arose,
and going to the front took pistol from
his pocket and cooked it. He then opened
the meeting by saying Gentlemen and
fellow citizens 1t is meet that when free
men assemble for the discussion of impor-
tant business interests everything should
be done decently and i'll order. Now, l
have been informed that a part of the pro-
ceedings on the present occasion is the as
sassination of the individual addressing
you
Here he grasped the pistol firmly with
his right hand threw open his coat with
his left, and continued | propose that
this little matter be the first business taken
up. If any man comes here tonight for
that purpose let him not speak, but shoot
- At this there was pause, and no one
replied Ah,' said Mr.. Johnson, see |
have been misinfornred. l will proceed
with the meeting
And there was not a ripple of dissent in
the hall that night. Johnson was applaud
ed at every period, and he had not an enc
my present who dared to groan above his
breath. ~ Cleveland Leader.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-07
ABOUT THE HOUSEHOLD.

Wherever milk is used plentifully, there
the children grow into robust men and
women. Wherever the place is usurped
by tea, We have degeneracy swift and Ger
tain
One way to prepare onion flayorins for
! vegetable soup is TO take a large onion, re-
move the outer skin, then stick cloves into
the onion and bake it until it IS nicely
Drowned The peculiar flavor thus gained
is.relished by the epicure.
One of the wisest precautions TO take
when you are baking is TO have the oven
perfectly clean, and yet it is one that is
often neglected, and many an otherwise
faultless dish has been spoiled by the sift-
ing of ashes from the upper CRATE in the
oven.
A tomato Gamer says the cause of poi
soning from eating canned tomatoes IS
this When the can is opened and only
portion. of the contents removed, the air
acts upon the tin and develops the poison.
The can should be emptied al at once, and
the unused portion put in an open vessel.
For seriously chapped hands try this
Scrape a cake of brown Windsor soap until
it is all as fine as powder mix il with an
ounce of cologne water and an ounce of
lemon juice. Stir this very thoroughly
together, shape it into cakes, let il harden
and then use it when you wash your hands
To make succotash that will taste nearly
if not quite as fresh as that made in sum
mer, soak one pint of dried corn in sweet
milk all night. Soak an equal quantity,
or less if you prefer it, of dried Lima beans
for three hours in luke-warm water. Then
let them simmer for nearly an hour, add
salt, butter, pepper, and very little sugar.
l.
bright if, after washing, it is rubbed over
with new milk which has been thoroughly
skinned, SO as to remove all traces of
cream. If any cream is left in the milk
the surface remains sticky, and rapidly be-
comes soiled. The skim-milk forms. when
dry, a smooth elastic varnish, which pep
manently protects the linoleum and assists
1t in resisting wear.
! Dried California plums, says the New
York Post, are an excellent fruit TO use in
making roly-poly pudding Let them soak
well; stew slowly, in very little water
The dried or evaporated fruits are much
more economical to buy than the canned
fruits, and for many purposes they are
preferable. If they are soaked long enough
and cooked properly the flavor will be in
tense, and they are better for pies and pud
dings than the ordinary canned fruit.
a delicate and delicious dish is made by
boiling one-quarter of pound of rice in
one pint and a half of milk to this add
two ounces of sweet almonds blanched,
with two ounces of white sugar Boil until
the rice is tender. Do not stir the rice, but
shake the kettle in which it boils. When
done serve it in cups which you have first
wet with cold water. Leave space on the
top of each cup so you may put spoonful
of Jelly with cream poured around it. or
whipped cream and powdered sugar, or a
mcringIe made of the white of an egg and
of sugar, or chocolate frosting like that
for cake. This simple dish admits of great
variety in its decoration, or in the sauce
with which il is served.-[N. Y Post
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The Moon Inhabited

AT the Astronomical Observatory of Ber-
lin a discovery has been made, which,
without doubt, will cause the greatest SEN
sation, not only among those not adopts III
science, but even among the most learned.
Professor Blendmann in that city, has
found, beyond a doubt, that our old friend,
the moon, is not a mere lantern which
kindly furnishes light for the loving youth
and gas companies of our planet, but the
abode Of living intelligent beings for which
he is prepared to furnish proofs most con-
yincing.
This question has agitated humanity
from time immemorial and has been the
object of the greatest interest. But the
opinions have always differed very widely,
and no two minds held one and the same
Already in ancient times the belief pre-
vailed that the moon was inhabited with
some higher organized, intelligent be-
ings, somewhat resembling man, and
in order to communicate with them
the early enthusiasts planted rows
of trees several miles in length 50
as 20 form the figures of the Pythago-
rean theorem The celebrated astrono-
mer Schroeder, in the beginning of the
present century, fancied that he could de-
tect places on the surface of the moon
which periodically grew lighter and darker,
sion that the phenomenon was proof of
existing vegetation. During the last few
decades, however, the idea of life on the
moon has been held up to ridicule, and to-
tally scorned by men of learning. But
nevertheless il has now been proven to be
correct
By accident DIR. Blendman found that
the observation of the moon gave but very
unsatisfactory results, owing to the inten-
sity of the light power of the moons at
mosphere, which is so strong that it af-
fects the correctness of the observations III
a very high degree. He then conceived
the idea to make the object glass of
the refractor less sensitive TO the
RAYS of light, and for that purpose
he darkened ii with the smoke of cam
phor. 1t took months of experimenting
before he succeeded in finding the right
degree of obscurity of the glass. and when
finally found he then with the refractor
took a very accurate photo of the moons
surface This he placed in a sun
microscope, which gave the picture n
diameter of fifty-tive and one-half
feet. The revelation was most startling.
1t perfectly overturned all hitherto enter
tanned ideas of the moons surface. Those
level plains which formerly were held
TO be oceans of water proved to be-
yerdant fields, and what formerly was
considered mountains turned out as deserts
of sand and oceans of water. Towns and
habitations of all kinds were plainly dis
cernible, rs well as signs Of industry and
traffic The learned professors study
and observations of old Luna will
be repeated every full moon when
the sky is clear, and we venture to
predict that the time is not far off when we
shall know more about the man in the
moon than as being an agent in English
politics. Translated from the Nya Prcssen
of Uolsingfors
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-07
For all those Painful Complaints and
Weaknesses so common to our best
FEMALE POPULATION.

For all those Painful Complaints and
- Weaknesses common 10 our best =
: FEMALE POPULATION. :
IT WILL CURE ENTIRELY THE WORST FORM
OF FEMALE COMPLAINTS, ALL OVARIAN TRoU-
BLES, INFLAMMATION AND LIBERATION.
FALLING AND DIsPLACEMENTs, AND THE coz
sEQUENT SPINAL WEAKNESS, AND Is PARTIC-
ULARLY ADAPTED re THE CHANGE or LIFE.
4 <
IT WILL DISSOLVE AND EXPEL TUMoRs
FROM THE UTERUS IN AN EARLY STAGE OF DE-
vELoPMENT. THE TENDENCY TO DANGEROUS
HUMoRs THERE Is CHECKED VERY SPEEDILY
BY ITS USE. : q
IT REMOVES FAINTSEss, FLArULENcY, DE
sTRoYs ALL CRAVING FOR sTINIULANTs, AND
BELIEVES WEAKNESS OF THE STOMACH. II
CURES BLoATING, HEADACHE, NERVOUS Pros
TRATIoN, GENERAL DEBILITY, DEPRESSION
AND INDIG EsrIoN + t. T.
THAT FEELING OF BEARING Down, CAUSING
PAIs, WEIGHT AND BAcKAcHE. Is ALWAYS
PERMANENTLY CURED By ITS USE. - =
IT WILL AT ALL TIMES AND UNDER ALL CIR
| CUMsTANCEs ACT IN HARMONY WITH THE LAWS
THAT GOVERN THE FEMALE SYSTEM. g
E9s~ RS PURPOSE Is SOLELY FOR THE LE-
CLIMATE HEALING OF DISEASE AND THE RE-
LINE OF PAIN, AND THAT IT DOES ALL IT
CLAIMS TO DO, THOUSANDS OF LADIES CAN
GLADLY TESTIFY. ''GsG
= For THE CURE OF KIDNEY CoMPLAISTs
IN EITHER SEX THIS REMEDY rs UNSURPASSED.
e LYDIA Z. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COM
POUND is prepared at Lynn Mass. Price, 81.
Six bottles for So Sold by az druggists Sent BY
mail, postage paid, in form of Pills or Lozenges
on receipt of price as above Mrs. Pinkham's
! Guide to Heslth" will be mailed free to any
Lady sending stamp Letters confdentially an
swered.
= No family should be without LYDIA f. PINK
II 20, ifet in,
Billiousness and Torpidity of the Liver. . cents
per box. m29-lyTuThS&wly
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A YEARS wooINa.

'~was autumn when first they stood on the
Rioe pears en- the pear-teee, ripe corn on the
The swallows few swiftly far up in the blue,
And speeding still southwark, were lost 70 the
SAID he Can you love me, as can love
s9e said, quite demurely: Already do
Twas winter when next they met on the
The pear-trees were brown, and white was the
ridge
The swallows were feathering their nests in
she looked IN his face, and she burst into tears
lis nose it was pinched and his lips they we're
said she he "I can't Ioye Jour said he: nor
your
Twas spring time when next they stood on the
Aad white was the pear-tree. and green was the
1he swallows had thoughts of a speedy return nm
Ast the midges were dancing a-uo"H LIZ
He said: Pretty t maiden, let by-gones 90 by
Can you love me again?' She SAID; c"h
tryr
,Fwas summer when aext they stood on the
There were pears on the pear-tree' tall corn on
The sw sng St% wheeled round them far up in
Then swooped down aud snapped up midgelet
or two. ,, :.
said he: Lest some trife should come in the
way "a,
she stood looking down on the fast-howing rill
17,ao answered demurely: As soon as you
will 81 Chamber : Journal
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-07
of il. It WAS lust three wears ago.

tell of it. It Was Just three years ago.
was in shoal water, in still water, close by
a city wharf, and yet escaped by the skin
of my teeth 1t was at South Brooklyn.
A Danish brig had come in leaking badly,
having been injured in theice on the Banks
| She sunk about fifty feet before reaching
| the wharf. / went down as usual, made
my examination, and was about 70 return
| to the surface. when all al once found
! that could not move.
/ AT first / thought little OF it felt, in
| fact, no alarm at all. The same thing had
often happened before, and | had succeed
ed in working loose But this time things
went badly II took me some little while
| before | could find out what the difficulty
really was, but at length it became plain
| that my signal line had caught on some
| thing which was solid and strong, and
which was several feet above my head. /
| tried all | knew how to reach the point
where it was damned. but it was of no use,
and then | began 10 be alarmed. OF course
I could give no signal to the men IN the
boat, and found that my strength was fast
going, and then it went faster because of
| the fright Ny only hope was that those
above would learn that something was
wrong. and would draw me up. My fright
| increased terribly. and of course that only
added to my danger, when, to my intense
relief, found that was being drawn up
81 well knew that this could not be too
| quickly, for was almost gone. You may
| Judge of my terror when l found myself
| stopped, and once more fast by my hne. 1t
was too much for me in my exhausted con
diton, and lost my consciousness. When
I recovered was in the boat, and my he'll
met was off.
"The story was soon told; they had
wondered at my long quietness, had tried
the signal line and found it fast; had at
once started TO hoist me to the surface, and,
when the rope stopped them, had cut it.
That is all, except that when we had the
brig raised we found the piece OF the line
50 solidly damned on two bolt-heads that
we could free it only by cutting it TO pieces.
remarked to him that, after such dan
ger and alarm, l only wondered how he
could ever venture under water again, but
he made small account of it. He said he
was under the bottom of that same brig
the very next day Harpers Young
People
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-07
How She Was lowered.

Both the Packer boys, Robert and Harry.
were treated like equals by their father and
mother, saws the Pittsburg Post In the
little village where this good man lived
there was a summer hotel, which was
patronized considerably during the season,
Young Harry Packer often taking his meals
there A young girl named Lockwood, the
daughter of respectable citizen living near
the village, came in to assist waiting on the
table The frequency of Harry Packer
meals at the hotel attracted some attention,
and his brother Robert, or Bob, as he was
familiarly and affectionately called by al
most all who even knew him, said one day,
before the father and Harry at the break
fast table, that Harry was sweet on little
girl down at the hotel and that was the
reason he did not come to his meals regu
larly. Harry colored up little, and after
they had finished their breakfast the old
Judge seated himself on the front porch,
which overlOokS Mauch Chunk and gives
such a magnificent view of the Lehigh val
ley, the moving boats and trains which his
own industry had created and brought to-
gethcr. The old gentleman said, Harry,
who is this girl Robert refers to-"
Miss Lockwood, father, the daughter OF
a man you know very well"
Are you going to marry her, Harry
Salu the judge
= have some notion of it, father said
Harry
"Well, wait till go down and see her,
said the Judge and picking up his old
white hat and cane, the Judge quietly am
bled down TO the hotel and asked for Miss
Lockwood. She innoeently came into the
office of the hotel, with her dining-room
apron on, and seated herself beside the
Judge. Just what he said to her, or she to
him, will never be exactly known, unless
she tells it, but when the Judge came out ne
was smiling and appeared mighty well
pleased. He went home, and found Harry
still sitting on the porch where he had left
him. BY this time the Judges face had re-
sumed is usual grave but kind expression.
- Well Harry" he said " that is a very
nice girl down there, but she has no money.
We must raise her some
The old Judge put down his memoranda
for $4,000, the mother and others for
900 each and this $4,000 was placed
in the bank to the exclusive and immediate
credit of Miss Lockwood the engagement
was announced, the wedding day fixed, the
marriage took place, and Harry Packer got
the girl he liked.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-07

Retired book agent" Why, howde do,
Jinks2 How spruce you are looking. What
business are you in now?"
Jinks-" Same old business - selling
books"
What still book agent Pr
YES
" And alive p
q | seem to be-
well, / can't understand it. Since |
got out of the hospital l have given up
books"
81 keep on and am making $4,000 a
year"
." How do you manage TO escape death p
" Easy enough. first introduce myself
as an agent of O'Donovan Rosa, and ask
for subscription to the dynamite fund"
=" People refuse of course?"
Certainly. Then l take out of my
pocket can of brick-dust. labeled in big
letter Dynamite, and begin 70 eSpatiate
on its merits"
YES"
They beg me to handle it carefully and
put it away, Then place it in my coat
tail pocket
"0h no ~
after that open my samples and talk
book to them until they buy. and they
don't dare kick me-
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MISCELLANEOUS.
DYSPEPSIA.

Sedentary habits, mental worry, nervous
excitement, excess or imprudence in eat
ing or drinking, and various other causes,
induce Constipation followed by general
arrangement OF the liver, kidneys, and
stomach, in which the disorder of each
organ increases the infirmity of the others.
The immediate results are Loss of Appe-
tite, Nausea, Foul Breath, Heartburn, Flat
ulence, Dizziness, Sick Headaches, failure
of physical and mental vigor, distressing
sense of weight and fullness in the stomsch,
and increased Costiyeness, all of which are
known under one head rs Dyspepsia.
lneyery instance where this disease does
not originate from scrofulous faint in the
blood. AYERS PILLS may be confidently
relied upon to effect cure. Those cases
not amenable to the curative influence of
AYERS PILLS alone will certainly yield il
the PILLS are aided by the powerful blood
purifying properties of AYERS SARSAPA-
RILLA.
Dyspeptics should know that the longer
treatment of their malady is postponed,
the more difficult of cure it becomes.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-07

A SHEET-IRoS HEN.-Charles Kugle, an
ingenious fellow in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has
constructed a sheet-iron hen that promises
TO lay him golden egg. 1t Is finished up
to life, full size, cackles. clucks and looks
with one eye at time 50 naturally that II
will deceive the oldest hen-hawk in the
country. Ii is so arranged that when
hawk, mink OF polecat pounces on TO it the
back springs open and the wings fly up and
force the assailant on TO a rayenous buzz
saw that makes LOO revolutions per min
ute. After moving half minute the saw
stops, the hen closes up, folds its wings and
begins to cackle rs though it had just laid
an egg. One winding up answers for three
massacres, providing the rather delicate
machinery docs not get clogged up too
much with blood, bones and feathers. He
set freshly painted one out in the sun TO
dry last week, which attracted the attention
of fine old cat belonging to doctor who
had been poking great deal of fun at the
fool thing. The hen is there still, but the
cat is hence.
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Adventure of a professional Diver.

Divers sometimes have strange expe-
riences and it is always TO me n matter of
interest to talk with them. / once had an
interview with one whom | found TO be n
very intelligent man, evidently truthful
and quite willing to converse as to his
strange mode of work One of my ques-
tons was whether he had ever met with
any accident or adventure when under
water.
:" Yes, have Once was frightened in
earnest. In fact, was in real danger. and
the only wonder is that am here now 70