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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-15
THE DEADLY rnA.

W. Mattieu Williams, In series OF
articles on food and cookery III Know.
ledge, has finally come TO tea Ieid there
he hits oil civilized people in n tontler
spot. d In truth, the scientific view OF
what ought to eaten. aud how 1t should
be prepared, is so at variance with what
we do eat, and the manner OF its prep
aration, that one il led to marvel there
is sound digestion and an unimpaircd
stomach in all civilization As mat
ter of fact, i'll viow Of the startling
revelations as to tho jendly character OF
our customary food, it is to be wondered
at that we arc not an extinct race. Ac-
cording to Mr. Williams Of all the life.
shortening, misunderstanding articles
which man is using, tea is one of the
most dangerous, destructive and deadly.
This is The infusion which Cibbor apos-
trophies in fervent words ''Tea! thou
soft. thou sage thou sober, and voner-
able liquid; thou female topgue-rmning,
smile smoothing, haatopening, wink
tipping cordial, to whose glorious insi.
pidity owe the happiest moment of my
life, let me fall PROSTATE. Nor is Cibber
the only writer who has invoked
panegyric to aid in expressing
! admiration of this ''cup which
cheers but does not inobriate =
literature is interspersed with hudations
of the bowl over which fair women
gossip, whose existence is far greater
than the area Of civilization whose
inspiration cheers the souls of tho
millions OF China and carries warmth
through all portions of the frozen
steppes of Siberia AMI Russia. a.
The active principle of te., is Ia 'crystal-
| line alkaloid, the Meiae, q compound
| belonging to the same class rs strych.
nine. and q number of similar vegetable
poisons." This is the character OF tho
drink which is served at least once a day
on every table in civilization. That
which delicate women by the million sip
| is deadly alkaloid, of the same class
as strychnine drug SO deadly that
the mere mention of its name sends a
shudder through the listener rs would
the sudden appearance of some hideoua
reptile 1.-The essential action of tea
is to waste the system, on consume food
by promoting vital action which it does
not support; and worse than this is the
fact that while arsenic, n deadly poison,
will produce the same effect on the
human system rs tea-tliat is, it, like tea,
checks the waste of tissue, and has the
effect to make food appear to go further.
Tho writer takes up the matter of ton
stimulation, and shows that it acts tho
same as tobacco, the betelnut hasheesll
in certain quantities, and various othcl
produces of cxaltation, oil of which Mr..
Williams Jumps together under the head
| OF "yice-drups," .rt . .# -.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-15


Young people who really love each
other see more Of the sentimental then
the sordid side of poverty A man in
vague WY realizes that If he chooses to
marry ON less than q certain income, he
must be economical as TO Injuries and
cigars give up, if possible, tailors' and
florists bills, and live in a very much
smaller house than most of his friends;
but. of what discomforts and privations
the smaller house will entail he has
generally but little idea, He will
gayly declare his perfect willing
| ness to substitute O cheap ready
money tailor for his aristrocratic,
long-credit Schneider, and his full ac-
quiescenoe in Angy's wearing calico
dresses instead of tailor-made dresses
and French . confections' but will not
realize that small means entail thinking
of every item in the washing bill Ia fact
that at once puts the calico dresses out
Of count,) of. every loaf in the bakers
and every penny in the books, and that
the tiny house will necessitate instant
and continual acquaintance with every
cooking effort of the establishment, and,
worse than all that, n perpetual con-
ciousness of his children's existence
Who If healthy, will make a playground
of the whole house, laughing, shouting
and generally upsetting everything
Especially temper,) Or if sicldy, crying
and fretting incessantly for want of the
comforts aud attention the mother and
the one servant will be utterly unable to
give Grim as this picture is, it is a
true one, as many with far more than a
thousand dollars year will testify.
But if Edwin must count the cost, SO,
too, must Angelina. Her share will be
no Light one, though perhaps easier
borne than his. She must learn to
look into things in minute and search
ing way that her old easy life will make
dreadful trying darning and plain sew
ing will have to replace the pretty fancy
work of old days; She must bear to see
her children go without dozens of things
she as a child deemed absolute necessi-
ties (thank God the children will not
be the worse, really,) while if she is
| the loving wife she should be she will
be worried for her husband and last,
but not least- must make up her
mind to forego most if not ALL the
pleasant society and variety Of her
| girlish life A woman need not be very
worldly to regret keenly the loss of the
old intellectual enioyments she priced
so highly. 1t is not, only the gayety
she misses, but the exchange of thought
and the freshening and frightening of
her mind by intercourse with her social
land mental equals, and, unfortunately,
the cleverer aud brighter she is the
more she will feel the want, and long
| (unconsciously perhaps, but none the
less surely) for other than domestic
thoughts and household worries, and
another kind of literature than those
wretched red households The result
of this, it will be said, is, according to
you, that no one should marry on small
means, Not SO, altogether Happiness
is perfectly compatible with straight
ened income, only do not rush into such
q state without counting the cost before
hand not only for yourself, but for
each other and your children.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-15
A THUNDERSTORM THEORY.

At recent Germany Scientific Con-
gess, DIR. s. Hoppe. of Hamburg
endeavors to prove that the electricity
OF storms is generated by the friction of
vapor particles This view was strength
ened by experiments in which COM
pressed cold air was allowed to rush
into copper vessel containing warm
moist air, large amount of electricity
being thus produced He concludes
that the rise of column of warm moist
air into the colder atmosphere above
will be followed by thunderstorm if il
acquires sufficient velocity to prevent
naturalization of the electricity gener-
ated by the friction of the air. Hence,
he regards open districts as more liable
to thunderstorms than wooded regions,
where the trees prevent the rapid rise OF
liumid air currents
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-15
ABOUT CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

Says the Electric Magtsiae; Prof. Tyn-
dali thus endeayors to explain the
immunity obtained against u second
attack of a contagious disease cone OF
the most extraordinary and maccount-
able experiences in medicine was the
immunity secured by single attack of
a communicable disease against future
attack of the same malady. Smallpox,
typhoid or scarlatina for example, was
found-as a general rule To occur only
once in lifetime OF the individual
the successful passage through the
disorder apparently rendering the body
inyulnerable, Reasoning from analogy,
l have yentured to express the opinion
that the rarity Of second attacks OF COM
municable disease was due to tho
removal from tho system, by the first
parasitic crop, of some ingredient
necessary to the growth and propagation
of the parasite.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-15

1t is only the woman who is given away
in marriage. The man gives himself away
before Che honeymoon is over.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-15

An lrishman says he can see no earthly
reason why woman should not be
allowed to become medical men.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-15

Cards in the Business Directory" column
iollar year for each line.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-12
His Papa's Business.
st. Paul Globe.

1--WE teach Sunday school class2
Yes, indeed" said a pretty young St.
Paul society lady the other day. For
long time I used every Sunday to
teach a class Of little boys at the mis-
sion Sunday school, branch of our
church at home. There were quite a
number of them ranging from s to Il
years old, and they were just as intel
ligent and smart, as I could have
wished. But, do you know, the first
Sunday that [ took that class was
amused. Of course, wanted to know
their names, where they lived, and In
fact who they were. Questioning
them in turn I found their answers
quite satisfactory, until I came to a
bright little fellow about ten years
old. He told me his name and where
he lived, but when [ asked him his
fathers business he did not reply at
once. I treasured him with my
brightest smile, but felt dubious when
he said he guessed he couldn't tell me
that. My curiosity was now aroused,
and [ at once made up my mind to
know all about it. Thinking of the
horrible dynamiters and burglars and
all those aWfUlmen we were constant
ly hearing about. it was with some
trepidation that / insisted on his tell
ing me. His reply reassured me to a
greater or less extent. He said: Ny
papa is the bearded lady twice week
at the dime museum
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-12
4 Wonderful Clock.

Probably the most wonderful time
piece ever heard of is q clock described
by q Hindoo rajah as belonging to
native princess of Upper India. In
front of the clocks disk was a gong,
swuBg upon poles, and near it was a
pile of artificial limbs. The pile was
made up of the full number of parts
for twelve perfect bodies, but all lay
heaped together in seeming confusion.
Whenever the hands of the clock in
dicate the hour of 1, oat from the pile
crawled just the number of parts to
form the frame of one man, part join
ing itself to part with quick metallic
click; and, when completed, the figure
sprang up, seized small mallet, and,
walking up to the gong, struck one,
the first hour. When o'clock came,
two men rose and did likewise; and SO
through all the hours of the day, the
number of figures being the same as
the number of hours, TIL at noon and
midnight the entire heap sprang up,
and marching TO the gong, struck one
after another, each his blow, making
twelve IN all, and then fell to pieces
again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-12
THE.FARMER'S DREAM.

The farmer tips back in the old oaken chair,
His hand on his head and his feet on the Hoor;
And he dreams Of the days when his prospects
we're fair,
How he measured out sugar for Mary and Rose,
And liberties never once took with the till;
When he wore patent-leathers that ruined ms
When he called on Jerima, just over the hill.
He thinks of the days when they roamed through
and heard the shrin notes of the gay whippoor
When they dreamed of a neat little cot in the
OF a button ball hanging just over the rill.
He looks at these pictures though speetacles
And Jenina he sees in a vision of bliss.
Just the same as she looked in the days when he
leant
The wicket across for the tra-Ia-la kiss.
He thinks Of the years that he's worked over
with shovel, rake, harrow, plow, bean pole, and
He remembers the night to propose that he
And oh! how he wished she'd only said ''No.''
For then might his life be of idIeness full,
He could loaf through the daytim sunshiny and
And not have to larrup an old brindle bull
And jerk up the .turnips from morning till
night.
But what is the use Of his "bah!' and his ''pis!'
And what is the use of his sadness and woe,
And what is the use of the empty old wish
That he'd courted a girl who could only say
Puck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-12

The following account is given OF
the origin of the term ''eavesdrop-
per-" At the revival of Masonary, In
1717, a curious punishment was in
hicted upon a man who listened at
the door of Masonic meeting in or
der to hear its secrets. He was sum
marily sentenced to be placed under
the caves of an outhouse while it was
raining hard till the water ran in uu-
der the collar of his coat and out at
his shoes" The penalty was inflicted
on the spot, and the name has con-
tinued ever since.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-12
FUN.
on! LATHER ME LIGHTLY

Oh. LATHER NE LIGHTLY.
Lather me lightly and speak to me lowl
Trust me barber, the time Is near
When BARRIERS may talk from ear to ear
And no one hear!
Lather me lightly and speak to me low.
Lather me lightly and speak to me low.
Oh iuterrogative barber mine
Your close warm breath is strong like wine
Uather me here
Here in the other eye)-spcak to me low!
burlington Hawkeye.
Sophronia asks if there is any
rhyme for zero. There Is:
There's plenty of sAow
For the cutters to go;
But the youth is sort of q hero,
Who daSheS away
With his girl in q Sleigh
When the mercury'S down below zero.
Boston Courier.
Il will stay he sang, land sing my lay,
While slumber seals your eyes;
And the deep still night will chase the day
Away from the Star-lit skies.
will wake and sing till the morning star
Shall glow in the eastern sky
But he didn't; the dog woke up just then
And susote him hip and thigh.
A Chicago collector of rare books
has paid 81, 500 for bible. Thought
1t was something new probably.
One man in Germany has made
and sold 100000 thermometers.
That's what you might call making
money by degrees.
In billiard room up town they
have pals of milk standing about for
players to dip their cues into when
they require chalking.
DIR. Harrison of New York has
married a daughter of Brigham
Young. II the doctor, in an unguard-
ed moment, were to ask his wife to
invite her brothers and sisters to tea
some evening, and the invitation
shoald De excepted, he would have to
hire a hall and employ two or three
dozen walters.
What is repentance9" queried the
Sunday-school teacher. TO be sorry
for doing wrong" said the good boy.
''Were you ever sorry for anything
you dld?" "Yes'm," said the bad boy
" What made you sorry ?" "Great
Jehosaphat! Wasn't you ever spank
ed?"
"Of the seven newspaper men who
reported Webster's famous address at
the laying of the cornerstone of
Bunker Hill monument, Edward
Everett Hale is said to be the only
one now living" AS Mr.. Hale was
only three years old when Webster
delivered his speech, his reportorlal
work on that occasion may be set
down as a phenomenal journalistic
feat.
''Yes, that's all very true, " said
man in reply to a friend who had
spoken well of an acquaintance, "but
Jackson is SO deucedlg stingly." But
his other good qualities more than
cover this social defect. It cannot
be denied that he is honest, and that
he keeps his word. " ooh, yes, he
keeps his word. He keeps everything.
That's the trouble, He's too stingy
to give his word. J"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-12
my life," said he. "And so will Mr..
I,eslAvfn


Mr.. Lesley occupied the suite Of ap-
partments which had so unconscious
ly fitted up for the poor young cousin
who was sleeping the while IL the
West India cemetery. Little frankie,
who had refused to to be pan ted from
his friend, slept IN crib close to his
bedside.
"Well, Prissy," I said merrily to
my motherly chaperon, so we've got
two guests instead of one!"
"It's dreadful" "growled poor Prissy.
"Do you think so?" said I. Now
it seems to ne that it is very good
funi"
Well, of course anyone can eonjec-
ture for themselves how it ended.
Mr.. Lesley was young and handsome,
moreover he had a snug little
property of his own. He liked the
United States, and incidentally re-
marked that if he had any object ne
would prefer to stop here permanently.
But" he added, mournfully, ''it
is sad to be so entirely without ties,
that no one cares whether to stay in
one place or another"
st care" piped up Frank, who sat
as usual by his side, holding his hand.
"And so does cousin Elsie"
Yes said I, laughing, though not
without some confusion. frankie
is right We both care"
"There," said Mr., Lesley" Il will
stay"
We were engaged within the month.
And as soon as I laid off my half
mourning we were married, SO that
frankie never yet has been compelled
to separate from his friend.
And Miss Bent lives with us still,
and we are very happy There is the
end of my love story. Ought not all
love stories to end so2 Miss Bent
says that all real ronnances end sadly,
but my experience, you see, has
been altogether different. And per
haps am better judge than she Is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-12
The Banana.

y
ed tropical lily, not at all remotely
allied to the common iris, only that
it's flowers and fruit are clustered to-
gether on a hanging spike instead of
growing solitary and separate as in
the true irises. The blossoms which,
though pretty, are comparatively in
conspicuous for the size of the plant,
show the extraordinary persistence of
the lily type; for almost all the vast
number Of species more or less directly
descended from the primitive lily
continue to the very end of the chap
ter to have six petals, six stamens and
three rows Of seeds in their fruits Or
capsules. But practical man, with his
eye always steadily fixed on the one
important quality of edibiiity-the
sum and substance to most people Of
all botanical research-has confined
his attention almost entirely to the
fruit of the banana. In all essentials
(other than the Systematically unim-
portant one just alluded toy the banana
fruit in its original state exactly re
sembles the capsule OF the iris-that
pretty pod that divides iR three when
ripe, and shows the delicate orange
coated seeds lying in tri pie rows within
only, in the banana, the fruit does
hot open; ia the sweet language of
technical botany, it is an indehiscent
capsule; and the seeds, instead of
standing separate and distinct, as in
the iris, are i1nbedded in a soft and
pulpy substance which forms the
edible and practical part of the entire
arrangement.
This is the proper appearance of the
original and natural banana, before
it has been taken IN hand and cultiva-
ted by tropical man. When cat across
the middle, it ought to show three
rows of seeds, interspersed with pulp,
and family preserving some dim
memory Of the dividing wall which
once separated them. In practice,
however, the banana differs widely
from this theoretical ideal, as practice
often will differ from theory; for it
has been so long cultivated and Sc
lected by man-beiag pre- badly one of
the very oldest, If not actually quite
the Oldest, Of domesticated plants
that it has all bat lost the original
habit of producing seeds. This is a
common effect of cultivation on fruits,
and it is of course, deliberately aimed
at by horticulturists, as the seeds are
generally a nuisance, regarded from
the point of view OF the eater, and
their absence improves the fruit, as
long as one can manage to get along
somehow without them. In the pretty
little Tonglerine oranges $50 ingen-
lously corrupted by fruisers into man
darins), the seeds have almost been
cultivated out; in the best pineapples,
and in the small grapes known in the
dried state as currants, they have quite
disappeared; while in some varieties
OF pears they survive only in the form
OF shriveled, barren and useless pip
pins. But the banana, more than any
other plant we know of, has managed
for many centuries to do without seeds
altogether. The cultivated sort, es-
pecially in America, is quite seedless,
and the plants are propagated entirely
By suckers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-12

It is said that japanese women
have never seen and do rot know the
use Of pins.
The testimony OF all intelligent
visitors at the New Orleans Exposition
that the exhibition does not approach
that at Philadelphia in '76, in num-
Der OF attendance, completeness of
arrangements Or extent Or character
if the display.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-11-05

She had recovered herself now, and
could speak oBcs more. With a ges.
ture ike that OF an empress she drew
aside her veil, aid faced him, pale as
death, but with eyes like two stars.
Il thank God that read you Alright
at last" she said. 81 thought you
were q gentleman and my friend. |
see my mistake, and henceforward we
two are strangers"
Charley Andoyer's handsome face
flushed crimson, and grew CHASTITY in
Lis engry pallor. He muttered some~
thing which sounded like threat,
but she faced him steadily.
Il am not afraid of you" she SAID,
NOR have / done anything to be
ashamed of, save that believed in
your honor. Let me pass"
Where are you goingl' he asked,
o sullen admiration evldant under
meath all his angry disappointment.
i am going back to my husband, v
she answered, as she swept bv him
with her head held proudly high, and
her disdainful eyes scarcely seeing
him where he stood, and so they
pafltu.
Back to her husband Dora Senterdint
went as fast as the up train could
carry her, and that night, clasped
close in her husbands loving arms
she opened her heart to him as she
had never done before. From that
time she appreciated her husband as
she had never done before, and as the
days went by, each seeming to make
him nearer and dearer to her, a sweet
gentle womanliness began to take the
place of the old girlish self>will and
impotence, and when one day a
small Dora came TO make new sun
shine in their happy home, Roger
Senterdine, looked proudly on his
wife and child, and thanked heaven
for Dora's lesson.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-11-05
A STRANGE LEGAL CUSTOM.
a Pound of Tobacco Presented TO
Every Jury in the District of Column
New York Herald

New York Herald.
There are some peculiar customs in
connection with the administration Of
the courts of the District Of Columbia
relics Of the old Maryland laws, but
one which strikes the ordinary OBJ
server as the most peculiar is that
which requires winning party to a
civil suit to pay for the tobacco that
the jury which tried the case is sup
10 have used during the Aearing of
the case. Now, it happens sometimes
that not one of the jurors uses tobacco
in any form, and yet the pound of
tobacco or its equivalent has to be
paid the foreman Of the jury the in
slant verdict has been given. AS q
htigaEt or their attorneys are not in
the habit of carrying SO much tobacco
IN their clothing, for custom requires
pound be given the jury, the law
yer on the winning side as soon as the
verdict is recorded hands the fore
man of the jury 81, which is just as
good as the pound of tobacco. Some
times . jury will try several cases in
a day. Ii they DO they will get 81 for
each case from the winner. The jur-
les put ell their tobacco money
together, and at the end Of the
term divide it among them
selves, reserving sufficient sum to
buy for the foreman of the jury
cane, some kind Of a present for the
bailitfs who attend the jury and
boquet for the Judge who holds the
court The jury has legal claim for
the pound OF tobacco in every case,
but there is no case recorded where
the tobacco has been refused and a
test case was made. On the criminal
side Of the courts the judges can inn
pose fines of pounds of tobacco instead
Of dollars. The penalty for wife beat.
ing is from ten TO one hundred pounds
of tobacco under the old laws. The
old laws, however, are seldom if ever
entered, for most of them are sup>
planted by modern ones. Under the
former the courts can pierce hole
with red-hot iron through the tongue
que of every one who blasphemes the
Creator, but they do not DC it, There
is, however, just as good law for it as
there is to hang persons in this dis
trict. Some over jealous Christians
asked the enforcement of the law the
first time Robert G. Ingersoll lectur-
ed here, but no attention was paid to
the request. 1t was understood at
the time that Colonel LRgersoll would
be delighted with a prosecution of
this kind. For doing the slightest
labor on Sunday, under the old law,
FROM five to fifty pounds OF tobacco
was the penalty.