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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-12-03
PATENTS.

Il "a i IIIN IDs
CAVEATS, Trade Marks and Copy RIGHTS pro.
~ cured in every country in the world The un.
dersigned, who will be in Memphis for fou,
months, is editor. of the American Inventor, and
cinnati. Ohio. has had seventeen years experiencs
as Patent Solicitor. He also gives special atten
ton to the prosecution of Patent Cases in the U
D Courts, and to preparing rssports, showins
scope and validity of claims.
j. n. ZERBE,
Attorney and Counselor in Patent Gases,
II w Court street, Memphis, Tenn.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-12-03
Mission Ridge

The charter for the Mission Ridge rail-
road has arrived, and the stock books will
be opened in a few days. Enough is
pledged to secure the building of the line
to the foot of the Ridge. A preliminary
survey is now being made.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
A Great Year For Chewing Gum.

This is great gum year in Maine,
especially on the Penobscot, and now
that the sun is climbing up into the
north a little and the lumbermen ara
coming out, the air is fairly redolent
with the perfume of the spruce. The
logs, knees, and bark are not the only
valuable part of the great timber tree,
for the gum is worth considerable even
IN its rough state. just as it is hacked
from the crotches of the old trees
There are two or three firms here
which buy large quantities of it from
the lumbermen and gum-hunters for
the purpose of refining it, as they say.
But as a general thing the refining con-
sists in adulteration with rosin. They
throw it into big kettle, bark and all,
and boil it to about the consistency of
thick molasses, skimming the impurities
Oft as they rise to the surface. Then,
if the purpose be to adUlterate, some
lard or grease and lot of rosin is add
ed, and in some cases a little sugar.
The mixture then becomes thicker, and,
after more stirring, is poured out on a
slab, where, while it is yet hot, it is
rolled out in a sheet about a quarter of
an inch thick, and then chopped with
a steel die into pieces half an incl
wide and three-quarters of an inch
long These pieces are wrapped in
tissue paper and packed in wooden
boxes. There are two hundred pieces
in box. Some gum is treated in this
way without adulteration.
The best gum comes from no par
ticular locality, but always from the
biggest trees. The doctors up here
say chewing gum benefits the teeth.
The loggers, in their many idle hours
by the camp fire, whittle out miniature
barrels from blocks of cedar or white
pine, hollow them out, and fill them
with the choicest gum the woods afford
for gifts to their sweethearts, children,
or friends when they ''come down" in
the spring. Others, who 60 into the
woods for gum alone, bring down big
bags of gum, and sell it to the manu-
facturers of the improved article. Up
here adulterated gum is called patent
gum.-NeU York Sun.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
DelaCrOiX's Lion Pictures.

Delacroix painted his famous lion
hunting in two copies. He received for
either of them 1,800t. aud 2,000f-that
is, for one ESQ and for the copy G72:
that first copy was sold to a banker in
Paris for 9100, the second copy went to
Al"iers. The name of the painter get
ting more known, as much as $500 was
given for the original work by an init
mate friend of mine, at whose house the
very banker who first had it saw it and
wanted TO buy it back. The next day
a telegram came from Algiers that the
copy had been burned. Immediately
the price of the now only existing one
rose, and / saw it sold two years after
for 36, 00Qc. (f1 ,440.) Of course, Della
croix might in the same way complain
that he originally received only ESQ.,
IeUlD{e Bar
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
Poker at Sea.

Among the plaques which infect An
glo-Amerlcan steamers are race of
men who play the noble game of poker
from the Mersey to Sandy Hook and
from Sandy Hook to the Mersey. Of
course, if they played it in strict seclu-
sion they ought not to be molested.
Every human being had sacred and
iudefeasible right, even before the
American Constitution was invented, to
waste his or her own time in his or her
own way. To question this would be
to tamper with the foundations of ev-
cry ything. But the liberty which in
wolves compulsion of your neighbor is,
as a great philosopher would have
said. of spurious or mixed kind, which
even the high priests of '.individual-
ism" are not bound to encourage.
Poker may be the most exalted form of
intellectual exercise in which, with his
limited faculties. man is capable of in
dulging. To make life uncomfortable
for all who do not play POKER is a kind
OF missionary enterprise not part of the
inalienable birthright of every free
man whose proud boast to The tvrant
and the oppressOr is that his home is in
the setting sun. We are well aware
that the axiom Every maa NAV do as,
he damn pleases" is dependent on the
condition that ''every man does not in
clude niger or a Mexican But it,
has never been held to exclude quiet
people who have taken (anl paid for)
their passage from New Yor!, to Liver !
pool. Such, however, seem: 20 be the
construction tacitly placed upon it by
certain ievotees OF poker worship who
patronize the steamers Vi very fash
ionable English line" between those !
two commercial centres. These gen.
tlemen, if we may employ tHe word for
once in the sense given Il by ''every
charlatan," establis them> ives in the
smoking room IS their oWu peculiar,
keep. They garrison it like fortress
and consecrate it to the solemn service
of their favorite game. For a day or
two," says the complainant previously
cited, 1.-The outsider WAS allowed his
corner, but after that tic mysterious
and occult worship O! poker admitted
of no intruders.n - Play o. treat" was
the motto, and the only other course
was departure. Tile Satartay ReUieV.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
Civilization and Eyesight.

Foreigners who visit us, says the
Philadelphia NeiCS, are struck by the
number of short-sighted persons they
see. Mgr. Capel has recently ex-
pressed his opinion on the subject, and
attributes the decay of the eyesight to
small type in the universally read
! newspapers and to the lack OF atten-
ton paid to proper light and proper
arrangement Tor light in our public
schools.
Doubtless much short-sightedness is
due to these causes, but mors is due to
the habits of civilization, to the in
crease in reading, and especially in
reading by artificial light DR.. Brude-
nell Carter, an eminent English oculist,
has just read paper on this subject
before the Society of Arts, at whose
meeting the anecdote was told that a
clear-sighted Englishman in Zululand,
by the assistance of a powerful binoeu-
lar glass, made out two distant objects
on the horizon. One was larger speck
than the other. and he guessed that
this was mounted man, whose COM
panion was walking. The Zulus with
him looked in the dir ction indi-
S1NCb, eluu stt OiCS DIcu llilIf WHO
the gentleman was, and that he was
accompanied by his wife on foot.
This story may seemed forced, but
no artist, naturalist, or other person
who is practiced in the art of vision
for art it is, and we call such persons
''trained Observers fail to attest
to its truth in greater or less degree,
according to his experience. Dr. Car
ter says that % per cent of the children
examined by him in London school
had defective eyes. In Germany the
proportion has been shown to be about
the same.
In antiquity short-sightedness was
scarcely known. NJ. Francisque Sar-
cey, the scholarly dramatic critic of
the Paris Temps, compares the enor-
NOUS theaters of Greece and Rome,
which held 10000 spectators, none of
whose auditors had opera-glasses or
spectacles, yet could see everything
with ease, with our little theaters,
holding one-tenth as many, in which
that part Of the audience in the back
rows is obliged to have opera-glasses if
a sight of the stage is desired
Nearly all of the observers of our de-
fectlve eyes agree that they are caused
by excessive reading and by artificial
light. But there is more behind these.
1t is known that any muscle of the
body can be. developed by training. 1t
is so with the eye. as any landsman
who has tlattered himself on his far.
clear sight can testify when he has
gone to sea and been mortified to learn
how much farther off and clearer the
commonest sailor, who is practiced in
sweeping the horizon, can detect and
describe objects. Yet we doubt if one
reader in a thousand has ever tested
his own eyes or those of his children
for any defect, let alone any purpose of
training them. This is very. serious
neglect. In our colleges the other
muscles of the body are. carefully
studied and exercised. Who ever
heard of club or group of persons
devoted to training their eyesl The
result is that we modern dwellers in
cities go through life half blind and
growing more SO, when a little atten-
ton would not only strengthen a most
important "sense," as well as reveal
beauties in nature that we literally
know not of.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
Opiates.

The first indulgence is in some sense
legitimate; is almost enforced, either
by acute pain or by chronic insomnia.
The latter is perhaps the most danger
Gus. The pain, if it last for weeks,
forces recourse to the doctor before
the habit has become incurable. Sleep
lessness is more persistent, and to
most people a much less alarming
thing; and it is moreover one with
which the doctors can seldom deal save
through the very agents OF mischief.
Neuralgia, relieved for a time by chic
roform or morphia, may be cured by
quinine; sleeplessness admits of hardly
any cure but such complete change of
life as is rarely possible, at least to its
working victims. And the narcotist
habit once formed, neither pain nor
sleeplessness is all that its remuneration
would involve.
The drunkard, it must be remem-
bered, gets drunk, as a rule, but oc-
casionally Save in the last stages OF
dipsomania he can do, if not without
drink, yet without Intoxicating quanti-
titles of drink, for days together. The
narcotist who attempts to 90 for a
NlIOlC uGtl "iluOub LIS OOSC
suffers in "a hours far more cruelty
tran the drunkard deprived of alcohol
in as many days. The effect upon the
stomach and other organs, upon the
nerves as well as on the brain, is one
OF indescribable, unspeakable disoOm-
fort amounting to torture; disorder
of the digestive system more trying
than sea sickness, a disorganization of
the nerves which after some hours of
unspeakable misery eliminates in con-
vulsive tWitchings, in mental and
physical distress, simply indescribable
to those who have not felt it.
Where attempts have been made for
cibly and suddenly to withhold the ac-
customed sedative they have not un-
frequently ended within few days in
madness or death. In other cases the
victim has sought and obtained relief
by efforts and through hardships which,
in his or her best days, would have
seemed impossible or uncomfortable.
One woman thus restrained escaped in
deshabille from her bedroom on win
ter night Of arctic severity; ran for
miles through the snow, and was fortu-
nate enough to find a chemist who
knew-somethlng OF the fearful effect of
such privation, and had the sense and
courage to give in adequate quantity
the poison that had now become the
first necessary of life. In a word, mar
cotics, one and all, are, to those who
have fallen under their power, tyrants
whose hold can hardly ever be shaken
off, which punish rebellion with the
rack, and with all those devices of tor
ture which medieval and ecclesiastical
cruelty found even more terrible than
the rack itself; while the most abso-
lutte submission is rewarded with suf-
ferings only less uncomfortable than the
punishment of revolt De Quincy S
dreams under the influence of opium
were to the tortures of resistance what
the highest circle of purgatory may be
to the lowest pit of the inferno.-Ihe
National ReUtelC.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
ANALYZlNG THE BAKING POW
DERS.
"RoYAL" THE ONLY ABSOLUTELY PURE
BAKING POWDER MADK.-ACTIoN OF
TIE NEW YORK STATR BOARD OF
HRALTH.

UHder the direction of the New York
state Board of Health, eighty four differ
ent kinds Of baking powers, embracing
all the brands that could be found for
sale in the State, we're submitted to
examination and analysis by Prof G. F.
CHANDLER, a Member of the State Board,
aud President of the New York City
Board OF Health, assisted by Prof
EDWARD G. LOVE, the we'll known late
United States Government chemist.
The official report shows that large
number of the powders examined were
found to contain alnn or lime; many OF
them to such an extent as to render them
seriously Objectionable for use in the pre-
parstion of human food
Alum was found in twenty nine samp-
les. This drug is employed in baking
powders to cheaper their cost. The
presence of lime ia attributed to the i'm
pure cream OF tartar of commerce used lu
their manufacture. Such cream Of tartar
was also aualyzed and fouud to contain
lime and other impurities, in some
samples to the extent OF 50 per cont OF
their entire weight.
All the baking powders Of the market,
VAN VI 1iOyal kuOt
including the alum and phosphate pow
ders, which were long since discarded as
unsafe or inefficient by prudent house
leepers) are made from the impure cream
of tartar of commerce, and consequently
contain lime to corresponding extent.
The only baking powder yet found by
chemical analysis-to be entirely free from
lime and absolutely pure is the Royal. -
This perfect purity results from the ey-
elusive use OF cream of tartar specially
refined ssd prepared by patent processes
of the n. Y. Tsrter Co., which totally
remove the tartrate of lime and other
impurities. The cost of this chemically
pure cream of tartar is much greater !ban
my other, and on account of this greater
cost is used in no baking powder but the
Royal"
PROF. Love, who made the analysis of
baking powders for the New York State
Board of Health, as well ss for the Gov
ernment, says of the purity and whole
someness of Royal.
Il have tested package of Royal
Baking Powder which purchased in the
open market, and find it composed of
pure and wholesome ingredients. It is
cream of tartar powder of high degree
OF merit, and does not contain either alum
orphosphates orany injurious substances
''E. G.. Love, Ph. D."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
True Even Unto Death.

That was touching story told by
Mr.. Gladstone when announcing the
death of the Princess Alice in parlia-
ment. She had been cautioned by the
physician not to inhale the breath of
her little boy, who was i'll with diph-
liberia. The little fellow was tossing
in his bed in the delirium of fever.
The princess stood by the side of her
child and laid her hand on his brow
and began to caress him. The touch
cooled the fevered brain and brought
the wandering soul back from its wild
delirium to nestle for moment in the
lap of mothers love. Then throwing
his arms around her neck he whisp-
cred, Mamma, kiss me- The instinct
of mothers love was stronger than
science, and she pressed her lips to
those of her child. And yet there is
not a woman in all the world but
would say she would not have had o.
mothers heart if she had not kissed her
BARN. And so it will be to the end OF
time. The mother will kiss her child,
the wife her husband and the lover his
sweetheart, though death in a thousand
forms lay concealed beneath the YER
million coloring of the pouting lips
st. Paul Globe.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
A FiSh-Catching Machine.

James L. Smith, who is man of
considerable mechanical ingenuity,
having already secured several patents,
is trying to solve the problem of catch
ing porpoise and other fish along our
shore with profit. Mr. Smith is having
boat, suitable for use along the bay
shore, built at. thes shipyards in this
town. He will erect a factory at Ben
nett's pier, where he proposes to take
his fish and convert them into oil,
leather. and fertilizer. He has been at
work for some months in perfecting a
gun to shoot porpoise. 1t is his design
to arrange the weapon to discharge a
ball that contains powerful explosive
The firing of the gun will ignite fuse
that will explode the ball when it is
lodged in the object toward which it is
aimed. simultaneously with the dis
charge of the explosive bullet an arrow
with line attached is to be shot from
the gun. Should the fish escape to
some distance the line will indicate its
whereabouts Milford (Det.) NeUS
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
Ivy Against the Walls of Dwellings

We have frequently heard it main
tanned that it is injurious and unwise
to permit ivy to cover the walls of
dwelling houses, as it must necessarily
occasion an internal damp, prejudicial
to human health and comfort, by ar
resting the rain and conducting it into
the crevices of the walls, OBTAINING it
there until it oozes through and occa-
sions such injurious dampness as it
must be most desirable to prevent, even
at the expense of sacrificing such an
ornamental covering as luxuriant and
evergreen or variegated ivy. Now ex-
perience and reason testify to the very
opposite of this, and they are found
boldly asserting that no covering what
ever is better calculated or more pow
erfully and uniformly tends to effect
the desirable object of keeping the
walls of house dry, both internally
and externally, than a general coat of
ivy on the outside. Let any one ex-
anime any Uncovered wall, and they
will discover the leaves hang down, one
over another, from the highest point to
which the plant attains to the ground,
forming an ornamental shield that casts
off the rain and prevents its beating
against the wall, conveying 1t from
leaf to leaf downward, preventing its
ever coming in contact with or moist
ening the walls; while the clinging ma
ture of the plant, intended for the pur-
pose of adhesion, thrusts its shoots in
to the crevices as roots and claspers,
according as it ascends and acts as so
many sucking engines, extracting and
drawing away for the nourishment of
its own luxuriance whatever moisture
the walls may be supposed to attract
or imbibe from the atmosphere. No
walls are dryer, or so dry, as those to
which ivy forms permanent external
covering. Inside the shoots and next
the wall will be found, in addition, a
coating of dry dust and cobwebs, keep
ing the walls perfectly dry in the wet
test of weather, and that, too, on
aspects mostly exposed to the rain and
least to- the cheering smiles of the sun.
Depend upon it, ivy clinging against a
wall is a protector from damp, not
cause of it. Let our readers plant ivy
against their dwellings without any
fear of inconvenient results. 1t is a
warmth-giving agent also, as many can
testify. The old prejudice against the
employment of ivy as an external COW
ering to buildings is rapidly dying out,
and will at no distant date cease TO be
put forward as worthy of attention.
Land and Water.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
In the Norwegian Mountains.

On the threshold as we depart stand
the pretty Budeier DAIRY maids) in the
neat costume OF. the people in the Guild
brandsdal Valley, nodding tender
farewell to us and wishing us hearty
"Lykke paG Reisea." Yes, there they
stand. following US with their gaze as
we proceed along the steep mountain
path till we disappear from view in the
rocky glen. l said path" Well,
that is the name assigned to it, but
never did / imagine the existence of
such 4 riding ladder" and it MAJ
well be necessary to have the peculiar
race of mountain horses found here for
a rider to get safely to his journeys
end. Now the road lies through rapid
mountain streams where the roaring
waterfall may in an instant sweep man
and beast into yawning abyss below,
and now across the precipice, where
the lake divides the mountains, and
death turks yard to your left. Again
across the steepest slopes, where nature
appears to have amused herself bv toss
ing masses of Jagged, tottering rocks
in heaps, and where no ordinary horso's
hoof would find sale hold. But if
you only watch these brave and saga
cious little animals, how carefully they
consider the slightest movement and
measure the smallest step, they will in
spire you with the greatest confidence,
and you will continue your journey on
their back without the slightest fear,
along the widest path, on the edge of
the most awe-inspiring abyss. And
should one of these excellent cobs stum-
bic, which happened once or twice dur
ing our ride, it is only on comparative
ly safe ground, where probably the
horse does not consider much atten-
ton is required. We now climb still
higher; gradually the sound of COW bells
and the soft melodies from the Lur (the
Morse alpenhorn) are waited into space,
and in return sharp, chilly gust of
wind called FJeldsno sweeps along the
valley slopes, carrying with it the last
souvenir of society. and civilization.
We have long ago left the populated
districts behind, the mountain nature
stands before us, and surrounds us in
all its imposing grandeur. The roar of
the mighty Beaver river is the only
sound which breaks the impressive ST.
lence, and even this becomes fainter
and fainter as we mount higher and
higher, and the mass of water decreas-
es and the fall becomes sleeper and
sleeper, until at last the big river is re-
duced to little noisy, foaming brook,
skipping from rock to rock, and plunp-
ing from one ledge to another, twisting
its silvery thread into the most fantas-
tic shapes. - Translated from Oscar
Frederick, King Of NorWay and Sue
den- Temple Bar.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
AnnoyanceS of Flat Life.

my dear" he said as he entered the
house, ''who is that gentleman across
the street?'
Il am not sure, but think he is an
old beau of mine"
How long has he been waving his
handkerchief?'
"Oh, more than half an hour"
'Is he trying to flirt with you?"
"Thats just what annoys me. He
may mean it for me or for the lady in
the bay-window above. If it's for me
l ought to know it, and if it's for her
I'll never speak to the shame-faced
thing again as long as l live! Oh,
George, you don't know how vexatious
and uncertain it is to have roomers
above you. l wish we had a little cot
tage of our own. .h-DetroI Free Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09
AN END TO BONE SCRAPING

Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg, ILL.,,
says: "Having received SO much benefit
from Electric Bitters, I feel it my duty
to let suffering humanity know it. Have
had running sore on my leg for eight
years; my doctors told me would have
to have the bone scraped or leg ampu.a
ted. ! used, instead, three bottles of
Electric Bitters and seven boxes Buck.
lens Arnica Salve, and my leg is now
sound and we'll. Electric Bitters ara
sold at fifty cents bottle, and Bucklen' g
Arnica Salve at 25c. per box by Robinson
& Hinrich's.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-09

James Morris Morgan. who is now
engaged in writing up some of the in
side. naval history of the late confeder-
acy, particularly in regard to the cruis-
ers, has had pretty wide military ex-
perience for SO young man. He serv-
ed in the confederate navy all through
the wal. Later he went to Egypt,
where he was made captain of artil-
lery, and served under Ratib Pasha in
the region now made famous by Cor
don and the mehdi. Mr.. Morgan is es-
pecially popular among the club men
of New York, as well as among his old
companions in arms. He married Miss
Trenholm, daughter of the secretary OF
the confederate treasury.