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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-26

Japan has an army Of 10000 men, a
serve of twice that number, and ter
|orial reserve of $50, 900, all dressed
ID EQUIPPED in European fashion, car
ing Remington rifles. Service is OBJ
ATOM.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26
The Camel Express.

Of all varieties of Indian letter carri-
ers. clothed or unclothed, none are SO
picturesque, says Miss Gordon Cum
mings, as the camel express messengers.
The men wear q serviceable red uni
form and large green turban, embroid-
cred with gold thread. From their
girdle hangs a curved sabre in red
sheath. The camels are adorned with
trappings of gay cloth and tassels, orna-
mented with blue beads and gowrie shells
and small brass bells round the neck to
give notice of their swift approach. It
is said that their rough and rapid trot-
ting, sometimes at the rate of eighty
miles day. is SO trying to the riders as
to shorten their days. Two heavy mail
bags hang to right and left on each side
of the camel, and the saddle is so ar
ranged that q passenger can take seat
behind the postman. Exchange.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26
A 81 Jon;s gentleman has r.

A st. Louis gentleman has invent
ed a device which will. in q double
sense, gladden. the ears of the deaf in
the land. 1t consists of contrlvance
which can be located in the handle
of a cane. umbrella or fan. and which.
when placed in the ear of deaf per-
son. will cause him or her to hear any
sound that is audible to the ear of a
person who is not afflicted with deaf
ness. The device which produces the
effects is tube about six inches long.
placed in the hollow of q cane or fan.
In the tube is a cone-shaped electrical
coil. beginning ut small battery at
the lower end of the tube and terminal
ing at the upper end. The vibration of
the coil causes a multipli alton OF any
sound or noise passing into the tube
through a small opening in the side of
the cane or fan. 1t is simply multi
plication of sound by electricity and
the projection of a steady current of
electricity against the weakened or
paralyzed tissues of the ear. The in
vention is the result of a man who has
been himself almost completely deaf
for several years.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26
A Chinese Restaurant.

1ou have never dined, reader. at a
Chinese restaurant. You enter and
perch upon stool near large square
table. The next moment the attendant
has put down in front of you teapot
filled with fresh. boiling tea. q teacup
one-third the size used by Americans.
two ebony chop sticks. q porcelain
spoon, tiny liqueur-bowl, and saucer
filled with chocolate fluid called se-yu.
This is hybrid between salt and dilute
Worcestershire sauce. The first course
is cold roast chicken. served with
picked perfumeG turnip. The flesh is
tender, snow white and free from sauce.
1t is cut into small pieces. but these are
arranged so as to preserve the outline
of the fowl. You seize piece with
your chop-sticks, dip in the sauce, and
then eat it in solemn silence. The next
course is fresh fish, steamed, boiled. or
fried whole and covered with q dark
and very aromatic sauce. With it is
served bowl heaped to OVERLOOKING
with rice. 1t is cooked as only the Chi
nese can-each grain soft aud tender
and distinct from its fellows. Next ap-
pears bowl Of chicken soup, on whose
surface floats few thin slices of some
green vegetables. Then follow roast
duck with picked carrot. chow-chop.
sue "a ragout of chicken liver, lean
pork, bamboo-tip. celery. bean-shoots
and onions), dried fish, steamed chopped
pork, macaroni and chicken. and dainty
dumplings filled with spiced hashed
meats. With the foods are served tiny
pitchers of liqueurs. One is brown
rice arrack. the second a date brandy.
and the third an orange gin. All the
dishes are well cooked and served, and :
are novelty to the most blase gour.
met. The made dishes especially are
new and strange. Won Chm Foo, in
Chicago NeUs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26
FARM AND FREsipE

If the hands are stained there is
aothing that will remove the stain so
well as lemon. Cut lemon in halves
and apply the cut surface as if it were
soap.-Erchange.
If. upon weaving a calf or other
young animal. it is so far separated
from the dam that one can not be
heard by the other, from one to three
days will suffice to render them quiet
Prairie Farmer.
Layer Cake: Four eggs. one cup of
white sugar, butter the size of walnut,
one and a half cups of flour, one large
teaspoon of baking powder. six table
spoOnfuls of water; flavor to taste; bake
in moderate oven.-THe Household.
"A farmer is mentioned in the late
discussion of New England farmers,
reported in the Massachusetts Plough
man, who for two years planted seed
from the seed-end and stem-end of the
potato separately. Both years the seed
end gave him a crop from twelve to
fourteen days earlier than from the
stem-end.
MILAN cakes are nice for tea. Half
a pound of sifted -four. quarter of a
pound of butter. six ounces of sugar.
two tablespoonful of thick, sour cream
and one egg. Mix paste of these in
gradients, roll it out and cut it in dia-
mond-shaped pieces; glaze with egg and
bake in a hot oven; when cold place a
bit of jam or jelly in the center of each
and serve.-N. Y Commercial AdUcr-
tiser.
-Gapes are produced by parasite
in the windpipe of the fowl. 1t may be
removed by thrusting a feather into the
windp:pe, twistingit around and quickly
withdrawing. II is said that combining
fowl in box and filing the air in it
with lime dust will sometimes cause the
fowl to cough or sneeze up the intruder.
No preventive is known, but an occa-
sional dose of turpentine is recon-
mended.-Troy Times.
--Deft-fingered maidens may make a
pretty fan to suit each toilet. Take q
round or oval fan of pasteboard and
cover it with tulle in folds and have a
full putting of the tulle about the edge.
On the side on which the folds are
fastened arrange q mass of loops of
narrow satin or velvet ribbon and place
three or four velvet butterflies as if
lowering among the loops. The handle
is wound about with the ribbon and
loops and ends depend from the point OF
union with the fan.-Harper's Bazaar.
For coffee stains try putting thick
glycerine on the wrong side and wash
70 hi, kar LrNy
raspberry stains weak ammonia and
water is the best. Stains of fruit on
good table lisen can be removed without
injury by using the following with care:
Pour boiling water on chloride OF lime,
in proportion of one gallon to a quarter
of pound, bottle it. cork it well. and
in using be careful not to stir it. Lay
the stain in this for moment, then ap-
ply white vinegar and boil the table
Observation-Disclosures Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

Who, in taking passage in great trans.
Atlantic steamer, does not feel . thrill OF
sxultation over her magnificent power.
Against her tho Storm King may huri his
| elemental forces, nor pierce her armor, nor
stop her onward course.
But let me describe q scene when, ono
morning in mid-ocean, there came an
alarm from the pilot house followed by .
Ely: THE ships rudder is lostw From
the confident expression, CONSERVATION
came to every face. The wheelman being
helpless to direct her course, the vessel
was at the mercy of wind and wave.
The captain had been negligentcthe
hangings Of the rudder were allowed to
wear weak, and suddenly 1t had dropped
deep into the seal
Strong in intellect, in physical vigor, in
energy and in ambition, man confronts,
undaunted, gigantic tasks and commands
applause for his magnificent achievements.
But, all unexpectedly, an alarm comes
the rudder Of his constitution Is gone. He
has been careless of its preservation; men.
tai strain, nervous excitement, irregular
habits, over-work, have destroyed the ac-
ion of his kidneys and liver. This would
not occur were Warmers safe cure used to
maintain vigor. And even now it may re-
store vitality to those organs and give
back to the man that which will lead him
to the haven Of his ambition.-1he Traveller.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26
AMERlcANIZED CHINESE.

How the Celestials on the Pacific Coast
are Adopting American Habits and In
situations.
The Tapes have been raising tapdge.
It was through the application of the
Tapes to the Supreme Court that the
Chinese public school was opened in
San Francisco. The Tapes are Ameri.
canized Chinese. and how Americanized
the following story will show: John
Tape is an expressman, drives one wag-
on and owns another, wears his hair cut
short and goes to Sunday-school. In
taking goods to the mission he met
Mary. a servant, who wore her hair in
butterfly chignon. painted flowers and
did embroidery. John and Mary courted
and were married. John built a neat
little house out in the western addition.
where in due time appeared two little
Tapes-Mamie and John. 1t was an
American family i'm custom. costume
and speech, and the mission folk used
to take visitors out to the Tapes. and cx-
hibit them as examples of how very
Caucasian the Monaghan might be
made. A little while ago. however. John
came to the mission in a very unpleas-
ant frame of mind. Something was the
matter with Mary. He could not for the
life of him tell what it was. but Mary was
not herself. She was neglectful and list
less, but would give no explanation of
her behavior. Would some of the ladies'
60 up and find out what was the matter?
Nothing would please the ladies better,
and the very next morning they paid a
visit to the Tape residence. There was
plenty of evidence in Mrs. Tapes man.
ner that Johns complaint was well
grounded.
What's the matter. Nary" asked
one of the visitors; ''has John been
doing anything"'
NO: Johns all right" said Mary.
Have the children been misbe.
having?"
No; the children are all right"
''Well. what is the matter. them"
"Another man." said Mary. plainly.
Without any more pressing Mary con-
fessed that she had fallen in love with
the Chinese interpreter of the Sacra-
mento Courts. and that she did not care
any longer for her husband. Attempts
to impress her with the Nervousness of
this domestic offence were fruitless. and
the ladies left much cast down. When
John came home that evening Mary
told him the terrible news with as little
circumlocution, and added that she in
tended to pack up and leave the next
day. Arguments and entreaties were
fruitless, and. sure enough. next day
Mary placed her children with mutual
friend and left. Something-John said
it was God, but it was probably Oriental
cunning-told John to be at the Market
Street depot that afternoon. Soon after
his arrival Union Street car brought
Mary and a bundle on the scene. John
hid behind pillar and saw his wife
joined by the Sacramento interpreter.
With howl he rushed out, and. Selling
the interpreters pigtail with one hand.
swung him round and with the other
hand planted such terrible blow be.
tween his rivals eyes that he fell like a
log. Mary looked at the fallen inter-
prefer. then at Johns terrific right
hand, took his arm and quietly walked
home with him.-Sdn Francisco Call
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26
sEAsONABLE SUGGESTIONS.
A Chapter on Prudence In Conduct and
Temperance in Diet.

A Chapter on Prudence In Conduct and
Temperance in Diet.
The extreme heat of the season, with
the increased number of deaths. suggest
great prudence in conduct and temper
ance in diet. A large proportion of the
fatal results traceable to thermal causes
might easily be prevented by little.
care. OF course the few who can afford
to crafty their desires by fleeing to
some cool and quiet retreat, and then
have the good judgment to be temper
ate in their habits, are the furthest re-
moved from all seasonable dangers. but
to the many this is impossible. The
less fortunate ones can comply with
well established hygienic principles.
Cleanliness is of the first Importance
and it applies not only to the person,
but also to the premises. The body
should be sponged once a day, and
twice is better, with water not cold;
clothing next to the person should be
frequently changed; the bedroom and
linen should be thoroughly ventilated
and aired after use. The common
practice of shutting up the sleeping
room all day in order to keep it dark
should be avoided; the clothing should
be aired throughout the day, and the
couch not made up for use until even
ing. Keep no fresh meat or decaved
vegetation anywhere about the premises
Whitewash the cellar and be careful to
avoid keeping remnants of food about
to decay and mould.
Equal in importance to cleanliness is
the supply of pure air. Let every room
in the house from cellar to garnet be
abundantly ventilated during some
portion of each day. Flies and hot air
are preferable to a dark. stuffy apart
ment, which is thus converted into .
disease breeding nest. Hot air naturally
rises, and, if the upper rooms are kept
closed throughout the day, they will be
found charged with the foul air that has
been generated in the living rooms.
Take the utmost care of the sewers.
ATemperance should be observed. both
in eating and drinking. Where the
appetite or the vocation demand. it is
better to eat more frequently. rather
than overload the stomach at long in
tervals. Unripe fruit and vegetables are
poisonous, and are especially injurious
in hot weather. Meats and vegetables
should be thoroughly cooked before eat
ing, and all should be fresh when
cooked. Intemperance in the usually
harmless summer drinks and
compounds is followed BY as serious re-
suits as over-indulgence in alcoholic
Eat and drink seasonable.
ripe, we'll cooked food and light fluids
in small quantities and at more frequent
intervals.
Do not attempt any over-exertion OF
of body or mind. Start in
time to meet every engagement without
hurrving. Whether in the harvest field
at the work bench. in the counting
room or study, or enjoying the leisure
and comforts that wealth afford. be
careful to observe these precautions.
There are none so poor or unfortunate
that they may not have them, and none
50 rich that they can safely neglect
them. These hints are useful at every
season, but they are essential now and
will be during the succeeding six weeks.
-Philadelphia Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26
Tho Morning Dreas.

It Is said that . lady's standing in socie-
ty can easily be determined by her dress
at the hreakfast-table; an expensive,
snowy costume indicating that the wearer
has not yet learned the proprieties. But
no one need be afraid of being called
4 her r. l9 tSs mess Is az sPPsrsns
ty is never the attendant Of disease. above
all, Of those diseases peculiar to women,
and which find a ready cure in DR.. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" Price reduced
to one dollar. By druggists.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

DIR. j. R. Irwin says that one of
the best and most pleasant things that
can be used to relieve toothache is
chewing cinnamon bark. 1t destoys
the sensibility OF the nerves and sus-
ponds the pain Immediately, if the
bark is of good quality.-M r Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

Paris green is made Of arsenic, car
Donate of soda. blue vitriol. acetic acid.
chloride Of barium. and sometimes
Whites sugar Of lead. It is double
salt. known to chemists IS aceto -arsen-
lite of copper,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

'TINE works wonders" said q young
man OF twenty-seven when he returned
home and found his elder sister only
eighteen.-Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

PIXIES ToOrHACHE DROPS cure in minute, sc.
GIenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. &c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

ABOVE all other earthly ills.
hate the big, old fashioned pills;
By slow degrees they downward wend,
And often pause, or upward tend;
With such discomfort are they fraught
Their good effects amount to naught.
Now, DIR. Pierce prepares pill
That Just exactly fills the bill
A Pellet, rather, that is all
A Pleasant Purgative. and small:
Just try them as you feel their need,
You'll lind that speak truth, indeed
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

"THIs is my golden wedding" remarked
an impecnnious man when he married .
woman worth 500, 900.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

IT il not hard for man to mind his own
business, but it is the monotony which he
can't stand.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

TIE. "old reliable"-Dr. Sage's Catazrh
Remedy.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

The Hartford Journal says there is poe.
try in vegetables. This is tough news for
egetarians.-BgGdio Express.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

WHEN two girls meet they kiss. When
two men meet they don't. This shows
plainly who want kissing the most.-Chi-
cQgo Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26
THE ELECTRIC AUROPHONE.
An Aid and Permanent Benefit to TIT
Hearing.

The mild electrical treatment Of the au-
rophone has cured many Of deafness whom
nothing else could tenefit. Send name
rophone Company. No. 400 N. Third ST.,
st. Louis. No., for circular and explana-
ton.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS
please say yoa saw the advertisement n
this paper. Advertisers like to know
When and whore thar sdvsEtissasnts ars
saying hesE
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-01-03

bic medical discoveries of the century.
In weak solution. introduced few drops
at time into the eye, it establishes
complete an@sthesia of that organ, SC
that the most difficult and delicate oper.
ations of optical surgery can be per.
formed without pain to the patient.
This is better than chloroform, because
more reliable and without the ill effects
of the latter. This is the report we get
of it from abroad, where it has been
tried, and from the most Trustworthy
sources. 1t has not reached this CITY
yet. BY the aid of cocaine the pain at
tending operations of dental surgery
will be entirely vanquished. Indeed,
the problem of local anmsthesia appears
to have been solved by the discovery OF
this alkaloid. 1t is anticipated that sci
atica, will also yield to this new power.
1t is exceedingly expensive-60 cents a
grain. 1888 an ounce, 81, 800 pound
but, like all other discoveries, will grow
cheaper. remember when bromide OF
potash was put up in ounce bottles and
sold at sixty cents an ounce 1t now
sells at twenty-eight to thirty cents a
pound. Atropia, the active principle OF
belladonna, formerly sold at fifty cents
grain; it now sells at that much a
dram. Iexpect the day is not far dis
tant when cocaine will be cheap enough
to be in active demand for domestic use
in mashed fingers and stumped toes. ~
Indianapolis Journal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-01-03
FREELY LIGHT.

Something About a Very Curious Little
Insect Which all Persons Have Seen.
NM. ALBERT and R. Dubois have re.
Gently made number of interesting OBJ.
servations on the light emitted BY
'pyrophores," or fire-bearing insects Of
the family Elateres, genus Pyrophorus.
These pyrophores have three luminous
organs, one situated at the ventral part
and two at the superior part of the pro.
thorax. The last are always visible,
and were submitted to the tests. The
light was produced by rubbing the insect
with light brush, and was examined
by means of an ordinary spectroscope
with prism of very refrangible glass
and micrometer. The spectrum was
very fine, continuous, and showing
neither brilliant nor dark rays. This
popularity has already been pointed out
by Pasteur and Gernez, who studied the
light from pyrophore belonging to the
late Able Moigno, editor of Les Mondes.
The spectrum occupied about seventy
five divisions of the micrometer. and
extended on the red side to the middle
OF the interval which separates the rays
A and B of the solar spectrum, and on
the blue side little beyond the ray E.
When the intensity of the light varied,
its composition changed in q
remarkable manner. When the
brightness diminished the red
and orange disappeared entirely,
and the spectrum consisted of green,
and little blue and yellow. The green
rays lasted longest. The contrary took
place when the light grew in brightness,
the green appearing first and the spec
trum extending little on the blue and
great deal on the red side. The least
refrangible rays are therefore emitted
last. No other luminous source known
appears to behave in like manner The
only case which bears a resemblance is
that of sulphate of strontium becoming
phosphorescent under the action of light
at a growing temperature. As the
temperature rises, rays less and less re-
frangible appear in the spectrum, but al
the same time, as Edmond Becquerel
has shown, the less refrangible rays
disappear. When the light of the organ
begins to appear, the central and for
ward part onlyof the organ Is luminous.
1t is only when the light is very bright
that the periphery of the organ is
luminous, and then the red rays are
visible. The light was found to give
Photographic images on a gelatino-bro-
mide plate; the insect being two cent?.
meters from the plate, and the time OF
exposure reduced from an hour to five
minutes The photographs show that
the light of the pyrophore is capable OF
producing intense chemical effects, il
the smallness of the quantity emitted
be taken into account. The light also
determines the phosphorescence of sui
phate of calcium, after an exposure OF
five minutes; and eosine and azotate of
uranium are rendered fiuorescent by it.
Scientific american.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-01-03
The Ostrich as a Kicker.

DR.. Sketchly, who has charge of the
ostrich farm at Anahlem, was plucking
one of the things one day. When they
pluck them a stocking is kept ON the
head to blind the bird While he can
not see he is quiet, but if his blinkers
get uncovered then he ''goes for the
plncker. The doctor moved his arm SO
as to disturb the stocking, ard instantly
he saw what was done and went head
first out of the pen, not caring for any
more plumes just then. AS he tumbled
head first over the fence the bird let fly
kick which, striking fence-board,
made toothpicks of whole panel
length. The mules occupation as a
kicker is gone in this country since the
ostrich cane.-Los angeles Express.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-01-03
THE DIFFERENCE.

There Was One, But the Editor Didnr
Like it When the Old Lady Told Him
What 1t Was.
''Good morning." wheezed an old
lady, coming into the EDITORS room at
the head of the step elevator, "good
morning. Amt you the editor?'
Eyes, madam" the man at the desk
responded, as he threw chew of to-
bacco down a knot-hole in the floor
and slipped his suspenders up on his
shoulders. Can do anything for
you to-day?''
well, not very much. / heard
something about you, and as / had
been reading your paper came to see
for myself if it were true"
''Ah, indeed! What was it? Moth
ing bad, hope"
Not SO bad, and not so very good
either. They only told me you were
just like Ananias. You know who
he was, don't youP''
mot exactly, madam, though have
seen some reference to him during the
recent campaign"
II didn't think you knew him. He
was Bible character, who was struck
dead for being a lar
Great Caesar. madam exclaimed
the editor. with a start that knocked
his pastepot over and sent his scissors
rafting to the floor, II hope you don't
think now, after you have read my
paper and met me, that / am like this
man Ananiasp"
mo, SIR" the old lady replied, get
ting up to go. Il notice there is a
difference"
"Ah, thanks. madam; you fatter
me; you"
Don't mention it, sir; the differ
ence detect in you is that you are still
alive
The door closed on the old lady, and
the editor iabbed his pen into his upset
pastepot and began to write an article
on the cruelty and deceit of women
Merchant Traveller.