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NO. 883
INSOMNIA IN THE AGED.
'"ale of Its Causes-Sympto,ns and Treat


'";he OF Its Causes-Symptoms and Treat
ment-Various Remedies.
III opening a discussion on this subject.
DR.. c. l.. Dana said that he had found the
information contained in the text books
upon insomnia in the aged was very
slight in amount. Insomnia was not fire.
quent in the aged, but when it was present
it was sometimes very intractable. Patho-
logists thought it was due to anGemia and
mulnutrition. The thickened arterial
walls and the high arterial tension from
the contracted kidneys, and similar states,
which were found in the aged, would ind-
cate that the blood supply to the brain was
deficient. The insomnia produced by
anRmia was characterized by drowsiness
during the daytime, the patient falling
into little maps, while at night he was I'M
able to obtain any rest. This was true of
the young as well us the old If in any case
we found no actual disease, it was Gus
tolnary to try iron and rich diet. In the
speakers experience, however, iron did
not relieve antemia of the aged so as to
produce sleep. Alcohol with the food was
another remedy, and many recommended
hot Cruel or hot milk with alcohol before
going to bed. While alcohol would relieve
some cases, there were others in which the
insomnia was increased.
The bromides and chloral, even when
given in enormous doses, often failed to
give relief. Opium was another remedy
DR.. H. c. Wood had recommended that
we make our aged people opium eaters and
alcohol drinkers. The speaker had not
found that opium always agreed with the
aged, and in his experience, where opium
had produced sleep, it was sometimes fol-
lowed by such physical and mental depres-
sion as precluded its further use
He had been disappointed in bromide
and chloral, and considered the results OF
opium sometimes disastrous He recon-
mended good food, warm drinks at night,
and small doses of codeia with cannabis
indica. Valerian and lavender, hyoscya-
mine, and lupulin sometimes were also
useful drugs.-Bulletin of Clinical Society
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WANTED IT CHANGED.
Cyclone Cellars.

A number of persons in this town are
building cyclone cellars-uudergrouh re-
treats upholstered with large limestone rocks
into which they can crawl away when a
cyclone may happen to be going through the
country. Some people feel above thu cyclone
cellar, and profess to be unable to see the al
vantages to be derived from using it as a
sitting room or sleeping apartment. We,
however, think differently. We would much
rather retire to some quiet, wel-conducted
cyclone cellar, whenever there appears to be
we'll founded suspicion that cyclone is in
the neighEorhood. than to be obliged to spend
the next day in chasing around the country
collecting our limbs
1t may not look as heroic to go into cy-
clone cellar every night and set the time
lock Oh the door for Q o'c clock the next morn
ing as it does to stay above ground and
fasten notice to each limb, saying that this
belongs to So-and So the finder will please
return" but it will certainly produce greater
peace Of mind No man can 6e at his best
with leg in Iowa, an arm in Minnesota,
another leg blowing across the British Pos
sessions and detectives hunting for the other
arm.
A man may have three or four sets of
wooden legs and artificial arms, but he
would hardly do for this country. The diff
ference might not be noticed in the east, but
he would be put at great disadvantage in
the west
We are going to build a cyclone cellar. 1t
will be twenty five feet deep, with d long,
dark, narrow passage leading to it. We in
tend to stay in it all the time, to avoid
creditors, and if cyclone happens in the
neighborhool it will have just as hard work
to find us as they will -Estelline Bell.
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Casting a Big Gun in Boston.

They made fourth attempt To cast
54ton 12-inch rife for the Chicago the other
day at the South. Boston iron works. The
difficulty with gun casting is the cpolings
and the patent which krupp has on this is
the basis of his fame. However, the Bos-
ton foundries are courageous They first
make a gun-pit of sand and clay thirty feet.
This takes the form of the gun to be cast.
The core, which is to make the bore is
carefully fabricated and suspended in the
pit with mathematical nicely. Then at
O'Clock of one day the fires are started un-
der three furnaces filled with steel ingots,
each containing thirty-five tons. In about
twenty hours this is reduced to q molten
mass. Cutters are provided from each
furnace to the gun mold.
At given signal each furnace is tapped;
the white liquid runs into the gun pit; the
core stands the shock, and in twenty-five
minutes the pit is full. The furnaces are
plugged and the mass of metal Qifty-four
tons in weight), is left to cool. This pro-
cess takes four weeks; then, if no disturb
ance of the core has taken place, the lat
ter is bored oct, the gun is lifted from it's
bed and the work of finishing begins. 1t
takes six months to accomplish this. This
magnificent gun, when complete, will be
thirty feet long and weigh f1fty-four tons.
1t will fire 265 pounds of powder, throw
projectile 500 pounds in weight, have a
velocity of projectile of 1850 feet per sec
ond, which would cover three miles of
range, and muzzle energy of 16,S00 tons
to the square inch of inpact-or the
capacity to send a solid shot through
twenty-three inches of iron plating
Chicago Herald.
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Transfixed by a Zulu Jayelin.

Mr. H. H. Pitt, the Lieut.. Smallett
in the Minute Men," is so often mistaken
for an Englishman that he now is fully
convinced that he is one. He certainly
possesses the voice and mannerisms of Il
well-bred London man. His drawling
speech is about the same expression of
voice that you will hear in the courtyard
of the palace OF St. James when the officer
of the Coldstreams is relieving guard.
Among the volunteers to Zululand were
many English guardsmen. Two of these
spoilt darlings of English society were
leading body of Capetown militia against
an overwhelming swarm of blacks, and
the air was thick with spears. Charley
Frazier, lieutenant of Scots guard,
noted for his slowness of speech and ms
variety of methods in concocting summer
punches, was transfxed by Zulu javelin
and fell dying to the ground. The other
officer raised him in his arms: saw, old
chap-pie, the-ah-black person-has-
lost-his- aw- what the deuce aw--
d'ye-call-it-aw-as ssegai-aw - "a slice
-of-lemon would have-aw-va stly-im-
proved-the beer cup-at-aw-luncheo
Take-aw-this-out- body old
ow-ah--have-it- - mounted-aw-for
a-billiard-cue-aw" And he died
with the last Jaw" on his ips.-Cor. Phil
delphia Press,
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and thereafter went her peerless way alone.
But if so, before she left him she had him so
well trained that he would not talk.
Dr. Mary Walker has been ever since the
war one of the curiosities of the capital, like
the Washington monument and the United
States senate. This is because she wears
trousers and mans frock coat, and a hat
half male and half female. She does not
look bad in this costume. On the contrary,
with her small feet and delicate features she
really looks right cute; but the average herd
of humanity doesn't see that sort of thing
every day, therefore it arches its back and
howls.
DR.. Mary did good and unseltish work in
the army hospitals during the war, work for
which she has not been paid to this day The
newspapers that have been guying and cat
hauling tie slim, nervous little woman for
thepast twenty five years have been in rather
small business.
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A Plucky Little Aztec Lad.

One day, at the American legation, q
bright little lad of dozen years came in
with some letters while I sat talking with
the charge, in the absence of Minister
jackson. The boy was so polite, SO
prompt SO spirited that he attracted my
attention. for | saw he was an Indian and
was, in this position, quite emancipated
from the awful frown and sense of superb
ority of the dark-brown Spaniard-a new
order of being
YES" said the charge, "that boy was
barefooted, or at least wearing sandals a
little time ago, and almost naked. He
was employed to feed a furnace in a ma
chine shop, but one day he was found sit
ting behind a wood pile with pencil and
an old envelope in his hands. The master
demanded to know what he was doing.
The lad answered that the furnace
was full of wood, and he was trying to
learn to write with what spare time he
had"
To make q long story Short this little
Mexican lad had picked up pencil and
then by copying the names of his employer
and others which he found about the shop
on old envelopes, he had already learned
to write good hand. He was promoted
to be gate-keeper, and is now the little
man VINO takes the letters of the American
minister to and from the postoffice; and
even takes money to and from the bank.
"Steal?n
The charge was indignant. I could not
even get the boy to lie for all the gold in
Mexico"
So you see, our legation in Mexico is do
ing solid good. 1t has lifted at least one
human being up to the high level of soul
equality. And this is much more than |
ever knew any other American legation
to achieve, or even undertake.-Joaquin
Miller's Mexico Letter
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Bill Nye on jeff Davis.

see that Mr. Jefferson Davis, who has re-
Gently entered the lecture field, says that
there could have been no nobler cause for
which to die, no opportunity more glorious
for proud and honorable death. than that
afforded the Confederate soldier who espoused
the cause of the south twenty years ago.
Looking at it in that way | ask in all can
dor, why did rot Mr. Davis improve that
glorious opportunity? Feeling that way
about it, why did he not remove his polonaise
and die like man? Why did he let such a
chance go by in older that he might enter
the lecture field and crowd out better men,
and then die | of old age, when h. could have
hung up his hoopskirt on tree and die.t in
way that would have endeared him to ev ry
Southern heart.
/ agree with the lamented A. Ward that
ait would have been So in Mr.. Davis pocket
il he had never been born" but after he was
born, and it was too late TO consider his rash
act he should have died as young as possible.
With characteristic hardness. however, he
allowed himself to grow u, and then with
the full knowledge as he now admits, that
the war of the rebellion afforded a beautiful
opportunity for a man who yearned to die.
in a neat and attractive way, he frittereC
away that golden moment and continued tc
destroy the high-priced groceries of the de
sponlent south.
There is certainly "a tide in the affairs OF
men which, taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune" and Mr.. Davis surely missed it
when he neglected to make funeral tableau
of himself indianapolis Journal
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Delivered According to Contract.

Senator Lebroke, of Foxcroft, once
swapped an old wagon with Farmer Graves
for four cords of wood. Graves signed a
contract written by Lebroke, to the effect
that Graves should deliver Lebroke four
cords of merchantable wood. Where the
wood should be delivered was not stated.
Many months went by, and Lebroke re-
ceived no wood. Happening in Guilford, he
asked the old man about it
"Oh, yes" said Graves; "I've cut your
wood, and it's as nice a lot of wood as ever
You saw. You just come and look at it :"
He took Lebroke into the woods and
showed him four cords of excellent cord
wood, piled up in the forest
"There, Squire Lebroke," said he, II de-
liver that wood to you" Turning to
neighbor who had accompanied him, he
added: 4And want you to witness that
deliver this wood to Mr. Lebroke."
The senator had to hire teamster to haul
the wood ten miles to Foxcroft He says it
was the first and only time he ever was
beaten on contract that he wrote himself.
Lewiston tMe.) Journal Fs55a
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VOL. II, NO. 30.
30 DEER LODGE, MONTANA JUNE H. 1885,
ONLY A WOMAN'S HEART.
Only woman's heart, whereon

Only woman's heart, whereon
You have trod in your careless haste;
a thing at best that was easy won;
What matter how drear q waste
Her life may be in the future years?
What matters it? Do not start
1t is only the sound of dropping tears
AS wrung from a woman's heart
lis OF little worth, for it cost you naught
But honeyed word and a smile.
was the fault not hers, if she blindly
thought
You were truer than truth the while?
What If the seeds of life long woe
From its broken shrine upstart?
What does it matter to you? You know
1t is only woman's heart.
Only woman's heart, ah, well!
"Tis little, / trow to you
Whether that heart was as false as hell
Or as heaven itself as true.
You may hug the thought to your selfish
breast a..a. .4
That you're skilled in deception's art;
But brand you thief, for the peace and
rest
That you stole from woman's heart.
Helen A. Manville
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A Digression at an Auction Sale,

was idling away half an hour at an
auction of bankrupt stock in the dry goods
district the other morning when all excited
individual from the crowd of bidders went
up and said something in confidence to the
auctioneer. The latter raped on his desk
and announced. .s.
Gentlemen: Mr.. X. here has just dis
covered that he has lost his pocket-book.
1t contains money and valuable papers,
and he offers a reward Of S100 for it,"
A fat man with a solemn face replied
promptly:
"a hundred and five"
@One ten," called voice.
Fifteen"
Twenty"
They had run it up to $500 when owner
of the pocket-book yelled:
Hold on! hold oni There's no profit in
that There's only 800 in the pocket-boo
and the papers aren't negotiable.
Then the business of the sale was re-
sumed.-New York Sun.
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A Iobbvist,s work at the Capitol.

The work of an attorney and lobbyist
before congress is not considered dissimi-
lar by many people here, although there
is a difference, An attorney--if he is a
legitimate one and confines himself to
legitimate woPk-simply presents the le-
gal argument or common argument in his
case to committee, as he would tc jury.
There his work ends and there the work
of the lobbyist begins. A lobbyist confines
his operations to individual members. He
seldom il ever talks To more than one at
time. BY all manner of arguments and
"Reminiscences he induces the members OF
the committee or the whole house or SEN
ate to support his bill.
The lobbyist does not work as much at
the capitol, when he can be seen, as he
does at the rooms of the statesmen. Many,
however, importnne the members or sena-
tors whenever taey can. There are num-
Der of professional lobbyists here, but the
number s.not so large as is generally sup
posed. There are probably not more than
fiftv men or women here who make live
lihood by infiuincing the votes of law
makers. Many more than this number
receive compensation with the understand
ing that they will influence men, but :hey
claim treachery and all that kind OF
thing if the measure naturally fails, and If
IL naturally wins they take the credit 20
themselves. Washington Letter.
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THE LIME KILN CLUB.
Erother Gal dner Ruminates on TIA
Wnrld.s Condition

Brother Gal dner Ruminates on tLe
Worlds Condition.
81 has been walllin' round on top dis arth
mighty nigh my allotted time, said Brother
Gardner as the band ceased playing. fand
yit some things are jist as much mystery
to me as when was 20.
"How does it happen dat de folkses who
am head-ober-heels in debt put on de meas
style?
"Why am il dat lie man wild a head full of
brains mus play second fd lie to n monkey
wild pocket full O money!
"How does it come, dat while we purfe<s to
lub our naphor, nuthn' tic!lles us mo- dan to
h'ar he has received set-b back and mus take
cheaper house,
"How am it dat de man wild de biggest
dimun pin, an de woman wild de moasf real
lace on her dress git shet of defr counterfeit
nickles sooner dan anybody esea
"Show me party of fifty pussons gwine
to make trip to Yurup, an Ill pint out
thirty five who am stavin' off creditors to do
it.
"We complain dat servant gals doan' know
DER duties am we eddicate our darters to
ignore housework as beneaf em. De hired
gals of de next ginerashun won't be to
blame if dey mix bread in de bath tub an
mash 'taters wild beer bottle
"When de preacher gifts up in de pulpit an
splains dat de African heather am pinin'
fur tracks an Bibles we shell out de cash
wild hot fingers. When de widder calls at de
front doah to inform us dat her chilren am
cold and hungry an ragged, we keep de cash
keerfully salted down, an wonder if an au-
tograph album wouldn't help de family pull
frew
''Seems to me- as | lean on de fence an
1pol- OH do 1o% loI,.a 80
dis world am wrong eand to. De shine of
brass keetches de eye whar silver am I'M
noticed. A loud voice gathers a crowd
sooner dan sweet song. Society demands
dress coat an white shirt an if dat de-
mand am satisfied nobody will ak the wearer
whether he has bin in state prison or de state
legis 'achur! Let us now purceed to dispatch
de routine bizness of de evenin,."
WANTED IT CHANGED.
Shindig Watkins desired to call the atten-
ton of the meeting to the fact that there
was shoal in Lake Huron which had been
set down on the charts by the government
survey ors as "Nigger Head Shoal." He for
one felt it to be reflection on his race, and
he hoped the club would forward its protest
to congress.
"Brudder Watkins, do you call yourself
niggers" bIandly inquired the president.
"No sah-no sab! In cose | don't! Ise a
Guild man, sahp
"'Zactly, Brudder Watkins, an So am
an all de res of de crowd. If dar' am any
niger who wants to complain about dat
shoal let him go ahead; it am none of our
funeral
Brother Watkins sat down, but he didn't
look exactly like man who had gained a
barrel AMI half of valuable information for
nothing Free Press.
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When She Feels Real Glad.

II tell you how it is with me, Mrs. Blod-
gett," said the dressy neighbor. when
go to church and get all stirred up and
agitated over what desperate wicked set
we are, feel vexed and put out to think
what q shame it was that Eve didn't
mind her own business and not bring such
heaps of trouble upon us; but when I put
on new dress that fits me SO nice | can't
find particle of fault with it, and hat
that makes every women | meet feel as
though she hadn't friend in the world,
thenI own up that do feel downright
glad she was fond of fruit, and | can't
help it."-Chicago Ledger.
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Ex-President Arthur's Children.

The fact that ex-President Arthur seems to
;e slowly going out of life invests him and
lis belongings with interest. During the
time of his residence in the White House 1t
was known that he was a widower, with two
children, Nellie and Allan. Mr.. Arthur's
wife, Commodore Herndons daughter, died
in January, 1881, after her husband had been
elected vice president.
Young Allan Arthur is good deal of a
dude and dandy. He has never shown any
very marked mental peculiarities, one way
or the other His only claim to dis
tinction, so far as known, is that
he broke a marriage engagement with
a pretty girl while his father was president
He was then about 10 years old Up to this
time he is not known to have contracted any
new ones.
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BARTLEY CAMPBELL.
The Well-Known Playwright a Mental
and Physical Wreck.


Poor Barley Campbelll He has gone quite
eff his head. They say he has followed in
the footsteps of John Mccullough. They
say, too, that dissipation of various kinds
caused his downfall He was a brilliant,
jolly fellow, who certainly deserved better
fate than to go crazy.
He was born in Pittsburg, Pa nearly or
quite fifty Years ago He was a poor boy to
begin, and the same fate has stuck to him
ever since, with the exception of seven years,
when he was in clover, and spent money like
water
He was newspaper reporter, working on
The Pittsburg Dispatch till he was q. He
was chiefly noted for his uncommon imagina-
tion. They say it was good deal easier for
him to write thing up without seeing it
than with This brilliant Imagination got
him into trouble sometimes when unreason-
able people insisted on drawing the line be-
tween fact and fancy, but it helped him in
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Problem of the Oceans Depth,

The depth of the sea presents an inter
esting problem. If the Atlantic were low
cred 6, ,564 feet, the distance from shore to
shore would be half as great, or 800
miles. II lowered little more than three
miles, say 1860 feet, there would be
road Of dry land from Newfoundland to
Ireland. This is the plain on which the
great Atlantic cables were laid The
Mediterranean is comparatively shallow.
A drying up of $50 feet would leave three
different seas, and Africa would be joined
with Italy. scientific American,
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cape newspaper drudgery-this is the golden
dream of the average journalist
M. Campbell had been tinkering at
play writing many years before he pro-
duced "My Partner" his first success. He
says, however, that the idea was put into
his head by the praise bestowed on story
he dramatized TOR some amateurs to play.
But he scrubbed and had hard luck years
before there was any reward He led the
forlorn hope of drama writing and play act
ing, He started companies about the coun-
try who broke up and walked back home
trying to produce his unsuccessful plays.
He was the byword for failure with the
atrical peopl
At last "My Partner" hit the mark At
last money and a name were waited on the
breath of public applause to the forlorn play
writer. Mr.. Campbell went to Europe. He
drove about the streets Of beautiful Paris.
He was shown the splendid mansions of the
popular actors and theatre managers there.
Where do the authors of the plays live!"
asks Bartley.
He was shown their cheap and shabby
houses. II will be both author and manager"
then said he. When he returned home he
produced his own plays, travelling about the
country and experimenting them 1.-THE
Galley Slave" was his next successful drama
After that came "The White Slave" and
siberia" He had plenty of money then,
and no end of friends. He was liberal with
his money. giving to everybody that asked
But at length he put bad play on the
stage at the Fourteenth Street theatre, New
York, of which he was the lessee and man.
ager. 1t failed, and Campbell himself went
west with it, leaving his New York theatre
to be managed for him. The play failel
all along His affairs became embarrassed
and were put into receivers hands. Camp
bell returned to New York, and acted very
queer. One of his exploits was to break into
the box office OF his theatre and take there
from sixty tickets, which he scattered pro
miscuously among people he knew.
Now at last it is feared he has all gone to
pieces mentally. He resembles strongly the
late Artemus Ward. He has tall, slouchy,
loose jointed figure, which adds to the like
ness. Mr.. Campbell has worked necessarily
for his success and it is melancholy to think
of the fate that has overtaken him.
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Allan lives with his father in the house ON
Lexington avenue. Ex-President Arthur gas
not had a very jolly time of it in the last six
years, and his painful, lingering illness at
present is no improvement on the res of his
luck But throughout there has been one
ste .dy ray OF sunshine to his life. That is
his little daughter Nellie. She was about 12
years old when her father became president,
an innocent, lovely, sweet little girl She is
now approaching womanhood. She resem-
bles her father in face and features far more
than her brother, and seems to be the Lest
boy of the two.