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Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07
All the justices Of the peace elected in
Richland County, with one exception have
failed to qualify.
MICHIGAN.

MICHIGAN. y
The body OF ansunknOwn man was found
floating in the Flint e Pere Marquette
railroad slip the other morning at Bay
City.
Frank Wright was fatally hurt by 9
three old bull in Plymouth few days
ago.
Creighton's saw-mill near Nirvana was
burned recently. Loss, 5000; partly in
sured
Ray Bedford, young lad Of Grand Rap
ids, spending his vacation at Rayenna, &C
cidently killed himself while hunting tho
other morning by the discharge Of his gun.
Thomas Hyland, who snatched purse
from Sedie Seitell upon the street in Grand
Rapids, and knocked her down, has been
sentenced to five years in jackson The
purse only contained one cent
The photograph gallery of William Judd
at Mancelona was partially burned few
mornings ago. Incendiary.
Thirteen good sized safes, which passed
through the recent Norway fire, will be
used IN the building Of a monument COM
memorating the disaster.
Salter & Wood, meat and flour dealers of
Ishpeming, assigned the other night to C.
r. Ely, with liabilities Of $1,000 and assets
Of "a 500
The Union wind mill works at Albion
were damaged by fire a few nights ago to
the extent of s12, 600; insurance, $1,000.
Henry Brandes, aged forty five years,
was killed by the fall Of an iron beam at
the Detroit bridge and irco works few
days ago.
The family Of p. V Spencer, of Gowen,
was poisoned bI eating canned mackerel
recently, but would probably recover,
though one fve-year-old child was very
low.
Two boys named Denis Mccarthy and
Paul ZastraW, while out boating in Nips-
sing lake, near Alba, were drowned Sun
day by the npsetting of their boat.
In the suit of Alice Potts against Emily
Willard for $50, 900 damages for alternating
the affections of her husband, Louis Potts,
the jury brought in verdict the other
morning for SIC, 600 damages.
Three brothers named Grass, led by
August Nelson, all four under twelve years,
robbed the house of Mrs. Nelson at Ishpem-
ing the other night, securing seventy dol
lars in money, besides other plumber They
were caught, but the money had disap-
peared.
The house of John Herbic, farmer, near
Merrill, was burned recently with thirty.
six dollars in cash. Small insurance.
At Port Huron the other day the jury in
the case of George E. Beacraft, charged
with cOunterfeiting, disagreed.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07

TIE mosquito is no prohibitionist; he IS
lead set against closing the bars.-Tecas
SiftinQs
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07

A MODEL woman the tryer-on of clos ks
AN Abel discourse "a sermon on the arst
yn,rdor
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07

MOST Of the news of the weak comes
from observation-disclosures Journal.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07

SOME women when out shopping use
great many more buy words than is neces-
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07

The latest thing out-generally the last
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07
"Untold. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
"Constantly Hawking and spittins.,'

"Constantly Hawking and Spitting.'s
THOMAS J. RUSHING, Esq, ssos Pine Street,
st. Louis Mo-, writes; II was a great sufferer
from catarrh for three years. At times could
hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking
and splitting, and for the last eight months
thought nothing could be done for me. Luck
lily, was advised to try DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, and am now well man. believe
manufactured, and one has only to give it a
fair trial to experience astounding results and
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-17
HABITABlE WORLDS.
Are There Others Beside This TerrestFia
Globe of Ours?

Are There Others Beside This Terrestrial
Globe of Ours?
Here, again, we have only conjecture
to guide us. With respect to the
bodies constituting the solar system,
which from their comparative proxlm-
ity to the earth might sbe supposed
to furnish a solution to this problem,
careful observations have heretofore
offered no indication whatever of the
existence of life upon their surfaces.
But life in some form Or another may,
Notwithstanding, exist on these bodies.
We must bear in mind that the planets
are in all probability in various stages
of developments 1t may be reasonably
presumed that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
and Neptune, in consequence of their
enormous bulk, have cooled down
more slowly than the earth and the
other smaller planets of the solar
system, and are therefore less advanced
as abodes of animated existence than
the latter are. But even in the case of
the earth it must be admitted to have
revolved millions of years around the
sun merely as fiery orb before life
appeared on its surface, and even after
it had cooled down and become the
abode of animated existence it pro-
duced, during countless millions OF
years more, life only in its lowest
forms. The existence of man is
but of yesterday. This is an instruct
i've lesson. 1t teaches us that al
though man exists on the earth S
surface it does not follow that beings
of the same order of intelligence as
man exist upon all the other planets
or even upon any of them. Upon some
of the planets life may not have come
into existence; upon others life may
exist, but in less advanced stage than
upon the earth; and the same remark
is obviously applicable to the number
less bodies of the starry armament.
The state of the question then is this:
We can not pronounce positively upon
the existence of life anywhere beyond
the planet upon which we dwell. But
reasoning from analogy, we may sup
pose that certain, if not all, of the
other bodies of the planetary system,
which in so many respects bear affinity
to our planet, are in like manner the
abodes of life in some form or another,
and that similarly there are countless
bodies in the stellar regions which may
also be the abodes of life. This is a
question, however, upon which the
noble science of astronomy, SO dis
tinguished for the exactitude of its
conclusions, does not venture to pro-
nounce positive opinion, seeing that
there exists no sure basis of facts avail
able for its consideration. In these
circumstances it is left for each indi-
vidual inquirer to form his own opin-
ion Independent of any support derived
from scientific authority.-Prof. Grant.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-17

riod. Yet again, it we wish house
and clothing and food, we must work
for them, but for oxygen there is moth
ing to pay. 1t is free to all, and lies
around us in such abundance that it
never runs short. Here, then, we see
every means taken to insure that all
our demands for oxygen shall be freely
and fully met, and yet we are assured
by medical authorities that very large
proportion-some say one-fourth-of
all the deaths that take place is caused,
directly or indirectly, by oxygen starv-
alton. Now, what unfortunate circum-
stances prevent so many persons hav-
ing a sufficiency Of this all-important
gasp The chief one undoubtedly is
congregating in towns. Instead of liv-
ing in the country, where every house
hold might have large free space of
air around it, we draw together, for
the convenience of business, to great
centers. There the houses are crowded
closely together, often piled one on the
top of the other, so that, instead of an
oyerabundance, there is only limited
quantity of air for each. This is made
unfit for the. support of life by the
very act of breathing; the impurities
are increased by the waste prod
ucts of manufactures; and oxy-
gen is destroyed by every fire
and lamp and gas light. The winds
and certain properties of the atmos.
phere constantly remove much of the
impure air and bring in a pure sup
ply; but the crowding together in many
parts of town is SO great, and the
production of poisonous matter goes on
so continuously, that instead of each
breath containing its full proportion OF
oxygen, the place of that gas is taken
up to some extent by what is actually
hurtful to life. When this is the condition
of the atmosphere outside the dwelling,
tits necessarily much worse within it, for
there the displacement of impure air
by pure can not take place so rapidly.
The consequences are as already stated.
Large parts of our town populations
never have sufficient oxygen; their
lives are feeble and full of suffering,
and numbers die before their time.
Such facts are painful to contemplate,
but knowledge of them puts the wise
man on his guard, and he may do
much for himself. In the choice of a
house he will remember the advan-
tages of a great air space around it,
and of plenty of space within it. so
that bedrooms may not be over
crowded. Or, if a large house is be-
yond his means, he will take care that
the rooms are not crowded with furni-
ture, for every piece of furniture ex-
cludes an equal bulk of air. When he
enters the house he will see that at all
times as much fresh air from the out
side is admitted, by means of open
doors and windows, as can be allowed
without inconvenience from cold; and
as often as possible he will have blow
through, to clear out all odd corners
where foul air may inger. Pure air
and good food make pure blood, and
only pure blood will give good health.
Chambers Journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-17
HIDING THEIR MONEY.
How Representatives of Various Europea
NatinnaIitiea Do 1t.

How Representatives of Various European
NationaIities Do 1t.
The peculiarities of the people of
different nationalities in their way Of
carrying money formed topic of con-
yersation at Castle Garden the other
day.
''Most of the English immigrants"
said one of the money changers, "car-
ry their coin in a small case in which
their sovereigns or shillings fit snugly,
and have the case attached to chain,
which they keep in a pocket as they
would watch. An Irishman always
has his little canvas bag in which he
keeps gold, silver and notes all to-
gether. But great many of the Irish
girls have their sovereigns rolled up
and sewed on the inside of their dress,
very frequently, too, inside of their
corsets, and often have to borrow my
pen-knife to cut them out when they
come to get them changed.
II have seen some old Germans who
would pull off from around their body
belt that l am sure must have cost
forty or fifty marks. and fish from it
three or four marks in silver to have
changed. The French mostly carry
small brass tube in which they can
place forty or fifty twenty-franc pieces,
and remove them very handily one at
time There are very few Italians
who don't own large tin tube, some
times foot long, which they have
hung around their neck by a small
chain or cord, and in which they keep
their paper money or silver coins
Swedes and Norwegians are sure to
have an immense poeketbook that has
generally been used by their fathers
and grandfathers before them and
which will have enough leather in it to
make pair of boots The Slavonians
or Hungarians. generally do not carry
pocketbooks, but they find more ways
OF concealing what money they may
have than any class of people l know
of. Their long boots seem to be the
favorite place, and in the legs of them
they also carry the knife and fork and
spoon with which they have eaten ON
the way across. But I have seen them
take money from between the lining
and outside of their coats, which they
would get at by cutting into button
hole. Some of them use their caps ana
very many use their prayer BOOKS
placing the paper money on the INSIDE
of the cover and pasting the fyleaf OF
the book over it. But think more oil
that nationality stow away their change
inside their stockings than any othef
place, and don't take their stockings
off from the time it is put there until
they want to change it-"-N Z. oo"'-
| YnpTcinL Advertiser.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-17
OXYGEN STARVATION.
Points to BE Considered In the Choice of
Dwelling House.

Points to BE Considered In the Choice of q
Dwelling House.
If we are asked which of the many
necessaries of life is best entitled to the
chief place we must surely reply, oxy-
gen. This gas forms about one-fifth
OF the bulk Of the atmosphere, and our
wants are supplied by the act Of breath
ing, 50 regularly and ceaselessly per-
formed by every one. 1t is possible to
live for long time without the pro-
lection of a house or Of clothing; it is
even possible to live for many days
without food; but If we are deprived
for only one or two minutes of oxygen,
the consequences are serious, and may
be fatal. This is perhaps one reason
why, of all things that our bodies re-
quire, oxygen is the only one the regu-
lar supply of which does not depend
upon our own attention. The pangs of
hunger and thirst warn us when food
and drink are necessary, but they can
only be satisfied by our putting forth
conscious effort. A man may be hun
gry, but ii he is too lazy to seek out
ioosf and raise it to his mouth he will
starye. But it not so with oxygen. We
have power, 1t is true. temporarily to
stop our breathing or to increase its
rapidity by an act of will; but even when
weforget all about it the breathing con-
auues. This is one of the many mys-
teries Of our being always before us,
but seldom thought Of, and yet itisvery
striking. This frequent aud impor-
tant act of our daily life has not been
entrusted to our care. but has been 50
arranged for that it is performed every
three or four seconds from the moment
ri birth until death. without requiring
one thought from Us. The breathing
apparatus never sleeps. Again, oxy-
rem IS So closely connected with
the great vital processes upon
which our growth and daily
energy depend. Chat food itself is use
less unless accompanied by large sup
nlv of ii. Indeed. when the quantity
Of oxygen which man consumes II
his lungs daily IS calculated. it is fount
% be greater In weight than all the or,
cod he requires during the same pc
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-17
NANCY M'kENZlE'S BEAR.
Half-Breed Diana Whose Rifle Bring.
Death to Bruin.

Oealh W
While at Chewela recently | met
Nancy Mckenzie, 4 noted half-breed
woman, who is known throughout the
far Northwest from Montana to Puget
Sound. She is a large-framed, tall
woman, about sixty years of age, who
takes more after her Indian mother
than her Scotch father, who, as an en-
listed man in the service of the Hudson
Bay Company, left his home in the
Orkney Islands about seventy-tive years
ago, and sought wealth and adventure
in the untrodden, unknown regions of
the Northwest. Nancy grew to wom-
anhood under his tutelage and around
his camp fire, following him in his mi
grations from the buffalo hunting
grounds of Montana to the salmon
creeks that empty their waters into the
great Columbia, and to Puget Sound,
where the wandering tribes Of savages
would congregate at certain seasons to
enjoy time of Incidence and mirth,
living on the water fowls with which
the inlets of the sound abounded, the
salt water fish that could almost be had
for the picking up and the CLANS that
were then and are still to be found IN
| great shoals on every sand beach. In
| her younger days she must doubtless
have been a model for the ulptor in
| physical development, for, though aged
and wrinkled, she is still nearly six
feet in height and straight as the typ
| ical Indian, with strong and deeply
| penciled features.
| | was told a little story concerning
her by q physician who lives near by.
He said that few days before he was
hunting pheasants, when he heard the
sharp crack of rifle near at hand.
Thinking that it was one of his neigh
| bors who had scared up a deer in the
swamp, he hastened to the spot, and
found Nancy Mckenzie with a smoking
gun in hand peering toward the roots
of an upturned fir tree. On asking her
| what she had shot, she replied in
French-for she only speaks Indian
and French-that she had shot bear
standing against the root of the tree,
and was not certain whether or not she
had killed him. The doctor admitted
that his knees smote together little
when he looked in the direction indi-
Gated and saw great shaggy object
rolling about on the ground. Nancy
said she was out of ammunition and
asked him to give bruin parting shot.
The doctor was frank man, and he
again admitted that he shot and that
the bear died, but on examination it
was found that he had not touched
hair.-Cor. Birmingham (Ala.) Herald.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-17
AT POMPEnpS GATES.
A Walk Over the Ruins of the Ancient Ro.


Walk Over the Ruins of the Ancient ROs
man City.
We are at the gates of Pompeii. The
sun is high in the heavens, the atmos-
phere balmy and of an inyigorating
quality. And now the much coveted
privilege of walking over the ruins is
before US. 1t is an ancient town of
thirty thousand inhabitants, whose
buildings and streets have been buried
under twenty feet of lava for nearly
seventeen hundred years. The en-
trance is carefully guarded by police
men in uniform, indeed the whole town
seems to be under martial law. Twen-
ty-seven sentries are on duty in these
sacred precincts. We each pay two
francs to pass in; when we find no out
side guide is admitted we employ one
at the gate at five francs an hour. We
enter through the room where are on
sale lava pins, souvenirs of various de-
SIGNS, and relics that you may take
home from Pompeii.
A number of household utensils and
some jewelry were found in the ruins
the day before we arrived, and we were
permitted to examine them. They had
not been cleaned or FURNISHED, but they
were samples of what is. being found
frequently by the present force of work.
men.
When we entered the first street I
looked to the north and there was
Mount Vesuvius, the old enemy Of Pom
peii, about four thousand faet high.
A burning mountain, older than the
New Testament, the smoke ascending
from an nnquenchable fire in threat
ening column, the interior operating
in majestic silence. while all the exte-
rior ON every side from the summit
down to the base and reaching far into
the valley below, is as, quiet and serene
as the cloudless sky. 1t is one of ma
ture's sublimest attitudes where she
blends the past and present to make a
magnificent illustration of God in his
tory.-Dr. Flood, sas CbaatGuqatas.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-17
SAVED HER LIFE.
MIR. Bowser Acts as Nurse and Prevents
Mrs. Bowser's Demise.

Mrs. Bowser's Demise.
The other night about midnight. l
awoke in awful pain. 1t was return
of my old complaint bilious collie, and
it had come with vengeance. Mr..
Bowser lay sleeping like log, and |
waited to the last moment before wax
ing him up. He was on the broad of
his back, knees up and snoring like a
trooper when / shook him. He growled
and groaned and yawned for couple
of minutes, and then opened his eyes
and drawled:
"Heard burglars down stairs, l sup
poseP"
s'Mr. Bowser, am sick!"
"What! And right here in the mid
die of the nightp 2
Eyes, and very sick, too. I've got
a bilious attack.n
''Is that ALP I've had a thousand of
'em and they don't amount to shucks.
Go to sleep and you'll be all right in
the morning."
'.Mr. Bowser, don't want to fright
en- you, but / must have help at once!
You must get right up and do some
thing for me. !"
"Eh? Get up! Have I got to get
up?"
You must"
That's just like you'll If you feel an
Ache or pain I must be aroused and
hustled out of bed! Why don't you
have your collie in the afternoonp"
sect me something as quick as you
can't
He got off the bed, fell over q chair
got into some of his clothes, and wanted
to know what he should do.
.'Get the Jamaica ginger first. It's
in the china closet down stairs.
Eyes, of course it is! You hadn't
sense enough to bring it upstairs,
where it would be at hand five wanted
itp'
He went downstairs and ratified
around for ten minutes, and then came
back to ask:
SIS it in paper boxe"
'It's in a bottle. / thought you
knew what Jamaica ginger was.''
s'And perhaps lido! Perhaps ! wasn't
running ginger farm in Jamaica when
you were in the A. B, G class at school. "
It took him fifteen minutes more. to
find it, and as / swallowed the dose he
shucked off his clothes and jumped into
bed with the remark:
Now go to sleep and behave your
self; it's most one o'clock"
The ginger eased me for o few
minutes, and then had to shake Mr..
Bowser again.
'sW-what now!'' he growled.
| you'll have to get up again. Ths
pain is worse
'Mrs. Bowser, do you mean to tel
| me that collie wasn't knocked into th,
middle Of next July by that doset''
..It's worse than ever. Please do ge
up
.'Oh. I'll get up, but this matter will
be Investigated tomorrow. Wen se
whether it takes whole drug store Il
cure simple collie, or whether you ar
revenging on me. What do you wan
now?''
St. Landry democrat., 1888-03-17


settle my stomach. You'll hnd it
''Down stairs, of course, just where
we'd never use it! I'll make a change
in this house tomorrow or know the
reason why!'
He bumped and stumbled his way
downstairs, ratified the bottles arouno
and finally brought what | wanted.
.'There now," he said as he gave me
dose in water. "don't let me near
any thing more about collie to-nlsht'
You've probably stuffed yourself with
fruit Let this be solemn warning TO
you.'
He got into bed again, but before he
could get up snore was in such PAIN
that I had to arouse him again
What! whatH' he shouted as he set
up on end. MRS. Bowser, I've borne
II great deal from you for the sake OF
our child, but don't drive me to the
limit! What's the matter?'
s'It's the collie"
"What! That same colic!'
"Yes."
sIt can't be. No one ever heard OF
such case. That collie was cured ht-
teen minntes ago"
"Well, this is new one, then, and
I've got to have help right away, you
must get me some mustard. 1oull
find it in a tin box"
Down stairs?"
Eyes"
"Of course! It's wonder you don {
keep it at the barn! If | ever live to
see another day I'll cover this bed
room with ginger. peppermint and
mustard foot deepn'
He found the mustard in about ten
| minutes, and [ asked him if he thought
he could make plaster.
Certainly. You wet the mustard.
spread it ON piece of old flannel un-
dershirt, and the job is done. I've
made million of them"
s'But YOU must mix in half flour"
'And the flour is doWn-stairs!'
"Y-yes.'
stMrs. Bowser," he said as his hair
seemed to rise ON end, "the worm is
getting ready to turn. Look out when
he does! After tonight We'll see if all
the -four in this house has got to be
kept downstairs to please some whim
of yours"
When he came back with it told
him he'd find part of an old sheet in
the top drawer of the chest in the ward
robe. He rummaged for about five
minutes, got mad because he couldn't
find it, and came back with a piece of
one of my white aprons Then he
made mixture, poured it out and pat
ted it into cake with his hand, and as
he passed it to me he made ready for
bed with the remark:
''If you don't get better soon l shall
ring for the ambulance and send you
to the hospital. 1t may be that you are
going insane"
| AS soon as he got asleep l got to the
telephone and called the doctor. The
good man came up, stayed half all
hour, left me some medicine, and Mr..
Bowser snored all through it. l was
much better in the morning, and he
stood with his vest halfway on to
say:
"Of course you are better! l don't
claim to know more than all other peo-
pie ON earth put together, but | do
know just what to do for bilious collie.
Mrs. Bowser, I saved your life last
night, and l hope you feel proper
gratituder er'-Detroit Free Press.