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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
EFFECT OF COLOR.
Novel Method adopted by n Physician IL
the TreatmenL Of the Insnne.

the Treatment of the Insane.
The effect of color on the insane is
being thoroughly tested by "A well
known Pittsburgh physician. Follow
ing the example of an eminent doctor
in Italy, he has fitted up one of the
rooms of "A patients home in red. The
windows are all of red glass, the walls
are kalsomined in light red, the cur
| tains are of the same hue, and the
globes of the gas-jets are opalescent
scarlet. The craze for treating the in
sane in this manner is prevalent all
over Italy at this time. 1t is claimed
by the Italian doctor referred to, that
| on "a recent occasion he undertook the
! case of person afflicted with melan-
cholia, who refused to eat any thing
This patient was placed in one of these
red rooms. The effect of the color was
| to make him as cheerful as sane per-
sou, and in three days he voluntarily
asked for every meal.
DR.. Ayres. of Penn avenue, who is
well-known as an expert in the treat
ment of insanity, was asked his opin-
ion of the Italian idea. Said he: Il
do not think there is much in it. Sew
eral years ago we had in this country
the blue light craze. Blue-glass and
blue wall paper were adopted by many
physicians by way of experiment, but
| never heard of any patient being
cured through such extraneous treat
ment. would rather place a sweet
toned music-boX in the room OF every
lunatic than any thing else. Music has
a cheering effect upon almost all insane
people. That was my experience while
was a member Of the medical staff at
pixmont Insane Asylum. Within the
past few years wonderful strides have
been made in the line OF surgical treat
ment of the insane. With the aid of
localization, marvellous cures have been
effected recently, people who were in
-Nrmer years considered incurable, be-
ing rather easily cured"
Dr. Hutchinson, superintendent of
the Insane Asylum at Dixmont, was
subsequently asked il that institution
had ever tried ''the color effect"
Eyes, to some extent" he replied.
"We have now in the institution blue
room. 1t has blue glass doors and
windows. and the walls are of light
blue. The room was fitted up that
way some years ago, when the idea
went abroad that blue would cheer and
cure the vagaries of disordered minds.
However, the room never cured any
one. nor will it. The patient that is in
the room now has never shown any i'm
provement. have no faith in the use
of colors, nor do believe that red,
yellow or purple would be any better
than blue. TO cure insanity you must
strike at it in its incipiency."-PittS'
burgh Dispatch.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
aorHAM.s TALL SPIRES.
st. Patrick's Cathedral as 1t Appear
Above the Roof.


Above the Roof.
The twin spires of st. Patrick's Ca
thedral are the tallest church spires in
America and rank among the tallest in
| the world. They measured in the nrchi-
tect's plans 1923 feet, but there has
been a certain amount of gain over this
in construction which makes them
about $50 feet from the curb. The
only tower over a building in this
country higher than this is, it is be-
lieved, the uncompleted one on the
public building in Philadelphia, which
will be $50 feet high when IL is done.
There are higher spires over European
cathedrals, among them those at VII
emma, Cologne, CHARTERS, Antwerp and
Salisbury. Trinity spire in this city
is 2S4 feet high. ST. PatriclS's spires,
with the whole cathedral, were planned
by and built under the supervision OF
james Renwick, of this city. The ca
thedral was first projected by Arch
bishop Hughes about 1850. In 1858
Mr.. Rcnwiclx drew the first plans.
These were reduced in size and other
wise changed by Archbishop Hughes,
and in 1857 Mr.. Renwick drew the
final plans
The cornerstone was laid on August
Is, 1S58-thirty years. one month and
nineteen days before the topmost stone
was set in the last of the spires. The
cathedral was dedicated nearly ten
years ago, but the spires were then
only to level of the roof of the build
ing. They were left in that condition
until the fall of 1885, when work was
resumed. 1t has been continued ever
since, except when the weather pre-
vented. George Mann & Co.. of Bal
timore, did the work under contract.
1t has been done without single ac-
cident to any person employed upon
the spires. The work at first pro-
ceeded rapidly, but as the distance
from the ground became greater and
the space in which to work decreased,
fewer and fewer men were employed
and shorter progress made. For
the last few weeks only five or
six men could be employed, and
they had to be expert steepletacks.
The spires are of white marble
throughout, except that Il copper rod
through the center holds the extreme
upper pieces composing the final in
place. The spires are octagonal in
form. mounted on octagonai lantern
towers that rise from the level of the
roof Their design is very elaborate,
and it has been carried out with ex-
quisite workmanship that is almost
wasted at the great heights at which
i. is placed.-N y. San.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
FROGS AND SNAKESA
Some Facts From the snakcry of the
King of Dude.

Some Facts From the snakcry OF the
King of Dude.
The late King of Dude had built a
snakery in the gardens OF his palace at
Garden Reach, near Calcutta. II was
an obloug pit about thirty feet long by
twenty feet broad, the walls being
about twelve feet higa aud perfectly
smooth. so that Il snake could not
crawl up. In the center of the pit
there was :. large block OF rough ma
sonry, perforated so that it was as full
Of holes as Il sponge. In this honey
combcd block the snakes dwelt. and
when the sun shone brightly they came
out to busk or to feed.
His Majesty used to have live frogs
put into the pit, and amused himself by
seeing the hungry snakes catch the
lrogs. When Il large snake catches Il
small frog, it is all over in an instant,
bat il a smallish snake catches lnrg-
ish frog, so that he can not swallow il
nj once, the frog $ cries are piteous to
hear. Again and again | have heard
them while out shooting, and have gone
10 the bush or tuft OF grass from which
the piercing cries c;lme-sometiInes in
time, sometimes too late to save poor
froggy though the snake generally got
shot As a final story let me tell how
frog has been seen to turn the tables
on the snake.
Two gentlemen in Cachar soma years
ago saw ii small snake seize small
frog and attempt to swallow ii. But
suddenly "a large frog jumped forward,
seized the SNAKE tail and began to
swallow the snlte. How the affair
might have endel can not be told. be-
cause my friends imprudcntly drew
near TO watch the combat. when the
frogs and snake took alarm. and the
big frog disGorged the snakes tail, and
the snake released the little frog. and
they all scuilled oil. Bat the tale is
perfectly true. and both the gentlemen
who saw it are still alive; and | only
regret that it was not my good luck TO
see the affair with my own eyes,
LONgbiaR'S Nagazine.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
Chinese Have No Nerves.

The North China Herad says the
quality of "nervcleSsness" distinguishes
the Chinaman from the European. The
Chinaman can write all day, work all
day, stand in one position all day,
weave, beat gold, carve ivory, do in
initely tedious jobs for ever and ever.
and discover no more signs of weari-
ness and irritation than If he were a
machine. This quail. appears early
in life. There are no reo, css, naughty
boys in China. They are all appail-
ingly good, and viii ploi away in
school without recesses or recreation
OF any kind. The Chinaman can do
without exercise. Sport or play seems
10 him 50 much waste labor. He can
sleep anywhore--amid rattling machin-
cry, dcatcnlng uproar. squalling chill
dren arl quarreling adults. He can
sleep Oh The ground, on the floor, on a
bed, on II chair, in any position. 1t
would be easy TO raise in China an army
'Of amillion men-nay. Of ten millions
tested by competitive examination us 10
aheir capacity to go TO sleep across three
%heelbarrows, head downward like "a
spider, their mouths wide open and u
~ inside. ~ - --''---
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
UNKNOWN SENSATIONS.
Sir John Lubbock On the Problematica
Organs of Sense.

OfSuho VI SthScs
Sound is the sensation produced on
us when the vibrations of the air strike
on the drum Of our ear. When they are
few, the sound is deep; as they increase
in number, it becomes shriller and
shriller; but when they reach forty
thousand in a second they cease to be
audible. Light is the effect produced
on us when waves of light strike on
the eye. When four hundred millions
of millions OF vibrations of either
strike the retina in a second, they pro-
duce red, and as the number increases
the color passes into orange, then vel
low, green, blue and violet. But be-
tween forty thousand vibrations in II
second and four hundred millions of
millions we have no organ of sense
capable of receiving the impression.
Yet between these limits any number
of sensations may exist. We have five
senses, and sometimes fancy that no
others are possible. But il is obvious
that we can not measure the infinite By
our own marrow limitations.
Moreover, looking at the question
from the other side, we find in animals
complex organs OF sense, richly sup
piled with nerves, but the function of
which we are AS yet powerless TO ex-
plain. There may be fifty other senses
as different from ours as sound is from
sight; and even within the boundaries
OF our own senses there may be endless
sounds which we can not hear, and col
ors as different as red from green, of
which we have no conception. These
and thousand other questions remain
for solution. The familiar world which
surrounds us may be n totally different
place TO other animals. To them IL may
be full OF music which we can not hear,
Of color which we can not see, OF SEN
sations which we can not conceive
SIR John Lubbock, IN Poputr Science
Monthly.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
ADUlTERATED PEPPER.
Excellent Work Done by the National ID
partment of Agriculture.

Excellent Work Done by the National De-
partment of Agriculture.
The microscopic of the Department
of Agriculture, Prof. Thomas Taylor,
has begun an examination of the condi-
ments of commerce for the purpose of
ascertaining which of them are adul-
terated, the methods and extent of the
adulteration, and of discovering meth
ods by which the consumer may detect
impure articles.
The first article treated was pepper,
here briefly described. A section of u
pepper-corn is placed under a micro
scope, and magnified one hundred and
fifty diameters. Its appearance is care
fully noted and photographed, and II
drawing in colors is made, showing ex-
actly how it looks. The pure powder
of pepper.corns is then treated in the
same way, and, from "A comparison of
the image of this with that of the Sec
tion, the changes caused by grinding
may be noted. The next step was to
examine specimens of the pepper of
commerce to ascertain If IL presented
the same appearance as the pure pep
per already photographed and drawn.
In "a majority of cases it did not, the
differences being so striking as to mark
it as an entirely different article.
Prof. Taylor has ascertained that the
substance used in adulterating pepper
is the seed or stone OF the olive. These
are obtained in large quantities from
the olive-oil factories, and ground up
with the pepper-corns, the extent of
the adulteration being in some cases as
great as fifty per cent
No method of popularity detecting
adulteration of pepper has yet been
found. In bulk the pure pepper is dark
erin color than that to which olive-seeds
have been added; but the difference is
so slight that no person, unless pos
sessed of Il sample to compare with,
would be able to discover any differ
ence.-Science.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
THE GREEN SPORTSMAN.
What the Old Hunter Thinks of tho Nov
Ice and His Ways.

The greenhorn is to be found in the
woods as well as anywhere else in the
the world. His manners, his dress,
his very carriage, all betray him. His
gun is new one; his shooting jacket
and boots smell of the shop. He has
an exaggerated idea of every thing
about the woods. To his verdant i'm
agination trout are as plenty in the
lakes and streams as herring in the
mighty ocean. There is at least ono
wildcat in every tree and deer feeding
in every meadow. To his mind the
deep forest is clothed in halo of
mystery, of which he is to be the ex-
plorer; and, like Livingstone and STAN
ley, he is to be the revealer of these
mighty secrets. The old woodsman
makes nothing of creaking trees, and
the weird sound produced by one
branch scraping against another would
hardly command IL passing thought, but
have known novice to sit half day
by the side of this phenomenon, wait
ing for wildcat to show himself from
the branches overhead. There is
tinge of disappointment occasioned by
the knowledge OF the fact which comes
later on, that of all solitary places
excepting perhaps the fabulous Great
American Desert - the unbroken
wilderness has the fewest signs OF ami
NAL life OF any place on the entire
continent. You may travel all day and
not see a partridge, deer, wildcat,
bear, fox, robin, crow or bluebird, and
hardly II squirrel. The deep wood ON
quiet day is the very personilication
of stiffness. Game there Is. but II
gathers in certain localities, according
to the season. The newcomer has
eyes, but they see not; ears has he, but
they hear not; and you can trust him
to make noise enough to keep the game
just out Of sight. Forest and Stream.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
AN UNWELcoME CALLER.
A Woman Opens the Door of Her House
and Finds Leopard There,


and Finds n Leopard There,
In an Indian bungalow every bed
room has small anteroom attached,
in which the important function of
bathing is performed, writes lady
| traveller in India. The floor is of
cement and uncarpeted, TO allow of
3plashing, and around the tub are
placed the ghurrus or earthen pots Of
water. which are required for the bath.
| The little room has always two doors,
one opening on the outer hall to admit
the bheesti with his supply of water
and the other opening into the bed
room. One evening just as dusk was
falling | had finished the unpaclsing of
a box in my bedroom and was moving
away when fancied l heard n slight
sound in the bathroom. 1t was an
unusual hour for the bheesti's visit so
! opened the door, and, to my horror,
saw just in front OF me the beautiful
sleek back of large leopard, which was
crouching on the floor and drinking
out of one of the ghurras. The room
was so small that | found myself quite
close TO the leopard, and could, indeed
have touched the spots on its glossy
coat from where | stood. / was too
frightened to move, and stood perfectly
still; and fortunately for me, the outer
door by which the creature had entered
still stood wide open, and with Il single
bound it cleared the threshold and dis
appeared up the hillside. Had the
door blown to, or been closed from the
outside by servant, the animal would
have had no resource but to seek an
exit by the doorway in which l was
standing, and the knowledge of my
narrow escape made us careful ever
after about shutting up early in the
afternoon.
A few nights later we were awakened
by hearing the watchman call out loud
ly that there was leopard in the ver-
anda; and we ran to the window in
time to see the waving of the branches
where the beast had sprung out among
the trees The bearer, who was lying
rolled up in the blankets in the same
veranda, slept soundly on meanwhile,
unconscious of his proximity to the
stealthy-footed creature. These leop-
ards are cowardly creatures, and will
never attack human being if they can
avoid il; their special fancy is for little
dogs, and they will so haunt the neigh
borhood of any house where dogs are
kept that the greatest care is necces-
sary to prevent the little quadrupeds
falling victims to the big ones.
As the weather became better they
grew less bold, and it was only toward
the end of the season that we saw them
again. When snow fell on the farther
hills they were driven to seek food
lower down, and then again they began
to infest the station. Often in the
month of October, when coming home
late night, have heard the hoarse sort
of purring noise they make as they rub
their sides, like huge cats against the
trunks of trees. The men carrying my
dandi Qight palanquin) would then
step out, and talk loud to keep up their
his lantern and shout. No leopard
would come near so noisy party, and
the only danger on such occasions is OF
the men taking panic and dropping
awkward. This, however, never hap
pcned TO me, and | was equally fortu-
nate when riding. Chicago Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Paper treated with mixture q
camphor oil and linscod oil becomes
waterproof.
Girls are beginning to look toward
dentistry as a field where Il cir wits
and industry may win II fair reward.
The vanilla bean grows wild In
MoXico, and, fresh from the forest, sells
a. ten or twelve dollars per 1000.
-'russian blue is got by fusine
horscs' hoofs and other refuse animal
matter with impure potassium carbon.
ate.
Its well known that there re alb.
somtcly no genuine chamois sku;s IN
the market; but, Notwithstanding, an
English firm is manufacturing II ncw
cloth in imitation of the imitation skins
They will be just as good as the real
skins, it is claimed, and will be sold ae
limitations.
With Edison's new photograph
tubes are tittHd to the compositors'
ears and conn1c,Nd with the instru-
ment, which is set 10 talking or stopped
by u pedal arrangement. The pbono-
graph talks off sentence into the
printers ears. and when these are full
he stops the machine until he has
transformed the words into type.
In the ordinary sixteen candle
power incandescent lamp, according to
Prof. Ernest Merritt, only from four
TO six per cent. of the energy actually
expended is available us light, the re-
maindcr being wasted us heat. To
lessen this waste is one Of the greatest
electrical problems now awaiting solu-
tion.
A noted French scientist has
reached the conclusion after numerous
experiments. that the most brilliant
displays of the aurora borealis occur at
AN elevation of not more than thirty
eight miles, while pale glow may
possibly be produced as high as eighty
two miles. but that no auroral discharge
is possible at a height of l2i miles.
Oil of peppermint in vapor diluted
even to part in 100000 will kill cock
reaches in an hour, they dying in con-
vulsions. One drop of the oil placed
under a bell-jar covering a cultivation
OF cholera bacilli will kill both bacilli
and spores in forty-eight hours. 1t is
also regarded as among the best surgi-
cal antiseptics, and of great value in
phthisis and diphtheria.
DE-. Richardson. of London. who
has given great attention to the subject
of human food, says that neither the
teeth nor the digestive system of man
is adapted properly for animal food.
nor for Il purely vegetable diet, but for
one OF fruit" Ii man is to be classed
according to his adaptation to any par
ticular kind of food. he should not be
called a ilesh-eating or II vcgetable-eat-
ing, but fruit-cating animal.
-COncussion of the brain is scienti-
fically defined as "being. in physio-
logical sense, Il sudden aud more or
less complete arrest of the brains men
tai and physical functions, brought
about by external violence. In every
case Of injury to the head the brain is
made to vibrate more or less forcibly.
When the vibrations are feeble the in
jury to the brain structure thence re-
sulting is but slight; when they are
severe the mischief may be great"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
HOTEL BLACK LISTS,
A Tourist Keeps Track of Rooms Whei
Suicides Have Occurred.

nave occurred.
"Front, show this gentleman to room
406. Go with the young man, please. "
That is what the clerk at "a popular
downtown hotel said to timid. pale
faced stranger who had applied for ac-
commodatiOns.
"One minute, boy" calculated the
guest. IL wish to understand matters
fully" and he hauled from an inner
pocket a long, black book which he
opened with great precision. After
scanning few of its leaves, he said:
mo, sir; not me. You can't get me
into that room. I'm paying for the
privilege, Mr.. Clerk. What's the mat
ter? Well, that room is marked, put
on this blacklist here. See? What
does it mean? I'll tell you in II very
few words. may not be as practical
as some of you New Workers, but up
my way / am cons idered IL practical
business man. am great lover of
newspapers and as my business re-
qnires great deal of travel / make IA
point of noting all the hotel suicides.
The papers usually publish the num-
ber of the room in which suicide or
murder occurs. Well, keep track of
these particulars and enter them i'm this
book. find that room 406, to which
you now wish to send me, was the
scene of suicide last fall. l possess
IA little nerve, but not sufficient to oc-
cupy room that is marked. If you
have no other I'll try some other hotel.
All right, sir. Good day"
And as he practical business man
started out the clerk muttered some
thing about cranks and the newspapers.
N Y. Mail and Erpress.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
LAKES THAT DISAPPEAR.
But the Settler Is Warned That They
NAV Appear Agnin.

May Appear Again.
Southeastern Oregon is almost a terra
incognita vet, except to cattemen.
swamp land-grabbers and people OF
| that ilk. In the numerous lawsuits
between swamp land men and settlers
| who have taken up claims on the
| alleged swamp lands, there have been
many instances of persons swearing in
direct opposition to others in regard to
the character of land which would
lead unbiased persons to suppose that
| flat perjury had been committed.
There may have been no idea or IT,
tention on the part of any of the wit
nesses to testify falsely in these cases
as the following will show:
Warner Lake, in Southeastern Ore
gons is shallow body Of water cover
ing u large amount OF land. 1t is
divided by low ridges of land into
three or four divisions. Last year Il
gentleman cruising through that coun-
try found one of these division to be a
lake eight miles long and four miles
wide, and from four to five feet Deep
This summer the same gentleman
visited that section and found this lake
totally dry and drove his team across
it without trouble. He is now pre-
pared to swear that the site of the lake
is suitable for cultivation, whereas last
year he would have sworn with clear
conscience that there was lake there.
Last year Mr.. Neil had contract to
make survey of the meander line of
Warner Lake, which he did, and this
year Mr.. Martin, "a Government inspec-
tor of surveys, visited Warner Lake to
inspect the surveying done by Mr..
Neil. He found the work all right,
but it did not conform to the water
line in that part of the lake above men,
toned.
Responsible parties who were at the
lake when Mr.. Neil made his meander,
confirmed its truthfulness as to the
water line when it was made, and Mr..
Martin BECAME convinced by their tes-
timony that a wonderful change had
taken place.
The probable cause OF the disap-
pearaDce OF this large body of water
is the light fall OF snow in that section
for several years pust, as all the lakes
in that section are lower than ever
before since the settlement OF the
country.
1t will hardly be safe to settle on the
bottom of dried up lake or close to
low water mark, us in case Of long,
hard winter, with great fail OF snow
and late rains in the spring these lakes
will likely expand themselves to their
original size.
The fact that the lakes in that sec
tion are OF this character Is probably
the cause OF all the trouble and mis-
understanding in regard to swamp
lands. -Portiand Oregontan.
AT "a Buffalo "half OIL " sale it was