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Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-22

Throughout the United States.
Colgate's Toilet Soaps are acknowledged
the purest and best-Cashmere Bouquet the
most popular.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-22

Parsons & Co. sell more children's shoes
than any house in Springfield. They have
fha hasf
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-22

Large stock of mems separate cashmere
pants In nobby styles at very low prices,
good sellers. NJ. ID. Levy, Msin and Market.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-22

See the new spring and summer styles In
shoes at Parsons & Co. They are simply
beautiful and very cheap.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-22

Special bargains in boys suits. ages 10
to is; long pants, big stock to select from
at NJ d. Levy. corner Main and Market.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-22

Parsons & Co. have all the new spring
and summer styles. Call and see them.
They are great.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-22
The Ark sells Acme blacking At Q cents.

The new spring sty les in ladies' shoes Il
be seen only at Parsons & Co.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-22

sIvory Starch. little warm water. . little
starch. quick, economical. besutiful. 0reeezs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19

of riding several miles in an op.n sleigh, is
enough to weaken any constitution not Injured
to such trials and they APT to prove serious,
even to such. lam told that the late William
Parsons, the famous Irish orator. laid the foun-
dation of his fatal illness by exposure on his
last occurring tour.
I never knew any lecturer but Phillips to
adopt the sleeping bag as q protection. his. II
am not mistaken. was made of canvas. The
average lecturer has to content himself with go
ing to bed with much clothing as he Can pile
on, and tops off" with an overcoat or shawl
stretched a coyerlid over these encumbrances.
have heard of newspapers being utilized in
this way. the .sblanket sheet" besides its edu-
cational advantages. being said to be warmer
than articles of the same name which are pro-
vided by the rural Bonfface. There is an OBJ
lection to being ssifed under a load of bed
clothes. though the choice between such q fate
and of being su*ocated by. the fumes from red
hot stove is. Lecturer of experience informs
me, by no means satisfactory The of the
alright sack for sleeping purposes might per-
baps introduce a confusing element into plat
form engagements. the phrase TO bag lee
turer being susceptible of two widely different
interpretations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
Brain Photographic Revelations.

Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
A writer in the New York Tribune tells the
story of the appearance OF a mans brain under
a strong microscope that is both interesting and
suggestive. In the brain matter he says were
noticed curious markings some Reometrical,
some sinuous and many others that proved to
be characters in the Ethiopic, Syriac and PhG
nician languages, which the poss of the
brain, when alive, had made special study.
Now for the suggestive part Perhaps some day
when man dies we can take out bis brain,
spread it on q microscope slide, and in a peep
behold him as he really was. not as he pretended
to be. Everything his mind took cognizance of
aud formed opinion about will be open before
like the page of book. No doubt the trac-
cries will take peculiar shapes sometimes. Per-
haps the brains of soma young men, who died
young because they were good will show mark
ings closely resembling champagne bottles,
night keys and fast horses. The tracings in the
brain of more than one good bald-headed deacon
may assume the graceful forms of ballet girls,
the sight of which made such an impression on
him when alive and in the front row of the thea
ter Shapes that closely resemble beautiful en-
train and decollete dresses may be expected in
the craniums of society bellies called home in
the midst of their triumphs. In the brains of
reporters will be noticed many CHASTITY family
and public secrets, which out of reportoriAl good
ness of heart were never given out to the world
And SO we might continue ad ininitum, but we
refrain. This scientific investigation must not
be pushed further A key that opens q mans
secrets after he is dead might not be such q
hilarious DISCOVERY after all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19

Overland Monthly.
The Japanese have an interesting tradition Of
the creation;-
I'm the beginning all things were in chaos.
Heaven and earth were not separated. The
world hoated in the cosnic mass like fish in
the water. or the yolk in an egg. The ethereal
matter subiimed and formed the present earth.
from the mold of which a germ sprouted and
became self-animate being, from which sprang
al the gods.
ION the floating bridge Of heaven appeared a
man and woman of celestial origin. The male
plunged his jeweled spear into the unstable
waters beneath them, and Withdrawing it. the
trickling drops formed an island upon which
they descended.
1.-The creative pair. or divine man and woman,
designing to make this island pillar for a
tinent, separated, the male to the left the fe-
male to the right to make journey around
the island When they met the woman spake
first. saying. How joyful to meet lovely mani
THE man, offended that the first of the
tongue had been by woman, demanded that
the journey be repeated. after which he cried
out exultingly, How joyful to meet lovely
womanI
Thus ensued the proper subsection; and this,
according to tho ancient lore of Japan, the
origin of the human race and the art OF love-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
Wendell Phillips's Sleeping Bag.

An advertisement which noticed in the Post
of arctic sleeping bags made from reindeer
skin, recalled the fact that Wendell Phillips. in
going on his winter lecturing tour. always took
with him similar contrivance into which he
put himself feet foremost and them tied the
string of the bag around his neck. The protec-
ton afforded by this airtight incfosure
necessary, he used to say. to avoid 2eetting
fatal chill between the damp sheets Of the av-
erage country hotel. This is we'll known to be
. risk besetting the life of lecturer and people
who think he makes his money easiY@do not
take into account the dangers from exposnre TO
which he is liable when travelling in ouE north
ern latitude. The transition from titfis over
heated car TO the atmosphere at freezing tenn
oesature, with the added necessity ofteQtimes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
In gorsoli's Way.

New YORK Trlbune
A copy of the Bible always lies on the Office
desk of COL Robert G. Ingersoll. The reason
OF this is that he prepares his lectures and
only work of reference which he keeps at hand.
He dictates to stenographer when preparing a
lecture article. stopping occasionally to
think. frequently going back to change or cor
rect phrase, again talking impetuously Or
rapidly. After the stenographer has put his
dictation into typewriter manuscript the
Colonel goes over it with the utmost care and
pains taking, making numerous corrections and
emendations. Then he has it all re written on
the type writer. when he goes over it the
second time with equal care. Sometimes three
before he is satisfied. y A stenographer who has
done a great deal of work for Colonel Ingersoll
says that outside the Bible he uses no reference
say, even to quotations, is stored away in his
great head.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
LincoIn's Memory.

New York Press.
Lincoln's birthday, which has just passed, re-
minds all that the great war President, had
he lived, would now be seventy nine years old,
nearly an octogenaran. Yet who can think of
him ever becoming old2 In trying to think
Of him as yet one of US in the flesh. it is Lincoln
of the prime of life that we call to mind, and
never the possible Lincoln with the marks of
three score and ten years upon him. tits only
twenty-three years since he assaseinared.
1t was on the 14th of April. 1865. vet scarcely a
person be found who was in Ford's Theater
that memorable night Laura Keene, the
star. who playing in the American Cousin"
has long been dead. The army officer who
with him and Mrs. Lincoln in the box that night
died insane some time ago. Even the tall law
yer who was first to rush from the audience to
the STAGE first TO discover that real tragedy
had happened. died year or more ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
Lecturers Presence of Mind.

OF E. o. Woleott, of Denver. it is told that
during his college days at Yale he took the
place one night of lecturer with stersopticon
views in one of the New Haven churches. The
pictures were chiefly of arctic scenes, and he
talked though he had lived at the north
pole for years. While he describing a
fast does it mover He hadn't the slightest idea,
but without hesitation he replied. "a milo q
minute!" why, Ed Wolcott" whispered q pro-
fessor at his side. st only moves an inch in
ten years. Forthwith the young lecturer asked
to have the question repeated, and then said:
"Oh, the glacierl It moves about an inch in
ten years. 1 thought the gentleman asked mo
about the velocity Of the wind in the arctic re-
eionsn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
WILL MAN LEARN TO FLY.
Professor Proctor Believes In the Possibility
of Human Flight.

Philadelphia Press.
believe that athletes. such those who first
obtained mastery over the problem of the bicycle,
could very soon learn to float to ascend, to de-
cend, TO ride upward, to and 30 FORTH in q
way which would very decisively indicate the
possibility of much fuller mastery the
problem of flight later Experiments which
have been already made prove decisively that q
mans weight be supported by planes or
sails of very moderate extent-not much greater
proportionally to his body than an eagles wings
If only there is either rapid motion of advance
strong current of air against their slightly
slanted surface. But these experiments have
not yet been carried to show fully what
can be done, when practice in ths art of balanc-
ing in the air and in making the adjustments
necessary for changing the direction OF flight
has been sufficiently extended. Yet Mr.. Charles
Spencer a teacher of gymnastics in England,
was able, after attaining no greater velocity
than would be given by running down 3 small
incline. to sustain flight by the supper ting
ton of wicker wings for distance of 120 feets
Besnier, indeed, toward the close of the last
century, devised method of supporting the
body by pInionS which enabled him, after q
sharp run, to fly river of considerable
width. 1t is certain that very little is be
gained from the attempts which have been made
to direct balloons. The velocity which can be
given to balloon in still air is very small. A
very moderate breeze would carry balloon one
way despite all mechanical attempts to direct it
in another, let the balloon be shaped as it may
Moreover. all such attempts are dangerous. for
the wind has great hold the necessarily
large surface of the balloon, and going against
the wind would subject the balloon to destruc-
tive influences Whenever attacks the
problem of flight seeking real advantages from
its mastery he will aim at much more than such
mere floating powers as the balloon gives-at
more even than the rapid floating motion, with
power OF guidance, which may be obtained by
the experiments suggested above. There must
also be a power of energetic propulsion while
still In the air. This might be obtained by
suitable adjustments of levers to be worked by
a man ia actual flight. But while I believe
fight to be possible for man in this way. /
slider the only kind of fight which is likely to be
really useful to to be that of flying
MACHINES propelled, balanced and directed by
some one or other of the natural forces man has
brought Under his control. That man who has
learned to traverse the land more swiftly by
mechanical means than its most active denizens,
and to make the wide his highway by SINH
lar devices. should be unable to travel in the
air, which by natural selection alone has be-
come the home of creatures descended from
reptilian forms. is to unthinkable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
The wreckinx of .hs Me.ropol,t.n Bank.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 1s-Mr. Sanders government
bank examiner, has at last broken silence upon the
situation at the Metropolitan National Bank He
says. in effect that the bank ruined by its
policy of making loans upon insufficient collateral,
and he veriies the statement made time ago in
these dispatches, that if the arrest of yicepresi
dent DeCamp had not been made the bank would
have been compelled to suspend. because the tele-
graphic orders received the day before the suspension
were more than CROUCH to have swallowed up all the
money that could have been obtained from the banks
OF Cincinnati. The examiner says that President
Means has paid all his indebtedness which per-
sonal but there is still large claim against him
trustee for money loaned to syndicate engaged in
different enterprises. This has not been settled Mr..
Sanders does not consent to make statement of the
bank condition but does that the best paper of
the bank was given to the Cincinnati banks for the
loan made before the suspension, and that there
fore it cannot now be told how much may be realized
for the stockholders Mr.. George Gerke has taken up
portion of his paper and Mr.. E. N. Roth is under
stood to be making arrangements to meet all his in
debtedness promptly. All this money is deposited by
the receiver in the sub-treasury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
He Was a Native of Kentucky.

Hudson Register.
At the club the other night, when this Incl
dent was alluded to, John Oberly. the Civil-ser-
vice Commissioner, told the story of man
General Watkins, believe, was the name-who
used to live down in southern Illinois. When
he was in court a witness, one of the lawyers
asked him his name.
General Watkins" was the reply.
''Were you in the late warl"
''No. sir. +"
''Were you in the Mexican wars
'sNo, sir"
''Were you ever commander of miltia2"
mo, sir"
..No sir.
''Then," asked the lawyer with Ger, ''how
did you get to be a generail"
81 was born so, was the reply.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
The Saloon Must Go.

Oh ansas City Journal
For our part we are tired of dramshop in
fuence in the management of public affairs.
Dramshop.ke who know that they cannot
DO business they desire under a strict con-
ssruction of the law, insist ON debating tho
nomination and election of officials that they
may secure Interpretation of the law suitable
to their ends. The granting of licences should
rest on such influences. They should exist
as a matter of legal right far as the law gov
ems. With the proper execution of the law. 10
dramshop- keeper would have an interest in con-
trolling elections We believe that the dram
shops should not be countenanced in the theory
that they are greater than the law, or in the
doctrine that official must wink at strained
constructions of the law stand aside.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
A Joke on an Englishman.

San Francisco Chronicle.
It was on the overland road, and an English
man with glass was prominent passen-
ger. They saw millions of jack rabbits the
road, and in an incidental conversation some
body said they were very dangerous eating at
that season The train arrived ar Humboldt
and they rushed to the dinnng-room. The
Engiishman appeared to be very fastidious. and
he didn't eat anything until a large dish of
smoking chicken stew came in. 1t smelt deli
ciousy and the Englishman rubbed his hands.
'.Ah!" he said. this is what I was waiting
for" and he was proceeding help himself lib
orally, when the man next to him said in kind
of innocent way to the man opposite:
II tell you. Joe. the way they cook up those
jack rabbits now is simply extraordinary. I'm
hanged il you can tell them from chicken"
The Englshman dropped spoon and fork. and
before he could recover himself the chicken
stew had been gobbed up and the dish
empty. The joke dawned upon him too late.
He had missed his meal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
SiRns of Trouble.

WHICH OUGHT NOT BE OVERLOOKED BY PRUDENr
PEOPLE.
When catarrh has existed in the head and up
per part of the throat for any length Of time
the patient living in . district where people are
subject to catarrhal affection-and the disease
has been left incurred, the catarrh invariably,
sometimes slowly, extends down the windpipe
and into the bronchial tubes. which tubes
convey the air into the different parts of the
lungs. Tho tubss become affected from tho
swelling and the mucus arising from catarrh.
and in some instances become plugged up so
that the not get in as freely as it should.
Shortness of breath follows and the patient
breathes with labor and difficulty.
In other cases there is . sound of cracking
and wheeling inside the chest. At this stage Of
the disease tho breathing is usually more rapid
than when in health. The patient has also hot
flashes over his body.
In some cases small masses Of cheesy subs
stance are spit up, which, when pressed between
the finger, emit bad odor. In other cases
particles of hard, chalky nature spit up.
The raising of cheesy and chslky lumps indi-
Gates serious mischief at work In the lungs.
A weak stomach and q dislike for food,
which seems to have lost its taste, causes the
patient to think he has disease of the stomach
instead of the lungs. With these diarrhea
usually occurs and there is some disturbance Of
the kidneys. In bronchial catarrh the voice
often becomes weak. husky and coarse. There
is burning pain i'll the throat with difficulty
in swallowing,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
A Coming Political Event.

DETROIT, Mich. Feb. 1S.-The third anniversary
banquet of the Michigan Club which on
Wednesday evening next, at the Detroit Rink bids
fair to eclipse the two former banouets of 1886 and
1887. TIE list of speakers, comprising it does
of the reading Republicans of the times
to it strong partisan interest and that of is
what is sought. The following gentlemen will respond
TO toasts: John Sherman, Gen. Joseph r. Hawley
Gen. Ben Harrison Cushman *. Davis VIM McKin-
ley. jr., l.. +. McComas. Gen. d. b. Henderson and
ex-Congressman Fnerty. In addition the speakers
Senator Palmer will probably bring with him as his
guests Senator Stockbridye, ex-senator Conger Sena
tor Henderson, General Golf and several of the Mich-
gan delegation. Senator Sherman is reported to be
attend.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19
A VERY CURIOUS CLASS.
People Who Learn How Co Do Without
Coughing.

Coughing.
want to cough, now being circulated in the news
papers, is believed to be sound by some who
have tried it. Mr.. Clark Bell lawyer and
president of the Medico- Legal Society OF this
city, has had some experience in suppressing
the tendency to cough. which it is interesting to
bear him relate. He had a. constant irritation
q teacher in the art of chow not to cough when
you want to-" and to that teacher Mr. Bell hied
without DELAY. Sure enough, pupils, with all
brands of coughs attached to them,
were there to learn how to lay their bronchial
burdens down. Most of them were men in
the serious and learned profession and pur-
suits of life. and they acted like awkward
and shame-faced school-boys, knowing that they
were there to learn foolish. if not downright
impossible. a thing as getting the whip hand of
cough without medicine. Still, there were
stories of others who had learned it, and these
were the days of learning and doing new things,
SO they held themselves in readiness to make
rapid progress.
The teacher stood them in row, made them
brace back their shoulders, hold up their chins
and draw in their abdomens. This last was
not easy OF accomplishment to some of them
who previously permitted their abdomens great
license in the way of development and obtruslve
ness; but they heroically made the attempt
When the class in order the teacher told
them to sing Sweet Home" But they couldn't
sing, some of them said. They must, the
teacher said Finally they squeaked away, and
then their threats began to cut MP. The teach
er forbade any throat securing or coughing, but
told them to draw in long breath and hold it
whenever they We're tempted to cough. After
many failures they succeeded.
They met in class three times1Ea week, and
spont hour in singing. Their throat troubles
retired under the overpowering If not har
monious influences of their vocafization. They
even fattered themselves that they became
pretty good singers. They were forbidden to
cough or scour their throats ont of class. Mr..
Bell said there were hours when he would have
given years income for the privilege of tear
inc away at his throat in the old-tme fashion, but
he wouldn't yield to the temptation. and at last
all throat torment left him.
Another benefit which the exercises brought
70 the most dubious of the Glass; it reduced
them in girth several inches, for which they
were correspondingly grateful 81
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19

MR. JOHN GLEASON. f60 w. SIXTH ST.
under my eyes, and my cough. which had been
q peculiar hacking one took on hollow sound.
my father told me that had consumption
and wanted me to quit work, but even with
rest I did not get any better. slept well
enough, but my sleep did not refresh me at all.
and in the morning would feel as tired and Lam
guild as when I went to bed at night
'sMy stomach was affected. I would sit down
to the table thinking that could eat great
deal, but after a mouthful or two my appetite
would leave mo. Everything would seem to
sour on my stomach. There would be frequent
belching and heartburn. My eyes became dim
and watery.
"Wel after trying in vain to get some relief
from my trouble, which some told me was con-
sumption and some catarrh of the head. throat
and stomach-and some other diseases-I
couldn't name them ALL went to DIR. Blair"
with what result!"
with the result that I got weil-entirely
well. I didn't improve very fast on the start
and ddn't expect to, but was patient, and be-
fore long could see that was gaining in flesh
and strength. I began to have hearty appe-
tite. My cough disappeared entirely. My head
mucous or phIeem, and now Isteel as strong and
well as I ever did in my lfe"
The speaker, Mr.. John Gleason, resides at
760 West Sixth street. and is now connected
with the marble works of John NJ Miller, on
Front, between Park and Mill streets.
DEFACED HIS FEATURES.
''My story would hardly be complete" said
Mr.. Gleason. "if did not state one thing more.
For good many years had been troubled with
a breaking out on my skin. My face would be
all covered with little sores SO that sometimes
would be ashamed to appear where anybody
would sec me. The doctors told me that it was
eczema, but couldn't seem to get anything that
would help mo.
THE itching would be almost Undesirable.
There was a constant desire to get relief by
scratching, and when the skin pulled off IL
would leave tho surface underneath raw, tender
and bleeding.
''My skin felt hot and seemed to be drawn too
tight. Well. what wanted to add this:
That while DR.. Blair treated me for catarrhal
trouble he treated me for the eczema, too,
curing that too, as you can 60 by looking at my
face"