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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-02-04

Arthur six year old son OF Terry Sim
mon. editor of the WHndeaisr, was hurt quite
badly the other day riding down hill. He
ran into team OF horses bruising his head
and back some but he is much better at this
writing.
A public meeting is held this evening to
start CO Operative store in Marselles.
On Monday night fire started in the
dining room Of the Marseilles Hotel which
resulted in burning out nearly all the floor.
BY the almost superhuman exertions of Mr..
BONNER the building was finally saved,
although two or three times it was given up.
The installation of the offices Of Marseilles
Lodge No All A. +. K A. NJ. by W. l.. Mill
igan of Ottawa, on Friday evening last was
fine success.
A force of men are employed in getting
out the ice in order that larger supply of
water may get into the five races. The water
is now running over the dam.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-02-04
Narcotics Mutterings.
WILMoNT.

The Bluff Reading Circle met at the resi-.
dsnce Of Mrs. C. K Adams, Monday even.
ing. The circle, though but recently insti.
luted, is progressing rapidly, and members
of 1t, who could not have been hired to read
in public, n month ago, ar" now very fair
readers.
And now cometh. in the person of Grant
Wilson, he to whom Dakota s.blizzards have
anything but soothing influence In fact,
Grant AYERS that after the last bli zzard had
subsidized he decided to go back to Marseilles
rs suddenly as possible. He had driven sew
en- miles to see his best lady friend, and
when he arrived, the door was frozen shut,
and he had to spend t e day in log stable.
That settled IL.
The Wallace Camp realized $50 from their
recent social.
The Loyal Legion held its regular meeting
in the W C I L rooms, last Saturday aft err
noon.
The paper mill has shu, down on day run.
ming for a month or two, and will run during
the nights.
Auntie Moore is in st. Louis, under treat
ment for a troublesome ulcer. Her many
friends hope Tor q satisfactory outcome Of
her trouble.
Our water power has been anything but
an uproarious success for month or 30. but
now that the weather has subsided we hope
for better head. The trouble has been,
that the extreme weather caused very thick
ice in the head race, and this narrowed the
channel to one half its capacity, However,
the Water Power Company have had Large
number of men at work. saving and chop
Al, o,,l arl
happens along, we are reasonably sure of u
bountfu supply.
Will Miligan, District Deputy Grand
Master, installed the officers Of Marseiles
Lodge No. AT, A. F. and A. Masons, last
Friday evening. They are David Samuels,
W NJ; NJ + Blanchard, S w Waite, J
W; N Flemmng, Treas; } Richardson, J
ID; Il II Spicer, 5 s; ID Snidel, j S; and l.
Haynes, Tyler After the ceremonies, the
members and their families listened to q
highly entertaining and instructive address
on Masonry by Mr.. Milligan, and pleasing
repast made fitting termination of the
evening
On Tuesday morning at about one o clock,
a gentleman who was lying i'll in the BON
mer hotel, sent q friend down stairs after a
drink of water, and upon his return, asked
him to inveatigate very strong smell of
burning wood. lie did so, and upon open
ing the dining room door found it fairly
black with smoke. He alarmed the house,
and in a few minutes the fire was locared
between the ceiling OF the room and the
foor above, and in the floor Of the room,
where clothes horse, which had caught fire
from the stove, setting the floor on fire, which
soon communicated the flames to the ceiling.
A hole about fifteen feet square was burned
10 the cellar, and nearly the same amount to
II the ceiling was ruined also. Had it not
been discovered for two hours later, the no
OIL now would doubtless be in ruins
HECTOR
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
A STRANGE SPANISH SECT.
People Who Believe In Going Naked AND
Wounding Themselves.

Your readers may remember that some
time ago / drew attention to a very re-
markable phase of religious fanaticism in
the little village of Tolox, in the province
of Malaga, which led to State prosecu-
ton. The devotees of the religion, may
call to mind, took it into their heads, or,
a woman who declared herself prophecies,
that the highest form of religion was to
conduct the mundane affairs of this life in
the simple garb of Adam and Eve before
the fall. This was bad enough, and led, as
| have said, to the intervention of the
Crown; but it was not their only diverg-
ence from the ways of ordinary mortals,
another portion of their doctrine being to
infiict upon themselves wounds in the
hands, breast and feet, such as are shown
in representations of the crucifxion. They
also burnt all, or nearly all, their worldly
possessions, In the belief that a higher
power would provide them with food
Their behavior, indeed, was such that, as
stated, the Government felt called upon to
interfere, and day or two ago number
of leaders of this strange sect were put
upon their trial. Already the most extra
ordinary revelations have been made, apart
from what may be called the spiritual
manifestations which these misguided peo-
pie declare have been made to them The
most interesting feature in connection with
the trial has been the experiments in
hypnotism, which have been made on the
defendants by medical specialists-this be-
ing the first time hypnotism has been re-
sorted to in Spain IN the interests of
! Justice.
In nearly every case the defendants
proved to be "good" subjects. Many of
| the experiments tried by the doctors were
of the most extraordinary character One
of the accused, for instance, when in state
of hypnotism, on being ordered to perspire,
broke out almost instantly in state of
profuse perspiration, while another, who
was ordered to ascend very high noun
| tain, being the while in an ordinary room,
behaved as if he were actually climbing,
| his breathing becoming difficult and his
heart beating violently. When this man
was told that he had reached the summit
and might rest awhile, the symptoms of
exhaustion gradually disappeared Others
were pricked with long pins, and gave no
evidence of feeling what was being done to
them. The trial will last several days
longer and will probably result in merely
nominal punishment being imposed upon
the accused, who for the most part seem to
be merely harmless, weak-minded people
London Chronicle
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
Ribbon Craze.

From the feminine standpoint the feat
ure of the age is ribbons. Ribbons used to
be supposed to be material especially for
personal adornment Girls tied up their
hair with them, and the heroine of the
magazine story frequently wore one at her
throat, which was very kind of her con-
sidering what a useful property it made
when the hero treasured it next to his
heart through shipwreck, a savage war,
and an attack of pneumonia.
The girls no longer tie their hair with
ribbons, and the heroine rarely wears
bow at her throat, but if the hero of mod
ern realism wants ribbons to expend his
passion on he ought to be able to supply
himself with enough TO start a shop Not
only is the properly attired belle of the
day hung all over with them, except on
her hair and at her throat, but all her pos
sessions and apartments are tied up with
them.
Ribbons of all materials, patterns and
sizes were never so much used in toilets.
For house, dinner and ball dresses they
are frequently of contrasting colors. The
combinations that the fancy furnishing
shops first introduced in sofa pillows and
mantel scarfs are now audaciously at
tempted in gowns, and [ saw yesterday at
a very swell dresSmaker's, a red and pink
tea gown trimmed all over with bows of
light moss-green ribbon. 1t was as well
done as it could be, but it had rather
harlequin effect. A more successful effort
of the same sort was on a mauve tulle ball
dress, which was adorned with bows as
various in hue as Joseph's coat, and all
made of the narrowest ribbons, not as wide
as your little finger nail. The colors were
admirably chosen, blue, pink, straw, moss
green apricot, and the effect was very
delicate and pretty. The same idea will
be carried out in many summer afternoon
dresses, and none such will be complete
without from twenty to a hundred yards
of ribbon, according to width.
No high tea, or ) o'clock tea, or kettle
drum tea, is up to the mark of true respect
| ability without each tea cup having a bow
of ribbon on its handle At a dinner, if
the favors are flowers, each bouquet has
two to five yards of ribbon upon it, If the
favors are not flowers, it is ninety-nine
chances out of a hundred that they are
baskets of bonbons, or hand-screens, or
little vases, or little cases of photographs,
or something else that can be and is tied
| up with ribbons. The ribbons can pretty
sure be counted upon. Where the mem
Der of the common herd uses Irvine she
uses ribbons. She ties her packages up
with tissue paper and ribbon; her growing
flowers are fastened to their stalks with
ribbons; whenever she wants a string she
chops off piece of ribbon.
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PROOF of the Earth,. Motion.

Any one can prove, remarks contem-
porary, the rotary motion of the earth on
its axis by simple experiment. Take a
good-sized bowl, fill it nearly full of water,
and place it upon the floor of room
which is not exposed to shaking or Earring
from the street. Sprinkle over the surface
of the water coating of lycopodium pow
der, white substance, which is sometimes
used for the purposes of the toilet, and
which can be obtained at almost any
apothecary's. Then, upon the surface of
this coating of powder, make with pow
dered charcoal straight, black line, say
an inch or two inches in length. Having
made this little black mark with the char
coal powder on the surface of the contents
of the bowl, lay down upon the floor, close
to the bowl, stick or some other straight
object, so that it shall be exactly parallel
with crack in the floor, or with any sta
tionary object in the room that will serve
as well. Leave the bowl undisturbed for
few hours, and then observe the position
of the black mark with reference to the
object it was parallel with. 1t will be
found to have moved about, and to have
moved from east to west, that is to say, in
that direction opposite to that of the
movement of the earth on its axis. The
earth, in simply revolving, has carried the
water and everything else in the bowl
around with it, but the powder on the sur
face has been left behind little. The
line will always be found to have moved
from east to west, which is perfectly good
proof that everything else has moved the
other Wav.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05

glasses in scenes or fra.med in rich plush of
color harmonizing Nth that of the wall
paper are In better taste.
Never hang picture from one nail.
Aside from the mere question of safety,
the use of two nails, the cord stretched
across them so as to come down squarely
to the corners of the frames, has SYM
metrical effect and makes the walls look
much more finished.
Never have carpet pattern with gigan-
tic roses, or other actual flowers. They
harmonic with nothing. The colors in a
carpet should, in a great measure, conf
plete the color scheme adopted for the
room.
Never place picture or bit of decora-
ton where it does not serve some artistic
purpose. If picture is intended to be
seen in strong light do not put it in an
obscure corner, and, on the other hand, il
it be painted in high colored key, do not
bring it within the direct influence of a
| brilliant sunbeam
Never initiate a rich material in a
cheaper one. The use of glossy paper
laid off like squares of marble for hall
decorations has fortunately been done
away with, but the use of bogus stained
glass still continues to charm the tasteless
"a. b. C." IN New York Commercial Al
| aeJfiser
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FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

A process has been discovered for pro-
ducing photographs on metal.
Charles Teller has invented sun mo-
tor wh.en employs ammonia gas instead of
steam.
Sir Andrew Clarke, Mr. Gladstone's
physician, received S25, 900 for a Journey
to Italy.
In a certain reference suit in London the
cost on one side has already amounted to
half million dollars.
A London dealer in orchids employs
sixteen collectors in South America Africa.
Asia and the Pacific Islands.
The trousseau of the Viscountess Rouge
was so magnificent that it was publicly ex-
hibited in Paris. 1t is said to be the most
beautiful ever made.
The Parisians are so dissatisfied with the
weight of the English high hat that their
matters have invented silk hat weighing
little more than an ounce and half.
DR. Henocque, of Paris, has invented a
new spectroscope for investigating the
changes in the blood. 1t is expected to
prove of great Importance in studying nu-
triton.
A sugar refining company with S5,000,-
600 capital has been started to use Henry
Friends new method of refining by cleo
tricity. The cost viii be about IS cents
ton.
Forty-fve thousand metal busts of Bou-
LANCER were made several years ago, to be
ready in the event of his becoming the
ruler of France. They are still regarded
as a good speculation.
In the last FIVE years S6O,OOO,OOO worth
of diamonds have been taken to England
from the African diamond fields. Since
1871, S1000OO,OO0 worth, or three and a
half tons, have been taken from the Kim
berley mine alone.
Rome has grown so that many of its
most interesting features are threatened.
The magnificent Ludovisi Gardens were
offered to the city for 100000 They are
now worth ten times that amount as build
ing lots, and will be cut up.
The British Government is advised by
the military authorities to lay cable
across the Pacific from New Zealand, via
the FIJI Islands and Sandwich Islands to
Vancouver and through British America.
That would give them two lines of COM
munication with the East.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
LOBSTERS DISAPPEARING.
In Ten Years, If Fishermen Keep on, He
VIII be Seen no More,


The chances are that five or ten years
more of our fshermen's present practice
will virtually exterminate the lobster in
New England waters. Already its ex-
tension has been accomplished in the
waters from New Jersey to Rhode Island,
where Holsters were formally abundant.
The Fish and Game Commissioners of
Massachusetts have this week agreed
with a joint committee of the Legisla-
ture to ask that body to decree a close
season for lobster fishing as a last resort
to save this most excellent foolish.
The law forbidding the sale of Holsters of
less than ten inches in length has not
been of much effect
1t has been found that Holsters do not
ordinarily reach the breeding age before
they are eleven inches long, hence those
that do are the dwarfs of tho race, and,
therefore, the law tends to preserve the
small kind. Where are the splendid fell
lows from the Isle au Haut of twenty years
ago, peddled by the buy-a-lob" vender,
each one of which extended the whole
depth of wheelbarrow, and could furnish
supper for an entire family? They are as
extinct as the dodo, and before another de-
cade has passed, unless the malt is made
effective, the ordinary smaller lobster of
to-day will have become so rare that he
will Re caught, preserved and mounted in
a museum as rarity and picturesque
monster.
So the men of science say, and ask the
Legislature that, no matter what the sea-
side hotel-keepers may say or do land they
will DrObably continue tn catch and cat nm
little Holsters for salad all the same, poor
and watery though all Holsters are then,
just as they have done, notwithstanding
the ten-inches law, a close season be de-
creed from August 1st to September 18th.
This is already the law in main, and New
Hampshire has a close season that CORE
spends, though it is not quite so long. 1t
is to be hoped that this law will be forth
with passed, and as strictly enforced as
may be-BostOn Transcript
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
One Remedy for Divorce.

The unpleasant fact can no longer be
eyaded by thinking people that divorces
are growing alarmingly frequent in this
country. In a certain county not thou
sand miles from this city, the official re-
ports of last year showed that there was
one divorce to every ten marriages, and
this is no exceptional instance This is
state of affairs which calls for the imme-
date and careful consideration of all
patriotic citizens. All students of history
well remember that the easy going to
pieces of the homes was one of the most
potent causes of the downfall of mighty
Rome. We are not arguing that women
ought to live with drunkards or men who
have been false to the most sacred rela-
tions Of domestic life; but it is beyond
dispute that majority of divorces are OBJ
tanned for comparatively trivial causes,
and that most divorced people marry
again in a little while There is one
remedy which would, no doubt,
prove very eficacious in lessening
divorces of this kind, and that is to
withhold the privilege of re-marriage.
There are great many constituencies men
and frivolous women to whom the cares
and obligations of welded life become irk-
some, who can easily manufacture some ex-
cuse about " incompatibility" or desertion
or cruelty (?); the easy-going Judge loos-
ems the bonds, and they are free to try it
over again in the same thoughtless fashion
as before, Now, if these were sure they
could get divorce, but were doomed to
remain single the rest of their lives, they
would not be in such hurry about it, to
say the least, and would very likely con-
clude that they would better remain as
they were. This improvement, at least,
could be made, even if the divorce laws
were not changed in other respects; and
1t is altogether probable that this simple
provision would decide great many peo-
pie not to apply for divorce. OF course,
it might initiate against the interests of
some worthy people; but individual ex-
ceptions do not affect the desirability of
measure for the public good
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
Flint, for Home Deooration.

Never hang a picture so that 1t will be
necessary to mount step-ladder to view
it. Hang it so that the center will be
about FIVE feet and half from the floor, a
little below the line of vision of person
of average hight.
Never select furniture whose "means of
support do not appear adequate. Chairs
with spindle legs inclined too far in
ward or outward have an apparent tendency
toward disruption, and are constant terrors
to callers. Straight substantial legs sug-
gest strength and inspire confidence,
Never treat hallway as though it were
a dooryard, and no part of the house
proper. A hall should be inviting, and
hold out to the visitor a promise Of the
beauty of the inner rooms.
Never put a piece of furniture into a
room merely because it is pretty and will
fill up. Every article should have its real
or apparent use; as a general thing the
necessary pieces will occupy all the space
that should be allotted to furniture.
Never permit white marble mantle to
disfgure an otherwise tasteful room. Cover
it with draped mantei board. White
marble has suggestion of cemeteries about
it. 1t always looks crude in drawing
room, even in the form of the finest sculpt-
IRE.
Never forget that an open fire and judi
ciously selected pictures will make any
room cheerful.
Never put paper on the walls of a nur-
sery. 1t is better to either paint or calci-
mine. There is always danger of poison
in the coloring of the paper, or of the
r,aSta hacOmino sour
Never have a drawing-room so filled
with frail and delicate bric-a-brac that the
least movement is fraught with danger of
costly and wholesale breakage. This does
not condone TO ease.
Never have dark carpet and walls in a
room nat is deficient in light. Only
apartments open to the outer light will
stand gloomy tones in decoration.
Never use an inordinately large mirror
with Dubious gilt frame, planned with
the evident purpose of getting rid of as
much gold Leaf as possible. Small beyeled
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
Nasturtiuns.

If one wants to have very brilliant and
snowy bed, and one in which there will be
flowers till the coming of frost, the nastur-
tium is Just the flower to select
This plant is very easily grown from
seed, requires only an ordinary soil, and
begins to blossom when quite small, and
improves with age. The foliage of most
varieties is a rich shade of pale green, con-
trasting wildly with the flowers, which
range from the most intense, dark Grim
son, with velvety depth of eolors but few
flowers possess, to a pale sulphur-yellow
Some sorts are marked enthusiastically with
lighter or darker shades, and all of them
are beautiful The darker varieties glow
like Goals of fire as one looks at them in
the blaze of a sunny day. | do not think
of any other flower with such richness OF
tone among the flowers adapted TO uses as
bedding planis.-Good CaeeT.
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You cawn't do it, v know.

DOES THE Moon INFLUENCE EARTH
QUAKEs ?-Observations on the part of a
large number of scientists prove that
earthquakes are more frequent at the time
of full moon and change of the moon than
at other times, and also more frequent
when the moon is nearest the earth or
when she is on the meridian. The cause
to which this fact has been assigned is the
action Of those forces which produce the
tides of the ocean their similar influence
upon the solid land strata leads to their
disturbance in the shape of earthquakes
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05

The Denver Republican falls gracefully
into verse and expresses a great truth as
follows:
Show me a Republican who believes in Free
Trade
You cawn't do it, y know;
Or. wants all our money to Great Britain paid
You cawn't do it Y know;
Who would pauperize Observation-Disclosures de-
stroy,
Give poverty to those who plenty enjoy,
And do it all in the interest of John Bull, old
boy
Won oavvnft do II " L,uoxu
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Scrofula humors, salt rheum. and all dis
eases caused or promoted by impure blood
or low state of the system, are cured by
Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t is sold by all drug
gists. Try it.
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| A Powerful
Tonic.

or womb and its appendages, in par
ticular For overworked, "worn-
out" rundown" debilitated teach
ers, milliners, dressmakers, seam
stresses, "shop-girls,n housekeepers,
nursing mothers, and feeble women
generally, DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription is the greatest earthly boon,
being unequaled as an appetizing
cordial and restorative tonic. 1t
promotes digestion and assimilation
of food, cures nausea, weakness of
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o nd
thoroughly