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Remarkable Figures,

Longevity extraordinary can certainly be
claimed for tho inhabitants of Chilli. if the
Gillian census of 1883 is to be believed. From
the statistics there presented it would appear
that nearly 500 persons. out of Il total of
10000 are upwards OF n hundred years sold.
This proportion is perhaps not too great, but
the astonishing ages recorded put n strain on
the strongest crcdulitv One man coollv re-
turned his age at $50, and this would make it
Very probable that llo is, as the editor of the
census remarks, tho oldest man in the world.
Next after him comes a woman aged l3S; two
women and one man report themselves as l35;
81, l30 and l21 each have a representative,
While there are seven l2ao wears old. Below
that ~" The numbers mount rapidly, showing
twentv-cisht persons of the age of l20, twenty.
seven aged llo, and no less than ninety-one
aged ITO OF course this is all deliciously alb
slrd.
The returns carry their own discreditins
on their face, with their marked preference
for the decades md half dccades-twcntv-
eight, for example, set down ut l2O, while but
two are given TO no and only one TO lii,
ninety-one put ut ITO. while but eleven reach
lO3 If this does not mean Il fuidlcd memory
vaguely feeling after a big figure best capable
of expressing u belief that one must DO very
old not to remember things more clearly,
then tho indications are misleading. Our
OWN census bears witness to tho untrust.
worthiness of tho testimony of tho ignorant
lis to their asc, but two out of 100000 white
persons giving their ages as above 100, while
forty-five out of 100000 colored persons claim
that distinction. Tho surprising thing is not
to find CHILEAN Indians making themselves
rivals of Thomas Parr, but to find Gillian
census officers gravely accepting the impossi-
bic figures. washington Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
Food and Rest for tuu Brain.

Mental effort causes waste Of tissue clc-
lnents quito as much as bodily exertion, and
this demands il full supply of food. What
with dyspepsia and absence Of appetite, the
results of deficient exercise, and the influence
Of preconceived IDEAS as to tho Use or disuse
of special articles Of food, the brain worker
is apt to receive too little nutriment to make
up for the waste. Especially is this the case
when he, unconsciously, perhaps, replaces
food by the use of tobacco, tea, alcohol or
opium.
Some advise to SO supperless to bed. This
most medical authorities of the day think is IL
wrong notion. 1t is a fruitful source of in
sonmia and leurasthcnia. The brain becomes
exhausted by its evening work, and demands
rest and refrcshnent of its wasted tissues, not
by %indigcstible salads and fried abomina-
%tions," but by some nutritious, easily digested
and assimilatcd articles. A bow of stale
bread and milk, of rice, or some other fari-
naceous food, with milk or not II would
be more to the purpose. Any Of these would
insure a sound nights sleep, from which the
man would awaken Observation-Disclosures
Medical News.
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Old Colonial Phrase.

A writer in n literary monthly lately an
nounced, with an air of surprise, his discov-
cry of the word "fam, y used in its present
c%olloquial sense, in II work dated lGS2. Tho
surprise was natural, for probably few but
professed students of our older literature
know what n large number of present day
words and phrases, modern and new tangled
rs they appear, are but survivals, somo-
times with slightly changed meaning. from
bygonc times. In addition to a considerable
number of such words the Seventeenth cell
tury vocabulary was also rich i'll %colloqulal
words and phrases, which, owing to changed
conditions of life, and to the gradual and
!atterly rapid growth of tho language, nave
either slowly died out of use, or havo been
elbowed out of favor and existence by moro
modern popular coinages. That will suit me
down to the ground, !" says the modern
dealer in slang; two centuries and more ago
it would have suited him 'up and down"
JOIN Day, in his curious play, tho isle of
Gulls," 1906, says: "a thinge once wei lone
is twice done; and l am in hermind for that,
up and downe." "Friday-face" is II term
still occasionally applied to a sour visaged
person; it was formerly in very common
use. In the old comedy of ''Wily Beguiled,"
lG0G, we find: "What II f%riday-fac'd slave it
is! l think in my conscience his face never
keeps holiday" The phrase is doubtless de-
rived from Friday being, enthusiastically, the
banyan day of the week.-Gentleman's
Magazine.
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The effects of mental shock on the mine in
causing permanent bad health of mind are
easily inflicted in the period of infancy, carly
life and school life, of which lot ono ~illustra-
ton suffice, writes DR.. B. w. Richardson in
l.onginan's Magazine. a gentleman who for
many years was under my observation as a
confirmed mental invalid, a strong man in
many respects, but utterly irresolute, and i in
tho end OF disordercd mind altogether, ac-
quired his mental disease from sudden dis
trust. He had in his childhood an innate
dread of deep water, and he had at the same
time n tutor for whom he held the warmest
affection, coupled with tho most absolute
trust and confidence.
In a thoughtless and unhappy moment this
tutor became possessed with the idea that no
would break his pupils dread of deep water
by pitching him into Il pool whcro they were
accustomed to bathe together at the deepest
part. There was no actual danger, for the
depth was really not great, the pool was calm,
the boy could swim a little, mud in an instant
tho tutor, a strong and skillful swimmer, wa
in the water himself rendering succor and
support. Tn lad was brought to shore safely
enough, but tho mischief to the mind was in
fiicted beyond repair. The surface of trust
was obliteratcd, and u liked distrust in the
mind of tho youth was set up forever. If Il
skillful Psychologist could nave discovered the
seat of trust in that youth, and could hav,
destroyed it mechanically, he could not have
inflicted a more severe injury nor one moro
determinatcly lifelong in its effects.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
Legal Banter.

Dunnins was examining a witness, whom
he asked if he did not live at the very verge
OF the court, and received q reply in the at.
firmative. And, pray, why have you select
ed such a spot for your residences" asked the
counsel. sin the vain hopo of escaping the
rascally impertinence of 'dunning,'" was the
unexpected answer. On another occasion
tho same counsel met with a singing retort.
Having dealings with a gentleman whose
nose was somewhat of u peculiar shape, he
said to him: Now. Mr. Coppernose, you
have been sworn, what do you say7" "Why,
upon my OATH" replied the witness, II would
not exchange my copper nose for your brazen
face" We are rot Informed what influence,
if any, this evidence had upon the judge. He
would probably be satisfied as to tho v%eracity
of the woman in the following case, assuming
that the cross-cxamination be correctly re.
ported. Was lp a tall MANI" he asked.
NO Very tail, YOUR honor; much about the
size of your worship's honor" replied the
witness. WAS he good lookingl' "Quite
contrary; much like your honor, but with a
handsomer nose" "Did ho squint7" IA
little, your worship; but not so much us
your honor by a good deal" This, we pre-,
sumo is one of those cases in which compar.
isons would prove odious.-All the Year
Round,
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
OF LIFE.
People Live Longer Now Than They Did
in this Olleu Ti,,cv

People Live Longer Now Than They Did
in the Oiden Times.
DIR. Todd, president of the Georgia State
Medical society, read Mt the annual meeting
of that body, held at Atlanta, a paper on
Longevity" which possesses great intrinsic
interest and at the same time is gratifying as
showing how much medical and sanitary sci
ence and u more rational mode of life have
done to prolons the human span, and how
much better in every way are the conditions
of today than of those good old tines for
the return of which sentimentalists vainly
sigh.
The doctor is modest in his claims, making
no effort to monopolize III the namo of the
medical profession credit for a bcttcrment in
which so many agencies play parts. but ho
does claim, and with reason, that the intclli
gent physician has had much 10 do with the
result. and that the death rates of the va
rious peoples of the globo bear n ratio very
nearly inverse to the number of qualified
physicians among them.
The highest death rate in Europe is that of
Russia, ranging from 90 per LOCO in Cour-
land and 81 per LOCO in the Baltic province,
there being many physicians in both districts,
to 40 III places where there are but few. But
one-half of the children born in some pirtsof
eSsess'aN SsAN WY Fsll =, tllHl u W.
male children only from $50 to 400 reach the
age of twenty-one Years, and of these only
So are able bodied. Russia, with all its
teelnins population, has only l3,4li regular
physicians. and oncsurscon to 100000 popula-
ton.
Tho United States, having a doctor of med
icine for every GOO population, shows tho
lowest death rate in the world, England fol
lowing. The average life expectancy in the
United States is now fifty-tivc years; in Eng
land among the urban population it is fifty,
and among the r~uralists ifiy-four years.
Russians have a life expectancy Of hit TWEEN
ty-eight years, approximately, and Chil,ans
of the same, while in I:ilohed. in tho Sou,ian,
twenty-three years is n generation. The NV
erage life i'll tho Rome of tho Caesars w;s
eighteen years; now it is forty years. Within
fifty years the average in Franco has in
creased from twenty-cight To forty-fivc and
onc-half years, and in the days of Queen
Elizabeth the English average was but TWEEN
ty years.
DR.. Todd ascribes the great aud progressive
change for tho better TO advanced medical
knowledge, better drainage and diet, greater
cleanliness, and to vaccination and tho use of
annsthetics, quininc and the like. He thinks
that quinine alone has added two years to tho
average life of civilized mln. To these
agencies should he added the decrease OF war,
the more lcnient laws, and the gre. ler tom
perancc of our day.-Chicaso Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
The Homo of Jean 1nrelow.

But a few moments ride from London is
the Kensington home of Jean Ingelow, whose
poetry is so familiar to American readers.
The house is ar old one of cream colored
stone, and one scarcely knows whether it has
two or three stories. Liberal grounds sur.
round tho house, and even in winter show a
gardeners care. In summer the entire lawn
Is bordered and dotted with flowers, for the
poet is a pronounced horticulturist. During
the cold weather a spacious conservatory at.
tached to the house shelters the flowers. and
in this hot house of palms and buds she is
often found by her friends reading or writing.
Flowers bloom, too. in almost every room
in the house, on the center tables, mantels
and in the bay windows. Jean ingelow's
home is that of a poet, with books on every
hand and always in reach. wherever you may
chance to sit down. The poet is now in mid
die life, but her face shows not the slightest
trace of years. Her manner is most friendly,
her conversation charming and she has a
most musical voice. She enjoys a remark.
ably correct knowledge of American litera-
ture, the titles of the fastest American books
being spoken by her with wonderful Auency.
Her character is eminently practical without
a touch of sentimentality. All her literary
writing is done in the forenoon; her pen is
never put to paper by gaslight. She COM
poses slowly, and her verses are often kept
by her for months at a time before they are
allowed to go out for publication. She shuns
society and the most severe part of the win
ter Is spent in tho south Of France,-Wash
ington Press.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
Changes of Sentiment,

Among our other reforms is the present
crusade against lotteries. 1t is queer how
public opinion changes. One of the purest
Inc wisest religious reformers that ever
lived-thc founder of a great church-re-
corded the fact in his note book, about a
century ago, that he had bought a lottery
ticket, and had prayed that it might draw a
prize. And yet he was possessed of as much
spiritual enlightenment as his followers Of
today who brand lotteries rs something
criminal.
In Philadelphia the steeple on Christ church
was built by a lottery, and in 1904 the Sec
ond Baptist church of that city organized a
lottery.
Once congress authorized a lottery to raise
100000 to pay the troops.
The statesmen and divines of that age
would have been nstounded if they had been
told that they were doing something that
was morally wrong.
We AVE had no new revelation-uo new
Bible since those days, but we are getting SO
progressive that wo arc ready to attach the
brand of moral infamy to the customs and
practices in vogue two or three generations
ago. Are VIC rightl How dc we know that
we are right?-Atlanta Constitution.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
BURIED. O { A

VIC said good-by to our buried past.
And wept and mourned by the lonely grave
For the beautiful life that could not last.
The treasure no tenderest prayer could save;
Then into the world we turned away.
And sorrow walked with us day by day
A faded flower and a torn white glove.
Letters, a lock of hair half curled.
Poor, sad requests Of our dear dead love,
Yet worth the wealth OF the whole wide world
a. shell. IL rchblc may tell Alright
or this oceans depth and the oceans might.
We made a grave and We said good-hy;
All, foolish dreamers. we moved apart.
And thought, in our folly. love could die,
While life throbbed on in the brain and heart,
Now all is over" we signing said.
Since love, tho cherished. lies cold and dead"
Not so. beloved ah, never so
Whenever your dear face comes In sight,
Heart springs to heart with the old warm glow,
And silence speaks with the old delight:
AN empty grave in the sunshine lies.
But love still lives in our meeting eyes
Travellers Record.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
Kind Hearted Men.
Does an undertaken get hardenedto scene

1s4NAS NNhNA 6SO LlAh SLAS W Sl1S
of sorrow2"
"He gets used to it in a certain way" re-
piled Geist, the funeral director, "but | can't
say that he gets hardened so that he can wit
ness pitiful scenes without n bit of feeling.
OF course, when old people die calmly in their
beds, | don't feel my special grief, for it is
only gathering in a shock of wheat fully ripe.
But when tho only support Of n family dies
after a long illness, then l do have pity. l
tell you it tugs ut my heart strings when lit
tie children beg me not to shut mamma up in
a box. Last week two little girls pulled at
my legs to keep me from carrying OFF their
mothers body in the hearse. It's pretty hard
Oh a fellow sometimes. Then l sympathize
with u family where the father, or may DO n
son, has killed himself. The sorrow of losing
n member Of the family is bad enough, but
when disgrace and shame are piled on top of
that it is simply awful.
Il could tell you lots of stories on we'll
known people of Detroit, but an undertaken
must be just Is dumb as a physician or u
priest. One thing more about the profession.
You never in your life knew a boy to throw
a snow ball ut an undertaken. He might peg
one at the priest or the doctor or the lawyer;
he is certain to throw one at the teacher, but
never at the undertaken, and they arc known
to nearly all children. Hundreds of then
speak to mo on the street. 1 don't know who
they are, but they know who l am.'-Detroit
Nawe
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
Remedy for Hay Fever.

We give You the latest alleged remedy for
hay fever. Try it and kindly report: Vapor
of camphor and steam is recommended. The
vapor is made to come in contact with the
outer surface Of tho face, surrounding the
nose by means of a paper cone placed with
tho narrow end downward in a vessel con-
tanning hot water and a drachm of coarsely
powdered or shredded camphor. If this is
continued ten or twenty minutes at a time,
and repeated three or four times in as many
hours, a euro is usually cffected.-Boston
Cor. Herald of Health.
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covered as it was with many thousands OF

covered as it was with many thousands Of
curious marks.
Presently, however, an accident happened.
While the savage was %rearranging his shawl
and trying to bring the corners together in
front of him tho garment began to tear at
the nape of his neck. \ howl from the crowd
called attention tothc disaster. Tho blanket,
or whatever it was, was evidently made Of
the poorest SORT of material. The savage
took his covering off, examined tho mischief
he had wrought, made tho tear a little longer,
and then with his finger pokcd Il hole through
tho Paper. That settled the fact that the
article WAS worthless. Tho newspaper sud
denly lost all interest for tho natives, who
turned their attention to less dcstructiblc oh.
jcc.S.-Chica.o Times.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
WHAT is HE WORTH

You say the man lis worth n million"
And think you've answered me-:
Icarc not If lo own q billion,
'Tis the man l want to see
And now I'll ask n question or two
This man-whet is he worth?
Is it cash that came from the Lord knows who,
And broad, square miles OF earth?
Dare you assert, in broad daylight,
That this is the worth of n mani
1t takes indeed a sordid wight
With favor this to scan.
The treasures of the brain aud heart,
The mind and body's health,
And what turns men to tho better part
These constitute true wealth.
If your friend has only what you said,
to is worth just nothing at all;
Let his acres of earth cover him, dead.
And buy him q funeral pail
Detroit Free Press.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
n Queer Relic,

Once upon a time, u car containing gold
and silver coin was burned on its way from
the mint to Washington, and in the ruins the
scarchers found two silver dollars held firmly
together by a ten cent piece. The coins We're
badly siscoiorel and twisted, but nearly in
the center Of one of the silver dollars was inr-
bedded a shining IS gold piece, as bright pd
perfect as when it came from the mint. The
explanation given by The Norwalk (Conn.)
Hour is that just at the right time the gold
coin dropped upon the silver, the latter still
in a half melted state. The queer relic is the
property Of OK Treasurer James ". Hyatt.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
Rer.ovins Tight Finger Rings

Uso the finest silk or thread consistent
with strenstn-ordinary housewife thread is
strong enough. Pass tho end between the
finger and ring, keeping the spool OF unlim-
tied end at the side next the finger tip; then
wind downward toward the tip of tho finger
for about a quarter of an inch; then wind OF
from above by the short end about half this
amount. Proceed, alternately winding on
and on, always leaving about one-eighth of
an inch in breadth wound beneath the ring.
When tho knuckle is passed the ring comes
off easily. Oil or soap tho thread we'll and
push up the ring before commencing to wind
This method, it is believed, will remove any
ring.-New York Telegram.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
A Delicate Way of Putting 1t.

What makes you so thoughtful tonight,
George2n asked Nellie.
Well said George, as he threw his eyes up
to tho ceiling and took a fresh hold upon her
slender waist, II was thinking that if your
mother was willing to become my mother-in-
law l would like it very much"
"You would?"
II would, indeed"
Then, if it will afford you any s~atisfac-
ton, 1can inform you that 1 am quite
willing that she should, and that she is also
quite willing to act in that capacity in u quiet
and unostentatious manner.n
And thus, under the silent stars, the ar
Engagements were concluded by which two
lives hitherto running apart are to be blend
ed into one, and a youth hitherto his own
master is to stoop under tho yoke of a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Courier.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
State Authorizations.

The most egotistical of tho United States,
me. !" the most religious, Mass. - most
Asiatic, lind. !" father Of states, 'Pa. - most
maidenly, Miss. :" best in time Of flood,
Ark. {" most useful in hayins time, Mo;
decimal state, ITEM. !" state of exclamation,
ia. !" most astonishing state. 80. . most
unhealthy state, Ill. !" state to cure tho sick,
Md; !" state for students, Conn. !" state
where there is no such word as fail, kan. >
not a state for the untidy, "Wash. "-Youth's
Convention
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
The Kicker Silenced.

A good story, illustrating the advantages
of the Maine seashore, was told at the dinner
Of the hotel men i'll Portland. When the OF
tawa house was run by a former proprietor,
agucst went to him one day and said: This
is the worst place 1 ever got into. Tbs food
is cooked bad, l can't chow the steak, and the
butter will walk without aid" The proprie-
tor took the guest by the arm, led him to the
%veranda, and with a majestic wave of the
hand toward the blue Atlantic and the green
shores of Cape Elizabeth, said: Good Lord
man, do you SEQ that view? What do you
want, the earthl" The kicker was dumb
Lewiston journal.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27

The Paris correspondent of Tho London
Times says that the Eiffel tower, if every
man had his due, ought to be called the Nou-
guier tower, for it was a young engineer of
that name in NJ. Eiffel's employment who
first conceived the idea and worked it out
with the help of an architectural friend.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
An Electrical cour,e.

In view of the prodigious strides which
electricity is now making, it is but natural
that tho necessity for the establishment of a
means whereby its thorough and systematic
study can be undertaken should have engaged
the attention of educational bodies in this
country. Columbia college, which has al
ways occupied a prominent position in science,
has now established a course of electrical en-.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-27
Il,e I;eds of ROYALTY

Clarence House is one Of the most comfort
able houses in London, and is famous for its
good beds, for the only daughter of Alexan-
der III of Russia is, like many Muscovite ladies,
very particular about her beds and will toll
crate none hut the very best. Even when n
nero child, and long before her marriage,
sl,c was so particular about this very impor-
tant item i'll domestic comfort that, to insure
the sheets being tightly stretched over the
mattress, she used to nave them sewn down,
for even the slightest crease or wrinkle would
entirely destroy the rcposo of this imperial
spoilt child for tho night.
His royal highncss used to be greatly chalf-
ed about thisw weakness BY members of our
royal family when first she came to this coun-
try, but the queen, who is also very particu-
lar about her beds, stuck up for her, and al
though now the sheets are no longer &c
down to the mattress, they are composed of
the most eNquisitcly fine liner that can be
procured, and stretched like a tight O
over the most perfect mattresses that can be
manufactured in Paris, in which capital the
making of mattresses has been brought ND to
the level of n fine art.
a curious and amusing chapter might in
decd be written about the beds of illustrious
persona1es. The ex-enpress Eugcnio is quito
as particular about her beds as tho Duchess
OF Edinburgh or our gracious sovereign and
quite agrees with the first named lady as to
the ineness of tho inen and the tightness of
the drawing of tho sheets, but her imperial
majesty has an odd fancy to have her bed SC
low as to give n visitor to the imperial bed
chamber the impression that the widow OF
Caesar is almost sleeping on the floor. 1t is,
indeed, hardly elevated moro thnn n foot
from the floor, as all who have visited in old
days the private apartments at st. Cloud
Compiegne and the Tuileries will remember.
Another curious bed is that of Sarah Bern.
hardt. 1t is nearly fifteen feet broad, ant
when tho great coincidence is indisposed and
receives her intimate friends rcposing on hel
couch she looks like a little golden haired birt
lost i'll a great sea of whito satin.-Moderl
Snciot,-