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The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-07

The veto of the direct tax bill,
almost the last public act of President
Cleveland, is one the country will
gratefully remember him for, saving
the treasury, rs it does, some seven
teen million dollars, which but
for him, would have been taken
from it.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-07

Holly Springs is gradually going
dry. The saloon of E. A. Shaw has
just been closed, his license having
expired. Only one saloon, out of six
a few weeks ago, remains open.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-07

Gen. aud Mrs. Harrison dined with
President and Mrs. Cleveland at the
White House one day last week, thus
illustrating in most beautiful way,
that though great men may beam
compromising political antagonists,
they need not let that disturb the
most pleasant social relations.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-07

Bolivar County is to have a new
$50, 900 Court House.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-07

NERVOUS Debility, Spermatorrh@a
Seminal Losses, Night Emissions, Loss
of Vital Powers, Sleeplessness, De,
spondency, Loss of Memory, Confusion OF
I,leas, Lassitnde, Gloominess, Depression
of Spirits, Aversion to Society, Dull, List
less, Unfit for Study or Business, and finds
life burden, Safely, Permanently ana
Privately Cured. -.
blood AND SKIN Diseases, Symphlils'
= disease most horrible in its results
completely eradicated without the use Of
mercury. Scrofula. Erysipelas, Fever,
Sores, Blotches, Pmples, Ulcers, rams
in the Head and Bones, Sypbilltic sore
Throat, Mouth and Tongue, Catarrh, ete',
Permanently Cured when others nave
failed
URINARY, Kidney and Bladder IroH'
/ bles, Weak Back, Burning Urine, IRE,
auency of Urinating, Urine high coioIe"
or with milky sediment on standing, uon,
orhea, elect, Cystis, ETC., Promptly al"
safely cured. Charges reasonable
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
fEL. on FEvER MICROBES.
Thsy Ara 80 Small That Billions Can In
nahif u Drop OF Hood.

hNuAN ~ bEVb VI AAADO0s
A yellow fever microbe has the ap-
pearance of three joints of sugar-cane.
/ got them from Washington in glass
tube, that somewhat resembled a
gourd. The tiny microbes are plnced
In the big end. but by looking ut it
you could never tell that there was
any thing but air In 1t. The small end
is sealed up. and the microbes are in
there. though apparently dead. Some
| microbes live in such places for twenty
years.
We will suppose, now, that we want
to look at some OF them under the
microscope. Upon the little glass slide
we put n drop of gelatine, of the con-
| sistency that viii not run. We take n
cambria needle. and after heating it to
destroy all microbes that may be in the
air, we quickly break the seal of the
glass tube and insert the needle. draw
ing it out quickly and resealing the
neck of the tube.
We insert the needle into the drop
of gelatire on the slide. and quickly
germs or microbes that may be float
ing about in the air. Then we place
the slide under the microscope. In
forty-Hve minutes the microbes have
fully aroused from their Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep, and now you see what
curious things they are. AS said be-
fore, they resemble three joints of
sugar cane, but the joints are not
straight, but at opposite angles.
Take this fellow, for instance. and
you see joint drops off. leaving them
with two joints. Presently another
| joint joins onto the dropped joint, and
by this time a third joint appears on
No. 1. Now. look at No. and there is
| a third joint. Now joint drops from
| No. l. and by the time it gains another
joint No. drops joint. and this. with
| the joint from No. join together and
there is microbe No. T. Another Joint
grows on Nos. and .. and one drops
from No. 3. and these joining together
make microbe No. 4. and so they go.
| until the little drop of gelatine is a
working, seething mass of microbes.
| Now, these microbes are in the blood
Of a yellow fever patient, and there's
where they live They get into blood
eorpuscle and eat out all the red part.
as darkey eats out the red meat of a
watermelon, and the blood is then a
| drop OF a clear fluid.
To give you an idea of how many
can crowd into a corpuscle of blood. let
me say that it takes $500 corpuscles
1 strung together TO makean inch. Well.
YOU can string just 10000 microbes
II !
consequently you can guess billions
! after billions o. microbes in drop oi
| blood. The theory is that these mi.
srobes eat up ones blood so rapidly as
70 take it all away from him in very
short time. Seine men can stand the
letting of more blood than others. and
| consequently some men recover from
| yellow fever. Macon (Gd.l Telegraph.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
ePlpEMlo oE MEAsLEs.


Ah@B0EtNNb ENcNk EHtMbIAnS0 DIV o h@cent
Medical Report.
DIR. w. ID. Hodges read, some months
ago, before the Suffolk Medical So
ciety paper on an epidemic ol
measles in an institution for children
over which he presides.
A child who was supposed TO be suf.
fering merely from a severe cold was
brought to the institution, and imme-
diately placed in the sick ward. With.
in twenty-four hours an eruption APP
peared, which proved to be measles.
Three children, who were that day
discharged from the sick ward, devel-
oped the disease, the one In nine DAYS,
the others in eleven days. II spread
among the inmates until of sixty-five
all but twenty took 1t. and OF the ex-
ceptions ten were sent away, and eight
had already had It. In the case of the
other two. no information on this
point could be obtained. OF the
forty-five patients, five died. The erup.
ton was at its height on the fifth and
sixth days, and lasted from twelve to
fourteen days. In over one-half of the
cases there was Inflammation OF the
ear. In only one case was there con-
vulsions. which came three days before
the eruption. This child made rapid
recovery. The treatment consisted
mainly in cleanliness and the regula-
tion of the diet.
The following facts seem to be es-
tablished:
l. The wonderful contagiousness oi
measels.
3 The tendency to communicate IL
self from, at least the earliest visible
stage.
3. The interval between the exposure
and the eruption is from nine to twelve
days.
4. Its fatality is mainly from its com
plication with other diseases, develop.
ed by it.
5. In a majority of cases, there is g
tendency to produce more or less In.
flammation of the ear-an important
fact for parents to bear in mind
6. The tendency to cause commissions
is very slight.
z. There is generally tendency tc
Inflammation Of the eyes DR.. Hodges
treatment for this was to apply solu.
ton of borax, glycerine and water
In the discussion of the paper DR.
Durgin, of the Board of Health. af
firmed that there was prevalent a mis-
taken feeling of security in the case o
measles. Since 1865 there had beer
in Boston eleven hundred and seven
teen deaths from this disease-an aver
age of forty-eight a year. Such 8
yearly average from smallpox would
startle the community. In one year
there were one hundred and fifty-twc
fatal cases.
1t was voted by the society that tbs
Board of Health should care for case:
of measles. as is done in smallpox anC
scarlet fever. 1t was intended that thi.
vote should authorize the board to q
TO the house, give advice in respect Il
isolation and disinfection, and see tha
the advice was followed. Youths Com
pdnfon.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
-The curious fact has hnen demon.

The curious fact has been demon
strated by Sir John Lubbock that
certain kinds OF ants are unable to
exist without keeping other ants as
slaves, though why this Is so he has
not found out. On removing the slaves
from nest OF fifty slave-holding ants
he found that the latter Immediately
commenced to die of. and were speedily
reduced in number to six. When the
slaves were returned the mortality
ceased.
"A lecturer in tho Royal Institution,
London, attempts to .'define poison ac-
curately" as follows: ANY substance
which otherwise than by the agency OF
heat or electricity is capable of destroy
ing life either by chemical action on
the tissues of the living body, or by
physiological action after absorption
into the living system" The fact
would seem to be that ''poison" is a
question of quantity. not quality. Very
small quantities of aconite, hydro
cyanic acid. etc, suffice to destroy life,
but used in limited quantities they are
valuable drugs. Ono well-knoWn
definition of poisons Is ''substances
which derange the vital functions and
produce death by an action not me
chauical."
The Austrians are constructing
portable electric-light plants to be
used in entraining and detraining
troops at night. and the Ga.mans are
going to have a similar portable plant
attached to their siege trains.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
How to Destroy Ants.

Prof Cook, of the Michigan Agri
cultural College, says: al tried bisul-
phide of carbon, and with marked
success. To use this we have to find
the ant hills or mounds which harbor
the ants. This is rarely difficult. We
now use a crowbar, with which we
make hole in the center of the mound
which should reach down to the level
of the lowest gallery of the ants nest.
We now turn in about half gill OF
bisulphide of carbon, after which we
throw on Immediately a shovelful of
clay, which should be at once COM
pactly trodden down. This holds the
liquid in the nest, and its very volatile
nature, together with its poisonous
fumes, soon destroys the last ant oi
the nest. l have destroyed nest ut
terly with one application Sometimes
the remedy would have to be repeated
to become effective"
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08

nights meeting, Is In the hospital to-
day. =
Seeing how much in earnest the
young man was the city editor added:
The meeting is Shades regular as
signment tonight. but l don't think
he'll get much except broken head
perhaps. Any how il you get any
thing at all it'n help out Here's a
couple of dollars to meet any expenses
you may have
Shortly after midnight the young
man appeared in the city editors
room. He looked as il he had been
principal in prize fight.
''Wellpn said the city editor.
II couldn't get inv remarked the
young man. ''Has Mr.. Slade brought
any thingp"
Yes, a first-rate excuse like yours.
Il tried TO pass the guards but they
flung me down stairs. That's how l
got this, pointing to his cut and swol-
len lip.
That's all right. 1 didn't expect
you'd get in"
Il bribed fellow for dollar to let
me in the back way. They found me
out and dropped me out of the back
window. That's how got this" point
ing to his closed right eye.
aged"
81 felt little cast down when they
dropped me out the window"
That's not bad. You ought to APP
ply for a position in the paragraph de-
partment."
Il climbed up to the roof ON the
rear fire escape, got into the top story
through the trap door, went down to
the room above them by the stair and
found that the stove pipe came up
through the floor
YES" said the city editor. with in
creasing interest.
They were having such a stormy
time below that / removed the stove
pipe without any one hearing and held
the lower pipe from falling with m y
left hand"
Yes
Il could move it aside and see all ]
wanted to and hear every thing"
Yrs"
They have resolved to go on strike
on all the lines at nine tomorrow
morning and every one is sworn to
secresy."
Great Scotti'' cried the city editor,
| jumping to his feet. Write that up.
Give US all you can of it.
1T is written up You see, the
electric light opposite made the room
light enough to write by, and had to
stay there and hold the stovepipe till
every one was gone and ht it up again
so they wouldn't suspect Good scheme
for next meeting. So 1 wrote it up as
lay there.
| 'sGreat head said the city editor.
4 That young man is now managing
one of the biggests papers in the West,
and all because his rule was:
.'Never hare a good ezctse. ."-Detroit
Free Press.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
CURIOUS FIGURES.

Two Mathematical Wonders Which VIII
Interest Every Reader
A very curious number is las, S57,
which multiplied by 1, 2. 8, 4, or 8.
gives the figures in the same order,
beginning at different point; but if
multiplied by gives all 9's. Multi
piled by it equals l42, ,857, multiplied
by ? equals 285. ia, multiplied by 8
equals 42S. .75l. multiplied by 4 equals
571, 428, multiplied by equals ia, 285,
multiplied by s equals 657, l42, multi
piled by equals 999, 999. Multiply
142. .S57 by and you have Lie, $50.
Then add the first figure to the last
you have 142, ,S57, the original num-
Der, the figures exactly the same as at
/ the start.
Another mathematical wonder is the
following: 1t is discovered that the
multiplication Of 765432 by As
gives 4, "A. "A, A, Al, 45. Reversing
the order of the digits and multiplying
I12345 78e by As we gzt a result
equally curious-5. 555, 555. sos. If
we take l 2 4 5 81 8 9 as the multi
plicand, and interchanging the figures
of As take 81 as the multiplier, 6, 666,
666, COG. Returning 70 the multipli-
cand, 765432 L, and taking 54 as
the multiplier again, we get SO, 333.
333. 34-all SIS except the first and
last figures, which together read 54-
the multiplier. Taking the same
muItiplicand and %, the half of 81, as
the multiplier, we get a product of 26,
666, 666, 667, all 6's except the first and
last figures, which together read %.
the multiplier Now interchanging
the order of the figures q and using
72 as the multiplier and 81 6 5 4 8 1
as the multiplicand, we get product
of Il, Ill, Ill, 112-an is, except the
first and last figures. which read
together Y, the multiplier. Journal Of
| Education.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
WHEN ! KNOCK AT YouR DOOR.

When knock nt your door. May Belle, dearest
Though know yon are gracious and kind.
And your friendship has grown ths sincereat,
Three things viii come up in my mind:
] 1think OF the night once knocked there,
The time that stin makes my heart ache,
When got u great backset ard shock there.
By kissing your ma, by mistake.
When knock at your door, May Belle, darling.
recall how went there TO win,
But the bulldog behind me came snarling,
Aud + without knocking, bulRed ins
IN the dark encountered your father,
Who thought me a burglar. no doubt,
And without any questions or pother,
Ere could explain, kicked me out.
When knock at your door. May Belle, dearest
Though know that TO me they're resigned,
And you love me with heart the sincerest
Three things will come up in my mind.
Three thoughts which never can smother
FIJI my head with a racket and roar,
Yourself, and your father and mother,
May Belle, dear when knock at your door.
IA. ", BsHdsc, in Yankss Blade
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
The Mechanical Arts.

We have seen how the literary edu-
cation which we now consider so es-
sential was regarded in England-as
ungentlemanly. 1t is not SO long since
the physician or leech was, as Hallam
says, ian inexhaustible theme of pop
ular ridicule." The BARRIERS pole. so
common in our streets, recalls time,
not so long past, when the barber prae-
ticed blood-letting and other medical
arts. 1t is within our own memory that
the dentist stood on level with the
barber; indeed. the two were often the
same person. How is it that all this is
changed, that literature, medicine and
dentistry have become gentlemanly oc-
equations? Simply, | think, because
they are now thought scientifically and
institutions have been established for
that purpose 1t may be laid down as
a general rule that whatever is taught
in school will soon become respectable
and gentlemany, while that which is
picked up in the house or the work
shop will always be regarded as menial
Prof. Thomas DdCidSon, Ea Forum.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08

Several influential Chinese have
subscribed large sums of money to
aid in establishing geological garden
at Shanghai. At present the institu-
tion will be merely a commercial un-
dertaking, but it is hoped that ulti-
mately the state will take it iD hand.
Amongst others, the Governor of For
mosa has promised his help in the
collection of specimens.
-Four large cremation furnaces
have been declared open at the great
Partisan Cemetery of Pere In Chaise.
The question is agitated whether pau
Fer bodies should be cremated by the
Paris municipality, but there is such a
strong feeling against it among the
poor that the idea will probably have
to be abandoned. 1t is usually the
wealthy who prefer cremation.
A thread has been made from the
dber of the common nettle so fine that
sixty miles of it only weighed tive
pounds and a half.
Those born in spring are generally
of a more robust constitution thar
others. Births are more frequently
by night than by day, also deaths.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
The Plot Miscarried.

Winks (cheerilly)-Hello, Jinks,
how did that little plot Of yours work
yesterday?
Jinks (savagely)-Wha, little plotF
why, old fellow, you know you
suspected Mrs. j. rather liked Mr..
Dashaway's society, and to satisfy
yourself you had arranged for them to
go to the theater together, and then
you intended to slip in unobserved and
see whether she gave attention to the
play or to him.
Yes, l remember"
"Well, did you do itp"
mo; she let the nurse 60 off, and |
had to stay home and mind the baby"
N T. Weekly.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
How Some of the DeIusIons in Sun Pfct.
ures are Produced.

How Some of the DeIusions In Sun Pict-
ures are Produced.
There are various ways for providing
surprising results in photography.
things that in one age would have been
called magic, but in ours recognized as
scientific tricks. The ghost picture,
for instance, in which shadowy ghost
through which material objects are
visible-is seen between natural atti-
tudes and occupations. This is pro-
dueed by an almost instantaneous ex-
posure of the figure that is to do duty
as the ghost, followed by a full expos
ure of the figures and properties that
are to appear natural. Another novel
trick was shown recently in a photo
graph reproduced by a prominent trade
journal which presented the photo
grapher, seated at table, playing
chess, with himself sitting on the OPP
posite side of the table. while he him
self stood up in the background looking
at his two selves playing.
The figures were all on the negative,
which was produced by three success
sive exposures Of the plate, parts
thereof being masked each time by
black velvet shutter. Still another
trick is that by which a person who
likes that sort of thing may appear to
be photographed riding on a flying
goose a fish or any other desired
style of ridiculous locomotion. This
is done by the subject holding upon his
lap huge piece of white or sky-tinted
card with the fanciful figure drawn
upon it. His face appears above the
upper edge of the card and seems in
the picture, Joined to the funny little
body mounted on the goose or fish.
The statue picture is made by about
he same deVice.-PhOtogrGphs2 ReUtea0.
a new Partisan industry is the
manufacture of hoar-frost glass, which
is covered with feathery patterns re-
sembling those naturally produced
upon window-panes in cold weather.
The glass is first given . ground sur
face, either by the sand-blast or the
ordinary method. and Is Ehen coated
with soft varnish. The vzrnish con-
tracts rtr ongly in drying, taking with
it the particles of glass to which it
adherSs, and this reproduces very
accurately the branching crystal OF
frostwork. A single coat gives deli
cate effect, and several coats yield a
bold design.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08

William A. Sawyer, Hess Road, Nisgara
Co, N. Y. Says:
About year ago I was taken with q
severe pain in both lungs. l was first at
tackled with a violent chill, then a dread.
full pain and then a cough accompanied by
consideral lie fever. 1t looked very much
like bad ttaC k of pneumonia A friend
of mine procured five ALLCocK's PI-As-
TIERS One he put under each arm, one
under each shoulder blade, and one on
my chest close ound my throat. In a
gradually abated, and / broke out IN 5
profuse pefspiration. / fell into a pro
found sleep. and the next day was almost
well. | wore the Plasters ei0ht days af.
forwards. and have never had any trouble
since"
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08

That sets the naked branches a-quivering, 1,
not felt by the wealthy valetudiparian indoors
bat not all the covering that can be piled on his
warm bed, nor all the furnace heat that anthra
cite can furnish, will warm his marrow when
chtlls and fever runs its icy fingers along his
spinal column. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters II
the thing to fnfuse new warmth into his chilled
and anguish frame, to remedy the fierce fever
and exhaustfng Eweats which alternate with tbs
chill. Dumb ague, ague cake, bilious remit
tent-in short, every known form of malaria
disease is subjugated by this potent, and at the
Billiousness, constipation, dyspepsia, sick head
aches, loss of appetite and sleep, kidney trou
bic, rheumatism and debility are also reInedied
by Il Use it with persistence to effect a thor
ofgh cure
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08

The old lady who replied, when asked how
her liver was, . God bless me, never heard that
there was such thing I'm the house, was noted
for her amiability. Prometheus, when chained
happy, as the man who IS chained to a diseased
liver. For poor Prometheus there was no es
cape, but by the use of DR.. Pierees Pleasant
Purgative Pellets, the disagreeable feelings, irri
table temper, constipation, indigestion, dizzi
ness and sick headache, which are caused by 8
diseased liver, promptly disappear.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08

White Elephant of Siam, Lion of Eng
land, Dragon of China, Cress of Switzer,
land, Banner of Persia, Crescent of Egypt
Double Eagle of Russia, Star of Chill, The
Circle of Japan, Harp of Erin.
To get these buy box of the genuine
DR.. {. MCLANE's CELEBRATED LIVER
Pills, price % cents, and mail US the out
side wrapper with your address, plainly
written. and cents in stamps. We will
CANT package of Geographic and chro
matte cards.
FLRMINe Bros. PIrrsBuRe. Pa.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
"If a woman IS pretty,
To me tits no matter,
Be she blonde OF brunette.
En She lots rna lnrb NJ hav. -


An unhealthy woman Is rarely, If ever, beau
tiful. The peculiar diseases TO which so many
of the are subject are prolific causes of pale
sallow faces, blotched with unsightly pimpies
dull lustreless eyes and emaciated forms Wo-
men so afflicted, can be permanently cured by
using DIR. Pterce's Fayorite Prescription; and
with the restoration of health comes that beati-
y which, combined with good qualities of head
aud heart, makes women angels of loveliness.
" Favortte Prescription" Is the only medicine
for women, sold by druggists, under positSre
guarantee from the manufacturers, that IL will
give satisfaction In every case, or money viii be
refunded. This guarantee has been printed on
the bottle wrapper, and faithfully carried out
for many years.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08

Dujdrdin's Life Essence has restored vigor to
ed their vital forces by dissipation. and other
bad practices. II has given back youfhfulness
and strength whenever used Price, $50 a bot
tie. All druggists.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08

Send S and receive 100 pounds good dry fruit
10 varieties) send $40 and receive 100 os best
and finest California dried fruit made, 40 yarie-
ties) securely packed. Smiths Cash Store, as
Front ST., San Francisco, Cal.