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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26
MIsceLLANEO

1.;s sa;d that a fir is standing In the
Kanich Valley. Nevada, which meas
ures fifty-eight feet IN circumieren0o
seven feet from the ground.
A South Carolina man attemPOeu
to pawn a horse, and was surprises
when ..his uncle" told him that No
didn't like securities that could WALK
away. rail-
struck a xSin OF water which ne
thought contained mineral properties,
and was disguised to find that ne nAo
tapped sewer.
The five great continental powers
of Europe now have y, 900, 900 men UNI
der arms, not to mention the naval
ornaments, almost double in size the
whole sea fighting force of the worio
twenty years ago.
The citizens of Dion boast that
have the oldest poplar in France, but
Just how old it is no one knows. 1t Is
122 feet high, forty-five feet in clrcum-
ference at the base. and twenty-three
feet in circumference fifteen feet from
the base.
AT the great steel works in Cleve-
land, o., large electromagnetic Is
used, suspended from crane, to pick
up iron or steel bars and blllets. 1t
will take up 800 pounds, and as soon as
the electric current is turned of atte'
moving the load, will drop it in the
proper place, thus doing the work OF a
gang of men.
kentucky is as famous for its wide
spread and critical knowledge OF the
Bible as for its sensitive appreciation
of red-eye. The newspapers down
there are many of them daily COM
mentaries. Here is a sample para
graph from the Scottsville Sentinel:
milk makes most people bilious, and
honey gives most people the colo.
Therefore a land flowing with milk
and honey is not as desirable as one
dripping with tree molasses and flour
batter-cakeS.
The first attempt to record public
speech by means of the monograph
was made at a political rally in New
York recently. A funnel seven feet
long was placed in front of the plat
form, connecting with the transmitter
of the monograph. After the meet
ing the instrument was tested, and the
experiment found to have been entirely
successful, the speakers voice being
heard as distinctly as in the original
address, together with sounds of the
applause and music.
The following anecdote is related
of President Lincoln: One evening
Mrs. Lincoln swept, magnifcently
dressed, into the library where the
President was waiting to escort her
into the brilliant reception-parlor,
Her dress had very long train, and
was cut low at the neck. Lincoln was
standing with his back to the fire when
his wife entered. ''Whewr' said old
Abe, What long tail our cat has to-
nightr' Mrs. Lincoln made no answer,
and the President continued: "Say,
mother, don't you think it would be
better if some of our cats tail was
around her neck?''
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26
TWO MEN AT DINNER.
Difference Between an EneIIshman and
Frenchman at a Table d'Hote.:

Difference Between an EnGlIsflman and o
Frenchman at a Table d'Hots.:
THE Englshman is big, square. red,
hairy. He has breakfasted at nine
o'clock and walked all day with few
minutes rest for lunch. He calls for
champagne sec. He guzzles the soup;
he does not taste it. He drenches the
fish in some black English sauce, and
sends it after the soup. In regular
order follow roast and vegetable and
game. But whether tough or tender.
cooked to turn or burned to crisp,
your Englishman knows little and cares
less. He continues to soak everything
with the dark sauce, augmented by
mustard and black pepper. The des-
sert finds him slightly cOngested. but
full. He is now going to stuff his short,
briarwood pipe with black tobacco, and
enjoy it between sips of the more than
questionable coffee, and he will round
off with B. & S, And when he mem
tions the hotel tomorrow, or the day
after tomorrow, to the travelling
women of his country, as he meets
them all along the route. he will BEL
low forth: Very nice table. indeed.
at that placer (For this 10 always
their subject of oonversation).
''But the poor Frenchmani He is
sallow; he will soon be bald; his white
teeth are miracles of the dentists skill.
One discerns his iabby muscles be-
meath the fine cloth of his fashionable
coat. He has placed his monocle in
the corner of his eye to read the carte
which he holds gingerly in one fastidi-
Gus hand-a hand which il SPILLED
enough with the sword or the pistol.
but which has never in his life struck
blow from the shoulder, Through the
day he has probably driven in car
rlage to some view of interest-he has
smoked countless cigarettes-he Is not
hungry. He finds the menu impossible
from the first glance. He foresees the
watery soup in which will be floating
squares of vague paste. The fish may
be fresh, the sauce served with it will
be nauseating! The beef will be done
TO death, the capon skeleton and
burnt into the bargain. The waiter has
t1resome and disgusting habit of in
Producing his abominable thumb into
the dishes he places on the table! The
people opposite make frightful noise
as they eatl The knives and forks are
black! Your Frenchman nibbles bit
OF cheese and moisteus il with a Ped
poison labeled Saint Julien. He leaves
the table thinking with q sigh Of the
CAFE Angiais. He lights another cigar
cite. He wonders when he will begin
to suffer from that epigastric burning
to which his physician has given the
coquettish name of pyrosis. Zun.
Blank! he says, what messp
Now will you affirm that those two
men have eaten the same dinnerp Bnt
the meru was the samep'-PQris Letter
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26
IMAGINARY ILLS.
The Treatment of Hypochondriacs DIE
cussed by a Physician.

The Treatment of Hypochondriacs Dis
cussed by a Physician.
So many people are hypochrondriacs
that physician expects to find one
third of his patients laboring under
imaginary ills. 1t is easy for people
to exaggerate symptoms, and by giving
themselves into the hands OF quacks,
become confirmed victims Of supposed
i'll health. What is not at all unusual
is to find physicians who have become
; thoroughly hypoed. Many of them
with great reputation and large
practice and capable of diagnosing any
case become cranks concerning their
own health. They exaggerate the
slightest symptoms into dangerous
cases and believe they have chronic
troubles when they would know that,
in patient, it would be but a slight
indisposition. Most physicians are
not competent to treat themselves, and
many of them are confirmed hypochon-
driacs. Medical students begin early
to imagine themselves afflicted with
the various diseases which they are
studying. remember when at college
had roommate who became thor
oughly hypoed after entering the
course. One day he caught cold and
that night suddenly informed me he
believed he was going to die, as he
was certain he was afflicted with a
most malignant fever which he had
been studying that day. Invent imme-
diately for one of the professors, and he
not being in l had another coma The
second understood the case at once and
gave my frie n some simple remedy,
and, later, the first came, and he,
wishing to give the young man a les
son, had me administer liberal dose
of ipecac. This made him very sick,
but cured him Of the malignant fever.
A long-discussed question among the
medical fraternity is whether a physi-
clan should humor a hypochondriac
and ostensibly treat him as if he were
sick, or, on the other hand, to try to
disabuse his mind of his folly. One OF
the professors of a college put it to the
class in this way: "'If when you are
called in to q patient you find him SUI
fering imaginary ills, and you tell him
SO instead Of humoring and apparently
curing him. YOU lose a client who
when he may be sick will not call you
in because he has no confidence in
your ability. You thus lose practice
and chance to do good when the real
necessity arises; besides by humoring
the man you do no harm, for he will
call in some other physician, who will
do exactly what you could have done
yourself" This argument has doubt
less caused many physicians to treat
hypochondriacs according to their
fancy. The professor who followed
the other one in the class heard of his
predecessors advice and was very in
dignant, saying that physician should
be truo to his profession and treat
every patient as he finds him, not in
creasing the number Of hypochon-
driacs in the world by encouraging the
natural human tendency in that direc-
tion.-Dr. /. B. Bruce, in st. Louis
GIobe no1110c11t
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26

Mr.. Van Alstyne, better known as
Miss Fanny Crosby, the popular hymn
writer, was born in 1928. and has been
blind from infar cy.
A London author has written tn1r'
ty novels in three years. This beats
the record of any living man, but the
writer's enormous labor has brought
only 81, 900.
Mrs. Lee c. Hardy, O. Houston,
Tex, is Southern writer, whose tai
emit has lately became known to the
North through her graceful verses IN
Eastern magazines.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26
A Husbands Generosity.

Tomorrow, Maria, will be your
birthday, and want to give you some
appropriate present. What shall it
be?"
whatever your kind heart may
suggest, John"
(Next day. "Maria, you know how
your poor back has suffered from pull
ing off my boots in the evening. 1t
will not suffer any more, my love.
See! ! have brought you a nice new
bootjack which l will use hereafter in
stead. Chicago Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26

Planned Oysters. colored cook,
famous for her PANIED oysters. pre-
pared them In this manners Drain the
oysters. then wash and wipe them dry.
In shallow dripping-pan, melt large
lump of butter, without allowing it to
brown. Throw in the oysters and
shake and stir them constantly until
they are sufficiently cooked; then lay
them on slices of toast. arranged in q
dish beforehand. It is better to do a
few at time, and send them to the
table by relays, SO that the toast NAV
not become sodden.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26

A lotion made OF alum and sui
phate of zinc is excellent for chilblains.
If the chilblains break the ulcers are
often difficult to heal. Subdue the in
fammation by milk and water poultices,
applied cold. Follow with cooling
ointments, as cerate of acetate OF lead,
spermaeeti ointment, or Carrou oil.
-Pongee and foulard silks can be
washed in tepid water in which plenty
of soap has been lathered. If rinsed
well in clear water, mopped well, dried
slightly, and rolled very smoothly and
tightly, and after lying some hours
ironed on the wrong side. they will
look very well Christian at York.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26

10 relie7e coughing roast lemon
without burning it. When entirely hot.
squeeze the juice into cup on three
ounces OF finely powdered sugar. Take.
Ieaspoonful whenever you feel like
coughing. o
homemade Cologne water.-one
qu'r. OF alcohol; three drains each OF
Oh OF lavender. bergamot and essence
u lemon, one dram of oil of rosemary
a,lu 'nree drops oil of cinnamon.-Go Good
Housekeeping. s
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26

Two men in Seattle, w. T., evil
IDENTIFY do not believe in compromise
They bought adjacent pieces of land.
A house stood upon one lot. and one
hundred dollars worth of the building
projected onto the other lot. The one
hundred dollar man employed carpen-
tiers to cut off his end OF the house.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26

The eloquenoe of Clergyman at
Coldwater, Mich, met with sudden
collapse the other Sunday, when, to
emphasize point, he brought his fist
down heavily upon the pulpit and hit
upon needle some one had left there.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26

a dollars worth of postage stamps.
well soaked and with the gum side up
makes most efficacious, though some
wnat expensive fy-paper.-fsHsburoh
Dispotcl. ="
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26

The plan of Supplying birds with
whisky, SO that their capture can be
more easily accomplished. was success
fully tried on quail by an enterprising
fellow at Santa Cruz, Cal. Quail
abound there, and large catches were
made
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-26
Not Very Complimentary.

Politician-Why is it, Uncle Nose
that whenever l appear on the street
you dodge around the corner?
Uncle Mose-Bekase de good book
says ter shun der 'pearance 0b ebiL'
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22
have to change its policy. Providence
(R ~ journal Und. Rep).
FIGHTING FOR sPoILs.
Our PccitsniIr President and the Two Sem
m frn,,, IIIinois.

Our PecitsniT President and tho Two Sem
ators from Illinois.
There will be two influential gen.
tlemen at the meeting of the next Con-
gress who are likely to make Presi-
dent Harrison put in very uncomfort-
able time. They represent the great
State of Illinois in the United States
Senate, and they claim the right to de-
termine certain Government appoint
ments in that State, according to the
views once held by the President
when he was Senator. Senator Far
well is particularly exercised in mind
over the way he has been ignored as
to Illinois appointments. The Presi-
dent never consulted him or Senator
Cullom' about the Minister to England
or the collector at the capital of the
State. Hence, both Senators are in
an unpleasant frame OF mind at what
they consider an implied insult. Mr..
Farwell has already expressed his
sense OF the situation in very
emphatic terms: II am tired
of shillyshallying, and, as re-
marked to the President the
last time l saw him, / have no de-
sire or intention of getting down upon
my knees and begging for favors." 1t
looks very much, then, as if there was
sultry time ahead for Baby McKee's S
grandpa from the Illinois corner of
the Senate. Indeed, there is excellent
ground to believe that the admins
tration will be subjected to a fire of
hostile criticism from many leaders of
its own party for its failure to satisfy
the demands of the boys. Even Wanna
makers lord high eXecutioner does
not expedite business to suit them, al
though he has already beaten the
record. We may look for the oblitera-
tion of the surplus in a short time
after the fifty-first Congress convenes
by reckless appropriations and free
scope to the horde of jobbers that tho
return of the spoils party will bring
back to Washington. Harrison may
be obliged to throw open the doors of
the treasury, as well as of any choice
offices he has left, to satisfy all COM
ers. particularly those two Illinois
Senators whom he has unfortunately
offended. 1t Is not the pleasantest
thing in the world to hold the bag in u
grand party grab game. Albany On.
" Argus.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

--"Let me but construe the pension
laws and | care not who writes them,
is a saying for which Commissioner
Tanner gets the credit. Detroit Free
Press
The g eat wave of prosperity
continues to roll over the land. 1t has
now struck the big iron foundries of
Albany, where the men have declined
to swallow ten per cent reduction
imposed by the protected barons. IN.
Y. Telegram.
Carnegie has made another re-
duction in the wages of his protected
aboring-men. He is probably about
TO make another trip TO his castle in
Scotland, and takes the cost out of his
workmen. They have no right to COM
plain, as they voted for the kind OF
protection Carnegie gives them. -
Cleveland Plain Dtaler.
The able Republican editors are
Just now writing columns OF learned
editorials in answer to what they call
Cleveland's platitudes. Strange thai
those platitudes have set all the Re-
publicans to bristling. Even plati-
tudes, it seems, disturb Republican
peace when they come from G. Cleve-
land. Chicago News
- President Elijah, /
office that the papers have good
deal to say about our foreign relations. ="
Mr.. Halford-''Yes, your E1cellency." ="
They say that the administration
should pay special attention to them. "
Yes your Excellency" "Well, just
make note of it. When we get all
our home relations provided for, we'll
see what can be done for our foreign
connections. boston Transcript.
MIR. Russell Harrison has no
Federal Office in Montana to "barter"
except such as are graciously supplied
by his father, the President The
young mans higb-handed perform
ances are just what might be expected
from an ambitious youth without
brains or moral ballast; but the con-
duct of the President in furnishing
him with stock in trade OF Federal
offices for purposes OF barter is as
tonishing, though in the line OF his
whole course in the appointment of
Federal officials. Nashville Ameri-
can.
Harrison is President, the Re-
publicans have majority in both
House s, Jarrett has the Birmingham
Consulship. Carnegie has returned to
Europe to dazzle its pauper aristocrats
with his munifcence, and the, $500
employees of his Homestead Mills have
his ultimatum, to sign a scale reduc-
ing wages an average of 20 per cent.
for the whole of Harrison term, or
be turned out by u larger force Of de-
tectives and special officers already in
charge of the mills. AS contem-
porary remarks, this may be all
right, but it is not what the men were
taught to expect when they followed
Carnegie and Jarrett to the poles in
November. st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22
The Injustice of Protection.

A conversation with a shop-girl is
recorded She made 1920 year. 1t
cost her for board $108 80 and to dress
$l11.50. Asked why she spent SO
much money on her clothes, the reply
was: THE bosses make us dress nice
and it costs half our wages. j hope
you will help us AM that the Govern
ment will make the price of dress
goods come down" Mr.. Meriwether' S
apt remarks are: "This salesglrl prob
ably does not understand ten lines of
political economy, but, forced by the
nature OF her occupation to spend IL
large portion OF her meager earnings
on dress, she wants the Government to
help her by making the price OF dress
goods come down. The principal way
for the Government to accomplish this
is to abolish the high-tarlfi taxes
That is the first step that Ia being de-
manded by the wage-earners, both
men and women, the more they reflect
on the way protection protects them
by raising prices on all the neces-
saries OF life." = Lee Moriwether' i
"Story OF a Tramp"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22
RANK EXTRAVAGANCE.
An Independent View of Republican Prof
lIgacy and Hypocrisy.
These figures taken from the Ma
tional Treasury reports are interest
inu.

1t is estimated by the Treasury De-
partment that at the present rate OF
payments the bill for pensions for the
fiscal year will amount to over a hun-
dred millions. If this rate of increase
would be maintained for the next ten
years the disbursements for pensions
at the end of that time would be about
$3.50, 900, 900.
The receipts from customs taxes last
year amounted to about $2l9, 900, 900
and from internal revenue to about
1924, 900. 000-a total of $343, 900. 600.
If the disbursements for general pur-
poses-and these do not include those
for the reduction OF the public debt
should not increase at all in the
next decade and the present
rate OF increase in the disburse-
ments for pensions should be main
tanned, there would be IL call for $40,
900, 900 more than the present revenue
affor6s. 1t naturally follows that il
the expenditures for pensions increase
at such pace as that set by the new
commissioner there must be no cutting
down of the revenue This seems a
strange statement in Wow OF the state
ments that have been made concern.
ing the injurious existence OF the sur
plus.
Now, while there can be no honest
objection to granting deserving vet
erans of the late war public support
and without questioning the propriety
of the present Pension Commissioner
policy, it is evident that the people
must pay not only as heavy taxes u
they are now paying but heavier
Within the next ten years there will
necessarily be u great change in the
popular policy OF the Government
The pension roll win have to be made
strictly roll OF honor, which Will in
cllde the suppression of Corpora
Tanner (recent Pension AgepD ant
his like. or the Republican party vii
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22
EMPHASIS IN LIFE.
All Success Dependent Upon MagnifyinK
Essentials.


Essentials.
Some people find fault because few
have so much influence in politics, in
business, in society and even in church.
They seem to forget that it is inevita-
BILE and applies even in childhood and
youth. In every school and on every
playground few dictate the policy,
and lead in fun and hard work, in
thought and action, because of the en-
phasis they place upon what they say
and do. 1t is still in emphasis that
usually determines success. If it is
known how any one emphasizes life it
is easy to estimate the probabilities of
success. Emphasis in life is much like
emphasis in reading. The first princi-
pie in each case is to emphasize ideas,
not words. There is radical differ
ence between the two. Superintendent
George Rowland, OF Chicago, read
"Evangeline" to one of the grammar
schools of that city on Friday afternoon
a year ago, and CHANGED TO be present
when the pupils read their compost
tions ON the reading. A bright little
foreign boy wrote: II thought SO great
man would read very loud, but he
didn't. ] thought he would emphasize
it lots, but he never emphasized
word; but, oh, my! didn't he picture
the story, though! l shall see it as
long as live" This is vivid illus
tration of emphasis upon ideas rather
than words. This principle holds in
life. Success depends upon magnify
ing essentials. Some people tire us in
their talk because they dwell upon mi
nor details about which we care moth
ing, while others fascinate us by CIV
ing the pith of a story SO that we do
not wish word omitted. This is
land and age of progress A mans life
must show on the face of it that every
word and act tells, and that he has not
done the best he will ever do.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22
He Would Not Relent.

A story is being told of very close
citizen of Washington that he wanted
to go to Lynchburg recently. At the
ticket Office he was told that the fare
was $1.80.
Zone eighty" he muttered. "Gif
you $1.40."
Cant cut rates, sir. One eighty is
the fare"
"Gif you one fifty"
"Nope. One eighty"
''Den I'll Walk"
"That is your privilege" answered
the ticket-seller. So he started or
down the track and had made about
half the distance when he heard an
engine footing and whistling behind
him.
"You needn't visstle," said he, wav.
Ing his hand, IN not gone back. -
Washington Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22
OF SUCH is THE KINGDOM.
OHIO

o fold tho little arms across
The pulseless heart;
Her ransomed soul has passed beyond
Earths busy mart;
Bas lifted high her wings OF trust
Beyond the sky;
Naught OF her with sluggish dust
We know shall lie
But that which sinks with earth away,
And fades before us day by day.
As bud from blossom, unto fruit,
Grows doubly dear
Shall her sweet soul Of infant grace
Improve each year,
Upon the brighter side OF life
Mid Cots p re air,
Surrounded by 'lestial Joys
Her mothers care;
Thy fair, frail flower will expaud,
Transplunted to fairer land.
Thelight has faded from her sight
To scenes OF earth.
But dawns again in glad surprise
In happier birth,
Reach for the sun,
And bend beneath the pressing dew
When day is done;
30 small Iuy pure lulllOTttl hO"oi
Bend to Thy Life 't the evening hour.
Q aching, lonely heart, forget
Thy ceaseless loss;
Thy little one has never more
The stream to cross,
Whose restless waves are full OF pain
And woeful wall.
That roughly drives the trembling boat
In which we sail;
Hertrusting heart can never fear
The wreclSing perils OF each year.
She knows no sorrow; that is earth's,
And pain is death;
her yearning spirit will be filled
With truths sweet breath.
o suffer such in Christ's dear name
To enter there,
And hold the wide "Gate Beautiful"
With hands so fair;
unstained by one frail tho't OF sin,
All such as these shall enter in.
Mrs. w. Corners, in Yankee Blade.