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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
How Hot Water Saves Chinn.

The entire absence Of sanitary arrange
ments in Chinese towns and villages
being well known, it goes without say
ing that the laws OF hygiene are utterly
and entirely neglected There is no
isolation of infectious diseases. and no
attention is paid to causes of death I'M
less there Is supposition of violence.
According to our ideas, therefore, Chinese
cities ought to be hot beds of disease,
subjected regularly to those terrible
epidemics which, with Us, are invariably
associated with the neglect of sanitary
laws. Strange to say, such is not the
case. Epidemics come and 90 without
any apparent reasons, appearing, per
haps, suddenly, causing heavy mortal
ity for short time, and then as suddenly
Disappearing again, thus affording an
endless field Of speculation to the foreign
savant. But, speaking generally, Chinese
towns enjoy an immunity from these dan
gerous outbreaks almost as complete rs
that of well-drained European communi-
ties, and the cause of this puzzling and
curious phenomenon has been variously
explained. The fact is all the more
striking when taken in connection with
the contaminated water supplies of Chinese
towns, the effect OF which on Europeans
has been manifested over and over again
in the heavy mortality which overlook
them previous to the adoption of precau-
tons enjoined by modern sanitary science.
The healthiness of Chinese cities has been
ineeniously attributed by some people to
the universal habit of tanning, a practice
which is said to keep the atmosphere in
constant circulation. How far this ex-
planation can be deemed to suffice we
must leave to experts to decide, but, so
far as a contaminated water supply is
concerned, we believe the real secret Of
immunity from its evil effects to lie in
the universal custom Of boiling all water
intended for drinking. As a matter of
fact, the Chinese never drink cold water
The national beverage, which, in a true
sense, may be said to cheer but not in
ebriate, is tea, and this is always on
tap" even in the houses of the very poor.
The native aversion to cold water is I'M
doubtedly carried to extremes, and Ger
ltainly induces diseases which might
easily be avoided by a judicious system
Of outward application. In the matter
of additions it must, however, be ad-
mitted that the Chinese enjoy facilities
which, however little they are taken
advantage of, are far in advance of any
thing within the reach of the poorer
classes of our own favored land. Every
little hamlet in China has a shop where
hot water can be bought for a tri-
fling sum at any hour of the day or
night. Even in small fishing village
on a remote island in the Gulf of Pechili,
where the writer spent six weeks under
very unpleasant circumstances during a
severe winter, this was the case, and a
great convenience it proved.-NdtioRal
Re1ietn.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
Np1Ax woNAN AID REAn.

Richard Powless, who spent his time
logging until a school could be given
him, writes that he is sstrving to roll the
logs of knowledge into the children's
heads as well as he rolled the logs a few
months ago into the river, and we have
no doubt he will. He also encloses an
article giving an account of the brave
deed of one of his neighbors, an Oneida
Indian woman, whose courage seems only
eaualed by her pride of race.
Driving into the fields one day where
her husband and others were at work,
she encountered a log lying across the.
road in such way that she could not pass
As there was no one near TO help her, and
the log was beyond her strength to
move, she proceeded to cut it in two with
an axe she had in the wagon. To her
surprise she found she had disturbed a
mother bear and her family of cubs. The
bear more frightened than hurt took to
the woods, and the woman walked IN
search of the men and their firearms.
Finding them, she conducted her relief
party quickly back to the log, to find
lLdL llld 'INdi Ittll dloO IGluIuGus w uCu
all were stationed ready for action she
again used her AK on the log and the bear
made her second appearance, this time
angry and vengeful. The man who stood
ready for Just this emergency, missed his
aim, dropped the gun, and with all his
other masculine companions took to his
heels. Left alone with the Infatuated
beast, with only an AK for defense, the
Indian woman coolly waited until the
bear came near enough, and, letting the
ax fall with all her might upon its head,
killed it with that one stroke. The same
weapon applied to three of the little or
phans effectively prevented their ever re-
alizing their loss, and the other she kind
" adopted and carried home with her.
Reaching her home she found her hus-
band, son, and others assembled there,
anxiously specializing as to what could
have been the result of the encounter they
had failed to see ended Standing be.
fore them, with the cub in her arms, she
scornfully surveyed them from head tc
foot and exclaimed. towards, you
nave no Indian blood in your vein! -
H,mptoa (Ta) School Record.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
Development of the Skull.

Dr. Digit, professor Of anatomy in the
American College at Beirut. Syria, gives
some very interesting results of his ex-
animation of a collection Of human skulls
which are stored away in an old
monastery in the Kedron Valley, mid
way between Jerusalem and the Dead
Sea He has made a careful comparison
of these skulls with those Of the same
race at the present day, and finds some
significant differences. The Caucasian
skull has during the past thirteen cen
turtles increased in circumference nearly
two inches, and has gained considerably
in cranial capacity. There has been no
increase in width. The brain has gained
in height and length, /. e., there has been
Il development of the upper and anterior
parts Of the brain, tine parts which We
should expect to increase by education
and civilization, as they preside over the
moral and intellectual functions The
lower portions of the brain, in which the
lower or more selfish propensities are cen
tired, and which give breadth TO the head,
have, in the march of the centuries,
failed to grow as rapidly as the higher
brain centers, hence the non-increase in
the width Of our skulls.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
Thick Skinned Animals.

The whale, which belongs to the mani
malta. no doubt holds the palm for thick
ness of skin. At some parts Of its body,
the skin is only two inches thick, but in
many places its pelt is fully two feet in
thickness. The skin of the whale is the
substance usually known as blubber, and
in a large specimen viii weigh altogether
more than thirty tons. The distinction
OF being the thickest-slinned quadruped
belongs to the Indian rhinoceros, whose
hide has knotty or graduated surface,
and Is so impenetrable as to resist the
claws of the lion or tiger, the sword, or
the balls of the old-fashioned musket.
So stiff and hard is this skin that zz%za It
not divided by creases or folds the AMI
NAL inn r,soned in its armor could scarce
" move. It is manufactured into leather
Of great strength and durability, and tar
gets and shields are made Of it that are
absolutely proof against darts or sword
strokes. The skin of the hippopotamus
runs that Of the rhiueroceros very closely
as regards thickness. When dried it is
also used for shields, which are highly
priced by natives.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
PITH AND POINT.
The Indian question-"How"

The Indian question-"HowP
A perfect paradOx-A beautiful plane
tree.
A man of small calibcr is the greatest
bore.
Of what kind of timber is the post of
honor.
The Electoral College has no baseball
team. 1t is the only college of the KIND
in the country.-BeD Yorb Nslss-
Friend-..What's the matter, old fell
low, YOU look haggard2' Author (ofre-
iected stories)-''I wish was Haggard. %
The town which flies the highest
Sinks the deepest in the gloom
a big delinquent tax list
Always supsrsedes boom
Female BARRIERS are not having much
success. Gentlemen viii not 90 to them
because they dislike to be cut by lady.
-BUIiHgt9H FIRE. Pros.
One of the worst Of nuisanees is
The chap who's up at early dawn
Making the lawn-uower Zizlzizizlz,
Rasping the whislSers OH the lawnl
-S1meTrHlc Journal
oYou wish to marry one of my daugh-
tiers? The youngest viii get Is, 600 marks,
the second 80. O0Oand the oldest 45, 600. "
s.You don't happen to have one still
older2r- FHegeade Blaetter-
One Of the sad things connected with
the hard times in Persia is the fact that
many men with from fifteen to twenty
five wives have had to reduce the number
to three or four.-Detroit Fro Press.
Old Lady TO her niece)-"Good graci-
Gus, Matilda, but it's coldl My teeth are
actually chattering" Loving Niece
s'Wel, don't let them chatter too much,
OF they may tell where you bought EN-.
Tell ME not in Eiournful numbers,
Life is but an empty drsa{n
While the maid Of forty summers
Keeps her passion for ice cream.
-Icrds SiftiHgs.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
Queerest of Suicides.


The extraordinary prevalence of sui
eide recalls other times when similar cpl
demic prevailed, and the means which
were employed to put an end to them.
When Napoleon was in camp at Bou-
logne, It was found that a soldier com
mitted suicide every night in HIS sentry
box Napoleon ordered the sentry boxes
TO be burned, and the suicide ceased.
Again many years later suicide oc-
cured in a certain regiment every day
The Colonel accordingly published an
order OF the day in which he set forth
that the suicide of soldier is an act of
cowardice and desertion, and closed in
these words; "Henceforward every man
who commits suicide shalTbe condemned to
military degradation and deathl' Thence
forward we are told that suicides in that
regiment became thing of the past.
On tlle gt0uId, which is perhaps not
entirely certain, that suicide IS invariably
an act Of insanity, and on the ground,
which Is not certain at all, that brutes are
not subject to insanity, it has been main
tanned that the lower animals never com
NIT suicide. The contrary, however, ap-
pears TO be proved by actual cases Of self
destruction committed by brutas. Re
Gently in a poor travelling circus there
vas monkey which had been trained to
ride on the back of dog, and as he rode
to fire a pistol. The monkey was well
treated, was never whipped, and indeed
was regarded by his master with great af-
lection. One day the clown, for some
unknown reason, blew his brains out, in
serting the muzzle of a revolver into his
mouth and sending a ball crashing up
ward through his brain After he was
dead the monkey took the revolver and
in precisely the same manner blew its
brains out When the two bodies
were found, the hand of the monkey
still gIasped the handle of the pistol,
with which he had killed himself,
and of which two charges had been
fired. 1t IS possible, of course, that this
may have been a case of unfortunate iuli-
tatiou and not of genuine suicide, but
another story of recent occurrence adj
mits of no such explanation. A large
and intelligent hunting dog was found
straying without a collar, and was hos
pitably taken into a new home. For
eight days tire faithful dog remained
there, only running out from time to
time Tor a little while and returning with
a downcast air, as if he had been seeking
his former master, and had failed to find
him. Then he absented himself for a
long time, and so again and again. On
his return after the first and second Of
these prolonged absences his new master
received him kindly, but on his third re-
turn, in order to break him Of his
wandering habit, he was punished. The
poor brute evidently misunderstood the
punishment and thought he was not
wanted there. The moment he was re-
leased he ran straight to the river, and
there, in the sight of several creditible
witnesses, he plunged in and held his
- ----- 7----1--4-,--SszE
we. which we will sell case of -
cid ned. Tl-Fse G1rm that the p56F
dog was insane.-AtlaHta Constitution.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
Insnring Elevator PASSENGERS.

\ recent phase of accident insurance IS
the taking Of risks on passenger elevators,
which cover not only damage to the
elevator itself but promise to indemnify
the owner Of the elevator for such sums
Of money as he may be compelled to pay
to people who have been injured or
killed by any accident to the Gift" The
amount of this indemnity is, Of course,
limited, in proportion to the premium
paid and the holder Of the policy is ex-
pected to allow the elevator to be ex-
amined by the company's inspector at any
time and to conform to certain regula-
tons and requirements in running it
Nel7 York Tribune.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06

room with one who might be source Of &C
tive danger to him.
We desire especially to emphasize the fol
lowing facts:
/ That tuberculosis is a distinctly prevent
able disease.
II. That it is not directly inherited.
III. That it is acquired by the direct trans
mission of the tubercle bacilli from the sick
to the healthy usually by means Of the dired
and pulyerized sputum floating as dust In the
air
The measures, then, which are suggested
for the prevention Of the spread of tubercu-
losis are
l. The security of TIE public against tuber--
cular meat and milk, attained by system OF
rigid official inspection Of cattle.
IT. The dissemination among the people OF
the knowledge that every tubercular person
may be a source Of actual danger to his as
sociates if the discharges from the lungs are
not Immediately destroyed or rendered harm
less.
III. The careful disinfection Of rooms and
hospital wards that are occupied OF have
been occupied by PhthiScal patients.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
THE RUINED CITY.

Love found me where amid my wasted years
sat and gazed with cold, unheeding sight
On fair shafts fallen and Scared with time
and tears
Palace and temple prone IN pallid blight,
Whose gilded peaks once caught the suns
first CLEANS
When youth and dseit in the land OF
dreams.
sat within the shattered porch Of Fame
Whose glittering pinna,lss rose highest
there,
Upon whose shrines hope fed the rainbow
flame,
Tinhope lay dead beneath the feet of care;
Now through the mouldering roof frost,
wind and rain
Blur its dark courts with many blistering
stain.
And here fair Friendship had royal dome.
Pride, Pomp and Pleasure each a house of
gold;
And, oh, more sweet than all, I built a Home
Wherein my days might ripen aud grow
old:
To- through their hollow chambers wheel
anf fy
The owl and bat with melancholy cry.
So On the lifeless ruins of the past
While, like pale leaves of autumn, on nv
head
The dust Of van decay fell thick and fast
sat among my dying hopes and dead,
Alone and silent in the spectral gloom,
Crouehed Ike a ghost upon broken tomb;
Til Love for which I built no sculptured
Shrine
Nor knew in youthful, dream-deIuded
years
Sought me with brow unveiled and ewes
divine,
AHd=isrzne rom ruar- rI,s-g OF uusr ana
2 Ear nwsy, Ger bright seas blowing balm.
To isles Of ease in ultimate pure calm.
. L. Hiioreth, ia Belforors lfagazins
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
The First Bridges.

The first bridges were of wood, and the
earliest of which we have any account
was built in Rome 500 year B. c. The
next was erected by Julius Caesar for the
passage of his army across the Rhine.
Trajan's great bridge over the Danube,
4770 feet long, was made of timber, with
stone piers. The Romans also built the
first stone bridge, which crossed the
Tiber. Suspension bridges are Of remote
origin. A Chinese one mentioned by
Kirchen was made of chains supporting a
roadway $50 feet in length, was built
A. D. 65, and is still to be seen. The
first large iron bridge was erected over the
Severn in 1777. The age of railways
has brought a remarkable development in
this branch of engineering, especially in
the construction of bridges Of iron and
steel.-MaH and Express.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06

The latest of the new Orientallaces are
mixed in ecru and white.
saxony piece lace, white, is made up
over skirts Of colored silk.
Epaulets made of flowers grace some OF
she summer ball costumes.
Bracelets are often used to decorate
he head instead Of the arms
The sleeves Of bodices made of thick
stuff are only slightly pulled
Very broad-brimmed, nearly fiat hats
are worn with muslin gowns.
The white cotton dresses are gayly
decorated with white ribbons.
Gloves worn en- voyage are loose fitting
nousquetaires without buttons.
Ecru, blue and gray are the colors Sc
lected for talTeta silk underskirts.
Cotton dresses are not unfrequently
made up overs foundation of silk
Japanese cottons are used for entire COS
punes-thc dress, hat and parasol.
White, green and rose are the most
fashionable colors for evening toilets.
Charming house dresses are finished
with watteaus of black and white lace.
The flower bonnets are the prettiest of
The novelties in dainty French millinery.
Sashes Of surah can row be obtained
complete, even to the knotted, -fringed
ends.
The newast accordion-plaited skirts are
bordered with many rows of very narrow
vatered ribbon.
Some of the new lego mutton sleeves
a.e buttoned closely at the wrist. Six
buttons SIRE used.
London's fancy turns 10 white hats and
caps, with colored nantes, both 70,
ladies and children.
There is a rage Just now Tor soft neu.
trai tints, aud when relieved bv some
darA, contrasting shade they NAV b,
made becoming TO women of whatever
complexion.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
aHome Sweet Homes, BirthpIaee.

One by one our cherished traditions are
destroyed. Among the latest to go is the
beautiful legend that John Howard Payne
wrote ''Home, Sweet Home" in London
garnet as he pinned for his beloved America.
1t turns out that the immortal song was
composed on the bank of the Potomac,
in the suburbs of Washington, and that
Payne recined on a rustic bench, beneath
a chestnut tree with a mint julep by his
side. The Tree still stands, though it has
been severely hacked by retc-hunters;
the bench is preserved in a Washington
residence, but there is no trace of the
julep. It probably disappeared before
the poem was half doue. -Aacoa (Ga.)
Telegraph.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
A FANTASY.
What is a girls life, pray'

What is a girls life, prayf
A little garden space
Within whose every spring
She sees her beauteous facoi l
Where she is sole possessor
OF all she hears and secs,
From the auting of the birds in summer
To the honey of the bees;
Rosy wreaths and strings of pearl
All belong to the happy girl
And what is a boys Life, prayl
A quiet, shady nook
Where he has nothing to DO but play
Nor ever read a book:
a kingdom Of eontentnent
Which every hour discloses
Some new delight Of sense and SIGHT.
Fresh growth Of swoeter roses:
A rich inheritance of Joy
That crowns with light the happy boy.
We might be more than happy
And lead such perfect lives,
If all of US were children
And none were husbands, wives;
But poys StoN' anu aliA7 eAo"s
Together or apart,
TIL some day each discovers
The other hns heart.
This halves their joys and doubles their
cares,
And ends in wrinkles and gray hairs:
In the feet that rock the cradle,
In hands that toll fer bread,
The trouble about the living,
TIE sorrow above thu dead
What can we do, then? Nothing more
Than those who begot and bore US;
They make our lives before US
As theirs were made before,
We must be up and doing,
Maidens flying and men pursuing;
Then heyi for biiiiag and cooi=sS
And hoi for wooins and winning.
The world viii never mend;
Love was before the beginning,
And viii be after the end.
-R. z. Sioddard, in N. 7. Independent
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
The Romance of Chess.

The great game of chess has its tender,
It's romantic, side, as no game can have
at which more than two people can play.
It smiles on lovers, and can even be the
cause of love. Only a few years ago a
chess player condemned to live in the
country solaced his solitude by playing
games by correspondence Post cards
daily brought or daily took his move.
His antagonist was a lady; before the
contest was over he had got to know this
lady, and their acquaintance ripened
into intimacy, intimacy into love, and
love was crowned with marriage. And
this couple, not unmindful of the kindly
influence which had brought them to-
gether, determined that the very rites Of
their marriage should something SAVIOR"
of the game. So they invited from Lon
don a certain clergyman whose genial
face-''the front of Mars himself
well known in chess circles; none but
chess player of his eminence should cele-
brate their union. And when bridegroom
and bride rose from the wedding break
fast it was only to sit down to a game Of
chess-the first of their welded life.
All! happy, happy pair, under what
happy auspices did you start on the high
way of marriage! What fine air of TO
nance, of sweet tenderness, fingers round
these lines of Lord Lytton:
my little love, do you remember,
Ere we were grown so sadly wise.
Those evenings in the bleak December,
Curtained warm from the snowy weather
When you and played chess together,
Checkmated by each others eyes2
Ali still I see your soft white hand
lowering warm Ger queen and knight
And so on to the sad close, when the
poet laments:
That never, never never more,
As in those old still nights Of yore,
Ere we were grown so sadly wise,
Can you and l shut out the skies;
Shut out the world and wintry weather,
And eyes exchanging warmth with eyes,
Play chess as then we played together
-GeUtlemo1'S HdqEziae
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
Pisa's Leaning Tower.

The famous Leaning Tower Of Pisa has
been put up for sale by lottery. The mu-
nicipality of Pisa, having become greatly
straitened for money ON account Of ex-
pensive Improvements, offers the tower
for sale, in order to prevent the town hall
Esm being seized, and has adopted the
method of a lottery so as to get the high
est Price pOssible,-Qhicgga zrjtaRa,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06

There are over s00,08 more widows
than widoreH in Eagiand. In France
for every 100 widowers there are 1s4
widows. These facts lead the Westznin-
ster Rerisr 70 treat the growing disposi-
ton Of men 70 marry late in life as very
serious ell Of modern society Such mea
usually marry younger women, who, in
the natural order Of things may be ex-
pected 10 survive them.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06

Ia 1915 en- English collector, Sir
Thomas Phillips, followed the track Of
the alled armies in France and bought up
all issess, manuscripts, etc. that he could
bay bis hands or. believing that one day
tnssv 71isslzesioHg u8aia h. Immensely
saiuable. The French Government Is
nov Offering fabulous SUNS to his heirs
foT mary ofhis historical manuscripts. IN
this mas Of literary material.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06

King Mataafa Of Samoa win soon re-
esire useful present from this country.
The commandant atthe Mare Island CCal. )
Navy Yard has been ordered by the Navy
Department 70 have built whaleboat
Of the finest material and workmanship.
lt5 construction Wiil take about six weeks.
Wben It Is finished It viii be sent to
Apia IN care 81 three officers, survivors
Of The recent disaster in the harbor Of
Apia. zhey ill bear q letter Of thanks
and gratitude from President Harrison to
the samssh King.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06

The Governor Of Wyoming has just
pardoned man sentenced to a term Of
years ior muTderous assault, on the con
dition that If the convict ever drinks an
other drop Of liquor he shall forfeit his
liberty and be ssut back 70 prison A
similar pardon was granted in Mississippi
4 few years AGO.