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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
VEGETABLE GROWTH.
a Vast Force Exerted without Noise {
Demonstration of Any Kind.

a Vast Force Exerted without Noise OF
Demonstration of Any Kind.
1t has long been known to scientific
men that the power of growth in the
vegetable kingdom is something mar
velous There is no human engineering
which can compare in power with the
silent machinery of forest on spring
dav. The force with which the sap
rises in the tree, without any apparent
cause, any propelling power like the
beating heart of man, is marvellous. 1t
has been estimated that the physical
energy Of the sap in the plant is four
teen times that of the blood in man.
Some years ago President Clark, OF
the Massachusetts Agricultural College,
succeeded by means of some interesting
experiments in measuring the power Of
growth possessed by a squash. For this
purpose he harnessed it in iron, put 1t
in prison, and gave it weight to lift.
He prepared a bed of rich compost to
give the plant every possible oppor-
tunity for growth. On one end of this
bed he placed a box and in the box the
squash, enclosed in an iron basket-work.
The squash thus enclosed was placed in
the box in such a way that it could only
grow by pushing itself upward. Then,
on the top of the squash, long bar OF
timber was laid, in such way that the
squash, in its upward growth, must
push this bar with it. Finally, on the
bar were hung weights, at such dis
tances from the squash as enormously
to increase their weight power, and,
consequently, the severity of the test
afforded.
The result was that the squash steadily
pushed it's way upwards, carrying the
bar and the increasing weight with 1t.
On August q it was lifting sixty pounds;
on September -, fourteen hundred
pounds: on October IS, three thousand
one hundred and twenty pounds; on
October 81, five thousand pounds! How
much more it would have carried is not
known. For at this point the iron har-
ness bent and cut into the rind of the
squash, which had obtruded so far
between the bands, that in order to ex-
tricate the squash it was necessary to
cut the iron with cold chisel, and draw
tae pieces out endwise.
There is to our imagination some
thing grand in the thought of a force so
vast exerted without noise or demon
stration of any kind, and apparently far
exceeding all the ordinary exigencies OF
the plant. In every acre of well-cultiva-
ted ground power is silently at work
which transcends mass mightiest ma
chimes by almost as much as the infinite
transcends the finite Does it not give
a suggestion Of the. quiet power Of the
mighty?-Sunshine
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
ALL ABOUT WARTS.
Though in Themselves Harmless, They
should BE Promptly Removed.

Though in Themselves Harmless, They
should BE Promptly Removed.
Beneath the epidermal, or outer layer
of the skin. the tissue is thrown up into
little mounds or cones, called papill3.
Into these run the small blood-vessels
and the sensitive nerve-endings. Some
times one of these papill@ takes on an
abnormal growth, which projects above
the level of the surrounding skin, and is
known as wart.
Since the enlarged papille may have
one of various shapes, the wart may be
pointed, or round, or Eattened, and may
be attached to the skin by base which
is broad or by small pedicle. Some
times the papilla Is branohed, and then
the wart appears to be split.
In what is known as the ''seed wart,"
which is very broad and fissured in va
rious directions, there is a series of
branches of the underlying papilla, each
branch being covered with its laver of
epldermls.
Warts grow generally upon the face
and hands, but no part of the body is
exempt from them. They are seen
most frequently in the young and the
very old, persons of middle-age being
less frequently attacked.
Sometimes crop will appear all at
once, almost in night, and they may
disappear with equal suddenness. The
reason for such appearance and disap-
pearance is rarely known, but the fact
has given rise to a widespread but base
less superstition that warts may be
charmed away
No one cause can be given for the APP
pearance of warts, but probably local ir-
ritation has something to do with it in
many cases. 1t is popular idea that
they are contagious, and certainly there
are facts which seem to point that way;
but what the nature of this contagion is
If there is any, is yet to be discovered.
Warts rarely appear singly, and may
reach enormous numbers as we'll as large
proportions.
Though in themselves all warts are
harmless, 1t is undoubtedly true that
they are sometimes the starting points
for cancerous disease. This is more
likely to occur when the wart is unduly
rubbed or irritated.
The commonest treatment is by the
use OF some form of mild caustic. Rather
more satisfactory, however, is the treat
ment by surgical procedures, either by
the knife or the sharp scraping spoon.
The process, whatever it is, must be a
thorough one, for if the papilla is not en-
tirely removed, the growth will speedily
recur-Youth's Companion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
REGARDING COUGHS.
A Cough Is Not Disease, But a SymptoI
of

!
4 Cough Is Not Disease, But Symptom
of Disease.
A cough is not a disease, but a symp-
tom of disease. The body is network
Of nerves, and sometimes q cough is q
response to remote irritation-solaa
trouble in the ear perhaps, 8 disturb
ance in the intestines, or a pressure on
some distant nerve.
1t may be due to enlarged tonsils, to
| long uvula, or to an inflamed mucous
membrane in any rart of the air passages,
| from the back-mouth down through tho
/ bronchial tubes.
/ In hysteria there is often an unmis-
taxable but useless cough, for which
there does not seem to be the slightest
reason. 1t is a single loud bark. wholly
unlike the peculiar, rapid succession of
sounds heard in most other coughs
There need be no alarm about it; it has
90 connection with any organic sease.
Every one is familiar with the spas
mode character of whooping cough-th3
long, whooping inspiration, followed at
length by the violent, repeated expirs-
tons. The spasm is wholly unlike that
u tISui uAd. ~ 10 COHIlIth W bLIN ldi la
which it partially closes.
The catching, painful character of the
cough of pleurisy is due to the fact that
the cough presses the lungs against the
inflamed mem brane the pleura by which
they are invested. In asthma there is
temporary spasmodic closure of the
bronchial tubes, producing a sense Ct
suffocation. As the spasm yields there
is copious expectoration of limpid
mucuS.
In consumption the irritation is not in
the mucous mem brane, but in the lung
substance. Hence, in the early stage Of
the disease, the cough is a mere hack,
there being little or nothing to raise; the
well-known cough of the later stage i3
connected with the ulcerous cond tion Of
the lungs.
1t is the Office of the mucous membrane
everywhere to sccrete thin, lubricat
ing fluid When this membrane is in
famed, the membraHe is not only much
increased, but is changed in quality. BE-
coming thick and tenacious. In infian.-
nation of the bronchial membrane, as in
bronchitis or common cold, the cough
is the only means of relieving the lungs
of what otherwise might cause fatal
suffocation. To arrest the cough, ara
leave the real trouble behind, would be
to kill the patient.
Much of our coughing, however, is use
less. By an effort of the will we may
often overcome the tendency to it. rs
the larynx is specially irritable at such
sx1 ~
bring on useless coughing-spen. A
slipping of linseed tea is here helpful !
protecting the sensitive nerves from tho
air with thin coating, and care should
be taken to breathe through the nose,
instead of through the mouth.-Youth 5
Companion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
TIE wlLes or WOMEN.
Trick, Played ~ Them on the Clerks of
Dry-Goods stores.

DeF-Goods stores.
No doubt" said dry-goods clerk.
you have seen the stories sometimes
told in the newspapers OF women who
order costly furs or other wraps sent
home on approval, and after wearing
them on the special occasion for which
they We're wanted returning them as un-
satisfactory You would be surprised
to know how common that thing is. We
find it out Sometimes-more times we
don't-but if the goods are returned un-
injured it rarely pays to say any thing
about it. Nothing is lost by the trick.
not even the sale Of the goods, for the
borrower had no intention of buying
them at any time. In this case, as in
the case of goods purchased at some
other store and brought 70 us to have
the money refunded, eternal vigilance
is the price of safety from imposition.
We need to know our goods more thor
oughly to avoid being imposed on than
we do to sell them.
They have a new racket now,
though" continued the talkative floor
walker, that goes ahead of all the rest
for downright meanness. 1t is getting
to be common practice with a certain
class of women to buy rather large dress
patterns, and after making up the dress
and finding they have yard or two left
over to bring US the remnant and ask
for the money on it. The other day we
bad line of goods which we cut up into
twelve-yard dress patterns and sold by
the pattern. One of our customers, a
woman in very comfortable circum-
stances, came in and bought six pat
terms. A few days afterward she re-
turned two pieces, with two and half
yards in each, and wanted the money
for them-or, rather. she wanted credit
for them, for, as it happened, she had an
account with us, and this enabled us to
trace the transaction. She had to be
confronted with the books, though, and
convinced that we knew exactly what
she had bought before she gave up the
attempt to economic at our expense.
The worst thing about this overreach-
ing business is that it is practiced
almost exclusively by women who are
not driven to it by poverty. Really
poor women seldom trouble us. They
buy what they want keep it, or if they
do bring it back it is usually to
exchange it for something else in the
same line, rarely for redemption in cash.
The people who drive hard bargains,
who find fault with every thing, and
who try to overreach us in every way
are those who consider themselves the
better class of society, women who dress
well, appear to have plenty of money,
and affect great Indignation if their
boldest lies are not instantly believed.
These are the customers that make a
salesman tired, and assure you there
is an infinite lot of them. "-Philadel-
phia Tnuuippr
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.



of Steam Boilers.
One of the severest tests of the strength
of steam boiler is due to the unequal
expansion and contraction of its differ
ent parts, owing to the effects of changes
in its temperature. In the case of fue
or tubular boilers, in which the fues or
tubes are more directly exposed to the
influence of heat than the hell, the
strain thus developed is tremendous,
the tubes or flues, or their material, ex-
banding lengthwise with a force calcu-
lated to tear the head out of the boiler.
Where the fiues are placed very near the
bottom of the boiler, in which case the
pressure is all on the lower side Of the
heads and the plates that keep them to-
yether, it is not unusual for these plates
to be ruptured or the seams sprung I'M
1erneath, causing troublesome and often
dangerous leaks.
The smaller the proportion of the sur
face of boiler that is exposed to the
heat, the more active will be the effect
of the expanding and contracting forces,
and in the case of some boilers, set
than half-exposed to the influence of the
atmosphere, the tremendous power ex-
ercised by the expansive heat Of the fire
below and the contraction due to the low
temperature above, are almost enough
to tear the boiler to pieces.
1t is the unequal expansion of she'll
and tubes, of the upper and lower shell,
that really does more injury to a steam
boiler than the expansion and contrac-
ton due to the changes in the pressure
of steam; the leakage and cases of
rupture that so often occur in the lower
seams and along the bottom of horizon
tally-fred boilers are unquestionably
due to these causes, and in very many
instances forced firing in getting up
steam on first starting the boiler is to
blame.
To avoid the injuries so often caused
to boilers in this manner, it is necessary,
therefore, to exercise great care in rails
ing steam in new boilers or those that
have been blown out and allowed to cool
down. The fire should be raised mod
erately and gradually and the boiler
moderately filed with water, so that
the increase in the temperature may be
gradual. In cooling off boiler the
same care must be exercised. The plan
adopted by some engineers, of turning
stream of cold water into the boiler as
soon as tits emptied, can not be too severe
" condemned nor should the furnace
doors be suddenly thrown open, or any
other proceeding taken that will result
in suddenly lowering the boiler temper
ature, rapid decrease in the heat being
quite as bad for the safety and durabili-
ty of the boiler as the moderate and I'M
equal increase above referred to.-Safe-
tv Valve.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
Washington Dress-Makers.

In with the well-known and we'll.
dressed people of Washington who make
the round of Cabinet calls on Wednes.
day afternoons there often appears sol
itary ones, and groups of women, who
seem to be little uneasy and out Of
their sphere at times, and to know no
one nor any thing of their surroundings.
In such group caller the other day
discerned her seamstress, and asking
who the others were she was answered:
80, we ere all the business. We've
come to see the styles. l can get more
by going round to the receptions one
afternoon than by studying a aozoa
fashion books. can see all the incest
house dresses and street dresses, and
know just how they are made. IN. Y.
World
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
WIVES AND HUSBANDS.
Statistics of Marital Cruelty Collected by
Pennsylvania Official.

~ IeDnsylVanIa Ofnclal.
An exception to the usual dullness Of
public documents is found in the report
of the Commissioner of Labor on mar
riages and divorces for 1889. This can
be said of only portion Of the volume,
for part of it is devoted to the repro
duction of the laws of the various States
relating to marriage and divorces, and
there is nothing more devoid of interest
to the average reader than book of
statutes, unless it be treatise on theol-
ogy.
That portion of the volume, however,
which treats of the peculiar kinds of
cruelty practiced by 45, 731 husbands
against their wives and 6,122 wives
against their husbands is of consuming
interest. One woman was granted d.
vorce because her husband persisted in
coming home at ten o'clock at night and
keeping her awake talking. This she
called mental cruelty, and the court
agreed with her. Another woman Sc
cured a divorce because her husband
cut off her bangs by force, and still an
other because her spouse refused to cut
his toe nails. One wife's feelings were
lacerated to the point of legal separa-
ton because her husband would not
wash himself, thus causing her great
mental anguish. The sensibilities of
another wife were outraged past cure
because her husband said her sister was
a thief
Some of the cases of cruelty practiced
by wives upon their husbands were
equally heartrending. One wife cruelty
refused to sew on her husbands buttons
witness testifying to have seen him
with but one button to his vest. To add
to his anguish and the sympathy of the
court this cruel wife restrained her low
ing husband from going to fires at night
Another wife charged her husband with
being no man at all, which so wrung his
heartstrings that nothing short of a
divorce would aliay his anguish. A wife
who pulled her husband out of bed by
his whiskers was adjudged by the court
fl only TO travel in single harness I'M
less she could find another man who
didn't mind having his whiskers pulled
A wife who weighed 100 pounds broke
her husbands ribs with stove-lid and
another lost her husband because she
cruelty and maliciously beat him with
her hustle.
These specimens of marital cruelty
will lead the average reader to cease
wondering that marriage is a failure in
so many instances. Their publication
will also convince the public that de-
partment reports may serve some other
use than to demonstrate to constituents
that the Congressman who distribute
them are great men. If the reports on
marriage and divorce that follow main
tain the thrilling interest of the first
number, sensational newspapers may as
well go out of business at once. No one
will read a divorce case in the newspa-
pers who can get whole volume of
divorce cases for nothing .-PhiIadel-
phia Times
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
The Color of the Sea.

The cause of the generally blue color
of the deep sea is accounted for by refer
ence to certain principles connected with
the science of optics. Probably most are
aware that light consists of the set OF
colors which we see so beautifully dis
played in the rainbow. Now, it IS
law of light that, when it enters any
body, and is either reflected or trans
mitted to the eye. certain portion OF
it. consisting of more or less OF its
colors, is lost in the body; the remaining
color, being reflected, strikes our visual
sense. and whatever color that may be,
the object seems of that color. Now, it
chances that the portion of light most
ant to be reflected from masses of trans
parent fluid is the blue, and hence it is
that the air and the sea both appear Of
this color.-N. Y. Ledger.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
rrgEslos FRAGMENTS.

SILK articles should not be kept fold
"a IN white papers. as the chloride OF
lime used in bleaching the paper viii
impair the color of the silk.
Any thing that is accidentally made
,oo salt can be counteracted by adding
a teaspoonful of sugar and teaspoonful
of vinegar.
Apple Cream: Stew some apples, leav-
inc the quarters whole. Skim them out
in a dish, and with an egg-beater whip
one cup of sweet cream and one cup of
sugar, and pour over the apples.
To Cure Bacon: For a brine for
fifty pounds of meat take three and a
half pounds of salt, two pounds of brown
sugar. ten ounces of saltpetre, and water
sufficient to cover the meat. Boil the
brine until all scum has risen, skim and
let cool. Pack the meat loosely, and
pour the brine over it. Let it remain
six weeks. and it is ready to smoke.
Neapolitan Cream: Boil half pint
of milk, the yelks of four eggs, and two
tablespoonfuls of sugar. Let cool. Cut
up three ounces of preserved ginger.
Decorate mold with candied fruit. Stir
an ounce of gelatine, melted, in half a
pint of whipped cream, add to the Gus.
tard, and mix in the ginger preserves.
Pour into the mold, set on ice; when
ready to serve, turn out on a glass dish.
Yankee Blade.
If you could once make up your
mind never to undertake more work OF
any sort than you can carry on calmly,
quietly, without hurry or furry, and the
instant you feel yourself growing nerv.
Gus, would stop and take breath; you
would find this simple, common-sense
rule doing for you what no prayers OF
tears could ever accomplish.-Eliza
Prentiss.
--Sausages without cases: Chop fine
six pounds of pork having about twice
as much lean as fat, add three ounces OF
fine salt, and pepper and sage to taste
Mix the seasoning well through the
meat, pack as firmly as possible in stone
Jars and keep we'll covered in a COO
place. As wanted, form into fiat cakes
with the hand and fry to nice brown
To keep them during the winter OF
longer, fry as above, pack in jars and
cover with hot lard. Keep well covered
Rolled Fish: Take some tillets OF
any white fish, wash in salt and water
wipe them carefully and place on {
board or any fiat surface and sprinkle
each one with salt, pepper, sage, minced
parsley and cracker crumbs, and the las
thing add snail pieces of butter; rol
the fillets up and secure them with I
string or sl1ewer; lay them on very THU
slices of pork in a baking pan, add hal
cupful of water, cover the fish with
buttered paper and bake half or three
quarters of an hour; prepare some toast
butter it well, and place each roll on
slice; sprinkle with lemon juice and drie'
parsley, and serve with drawn butter
Boston Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
ENGLISH FORTUNES.
This win show why the British Are In
vssting Over Here.

This VIII show Why the British Are In
vssting Over Here.
One ceases to wonder at the amour.
of British capital seeking Investment in
the United States after looking over a
wears record of the money left by viii
in the United Kingdom. The person
alties" of dead Britons or of deceased
residents of Great Britain sworn to in
1889 for purposes Of probate and of sue
cession duty reached imposing sums.
One dry goods iohber in Mauchesterdied
uossessed of So. 500, coo Of PERSONA
property: a Clyde ship builder comes
next with S.. 800, 600. and a member OF
the great banking house Of the Baring@
follows hard upon him with $500, 600.
A scion Of the House Of Orleans.
Count Greffulhe, died possessed OF 50,
500. 600. in England; and Scottish peer.
the Earl of Leven and Melville, left for
division among his heirs $4,000. 600.
What we call millionaires-nObOdy there
with less than $1,000, coo being so de-
nominated-were numerous, Manchester
alone had ten of them ranging from
81. 100, 600 of personally" to $1,000, 600.
James Jameson, the great Dublin dis
tiller. left s., AGO, 600 of hard cash, OF
what may be called its portable equiva-
lent. and in England Brewer Dan
Thwaites left 81. 100000
A Cork brewer w. H. Crawford, had a
sworn personally" Of $1,000 900, and
there were eight other deceased brewers
whose estates were liable to SUGGEST on
II 10
that impress on the English mind the
idea that there is in beer, as there was
in DR.. Johnson's day, 1.-The potentiality
of growing rich beyond the dream OF
avarice."
Even the railroad magnates left less
impressive aggregate, though one OF
them-Sir Daniel Gooch, chairman OF
the Great Western, died possessed OF
( SIS, $50, 600, and of two mere railroad en-
/ gineers, one was worth $500, 600 and an
other $40, O00.
The richest representative of the iron
industry, who died in 1882 was manu-,
facturer of plows, worth 81, 100 000-a
sum exceeded by the personally" Of a
London gas-fitter, whose heirs divided the
snug little sum of $1,000 eco But even
he does not come up to John Nevill,
baker-who ever heard Of millionaire
baker on this side of the Atlantic2
whose personally" is sworn at 81, 4OO,-
900.
F 1t must be remembered that all this is
in personal or movable property, and
that real estate does not count in the
enumeration, not being liable to success
sion duty-Chatter.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
A Pretty SIumber Pillow.

Make two oblong cushions, each 11sz
inches long and s inches wide when
finished Cover the outside of each with
plain or figured plush and the underside
with some contrasting shade of China
silk or surah, and fill with cotton.
Fasten four brass rings, covered with
crocheted silk, TO the opposite corners
OF the cushions and tie together with
two full bows of ribbon. Suspend over
the back of a chair, allowing one
cushion to fall in front and the other be-
hind. If plain plush is used, the effect
is heightened by working the words:
Rest thee on this messy pillow" or
other appropriate words in graceful let
ters across the front of the cushion
Farm and Home.