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The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27
Food and Health.


 The tendency of the age is to- ward greater refinement in food as in other departments of living, even among the middle classes. In a-lecture lately before the Smith, sonian Institution, on "Food and Health," Professor Atwater, of the Wesleyan University at Middletown Conn, treated specially ofthis trend of our habits toward greater luxury in living, and his remarks were full of suggestions and warming for the constant growing armY-of epicures of the world. Professor Atwater quoted from Sir Henry Thompson as follows: "I have come to the conclusion that more than half the disease which embitters the middle and the latter part of life is due to avoidable errors in diet, and that more mischief in the form of actual disease, of impaired vigor, and of shortened life accrues to civilized man in England and throughout central Europe from erroneous hab- it's of eating than from the habitual use of alcoholic drink, considerable as I know that evil to be-" Profess sor Atwater holds that this evil of over eating, be it great or small, is confined practically to the classes to whom generous fortune, unchecked by reasonable restraint, allows it. 'There are" he says, countless suf- ferers from dietary habit into which self indulgence has not tempted, but relentless fate has forced upon them. The over fed pay for pleas ure the penalty of pain" Another great cause of stomachic troubles Tn thls country has always been the haste with which food is literally "bolted" by men of nearly all class es. They could not or would not take the time necessary to the pro- per eating of meal, preferring to rob themselves of health than to rob their business of even a few minutes personal attention. But we are growing away, slowly, from this bad habit, and the time is ap- preaching when Americans will have good digestions to wait upon appetite. te.--Pittsburgh Chronicle Tel- egraph.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27
kaGSaS Farms.

According to ex-Governor Click, of Kansas. the farms of that state are mortaged for $250,0O0,OOO. As the assessed value of these farms is only $1S0,0OO,OO0, it is apparent that the money lenders have been recklessly generous, assuming that the full value of the mortgages rep resents the amount of money loan ed. However, no anxiety need be felt for the banks and mortgage companies. They will look out for themselves.
 The farmers are the ones who are in need of sympathy. Kansas is one of the best agricultural states in the Union. The crops there ale reasonably certain and may be counted upon as being fairly good.
 Some years the yield IS enormous. As a rule there is fair market. And yet with all these advantages, the money obligations resting on the farms are greater in the ag- gregate than the cash value of the land. What does this condition of things prove? Either, that farming is an unproftable industry, or that the Kansas farmers are not as thrif- ty as they should be.
 We apprehend that the former is the case, as the farmers are hard working and economical. As a rule they hire nothing done which they can do themselves, and it is very little money they spend fool ishly or unwisely.-Gazette.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27
The Mckinley Tariff Bill.

Washington March 12'-The Mo- Kinley Tariff bill is now practically completed, and early next week, in all probability, it will be presented to the House.
 The wool schedule, over which there has been great controversy, has been satisfactorily adjusted. Wools of the first and second class are to pay a duty respectively of11 and F cents per pound. Carpet wools valued at less than 12 cents per pounds will pay 2 cents, and those invoiced at more than 12 cents will pay 8 cents per pound. Wash ed wool will pay twice the duty i'm posed on unwashed /; secured wool of the second class three times, and of the third class, two and one-half times the duty on unwashed.
 The duty on steel rails will be fixed at about $13 per ton. Among the most important changes will be the doubling of the duty on barley and hay. The duty on beans and peas will probably go to 40 cents per bushel and potatoes to 25 cents. Eggs will pay 5 cents per dozen duty and apples 25 cents per bush el. The duty on hides will proba- ply be placed at ten per cent ad valorem. The Sugar schedule has not yet been determined, though it is said that the duty will be placed at the least at 50 per cent and a bounty of 10 per cent to the pro- ducer. The internal revenue on to- bacco-except on cigars and che roots-will be abolished.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27
Why He Left.

The Tombstone Prospector says Hon. G. G. Hicks, of that town, left for the east last Saturday nev- CT to return and that the reason why he left is that Jerry Barton, who is now in the penitentiary and will be liberated this month, had sworn to kill Hicks when he got out. Barton was sent up a little over three years ago tor breaking an old mans neck with his fist dur ing a row in Tombstone. Hicks was member 1.-the last legisla- ture from Cochise county and was one of the kids of the Assembly. What he did to incur the ill-wilI of Barton is not stated.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

The Alaska Commercial Compa- ny loses it's valuable exclusive priv ilege of taking fur seal upon the islands of St. Paul and St. George because of the competition excited by it's large profits. The North American Commercial Company of New York, which is to have the lease, is to pay more than three times as much per annum as was paid by the Alaska Company. On the basis of 100000 seals per an- mum the Government will receive about $1,000,000 per annum, as against $300,000 required under the old lease. The exclusive priv ilege is to run for twenty years. The purchase of Alaska was pretty good business speculation, as these figures show. The United States paid only $7 100000 for the coun- try, and it has immense undevelop- ed resources besides these seal fish, eries.-Philadelphia Ledger,
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27
"SOcial and Moral Reform"

We have been drifting along with
 sublime confidence in the civilizing
 and pacific influence ofpopular ed
 ucation- Unfortunately, education does not necessarily make good cit
 izens. The Socialists who are leap ing to the front in Germany, the
 Nihilists in Russia, and the follow CTS of John Burns in England are
 better educated than the orderly
 and satisfied elements of their rank in life. We must look to something
 besides education for the protection of society and established institu- tions. Governments must govern or go to pieces. The owners of pro- perty must own it or turn it over to the mob. The officers of the law must take charge of the enemies of public order or prepare to be overwhelmed by them. All attempts to compromise and conciliate the dangerous agitators who are striking at organized society will result in untold evil. We hear too much about social and moral reforms. They merely conceal the devils work in nearly every instance. They are started and pushed forward to turn one set of men cut of office to make room for another set, They are championed by lazy and worthless fellows who have found out that they can make living by talking to the crowd and passing around the hat. The best reforms are of slow growth. God brings them about in the course of centuries and ages. We can not in day turn evil into good, darkness into light and revolutionize human na- ture. While we are wondering what the socialistic outcome will be in Europe, we should pay some atten- tion to what is going on under our noses. With two million Socialists in this country, and Bellamy and George making converts every day, 1t is time for us to take steps to maintain the reign of law in every State, city, and town. We should do this not because society is in serious danger. but because justice to good citizens demands the sup pression of vagrants and outlaws, whether they call themselves rob- bers of reformers.-Atlanta Con- stitution.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

Cattle thieves became so bold in Lincoln county that the legitimate stockmen finally organized a posse headed by a deputy sheriff, and made raid on the Mckenzie ranch, who is supposed to be the ring lead CT. The gang" had been informed of their coming and had skipped, but Mckenzie was captured and a large number of burnt cattle recov- ered.-Albuquerque Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

The fact begins to crop out here and there, through theory and spec ulation, that nobody knows yet what is the real warlike value of some of the most costly and impor- tant improvements that have been made or proposed. Is a hundred ton gun so much more powerful than ten-ton gun that it's efficien- cy will repay the increased cost? Is ten-thousand-ton ship, cased in a foot of steel armor all over, so much more destructive to an ene- my's navy or commerce or sea-coast cities than a small, swift, well-arm- ed vessel that it will pay to recon struct navies, partially, at least, with big ships? Nobody knows by trial or experience.-Indianapolis News.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27
The Farmers in Politics.

To-day, from various and com
 plex causes, the farmers of the West
 are very heavily in debt, in soTe
 regions they will be quite unable D
 meet their obligations, and ruin lit
 erally stares them in the face. In these circumstances it is natural
 that they should apply to the Gov
 ernment for relief. But the Gov
 ernment cannot give them more
 than temporary relief, and ought
 not to do even that. In the first
 place the Government has no money
 of it's own to lend and can have
 none. The Government is not corporation or an individual. It is simply an agency to do public busi- ness, and with the power to collect money from it's employers for the purposes of that business. This money is that of the people. It is trust fund, and though the trust for which it is raised is necessarily somewhat indefinite and must some times be interpreted by the trustees themselves, it is just as much a trust, and it does not and cannot embrace lending the peoples money to any class of the people them selves. In the next place, if money raised in this way could rightfully be loaned to the farmers, it would give them no permanent relief. Bor- rowed money cannot be used in any business to advantage unless the business is profitable enough to pay the ordinary rate of interest and gradually repay the principal. If farming in any given instance could do that, the money could be got elsewhere than from the Treasury that is to say, from the tax-pay- CTS. If it cannot do that, then to tax the rest of the people to lend money below the common rate to the farmers would only postpone the end; it could not prevent it's coming sooner or later. The true remedy, the only remedy, for the farmer is not to seek other peoples money to carry on an unproftable business, but to do all he can to make the conditions favorable for profit in his business. The first and most direct step is by his vote to aid in the repeal of the tariff taxes by which he, who must sell in the cheapest market in competition with the world, is forced to buy in the dearest market from men who are protected by Jaw from any com petition except from each other. We are not rash enough to predict that when this is done all Ameri- can farming will become profitable, but we know that this will remove one of the chief causes for it's pres ent unproftable condition.-New York Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27
Yes, He Wants the Powers.

Some three weeks ago the Star
 published a special dispatch from
 Washington, in which it was stated that Governor Wolfiey was endeav- bring to have a law passed by which he, as Governor, could remove for cause any territorial or county off cer. The publication of that dis patch caused no little excitement, and some pretty strong language was indulged in against the Cover nor for attempting to have such a law passed. The Governors friends came to the rescue and declared the contents of the Stars special was untrue. The Citizen, declared edi- torially, in effect, that there must be a mistake out somewhere that Governor Wolfey would not be guilty of an attempt to secure to himself such autocratic power, and the Star shared in the same opinion for the simple reason that we had been led to believe that our Cover nor was of American birth and ed ucation, both of which have a ten dency to frown down the lone man power" idea.
 Governor Wolfey returned from the east Thursday morning. The Citizen published an interview with him in Friday evenings issue, in which this subject is discussed, and admitted in plain words that he is endeavoring to have enacted a law which will give the very power claimed by the Stars Washington special.
 He wants the power to remove all territorial and county officials, and points to the fact that if his law had beenin operation he could have the sheriff and district at torney of Yuma county for what he calls the Behaa- Gillespie trouble.
 Then he wants to remove the asy- lum commissioners and prison commissioners. He says: "It is for the Governor to car ry out the faithful execution of the laws, unless he has some direct power for emergency. The slow process of courts almost gives the incumbent an increased length of official life rather than hastening his removal"
 There is now no room for doubt ing Governor Wolfley's position; he wants to be the law making pow CT, the court and the executive.
 He has been in Washington three months, trying to make laws for Arizona, forcing laws upon our peo- pie which our legislators have re- pealed, and which gives him the power of removal and he to be the sole power of Arizona.
 For he himself hath said it
 And It's much to his discredit, That he aspires to make, interpret and
 execute the law. -[Tucson Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

The Pennsylvania Railroad, with the Pennsylvania Company, will heat all their passenger cars next season with steam. The number of cars now in service which will be hereafter heated with steam is be- tween 1,200 and 1 800, and it will cost somewhere near $25O,OOO to do the work.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27
The Boomerang.

This curious and unique weapon about which so much has been writ ten and so little is really known, is
 a curved piece of wood, slightly convex on one side and nearly flat on the other. It is cut from a natu- raj bend or root of a tree, tie hard est and heaviest wood being always selected, and its curve follows the grain of the wood, Thus it will vary from slight curve to nearly right angle, no two ever being the same shape. It is about three eighths of an inch thick, and from two to three inches wide, tapering toward the ends, which are either round or pointed. The edge is shar- pened all around, and the length varies from fifteen inches to three and half feet. This is the shape of boomerang, but the secret of its peculiar flight is to be found not so much in its general form as in its surface. This, on examina- tion, is found to be slightly waving and broken up by various angles. These angles balance and counter
 balance one another; some, by
 causing differences in the pressure of air on certain parts, give steadi- ness of flight and firmness; others give buoyancy, and each Eas gen. orally to be determined practically bY experimental throwing. Some boomerangs appear to be mere dent ed or crooked sticks, but they are really implements which some black man has whittled and scraped till these dents or angles have been properly adjusted according to the boomerang principle. I believe it is possible to make a boomerang by exact mathematical calculation but yet I have never seen two exact ly alike. I have made two, appar- ently the same in every particular, yet while one rose buoyantly, the other fell dead because of some un- true adjustment of the angles of it's faces. When all angles are proper ly arranged the boomerang goes through the air somewhat as a screw-propeller goes through the water-whirling rapidly in it's flight like revolving wheel. Gravitation and the force with which it is di- rected cause it's peculiar swallow like swoops, which are prolonged by the action of the floating angles in counteracting gravitation; con- sequently, with spent force it is still kept on the wing, and often reaches the ground considerably behind the hrower-Scribner's Magazine.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

The statistics of the foreign trade of the Dominion for 1889 are inter esting. As usual, the United States and Great Britain took most of the Canadian trade-about 90 per cent of the whole, reckoning export and imports together. The United States in 1888 led Great Britain in both, taking from Canada APO per cent. of her exports, as compared with A A per cent. exported to Great Britain, and selling to Canada 5006 per cent. of her imports against 35.56 per cent. sold by Great Britain. In 1889 the exports of Canadian pro- ducts to this country amounted to S36,503, ,297 the exports to Great Britain to $33, ,504,3 ,344. This is a falling off as compared with 1888, of sS73,S7 in exports to this coun- try, and of $144.0O3 in exports to Great Britain.-Boston Journal,
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

Compound locomotives are to be the railway engines of the future, in the opinion of Mr. T. Urquhart, of the London Institution of Me- chanical Engineers. In competi- tive trials compound locomotive consumed p per cent less fuel than an ordinary locomotive running un- der exactly the same conditions.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

The American eagle is said to be dying off fast. late estimate places the entire visible supply in the United States at 300.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

German blood rules che old world. All the monarchs of Europe are blood relations ot Kaiser Wilhelm.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

In Russia only 12 per cent of the population can read and write; in Bulgaria 75 per cent, and in Brazil Is per cent.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

One Bangor man expects to make over $50.000 on ice speculations this season,
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

Ne Fly half of tie exports of J;.- pan are shipped to this country.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

Not one of New York's 60,O0O Hebrews is a saloon keeper.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

Kentucky has two counties in which there is not single church.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

Every governor of Iowa since 1859 IS; still living. @%'
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

The Brooklyn navy yard contains forty acres. It cost S40,0Q0,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-07
HOW FLIES DIE.
A Kind of Fungus That Makes
Havoc With the Insects.

A Kind of Fungus That Makes
Havoc With the Insects.
London Globe.
Like many other insects, house flies
are subject to the attacks of parasitic
fungus which destroys great numbers
of them, especially towards the END of
autumn. We sometim es see the corpses
of such as have met this fate glued to
the window paneS in the attitude of
life, with legs widely spread and wings
raised as if in preparation for flight.
but with white halo on the glass all
round them, and with bodies pale, I'M
healthy looking and distended. The
spores of the fungus, which are excess
siyely minute and are present i'm the
air, are carried against the fly's body,
and such as strike its under surface
may become adherent, when each spore
sends out long tubular projection,
which penetrates the skin and enters
the body.
Once here, its hosts doom is certain,
says knowledge. for it meets with
suitable nOurishment in the shape of
the fluids of the fly's body, by aid of
which it will speedily propagate itself
until its victim, drained of its life sup
port, finally Succumbs. The thread
like tube fret produces a series of de
tached, rounded bodies, something like
the cells of the yeast plant. These cells,
which have an indefinite power of self
multiplication, are carriedsby the blood
to all parts of the body, and thus the
disease spreads. They, in their turn,
give rise to number of branching tu-
bular threads, similar to those of the
earlier stage, which in process of time
penetrate the skin. Each thread which
thus makes its appearance outside
gives rise to a sort OF head. which con-
tains spores like those with which the
series started. These are cast Off with
considerable force. and multitudeS of
them no doubt perish, while others are
ultimately waited against the bodies of
other flies, to deal destruction among
them as among their predecessors.
The particular species of fungus
which makes havoc with the house flies
is called empuSa muSce, and is one of a
group which are distinguished by their
habit of subsisting upon living insects.
The maturation of the fungus involves
the death of the fly. the fluids of whose
body serve as food for the parasite.
Under its attack the fly becomes grad
ually feebler, and finally quite unable
to move, and then the yiscid secretion
from the pads on the feet hardens and
CLUES the insect to the surface to which
it is clinging, while the fungus spreads
sround it and leaves some of its spores
adherlng so as to form the halo above
described.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-07
NO BURIALS ALIVE.
Careful Investigation Shows tn
Falsity of Recent Reports.

SdTSAui AusesISdtIOn SHOWS the
Falsity of Recent Reports.
Medical and Surgical Reporter.
The fear of being buried alive haunts
the minds of so many of our fellow-men
that it may hardly be regarded as
strange. in some respects, that it was
recently reported that a number of
physicians in city near Philadelphia
had banded themselves. together to de-
wise means to prevent such catastro-
phe III their own case. And, when
physicians could take such measures in
view OF supposed danger, it is not re-
markable that the community should
have special and exaggerated horror
of being buried alive. But this horror
is as without reason as is the timidity
OF the physicians referred to.
There seems to be no good ground
whatever for supposing that it Is pos
slble in this enlightened age for any
person to be committed to the grave
while yet living. Stories reporting such
occurrences are by no means rare, but
any one who examines them closely
will certainly remark that they are
wholly lacking in originality, and that
there is, III fact. so strong resemblance
between them as to excite the suspicion
that one has been copied from another,
Investigation will show, too, that this
suspicion is well-foundcd one. AT
least such has been the experience of
the editor Of the Medical and Surgical
reporter. who has for some years fol-
lowed up every story of burial alive
which came to his notice, and always
with the result of learning that they
were false, or of failing to learn any
thing about thelr origin
The most recent experience of this
sort occurred in connection with story
published in the daily papers on June
TO- 1890. a man buried alive in Chicago
After tracing the story from one point
of the newspaper world to another it.
was found to have originated in a Chi
cago paper, which said the man had
been sent as dead from hospital in
that city OH Feb. %, and that afteward
he had been buried, that the buriers
had heard sounds like knocking on the
coffin lid, but went ahead with the
burial, and that alter an interval the
grave was opened and the coffin lid
removed to disclose that the man
had turned over, torn his hair out,
buried his fingers in his flesh, and so.
on. At the end of our investigation we
received letter from the hospital stat
ing that it never had patient of the.
name given; that no person died in the
hospital on the date given, and treating
the story as hoax. The Associated
Press agent in Chicago, who started the
story round the country, on being asked
II he thought there was any truth in ii,
replied to our representative: Il am not
suppose to believe everything these fell
lows (meaning the reporters) WRITE"