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The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
CATCHING COLD MEANS HEAT.

sitting In Stuhy Air Far Moro Dangerous
Than Drafts.
At this time of the year nothing Is
more important than an answer to the
question, What do We mean when We
say We have taken cold? In q literal
sense, We have done no such thing: and
. modern writer has suggested that
what is called catching cold" would be
better expressed by the phrase catching
heat
What actually takes place is some
thing a. follows: We expose some
part Of the body to . draft; the surface
becomes chilled, aud the circulation, to
some extent, is arrested; the blood and
other fluids are sent in another direc-
ton. What should have been thrown
out through the surface is turned in on
the mucous membranes; and, a. these
parts become congested, sneezing takes
place; there is An abnormal quantity OF
fluids thrown upon the mucous sur
faces, and the system makes An effort TO
get rid of it.
This taking cold" may he caused
by sitting for q few moments in . strong
current Of cool air. It may be the back
of the neck that is exposed, or it may
be some other part Of the body. Hold
ing the hands in very cold water for .
considerable length of time will often
cause one to take cold. Or sitting with
cold feet will do the same thing, es-
pecially if the general circulation IS
feeble. Clothing one part of the body
too much and another part too little
will frequently give n o cold. Any.
thing that arrests the free circulation OF
the blood and sends it on the mucous
surface may produce this effect. :
The most frequent u of all. per
haps, OF taking cold is the one stated,
that of catching heat" Sitting for
hours in q room where the temperature
is 80 degrees or upward, and then going
out into q colder atmosphere frequently
produces this cold; this is particularly
the case where tho air is not only hot
but impure. In fact. We think the I'M
purity has more to do with it than the
heat, and the two combined will rarely
fail to cause an influenza Or sore throat,
sometimes a full-iedged pneumonia.
BY exposing ones self to hot, foul all
the whole skin is for the time debill'
tated, and On reaching q cooler atmos'
| phere the blood is driven from the sur
face, and congestion Of the mucous
membranes will almost certainly follow
| either there is cold on the lungs" or q
sore throat, or there is An attack Of acute
catarrh.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
ALTERNATING Italian.

Antonio Rappatro is a small sized but
energetic Italian iaborer employed in
digging dirt 10 Schenley Park, Pitts
burgh. He wanted to grow rich rapidly,
but being ~uneducated, without capital
to engage in business and with no skill
on account of which a higher premium
would be paid him. he resolved to work
over time. For many weeks past he
combines the position of dirt digger by
dav but that of Waterman at night,
never feeling it necessary to sleep one
instant. When asked when he slept he
replied that he only INDUCED in the
luxury of = bed during the winter. If
Antonio is really . alternating animal
Pittsburgers may feel it profitable to
pension him and keep him n exhibit
tiOn.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
A~lunchausen in Kansas.

A Dakota man ard q Kansas man
we're sitting on cracker boxes at q
grocery store, and the Dakota man had
Just told . story about the big beets
that were raised on the Red River. 1t
was so large q story that q fiour-bsrrel
near the stove cOughed suspiciously
and the Kansas man whitfield oil q
larger slice of pine than usual from tae
corner of his box. Finally he said, in
q pensive tone, as if calling up the de-
tails gradually out of q roomy past:
Il remember when l went to Kansas
in the spring of '68 it was awfully dry,
but I had great faith in the productive
ness of the soil, and l put in eighty
r of the finest seed wheat you ever
saw. 1t didn't rain all summer, and
not q spear of that wheat came up.
well, gentlemen, 1 a tell you 1
felt pretty sad. But I managed to
scrape through the winter and the next
spring I sowed the same piece of land
to barley. But it didn't rain . drop all
that year. and not a blade of the barley
came out of the ground.
"You may depend upon it, l fell
pretty nigh discouraged. But with the
help of my wife's relation l pulled
through the winter. l had great faith
in the soil and the next spring l sowed
the same piece of ground to oats If
YOU will believe me. not q drop of rain
fell all summe and the oats never
came up.
That was the summer of 20. Well,
in that fall it began to rain, and it did
rain. The flood was o tributary to tina:
rain. It kept right on raining all
spring, and in July I had the finest
crop of wheat you ever saw-the wheat
that I sowed in '6S, you understand.
Il harvested it and just after it was
all in it began to rain again and the
next summer the finest crop Of barley
you ever saw came up, the barley that
1 sowed in 80. 1t was q fine crop and
I paid off all my remaining debt with it.
The next spring We had q fine rain,
and the oats that l had planted in 20
began to come up, and"
The Kansas man looked up and saw
that he was alone. Even the flour
barrel had edged away behind the
stove, and the Kansas man smiled as he
said to himself, "The soil of Kansas is
remarkably productive" Youths
Com DduiON.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
willing to Qualify.

Did yez advertise for q coachman,
sor?' asked . smsrt-looking Irishmsn
of a member of the local Four Hundred.
Yes. Have you had experience?"
~Yis. sor three years."
Are You a married man."
No. sir"
You won't do then. ] want . mar
ried man..
The applicant looked crestfallen for
. moment, and then his c~ountenance
frightened again.
-Plaze, sor. yez have siversl young
ladies in the family, have yez not?'
Il have three daughters. but what's
that to you?"
Well. ther. if sez'il hoire me, OH
marry wan Of thin As aeon as Oh . q
-R1Tnlo Express.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

The day of miracles is not over. If We
nav believe the associated Press.
The newest is reported from Racine.
Wis, where. as We are told. q woman
Vas tossed by a bull and gored. Upon
her descending she vas trampled in a
shocking manner. Now it does the
bull infinite credit that he refraiued
from climbing into the circnmambient
atmosphere aud trsmpling tile woman
before she came down, but ones graft
tude is merged in won! Ter when he Is
told: THE G.: 1rea he'd 0nt of the
house upon he. II tie scsrs Of the
bull, and drac al liz -. ~>= form Of
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
AN HAND.
An Artificial Member with Which . MAJ
Can Do Every Kind OF Labor.

IN Artificial Member With Which . Man
Can Do Every Kind Of Labor.
Some months ago Willard A. Lucas.
son of MI. Samuel Lucas, the wool man.
uflcturer of POQuetanuck. Conn. had
his right hand severed in his fathers
mill, and since Mr.. Lucas, ST., who has
inventive genius, has used every effort
to replace the missing member with as
useful a substitute as possible.
After visiting or writing TO the
most prominent makers Of artificial
limbs in America, he learned
that it was in vain to search, either in
this country or Europe, for All artificial
hand that could be uscd in doing work.
ThereupOn Mr.. Lucas determined to
make a hand himself; but he tOiIed per-
sistentlv day and night for four months
before he was successful. He has pro-
duced an aluminium hand that is very
much like an old time steel gauntlet, and
that is almost as handy as is a natural
hand. The fingers are all perfect in
shape and appearance, and the joints
bend like those OF human fingers. 1t is
smaller than the natural hand, but with
it a man can do every kind of work.
Mr.. Willard Lucas has worn one OF the
artificial hands for several weeks, and
with it can grasp and handily use all
kinds Of farm tools, pick up things from
the ground, drive, handle a gun-im fact,
use his metal hand quickly and skiilfully
at any work. Like the natural hand.
the artificial one consists of a palm that
is provided with a fastening by which it
is attached to the cork or wooden stump
that all One-handed men wear in place OF
the missing member. and of fingers and
a thumb. the joints of which are worked
by q ratchet, SO that they may be bent
forward at any angle and held there. The
hand may be either tightly closed or only
partly shut, and only one finger or all
the fingers may be closed at once and
instantly by striking them against the
body or other object. To release the
fingers it is necessary only to touch 4
small spring on the back of the hand.
The invention is a nearly perfect sub
stitutc for the natural hand and the
only thing of the kind In the world.
Willard Lucas AYERS he would not part
with the device for a fortune if it were
not possible to reproduce it. . Ey means
of an ingcnius cOntrivance the artificial
hand may be moved sideways at the
place where it is attached to the arm OK
actly as the natural hand is moved.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

IT would seem that the cattle barOns
ought to adopt some system OF properly
caring for their stock. Their present
method Is wasteful, II not wicked. 1t Is
estimated that more than 100000 cat
tie and other animals died last winter in
the extreme western and southern states
and territories of neglect and starvation.
and probably hundreds Of thousands
were frozen to death.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
Hoods SarsapariIla
SHIL0n'S
CURE.

The success Of this Great Cough Cure Is
without a parallel in the history Of medicine.
All druggists are authorized to sell it on a pos
tive guarantee, attest that no other cure can sue
cessfully stand. That it may become known,
the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are
placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home
in the United States and Canada. If you have
a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis. use il, for
it will cure you. II your child has the Group.
or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief
is sure. If you dread that insidious disease
Consumption. use it. Ask your Druggist fog
SHILOH'S CURE, Price 10 cts. 50 cts. and
$I.oo. If your Lungs are sore or Back lame,
use Shiloh's Porous Plaster, Price IS ctA
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

IT il about time that some humani-
tartan or other did something in the
way of carrying relief to Cuba, where
things seem to be about rs bad - they
are in Ireland. Cuba has suffered ct
the hands of Spain Is cruelty Is Ireland
has suffered at the hands of England,
and it is only because, from the email
number of Cubans in this country, We
have heard of it less frequently that the
case seems to us any less pitiful
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

An Austrian baroness is reported by
cable gossip to he q thief. Some mis-
take must have been made in the trans
mission of the news by wire or else the
Austrians do not understand the deli
cate shade OF meaning between the
words thief and kleptomaniac.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

FIRE proof stables are not uncommon
in Germany and n very simply built.
Timbers like railroad ties are placed
from three and one-half to four feet
apart, arch corrugated iron posts be-
tween them and filled in with q mixture
of cinders and lime, making it deep
enough to protect the timbers. The
trap or door to reach the loft is made of
sheet iron, filled in with the same COM
pound. This kind of fire proofing is
very cheap and very effective.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

PRINCE BIsMARCK's addition Of beer
brewing to his immense distilling in-
terests has created much comment
throughout Europe. 1t is thought to
be somewhat o lowering of the ex-
Chancellor's dignity. The :capital fol-
the new concern for producing the
Bismarck rau" seems rather modest
it is only $4,000. Eleven FER cent.
dividend on the capital is promised.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

IT is reported that an electrical en-
gineer is at work ~perfecting his great
invention, the electrical hired girl. She
will be made of steel and hoop iron,
and will be handsomely nickle plated.
No brass will he used in her. She will
never have . beau, and will new 60 to
the villa on Sunday. She will be able
to do anything except play the piano.
By simply touching the right button
she will cook, wash, iron, make the beds
or rock the baby, Just rs You wish.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

sInever expected to win" said John
Connerton, q victim Of the late election.
Il only ran to see how many lying suns
of guns there was on the Comstock. At
least Ii hundred and fifty voluntarily
promised to vote for me. i was out
over $500 for drinks, aud see here L
only got one vote. I'm making mp a
list of EN- to publish in pamphlet form:
Talk about champion id liars. l
can show you five hundred that can dis
count old Tom Pepper. and he vas
kicked out of h for lying.'-"-
oinid (Ner.) Chronicle.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

PH1LADELpHIANs who have such
pleasure in obituary notices in their
favorite papers are surprised and
charmed to learn that at the settling
of an estate the undertaken got $217.37,
the monument man received $3.50 and
the newspaper mar VAS allowed only
s.. 70.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

THE safest piece of water upon earth
is the Lake of Urumia, in Persia, sit
uated more than 1000 feet above the
sea level. 1t is much salter than the
Dead Sea, the water being found on
analysis to contain nearly % per cent.
of salt.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

DEFAULTER has again appeared on
the track i'm the cOlors of Capt. 5. :.
Brown. NJ. COrbctt. the ~bOokmakcr,
bought the horse ut the captains recent
sale, but gave him up when the captain
informed him that his daughter was
very fond of D~cfaultcr and wanted to buy
him back. The Pittsburgcr vas willing
to pay any price, but COrbrtt refused TO
make one cent profit by the trade.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

Tucson is one of the Oldest IS we'll
Is largest and best towns in Arizona.
In fact, it is SO old that there is no
record showing when it was first set
tied. When the first Spanish explorers
visited this country, about 1880. they
found an old Mexican village there, and
it was then said to have been inhabited
for centuries.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

THE sheds on the Southern Pa
cifc railroad in the Sierra Nevada
mountains alone represent an outlay OF
fully 50 5000, 900 to the company, and
about 1000. 900 feet of lumber were re-
auired for their erection. 1t cost o
. 1000, 900 to build them in the first
place. and about 81, 900, 900 to keep them
in repair during the past twenty years.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

CALIFORNIA produces more graz u
and wine than any other Stale in this
country. Her grapes ripen without
rain, and hence are not affected by tie
mildew which in moister climates de-
stroyes the European >.rieties, while in
California these grow to even greater
perfection than they do in Europe. We
of the East need not regret our inability
to grow European varities of the grare.
for some of our native sorts are either
for table or wines IS good as the best OF
EurCDe.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

We quoted . current item about the ex-
perience of DR.. Alanus with q vegetarian
diet, and his attributing disease OF the
blood vessels to his use Of that diet. We
expressed doubt Of any relation Of cause
and effect between such diet and sOftening
arteries. Now DR.. HOlbroOk writes that
probably 1t is u fake item. since the Ger
man v~egetarianS never heard OF DIR.
Alanus, and no such name appears in their
medical directOries.-Dr. Foote's H,oh
NOnthly.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

The average temperature OF SItka'
Alaska, in winter, is 43 degrees above
zero. In forty years the mercury has
fallen below zero but four times. And
yet the majority of people think Alaska
is another name for the North Pole.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

The indianapolis Journal says: &c.
F. Cox, vice-preSident Of the Canada
Southern road. says that the fastest time
made on any road in the United States
is made from Buffalo to Windsor. In
this statement he is mistaken. The Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton train from
Cincinnati, arriving in indianapolis ut
midnight, is the fastest scheduled reg
ular train in the United States, all things
considered"
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

The United States Government holds
in its vaults a greater amount OF gold
and silver than any Government in the
world. It is the direct custodian OF
1926, COO, 600 in gold coin and bars and
1918, OOO, 600 in silver.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

An enterprising genius has invented
an illuminated cat, made of pastebosrd
Of tin-coated with phosphorus. to be
placed in cellars, store-rooms. and gar
rets to frighten rats away. Now for an
illuminated policeman.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

A LONDON correspondent writes that
the Prince of Wales is o worker, but
fails to inform us what sort of . GROWER
he uses. There is . growing tendency
among great correspondents to overlook
those little details which are really the
spice of all gossip.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

Don PEDRO is q wise man, and is 60
ing the right way about it to defy re-
morse and keep himself from repining.
Since his arrival in Paris, the ex-Em-
peror Of Brazil. Dom Pedro d'Alcan-
tara, has not missed q single sitting of
the Institute. Though Is years old, he
works two hours every morning with
Professor Scybold at the study Of ORR
entail languages, notably Sauscrit, He
brew, and Arabic. He is actively con-
cerned, also, with the installation tf
the great pendulem in the Eiffel Tower.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

The latest fad in the way of cures is
the trick of running bare-footed through
the frosty grass. In o~ld-fashioned
New England towns it has from the
time of our grandmothers been the
fashion to run 6are-footed in the snow
to cure chillblains. but this new method
is expected to cur everything. FASH
ionable Europe is taking it M, and who
knows how soon there will he an intro
duction of it here.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
UNTITLED TO THE BEST.

All are entitled to III best that theit
money will buy. Sd every family should
have. at once. n bottle Of the best family
remedy. Syrup OF Figs. to cleanse the sys-
TEN when costive or bilious. toT sale II
soc and S1.OO bottles by all leading drug
0iStS.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
HIRAM C. WHEELER.

Importer Of PcrchsrOn and shire Stallions.
Odebolt, Sac County, Iowa.
LARGEST IMPORTATION Of draft stations
to America this season. Quality the very
best. Eirst-class horse. either breed. 81 900.
Two and three years time. S per cent, en-
abling horse to pay for himself.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO, l.,

LUCAS County "
FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that he IL the
senior partner Of the firm of F.. J. CHENEY i
Co. doing business in the City of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will Pay
fhe sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case Of CArARRH that cannot be
cured by the use Ut HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence, this 9Th day Of December. A. Z. 1856.
- A. w. GLEASON,
SsrAL. Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure 10 taken internally. and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system. Send for testimonials. free.
+. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
a1-Sold by druggists. 75c.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

Tr to the present time the Empress
Frederick of Germany has received
Sl.4o5. 600. the Duke of Edinburg 81. 800
600. the Duke OF COnnaught 81, s36. 900.
the Princess Christian $50. 600, the Duke
of Albany 1870, 900. and the Princess
Louise sGG0, 600 from the British treas
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

RlpDEroHp Pool. Me-, has been iu-
vaded by a troop Of snowy owls from the
Arctic wildS. Thirty were captured
last week and sold in Boston for about
81 each,
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

piOCR Cl,rnys copies snptriortg.
Dobbins' Electric Soap has been initiated
more than any Soap. Ask your grocer for
Dobbins' Electric Soap: all other ElcctricS.
E,...t,icity N,ru,ticS. etc, are limitations.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

1T is q fact established upon the au-
thority of travellers in different parts OF
the world that stammering is almost un-
known among savage tribes.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

EVERY year q layer Of the entire sea
fourteen feet thick is taken up into the
clouds. The winds bear their burden
into the land and the water comes down
in rain upon the fields, to flow back
through the rivers.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

No doubt exists as to the fact that
many deep sea animals do emit light.
though the precise nature OF the mech
anism for its emission is not always GER
thin
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

Count SACKENDoRF, who is nov con-.
ductor of an elevator IN a Cinc!n ali
hoie!. is defending himself in a suit for
800 brought against him bv a base.
bo'n churl who keep "A e-'anIant and
sslls baked he.p-.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

A WORKMAN crawlcd into h bore of
q monster gun ut the Mare Island. Cal,
navy yard, got wcdgcd in somehow. and
it took several hours work to get him
ont
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

WOULD you think hat refinement is nc.
ouired by tho use OF SArOLIO? Yes.
:Cleanly habits refine tho mind" 1t IS Il
solid cake Of Securing Soap.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

IT Is cruel to neglect symptoms of worms
in q child. Many cases OF ePiieptic fits can
be traced to this source. You DO your duty
when you give it DR.. Bulls Worm Destroy
ers. II will save the chill.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

A COUGH. COLD OR SORE THROAT
should not be neglected. BROwN's BRON-
CHIAL TRoCHEs are a simple remedy, and
give prompt relief. IS cts. q box.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

JOHN HICKS, the celebrated American
minister to Peru, has presented 4 cOllec-
ton of antiquities from that country to
Lawrence university, Wisconsin.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

Mrs. MARIE RI.AINE's lamcneSS is dis
appearing under the long surgical treat
mpnt she has undergone, but she is sub
ject to every change in the weather.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
JOURNAL

Az ono Of the mediums, becauee it 10 read b. the
ray for what they get. We challenge comparison
with any country paper in the world in this Ne
spect-twenty years publishing by the came
manaeement, and never one dun to subscribers
published in TIE JOURNAL. This, better than
anything else, shows the class of people Who
rad Tn JOURNAL every week. II
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

WOoDCHUCKs have the same greet
ing as cats. but louder and more en-
phatic.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

their mother into tho house. She b
still alive and the physicians consider
her case hopeless"
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

No Opium in PisO's Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail. sc.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

The old story about the thirteen
soldiers who s~acrilegiously burlesqued
the Last Supper and in consequence oil
met with evil fates is on its rounds
once more. The last time that We re-
member to have seen it before was
half a dozen years since, when the
wicked crew were Frenchmen, as they
had six years earlier been Spaniards.
and six years before that Italians, and
so on to the earliest version of the tale
We remember, wherein they figured q
Bohemians. Now at last We have got
around to Americans, and a London
paper gravely records how the last one
of the men engaged in the profane act
was recently picked up dead in the
streets of a Southern city. 1t unfortu-
nately neglects to state how the his
tory of the wretched man was collected,
but it is in possession of the fact that
one was lynched for murder, one
drowned while fleeing from justice,
one burned to death, one stabbed by q
woman he had betrayed, and so
on for the whole band. This survival
of the me liaval superstitions in the
present time is entertaining, especially
as there are no doubt plenty of readers
who take this bit of nonsense for gospel
truth every time it starts on on its way
weary, but apparently unending rounds.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

An orange measuring L loot IN CIR
cumfrcnce has been found i'll Starke,
Fla.
The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07
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The Columbus journal., 1891-01-07

ENGLAND has $1,000 women who earn
a livelihood as printers.