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The herald., 1893-12-16
A SERIES OF DISASTERS.

The history of the Louisville and
Jeffersonville Bridge company ia series
of disasters, financial and otherwise. 1t
was originally projected in 1879 and
failure overlook it in It's very Incl piency.
In 1888 it was revived under q new
charter, and ground broken in October,
1889. Two caiason accidents took place
during the building of the piers. The
first was caused by the cupidity of q
sub-contractor who engaged himself ss
an expert when he was without expert
ence. The air escaped from the csisson
and the water rushed in, drowning IA
men. The second caiesop accident re-
suited from the ioolhsrdiness OF the
foreman in the management of the
structure, and caused the death OF seven
men. Today's was the third big acci
dent in the chain. Several minor ones
occurred between times.
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Novel Elk Hunting.

In the latter part of July and dur
ing August the Mexican, or "Califor-
man," as he is locally styled, has his
greatest field sport-hunting the elk.
At this season elk are the fattest.
They come down from the mountains,
foothills. and crags, attracted by the
luxuriant pssturage of the valley
lands, coursed by streams or fronting
on the sea. In these favored localities
the heavy dews add luxuriance to the
wild grasses. At this season, because
of their extra bulk, elk cannot run 80
last. Ordinarily they give the tieetest
horse q close race.
The Mexican elk hunter is EARNED"
only with lariat and luna, cres-
cent shaped knife which is tied at the
end of slender pole about ten feet IN
length. The luna somewhat resembles
the moon, hence it's name. The luna
is used to hamstring the elk after the
lariat has been thrown over his horns.
A party of ten or fifteen Mexicans
thus equipped and mounted on the
feetest horses will charge band of
hundred or more, each man selecting
his victim. On being lassoed the elk
will plunge violently, almost pulling
the horse forward, for the RATA ls
fastened to the pommel Of the saddle.
but the trained horse throws'h his weight
backward and stands stiff, with nerves
strained to hold the elk in check. The
Mexican sits calmly on the horse,
talking sarcastically to the struggling
|elk, bestowing praise upon. himself
and smoking his cigarette. After the
animal exhausts himself the Mexican
Throws the luna and .hamstrings the
elk. He then cuts its throat with the
luna or hunting knife, if he cares to
take the trouble to dismount.
! Immediately he is off after another,
for the stampeded band will soon es-
cape to the foothills unless they have
been run into glen or on an isthmus,
when the slaughter is terrible and
cruel. 1t usually requires two men to
dispatch an elk unless the hunters are
very ekpert-one to throw the lariat,
the other the luna.
To cut the throat of wounded elk
ashe turns his large, full eyes, express
sive of fright, sorrow and reproach,
upon his merciless captor requires a
hardened heart and robs the sport of
its pleasures seemingly. But the Mex
lean regards the coup de grace as the
acme of the chase. An elk will yield
seventy-fve to twenty-five pounds OF
tallow. It is largely used by the
rancneros for cooking purposes be-
cause of its superior whiteness, hard
ness and delicate taste. 1t commands
good price in the market, as does
the hide.
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A Balloon Plant.

There is a very curious plant to be
found growing in the vicinity of Oro-
vile, in this State. The fruit is yel-
low and little larger than an egg,
and appears like an empty bag rather
than a solid, though it contains a
watsry substance which evaporates or
dries up when the fruit is full ripe,
leaving a sort of gas inside the fruit
which is lighter than air. This in
fated, bag-like fruit fiips back and
forth in the wind till it finally breaks
loose from it's slender stem, sails up
into the air, rising 100 or more feet
aud finally disappearing over the hill.
Oroville (Cal. Mercury.
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INDIA RUBBER.
HOW 1T IS GATHERED IN BRA
LILLIAN FORESTS.
Gashing the Rubber Tree and Col
lecting the White Juice--The
Operation of "Smokfng''-
The Rubber Trade.

n T EVER say that the twelve-foot
y globe in the Brazilian section
v of the Shoe and Leather
Building is made of '1ndia
rubber" Call it Para rubber or Baron
de Maraio, the Brazilian Commissioner,
will make correction. He will say
that Para rubber is the best rubber IN
the world, and that all other rubbers
are limitations. He will then lead the
way to the enormous rubber sphere,
which has it's axis resting on the pol
ished stump of rubber tree, and will
point out ten different varieties OF
rubber, each from different river.
The Baron is high authority on rub
Der and has all the simple appliances
used by the seringueiro or rubber
gatherer for tapping the trees and col
lecting the milk. He also has the
queer inverted vase-like fumatory or
furnace, the wooden mold and nuts of
the urucury tree, used as fuel for pre-
pairing the crude rubber.
The seringueiro begins work about
o'clock in the morning. He carries
with him little hatchet like minia-
ture tomahawk, and going along the
estrada, winding path through the
forest, makes small cuts in the bark OF
the rubber tree. Under each cash he
fastens little tin or clay cup, to COL
lect the white sap which drips from
the wound. He goes on blazing line
of trees until noon. Then he retraces
his steps with bucket or gourd and
collects the sap from the drip cups.
Some of the rubber gatherers prefer
to work at night, and to collect the
milk in the morning. The gatherers
empty their buckets of rubber Juice
into a large vessel, and the work of
smoking begins. This is done to
harden the sap.
The furnace is set up in hut or on
terrace, and o fire is built under 1t
of the nuts of the urucury, a species OF
palm tree. 1t makes dense smoke,
which pours from the circular opening
in the top OF the furnace. The work
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How the Ample Tarts Went.

Meyer, the confectioner, stood be-
hind his counter and gazed sadly at
the huge pile of apple tarts which were
beginning to grow stale, for during the
last few days business had been unac-
countably slack. Suddenly he be-
thought himself of plan. Sitting
down to his desk he wrote out the fol-
lowing advertisement and sent it to the
newspaper Office:
"Genuine Offer of Marriage-A
young man of agreeable exterior and
hmple means desires to form the ac-
quaintance of lady with view to
making her his partner for life. Beauty
and wealth are not 80 much an object
as a good character and an amiable
disposition. Young ladies who may
feel inclined to cast in their lot with
him hereby requested to call at Herr
Meyers confectionery establishment
tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock,
and, as a means of recognition, to eat
an apple tart"
A few minutes after three the whole
stock of apple tarts was cleared out
Sheffield (England) Telegraph.
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Wild Flax.

There are three species of wild fax
that have yellow flowers; the cultiva-
ted species, which has blue flowers,
also appears as weed quite frequently,
the seeds being mixed with those OF
grains. All are annual, but some in
crease by suckers from the base of the
stems, which makes them perennial, in
a way. These weeds are easily killed
if prevented from seeding by plowing
in the late summer by growing such
crops as are cultivated, as potatoes,
corn, or peas. The first two crops are
the best for this purpose. New York
Times.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
;uniditv ia as thick az it is long

Stupidity is as thick as it is long.
Youth wears q crown of tomorrow.
Society is lover of material things.
A merry heart doesn't need a brass
band.
A full stomach maketh q fearless
heart.
The mothers heart is the child's
school-room.
Our self-made men are the glory of
our institutions.
Personal cleanliness is more desir-
able than riches.
Pleasure is far sweeter as a recrea-
tion than a business.
That rich man is happiest who con
convert his dollars into smiles.
1t is not necessary for a woman to
mark each year of her life with a
wrinkle.
The woman who loves herself most
can marry mnn for his money and be
satisfied.
The man who is fond of books is
usually man of lofty thought and of
elevated opinions.
1t is not proper for man to think
of himself first, any more than it is to
think of himself last.
Poverty is the only load which sthe
heavier the more loved ones there are
to assist in supporting it.
All the pursuits of men. are the pur-
suits of women also, and in all of them
woman is only weaker man.
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of
the temple of the world; when these
are broken, the fabric falls and crushes
all to pieces.
Life, to be worthy of rational be-
ing, must be always in progression;
we must always purpose to do more or
better than in time past.
A secret is like silence; you cannot
talk about it, and keep it. It is like
money; when once you know there 1s
any concealed, it is half discovered.
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A Matter OF Health.

Housekeepers family realize the
danger of An indiscriminate use of the
numerous baking powders nowadays
found upon every hand, and which are
urged upon consumers with such per-
sistency by peddlers and many grocers
on account of the big profits made in
their sale. Most of these powders are
made from sharp and caustic acids and
alkalies which burn and intiame the
nlimentary organs and cause indiges-
tion, heartburn, diarrheal diseases,
etc. Sulphuric acid, caustic potash,
burnt alum, all are used'as' gas-produc-
jng agents in such baking powders.
Most housekeepers are aware OF the
painful effects produced when these
chemicals 9Ie applied to the external
flesh. How much more acute must be
their action upon the delicate internal
membranes! Yet unscrupulous man
ufacturers do not hesitate to use them,
because they make very low-costpow-
der, nor to urge the use of their pow
ders so made, by all kinds of allurlng adj
vertisements and false representations.
All the low priced or so-called cheap
baking powders, and all powders sold
with gift or prize, belong to this
class.
Baking powders made from chem
ically pure cream of tartar and bi-car-
Donate of soda are among the most
useful of modern culinary devices.
They not only make the preparation
of finer and more delicious cookery
possible, but they have added to tho
digestibility and wholesomeness of
our food. But baking powders must
be composed of such pure and whole
some Ingredients or they must be Ia
booed entirely.
DR.. Edison, Commissioner of Health
of New York, in an article in the
doctor of Hygiene" indicates that
the advantages of good baking pow.
der and the exemption from the dam
gers of bad ones in which the harsh
and caustic chemicals are used, are to
be secured by the use of Royal Baking
Powder exclusively, and he recon-
mends this to all consumers. "Tho
Royal" he says, ''contains nothing
but cream of tartar and soda
refined to a chemical purity, which
when combined under the influence OF
heat and moisture produce pure car-
bonic, or leavening, gas. The two
materials used, cream of tartar and
soda, are perfectly harmless even when
eaten, but in this preparation they are
combined in exact compensating
weights, so that when chemical action
begins between them in the dough they
practically disappear, the substance of
both having been taken to form car
bonic-acid gas" Hence it is, he saws,
that the Royal Baking Powder is the
most perfect of all conceivable agents
for leavening purposes.
1t seems almost incredible that any
manufacturer or dealer should urge the
sale of baking powders containing in
furious chemicals in place of those OF
a wellknown, pure and wholesome
character simply for the sake Of few
cents q pound greater profit; bat since
they do, a few words Of warning seem
to be necessary.
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Economies of Chemistry.

In speaking of the economies that
chemistry has wrought the Scientific
American says: Chemists turn scrap
iron into ink, old bones into lucifer
matches, the shavings of the blacksmith
shop into Prussian blue, fusel oil into
oil of apples and pears, the DRAWINGS
of cow-houses into fashionable per-
fumery, beggars' rags into new pilot
coats, cesspool filth into ammonia and
tar waste into animal dyes and sac
charine. In Paris, they first utilize
rats to clear the flesh from the bones
of csrcasses, then kill the rats, use up
their fur for trimmings, their skin for
Stoves. their thigh bones for tooth
picks and their tendons and bones for
gelatine wrappers. These are few OF
the things converted into use by the
chemist and Inventor"
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Worms That Sprout and Grow.

: The headline above should properly
have been full sentence something
like this: ssWorms that sprout and
grow like shrubs;'' and the story it
self, were it learnedly told, would be
q remarkable narrative OF one OF the
most wonderful vegato-auimal growths
in existence. The scientists say moth
ing about this great creature, if cres-
ture it can be properly called; at
least I have been unable to find even
the remotest allusion to its existence,
and those who have regularly read this
department for the past five years WILL
I believe, cheerfully testify that my
facilities for looking up natural and
unnatural oddities are among the very
best. This vegetable worm has been
reported from but one State (Ohlo), as
far as have been able to ascertain,
and there it has never been made the
subject of scientific investigation. Ny
informant, valued and observing
friend of liberal education, whom l
shall designate as 'tR. c. NJ" says that
the creature, when playing in the sin
gle role of larva, is q ninc-seg'
mented caterpillar with hard, yel-
lowish-red head, the body much re-
sembling the common 'grub worm. ="
It spends the winter in the loose soil
of hazel thickets, and is seldom found
except by persons engaged IN prepar-
ing these iungles for farming pur-
poses. While in his enforced winter
sleep, this red headed grub is at
tackled by queer species of fungus
which always, so far as has been OBJ
served, fastens itself in the fold OF the
eighth segment, about g quarter OF an
inch from the vent. As spring ap-
proaches this vegetable germ feels the
warmth before it has had any effect
upon the sleepy worm, and this IS
sadly to the grub's disadvantage. I'm
mediately the fungus begins to grow
in two directions; woody stem starts
for sunlight and air, and a corky or
pulpy substance begins to fill the skin
of the worm. Every leg and fold is
filed with the fungus growth; moth
ing escapes; it is clear case OF trans
formation of animal into vegetable
tissue. The stem buds when about Six
inches above ground and bursts into
two leaves resembling those of the
hickory.-St. Louis Republic.
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He Thought She Was in Fault.

Between Jamaica and Long Island
City is an oil factory which ''smclls to
heaven" A lady who was obliged to
take the ride between these two points
very often always carried with her q
bottle Of lavender salts. One morning
an old farmer took tho seat directly
behind her. AS the train neared the
factory the lady opened the bottle OF
salts. Soon the whole carriage was
filed with the horrible odor of the oil.
The old farmer stood it as long as he
could, then leaned forward and shout
ed:
Madam, would ye mind putin the
cork in that ERE bottle. 1t smells
dreadful. New York Mercury.
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finish the drying process, and is then
ready to be sent to the nearest ship
ping point.
The product of rubber from Para in
1899 amounted to 426, 300 kilogrammes,
valued at 237, ,45S, 600 rels. One thou
sand rels are equal to tifty-four cents.
In 1892 the rubber produced had in
creased to l6, S91, S8S kilogrammes,
valued at $4,000, sos, 55l rels. The
visitor to the shoe and leather build
ing will find rubber boots and shoes
everywhere but in the Brazilian sec
tion. Yet Brazil used to export rub
ber shoes by the thousands. Up to
lS40 rubber was exported almost ex-
clusively III the form of shoes But
the business ilwindled, for crude rub
Der went out instead Of the manufac-
tured product. American, English,
French md German manufacturers i'm
proved the method Of manufacturing
rubber shoes and asked for the crude
rubber. This conditions of affairs
lowered the expectation OF, rubber
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the cups and flows along the trees or
drips to the ground.
Rubber was first brought to the at
tention of Europeans by La Conda-
mine, Spanish astronomer. In l741
he arrived in Para on his return from
a commission, on which he WAS sent
with other Spanish and French astron-
omers for the purpose of making geo.
detic observations in order to deter
mine the real form of the earth. He
did not confine himself to star gazing,
for in several important scientific
works which he published he gave Eu-
rope information of great value re-
garding the principal natural products
of Brazil. One of them was rubber,
which, up to that time, had been un-
known to Europeans. Chicago Record.
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pipe and bronchial tubes are lined with
a sort of mosaic of tiny cells. Each OF
these cells stands on end and has a sort
of beard of very small hairs at its ex-
tremity. This beard serves rs broom
with which the little cell is constantly
sweeping night and day. So long as
lite stays in the body these thousands
of sweepers go on sweeping all foreign
material up toward the mouth. In
fact, they usually keep at it for q long
time after death has arrived, being the
last portions of the body to give it up
and die. Washington Star.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Carpets should be shaken on a clear,
sunny day, when there is no wind.
A new, soft paint brush is a good
thing to dust carved furniture with.
Don't furnish north room in blue
or any other cold color; something OF
a warm tint should be chosen.
Csulifowers are best when large,
solid and creamy. When stale the
leaves are wilted and show dark spots.
To chop suet cut into small pieces
and remove the membrane. Sprinkle
with -four and chop in cold place, to
prevent its becoming soft and.sticky.
Spots on the wood of furniture may
often be removed by rubbing vigor-
ously with turpentine and sweet oil,
and then renewing the polish by brisk
rubbing.
To improve starch add tablespoon
full OF epson salts and dissolve in the
usual way by boiling. Articles starched
with this will be sitter and rendered,
to certain extent, tireproof.
An old housekeeper says the way to
exterminate red ants in cupboard IS
to place in it an earthen dish con-
tanning pint of tar, on which two
quarts OF hot water has been poured.
The simplest icing for cake is maize
of the unbeaten white of the egg mixed
with a cup of powdered sugar and the
Juice Of half lemon. 1t is a mistake
to beat the whites Of the eggs to stiff
froth for this purpose, as is SD fire.
quently done. 1t takes much longer
to make the icing if this is done.
1t certainly is injurious to plants to
burn gas in the room where they are
kept OF to supply the room with heat
from furnace, owing to the presence
of gas in furnace heat. Plants will
thrive we'll in q room heated by on
open fire or by hot water pipes and
lighted by oil lamps, while they will
sbrivel and die i'll furnace heated
room lighted by gas.
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PICKIED CAULlFLowER.

Select nice white heads and break
them up into small punches; spread
on earthen dishes, and after sprinkling
with salt, let it stand thirty-six hours.
Then scald for three minutes in the
brine, and drain on towel. Place IN
a jar, cover with cold vinegar, and let
it stand forty-eight hours. Drain of
the vinegar and taste, and if it con-
tains too much salt, take ont part and
add fresh vinegar. To each gallon OF
vinegar allow one teaoupful of sugar,
six blades of mace and six of cinnamon
of equal length and tablespoonful
each of mustard and coriander seed.
Boil the spice and sugar five minutes
in the vinegar, and then pour it hot
over the caulifower. Repeat the
scalding once week for four weeks,
and be sure to keep it we'll under the
vinsgar by a weight on top OF it. New
York Observer.
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man, sitting beside his fire, with
round wooden paddle dips it into the
sap. 1t clings in thin layer to the
mold, which is turned in the smoke
until the water in the sap evaporates.
When this is done u thin sheet of solid
rubber is left on the paddle. The
operation is repeated until ball Of
rubber about the size of a mans head
is formed. With keen knife two
lateral slashes to the paddle are made,
and the wooden center is taken out.
The rubber is exposed to the sun to
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How Nature Drives Out Disease Germs.

With every twenty breaths human
being inhales from eleven to 375
germs, together with varying amount
of inorganic matter. In town, OF
course, the heterogeneous are much
thicker than in the comparatively pure
country air. Such foreign particles
are mostly caught in the mouth, nose
and upper throat OF swallowed. while
certain number pass into the air
tubes or lungs. But to drive out all
intrusive germs and particles nature
has established wonderful arrange
ment. The inferior walls of the wind
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shoes, and, although in 1850 1873, 1888
pairs were shipped from Brazil, in 1854
expectation ceased, and since then
nothing but smoked rubber has been
exported.
Rubber for foreign trade is divided
into fine, entrefne and sernamby. The
last variety is made from the residues
of the coagulated sap that escapes from
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800 Reward. 500.

learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
gtitutioDal disease, requires q constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
stroying the foundation Of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
F. j. CHENEY Sc Co., Toledo, q.
. EW Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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German
Syrup,

William McKeekau, Druggist as
Bloomingdale, Mich. "lhave had
the Asthma badly ever since I came
out of the army and though I have
been in thedrug business for fifteen
years, and have tried nearly every
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest relief until a
few months ago, when I used Boz
schee's German Syrup. 1 am now
glad to acknowledge the great good
it has done me. lam greatly reliev-.
ed during the day and at night go to
sleep without the least trouble. I" o
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
A DARN1NG HINT.

Unless woman has the peculiar tenn.
perment which would cut holes in
stockings for the sake of making C.
s'beautiful DARN" she will do we'll to
adopt this precaution with all her
hose. Before putting them on at all,
rum them with soft darning cotton
throughout the entire length of heel,
toe and sole. They should not be
closely run nor should the thread be
tightly drawn. This simple process
will keep the stocking from breaking
far beyond the usual period. New
York World. ,...