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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Modern HyRiene.

Hardly q day passes that we do not
receive some shock, that We are not
asked to give up some fsvorite dish
around which clusters a host. of tender
early memories, aud after eating of
which we have, for twenty years on
end, felt ourselves grow fat and child
like and undyspeptic. But the mod
ern hygiene says it must go, and if we
retain it on our list we do it in an INK
ious and guilty mood sure of itself to
beget internal trouble.
Seemingly simple things like dry
toast, oatmeal and apples we have
heard forbidden of late Us hard to
take care of. and bananas, or, for ex-
ample, the delicious, but ns we sup
posed deadly, fried bacon cried up rs
food for babes and sucklings. This il
puzzling; it goes against our personal
experience, it upsets all our dietary
plans and pleasures, and it awakens
the shrewd suspicion that mere fashion
is at the bottom of the change.
One interested in the subject, hav-
ing On ax to grind, could without much
difficulty prove that every known edi-
bic has ut some time or other been de-
clared digestible and healthful; let
the experimenter eat with his Tor
her) eyes shut, and he Tor she) will be
backed up in what is chosen by some
respectable authority. This being Sc,
the wisest plan is to select food accord
ing to the private. palnte without re-
gard to Doctor A, B. or G. (since
Doctor x, Y. and 2. will infallibly
dispute them), and with tho eye of
faith fixed on that good day when all
digestion will be carried on by artifi-
cial means, and the whole world may
be in that lovely state attributed to
George Meredith's gourmet who is
pictured in after dinner ease as elan
guidly twinkling stomachic content
| ment. Hartford Courant.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
A Dog Hypnotized Mt VIII.

Il hypnotized dog is the last new
thing in animal curiosities. This in
teresting quadruped belongs to NJ.
Durov, who was awarded n gold medal
by the Paris Academy of Science for
his original Investigations and dis
covcrics in the science of hypnotism as
applied to animals and its effects upon
them. Several tests have been made
in the presence of DR.. Afnnasiev, of
the War Department, though it is not
obvious why this gentlemen should
have been chosen.
One OF the tests consisted in placing
several articles, rs a pencil, cigar case,
handkerchief, cuff button, etc, on the
floor. Then the dog, having been
thrown into hypnotic trance by him.
NJ. Durov requested one of the audi
ence, which consisted of several other
physicians of renown and some news
paper men, to think about something
and what the dog was to do with it,
then to write it on a piece of paper
and show it to the rest of the audience,
excepting, of course, himself. This
Was done, AID the dog, having been
brought in, what was the establishment
of the whole assemblage to see the
animal go up to the cigar case, pick it
up and bring it to the one who had
been indicated in the wish.
Another test consisted in laying
several cubes with figures on them in
a certain order in a closed box. At
the same time several pieces of paper
were put upon the floor bearing like
numbers on each. The dog was then
called in and required to place tho
pieces of paper in the same order as
the cubes we're laid in the closed and
sealed box This he did, to the as
constituent of all assembled. NJ. Du-
row declares that he knows no more
about what is being done or wished
than does the dog, and is, therefore,
unable to prompt him in any way
London Sunday Times.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

It is mentioned as an instance of
what the fashionable world has come
to that a recent private concert given
in London cost the hostess S12,50U.
According to this figure entertaining
ones guests will soon be impossible,
and society must inaugurate some new
method of keeping its end up in that
line. First-class artists over there ask
sums ranging from $1,000 to S25O0 for
three or four songs. but, fortunately,
tho number Of these artists is limited,
and those who employ them are the
painfully rich.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Deadliest OF Snakes.

Throughout Cochin China, in Tom
quin and the extreme cast there is n
very venomous snake called the "na.
Jas, whose venom causes death in two
or three hours. Every year this snake
has been the cause Of death to 49,
persons. 1t was evidently matter of
vast Importance to discover an anti
dote, and this has ut last been done by
Doctor Calmette, a Paris physician and
a pupil Of Pasteur. The substance ia
n sort of salt of geld. which not only
acts incidentally sitter The bite, but as
sort OF vaccine taken internally it
renders the person proof against the
consequences of the najas bite. Chi
cago Herald.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

Edward NJ. Greene, of San Francisco,
has designed novelty for the. mid
winter fair to be held in that city,
which he hopes will rival the Eiffcl
Tower and the Ferris wheel. 1t is a
colossal Statue of Justice, $50 feet
high. supporting an immense pnir of
scales, the extremities of which are
cars holding fifty people each. The
beam is truss 800 feet long, oscilat-
ing like, a walkingbeam, thus lifting
the cars to height of $50 feet.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Attraction OF the Abyss.

Chevreurs well-known experiments
with the exploratory pendulum sad
the divining-rod show that if We RI
sent to ourselves a motion in any d.
rection the hand will unconsciously
realize it and communicate it to the
pendulum.
When a child I was navigating n
plank on the river without thought
that I might fall. All at once the iden
came like diverging force, projecting
itself across the rectilinear thought,
which had alone previously directed
my action. It was as if An invisible
arm seized me and drew me down. l
cried ont and continued staggering
over the whirling waters till help came
to me. The mere thought of vertigo
provoked it.
The board lying on the ground sug-
gests no thought of n fall when you
walk over it, but when it is over n pre-
cipice and the eyes takes the measure
of the distance to the bottom the repre-
sentation of a falling motion becomes
intense and the impulse to fall corre-
spondingly 80. Even if you are safe
there may still be what is called the Mt
traction of the abyss. The vision of
the gulf rs a fixed idea having pro-
duced an Inhibition" on oil your
ideas or forces nothing is left but tho
figure Of the great hole, with the in
toxication of the rapid movement that
begins in your brain and tends to turn
the scales of the mental balance.
Temptation, which is continual in chill
dren because everything is new to
them, Is nothing less than the force of
On idea and the motive impulse that
accompanies it.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Politeness in Sweden.

When train leaves platform or n
steamboat pier, all the lockers on lift
their hats to the departing passengers
and bow to them, compliment re-
turned by the traveller. If you address
the poorest person in the streets you
must lift your hat. A gentleman pass
ing lady on the stairs of hotel must
do the same. To enter shop or a
bank with ones hat on is a terrible
breach of good manners. If you enter
r 70 coffee room yov-Aust bow
! ne occupants--@ York OBJ
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The -.nsas women who serve as
police justices deal with the. tramp
question in their own way. One tramp
was sentenced to two baths day for
ten days and hard labor on the stone
pile, with the order that he was to he
fed if he worked and starvc if he
shirked
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
A Worlds Fair DiaIopue.

II do want to see the gondolas,
said q young lady as she trippcd down
the steps to the lagoon.
They are just like the pictures you
have 80 often scen," said her brother.
"Of course have seen pictures of
them," she said, but Charlie, these
are live cues l'-Chicago Herald.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The United States produce 1920
pounds of grain to each inhabitant
Denmark, 1925; Canada, 1900; Russia,
1900; Roumania, 1850; Spain, HOO.
France, $50; Sweden, $50; Argentine
Republic, $50; Australia, 76O; Ger.
many. 700; Belgium, 500; Portugal,
$50; Ireland, 500; Scotland, 400;
England, $50.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

-.dence of the loneliness Of the
Pacific Ocean it is stated that the
steamer City of Picking on recent
trip sailed 1910 miles without meeting
single vessel.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The people of Maine contend that
the kennebec pours into the sea 8.
greater volume of water than any otl:er
river on the Atlantic OF Gulf coast,
from the st. John to the Mississippi.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

A learned German who has devoted
himself to the study ofphysiology and
allied sciences makes startling asser-
ton that mustaches are becoming
commoner among women in the pres
',nt day than in the past. He says
seat In Constantinople among the IN
'ineled women one out of ten possesses
'nmistakable covering of down on
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Degrees Of Arctic Gold.

Travellers in arctic regions say tho
physical effects of cold there are about
as follows: Fifteen degrees above. ms
pleasantly warm; ton degrees below
oracing; twenty degrees below, shar1
put not severely cold; thirty degrS
below, very cold forty degrees ID
intensely cold; fifty degrees be-
struggle for life.-Detroit FREQ
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

It is reported that the Ghez1rah
palace, situated on the banks of the
Milo. is to be converted into hotel;
that a line of steam ferries is to ply
across from Cairo, and that the Nile is
to be tunneled.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The only daughter of Prince Xerna-
tojef, wealthy nobleman of Moscow.
recently eloped with her fathers
coachman, taking $4,000 with her.
The young Princess is only eighteen
years old, and was one of the reigning
bellies of the old Russian capital.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The religious census of Australia,
Just completed, shows l ,4s5. O66 mem.
beers of the Church of England, "a, 11s
Catholics. 493,369 Presbyterians and
1894, 564 Methodists. These are the
four most numerous denominations.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
The Medico-Legsl journal makes a
plea for every passenger railway to
have surgeon.

Live stock breeding has been the
key to agricultural prosperity in nll
countries the world over, declares the
New York World.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Tho finest draught horses in the world
NE seen in the streets Of English
citiee.

An estimate of the size of Texas
may DO obtained by considering that
It is hfty-four times as large us Con-
necticut.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

f.It seem1 queer To- , -
- " s2sloes TX 1bsen, the Swedish dramat-
snp va. n the Nesirous of visiting England,
Here's an ssdverrem1y, as he declsres to see the
:Tfy pair Of ssr shoe In all other countries he
VIII never wear anothaest work is done by men
A Sfty and fifty years of age ;
-. and man of seventy or eighty
disconnected yes still inShs prime should like to
] and yet p see such men Gladstone, Salisbury
have anv md Herbert Sr,,cern
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The owner of some once busy ship
yards in Waldboro, Me, has been
blowing them up, for conversion into
grass fields
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The Boston Advertiser reports On in
creased demand at the Office of the
Massachusetts State Board of Agricul-
ture for its descriptive catalogue of
abandoned farms. This fact taken
alone would furnish no indication that
purchases were contemplated but, az
the Advertiser points out, there was
also during the hard times of 1873 a
noticeable increase in the demand for
farm lands, and reasoning from this
analogy it says: IF by any unfortu-
nate possibility the stringency of the
past few weeks we're to be continued it
is very likely that tho abandoned
farms would be bought up very large
~. A not inconsiderabIc class of mill
operatives have saved up money, and
if there were any very real prospect
that the shutdown of some of the
Massachusetts, mills was to be long
continued, these operatives would go
to Farming as better thing than re-.
naming idle in largo city. A num-
Der of those who have made good
anses as mill operatives are well NO.
moryhted with farming methods, and
no9Se. at least living on farm,
Maggie Gays .r 'Ioy "o",o n''e
mesh. Johur Nod farms are offered
e., SAID John psrass operatives who
tho tbe-its nan s" Who heir own"
RroE R.S,
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The MI who does wrong suffers,
but those who love him suffer more.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

roher;; the. den
bf,nsiug ut,
he Is. but. you.
Follows the bus
F sfves-hst'
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

TT seems queer (
P6 Of sufside.'
mso-What I'd {
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

--ssy iufaut.'>3e Of those
(sed the word , anees as mill
bstted it to memoryated witt
he minister . house. ), q,
Jaw She reverend pats, -.
3s mssaSs. Maggie cay
teme oyse and haptefzt
tibet BARN ye mesn. JohuS
Ne moo tbst at az SAID Joht
Ffstress, lis tho - theft,
q. sill
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

Oper lip.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER. Ia.

Willis appears to be anything but para
mount.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14

Charles S. Webster and Company.
New York: Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon. Price ST. CO.,
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14

There was very interesting contest
in Worcester Tuesday over the mem bers
of the school board. There were two
tick cts in the field, an independent tick
ct nominated by the independent Repub-
licans, and the regular Republican
ticket. The American Protective
Association figured in the contest, sup
porting the regular Republican ticket as
against the Independent Republican
ticket, and the fight scenes to have be-
come largely religious issue. Parties
were all split to pieces on the matter.
The principal Republican organ of
the city, the Spy, espoused the cause of
the candidates of the independent Re-
publicans and denounced the A. p. A.
with great vigor. On the other hand the
clergymen, or many of them, just as
vigorously denounced the Spy alleging
that it had passed under the control
of the Jesuits. The battle appears
to have ragged with great fury, and the
women got SO interested in it that 1900
of them registered and voted. The re-
suit was a complete victory for the
ticket supported by the A. P. A., every
member of it being elected.
We are inclined to think that there
was good deal more steam gotten up
in the fight than there was any occasion
for, and that the common school would
have been as effectively, and more
decorouslys protected if a secret society
had not figured in the contest. The
character Of the contest shows, however,
how exceedingly sensitive the people are
in regard to the common school and how
easy it is to rouse them by the suggestion
of danger that that institution will be
tempered with. It's result should con-
vince everybody of the futility of at
tempting to change the common school
system in any of it's essential features.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14

Charles S. Webster and Company
New York: Portland Loring, Short &
Harmon. Price ST. 00.)
The Brontes in Ireland or Facts
Stranger than Fiction. By DR.. William
Wright; Illustrated. The Brontes have
a literature of their own; much has
been written about them. Starting with
the same information obtained through
the Bronte letters and from Miss Ellen
Mussey Charlotte lifelong friend, we
had as result Mrs. Gaskells Life of
Charlotte Bronbe", MIR Wemyss Reid S
contribution to the subject Augustine
BirrePs and many more works bearing
In some way upon the Brontes, their
country or their antecedents, but as the
author of the present volume truly says
there have always been gaps and most
unsatisfactory blanks in tracing any
continuous history of this remarkable
family With view to uniting such brok
enss lines DR.. Wright presents his book to
the public.
His opportunities for authentic infor-
nation have been unrivaled and we have
here valuable and timely publication,
handsomely printed and containing ex-
cellent reproductions of the old homes
and of mbers of the family together
with fac SMILES of Patrick Bronte's hand
writing.
Beginning with Grandfather Bronte's
early home in Ireland we read of Welsh
the foundling and his strange adventures;
and Of Patrick Bronte and his early sur
roundings; and we close with a glimpse
of the sisters at Hawarth and an account
of the famous review of Jane Eyre in
the Quarterly of Decem Der 1s4s. New
York: D. Appleton and Company.
Portland, Loring Short & Harmon.
Price $1.5O.)
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14

government but it was also declaring
positive hostility to it. Ii Blount was
right Immediately upon this announce
ment the provisional government should
have fallen to pieces and the Queen re-
turned to the throne amid enthusiastic
acclaims of the people who had been
deprived of their chosen ruler by con-
spiracy on the part Of the representatives
of a foreign power. But no such result
followed. Not only did the provisional
government not fall to ieces but it
manifested vigorous purpose to main
tain itself in spite of the views of Presi-
dent Cleveland and Secretary Grsham
and the implied threat of Minister VILE
lis's communication, and backed it up
with such show of physical force that
MIR. Willis lost heart and Immediately
wrote to his principals to tell them
that he could not right the wrong with
out the use Of force, and asked further
instructions. On one of the most vital
points in the whole matter-the
strength and popularity of the provisi-
onal government-the facts that have
ucvolOpcO SluC0 N1lulSGtI w Ills WcAu W
the island have shown Paramount
Blount's report to have been entirely
erroneous. Yet this point Blount
had much better opportunity for get
ting accurate information about than
many of the others concerning which he
reported. He was not present when the
revolution took place and therefore his
own observation could have taught him
nothing in regard to that. But he was
present when the provisional govern
ment was in power and there was opor
tunity for him to judge of its strength
from mis- own observation. If with the
superior opportunities to get accurate
information on this point he reported
that government which has just def
ed the President and his Minister and
announced it's intention to Fight rather
than retire was SO weak that it would
fall to pieces the moment the naval
support of the United States was with
drawn how much, weight is to be attached
to his report concerning the circum-
stances of the revolution which he did
not witness and which he had to get
second hand from prejudiced obser-
vers?
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14

The result of the election in Boston
is as favorable as any Republican had
a right to expect, and much more favor.
able than appeared probable. The nor
NAL Democratic majority in Boston is
about $4,000 AT Tuesdays election
it was reduced to 5000, though the
Democratic candidate for mayor was
as Democrats go, an exceptionally good
one. The Republicans get majority OF
the aldermen and will therefore have a
very potent voice in next years admins
tration
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14
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HIS HAND WAS ROUGH.

His hand was rough ana His hand was hard,
For He wrought in wood in Nazareth town;
With naught of worship, with no regard,
In the village street He went up and down.
His hand was rough, but its touch was light,
AS it lay on the eyes of him born blind:
Or strake sick folk In its healing might,
And gave back joy to the hearts that pinned.
His hand was hard, but they spiked it fast
To the splintering wood of the cursed tree:
And He hung in the sight Of the world, at last
In His shame. And the red blood trickled
free.
New York Tribune.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14
BLoUNT's REPORT AND THE FACTS

Paramount Commissioner Blunt re-
ported to the President that the provisi-
onal government ofHawaii was the creation
of Minister Stevens and the United States
navy and that it was SO weak that it
would fall to pieces as soon as the
moral support of this government
was withdrawn The latter part
of November Minister Willis
on behalf Of President Cleveland
and Secretary Gresham informed Presi-
dent Dele that the United States govern
rnent would give no countenance to
the annexation proposition and disclosed
to h1m Gresham's argument in favor
Fighting tAe great wrong" by restoring
she Queen This was not only withdraw
Ing sd moral support from the provisional
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14

What the distinction is that the ways
and means committee draws between
sawed lum Der and .'planed lumber which
justifies the placing of the former on.the
free list while the latter IS retained on
the dutiable list it is hard to guess.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-14
Rebuked.

A Texas clergyman who ran as the
Democratic congressional candidate in
that state two years ago was once in
terrupted in the midst of public pray
or by man who shouted, "Louder!"
He stopped short, looked at the inter-
rupter and said coolly: ~ WASH It ad-
dressing you, sir. l was addressing
the Almighty Then he went on with
his prayer. Texas Siftings.