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The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
SUN AND EARTH.
Connection Between Sun Spots and the
 Aurora Borealis.

Connection Between Sun Spots and the
 Aurora Borealis.
 Observers of the suns face have for centuries noticed at times dark spots on it, says John K. Rees, in Harper's Young People. Now we know from the accumulated observations that the eX- tent and number of these spots vary. Sometimes we can see very few, CT even none at all, and sometimes we can see great many, some of which are visible to the naked eye when protected by colored or smoked glass. Such a spotted region is now (Fcbruary 1S) passing out of sight on the southwestern limb of the sun; but a second group of spots is finely visible on the northern hemisphere, stretching in a long line from the eastern edge to the center of the sun. But what has the sun to do with the aurorar Simply this: It has been shown that when we have the greatest number of sun spots, then we have the most frequent and most gor- geous displays of the aurora. When there is great storm on the sun pro. ducing spots, then we feel at once on our little earth disturbance of elec- trical conditions. The display of the aurora on February 13 is regarded as an accompaniment of the solar disturb ances which have produced the tremen- dous spotted regions mentioned.
 The average time from when the spotted area on the sun is greatest to. the next maximum is a little over eleven years. The last spot maximum occurred in 1SS3-4, a year or two behind the average time, GEd we seem now to be approaching maximum in 1S92-S. We may therefore fairly conclude that during this year we shall be favored with numerous and brilliant aurora.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
AN ICE CREAM DIET.
Said to Be Good for Certain Painful Dis
 eases.

Said to Be Good for Certain Painful Dis
 eases.
 Dr. Herstey reports, in the American Medical News, three cases of gastric ulcer in which recovery had followed the use of a diet of ice cream. This novel method of treatment was sug- gested to him by the experience of patient, a woman of thirty-fve, who had for three months suffered from symptoms of gastric ulcer. She had h8matemesis and severe pain, and could retain nothing until by chance she one day took q small quantity of ice cream. She had lost twenty-five pounds in weight. As all ordinary methods of dieting had failed, and di- gested food administered by the rectum was rejected, the patient, at her own desire, was allowed ice cream, and told to take as much of it as she could. Her severe symptoms at once began to sub side, and at the end of two m onths, dur ing which from one to three quarts of ice cream were taken daily, she had gained twenty-four pounds in weight. Solid nOurishment was gradually added to her diet, and she made a complete recovery. Dr. Herstey had similar experience with two other patients, in one of whom there were symptoms of perforation and local peritonitis, and he is naturally inclined to think highly of the mode of treatment and to recom- mend its use in similar cases. He be- lieves that the ice cream in those cases is beneficial because of the local anas- thctic action of the cold permitting di- gestion to go on without pain, while at the same time sufficient material for di- gestion and nourishmcnt is supplied in the cream. But he insists that every care must be taken to insure the abso- lute purity and freshness of the ice cream, and for this purpose he recom- mends that only that which is made at home should be used in such cases.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
A GAMBLING PRINCE.
No One Thought It Strange When George
 EN E.nar SG0.10O.

No One Thought It Strange When George
 ". Lost S62,000.
 Cockfghti0g. as might be expected, bulks largely as one of the diversions of the ''Efan Of Pleasure and Enterprise" and n .. pares are filled with it's rec o-ds. laws and approved principles, as well as discussions on the merits of the different piles or colors-ginger red, birchen yellow, and pied pile each hav- ing it's enthusiastic adherents. PugiI- ism. too. being then at the zenith, is the subieeJ c5 continuous chronicle. One is re1.adel of the truly heroic scale on w.3iaa -asn5lic- prevailed among our at-Er..ll.ja. .ers, says the National Oaacrvor. h our own G2y the unfOrtu- nate 11r. Benzon $ regarded as a youth Of exceptionally little sagacity. and thourh plenty Of misery is still hatched iii private hells the Jubilee Juggins" has had few rivals. Gambling and bet ting disputes were often the subjects of litigation. PorhG,.s an English judge was never called upon to decide more grotesque case than that arising out of a wa~er betwecn-the earl of March and BIr PigOt. The former bet 1,600 guineas to 300 that Sir William Codrington, aged 50, would outlive 3Ir. Pigot's father, aged 70. Unknown to any of the par ties, Mir. Pirots father happened to have died on that very morning, on hearing which Mr. Pigot. Jr., refused to pay up, and was sued by Lord March. The jury awarded the 800 guineas- decree that was sustained, on appeal, by the lord chief justice and other judges. Even cricket, which, as we know it, has charm for our country men, independent of all pecuniGry stim- ulant, used formerly to he played for heavy stakes. For instance, twenty two of Middlesex play eleven of Eng land at Lords August 2G, 1793, for 1000 guineas, and win it. The return match, for like sum, comes off September 9, and Middlesex wins again. A thousand guineas seems to have been the usual stakes in first-class matches, for in the same year we read of Essex playing Herts and Surrey playing All-England for that sum: moreover Surrey twice won 1,O00 guincas that season from the luckless county of Hants. Then incred- iblc sums are stated to have been lost and won at billiards. In a single days play, December 22, 1793, Mir. Br-gh-n is recorded to have lost 915,O00 to L-s-n B-clz-k, although early in the play the former stood a winner of e7,OOO. A few months later the prince of Wales is said to have lost 11,OOO guineas in a single nights billiards at Whites club gentleman whose name Mir. Whcble does not disclose.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
ODORLESS FLOWERS.
Few Possess the Scent of the Rose and
 Violet.

Violet.
 By far the greatest number of flowers have no smell at all-for instance, of the 4,200 species of flowers in Europe; only about ten per cent. arc known to give forth any odor, says the Brooklyn Eagle The commonest flowers are white ones, of which there are 1,194 kinds, and of these one-sixth are fragrant. Of the 951 kinds of yellow flowers v are odoriferous; of the S23 red kinds g.; of the 594 blue kinds, 31; of the sos violet blue kinds, 13 Of the 240 kinds with combined colOrs, 2S are fragrant. The various delightful or dlsagreeable odOrs of plants generally reside in the flowers, though in some their seat is in the leaves or stems; but in either case the odOr is due to the presence of volatile essential oils of more or less resinous nature. The number of these is unknown, and their nature is so complex that any slight variation in the temperature or in the amount of light falling on one of them is sufficient, as has been often expert enced in the laboratory, to cause a re- arrangement of its component elements, resulting, so far as smell is concerned, in an entirely different compound. Prophylic ether, which is an example of these unstable compounds, can by slightly different arrangement of its elements be made to yield the Odor of pineapple or of bad fish. The reason, therefore, why each kind of plant has different odOr is the ease with which one perfume can be transformed into another. Sufficient cause for such transi- tion is found in the mode of life of each variety of plant, and the difference in their chemical constitution. What ever in any way affects the life and growth of a plant rapidly shows it's effects upon the flower and it's perfume. The nature of the soil and it's humidity, the variations in temperature, the intensity Of the sunlight, will sooner or later transform the nature of plant. For one plant to produce the same per- tune as another it must live the same life, absorb the same elements from the earth, as also from the air; it must breathe the same, which necessitates similar leaves; it must build up it's tissue in the same manner; in short, it must be the same plant.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
EARLY USE OF TOBACCO.
Scientific Men Think That It Was Smoked
 Before America Was Discovered.

Before America Was Discovered.
 To me it appears probable that even before the discovery of the fourth quar- ter of the globe a sort of tobacco was smoked in Asia. This conjecture, says Beckman's Technology, being men, toned to the celebrated traveller, NJ. Pallas, he gave the following answer:
 ''That in Asia, and especially in China, the use of tobacco for smoking is more ancient than the discovery of the new world, l, too, scarcely enter tain doubt. Among the Chinese, and among the MongOl tribes who had the most intercourse with them, the custom of smoking is so general, so frequent, and becomes so indispensable luxury; the tobacco purse. affixed totheir belt so necessary an article of dress; the form of the pipes-from which the Dutch seem to have taken the model of theirs 50 original, and, lastly, the prepara- tion of the yellow leaves, which are merely rubbed to pieces and then put into the pipe, so peculiar, that we can not possibly derive all this from Amer ica by way of Europe, especially as In- dia, where the habit of smoking tobac- co Is not so general, intervenes between Persia and China.
 May we not expect to find traces of this custom in the first account of the voyages of the Portuguese and'Dutch to China?"
 To investigate this subject I have in- deed the inclination, but at present, at least. not sufficient leisure, and must, therefore, leave it to.others. However, I can now adduce one important con- frmation of my conjecture from UllOa's ''Voyage to America Ut is not proba- ble," says he, that the Europeans learned the use of tobacco from Amer ica; for, as it is very ancient in the east ern countries it is natural to suppose that the knowledge of it came to Europe from those regions by means of the intercourse carried on with them by the commercial states on the Mediter- ranean sea. Nowhere, not even in those parts of America where the to- bacco plant grows wild, is the use of it and that only for smoking-either general or very frequent"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
A Grand Duke.s Rnse.

A curious story from Russia relates that the Grand Duke Sergius, governor of Moscow. recently went about that city disguised as peasant to find by personal observation whether there was any truth in the complaints of ex- tortion made against the bakers. At one balleshop, where he insisted on buying three kopeclzs' worth of bread from loaf valued at three and one-half kopeclls, 9 quarrel ensued, which re- suited in the calling of the police, who ejected the pseudo peasant without cere- mony. When the grand dukes identity was disclosed three Of the police officers concerned in the affair committed sui eide,
The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
The English National Hymn.

The melody which the English claim as their national hymn was really con- posed by Lully, the Italian musician, who created the opera in France, says a writer in Kate Fields Washington. Even the words are merely transla- tion and amplifcation of the French verse. The original composition was an invocation in honor of King Louis XIV, suggested by Mime de Maintenon, and sung by the choir of noble young ladies, pupils at St. Cyr, upon the en- trance of the king into the chapel of that royal institution. It is a tradition in the convent that Handel asked and obtained permission to copy the piece and afterward presented it to King George l., of England, as his own com position. There is in existence decla- ration to this effect, signed by three nuns of St. Cyr, and the same story is repeated in the memoirs of the duchess of Perth
The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES.
Interesting Relics Recently Discovered a
 Few Miles from Alexandria.

Interesting Relics Recently Discovered a
 Few Miles from Alexandria.
 Valuable archaeological finds" are being developed not far from Alexan- dria, Egypt. They are illustrative of the Greco-Roman period. Investiga- tion is under Dininos Pasha, and is be- ing pushed between fourteen and fifteen miles from Alexandria. The London Times says of the discoveries:
 At four to six feet below the surface the diggers found three statues in rose granites, &ten feet high, lying faces downward, among the ruins of temple, of which part of the outer walls with low CT portions of columns and several square yards of flooring have been laid bare. The statues had been originally erected at or within the temple, and one of them is lying in front of the ped estal, which is about three feet high. They represent in group, according to the heiroglyphic inscription, Rameses II. (the Greek Sesostris) and his Queen Hentnara seated. The third statue is of Rameses in an upright posture, wearing plaited tunic, bracelets, mili- tary crown and girdle bearing the in- scription: Beloved of Seth" At his left side he holds a scepter, surmounted by the head of his son Menephtah (the Pharaoh of the Exodus), whose cartouch is inscribed on the scepter. On the plinth at his back, which is of equal height with the statue, is chiseled a bas-relief of Queen Hentmara in profile, wearing a plaited tunic and the royal tress. The inscription above her head is ''Daugh- ter of the king-beloved of her father royal spouse-great favorite Hent- mara" On the back of the plinth is carved the royal banner of Rameses IT., with all his known titles and ap- pellations. The execution of the three statues is in the plain, vigorous style of the twelfth dynasty.
 The feet of Harnesses, which had been broken off in one piece with clean fracture, were found at few yards dis stance. The two heads of the group have also been broken off and are being searched for. ,-.--.l,..>.' It is surmised that the temple and statues were overthrown after the edict of Theodosius, A. D. 3S0, abolish ing the Egyptian religion, but nothing has yet been discovered to identify the temple with any of those known to have existed during the Egyptian or Greco-Roman periods. ,>'..r
 Dr. Nerutsos Bey's interpretation of the inscription is: Hentmara, daughter of the king, beloved of her father Ii. e., the preceding king, Osiris Menephtah, who was father of both Rameses and Hentmara), royal spouse (of Rameses H., the (referring also to Rameses) great favorite of Seth.
 The Pharaohs, following the example of Osiris, king of the gods, and his sister Isis, had the prerogative of esporsing their own sisters, and this custG.1. consecrated by both the civil and religious law, was followed in several instances by the Ptolemies.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
FROM THE PHONOGRAPH.
How Man Felt When He Heard His
 Words Repcated.

HOW a -GoD Eels when He Heard HIS
 Words Repcated.
 Up town there is photograph, and the man who is running it is a hotel owner, says the Lewiston Journal. He had caller recently whose ''dander' was up. The room was quite full of people and the caller had an insane de- sire to give his man piece of his mind" He did so. He berated him up hill and down. He didn't leave him, as he expressed it, in any kind of shape. All the time the object of the attack had on the counter by his side the pho nograph, in action, only the caller didn't know it. When he had finished the Lewiston man said:
 Arc you done?'
 ''Yes, 1 am done." was the reply.
 Just one moment" 7" was the rejoinder; ''I want you to hear what you said," and the merciless phonograph was re- Yersed and the record pronounced through the machine so that he could hear it.
 A blush Overspread the callers face. He listened in wonder and surprise. As oaths and eplthets flowed out of the machine, the exact reproduction of his own vituperatiCn. he moved away, and when all was done a man more sheep ish and ashamed could not be found. Said he, after a moments thought, turn ing to the Lewiston man: II have had valuable lesson. No man who would talk like that iL public has any right to be considered. 1 want you to pull that record. as you call it, off from that ma chine and give it to me. I'll pay for it."
 It was done, and the caller stood by the counter uttering apologies and whiting into Pleces the wax cylinder that contained his remarks.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-09
Mirrors NIado of Wood.

In Germany wood with mirror pol ish is coming into use as substitute for metal in the finishing of ornamental work. In order to make the wood sus- ceptible to polish cf this order it must first be submitted to a bath of cGuStic alkai for two days, the bath being kept at temperature of one hundred and seventy-five Fahrenheit all the while. Next it is soaked in a solution Of hydro sulphate of calcium for from twenty four to thirty-nine hours. The third dip is into bath of concentrated solution of sulphur. The final dip is into a solu- tion of acetate of lead st a temperature of one hundred degrees. After being thoroughly dried the wood is ready 10 have the metallic surface impartad to it. t.>which is done by giving it rubbing with finely powdered lead, tin or zinc. Wood treated in the above manner it is said, will take . polish almost equal to that so often imparted to steel, silver or Rickel, -1..
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-11
What to See in Chicago.

The problem, what to see in Chicago,
is one that will vex every visitor.
There is enough to see to keep one
busy six months. OF course the great
Worlds Fair will claim the larger part
of ones time, but the great city of
Chicago is none the less wonderful.
Sixty years ago, the site of the city was
the haunt of wolves; fifty years ago
Chicago was IL busy country town.
Twenty odd years ago, when q city of
800, 900 population, il was nearly swept
from existence by the most awful fire
ever Kindled; to-day it is the home of
over a million and half of people,
and is one Of the few really great
cities of TIE world.
No one will miss seeing Chicago, and
none should fail to visit that most
wonderful scene, the Panorama of the
great Chicago Fire, as it shows truth
fully and upon scale of grandeur
never before attempted, a magnificent
birds eye view of the entire city,
while the great fire was at its height.
Before the observers lie nearly two
square miles of smoking ruins. five
thousand blazing buildings, and ten
times as many refugees trying to save
themselves from an awful death. No
one visiting the Worlds Fair can af-
ford to pass by this remarkable Ex-
hibition. Its location on Michigan
Ave. near Madison St., brings it within
walking distance of all the principal
downtown hotels.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-11
Emmett Letter.

Mrs. Frank Cory Sundayed in Flint.
ThIeshing is begun. The yield is
good and quality superb.
VIM. Grieye, our genial miller, is
disporting himself in Canada.
Mrs. Jas. Burns has returned from
her extended trip in New York.
The X. OF. NJ. and l.. o. T. NJ.
have love feast with ice cream and
pressed chicken accompaniment Thurs
day evening. 1t is exclusive.
ii. III. Bailey and DR.. A. j. Abbott
rode on their wheels to Simpson Park
at Romeo Sunday. The journey Oc-
cupied hours and As minutes, return
ing against heavy wind in 3 hours.
j. Il. Cavanagh narrowly escaped
severe injury Sunday. His horse be-
came unmanagable while he was lead
ing him and Knocked him down
bruising his face and rendering him
unconscious.
Several fires have occurred along
the G. d G.. T. X. X. burning fences
and grass and in one case large
stack of hay. Peter Daley had much
difficulty saving his house. Unless
rain soon comes, much damage may
be done.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-11
Melvin Letter.

f. p. & p. regular meeting Friday
evening, Aug. 18th.
G.. G.. Burt and wife did business in
Port Huron Monday.
Thos. Murray and Frank Polly were
in Brown City Monday.
III. J. McPhee and wife are taking
in the Worlds Fair this week.
Elder VIM. Cridland will preach
next Sunday morning at 1890.
Mrs. l.. Fraser and Fred Darcy, of
Yale, were in Melvin on Tuesday.
Frank Polly, wife and son OrsOn, of
Plymouth, are visiting relatives here.
John Land and George Mcconnell
are visiting with T. Thompson this
week.
Chas. Dewey after seige of sickness
the past week is able to be around
again.
F. T. Palmer and j. A. Menzies, of
Yale, were in town last Saturday on
business.
Stella Darcy, Bertha Beecher and
Minnie Barnum visited with Jennie
Murray on Friday.
Birdie Lindabury, of the firm of
Hilbourn Il Lindabury returned to her
home in Welland, Ont, Monday.
Mrs. Attridge, of Detroit, who has
been visiting with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Jos. Kerr, returned home
Monday.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-11
RoSeburg Letter.

Mrs. F. Hewitt is recovering from her
late illness.
John Campbell started for Chicago
last Monday.
Thos. Bailey returned from Wheat
land on Tuesday.
John Mathews, of Yale, called on
friends here on Tuesday.
VIM. II. Mckenzie was in Port Huron
on business one day this week.
Emily Avery spent a few days last
week visiting friends in Port Huron.
Amos Bradshaw and family, of North
Branch, visited relatives here last Sun
day.
DR.. b. c. Bradshaw, of Mayville,
spent few days with his parents here,
lately.
DR.. Mitchell, of Yale, Is attending
Mrs. Aitken who is quite sick with Ty-
phoid fever.
Miss CHM arrived on Tuesday to
spend some time visiting her aunt, Mrs.
James Rolls.
Mary Tenant started on Wednesday
for Chicago to spend a couple of weeks
visiting relatives. She will also visit
the Worlds Fair.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-11
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE:

Default having been made in the terms of a
certain mortgage dated the 18th day OF April,
OF Deeds of st. Clair County, Michigan, in Liber
GO OF Mortgages, on page ass, on April 27th 1891,
at 1l;l0 o'clock A. NJ, executed by Michael
Shanahan and Minnie Shanahan his wife, to M.
f. Bailey, of Richmond, Mich,
Whereby the power of sale in said mortgage
has become operative, and there Is claimed TO
be. due at the date hereof the sum of $3.50 of
principle, and the further sum of S4l.OO of in
terest, and an attorney fee OF twenty-five dol
lars (S25).
Notice is hereby given that said mortgage
will be fOreclosed by sale of the mortgaged
premises at public auction to the highest bidder
at the front door of the Court House in the City
of Port Huron, st. Clair County, Michigan, that
being the place for holding the Circuit Court for
said County, on the 18th day of September, 1893,
at one O'Clock in the afternoon of that day, TO
satisfy the amount due ON said mortgage, to-
gether with said attorney fee, interest TO date OF
foreclosure, and the cost of this proceedings,
no suit at law or in equity having been in
stituted TO recover said amounts.
Said mOrtgaged premises are described as
follows, as is shown by said mortgage: All that
certain piece or parcel of land, situated in the
Township OF Brockway, IN the County OF st.
Clair and State of Michigan, described as
follows, to-wit, all that part of the south
west quarter "a of the southeast quarter (i) of
section thirty.six (S6l Town eight ,(s) north,
Range fourteen 0D east, bounded and described
as follows: to-wit. beginning at n point at the
southeast corner of lot owned and occupied by
Francis GerOt,. and running east along the
northern boundary of COlfaX Street, TO the
southwest corner of lot supposed to be owned
and occupied by James LOvelOck: thence north
to the northwest corner of lot formerly owned
by Ferdinand Thompson: thence west 10 the
northeast corner of Francis Gerot's lot, thence
south to the place of beginning being In the
Village of Brockway, said County and state.
The above description being Intended to convey
the homestead now owned and occupied by the
said Michael and Minnie Shanahan.
Dated this 18th day of June, 1893,
NJ. +. BAILEY,
HARVEY TAPPAN, Mortgage.
IN MOrtOQppp