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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-09-27


Recent discoveries have demonstrated that
N fbc organs of the body are under the con.
,rDl of the nerve centerS located in or near
The base of the brain, and that when these are
,5ranged the organs which they supply with
9urye fluid are also deranged When 1t is re-
membered that serious injury to the spinal
cord will cause paralysis of the BODY below
The Injured point, because the nerve force Is
prevented by the injury from reaching the
paralyZed portion, it will be understood now
The bereavement of the nerve centerS VIII
cause the derangement OF the various organs
which they supply with nerve force.
TwO-thirds Of chronic diseases are que TO
the imperfect action of the nerve centeIs at
Inc base of the brain, not from uefahge-
meut primarily originating in the organ II
elf. The great mista Ike or physicians IN
reatng these diseases is that they treat the
organ rather than the nerve centerS WHICH
are the cause of the trouble.
DIR, FRANKLIN MILES, the celebrated spe-
,ialist, has profoundly studied this subject fol
over 20 years, and has made many important
discoveries in connection with 1t, chief among
chem being the facts contained in the above
3taiement, ard that the ordinary methods OF
treatment are wrong. All headache, dizzt-
ness, dullnesS confusion, pressure, blues,
mania, melancholy, insanity, epilepsy, st,
ViuuS dance, etc, are nervous diseases no
matter how caused. The wonderful success of
DR.. Miles Restorative Nervine is due to the
fact that it is based on the foregoing principle.
DIR. MILES RESTORATIVE NERVINE Is sold by
Ill druggists on positive guarantee, or sent
direct by DR.. MILES MEDICAL Co., Elihart,
Ind, on receipt of price, 81 per bottle, six
BOTTLES for S., express prepaid. 1t Contains
neither opiates nor dangerous drugs
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We give a guarantee with every
tove sold, and stand ready to make
good at any time. L, Stein
a. O.
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FARMERS EXCHANGE COLUMN.

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write your advertisement as Concisely as nos.
sue, count the words and send advertisements
postal noe or otherwise -
no FARMERS, RANCHNEN, ETC. Those
Wishing 10, sell their properties or take
pa tners should apply to Charles Steward &
American Land and Estate Agents, Is
spur ST., Tendon England.
M ONEI to Loan-Can obtain money on i'm.
~ - prov eq farms at ger cent interest. No
expenses ). II. Raymond, agent Board Of
Trade Building, Austin, Tex.
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MYSTERIES!
The Nervous Systcnn the Sea
Of Life and Mind. Recent
Wonderful Discoveries.

No mystery has ever compared with that OF
quman life. 1t has been the leading subject
If professional research and study in all ages
Rut Notwithstanding this fact il is not gen1r-
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The Cars Enormous Stables.

The Gear of Russia has four sets OF
carriages and horses-the gala, the Eng
ish, the French and the Russian sets
each one composed of fifty horses.
The Russian set is the only one which
follows his to Gatschina; the gala and
the French ones never leave st. Peters
burg, and are composed each one OF
one coachman-in-chief, who has under
him five others, and whole host OF foot
men and stablemen. For the gala set
fifty Hanoverian horses are reserved.
This race is unique. and figures on
the blazons of the Duchy of Brunswick
and the Kingdom of Hanover, and,
according to legend, comes in a
straight line from the white horse
given by Charlemagne to a Guelph
lord who WAS an ancestor of the
sovereigns of Brunswick and Hanover.
These horses are of pure snow white,
and have strange, dreamy blue eyes.
The carriages are of Louis XIV. style,
and the berline, which is kept solely
for the coronation and the marriage
of the sovereign, is studded inside and
out with diamonds, surmounted by an
Imperial crowd, adorned with precious
stones. Eight footmen clad in white
and gold iveries, with cooked hats,
lead the horses. These splendors,
which were displayed at the corona.
ton of Alexander III. and offered a
spectacle half Asiatic, half Europesn,
to the astonished eyes of the Western
Ambassadors, will be seen again on
the occasion of the marriage of the
Czarewitch. For daily use the Emperor
contents himself with the Russian
troika, in which there is only room
for himself and the coachmsn, and
which is drawn by three horses. the
trotter in the middle under the arch
of silver bells, and the two gallopers
wearing plumes of feathers on their
heads. The Grand Dukes have only
one set of carriages, but are allowed
to sit in the gala equipages at all the
public ceremonies.--New York Adver-
tiser,
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Lessons From Tree s.

The student of nature may learn
some useful and interesting lessons by
careful observation of the rings in the
trunks of trees. He will observe that
some rings are wide, others narrow;
some full, clear-cut and regular, others
Jagged, one-sided and perhaps spotted
or stained or maybe deeply indented.
These accurately indicate the condition
Of the tree during its various stages
Of growth. As each ring is years
progress, so each is perfect record
of that years development, so we may
know how it was nourished. A full,
wide, even ring shows that during
that year the tree had abundant mois-
ture and nourishment. A thin, irregu-
lar line is evidenced that the tree was
not in q fourishing condition. Spots,
stains and breaks in the lines show
that the outside of the tree may have
been bruised or bent, or the bark and
wood injured in some way. In fruit
trees, imperfectly developed rings
may be caused by an unusually large
crop of fruit, which so taxed the vital
powers of the plant that but little WAS
left to be turned toward the forms
tion ofnew wood. By careful examin-
alton and counting, the skilled botan.
list is enabled to read the history of
the tree-trunk, and to tell in what
years it is best fourlshed, when there
was little for it to grow on, and when
it was too constantly occupied with
fruit production to give any care to
its own growth other than the abso-
lutely necessary formation and solidi.
flying of it's outer coating. 1t would
be of great advantage to the student
If the habits and needs of trees could
be explained by competent persons.
Some day, when tree-planting becomes
more important than most people
seem to believe, this knowledge would
be of great value.-New York Ledger.
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temberg. who, according to report, is
shortly to be decorated with the Eng
lish Order of the Garter by Queen
Victoria. His Majesty is the proprie-
tor of two Stuttgart establishments
where refreshments may be had by
man and beast. One of these is the
Marquardt. which is located exactly
opposite the Royal Palace, the other
being the Riesig, situated short dis
tance away.
The fact of King William being a
hotel-keeper recalls to writer IN the
New York Recorder an old story OF
the Gear Peter the Great. The Rus
sian Emperor was on journey
through Wurtemburg at one time, but
wishing to preserve his incognito ab-
solutely declined to take up his quar-
ters at the Royal Palace at Stuttgart,
insisting, instead, on going to an inn.
Having learned of this prior to the
Czar's arrival the Wurtemburg Sov-
ereign caused all the hotel and inn
keepers to remove their signs. Over
the principal doorway of his palace
he had huge sign hung out stating
that within there was cheer for
man and beast at cheap prices and
that the name of the hotel was the
Koenigsbau. On the Czar's carriage
and retinue entering the city, the pos
tilions, previously instructed by the
Wurtemberg officials, drove straight
to the palace, and there, standing at
the main entrance, was the Sovereign,
fat and burly, arrayed in the tradi-
tional costume of bonlface, with
white apron and cap, etc., while the
various princesses, princes, mobiles and
dignitaries of his court we're costumed
rs walters, mattresses, hostlers and
other servants Peter the Great, much
amused by this witty manner OF hu-
moring his wishes, entered thorough
ly into the spirit of the joke, which
was kept up until the following day.
when he proceeded on his journey.
Noticing that the position mounted
on the wheeler of his travelling car.
riage was man of singularly unkempt
appearance, his clothes ragged and
covered with mud, he made the re-
mark to one of his attendants that
there was at least no mistake as to the
social condition of that man, and that
there could be no danger of his being
a nobleman in disguise. And yet when
at the end of the first stage, the pos
tilion came to the carriage door to re-
ceive his gratuity and raise the cap
from his head to the Czar, to his as
tonishment, recognized in him the
heir to the Wurtemburg throne, who
had assumed this disguise for the pur-
pose of speeding his fathers Imperial
guest.
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The Horses Original Home.

The original home of the horse has
been generally supposed to be the
country which forms the highlands
of Asia, about the fortieth degree of
latitude, and recent authorities re-
port that herds of wild horses are still
to be seen in certain parts of Western
Mongolia and Northern Thibet. From
time immemorial this country has
been favorable to the growth Of
horses. Alta very early date, several
thousands of years before Christ, the
horse was taken westward. The Baby
lonians used horses in their expedi.
tions.
The cuneiform characters which are
used to express the word horse mean
literally the "animal of the East" In
Egypt the horse is not found depicted
on the monuments until about B. @.
1900. In Nubis the horse was ap-
preciated and loved. In hierogly phic
inscription the statement is made that
when Piankhi, the Ethiopian invader
of Egypt, had captured the stores and
treasury of his foe, Nimroa, he went
into the stables, and fndiny that the
horses had suffered from hunger, he
burst into rage and said: 81 swear
by my life, and by my beloved Ra,
that to have kept my horses hungry
is more heinous in my sight than any
other offense which thou hast COM
mitted against me-" The native land
of the Arab horse includes the Arabian
peninsula, the lands about the Tigris
and Euphrates, and the Damascus
district All Arab horses are asserted
to be descended from fabulous mare
called "Kuhailat of the old woman.
New York Sun. so
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The Doctor and His Cane.

It was formerly the practice among
the English physicians to carry cane
having a hollow head, the top OF
which was gold pierced with holes
like pepper-box. The top contained
a small amount of ar omatic powder or
of snuff, and on entering a house or
room where disease, supposed to be
infectious, prevailed, the doctor
would strike his cane on the floor to
agitate the powder, and then apply it
to his nose. Hence all the old prints
of physicians represent them with
canes to their noses.-Pittsburg Post.
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A Peculiar Electrical Effect.

An accident recently occurred at
the power station of all electric rail
way in large city. which stopped all
the cars. When the damage was re-
paired and the current turned on to
the lines the circuit breakers all
dropped, showing that the wires were
overloaded. Again and again it was
tried to get the lines in operation,
with the same result The difficulty
was that every motorman, as soon as
he found the current on, started his
car, and the simultaneous demand
from so many sources overloaded the
wires. Riders were sent out to repress
some of the cars, and so the system
WAS got into motion gradually. The
wiring was subsequently changed 80 as
to allow of starting by sections. New
York Recorder.
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Fruits in England.

The dependence of the Englishman
upon the foreigner for supplies OF
fruit is strikingly shown by the fact
that in that country only $4,000 acres
are devoted to nurseries. He has not,
however, gone out of the business, but
is devotlns himself to the small fruits
which, being more perishable, are not
subjected to such keen competition
VITA the foreign article. This is
proved by the fact that there We're in
1893, in England, 65, acres under
small fruits, an increase of 3400 over
the preceding year.-New York World.
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and more. Several new designs
recently brought out in Europe
seem to have stimulated American
electricians, for a Chicago man has
finished and put on the streets an cleo
trio carriage, illustrated herewith,
which is a success. The speed is un-
der perfect control by means OF the
foot pedal actuating a switch, and the
direction of the carriage is easily con-
trolled by hand wheel. The motor
is a two horse power. The rear wheels
are both driven, but when the vehicle
turns q corner or deviates from a
straight course either driven wheel
may move Independently of the shaft
or the other wheel. The carriage will
readily make speed of from ten to
twelve miles an hour, using a little
over one horse power.
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To the conviction that concave or
vaulted wings were ESSENTIAL to success,
Herr Lilienthal was led not only by
the examination of a great variety OF
natural wings, and by theoretical de-
duction, but by actual experiment.
The means adopted for this purpose
were ingenious and simple. He fitted
up an apparatus in the form of the
s'fyfans" found on the dining tables
of clubs and restaurants, with two
long arms revolving horizontally, to
the ends of which surfaces of different
kinds and degrees of curvature could
be affixed in any required position.
The motive power was furnished by a
weight and could be exactly measured.
There was also an adjustment which
enabled the observer to measure the
lifting force of various surfaces NOV
ing at different angles of inclination
through still air.
By this means Herr Lilienthal was
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some obstacle like tree or crowd Oh
people. Under favorable circumstan-
ces it is easy to mount to height even
greater than that of the starting point,
but the forward motion is thereby par
TALLY or wholly neutralized, and it
may happen that one comes to
a complete standstill in midair.
In such cases it is only necessary
to throw the centre of gravity 30 far
back that the air shall act more pow
erfully on the forward surface, and the
gradual gliding descent is resumed.
So, in landing, I bend backward ex-
actly as crow does when alighting in
field and reach the ground without
the slightest shock. The worst that is
likely to happen in any case is the
breaking of the apparatus; there is lit
tie danger to life or limb.
81 am far from supposing that my
wings, although they afford the mems
of sailing, and even of soaring in the
air, possesses all the delicate and sub
tie qualities necessary to the perfec-
tion of the art of fight. But my re-
searches show that it is we'll worth
while to prosecute the Investigations
further, and in the end, perhaps, to
realize the beau ideal of all modes Of
motion and to put it to practical ac-
count"
Having demonstrated the practica-
bility of sailing and soaring, Herr
Lilienthal has sought in his recent ex-
periments to reach practical solu'
tion Of the problems of actual fight.
The first difficulty to be overcome was
the discovery of a suitable motor. Herr
Lilienthal conceived the ingenious
idea of employing, as a motive force,
the vapor or liquid carbonic acid,
which, under ordinary atmospheric
pressure, boils at temperature far
below that at which mercury freezes.
The engine devised by Herr Lilien-
thai required no fire, no boiler, nor
steam chest-only a diminutive cylin-
der with the requisite valve arrange
ments, which may be readily worked
by hand, and small reservoir OF the
liquid acid lying close beside it.
The engine first constructed was of
two horsepower, with receiver to
contain enough carbonic acid to last
for two hours, and was attached to the
front of the flying apparatus. The
whole contrivance, with the necessary
machinery to impart motion to the
winos. added less than twenty-five
pounds to tae weight, and this will
probably bereduced in future by the use
of some alloy of aluminium instead Of
iron in the manufacture of the heav-
ier portions. The wings were also
fitted with rotary pinions capable OF
automatic action under the pressure
of the air. The first experiments with
this apparatus were rather too success
full, at least in demonstrating the
power of the engine. Unfortunately,
the inventor had underestimated the
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of practical service ouly when confined.
The whims of the winds are too ca
pricious to afford trustworthy basis
of procedure, and Notwithstanding
the expedients which the progress of
science has made it possible to apply,
all attempts to control a free balloon,
or to guide it in any given direction,
have thus far been unavailing, and we
seem to be no nearer satisfactory
solution of the problem than were our
predecessors of hundred years ago.
The attention of Investigators has been
diverted, therefore, to flying machines,
like Professor Wilner's, and air ships,
like Mr.. Maxim's.
Herr Otto Lilienthal, of Berlin,
who has some celebrity as ''The Flying
Man," has conducted long series of
experiments, which have at length
been rewarded with an encouraging
measure of success. Herr Lilienthal
was born forty-six years ago IN Ank-
lam, near the Baltic coast of Pomeranls,
about sixty miles to the northwest
OIL Sl6bUlu. n 1So1StSASS Nv ~~~
the sea afforded him in early life many
opportunities of prosecuting his fa-
vorite studies and observations. In
later years he migrated with his
younger brother, Gustav, his enthus1-
astic coadiutor in all his researches, to
Berlin, where he established and is
now conducting q large mandatory
of small steam engines, whose me-
chanical appliances furnish him with
every facility for the construction OF
his flying apparatus. He resides,
however, in the suburb Lichterfelde,
and his late experiments have been
conducted chiefly in the neighboring
localities of Steglitz and the Remover
Bergen. he is an accomplished math-
ematician and close observer OF ma
ture.
After many experiments with fiat
wings, or plane surfaces, Herr Lilien-
thai became convinced that it was the
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Halt q Century Of the Telegraph.

Hall century OF the Ielegraph.
The facts brought out on the 6ftieth
anniversary of telegraphy, which was
recently celebrated in New York, are
very interesting to the student OF ma
terial and social progress. 1t was on
the day of the great Wing convention
at Baltimore that the first message was
transmitted in this country that was
to demonstrate the utility of teleg.
rsphy and relieve Professor Morse of
the stigma of being "crazy." His
wire between Baltimore and Washing
ton announced the nomination of Clay
and Frelinghuysen an hour before the
train reached the Capital. Since then
the figures OF telegraphy have grown
amazingly, and never 80 rapidly as at
present. As late as 1860 one operator
sent all the newsp aper dispatches from
Chicago announcing the nomination
of Lincoln. 1t took 125 operators to
furnish the telegraphic news Of Cleve-
lands nomination at Chicago. Even
down to 1880 only fifty newspapers
received special kilograms. Now there
are 600 that have special service. A
single establishment in this country
has 800, 900 miles of wire in operation,
and %, 900 Offices, and last year sent
10000, 900 messages.
There are now IN the world about
1900, 1000 miles of telegraph wire in
operation, and in addition to the tele-
graph lines there are nearly $50, 600
miles of nautical cables, over which
the Morse system is used. The news
paper and press associations, which in
1880 received but $4,000, 900 words,
now consume nearly 1900, 900, 900
words in supplying the public with
news and reading matter. What all
this signifies in behalf of public en-
lightenment and commerce almost sur
passes comprehension. 1t enables one
to enjoy two lives in one. 1t has ad-
ded tenfold value to the art of print
ing, and has increased the national
wealth enormously. Yet orthodox
science and the blsines world were SO
sure that Professor Morse was "crazy"
that he was ashamed to conduct the
first public experiments in person,
lest he should be hooted out of conf
dence. What lesson on charity an d
and the folly of snap judgments!-
Boston Globe.
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gentle parabolic curve of the wing
which enabled bird to sustain itself
without apparent effort in the air, and
even to soar, without a motion OF the
wings, against the wind, like the alba
tross, or sea gull or stork; and this
may be regarded as the most import
ant outcome of Herr Lilienthal's in.
vestigations.
s'Now that we possess diagrams, l"
said Herr Lilienthal to me, (which
plainly illustrates all these phenomena,
it seems quite easy to explain the
fight of birds, for every crow that
flies over our heads offers practical
solution of the riddle. Recent re-
searches into the laws of atmospheric
resistance lead clearly to the deduction
that curved or arched surfaces are to
be preferred to fiat ones. But the
original discovery was by no means as
simple and self-evident as it now ap-
pears. There are still prominent in
vestigators who will not see that the
arched or vaulted wing includes the
secret of the art of flight. As we
came upon the track of this idea, my
brother and I, who were then young
and wholly without means, used to
spare from our breakfast, penny by
penny, the money to prosecute our
Investigations; and often the struggle
for life compelled us to interrupt
them indefinitely.
'eWhile we were devoting every
moment of our spare time to the solu-
ton of the problem, almost every one
in Germany regarded the man who
would waste his energies in such un-
productive labor as fool. Years ago
the most distinguished professor Of
mathematics in the Berlin Industrial
Academy sent me word that OF course
it could do no harm to amuse myself
with such pastimes, but warned me
earnestly against putting any money
into them.
"a special commission of experts,
organized by the State, had in fact
laid it down as fundamental princl-
ple, once for all, that it was impossi-
BILE for man to fly. German socie-
ties for the promotion of aeronauties
did not exist and those subsequently
formed were devoted almost entirely
to the interests of ballooning. Ihave
always regarded the balloon, and the
exclusive attention which it SO at
tracted, as hindrance rather than q
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Cheap and Plentiful Remedy,

Common salt is one of the most val
uable remedial agents the world con-
tains. Used as tooth powder, alone
OF with a little prepared chalk, it
whitens the teeth and makes the gums
hard and rosy. 1t is good gargle for
sore throat, and if taken in time will
benefit, if not cure, diphtheria. 1t
will stop bleeding of the mouth, and
in warm water is a good emetic and
remedy against several poisons. There
is nothing better for sore feet and
hands than salt and water, and for or
dinary sore eyes, though a painful
application, will often effect a COM
plete cure.--Indianapolis News.