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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-03

The pain from slight burns is very great,
An excellent application is thick paste
of common baking soda mOistened with
water, spread on piece of linen or cot
ton, and bound on the part. This can be
kept wet by squeezing water on it from II
sponge or cloth until the smarting ssooth-
ed.
A thick coating of starch can be used
instead of the soda, or wheat flour if moth
ing better can be had, but neither should
be applied if the skin is broken. In this
case it is better to Use vaseline, olive or
hnseed oil The doctor will apply some
preparation containing carbolic acid.
If the air be etiectually excluded from a
burn, the pain is relieved
Blisters should he pricked and the fluid
absorbed with II soft cloth before dressing,
If the clothing adheres to the skin, the
loose part should be cut away and the
patches of material soaked off with oil or
warm water,
When the injury is extensive, the suffer
err will be Frustrated and may die from the
shock. Heat should be applied to the eX-
tremities and over the heart, and hot
drinks given until the doctor comes.
In burns from strong acid the part
should he covered with dry baking soda
or lime, as the alkal will neutralize the
acid. No water should be used, but cos
moline or oil applied after the alkali has
been brushed off.
When the burn has been caused by an
alkali, an acid must be used. a person re-
covering from the effects of "A burn re
auires very nourishing food. - Ladies'
Home journal,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-03

Love between women and men was not
invented for the entertainment of philos-
ophers, but largely for domestic purposes,
and il platouic love is 10 have anything
better than hazardous and unstable eN-
istence the conditions of it must be such
that it may prosper without conflict with
natures more important ends. Thus we
see why platonic friendships between
young people who might marry do not en-
dure such couples get married, and their
friendship merges into more durable
sentiment, or else one of them marries
some one else, and then it lapses. At least
it should lapse, for, if it does not, it not
only initiates against peace in family,
but it tends to keep the unmarried pla-
tonist from going about his business and
finding himself n mate according to ma
lures design Every manageable man
besides her husband that any woman alb.
serbs involves the waste of some other wo-
mans opportunities, and nature hates
waste with proverbial antipathy .-Scrib b
ner's.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-03
se1IND THE APPLE TREES.

...,,d the gray. gnarled apple trees
be ai.'ls ,,nset clouds rise high and bright
III like waves of tropic seas
nsanrnms OF rarest eye delight.
,,ess upon the darkling blue.
i4 TS.,,,nrpling ever more and more;
,,i,'iist .,old and heryl rays CLEAN through
T -i,,. rarmine arch of yon mist door.
.,,.,,lv they change both hue and form,
iTTransligured to gay pinnacles,
,nd body forth some airy morn,
Weird as the scenes in magic wells.
M, In, the shining towers revolve,
And tu-n to gem strewn circles wide,
rbsn like wise Prospero's world, dissolve
Midst the nights dark, dream laden tide.
Detroit Free Press
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-03

"Now wud We PLACE look plizzant, led
dyP" said the polite Irish photographer to
a woman who came for her photograph.
ooh, only jest for wan moment, leddy"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-03

A curious wedding ceremony recently
took place in Dublin, when the clergy
man, the son of well known Dublin
artist, married his father to a second
wife.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-03

The sum of $4,000 is spent yearly in
China for the paper money burned In an
cestral worship
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
STRANGE ADOPTIONS.
The Strength OF tho Maternal Instinct In
Animals.

The Strength OF tho Maternal Instinct In
Animals.
I lately met some friends who had
with them a little dog called "Vic"
which had adopted the family OF .
cat in the house, and while in pos
session would not let the mother come
near her kitten, says writer in the
London Spectator. The kittens were
kept in very tall basket, and "Vic"
would take them one by one and then
carry them into the garden and watch
over them, carrying them back In the
same way after n time, at other times
lying contentedly with them in the
basket. Of course, Vic" had to be
forcibly removed VIXEN the adopted
family required their mothers atten-
ton for their sustenan e. I also have
met a friend who saw a hen hawk,
which was in a cage. mothering young
starting. Three young, unfedged
starlings were given the hawk to eat.
She ate two and then brooded the other
and took the utmost care of it. Unhap-
PLY the young startling died, and from
that moment the hawk would touch no
food, but died herself in o few days
The same friend was on mountain one
day when a sheep came up to him and
Enthusiastically begged him to follow
her, going just in front and continually
looking around to see if he was follow
ing. The sheep led him at last to some
rocks. where he found a lamb fast
wedged in between two pieces of rock.
He was able to liberate the lamb, to the
evident Joy of the mother. myself
once saw cat "brooding" and taking
care Of very small chicken, which,
being Matched first Of a brood, had been
brought into cottage and placed in a
basket near the fire. 1t managed o get
out Of the basket and hoped up near
the cat, which Immediately adopted it
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
SHOES IN JAPAN.
They Are Made OF straw for Both MeI
md II rises.

They Are Made OF straw for Both Men
md II rises.
In the land of the Millado, If nowhere
else on earth. man and beast W ear shoes
made Of. the same material-to-wit,
straw. One would naturally not think
that straw would make very good shoes
to be worn even by man, and worn,
too, in the most gingerly fashion. Ger
tainly they would not be very durable
TO the average boy, who can "kick the
stuffing" out Of school shoes In . few
brief weeks.
How then can 1t be expected that they
would do horses any reasonable service
at all? Well, they don't; they wear out
90 fast and have to be replaced SO often
that anyone going for long drive will
have to carry about a CARLOAD Of them
along. So often do the horses shoes
have to be changed that the people have
come to do so ut pretty regular inter
walls when on a trip, and distance has
come to be measured by the length of
road a set of shoes will last. In the
parlance of the country, one does not
travel so many miles, but so many sets
of shoes. When you ask native how
far it Is to any given place he will reply
50 many sets Of shoes. We donS know
that such.is the fact. but probably when
the horses are done with their old shoes
they eat them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
GROWTH OF THE HAIR.
Hsw e Il Promoted or Retarded BY Ce
tain Kinds OF Diet.

Hev Il L. Promoted or Retarded BY Ger.
tain Kinds OF Dict.
The influence of diet upon the growth
Of hair d the subject Of a paper in
which, according to the Washington
Star, the writer says: Several cases Of
shedding of hair after influenza has con-
nrmed my opinion that diet has much
10 do with the production and with the
cure Of sympathetic alopecia- Hair
contains five per cent. of sulphur, and
its ash twenty per cent. of silicon and
ten per cent of iron and manganese
Solution Of beef Tor, rather. part Of
it), starchy mixtures and even milk.
which constitute the diet Of patients
with influenza and other fevers. cannot
supply these elements, and atrophy at
the roots and falling out Of hair result
The color and strength of hair in
young mammals is not attained 80 long
h milk is the sole food. As to drugs,
iron has prompt influence. The foods
which most abundantly contain the
above-named elements are the various
slbumenoids and the oat, the ash of the
grain yielding twenty-five per cent Of
silicon.
have often found dietary largely
composed Of oatmeal and brown bread
TO greatly promote the growth OF hair.
especially when the badness was pre-
ceded by constipation and sluggish
capillary circulation. Those races Of
men who consume most meat are the
uiost hirsute
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
BAD HABIT OF EXERCISE.
a London Critic Says One May become Z
Slave to 1t for Life.

a London Critic Says One May become .
q Slave to 1t for Life.
Some persons get on perfectly well
without exercise | am one of them,
says the editor of London Truth, be-
cause never fell into the engrossing
habit of exercise when young man.
Naturally person who passes his youth
In violent exercise finds later on that
he cannot do without it. The habit IS
as easily acquired as that of drinking or
opium smoking, and, once acquired, q
person becomes slave to it for the rest
of his life.
Most people, however. eat far too
much, and then often find themselves
incsmmoded, if they do not work of
this excess of food. It is easy to get up
an artificial appetite. remember Mr..
Bright once explained this to me. He
said the stomach is ar.iii tally distend-
ed. the void which is created owing u
this artificial distension produces per-
petaal craving for food, and this il
termed being hungry. Gradually re-
duce the an cunt of food. aud the stom-
ach becomes normal, vita the result
that half the amount Of food is satisfy.
ing. The world is divided between thoes
who eat too much and those who do not
have enough to eat
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
Why MAN WEARS 4 HAT.

Exposure OF the Head EndanRsrs ths -
ovation of tho Human Race.
Perhaps NO article Of clothing has
been more freely criticised In respect to
tt utility than that which lexicoR-
raphers describe as "a covering for the
head" Some, instructed by the ex-
ample of savage races and Others widely
different in various ways, among them
the leaders of feminine fashion. whose
crowns of gossamer may practically be
disregarded, would have it that the hat
less condition is that most character
istic Of mankind, says the London
Lancet Against their opinion we find
arrayed the combined force Of civilized
usage in every climate
From pole to pole we find that man,
II he dresses at all. dresses his head
Even If bootless and guiltless OF such
minor trifles as waistcoat and collar, he
covers the head with some form OF
clothing. Nay, the very savage, though
no may know nothing Of silk or felt,
will often so decorate his vortex with
feathers or SO weave his own natural
wool that not even the conventional
European cylinder could protect It
more effectually. Surely there must be
reason in all this.
There Is q clearly conscious need
which exists not merely in Imagination.
II Il thus practically admitted that
though the head, like any other part OF
the body, may, after having suffered
the attritiou Of atmospheric variations,
become Injured to their action, it still
loses somewhat in the process. In the
first place, 1t Is evident that in this con-
fict only the f1ttest can hope to sur
vive. Civilized man will not endanger
his chance Of survival by risking the
experiment. Further, he finds that
the inferior animals thus exposed un-
dergo external changes which do not
often. IL ever, tend in the direction of
refinement. and instlnctivcly he shuns
the possible return of coarseness and
barbarism. he also recognizes the fact
that, given q wholesome custom in
head clothing, the consequent effect
will be as healthy as it Is besoming.
Foremost among the sanitary prin-
| ciples which ought to control usage In
this matter are two-the avoidance OF
, any but the lightest pressure and the
I admission through the texture worn or
by special apertures of sufficient air for
I free ventilation of the head. II these
elementary considerations be duly re-
garded and sufficient protection be pro-
vided against changes of weather we
shall find the man the better, not the
worse, for wearing his covering for
| the head"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
A LAWYERS STORY.
fhs Peculiar Mistake Made BY . Telee
rapher.

fhs Peculiar Mistake Made BY . Teieg-
rapher.
A party Of newspaper men and law
yers were discussing amusing typo
graphical errors, when a veteran New
York attorney told of a peculiar mis-
take that had come under his notice,
made by telegraph operator.
81 was o young man at that time"
said the lawyer, land had a small Office
across the hall from q successful attor-
ney who once in awhile befriended me.
One day I was sitting in my Office with
my legs on the table and chair tilted
back, waiting for clients and dreaming
of q sweet girl known to me as Ella,
who had been the sweetheart of my col
lego days the year before. I was
startled from my reverie by a boy with
Q message directed to me. 1t was from
my friend across the way and dated Chi
cago, but its contents made my brain
whirl. With Geographic brevity it said:
Ella Is sweet. Don't delay Take it
pp and try it was just considering
the advisability of q proposal, and my
astonishment can be imagined My
FIRST impressions were that was either
asleep or the Windy City had driven
my friend insane. But there was the
messenger boy. so read the telegram
upside down, sideways, and everyway
could see II, and the light finally
dawned on me. took up court calen-
dar. There It was: Ella vs. Sweet,
and my friend was named as the de-
PENDANTS attorney
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
THIS EARTH OF OURS.
It's Age According to tho Researches q
GeoloGists.

It's Age According to tho Researches q
Geologists.
Biologists have ascertained that the
rate at which erosion takes place can
be measured; by applying their scale to
tho sedimentary rocks they have formed
q hypothesis rs 10 the time which has
elapsed since erosion began.
The stratified rocks attain an average
thickness of 100, oOo feet. The material
of which they consist was all washed
down from high planes. deposited and
left to straAify. By the inspection of
river banks it is found that in places
the surface Of the land which has been
carried down as sediment in rivers has
been reduced at the rate of a foot in
730 years, while in other places. where
the land was more stubborn or less
flexible, 1t had taken $500 years to
lower the surface one foot The de-
posit must be equal to the denudation.
We 6nd that while some of the sedi-
mentsry rocks have grown foot in 7so
years others have taken $500 years to
rise that height. Thus the period Of
time that was required to build up 100..
900 feet Of sedimentary rock has varied
according to locality from $4,000, 900
to go, 000, 900 years. 1t follows that the
active work OF creation lasted for .
cycle intermediate betw zen these two
figures. The cycle varied with endless
succession Of periods of disturbance by
volcanic force and glacial action, and
the frequent submersion Of dry land,
alternating with the emerging of CONT
nents out of the seas. These may have
vetarded the growth of sedimentsry
rocks, but they cannot have accelerated
1t
A study Of fossils teaches the steady
uniformity with which the work of Gre
alton proceeded. Since man began to
observe there has been no change in the
forms Of animal and vegetable life. A few
species have disappeared-not one new
species has been evolved. Not only do
we find the fauna and fora of ancient
Egypt as depicted on monuments which
are probably 5000 or 10000 years old
identical with those which are found in
that country to-day, but shells which
inhabited our seas before the ice age
and grew In an ocean whose bed overlap
the Rocky mountains are precisely the
same species that are found in the bay
Of Monterey and the waters of the
Chesapeake. It is evident that there
has been no essential change in the con-
ditions Of life since these animals and
these vegetables we've first created. yet
how vast the shortest period which we
can assign to the gap that divides US
from that remote epochl
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
A HOTEL INCIDENT.
The Traveller Who Was Mistaken for .
Dead Man.

The Traveller Who Was Mistaken for .
Dead Man.
1.-THE m ost singular thing that ever
happened to me at q hotel" said the
travelling member of the club. accord
ing to the Detroit Free Press. was
this: ! was stopping over night at a
large hotel in Chicago. and retiring
late | left word to be called in the
morning. intended getting up in time
for late breakfast
IL was awakened by knocking at
the door of the room next to mine,
mysterious whisperings and orders
given in a suppressed voice. lay
still, wondering what time it was, and
whether | should get up or not, when
there came a loud racket against my
door, and a sound of the transom NOV
ing. sat up-my bed being close by
the door-in time to see small boy
backing in over the transom. Hanging
full length, he held by his hands and
then dropped to the floor. AS he gained
his feet he turned toward the bed, and,
seeing me sitting up and looking at
him, he gave yell that made my blood
thrill.
"'Open the door, commanded mans
voice on the outside.
"'He's alive yelled the boy,
sprawling on the floor in abject ter
ror.
81 thought everybody was crazy as !
heard the noise outside, and, unlock
ing my door, asked what was the mat
ter. The hall was full of chamber
maids, bell boys and porters, all OF
whom took to their heels as soon as
they saw me, and ran as if possessed
with demons.
THE landlord and one of the clerks
came up to explain matters, which they
did quite smilingly. 1t was a slight
mistake, that was all; they had mis-
taken my room for the one next door
where a man had killed himself the
previous night. They had looked in al
his transom, and seen that he was dead
but when the boy came up with step
ladder to climb in and unlock the door
they had helped him into my room by
mistake. That was all"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
HIoH.PRicEo FOOD.
Tobacco and Gold on . Par on the Upps
Yukon River. Alaska

Tobacco and Gold on Par on the Upper
Yukon River, Alaska
R. d. Miles, . recent visitor in San
Francisco, gives the Call graphic &C
count of the prices current for ordinary
commodities on the upper Yukon river,
Alaska.
He has, according to the Call, just 70
turned from that country, where, he
states, there were over one hundred
men at work during the last summer
washing gold from the river bars and
riffs. The majority of them will winter
in that country.
"Well, I'll tell you, am glad to get
back to civilization again." he said.
'Gold is plentiful; in fact it is an ordi.
nary trick for a man to wash out from
twenty to sixty dollars day, but .
man needs all that to live anyway COM
Portable in that country, and he has but
little to show after Q season Of hard
work
"When left that country q trader
with small stock of goods was making
his way up the river from some Of the
coast trading points in a canoe. In
fact he had several of them loaded with
provisions. He was assisted in his jour
ney by half dozen Indians.
"weu, when he left, after selling out
his cargoes, he had about all the gold
dust the miners had washed out in four
or five months Of steady work.
1--WE ran short of provisions, and had
subsisted on bear meat and other game
30 long that we willingly parted with
nearly all we had to get some civilized
eatables.
"Well, this trader-his name was En-
mons-sold the several sacks Of spuds
he had with him at the rate of from
thirty to fifty cents per potato.
"His -four sold for twenty dollars .
sack, and we were just glad enough to
pay five dollars a pound for the very
poorest quality of tea he had with him.
He had several sides of bacon in his
stock. which he disposed of at about
one dollar slice. A few sacks of the
despised bean brought one dollar .
pound.
1--WE had been out OF tobacco for near
" two months, and had drawn but lit
tie solace out of pipefuls of dried leaves
and moss. When this fellow appeared
on the scene we took him TO our hearts
rs benefactor and gave him ounces Of
gold for plugs of tobacco. An ounce OF
gold brings sixteen dollars in Alaska
and nineteen dollars at the mint here.
Eve bought hundredweight Of on
ions, for which we were assessed six
ounces of gold.
81 tell you what, we poured out the
dust upon that fellow Emmons, and he
had SO much of it don't think would
like TO take the contract to pack it from
here to the city hall
you must not think from this up
palling price list that we were starving
TO death. We had plenty Of game and
Ash. but that kind of grub pals on the
appetite"
| The boys" however, appear to have
made money on the Yukon river bars
Mr.. Miles states that all of them have
stakes" and he came down to Victoria
with several of them who had cleaned
up" from twelve thousand dollars 10
twepty-eight thousand dollars apiece.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-22
TeRRE sONNE's SALAMANCA.

Wonderful Snake Charming by an Oh
Negro voodoo Woman In Louisiana
An aged negrcss of great repute as
"voodoo," or witch doctress, among II
negroes of this section, writes q CORR
spondent from Terre Bonne, La, al
cording to the Chicago Times, is attrac
ing much attention, not only froj
those of her own color, but from I'll
more intelligent portion of the con
munity, and the way in which she dol
this is to apparently swallow q mud
Der of small snakes of a variety u
known in this section. They are of
duslSy color. nearly black, pied with
dull green about the fat head, and Of
dirty white in the belly. These RI
tiles remain secreted about old Nanc}
cabin until she gives a peculiar VIII
Ting call, when they will come to h
wriggling in great haste over the 10
up her dress, and run into her op|
mouth, kissing hideously. They dis,
pear and remain hidden sometimes !
minutes. She asserts that they are q
cealed in her stomach until she recd
them, when they will come pouring
30 writhe about her scraggy neck
coil in her bosom.
Where the snakes really 60 wi
they vanish in her mouth is q myst
and has puzzled all the physici
about, many having come from \
Orleans to witness the phenomer
Some really believe that the snakes
60 down into the stomach, while OIL
are convinced the witch is simply p
ing some sleight-of-hand trick on tn
but if the latter is the case 1t is SO G
erly done that there is no detecting
performance.
The witch presents . most extrad
nary and hideous appearance sit
with the snakes darting their fat h
in and out of her toothless mouth,
their little bead-like eyes swapping
in fury all about their mistress.
nearly as they can be counted Il
are six or seven of these rept
though old Nance says there are %
more, but they are all 50 much of a
and color that they cannot be identi
They are probably of o harm
nature, though old Nance declares
are highly poisonous and no one Y
e. to experiment with them.