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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24

association will observe the anniver.
sary at Philadelphia on that date. The
Connecticut dentists will hold their an
niyersary exercises at Hartford during
the evening previous, and go from this
city to Philadelphia for the national
.,observances. The feature of the event
in Hartford will be the placing of a
bronze tablet on the granite structure
now occupying the site where Dr..
Wells Office was situated fifty years
.sgo.
1t is an interesting fact that two Of
the witnesses of the first application of
what DR.. Wells called laughing gas"
are still living. One of them, Gardner
y Cotton, of New York city, applied the
gas to DIR. Wells December IL, 1884. The
other, Col Samuel Cooley, of Hartford,
was simply witness of the operation.
Col. Cooley is broken down by age and
physical inirmity, and has not left his
house for months. He has one of the
best collections in the country of
pamphlets and documents relating
to the discovery of anasthesia.
DR.. Wells, on whom the experiment
was made. had tooth extracted with
out pain by DR.. John NJ. Riggs. The
latter survived until November II, 1855,
being at that time one of the oldest
dentists in the state. He left a pro-
vision in his will that his body should
he cremated, and the remains were re-
duced to ashes in Pennsylvania. The
discoyerer, DIR. Wells, died in New
York city January II, 1913. at the age
of thirty-three years. lie received the
honorary title of NJ. d. from the French
academy The recent revival of the
Morton claims to the discovery of an
EsstheSia was met by the American
Dental association a few days ago at
its annual session at Old Point Com
fort, Va, by resolutions declaring that
DIR. Wells is entitled to the honor. The
justice of DR.. Wells claims was estab'
lished by an official investigation be
fore a committee of congress. United
States Senator Truman Smith. of Con
necticut. was one of the leading spirits
in this investigation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24
Only a Rose.

A swelling beneath the bark of some
huge, surface-appearing root of large
tree announces the coming of flower.
Soon the bark splits, and the bud, re-
sembling the head of a young cabbage,
bursts, showing five great lobes, which
open and roll back slightly on the
edges.
Then a circular ring appears, sur
rounding a deep cup, in the center of
which is the ovary. Below the edges
is a kind of gallery, wherein are nu-
merous stamens, in which is located the
pollen.
The remarka BILE feature of the flower
is its colossal size, the largest species
being 80 inches in diameter. The cen
trail cup holds six quarts of liquid, and
the total weight of the flower is over
IS pounds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24

aware of their deficiency in good looks
to forget it for moment. Strange as
the observation may sound to male
ears, it is yet fact that there are
plenty of girls who, SO far from feeling
vain of their personal appearance,
would not complain if fashion ordained
that they should veil their faces after
the manner of the east. Very likely
their mothers, from a mistaken notion
of guarding them against feelings OF
vanity, have spoken so often in dis
paraging way of their looks that they
have actually conceived a dislike for
their own personal appearance. They
are perfectly convinced that they pre-
sent an unpleasing, if not disagreeable,
spectacle to their fellow-men; their
highest ambition is to render them
selves as little repulsive as possible. 1t
is not an easy thing to imagine what
agonies shy and ugly girl may have
to endure, or how sweet to her are the
marks of respect and courtSsies which
are too often mOnopOli2ed by the pref
ty girls of a party. 1t is undoubtedly
one of the distinctive marks of the
gentleman that he pays a woman all
the little attentions that the usages of
society require of him, whether she is
young or old, handsome or ugly.
Men often excuse themselves for at.
tendance on plain young women on the
ground that they are not only i'll
looking, but ill-tempered. There is too
much truth in the charge. But the
ugly girl is not without excuse. The
consciousness that no man or woman
cares to look at her face a second time,
joined to the sensitiveness she has ac-
quired, is apt to sour her temper; and
this, in it's turn, tends to increase her
ugliness. Yet it is singular fact that
if man, for any reason, pays marked
attention to plain girl, she is apt to
hold her chin half an inch higher in
the air than good-looking girl would
do under the same circumstances. IL.
would be futile to inquire into the rea-
sons of this tendency on the part OF
ugly girls to give themselves airs; bat
the fact is patent to all men.
Mrs Eva Blackman, of Leavenwortn.
was elected worthy foreman" of the
Kansas Knights of Labor at their ninth
snnual convention in Topeka The
! convention unanimously Endorsed tho
pending woman suffrage amendment.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24
THE LARGEST FLOWER.

Thirty-Nine Inches in Diameter and the
Cup Holds Six Quarts.
The wonderful flower shown in the
cut is that of the Ratflesia Arnold, a
plant discovered by DR.. Arnold in the
island of Sumatra some eighty years
ago.
The various species now known are
all parasitic. not, however, to the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24
BICYCLES RUN BY HAND.
A French Cpntrivsnce for Using the
Hands as Well as the Legs.

The principal criticism of bicycle rid
1ng is that it exercises only the legs
and does not produce the desired de-
velopment of arms and chest. Fur
ther, that its effect ON the back and
chest is positively harmful PROPOSE
ton which those who have noticed the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24

branches Of other plants, but to the
roots. Entirely destitute of leaves
and green in color, these singular vege-
tables are provided with scales or
braets, which conceal and epveloP the
flower previous to the opening.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24
URBAN A. WOODBURY..
Short Biographical sketch of the Gov
ernor-Elect of Vermont.

Hon Urban A. Woodbury., who has
just been elected governor of Vermont,
has long been prominent in the affairs
of his state. and his popularity is indi-
Gated by the fact that the majority OF
27,5OO, which he received on September
4, is, with one exception, the largest
given for any governor of the Green
Mountain state since the formation Of
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24
MADE LAUGHING GAS.
Flfticth Anniversary of the Discovery OF
he Anusfhetic,

, the AnFesthetic.
, The American Dental association, to-
gether with the dentists of Connecticut,
organized under the name of the Con-
necticut State Dental association, will
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the
discovery OF annSthesia, by DR.. Horace
Wells. on December IL. The American
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-07-18

have witnesses stronger than personal
protestations and are not dependent, in
the least, on your mere assertion.
Your pretended disinterestedness be-
lies the plain evidence of facts. We
have not undertaken at this time to
present any very strong argumen
against the senatorial proposition. 1:
Is not particularly the business of op-
ponents Of the measure to point out all
its defects. Under the direction of
Messrs SHoUP. DUBOIS and SWEET.
you are the instigator of the scheme
and it remains for you to present rea-
sons why it should prevail. You have
failed lamentably. And the Republi-
cans Of Idaho are not disposed to
adopt policies on the lines of the old
ladys treatment, who. while tickling
her moribund spouse on the nose with
feather, said well, If it does no
good, it really cannot do much HARM"
Ii Idaho's congressional delegation are
SRSV OA10o80 AAA NsAIA VUC OAR04lu10utO
with fantastic remedies and negative
virtues for the amusement 1t affords
them, they ought to select some passive
and inane subject. The Republican
party has grown beyond the enjoyment
of such silly and childish pranks. If
you, Mr.. WOOD, have one sound argu-
ment to offer in support of this dubi.
GUS proposition, you should do so
promptly and without waiting to be
tormented by the importunities of
your several friends. And in your
next effort, as purely disinterested
observer, give some color to your pro-
LESSONS by appealing to the intelli-
gence and not the prejudices Of men.
Until you can convince the senses, you
need not hope to change the popular
verdict, that the senatorial proposition
is . political trick, barren Of virtue and
but slightly tainted with Ingenuity.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-07-18
THE GOVERNORS Views.
4 Reply b Seaates 0ubois' Letter 10 ASS A.
bott-No Coed caa Como From Il.

Editor CALDWELL TRlByNE:-HOn.
F. I. Dubois is out in the state press
with letter over his signature advO-
eating the nomination Of United States
Senator in State Convention. / wish
you would kindly afford me space to
make brief commentary on the same,
proposed innovation.
First: The Constitution provides
for the manner of choosing Senators
and until it il amended we should and
must follow its provisions. as it is GER
tainly beyond the prer0gative of any
Convention to set aside the organic
act.
Second: 1 am opposed to the Con-
ventiOn asserting by resolution or other
wise that as body it is composed Of
men who are purer and more worthy of
confidence than will be the members of
the coming Legislature. Senator Du-
b0is gives as one, and in fact, almost
the Only reason for the new departure
that the members of the Western State
Legislatures will not go into caucus
and abide by the decision of the major
ity, but he does not pretend to atm
that y Legislature will abide by the de-
cisiOn of y Convention. The history
of our last Senatorial contest would be
q fiat contradiction of such an asser-
ton. 1t is well known that the Repub-
lican State Convention which convened
in this city four years ago adopted
q resolution c0nceding and agreeing
that one of the two us Senators to
be chosen by the Legislature should be
elected from North Idaho. 1t is also
well known that the present Senators
from the State refused to be guided or
controlled either themselves or friends
by the action of the Convention. If it
is part of political honor to acquiesce
in the action of the Convention is it
probable that the members of the next
Legislature will be more thoroughly
imbued with that desideratum, than
were the gentlemen who now represent
US in Washington, and is it not proba-
bic that those who refused to &C.
quiesce before would not do SO again
provided the coming State Convention
does not nominate their choice. 1t is
true. as Senator Dubois says, that the
Idaho Legislature refused to 20 into
caucus when our first Senators were
elected and it is true also, although the
Senator forgot to so state, that the rea-
son they did not 60 into caucus was
because Mr.. Shoup and himself would
not allow their friends so to do, in the
manner provided by the resolution of
the State Convention.
Il have no intent to enter into or
discuss the prObable motives OF those
VINO advocate the proposed change in
The manner OF selecting Senator'S. l
will simply state without fear or con-
tradicti0n, resting on the history of the
former Senatorial contest, that no good
IAN come from the proposed innova-
ion. Respectfully,
w. j. MCCONNELL,
Governor OF Idaho. |
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to legislative reputation you are
forced to clothe convention delegates
with virtues they were never before &C.
cused or suspected of possessing. But
your great hope rests in one virtue and
that most questionable one. Tracta-
bility is the desideratum in legislative
bodies, the convention supplies the
quality in elegant profusion. The
TRIBUNE is not disposed to disparage
convention delegates. Some good men,
accidentally and otherwise find their
way into conventions but with the
spectacle before us of DAN LOCKWOOD
being selected to represent this sover-
eign state in national capacity, we
are forced, with reluctance, to admit
that wholesome influences are not gem
orally dominant. Mr.. WooD, there is |
no occasion for US to enter into any |
controversy over the methods and NOR.
ais of political conventions. You are !,
no spring chicken. And while we do !
not possess 1.-THE Of your practical
'kfll, nor do we yearn to acquire your
1exterity, yet, we have seen enough Of
Inc internal operation of the machine
% shrewdly guess that the handspring
9 not wholly made Of patriotism. In
to practical operation, 20 far a. affect.
ng any desired reform in the election
II United States Senator is concerned.
E2ur convention nomination will neces-
esily spd in failure and contempti-
'ility. si,a's
Now, cir, . word with respect to the
lisinterestedness Of your position.
fou were until quite lately United
'tates Attorney for Idaho. Senator
DUBOIS was largely responsible for
our appointment. He did you . valu-
bio and generous political service.
lou ::owe him some acknowledgment.
low can you DO disinterested without
eing positively ungratefulY Again.
4. WooD. have you not unsettled
laims against government pending in
he Department Of Justicep And d It
OF > fact that active senatorial infiu-
noes tend TO facilitate early and satis- !
aetory adjustments We, happily
Il
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-16
PERIER ON AMERICA
The French President Wrote an
Essay About Us in His Youth.
Vow First Resurrected - What Great
Ruler Thinks of a Republican Form
of Governmental Tribute to
the American People.
TcoPYRIGHT, fsa4.1

,-CTo very few is Il known that the present pres
dent OF the French republic, Jean Paul Pierre
>CaSimir-PeTier, as young man a prolific
writer. When only twenty years cid he was
assistant editor Of literary weekly and prior
10 1874 when he was first elected to the cham
Der, he dashed of articles on all subjects. The
following is the substance OF an essay which
appeared 1871. His utterances and speeches on
HI subjects are shortly to be published in book
form, and VIII make quite volume)
1t is striking fact that the citizens
ef a republic make grander history
than do the subjects of monarchy.
There is splendor OF achievement in
the one case which fires the imagina-
ton and instinctively induces to dis
Paragement of the conditions of the
othcr. The deeds Of a people seem
always grand. The glory of a mon
arch is too personal for the part,cipa-
ton of his subjects In it.
Compare the Roman people under the
republic with the same nation when
the Caesars ruled. Even during the
sway of the kings there is little gran
ieur in the city of Romulus. Notuntil
Brutus and Collatinus had breathed
life into the commonwealth do we get
SO much as spark of the fame that
was to prove SO glorious light. And
If we turn to modern history the same
conditions reappear. Venice the re-
public is the theme of historical genius.
The Dutch republic was the pride of
Europe while it endured. The Eng
lish commonwealth brings out the
greatness of Britain as nothing has
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hone before or since. The French re.
publics will testify the majesty of Gaul
rs long as history lasts. But what is
The chronicle of these people when the
republican form had faded away?
If we turn now to the nation which
alone among modern lands has been
accorded the flattery implied in the
term great republic, we will see a re-
narkable instance of what has been
lmmemoriably observed. The United
States of America have behind them a
history which suggests that of Rome
because 1t is so strong contrast. The
great republic of antiquity had its
origin shrouded in fable. The great
republic Of our own day is practical
even in its beginnings. The deeds of
the old commonwealth were done in
the name of glory and resulted in war.
The achievements of this new common
wealth are inspired by peace and made
enduring through liberty. The dead
republic wrought its own grandeur;
this living one seeks the great
ness of its citizens. Rome ruled
but the Americans rule. The state
has made room for the people.
Let us imagine that instead of a re-
public the patriots had chosen to found
q monarchy and Washington had been
made the first of dynasty. There
would have been now no such thing as
American liberty in the sense in which
we know it. The history OF that trans
Atlantic landwould be a personal mar
rative. The emperor would have alb
sorbed the glory of his people. And
this, too, Notwithstanding that the in
situations of the country were made as
democratic as they are to-day.
This il is necessary TO clearly under
ception involved in that extraordinary
Office, the presidency of the United
States. 1t is occasionally said, even by
citizens Of the republic themselves,
that too many Of the successors Of
Washington have sunk into compare
tive obscurity. Their administrations
are blank. We never hear Of them.
1t is the misfortune of peace that it is
far more placid and silent than war.
Ahe quarrelsome family invariably re-
-eives more attention than the har-
monious one.
From this point Of view II is the I
glory OF the chief magistraey Of the re-
public that it has thus been ever I
greater than its incumbent. The /
scourge OF republics has always ben
That one citizen has proved greater
than any honor his countrymen could
bestow upon him. Across the Atlantic
there has been created a dignity ST.
perior to any man qualified u I'll 1t.
One is tempted to venture upon pre-
diction where the future of SO great
people is concerned. And prediction in
this case becomes very easy by analogy.
In considering the great republic OF
Rome. we are impressed bv
the predominance of the bellicose ele-
ment. All the glory of the state had
a. inaAntion in tho rnilitsrp s1..>>-i4--:--
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of the Roman people The age, It
| should never be forgotten, was
peculiarly adapted to the conditions
which necessarily followed We're
genius for war not calculated to win
supremacy, Rome would never have
been mistress of the world.
Let us now transfer the analogy.
The people of the United States have
won glorious victories, but they have
been the victories of peace. The world
to-day affords peculiar field for this
sort of supremacy. Peace hath her
victories no less renowned than war"
they say in English, and they are won
by the great nations across the Allan
tic on grander scale than such victo-
ries have ever been won. Supremacy
in the art of peace is the supremacy
that viii win the dominion of the world
now. And this does not imply that any
diminution in our militant energy has
taken place. War under modern con-
ditions tends to become a mechanical
slaughter of our fellow-creatures-an
impersonal desruction'of life and limb
no more glorious than the blowing up
Of buildings by the use of some power
full explosive. Hence, were the people
of the United States to see military
renown they could hardly attain that
personal distinction which was won by
the Roman in the DAYS when eunpow.
der was not even dream. This they
have been gracious enough to perceive.
But in the development of their enor-
nous resources, in battling with the
material world, they have displayed a
courage and endured hardships from
which even the Romans would shrink.
II we further consider that the con-
dition OF modern civilization places a
premium on expertness In the peaceful
arts; that our whole social structure is
at the mercy of any nation which can
gain supremacy over other nations in
these competitive struggles which
have so peculiarly marked this CEN
tury, we may. grasp, even if in q dim
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| way, the nature OF the future chat IS
before the American republic. IT has
! spread from a region bordering the At
Iantic across great continent to the
shores of another ocean. In doing this
1t has carried on no destructive wars.
The conflict with Mexico over the ter
ritorial acquisitions of the forties was
incidental merely. The whole history
Of the republic is one of peace. Even
the wars which have shed glory on
the soldiers of the republic were not
inspired by any such motives as kept
the temple of janus open for centuries.
The WARS Of the United States have
been waged in the name Of peace. War
for wars sake has never placed blot
on the page Of the republics history
since the declaration of independence.
Here Is feature in that developing
destiny which is always overlooked by
those who make predictions concern
ing the future of that vast land across
the waters. We are constantly being
assured that the fate Of ancient states
awaits il. The interests of different
sections of the nation must inevitably
clash, conflicts will arise and civil dis
sentions will send the republic into
various nations. Such prognostica-
tions are made under total miscon-
ception of the forces which are at work
in the development of this wonderful
people The victories of peace are
their glory and the great type of con-
guest of which alone they are capable
or ambitious. The quarreling instinct
which set ancient people 1T war has no
place in the composition of these trans
republicans. And as peace
and her arts are and have ever hccr
the cementing forces OF empire. il foi
lows that the union Of this powerfu'
republic must grow with time.
j. CAsTNUR-PETIrg
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PRAYING FOR sELF-CoNrRo1-
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LOSS OF MEMORY.
The strange Case OF n Sian Who Dtdnss
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me strange Ease OF Man Who Dtdn's
Know Himself
+ The most curious incidents connected
/ with memory are. Of course. It's entlrs
lapse, and sach eases are not BY any
means 50 infrequent a. IS generals
supposed u IS startling enough, no
doubt, 70 hear a fellow-creaturc asking
another feliow-crcature e. tell him who
he l., but such things have actually
happened Indeed, - was only last year
that case q the kind was engaging
the attention 81 Mei bourne phyziciaus.
young man, about thirty years OF
age. called az tie police barracks ard
demanded % be informed O. 20 his own
identity. A. FIRST il was thought hat
the man was lunatic, but it soon be-
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his memory having failed hira syas per-
fectly genuine lie was taken izto cus>
tody aud kept in Melbourne fail. where
he was the object % much attention
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and ssrders.
Be'psrsisted IN tie declaration that
be DID not re7n.mbcr anything before
the day on which be VISITED fte poles
barracks and several medical mea ~1-
pressed their belief in bis statement.
sttri but.ng hts lack q memory %
masked epilepsy. furi0urlv su0ueh.
the man ult. nately recovered ia
senses throaKa the music ~ she AL
6unGay service one morning ~ vas
observed ..tea4ny lutenfIg 80 tae sag
ing. lie vas questionsd about Is. aa1.
fas3. - seem 20 hare beard that le-
fore somewhere Wias b seq Sc aid
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