Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-11-22

A. /. KGHAsrEDr, Proprietor.
LANGDON, NORTH DAKOTA
!. A distinguished, French specialist =
now claiming that a hypdermic injec-
ton Of nitrate of strychnine will cure
alcoholism.
In the Missouri village of Lockwood
recently Kansas divine preached in
the morning on It'll Be Damned if I
Do, and I'll Be Damned if Don't and
in the evening on Seven Miles to
He'll"
A live cat was found the other lay
in packing box that was billed
from Paris, and which had not bcel.
opened in transit. by an employee of
Philadelphia firm.
The late car was always Il ::ood
friend Of the United States, and his
successor will surely not fail to mani
fest the same intelligent and credit
able regard for the nation that sent
feet OF ships loaded with provisions
to- feed the famine-strickcn people of
Rrssia
: 1t is generally supposed that when a
mans heart pulsations go down to for
ty minute death will follow unless
restoratiyes are administered. Paris.
ian doctors are now. it is said, puzzled
over a man in one of the hospitals
whose pulsations have sunk as low as
eighteen a minute. although to all APP
pearances he is we'll and strong
A cotton picker which may revolu-
tionize the whole process of gathering
cotton has been invented by Eli Whit
ney, Of New Haven, the grandson Of
THE famous Eli Whitney who invented
the cotton-gin. By means of this ma
chine, which is called the Whitney har-
vester, the work of 100 men can be
done by two men and two horses.
A new departure in public night
schools has been made in Philadelphia
by devoting one Of the schools to a
course of lectures On the history and
working of our political system. Nat
tonal, state and municipal government
will be taken up in turn. Three lee
lures a week will be given, intended
more particularly for young men, but
free to all who choose to attend.
1t is an interesting fact that while
American wood engravers have been
almost driven from their chosen field
OF book and periodical illustration,
they have brought their art up to it's
highest point and the best of them are
still struggling to do better. Half a
score of the best American wood en-
gravers are perhaps more truly artists
than any of their predecessors on this
side Of the Atlantic.
Only 9O6 persons in 100000 die
from senility, while 1900 succumb to
govt, 1890 to measles, $1,000 to apo
plexy, 1000 to erysipelas, 1900 to con-
sumption. $4,000 to scarlet fever, 25,-
GOO to whooping cough, 10000 to typh-
old and typhus and 1000 to rheuma-
tism. The averages vary according to
locality, but these are deemed pretty
accurate as regards the population of
the globe as whole.
The American Bible Society has suf-
fered a heavy loss by the burning Of
the house in Yokohama. Japan, used as
a depository for Bibles. The entire
stock Of books and sheets was much in
jured by fire and water, but the plates
were fortunately stored elsewhere and
thus are uninjured. The financial loss
Is covered by insurance, but there will
inevitably be considerable delay in get
ting out new editions.
1t is pretty well established now that
water, so far from generating malaria,
n ay really prevent its poluting the at
mosphere. The germ may grow in soils
even slightly moist, but a thin layer of
water equally distributed over such soil
nay prevent the escape of the germ
into the atmosphere. In the same way
thick growth of grass with matted
roots may be impervious to the germ
and keep it beneath the surface, where
it can do no harm.
English discipline with the cat-o'-ninc-
tails seems more severe than its SUI
vival in Delaware. The cat in the
peach state has nine tails of leather.
each with knot, and the law sentences
the convict to so many lashes upon the
bare back, well laid on" but the sher-
III is the judge Of what constitutes a