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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
Fatal Cases of Mushroom Poisoning.

For some unexplained reason there
have been very many deaths this year
attributable to eating poisonous mush-
rooms. One is forcibly reminded of
the familiar rule, IF you live, it's a
mushroom; il you die, it's toadstool."
As a curious incident in the singular
fatality which has Of late attended the
use of this edible, it may be related
that number of experts and dealers
have been among the victims. Under
these circumstances the rule can hard
ly be said to hold good. Medical sci
entists are beginning to wonder wheth-
er it is possible that atmospheric con-
ditions or the season may have any
thing to do with the toxic properties
of mushrooms. Surely those who have
dealt in them and been familiar with
them for half century should be
able to say which were mushrooms
and which were not. But even this
experience was of no avail, according
to the accounts that have reached us
that stormy, unsettled and changeable
weather, with exceedingly hot and dry
spells following chilly dampness and
humidity, have deleterious effect on
certain forms Of vegetation. The sug
gestion that druggists and fancy gro
GERS keep in their windows jars con-
tanning genuine and spurious mush
rooms might be an excellent one were
1t not for the fact that, as shown by
the statements previously made, per-
sons thoroughly familiar with mush-
rooms through almost their entire life
time have died from the effects of some
poison, the nature of which has not
been determined.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
retreat. They are always going ahead,

retreat. They are always going ahead,
not on an easy canter, but at full run.
Other regiments hear the command of
Halt! and pitch their tents for the
night. The regiments of the years
never hear the command of "Haltw
and never pitch tent for the night.
Oh, my friends, If all right for the
next world, the years cannot gallop
past too rapidly. If it were possible
for the centuries to take the speed Of
the years, and the years the speed of
the days, and the days the speed of the
hours, they could do us no harm. The
shorter our life the longer our heaven.
The sooner we get out of the perils Of
this life, il our work be done, the bet
ter. No man is safe till he is dead.
Better men than we have been
wrecked, and at all ages. Lord and
Lady Napier were on horseback on a
road in India. Lord Napier suddenly
said to Lady Napier, Ride on and
fetch assistance, and do not ask me
why" She sped on and was soon out
of sight. The fact was tigers eyes
glared on them from the thicket, and
he did not dare to tell her, lest, af-
frighted, she fall in the danger and
perhaps lose her life. From all sides
of us, on this road of life, there are
perils glazing on us, from tigers Of
temptation, and tigers of accident, and
tigers of death, and the sooner We get
out of the perils of this life the better.
Let 1897 take the place of 1896, and
1898 the place of 1897, and our souls
will be landed where there shall be
nothing to hurt or destroy in all God S
holy mount" mo lion shall ba there,
nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon, it shall not be found there, but
the redeemed shall walk there. Aad
the ransomed of the Lord shall return.
and come to Zion with songs, and ever
lasting joy upon their heads; they shall.
obtain joy and gladness.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
Clock Run by Water Power,

A water clock has been devised by
a Chicago inventor. 1t is operated by
water power, and the man who de-
signed it says that it will tell the time
as we'll as any other machine, besides
having the charm of novelty which is
so much admired in these days. 1t is
small, circular box, partitioned in
several compartments, and is suspend
ed by two strings to an ordinary
wooden frame or backed by a wood
panel. The hours are indicated along
one side of the frame. The interior
divisions are similar to those of q
water wheel, and in each. at alternate
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
A Simple skunk Tran.

"a skunk is the biggest fool in the
world" says Charles o. Cappers, the
cleverest amateur trapper in Lewiston,
Maine, who can catch a skunk every
night in -four barrel. All he does is
to incline an empty barrel over stone
or something that will slightly tilt it
and drop in a hunk Of bread or almost
anything to bait it. Along comes a
skunk In the night; he smells the bait,
jumps into the tilted barrel, his weight
tips it up, and there he is and he can't
get out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
shielding ON Lightning.

1t is reported that an official inquiry
recently made in Germany concerning
the effect of telephone wires on at
mospheric electricity, showed that O
network of such wires extending over
a town tended to diminish the danger
from lightning during thunderstorms
Reports were compared from 900
towns, of which $50 possessed telephone
systems, and the conclusion drawn was
that a network of wires lessons the
danger in the ratio of l to 4.6.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
Electrical Publication of Water.

The publication of water by cleo
tricity is just now engaging the atten-
ton of scientists. Experiments show
that bacteria and microbes are effectu-
ally destroyed by electrical currents,
and the water completely clarified; but
a cheaper process than that under
which the experiments have thus far
been conducted must be found before
electrical filtration can become a COM
mercial success.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

ends of the divisions, is very small
hole. Water is sealed in one compart-
ment, and is uppermost when the
drum is at the top of the panel. II
slowly trickles into the next compart-
ment below it in front, and on account
of the leverage exerted by its weight
the drum gradually revolves down.
another journey is necessary. The
time can be told by the position OF
the indicator on. the uprights.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
A Device to Enable the Deaf to Hear

Device to Enable the Deaf to Hear.
BY means of an invention of DR..
Thomas McKendrick, a noted expert in
electro-therapeutics of Glasgow, Scot
land, it is possible for the deaf to
hear music. To accomplish it the deaf
person must dip his hands into a tub
of water. A monograph is used for
supplying the music. The sound waves
are directed into regular telephone
transmitter. The transmitter connects
with a series of batteries under the tub,
connecting Herewith. The harmony
is carried to the brain through the
hands. The principle on which DR..
McKendrick based his idea is one
which is but little understood. Water
is one of the best conductors of cleo
tricity known. DR.. William Harvey
King, an electro therapeutical expert
of New York, who has studied DR.. Nc
Hendricks discovery, said in the New
York Herald a few days ago that the
great difficulty which had always baf-
fed experimenters in this line was that
the batteries used did not produce the
perfect rhythmical vibrations neces-
sary. 1--WE have made this experiment
with the Faradic battery" said DR..
King, "but to speak technically for a
moment, the long period of cessation
between the make and the break de-
stroys the rhythm, and consequently
the sensation is not transmitted. The
European expert has prepared special
battery, the secret of which he still
retains" The process by which the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Three copies OF the Bible, written OH
leaves of the fan palm, are in the Brit
ish museum.
Queen Victoria frequently examines
her Will. 1t is engrossed on velum.
quarto size. and is beautifully bound.
Women comprise two-thirds OF the
church members Of the United States.
but only one-thirteenth of the crimi-
nails.
Counting all classes Of reserves Ger
many can in twenty-four hours raise
an army of four millions of disciplined
men.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

Horses always point one ear forward
when they sleep. Exactly why this is
done no human being can tell, but the
probability is that the practice is q
relic of the time when they were wild
and obliged to be on their guard even
when asleep. Cattle, on the other hand,
are apparently indifferent as to the
position of their ears while sleeping,
but no odds what position they are in,
both are always pointed alike.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

rhythm Of music is transferred through
the nerves to the nerve center of the
brain is clearly described by DR.. King.
Take, for instance, a person who has
been deaf from birth. He immerses his
hands in the prepared water connected
with the photograph. The rhythm of
the music Is conducted by the nerves
locally affected to the assure Rolando
in the brain, and the sensation Is one
of pleasure. Greater still is the pleas
ure experienced by one who has at one
time had normal hearing and who has
become deaf from some cause or an
other. If the tune selected Is one with
which the subject has been familiar, he
may easily follow the varying changes
of the music, and by the aid of his
imagination, which In the deaf is UNI
usually acute, he can thus enjoy the
oddly conducted concert almost as thor
oughly as il his hearing was normal"
While the new system of making the
deaf hear is yet in its infancy, DR.. King
says that scientists all over the world.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

ships, like those of duck, and fur
Their resemblance is given to that bird
by tail which curls up over piggy's
back. This biped is a trifie unsteady
on its limited equipment of legs, and
in its watery blue eyes there turks a
puzzled expression, as though ii
missed something, but it never fails to
reach the trough as soon as the other
members Of it's family when the swill
pail comes into view.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
To PAY the Penalty for Dining

Is rather hard, isn't itl Yet how many are
compelled to do this after every neal.
Dyspepsia, that memorable prosecutor,
never ceases to torment of its own volition,
and rarely yields to ordinary medication.
but tranquility of the stomach is IN store
for those who pursue course of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters This fine corrective also
remedies malarial and kidney complaints,
rheumatism, constipation, biiiousness and
nervousness.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

Are to be had on the Frisco Line in
Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. The
best route from st. Louis to Texas and
all points west and southwest. For
maps, time tables, pamphlets, etc.
call upon or address any agent of the
company, or ID. Wishart, Genl Pas
senger Agent, st. Louis, Mo.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
Not Kind.

"Oid you read the article published
about youl" remarked an acquaintance Of
the INSCRIPTIONS politician.
mo, have they been slandering me, as
usualr'
IL don't know whether they have SLAM
dered you or not; but it looks as il they
had done their best"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
YOU WANT A FARM and we hav

so miles west of Houston, at CHESIERVIltt.
the best tract in Texas. High prairie, wei
drained, abundant rainfall good soil, low
prices and easy terms. Don't fail TO post
Yourself. Write and receive our book Fer
tile Farm Lands" FREE and information as
to cheap excursion and FREE FARE. Address
Southern Texas Colonization Co., John
~.inderholm, Mgr, 10 Rialto Bldg. Chicago
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
Under the Influence.

First Club Man-What did you think
when your wife met you at the door at q.
IN to let YOU inl
Second Club Man-To tell the trnth, old
fellow, / thought was bigamist.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp's balsam will stop the cough
at once. Go to your druggist to-day
and get sample bottle free. Large
bottles so cents and 81. Go TAT once;
delays are dangerous.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
Natural Mistake.

MY good man, you shouldn't be sleep
ing out doors like this" said the belated
citizen.
None o. yer clatter, now, or I'll take you
i'm
BEG your pardon. / had no idea that
YOU We're q nOliceman.O
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
So Could We all.

Goodun-You will never be happy until
you get a change of heart.
Badun-Oh my heart is all right; but
think could be reasonably happy if ]
could get a change of liver and kidneys.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

A lady who was complimented for her
good taste in dress. said laughingiy, That's
because don't depend entirely on my mir
ror, but on my feelings also"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

1t is part of my religion to look well af-
ter the cheerfulness of life, and let the
dismals shift for themselves NJ.
AlcOtt
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

Piso's Cure for Consumr tion has saved
me large doctor bills &C. L. Baker, 1928
Regent So. Philadelphia Pa, Dec. 3, '95.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

Sun spots are believed to be openings ip
the suns philosophers, or luminous envei.
ope, through which the orb is seen.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

DIR. Kay's Lung Balm is the safest, surest
and pieasantest cure for all coughs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

Gardiner, Me-, has society OF ladies
pledged not to wear bird"plumes in
their hats.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
SCIENTIFIC CORNER.
CURRENT NOTES OF INVEN-
TON AND DISCOVERY.
Curious Freak of Nature-CIock Run
by Water Power-An Invention Which
May Restore Hcaring-Kne Flying
Extraordinary.

ARMER X. e.
Otis of Lewis coun-
ty, N. Y, owns a
remarkable pig. 1t
has only two legs,
but it differs from
all other recorded
freaks, in that the
legs are neither
fore nor hind legs.
They are placed
S q IL are ! y amid
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

himself included, are working untiring-
ly with the electrical agent, and are
sanguine Of even greater success than
has already been attained.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"A CAVALRY CHARGE" LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.

From the Text; Kings, 2:1S-23-I VIII
Deliver Thee Two Thousand Horses
If Thou BE Able on Thy Part to Set
Riders Upon Them"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-05

P by the water
works, the upper
reservoir of Jeru-
salem, the general
of the besieging
army and the gen.
erals of besieged
Jerusalem are in
con suit a t i o n.
Though General
Rab-shakeh had
been largely paid
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-26
VEALY COURTsHIPS.
Why Minors Should Not Be Allowed to
Rent POstoffice Boxes.
Brooklyn Eagle.


1t has been properly decided that minors
cannot rent letter boxes in the postoffices
A general order from Washington has gone
forth to that effect. The reason given for
this action is that the government does not
wish to be party to the secret correspond
ence of callow youth and maidens that
might be carried on in the safety of a let
ter box. Several cases of harm have been
reported as a result of such correspond
ence. The postmaster can hardly contract
with minor in any case unless the latter
has the sanction of his parents, and GER
tainly the office cannot afford to lend itself
TO any scheme for the advancement Of love
affairs between designing youth and silly
girls. There is too much of this vealy court
ship in evidence as it is Too many young
Sters of school age are allowed to parade
the streets at night, to make acquaintance
that cannot result to the advantage of any
body, and to ACQUIRE troubles that one is
not easily freed from. 1t is we'll for boys
and girls to associate together. but il should
be in the open freedom OF tie home, the
playground and the school, rather than in
the streets And parents need to discourage
the idea of forwardness in the girls and of
impudence in the boys. Many youngs ers
who are still in knickerDockers conceive
that they have arrived at discretionary
years when they can tramp the sidewalks
unattended. smoke fetid cigarettes and ad-
dress insulting remarks to girls and Young,
women whom they pass They are q nuf-
sance, and they require not merely re-
traint of postal privileges. but of the warm
parental hand.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-26

attack, is, per Sc, as great a risk. That, how
ever, is ancient history now. The fact re-
mains that we have advanced into the hills
both out of fear of a Russian invasion and
because we disliked anarchcal region
SO close to u.s. and what has to be consid-
cred now is how to find some modus vivendi
for the future That we can retire from the
places now occupied by seems hardly
possible, though we fully admit that iso-
lated garrisonS in a mountain region dissi-
pate the strength of an army and are a con-
stant source of trouble. Some alternative,
then, to retirement will have TO be discOv-
cred. What that alternative should be we
cannot however, discuss on the present oc-
casion. A clearer understanding of all that
has happened in the last three months will
be necessary before any definite opinion can
be given as to what should be our future
course Of action. Meantime, it is no harm
to bear in mind that the problem exists,
and that when the risings have been nut
down it will have to be faced.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-26
Two Greeks.

Cwritten in Miss Thomas "A Winter Swallow
Here is the shelf oftenest seek,
And here the book beloved of old
The songs of him whose soul was Greek,
Whose speech English of pure gold.
no other book it seemed to me-
Could share the little shelf with Keats;
For who, save him. had crossed the sea
TO steal from Attic bees their sweets?
But now another English tongue
Has caught the trick Of Grecian speech;
Another hand has plucked and flung
The golden apples within reachi
Tonight the alcoves light burns low;
Pans piping notes ring blithe and clear,
While with Aegean's ebb and flow,
Antgones brave voice ] hear.
Meredith Nicholson, in the Critic.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-26
Educational Item from the Hub.

Boston Iranscript.
The two elder boys at the breakfast table
had described their academic requirements
to their father with the just pride which in
spires youth in their teens over Greek verbs
and Latin declensions. They told of the
surprise and JOY OF their respective teacn-
ers at certain brilliant recitations of the
day before. Then arose on his high. chair
the youngest. the kindergarten student
aged four. whose Christian name is Lowell.
said. then paused. evidently 10 let imagi-
nation have her perfect work and keep him
up in the race. He swung his arm again
teacher said, Lowell, you and all your fam
lily are peachess'
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-26
queer Taste for Souvenirs.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

one remarkable feature of the reopening
or the book store No. 1117 Walnut street,
where Major Wilson was so brutally and
mysteriously murdered on Aug l6, is the
almost universal failure of subscribers to
return the books taken out before the muir
der These books are being retained as me
mentoes of the famous crime, and several
have paid the price of the books rather
than part with the highlv-prized relics. The
morbid interest thus attached to these
works of literature has brought to several
circle of readers. One woman who paid
for her book rather than return it declared
that she had lent it successfully to no less
than twenty friends. who perused it eager
w. not because it was worth reading. but
because it had been handled bv the muir
dered man, and because ii had been taken
from the library the very afternoon of the
day he was killed. No doubt the books
in the case which were spattered with the
Mfe-hlood of the AGED librarian would COM
mand a fancy price from IAlIs type Of bibli-
omaniacS.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-26
She WouIdn't Go.
Washington Post.

A Seventeenth-street woman has as
child's nurse a negro girl from the Virginia
hills, who has invested all her savings in
gold tooth, which replaces one of her in
csors. The mistress went to the seashore
for a fortnight last month. and Just at the
last moment the nurse refused TO accom-
pany her. For a long time the girl could
not be persuaded to tell why she would not
so. Finally she said:
We'll. Miss Lizzie, l certainly can't go
heard you say everything rusts down
there on count of the damp. and deed Miss
Lizzie, ain,t going TO so and get this yere
tooth spoiled"
And she stayed at home.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-26


ADVANTAGES OF DELAY.
BY avoiding all risk of disaster, and by
striking when they do strike with invinci-
bic force the Indian government will, we
have no doubt. get over the immediate from
tier difficulty without suffering and serious
injury. When, however the immediate
military problem has been solved they will
find themselves face to face with another
and more difficult and intricate question
the question Of their future frontier policy
Are they to make any changes, and if so,
what changes, or are they to go on just as
they went on before? AS our readers know,
we have never felt any great confidence III
the forward policy on the frontier. That
policy has two causes. 1t is partly due TO
the instructive tendency Of a superior civ
ilizatiOn, when in contact with an inferior
one to advance further and further. While
empires are living they always show ten
dency to expand. After all, active ad-
ministrator would not be worth much IL his
fingers did not itch to be putting an end TO
the anarchy over the border-an anarchy
which is always worrying him both in prac-
tice and theory. This is the normal. and
we may almost say the legitimate, cause OF
our continued advance into the hills.
more doubtful cause has been the dread of
q Russian attack on india, and the desire
to seize strategic positions on the supposed
lire of advance. Unless Chitral was in our
hands Russia. when once she was es-
tablished in the Pamirs, would find IL easy
to advance on Pashawur, for does not the
water run straight down from the neighbor-
hood of Chitral into the Cabul river2 so
ran the argument.
Probably, even granted the soundness of
the strategic argument ii would have been
best 10 have risked the chance of a Rus
sian invasion. You must always risk some
thing and the risk of bankruptcy. though,
no doubt as remote as that Of a Russian
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-26

to this exposition of 1900 better than to any,
thing else. for it will be the crowning
event of the century"
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-26
The silent watches.

Philadelphia North American.
What are the silent watches of the
night, anyhow
Those which you forget to wind up be-
fore retiring. / suppose.