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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
NEW CURE FOR WOUNDS.

London Mail


London Mail.
Tomorrow the Princess Louise will open
a hospital in Fitzroy Square for the treat
ment Of wounds, ulcers, ETC., by oxygen
gas.
The new system of oxygen treatment was
discovered by Dr. George Stoker, brother of
Mr. Bran Stoker, of the Lyceum Theater.
1t consists of the exposure of the affected
parts to the action of oxygen gas. The all
ments disappear as if by magic. How?
Surgeon Major Semple, dealing with the
discovery, says: Possibly the oxygen acts
in one or more of the following ways: (a)
Diminution of irritation. Any dressing you
choose to apply to an open sore causes more
irritation than mixture of oxygen and
pure air. CD Direct stimulation without ir-
ritation. Co The oxygen may oXidize the
toxins produced by micro organisms in the
surface of the ulcer. This may apply more
especially to the toxins produced by bacilli
when present. I'D AS stated by DR. Stoker
the oxygen has possibly a selective power
in its action on micro-organisms present in
the ulcer, encoura ging staphylococci, which
then outgrew the bacilli.'
Sufferers Will be glad to learn that So
long as they have only staphyloccocci,
which are comparatively harmless mon
sters, it is all right.
The new method of treatment was sug-
gested to the doctor by the Zulus. When
they are wounded they climb an eminence
the mountain tops. After the Turco-Rus-
sian war he noticed also that the invalids
sat with their wounded limbs bare on the
deck. Scientifically developed, and with the
addition or oXygen-one part of oxygen to
one part of purified air-that is the principle
now adopted at the Oxygen Home Boxes
are filled with the mixture at the gaso-
meter, and attached to the chambers which
1nclose the wounds. When Daily Mail
representative visited the hospital yester-
day, a merry little lad, afflicted with dis
charges from the ears, was running about
with a tube in each ear attached to gas
bag hung like a school sachel across his
back. man with diseased eye wore an
appliance little larger than the ordinary
shade. Patients lay in bed with diseased
in frlo 60
cally with mixed gas. Comparisons with the
photographs of the original wounds
showed that remarkable improvements had
been effected in a very short time. Two
of the men had suffered before entering the
hospital for thirty-six years. One man
who had suffered for forty years and is now
cured will be at to-morrow's meeting In all
Y cases have been treated in the home, rep
resenting an aggregate of 327 years Of suf-
fering. OF those 46 have been cured and ID
are still under treatment and progressing
favorably. Reduced to averages, the cured
patients suffered for five and half years
each, and were cured by the oxygen treat
ment in two months.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

mile of railway permanent way, with
two sets of rails, takes up two and one
half acres of land.
John D. Rockefeller has presented to Vas
sar College a library of 2,70O books pur-
chased in Germany.
eral to London, who recently returned to
his home in Boston, will take up his law
practice Immediately.
Sir Julian Pauncefote rides about Wash
ington every evening on three-wheeled
machine, and is always accompanied by
one of the ladies of his family
The Horticultural Society of Shropshire,
England. has taken upon itself the expense
of erecting statue to Darwin at his birth
place. Shrewsbury 1t will cost $4,000.
Pope Leo has opened the Borgia rooms
in the Vatican, after spending 100000 on
their restoration. Four years were con-
sumed in the work, and the Pope was very
anxious that it should be completed before
his death.
Miss Gordon Cumming is the manager of
a movement in celebration of Queen Vic
toria's jubilee to establish a large school
for the blind in China Money for this pur-
pose is being raised in all the principal
cities OF England.
A curious custom prevails in Bulgaria
All newly-married women are obliged to
remain dumb for a month after marriage,
except when addressed by their husbands.
When it is desirable TO remove this re-
stricuon permanently the husband presents
her with a gift; and then she can chatter
to her hearts content.
Victorien Sardou, the great French dram
atist, was intended TO be physician but
he was so poor that he had TO give Greek
and Latin lessons at 20 cents apiece He
was also a booksellers hack and made
transations. 1t is stated that he was once
paid less than $50 for translation which
took him three weeks to do.
Westley Richards, head Of the celebrated
Birmingham firm OF gun makers. died re-
Gently aE the age OF eighty three years. He
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

Nearly every person who has arrived at
the age of reflection admits that boys
should have twenty-four hours in the vi
cinity of the Fourth of July in which they
may use the fire cracker. To that extent
even the most peaceful and nervous will
grant a privilege which is an annoyance to
all others and a terror to many. This con-
ceded, the others have right to demand
that there shall not be q constant dribblng
of the frecracker nuisance during the
week before the Fourth of July to endanger
property and destroy the peace of COM
munitY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

The new Constitution of the State of Del
aware contains provision intended TO pre-
vent the adoption by the Legislature of a
single-taX law. The insertion of this was
probably oecasioned by the fact that the
single-tax question has been agitated con-
siderably in that State an attempt having
been made to put it into operation in one
town by way Of experiment and it was
feared that the believers in the theory
might attain strength enough to disturb the
existing system. The proceeding hardly
seems to have been wise. Present systems
of taxation are not SO surely the acme {.
wisdom that it is well to make them per-
manent, and, While the single tax plan
would undoubtedly be far less satisfactory.
changes of one sort or another are likely to
be needed as industrial and commercial
conditions alter, and state legislatures
should be free 10 make them. A constitu-
tional inhibition of this sort trenches on
legislative rights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

The London correspondent of the New
York Sun asserts positively that Queen
Victoria is afflicted with a peculiar malady
OF the eyes which has made rapid progress
and will soon end in total blindness. The
Sun also publishes an extract from let
ter written by lady in the court circle
who says: THE poor Queen on her jubi-
lee will hear the shouts of the crowds as
she drives to st. Paurs, but alas, poor
lady she will not be able to see her peo-
pie, for she IS practically blind"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

us devoted citizens, careful and honorable In
the discharge of public duties. it is worth
less. If topics relating to better citizenship
and better government can have some place
among the glowing history and sentiment
in the revival of public exercises on the
Fourth, the new or, rather, the old. indie
pendence day can be celebrated with great
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

chicago shows up with a wife and chill
dren OF the late millionaire. Barney Bar
nato. Montreal produces a brother, Buffalo
a brother, Cleveland a sister and Pittsburg
a second cousin. These are all the returns
yet received, but it is a very slow town
that cannot add one branch 30 the Barnato
family tree.rA live millionaire like the old
woman who lived in shoe, is likely to
have so many relatives that he doesn't
know what to do; but lot more are sure
to discover themselves after his death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

The introduction of the third rail and
the use of electricity on steam railroads in
some Eastern States has called attention to
the fact that such use of electricity obviates
all of the discomforts of. summer trav-
el, such as dust, cinders and smoke, which
are the real terrors of railway travel at this
season of the year. All these are avoided
in the application of electricity and the
third rail. So successful have been the ex-
periments with the third rail in Connecti-
cut that in the course of a few years
through third-rail lines for comfortable
travel NAV be expected
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

would have escaped had It not been for
their corset steels. On the other hand a
young woman whose jealous lover sought
to shoot her was saved from death by the
CHANGING OF the ball against her corset
steels Apparently The only thing for the
girl of the period to do is to weigh her
chances carefully, and, after deciding
whether lightning or a pistol bullet is her
greatest risk to regulate her apparel &C
cordingly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

A French count in Cincinnati wants to
confer the title Of countess on some
American girl in exchange for fortune.
The count is engaged in embarrassing at
present but would be willing to retire
from active business If his wife insisted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

A Manchester IN H.) dispatch says that
for the first time in four years the four
large cotton mills in that city, employing
fourteen thousand hands, will not make
their usual June shutdown this year. The
mill owners say they have orders enough
to keep them running at full time the entire
season. Prosperity is coming
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

The Queens jubilee begins to-day. She
succeeded to the throne bv the death of her
uncle, William ". June 90 1887, though her
coronation did not take place till the 2Sth.
The celebration of the sixtieth year Of her
reign is in all respects a notable event, and
her subjects do well to make much of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

These poets-laureate with their free and
easy ways of writing things bring confusion
to the minds of the nonelect by their calm
disregard of the rules of rhyme and reason
in their productions. Just now readers are
wondering how Alfred Austin manages to
make "is'' rhyme with bliss in his ode
to the Queen, and after they have puzzled
over it for a while they turn to Laureate
elders verses on Robert Gould Shaw and
question how that young warrior could
hear tears" Evidently, it is higher IL
cense than minor poets can afford that the
iaureates have taken out
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

Boston has one holiday which other cities
do not remember. June II is celebrated
there as Bunker Hill day, with hornblow-
ing, firing of guns and firecrackers, pro-
cessions and no end of sports. The British
residents of the town are not invited.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

Complaint comes from Pennsylvania that
many cases of sickness are caused by eat
ing chickens which are allowed to feed on
the seventeen-year locusts now infesting
that State. The doctors are probably wrong
in their diagnosis; the trouble is more like
ly to be caused by seventeen-year-old
chickens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

There are other facts regarding the finan-
cial achievements OF these fraternal orders
which. If presented. would astonish those
as unworthy the attention of men Of af-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

Now that it is known that Mark Twain
has received $4,000 for the manuscript of
his announced book, THE Surviving limo.
cent Abroad" and will receive a royalty,
said to be 81 volume, the raising of the
fund proposed by the New York Herald
does not seem pressing necessity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

Among the strange freaks of lightning in
this State within the last few days have
been the striking of a railroad train in
motion and of a natural gas well, ignting
the gas and causing an explosion. There
has been so much electricity at large that
it has had to seek unusual fields of opera
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
The Fancy Work Girl.

Where have you been Iately?" asked the
athletic girl.
Been at home" said the fancy work girl,
working on some new throws"
''Do you mean to tell me- asked the ath-
letic girl, that you have gone in for base
haII2"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

So long as there is business there will be
in the country fell from ZIG the third week
of June in 1896 to 19S the past week, it is
very certain that business has improved.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

1t would be blessed thing for the coun-
try if all those who live to predict dire
calamities would follow the example of the
man in this State who predicted that the
world would come to an end a week ago
and was so disguised when it did not that
he went out Of the business of prophesying.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
Slandered.

They tell me, Jehiel, that you change
your politics as often you do your coat"
It's dad-goned lie. l git a new coat
every time vote, but I don't always have
to change my politics, bi gosh!'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

The graduating season of the year 1897
closed with the past week. The number of
graduates was never so large but the field
for really educated men and women broad
ems with the years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
Companions.
Hardware.

I'VE had young preacher in our pulpit
out in New Rochester," said a travelling
man, and he was explaining the greatness
of the Creator, In both small things and
mountains, He made the little hills. When
lie made the ocean, He made the dewdrop.
When he made the whale, He made the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
Sixteen Pages

indianapolis is one Of the cities showing
the largest increase in bank clearings the
past week, compared with the correspond
ing week of last year. The increase was
Ill per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

If there is a prophet who predicted hot
weather and electrical storms in these
parts about this time he will please come
forward. file his claim and get a voucher
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
The Cornfed PHILOSOPHER.

II wonder why is it," said the Cornfed
Philosopher, that a woman begins to act
kttenish at just about the age when the
other women say she is cattish?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.

One Married Mans Experience.
Watts-I believe a woman can cry when
ever she wants to.
Potts-I know she can cry whenever
man wants her not to.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

In at least two instances reported in the
papers recently young women have been
killed by lightning who. 1t is thought.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-11
HOUSE..
Wednesday, Feb

Wednesday. Feb. TO- 1897.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Ringold of Gar
diner.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in
concurrence.
On motion of Mr.. Macomber of Angus
ia, the House nOn-concurred with the
Senate in it's reference to the committee
on legal affairs of bill an act to amend
chapter IL, of the Public Laws of 1895,
relating to insurance, and on further
motion by the same gentleman the bill
was referred to the committee on mer-
camille affairs and insurance.
The following Senate bills were read
and assigned:
An act authorizing the construction of
a wharf into the tide waters of Casco
bay and bridges over the tide waters in
the town of Harpswell.
An act to provide for the better protec-
ton of public records.
Resolve in favor of the st. Elizabeth
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum in Port.
land.
Resolve in favor of the Maine General
hospital.
An act to amend chapter 207 of the
Private and Special Laws of 1895.
An act relating to the Rumford Falls
and Buckfield railway
An act concerning the Portland and
Rumford Falls Railway and the Rumford
Falls and Buckfield Railroad Company.
;, An act additional to chapter 81 Of the
Revised statutes, relating to railroads.
On motion OF Mr.. Sanborn of Sanford
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-11
ORDERS.

On motion of Mr.. Cox of Randolph.
Ordered. That the committee on IN,
judiciary be instructed to consider the
ACCESSIBILITY Of enacting n law compcll-
Ing Il person moving into town with the
intention OF making his residence there
TO so notify the clerk of said town of the
fact and also of having the town clerk
keep record of all such declarations
and report by bin or otherwise.
Or motion of Mr.. Cox of Randolph
Ordered. That the committee on the
judiciary be instructed To inquire into the
advisabili;y of SO amending our elections
laws ms TO allow person moving from
one place to another in our State to hold
q voting residence in the place from
which he moved until he shall ACQUIRE
the right 10 vote in the town TO which he
moves. and report by bill or otherwise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-11
ORDERS OF THE DAY.

On motion of Mr.. Maxwell of Rich
mond. resolve in favor of building a
bridge across the Mattawamkeag river
in the town of Kingman. was taken from
the table and on further motion by the
same gentleman it was recommitted to
the committee on ways and bridges.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-11
TEIJ,ll,E4nANcr.

by Mr.. Wheeler Of Gilcad--Pctition OF
Albert II. Jones and 30 others OF Denmark,
law prohibiting the manufacture and sale
Of cigarettes within the State Of Maine.
BY Mr.. Boynton of Sullivan-Remon
STRANGE Of M. b. Scribner and y others Of
Sullivan, against the proposed cigarette
law.
BY Mr.: Goodwin Of South Berwicka,se.
Of South Berwick, against same.
BY Mr.. Shaw OF 6aco-R emOnstrance OF
Winfield S. Hasty and others against
BY Mr.. Stetson OF Bangor-Remon.
STRANGE of Thurston and Atwood and
eight others of Bangor. against same.
by Mr.. Hamilton Of {, BlddefordmRes
others of Bildeford Pool, against same.
by Mr.. BurrIl of Corinna-RemOn-
STRANGE of Owen r. Blackdon and others
BY Mr.. Forest Of Lewiston-Remon-
STRANGE of d. II. StrOut and others against
same.
BY Mr.. Littlefield of Kenncbunk-Re-
monstrance Of c. G. Tibbetts and others
OF kennebunk, against same.
by Mr., Pope Of Neutrality-suspicious.
of Winthrop. against same.
By Mr.. Maxwell OF Richmond-RemOn--
STRANGE Of J. d, Densmore and Others Of
Richmond, against same.
BY Mr.. Rodick of Observation-Disclosures
of J. &. Ralph and CT others of South
west HarbOr. against same.
by MI. OlIHpSOH Vi Observation-Disclosures
of w. j. Serrill and 1G others against
same
BY Mr.. Knowlton of Newberg-R emon-
STRANGE of q. p. Porter and others Of
Edgecomb. against same.
BY Mr.. Rounds OF Paris-Remonstrance
of r. d. Small and others of Bryants
Pond. against same.
BY Mr.. Wheeler of Gilead-Remon-
STRANGE of S. Il. Bowley and 16 others of
Rangeley, against same.
BY Mr.. Ames of Jefferson-Remon-
STRANGE of Morrill, Glidden and II others.
against same.
BY Mr.. Knowiton of observation-disclosures
STRANGE of Frank Il. Libby and others OF
Portland, against same.
LABOR.
BY Mr.. O'Nell of Standardization of
e. +. Tinker and IS others of Auburn and
Webster. for shorter work day, for
women and children: of II. NJ. Nickerson
and 2S others, for same: OF l. II. Earring
ton and 20 others of Portland for same;
of &. II. Roberts and q others of Port
land. for same; of Fred s. Saunders and
Is others of Portland. for same. of "A. l..
Preston and Is others OF Bangor. for
same: of A. l.. Weeks and ~ others of
Bangor. for same; of II. r. Ward and 9,
others of Bangor. for same.
On motion of Mr.. Hill %; Portland re-
solve relating TO "A dry dock i'm kittery
navy yard. was taken from the table. and |
on further motion by the same gentle
man it was referred to the committee on |
federal relations. |
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-21

WASHINGTON, d, C.. Dec. sO--In-
terlor department officials are watching
the operations OF the land boomers,who,
It Is alleged. are making arrangements
to enter the lands of the Wichita, III"
owa, Apache and comancha Indian res
ervatlons in Oklahoma, A treaty for the
opening OF the latter Is now pending
before Congress.
Some OF the literature OF the persons
who are worklna up the boom has been
received at the department in which
commissions of membership are offered
for sale at tho rate OF 81 ench, They
have been scattered broadcast through
out the country. The agents are said
to receive 81 for each member enrolled.
The opinion Is expressed at the depart
ment that the persons behind the
scheme have no idea Of being permit
ted to occupy the lands, but they VIII
after interesting large numbers OF per-
sons In II, cease their operations.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-21

GERS for the army, but the governments
which these gentlemen represent are
both grasplna for Chinese territory
The report that Germany proposes 60
seize Hawaii and Samoa Is regarded as
ridiculous by administration officials
Germany has little Interest as compar-
ed TO other nations In the Hawaiian is
lands, II is admitted that her interest In
Samoa is large. The last administrations
was willing 10 denounee the treaty OF
June IA, 1889, between the United States,
Great Britain and Germany, Mr. olney
informing the German Ambassador here
that the treaty is unsatisfactory To the
united States and is one which its In
terest requires 70 be essentially modi-
lied or altogether ahrogated.
President Mckinley proposes that the
United States shall retain rs grip On
Samoa and win agree To no proposition
which contemplates the turning over OF
the share OF this government In Samoa
to either Germany or Great Britain.