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Year: 1869

a hot, salt bath is one Of the most
I powerful tOnics which can be employ
ed in the various skin diseases so
prevalent in new countries, and for
persons Of delicate constitutions who
find themselves at the foot Of the lad
der of health.


If you think you cannot afford time
for a bath, take a crash towel and
wiring it out of strong brine, let il dry,
and when you get out of bed in the
morning rub yourself from top to toe
till the skin is in glow. 1t will not
take more than three minutes Of your
time, and you will feel the good of it
all day.


For congestion of the lungs, a nap
kin Wrung out of brine and laid over
the chest, changing as soon as cool, will
give great relief. In cuses Of bleeding
Of the lungs or stomach, dry salt, sWal-
lowed in small quantities, will at least,
arrest the flow of blood until other
measures can be taken for relief. For
a sprained ankle or wrist, make bag
and fill It partly full OfsaIt, quilt it sew
eral times across to hold the salt in
place, bind it upon the affected part,
and keep it saturated with strong hot
vinegar. For Inflammation Of the
bowels, nothing can be better for an
outward application than TO take the
yoIks of six eggs, stir in salt sufficient
to make a pOultice, spread it upon a
piece Of linen, or cotton, and apply to
the part. twill be moist, and con-
sequently cool for twenty-fOur hours.


There are those who discard the use
Of salt for any culinary purpose, and
Of course, if there are any such who
read this-article, they will be greatly
pleased to see it Classed among drugs
and used only as a medicine But we
by no means wish to be understood rs
joining In the raid against the use Of salt
as food. We make use of It in al
most everything we cook, and think
some dishes are unfit to eat If it be
wanting. We could, doubtless, ac-
custom ourselves to It's disuse, as to
other dlsagreeable things, could we be
convinced Of the sense Of It. But it
seems to US when we see a COW lick
the end of a salt barrel until the skin
IS worn of her tongue, and the blood
drips from the corners of her mouth,
that there Is a pretty strong indica-
tiOn, of a natural taste for salt. May
be human animals don't have such a
taste naturally, but somehow they &c
quire it easily Western Rural.
Year: 1869

Every Intelligent person owes it to
himself to learn from his family ply
sician how to ascertain the pulse in
health; then by comparing it with
what it is when aling, ho may have
some idea of the urgency of his own
case, and it will bean important guide
to the physician. Parents ought to
know the healthy pulse of each child;
as now and then a person is born
with q peculiarly slow or fast pulse
and the very case in hand may be
that peculiarity. An infants pulse is
13O, child Of seven about 80, and
from 20 to go years it is 40 beats in a


minute, declining to 60 at four score.


There are pulses all over the body,
but whcro there is only skin and
bone, as the temples, it is more easily


felt; the wrist is the most convenient
point. The feobleness or strength of
the beat is not material, being mOdi-
fed by the fingers pressure. Com
parative rapidity is the great point
near death it is 40 and over. A
healthy pulse imParts to the
finger a feeling Of a woOlen string in
a fever it feels hard like a silk threads
if there is Inflammation, which is al
ways dangerous, it beats fast, spiteful
and hard, as if a fine wire was thrOb-
bing against the finger When the
pulse beats irregular, as if it lost a
beat, then burries to make it up
there is something the matter with
tho heart; but do not worry about it;
take nothing, do nothing except by
the advice Of an intelligent physician,
Year: 1869




An Englishman on a tour In this
country says in letter to member
of the British Government


81 never felt SO ashamed Of our
sympathy with the SOutherners as
when 1 was in the South. The slave
owners tell you with the most brazen
faces that they are better off now than
they were before. One large slave
owner said to me, "The Yankees
whipped US out of slavery, but they
could not whip rs into it again. "
Another told me that he grew. larger
crops with twenty-five free negroes
than he had done with seventy-tive
slaves. They have found out already
that the rebellion was economically
an enormous bIunder; a handsome
cause for us to encourage them in
thereby estraDging the North for a
generation or twOP
Year: 1869

The WidOwer and the Philosopher
"A husband lost dutiful and below
ed wife. The loss filled his mind with
grief, and, in his despair, he would
have slain himself with his dagger,
had not his friends prevented him.
Disappointed, but still furious, he
dashed his head against the wall, de-
termined to seek death in some way,
so as to Join the beloved one. 1t was
with great difficulty that he cOuld be
appeased and persuaded to consult an
old philosopher, and seek advice and
consolation at his hands, He did 50,
and the philosophers only answer
was, rCone again in eight months. "
At the end Of that time, he did not
come; E; for he had married again. u
Year: 1869

A few days since a well known law
yer of Waterbury, Connecticut, bought
ticket for New Haven, and after ta-
king a seat in the cars found, on look
ing over his change, that the agent
had given him one dollar too much.
He accordingly returned and inform
ing the agent of his mistake, handed
back the money. For a moment the
agent stood speechless, then he grasp
ed him by the hand and exclaimed,
aPIease stand still one moment, sir,
and let me take look at you-and a
lawyer tOoI'
Year: 1869

A couple were to have been married
at indianapolis the other evening, and
the bride was, ready for the. ceremony
at the appointed time, but the bride
groom was not on hand. r. A smessen-
ger was sent for him, but instead of
fulfilling his duty, he sent back word
that he never intended to marry the
lady. and only "wanted to see how
she could take a joke" a~-
Year: 1869

. If you are a wise man you will treat the
world as the moon treats it. Show it on
Iy one side yourself, seldom show your
self too much at time, and let what you
show be calm, cool and polished. But
look at every side Of the world.
Year: 1869

A wicked old bachelor being asked
by a pert young miss if he could ac-
count for the term belle to handsome
young ladies, promptly replied that it
was owing to the goodly proportion OF
brass in their composition.
Year: 1869

This is no intimation of the sort, Mr..
Engineer, but your own inference. If
our language will bear such an inference,
we acquit you of it. The better to un-
riddle this Kent Railroad enigma, we
would state, that in publishing the article
referred to, we were given to understand
that it was rescript of the proceedings,
and that the substance of it, as to the con-
tract, was corroborated by conversation
between our informant and the engineer.
Our informant may have misunderstood
the matter, but he is incapable of misrep-
resentation. ..r,
Year: 1869

TONNAGE DUES In PoRro RIco.-We publish
to-day in another column q complaint that the
tonnage dues exacted from American shipping
in Porto Rico have not been reduced as they
have been to ships Of other nationalities. The
true cause of this exclusive taxation of Ameri-
can shipping in the Spanish ports of America
lies in the old retaliatory act Of 1928. This
remnant Of the long since exploded Crom-
wellian theory for the protection Of ships and
commerce is a blot upon our statute book and
a standing injury to our trade, and should be
repealed. We do not hope for much from
Congress now, as the prevailing temper seems
to be to do all that can be done against ships
and the shipping interest.
Year: 1869

A suit is in progress in Cincinnati wherein
a journalist is sued by public ofacer for
alleged libel, because, In discussing matter
of public concern, the officer was charged
with abuses and corruption. The case is not
yet decided, but from the tenor OF the argu-
ment it is likely to turn upon the point
whether malice was intended on the part OF
the journalist, the burden Of proof falling on
the plaintiff. This trial is an important one
to newspaper men as well as the people gene
rally outside the city in which it is being
tried. Take away the right Of the press to
discuss public matters and it would be difficult
to define into what hopeless condition the
administration Of public affairs would re-
lapse. With all the exposures of fraud and
corruption that now daily fill the columns OF
newspapers we find but little reform in the
operations of government oficials-high and
low-and yet there is no doubt that the fear
of such exposures has wholesome effect upon
those predisposed rascals who hate not the
moral courage to face the odium that attaches
to newspaper ventilation of official derelic-
tions. To assert that the owner of news
paper has not the right Of any other taxpay-
ing citizen to show up the abuses and
corruptions Of any servant Of the public is to
assert an absurdity, no matter what legal
twist the lawyers may give to the point
Deprived of such sentinel to sound an
alarm, of such safeguard to protect the in
terests of the community, all the public sewers
in the world would scarcely be sufficient to
carry off the volumes Of rank official corrup-
ton that would surge up around almost every
department Of national and local governments.
No, the vigilance Of the press must not be re-
laxed, especially in these days, when the
national Treasury is besieged by grasping job
bers and the State and city Golfers are but little
less than resorts from which rogues may fill
their pockets with the peoples money. The
verdict in the Cincinnati case will be looked
forward to with interest.
Year: 1869

Split In the RepublIcnn Pnrty South.


A Georgia democratic paper declares that


the republican party Of that State is now


''hopelessly split in twain" One faction is
headed by Governor Bullock, who wants the
State again kicked out Of the Union, and the
other is headed by the Atlanta Era. The
Bullock wing had meeting at Atlanta on the
night Of the 10th and resolved that reconstruc-
tion was not complete in Georgia." whereupon
the Era AYERS that ''the meeting did not repre-
sent the sentiments of the republican party in
Georgia, and protests against the proceedings
of all such meetings. Now, what is the policy,
under such circums tances, of the conservatives
and all others who desire to see the South
relieved Of all disabilities and restored at once
TO her proper position in the Union? 1t is to
let these turbulent radical factions fight IL out
among themselves and the true men of the
South keep on raising good crops, making
money, becoming economical and developing
the resources of the country. The radicals in
the South--in fact, all over the country-are in
q state OF ferment about who shall retain and
who shall obtain Office under the incoming
administration. This win keep them busy for
some time to come, and in the midst Of their
quarrels the South will do well to remember
that when ''rogues fall out honest men come
by their own"
Year: 1869

How TO DELAY YoUR CASE IN CoURT.-
Whoever is interested in the delay Of trial must
get his case into district court and then
demand the ''trial by jury" There can be no
denial Of justice, thanks TO Magma Charta for
that; but the district courts are not able to
give ''trial by jury" a. that institution has
been known and understood time out Of mind.
The district courts are made by statute, and the
statute prcscribes that they shall try cases
with six jurors, and these courts have no
power TO try cases in any other way, but
man has right to demand twelve, and II he
demands IL the court, as IL cannot refuse that
justice and cannot give it either. can only
stand stin.
Year: 1869

The intelligence from Paraguay confirms
the views we have hitherto held that the fall
of the river defences would not be the end Of
the war. So it turns out. Lopez is as defiant
as ever, and has taken to the not distant noun
tains and called his obedient people around
him. From one little fact we deduce that they
will obey the call unhesitatingly. When the
Brazilian troops marched into Asuncion the
city was found intact-not thing displaced or
removed-and the remaining Inhabitants pur-
suing their usual vocation. Two hours had
not elapsed from the Brazilian entry when
every house had been sacked and the plumber
conveyed to the camp and ships Of the allies.


Had Marshal Caxias arranged with Lopez a
deep and consummate plan to give new life to
the waning cause better one could not have
been devised than the sacking Of Asuncien.
The vandalism Of the Brazilians will create its
impression in every hamlet and cause every
Paraguayan heart to turn with renewed hope
to Lopez. From this moment we date the de-
cline of the war in Paraguay and the march
of events to an early rupture Of the triple al
lance for its destruction. The allied efforts
depend for success ON the cooperation Of their
feet. This can act no longer on the offensive,
as Lopez has withdrawn from the river, and
may now assume desultory war, which must
keep the allied army and fleet ever on the alert
for defence.


Among the allies spirit of distrust and
even enmity to Brazil already shows ITSELF At
Buenos Ayres President Sarmiento objects to
the military dispositions Of the Brazilian COM
mander-in-chief, while in Montevideo the
popular feeling exhibits stronger develop
ment in mobs and stones. Meanwhile Brazil
begins to see that she is paying the whole cost
of extending Argentine sway over the Gran
Chaco and Parana, and that Uruguay is as de-
termined as ever to resist imperial encroach-
ment. These are but the premonitions Of the
coming rupture which the weakness Of the
Brazilian treasury tends to hasten, and thus,
in the moment Of Its seeming triumph, Brazil
exhibits the indications Of greatest weakness.
Year: 1869

A salient and suggestive point in our latest
news from Japan is the fact that the Mikado's
government has exemplifed Its independence
Of English and Frendh influence in the conduct
Of its internal affair by retaining ex-Lieuten-
ant Grinnell, Of the United States Navy, as
Chief Of the Japanese Naval Bureau, and by
appointing General Paul Frank, formerly Of
the United States Army and lately American
Consul or agent at Hiogo, as Generalin- Chief
Of the Japanese military forces, at a salary of
twelve thousand dollars per annum. The
Mikado's Foreign Minister stoutly defends this
Independent line Of policy in his protest
against the absurd remonstrances of the repre-
sentatives Of England and France. 1t is mani
fest that Japan, like China in the selection Of
Mr.. Burlingame as it's Envoy to the great
Powers Of America and Europe, is determined
to avail itself of American intelligence and
energy. The recent purchase by the Japanese
of another American steamer the Ashuel6t,
formerly employed in our revenue service, is
an additional proof Of the increasing readiness
of the East to open the door to American inno-
vations, the results Of which are now incalcula-
BILE. Steam, electricity, the printing press and
all the other agencies Of modern civilization
must eventually work prodigious revolution
in China and Japan. The people Of the United
States having been the first to make an
effectual introduction Of such agencies into
those distant countries, will be among the first
to profit by the vast commerce which China
and Japan must ere long send to our shores.
We are already recognized by the people Of
the East as their nearest neighbors.
Year: 1869

HEAD MONEY. Y.-Since the Sergeant-at-Ar
is allowed three dollars and twenty cents q
man with mileage for every member he brings
to the House Of Representatives, VIC want to
know how it is that bringing up the members
has not become grand job. By proper UNDER
standing with the members the Sergeant might
have the bringing them in twenty times q
day-as least hundred Of them. Six
thousand dollars day would be worth taking,
even in Washington. We have no doubt, too,
that 1t could be shown to the satisfaction Of
the disbursing officer that the members were
brought from California every time. The
mileage would then come to something hand
some.
Year: 1869

Is Poison HEALTHY? Y?-The gas men say Il
is. The Board Of Health, endeavoring to
abate the dreadful nuisance Of noisome smells
with which the Metropolitan Company makes
part Of the city scarcely habitable, is met BY
the company with absolute refusal and with 9
theory that the horrible odors set free are con-
ducive to health. If anybody is Ill let him
turn on the gas in his room, without lighting
it, and try this new remedy; for as the gas is
only about half purified the same substances
that make the nuisance are also in the pipes
1t seems, then, that the company feels rich
enough to insult common sense as well as to
violate the law.
Year: 1869


TO Resraia Sock from R,ssakag az


Lnrgs IL tbe iStafe Of Nebraska.


SECTION 1. Be Il enacted bv fbs
Legislature Of the Sydfs Of Nebraska,
That it shall be unlawful for cattle,
horses, mules, sheep, swine and ether
stock to run at large at any season Of
the year in the State Of Nebraska; ex-
eept in Peru, Benton, BrOwnville, Ne
maha City, AspinWall and St. Deroin
precincts in Nemaha county.


SEC. 2. That when any such stock
shall be found on the premises Of an
other, it shall be lawful for the owner
or person in possession Of said premises
to impOund said stock, and II the own
eE Of said stock can be found and o
known to the taker up, it shall be the
duty Of said taksr up to notify him
within two days by personal service
or by leaving q written notice at his
usual place. Of residence, with some
person Of his family over the age of
fourteen years, Of the taking Of said
stock, describing it and requiring him
to forthwith take the said stock after
making full payment Of the damages
and cost 70 the taker up.


SEC. 3. In case the parties cannot
agree as to the amount Of damages and
costs, each party may choose q man,
and in case either party refuse
to choose q man, then the near
est Justice of the Peace Of the
county shall choose a mar instead,
and in case the two men chosen
cannot agree, they shall choose q
third man, who after being duly sworn
fOrthe purpose, the three OF q majority
Of them shall proceed 30 assess the
damages, possessing for that purpose
the general power Of arbitratOrs, and
the said arbitratOrs shall make an
award in writing and their decision
shall be final, from which there shall
be no appeal from either party, copy
of which award shall be fled with the
nearest Justice of the Peace in said
county, and shall operate as a judg-
ment at law and execution shall issue
at the request Of the party In whose
favor said award was found, for the
collection Of damages and costs a. In
other cases.


SEC. 4. And If the owner fail 20 ap-
pear and pay all damages and costs
aforesaid to the taker up after two
utilE nUNlLE Va 1ALA nNlA1AAAAf aAAE AaAAaA
up shall have the full power and au-
thOrity to sell such tTesspassing AMI
NAL or animals by giving fifteen days
notice by posting up three written
notices in three Of the most public
places in the precinct, Of the time and
place of sale of the animal or animals,
or so many thereof as shall be suf-
ficient, to pay all damages and costs
arising by virtue Of such taking up
and sale, and the surplus, IL any, to be
paid 10 the said justice, to be held BY
him subject to the order Of the owner
of the stock 50 sold.


SEC. 5. No assessment or collection
shall be made under the prOvieiOns Of
this act for damages done on uncuiti-
waited lands unless said lands be sur
rounded by a strip Of breaking or
ploughed ground at least one rod wide.


SEC. 8. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pas
sage.
Year: 1869

AERoLITHs.-Like the sticks of rockets
which never seem to fall on anybody in
their decent, so with these mysterious
stones called aeroliths, or aerolites for the
word is spelt in both ways, though the
former, in accordance with its Greek de-
rivation, is the more correct. These mete-
oric vlsitants-if meteoric they behave
been recorded in the history of very ancient
times, and their occurrence has been the
cause of much speculation among physiolo-
gists. Laplace supposed them to be stray
PARTICLES from the volcanoes of the moon,
which had escaped beyond the attractive
influence of that planet, and found their
way to ours. A more feasible opinion, that
has been broached by many inve stigators
of natural science, is that these stones are
fragments of small planets, which, having
become detached, have circulated wildly
in space until they came within the attrac-
tion of our globe and gravited to it. From
this has been deduced by some the idea
that what we call shooting stars are aero
liths, which take fire on coming into con-
tact with the atmosphere of our planet, and
so are consumed on their downward course.
In the year 1854 there fell in Canada an
immense specimen of these mysterious
visitants. This huge block was composed
partly of iron and partly of nickel. In
April, 1893, the village of Laigle, in Nor
mandy, was thrown into terrible excitement
by the descent of vast number of aeroliths,
which fell during the daytime. A regular
account of this phenomenon was drawn up
and certified by the local authorities, 50
that there is no doubt with regard to the
fact A commissioner, sent down by the
Institute to investigate the matter, picked
up number of these curious stones, which
exactly resembled each other in appearance
and composition. He also made full re-
port on the damage done by the unwelcome
shower, the descent uf which, strange to
say, did not cause any destruction OF hu-
man life.
Year: 1869

INTERESTING TO BALD HEADs.-One Innis,
a coiored barber in Jersey City, has made
the treatment of premature bald heads a
special study. and after series Of expert.
ments has demonstrated the fact that hair
may be grated into such head and made
To grow. He takes hair from the head of
another person and examines it with q mi.
croscope TO ascertain if it is perfect and heal.
thy The hair he inserts into the cavities of
the scalp, and secures it to its place by
6andages which are allowed to remain few
days until the hair takes root.
Year: 1869

+" Strike till the Unicorn shall lose the crowni
Strike till the Eagle tears the Lion down,


Strike till proud Albion bows her haughty head
Strike for the living and the martyr'd dead
Strike for the bones that fill your mothers graves
Strike till your kindred are no longer slaves


Strike till fair Freedom the world shall smile
For God for Truth and FOR THE EMERALD ISLE p
Year: 1869

To TEST WIxE.-According to a German
chemist a very simple test to determine
whether wine has been colored artlfcially or
not, is furnished by adding powdered super
oxide of manganese to the uspec.ed liquor,
shaking them together for a quarter OF an
hour, and then filtering. If the liquid be
then light colored and transparent, the color
is natural; if darkened, the contrary is the
case.