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Year: 1878

Catlin taught the world the import


ance OF shutting the mouth and


breathing through the nose. 1t would


seem that his little book entitled
Shut your Mouth" is bearing fruit
in Germany where new thoughts re-
ceived more attention from physi-
clans than anywhere else In the
world. Respiration by the mouth is
easier than by the nose, but it is not
SO safe. The nose to a certain extent
fits the air for entering the lungs.
The sense OF smell warns US against
breathing an air loaded with poison
Gus vapors. The moisture Of the
nasal cavities to some extent satur-
ates the air, and makes 1t less irrita-
ting to the throat and larynx. The
mucus OF the nasal passage and the
Year: 1878

[From the Burlington Hawkeyel


We remember meeting Mr.. Edison,
some years ago, when he was most
deeply absorbed in his experiments
relating to the conductibility of sound
through various mediums. and had q
long and interesting conversation
with him upon that subject We con-
versed upon the well-known fact that
the same medium of transmission has
different properties at different times.
We both cited instances In which a
man forty-th years old. though
using his utmost strength OF lung and
voice, could not shout loud enough,
at half past six o'clock In the morn
ing, to awaken boy nine years old
just on the other side of . lath and
plaster partition. while at eleven
o'clock that night the same boy
would hear low whistle on the side
walk. through three doors and two
flights Of stairs, and would spring in
stantly out of a sound sleep in re-
sponse to 1t. 1t was belief of Mr..
Edison's at that time, that sound
could be made to travel as rapidly as
feeling, and to test the matter he had
invented a delicate machine called
the spanctrophone, which he was just
about trying when we met him. We
were greatly interested in the ma
chine, and readily agreed to assist In
the experiment. By the aid OF kr.
Edison and a street-car nickel, we en-
ticed into the laboratory boy about
seven years old. After many times
reassuring him and promising him
solemnly that he would not be hurt,
we got the machine attached to him,
and thu great inventor laid the boy
across his knees in the most approved,
old-fashioned Solomonic method. On
q disc OF the machine delicate indices
were to record, one the exact time Of
the sound OF the spank. the other the
exact second the boy howled. The
boy was a little suspicious at this
point OF the experiment, and with his
head partly turned. was glaring fear
fully at the inventor. Mr.. Edison
raised his hand. A piercing howl
rent the air. followed by a sharp con-
cussion like the swapping OF q muskct
cap, and when we examined the dial
plate Of the machine, infallihle
science proudly demonstrated that
the boy howled eixty-eight seconds
before he was slapped. The boy went
down stairs In three strides, with an
injured look upon his fearful face.
Mr.. Edison threw the machine out OF
the window after the urchin. and we
felt that i6 was no time to intrude
upon the sorrows OF great soul.
writhing under humiliating sense OF
failure. We have never met Mr.. Edi-
son since, but we have always
thought he didn't know much about
boys. or he would know how utterly
unreliable the best of them would be
for scientific experiment.
Year: 1878

A man who will read newspaper three
or four years without paying for it Is
mean enough to pasture his goat on the
grave Of his grandfather.-Erchange,


Yes, and the man who will read it
that long time without paying for
it, and then complain that it is dull
and uninterestirg, would, after pas
turing his goat on the grave OF his
grandfather, curse the old gent for
not being equal to guano or super
phosphate as fertilizer OF the soil.-
AlbiOn NeiC Era.
Year: 1878

hairs catch the dust before it goes
far enough to harm. On the other
hand, breathing through the mouth
dries the throat, and in children may
cause false Group, catarrh, and it may
so effect the Eustachin tube as to
cause injury to the ear and deafness.
Year: 1878

Our bills for paper, material and
labor continue to fall due, but we
are receiving no money to meet
them. Will those who know they
are owing us please pay as promptly
as possible, and not wait for bill to
be sent. A receipt with statement
Of account will be Immediately re-
turned. Over one-half of our sab
scribers are owing Us $500 or more,
and if each one Of them would come
forward aud pay up We should be re-
,ieyed from a great emergency.
Year: 1878

We wish to call the attention oi
our readers to the new advertise.
ment Of Bishop 4 Nancolss, in this
weeks issue. The people may rest
assured that they mean what they
say, and that all furniture bought OF
them will be sold vt price that will
defy competition.
Year: 1878

Now is the time to get married,
as small amount of money will buy
a wedding ring at Birelys, and you
have . largo stock to select from.
Next week they take large portion
of their stock to Dodgeville.
Year: 1878

LAST week an intoxicated stran-
ger attempted to steal a ride from
Boscobel to Woodman, but was un-
able to keep his position, fell under
the moving train and had both legs
mashed to jelly, five cars passing
over him. He was taken to doc
tor shop where the injured members
were amputaeed o few inches above
the ankle.
Year: 1878

There is no doubt the world is getting
healthier, as we'll as better, and perhaps
the two are nearer connected than is
generally thought. There is more atten-
ton paid to the laws of health. We are
more careful with our food, we live in
better houses, we protect ourselves
better from the elements, we are more
careful to secure pure air, and we drink
much less spirituous liquors than our
ancestors. The study of physiology by
the masses, the very general diffusion
of hygienic knowledge by journals
Of health and the press generally,
has brought about a much better
understanding and regard for the laws
which preserve the forces of the BODY
and lengthen life.


Physicians are agreed, generally, that
there is marked decrease in many forms
of disease that amounts to almost total ex-
tinction in some. DIR. George M. Beard,
in an able article in the Medical World,
asserts that nervous diseases are decreas-
ing rapidly, and he thinks he has reason
to hope 1T will not be long until they
totally disappear. He enumerates
among the causes that operate most
potently toward this end the following
A higher and better mode of living, 8
more bountiful use of nutritious food
and indulgence in recreation; the ten
dency to diminish the increase of fam
lilies; the declining influence of tn,
terrors of dogmatic theology.


DIR. Beard claims that nervous dys
pepsia has about lost its old-time terror
for the physician, that the averag
weight of the people has sensibly in
creased during the past quarter of


century, but that there has been


marked improvement in physical beauty
Year: 1878

Sister S., of the Order of Troyes,
domiciled in French convent, had taken
some sick children out for walk in the
country, the oldest only being eight
years of age, and they were suddenly as
sailed by sheep-dog, whose jaws were
running with foam. She instantly saw
the danger of her charges, and. reso-
lutely interposing between the terrified
children and the furious animal, bravely
withstood its attack. She was severely
bitten, and the dog, excited by the cries
of the children, endeavored to rush upon
them. Protecting her body with the
children, who hung on her petticoats
shrieking with terror, this brave girl
threw herself courageously on the dog,
and for ten minutes grasped it, rolling
over with it, and thrusting her hand into
its mouth to prevent its biting the
children. Some peasants, who came up
at last, beat off and killed the dog. The
sister was found to have fifteen deep
wounds on her hands and ]acerated
arms. Skillful care was given to her
wounds, and for a short time after her
return to Paris there was some hope that
she might escape the ultimate fate which
there was SO much reason to fear. In a
week or two hydrophobia in all its
CHARACTERISTIC symptoms appeared, and
Sister S. died from this fearful disease
She had saved five lives.
Year: 1878

health and his business has been ruined
to that extent. For seven days he and
eleven other men were confined m the
jury room, compelled to lie on a straw
mattress laid ON the floor, and only
after repeated demands had been made,
and after this plaintiff had already con-
tracted rheumatism, he was provided
with one blanket, which were entirely
insufficient bedding for the season of the
year when said trial was had. He further
says that the room in which these twelve
men were kept was never, during all the
time they were there confined, once
cleaned; that the water-closets were out
of order and infected the air in said room
in which he was kept with an unwhole-
some and dangerous odor; that he was
exposed to the unclean and sickening
behavior of some of the jurors. In con-
sequence of which he became sore and
suffering, and had to sustain great pain
and bodily injury. We trust, if this
record is true, the juror will gain his
damages to the full, and 80 compel a re-
form
Year: 1878

AT Hildesheim Cathedral there is a
rosebush which is believed to be over a
thousand years old. In recert years it
seems to have been getting into decrepi-
tude, and fears have been entertained
that it was going to die. The. help of
the most renowned gardeners has been
called in to prevent this, if possible, and
several foreigners have been on the spot
for this purpose. Whether it be due to
their endeavors or not, the old thing
seems to have taken fresh heart again.
Out of the root knobs of the bush new
sprout has appeared which is growing SO
vigorously that there is good hope that
this venerable rose stock may yet re-
new its youth.
Year: 1878

ADRUGGIsT made an error in reading
a prescription in Rhode Island the other
day, and came near poisoning the
patient to death. The Providence Press
says of it: "When will respectable
English speaking and writing physicians
send ineligible prescriptions written in
plain English, to American apothecaries
and their clerks? A statute law of the
State should make it an ofense punish
able by fine and imprisonment to write
a prescription in other than plain En-
plish."
Year: 1878

Mr.. DARWIN must look sharp to his
laurels. A Japan correspondent says
that he saw wrought in inlaid wood, in
the great Temple of Ligmeto, a scene
showing first a monkey, then an ape,
then a gorilla, and so on up by gradual
developement until the final one of the
series was a perfect man surrounded by
elephants and curious birds. The door
was several hundred years old.
Year: 1878

INcoMBUsTIBLE writing paper has
been invented by two Salamanca
savants. If a roll of it be placed in the
fiercest fire, although the outside and
the extreme edge will carbonize, the in
terror will remain unaltered, and the
writing or printing will be perfectly
legible. Paper already written or
printed upon may undergo the process
of preparation without injury.
Year: 1878

AFTER the failure of the late insur-
rection in Japan, a richly attired
Japanese young lady was found lying
dead in a castle moat, with her fathers
head in her left hand and bloody
knife in her right. The devoted hero
inc had cut off her fathers head, at his
command, and then killed herself, that
the two might not be taken prisoners.
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative. or blood. cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is Cholagogue, or Liver Stimulant
Golden Medical Discovery


Ia Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

PRAIRIE GROVE, July 6, 1873.
| ED. EAGLE:-I have sometimes


thought that the Arkansas Valley de-


partment of your paper was entirely


overdone; not that it was untrue, to
any great extent, but so much written
on the same subject is apt to lose in


terest. But l will venture to give ut
terance to few thoughts: Every OBJ
! servant person feels SO astonished at


what he sees all around him, that he
feels that he must give utterance to
his thoughts in some way.


Some six to eight years ago the pio-
neers of this valley came here to try
an experiment which was thought by
a large number to be an exceedingly
risky one The idea had prevailed to
such an extent that these plains were
an almost barren desert, liable to be
oyertaken, periodically, by all the
worst agricultural enemies, such as
drouth, and all manner of destru ctive
insects, etc., that the problem with us
was, will this county be q self-sustain-
ing one; can the agriculturist meet
with enough prosperity to carry him
through his adversely or, in other
words can he raise enough the pros
porous year that might come, to carry
him through the adverse year that
would surely follow? With such
thought as the above, we concluded to
take the country Oh trial, as we were
all too poor to take any country that
had been tested and been found to be
desirable. And the time is not far
distant when those who, through care
lessness, idleness, or mismanagement,
failed to secure them a portion of this
goodly heritage will regret it, as Esau
did the loss of his birthright, when re-
grets are unavailing.


As to fruit growing, in those days
we hardly dared to hope that these
vast, almost illimitable, open, unpro-
tected plains would grow fruit of any
description with any certainty, and
timber was a thing to be thought of
and longed for, but never realized.
Now, after six years. trial, we can
hardly believe the evidence every
where before us. Walk out in any di-
rection and you will see legions of
stacks of grain, giving the entire coun-
try The resemblance of large city,
with its multitude of spires rising
heavenward. A stranger would nat
urally conclude that the whole country |
was one vast wheat field, but when he |
is told that but a small portion of this |
wonderful country is yet in cultiva-
ton, his surprise knows no bounds. / |
will only say of corn, oats, and pota-
toes and vegetables, that he who does
his part by them, and is not satisfied
with the results, generally, would be
dissatisfied if taken to heaven. AS a
fruit and timber growing country, we
are without rival. Can you believe
that it is possible for small twig
from the forest in five years, to make
4 growth of from thirty to forty feet.
md the diameter in proportion? We
IAN show you hundreds that have.
rhe idea that in five years we could
&c well supplied with fruit, did not
inter the minds of any of Us, and yet
hose of US who did our part, to-day
nave better supply of fruit and in
.reater variety than nine-tenths OF the
I'D farmers in the east, which clearly
the fact that all might
laye been thus supplied if they had
planted and cultivated orchards.


j. q. SAMPSON.
Year: 1878

The coin balance in the Treasury is
about $500, ,000, 900, and is steadily in
creasing. AS there is no idea that the
balance will fall below the present fig.
ure, this with the present low premi-
um in gold, form the basis of general
anticipation in Washington that re-
sumption will occur before the first OF
January.
Year: 1878

Judge Peters is around making
things "interestiDg" for the boys
Peabody Gazette.


He was around here also, but we
did not learn that he made it interest
ing TO any alarming extent, unless it
was 10 those who induced him to
Year: 1878

During the past month we have been
clearing our stock of old goods, and are
now left with line of new and desirable
styles for the Spring trade. Our store,
which is the most commodious in the city
or State, occupying three floors, and with
enterprise back of it, Our intention is this
season to outdo all former efforts to make
the Boston One Price Clothing House the
place to buy Clothing and Gents Furn-
ishing Goods. With the confidence of the
public that FIVE YEARS SQUARE
DEALING has not impaired, and our es-
tablished system of Cash and One Price
to all, we feel assured the present season
will prove successful one. Visit our store
and look at our immense stock of Ready
Made Clothing for Men, Youths, Boys
and Children.
Year: 1878

BUSINESS has become so simplided
that man can go out with $50 in his
pocket and come back with what has
been called q ton of ice wrapped up IN
a piece Of brown paper. The system is
perfect.
Year: 1878

Bravo Words Of q NIethO dist
bishop ON the @ n { h o Q
Church. stFssIbF


Bishop Foster, of Boston, on recent
OCCASION In a church at the North Eud of
Boston gave utterance TO the following
brave remarks concerning the Catholic
Church
~ have a great deal of respect for
Roman CATHOLIC and tho Roman Catholic
church and the feeling becomes stronger
as grow older. l do not think we can
afford TO criticise Catholics until we dis
play at least equal zeal In the service Of
the Master. Who are they whose feet go
clattering by our houses these cold
Winter mornings before daylight: ? Who
are they who fiji their churches to wor-
ship. God while we are In our beds
who throng our streets, prayerb0Ok In
hand, with reverent faces. aye, and per-
haps with as reverent hearts as any Of
you bear ? They are Jealous, faith
ful Catholics, who believe In the truth
Of their Chnrcb, and feel that through 1t
alone they can worship the God whom
they fear and love. To what church do
these selfsacrificing communities belong,
that toll frsm morning until night for the
good Of Gods people Who are these
who come here from foreign lands, poor
and strange, with nothing buts spade,
and have erected temples of worship that
put us to shame Isn't the poor servant
girl. who lays tithe of her earnings on
the altar of God, sincere in her belief,
and will she not 6and favor in Gods eyes
There was paragraph In the Christian
Advocate the other day which made me
blush when read it. It stated that in
New York city the Catholics have
church property to the value of more
than eleven millions..of dollars, greater
sum than the value Of all other church
property, except that owned by the
Episcopal Church These are the people


who fill their churches three or fom
times every Sunday with different con


gregatiops. These are the people who


80 years ago, had but three churches il


New York, and are now filling all oul


Protestant cities and towns. What righ


have we to complain that this is SO
Why should we abuse them becaus,


their churches crown the noblest eminen


ces in the land ? Let us possess oursel


yes Of those virtues and qualities, whicl


they have in stronger degree than we


and those added to what We already pos


sess will put us in a position where W,


may have righr TO criticise their actions
Year: 1878

With all this material prosperity, of the existence
of which there can be no dispute. changes have
taken place equally fortunate. and without which
no substantial good could come to the country.
There is no longer doubt of the permanence and
wisdom Of our system of government. Perfect con-
fdence in four public credit is restored, as by
the success Of the loans at low rates. and the pr0ba
bility that our Indebtedness will all be kept at
home. We have settled down to the rate of values
recognized by the world in its normal relations.
Men know what they and Others possess,
and financial language has understood
and definite meaning. This will enable men
to transact business with confidence, with q
full knowledge of what they are doing. The danger
incang things of greater value than they possess
as we have done the past seventeen years. leads to
disaster Men believe themselves rich when they
are not, and habits of extravaganza which end in
ruin are thereby created. Ii encourages specula-
tions which involve risks that would only be taken
in the demoralizatiOn produced by imagining that
riches have come otherwise than in the legitimate
WAYS of fair work and wages: and thousand things
are done and attempted not called for by legiti-
mate need, merely for speculative reasons,
finally involving loss, disappointment and
debt the popularity of which is that once
stated, it is fixed and has sliding scale of So
called value like the property that is supposed to
secure it. The natural result of this has been o
very largo amount of bankruptcy, to the injury of
many innocent and good people. However painful
this has been, nothing could have averted or long
delayed it. any more than suffering and death in
battle more dreadful STILL can be avertsd. The
walls of the wounded and dying are in both oases
equally audible.


The railroads Of the country are already built and
Year: 1878

For Young Ladies-Brooklyn.
BOARDING and Day School for Girls under
ID pleasant home constant care an thorough in
strncion unusual opportunity healhu outdoor exercise
Address Miss ELKINs station b, BROOKLYN Post Office
Year: 1878

An important surgical operation was per-
formed yesterday by Dr. Robert g. Newton at the Ecec
tic Medical College. The patient who is resident Of
Pittsburg, Penn, was suffering from an encephaloid
cancer which began four months ago and rapidly grew
into large tumOr, covering the entire space Of the
temple II extended from the cartilage OF the ear TO the
bridge the nose had forced the eyeba completely
from its socket The first step after the patient had been
chOroiOrmed was the removal OF the eye. The tumor
itself then removed by making circular inclsiOn
about its entire base. cutting through 10 the bone and
removing it from above downward IL necessary TO


gate the three temporal the transverse facial aud the
external carotid arteries The cutting away OF the
bone left the brain exposed In two places but the
Doctor pronounced the operation successful, and said
that the Will recover; WHILE had the tuInor re-
manned, he could not have lived until Winter.


In the treatment Of the ease sponge saturated with
a solution OF phate Of zinc placed IN the Orbltal
cavity. The open surface dressed with the
lutioD and the whole Is 10 he healed by granuation
through the suppuratye stage cold water being the only
secondary application. Dr. Newton assisted by
Professor S. T.. MOrtmOre aud Drs. George W. BOskO-
WITT and Fairfield MOrtinOrc. The patient bad been
successfully by OF the best surgeons In Pitts
burg, who we're unwilling 10 perform the operation.
Year: 1878

Michael Kane, the ostenslble proprietor of
the manure dump NewtOwn Creek, at Hunters Point
l.. l., before the Long Island City Board OF Health
yesterday afternoon, order to show why he
should be compelled the extensive deposit
of manure at present bis grounds. Kane has already
had trial before the Queens County Court OF Sessions
for maintaining nuisance but the jury disagreed and
a new trial cannot take place before the September
term The Board OF Health, however has determined
TO take summary proceedings against the alleged nuis
ana the order for abatement served by Captain
WOods, Of ihe Long Island City Police, on July H.
Meantime the dumping OF manure has been continued
before tie service Of the notice. Yesterday when Kane
was arraigned before the board t shown that
eral other persons also engaged dumping the
same grounds and the board TO the determination
10 postpone Kane's pending a summons for the
other persons 70 appear and answer,
Year: 1878

1t has been prominent feature ofthc Demo
cratic policy. since Tripp was elevated to his
present representative position i'll their rnnks. to
make all manner Of misrepresentation regardIn n,
the attitude of prominent Republicans i'll various
sections ofthc Territory.


We have heard that Tripp was getting all the
leading Republicans in Clay: that in Minnchai a
the Republican party had gone nil TO pieces and
was crystalIzing around the Democratic nomi-
nee: that Union was badly denloraliZed. and Lin
cOlu county was fast deserving 10 Trip.


We have become accustomed to this sort OF
Democratic misrepresentation; We expect to hc.r r
it; it forms the principal feature in all cam
paiyns during the early days ofthc battle. and it
should not surprise or mislead the friends OF Re-
pubicanism.-PTess and UakOfidH.


Very true. But would it not be we'll,
also, for the Press and Dakotian to check
its disposition to convey precisely the
same impressions by reading prominent
men and newspapers out of the party who
do not ut once fall into the line of thoughts ?
Would it not be better to let
those who are disposed to growl
do so without rebuke, for growing
may relieve them. Is it best to put the
element on the defensive and
force individuals attacked to continued
acts or expressions of hostility?