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Year: 1878

PREVENTING SUNSTROKE An ex-
change gives novel specific for the
prevention of ofsunstroke which can be
easily tested by anyone sufficiently in
terested. 1t is based on the theory
that it is the chemical rays Of the sun
which are chiefly instrumental in pro-
duciug the effect known as sunstroke.
The natural application Of the theory
was to place in the hat a lining of
orange yellow to arrest the chemical
rays but as an additional precaution an
extra lining of green, to arrest the
heat rays, was tried, and tests of this
kind are reported to have proved re-
markably satisfactory.
Year: 1878

"GIT A PLENTY The rooster
who wishes to print ten thousand mil
lion dollars and apply them to the
Improvement of New York, has done
we'll to air the inside Of his grand head
before the country at this time. He
is quite as sensible as the rest of the
rag-money roarers. If we are to have
an "adequacy" of money that is to
cost nothing and buy everything, let
us have it by the thousand millions
Fooling with small sums is treason to
humanity. It costs no more to print a
note for $1,000 than for 81. Get up
the steam and stir the ink.
Year: 1878

A man out west went aud bought bis wife
pistol and made her train at target exercise for
the possible defcuce against tramps. After
the bullet was dng out Of bis leg. aud the
house cal, buried. he. said be guessed she hal
best shoot with 40 axe
Year: 1878

A man out West has been terribly trounccd
bv his wife because he took his overcoat aud
boots out Of her hustle, just as she wanted 20
put it on Next time he'll mind bis own bnsi-
ness
Year: 1878

The process of making the hollow rub
ber balls used by children for play
things is quite curious, and may be in
teresting to those not familiar with it.
A Holyoke writer thus describes it. The
upper room of the mill is prepared to
push this branch of the business for a
few months, and it will probably turn
out some $4,000 dozen of those balls be-
tween January and June. These balls
have solid surface, are made by a dit
ierent process from that of making the
soft rubber balls which are perforated by
an opening, and of course, are much
more firm, durable and elastic. The
sheets of rubber prepared for the balls
are cut into strips of double convex
shape. The edges OF the strips are mois.
tened with preparation of rubber and
naphtha, by which they are joined
irmly together, three of the strips being
used for one ball. This part of the work
is done by girls, and a skillful girl can
earn about $1.50 per day. When the
strips are joined together, the ball is
very near the shape of a Brazil nut.
Eetore the last opening is closed, a small
quantity of carbonate of ammonia is put
inside, which, when subjected to strong
heat, will make the rubber expand and
fill out the ball mold. The opening is
then closed with the adhesive mixture,
and it is placed in an iron mold of the
size and shape of the ball desired. The
molds are packed into frames in which
they are subjected to the heat of the
vulcanizer. They are kept in place in
the frame by iron rods along the side,
and, when the frame is full, iron plates
at the ends are screwed down tightly
upon the molds to hold them in place.
These iren plates are about three-fourths
of an inch thick, and so strong is the
expansive force of the rubber in the
molds that they have bent this thick iron
into a curve. II one of the molds should
work out OF place while vulcanizing Is
in process, the molds will fly out with
noise like the report of dozen pistols,
and the work is spoiled. The sction OF
the heat does the rest. When the moIus
are opened they contain the perez.
round balls, with 40 mark OF the p'T1yh IT,
where the pieces were placed nnd
slight ridge made by the mold is groun1
off by a alone used for the purpose anu
the bali is done. This Is but one pro
cess OF rubber work. Besides '.e Lvio"
balls are made solid oaiis Vi ruooe''
etc,
Year: 1878

MRS. HARDIN, who dwelt near Bijou
Basin, was left with her two children
Just previous to the recent terrific snow
storm. The snow drifted and the wind
howled about her house. Her provisions
were nearly exhausted, and the fire was
dying out. The supply OF matches had
given out, and all the efforts of the
mother to infuse lie into the dying en-
bers in the stove proved fruitiess. The
snow fell through the chimney and
smothered the fire, and, after an hours
effort to keep herself and the children
warm, the mother, brooding over the
possible result of the storm and wonder
ing at her husbands long absence,
gathered her children in her arms and
ventured out into the storm, intending
TO make an effort to reach the house oi
her father.in-law, which was three miles
distant. The next day her lifeless body
was found buried in the snow, claspine
her two dead children.
Year: 1878

A DEAD.BEAT may be jugged in
Mexico. while with us he ia a cock of the
walk II you are beaten out of money
or property by swindler you can put
him in jail and keep him there. In fact
you've got to keep him there, because if
he gets out the very first thing he does
will be to slap you in. The only safe way
to let fellow out OF Jail is to make him
give bend with approved security that
he will not retaliate,- Harding's Next
can Notes.
Year: 1878

A DoCTRrss writes to the Australian
Star that more quarrels arise between
husband and wife owing to the electrical
changes affecting their nervous systems
by occupying the same bed than by any
other disturbing cause. "There is
nothing" says she, that will derange
the system of person who is eliminative
in nervous force like lying in bed all
night with another person who is almost
absorbed in nervous force. The absorber
will go to sleep and rest all night, while
the eliminator will be tossing, tumbling,
restless and nervous, and wake up fretful
and disheartened," No two person,
should habitually sleep together, accord
ingto this authority one will thrive and
the other lose.
Year: 1878

A West End man who was told that
glycerine was one Of the best lubricants
ever discovered, had the curiosity to
learn what effect a few drops would
have on his wife's talking apparatus,
and cajoled her into taking tablespoon
full under pretense Of tonic. In FIVE
minutes the front door came off it's
hinges, the garden gate had the jim
am the +st steve th upset and two of the
self was partially bald inside of half an
hour. He thinks now that the dose
administered must have been trife too
large.-[ Breakfast Table. '']'
Year: 1878

hours.


Quinine may lie given in small guam
tltles Tor day OF two after the fever
leaves, but never while the fever is ON.
Should the weather turn cold or damp,
the doors and windows should be closed
ana an even temperature kept up i'll the
Slck-room at the same time there must
be sufficient openings to allow fresh,
pure air to enter without lowering the
temperature too much. Later in the
season a little fire in the room would
be advisable


There is this peculiarity about yellow
FEVER; no other disease can remain in
the system of ii person who has recnv-
cred from it; once we'll the constitution
Is completely renovated.
Year: 1878

An address has been issued to the
colored people of Louisiana by the Col
ored Mems Protective Union. There is
complaint Of the abandonment of the
Packard government and their exclusion
from Federal Offices, which they re-
gard as an exhibition Of hypocrisy and
ingratitude, The address says: "If
prudent counseis prevail, our people
may profitably accept the situation.
and so pass through the present ordeal
that as race we reasonably expect to
of observation and of action.-[shreye-
port Times,
Year: 1878

THE illegal voting at the late quiet
school election shows what may be done
at an election where there is intense ex-
element, and warrants. the belief that
very large number of illegal votes have
polled, and will be polled at city and
State elections if thepolls are not carefully
guarded.


The Board of Ed ucation could notdo a
better service to all parties in any way
than by going into thorough examina-
ton of the votes in all the Wards. The
name of every illegal voter should be Civ
en- to the public. 1t will have a beneti
cial effect, in calling attention TO the VIC
lation of the election laws. 1t is hardly
fair to expose some and not all.
Year: 1878

We desire to call particular attention to the
notice of a special meeting of the Life Mem
bers of the Queens Hospital, which will be
found in another column.


Il is important that all the members be
present al the meeting, inasmuch as questions
Of great importance TO the well being of the
Hospital will be discussed and passed upon
such as an amendment to the Charter, the ere
alton Of Sinking Fund, and others of an
eluahly important character. We trust there
fore that the members will take sufficient
interest in the future welfare of the Hospital
to give their attendance at tie proposed meet
ing on the lith inst


The Queens Hospital has been the subject
of a good deal of newspaper animAdversion of
late. and that fact should call out a full at
tendance in order to obtain the fullest discus
sion upon all matters pertaining to the institu-
tion and its future management. Ii there is
anything radically wrong in the management
Of SO important an institution, the members
will have full opportunity at the proposed
meeting TO let themselves be heard and to
make such suggestions as their own good
Judgment may dictate. These suggestions
naturally occur 10 our mind, and hence the
urgency of our appeal to all the Life Mem
bers to attend the meeting. "In the multitude
Of counsel there is safety" And full con-
sultation by the members on the occasion re-
ferred to, cannot but be beneficial.
Year: 1878

By our telegraphic news from the United
States by the City of Sydney, we have heart
rending accounts of the ravages Of the yellow
fever, all along the Mississippi River from
New Orleans to Memphis. Such is the desti-
tuition of the people afflicted with the dreadful
scourge, that they are compelled to call upon
the benevolent to send them aid We see also
that the people Of the States are responding 10
the appeal with readiness and Christian be
nevolence which is at once praiseworthy and
sublime. This same appeal is made with equal
force TO the people of the Hawaiian Islands,
and We desire to emphasize that appeal by
stating that ii is the duty of the people of
these Islands, who are able, to contribute to
the suffering and dying people of the Southern
States al this moment by putting in their mite
I'm order TO afford every benevolent person an
opportunity to contribute, 1t is proposed that
contributions in money be sent to Messrs.
Bishop & Co., bankers, who will, as soon as
opportunity offers, forward the amount by
draft on New York, to the Mayor of Memphis,
for the sufferers.


We hope our people viii not hesitate, in the
hour of distress of their fellow creatures, but
that they Will come up with liberal hand,
remembering that God loves a cheerful giver.'
We viii take pleasure in publishing the list of
subscribers to this benevolent object, with the
amount contributed by each.
Year: 1878

A GOOD story Is told Of ST. Louis
nobby dry goods clerk who attended
dance in q rural district not long ago.
He wore q Chsvoit shirt, and put ON
great many airs. He was somewhat
"took" down. however. when he over
heard one country lass say to another
THAT st. Louis chap slings on q heap
Of style. Tor q fellow that wears bed
tick shirt"
Year: 1878

New Martinsville Messenger.


A gentleman who was at Wheeling
the past week informs US that the sub
stantial business men Of that city are be-
coming very much interested in the pro.
ject for building narrow gauge railroad
from Wheeling 70 fsrkersburg.


Those who have carefully examined
the proposed route, and VINO are thor
oughly converssnt with the resources Of
the country through which the road
would pass are completely y convinced
that it can and will be built, and also
that it would prove to be one of the best
paying roads in The State.


The importance OF such road to the
people of the State can scarcely be over
estimated. 1t would give new impetus
to every branch of business, and as our
immense timber and mineral resources
would be developed q class OF emigrants
would be attracted who would assist IN sd-
vancing the State IN the path of progress
with more than seven lesugue strides.


That something OF the kind would
bring the dswning OF new ella for
Wetzel county is an undisputed fact.
Rich as the county is in natural resources
they must be developed, and it is TO the
uncertainty OF river navigation that we
owe the fact that this emigration will
not come and these improvements and
developments will not be made until we
have railroad. This is the railroad age,
and it is useless to expect much prosper
ity away from their direct influence.


Push the matter along, and when the
time Tor action comes on this part of the
line, Wetzel county will respond to the
call of duty.
Year: 1878

WE now have regular correspondent,
highly intelligent and responsible citi-
zen of West Virginia, at Washington
City. He knows our members OF both
Houses OF Congress we'll and knows just
what they are made ol-and neither he
nor the REGISTER is under the slightest
obligation to any one of them-so be is
instructed to speak Of their public acts
from an independent and disinterested
standpoint. His high character and in
telhgence is sufficient guarantee that he
will not criticise them unjustly, on the
one hand, nor bestow partial praise, on
the other.
Year: 1878

THE editor OF the Leader says there is
an astonishing amount OF poker playing
going on in this city, and intmates that
"there Is werk ahead for the coming
grand jury" This is the way JOHNSON
has of bespesking job a. witness
Year: 1878

OLD "Blowhsrd" of the IntelLigencer
is Dragging about the wonderful pros.
perity of that decsying concern, and
offers to bet on the circulation. We
never said anything about the circulation
of the kteltigeneer or of the REGISTER
either. We are not in the Dragging
business, nor the gambling business either
for that matter. II old "Blowhard" is
so anxious to bet on something let him
seek the congenisl society of some of the
dens which are run for that purpose.
Year: 1878

was pretty accurately voiced to-day by
Mcmahon, who declared that from q
party standpoint he would like to sec
Hayes veto the silver BILL because the
result would be that it would be an issue
in the next campaign, and the Republi-
can party would not carry State west
of the eastern boundary OF Ohio or south
of Maryland. The sable gentleman in
timated that it was not improbable that
if Hayes did veto the bill the House
would tack it on to an appropriation bill
and force him TO sign it or veto Sn sp-
propristion bill.
Year: 1878

Yesterday the Coroner held an INQUEST
over the body of the little girl who was
accidentally shot oil Wednesday, at New
Castle. The circumstances of the shoot
ing are rather peculiar, as will be seen
by the statement before the jury of the
young lady who was in the room at the
time the shooting occurred. Miss Lizzie
Walker testified that she was in the
room at the time the shooting took place,
the DECEASED was in the bed the wit
ness took the revolver Ga Smith 81 Wes-
SOM off of the mantlepiece, for the pur-
pose of busting off the mantle, laid the
revolver Oh the bed, she had her back
toward the deceased and did not hear
the report of the pistol. When she had
finished the work and turned around.
she saw the deceased lying on the floor
bleeding; called to the deceased's mother
and told her that Jennie had cut herself.
Did not know that she was shot. There
was no one else in the room at the time.
Miss Walker being The only material
witness, the jury rendered a verdict that
the deceased came to her death from a
pistol shot wound, the bullet entering
near the brain, and that 1t was purely ac-
cidentai.
Year: 1878

For some time past farmer residing
near Newark, Del, noticed that every
night there was quantity of corn stolen
from his crib. Becoming tired of loos-
ing such quantity of tie products of
his farm, and wishing to ascertain who
and what the thief was, he set fox trap
one evening this week, and the next
morning, 10 and behold, there was a he
gro standing by the crib with his hand
in the trap. He begged the farmer to
release him, but he refused to do so, u
I'll about noon, thinking that the thief
had been punished sufficiently he order
ed him TO go and sin no more.
Year: 1878

If you can't get on without grumbling
sit still and keep still. Don't interfere
with the good fortune of other people be-
cause you do not deserve any yourself.
You would probably not be contented if
you had everything, and so you are left
to see how much unhappiness you can get
out Of nothing.
Year: 1878

The best cigars may be spoiled by bad
smoking. Chewing and smoking are
incompatible with each other if attempt
ed at the same time. We have seen men
worry cigar until it became disgust:
ing object. The smoker should remem:
Der the advice of the fine old master of
the gentle craft, Izaak Walton, in regard
to playing trout: 'HTreat it gently;> as
though you loved it." So deal with the
cigar.


With a sharp knife cut off as-cleanly
as possible a transverse section about
quarter Of an inch from the small end,
if you would avoid being troubled with
particles of tobacco between. your. lips
the whole time smoking. Avoid, also,
the filthy practice of licking the cigar.
It is always unnecessary and nasty; and
often spoils the cigar, which should be
dry, especially in the wrapping leaf, as
it is upon the excellence and fragrance
of the outerleaf that much of the flavor
Of the cigar depends. Light sthe end
thoroughly, using, whenever 1t is con-
venient. fame. Do not commence to
smoke a cigar only half-lit. Keep1 the
cigar out of a draft. 1t is difficult to taste
the fragrance of delicate tobacco in the
open air. Smoke gently, and be careful
bavoid the cigar burning down one side,
OF, to burn under the wrapping leaf
without igniting it. In the latter case
all flavor is at once lost, and bitter
taste of the tobacco, eharred, but not so
as to eliminate the essential oils, is the
result. If a cigar go out it may be relit
without serious disadvantage, but cigar
lighted a second time after becoming
cold is OanaTallv Oauaaous
Year: 1878

In Germany they manage this little
Sastime in very pleasant way. When
a couple meet after eating philopena
together no advantage is taken OF the
other until one of them pronounces the
word @philopena." This is the warming
that now the sport is to begin. Let US
suppose that gentleman calls upon a
lady. She invites him to walk In, ana
at the same time speaks the tahsman !:
word. If he accepts the offer to walk
In he is lost, unless she removes the ban
by telling him to go away. If she asks
him to take off his hat, he must reso-
Iutely keep it on; if to be seated, be
must stand; or if at the table she should
hand him any article which he accepts,
she wins the forfeit. During all this
time he endeavors to take her by sur
prise, for the acceptance Of any offer
from the other wins the game. Both are
constantly exercising their wits to pre-
vent being caught, and the sport ofeen
goes on all the evening. Perhaps the
gentleman brings q little present and
says, Knowing that shall lose my
philopena. have broughtit along-here
1t is" II she is caught of her guard by
the smooth speech she loses, for he
Immediately claims Forfeit. If neither
wins at tine first meeting, the sport is
continued to the second, and 1t may
happen that half a dozen parties meet
at the same time, all anxious to WIN OF
their philopena partners so that tne
scene often becomes ludicrously anus
ivGl It is diamond cut diamond, in
very truth.
Year: 1878

On Monday last Mr.. James Ander-
sou, of New Orleans, well known
throughout our State as .sMlssissippi
Jim," was carried before the Mayor,
charged with violating the Quaran-
tine Ordinance, and strict investi-
cation made as to his whereabouts
during the last twenty days before
his arrival in Canton. He proved
an "alibi" as far AS tho Crescent City
is concerned, as he had left there
over a month. He is cat home" in
Canton with his old confederates
who give him a hearty welcome.
May his shadow lie seen in our
streets for many long years.
Year: 1878

NOTICE.-Any party taking a
paper from the POstoffice is held
responsible, by law. for the price
of subscription until the paper is
ordered discontinued. Ii you don't
want the CITIZEN, and don't intend
paying for it, please leave it in the
Office, and the Postmaster will
notify the publisher to stop it.
Year: 1878

A large party of ladies and gen.
tlemen from Canton attended the
barbecue at Hickory Grove Thurs
day ,and all report an enjoyable time.
We are sorry that business would
not permit our accepting the kind
invitation to be present.
Year: 1878

The yellow fever scare in our city
has passed away, except with a
few nervous individuals, and ap-
prehensions of visit from the
scourge are almost entirely abated.
With a strict compliance with our
and quarantine regulations
there need be no fear of yellow fever
in our midst.
Year: 1878

If the sereIaders who were out on
night last would take
the pains to study music, and prac-
tice tor a year or two, we should be
pleased to hear them again. AS it
was, we do not think their music
paid for waking up the babies on
Our street,
Year: 1878

Gwinner's New Style of Farmers
Shoe is pronounced by every one
who has tried it to be the nest sat-
isfactory article of the kind, in every
respect, ever brought to this market.
Call and examine it. is At
Year: 1878

What are the waves Of our life tides saying
AS they ripple upon the strands1
They but ebb and how aud then passing AWAY
Leave no footprints on the sands.
Ihey tell US OF storms In mid-ocean passed,
while the weather on shore looked fair,
But we knew nv piece of a broken mast
That danger ana death we're there.
They tell us Of barIues that we spoke in the


stream,


All freighted with bright treasure trove,
That were lost to our sight like mid SUNNI err


dream


Or passage birds call 20 its love:
They tell ms Of castles in bright fairy land
That we built in our earlier days,
How httle VIC knew of times hardening hand
The world and its treacherous ways.
They tell us Of fr sndships the true and the tried,
In the storm Of adversity's power,
And Of those who passed by the other side.
The dew drops on fortunes flower;
They tell us Of sunbeams that light up their
Of home In a fair countrie,
Where Wen meet with our loved ones among the


blest,


After wandering here 80 wearisomelie.
Year: 1878

Banting, Undertaken To the queen
and royal family" recently died at the
age of eighty.fve He invented sys-
TEN of diet which becam, as famous in
our age as that of COrnaro was three
centuries ago. In curious pamphlet
which he wrote, and which had a cos
mopolitan circulation some ten years ago,
Mr.. Bsnting related his sufIerings from
bis enormous Obesity in terms as moving
as those OF Fals.aG" For years he
had not tied his shoes, and he was OBJ.


iged to walk down stairs back ards, lest
the protuberant weight of his trunk
should pitch him down head foremost.
He adopted q regimen by which he
gradually shrunk himself within such
bounds that he became quite nimble
pedestrian. The fact that he lived
through this process to die at the age OF
eighty five, may be taken to show that
abstinence from farinaceous and saccha-
rine food worked as well in his case as
living on an egg day did in the case OF
COrnaro. But others who have adopted
his system have Jared worse. Still his
work has borre good fruit II only in
making people think about what they
eat and drink in Its relations to Their
vitality as well as TO their appetites; and
the man cannot be said to have lived il
vain who enriched his native Language
with new verb, "tO bant."