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Year: 1874

There have been many cases of diph-
liberia lately, and although the disease
has not been prevalent enough so far
to warrant the fear that it will become
epidemic, there have been grounds for
apprehension in regard to the disease
in New York and Brooklyn for long
while. DIR. Peters writes to the "Tri-
bune" that, among the poor, bad air
and food are the most active causes of
mortality from this terrible malady.
"But STILL" he adds, ''it will only too
often single out and kill its victims
among the children of the rich, cleanly
and judiciOus.n DIR. Peters recommends
chlorate of potash as the best remedy
for diphtheria. Here is what he says of
it: at should be given in one way only
dry upon the tongue, pure, not mixed
with sugar and not in solution. By
giving it i'll this way it dissolves slowly
in the mouth and gradually and
efficiently comes in contact with all the
diseased parts of the throat. 1t is
slightly disagreeable at first; but the
youngest child soon becomes accus-
toned to it. 1t takes away the supposed
necessity for forced local applications
to the throat, and if the little patient
be taught to open its mouth widely,
-
breath deeply at the same time, the
curtain of the palate will be drawn up,
and the whole back part of the throat,
down to the windpipe, will be exposed
TO view, without the use of any harsher
means to obtain view of the parts in
vOlved by the disorder. This treatment
must be persisted in, the chlOrate of
potash being given in doses of two,
three five or more grains every hour at
first, until some decided Improvement
commences, or for one, two, three, or
even more days, without hesitation or
faltcring. Often no apparent improve
meat seems to take place for one, two,
or more days; sometimes not until
rearly up to the fourth day. But cour-
age and perseverance will almost GER
tainly be rewarded with success: GER
tainly four or five times out of six"


People cannot be too careful in regard
to diptheria. 1t has been wisely sug-
gested that hospital should be founded
exclusively for diphtberetic patients,
like the smallpox hospitals. No dis
ease is more difficult to guard against
after it has once entered a household.
But where people live comfortably and
cleanlily, slight precautions are sufii-
cient to keep i: away entirely. Very
poor people, who live in unhealthy
neighbOrhOods, are in more danger.
Diphtheria has often swept away whole
families in tenement houses. We do
not wish to be accused of ''crOaking,"
but nearly everybody we meet appears
to have a cold in his head and a sore
throat, and it is just as well for people
to know that diphtheria is prevalent.
Year: 1874

An exchange says the subject of bor-
rowing and lending came up in the
course of conversation with one of its
subscribers the other day, when ne sud
denly recollected a funny occurrence of
that character that had happened in his
neighborhood. He said he had a
neighbor whose family were great bor
rowers, but seldom, if ever, returning
the exact amount borrowed. An old
Quaker lady, another neighbor, who
mad endured these invasions for a long
time patiently, hit upon very philoso-
phical mode of eventually putting
stop to the nuisance. Keeping her
own counsel, ,thenext time her good man
went to town be had separate and ex-
press order to purchase pound of the
best tea, and also new canister to put
it in. As he knew she already had
plenty of tea, and also q canister, he
was pnzzled to determine what the old
lady wanted of more tea and new can
lister but his questionings and reason
ings elicted nothing more than repe-
tition of the order.


"Jim, did I not tell thee to get me





ter Now go along, and do as 1 bid
thee"


And go along he did, and when he
came home at night the tea and new
canister were his companions. The old
lady took them from him with an
expression on her usually placid feat
ures, and, depositing the tea in the can
lister, set it on the shelf for special use.
1t had not long to wait, for the harrow
ing neighbor had frequent use for the
aromatic herb. The good old lady
loaned generously, emptying back in
the canister any remittance OF bor-
rowed teas which the neighbor's con-
science inclined her to make. Time
went on, and after something less than
the one hundreth time of borrowing,
the neighbor again appeared for 'just
another drawing of tea, when the oft
visited tea canister was brought out
and found to be empty, and the good
old lady and obliging neighbor was Just
one pound of tea poorer than when she
bought the new canister, which now
only remained to tell the story. Then
she made little characteristic speech,
perhaps the first in her life. She said
=" Thou seest that empty canister I
filed it for thee with pound OF my
best tea. and have lent it all to thee
in driblets, and put into it all thou hast
sent me in return. and none but thyself
hath taken therefrom or added, into it,
and now thou seest it empty; therefore
1 will say to thee, thou hast borrowed
thyself out and can lend thee no more"
Year: 1874

We speak of comic music; but there
is no such thing. Comic songs there
are, and comic operas but no comic
music, although this art, like all others,
is capable of the grotesque. But music
can express neither wit nor hunor,
neither satire nor raillery, not even the
ridiculous. 1t can express iollity, which
is a mood of mind, and animal spirits,
another mood, hardly of mind. But in
this direction its limit is phrase the
spirit and form of which make it not
inappropriate vehicle of comedy. l re-
member but two musical Jokes. One is
in Cimarosa's "Matrimonio Segreto, ="
an opera which have never heard, and
which l believe has never been per-
formed in this country, never at least
within my memory. In this, upon the
fathers announcement of sun ntdtri-
nlOnio mobile" there is brief silence,
and then two horns are heard in the
orchestra. 1t can hardly be that this
musical hint of the probable conse-
auences of a noble marriage In a
plebeian family is accidental. But after
all the joke is not really musical for it
depends entirely upon the name of the
instruments by which it is perpetrated,
not at all upon the musical idea to
which they give utterance. If the horn
had happened to be called the trumpet,
or horns (covnD had not been the ac-
cepted sign of certain marital calamity
the world over, this brazen joke would
have been impossible. The other in
stance was a monstrous pOrtamento o
glide in the performance of the AIR of
s'The King of the Cannibal Islands, i'll
a potpourri by Jullien's orchestra.
This air opens by a passage from the
dominant to the third of the scale, and
whenever it recurred the stringed in
struments, instead of taking the leap Of
five notes, slid up, with a prolonged
and wailing crescendo, and then dashed
off rapidly, The effect was very ridicu.
lous, and always provoked shouts of
laughter. But here again the comic
effect was produced, not by the musical
idea, bnt by the caricature of the not
uncommon exaggeration of grave IN
vocalization.-The Gata.ry for Septem'-
her
Year: 1874

Reading without purpose is sauuter-
ing, not exercise. More is got from


one book on which the thought settles
for definite end in knowledge, than


from libraries skinned over by a


wandering eye. A cottage flower gives


honey to the bee, kings garden none


to the butterfly. Youths who are des-
tined for active careers, or ambitious
of distinction in such forms of literature
as require freshness of invention or
originality of thought, should avoid the
habit OF intense study for many hours
at stretch. There is point in all
tension of the intellect beyond which


effort Is only waste of strength. Fresh
ideas do not readily spring up within a


weary brain and whatever exhausts


the mind not only enfeeblfs its power,


but narrOws its scope. We often see
men who have Overhead at college,
entering upon life lsnguidly as if they


were about to leave it. They have not
the vigor to cope with their own gene
ration, for their own generation is
young, and they have wasted the ner-
vous energy which supplies the sinews
of war to youth, in its contest for fame
or fortune. Study with regularity at
settled hours. Those in the forenoon
are the best if they can be secured. The
man who has acquired the habit of
study, though for only ore hour every


day III the year and keeps to the one
thing studied till mastered, will be
startled to see what he has made at the
end of the twelvemonth. He is seldom
overworked who can contrive to be in
advance of his work. If you have three
weeks before you to learn something
which a man of average quickness could
learn In week, learn it the first week


and not the third. Business dispatched
is business well done, but business
hurried is business i'll done. In learn
ing what others have thought, it is well
to keep in practice the power to think
for ones self. When an author has
added to your knowledge, pause and
consider if you can add nothing to his.
Be not contented to have learned
problem by heart !; try and deduce from
it corrollary not in the book. Spare
no pains in collecting details before you
generalize; but it is only when details
are generalized that truth is grasped.
The tendency to generaliZe is universal
with all men who achieve great success,
whether in art, literature, or action
The habit of generalizing, though at
first gained with care and caution. Sc
cures, by practice, comprehensiveness
of judgment and promptitude OF de-
cision, which seem to the crowd like
intuitions of genius. And indeed moth
ing more distinguishes the man OF
genius from the mere man of talent
than the facility of generalizing the
various details, each of which demands
the aptitude of special talent; but all
which can be gathered into whole by
the grasp of mind which may have no
special aptitude for anv-
Year: 1874

AFTER all there are some things that
puzzle the philosophers. In China,
and in Scotland and good many other
places, they take thick muddy water,
like the peat water for instance, and
throw in about seven grains of alum to
the gallon, and instantly the mud col
lects in long thick streaks, and is preci-
pitated to the bottom, and the water is
left clear and pure. The Chinese found
this out centuries ago, but though the
philosophers have squinted and smelled
and tasted, and looked as wise as owls,
they can't for the life of them tell how
the alum clears the water.
Year: 1874

BUILT OF SEA SHELLs.-I've heard OF
a very wonderful thing. The houses
and churches and palaces of the big
and beautiful city of Paris are almost
all made of sea shells. This is how it
happened Some hundreds of thou
sands of years ago the water of the
ocean rolled over the spot where Paris
now stands. Under the ocean waves
lived and died millions and millions of
tiny sea shell animals. By and by,
after great, great many years, the
ocean waters no longer rolled over this
spot, and the very, very big piles-I
might say indeed, the mountains-of
dead shells were left for the sun to
shine on, the winds to blow on and the
rains to fall on for many centuries more,
till the shells had hardened into rocks
Then, after hundreds and hundreds of
years more, men came and built houses.
They dug in the earth and found the
sea shell stone with which they built
the beautiful houses and churches and
palaces for which Paris is so famous
And yet the poor little sea SHELLS that
lived and died so long ago never get the
least bit OF credit for all that they did
for the fine city Perhaps, though.
they don't care. At any rate, We will
remember them, and that will be some
thing. While we are talking about
this matter, it may be as well to remem-
ber that great many OF the rocks in
different parts of the world were made
of sea shell and fresh water shells in
Just about the same way that the stone
of Paris came to be ready for the
builders.
Year: 1874

Do YOU know why it is that the black
mud of the Nile spread over the land by
its yearly overflow brings such wonder
ful fertility? 1t is made up in large
measure, of tiny creatures, SO small
that only the microscope can divide
them into separate forms. Millions
and millions of the living, and millions
of the tiny shells of those that have
perished. In the harbOr of Wismar on
The Baltic sea there are deposited every
year almost 300, 900 cubic feet OF this
mud


a large part of the sand of the great
African desert is made up of the fossil
shells of small animals. On the coast
OF Patagonia there is a bed of fossil
shells that has been explored for five
hundred miles, that reaches at Port
Julian the thickness of eight hundred
feet. The largest of these shells are
sometimes foot in diameter, but one
tenth of the whole bulk are so small
as to be only shining specks to the
naked eve.
Year: 1874

curious scar on one of his fingers, which


was disiigured by crushing in cog wheel.


A critical examination of this finger by


the physician who dressed the wound
compels the doctor to say, that it is the
finger of Willis Peyton.


While this examination was being
made, the claimant said doctor. do
you remember how sick | was made by
the sight OF that finger, while you and
mother we're dressing it one day9 And
do you reeollect how | came to you one
day to know what would take the infiam-
alton out of my arm, where / was
tattooed by Jim Bayne, the sailor p"
The old doctor remembered well how
sore Willis Peyton's arm was, and the
circumstance of his fainting once from
the dressings of the sore finger. Another
evidence that the claimant is the Simon.
pure Willis Peyton is that he singles out
men who do not know him, calling them
by name and reminding them of Incl.
dents of former acquaintance that
leave no doubt in their minds as to his
identity.


And the Widow Peyton " sits in the
court room, by times looking at the
claimant of her bed and board and cry
ing as witness after witness avows his
belief that the strange man is Willis
Peyton. She has told her friends that if
he really is Peyton, he may have the
farm, stock and everything bat herself
Sometimes during passages of the trial
he implores her to look again and see if
she cannot recognize one feature and ac-
knowledge him as her husband, but she
refuses, and his earnest appealing face
becomes clouded by despair.
He says that if the suit terminates in his
favor he will only ask living off the
farm, and will never intrude upon his
wife and children unless they voluntarily
recognize him.-S, Louis Republican.
Year: 1874

"And the sound of grinding shall
cease" In that day there shall be no
m ore hand-organs.


A genius was explaining the utility of
an India rubber ship which he was in
venting, when an old salt exclaim ed
No, 70; it will never do. An India
rubber ship would rub out all the lines
of latitude ard longitude, to ssy nothing
Of the equator
Year: 1874

A writer in the Medical Times and
Gazette argues that fatigue in long rail-
way journey arises from the constant
trembling motion of the floor under the
feet, and that the use of an air cushion
as footstool relieves all sense of weari-
ness.
Year: 1874

AS viii be seen by reference TO an
other column the governor has issued
his proclamation convenins the legis-
laturc in extraordinary or extra ses-
sion Oh Tie 18th Of this month. lie
does 50 in response of resolutions
passed 10y he state convention and b,
the congressional convention at Leav-
cnw orih, and not in accordance with
his OWL judgment, we believe.


Under our constitution the governor
can do little of himself and nothing
in the way of furnishing the relief
asked for by several new counties on
the border. There is such a chance
for abuse of the means or aid to be
voted, SO many standing ready to
speculate and dead beat it, that we
had hoped that the counties which are
| mos; in need of aid would manage TO
get along until the regular session. at


which time statistical returns and re.
ports would have shown TO n certainty
the duty of The legislature in the
premises. There Will harG!y be much
suffering before cold weather sets in
and nearly every county could have
taken care of their destitute until that
time. We hope the governors sug-
gesion that the county commissioners
prepare actual statistics of the amount
necessary TO carry the destitute over
will be acted upon by the commissions
crs of Sedgwick county So that we
may know and act inteligently and
ecOnomicallv,
Year: 1874

The Arkansas valley is to have a
congressman. Last winter when the
writer was fighting for Southwest
ern congressional district, and, with
his senate bill was gaining consid-
Grafton only inch by inch and
vote by vote. we looked forward to
the time when the people of this valley
might have man in the national leg
islaturc to look after her varied and
important interests. The full frution
Of that hope comes quick in the nomi-
nation OF w. H. Brown. Of Hutchinson.
at Emporia. on last Friday. AS we
watched the proceedings of that body.
composed of sixty mon and witnessed
the result of their labors, there was a
feeling of satisfaction and n realization
that labor for the public does not al
ways go unrcwarded. True. if il had
been left to us to nominate. some citi-
zen of Wichita. the metropolis of the
valley. would have been named. But
the actual fact that this great valley.
whose Importance is little understood
by the balance of the state. the future
of which can hardly be guessed at bv
her own citizens. and great section
that had been entirely ignored by the
convention at Topeka in making up
the state ticket, we felt gratified in
deed. when, amid the din confusion
and hurrahs it was announced that
Judge Brown had received the rcquir-
ed number of votes to constitute him
the republican candidate for congress
from the third district.


Judge Browns qualifications, ability
and integrity were heretofore canvassed
and endorsed in these columns, two or
three months since, and before he had
become formal candidate. What we
said then we reitcrate now. lie is hon
est. he is capable, which qualities have
won for him the confidence and en-
dorsement of the people of the South
west whose delegates at Emporia stood
almost solid for his nomination.


Judge Brown. is the present Judge of
the 9th judicial district. After grad
uating he came to Lawrence where his
father now resides aud where we frs,
became acquainted with him in 1868
We believe he frs; entered the prac-
ticc of law at Emporia where he has
many warm friends. He afterwards
moved to Cottonwood Falls. and was
elected to his present position. Obey
ing the injunction Of Horace Greeley
and following the dictation Of his own
sound judgement he kept going west
until he reached Hutchinson, his pre-
sent home from which he will be sent
back east to our country's capital by
ten or twelve thousand majority.
Year: 1874

The Leavenw Times is Inneces-
sarily tearing its political shirt about
its cousin, George I. Anthony. we
think. Take little more kindly to
your own blood. Mr. Times. The
post Office is safe and you will never
get George out of the collectorship.
With the two best federal places in
the state as reward tor services and
patriotism there is evidently too much
blow and elimination for these times.
Year: 1874

The RAILROAD IN. THE CANvAss.-A
few da-s since, in noticing an article IN
the Intelligencer rejecting upon Judge
Jacobs and Mr.. Wingard. written osten-
sibly in the interest of the Seattle and
Walla Railroad Company, we promised
upon another occasion TO comment npon
the demand put forth in that article that
the candidate should be the echo of ''the
ring of the Seattle and WalIa Railroad. :"
We attributed the authorship of the ar
ticle at the time to fellow kept under
salary by the Company for no other APP
parent object than as contribution to
science; to illustrate by a living speci-
men the truth of the Darwinian theory,
and who has the mischievous propensi-
ties of his monkey progenitors, of med-
ding without knowledge in matters with
which he has no concern. In this, We
are assured by the President of TIE Com
pany. we were mistaken; that the article
in question was not written by any
member or employee of the Company
and had not the endorsement of any.
As an answering friend aad supporter
of that enterprise from its inception, we
are glad to chronicle this fact; and in
this view, we have but to say that the
article in the IpteHigeacer not only mis-
represents the position of Judge jacobs,
but was calculated and evidently in-
tended to place the Railroad Company
in a false and damaging position by in
timating to the people that there was
conflict or ground for jealousy between
them. In the Republican Convention
for this county, the following resolu-
ton, introduced by Mr.. D. Bagley. Was
adopted without a dissenting voice:


Resolved, That the opening up of commu-
nieation by railroad between the eastern and
western sections of this Territory by one of the
passes in the Cascades, north of the Columbia
river, is of vital and paramount Importance,
and that our Delegate in Congress is expected
to use his utmost endeavors to procure all
needful legislation to aid the construction Of
the Seattle and walla Wa LA Railroad"


Before leaving for the Territorial Con-
vention. Mr.. Bagley presented this res
olution to Judge Jacobs and had his as
surance that it met with his most hearty
approval. Mr.. Bagley presented the
name of Judge Jacobs TO the Territorial
Convention, and after his nomination
that Convention unanimously adopted
this identical resolution as plank of
the platform to which he stands pledged
Ali this was done and published to the
world before tie article in the lntelligen-
Ger was written. No true friend of the
Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad will
seek to implicate it in any party or per-
sonal conflicts.
Year: 1874

The merchants of Shreveport have
signed two agreements, one ''to use
every endeavor to get their employees
to vote the peoples ticket ut the ensu-
ing election, and in the event of their
refusal so to do, or in case they vote
the radical ticket, to refuse to employ
them at the expiration Of their present
contracts"


In the other they "pledge themselves
not to advance any supplies or money
to any planter, the coming year, who
will give employment or rent lands to
laborers who vote the radical ticket in
the coming election"


They set forth briefly the causes that
impel them to this cause in the follow
ing extract: 1--WE are constrained to
this course from a principle of self-de-
fense, knowing that the negroes are
being banded together for the purpose
of foisting upon the country incompe-
tent and dishonest men for Office, and
II they persist In their Reorganization
to support ticket which plumbers the
white people of their substance, they
must look to others than the white
people for the means of subsistence.n
Year: 1874

A. III. STEPHENS labors under q very
heavy case of infatuatiOn In surprising
that he and Grant are the two great
men of the country. He delivered a
lengthy address at Augusta, Georgia,
on Friday last, before ah immense au-
dience, in the course of which he an
nounced that he found nothing in
Grants conduct toward Louisiana to
find fault with; that he had simply
done his duty. That he had looked
into the Louisiana question. and ssw
no sense in abusing Grant for his ac-
tion in that affair. He also said that
he had no objection to a third term,
and saw no reason why president
who executed the laws faithfully
should not he continued In office. The
Atlanta Herald says:


"No matter where Alexander Ste
phens speaks, nor when, whether on
the stump or in private, there comes to
the public that inevitable apology for,
and defense of, President Grant. The
people are becoming quite tired of this.
Grant is an enemy TO the people of the
south. He is willing and vicious
tool of the dominant party. If there
is once trace of tolerance or of pity in
the whole course of his reconstruction
policy, we do not recall it. A uniform
brutality has characterized its action
from the beginning to the end. And
the people of the south, especially the
people of the eighth district, are filled
with just resentment and an uncon-
querable aversion to this tyrant and
his administrations