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Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


wish 10 calf the attention Of the proper authorities
to the condition Of Tenth avenue, between Twenty
eighth and Twenty ninth streets For ten Gftoen
years this block been In very dangerous we'll
as unhealthy condition IL has been cleaned about
threc times since last October. II would be well II the
Board Of Health would pay II visit


HEALTH OBSERVER
Year: 1877




ETwo surgeons died recently in
Paris of diphtheria which they contract
ed by endeayorihg to save the lives Of
patients. 1t appears that after perform
ing surgical operation for the relief of
Group, it is found necessary to facilitate
the breathing of the patient by drawing
air through the diseased windpipe. This
the unfortunate surgeons effected in each
case by applying their own lips and
sucking the air through. 1t is greatly
to the honor Of the medical profession
that its members are SO ready to. risk
their own lives to save those of their
patients. But there seems to be force
in the suggestion of the Medical Re-
cord, that this great risk might be avoid
ed in cases of Group and diphtheria by
substituting suitable instrumental con-
trivance for the surgeons mouth. There
are probably other instances where such
an instrument might be of service, as
for instance in case of a bite from q
mad dog or snake. The needed in.
strument is doubtless easily within the
scope of invention. .Asfs
Year: 1877

A Boston lawyer, uncommonly. upious
and extremely High Church, thinks it
needful to SOW seed by all waters, and
so has his note-paper branded with
Scripture texts. The other day he had
occasion to write for favor from the
chief Justice, and he unluckily used a
sheet headed: "Ye are all bought with
price," He didn't get it.


Now is the time of year to trot out
the old woman who has made piece OF
patchwork with 97,307, ,684,537 pieces,
don't wear glasses, and can bite off the
end of her thread with her natural teeth
who has always taken her two cups o.
strong green tea three times a day
snuffs maccaboy once in fifteen minutes
and has seventeen great grandchildren
Year: 1877

When mans premises get on
fire in Paris the law holds him liable
to make good the damage resulting
to other peoples property, and he is
compelled to pay, up to a certain
limit, for the loss which his fire
occasions to his neighbors on just
the same principle that a man is
everywhere compelled to pay the
damages caused by his horse which
runs away and destroys property, or
his bull which cores his neighbor
or his neighbor's OK, or his cattle
which break into and destroy the
crops of another. There may not
have been any evil intent on the
part of the owner; he did not de-
sign or desire to have his horse
smash things, or his bull push the
unruly horn, or his fire break forth
and destroy his own and his neigh
boris goods-the intention has moth
ing to do with it; the fact is all
that the law takes cognizance Of,
and in France they treat fires that
way.


One result of this new mode Of
adjusting matters is great careful
ness and watchfulness on the part
of tenants and owners in regard to
fire. Buildings are erected, for the
commonest uses, which are almost
absolutely fire-proof. The building
laws of Paris are very stringent
and non-combustible material is
required to be used in almost every
portion of a house. But, aside from
that, the personal interest which
the law compels every man to have
in the spreading of fires makes him
doubly diligent to prevent all fires
from spreading-to prevent them,
indeed, from occurring.


Another result is, that although
| people Ieel themselves CONSTRAINED
to insure for an amount which viii
cover their possible Indebtedness tC
others in case a fire which kindles
in their own premises does damage
outside, the rates of insurance are
reduced to the merest fraction O
the figures which Americans pay
The best buildings are the best
economy.


"French fashions" of this sor
should be extensively introduced il
America, and should be aided b.
the enactment of building law
which shall be operative in thu
country as we'll as the town.
Year: 1877

Detroit Free Press.l


A portly citizen said he was
waiting for the car. When informed
that no cars had ever yet run on
that street, because no track had
ever been laid, he said he was wait
ing for the track to be put down
and the car to come along.


A citizen with pale face and con-
sumptive look said he liked the
smell of tar. When informed that
tar was very cheap, and that he
could sit in the house and smell of
some of it poured out on a china
saucer, he replied that he hadn't
any china in the house.


A third citizen, who was shiver-
ing around in thin clothing, said
he had been waiting there for three
hours to see if the tar.kettle
wouldn't catch fire. When our re-
porter brought forward figures and
statistics to prove that tar-kettles
only catch fire once in seven years
on an average, he replied he would
stay the rest Of the seven years out


A fourth man explained that he
was waiting to see a certain man,
and that when the certain man
came along there would be a fight
"a fight in which the certain man
would be certain to get licked. Our
reporter could inform him that the
said man was at that time asleep
on a lumber pile, and in a splendid
position to be stunned by a blow
on the head with a club, but the
citizen replied that he always fought
his battles by City Hall time, and
that he must be where he could see
the town clock.


A fifth citizen, who had a luxuri-
ous seat on a sand pile, explained
that he expected his girl to come
along pretty soon. Our reporter
proved to him that nine girls out
Of ten are faithless; that three out
of every five marriages are unhap.
py; that house rent and provisions
are likely to go up, and that it is
sixty per cent. healthier to sit in an
armchair than on pile of wet
sand, but the man replied 81 agreed
to sit here and I'll sot!"
Year: 1877

Reporter-Have you any friends?
Allen-0h, yes have wife and
family of two children, but l
never go near them, because | do
not wish them to catch the disease.
Sometimes, when ! am watching on
the street in town, my children see
me and | have to run to get away
from them. 1t is very hard for me
to do it, but l would do anything
rather than have them catch it.
They do not know where l am, but
| keep track of and do all | can for
them.


Reporter-What is your businessY


Allen-Before l got this 1 used
to go to sea.


Reporter-Do you know how you
caught the diseaseP


CAUGHT FROM THE CHINESE.


Allen am not positive, but |
think do. put it down to the
Chinese. You see, when / returned
from my first cruise l went on q
spree and woke up the next morn,
lug in a Chinese den.


Reporter-Had you ever been in
a Chinese house previous to thai
time?


Allen-No, never was, and
would not have been in then only
for my spree.


Reporter-Have you been living
with your family since that time?


Allen-No; my family were moi
here then, and as soon as l founC
that | had the leprosy / resolved
that they should never see me again


RoTTING AWAY.


Reporter = Do you suffer am
pain?


Allen-No; there is no pain
only an itching sensation. Th,
worst thing about it is that l know
that | am slowly rotting away ant
can not help myself.


Reporter-Why do you have you,
left foot wrapped in q leather ban
dage?


Allen-Because it is decayine
faster than the other, and | can no
bear shoe on it. With a pair o
pinchers l could take every toe of
my foot without feeling any pain


The reporter, after offering a few
words of consolation, which fel
unheeded upon the ears of the un
happy wretch, withdrew and lef
him alone in his misery.


There is another case of whit
leprosy on Kearney street, betweel
Jackson end Pacific. This man
broken out with scales, principall
about the throat, and he claims t
have caught it from smoking Chi
nese cigars.
Year: 1877

81 am glad to learn, my dear
Patsy, that yoH are employed in
things new and good. OF all the
cankers of human happiness, none
corrodes with so silent yet SO bale
ful an influence as Incidence. Ex-
erci8e and application produce order
in our affairs, health of body and
cheerfulness of mind. If .at any
moment, my dear, you catch your
self in idleness, start from it as
you would from the precipice of a
gulf l do not like your saying
that you are unable to read Livy
but with the aid of a master. 1t is
part of the American character to
surmount every difiulty by resolu-
ton.


"My expectations from you are
high, but not higher than you may
attain. Nobody in this world can
make me so happy or miserable as
you can. Think nothing is insur-
mountable and you will be all that
wish you to be. Affectionately,


"T. J."
Year: 1877

White Le3ers in San FFancIueO-A


Pest ,OuRht from Chtna-VIsit 90


an Afflicted Wretch.


San Francisco Mail, Nov. Al


The alarming fact that leprosy
does exist to some extent among
white persons in San Francisco was
only discovered about one week ago.
The majority of our best and oldest
resident physicians have never
heard of case Of white leprosy in
this city with the exception of that
of Asha Bates, former register in
bankruptcy, who died about three
years ago. He contracted the dis
ease in the Sandwich Islands, and
therefore the presence of the Chi
nese has not alarmed the doctors in
regard to this curse. They have
yet to learn that there arc several
white lepers in our midst who have
caught the affliction from the Chi
nese. Hearing that such was the
case, Mail reporter yesterday
called on a physician, who, he was
informed, had been treating three
cases Of white leprosy within a
week. The doctor admitted that
he had three cases of white leprosy
under his care at the present time.
He said that a white woman, the
first patient, came to him a week
ago. She had been suffering for
the last two years, and spots had
broken out all over her body. On
Thursday last man called at his
office and stated that he had been
afflicted with leprosy for eighteen
months, and would like to have
some medicine to ameliorate his
sufferings.
Year: 1877

A Washington despatch says: Many
complaints have reached the Treasury
department that merchants and business
men in various parts of the country
have been in the habit of printing bust
ness cards bearing such close resem-
blance to the United States and national
bank issues that many people have been
deceived thereby and quantities of it
passed as good money by parties who
have gathered number of these cards.
Some of the samples received at the
Secret Service Division here are of q
character to deceive even observant
persons, while they bear upon their
face the fact that they are not really
genuine. These issues are all in viola
tion of law. Section 5, 430 of the revis-
ed statutes forbids the engraving or
printing of anything in the impression
or the likeness of any United States
obligation or other security, or any part
thereof, except under the authority of
the secretary of the treasury. The
penalty is a heavy fine and imprison-
ment Many indictments have been
found against persons on this account,
and the department now intends to
prosecute to the full extent further
offenses of this character as o matter of
protection to the community the poor
and more ignorant members OF which
are very thoroughly imposed upon,
Year: 1877

A fragrant breach of politeness, and
one which is most annoying to refined
and sensitive people, is the very general
practice of ones conversation. The i'm
punity with which this is done has de-
graded rational conversation, which ought
to be the greatest charm of social inter-
course, into proving farce. A man OF
woman who has anything to say that is
worth saying, desires to say it in his or
her own way and those who have brains
to appreciate it, will be equally desirous
of hearing it without interruption. Yet
it is common thing for parlor conver-
sation to partake more of the babble of
Babel, than conversation among rational
beings, who are supposed to know and
appreciate what each othes says. One
begins to relate an incident, and before
he has finished two sentences, some parrot
in fine clothes chimes in with her sense
less gabble, breaking the thread of dis
course. and compelling the narrator to
begin again, or abandon the attempt to
instruct or entertain.


This is the grossest impoliteness ; it is
as'common an occurrence as conversation
itself. It is not much to say, that nine
out of every ten people who indulge in
this habit are incapable of carrying on
rational conversation on any useful topic,
and indulge in these breaches of etiquette
by way Of covering their retreat and
hiding their ignorance.


We suggest to young people-and old
ones, too for that matter-that here is
promising field for social reform. Never
interrupt conversation by interjecting
remarks, however appropriate and witty
they may seem. All sensible people
will respecs you, and conclude that you
have good sense, and know how to use it
to the best advantage.
Year: 1877

Miss Maria ROOp's Answer by Telegraph


TO the Offer of Heart and Hand


The NeUs of st. John, n. b., tells
the following interesting story of re-
cent matrimonial engagement that was
brought to a happy climax by telegraph:


Miss Maria Roop, author of a series
of pleasing New York letters that ap-
peared in the NetUs some months ago
under the title of "Glimpses of
Gotham" was married in Boston on
Saturday last Capt. Roop, a distant
relative who sails an English ship,
visited Mr.. John Roop's few weeks ago
on his way to Parrisboro, N. S., and
met his fate in the person of the young
lady who 10 now his- vito. He oarne,
saw and was conquered. He returned
to New York and began to load for Java,
but sang Her her sweet smile haunts
me still, )" and whistled "The girl [ left
behind me. Would she marry him
and go on that long and lonely voyag ge to
the East ?


He wrote to her, and proposed that
she meet him in Boston the next week,
marry him, and sail for Java. His boat
was on the shore and his bark was on the
sea, or loading at the wharf, and she
must decide at once. The letter was re-
ceived in the morning, and had not been
read more than half dozen times (such
letters require great deal of reading,
it seems), when dispatch arrived to the
following effect: "Please answer my
letter by telegraph-yes or no." Any
girl can promptly say yes or no to the
offer of a hand and heart, but when such
on offer is coupled with three days
notice of marriage and sea voyage to
the East Indies, the case requires lit
tie more consideration. So she took
time to consider, and added strength to
the saying that the woman who considers
is lost, for when the afternoon of the
same day brought her another dispatch,
which was simply eyes or MOP" she
went to the telegraph Office and wrote
{" Yes" " on a blank. The operator know
ing nothing of the vast Importance Of
that monosyllable message, placed it on
file for transportation, and the most
anxious man in New York was soon
made happy by its reception. The lady
left here on Friday morning last and
met and married the captain at the resi-
dence of relative in Boston. Their
wedding tour will be long one-around
the world, but not in eighty days.
Year: 1877

There may be people into whose bed
room windows bats have not flown this
summer, the summer before, and all
the other summers as far back as they
can remember I,ut we doubt it. We
doubt, further, that there be people
who, when the bat arrives, have not
risen in their night garments of sum-
mer style, and turning high the gas
pursued that bat with pillow and canes
and even chairs, arousing the family in
terror of assassins and giving the man
on the other side of the street, who is
up with the toothache, a strong suspi


cion that Kirkbride has established a
branch asylum in their house. Bats
have been knocked down under these
circumstances also have shins been
smashed and shins skinned but man,
in the end, has been victorious over the
bat-never. If he picks him up with
bis fingers he lets him go again imme-
diately. If he picks him up between
two sticks, and drops him out one
window the bat scars into the air and
flies in at another. The bat cannot be
persuaded to go away. He can't take a
hint. Let him alone and he'll go home
and carry, etc. The bat, they say, is
good for eating the night bugs which
are always SO much interested in what
one is writing about. But whether the
bugs were made so long before the bat,
and increased SO much ahead of him
that he hasn't had fair show, or his ap-
petite is not powerful, there are plenty
of bugs yet to transact business. Let
the bat look at the sparrow and how
nobly he fulfilled his contract with re-
gard to the measuring worm. The
sparrow, too, is an excellent bird, with
only one bad habit, that of getting up
too early in the morning, while the bat
is afflicted with every wickedness, and
doesn't get up early only because he
doesn't go to bed.-Philadelphia Press.
Year: 1877

II Will some advocate of Hayes Southern
policy please give us some argument in favor of
the policy that is not an apologyi Among all
the articles that We have yet seen attempting to
justify him, We have failed to find single one
that did not read like an apology for . mean and
treacherOus act.
Year: 1877

The Alliance Leader of last week con-
tains an article on the United States SEN
ator, TO be chosen coon by our General
Assembly, which will meet on the 9TH of
next month. Our friend of the Leader
comments severely upon one of the gen.
tlemen who is named prominently in
connection with the position, We re-
gret to see anything said calculated to ir-
ritate, for we have never doubted, that,
when the time came, our members from
this county in the Legislature, would en-
deavor to ascertain the sentiment of their
constituents, and, if that sentiment was
was plainly and Enthusiastically and over
whelmingly in favor of any one of the
eminent and able gentlemen named in
connection with the position, they would
faithfully carry out that expression, even
if by 80 doing they would sacrifice their
personal prediction, This converging
Of public sentiment is going on, and is
finding expression, and our members are
gentlemen who mingle with the people,
and will not fail to learn Democratic
sentiment in Stark on the Senatorship.
No doubt they desire to do so, with a
view to enable them to act understand
ingly in the matter, and also with view
of fully satisfying their constituents, and
preserving harmony and cordiality with
in the party. This we look upon as all
important, and this harmony, so far as
they are concerned, would be endan-
gered should they disregard entirely the
will of the Democracy.
Year: 1877

THE Repository claims to have dis
covered vast amount of wrong doing
on the part of the Commissioners Of
Stark county. We can scarcely credit
the statement because Of the high stan>
ding of those gentlemen. If there has
been any wrong we are positive it must
be technical, and from lack of knowl>
edge, or from following established GUS
toms. However it may be, we advocate
the rule, chew to the line, let the chips
fall where they may."-Akro@ Argus.


A new broom advance td) from
Washington, has been trying to raise a
dust, butt this issue of the Stark County
DEMOCRAT the Commissioners someN
what settle that broom and blow away
that dust. Let our friend Of the Argus
read and judge for himself.
Year: 1877

LET every citizen Of Stark county read
carefully the vindiCation of the County
Commissioners in this paper. 1t is com
plete and unanswerable, and will satisfy
all candid men that our County Commits
sioners have acted honestly and with
good judgment. tl
Year: 1877

THE Cleveland Herald on Monday
came out enlarged to an eight page sheet
and otherwise much improved editorially.
The outlook is that the Hsraldis going
to take rank with the biggest and the
best. Ability will tell.
Year: 1877

SosIE of our courts OF justice are very
curiously constituted. They compel a
witness to swear that he viii tell ''the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth" and then render it ut
terly impossible for him TO keep his
oath. 1t is important for the lawyers
to keep out of sight certain part of
the truth, and if the witness expresses
Il desire to tell the whole story lis lips
are sealed and lie is told to keep still.
Justice is very remarkable thing, and
the entire truth is exactly what it
doesn't want, but only that portion of
it which vii enable one lawyer to gain
his case and both of them to collect
their fees.
Year: 1877

New York, Nov. 30.-Intelligent


English correspondence in discussion of
the future of the Turco-Russian war,
argues that its close will he as full of
peril as its outbreak was to England.
As the Mahommedan power of the
world can hardly consent to dismem-
berment of the Turkish Empire with
out endangering her hold on the loyalty
of her Mussulman subjects in India, and
if there be any truth in the very gen
eral belief of Europe that Germany
means to use the ascendancy which this
war has given her to extend her in
fiuence effectively and visibly over Bel
Year: 1877

PATTERSON, in his speech in the
Senate yesterday, while defining his
action in voting for Butler, thus intro
duces figure of speech for the Repub-
lican party in South Carolina:
So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain.
No more through rolling clouds to soar again
Views its own feather on the fatal dart,
That winged the SHAFT that quivered In his


heart;
Though keen his pangs. yet keener fnr to


feel


lie nursed the pinion that impelled The


steelp
Year: 1877

THE nomination of John NJ. Harlan
to be Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court was confirmed, but a motion to
reconsider was entered, and the motion
was left pending at the adjournment of
the Senate. There is good authority
for stating that the number of Senators
opposed to his appointment is small,
and that final favorable action will
shortly be voted by large majority.
Year: 1877

or refused to profit by such crimes, or
had even reported them honestly. He
did not mean to allege for moment
that the members of the Democratic
party were not men of kind heart, of
generous nature and of integrity.


Finally after considerable discussion
Kellogg and Butler were sworn in.
Year: 1877

LARGE quantities Of rice straw are
made into paper, which in turn is made
into ''genuine Havana CIGARS All
cigars are now so colored and favored
artificially that it is impossible to tell
good from poor, if, in fact, there is any
such distinction.
Year: 1877

VICTOR HUGO declined to receive n
visit from General Grant. The General
was too much Of German and not
enough of a gentleman to suit the poet.
The Victor didn't want the spoils in
this case
Year: 1877

SOUTH.


For fifty years, there has not existed the
opportunity for the Southern people to
benefit and develop that section OF the
country, that is about being offered them.
We mean this, in eusry sense, political,
material, financial, &c. A President is
about being inaugurated who sends to the
people Of the South these most important
and assuring words. assure any Of our
Southern friends, that am impressed with
the necessity of a complete change of men
and policy. l shall stand by the ideas
outlined in my letter of last summer


This, more fully interpreted means, not
only the entire right Of sell. government,
but also large and liberal policy in re.
spect to matters Of internal improvement,
of which the South stands in most press.
ing need. Except at intervals, amost per.
nicious policy on this latter question has
held sway in our national councils, for
long years, to the utter ruin of our foreign
commerce and internal development. We
trust this disastrous policy will be speedily
changed. 1t is indeed little less than ma.
tional suicide.


There are hundreds of leading, patriotic
men at the South, capable Of rising far
above the miserable party politics of the
hour; let all such, then, hasten to strike
hands with the conservative men of the
North, on the one question of building up.
andth work is fully half done. Be assured,
the backbone Of the entire country is with
you. Pay no heed to the ignorant gabble
often cent politicians, or the rantings Of
some local journal. with its three hundred
circulation. GO In, statesmen. both North
and South, enact the laws needful to make
your country what the Almighty intended