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Year: 1874




For us to be able to see objects
clearly and distinctly, 1t is necessary
that the eye should be kept clean.
For this purpose it is furnished with
little gland, from which flows n
watery fluid (teaIs) which is spread
over the eye by the lid, and is after
ward swept off by it, and runs
through a hole i'm the bone to the
under surface of the nose, while the
warm air, passing over 1t while
breathing, evapOrates it. 1T Is re-
markable that no such gland can be
found in the eyes OF fish, us the ele-
ment in which they live answers the
same purpose.


If the eye had not been furnished
with q liquid to wash it, and a lid to
sweep it off, things would appear as
they do when you look through a
dusty glass. Along the edges OF the
eyelids there is a great number of
little tubes or glands, from which
flows an oily substance which spreads
over the surface of the skin and thus
prevents the edges from being sore or
irritated, and it also helps to keep
tears within the lid. There are also
six little muscles attached to the eye
which enable us to move it in every
direction; and when we consider the
different motions they are capable of
giving to tine eye, we cannot but ad-
mire the goodness of Him, who
formed them, and thus saved us the
trouble of turning our heads every
time we wished to view an object.
Year: 1874

To be sure, birds sing as naturally
as they breathe; yet it will be found


by close observation that the song of
your Gagged pet is initiative az well as
natural. The quality of bird-notes
comes from the education they re-
ceive. During the last century, a
naturalist brought up some linnets,
taken from the nest, In company OF
larks of sundry varieties, and found
that every one Of the linnets adopted
completely the song of the master set
over him, SO that now these linnets
-larks by naturalization-formed a
company apart when placed among
birds of their own Species. Even the
nightingale, whose native sound is so
sweet, exhibits, under dOmesticatiOn,
a considerable readiness, to initiate
other singing birds. The song of the
bird is, therefore, determined by its
education, and the same thing must
be true as to nest building. A bird
brought up to cage does not COM
struct the nestpeculiar to its species.
In vain will you supply all the neces-.
sary materials; the bird will en-
plOy them without Skill and Twill
Oftentimes even renounce all purpose
of building anything like a nest
Does not this Well-known fact prove
that, instead of being guided by in
stinct, the bird learns how to con-,
struct his nest, just as a man learns
how to build house? ,tt atm
Year: 1874

DIR. Bells method OF skin grating,
as performed in numerous cases at
the Royal Inflrmary. Edinburgh,
has proved very successful. In pro-
curing portions of skin for this pur-
pose he takes them from some sound
portion of the patients body, prefer
bale from the arm. A piece of skin
Is pinched up by n pair of common
catch-forceps, and cut Of to the re-
quired size with n pair of scissors.
The piece Is divided into smaller
pieces about the size of q grain oil
rice, and Is planted among the gran
ulations of the ulcer by means of q
probe, one small piece being sufficient
for about n square inch Of surface.
Over each of the gratis Is laid a gutta-
percha tissue, half square inch In
size, previously dipped in some anti
septic solution. The ulcer Is then
covered by two layers Of similar
pieces Of guttapercha tissue, placed OH
each other In an imebricated manner
and over these q dressing Of intisep'
tic gauze and q bandage this dress
ing il not removed for two or three
days, when IL is replaced as ut first


To insure success, before grating the
ulcers should be free from fct0r, and
the dressing changed under spray.
Year: 1874




Corrosive sublimate is disastrous to
ants. A little of it sprinkled across
one of their paths I'm dry weather has
a most surprising effect. AS soon as
one of the ants touches the white
powder it commences to run about
wildly, and to attack any other. ant
it comes across. In couple of hours
round balls Of ants will be found all
biting each other; and numerous in
dividuals will be seen bitten COM
plctely i'm two, whilst others have
lost some of their legs or antennp.
News of the commotiOn is carried to
the lOrmicarium, and huge fellows,
measuring three-quartcrs of an inch
in length, that only come out of the
nest during migration or an attack
on the nest of one of the working
columns, are seen stalking down
with a determined air, as. If they
would soon right matters. AS soon,
however, as they have touched the
sublimate all their statelincss leaves
them; they rush about; their legs
are seized by some of the smaller ants
already affected by the poison; and
they themselves begin to bite, and in
short time become the center O
fresh balls Of rabid ants. The subli.
mate can only bc used effectively In
dry weather.
Year: 1874

We all know know, says a writer


in U0W TO EcOnOmize Like q Lady,


that being "unladylike" is the phrase,


but then, what Is being ladylike p


In what does this ladylikeism consist,


which is striven after by so many :!
This is question which does not


bear much talking about like plum
the bloom comes off even as we ham
die it; it is a difficult task to define,
though not, perhaps, to feel. 1t may
he an Old-tashiOned, even an almost
obsolete prejudice, but / am inclined
to think that lady doing any NOR
tai thing that it is convenient and
necessary, and which is also fitting,
that as woman she should do, IL is
truly ladylike; and, further, that
anyone who is ashamed to do this is
not quito worthy to be so considered.
1t is to be feared, however, that this
view of the world is fast dying out, :
for nowadays it seems that to do any
thing that woman should not do
to be masculine, loud, independent
is considered "the thing" but to be
simply useful, to he Independent i'm
the way of doing just what comes to
hand without worrying about what
people think, is alas by many con-
sidcred rs singularly unladylike and
wanting i'm style. Women, such as
these last, are unfortunately, brought
into disrepute by, and cOnfounded
with, those who affect to despise and
think little of the worlds opinion,
setting it ut naught, as it were, byan
affectation of independence, but who
would, nevertheless, be the last to
ma Ike themselves really useful. With
such as these before the eyes, one is
almost inclined to make excuses for
that old-fashiOned phase of vulgarity,
fine ladyisni, which foolish and ri
diculous as it is, is less Objectionable
by many degrees than the boldness of
our present manners.
Year: 1874

1t is IL great art to make a good
kite. 1t should be shaped evenly so
as to balance well. The stick should
be Just strong enough for the size Of
the kite without being too heavy.
The paper should be of proper light
ness and strength. The f0nr cords
that start from the four corners should
be gathered into one and attached at
Just the right point to the holding
cord, so as to insure its proper angle
against the wind. And, above all
(or rather below ally, the tail should
be long enough and heavy enough to
balance the teetery object in. the air
and make 1t sail like thing Of life,
A tail too heavy or too light for its
length, or too short for It's weight,
whichever you please, Is sure to make
trouble in kite-fying: Now, boys,
whenever your kites flop and "don.t
co." you may he sure that sne Il
wrong I'm one or more OF the above
mentioned points. .--i&. MichoSas.
Year: 1874

An apparatus for recOering the va
riatiOns of the pulse Visible Is one of
the novelties of French ingenuity
There Is n camera, in which, by
means of clock-work, sensitized
glass plate is pushed in front of
narrow aperture exposed to the light;
and in this aperture there Is placed
q glass tube, In which column of
mercury may rise and fall as In a
thermometer. Now, by attaching to
the wrist rubber tube, filled with
mercury, in connection with the tube
of tho apparatus, the beating OF the
pulse Is received OH this artificial
artery, and the pulsatiOns arc trans
mitted to the recording apparatus
The column in the tube acting as a
screen, light can penetrate the aper-
ture only where the column Is def
cient; consequently the prepared
plate becomes black under the in
fiuence Of light everywhere except at
such places where the column inter.
cepts it. AS the column rises and
falls with each pulsation of the heart,
these black lines on the prepared
plate, pushed regularly forward, will
be longer or shorter alternately, and
will be successfully photographed as
being lines perpendicular to column
base, the heart thus being made tC
register photographically Its own pull
sations. These Photographic repre-
sentations can be so magnified as tt
be rendered visible across q large
hall, and the apparatus may be mod
ifled so as to register the variations o
respiration and similar physiological
and pathological phenomena.
Year: 1874

sunshine causes the sneezfng, although
it may be done frequently without the
assistance of old Sol. It is quite provok-
ing at such times, you may wen imagine,
when, in few moments, you have near
| ly sneezed the top of your head off, and
given your digestive apparatus all the an
ti-dispeptic exercise it would have re-
quired in a regular way in a weeks time.
| When the roof of your mouth has seem
ingly been split and torn to fragments,
| and your throat feels like a trumpet of
tender nerves, that had been blown
through backwards by some bellows
lunged giant, lacerated and bleeding. I
say it is slightly provoking then to have
| these queer friends, who so warmly sym
pathize with you because you are af-
flicted with that summer "a bad cold that's
going about" and that it is $50 much
worse than a winter cold, " to soothingly
suggest to you that they ALWAYS enjoy
sneezing; it cleans out the head so well. "
One is led to think Immediately of course,
that it would not require more than one
good sneeze to clean out such heads of
all Instructions, brains (?l and all


1t is scarcely necessary to mention the
fact that during the run" of hay fever
pocket handkerchiefs are in great de-
mand-are indeed an absolute necessity,
and a downright luxury A clean hand
kerchief is very enjoyable article of
dress at any time, but with hay fever
subjects the waving and flourishing of
these domestic banners is. a glowing spe-
cialty. This, every hay fever subject
"nose" to be true. "as HHH


If we, who are subjects of hay fever,
should, by unthoughtful persons, De de-
MED the honor of being ranked with
those of undoubted literary talents and
attainments, we can at least shut the
mouths of their denial by falling back on
our reserved rights, :" and claim to pos
sess at least one of the qualifications of
an earl. We may then all some day be
come earls or earlesses' for It's said by
one of his biographers that the only
thing that Earl Russell ever did greatly
was to sneeze. His achievement in this
line is thus described: This remarka-
BILE man seemed to concentrate himself,
as it were, for gigantic effort; would
be bent nearly double by the force of the
explosion, and would then dive down in
to the flaming banner of red silk, from
which, after several minutes observation,
he emerged, with a countenauce as vivid
as the back of scalded lobster"
Year: 1874

~ A press dispatch of the 18th
from Little Rock. reports most per-
feet quiet to prevail throughout that
city. Smith and his Secretary OF
State, Wheeler, cannot be found, and
Governor Garland will tomorrow
offer a reward for their apprehension
that they might be brought before
court, and there held to answer to
charges against them under the laws
of the State. Neither Governor
Garland nor the Legislature, which
is now in session, will appeal to
either the President or Congress, the
State authorities being fully able to
protect the government. 1t is re.
ported Smith is hidden in the Uni
ted States arsenal. Public senti.
ment is almost entirely against
Smith. both among the friends of the
late Governor Baxter and those of
Brooks. After the arrest of John
G.. Price, of the Republican, for print
ing and distributing Smiths procla.
nation, the sheriff searched the city
for Smith and Wheeler, but could
find neither. Price was released on
100000 bail. The State house at
night vas guarded by armed men.
Year: 1874

E-g A Nevada man who was walk
ing with his brother to attend his


wedding. was astonished by a prop
osition to take the bride elect Off his
hands and marry her in his stead.
With true good nature he consented,
and the prospective bridegroom and
groomsman changed places, to the
satisfaction of all parties concerned.
Year: 1874

70 Vice PRESIDENT Wilson takes
q comprehensive view of the situa-
tion, and attributes it to ambition
and the abuse Of power by such men
as Ben Butler who is "too much pol
itician and too little statesman"
Year: 1874

At every hotel, at every restaurant, on every table, you will find Hartz cheese; you will see great shelves of it laid out to dry, or mold, or decay-it don't matter much what it does, the worse it is spoiled the better it is the further you scent the perfume, the more delicate is the flavor. When I assure those persons who have ever smelt Limburg cheese that it is the perfume of thousand flowers com pared with the cheese eaten as a deli cacy in the Hartz, it is not necessary to explain why a generous flask of eau de cologne is a great desideratum on your trip. The real Hartz cheese, known by that name, is made into small round cakes, the size and shape of 8 maccaroni, and is really not so very disa- greeable 1t tastes much like one would imagine clot of sour milk to taste, that had been left in the sun until it had been baked hard and dry and yell low. But the favorite cheese that is served with bread and butter after din- ner resembles great square of badly made soup, kept in damp cellar until 1t is moldy and slimy, and it smells like the distilled essence of thousand glue shops and soap factories com bined. Curiosity prompted me once to taste 1t /; 1t had the effect of @ most ex- cellent dinner. I did not want any thing to eat for some time afterward |; besides, have suffered ever since with a feeling of remorse that ever should have made wry face over a spoonful of castor oil, or any other little delicacy of the allopathic practice.
Year: 1874

When Dr. Walker proclaimed that he had produced from the medicinal herbs of California an Elixir that would regenerate the sinking system and cure every form of disease not organic, the credulous shook their heads. Yet his VINEGAR BrrTERs is now the Standard Restorative of the Western World. Un- der the operation of the new remedy, Dispeptics regain their health i; tho Bilious and Constipated are relieved of every distressing symptom the Con- sumptive and Rheumatic rapidly re- cover; Intermittent and Remittent Fevers are broken ; the hereditary taint of Scrofula is eradicated! Skepticism is routed, and this wonderful prepara- tion is to-day the most popular Tonic, Alterative, and Blood Depurent ever advertised in America. We don't sell Rum under the guise of medicine. We advertise and sell a pure medicine which will stand analysis by any chemist in the country.
Year: 1874

How IT IS DoNE.-How to make a lady stick out her little finger is thus told by an exchange The best way of securing this effect is to put on the finger in question handsome diamond ring. The mere desire to display the diamond to the best advantage is sure to make the lady stick out her little finger in the most charming manner possible. When the effect begins to fail, substitute another ring of greater brilliancy. Success must attend these repeated efforts
Year: 1874

We received very pleasant letter of thanks from our old friend Kendall, since his return home. for bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Linimem which We gave him, and which he says has entirely cured him of the troublesome and dangerous cough he had whom here.-Com
Year: 1874

No one should fail to subscribe for a good metropolitan weekly, and we know of none better than the NEW YORK WEEKLY SUN. It is a large eight-page journal of the $2 size It is sold at the bare cost of manufacture. Read the prospectus and save money by subscribing for THE SUN. Only $l year.-[Com.
Year: 1874

I
would settle the question. fthe court
should decide that the comptroller
should sign the bonds and he refused
to do so, could the court imprison him
for contempt? If that were allowed,
the court would have power to inn
prison all the parties of the depart
ments, and there would be no power in
the state but the judiciary. The COM
promise ought to come lefore the
courts in II proper way; come
i'm at the front and not
the back door. He did not believe in


settling such important cases in an in
direct manner, and was disposed to fa-
vor the adjustment, for, ii the company


had substantial merits, compromise
of liberal character could be effected,
Year: 1874

From the Leavenworth Daily Commercially


We understand that some of the
Young ladies are talking of forming
themselves into q society banded to-
gether and pledged to each other not to
associate with or be seen in the compa-
nv of any gentleman who drinks intoX-
icating liquors; that they will emphat-
ically, and completely, and absolutely,
ignore and cut the acquaintance of all
such. This we consider one of the
most encouraging signs of the times.
When society raises her voice, it will
be heard, rest assured of it. The young
ladies of this city, banded together
with such purpose, wOuldmake drink
ing disrespectful and disgrace very
quickly, We never saw time before,
when such move was practicable. But
now is the golden opportunity. The
country is awake. The time is propi-
tious. BY all means, girls, form your
society, make your rules rigid, make
the penalty of the breach exclusion of
the girl that breaks it from all respect
able society. Do this, and our word for
IL. there will be such a reformation
among young men as was never heard
of before. And o! the suffering you
NAV save yourselves. Look over the
blighted homes, the blasted hopes OF
the young and beautiful; the long, long.
dreary years of suffering so many OF
your sex have drawn out, tied to a
loathsome brute you are compelled 10
call husband. Look at the suffering in
thousand different forms, entailed
on YOU and on those you love, by
union with an Incorporate husband.


If YOU knew the loathsome depth of
deprayity, licentiousness and disease
that the vice of intemperance leads to,
We are sure you would form this reso-
luton. Young ladies, you are in a
great measure responsible for the state
of society that exists in our beloved
country to-day. You allow young men
to escort you to the social party, to the
| lecture, and to the dance, that you
know. as well as you know You are
living, are both incorporate and Inn
pure. We know you do this, we have
seen YOU i'm the giddy ball room with
the arms of young men around your
waists, young men who were not mt to


be spoken TO.


If one of your own sex were as I'M,


pure as these young men, you would


scorn to notice them on the street.


The eyes Of the christian world are on


YOU, young ladies. The eyes OF re,


Bned society are watching you. VIII
YOU resolve now 10 set well your part.
Year: 1874

Let me be your philosopher-listen to me;
Look back to that dim time when chaos


regned;
When there was nothing save the great Cre-


ator,
And all the vast creation unattained;
When there was no sweet earth with all its


beauty,
No Wondrous seas of blue, no skies of blue,
Yet even then our lives We're determined,
And twas decreed that was to love you.
And when the great Creative thought was


finished
And the young world began TO be,
When on new shores new waves beat MUIR


muring,
And the stars sang together joyously;
When men were few and all the valleys


lonely
Save for some shepherd piping hollow reed,
Even then our loves far off were waiting


for us,
And that should love you, love, was decreed.
Let me be your philosopher. Listen, love,
Let me name your fate, as have named


mine,
Let me read the decree that was writ for you
Before the sun had yet begun to shine.
Each year that gave new glory to earth


beauty,
But strengthened and sanctified Gods great


decree.
Believe your fate as l believe mine, deal est,
was to love you--you to love me!
Year: 1874

THE personal illusions of the San
Antonio Herald and the Austin Ga
ette to the gentleman they style as
sub rosa editor of TIE DALLAS HER
AID fall harmless, at our feet. In the
communities where they are published
we have been known to the old cit
izens since our youth. We have nc
vindication to make anywhere on the
soil of Texas for our course in public
affairs. If our acts do not vindicate
our title to public respect and conf
dence, after thirty odd years devotion
to the glory of Texas, the Gazette and
Herald are perfectly welcome to fire
away as long, as loud, and as bitter a:
they please. We shall move along a:
heretofore in the discharge of our du.
ties of good citizenship, severely disre
garding their unnrovoked malice.
Year: 1874

THE democratic party, from the
foundation of the government, has
been the unwavering advocate of equal
rights and of foreign emigration to the
United States. The democracy of Texas
always gave the highest inducement to
foreign emigration. Under the dis
guises of the war the old Puritanical
federal party misled many foreign
born citizens for a time, OH the sole
question of the "union" and freedom
for the negro. That is all passed. The
democrats acknowledge the negro as a
freeman and will not fight against the
inevitable results of power. But their
original, elementary principles remain
unchanged. They hold as firmly as
ever to cheap, honest and econom-
ical administration of the government,
to equal and exact justice to all men,
and to liberal laws for encouraging
foreign emigration to Texas.


Democracy, in its American sense
means a government by the people fol
the people, and the democracy of Texas
lives, moves and has its being i'm thai
essential clement of government. Rad
icalism is the antipode of democracy.
Year: 1874

THE legislature has passed, and, on
the llth of March, Governor Coke ap-
nroyed, a law which provides for a reg
istratios.'of voters in all Incorporated
.igns and cities of the state, where
not otherwise provided for. In Dallas,
in one sense, it was otherwise provided
for. but as our former county court dis
regarded the law and adopted a course
to make confusion and doubt, it is best
for the city council at once, under this
new law, TO order a new registration,
separate and district in each ward, SO
that, when election day comes, there
can be no mistake nor any ill-feeling.


We would have published the new
law this morning but from the fact that
we loaned our certified copy of it to
Alderman Sterrett to be used by the
city council last night.


To, Tuesdays HERALD we will give
the result of the city councils action on
the subject,
Year: 1874

The Enquirer says there was a
heavy frost and thin coating of ice at
Mckinney on Friday morning. Upto
this time, we are pleased to say there
has been no frost in this county that
has done any damage. The fruit trees
are now out in full bloom, and we
have better prospect than ever be-
fore for good crop.