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Year: 1879

little boy saying his prayers when his lit
tie brother teased him The boy struggled between
his sense of duty and his inclination, for time,
but finally compromised by saying Please Lord,
excuse me while | punch my brother Johnnie's
head Johnnies head having been duly punched,
the PRAYER was finished
Year: 1879

ACS EMVACuCy AA CeoC Va - C0AHAS Ac-


The erroneous impression seems to lie
prevalent to some extent that the City Fire
Department is deficient and that in case
Of fire the engine would not be in work
ing order. A visit to the engine house will
convince anyone OF its efficiency. Every
thing is in splendid shape; the engine IS
thoroughly clean and in perfect repair.
The city council have lately furnished the
Company with new lanterns, hooks, axes,
rope, ladders, ETC., and the only thing
wanting now is an alarm bell, which can
he procured for about $3.50.


The company numbers about forty men,
and with Mr.. E. Sloan as foreman, is a
credit to any city Mr.. Sloan has had
long experience with fire engines and his
untiring efforts have caused largely the
improvements made upon this engine in
,st L Q ltl. . A wa1eblman is kept at tie
mouse uav and night and with an alarm bel,
and five or six wires running to different
portions Of the city. an extensive fire would
he almost impossible. II


The boys will give Il ball soon the pro-
ceeds to be used in getting new regalla in
the spring. The suits will be of the latest
design and as good as any in the country.


The engine will be tested as soon as the
weather moderatcs and Its merits can then
be closely scrutinized by the critical pub
Year: 1879

1othe Editor Of The Tribune.


JAMESTOWN, Feb. 12.--Ever since the
new management of the paper took hold
of your paper, have not agreed with the
views of your paper. When Lounsberry
ran the paper, we used to get a different
sort Of paper, but since he did the wrong
thing and sold out the paper we have had
a different sort of a paper don't like
your politics and don't like your style.
You live only on one side Of The fence in
your paper instead of on top of it. Besides
that you are sensational about what is GO
ing on Instead of telling what ought to go
on SO as to make people go on towards the
great center of the northwest. There is a
great many men as intelligent as one who
wants to see a paper tai e the part Of a pa
per, while you don't do anything but Dem
ocratic politics and go for big items just
because you get a chance to write big
items. .fs @


What we want is items telling about
the country so as to draw men here with
money to spend and when you don't do
that but only print what the people is act.
vlally doing you don't do me and the other
men who has invested in Jimtown jus.
tite z


Now, you don't run your paper right
and-you had better keep close to the line
or you will lose your Jimtown circulation
and we will use our influence against you


don't want this published and you will
find enclosed $3.50 for one years subscrip.
tion, and if you will only show up this
part Of the country and give the Alert and
Foster a good setting up, you will make
some money. JAMES BAIRD.
Year: 1879

SENATOR Logan is member of the
Methodist church, though you would
not have thought it. He used to be
Catholic, as his father, an Irish doc
tor and horse trader, with too thick a
brogue to be cut with a knife, was
before him. When the senator was
known at Murphysboro, down in Jack
son county, Illinois, as Jack" he
passed for a regular daisy" on race
course, and could play the fiddle better
than any other violinist in the West.
The present Mrs. Logan, who is really
the senatorial part of John, was Mary
Cunningham, an Irish girl, as beauti-
fql as Hebe and as smart as chain
lightning.
Year: 1879

WHAT does it profit man to have a
good business and to be making money if
he does not have health to enjoy it. Many
a mans life is made burden to him by
fever and ague when, if he would only
use Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic he would find
speedy relief 1t restores the appetite,
stimulates the digestion and cOrrects and
gives tone to the stomach, and is a whole
some, invigorating and unfaihng remedy
in bilious and malarial fevers and fever
and ague.
Year: 1879

CINCINNATI, March 3.-The rain
which prevailed here all day yester-
day took form in snow little further
north and east. Advices from many
points in the interior States are to the
effect that the snow is over foot
in depth, and drifts formed that will
likely cause detention to travellers.
Year: 1879

"a VERMONT man has advertised a
card in the paper in his town which
reads "Some people have the vulgar
habit of calling me Bill; that is not
my name, or any part of it. My name
is William Palmer. | forgive all past
oAenses. but if any person ever calls me
Bill after the publication of this letter
| shall take it as a downright insult,
and just as much of an insultas though
he had called me by any other hateful
name that is not my own.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON special to the Gin
cinnati Gazette: The President is
reported to have said that in case an
extra session is made necessary by the
the failure of appropriation bills he
will not call it until the latest possible
moment. There are some Democrats
who predict tonight that four appro-
priation bill will fail-the army bill be.
cause Of the senate amendment strik.
ing out the words which repeal the ex.
isting provisions of the law that allow
the presence of troops near the polls
on election day; the deficiency bill
on account Of the amendment making
an appropriation Of $250,000 for the
pay of marshals and supervisors, the
legislative, executive and judicial bill,
on account Of the supervisors repeal
law, and the postOffico bill by reason
Of the Brazilian subsidy.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON PosT: There is yell
dow fever in .Hayti. The distance be-
tween that island and Louisiana is but
short. Contagion is liable to be
Brought over at any moment. From
this congress must see the necessity of
epacting national quarantine laws,
The South is in danger of repetition


of the horrors of last year. Measures
Should be taken for protection.
Year: 1879

IT is considered singular that the
head of the present French cabinet
Should be an Englishman; that five of
its members should be Protestant !;
that the president of the chamber
should be a Jew, and the president of
the republic the son of a small farmer.
Year: 1879

Paris Cor. Troy Timcs.l


A noted revolution has Just been
accomplished-but be not alarmed,
good readers, | am not about to dis
cuss French politics or the aspects of
tic situation. The revolution whereof
| speak is whollya pacific one, yet il
will be marked in its effects, inasmuch
as its tendency is to make our pretty
American girls look all the prettier
allude to the sudden and marked
change that has passed over the heads
Of the female society leaders of Paris
in the matter of arranging their hair.
The old Puritan preacher who took
for his text, "Topnot come down -
e. Let him that is upon the housetop
not come down would surely have
felt satisfied with the new fashion.
All pufis and bows and braids
and fussifioations on the top of
the female head have vanished
into thin air. The Parisian
bellies now wear their hair simply
parted in front and either waved or
crimped, as best suits the style of the
face, and coiled at the back in a
braided knot placed rather low A
single large flower placed at the side
of the knot and dropping on the neck
is the only ornament that fashion now
sanctions. This new coiffure is not
only simple and natural, but it is won
derfully becoming, the beautiful shape
illness Of the feminine head coming
fully into view for the first time in
many years. The suddenness as well
as the universal way in which this
new style has been adopted is very re-
markable.
Year: 1879

Horses can be educated to the extent
of their understanding. as well as chill
dren can be easily damaged or ruined
by bav management. 1t is believed that
the great liability comes more from the
different management OF men than from
variance of natural disposition in the
animals. Horses with mettle are more
easily educated than those of less or dull
spirits, and are more susceptible of ILL
trainHg, and consequently may be as
good or bad, according to the education
they rereive. Horses with dull spirits
are not by any means proof against bad
management, for in any of them may
often be found the most provoking OBJ
stinacy, vicious habits of different char
acters that render them almost worth
less. Could the coming generation OF
horses in this country be kept from the
days of colthood to the age of five years
in the hands of good, careful managers.
there would he seen vast difference in
the general character of the noble AMI
mails.


If colt is never allowed to get an
advantage it will never know that it
possesses q power that man cannot con-
troll, ana if it be made familiar with
strange objects it will not be skittistl
and nervous. If horse is made accus-
toned from his early days to have OBJ
iects hit on his heels, back and hips. he
will pay no attention to the giving out OF
harness or of wagon running against
him at an unexpected moment: A gun
can be fired from the back of horse. an
umbrella held over his head, buffalo
robe thrown over his neck, a railroad
engine pass close by, his heels bumped
with sticks, and the animal take it all as
the natural condition of things, il only
taught by careful management that. he
will not be injured thereby. There is a
great need OF Improvement in the man
agement of this noble animal, less beat
ing and more educating.
Year: 1879

An epidemic Of typhoid fever, inter-
esting in its etiology lowed musl-
cal festival at Zurich, in May, 1878.
Out of some seven hundred assistants,
i've hundred were attacked by the dis
ease, OF whom one-hundred died. The
symptoms could not be mistaken. and
the autopsies confirmed the diagnosis.
A minute inquiry into the circumstan!-
ces left but little doubt that the cpl
demic was due to the use of bad veal
furnished by IN innkeeper of the place.
1t may be claimed by those who attri..
butte to general causes the power OF
originating specific diseases that the
TYPHOID fever was due to septic poison
present in the veal, depending possibly
on beginning fermentation which was
not destroyed by the cooking to which
it had been submitted. On the other
hand, as the animal from which the
meat taken was sick, it may be asked
whether it might not have been suffer-
ing from typhoid fever, although this
disease has never yet been recognized
among animals. It is remarkable fact
that in 1889 a similar but much less To-
tai epidemic occurred in neighboring
locality. After reunion that took place
under similar circumstances four. hum
dred and forty persons were taken SICK
with all the symptoms of typhoid fever.
1t is probable that in this case also the
meat of a sick calf gave rise to the dis
ease,-JouTaGl de Medicine.
Year: 1879

A large toad was found a few years
ago in an old apple tree at Wonham
Manor; it came to light when the tree
was blown down. The Memories of
the French Academic des Sciences con-
tain description of a living toad found
in the heart of an old elm tree. Near
Nantes, when an old oak was cleft open,
q toad was found in the very heart
wood, although no creyice or other
channel of entrance could be detected;
there were about ninety rings in the
trunk of this oak, leading to the infer
ence according to one theory that the
animal must have been in his prison.
house ninety years. Mr.. Jesse, in refer
ence to frog found in the trunk of
mulberry tree. expressed belief that
the annual rings had been gradually but
surely inclosing the reptile. Toads in
CLAW have been more frequently met
with than in trees; sometimes a whole
family have been thus ferreted out
at once. In 1855 toad was found
at considerable depth at Benthall,
near Brosley, Shropshire. Mr.. Bath
urst, earthenware manufacturer at Ben
thall. ascertained that the creature was
met with about six, feet beneath the SUR
face, in a layer of tough clay custom
arily used for making coarse brown
ware. Above this layer, in successive
strata, were ferruginous coal of poor
quality, clay, a loan of clay and gravel,
and meadow-turt at the top. The toad
was found filling cavity as wax does
g. seal. A minute examination of the
superincumbent strata failed to detect
any fissure through which the animal
could have entered. The light of day
seemed at first to distress it. but this it
soon became accustomed to; the eyes
were brilliant, the skin moist, the
mouth quite closed. .-Naae6er's Jour-
nal.
Year: 1879

A friend writing to ME from Zululand,
who has had great experience IN con-
vaiescent camps, says that he has never
met with so many soldiers prostrated
with extreme nervous debility as he
finds at Martizburg, and that their agi-
tation and unrest battles the ordinary
modes Of treatment. l can account tor
this. The Zulu war has been a war in
which IN extraordinary mental strain
has been superadded to no ordinary
amount of hardship. 10 say that the
battle of Isandlana established ''scare"
would not be going too far. Here was
an enemy who might attack ut any time
in overwhelming numbers, who would
march straight up to the mouths of Il
battery of field pieces, who knew no fear
and would show no mercy. To conduct
a campaign successfully against such an
enemy Us this necessitated vigilance oil
the most incessant kind. A few mo-
men s. delay, if an attack should be
made, would be fatal fatal not
only to the force in a military sense
but also to the lives of the greater
number of those composing it. To SLEEP
in your boots; to have your ammuni'
ton at hand. so that it is impossible fol
it to be mislaid; to have your rifle SC
placed that it is the first thing your
hand touches rs you spring from the
ground; to sleep underneath wagon
upon earth sodden with rain or under.
meath frosty starlight-all this is try:
ing, even to the hardest. The men gel
used to it, but still it tells upon them
Heads which went into Zululand with q
mere sprinkling of gray hair came back
with q goodly growth. How gray he
has CROWN" is u remark heard every
day with regard to men who have been
III. This is the result of the mental
strain, coming rs it does upon the top OF
severe physical cxertion. .-Londo" Let-
ter.
Year: 1879

the countries have been flooded with
pamphlets on the subject. So intense 9
degree of feeling has been aroused
argainst the leading vivisectionists and
their names have been 80 covered with
opprobrium that they have found it ne
cessary to defend themselves earnestly


in public addresses. One of the leaders
in the movement against them is Ernst
Won Weber, the South American ex-
plorer. who wrote book in which he
portrayed experimentation upon living
animals in such forcible colors that a
thrill of horror ran through the reading
public of Germany, and thousands were
straightway ready to take up arms in
behalf of the tormented brute creation.
AS Ernst Won Weber is one of the most
prominent figures in the anti-vivisection
movement, 80 the distinguished physi-
ologist, Prof. Ludwig of the University
of Leipsic, is the head and front of the
fraternity against whom the popular
execration is directed. He and his asso-
ciates disclaim unnecessary cruelty,
argue that vivisection is necessary to
progress in medical science, and en-
deavor to show that the discoveries
made by it have saved enough of fhuman
life and suffering to more than compen-
safe for the pain inflicted upon brutes.
Year: 1879

Puget sound, so justly famous the
world over for its excellent tim Der, is an
arm and many fingered hand of the sea,
reaching straight down southwark from
q little above the head of the Straits of
Fuca about a hundred miles into the
heart of one of the finest forest regions
on the face of the globe. The scenery is
perfectly enchanting, smooth lake-like
water reaches, wooded shores sweeping
onward in beautiful curves around bays
and capes, and jotting promontories in
Vulnerable. Islands, too, with soft, wavy
outlines, passing and overlapping one
another, all richly feathered with tall
spiry evergreens, and doubling their
beauty in reflections on the bright mir
ror waters. A more charming compost
ton of sky, land and water I have
never yet beheld. Sailing from Victoria
we had the Olympian range before US to
our right, rising in bold relief against a
dark blue sky, a jagged zigzag of black
crests and black peaks along the top,
from 5000 to 5000 feet high, glaciers
and ragged edged fields of snow beneath
them, the former inclosed in wide am


phitheaterssa at the head which opens
down through deep, spacious, forest
filled valley to the Straits of Fuca.


Those valleys mark the courses of the
Olympian glaciers at the period Of their
greatest extension, when they poured


their tribute into that portion of the
great Northern ice sheet that over-swept
the south end of Vancouver island and
filled the strait between it and the main


land. All the way up to Olympia, a
hopeful little town situated at the end
of one of the longest waters of the sound,
the scenery is so perfectly life-like in the
clearness and stiffness of the water and
the leafy, f1owery luxuriance of the
sheltered shores, that it is very hard in
deed to realize that we are on an arm Of
the salt sea. One is constantly remind
ed of Lake Tahoe-the same bright
water, the snme picturesque winding of
the shore lines with their dark green
conifers; only here the trees stand closer
together, and the backgrounds are lower
and far more extensive, while on doub-
ling cape after cape and rounding the
uncounted islands that stud the shores,
new combinations break on the view in
endless variety, sufficient to fill and sat-
isfy the lover of wild beauty through a
whole life. Sometimes the clouds came
down, shutting out all the land, and
leaving US with only level water view,
Is if at sea; then, lifting little way,
me islet would be given US standing
alone, with the tops of its trees dipping
out of.sight in gray trailing mist fringes.
The long ranks Of spruce and cedar
bounding the waters edge would appear,
and when at length the breaking cloud
mantle cleared away altogether, the CO.
lossal cone of Tacoma would be seen in
spotless white looking down over the
dark wood from a distance Of fifty or
sixty miles, but So lofty and so massive
and so clearly outlined as to impress it.
self upon US as being just back of strip
of woods only mile or two in breadth.
San francisco Bulletin.
Year: 1879

For an indefinite number of ages, says
New York paper. deaf people have
gone on putting their ear-trumpets in
their ears, and have never thought to
put them in their mouths, as it now ap-
pears they should. Every aurist has
always known that the external ear is
not the only avenue of approach to the
auditory nerve. and any unprofessional
person who thinks that it is can never
have tried thesimple experiment OF put
ting watch between his teeth and stop
ping his ears. Mr.. Richard s. Rhodes,
of Chicago, did this one day about q year
ago, as not less than 100000 people
had done before him, but he is the first
one to whom the sounds heard under
such circumstances suggested the idea
that q fan-like instrument held between
the teeth would greatly help deaf people
to hear. Ever since that time he has
been developing his "audiphone," as he
calls it, and within few days it had its
first public trial in an Indianapolis in.
stitution for the instruction Of deaf
mutes.. The reported results are aston
ishing. A bright little girl about ten
wears old was the first to whom the test
was applied. For number of years
she had been totally deaf and speechless,
but "she had not listened a minute be-
fore her features lighted up with q smile
that told the whole story" Several
other children confirmed the happy re-
suit, and it was regarded as established
that persons in whom the auditory
nerve exists at all can be made to hear,
even though the ordinary ear-trumpet
is of no help to them. And as dumb
ness is only result of deafness, it fol-
lows that the dumb can be taught to
speak, as, indeed, they have been for
several years in an institution in this
city, but only by the most laborious
methods, and not with entire success.
Mr.. Rhodes cites one case in which two
sisters, who had not heard each others
voice for 3 number of years, resumed
conversation within the first hour of
using the audiphone. It still remains.
however, to invent a help to hearing
which will he inconspicuous. There
would seem to be no rational reason whv
people should shrink from using an ear
trumpet any more than an eye-glass, un-
less, perhaps, that deafness is more un-
usual than imperfect sight, and, there
fore. attracts more attention. But the
fact remains that deaf people are very
ayerse to using artificial aids to hearing,
and multitudes will prefer to hear par
TALLY and compel their friends to shout
rather than to use anything which con-
fesses their deafness.
Year: 1879


Listen to the watermill through tho livelong
ow the clinking of its wheel wears the hours


away.
Languidly the autumn wind stirs the green


wood leaves,
From the fields the reapers sing, binding up


the sheaves;
And proverb haunts my mind, as a spell is
cast,
The mill will never grind with the water that
is past.
Autumn winds revive no more leaves that


once are shed,
And the sickle cannot reap corn once gath


cred;
And the ripping stream flows tranquil, deep
and still,
Never gliding back again to the watermill.
Truly speaks the proverb old, with meaning
vast,
The mill will never grind with the water that
is past.
Take the lesson to thysel, loving heart and
, .s true,
Golden years are fleeting by, youth is passing
too;
Learn to make the most Of life; lose no happy
day,
Time will never bring thee back chances
swept away.
Leave no tender word unsaid, love while love
shall last;
The mill will never grind with the water that
is past.
Work while yet the daylight shines, man OF
strength and will,
Never does the streamlet glide useless by the
Wait not till to-morrow's sun shines upon thy
way,
All that thou canst call thine own lies in thy
today.
Power, intellect and health may not always
~ last; o..
The mill cannot grind with the water that is
past.
Oh, the wasted hours OF Lie that have drifted
by!
o., the good We might have done, gone with
out sigh!
Love, that we might once have saved by
single word,
Thoughts conceived, but never penned, per-
ishing unheard.
Take this lesson to thine heart, take and hold
it last
The mill will never grind with the water that


spsst.


Gen. d.. c. Nc cCdllum.
Year: 1879

The date mark is mysteriou s
malady which affects everybody at Bag
dad' In Aslatic Turkey. 1t is dry, eat
ing sore, which comes generally upon
the lace, lasts a year. and then goes
away forever. leaving an indelible mark
ABOUT the size and shape of Il date as
evidence OF the visitation. The cicatrix
is jnst skin deep; the spot appears as
II the surface had been scared away
with caustic or hot iron, and 1t by no
means enhances the beauty of the VIC
tim. The sore generally comes in child.
hood. and then it commonly settles pom
the face. The cheek OF nearly every
man or woman brought up IN Bagdad
shows the unmistakable mark.