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Year: 1879

The Journal Of the Medical Acndemv of
Turin Gays: "The sure and simple method
OF keeping eggs sound by smearing
the shells with llnseed oil has long been
practiced. The oil forms sort OF finn
over the she'll, thereby prventing the two
immediate causes of decomposition
evaporation from and penetration of air
into the egg. A recent experiment
in point deserves notice. A
dozen new-laid eggs were rubbed over
with linseed oil applied with the tip of
the finger; another dozen were coated IN
like manner with poppy oil; two more
eggs were left in their natural state. The
whole twenty. six were then laid close to-
gether, in three lows, on dry sand upon a
shelf, where they were left undisturbed.
At the end Of three months they were
weighed, and again at the end of six
months when they were opened. The
two eggs left in their natural state at the
end of three months had lost II per cent
OF their wei ight, and at the end of six
months Is per cent, and were found to be
half empty and the contents rotten. the
eggs coated with poppy oil in three
ments lost 2 per cent, and in six months
4 Ia per cent, of their weight. The eggs
were still full, and devoid of unpleasant
smell. The eggs rubbed over with lin
seed oil in three months lost per cent,
and in Elk months 8 per cent. of their
weight, and when opened were found to
be full, with the smell of fresh eggs"
Year: 1879

From tho Lordon World.


Who dies2 Death is after all!


The sweet sympathy of friends ia to
the bowed and broken spirit as heal
ing to wounds; the hopes and consultations
OF religion inspire fortitude; yet death
hath its own darkness!


The tear, the pail, the knell, the bier,


And all We know or dream or fear


OF agony are thine.


Who dies2 Not alone the person who
has departed. II death means change,
than life is so much changed to the
mourners who are left behind that they
may he said to have died, in part; for
that which constituted great part
sometimes the greatest part-of this life
has been taken away. No more is life to
US the same. 1t is completely changed
Both in our joy and in our sorrow it is
unlike what it was before. The day has
lost half its brightness, when we feel
that the eyes which have looked with our
own so many years will not open to ite
beauty; and when, in great grief, we
feel that the heart which has shared in
our previous sorrows beats no more, we
start bewildered, as if waking from a
dream, and feel that we are strangers and
pilgrims on the earth. Our home seems
no longer to us the home it was before.
Not alone they who die; those who are
left behind have in part tasted death al
Year: 1879

A strange procession once passed down
the river, in front of our house, when l
lived in Bangkok, Siam. There were eight
large boats, with about thirty boatmen
dressed in red uniform. SIX Of these
boats had beautiful curtains of crimson
and-gold cloth. They had'a brass band,
and the music was very mournful; for it
wa funeral procession.


Whose funeral do you think it was?
That of some great personsge? No; this
procession was only doing honor to the
dead body Of light, colored elephant.
The third and fourth boats were withor:
the gay curtains, but had the five storied
umbrellas that denote great rank; and
the body was fastened between these two
boats and foated IN the water. There
was canopy of white cleth ever it, to
keep off the sun and rain. More than
two hundred men were taking it to its
last restlne.place.


| Now, why do you suppose there was
all his parade and ceremony2 Twill tell
| you the reason. The Siamese believe
that, at death, their spirits pass into the
body OF some man or animal o, more or
l'ss importance, according as they have
been good or bad while living, and that
they may thus bc born thousand times.
If they find au elephant that is very light
colored, they think that some very great
person is living III it. The nearer white it
8, the more it is priced and honored.
ne of the highest titles Of the King is.


The Lord OF the White-elcphant." The
Siamese flag is white elephant on red
ground.


Not long ago they had an elephant a.
the palace that they called white. Its
stable was handsomcr than the houses of
many Of the noblemen of that day. The
! rope with which this elephant was tied
was covered with crimson silk. 1t had
several broad bands Of gold on each OF its
tusks, and was fed with bananas, suyac-
cane and other dainties, from a silver
tray, which was carried to it by men
creeping on their knees. The truth is, it
was so petted that it sickened and died,
though it was cared tor by the wisest of
the royal physicians. After its death,
His Majesty sent some bristles from its
tail to Queen Victoria, as a very valuable
present.


I Last fall another pet-elephant died.
One hundred Buddhist priests took part
in the fureral services. A procession of
thirty boats escorted the body down
the river to Paklat, where it was buried
with great pomp and aimest royal
ceremony. Many Siamese nobleman
has been buried with less ceremony than
was this favorite elephant Of the King
When our Christian missionaries can
teach these people that at death the spirit
will return to God, who gave it, and not
enter into any other body, there will be
an end to many of their foolish customs
l-Children's Work.
Year: 1879

other of where they belonged, that it
was doubtful if they would ever learn
to perform their functions in such re-
mote and unaccustomed localities, They
then set my left arm in two places,
pulled my right hip into its socket
again, and re-elevated my nose. I was
an object of great interest, and even ad-
miration; and many sincere and warm
hearted persons had themselves intro
duced to me, and said they were proud
to know the only man who had been
hurt in French duel for forty years.


I was placed in an ambulance at the
very head of the procession, and thus
with crafty ing eclat I was marched into
Paris, >the most conspicuous figure in
that great spectacle, and deposited at
the hospital. p. z.ss..,,5-.. ~;


The Cross of the Legion of Honor has
been conferred upon me. However, few
escape that distinction.


Such is the true version of the most
memorable private conflict of the age.
My recovery is still doubtful, but there
are hopes. am able to dictate, hut
there is no knowing when shall be able
to write. AZ


/ have no complaints to make against
any one. I acted for myself, and I can
stand the consequences. Without boast
ing, | think, may say am not afraid
to stand before modern French duelist,
but will never consent to stand behind
one again.
Year: 1879

Just after 1 left Honeoye Falls, a tall
man sat down in the seat. in front of
me. I had noticed him standing
wearily about on the platform, and l
pitied him. Ny heart was full of SYM
pathy for him. / am always sorry for
tall man. Sometimes, when l get be-
fore an audience, and have to stand on
my tiptoes to look over the footlights,
I wish I was trife taller than / am.
But this longing is only momentary. 1t
passes away as soon as see an unusu-
ally tall mar. You see, very tall
man is always pursued, haunted by one
unvarying joke. Every short or ordi-
nary-sized nan that approaches him
throws back his head, affects to gaze up
into the heavens with very painful ef-
fort, and asks, "Isn't it pretty cold up
where you arew Just watch the next
short man you see meet a tall one and
see if this conundrum doesn't follow the
first greeting. Just watch and see if
you do not ask it yourself. And this
must be dreadfuIly wearing on the
tall man. Ihave observed that as rule
big men, tall men, are good-natured. 1t
is we little fellows who have waspish
tempers. So the tall man never resents
this venerable joke by sitting down on
the man who gets it of. He smiles
drearily, and with weary effort to ap-
pear interested, and tries to look as
though he had never heard it before. 1t
must be perfect torture for the tall
man to hear this question fifty times a
day for thirty or forty years. Some
times, when hear a dozen men ask a
tall man of my acquaintance that ques-
ton, in direct succession, and see him
endure it so patiently, wish / was the
Colossus of Rhodes and little man
four feet eleven and half would come
up to me seme day when + felt right
good, and stare up at me with grin
longer than his body, and ask me eff il
wasn't pretty cold up there" and
would hold him up by the neck, and
would swing my brazen leg until it go


the motion and impetus of walkin.
beam, and then / would kick the littl'
fellow SO high that he could read tn,
names of the streets on the street lamp
in Uranus, and 1 would sarcasticall,
shout after him, No, it's red hot!'
Have tall men no rights that we, VIII,
live eight or ten inches nearer the earth
are bound to respect3 q 81
Year: 1879

Iseat of War Correspondence London News.l


One of the tricks practiced hereabouts
is to bury all the grain of a vii
lage where there is danger apprehended
from the approach of an enemy, and
then to construct tomb on the surface,
so as to give it the appearance of a. holy
place, and Mohammedans have such
reverence for these ziarats or shrines
that they would scarcely touch them
even if they knew that there were stores
concealed beneath. Money and jewels
are also concealed in times of danger,
and often the proprietors are killed, or
leave the spot and never return, so that
the treasure is lost forever. 1t is known
that immense wealth was thus concealed
in Delhi during the mutiny, and but a
small portion of it has yet been found,
but it would not pay to dig all over the
ground in search of such lost valuables.
The usual plan of storing grain here is
in large jars, buried underground in
the houses. In the bazaar in the fort
here, left vacant since we came to it,
are many of these jars. / tried the other
day to feel the bottom of one of them
with a stick, and it must have been
about Eve feet deep at least, suggesting
strong resemblance to the buried jars
found by DIR. Schliemann at Hissarlik.
Year: 1879

IT is said that Franklin's appearance
at Versailles in a plain suit of drab
cloth was, like SO many other notable
circumstances, accidental, his court suit
not arriving in time, and the king send
ing to tell him to come as he was. Be
this as it may, there seems to be evil
dence to show that he subsequently ap-
peared in black velvet embroidered
coat, and small sword, and the por.
traits taken of him in France point to
his dressing handsomely.
Year: 1879

Chief Engineer Doanc, of the North
ern Pacific Railroad, gives it rs his
opinion that the mot eXpedient and
practical route which can be adopted
by that company for reaching the
Sound is II line down the valley of the
Columbia river. The gist of his argu-
ment is set forth in the homely adage,
"rhe bale of n pot is no longer when
lying down than WI en standing up
The great cost OF constructing and
maintaining II railway over a lofty
mountainous reelei', +aYs the Olym-
pia EFprcSS, the slow rate of speed
that must be adopted, and the liability
of snow blockades are among the ar
guncntS against the mountain pass
route. On the other hand the Column
bia river route involves no other diff
cuIties than such as are incident to Il
comparatively level country. 1t is Il
sort of axiom among leading civil en-
gineers that the utilization of river
valleys should be the rule, and that
OF mountain gorges the exception.
Year: 1879

Preparations for the reception Of
General Grant are being carried on
vigorously in san Francisco. 1t is in
tended To make the demonstration the
most magnificent ever witnessed i'm
the city.
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star.


AUGUSTA, Dec 6.-Sheritf Libby, of this
county, to-day served the order of the Su.
preme Court upon Secretary of State Gore,
commanding him to appear before said
court on Tuesday next to show cause why
he should not give access to the Senatorial
andep Rresentative returns. 1t is under
stood Mr.. Gore will take the ground that
he is simply q servant of the Executive
Council, and if the master is not liable the
servant is not m
Year: 1879

Judge Swing to-day refused to approve
of the bill of Commissioner Probasco for ex-
penses and fees in the case of Frank Broad
we'll against Thomas Ambrose. His reason
for so doing was that it was rule OF Court
not to approve of bills which the District
Attorney had first refused to approve.
Year: 1879

AN "Ex-UN1oN SOLDIER In making applica-
tion for appointment In the Treasury DEPART
ment says If he does not get the place he will
know for certain THAT the rebels and the
traitors to the country have indeed captured
the U. .. government and now control the
country"
Year: 1879

DIscoNTENT--a settled discon-
tent--st what our people have re-
garded as an unjust railway dis
elimination explains the large
majority which Los Angeles city
aud county have given against the
old Constitution and in favor OF
the new. Whatever shall prove to
be the result of the fateful election,
from which we have just emerged,
We trust that the railway and all
corporations will see the wisdom OF
adopting a mild, progressive and
beneficeut policy. There is both
money, power aud popularity in
such q new and significant depart
ure. The railway companies should
approve themselves the High
Priests of development in sparsely y
settled country. They should be
content to lose money for the pres
ent on the principle that bread
cast upon the waters will shortly
return to them multiplied many
fold.
Year: 1879

AT this writing ii looks 10 US as
II Los Angeles county had gives a
majority for the new Constitution
ranging from eighteen hundred to
two thousand. This result is uuex-
pected to US, although We were
fully acquainted with the deep
seated discomfort Of our PEOPLE.
They sought a change, and they
were willing to accept even a disss


trous one, euch as we have thought
ell along, and think now, the new
Constitution would have beer.
However, should it prove to have
won, we are ready to waive our
personal preferences and opinions
and hope for the best results. BY
high noon to-day every one ought
to know how the State has gone.
Year: 1879

The New Orleans Times has fred shot
'at dogs. And delegate Carey proposes
|levying tax of 81 on every dog in Louisi-
ana, not including, however, the dogs that
stand on their feet. The Times says: "If
dogs are anywhere near as numerous in the
country as they are in the city, a very re-
|spectable revenue could be derived from a


lax of 81 on each dog. The tax might


bear rather hard on some heads of families


who own dozen or two worthless ours. but
they could readily avoid the tax by getting
clear of the dogs. Here in the city, dog


tax would prove blessing. There ale SO


many of these animals running about the
streets that they have become an intolerable


nuisance. Every once in while some one
~ bitten and dies in the agonies Of hydro
pnobia- They annoy people in the streets
u'fing the day, and annoy them at night
Oy their hideous bowling. They ought to
DE taxed, and that too, out of existence. if
possible" And We say amen to the phil
npfie against dogs. They are en- unmix-
ed nuisance.
Year: 1879

appointment or I'll turn against your patr.


and tumble it all to pieces" The Gov
ernor has a dash of old Spartan firm


ness in him, and he is given to stubborn
ness when he is in the right. If man


says or intimates thing like that to him,


he would not get scared to death, but


simply go ahead and appoint another fell


low whose party fealty needed no bolster


ing up.


But lot us suppose that the Independent


does not properly represent Col. Harris,


and that if he had secured the coveted


Judgeship he would have abandoned the


party all the same, because his convictions


led him out. Under that supposition, surely
no one can be fouud to censure the Gov
ernor for saving the party from such
detection in its household. Whichever
horn of the dilemma the friends of Col.
Harris or the enemies of Gov. Stone may
take, the conclusion is palpable.


Let us contrast the course of Col Harris,
hLiu oilO ehuoO Vi ~ WllCl buO LuuOpCHuCub
alleges, with that of General Featherston
and General Lowry. Both these latter gen.
tlemen threw themselves into the deadly
breach of the canvass of 1876. General
Featherston was the Bleucher who led the
Legislative charge upon the Radical strong
hold that routed Ames and his entire crew.
General Lowry was the Chevalier Bayard
who took the field and stoutly contested
every point, and met and vanquished the
enemy on hundred battle grounds in the |
State. Both these worthy gentlemen were
candidates for Governor, and either of them
abundantly deserved to be Governor. The
party on all occasions acknowledged their
services, the value of which as compared
with those rendered by Col. Harris, stand
as a mountain by the side of an ant hill
But they were both defeated. Did they or
either of them fall out with the party and
undertake to destroy it because it had with
in its ranks son more favored? Both
took the field in behalf of their
successful competitor, and both have stood
irmly by the party eyer since. They de-
erue no especial credit for this: they have
,nly given the State another evidence of
PERSONAL worth and fidelity to principle.
Assuming that the Indeper dent has cor>
ectly bestrayed the sentiments of Colonel 1
Harris, we think there is very good chance
or the party to survive the loss of him.
Year: 1879

We subjoin letter from our old frien
Col. Martin, as follows:


/ Houston, Miss, July 4th, 1870


To the Editor of the Comet:


| DEAR SIR-In q late number of TIL
COMET is seen an editorial article, (statet
as by authority in words like the following
speaking of the declaration and purpose
of Ex-President DAVIS in connection will
the United States Senate, you quote hi
position and wishes substantially thus:


"Mr. Davis had positively declined tc
permit his name to 60 before the Legisla
ture, and that he was outspoken in favor OF
another man who is a candidate"


Now, [ suggest that, inasmuch as youi
article above referred to touches matters OF
great public interest to the people of Mis-
| sissippi, and is susceptible of different con-
| struction by those who have read or may
| read, it might be we'll for you, through the
| columns of The COMET to explain fully
!! tho truthful meaning of that article If
Mr.. Davis is ''outspoken" as to his own de-
termination not to permit his name to go
before the Legislature for the United States
Senate, n knowledge of that TACT by our
whole people could effect no wrong to him,
and might result in much good to the DEM
ocratic party of this State and the country
for that knowledge to be made general be-
fore our approaching canvass shall be
opened.


That the election of Senator will to
some extent, enter into the coming canvass
for members of the Legislature is certainly
true; and being true, as it is also proper,
the people ought to be informed as to the
persons who are and will be candidates for
the Senate before they are called on to vote
for members of the Legislature.


That many thousands of our people be-
lieve Jefferson Davis worthy and deserving
again to occupy the United States Senate |
is well understood; but if there are existing |
satisfactory to himself why he will |
not be a candidate for the position, that is
a fact of great public interest and ought
to be made known to the people,


Yours most respectfully,


7. N. MARTIN.
P. S.-While I am one of the early and
continuous friends of JEFF. Davis-having
cast the vote of my county for him in the
Democratic State Convention when he was
first nominated for Congress in 1851 do
not now favor his election to the United
States Senate. On the contrary, am 'out-
spoken in favor of another man who is a
and that 'other man. is Col.
e. Barksdale, whose fitness for file leader
If Mississippi Democracy is equal to any
nan in the South. 1 judging that matter
ior myself Truly yours,


L. N. MARTIN.
Year: 1879

Texas Summer Song.
Did you ever hear Of a drought


A regular Texas stew
No then I'll invoke my painting muse
And issue a verse or two
Thermometer ninety at nine.


One hundred degrees Al four.
And ninety again Al nine ?. NJ, q
For a full month or more.
50 hot that you fall asleep


over the news b. mail
That a COW can't low or a chicken crow
Ora watchdog wag his tail
50 hot that men don't speak
In a heaIthy. naturAI tone,
But greed a. they meet In fis dusty street
with a scarcelF andible gros1.
A staggering rooster reels
After n uInstruck fiy.
And q hog just vfnks at an ear Of corn
Which chances 10 lie near by.
Not n drop Of dew BY night.
Not drop Of rain by day:
The wells and efsterns going dry
And the creeks have ran away
Year: 1879

It was a selEmade doctor in Michigan who
wrote to John Bright and asked him how bis
disease got along, and ne is justly indignant that
his letter was never answered.-DefrOif Free
Press.
Year: 1879

Nashville American, Zlst,l


Ex-Governor James d. Porter
and family left here yesterday. for
their home in Paris. Adjutant Cen
eral Charles d. Porter will probably
leave for home to-day.


There was a little economical cpl
sOde in the House, yesterday. Mr..
Buchanan argued that the House bill
requiring every member to purchase
his own stationery, ought to be passed.
While cutting down the salaries of
Others they ought to take something
out of their own pockets. 1t had al
ready been said that the present gen
ralassemblyw was a poppycock legisla-
ture, and they must show that they
were willing TO do for themselves what
they had proposed to do for others.


Mr.. Wiltze said that they had come
to the legislature to bear whatever of
Odium might attach to their offices.
just as some men had to bear the odi
um of passing into another institution
in this locality. Laughter. Wheth-
er the legislature was called poppy
cock or what else laughter, it
would be a penny wise and found fool
ish act on the part of the house to pass
such bill. If every man had to go
down in town after stationery there
would bo ten times more time lost to
the State than the stationery would
cost.


The bill didn't pass, and the State
will continue to furnish stationery for
the use of the solons, as heretofore.
Year: 1879

The National Militia Convention
which closed its two days session in
New York on Friday was significant.
In the first place there were repre-
sentatives present from fifteen States,
five of them Southern States. Louisi-
ana was represented by General Beau
, regard, Virginia by Congressman Ord
way, who is also general; North and
South Carolina by their adjutant gen
erals, and Missouri by three promi-
nent officers in her militia. These
men took part in the discussion OF
plans to increase the efficiency of the
militia and make it national, and dis
played a knowledge and interest in
the subject that were not surpassed by
any other delegates. There were over
$4,000 men represented in the conven-
ton, and the result of the delibera-
tions was the framing of bill which
the men most interested in making
the national militia efficient think will
result in the desired end if passed by
congress.
Year: 1879

"WRITE me down an ass" That was
the injunction of the ancient Dogberry
His request may well be echoed by any
man of the present day, who, when suf-
fering from the intolerable complaint,
fever an ague, fails so seek relief in Reeds
Gilt Edge Tonic. II never fails in mala-
rial or bilious disorders and it is pleasant,
safe and efficient. It is gentle and pleas
ing invigorant for delicate females and all
who have been weakened by sickness.
Year: 1879

NEW LONDON, January pa wo-
man makes sworn statement that
Charles H. Cobb told her last spring
under a pledge Of secrecy that he was
in the habit of taking solution Of
arsenic incidentally Application is
pending for new trial for Mrs. Cobb,
convicted of poisoning her husband
Year: 1879

SOMEBODY asked the chief of the
Chinese legation at Washington what
would become Of his oountrymen who
wished to live and work away from
China, if the United States should
close its doors against them. They
will go to Ireland" said the oficisI
Celestial; that is the only country
the Irish do not rule.