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Year: 1874

AS THE heated term is rapidly approach.
ing, we give the following specific for
sun-stroke, which may save from illness
or death many whose occupation compels
them to be in the field or on the street:


"About year since l saw in news
paper an account of case of sun.stroke,
written by the party himself. After suf,
fering long time from the attack, and
having to a considerable degree recov-
cred, he experienced suffering even from
the rays of the moon. This led him to
reflection that 1t was not altogether the
heat Of the sun that produced prostration.
After much research, he discovered that
the injury came from the chemical ray,
and not from the, heat ray. He was
guided to this by observing the fact that
photograph could not be taken through
a hollow glass. Accordingly, he lined
his hat with two linings-one OF orange
yellow to arrest the chemical ray, and one
of green TO arrest the heat ray. Thus
prepared he went where the rays Of the
sun were most intense with perfect i'm
punity. 1t is we'll known that the negro
is seldom sun-struck. The color of his
skin over the skull being of the orange
yellow may assist in accounting for the
fact. practiced upon this suggestion
all last summer, lined my hat with green
and orange yellow paper, and had conf
dence enough in the truth of the theory
TO neglect my umbrella, which l haC
never done before. / mentioned ii L
many, who tried it also, and in many
cases that came under my observation
they uniformly asserted that the oppress
i've heat of the sun upon the head wa
mncn relieved. ."-Syracuss IN. ~ Jour
| nnL
Year: 1874

A PECULIAR green tissue has been in
troduced this season for wells, 1t is OF a
blush tinge, and being more graceful to
the eve in strong light than black Is
worn in preference to any other color. IL
is even worn in mourning.
Year: 1874

THE aged and venerable maternal representative
OF a family which descended from an ances-
trail progenitor known In his time by the
patronymic appellation Of Hubbard (perhaps
from his having been one Of the early poets
or bards Of the Hub


Wended her way to the small apartment ordinarily
devoted TO the storage OF crockery and such
portions OF the family provisions were
left unused at the prandlal meal,
To Obtain for the qualification Of her favorite but
emaciated specimen OF the genus cdnis a
fragment OF an osseous nature once compos-
ing an integral portion Of the skeleton OF an
animal whether bovine, porcine or other
wise the narrator wac not able to determine
Satisfactorily, from which she had reason to
believe her petted quadruped would obtain
aliment.
when by continuous progressive motion she had
arrived at the end OF her brief journey, and
In fact had reached the objective point and
the goal Of her desire,


Her fond antlcipations were not realized, and her
calculation came to naught; for the family
receptacle before alluded to proved to be
entirely denuded OF everything In the way OF
that sustenance which tends to prOOng life
= when received within and assimilated by the
animal organism;


Consequently this INDECENT and long-sufering
member of the higher class OF verte brates
called mammals, but familiarly known as the
poor dOG," failed on this occasion to obtain
anything to Appcase his unsated and vOra-
cous appetite, which there il reason to be-
lieve had previously been whetted by the
anticipation OF the favorable result OF the
storehouse Of his supplies.-Boston AdUer-
fLRsr
Year: 1874

days, separate the right hand figure and
divide by six.


Eight per cent-multiply by number OF
days and divide by Is.


Nine per cent-multiply by number of
days, separate right hand figure and divide
by 4.


Ten per cent--multiply by number OF
days and divide by SO.


Twelve per cent-multiply by number
Of days, separate the right hand figure and
divide by 3.


To make men good citizens, insist first
upon their having plenty of food, for
hunger is great demoralizer. Secondly,
insist upon their having good clothes, for
rags are the ally of the devil


Have you made one happy heart to day :
Envied privilege. How calmly you can
seek your pillow! How sweetly sleepl
In all this world there is nothing so sweet
as giving comfort to the distressed, as
getting sun-ray into gloomy heart.


There is magic charm in the winning
ways of hildhood-honesty ard truthful
ness in its expressions of affection; there
is something grand and lofty in that
young, untainted soul which should pass
through life uncorrupted by the deception
and sensuality of the world


There is not little generalship and
strategy required in the managing and
marshaling of our pleasures, so that each
shall not mutually encroach to the de-
struction ofall. For pleasures are very
voracious, too apt TO worry one another,
and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone
to swallow up the rest.


1t is better to tread the path of life
cheerfully, skipping lightly over all the
obstacles in the way, rather than sit
down and lament your hard fate. The
cheerful mans life will spin out longer
than that of man who is continually sad
aud Responding. Ifdistress comes upon
us, detection and despair will not afford
relief. The best thing to do when evil
comes upon us is not lamentation, but
rise and make vigorous effort 10 seek a
remedy.
Year: 1874

would make a nice Christmas or New
Years present. 1t is not only an elegant
but very useful piece of furniture. Call
at Mr.. Mack S very pleasant and attractive
rooms and see the different styles and
prices of machines and examine the work


The Singer is the. popular machine now.
Year: 1874

u1e at the meeting, barking and frisking
about, and doing all he could to express
qualification at the hearty welcome he
received. The family of course thought
he preceded the arrival of his owners; but
as they failed to appear, his presence
created no little surprise. Still that did
not disturb Towser. He ate and drank,
basked lazily in the autumn sunshine by
day and crept into warm, cosy corner by
night, evidently enjoying his visit won
derfully we'll. At the expiration of three
or four days he quietly trotted out of the
yard one morning about the hour of the
arrival of the boat for New York, found
his way to the dock, went on board the
steamer, remained there until she reached
the city, and then wended his way home
like any other traveller.


In commenting upon the last-mentioned
dog, DR.. Prime says his master lived in
Hudson street and that in those days the
Nacky steamer started from the foot of
Robinson street. The questions that arise
are, how could he fix upon the time OF the
boats starting, find his way there, and
why did he not stop at some other place
instead of Nyack? How did he know
when to leave Mr.. Tallman's to secure q
passage home? These questions which
occurred to DR.. Prime he does not pre-.
tend to answer except by asking another,
as follows:


"Does there not seem to be q near ap-
proach to the divine gift of reason in all
this? believe it, and that coming ages
will develop stranger facts upon this point
" than we have dreamed Of in our phi
losophy.'"
Year: 1874




"The rowers turned the boat toward
the islet and pushed out vigorously,
meantime holding the umbrella low like
Z tent or awning over my own and Nellie
MOrtOn's heads, for now It was raining
Again Harry called to us to shut down
the umbrella, lest it should catch the
wind and upset our skiff, and the next
moment Downs, who had not said one
word to us girls since the wind sprang
up, snapped out, Yes, certainly, down
with that umbrella'


"What with sense Of danger, and what
with sudden CONSERVATION at being
spoken to in such tone and manner,
had no selfcommand, and in shutting the
umbrella somehow lost my balance, and
the next instant I was sinking in the
binding waters.


must have risen very quickly, for
the boat was there and laid my hand on
its side, but quick as a flash Downs
hand came down on mine, and though he
afterward said that he tried to lay hold of
me to assist me know that he dislodged
my hand. True, should have upset the
boat, and just as true he flung me off to
perish. AS sank again, even through
the gurgling in my ears heard the voice
coming


Again rose and again sank. Then
ceased to struggle and the pain of sutfo-
cation was gone. knew that was dying,
and like electricity all my past life flashed
before me. had no terror of death, but
longed to ask Harry's pardon. Downs
l seemed to have forgotten. The tall rice
was all about me, and knew no more
until deadly sickness and great pain
woke me to consciousness. Was it the
gurgling water or human speech that
rumbled in my ears? | did not know, l
did not care; I only wished not to be dis
turbed-not to suffer.


"Slowly my comprehension returned
and found myself on bed in the log
cabin of the man who kept the boats on
hire, and it was night, for candles were
burning. Some of my companions of
the picnic were there, but l was too i'll
and weary to ask questions.


"When next opened my eyes it was
daylight and my father and mother were
bending over me.


"Suddenly remembered something of
the drowning and l cried out, Where is
Harry? He said he was coming
"They hushed and soothed me and
suppose administered narcotic, for I have
only faint recollection of lying on a
bed in covered conveyance and Of being
annoyed by the jolting.


"The next time awoke my mind was
| clear. recollected all and begged to be
told how Twas saved. My friends evaded
this question, and my suspicious being
aroused I demanded to see Harry Vane.
| Finding they could no longer put me off
they told me that Harry rescued me and
swan with me toward the islet, where
one of the boats had just landed. An
other gentleman wadcd out breast high
to meet him and drew me to the shore,
| supposing that Harry was following.
But Harry did not follow, and in the cx-
| citement about me he was not missed
until too late. Whether he was exhausted
or whether he took cramp no one could
tell. This only I know and never shall
Fforget: Harry Vane was drowned in
saving my life. This also I know: I
shall live and die Charlotte Kemp. As
for Downs, l hated then, I hate still, the
sound of. his name. He left our town
almost Immediately after the occurrence,
and never saw his face again after the
day Of the picnic"
Year: 1874

The most puzzled man in the United
States lives at Sandusky, Ohio. The
other day he waxed at once vindictive
and ingenious, and resolved to protect
the sancity of his hearth and home by
acute stratagem. In pursuance of this
idea he mingled arsenic in a bottle of
wine aud placed it where any burglar
wonId see it, and unless practical believers
in total abstinence, would drink there
from and surely die. Now, the wife Of
this intelligent Sanduskan is an orderly
woman, and when she found that bottle
of wine placed in conspicuous position,
she said that that 'was just like John !;
he never did have any neatnesS, and she
knew it when she married him" Then
she took the bottle and put it in the ce,
lar with eight dozen other bottles, and
arranged them neatly in rows, and con
templated her work with innocent pride
Then she told her husband about it.
Since he exhausted his vocabulary of pro
family he has been spending all his leisure
in looking at these bottles and trying to
recognize the one which he prepared for
the poor burglar, and unless he can solve
the problem soon he expects brain
fever
Year: 1874

The enterprising widows of Chang and
Eng have still another opportunity for
money getting. II they will 20 about the
country for exhibition as the women who
sold the bodies Of their husbands to the
doctors, there is q fortune in store for
them.
Year: 1874

Few business men are aware of the
amount of spurious money in circulation
or the facility with which it is passed.
Much of this counterfeit money is so we'll
executed as to defy detection except by
experts and even these are puzzled to dis
crlmInate In many cases. 4 careful ex-
animation of the geomctrical lathework
through magniiying glass, and com
parlson of this with genuine plates, is the
only safeguard by which ordinary bust
ness men can insure safety.
Year: 1874

The Oil City Derrich says: & child
sadly deiormed was born on the South
Side yesterday morning The nose and
root OF the mouth was wanting, five fng-
erS were on each hand and six toes ou
each foot.
Year: 1874

Any person of sound body and mind of
either sex, not less than fifteen nor more
than sixty-five years OF age, and not enga-
ged in any occupation, exceedingly danger
Gus to life, may become a member of this
Company, by paying an admission fee, as
follows.
Year: 1874

If you will only keep your teeth clean
they won't decay. The wonderful den
tifrices which are sold at fabulous prices
are greatly inferior to simple mixture
OF soap and prepared chalk, with Il littls
something Ike orris root; but tie essen
tial articles are soap and chalk. The
druggist will prepare you enough Tor
quarter Of a dollar to last long time.
When you go to bed, with broad, soft
tooth brush, go through the mouth
thoroughly. II disposed to bad mouth.
you may repeat the dose in the morning.
But the principal article for keeping the
teeth clean is a toothpick-a soft goose
quill, which you must use after eating,
no matter though it is piece of apple,
and If convenient, after the pick use a
mouthful Of water to rinse from between
the teeth what the toohpck may have
left.-Dio Lepis in To- Doy
Year: 1874

VNHE PRESIDENT of one Of our Eastern


colleges intending kurope the s. Of June and 70
remain will charge Of limited number young
persons his attention TO their education AMI culture by study
travel For particulars and teras address W. LORE Room 81
No. % Broats New York City
Year: 1874

During the great storm of which we
spoke last week two boys were engaged
in heading cattle on the prairie near
Freeborn, having faithful dog with
them for company and assistance. The
wind came on SO tearfully severe that
the boys were unable to see in what
direction they should 60, and became
exceedingly alarmed. In almost des-
pair one of them seized hold of the
dog, while the second boy clung to the
coat-tail of the first. In this manner
they were led by the faithful animal
safely home.-"Freeborn County Stan.
dard,
Year: 1874

A man by the name Of Olson picked
potato bugs off his vines and used a
wash dish to put them in. After fin.
ishing his work he washed his hands
iu the same dish. On one of his fin
gers there was slight obrasion Of the
skin, the poison captured the spot and
went to work. The fesh.. ..sloughed of
from that place, the whole arm swelled
up to fearful size, and is covered
with little knots about the size Of .
pea.-Litchfeld Ledger.
Year: 1874

RAILROAD PROGRESS. Work on
the Wells road continues to make fav.
orable progress. In our last issue We
announced the extension Of the track
to the LIE Sueur. Since then Con-
struction train has been carrying for
ward materials fo- the bridge and the
trestle through the ravine on the other
side of the river. The false work for
the bridge is up, and the ravine is lined
with heavy timbers for the trestles, a
large force of men being employed in
putting them into place.-Maukato
Review.
Year: 1874

The railroad men have crossed the
LIE Sueur river, and grading goes on
rapidly. They are now out on the
Rapidan prarie. In the valley of the
LIE Sueur, however, there are some
heavy pieces of trestle work to be
erected, and every available carpenter
has been put on the bridge and the
trestles beyond. It will be two weeks
before track laying can commence
again, but when it does the balance of
the work can be complied at the rate
of mile per day.-Maukato Union.
Year: 1874

WHAT ALCOHOL WILL Dot may
seem strange, but it is nevertheless true,
that alcohol, regularly applied to thrift.
ty farmers stomach, will remove the
boards from the fence, let cattle into
his crops, kill fruit trees, mortgage his
farm, and SOW his fields with wild oats
and thistles. It will take the paint
off his buildings, break the glass out
Of the windows, and gil them with rags
it will take the gloss from his clothes
and polish from his manners, subdue
his reason, arouse his passion, bring
sorrow and disgrace upon his family,
and topple him into drunkards grave.
It will do this to the artisan and the
capitalist, the matron and the maiden,
as we'll as the farmer; for in its deadly
enmity to the human race, alcohol is
no respecter of persons.
Year: 1874

The editor of the new German paper
at New Ulm, the advertiser" was in
this city last week, arranging to remove
here. We do not understand that he
will continue the publication Of his
paper, but intends to teach music and
German, for which he is well qualified.
Mankato Review.
Year: 1874

There vas q tremendous thunder
storm at Winona on the night of the
10 inst. The residence of Senator
Window was struck by lightning,
which melted the rod and entered the
house, doing some dammage, shocking
the inmrtes but not seriously injuring
any one. A number Of large meteors
fell before the storm began, and much
globular light was visible.
Year: 1874

Two barrels of ale exploded in the
Newburyport depot the other day,
though the casks we're supposed capa-
BILE of sustaining a pressure Of two
hundred pounds to the inch, or more
than steam boiler. And yet many
people will drink this dangerous stuff.
Year: 1874

ii confess" Says Spurgeon 81
never had the ability to manage small
Church. They are like those canoes
on the Thames-you must not sit that
way or the other, do this thing or that
thing, lest you should be upset.
happen to have a church like a big
steamboat, and whether I walk here OF
there my weight will not upset it. II
a big fellow thinks himself to be some.
body, his importance vanishes when
he ioines big church like mine."
Year: 1874

Upon Il rancho in Nevada on the
Carson river there is II heard Of twenty
six canels, all but two Of which were
bred and raised in Nevada. Some
years ago nine or ten camcls were i'm
ported into that State, but of these only
two lived to become acc!imated, and
from this pair have been raised the
twcnty-four. The mon who now have
them are Frencl,nen,w who had formerly
some experience with camelS III
Europe. The men who now have
them arc Frcnchncn, who had Tor
merry some experience with cahlcls in
Europe. They find no difficulty in
roaring them, and now show twenty
four fine healthy animals, all of Washoc
growth. The camel may now be said
to be thoroughly acclimat"d i'll this
State. The owners of the herd find 1T
no more difficult to breed and rear them
than would be experienced with the
same number Of goats or dOnkeys. The
ranch upon which they are kept is
sandy and sterile in the extreme, yet
the animals feast and grow fat on such
pricl>ly shrubs and bitter weeds as no
other animals would touch. When
left to themselves their great delight,
after filling themselves with the coarse
herbagc of the desert, is to lie and roll
in the hot sand. They are used in
packing salt to tho mills on the river
from the marshes lying in the desert
some sixty miles eastward.
Year: 1874

industry y,discouraging geNtravaGancea and
speculation, the inducing return OF
business matters to q normal and heal
thy basis.


believe that our country ought to
be the creditor and not the debtor
nation. With our magnificent resour-
ces, our immense productions, and
our almost unlimited possibilities, our
exports should exceed our imports.
Wise policy will soon bring this about
without the intcrcession OF the unjust
tariff, and when this state of affairs is
brought bullion will flow into othe coun-
try and specie payment will be an easy
matter.
Year: 1874


SKETCH OF MAJOR GENTRY, CANDIDATE FOR GOV


ERNoR-THE PAST RECORD OF JoBBERY AND


MIsMANAGENENT BY BOTH PARTIEs-oPPRRs-


sIYE TAXATION TO PAY RAILROAD AND OTHER


NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. THAT STRENGTHEN THE


PEOPLES PARTY-DRoUTH, GRAsSHOPPERs AND


SLENDER CROPS


lFRoM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNEl
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 5.-The Western train on
the Missouri Pacific Railroad Thursday afternoon
brought away from Jefferson City at least hundred
delegates to the Peoples Convention, who reside in
the Central and Western counties of this State The
majority of them were intelligent welto-do farm
ers, who have made their fortunes in Missouri by
thrift and industry, and who constitute sort of
aristocracy IN the neighborhoods where they live
aristOcracy. however, whose interests and SYM
pathies are identical with those OF the people and of
which the latter not in the least jealous. Major
Gentry, the Peoples candidate for Governor is
a fair sample of this class. He was born in
Missouri, his father who was a friend and
companion of Daniel Boone in Kentucky having
moved to this State early in the present century,
and settled in one of its eastern counties In 1924
still led by the instincts of the pioneer, he again
sold out and pushing far out upon the frontier,
staked out his claim on the beautiful prairie
the present town of Sedalia Major Gentry was
then years old, and has spent 80 years of his life
IN honest, earnest toll as q farmer In the county
where he reared In 1876 he settled on the farm
which he now owns and which is one of the largest
and best cultivated in the State 1t contains 5000
acres of land 5000 Of which inclosed and under
cultivation.


Major Gentry was when young man a Henry
Clay Whig and espoused the Union cause during
the war. In 1862 he assisted in raising the 45th
Regiment of enrolled militia. and served in it two
years with the rank of Major. Since that time he
has devoted himself TO the cultivation of his
farm and the raising Of stock. The only civil Office
he ever held was that of county Judge, which he
filed with ability.


Major Gentry was one the first of those who have
lately acted with the Democrats of this State to
declare bis independence of party rule, and in his
conversation is very out-spoken in denunciation of
the Rings that have brought this State to the verge
of ruin In his own county he has been uutiring in
his war upon dishonesty and extravaganza, but in
this, he says the people have had no aid from the
politicians unless they were employed as counsel
and paid for their services.


LOCAL GRIEVANCES FROM OFFICIAL LMIsMANAGEMENT.
From conversation with Major Gently and others
who were on the train on the Sd inst, learned
something OF the local grievances of which the
people OF Missouri complain. They say that by
fraud packing Of caucuses and other means resorted
to by politicians their county officers have in many
instances being reckless dishonest men, and that
it has been impossible TO get rid of them through
The machinery Of either party. II Democratic