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WEEKLY CORY ALL IS GAZETTE. CORVALLIS, MAY 7, 1S80 LOyGINOS. A feeling of longing Now draws me away From home and Its :oved ones To wander astray, Far over tbe bill-tops Tbe clouds bang in air, Aglow In tbe sunbeams. She waits for me there ! Tbe Bbadow-wlnged ravens Move slowly along. And joining their party, I go wltb tbe tbrong. They soar o'er tbe mountains I pass rock and tree; 0 j ! I heboid ber! tsbe tarries for me! Rbe roves tbrongb tbe forest; The signal I sing; The note of tbe song-bird O'erjoyed wltb tbe spring. She ling-re and listens, And wnlspers with glee; "He sings it so sweetlv; He sings it for me! " The last beams of f unset Are gilding the bight; My loved one still tarries, Sbe fears not the night By brook-side sbe wanders Tbe green meadows through. And darker and darker Night's shadows pursue. 1 glide through tbe bushes, A wandering star. She starts and he trembles; "What gleams from afar?" " 'T!s only my lantern. My dearest and best, And I at your feet, love, For here I am blest ! " -Translated Jrom Goethe by Geo. W. Itirdseye. The Dream Story of Gojiro. Only a few years ago there was a gentloman in Fukui, Japan, who had a son, a bright lad of twelve, who was very diligent at school, and bad made astonishing progress in his studies. He was especially quick at learning Chinese characters, of which "every Japanese gentleman who wishes to be called educated must know at least 2000. For, al though the Chinese and Japanese are two very different languages, yet tho Japanese, Coreans and Chinese .use the same letters to write with, just as English, Germans, French and Spaniards all employ one and tbe same alphabet. Now Gojiro's father had promised him that when he read through nve volumes of the Nihongi, or ancient history of Japan, he would give him for a present a book of wonderful Chinese stories. Gojiro performed bis task and bis father kept his prom ise. One day, on his return from a journey to Kioto, he presented his son with sixteen volumes, all neatly silk-bound, well illustrated with wood cuts and printed clearly on thin, silky muloerry paper from the best wooden blocks. It will be re membered that several volumes of Japanese literature make but one of ours, 8 they are much lighter and thinner than ours. Gojiro was so delighted with the wonderful stories of heroes and war riors, travels and sailors, that tie ai most felt himself in China. He read far into tbe night, with his lamp in side of his mosquito curtain, and finally fell asleep, still undressed, but with his head full ot all sorts of Chinese wonders. lie dreamed he was lar away in China, walking along the banks of the great Yellow River. Everything was very strange. 1 he people talked an entirely different language from his own: had on different clothes; and instead of nice shaven head and top-knot of the Japanese, every one wore a loot; pigtail of hair that dangled at bis bcels. Even the boats were of a strange form; and on the fishing smacks, perched on proiectincr rails, sat rows ot cormo rants, each with a ring around his neck. Every few minutes one of them would dive under the water, and, after awhile, come struggling up with a fish in its mouth so big that tbe fishermen bad to help the bird into the boat. The fish was then flung into a basket, and tbe cormorant was treated to a slice of raw fish by way of encouragement and to keep the bird from the bad habit of eating the live fish whole This the ravenous bird would some times try to do, even though the ring was put around his neck for the express purpose ot preventing him from gulping down a whole fish at once. It was spring time, and tbe buds were just bursting into flower. The river was full of fish, especially carp, ascending to the great rapids or cas cades. Here the current ran at a prodigious rate of swiftness, and the waters rippled and boiled and roared with frightful noise. Yet, strange to say, many of the fish were swim ming up the stream as if their lives depended on it. They leaped and floundered about; but every one seemed to be tossed back and left ex hausted in the river, where they panted and. gasped lor breath in the eddies at the side. Some were so bruised against the rocks that, after a few spasms, they floated white and stiff, belly up, on the water, dead, and were swept down the stream. Still the shoal leaped and strained every fin, until their scales flashed in the sun like a host of armored war riors in battle. Gojiro, enjoying it as if it were a real conflict ot waves and fishes, clapped bis bands with delight. Then Gojiro enquired by means of writing, of an old white-bearded sage standing by and looking on, "What is the name of this part of the river?" " Ve call it Lung Men," replied the sage.- -. "Will you please write the charac ter j of it," said Gojiro, producing his ink-case and and a brush pen, with a roll of soft mulberry paper. The sage wrote the two Chinese S characters meaning "The Gate of the Dragons," or "Dragon's Gate," and turned away to watch a carp that seemed almost up into the clear water. "Oh, I see,' said Gojiro to himself. """That's pronounced Kiu Mon in Jap anese. I'll go further on and see. I There must be snme meaning in this fish-climbing." He went forward a few rods, to where the banks trended upward into high bluffs, crowned by towering firs, through the top branches of which white fleecy clouds sailed along, so near the sky did tho tree-tops seem. Down under the cliffs the river ran perfectly smooth, almost like a mirror, and broadened out to the opposite shore. Far back, along tbe current, he could still see the rapids shelving down. It was crowded at the bottom with leaping hsb, whose numbers gradually thin ned out toward tbe center, while near the top, close to the edge of level water, one solitary fish, of powerful fin and tail, breasted tbe steep stream. Now forward a leap, then a slide backward, sometimes farther to the rear than tbe next leap made up for, then steady progress, then a slip, but every moment nearer, until-clear-ing foam and ripple and spray at one bound, it passed tbe edge and swam happily in smooth water. It was inside the dragon gate.1 Now came the wonderful change. One of the fleecy white clouds sud denly left the host in the deep blue above, dipped down from the sky, and, swirling rouud and round as if it were a waterspout, scratched and frayed the edge of the water like a fisher's troll. The carp saw and darted toward it. In a moment the fish was transformed into a white dragon, and rising into the cloud, floated off toward heaveu. A streak or two of red fire, a gleam of terrible A Mystery. We are used to scenes of pain and suf fering at the G hospital, and could look on ghastly wounds and faces on eyes, and the flash of white scales was all that Gojiro saw. Then he awoke. "How strange that a poor little carp, a common fish that lives in the river, should become a great white dragon, and soar up into the sky, to live there," thought Gojiro, the next day, as he told bis mother his dream. 'Yes," said she; "and what ales son for you. See how the carp per severed, rising over all difficulties, never giving up till he became a dragon. I hope my son will mount over all obstacles, and rise to honor and to high office under tho govern ment." "Oh! oh! now I see," said Gojiro. "That is what my teacher means when he says the students in Tokio have'a saying, "I'm a fish to-day, but I hope to be a dragon to-morrow," when they go to attend ex amination; and that's what papa meant when he said, 'That fish's son Kotuku has become a white dragon, while I am yet only a carp.' " So on tho third day of tho third month, at the feast of flags, Gojiro hoisted the nobori. It was a great fish, made of paper, fifteen feet long, aud hollow like a bag. It was yel low with black scales and streaks of gold, and red gills and mouth, in which two strontr strings were fas tened. It was hoisted up by a rope to the top of a high bamboo pole on the roof of the bouse. There the breeze caught it, swelled it out round and full of air. The wind made the fins work, and the tail flap, and the head tug, until it looked just hiie a carp trying to swim the rapids of the Yellow river the symbol of ambition and perseverance. Ex. Some Things it's Hard to Understand. Why an endless procession of drinkers irora a public dipper, will, without any exception, drink close to the handle. Why half the human race was not born without hearing, and the other half without speech. . Then the talkers might talk ou in uninterrupted flow, and the hearers exercise their especial gift without their present puriency to speak. Why people will ge into society to get bored when they can get bored just as well at home. Why the young lady who will eagerly cnew boarding-house mince pie, will cheerfully eschew boarding-house meat. wny a man s stomach, will so ever lastingly squeamish at home, and at the eating-house display a faith like a grain of mustard seed. Why a woman will makes excuses for her bread when she knows it is the best she ever made, and she knows her com pany knows it. wny a --young gentleman swears so much louder and more copiously -when strange young ladies are within earshot; or, m other words. Why the desire to make a fool of one's self springs eternally in the human breast. Why we are so much angrier aeainst him who shows us our error than him who leads us therein,. Why everybody is so prompt to answer "How do you do? when you a.sic mem mat inevitable question. And Why you seem to be perfectly satis- ned witn the information contained in this echo. Why one's piety strengthens when his health weakens. Why people will get married when courtship is so sweet. Why a man who claims to have found marriage a delusion will again embrace that delusion upon the first convenient opportunity. Why cold weather comes during the season when it is least agreeable. Why it is much easier to he polite to people whom we shall probably never see again than to those whose good opinion we have every reason to culti vate. Why boys should run after the girls when there is a whole houseful at home. Why Jane finds Sarah's hateful brother so attractive, and why the hateful brother of Jane finds favor with Sarah. Why a man shoull court the good opinion of another, when he can never hope to secure his own self-respect. wny it is so much easier to close a door in summer than in winter, con sidering that exercise is generally con sidered distasteful in warm weather and pleasant in cold. , Why one feels bad when apnearinc in company in shabby garb, knowing well that one's shabbiness gives more pleas ure to others than one's rich clothing. Nothing makes a Dakota man so mad as to call him a zebra. He doesn't know what in thunder a zebra is, and has to answer back at a disadvantage. which the mortal agony inflicted by the surgeon's probe and knife was painted without blanching or apparent emotion. But when gallant Harry Delmont was brought in from the "front," with a hid eous hole in his manly breast, such as only a minie ball could make, a great hush of sorrow and dismay fell upon us all. And when the surgeon s solemn words. "He cannot live three days," fell upon our ears, the hush was broken by the sobs of strong men, as well as by the more q met weepmg of the female nurses. for all of us loved the brave young Cap- rain as a brother. We hovered over his cot throughout the day. and when night came it was agreed that one of us should have the special duty of -watching beside it through the night, for fear that he should waken from the letnargy wmcn seemed to prelude approaching death, to ask for something that the steward could not oo tain. And then I pleaded for the priv ilege, and after some demur it was ac corded me. "Watch him very closely," said the surgeon to me, as I took my seat for the vigil beside the cot of our favorite, "for at any moment he is liable to come out of the coma, and he may be wander ing." But I was very tired, and about mid night, do what I could, I could not keep my eyes from closing in a half-unconscious reverie, which, after a time, merged into a fitful slumber. And very soon occurred the mystery of which it is my present task to tell. A bright dream of the "northern home so far away" was flitting through my brain, when suddenly I seemed to be impressed with some presence that held my body in a thrall, while my senses became almost preternaturally acute. Opening my eyes at last, I gazed toward the couch of the wounded captain, and by his side with one hand clasped in hers, I saw the figure of a young and beautiful lady, whose eyes were glaring down to his with such a look of pitying tender ness that I felt sure at once she was his sweetheart. I wondered much, however, how she came to be there in the hospital at that hour of the night, when visitors had never been admitted after sundown. And I knew that Dr. Yance, the surgeon in charge, had his own brother been dying in that place, and his father and mother come to see him, would never have ad mitted them only at regular hours. I was so exercised in mind that I was just opening my lips to question the strange visitor, when I saw the steward with the light, moving along the lower end of the ward in such a way as to bring our visitor between the light and me, and then my heart stood still. The light the stewart carried I could see shining, and I was looking through the form of the lady who stood by my patient's side. I gazed in awe upon the apparition for a few brief seconds, and then a torpor overcame me, and I knew no more until the steward roughly shook my arm and made me awake, for Captain Delmont was no longer lethargic, but delirious. But when I looked upon his clear, calm eyes, I told the steward he was not delirious. "Is Nettie here?" he faintly asked, as I bent over him. I did not question who "Nettie" was, for I was certain I had seen her sem blance, and I answered, calmly: .settle has been here, Captain Del mont, but she is not here now." "I wish you would call her again, Mrs. Ennis, for I wish to speak with her." "Did you speak with her when she was here?" I asked, heeding the steward's great amazement." , "No," he answered simply. "I tried to speak, but somehow I could not utter a word; I suppose I was then too weak." "Was she your affianced wife?" I asked. "Not when I joined the army. We had been affianced once, but she broke the engagement because" here his voice faltered "because I was too poor. But I know she loves me." "She does," I said, "I could see it in her eyes. ' "If she is to nurse me," he exclaimed, "I surely shall recover! O, call her now, dear Mrs. Ennis I must have the as surance from her own lips." But I persuaded him to wait till morn ing. Morning came, and the surgeon, after a hasty examination, said the Cap tain was much better, and that a chance for life was won. As soon as he was gone I turned to my patient, who only murmured, "Nettie. "Captain Delmont," I said, calmly, "Nettie is net here." "Not here!" he cried clutching my hand. "Not here! why I saw her last night. She has not gone away again, and left me to die alone?" "No, Harry, but she has not yet been here not in the flesh." "Mrs. Ennis, am I mad or are you? for I plainly saw her, and you say she has not been here." "Yes, I saw her," I replied, "and she was standing by your cot, and in her hand she held your own. But Captain Delmont, through her form I saw the candle carried by the steward, half a dozen cots away. . . He turned his face to the wall, and then I trembled for the effect I feared my words would have. But when he turned his face again I saw my fear was groundless. "I called her," he said earnestly, "and though five hundred miles away, she heard me and came to me. God bless her!" And for all the surgeon's prophecy he rapidly began to mend. Days glided by, and he grew convalescent. Two weeks later, going out one day, I met a lady going in, and it needed but one glance to tell me who it was. She stared at me, apparently bewildered. I went up to her and took her hand. This is Captain Delmont s Nettie!" I exclaimed. She looked frightened. I saw that she grew pale. I guided her to Captain Del mont s cot, and when she reached it and she beheld the surroundings she grew paler still. "Why, this is the very place 1 dreamed of seeing about two weeks ago! and you are the nurse I saw sitting by his cot!" she gasped, rather than spoke. 1 did not reply. Harry Delmont had clasped her to his breast, and I very qui etly withdrew. Of course the story ends with happi ness and marriage, as is usual; but the appearance - by my patient's cot I fear will never be explained. It is a question for psychologists to settle or discuss. The two important events in the his tory of man are when he examines his up per lip and sees the hair coming, and when he examines the top of his head and finds the hair going. , The Perilous Puzzle. While we whirl away on the Atlantic and Great Western, the only road in free America that is as broad, as it is long, the fat passenger asked me if I "ever worked out the fifteen puzzle.' I tell him with a nameless gratitude in my voice that I have done almost every thing else that hvfoolish and wicked, but I have never become addicted to the fif teen puzzle. He then pulled one out of his pocket and settled, down to it. Long and pa tiently he wrought, while the other pas sengers helped him with suggestions and criticisms. Presently the brakeman came iu and he leaned over the shoul ders of the crowd nnd looked on and as sisted. Bye the bye the conductor came along shouting "tikits," and he stopped to see what was the excitement. He pushed his punch in his pocket, and leaned up with the rest of the crowd and told the fat passenger what to do. The excitement ran high aud a half dozen bitter disputes arose, which were only quelled by bitterer ones arising over new points. The train sped on its thun dering way, and in due time it slowed up a little and finally stopped. The conductor looked up impatiently. "What in thunder," he said, "is that fool stopping here for ?" "Walter, I reckon or coal maybe," re plied the brakeman, without looking up from the puzzle. "Go out and see what he wants, and tell him to go on," said the conductor, returning to the puzzle. The brakeman, after feeble protest, and one last, lingering look at the puzzle, which was now farther than ever from completion, went out. In the space of a minute he came back into the car and shouted in a husky, whispered, ghost of a shout: "Meadville! Change cars for Oil City and Franklin! This train stops twenty minutes for dinner!" A wail of rage and disappointment filled the car. "Why didn't this train stop at Atlan tic ?" roared the passenger with the sandy goatee. "I wanted to get off at Evansburg! " howled the man with the sample cases. "My sister wanted to get on at Atlan tic, and I saw her on the platform when we came through!" shouted the woman who talks bass. "And I," sobbed a timid-looking young man in black clothes, "was to have been married to a girl in Geneva to-day, and now I'll bet you a cow her old dad is walking down the railroad track in this direction, with a shot-gun." And he wailed so pitifully that the whole car howled in sympathetic unison. Just then the express messenger came storming into the coach. "By chowder !" he yelled, "I'd just like to know what this means ? I'd like to know if the express company has any rights on this road at all, and how a man is going to deliver or receive packages when " And the mail agent pushed him cut of the way and stood before the conductor in all the gorgeous paroply of half dress and half working uniform. "By George !" he shouted, "the gov ernment shall be informed of this out rageous proceeding. If there's a special agent in the State of Pennsylvania, he will be " But before he could say any more a telegraph messenger came in and told the conductor the assistant superintend ent would like to sec him and the engin eer in his private office immediately. And it was so that they went, and per adventure they danced upon the carpel; yea, they stood in the perspiring solitude of the sweat-box. The next morning the fat passenger beckoned me solemnly into the smoking car. "Light that," he said, and I lit it. 'Do you know," he said, "when Iwent to bed last night the wails of more people who wanted to get off, and the agonized faces of the people who wanted to get on, in that run from Greenville to Meadville, just haunted me? And I dreamed I died and went to heaven. I thought I had just fifteen brains, and all the way up to the gate I was trying to straighten them out, and I thought I would go mad. When I got up there the gate was wide open, and all sorts of people were streaming in, just as they pleased. I hadn't the cheek to think I had a right to go in without any credentials or explanation, so I hung back looking for St. Peter. And while I was waiting I hope to die if Bob Inger soll didn't come along and walk right in, and he looked as if he were mighty glad to get there. Presently I saw St. Peter, right by the gate . his head bent down and his eyes fixed on lus knees. I told him my name and where I was from, and asked if I might go in. He didn't say anything, and I began to feel pretty streaked. So I said it again, a little loader. Still he made no reply. Then I shook him by the shoulder, for 1 was getting pretty anxious, and I begun to tell it all over again. It frightened me when he shook me off. "9, 11, 4, 13, 7 oh, get out of this, you and your name; if you hadn't both ered me I'd have got it the next move." "Now," the fat passenger said sol emnly, "I am never going to fool with that Gem puzzle again. Not once more." And he fell into a profound fit of ab straction, and we couldn't raise a laugh from him all day. A Diplomatic Answer. The old man Smith, of Richfield, is a self-sufficient sort of fellow, and prides himself upon his riding abilities. One day he espied his young hopeful leading a colt to water gingerly, and remarked: "Why on earth don't you ride that beast?" "I'm 'fraid to; 'fraid he'll throw me." "Bring that hoss here," snapped the old man. The colt was urged up to the fence, and braced one side by the boy while the old man climbed on to the rails aud stocked himself on the colt's back. Then he was let go, and the old gentleman rode proudly off. Paralyzed by fear the colt went slowly for about twenty rods with out a demonstration. Then like light ning his four legs bunched together, his back bowed like a viaduct arch aud the old man shot up in the air, turning seven separate and distinct somersaults and lit on the small of his back iu the middle of the road with both legs twisted around his neck. Hastening to him the young hopeful anxiously inquired: "Did it hurt yon, pa?" Tho old man rose slowly, shook out the knots in his legs, brushed the dust from his ears and hair, and rubbing his bruised elbows, growled: "Well, it didn't do me a dum bit of good . You go home." These days no one is safe from the charge of plagiarism. Brown went to church last Sunday a thing unusual and upon being asked his opinion of the clergyman, said: "Oh, his sermon was very good, but that prayer, beginning with 'Our Father,' I think he stole en entire. I know I have heard something that it was strangely like." Boston Transcript. Pathos Of Dickens. . "Even when golden hair lay in a halo on a pillow, around the worn face of a little boy he said with a radiant smile: 'Dear papa and mamma, I am sorry to leave you both and to leave my pretty sister, but I am called and I must go.' Thus tbe rustling of an angel's wings got blended with the other echoes and had in them the breath of heaven." Tale of Two Cities, book 2, chapter 21. "There is no time there, and no trouble there. The spare hand does not tremble; nothing worse than a sweet, bright con stancy is in her face. She goes next be fore him is gone." I bid, book 5, chap ter la. The dvine bov made answer. 1 soon shall be there.' He Spoke of beautiful gardens stretched out before him, that were filled with hgures of men and many children, all with light upou their hices then whispered it was Eden and so died.' Nicholas JNickleby, chapter oa. "It's turned very dark, sir. Is there any light a-coming? The cart is shaken all to pieces, and the ruzsred road is very near its end. I'm a-gropin' a-gropin' let me catch hold of your hand. Hallowed be thv name." "Dead ! mv lords and gentleman. Dead men and women born with heavenly compassion in vour hearts. And dvin thus around us every day!" Bleak House chapter 47. "He slowly laid his face down upon her bosom, drew his arm close around her neck, and with one parting sob began the world. IMot this world. Oh, not tins The world that sets this right." I bid chapter 05. '"If tint is sleep, sit by me when sleep; turn me to you, for your face is go ing lar on and 1 want it to be near." And she died like a child that had gone to sleep." David Copperfield, chapter 9. "'Time and the. world were slipping from beneath him. he s going out with the tide. And it being low water. he went out with the tide." I bid, chap ter 30. "One new mound was there, which had not been there last night. Time, bur rowing like a mole below the ground had marked his track by throwing up an other heap of earth." Martin Cliuzzle- wit. chapter 16. "She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and cairn, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hands of God and waiting for the breath of life, not one who had lived and suffered death. She was past all help or need of it. We will not wake her." Old curiosity Shop, chapter 71. "The hand stopped in the midst of them ; the light that had always been feeble and dim behind the weak trans parency went out.' Hard Times: chapter y. "For a moment the closed eyelids trem bled and the faintest shadow of a smile was seen. Thus, clinging to the slight spar within her arms, the mother dntted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls around all the world." Dombey and bon, vol. 1, chapter 1. "It's very near the sea; I hear the waves! The light about the head is shin ing upon me as I go! The old, old fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course aud the wide farmanent is roll ed up like a scroll. Oh! thank God for that old fashion yet of immortality! And look upon us, angels of your children when the swift river bears us to the ocean.' I bid, chapter 17. "In this round world of many circles within circles do we make a weary jour ney from the high grade to the low, to find at last that they li close together, that the two extremes touch, and that our journeys end is but our startuig-place." l bid, chapter 34. "A cricket sings upon the hearth ; a broken child s toy lies upon the ground and nothing else remains.'' Cricket on the Ileartb, chapter 2. Influence of Electric Light. Dr. Siemens recently gave, before the Royal Society in London, an account of some very interesting and important ex penments which he had beeu making, with a view of determining the influence oi electric lignt on vegetation. The ex periments had been made with mustard, carrot, bean, cucumber, melon and other quick-growing plants. These, which had been planted in pots, he had arranged in four classes or groups. One class was kept always kept in tbe dark, anotner in tne lignt of day as long as possible, a third always in the electric light, and the fourth was exposed to day light and electric light in succession. It was found that the plants would not live long when kept in the dark, but they would thrive about as well in the electric light as in the daylight. But those did best of all which were constantly ex posed to both daylight and electric light in succession. Dr. Siemens' experiments extended through only about two mouths, and he does not claim that the results are conclusive r final. But he has reached the conclusions that plants do not require any rest during the twenty-four hours; that their growth may be materially quickened by giving tnem tne benent of electric light at night; that electric light will produce chiorophyl in the leaves of plants, and promothe their growth, and that injurious effects upon plants are not caused, to any material extent, by the small amount of carbonic acid and nitrogenous com pounds generated in the electric light arc. Dr. Siemens further expresses the opinion that the effects of night frost may be counteracted and the ripening of fruit prompted by means of the radiation of heat from powerful electric arcs. If these results shall be confirmed by further experiments which Dr. Siemens is making, the practical value which these facts will have in horticulture is mani fest. They will also afford new facilities for the investigation of some important scientific questions as to the influence of natural light on vegetatton. Dr. Siemens gave his audience a beautiful illustration of one of his experiments by putting some budding tulips in a strong electric light, which in about forty minutes, caused the buds to open out in full bloom. In view of these facts, may not this light be made serviceable in tobacco plant beds, hastening the growth and improving the quality of the plants? ' Mabbiage Agreement. Last Friday there was filed with the Napa county Re corder an instrument rarely seen. It was an agreemeirt made at Knoxville, April 5th, betweettames W. Thompson (aged 30) and VarneyE. Brookins (aged 15), worded as follows: "This indenture witnesseth that the parties joamed do hereby intermarry or marry 'each other under and by virtue of, and in accord ance with the provisions of section 75, Civil Code, and do now assume the re spective duties of husband and wife. That the parties do hereby join in this declaration of marriage, each promising and convenanting with the other to as sume and carry out during their natural lives the duties and obligations of mar riage in the sight of man and God." Register. Evils of Neglecting Cold In the Head. In a paper read by Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa, at tho recent meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York, he stated that the most frequent origin of chronic diseases of the lach rymal passages, of the conjunctiva, and of the middle ear, is in a neglected "cold in the head. ' It is generally conceded that no person in perfect health, except under extraordinary circumstances, takes cold, and yet the majority of mankind have, at some time, suffered from cold in the head. The popular idea that a cold in the head is an insignificant affair is founded on the fact that most of the people recover to such an extent that they are able to go about afterward, and engage in their ordinary avocations with out special notice, at the time, of the consequences of the disease, which may even then be settled upon them. He believed that very many qf the maladies which prevented men and women from reaching the alotted period of three score and ten have their origin in these colds; and that many serious affections which act as an impediment to the success of their victim are dated from a cold in the head. He described the suffering in cident to an acute attack of cold in the head and of the possibility of having repeated attacks with out producing serious local changes not only local change, but. a permanent impairment f nutrition. To correct all this, special attention must be paid to individual hygiene, and if the evil conse quences of neglected cold in the head were to be abolished, the abolition must come through a public sentiment prop erly educated upon this as upon all other sanitary questions. The family physi cian must warn the people everywhere, as opportunity offers, of the danger in this direction, and of the means by which it is to be avoided. The first great pre caution to be taken by each individual is to keep himself in a good general condi tion, and to do that he must studiously avoid all that tends to disorder the skin and the functions of all the organs of the body. Children must be clothed in flan nel all the year round, and must be made to know that the staples of diet are milk, bre d, meat, vegetables and fruit, and that tea, coffee and pastry of all kinds are to be used only as the greatest of lux uries, and therefore in small quantities and at long intervals. The community can only become healthy as individuals become healthy, and all the reforms necessary to make Memphis and Granada places in which yellow .fever never comes may be adopted ; but if the control can not be obtained of the bodies of, and the modes of living of the individuals in those and all other places, evils not so suddenly fatal, but none the less in the end dangerous, and all the time injurious to their well being, will certainly exist. The Big Grave Near Wick ford, Rhode Isiaud. After much earnest inquiry, and the co-operative efforts of the solid historical men of Wick ford, we are able to lay be fore the readers of the Journal the follow ing valuable notes: The dead bodies of 42 white meD, slain by the Narragansettsin the "Great Swamp Fight" of December 19, 1675, were rans- ported from the scene of slaughter, in South Kingston, in carts to the Block house fa garrison house) of Major Rich ard Smith, in North Kingstown, one mile north of Wickford, and buried in the garden of Major Smith, near the house, in one grave, near a large rocK, on which a tew letters have been chiseled to pre serve the identity of the "Big Grave." The block-house erected by Richard Smith about the year 1610, has been well preserved by timely repairs, and still re mains the "first English house" erected in the thickets of the Narragansett Coun try. A. B. Chadsey. Wickford, December 31, 1879. It is a great satisfaction to be able now to point to the exact locality of this "Great tirave, and to know that the large sentinel-boulder remains, and now bears such marks as may evermore preserve the identity of the" sacred spot. Once an ap ple tree grew upon the grave called "The Grave Apple Tree," but it was blown down in the September gale of 1815, and tbe exact locality was becoming obscure. Here might well be a monument. But perhaps the now lettered boulder may serve the memorial purpose. The ashes of those soldiers, here sleeping together in the solumn camp-ground of the grave, after the battle that decided the fate of Phillip's war and the life of New England, ought to be sacredlv guarded, In the "Swamp Fight" the Colonists lost 6 Cap tains, 1 Lieutenant, and over 200 soldiers. We have the names of thelcoininissioued officers. Can any one give us the names of the non-commissioned officers and privates ? Providence Journal. 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