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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1879)
March, 1879. THE WEST SHORE. 73 THK NKOK88ITY OK Pl.VVTV tv i A writer in Scribner, considering "The Hela tiooi of Insanity to Modern Civilisation," speaks of the lou of sleep m a prominent cause of insanity. He aaye: "During every moment of eouaciousneu the brain ia in aotivity. The peculiar process of cerebration, whatever that may consist of, is taking plaoe; thought after thought comes forth, nor can we help it It is only when the peouliar connection or chain of conneotion of one brain-cell with another is broken and consciousness fades away into the dreamless land of perfect sleep, that the brain is at rest. In this state it recuperates its ex hausted energy and power, and stores them up for future need. The period of wakefulness is one of constant wear. Every thought is generated at the expense of brain-oells, which can be fully replaced only by periods of prop erly regulated repose. If, therefore, these sru not secured by sleep; if the brain, through over stimulation, is not left to recuperate, its energy becomes exhausted, debility, disease, and, finally, disintegration supervene. Hence, the SatU'IiU usm or liUNruwDlli. A corre spondent writes us from the Mandwioh Islands saying that during a long life spent in tropical fever districts he has been able to escape infec tion and miasma by the use of gunpowder, sup plemented by a few simple precautious against sudden chauges of temperature, sunstroke, bad water and the like. He uses uo water that has not been boiled aud afterwards kept from air coutaot; but his main relianoe ia upon the prac tice of burning a thimbleful of gunpowder in his bedroom aud very small uautitiea in his trunk, wardrobe, etc. , so as to keep his olothisi in an atmosphere feebly charged with gunpowder gas. In Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius, the east coast of tropic Africa, and other fever-smitten lands he has fouud audi simple means a sure preventive of epidemic and upideimc diseases, and has thereby been often brought to the philosophic rellootiou that gunpowder ia de stined to invert the aim intended by its fabri cation. ScitlllHt A Hi' 1 iron. BtmVUa Cam or I'oiwininii. The .Viiifer funnel-says that three children of .lames C, RIWKD OHOU.SK. The bird of Inch we girt an engraving on this page will be recognised by our Oregon and Northern California readers as a deniseu of their thickets. Many others will also remember it the object of their gunning la the Eastern .States. The grouse, although one of the moat widely distributed birds in the Hatted Stat.-., seldom, if ever, so far as we know, appears iu lower California. It is known as the "iartridge" in tbo Middle States and the "pheasant" in the Southern .States. What Miunt Havi In. i n In a report just forwarded to the .Secretary of the Interior, tlen. Fremont eayst It is Interesting to speculate on what might hare lieen, had this eeulhern Hue been already built Wore the war, True to the instincts of commerce the northern road has swept round through California and is entering Alisons from the west, while other great roads story is almost always the same; for weeks and I months liefore the indications of active insanity appear, the patient has been anxious, worried and wakeful, not sleeping more than four or rive hours oat of the 24. The poor brain, unable to do its constant work, begins to waver, to show signs of weakness or aberration; hallu cinations or delusions hover around like floating shadows in the air, until finally disease comes, and " 'plants his slsts Against iho ml id, iht which ho pricks and eonde With Many legions of strange Isalsslss. Which In their Ihn.ig and pros to that lad bounds Oenfoend theessstrae.' Bin trm or Lat'oliwo. "He who laughs can commit no deadly sin," says the mother of Ooethe. "I am persuaded" aaid Hterne, "that every time a man smiles butmuchinore sowhen hs laughs it adds something to his fragment of lift." Douglas Jerrold, the prince of modern wits, exclaims: "Lot materialists blaspheme as gingerly aud acutely as they will, they must find confusion in lauiihter." And yet laughter is akin to weeping, (or true humor is closely allied to pity, paradoxical as it may seem. THK MOTH) QSOUU Gray, residing uear Yuba City, came near poi soning themselves 'luring ins wees oy cnswing the inside bark of the common black locust tree, severs! of which their father was trim ming. The children, aged respectively three, six and nine years, had picked up the twigs, and stripping the insula Dun Wunl mm, one wen it, swallowing some of the juice. Soon after they were attacked with vomiting, and aftar thus relieving their stomachs, sat around in a kind of daxed condition, conscious, liut with an evident wish to be undisturbed, I'r Hamlin was called in, and tinder his ministrations they have about recovered. The fact that poison exists iu this tree will doubtless ue news K many of our readers, and we publish this that others may exercise oars ia its handling. T "Agricultural Report," M "". the average price of the cotton crop for the whole eouulry at Hi coots per pound. Value of the crop for ItjTH, IliM.TOO.OUU. Average jsw of tobacco, 5, 0 and 10 cents per pound. Total crop for IftTH. estimated at J.0U0,U0 pounds, worth nuOO.UOU sre cunvergiog into it from the east and north. Ansuoa la the oelural gateway of eosnsseree aud travel between the states east of the Missis sippi, and California and the I'asinc Ocean. J (routing on Mexico It is in praMtien to Mont by any developments winch may result frees th. I awakened intsrssU of our mchsls and Sanaa, lecturers in the travW of that country. Van will rsin.aiUr that before ear civil war, Can grass hail directed alaaaiscll' a for an sosrlseil route to the I'aeilic to be made 00 four duTeroul lines between the :i ." I end tilth parallels, and . upon oompanaon of results by the War I leper t- I went, the Ud panlUI eass ittlartl Ukf ess). A bill was accordingly Ira mail adopting this line; ami with a large grant of kaade and ssoaey had already passed the Hoase and was about passing the other, when event, .x. urviaf in Texas were snaounoad la .ingress, end Mas line of the road thrown to the north I'aesutg together through this gateway of Arisiiaa the united road will enter Memo by a trnak Han, which will be nourished li ten mdltoas of peo ple awl the sea of Ouaysaaa, while the I penetrate the states.