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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1879)
November, 1879. THE WEST SHORE. 337 niMMngera to the neighboring rancberiaa, Mob bearing a string whereon ia tiod a number of knot. livery morning thereafter the invited Chief unties one of the knots, and when the but one ia reached, men, woman and children joyfully aet forth for the dance. Scarification and prolonged motion with the mouth are the itaple methods of cure among their shamans or physicians, aome of whom are women. In oaae of oolda and rheumatism they apply California Balm of Uilead ('irra gmn A is) externally and internally. 8tomachio af fectiona are treated with a plaster of hot ashes and moiat earth. The shaman's prerogative ia that he must be paid in advance, usually fresh elaiu deer or ao many yards of shell mouey; the patient' prerogative ia that if be disa his friends may kill the shaman. Their favorite dance ia the acorn dance, in which the whole company join bands and dance in a cirole. Instead of a dance for the dead, there is an annual mourning (nwi-yu) in which loud and demonstrative waitings and tearing of hair are indulged in by one or more villages assembled in a cirole. ( Vernation very generally prevailed among the Mi-wok, but waa not universal. The In dians high up in the rnouotaioa buried their dead, while those about Chinese Camp alwaya burned. They have a legend that man waa created by a coyote, probably the modification of the tradition of aome Indian tribes that their nationa sprung from the remains of a coyote, in strict aoooraanoa with the modern cultured doctrine of evolution. MEMORY IN DimULNT PEOPLE. I TaavBUrt aroaa.-Maay of aw reader Inhut Stihob. The pain caused by the sting of a plant or inaect is the result of a oertain amount of acid poison injected into the blood. The lint thing to be done ia to press the tube of a small key from aide to aide, to facilitate the expulsion of the sting and its accompanying Kison. The sting, if left in the wound, should carefully extracted; otherwise it will greatly increase the local irritation. The poison of stings being acid, oommon senae pointa to the alkalies as the proper means of cure. Among the most easily procured remedies may lie men tioned aoft soap, liquor of ammonia (spirits of hartahorn), smelling aalta, washing soda, quick lime made into a paste with water, the Juice of an onion, tobacco juice, ohewrd tohacon, bruised dock leaves, tomato juioe, wood ashes, tobacco ashes, and carbonate of soda. If the ating be severe, rest and ooolneas should lie added to the other remedies, more especially in the caee of nervous subjects Nothing ia an apt to make the poison active as heat, and nothing favor ita activity leas than oold. I .-t the body be kept cool and at rest, and the activity of the poison will be redueed to a min imum. Anv active exertion whereby the circu lation ia quiokened will increase both pain and swelling. If the swelling be severe, the part may be rubbed with aweet oil or a drop or two of laudanum. Stings in the eye, ear, mouth or throat sometimes lead to carious oonerqusnoee. In such cases medical advice should always be sought as soon as possible. M. Delauney has nude a communication to the Sorters dt taloyit respecting memory as studied under various biological conditions. The inferior races of mankind, such as Nagroea, the Chinese, etc, have mure memory than thoae of a higher type of civilisation. Primitive races whioh are unacquainted with the art of writing had a wonderful memory, and were (or agea in the habit of handing down from one grueratiou to another hymns as voluminous as the Itibla. Prompters and profesaora o( declamation know that women have more memory than meu. French women will learn a fnretiiii lanuuaite quicker than their husbands. Youths have more memory than adults. It is well developed in children, attains ita maximum about the Mth or loth year, and then decreases. Feeble indi viduals of a lymphatic temperament have mora memory than the strong. Students who obtain the prise for memory and recitation chiefly be long to the former class. Parisian students have also less memory than those who eonie from the provincea. At the Koide Normal and and other sahools, the pupils who havs the I teal memory aru not the moat intelligent The mem ory is more ilevc!oed among the ieasanlry than among the citisens, and among the clergy meu than among the laity, The memory remains in tact in diseases of the left side of the brain, and ia much affected in those of the right, from' whioh it msy lie luferred thst the right sole is more the aaatof this faoulty than the left Prom a physiological point of view, memory la dimin ished by nver-fcedinu., by physical eierclae, and by education, in this sense, that the illiterate have potentially mora memory than thoae who know how to read and writ. We remember, moreover, better in the morning than In the evening, in the summer than in the winter, aud iietter in warm man in com climates ssessssry is, therefore, to a certain extant, ll inverse pro. jairtion to nutrition, and more than that. It is in inverse proportion to svoluti sine it Is greatest in those individuaU who are the least advanced from an evolutionary point of view inferior race, women, children, the feeble, etc. In short, aconrding to M Delauney, there ia an evolution of the memory, which ia llrsl sensorial, literal, and then intelligent ; bat memory, properly speaking, diminishes inversely a Ike evolution. JfenW I'rttt nml Wniir. Paoam Wudoa,. It i related in the Koran that two angels guard every man on earth, one watching oa either aide of bin; and whan at night he sleep they fly np to Heaven with a written report of all his words and actions dur ing the day. Every good action is recorded at once and ten timea over, so tnai no ivevn anas, v.r h. ln.t from the account Hat when they come to sinful thing, the angel on lb right aye to his comrade. "Porbear for asven boars to record that Pared renters, as be wakes and iho.v. U ska m.i hones ha BUT be enny for it and repeat, and pray and obtain Iwfl r""";" The moral of this is mat every owe as pause before we proceed to judge oar neigh!-; for it may happen thai w are ei a. . thai if,, van defect of which we cm i.lam nvav vanish in a moment. -TV sWatis at mirror. Bruin Work AM Brain Pxvsuirsusrr. -Accordiug to th (laullt ilti n.,.,,.,,,,, MSI latoassagnc and Cliquet have examined, by the aid of the rmfnrmatrur, the brails uf IW) doe. tors of medicine, 133 rudimentarlly educated, 00 illiterate, and 01 prieoner soldiers, with the Inflowing r. Mills ; Wanirters Is-rUa-a Motets. HiMsHsnsleS MMM i1riiui s si irt r ii si i frontal is si tast si as Silt Parietal Mi . Mil There I thus a oonaidereMe .ItfJereuoa la favor of the doctors, aad thia is especially marked in the frontal eseawureaieiils More over, the two sides of taw bead are aet sym metrical u Ike edeoated the frontal regies at more developed to tha left, ,n tli- ui.r.ln-atc-1 the occipital region la mure developed W the rtgkt The bead la Ian (re developed) ia the oaae of the ednoalesl then in those of in active tatcUigeaaa, Among tba educated the frontal region Is score developed la janipJea than tba oseimtel I aad if the diftercaec la greater in tba occipital It M vary trifling, while am g th illiterate H Is coaawlceaUa ........ u SUV .......... .,......, e of Australia. Similar curtueltlee have tly lieeu found lu Nevada, which erode- orilied as almost perfectly round, the maj only of them as large as a weiuut, aud of an irony nature, hen distributed shout upon the Hour, table, or other level surface, within two or three feet of each other, they Immediately begin traveling toward a common center, aud there lie huddled uii In a bum li like a lot of egga in a neat A single stone, removed to a distance of three and a naif feat, upon twing released, at once stalled off, with woinlerl.il and somewhat Domical celerity, to join Its fellows; taken away four or live feet, it remedied molioules. Tk' are found in a region that la coniparallvaly level, aud Is nothing hut bare naik. rluatlared over this barren region are little (asms, from a low feet to a rod or two in diameter, and it is lu the bottom uf those that the rolling stones are found. They are from the else id a pea to lira or III Inches In diameter. The cause of theaa stones rolling together Is doubtless to lie Ion in I in the material of whieh they are com. I,se., which appear to he loadstone or mag netle iron ore. Hrolnae f'sfg A'ererpriee. AMatal. Ill hush An insect which produce a species of ludu rubber has been nasally die covered in the district uf Yucatan, Central America, by an American espbsrer. It ta called Nccn, aad belongs to the Camus leuoly ; feede ou the mango tree, and swarms in these regions It is uf considerable else, yellowish brown lu color, and emit a peculiar oily adaf The body of the insect enntalua a large proportion of grease, which Is highly prised by the native for applying In the skin on aeenuul uf He medi cinal prnpvrtie. When espneaH to great heal the lighter oils of tba grease volatilise, leaving a lough wax hehlnd which reeemblee sheila. , and may be used for msking varnish or lanquer When burnt this was pnaluceee Ihnkeeml Held mess, like a eolation of India rubber, and It la aiiMseted thai this glutinous llqald will be wary valuable for cement awl welertwoiineg A lUi I wild Tin o Tnsis Pssr Mr Tremlett, the llrllish Consul, si Saigon, in Me report this year, mentions as a remarkable m cullarlty of the nsllvee of the country that they have Ibe great toe of each bait sciesrated from the others, like the thumb id lbs bead, end II csn las usl in much Ihs same manner, tk'Migk not to the aarae client Thic distinctive mark of an Annamtla Is not, however, asoally seea la the vicinity of Saigon, bat ta now confine. I to the inhabitants of the more northern isstlna of the empire, where the rare ha n man,.. I more distinct. This peculiarity la the meaning of the native Basse for the Acuamite race; aad that the name and peculiarity arc of great an Uqally Is shown by the menllias In Chinese annals IK) II C as thai lor those i of one of th "four berberies" tribes thel then f.afsaesl be hound a1 aw of the Chlnccc Kwplre. i i ami's Fcua A carlo Instance of partial loss of memory la mcalloacd In Ike rren h pepare A painter, who was stalling a friend at S.-eaei, was standing n balenay ea tke ee. oimI Iba-f, when he ifverfaslaiHwd and fall oa the ground below Kverv owe rushed stairs, si peeling to Had him dead, h I he on sly Cubed himaalf up awl eaciaed eakerl vVkea, cwevef, he lamed l eddreee his Meeds, Is A ymutaU ve tared, ia ecomeal ef eea m lality at the Duke of Welltagtoa'a table, to ml this aMtioa to kts "Allow m to ash. ac -....I.I b..s taa.rH.lM lhals eeseaal Ifa had f rtoa his owa, aad, to his IstsN eaioaiahmeal, ala found that be so Id east recall sin, I. sulsstaotiis He eaa lamarmaee. ea after tba other, Ike letters of whack the names of his wife aud dMgkter are coapoacd, bail he le enable to eaits theaa lato one ward taasfca TVaeelrr Tai.BrN i" Matin The tWeeileea gov sent has ureceatsrl to the I .ofta lasers a pro lor eelaMiahtag a gcacial cy sicca of lebs ass. to Sfsread ell ever law nspcklie like a el this MMM a eras "Allow me ao eaa. ea sacs tm sssai i 1 - s - M are all IrtowU bore. 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