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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1874.
Two suicides and attempt at the
third, in San Francisco, last week.
Germany protests against French
aid to Carlists.
The steamship Idaho has been
temporarily withdrawn from plying
between Portland and 'Frisco.
Bismarck's eon killed Zearskow-
an, an infantry officer at DusseMort,
in a duel, recently.
I.
The Spanish Government propos
es to send 12,000 Store troops to
Cuba.
Local Option was everywhere
defeated in Kentucky, and the Dem
ocrats elect the clerk of the Court
of Appeals.
TagitK is one good thing about
those white gauze veils; a woman
who powders looks as respectable
behind one of tbem as a woman who
doesen't.
If you want to find out a man's
real disposition, take him when be
it wet and hungry. If he is ami
able then, dry him and fill him up,
and you have an angel.
Tilton alleges' that Miss Su
san B. Anthony made her life mis
erable. We have before heard it
intimated that Susan was unbear
able. It is rumored that the Spanish
Republicans have gained another
brilliant victory under General Mo
riones, in Nevarre, scooping some
1,500 Carlist prisoners.
Beecher is reported to be in high
spirits, weighing more than he has
for yean. Well, well, some people
nave remarkably elastic consciences,
which enables them to grow fat un
der the most adverse circumstances.
On the 4th a reservoir broke at
Trenton, N. J., flooding an area ot
one mile in length and three hun
dred yards in width. Many houses
swept away, but no lives lost
Chief Cockri II is taking vigorous
measures to abate the hoodlum nu
isance of that city. This boodlnm
business js engaging the attention
of our best citizens in places other
than 'Frisco.
It is now said that Theodore Til
ton's handwriting so closely resem
bles Beecher's that it requires an
expert to tell totber from which.
Put this and that together.
A boat containing Herod Wells,
wife and three children, and a Miss
Smith, was upset in the bay at Se
attle, W. T., on the 4th inst. All
were rescued but' Mrs. Wells and
her youngest child, both of whom
were drowned.
The mills on the Palonse, W. T,
have been running on half time of
late, oq account of low water. In
some localities grain has been dam-
sooae extent oy tne excess-
ive bota, anwill not turn out as
well
HsrtJi last story, "Join
Oakhurst," was written in a single
night, and the JV". F- Times paid
him $500 tor it Good wages, that
Telly Qo-vMdPhet-
son has got an
lie for Douglas ooonfy,
1 !
Vic Woodbull, woo - aay she
held to her heaving bosom for the
space ot three successive months,
the much-Beechered Theodore Til.
ton, now threatens to come to the
front and give "some truths not
now known, and some facts which
are not now understood." Well,
let her throw herself in sight at
once ; we shall not put a straw in
her way ; let her show op.
Prohibition ot the sale of intoxi
cating beverages has been more
thoroughly tried, perhaps, in Mass
achusetts than in any other State of
the Union. The S. F. Chronicle's
Boston correspondent, after a careful
and elaborate review of the entire
subject, pronounces prohibition in
Massachusetts a failure.
On the 31st nit., in Chicago, oc
curred one of those gigantic "corn
ers" which every now and then ag
itate the commercial circles of the
large cities. The corner was in oats
and corn. Corn was run up to 85c
a bushel, and oats to $1. The spec
ulation iu corn was manipulated by
a combination that controlled 7,
500,000 bushels. The combination
was successtull, and an immense
amount ot grain changed hands.
The whole thing was confined to
speculators, and the markets of
the surrounding cities were not af
fected. General Sherman is occasionally
given to indulge in a fine sardonic
vein. The General recently said :
"The Indian Bureau has ted the
Indians all winter, and the ponies
are fat So the savage warrior is in
fine trim for the acquisition ot fresh
scalps and plunder. Next fall they
will all be taken back and fed,"
This is one side of the picture, says
the Chronicle, strongly painted. It
would take an experienced Indian
Agent, who has made a fortune by
swindling the Government and its
red-skinned wards with even-handed
impartiality, to do justice to the
other.
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T lie Mormons are at wonc on the
Indians) again, having baptized fif
teen or twenty lodges of Sboshones
and Snakes recently. Leishman and
young Brigham, at a meeting a
few days ago, called the Indians
"the battle axe of the Lord and
ofZiofr," and declared that the
Order of Enoch must take and train
and instruct them. It is believed
that the Mormons intend making
use of the Indians as heretofore, in
case of any trouble with the Fed
eral authorities, in assassinations
and murders. It possible the Indi
ans should be removed' far enough
to be entirely out of the control and
influe nee of the Mormons.
A correspondent in Utah charges
that the comet or the d 1 has
given that part of the country a
succession of the most terrific thun
der storms ever witnessed there.
For ten days storm succeeded storm,
upon a seals of grandeur only ap
proached by heavy artillery of mod
ern invention.
On the morning ot the 5th, the
steamboat Pat Rogers, near Aurora
on the Ohio, was burned with her
cargo of cotton. Six persons were
lost Boat was valued at 160,000;
insured for $85,000.
Moult-on has returned to New
York, and says he will testify it
both parties desire it ; the matter
has gone so far all the facts ought
to come out. How kind and con,
sideraw is Mmiltoo.
Pz.PrwMeitto M UfMteantora.
A proposition is now being dis
cussed to make ex-Presidents ineli
gible to re-election, but to make
them Senators at large ot the United
States for life. The proposition is
certainly foreign to the character of
our political system, but neverthe
less has some features that may
commend it to popular favor. An
argument in favor of the proposition
is that a life-term Senator would be
above all party prejudice and con
trol, and beyond the reach, too, of
Executive influence. His official
life would be free from all tramel
and control, so long as he commit
ted no misdemeanor iu office. His
political future would not extend
beyond his office of Senator. He
would be above political revolutions
and changes, and could not be de
prived of office by the people or
President. Under such conditions,
if he possess the ability and instincts
ot a statesman, there would be ab
solutely nothing in the way of his
reaching the topmost round in the
ladder of fame as a statesman. The
creation of the office of life Senator
would open a future to ex-Presidents,
who now, to all intents and
purposes, when they leave the White
Houe, are politically dead. Rais
ed by the conditions of his office
above the strife of parties, he might
become ot greater service to his
country than ever before. The
number of life Senators would nec
essarily be limited, there probably
never being more than three or four
at one time. The proposition cer
tainly has many features to com
mend it, while its agitation will
doubtless bring out all the objec
tionable ones.
A synopsis of Mrs. Tilton's testi
mony is published. She avers that
Tilton cared little for his family ;
that he often left her entirely alone
without coal, or food, or help, and
was constantly telling her of his
wrong doings with other women.
When Beecher began visiting the
bouse he became insanely jealous,
and in the winter of 1869 began
accusing her of criminal intercourse
with Beecher. She tried to give
Tilton full accounts of her conver-
sations with Beecher, but he de
clared she lied and was concealing
something, and was continually try
ing to make her confess, paying he
had seen her setting on Beecher's
lap. His treatment ot her was
harsh and often violent The let-
ten used by Tilton were written by
him and copied by her when sick
and out of her head. Her confes
sion to Miss Anthony was not that
she had committed adultery with
Beecher, but that her husbanaV -ac
cused her of it. She says Tilton
alone is responsible tor the disrup
tion ot the family.
Physicians declare thafrVaiiEten,
the California bond forger'; recently
arrested in New Jersey, and who
was found in a dying condition in
his cell on the 1st inst, a two-ounce
vial of laudanum by his bedside,
was not poisoned but died of con-
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Fact. -When your pocket-book
is empty, not a stamp in it, and
everybody knows it, you can put
all your friends in it and it won't
bulge out worth a continental.
A little boy was asked about
the story ot Joseph, and jt, he knew
what wrong his brethren done in
disposing ot him when he replied,
"I suppose they sold Mm toe cheap,"
HEALTHY KMOINU,
The present is generally the dull
est portion of the year for news-
gatlierers. Harvest times, gener
ally so prolific in items, has hardly
commenced, and the world at large
seems to be idly whiling away the
"heated term" (sometimes calleJ
"dug days"), netting ready fiif the
great carnival ot items which al
ways follows these few weeks ot
rest and quiet. Beyond the Tilton
Beecher scandal, which already be-gin-
t pi I lieapietiie f the most
prurient, there is really nothing to
induce startling capita's and huge
headlines. In view of these facts,
we have concluded that a few sea
sonable health items might not come
amiss, and may be productive of
much god. With this introduc
tion we give the following facts, col
lated from various sources :
Not one growing child in ten can
be confined iu school more than
three hours a day without mi tiering
more or less debility or endangering
life.
Most of the school-houses in our
cities, and not a few in the country
are pest-houses, very much in the
sense that tenement houses are
The most prevalent complaint
among ladies at the present day is
headache ; and careful investiga
tion will prove that this trouble has
rather increased than diminished
since the present stylo ot wearing
hair came in vogue involving, as
it does, the loading ot the head with
such a quantity ot foreign materia
The dyspeptic person should
avoid hard water as he would hard
drugs, for all the hard waters on
earth are only drugs in solution
Those who would have perfect
digestion should not drink any
thing at meals. Drinking should
always be done before, after, or be
tween meals.
Milk is especially pernicious in al
complicated and obscure cases of
indigestion to which the phrase
"nervous debility" is usually ap
plied.
One of the great and increasing
evils of imperfect mastication is de
caying of teeth. It is a law of all
vital organisms that every struc
ture or post must do its own work
or die.
Corsets are the degeuerators of
one sex as much as tobacco and liq
uor are the enemies of the other.
Ladies suffering from nervous de
bility in summer should beware ot
otretaxercjsing The fault with too
many invalids is that they overdo
when trying to recruit, and thus se
riously retard their improvement.
Domestic animals that are per
mitted to live normally never have
decayed teeth.
- Women '' healthily tfricl : happily
employed are not usually in ill-
health. Hannah Moore wrote elev
en books after the age of 60. Sarah
J". Hale is now 85, and is still edit-
The influence of imagination on
the vital functions has always been
recognized, and it was this recogni
tion that enabled the ancient physi
cian to besosuccessfnll with charms,
amulets and incantations.
Parasols, except in the middle of
the day, during the "heated term,"
are parnicious things, as are the veils
with which so many fashionable la
dies shade their faces. '
The most prevalent error in pri
vate .houses is insufficient ventila
lion of bed-rooms. Young children
and infants, though born, Wfch fcir
organizations, art often rendered
puny and scrofulous by sleeping in
unventtlated rooms.
The sugar insect, which is the
cause of that tormenting skin affec
tion known as the "grocers itch," is
found in nearly all the brown su
gars of commerce. More than 100,
000 have been found in a single
pound ot "merchantable" sugar.
Water-drinking between meals
should be according to thirst It is
a mistake to load a weak stomach
with cold water on the theory that
it is a tonic. As a habit, it is well
to take a tumbler, or a pari of one,
of pure, soft water after dressing in
the morning.
The prevalent custom on the part
of most women, of wearing the hair
twisted into a mass on the top or
back of the head, and the more
modern and still more pernicious
custom ot loading the head with
false hair, or substances resembling
it, is a source of headache, and indi
rectly a cause of dyspepsia.
It is impossible for any child
whose mother has diminished her
breathing capacity by lacing to
have sound and vigorous organi
zation. It girls will persist in ruin
ing their vital organs as tbey grow
up to womanhood, and if women
will continue this destructive habit,
the race must inevitably deteriorate.
Ereetncss is one of the most obvi
ous laws of vital machinery. Yet
almost everyone is crooked. "Bless
ed are the upright," physically as
well as morally.
The only method which has ever
proved effectual for preventing or
curing consumption is to keep the
lungs expanded as much as possi
ble. For this purpose breathing
tubes, spirometers, blow-guns, lifting-machines,
and other gymnastic
contrivances have been found use
ful. All kinds of food which are only
semi-solid, or composed of solid par
ticles diffused in water, as pud-
lings, stews, mushes, gruels, soups,.
etc., should always be taken with
dry bread, hard crackers, green ap
ples, or something similar, and eat
en very slowly.
A deleterious practice, common
in out large cities especially, is
the excessive use of ice-cream and
soda-water.
Everybody has fine teeth in the
East Women" there at ninety
have perfect teeth, and seldom one
under fifty loses a single incisor or
cuspid, or even a molar.
Tobacco using directly fearfully
lessens the breathing capacity. This
is one reason why tobacco users re
quire more sleep than others, other
circumstances being equal.
Tobacco using in young persons
has the same effect in diminishing
the breathing capacity that tight-
acing (which is so alarmingly on
the increase again) has. Examples
are indeed sadly frequent on the
thoroughfares of our great cities of
young ladies who have destroyed
more than half ot their breathing
capacity by this disgraceful habit of
tight-lacing. Their wan, expres
sionless faces, harsh, contracted fea
tures, with bilious 4icolorations of
thtf skin, proclaim in language that
cannot be mistaken, deficient respiV
ration. And the aiunterpart of
these appearances and indications
may.be seen in numerous young
men Who promenade the streets be-;
hind lighted cigars.
For bathing purposes, as for
drinking and cooking, there is no
great difference between pure and
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