The Corvallis gazette., January 16, 1880, Page 4, Image 4

WEEKLY CORY ALL IS GAZETTE
CORVALLIS. -
JANUARY 16, 1880
ALARM HYMN.
I beans de alarm f'm de Dumber one box.
Listen, sionah, listen!
Hark how earnestly de angel knocks;
De fire is'hot an' hissin'.
Angels tappln' on de conscience bell,
Heab It, heab it baogin'!
Bltl a gre't big fire dey's a babbln' In hell;
Dat's why de 'larm bell's clangln'.
Afire datdelcglnes nebherglts aronnd;
SInnans brllin. fryln
Wbarde Habeock 'sllng'sbers kan't be found.
An' dey aln' no ute o' tryin'.
Flames is a burnt n' up higher n' higher
Surprlsln', ob, surprltiu'!
You has an intmstln dat fire,
An' de flames Is still a-rlsin'.
jump wben you hf ah dat warnin' chime;
Jump up, sinnabs, jump up!
Do your do in a berry quick time;
.Now is de time to bump up.
Kase yon kno dat you kan't afford
Hallelujah! besingin'I
To resk yo! souls, for dey ain't Inshored;
banquets dishes, the mere mention of
which seta, the gourmand agog wild
boar from the forests in which Arminius
brought the Roman legions to naught.
and sterlet from the more distant Volga.
The sterlet, which is to the sturgeon as a
smelt 13 to the whiting, arrives on some
lucky days at Eastwell packed in ice.
The eating of him is a species of celebra
tion, and very good indeed lie is wnen
"accommodated" after the genuine Rus
sian fashion. As a rule, music follows
dinner at Eastwell; but at times on the
days, for instance, when the Revue des
Deux Mondes arrives the Duchess of
Edinburgh, who reads a great deal in
several languages, will retire to her bou
doir to learn the last word of the French
authors, whom she knows as thoroughly
as the Russian poets and novelists, wnose
works are to be found wherever she is.
i There are no late hours at Eastwell; the
life in which is simply tnat of the young
parents of an interesting family, who find
fair, quiet and sweet rest among tne
Kentish woodlands. London World.
Heating Cities by Steam.
The:
lish, and in!
is delicioush
lifcht. brings &i
planes and beet
procession from?
flopped evergj
great pianipj
laughing mer
for the coldw1
at Home.
and Eng-
ison especially
While the un-
mL hues out of the
jere comes a merry
ie'Tiabyrinth of closely
In advance runs a
Sme five-year old boy,
id caring not an atom
has brought the color
into his eheekaJas he inns bv the side of
his pet dog, a 'fine blcjretriever, a gift
of a faithful, retaine&jwhose loyalty is
is oniy excsjeaeu Dy tan want oi imagina
tion iutiamin
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curlv?
a boiindt
vitotiorrto
arbrue
clines
tod
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SUM
roffi
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velvet jjfirafcbttJ
alPrince. Little
ly iniove with his
; canters along witn
head turned in m
romfe. Next comes
afor, in which re
cess, at whose side
highly amused as
white Maltese, who
along like the snowball he is named
after. Little Princess Marie is shaking
her sunny curls at her fair young moth
er, tne uuchess of Edinburgh, who,
dressed in a suit of blue serge of the
same hue as her children, is walking by
tne siue oi uany s perambulator, in an
other moment the watchful eye of the
head nurse has detected Prince Alfred in
a wild attempt to climb a plane tree, and
recalls the high-spirited boy with a single
word. All the Duchess' children have
bright, blue eyes, and are as free from
shyness or any symptom of "cudding"
as the sternest of infantile disciplinarians
coma aesire. They turn their beautiful
eyes with a frank, fearless look upon
tneir new acqumtance, and are on cor
ami terms at once. The morning prom
enade with their mother is a haoov time
for the children, who are accustomed to
go with her to Russia, to Germany, to
pannes, or wherever her temporary
ptaoe oi sojourn may be.
At this early hour the Duke of Edin
burgh is mostly to be found reading or
writing in his own morning room-a snug
apartment, wnicn, like a'l the others in
the house, is comfotably; not luxurious'
ly, furnished. Deformed as it is by ex
terior niaeonsness, Eastwell supplies an
excellent instance in favor of those nrac
tical people who insist that houses were
not made to look at, but be lived in. The
rooms are well disposed for the purpose
circuiuiiuii, ana tnose in use every
of
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day are on the ground floor. Dining
room, music-rooms, drawing-rooms and
DOUdoir are all on a level, and are there
fore delicionsly convenient and comfort
able, full of air and light. Two other
apartments on the first floor are of espe
cial interest to the select circle visiting
at Eastwell. These are the dav and the
night nurseries, absolute models of what
such apartments should be. To begin
with, they are of immense size, perfectly
ventilated and lighted, furnished with
light maple and cane furniture, and
completely free from the stiffness of deep
carpets and rugs. In the corner of the
day nursery is a military tent, a birthday
present from his father to Prince Alfred,
and treasured accordingly. It is a Spartan
l.l .1 f I i V . .
aiuu oi euiiice oi gray siripea material,
with a plain deal table and a stool the
kind of a tent that der alte Fritz, who
did not like dandy officers, loved to see
his own ensconced in. Before a brightly-
burning fire is one of those good
old-fashioned brass fire guards, sev
eral feet high, and to the left of this
the cots of the four little children are
arranged. The two youngest, tired of
the morning promenade, are fast asleep;
out tne nttie irince is obviously already
outgrowing the idea of going to bed at
midday, for he is laughing merrily at
the joke of being tucked up again after
nis glorious run with black Jfnnce. Lit
tle Princess Mane, with her shower of
fair hair spread over the pillows, and her
great bine eyes only half open, is a de
lightful subject for a painter a tiny
sleeping beauty in the prettiest of wood
lands.
This midday rest is part of the regular
programme at Eastwell, and appears to
be successful, if one may judge by pres
ent results, for finer and heavier chil
dren of their age than little Prince Al
fred and his sisters could hardly be found.
At midday the Duke- of Edinburgh has
got through his serious reading, and per
haps some practicing for the family mu
sical party of the evening, and is ready
for a drive round the park, which is
beautiful and spacious enough to afford
ample scope for any species of outdoor
entertainment. In the afternoon friends
arrive from the country side, from Lon
don, from Paris, from St. Petersburg.
Like the majority of those who prefer a
small circle of friends to the crowd and
noise of large assemblies, England's
Sailor Prince is thoroughly appreciated
by all who know him. He is emphat
ically what is called a quiet man cheer
ful, rather than joyous, pleasant, rather
than sparkling. Thoroughly German in
his taste for music and serious studies,
he is completely English in his domestic
life. No man is more pleased with the
perfect working of his establishment.
from the metropolitan inspector, who
with a brace of constables, keeps watch
and ward at Eastwell, to the clerk who
attends his private telegraph office. Old
habits of discipline picked up on the
Galatea, and confirmed by recent expe
rience afloat, cannot be lightly shaken
off, although the sportive humor of
early days have died out. Like his
brother, the Prince of Wales, the Duke
of Edinburgh likes good things in rea
sonable quantity, and is a steady oppo
nent of the German custom of turning
dinner into a wearisome ceremony, pro
tracted beyond all reasonable limit by a
cumbrous menu. At the little dinners
at Eastwell there is no bewildering num
ber of dishes, buta good, straightfor
ward bill of fare, which may be eaten
through with perfect enjoyment. Rare
things, however, appear at these modest
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
writes from Detroit as follows :
There is no Question that the working of the
Steam Supply company, of Detroit, is a complete
success. The works were bunt ana tne connec
tions made about a year ago, and the people have
had a full twelve months' experience ot it, end
the testimony of all its natrons is unanimous in
commending its cheapness, convenience and safe
v. The works here are situated on tne river
bank at the foot of Uriswold street, and at pres
ent the furtherest customer is a little Jess than a
mile awnv. leavins a large portion of the cit- un
supplied; but there are great demands for steam
from other localities. The managers express a
confidence in their ability to heat a much larger
area from the present furnace, but it may be nec
essary to construct other furnaces in order to sup-
nlv the demand in the outskirts.
The company now has throe miles and a half
of pipe laid in the city, furnishing heat to nearly
all the stores in the central part of the city and
to a large number of private residences, an'
power to about twenty elevators and other small
engines, and they will have all they can do in
the Miring to supply tne new uemanas.
All patrons of the company who have been
3oen by your correspondent express themselves as
perfectly satisfied with the experiment. They
say it is economical, saves dirt and the expense of
a hreman, and by reducing the chances oi nre
lowers the insurance rates. Mr. tliram walker,
a prominent capitalist, said to your correspondent
that he was thoroughly satisfied with the working
of the system in every detail, and considered i
the climax ot all adaptations in supplying am
hcial heat. Another prominent resident oi tort
street expressed his enthusiasm by saying that
the steam supply 13 a luxury even greater than
gas or water
the company is now tryinga recently invent
ei meter, which w.ll measure the amount of
heat consumed as accurately as a gas mater uieas
urea the amount of gas. It proposes to introduce
the system into some thirty or more cities next
spring.
Mrs. Hayes and the Norfolk Boys
During the afternoon a squad of the
Norfolk City Guard bethought them
selves of passing the time by a call at the
VV lute House. Y hue the soldiers were
walking around the reception-room
finding much to admire, a lady of most
kindly appearance approached, and with
much cordiality extended her hand to
the officer in charge, and, introducing
herself as Mrs. Hayes, said that she
recognized the splendid uniform of the
Norfolk City Guard, the commanding
omcer of which she had met $ne day. I
previous, and desiring to form the ac"T
quatntance of the members of the com
panv generally, she gladly availed her
self of this opportunity. She was then
introduced to each of the Norfolk
soldiery. Shaking them by the hand
with hearty good nature, she remarked
"That the President sometimes held
private little receptions unknown to her
but that she had stolen a march upon
her lord this time." The Guards then
spent a few moments, assisting Mrs
Hayes in dressing the room with flowers
in which task she was engaged at the
time of their entrance. Being furnished
by their kind hostess with a guide, they
proceeded through the public rooms of
the magnificent mansion. It is need
less to say that if it were possible Mrs
Hayes can be the next President so far as
the franchise of the Norfolk City Guards
is concerned. Norfolk Virginian.
A Queer House. An eccentric Eng
lishman has recently built a house in the
Quarter livoli for the residence of him
self, his wife and eight children, which
is the talk of all Varis. It is circular
and has neither door nor window exter
nally. The approach to it is from the
ground floor on to the roof by means of
a ladder, which is moved up and down
by machinery similar to that of a draw
bridge. There is only one floor, and that
contains eighteen apartments, more or
less small in dimensions, looking into
the center, which is lighted from abov
by a glazed cupola. One stove for all
these rooms is in the middle, and
summer its place is to be occupied by an
exquisite parterre of flowers. A circular
balcony, open to all the apartments, sur
rounds this space. The motive of this
odditv Is is. of course, onlv known to the
author of it, but everybody can see that
two points are gained by it immunity
irom the taxes on doors and windows
and a perfect preventive of any attempt
at burglary. .Boston Traveller.
Five Sundays. We are credibly in
formed that there will be five Sundays
in a ebruary of next year, and the same
veracious writer to whom we are indebt
ed for this fact supplements . his state
ment with the remarkable prophecy that
not until 1920 will another February be
able to boast such a plethora of first
Day. There is something remarkable in
the fact that this surplusage of Sunday
should occur in a leap year; it really
looks as though there were management
in this thing. But be that so or not.ejf
the unmarried young lady with yearn
ings after matrimony does not take
advantage of the coming bissextile
February with its quinary opportunities
for martial engagement, she is not the
unmarried young lady with matrimonial
yearnings we take her for.
Ihorraldsi n's Boyhood.
Young Thorvaldsen ' was not a perfect
character, and was by uo means as fond
of his studies as he was of drawing and
modeling. He loved art, but reading and
writing and recitations troubled mm. in
deed, his schoolmaster, Herr Chaplain
Hoyer, bad come to the conclusion that
Bert el Thorvaldsen was a dunce, and
would alwavs be in the lowest class. But
something happened to change his opin
ion.
There was a distribution of prizes at the
Fine Arts Academy, and a certain young
Thorvaldson received the silver medal.
Next morning Herr Hoyer read it in the
newspaper. OF course it could not be the
dunce, he thought, but it might be some
relative, whom he could hold up to the lad
as an example of industry. So, wben
Bertel came in, he said:
"Thorvaldsen. is it a brother of yours
who has just taken the prize at the Acad
emy?"
"It is mytelf, tlerr Chaplain," was tne
reply, and the modest lad was covered
with confusion.
Herr Hover gazed at him in utter as
tonish ment. Then he said in a changed
voice :
Herr Thorvaldsen, please to pass up to
the first class."
This was felt to be a great honor to
Bertel, not only the sending him to the
first class, but the calling him "Herr."
Herr" mean "Mai-ter." and though tue
boys always applied it to their teachers,
the teachers rarely, it ever appneu n to
one of thair scholars. Thorvaldsen said
afterwards that none of the distinctions
he enjoyed in latter years gave him quite
as much pleasure as this first one.
Thorvaldsen was seventeen years o.a
when he took the silver medal and re
ceived the title of "Herr." His success
insDired him to work harder than ever,
and gave him bright hope for the uture.
He was a quiet, reserveu youtn; seiaom
laughed or talked, and when he began his
dav's task no jesting of his companions
could divert his attention.
He worked with tremendous earnest
ness.
When he was twenty one he took an
other nrize. the irold medal: and at twen
tv-three he took a still higher, which
after two years was to give him a pension,
enabling him to study at Rome for three
vears. without expense to himself.
On the 8th ol March, hw, tne scuiptor
reached Rome. He used to say after
wards, that on that dav he was born. His
life at Rome was very interesting, but not
at first very easy; and it was only after
a long while that he began to prosper
there. ,
A Lawyer's Plea. Lawyer defending
cashier charged with embezzling 80,000
francs belonging to his employer: "No,
eentlemen of the jury, I have no desire
to extenuate my client's error for that
it is an error I can hardly deny. But
was he to blame? Was he to blame?
Who was it confided to him, a young
of weak character and easily led
The Tlchuornc Claimant in Prison.
A Self-Posieised Liar.
astray by the temptations which assail
his age who was it confided to him the
keeping of such large amounts of money?
If he had not been trusted with this
money he could never have misappropri
ated it. That stands to reason. Did he
take his employer by the throat and de
mand the keys of the safe, or break into
it? No; the keys were placed in his
keeping deliberate!
temFhini -toJiis
again, when 'Wy ttnhapgyIient had
yielded and was in his power, whatdjd
ediiim.
A Boy's Composition. Perhaps no
American school-boy's composition has
ever put "the Father of His Country" on
a stronger moral basis than this the
letter appears in a trans-Atlantic cotem
porary : "George Washington was a little
boy what once lived in Virginny what
had a nax give him by his ole man. Wen
Georges die man foun out what George
an the nother boy done.he called George
to him and he -ses, George Washington
who cutted the bark ofrn the cherry
tree? George ses i did. Tha ole man sais
you did. George ses i did and i cannot
tell a li. Why cant you tell a li, sais the
old man. Coz sais George if I tell a li
this here fellarl blow on me and then HI
be spancked twict. That rite sais the
old man whenever yer get into trouble
the esyist way out is the best.
Kate Field is said to have received
some stock and a money salary as a tele
phone agent, while in London. The
shares 'she took at 050 are now worth
01000 each.
the prosecutor doj! H
this conduct compatib
of trust, of regard? Why did he believe
that he had been robbed; or if he had
been why did he not prove his good
opinion of this young man by waiting
till he had paid back the sum? But he
did not do this. He procured this young
man's arrest at the moment that the
crushed penitent was seeking to hide his
shame in a foreign country ! Come down
from yonder witness-box, monster; come
down, thou heartless wretch, into the
dock, and tremblingly await the just re
ward of thy iniquities!
HUMOROUS.
The red rose is the fashionable flower
The Rhode Island twins, Senators An
tuony and Burnside, live in the same
house in Washington.
Gen. Crook was nearly frozen to death
last week, having lost Ids way while
hunting in the Platte Valley.
Francis Joseph gave King Alfonso'
bride, his cousin, a better outfit than he
gave his own daughter
Those embroidered bags of black
satin, that look like nothing so much
as foot muffs, are the fashionable tea
cosies.
The popular horse -shoe has now been
utilized for a hat rack. It is of
ebonized wood, with nickle-plated nails
for pegs. ,
A novelty in evening dress fabrics is
white toilet sanglier, boar's cloth, a
heavy all-wool material, dotted in raised
fine points.
Mrs. Langtry was skating at Brighton,
England, on parlor skates, in a rink.
One of the rollers came off and she fell
gracefully.
silks are growing prettier
The latest design shows
stripes of blue, alternated
with old gold.
Miss Susan B. Anthony thinks woman
is getting slice after slice and will have
the whole loaf by and by. Perhaps,
Susan; but isn't the loaf a little sour
down in Massachusetts?
The "Claimant" had left Dartmoor for
Portsmouth before my arrival at the
former place. I heard a good deal about
him, of course. He seems to have given
an infinity of trouble. His applicatiens
to address the Home Secretary, and to
have interviews with directors, Gover
nor, doctor and priest, were incessant.
He got admitted to the church choir for
reasons he obtained a more comfortable
seat, and he was excused from labor on
Saturday mornings that he might attend
practice,. The organist assured me that
he had no notion of singing, and that the
noise he made was something between
the chirp of a crow and the croak of a
raven. It was generally admitted by the
more intelligent prisoners who came in
contact with him that his habits and man
ners were vulgar. He was doing his
best, by the aid of French school-books
furnished him by the priest, to master
French language; and he made all sorts
of promises to a prisoner who was in the
next cell to him, and who could speak
French, if he would aid him, but this
man told me that he was very stupid at
it, and that his progress was very slow.
When the Claimant first went to Dart
moor, he seems to. have had a good friend
in the gentleman who was at time Gov
ernor of the prison. He was extremely
troublesome, constantly breaking prison
rules, and constantly being reported for
doing so; but so long as the Major re
mamed m command he was never pun
ished, and when he received visits from
his friend Dr. Kenealy and others, the
visits took place, contrary to regulations,
in the Governor s othce, and extra time
was allowed him. The advent of Captain
Harris as Governor, was a misfortune for
Castro, or Orton,' or whoever he may be.
I may here take the opportunity of doing
an act of simple justice to Captain Har
ris. 1 am quite sure that if the son or
brother of the secretary ot State were a
prisoner under his control, he would be
treated with precisely the same indul
gence as every other prisoner, and no
more. The Claimant when next he re
ceived a visit did so behind the bars, and
within the time specified by the rules
When reported for insolence he was
sentenced to two days' bread and water,
and he got a second punishment lor the
same offense and some others. By the
doctor's orders he had eight ounces of
additional bread per day and eight
ounces of potatoes, and on meat and
soup days he had increased rations
presume his friend Mr. Whalley worried
the Home secretary into having mm
transferred to Portsmouth, where, 1 am
told, he is fetching a tolerably easy "bag
ging." Perhaps the air there is not so
bracing, but at Dartmoor his appetite
was enormous. I know men employed
in the tailor's shop who did not heed all
their food, and who gave him some con
stantly; and the orderlies who carried
round the bread were in the habit of
yielding to his entreaties to shy him
loaf, if a "good screw" happened to be
on duty. By the way, a "good screw,
amongst the prisoners, means a man who
does not do his duty. I knew a little
Irishman who told me that one day he
was able to give the Claimant six boz
loaves, and that he came very near get
ting three days as a reward for his good
nature. The big man was verv unpopu
lar with some of his neighbors, who say
that he was a bad sleeper, and used to
ftpuff and blow and grunt and groan all
through the small hours. He was un-
r with the warders, because it was
with the greatest difficulty he could be
got to scrub his cell, or keep his cell fur
niture clean. But I won't say any more
about the fellow. I should think the
world has had enough of him in all con
science. From "Convict by a Ticket-of-Leave
Man."
A lot of human owls who flit around
the Palace hotel barroom at night, un
til daylight and the barkeeper drives
them home in the morning, were try
ing to outlie each other a few nights
ago, when a big-footed, long-armed
miner came in and sat down in the
corner.
"Yes," said one of the party referred
to a curbstone broker who was gen
erally considered the most cold-blooded
liar on Pine street; yes, gentlemen, l
have had some mighty queer experien
ces on this coast. When 1 hrst came
out I worked for three dollars a day in
the old Ophir shaft, and came terri
ble near los:ng my life once while up
there, too."
How wz that? asked one of the
party, waking up to relight his cigar
ette.
Well? it happened in this way.
Ugh! it makes me shudder to think of
it, even now. You see, I was being
hauled up on the cage with another
workman, when just after we had risen
about five hundred feet I saw that the
rope over our heads had unravelled
and was about to give way."
Great Scott!" said the barkeeper,
who was one of the best trained lie
abettors in the State.
It was a moment of frightful peril.
Our joint weight was too much for the
rope. One of us must bo sacrificed.
1 mentally contrasted myself with the
other man. He was a homely -looking
whisky drinking, accordion-playing
bachelor; I was a prominent Knight of
Pythias, with a brand new pair of
boots on, and two loving wives, and
say fourteen children somewhere out
on the surface waiting for me, I seized
the miserable wretch and hurled him
down into the darkness. Heavens! His
despairing shriek rings in my ears yet
Quick.barkeeper, a little morelbrandy.'
"And you were saved, of course?"
asked the big miner rising up and ap
proaching the story-teller.
"Well, you see, I'm here," rejoined
the latter, blandly.
"And the other man was mashed all
to pieces, you think?"
"Think, why, certainly.
"That's just where you're wrong, old
hoss. I was that man."
"Why why, it's impossible. That
was fifteen years ago," stammered the
broker.
"Exactly. I lit on a side beam, about
ten feet down,, and was scooped up b;
the next cage, and for twenty years
have been praying, for a chance to lick
your hide clean off for your infernal
selfishness."
"But this is the most preposterous"
gasped the broker, getting on the other
side of the table, as the big stranger
deliberately took off his coat.
"Oh, it is, is it?" put in the other
grimly. iou think 1 11 have a man
shy me down the Ophir shaft, and then
go round telling it for the beer. Stow
I'll tell you what I'll do. Set up the
champagne for the whole crowd, and
I'll call it square. If you don't, I'll
break every bone in your body -with
this bungstarter."
And the hzz was according set up
since when the broker has told the
same yarn with variations over eight
hundred times. He says he's paid a
big price for that story, and he s bound
to get his money's worth out of it, if it
takes all winter.
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pompadour
Horatio Seymour says that to see gray
beards scrambling for place and power
reminds him of Holbein's "Dance of
Death," and he will never be found
making one in such a cotillion.
The nephew of the French Minister of
Finance, M. Say, is on a trip around the
world in the yacht Henrietta, formerly
Mr. Boucicanlt's Shaughraun, having
sailed from New York last week.
"The august widow of Napoleon III.
gave her hand to be kissed by everybody
that she knew," is the way the reporter
of a French newspaper dercribes the
scene where Eugenie arrived at the
Biarritz railway station on her way to
Madred.
In a recent court martial trial one of
the disputants closed bis argument in a
way that, to say the least, was novel, and
which ran something in this wise: "From
what I have said, your Honor, the law in
this case appears to be about all on our
side, and if it does not so appear, it is
the fault, not of the law, but of a feeble
interpretation.
An Ohio man rushed out of his house
the other night in an almost nude state,
and was arrested by the police. He
claimed that he had seen his father's
ghost. This way of playing Hamlet with
nothing on but a red-flannel nightshirt
and a green cornplaster is peculiarly an
Ohio idea. A healthy public sentiment
should nip it in the bud at once.
My Rnles For Living.
I am no doctor, quack or pill-vender,
yet I have had a pretty good long life
and a happy one. May I not, therefore,
give my simple rules for health in hope
that some poor traveler on the up or
down hill of life may look at them and
perhaps be benefitted by them. I have
practiced them for many years and they
may have done me good; perhaps they
may do good to others. They are inex
pensive and may be easily abandoned, if
they cause any harm.
1. Keep in the sunlight just as much
as possible. A plant will not thrive with
out the sunbeam; much Jess a mari.
2. Breathe as much fresh air' as your
business will permit. This makes fresh
blood; but it will never be found within
the four walls af your building. Beneath
the open sky, Just there, and only there,
it comes to you.
3. Be strictly temperate. You cannot
break organio law, or any other lav, with
impunity.
4. Keen the feet alwavs warm and the
head cool. Disease and death begin at
the feet more commonly than we think.
5. Eat white bread when you cannot
get brown bread.
6. If out of order see which of the
above rules you have not observed, then
rub yourself au over with a towel satu
rated salt water , and well dried and begin
upon the rules again.
7. Look ever on the bright, which is
the heaven side of life. This is far better
than a medicine.
These seven simple rules, good for the
valid or the invalid, if rightly observed,
would save, I apprehend, a deal of pain,
prolong your life, and, so far as wealth
goes, make it worth having.
Wild Animals in Africa. Although
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toward the interior of Africa is driving
the wild animals further and further in
land, and though they are consequently
difficult to reach in the more inaccessible
haunts to which they h'ane retreated, yet
the larger wild animals have, with one or
two exceptions, scarcely suffered any
diminution from the advancing tide of
civilization. Ostriches have suffered,
perhaps, most, but only to exchange a
wild for a domesticated state. Elephants
are frequently seen within a short dis
tance of the southern and southeastern
coasts. Hippopotami are abundant.
Even the larger beasts of prey are by no
means uncommon, and tigers are especi
ally depredators. If the reports of
diamond diggers in the northwest are to
be believed, a new animal has lately
made its appearance as a candidate for
the honor of being chased by an enter
prising sportsman. It is called by the
bushman or natives; the "bear lion"
and is described as being about the size
of a lion, but far stronger in make, and
with a tremendous head and neck. Its
legs are much shorter than a lion's, but
much stouter, and it is apparently far
more powerful. Its color is a dark
yellow, with black spots. It runs or
creeps along 'Che ground, but does not
bound like, a lion. It has sometimes
been seen accompanied by a smaller one
probably a cub so that the race is ap
parently not yet quite extinct, whatever
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ex lepting by some liberal members of
the Franklin Institute. The budding
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one of his promoters was Mr. Charles
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lsting weather service.
Espy must have come to the city in '28
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county and where he got his bia3 toward
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The Franklin Institute was open to all
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the atmosphere, such as the firing in
great battles, was often followed by local
rains of violent character. Inasmuch as
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since got to be called the dew point of
atmospheric pressure, he thought that
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firing them simultaneously when the
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mathematics in the Navy Department.
Even this small bone was stoutly dis
puted by many of the economic legisla
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From a Kerehan t.
Dayton, W. T. Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
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Sir: The Truss I purchased of you one year ago
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