VALLIS GAZETTE
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ORVALLIS,
ORECON.
TO WALT WHITMAN.
Walter H. Thorns.
O, rich fulfillment of the Prophecies,
By God's own linger writ on every han.l,
In plain and mountain of thy native land,
Its boundless prairies, rivers, lakes and sens,
O Bard ! with thought aud speech befitting
these,
And soul in all as generously p'anuedl
Present in these, by Nature's largess, stand
And voice themselves the world's democra
cies. All Power, that wait on freedom, thee at
tend, And breathe in every cadence of tliv song;
And every impulse that doth work the Will
That shapes the world forever to the end,
That heaven in man shall yet itself fulfill.
Is thine ally and shall thy versa prolong.
TWO BAD BOYS.
Some of the Thins They Iiu To a
Han of Altitude and Alcohol.
New York Sun.
Shortly after 4 p. m. a long man came
over the bridge, and, on arriving at the
steps on the New York end, uttered a
shriek, aud shot down to the sidewalk,
whence he coasted cheerily into the
guttir.
"Thash a silly thing to do," he said,
after a moment's deep reflection. "i
small cat would know better'n that."
Then he resumed his torn hat, put the
lighted end of his cigar in his mouth,
took it out and put it in his trousers
pocket, aud achieved a position that
bordered upon the upright. Presently
his face expiessed a pang. He thrust
his hand into his pocket, pulled out the
cigar, put it in his mouth, smiled, and
began to pick his way in a perverse and
labyrinthic course toward the city hall.
Two small boys, with their chins de
pressed, their shoulders humped, and
their hands in tbeir pockets, trudged
along the eastern edge of the park. One
of them stooped and looked at the man
who had just escaped a perilous maze
composed of equal parts of bobtail cars,
eight-horse sweepers, and milk trucks.
"Scotty," he cried, in the clear ring
ing tones of happy childhood, "get on
to his jogs wid the busted dicer."
They darted toward the long man
and, seizing him by the arms on either
side, conducted him with gentleness
and kindness to the sidewalk. The man,
who evidently saw eight-horse sweepers
and bobtail cars careering fiercely
about him on every side, muttered his
thanks and asked them to start him
toward the Sixth Avenue cars. The
boys started him. They began with a
slow walk, but increased the speed until
the unfortunate man was tearing along
the eastern walk of the park at a rate
that bore the impress of disaster in
every frantic lunge. Ice and suow as
well as alcohol and speed perplexed
his feet. As he approached the curb
formed by the asphalt piazza which
runs across the park, the boys gave him
a shove, and lie went sprawling over the
edge and shot south.
Ultimately he stopped. After con
sidering tilings for awhile lie struggled
into a sitting posture and looked at his
hat, which was about ten feet in ad
vance of him. At this point one of the
boys slid a iarge and irrii;iiig iaioie
down the back of the man's neck. The
man evidently fe't the passage of the
ice down bis spine and its subsequent
lodgment. He looked as though life
was not worth living. Then the other
boy picked u the bat, ran with it to
the fountain, and set it on one of the
four corners. With a snort of rage the
bedraggled and ice hampered man
plunged after his hat. He fell four
times, and when he arrived at the
fountain found that his hat had been
removed to another corner. He pur
sued it until he had slipped and strug
gled around the fountain a dozen times
after the always-elusive hat, and then a
brawny policeman came along, seized
him by the collar, and yanked him
backward with :
"Phat kind of an exhibition iz this
here, anyway V Y'oughter be ashamed
uv yersel. On a Sunday, too."
" Take me to th'bridge, pleash,"
moaned the man.
He was dragged there. As he put
his arm around the bridge policeman's
neck he muttered slowly :
" Send me home in the carsh.
Sendmebacktobrooken . Lemetoutf n
york." Postal facilities Years Aso.
Respecting the early postal facilities
in Texas, a writer of The Galveston
News says : " The intelligence of the
death of President Jackson was brought
to Galveston by the master of an Italian
brig, whose craft had stopped at the
mouth of the Mississippi and received a
New Orleans paper containing an ac
count of the death of ' Old Hickory.'
Neither the captain nor any of the crew
being able to read English, the paper
was untouched until three days after
the arrival of the brig at this port, when
it was accidentally discovered, and the
tidings were given to the people of
Texas fourteen days after the presi
dent's death."
Earthquake and Telephone.
Chicago Herald.
During the late great Java earthquake
it was discovered that it was utterly im
possible to use the telephone at Singa
pore in consequence of the effect of the
phenomenon on the wires. The instru
ments produced sounds like those of a
distant waterfall.
Rublin Deserted.
Exchange.
The aristocracy have fled from Dub
lin. In 178 twelve peers and fourteen
members of parliament had permanent
residences in Upper Sackville street;
now there is not a single nobleman resi
dent in the city.
Prof. Swing : There is a good and
bad skepticism the good being that
which hopes the good is true, and acts
as though it were true ; the bad being
that which hastens to a conclusion in
harmony with a lawless character.
Frederic Harrison : The fault of the
churches is that they are not religious
enough ; in their eagerness to be spirit
ual they are ceasing to be human.
THE HOME OF REPTILES.
Through the Kverslale of Fiorida--Myriads
of Leeches, Alligators and
Snakes.
The New Orleans Times-De-noerat
prints a detailed account of its Florida
Everglades expedition. The report was
written by Maj. A. H. Williams, com
mander ot the expedition. The explor
ing party consisted of twelve uorsona,
six white and six colored, and carried
six Racine canoes. They went by steamer
on October 17 last, from Cedar Keys to
Puntarassa. Fla.. where they took to the
canoes, and pro.-eeded up the Caloo
sahatchie river to Lake Okeechobee, a
distance of about ninety miles, arriving
on the 1st of November. Skirting the
western and southern shores of Lake
Okeechobee they discovered eight large
streams flowing into a dense saw grass
swamp that borders the everglades. On
entering one of the streams, which was
named "T. D.," the expedition pro
ceeded to its head, and began the
tedious work of cutting its way through
the swamp to the saw-grass.
The denseni ss of this swamp can be
imagined from the fact that the party
traveled on an average only a quarter
of a mile a day. Myriads of huge alli
gators, snakes, leeches and poisonous
bugs were encountered. Leaches were
especially troublesome, covering the
legs of the men. Emerging from the
swamp the party entered saw-grass
which grows from ten to twelve feet
high, very dense, with sharp edges that
cut one way and saw the other. This
grass the party fired, and pushed for
ward over the stubble. After traveling
due south some ten miles the party
struck innumerable small, deep lakes or
ponds filled with alligators and the
finest fish. About thirty miles from
Lake Okeechobee the party entered the
grassy waters of the everglades and en
camped on an island, the first dry land
encountered after leaving the lake. The
only trees on the island were the cus
tard apple and wild fig. The progress
of the expedition thenceforth was more
rapid. It passed through thousands of
small islands, some slightly submerged
and all covered with large trees of luxu
riant foliage. No Indians were encoun
tered. The head of Sharks river was reached
on the 5th of December, the expedition
sailing down. It debouched into White
water bay, on the gulf coast, about
thirty miles from Cape Sable. The dis
tance traveled from Lake Okeechobee to
the gulf is about 140 miles. The whole
distance in canoes was nearly three
hundred miles. The expedition estab
lished the fact that the everglades, from
Lake Okeechobee to Cape Sable, were
worthless lor any purpose of cultiva
tion; that they contain no large tracts
of land above water ; that they cannot
be suc.-essfu ly drained, and that the
establishment and maintenance of a
telegraph line along the route traversed
would be impossible. The eer jdades,
and especially the northern glades, are
a vast swamp, irrecla mable aud useless
for any purpose. The only cultivable
portions of the southern peninsula lie
on the Atlant.'c and gulf coasts, with
this vast morass bet ween them.
An EnormoiH Collection of Cat.
Atlanta Constitution.
In 1839 there came to Hwkinsville,
fronJharleslou, S. U., two well
dreslBS scrnWemeil. One of them was
very stingy an 1 close, the other was the
reverse, liberal and free with his money,
and the greatest lover of fun I had ever
seen. Two weeks before Christmas he
caused to be printed a number of hand
bills, as follows :
WANTED o,0b0 cats to import to London,
as the rais are about to undermine the great
city. 1 waut them deli ve.ed here on Christ
mas day.
From all points of the compass came
negroes with sacks and wallets of cats.
They hung them on shade-trees, on
fences, in fact, look where you might,
and cats greeted you. f ifty cents for
grown cats, 25 cents for half-grown
and 10 cents for kittens had been
offered. The bad boys about town
(myself among them) begun at a signal
to cut the strings aud let loose the eats.
Of course, a great many dogs were in
town and the fur flew. About 11
o'clock an old man named Barney Will
iams, livii.g near Hartford, came across
the river with an ox cart, minus the
body, but an eight by ten long square
basket, filled with cats of all
ages, colors, sexes and sizes. He
stopped in front of Bohannon's hotel.
After a short s: arch he found the man
who wanted the cats, who appeared
very anxious to secure the lot, and, try
ing to peer into the basket, he cut the
rope holding the quilt covering to the
basket and out flew the cats, about
forty . They went pell mell under the
houses, in the bushes and every con
ceivable place to hide. The old man
Williams was very mad, for he had been
two weeks gathering up the surplus
felines of his neighborhood. There was
no sleep for many nights in old Haw
kinsville. The best judges estimated
that not less than 2,000 cats had been
turned loose on that occasion.
The IMfl'erence Itetiveen Them.
The Graphic
When you see a thing you want to
buy and have money enough to buy it,
it is well to go home and imagine that
the price of the coveted article covers
all the cash you have. Then you may
find out whether you merely want the
article or need it. There is as much
difference between a want and a need
as between dessert and dinner. You
need the dinner. You only want the
dessert.
Wonderful Wax Works.
Some French showmen are to open a
$500,000 wax works museum iu New
York, showing statues of noted people
and groups of noted events. Thus, a
tableau of an assassination will be suc
ceed by one representing the capture
of the assassin and others representing
the trial and execution.
Philadelphia Press: Intimacy be
tween father aud son is difficult. Hap
py, thrice happy, is the son who has
shared it and wise above men the father
who secured it.
Dr. David W . Yandell : Suppose we
are personally driving toward the ceme
tery? Shall we be afraid? We are
sure to find good company there.
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Medical Value of Music.
Bos'on Journal. J
It is not singular that in a city so
justly famed for its love of inus c as
Boston is, the effects which are pro
duced upon the human organism by the
concord of sweet sounds should have
attracted the attention of sueh an in
telligent physician as our young friend
Dr. Fodders. He like, some others,
had noticed the differences in apjear
ance and action which such an 1 such
compositions excite . in our concert
goers the aspect of painful but heroic
endurance which is caused by a Brahms
symphony ; the lively wagging of heads,
patting of feet, and beating time of
hands when a lively march is plajted
and the' peaceful slu:
the features and at tiro
a piano soloist is st
composition in tive ni
three-quarters of an
He has cons 'queiitly eoi
idea that, by developing 'tl
which his observations in
have given birth, a new Sch
cine may be founded, where
stead of physic shall be the
human ills, and already pere
self as the founder of a-sysfc
shall be called the "Podgerianl
him upon the same pedestal with
Hahnemann. He is now busily en
gaged in taking lessons upon
the accordeon this instrument being
easilv portable and less difficult of
mastery than most othersand w&en he
gets some patients, as he has ex pVjL
tion of doing before lone, he kv'Ai
his theory in a practical way.
An incident which occurred the other
day confirms him in his belief that he
has hit upon a great principle. A man
came into his office in search of some re
lief from an overmastering lassitude
and lack of desire for exertion, and Pod
gers brought the accordeon and played
"Peek-a-Boo" and "Wait Till the Clouds
Roll By" to him. The sufferer showed
manifest agitation while the first selec
tion was being performed ; when Pod
gers struck into the second he began
walking the floor and swinging his
arms, and, as the player crowded all
his power of expression into the con
cluding strain, he knocked the physi
cian down with a treatise on osteology,
and fled from the house with remark
able rapidity. In view ol the evident
success of the treatment Podgers has
made out a bill, but for t!ie life of him
doesn't know where to send it.
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COLN UNDER FIRE.
Innovation liscuraze I.
'Grata7' in N. Y. Tribune.
For a new country like ours, it is
amazing how innovation has be n dis
couraged, tliouyh there has seldom
been any real innovation which has not
been triumphant. At a time when
nearly all the actors in the country
were worshipers of slave y, the play
of " Uncle Tom's Cabin " walked upon
the stage au l made nu.nero is fortunes.
Only a few years ago Dr. Holland and
Mr. Smith, who had been experiment
ing with the reading p.ihlic bci.'i s it
ought to be and as it was. b-Iieved they
discerned a taste foi- pictures an 1 deco
rations, aud thev tried a new magazine,
wbicirSiiniost immediately struck the
general taste, and that taste is now -em
to be the taste of England too, because
both the leading American maga ;ines
have large c rculatiousin England, based
in part upon their popular pictures,
and the British publishers are seeing if
they cannot pick up American hfpoi-k
for similar illustrated magazines.
American humor and ra -y description
in at least one newspaper have resulted
in a duplicate set of forms or electro
types going abroad and being reprinted.
Our press had become too enterprising
for its audience, while the British press
had endeavore I to maintain editorial
opinion as the first standard of journal
ism. In the long run those adventurers
who find out the people the best will
do the best. The present tendency of
the American mind is to a3k for respect
able guidance, but tin rein must not be
drawn too tight, and facts must always
be given freely to justify strong opin
ion. An Elephant Color-Bearer.
Iutar Ocean. ,
During a battle in India the driver of
the elephant carrying the colors of the
army had just given the command to
halt when he was shot dead. The ele
phant never stirred a foot, refusing to
advance or retire, as the conflict became
hotter and fiercer, until the Mahrattaa,
seeing the standard still flying steadily
in its place, refused to believe that they
were being beaten, and rallied again
and again round the colors. And
all this while, amid the din of
battle, the patient animal stood
straining its ears to catch the
sound of that voice it would never hear
again. At length the tide of conquest
left the 'field deserted. Mahrattas
swept on in pursuit of the flying foe,
but the elephant, like a rock, stood
there, with the dead and dying around,
and the ensign waving in its place. For
three days and nights it remained where
its master had given the command to
halt. No bribe or threat could move
it. They then sent to a village 100
miles away, and brought the mahout's
little son. The noble hero seemed ihmt
to remember how the driver had some
times given his authority to the little
child, and immediately, with all the
shattered trappings clanging as he
went, paced quietly and slowly away.
Parisian Wakers-Up."
San Francisco Chronicle.
Among the carious callings in Paris
is that of the "wakers-up." The wakers
up are generally old men, and winter
is their best season. The reveilleur, as
he is called, starts out between 3 and 4
o'clock in the morning, taking their
way through the suburbs adjoining the
fortification mostly inhabited by me
chanics and laborers. He awakes
them by uttering a loud whoop or cry,
and waits before a house to ascertain
that it has been heard. livery work
mau pays him 1 cent daily for his
trouble.
Dr. Foote's Monthly : Don't fill the
gash with soot, sugar, or anything elsr
to arrest the hemorrhage when you cut
yourself, but bring the parts together
with strips of adhesive plaster.
Eastern proverb : There are but two
creatures that can surmount the Pyra
mids the eagle and the snail.
An Incident of the Affair at Fort
Stevens. Sear Washington's Suburb
of Brightwood.
Lieut. Darke. Chandler.
The night closed in, and the next
morning it was discovered that Gen.
Early had-moved off in the direction of
the Potomac, at Conrad's Ferry, where
he crossed without molestation into
Virginia. The battle of Fort Stevens
was over, and the Washington authori
ties and citizens once more breathed
with freedom.
Just before Gen. Wheaton made his
charge, President Lincoln, ac
companied by his wife and several
prominent officials, came on the ground
in a carriage without his escort, having
lost that glittering bauble somewhere
on the road. Seeing Gen. Wright, he
at once extended his hand, saying :
"General, I'm very glad, to see you.
This looks as though you were going to
do something."
"Mr. President," said the general,
pointing toward Port Stevens, "if you'll
just come along down there with me,
I'll show you one of the prettiest little
fights you could wish to see."
"No sooner were the words out of my
moiith," remarked Gen. Wright in
speaking of the matter afterward to the
writer, "than I deeply regretted having
uttered them. I fully recognized the
fact that the president's life was far too
fv?:hajye to be brought into danger by
X , Ml C " -"A
ajs. aieiesa woxwsui mine. - duiu wa
too late. He nofnaaly accepted my in
vitation, out insisted on - jworcpanying
me, notwithstanding all I could say to
prevent him. He sent his wife backs
and when 1 mounted the parapet theri
he was beside me, looking out upon th'
scene with a great deal of interest. The
enemy s sharpshooters were firing pretty
closely, and I explained to him that the
place was entirely too dangerous for
him.
"'It is not more dangerous forme
than it is for you,' he replied coolly.
"'But it is my duty to be here, while
it is not your duty to expose j'ourself.
Your position requires this, and 1 par
ticularly request you to remember it.'
"Just then a sharpshooter's bullet
struck a surgeon who was standing
near the president, and I became really
alarmed for his safety, and I have no
doubt was a little excited as I said
firmly :
" 'Mr. President, you must really get
down from this exposed position : I can
not allow you to remain here longer,
and, if you refuse, I shall deem it my
duty to have yon removed under guard.'
I suppose the absurdity of my threat
ening to put the president of the United
States under arrest amused him, for he
smiled, looked at me quizzically, and
got down behind the parapet, where 1
provided him with an ammunition-box
for a seat. But he wouldn't sitTstill a
minute at a time, and was constantly
stretching up his long form to see what
was going on, therebT ex2)osing fully
half of himself to danger, in spite of
all I could do; and thus he continued
to bob up and down until the action
was over, when he cheered lustily along
with the rest, and, bidding us good
night, got into his carriage and rode
awav home."
QUEER SUPERSTITION IN AN
A KM V II OS PI TA L .
Sfrrov Ocean.
In one of the general hospitals at
Nashville, when the place was first oc
pied by Union troops, there was a queer
character employed as nurse. He was
a large man, troubled with diabetes.
This unfitted him for active service, but
did not give him the appearance of ah
invalid. The boys believed that this
nurse knew when a man was going to
die. Certain it was that when rapid
decline in any man commenced the
sympathetic old fellow took his place at
the bedside of the unfortunate and was
most untiring in his attention and
kindnesses. In one row of cots he
had closed the eyes of four men in
death in as many days. The next man
in order, going from right to left, grew
nervous and was removed out of the
row. The second man shut his lips
and determined to get well. One night
as this man lay thinking over the mys
tery of the "fatal row," and trying to
reason about the old nurse's strange
instinct, he heard a whisper from the
cot on the left, "I say, stranger, if old
Fatty comes and situ down by you, hit
him one for me. will you '! He hangs
around for a fellow to die like a dog
waiting for a bone."
Days went by, and the man with the
compressed lips was looked upon as
the next victim, and every time the
nurse passed the boys expected him to
sit down. One night the nurse came
through the ward, and discovering that
the second man was feverish, picked
up a fan and sat down at the head of
his cot. Quick as thought the fever
ish patient sprang up in bed and said
wildly, "Take him first," pointing to
the first cot. "You old fool, can't you
count? You can't jump in this game,
old fellow. Clear put, now. None of
your sittin' down by me, when it isn't
my turn. First relief's gone, second
reliefs gone, third relief's gone, fourth
relief's gone. Why don't you make the
fifth relief fall in?" This was the
whisperer of the night before, now al
most a maniac on the subject of the
nurse. Tho surgeon was called and
the man was quieted. But even when
he was almost well he dreaded the ap
proach of the smypathetic, kind old
nurse. Such superstitions were very
common in the hospitals of the army.
An Economical Wedding Tour.
Springfield (Mass.) Homestead.
It is rumored that a young couple
recently married economized by not go
ing far, far away on their wedding trip,
bidding farewell to their friends on one
side of a train and leaving for a Spring
field hotel from the other side.
The "funny man" of The Louisville
Courier-Journal is a woman.
HO MASKS.
Mr. T. M. Casad, editor of the Corydon,
Iowa, Times, writes that his little girl
burned her foot severely on a stove. One
application of St. Jacob's Oil, the great
pain-reliever, cured it completely, leaving
no marks. By two applications of St.
Jacob's Oil he cured himself of a torturing
pain in the side.
The Oreat Lick Telescope.
Detuorest's Monthly.
A rich Californian, named Lick, in
dying some years ago, made a bequest
for the bnilding of an observatory,
which should iu time contain the most
powerful telescope in the world. The
work of constructing the latter was
given to Mr. Alvin Clark, of Cambridge
port, Mass., who has so far constructed
the largest and finest telescojjes ever
made. At last accounts Mr. Clark had
not as yet commenced the making of
this wonderful instrument. Achromatic
object glasses are made of two distinct
lenses, one of flint glass and the other
of crown glass, the two combined making
the perfect lens. The flint glass is
ready to be worked, but the crown glass
comes from abroad and has not yet
arrived. It is extremely difficult to
cast a solid disk of. crown glass three
feet in diameter and perfect in all its
parts. While the observatory is well
under way, the great thirty-six-inch
Lick telescope will take some time for
its completion. When in position, it
will convert the feeble rays from the
most distant stars into a perfect blaze
of light.
A Wild Moil or Erin.
Buffalo Express.
In spite of the large amount of cul
ture that is aliowj
ton, there are
thoroughly ji
ies of modeiSk
"Begorrj
ea so run
ittrepBons.
loose in Bos
do not get
the niyster
After many
ma, ana bejab-
lonal "wbisine
irJliwtap .mar s
day infolding a cor
a wild son of Erin
t the telephone in the
where he was employed.
"fime he kept one' efe intently
the receiver, and at times be-
wildlv excited and doubled up
his fist, especially once, when the man
disptvted with him. "Sure, and ef Tie
had repeated it," said Pat, as be came
away, "I wud a-knocked the hull ma
sheen down his lvin' throat !"
B9um rin
came
I'.u tl's Palace.
Demorest's Monthly.
The car which is to convey Patti
around the country on her operatic tour
is to be a marvel in the way of luxurious
ness; it will, indeed, be tho most con
venient and magnificent drawing-room
car ever put on any road. It will have
one novelty which ought to be imitated
in summer time on ordinary cars. A
refrigerating apparatus wdl be employed
similar to that used in the Madison
Square theatre in New York, by which
the temperature can be reduced 100 de
grees. Summer traveling is sometimes
intolerable because of heat, which can
be mitigated by this device.
I am now supplied with a bottle, and will
never'ije without, one."
ENGLAND.
Messrs. Francis Newberry & Son, Lon
don, England, established for 125 years,
write: As a testimonial from one of the
oldest drug-houses in Great Britain, re
specting your household remedy, will no
doubt he of interest to vou, we are pleased
to make the statement that we have sold,
with satisfaction to the public, St. Jacobs
Oil for several years, and that, owing to
the extraordinary merits of the article,
the demand is constinually increasing,
and that we have heard of many favorable
reports regarding its great virtue as a
pain-curing remedv.
australia.
United States Consulate, )
Sydney, N. S. Wales, August 14, 1883. f
1, Charles Kahlo, Consul of the United States
of America at Sydney and its dependencies, do
hereby certify that C. C. Cohen appeared before
me this day and acknowledged that he had
signed the following instrument as his free and
voluntary act. Given under my hand and seal
of this Consulate, the day and year above writ
ten. Ciiari.es Kahlo, U. S. Consul.
Some three years ago I injured my left
leg and knee to the extent that I thought
1 had become a permment cripple. My
knee-cap was twice its natural size, and
my leg was so contracted and shortened
that I could not walk without considerable
pain and inconvenience. During that time
I had tried remedies innumerable, but
without receiving the slightest benefit un
til I gave St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain
cure, a trial, and much to my delight and
astonishment I began to get better; both
my leg and knee assumed their normal
condition, and to-day I am free from pain
and can walk as well as ever I did in my
life. I feel it incumbent on my part to in
form the public of the great benefit I have
received, and heartily recommend St. Ja
cobs Oil to any one suffering from pain,
and feel satisfied it has no equal as a cure.
j r C. C. Cohen.
Note. The Sydney, X? w South Wales
"News." is vtlmwttcwr.'n1l 'ilc the above.
:ajs eu.'onally: It is being made
uwaevcr in the history of Australia, has a
medical discovered beea accepted by the public
with such general approbation as St. Jacobs Oil.
Its cures are simply marvelous.
NEW ZEALAND.
At the New Zealand International Exhi
bition, the magnificent First Prize Medal
and Highest IJiploma were awarded to St.
Jacobs Oil as the best pain-curing and
healing remedy known to mankind, and
among the valuable testimonials given in
support of them, Mr. Wm. Moor, coach
builder, Christ Church, N. Z., certifies
that one application of St. Jacobs Oil
cured him of Sciatica, which statement
was attested by Mr. W. Gee, of the Post
office Department, and Mr. John Black
mere, Sergeant of the Armed Constabu
lary. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Hon. Godfrey Sichel, member of the
Parliament of the Colony, Cape of Good
Hope, South Africa, according to the offi
cial report of the proceedings, published
in The Journal, Grahamstown, Cape of
Good Hope, arose and said: He could speak
from experience: he had spent a small
lonune. ana couiu oDtain no relief trom
the TiioHifal npnfduuimi I-T 1,,1 1 .... 1
omel, quinine, strychnine, and finally
Jacobs Oil, and it cured him. If member
II .1 t.l. "KJ 1 1 J 1 j 1
out auvioe Liiey wuuiu gcL a ootiie or
Jacobs Oil, and it would core tpem.
For the t'oin-C'razed.
Exchange.
Under the direction of Dr. Julius
Friedlander, the Royal Numismatic cab
inet in Berlin has, in the course of tltc
last forty-five years, increoioJ from 213,
500 ancient and 70,000 mediieval anil
modern coins to ,07,000 Greek, 3:33,000
Roman, 22,500 Oriental, and 80,000
mediae vu I and modern coins, including
a large number of unique specimens.
CANADA.
The Hon. Billa Flint,,
Dominion ParliMl.0
A Cincinnati judge, before whom a
man was arraigned for cruelty to ani
mals. decided that "mules have no rights
in Cincinn ti coivts."
ALL OVZK THE WORLD.
An Astonished Editor What He Saw and
What He Says.
"From Greenland's Icy Mountains to Africa's
Sunny Strand,'
Baltimore, Mil The Daily Evening
News publishes the following editorially:
At the time the New- York Herald, with
characteristic generosity, gave the princely
sum of 100,000 to a relief fund, for the
sufferers from famine in Ireland, one of
the most distinguished literary men of
America contributed to to the Art Auto
graph, published for the benefit of that
fund, the following note:
"When a distressed nation appeals for
this or that or the other grace or help, she
hears an answering voice of sympathy
from this or that or the other creed or
group or taction, scattered here and there
and yonder in the space of the earth; it
is only when she asks for bread that creed
and party are forgotten, and the whole
world rises to respond."
While recognizing the force of this sen
timent, the experience which a member of
our editorial staff had yesterday, furnishes
unmistakable evidence of the fact that the
want of bread that famine is not the
only thing which causes the "whole world
to rise," and by united action to record en
thusiastic endorsement of a laudable meas
ure or object. The conviction was occa
sioned by a visit to a commercial enter
prise, of which, although much has been
said and written, the writer confesses he
knew nothing from personal experience,
prior to his investigations. The following
facts are presented cheerfully, in the belief
that they are not only of real public inter
est, but are of so extraordinary a nature,
so encouraging to our local pride, as to
demonstrate beyond all doubt, that the
agency in question is the most remarkable
of its kind known in the history of scien
tific discovery.
Doubtless every inventor and every
manufacturer of even an indifferent arti
cle can, without serious difficulty, enlist a
certain amount of local and general influ
ence in support of his products on the
same principle, perhaps, that every politi
cal aspirant has some followers but the
proofs here under consideration are so
positive, and considering the high sources
supplying the following statements, they
are so extraordinary and conclusive, that
no sane man can doubt that the expres
sions were called forth by a really marrel
ons degree of excellence and power.
Here a Congress of Nations, composed
of distinguished leaders in public, mer
cantile, and social circles of all sections of
the world, and in part of eminent profes
sional men, whose conversation in matters
of this kind is well known, basing their
expressions upon actual experiments and
observations, voluntarily join in public
praise so high and unqualified as to set at
rest all doubts and prejudices, to silence
skeptics, and to carry conviction to every
fair-minded man.
When our representative examined the
originals of the following forcible docu
ments, he was, as above indicated, so
struck with their extraordinary character,
that he concluded to present them to our
readers, as a matter of public interest.
This, as before stated, is done cheerfully
and of our own accord.
GERMANY.
Dr. Richard Oberlaender, Leipzig, Ger
many, Secretary Ethnological Museum,
F. S. U. G. A., M. G. S., author of Fremde
Voelker (Foreign Nations), and a distin
guished literateur, writes: "It gives me
great pleasure to inform vou that, having
been troubled with my old chronic neural
gic pains, a traveling companion advised
me to use St. Jacobs Oil, the great pa'n
reliever. I tried it, and was entirely cured.
int I ijenaioroi one
'Belleville, Ontario,
Canada. -wH-: 1 lrlet ft. .jaeons uu ioi
at"!- 't1 my lace ana tootnacne. it actea
like a charm. A few times rubbing with
it took away all soreness and pain; better
than having them drawn at the age of
seventv-seven."
EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND.
Hon. George Colton, the distinguished
oriental traveler, whose interesting letters
from abroad are familiar to the public,
writes, as a result of his close observation
in Egypt and the Holy Land, that St. Ja
cobs Oil, by its general use there, is shown
to be a blessing to suffering humanity,
and that wherever he has traveled,
whether in England, France, Germany, or
elsewhere, the same unqualified praise is
'given to the Great German Remedy as a
conqueror of pain.
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Senor Mariano, Maradiaga, Ocotal, Nica
ragua, says that he had suffered with
rheumatism and that he was instantly
cured by the use of St. Jacob's Oil, the
great pain cure.
CUBA.
Dr. D. Antonio Jose Romay, the dis
tinguished physician, Assistant and
Honorary Member, Board of Health and
' Faculty of the Port Garrison, Havana,
certifies that rheumatism and neuralgia
! have, by the use of the great pain cure,
St. Jacob s Oil, been cured in a tew days.
MEXICO.
Dr. Manuel S. Izaguirre, Guadalajara,
! Jalisco, Mexico, writes: Ueino- a pro
fessor in medicine and surgery, I have
! already obtained the best effects of St.
I Jacob's Oil in cases of rheumatism, acute
! and chronic. I had treated the cases with
different preparations without any result,
but in a short time, by the use of St.
Jacob's Oil, I obtained a complete cure.
: I congratulate you on the triumph."
PERU.
Doctors D. Jose Felix Sudv, founder of
the San Mateo Hospital, and D. Moises
Allende, surgeons and physicians of the
Chilian Army of Occupation during the
war with Peru, were commissioned to
make a report on the curative properties
of St. Jacob's Oil, and in the execution of
their commission used it upon fully 500
invalids suffering with rheumatism and
neuralgic pains in all parts of the body,
and upon all kinds of ailments incident
to camp life. After exhaustive experi
ments and complete success in every case,
they certified to ihe wonderful pain
curing and healing qualities of St. Jacob's
Oil, which they used. The identity of
Doctors Sudy and Allende has been estab
lished before the American Consul, and
Superintendent of the Sanitary service of
Chili in Peru.
Note El Dia (The Day) Callao, Peru, March
16, 1882, says of Dr. Jose Felix Sudy, above
referred to, that ho is one of the most distin
guished surgeons now in the field, and that he
has received from Commander Diego A.
Donosa, Lima, Peru, that the important
assistance which he gave these troops at the
San Mateo Hospital, deserves the high esteem
of all, which is the sentiment of the officers and
soldiers of the battalion.
CHILI.
Senor Ricardo Stuven, a leading com
mission merchant of "Valparaiso, .ftr
having exhausted all other remedies haw
been completely cured of rheumatHm by
the use of St. Jacob's Oil, the greaf, plin
banisher. He makes this public. J
SANDWICH ISLANDS.
Hon. S. Crosby, Hawaiian fOnsul,
Sandwich Islands, says he suff ered with
rheumatism, and tried the conqueror of
pain, St. Jacob's Oil. By three applica
tions he was entirely cured.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Hon. John C. New, Assistant Secretary
U. S. Treasury, writes, that it is a source
of satisfaction and pleasure to give, from
his personal experience, to St. Jacob's Oil,
the conqueror of pain, his cordial recom
mendation. General Rufus Ingalls, Quartermaster
General U. S. Army, considers St. Jacob's
Oil the best pain cure for sprains and
bruises ever used.
Dr. William A. Soula, D. V. S., the
popular veterinary surgeon, New York,
for nine years in charge of the Third
AVenue Railroad stables, N. Y., certifies
to the curative qualities of St. Jacob's
Oil, the conqueror of pain, as superior to
all other remedies for all ailments of
horf.es, such as sprains, galls and rheu
matism, that has ever come under his
observation.