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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1892)
"E DANDELION CLOCK. lite Ku"'r " lkftu'"',,,"0'r- go, but whiter do they go t'poo ih wmiier wtiiUf i eJ tlum forth, yet Utile know 'aer d7 'hair "t "hall Hud. rmwes by me, then wanderlu eeede, Tbecareleaa tirwie may blow to lome trun garden, where a weeds Hi """J " ul,erow Ivb word, each carule word we ty, li like tb wolfs of airs ' r other' tong uea retold. It may Be borne, we know nut where. our, be word of etU kind, Tbey. Uk tiieae harmful eueda, rootlnz In tome tboughtlena mind, yiik-ken to efil deed. ,, boedful should we be that to, from ef ery word of oura, fjubt where It will, may only grow True grain of gracloua flowers, Montreal Star. : " PATSY. Thef all called him Patsy. TJnclo tficbael Aunt Margaret the boys in ' AKet, everybody, Ho may huve Za christened Patrick, after tho mo Zt country's patron saint when bo j tiny cliM. but the abbreviation LTj sow. a,,d iuUy h? was f evepy' lJv U"9 mtaor ttl,( ,l,otl,er lil S be was very small and Uuclo Vichael, who earned bis living by nrting in tbo nursery near by "bled at the extra mouth ho had fifeed, for he bad six gray eyed little wvsterera of his own to care for, and luut Margaret said be ate mora than 10 erowu men and did nothing in Lw,de world but tear bis clothes. And jet Au,lt Margarct would have La awfully lonely without Patsy. Who would have trotted to market with her and have carried homo the to basket of "truck" without a mur mur as Patsy did, and what boy would uve handed over every cent of a nek's earnings in the uurserv with out iiieaking enough to buy himself some hot roasted peanuts from the Evelalian on the corner? 'Patsy didn't have much schooling. He could read and write and be could tounta row of trees by walking along the furrow and touching each one and then walking back and counting them ill over again. The two counts did not alwavs tally, but Patsy wasn't to blame. fJncle and aunt could read. Undo knew all about bow Napoleon (ought and died, and aunt could tell stones about the great Alexander that fould make Patsy's brown uukempt bir literally stand ou end. lie did not feel very sorry about not baviug u education. It was sufficient that a mrtof the family were learned. If Patsy couldn't count straight he could place a bud on a tree in the nur ttryso that it could grow well and straight, and be knew all about cle matis and roses, and ho could trans plant cabbages in Aunt Margaret's gar iien to the hottest summer sun would not irilt them. IIo knew where the first arbutus grew in tho woods that skeltered the nursery on one side, and where the honeysuckles, as be called the wild columbines, bungs their bells in June time. Father Knight, the village priest, looked upon Patsy as something not !ar short of a little heathen. He did not know hi in very well, for Patsy never went to church when he was not positively obliged to. Father Knight talked rather sharply to Undo Michael about Patsy once, and Michael promised to send bim to church twice on Sunday thereafter. Bat he reckoned without his host for when the next Sunday morning came Patsy was three miles'down the creek Hunting wutcrcresses when the bells rung fur mass, and Father Knight on his way to the mission that afternoon net him coming home, barefoot, tan ned and dirty. The priest was tempted to stop and give him a talking to, but the laughing blue eyes that looked up it him as he passed, the frank smile that was on the straight led mouth melted him and lie passed on. Patsy's heart just quaked within bim, for lie was awfully afraid of that dignified looking man, but there was too much of the fearless Irish spirit in him to weak by. His band had gone up to his cap at the first glance and Father Knight was bound to recognize him. The next day, as Patsy was fitting a "d into the soft bark of an early Crawford and getting ready to twist tie bit of bass wood shaving around it "hold it snugly in place, a dark sliad- fell across the row, and he became suddenly aware that a toll figure was Sanding beside him. He felt in his wt who it was, and U went right 00 with his work, pretending not to wthe priest until the latter spoke. "Are you Patsy Flanagan?" 'Yes, sir." He expected that it was coming uow, but instead of the words expected the priest said : 'Mr. Bidwell said you might come jad transplant some shrubs that I just bought for my garden. He molt you know how they should be treated." ;;Yes, sir." "You may come right along with Sera." ShW yU were to ut Shades of Erin's green isle, was he Balk though the street with the ele W looking man beside him? He jessed he was, for Father Knight had d so, and ho was almost positive "Wsuch a nice looking man wouldn't ?7 anything he did not mean, so "V picked up his ragged jacket rcin the row and awav he trotted af ' 'the priest HOW ft Camo patsy neVer Mw, but before he was aware of it ?.as chattering awav to Father Vl't as he would have talked to u?t Margaret, and the priest was lis S interestedly to it all. . .7 would you like to go to school bomc a scholar, Patsy?" ' r. tauh, I wouldn't like it at all, sir. rather work in the nursery." J1" father Knight guessed on the ,,Jo' that Patsy would do better in j nursery, but he talked with the "v until he found that there was an wit and shrewdness in him that uld be cultivated, and which if left ,-ttnt would rob the world of a man needed, so before Patsy got Sh with his dav's work Father "Jht had induced him to say that Would 1 U Cw.fl-.1V T t0,t,ue night school. 11 the day long Tatsy worked in 7 nursery, fcverv morning be went " lu iane, past tho Maginnis cot W whistling like a lark as it mounts midair. Maggie Maginnis would 10 her sleepy blue eyes and hear liiP, by' an( n'Sht when he came from work she would watch for 'iCommS down the lane, and be J4d present her with an apple or Wqj ?' perhaps a bouquet 0 jar- Patsy rather liked Masirie and that ttie days before, puty lmd to work about his experiences at the niKht Mlwhy,.wiu ebe i,iiuk'' of it, Meg, he took me right into his parlor today and played Ae organ for me," accompanying hw assertions with sev eral convincing nods of his head. ?.w yu ru.'t 66 lliu' me, and with those boots J" "The very same, an' they was all covered witli mud. I J on the mot by the door and he said 'Come couid.be:mycLilJ, justttacl"" "And what did he piny?" "Oh he played a lot of things, an' I sung 'Lileon Aroou' for him." "You sing? You, Patsy 1" and littlo Meg danced a pas suul around tho boy. ou g,ng for Father Knight? What didhesav?" "Ho said, 'Very well done; come in again to-morrow.'" And Patsvdid on nn Ilia and for many morrows, and at last Fa ther knight taught him the rudiments of music, so that he could sit down at the organ himself and in a slow mi nor way accompany his own treble voice. And Patsy was learning at tho night school, too. Aud 0110 day Mr. liidwell sent for him and told him that he would let bim try the position of superintendent over tne other men, and Patsy, never daunted at an vthimr. iiv.lr it 1 - I. -1 11. I . iv. i'ur uircu jKura ii u uem inai position, ana lie kept up tlio school, though ho begun to cultivate a mus tache, and tbo crirls said thev thought it was time such 0 big boy quit going to school. But they did not know the ambition that was in PuLsv's heart. How could they? Nono but Mecr. She rather guessed at it, though she and Patsy had drifted apart sineo they were grown up. Shb was a school teacher and was away most of the time, but she had always understood Patsy better than any one else. Then Patsy was promoted again. This time to the city olllce, for his ed ucation permitted of that now, and Patsy's heart was glad. There was no little regret at leaving his native town. All people who go forth into the world have that regret, and the home of their birth and tho place that holds the loved ones, is always the dearest spot on earth. Aunt Margaret cried until her ging ham apron was wet with tears, and Uncle Michael stood at the gate a long time before he went in the bouse, and he didn't have as good a relish for his supper as he usually had. Word would come back from time to time that Patsy was doing well. The village papers would contain no tices like this: Mr. P. Flanagan, of , spent Suoday In town. Or, Hr. Flanagan, of the Arm of Bldwell, Flanagan & Co., came noma to eat his Christina! dinner. Yes, Patsy became a partner, and be studied, studied all the time, though ho once declared to Father Kuiglit that he would not like it at all. Cut learning is like money, the more you have the more you want, and ono day he was admitted to the bar. All this time littlo blue eyed Meg was working away athorschool work. Patsy had not seen her for a long time, but be bad not forgotten her.' Our first childish impressions are the ones we cherish and save until they are dispelled by later ones, to some ex tent, and so he always remembered Meg as she used to lean out of the window as he went by, lean so far out that she was iu danger of falling on her curly head into tlio pansy bed be low. He would have oeeu glad to have seen Meg when ho went home, but she was always away. So time wentou, and Patsy, entirely against his will, was almost forced into politics. He had no tasto for pol itics, but all through his life it was a noticeable fact that those things he utr terly refused to have anything to do with were the ones that be finally en tered into heart and soul, and so it was with politics. And he served his con stituents so well that they were not satisfied to let bim remain a mere local politician, they must needs elect him to congress, and ono day Patsy took his place among the representatives of the people. Aunt Margaret was there and so was Uncle Michael. Proud? Well, they were! Two prouder old souls never lived, and for days after their return home did they repeat again and again to their neighbors the story of it all. How grand he looked there among all those big men, and he wearing whis kers as well as the best of them, and their own boy, their Patsy. People sometimes wondered way Congressman Flanagan did not mar ry. He was rich aud lived in elegant stylo, and more than one of the capi tal's belles would have been proud to have presided over bis handsome home, but be never looked twice at any girl They used to accuse him of not caring for anything but just business and politics, they said he was wholly worldly, but under the areas coat or the handsome congressman beat tne same true heart that throbbed under the nursery boy's jacket , It was a very busy season in YVasn ington and Congressman Flanagan was deep in political work. "Mr Liscombe cannot come down today; be is ill," was the word that came over the telephone to the con gressman as he reached his desk one morning. Now Mr. Liscombe was his private secretary, and how was the work to go on without him ? -What shall I doi" he asked a bro ther politician. , "Send out and find a stenographer. There are some to be found. There is a c rl has an omce jum uruuim v corner. r. blie tases 111 - wntiM enme. over here nave uu uuui .. 1 11 o muioniror hnv went have for tne aay. o"-""-"" , o ,, around thecorner, and came back witn tb"Canyouadtayke rapid dictation and transcribe so that I will not be obliged j eo over the work afterwards? the ongressman asked without even look in up at the trim little girl who stood bv the end of his desk. "Yes 8ir"wastheeonfidentansBer, ,nd soon Lewasin the midst of his work. The last letter was finished 7nd he laid down the sheet with a sigh of relief, for she bad not made b m stop to ask questions nor to tell him that be was going too fast Then he looked up at the little girl sitting there so quietly folding upler MeV Maggie, is it you?" was the exc&on that fell .from In, bps. "Is it vou. Maggie Maginnisi , -The me.S was the b ashing an swer; "but I thought you knew me at ant "TbouL'ht 1 knew vou ami did not speak to you," and by this time he was uoming lier Hand uud looking at Iter. "Why, you haven't grown a day older than''- "You ro.illv must hi nm en miw " Maifgie said, llo wu getting very per sonal, aiidahu did not litio to have her age talked about "I have lot of work to do." "Yes, you may go, but I will see you again soon. And he did see her uintiti soon and often, and up iu that littlo country wwu wiiero tiwy played lit the dust ol tho road together these cards wutu re ceived the other day : P. I'Unifan, JUrgarut Ua.'iuiiU, UarrtnL At Itaao In Wiulun.-too, D C Catherine Hartiuau in Duiisville Advertiser. A Jlaii't Idra uf llimia Cnuilorl. A man wants soiuo ono place in home that he can call his verv own. somo portion of the houso where bis will u law, where luicoiitlict of au thority cuu urise. This is not alto gether for the. purpose of securing soli tude, for his family is mo-t usually welcomo there, but tho need for it springs from tho desire for that sense of proprietorship which is his habit abroad, and from the wish to be able to do precisely as he pleases in ul least a corner of his own house. Here should bo tho comforts that tho man devises for himself, tho lounging chairs, tho desk and library, his smok ing materials with license to use tlieni. Here ho should bo able to feel abso- luti'ly at iisc, troubled by no fear of "mussing things," no need to thread bis way anxiously through a maze of furniture and various decorative ob structions, trembling lest something should bo overturned and broken, and there should bo the seat of that admir ed disorder to which ho only has tiio clew. His books and papers should lie left as ho leaves them, though to the orderly feinalo cyo they may seem to lie in hopeless confusion. His desk may bo littered with piles of books, magazines, letters, manuscripts, every thing that can possibly liud a place there, but if a woman wishes to secure to a man 0110 of his most cherished homo comforts, sho will let that duk alone. Percy Vere in Ladies' Homo Journal. A Villus 'f CliiH flayer, In the neighborhood of Hulbcrstadt, in Wvslphulia, is tho village of r'tro beck, where chess is taught ul school to every young villager. An exami nation 1111110 game is held annually iu tho upHr form of the school, and the best si x players, who, however, have to be victorious three times running, are presented with a chess board, and feasted fora whole long summcr'sday. Tho custom i. said to have originuled several centuries ngo, when a recalci trant priest from Halbcrstadl was sent into exile at Strobeck. Time hanging somewhat heavily on his bands, he in structed the peasants in the game of eliess, and ever sitico then tho game has gono down from generation to generation. The pride and glory of tho village is an old chess board, which is kept in their board room bv the elders of the village, and which tho great elector presented to tho peas ants after ho had played chess with them when passing through tho vil lage. The edge of tho board represents, in delicate wood carving, the villngo of Strobeck, and tho figures are of sil ver for one, and silver gilt for tho other sido. The peasants tell also a talc of bow Frederick tho Great once played chess with their mute fore fathers, but there is no tangiblo sign that the Alte Fritz has really added to the fame of tho Strobeck chess play ers. Ouco a Week. The New Fiber riant. A new fiber plant has been discov ered on the Isle of Trinidad which promises to be an improvement on ra mie. It was found by an agriculturist named T. J. St Hill, who has called it "maholtine," but whose scientific no menclature is abutilon periplocin hum. The great thing with this plant is that the ribbons at uearly all times of the year are easily detached' from the woolen portion bv simply stripping ill tlm liiind. and therefore a decorticating machine is not required as for ramio. When it is known how readily the stems allow themselves to be deprived of their coating of bark and liber it will bo see 11 what an ud vantago this simple fact gives the new Sroduut over many of the liber pro ucing plants. All that is required is to cut the stems, which are fully ten feet long, split the bark at the larger end and strip off the bark from end to end without stopping, as fortunately the stems have nosido branches. Sam ples submitted to London brokers were favorably reported on and were val ued at from $17 to $20 per ton. Chi cago Herald. The Deadly Cold Ited. If trustworthy statistics could be bad of the number of persons who die every year or become permanently diseased from sleeping in damp or cold beds they would probably be as tonishing ana appulling. It is a peril that constantly besets traveling men. But the peril also resides in the house and thecold "spare room" hasslain its thousands of hapless guests, and will go on with iU slaughter till peoplo learn wisdom. Not only tho guest but the family suffer the penalty of sleep ing in cold rooms and chilling their bodies at a time when they need all of their bodily heat by getting between cold sheets. Even in warm summer weather a cold, damp bed will get iu iu deadly work. Good Housekeeping. ProOtable Egg Hunting. A case in some respecU similar to that of the famous man w ho jumped into a bramble bush is reported from Kennebunk. Mrs. A. F. Wood, a lady who bad been lame several years, went to the barn loft to gather some eggs and in sliding down upon the hay, with her lame limb, bearing something crack she felt she bad broken some bone, bliecaiieu 10 nernusuaim ior help and when he lifted her up she fouud she could walk better than be fore. The ligaments which bad ad hered to each other by non use were broken apart, improving her lameness. Lewiston Journal. The Vi etn Get Then. A b'-v in the employ of the Lincoln Distrn-t V icgrapu company, at Lin coln, N i.:iids out somewhat con-snieuo::.-. Having been sent to the depot w r.li a message for a gentleman obout to h ave on a train, lie arrived just os ibe train was pulling out He did not projiose, however, to lose his man, so jumping on the last car he pulled the bell rope, stopped the train, found bis man and got off the train while uie brakeman was looking for the cause of the alarm. Exchange. THE CLAIM WAS SALTED. rh Rock at Hi Mlna Wat lllob, Out It DUIn't Miow fulor. "For wavs that are dark and tricks that are vain," remarked an old Cali fornia nroaiwlor to mo the other da v. commend me to the average mining sharp. These fellows are to bo found iianuinir around vverv mininir can in. They ull have rich claims located somewhere in tlio lulls, uud when a tenderfoot puts in an upcaranco bo is their particular meat "1 was a tenderfoot onco myself, you see, so I know. Shall I tell you how 1 was taken in? Well, along in tho fall of T. 1 think it was, I met a chap in San Francisco who represent ed to mo that he had a rich mine down in San lk-rnnrdino county which be wished to sell for cush, 'I had a few thousand dollars at the time, aud, if tho man's story was true, I saw a good chance to realize a fortune on a small investment " 'Of con rso I must look at the prop erty myself,' said I. This was agreed to, uud it was further agreed and un derstood that if tho mine was us rep resented 1 was to puy $$,W0 cash on tbo spot and take possession of the projierty. I knew a little about quartz, and concluded to trust to my own judgment ruthcr than scud ou expert to tlio grounds. "Tho ledge was represented as being twelve feet thick, with a rich pay streak some four feet iu thickness that would pay over $10 per ton. Tho wholo ledge 1 was told was cxk1 for over $30. I was shown several speci mens of rock which I 'panned out' myself, with results that were 110 less gratifying than astonishing. en, to inaKo a long story snort, wo were soon on tho grounds. It was adilllcult place to get at but this was nothing if tho mine was all right On my arrival l found two men at work with an arastra. I was shown the re sult of a day's working, and became more excited than ever. About tbo onlv work tlmt lmd hoen ilnnnnn tho miiiii u-.ia ti tiltnf, btiin .ivtu iliuin ! ' W " W DIIUI ft m'ltiu VIA . J lVWp and a few cross cuts at tho fifty foot level. "I saw that the ledge was a wide one, but somehow I didn't like tho looks of tho rock and so expressed my self. 'Just proscct somo of it aud sec,' said 0110 of tho men, which sug gestion I proceeded to follow. After carefully selecting several pieces of rock from different parts of tho vein I pounded them up in a mortir which I tiiid brought with mo and then care fully panned out tbo pulp, using a largo born spoon for tho purpose. "The men stood leaning over me during this operation, apparently as much interested us I was. Very soon tho color began to show, and when I had punned tho stulF down as fine as 1 could a string of gold dust remaining showed that I had been handling somo very rich rock. I tried this a number of times, with tho samo result more or less each time. You will not bo sur prised then when 1 tell you that I took H)ssessioii of tho property and paid for it then and there. "A ten stamp mill could be started at once, I concluded, and immediately started for Ban Francisco to make the necessary arrangements. Of courso I took a largo sack of the rock along with me. "Ou arriving at San Francisco I in vited a number of my friends to in spect my new purchase at least to prosiiect the rock, as 1 bad done, and sco tor themsetves. 'Just think, said I, 'a twelve foot ledge, down sixty feel on it aud $10 a ton rock and only $8,000 for it Why. it's worth fc'50,000 at least' "A friend of mino present a mining engineer, who hud been pounding away at somo of the rock whilo I was talking, said at this juncture that be bad seen worse rock than that, but not much. " 'What do you mean?' I asked. "'Mean?' said he, why, just what I sav. Your mine, if all tho lock in it is liko this, isn t worth fifty cents. "This staggered me, of course, bull thoucht ho must be mistaken, and prosiiected some of it myself and couldn't find a color. Soon we were all pounding away at it, but nary a color could bo found. I then had the rock assayed and was somewhat as tounded at discovering thut 'a trace' was all the gold tho rock contained. "Well, you can just bet 1 was mad. I bundled off for the mine that very afternoon. When 1 arrived there the place was deserted. 1 tried some of the same rock I had prospected before, but there was no string of gold dust this time. "I knew I bad been swindled. But bow? That is what puzzled me. I was out $3,000 in cash, but 1 don't believe . that this bothered me near as much as the fact thut I hud been taken in, and had no conception of how it was done. "Did I ever find it out? Oh, yes. This is the ffay it was worked. Ono of the men who stood over me dropped a pinch of cold dust into the mortar every time 1 made a a prospect "Knowing this you can see for your self how easy it was to deceive me as to the character of the rock." New York Herald. Female Indifference. "Nobodv." said a man whose long residence in New York entitles bim to i the distinction or being a deep ami om observer, "is so utterly indifferent to ! publio opinion as a fashionable wo ; man. She really docs not care a rap one way or the other what the world ; thinks of her as long as she has a i chance to exercise her pet hobbies. I suppose three of the most tremendous 'crusades that have ever been made ' airainst womankind were, in the first place, the movement against wearing corsets; then the agitation about the crue tv of women using the dead bod- I ies of beautiful song birds as orna j mente for their bate; and, thirdly, the cruelty and injustice of big hate in theatres. Yet today the women fo 'srloriously forth laced to the limit, .1. v.... A III. 'pspg 0f beautiful birds, and wearing , hals luat wouu ghame tho mainsail of witn ineir uuia cuvcrcu ntui wv a down east schooner. Man is of no account whatever when be throws himself against a woman's notion of fashion." New York Bun. 'Opeleaa Opacltjr. "Tee heel" laughed Cvnicus. "What's the matter? queried Stu pidicus. "Why, your debating club is to di cuss 'W as Bacon a high liver?' " "Well, what's the joke?" Harpei's Bazar. . A Tlmelr Article. Writer I have an srticle here on Editor WelL you go bacic tbere " ""J u rc; and shut that Joor. or you'll fi -d J"'-! yourself in a flraft riot before yoa other fellow ;in the class to buy a prea Inow it-Chatter. nt 0T teacher.-Epocb. PHILOSOPHY OF SNEEZING. A Sliorl Clmiurr t'pun Ilia t'oiivulalcm of Ilia Niudl Orguii. A witty Frenchman of the hist cen tury bused an attick upon tho suutf box 011 the ground that it was mainly responsible for the decay of 1l1.1t an cient form of xlileneii, the custom of blessing a person after sneezing. IIo contended that it was sacrilegious to bless a sneezer who had coerced na ture into tho pcrformunco of 0110 of her most invigorating functions, aud that tho benison was no louder iu any degree the same thing. Wo, how ever, who know that the dethrone ment of the snutr box led to no actual revival of tho benedictory fashion, may ap)eal to science to throw light upon one of tho most ancient forms of innocent superstition. According to a rabbinical lesrcnd, sneezing, as a habit is only referable to tho timo of Jacob. Before patri archal days no man sneezed mora than once; for the sulllcieut reason that the shock was invariably fatal. At Ja cob's intercession this law was abro gated, but only on condition that all races of men should henceforth cm ploy fit words of congratulation for tho sneezer's happy deliverance. Whatever its origin and it may bo doubted if it ever bud a particular or local starting point tho practice has, without doubt, been derived by tho Christian world from tho times of heathenism. "Polydore Virgil avers that it took its rise at the time of thn plague in 558, when tho infected fell down dead sneezing, tliouh apparent ly in good health. Tlio Hoinaus cer tiinly made oblations to the genius of sneezing; but Catullus treats tho in diction with gayetv, os we find from the lines in Cowley s translation: Cupid, tk-klisl at the aound Hutvusl aloud, and all around The little lore, that waited b, Ilow'd and bleaa'd the augury. It is clear, however, that the Romans simply followed an established Greek custom. Centuries before. Aristotlo had given his own account of the omen, and wus so fur refined in his ex planations as to tell his readers why sneezing from noon until midnight was good, and from night to noon un lucky. It would bo fruitless to inquire through what channel the practice camo to tho Greeks, for traces of its existence are to be found not only in tho widly contrasted civilizations of antiquity, but even among the barbar ous tribes of every quarter of tho globe. Before Greece was a nation, tho sneezer was blessed alike iu the "Dark Continent" and beyond the Ganges. The incfiable Buddha himself once sneezed, whereupon all his priests ex claimed, "May tho welcome one live I" Buddha, however, took them severely to tusk, and tho right to say, "May you live, sirl" to a Buddhist priest is still a fruitful subject of popular con tention. Although sneezing is a purely in voluntary act, it is possible in somo measure to guard ngainst its attacks. In the caso ol a fully developed cold, the sufferer must necessarily submit to the infliction; but, as to the sneeze casuul, it would appear to have in fluence onlv iu a listless or weakened condition of tho bodily powers. Peo ple seldom sneeze when their faculties are in full tension. Great nervous ex citement will hardly admit of tho re luxation of a sneeze, lleuco wo often find a church, a ball or a theatre filled with an audience ready to indulge on the smallest provocation. They are in the passive and recipient mood. On the other hand, a strong nervous con centration possesses the preacher, lec turer or actor. His faculties are gird ed up for the feat before bim, and he can at least temporarily defy tho draughts Unit make martyrs of some of his bearers. London Graphic, To t'ura Chilblains. The following is a cortain cure for chilblains; Sleep thirty capsicums or chillies in double their weight of rco- tiflrwl ettfii r f tar tit A Ipnnninn tlmm im a warm piuco for a week to make a stroiicr tincture; men uissoivo Rum arabic in water to about the consist ency of treacle, making the some quantity as the tincture; stir both to gether with a small brush until thor oughly mixed, when tho preparation will appear cloudy and opaque. Then take some sheets of tissuo paiier, coat one surface of each with the mixture and let them dry, after thut give an- other coat If tho surface is shining when that has dried, enough has been applied; if not, a third coat is neces sary. The paper thus prepared is to be applied like court plaster to un- broken clululuins. it soon relieves the irritation and pain, and rapidly ejectg a curo Where chilbluins are broken, they should be poulticed, and relief is often fouud from the application of glycer ine. A good wash for hands affected with chilblains is made by adding three parte of sulphurous acid to one part of glycerine aud one of water. It should uo made up by a chemist and labeled "Poison. For unbroken chilblains the following also is useful it should bo applied night and morning: Bal-ammoniuc, one ounce; glycerine, ono and a half ounce; rose water, eitrht ounces; shake till dis solved. Mustard and water is also a good remedy. tor broken chilblains, or those with a tendency to break, the followmir is or service: lincture or catechu, two fluid ounces; honey, one ounce; water, seven ounces; mix aud rub on. Exchange. Life of Toada. persistence of life in frogs is The very long, spaiiauzani preserveu some frogs in a mass of snow for two years. They became dry, stiff, and almost friable, but a gradual heat brought them back to lifo. Toads have been shut up in blocks of plaster, and then, having been deprived of all air except what may penetrate through the material, and of all sources of food, resuscitated several years afterward. Toads are said to have been found in rocks. Such cases are rare. - La Monde de la Science. Tbat'a Whj. Mr. Nesbitt the dramatio critic of The London Times, made a curious statement the other evening. We were discussing American humor and be said: "American humor has a sort of stoical grimnesa, which can be traced directly. 1 think, to the intermarriage fit the wbites witb tiio aboriginal In diana" Now what sort of answer is one to make to an argument of this kind? Eugene Field in Chicago News. Pat la Good I'm. Bobby How is it you don't get kept NINETEENTH CENTURY MALADIES. New DlaraM That Follow In the Trala of frogrmaliif tlvlllxallou. As everv pleasure in life brings its corresjionding pain or bitterness, so it nmy be said that every civilized aid to existenco devised for human kind de velops an agency for introducing now ills to torment alike suffering llcsh and the Ksculapian brain. Tho in tention of steam locomotion, tele rraph and telephone instruments, ilectric lighting uud various timo and labor saving machines, while adding so much to public comfort and con venience, have also brought into ex istence curious discuses, which form interesting contributions to medical science, although less interesting and more expensi veto the suffering victim. Railroad spino or railroad shock, an affection unknown before travel by rail becamo so common, has been a familiar malady for some timo; but ono more recent is railroad kidney, a disease not unliko Bright's disease, but of nervous origin, due to concussions received on railroads. There is udis turbuueo of the general system. cso cially of the functions of the kidneys, tho symptoms disappearing when tlio sufferer leaves his regular work. Tho over use of a telephone produces a curious disease, in some respects a form of ascmasia, a volitional over straining of certain powers, by which we pereeivo sokcu words when we cannot see the 8eakcror perceive ges tures or tho movement of bis lips, thus creating collusion of ideas, gener al nervousness aud lack of self control. Certain of tho senses are dovcloicd at tho expenso of others, tho uuturul equilibrium being unbulunced. Tele- nhouo tinnitus, aural overpressure, is caused by tiio constant strain of tho auditory apimrulus in persons who use tlio telephone, continually, the ear no coming intolerant of tho tiuklo of tho bell. The symptoms are buzzing noises in tho' ear, dizziness, neuralgic pains and in some instances a sub-in-fiummatory condition of tho mom brana lympnni. The 'telegraphers' cramp and the professional ukincsia are of the same onler of affections us the writers' cramp or the violinists' cramp. Elec trical . sunstroke is an affection that attacks those who are exposed to tho intense rays of the electric are used in fusing or welding metals, protection against this being afforded by wearing a mask of gray tall'ctu and gray eye glasses. Oplhalmia pboto-clectrica is an in flammation of the eye in persons em ployed about electric lights, and is caused by looking at these brilliant lighU a short distance n'v:iy. A suc cession of bright tM.j rapidly follow one another over liio visual Ueld, and at night there is inability to look at light without pain uud a profuso Uow of tears; the eyelids are swollen and movements of tho cyo painful. This lasts a few hours, and is succeeded by a feeling of painful weariness. Tho ordinary telescope vision is a disease by which the visual field is limited concentrically, and the suffer er can finally see nothing except that which is directly in front of his eyo, this condition being duo to luck of nu trition of the retina or to some disease of the periphery. An affection of vision similar to the teloscopoeye may also be produced by tho action of qui nine. The telescopic eye peculiur to light house keepers is a thickening and en larging or the bony walls of the orbit caused by the persistent and repeated pressure at the end of tho telescope upon the surroundings of the eye, in ducing a chronic form of periostitis or ostitis, me eye grauuaujr iroiruuiiir, but not becoming myopic or astig matio. The divers' bends is a now form of caisson disease, which attacks the victim ou his return to open air, with nervous prostration. The cavities connected with tho nasal passages are obstructed in some cases complete ly, while the men are at work, and in some cases extreme deafness has been induced. The sufferers often reel aud stagger like drunkards, and sometimes are af fected with partial paralysis. Elec tricity lias boon used with success for the treatment of this disease. Civil ized indulgences and vanities have also contributed their share of diseases thut alllict tho modern world. Tight shoes by compressing tho nerves of the foot have created "Morton's toe." Then the tennis elbow and baseball shoulder tell their own story, whilo chronic catarrh is in a large number of cases said to be due to ciiruratte throat, the result of smoking the much con- demned but still favorite cigarette, in- venti ve genius is still at work improv intr the arte and sciences, and so the domon of disease, ever on the alert, will doubtless swoon down with hu attendant ills to the end of time, keep ing lime with the march of civiliza tion. Cor. Times and Register. Light la the Library. Referring to the effects of electric light upon books, a publio librarian says: An attempt uos ueen maue ui prove that the electric light is, after all, mora injurious to bpoks than gas. t. . 1 .. . It nn.,nM nwuln Mm wood liber is exposed to the electric licht or indeed to the sun or to strong daylight it will turn yellowish, while gas Humes do not produce any similar effect But gas burning in a library acts upon the bindings of books not merely when they are opened out for reading, but all the time they stand closed upon the shelves: so that even if we leave the risk of fire out of the question, the electric light is far preferable for libraries. Wliot might be the case if we could produce gas absolutely free from sulphur, I cannot say." Exchange. faoU About Orehlda. Here are some interesting facts about these strango weeds of the tropics. Or chids do not live without water. They do not live on air alone. They are not grafted from one to another, but vari eties are produced by hybridizing. They are obtained originally from their native place, and are rarely pro duced from seed, since it takes a long time for the seed to ripen, a year of ten to germinate, and from three to perhaps ten years to flower. They ore often divided and planU secured in that way. Flowers last on the plants from six to eight weeks, and even when cut last nearly a month. New York World. aoenlitloaa Oil Men. ilrs. M. V. Taylor, of Washington, Pa., the only woman engaged iu the oil well supply business in the coun try, sprained her ankle recently. Oil men have a superstition that good luck will follow them if they buy ma terial from a crippled person, and Mrs. Taylor waa overwhelmed with custo mars. Pxtuburg Coouiaarci&L. 6EATINQ A BUNCO. Aej Amiulin Incident Said to Ilavo Traa plred In Lincoln I'ara, Chicago. It's a curious feature in human na ture that while a mini will peril bit lifo to assist a stranger who is being forcibly robbed, ho will turn about and delight in seeing that same man taken in and douo for by a "skin" Eame or a bunco man. On tlio next I'lich to us in Lincoln park, Chicago, ono day, sat a long, lean, lank stranger who had hayseed and union tops scat tered all over him to prove his hailing place, and ho gave himself awuy iu every move ho made. Pretty soon a slick young man umirouchcd and ex tended his bund and exclaimed: "Well, well, but how are you Stev ens!" "How ar' ye?" replied tho man, as he looked up in a puzzled wuy. "Whutl Don't you know me?" "Whv. vour face looks kinder fa miliar, but I can't place ye." 'taut Place mol I am William Scott, nephew of tho judge of probate in Urassvillel 1 saw you hundreds or times in the two years 1 lived with my uncle. "Oh. yes. I thought I had seen you before. And you knew me right off?" "Tho minuto I set eyes on you. "How's everybody down tnere?" "All tolerable. You live here?" "Yes. 1 look after about fifty houses aud stores hero for a capitalist" "(Josh I you must get big wages." "Oh, a hundred a week." "Vim dot Bv cum I but vou are smarter than fox traps I Mebbo you kin help me to a johl "I think so. Indeed, I was going to mnkoyou on offer." We were on to him from tho start as a bunco man, but lmd no thought of interfering "Hayseed" should take tho pniors ami keep posted. "IIow would you liko to como here and assist mo ut a salary of $'.'00 per month? queried bunco ulter a bit "JowhiUikerl but you duii't mc mean It?" "I do I" "Give us ycr band on itl Say, I'll work all day and sit up all night for them wages. Say, will ye bind the bargain right now I" "I will. That is, I" "No flunking out now I I've got a hundred dollar bill here, and I'll give ye fifty to bind tho bargain. Yes, by gosh I I'll give yo sixty I" "I was going to say that I ought to see my employer first, but 1 know it will bo all right I will take your $00, but only for a day ortwo, as I happen to be a littlo short just now. You know where tho Pulmcr, houso is, of courso?" "That all fired big stono tavern?" "Yes. Meet me there ono hour from now to sign a contract ami begin work." "I'll be right thar, and I'll work like a boss. Gin me (40 out of this bill." llo handed out a bill, und the young man scarcely glanced at it, so great was his hurry to getaway. I think ho mistrusted us, although we pretended not Iosco or hoar any thing. When he was outof sight "Hayseed" camo over to us with a grin on his fuco, and queried: "IIow did it act boys?" "What?" "My - young man from-tho-turnip-fields.' ' "But you you" "I'm from Cincinnati. I do a little business with tho three cards and the shells when home. Thought I'd see what they were made of in Chicago." "But you gave bim a hundred dollar bill." "Exactly one of the counterfeits of 1874. I had fifteen of them once. I'm just $10 ahead. I'm going now. If he should return before you leave tell him that Stevons tins gone to meet him at Mr. Palmer's big stono tavern. Two hundred a month I Wako snakes, but hain't Ijist struck agolcouda with a big Q I" New York Sun. Boaton'a Earl; lea Trade. Forty years ago all the ice known to commerce was shipped from Boston. The cutting of this ico wus confined to ponds in Massachusetts within a radius of twenty miles from Boston, noUibly Fresh pond, Smith's pond, Spy pond, Horn pond and Wenbam lake. Fresh pond may lie regarded as tho father of the trade. Most of tho ico of com-'' merce now is outsido of Boston, and today Boston is frequently obliged to import ico for home consumption Jrom long distances. Forty years ago all during the season the four lurgo ice wharves in Charlestown wore crowd ed with ships of all sizes loading for the East and West ladies, south Ameri ca and the southern ports. In no one branch of Boston com merce has there been such a radical change as in tho shipping of ico. Ice furnished ballast as well as paying fricght to all the cotton ships going south for business, and at ono time it was a chief recommctidulion to strange ships in coming to Boston that they could always procure a frieght of ice at some rate. Ice wus an exceptionally rood freight as it wus not amenable to uumugo, and was put on board and discharged free of cost and seldom in volved a commission for procuring or collecting. Now and then you will find an old shipowner or shipmaster who recalls with pleasure the good old days of Boston ice freights. Boston Cor. Uingham Journal. Glre Cblldrea Plenty of Water. For the reasons given, I advocate under all conditions a plentiful ad dition of water to children's food. In this connection I would lay stress upon the fact that as a rule, small children receive water only as they get it in their milk or milk food. Alike iu summer and in winter, it is probable thut the fact seldom occurs to a mother or nurse that a child may be thirsty without being hungry at the same time. Certainly many a discom fort and even sickness in a child is conditioned upon the fact that it has been compelled to eat in order to get iU thirst satisfied, and often has to suffer thirst because the over stimu lated and injured stomach will take no more nourislimeutat irregular and too short intervals. Archives of Pedia trics. "I'lanlluf" Spongea. If Frofessor Oscar Schmidt of Gratx, in Styria, is to be trusted, the sponge trade is on the eve of new develop ments. He declares that he has suc ceeded, by breaking off pieces of the living sponge and planting them in favorable spots, in procuring in threo years excellent sponges of largo di-. mensions. The experimenU have, he says, proved a financial success. Tiio result of his labors so far have been the production of 4,000 sponges at a cost of 9, including the interest for three years on the capital expended. New Yprk Telegram.