THE INDEPENDENT
' - HAS TOE . . '
FINEST JOB OFFICE
1ST DOUGLAS COUNTY.
CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANKS
And other printing. Including
Large and Heavy Posters and Showy
Hand-Bills,'
XeaUy nd expeditious!? executed
A.T PORTLAND T?XTieSSS.
Saturday 3H"ornlnjr,
BY THE
DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING. CO.
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NU Months
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These ire the term for those paying In td ranee.
The IDi?t!DKNT oner fine inducements to ad
versers. Terms reasonable. ,
vol. vni.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 19. 1883.
NO. 6.
THE INDEPENDENT
v." IS ISSUED
TBE
IWflP TOT PiTBTP PHP
:3S:J.JASKULEK
' PRACTICAL
watchmaker; jeweler, and
optician. . '
all work warranted.
Dealer la VFftteh. Clecks, jewelry,
Spectacle mud Eyrginttfi,
- And a Full Line of
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Goods.
The only reliable Optometer In town for tbe
proper adjustment cf fepeetacles ; always on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec-
. tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFHCZ First jfloor sooth of post office, Rose
bntg. Oregon. ' - - ' -
DE. W. DAVIS,.
DENTIST,
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
OfFICE-ON JACKtOtf STREET,
Up Stato, over 8. Marks & Co. 'a New Store.
UAHOrJEY'S SALOON
Nearest to tbe Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jus. Sluliouey, Prop'r.
Che fineat of wines, liquors and cigars in Dog
las oounty, and the best
BIIililAUD ' T'A.XS JLX2
in tie State kept la proper repair:
parties traveling on the railroad will find this
place very bandy to visit during the stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land Depot. Give me acall.
Ja8. HAHONjuY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home ; Made Purniture.
WILBUR,
OllKGOX.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on hand.
ITIiniJITIIRI? I lve the beat stock of
run 111 I lint, mrniture south of Fortl&ud
And all of ray own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
t&- ALL WORK WARRANTED.-8
DEPOT HOTEL
OAKUtND, - - ORKtiOSr.
Richard Thomas, PropV.
rpHIS HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number of years, and has become Terr
popularwith the traveling public, i i rat-class
8LEKPINC ACCOMMODATIONS.
' And the table supplied with the beat the market
affords. Hotel at the depot of the Kailmad.
H. C. STANTONi
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coods I
Keeps constantly on hand
inent of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
SCHOOL
BOO KS
Such as required by the Public County Schools,
All kinds of STATIONERY. TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and Old.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco. j.
SEEDS ! sorSEEDS !
ALL HMDS. OF BUST QUALITY
ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and Goods shipped
with care.
Address, llscheney & Bene,
Portland. Oregon.
JKotlcc.
Notice U herer-y given, to whom it .nay concern, that
tfi undersigned has been awarded the con true t tor
keeping the Douglas county Pauper for the period oi
two years. All persons in need of asaiaUnce from akl
county must first procure a certificate to that effect
from an member of the County Board, and present It
to o of the following named persons, who are author
IrM to, and will core for those presenting such certificate
W. L. Butten, Koseburg ; U. L. Kellogg, Oakland ; Mrs
Brown, Lookmif Olaa. Dr. Sorogs is authorized to
furnish medical aid to all persons in need of the same
who have been declared paupers of Douglas county.
WM. & CL.AKK.lS, Supt. of Poor.
Bouses. Or. Feb. IS. 1380
A new railroad company was incorpor
ated at Duluth, Minn., May 8, under the
' name of the Lake Superior & Northwest
ern road. The road will ran from Da
lath to the month of the Red Lake river.
Capital stock, $5,000,000.
The president has recognized the fol
lowing named rice consuls for Den
mark: P. Harrison. Gold Hill, Nevada;
Christian Nessero, Boise City, I. T.; B.
Hineman, Tucson, A. T. ; Esper S. Lar
ge n, Portland, Ogn.; C. C. Plong, Seat
tle, W. T.
The Western Co-operative mines, at
West Belleville, Mo., were set on fire
May 8th. The mines were unoccupied
by workmen. Last night there was much
trouble, and those at work were mtimi
dated by tbe strikers. The Western Co
operative is the largest mine in Belle
Tllle district. The loss will amount to
nearly $100,000.
New York city is getting aroused over
the heathen Chinee in their midst. It
baa been discovered that Mott and Pell
, streets are full of opium dens, and that
China&xen entice young girls into the
pernicious habit by first civine them
candy with opium in it, and then induce
them to go into their dens and use the
drug m its vilet form.
LATEST NEWS SUMMABY.
BY TKI1E6BAPH TO DATE.
An earthquake shock was felt at Vic
toria on the 11th inst.
Mrs. Grant, the mother of the general,
was buried at Jersey City May 12.
Large brick kilns and works were de
stroyed by fire at Chicago recently.
It is believed that President Arthur
will visit the Pacific coast about August.
George W Warren, the first mayor of
Charlestown, Mass., died May 13, aged
70.
The Sunday law is being enforced in
Wiika sbarie, Pa., against the liquor sa
loons - , .. ,. w-. .-
J The number of emigrants that left tl
first week in May for America was
3415. :
The Fair divorce suit has created con
siderable surprise and gossip in Wash
ington.
Sir Thomas Bernard, grandson of the
last British governor of Massachusetts,
is dead.
Fourteen deaths have occurred from
yellow fever at Havana within the past
month.
At Ottawa. Canada, the first state ball
of the season was given at Rideau hall
May 10th.
Snow is reported to have fallen recent
ly in parts of England and Ireland to the
depth of one foot.
The balance in the U. S. treasury May
12 was $130,000,000, an iucrease of
$8,000,000 in nine days.
The heads of 100 Shinwaris were taken
to Jelalabad, India, recently, and ex
posed on the gates.
The sawmills of Geo. F. Crawford at
Cincinnati were counsumed by fire May
12. Loss. $100,000.
A destructive cyclone passed over
Kansas City May 13th, killing three peo
ple and injaring many.
Sitting Bull is willing to accept terms
of peace and to live a quiet and indus
trious life in the future.
Bank statement: Reserve increase,
$3,399,700; banks now hold $5,008,825 in
excess of legal requirements.
D. C. Hutchins, who murdered W. St.
Lion at Shreeveport, La., recently, was
hanged by a mob on the 13th inst.
L. Mosely, a London money broker,
has failed. Liabilities, 532,000. Mosely
dealt heavily in Grand Trunk securities.
Business failures throughout the
country for the week ending May 11th
were 156, as compared with 152 last
week. x
The Ing'a, a Norwegian bark, was lost
at sea May Cth on account of heavy gails.
The Dutch steamer Leerdom rescued her
crew.
Marriott, the diamond thief, unsuc
cessfully attempted to obtain his release
through means of a writ of habeas
corpus.
The North German Gazette, alluding
to the recent debates in the reichstag.
accuses the progressists of repub
licanism. Lieut. Tittini, an Italian officer, com'
mitted suicide in New York May 13
Disappointed in love affairs seems to be
the cause.
A bust of the poet Coleridge will be
placed in Westminster abbey. An
American admirer of Coleridge's works
bears the cost.
Col. Torres had a fight with the
Apaches recently, killing eleven and
wounding a number. Five of his own
soldiers were killed.
Angelo Cornetti, tbe Italian murderer
of Daniel Cash, a fellow convict at Sing
Sing, December al, lool, was banged in
the prison yard this morning.
Two German citizens of Chicago re
cently fought a duel in one of the
suburbs with broadswords. One of the
duelists was cut severely about the
head.
Amasa Stone, the founder of Adelbert
college and largely interested in rail
roads, committed suicide by shooting
himself at his home in Cleveland, May
11th.
A glove fight occurred at San Fran
Cisco recently uetween jacK JVicAuiia
and Johnny Williams, the latter color ei,
for a purse of $1(W. The prize was
awarded to Williams.
Charles Walker, an English solicitor.
committed suicide in Union depot, Kan
sas City. May 16. He had just come from
Liverpool and was on his way to Colo
rado to visit a bi other.
The St. Louis fast tobacco train, com
prising eleven cars, carrying the first to
bacco for this city under the new stamp
law, arrived in San Francioco May 10,
making a run of 533 miles in twenty-one
hours and five minutes.
William Conners, (white), aged 26,
who shot dead two men and cut two
others during a drunken quarrel at Glen
mary, Tennessee, was lynched May 12th
by negro miners. After he was hanged
the body was riddled with bullets.
Efforts are being made by eastern
speculators to lease a large tract of land
containing 6,000.000 acres, from the
Cherokee nation. They want it for
grazing purposes, and as high as $130,
000 has been offered for the privilege.
George Shoermer met with a frightf al
death near Kankakee. 111., recently. A
team attached to a riding plow ran away,
throwing bim under the implement
The circular cutter cut off all his ribs
close to the backbone, and the plow point
tore nis jaw out.
Recently a large Chinese ganar work
ing on the mainland near Lytton, B. C,
assaulted the foreman and three other
white men, injuring one seriously. At
night, armed white men proceeded to
the camp, attacked the Chinese, burned
their cabins, injured several badly and
killed one.
The steamer Mississippi was entirely
destroyed by fire while at her wharf at
Seattle, early Sunday morning. May
13th. Chief Engineer Knapp was burned
to death and a carpenter by the name of
Hogan killed by falling timbers, and
several others injured. About dUO feet
ot wharf was also destroyed. The
steamer had 600 tons of coal aboard. The
fire started in the oil room.
Eight thousand people attended the
dog show at New York recently.
Congressman Kelly is pronounced
better since the surgical operation.
. The Republican state convention of
Minnesota meets at St. Paul June 27. '
The salmon catch in the Sacramento
river so far this year is reported light.
The governor of Connecticut has not
yet signed the bill reducing railroad
taxes.
Alice, daughter of Lyman Havaland,
was burned to death at Palmyra, 111., re
cently; '
New York and Brooklyn have some
advocates for placing both cities under
one government.
" On MaySthTthe agent at St. Paul sold
the first through ticket to Portland over
the Northern Pacific.
The free trade club of New York has
appointed delegates to tho Detroit con
ference and convention.
The death of General Stonewall Jack
son twenty years ago, May 18th, was
commemorated at Richmond, Va.
The citizens of Hanford, Cal., cele
brated the third anniversary of the Mus
sel Slough tragedy on April 12th.
U. B. Hickman, late reeeiver of tbe
Lake county, Colorado, land office, is a
defaulter to the extent of $10,000.
The fisheriei exhibition at London was
opened on the 12th inst. The Prince of
Wales and sons were at the opening cere
monies. The Canadian Pacific railroad com
pany re-elected the old board of di
rectors at a recent meeting of the stock
holders. The stallion Black Cloud was recently
sold to Mr. Y. Wagner, of Marshall,
Mich, for $8000. The horse has a record
of 2.17 .
At the sale of
Jersey cattle at New
the cow Nancy Lee
York recently,
brought $2100 and the heifer Darlington
Situate $1900.
Prince Roland Bonaparte will take the
first opportunity to offer himself in Cor
sica as a candidate for the French cham
ber of deputies.
The comptroller of the treasury has
granted a charter for the establishment
of a national bank at Union, Oregon.
Capital, $50,000.
A. M. Mitchell, arrested at, Leicester,
with explosives, has been discharged,
there being no evidence to connect him
with the dynamite conspiracy.
Lizzie Robinson, alias Ralston, said to
be a niece cf Ralston, of California, was
picked up by the police of Chicago re-
oently, and taken to the hospital.
Lawrence McCullug, associate justice
of the supreme court of the Hawaiian
Islands, is revisiting , old friends in
Maine. He will soon sail for Europe.
The body of a rent collector was found
recently in a pond near Berlin. He was
undoubtedly murdered by robbers, as
25,000 marks was stolen from his person.
Mr. Wm. Henry Hurlburt, the recent
editor of the New York World, is ex
pected to sail for Europe soon in the in
terest of the Jay Gould railroad syndi
cate. Bismarck is becoming daily more ema
ciated, and his physicians have informed
him that the worst may happen if he
does not abandon all state work for the
present.
The editor of the Breslan newspaper
has been sentenced to six months impris
onment in a fortress for having spoken
disrespeotful of Emperor William in a
theater.
A collision occurred on one of the ele
vated railroads in New York city May
10th, two trains running into each other,
severely injuring the fireman and others
slightly.
The act passed by the lagislatnre of
Tennessee making gambling a felony
went into effect May 9th, and all gaming
houses in Memphis closed their doors
that afternoon.
The Tennessee legislature recently
passed a bill forbidding gambling, and
on May 10th $5000 worth of gambling
apparatus was destroyed in the public
square at Nashville.
An Oxford dispatch of May ilth says:
Yesterday afternoon City Marshal C. E.
Butler shot and instantly killed Cant. S.
M. Thompson, editor of the Oxford
Eagle, who was resisting arrest.
At a recent meeting of influential ship
owners in London, including representa
tion of 3,000,000 tons of Suez canal
traffio they unanimously adopted a resolu
tion favoring the constrnction of another
canal across the isthmus, and appointed
an executive committee to carry out the
plans of the meeting.
The Standard oil works of Jersey City
were struck bv lightning May lOtu and
entirely destroyed. Six firemen lost
their lives by the explosion of one of the
large tanks. It is estimated that 750,000
barrels of oil have been destroyed, in
cluding 2o0,000 barrels of refined oil,
and the loss is estimated at $1,500,000.
In the appeal case of Finnegan vs. Hi
bernian bank, San Francisco, in which
tho appellant claimed that the earnings
of a wife may be taken for a husband's
debts, the supreme court decided other
wise, saying: "Section 168 of the civil
code reads: 'The earnings of the wife
are not liable for the debts of the hus
band.'"
A train on the Yanderbilt line in Ne
braska went through a bridge about four
miles from Norfolk May 9th, and Joseph
Fessenden is dead in the wreok, and En
gineer Sam Reem will lose one leg, and
perhaps his life. The wreck is a bad
one. the cars being piled in a heap in the
narrow bed of a stream. A washout
caused the accident.
The Chicago Railway Age says: The
first four 'months of the present year
there were 1450 miles of main track laid,
against 2300 during tue corresponding
period of last year. The decrease is
owing to a cold winter and backward
spring interfering with tbe work. Not
withstanding this fact the mileage thus
far this season is greater than for the
same period of any previous year, excep
1882. The work was done on seventy
five different lines, in thirty-one states
and .territories. The states which lead
in construction are: Ualilorma, 171
miles; Utah, 156; New York, 115; Penn
sylvania, 93; Montana, 86; Idaho, 85;
Arizona, 84; Missouri, 73. It is estimated
that railroad building for the year will
be 8000 miles.
The Cure of Cucugnan.
Translated freely from tbe French of Alphonse
Uaodet. . ' '
Father Martin was the cure of Cncug
nan. There was no better man, and he
cherished for his Cucugnanese flock a
paternal affection in fine, Cucngnan
would have been for him a perfect para
dise had only its people been a little
more solicitious about their souls. Bat,
alas, the spider spun its web in the un
frequented confessional and the worthy
priest's heart was almost broken.
Nightly, however, he prayed to heaven
that he might not be removed from
earth until he had brought his .strayed
sheep back to the fold. .You will see
that his prayer was heard. s: "
One Sunday, after reading.the gospel,
Father MartiH entered the pulpit and
thus addressed his parishioners.
"Dearly beloved brethren, the other
night I found myself, miserable sinner
though I am, at the gates of heaven. I
knocked and Peter opened the gates at
once. ' 'Hallo,' he said, 'is that you my
good Father Martin? To what am I in
debted? What can I do for you? 'Good
Saint Peter, you who keep the books
and the keys, could you tell me, if it is
not an imposition, how many Cucug
nanese you have up here?'
" I can refuse you nothing, Father
Martin. Sit down and we will run over
the book together.' So the saint took
down his big register and put on his
spectacles. 'Let us see! Uucugnan, I
think you said Cucugnan Cucugnan
ah, here we are! My dear sir, the page is
blank! Not one single, solitary soal!
There are just as many Cucugnanese in
heayen as there are teeth in a hen!'
'What,' I exclaimed, 'not one! There
must be some mistake about it. Per
haps you haven't posted your books up
to date. Look again, I beg of you.' 'No
mistake about it, worthy man,' replied
Peter; 'look for yourself if you think I
am jesting.'
"Dearly beloved brethren, you can
imagine my distress! Come, cornel said
Peter, 'don't take on so, or you'll be ill.
You are not resporsible, anywayj, and
the probability is that your Cucugnanese
are in quarantine down in purgatory.'
'For the love of heaven, then, good St.
Peter, allow me to see them to console
them!' 'Willingly, my friend, but put
on these sandals, for it is bad walking.
Keep right down this lane until oh the
right hand you see a silver dopr all
studded with black crosses. Knock, and
ou will be admitted. Good-bye! Be
good to yourself. I
"Dearly beloved brethren, 1 set out
down the lane. And such a lane-i the
gooseflesh comes out all over me when I
think of it. It was all paved with sharp
flints, thorns and puff-adders. But at
ast I reached the silver door, and
knocked.. 'Who's there?' asked, a crave
voioe. The etff8 of Ourghilomf
m! I went in, and there I saw a tall and
splendid angel, with wings black as
night and a robe white as day, and a big
diamond key hung at his waist, writing
in a book ever so much bigger than St.
Peter's. 'Fair.angel of God,' I said, 'if
am not too presumotuous, hav4 you
any Cucugnanese here? Any one j
from
Cuougnan? I am the parish priest
"Ah, Father Martin, I suppose?
'The
same, at your service.
"Dearly beloved brethren, the angel
wetted his finger and rknroyjBr the pages
of his big book and at lasfne said to me
with a deep sigh, 'FatKer Martin, there
is no resident of Cucugnan in purgatory.
'No resident of Cucugnan in purgatory?'
cried; 'then for the love of heaven,
where are they all?' Up in paradise, my
good man! Where else would you have
them?' 'But I have just come from para
dise and they are not there. At least St.
Peter told me so and I don t think he
would lie to me.
for the cock did
No! he can't have lied,
not crow. Mother of
Heaven, where
then?'
is
my congregation,
'Well, sir, if your friends are not in
Heaven, nor yet here, there is only one
place where they can be.
"Dearly beloved brethren, I burst out
into such lamentations that the angel
was moved. 'My dear sir.' he said, 'if
you wish to be sure about it and see for
yourself, go down this road , until you
come to a door on the left, and inquire
there. Bless you!' and he shut the door
behind me. It was a long, steep path
all payed with red-hot iron. I staggered
as if I was drunk, the sweat poured
from me, mj hair stood up on end and
my tongue clove to the roof of my
mouth. But, thanks to the sandals
Peter had given me, I neither st ambled
nor was burned, and at last I came to a
huge portal, wide open, and glowing red
like the' mouth of a furnace.
"Dearly beloved brethern, they don't
ask your name there! They keep no
books there! You haven't to knock at the
door there! It is always wide open, like
the tavern door, and people go in
throngs, just as you go into the tavern
on the holy Sabbath day. There was a
horrible smell of burning flesh, like that
which arises when Eloy, the blacksmith,
burns out a donkey's hoof before fitting
on a shoe, only infinitely worse, and a
terrible uproar of sighs, sobbings, yells,
oaths! 'Here, you; are you coming in?'
howled abig-horned demon, jmaking a
grab at me with a long, red-hot iron
hook. . 'I? No, thank you, sir; I could
not think of intruding in fact, I belong
up above!' 'You do? Well, then, what
are you doing down here? I have
traveled a long way, good Mr. Devil, to
see if by any chance possibly you might
have happened to have any one here from
Cucugnan. 'Any one from Cucugnan?
yelled the fiend, 'why, you black-frocked
old fool, all Cucugnan is here! Step this
way and I'll show how we serve your
precious Cucugnanese down here!'
"Dearly beloved brelhern, I looked,
and there, in the midst of a great sheet
of flame, I saw whom did I see? I saw
Coq Galene, that great, hulking loafer
that used to get so drunk and beat his
wife. And Pascal Doigt-de-Poix, who
made oil with his neighbor's olives. And
old Crapasi, the usurer. And Tortillard,
who, when he met met me carrying the
holy sacrament to a dying man, walked
passed with bis hat on his head and his
pipe in his law, as proud as Artaxerxes,
and paying no more attention tome
than if I had been a dog. And Couleau,
with his wife, Zette, and Jacques and
his brothers, Pierre and Tomi"
Shuddering with fear sat the congrega
tion, each recognizing his father, his
gtandmother, his cousin, his sister in
the inexorable roll.
"Dearly beloved brethern," said the
cure, more mildly, as be took off bis
glasses and mopped his fsce, "you
understand as well as I do that this
thing cannot be allowed to go on "any
longer. I have charge of your souls and
I wish to saye you from the abyss into
which you are all plunging headfore
most. To-morrow I shall set about the
business; and do it systematically. To
morrow, Monday, I will hear the confes
sions of the old peop'e. On Tuesday the
children. On Wednesday the young
folks it may be late before I get
th roagh, but never mind 1 On Thursday
the married women and on Friday their
husbands. On Saturday the village
miller I will devote the jrhole day to
him. And by next Sunday, if all goes
well, we shall have entered upon a new
order of things.
Dearly beloved brethren, when the
corn is ripe we must put in the sickle.
When the wine has been poured out we
must drink it. There is a heap of dirty
linen here and it has got to be be washed
and washed at once and washed thor
oughly, and I am going to do it!"
He did it.
From that memorable moment ever
afterwards the sweet savor of virtue of
Cucugnan pervaded the surrounding
country to a distance of ten leagues, and
the good pastor, happy and light
hearted, dreamed every night when he
went to sleep that in tbe midst of a halo
f lighthd tapers and a cloud of in
cense, with the choir chanting the le
Deum, he led his flock m resplendent
procession up the starry road that con
ducts to the Citv of God.
The Color of Water.
Viewed in relatively shallow masses,
clear water appears wholly colorless. In
our daily dealings with liquid we sel
dom have occasion to observe it in great
depths; hence it has been generally be
lieved that water is quite destitute of
color. The ancients were accustomed to
explain the transparency of some bodies
by assuming that they partook of the
nature of water; and we now speak of a
diamond as of the first water, to empha
size its perfect transparency and color
lessness. If, however, we regard the
larger masses of water the seas, lakes
and rivers we shall receive a different
impression. In these the water not only
appears colored, but of various colors,
and of a rich diversity of shades. The
Mediterranean is of a beautiful indigo,
the ocean is sky-blue, the Lake of
Geneva is celebrated for its lovely and
transparent azure waters; the Lake of
Constance and the Rhine, the Lake of
Zurich and the Lake of Lucerne have
waters quite as transparent, but rather
green than blue ; and tue greei waters of
the little Lake of Kloenthal, near Claris,
can hardly be distinguished from the
surrounding meadows. Other waters are
of a darker color, like those of the Lake
of Staff el, at the foot of the Bavarian
Alps, which was quite black the day I
saw it, though clear in shallow places.
These facts start the questions whether
water, after all, has not a color; if it has,
what the color is, and what causes the
varied tints nnder which it is seen. The
solution of these questions has long oc
cupied the minds of scientific inquirers,
and it cannot yet be said that they have
been answered. Disagreement still pre
vails respecting them. Popular Soience
Monthly.
The Poor Two Hundred Years Ago.
When one considers the daily life of
the poor as it used to be say two cen
turies ago one presently understands
that they had no doctoring at all.
Neither physician nor surgeon went
among them. When they fell ill they
were nursed and physicked by women--the
sage-femme was called in for feve-s
and all the ills that flesh was heir to.
She knew the power of herbs, and had
them all tied up in her cupboard,
sovereign remedies against everything.
For cases of accident there were bone
setters; but the physician with falAot
tomed wig and gold-headed oane did not
penetrate ihe dark lanes and narrow
courts where the people lived; there
were not even any apothecaries among
them to sell them a "poisoned peison;
and there were no surgeons carrying on
the "general practice" of the present
day. Very likely, in simple cases, the
old women's remedies were efficacious;
but in case of children, who require,
above all. attention to sanitary laws and
fresh air. the mortality must have been
very great, while the sum of pain and
misery and needless suffering from dis
ease, from sheer ignorance of sanitary
laws and right treatment, and the
absence of proper appliances, must have
been truly frightful. Gentleman's
Magazine.
Photographing the Vocal Organs.
Some attempts have been made in
London to photograph the human vocal
organs in the act of singing. The prin
pal object was to obtain a picture of . the
ligaments known as the vocal chords,
which are situated at the top of the
larynx. These can be viewed in the
laryngoscope, a small mirror, which,
when placed at the back of the throat,
serves at once to reflect light upon the
membranes, and to form an image of
them visible to the observer. With the
aid of this instrumentlnumerousobserva
tions have been made upon singers, and
much valuable information has been col
iected, but all previous efforts to obtain
a photograph, by substituting a camera
for the observer's eye, has entirely
failed. The difficulties were overcome
by the use of a powerful Siemens elec
tric lamp, supplied by a dynamo ma
chine. By mtans of this' light some ex
cellent photographs were obtained oi
the laryngoscopies image. -The patient
in each case was Herr Behnke, at whose
instance the experiments were made.
There is an earnest attempt making to
root out the terrible disease of leprosy
from the Hawaiian Islands. Fifty lepers
have recently bean removed from Hono
lulu to the leper settlement at the island
of Molokai, to be separated from their
friends and families forever.
One man's
man's lesson.
fault should be another
Ingersoll on Death.
Colonel R. G. Ingersoll this evening
delivered funeral oration over the re
mains of Lis friend, John G. Mills, who
died here yesterday. Mr. Ingersoll, in
pronouncing this parting tribute of his
friendship and humanity gave utterance
to the following words: 'Again we are
face to face with the great mystery that
shrouds the world. We question, but
there is no reply. Out on the wide, waste
ses there drifts no spar. : Over the desert
of death the sphinx gazes forever, but
never speaks. In the very May of life
another heart has ceased to beat. Night
has fallen upon noon; but he lived, he
loved, he was loved. Wife and children
pressed their, kiase on his lips. This is
enough. The longest life contains no
more. This fills the vase of joy. He who
lies here, clothed with the perfect peace
of death, was a kind and loving husband
and good father, a generous neighbor,
an honest man, and thesa words build a
monument of glory above the humblest
grave. He was always a child, sincere
and frank, as full of hope as spring. He
divided all time into to-day and to
morrow. To-morrow was without a
cloud, and of to-morrow he borrowed
sunshine for to-day. He was my friend.
He will remain so. The living oft be
come estranged, the dead are true.
"He was not a Christian. In the Eden
of his hope there did not crawl and coil
the serpent of eternal pain. In many
languages he sought the thoughts of
men, and for himself he solved the
problems of the world. He accepted
the philosophy of Auguste Comte.
Humanity was his God the human race
the supreme being. In that Bupreme be
ing he rested. He believed that we are
indebted for what we enjoy to the labor,
the self-denial, the heroism of the human
race, and that, as we have plucked the
fruit of what others planted, we, in
thankfulness, should plant for others
yet to be. With him immortality was
the eternal consequence of his own good
acts. He believed that every good
thought, every disinterested deed,
hastens the harvest of universal good.
This is a religion that enriches poverty,
that enables us to bear the sorrows of the
saddest life, that peoples even solitudes
with the happy millions yet to be; a re
ligion, born not of selfishness and fear,
but of love and hope the religion that
digs wells to slake the thirst of others;
that gladly bears the burdens of the un
born. In the presence of death how be
liefs and dogmas wither and decay! How
loving words and deeds burst into blos
soms? Pluck from the tree of any life
these flowers and there remains but the
barren thorns of bigotry and creed. All
wish for happiness beyond this life. All
hope to meet again the loved and lost.
In every heart there grows this sacred
flower of eternal hope, ' - - -
"Immortality is a word that hope,
through all the ages, has been whisper
ing to love. The miracle of thought we
cannot understand. The mystery of
death and hope we cannot comprehend.
This chaos called the world has never
been explained. The golden bridge of
life from gloom emerges and on shadow
rests. Beyond this we do not know.
Fate is speechless, destiny is dumb and
the secret of the future has never yet
been told. We love, we wait, we hope.
The more we love the more we fear.
Upon the tenderest heart the deepest
shadows fall. All paths, whether filled
with thorns or flowers, end here. Here
success and failure are the same. The
rag of wretchedness and the purple robe
of power lose difference and distinction
in this democracy of death. Character
alone survives. Goodness alone lives.
Love alone is immortal. But to all these
comes a time when tbe fevered lips of
life long for the cool, delicious kiss of
death. Tired of the dust and glare of
day, they hear with joy the rustling gar
ments of the night. What can we say of
death? What can we say of the dead?
Where they have gone reason cannot go,
and from thence revelation has not come.
But let us believe that over the cradle
nature bends and smiles, and lovingly
above the dead in benediction holds her
outstretched hands. Chicago Herald,
April 15.
Vaccination for Cattle.
M. Pasteur read a paper at a recent
meeting of the Academic des Sciences
which contained an account of the won
derful results accomplished by his dis
covery for inoculating live stocks as a
preventive against disease. During the
oast year nearly eight thousand sheep,
between four and five thousand head of
cattle and four hunded horses were vac
cinated. For ten years previous the av
erage animal loss from liver ret in the
Department of - the Eure-et-Loire was
7327 or 9 per cent. Since the introduc
tion of vaccination the los3 has been re
duced to 516, or 66 per cent. Among
the flocks which were only partially vac
cinated the loss was as 1 to 40 between
the vaccinated and un vaccinated. The
sheep were brought from different parts
of the department, and the vaccinated
and unvaccinated were all fed and treat
ed in the same way. Among the cattle
4562 were vaccinated during the year;
there were only eleven deaths, the rate
mortality being 1 educed from 7.03 per
cent a year ago to .24 per cent. Horses
were not vaccinated so generally as
sheep and oattle, but of 824 subjected to
it only three died. All this is consider
ed to prove beyond doubt the efficaoy of
M. Pasteur's discovery. When its ap
plications to the other diseases, to which
man is subject, in addition to smallpox,
proves successful, Pasteur will have be
come one of the greatest, if not the
greatest, benefactor of the human race.
Sanitary News.
Canary Birds.
The importation of canary birds into
the United states during the last ten
years aggregated 50,000.000. and the
present year will, if the estimate of four
prominent bird dealers be correctshow
an increase of at least 100.000 over the
yearly average during that period. There
are few fanciers of the lovely little feath
ered songsters who have the remotest
idea of what a vast business the breeding
of canaries in Europe and their propaga
tion in other countries has become. Five
million canary birds represent a money
value of nearly $1,000,000, and that first
cost. The sale of the yearly importation
even axter taxing the great mortality o
the delicate warblers into consideration,
produces the surprising total of $10,000,
OOO.'This may sound like exaggera
tion," said the manager of a bird store on
Eighth street, "but it can be easily
proved by making an average estimate of
the number of birds brought over in
each Antwerp steamer to the ports of
New York, Philadelphia, Boston and '
Baltimore. You i can imagine to what
proportions the traffio has grown when it
was considered of sufficient importance
to have at the last session of congress a
bill introduced imposing a duty on all
birds brought from foreign countries, in
order to protect domestic breeders. The
breeding of canaries is the principal
means of support of the peasantry oi the
Harl&monntains in the black forest of
Southern Germany, where the men de
vote their time to wood-chopping and
making the wicker baskets in which the'
birds are shipped to England and Amer
ica. The women have the delicate task
of caring for the young birds and select
ing the singers an art in which they are
unusually expert. One English firm
and two American firms have agents in
Germany during the shipping seasons to
make purchases. The uniform cost of
the common Hartz mountain canary, in
cluding the . little wicker cage, is
eighteen krutzer, or about twelve cents.
The selling price in America ranges
from $2.40 to $5. Philadelphia Press.
He Took the Contract.
Many years ago a Pittsburg iron firm
purchased a lot of condemned bomb
shells for old iron. The shells were not
loaded, but in order to melt them it was
necessary that they should be broken
up. This was attempted with sledge
hammers, but the laborers made but lit
tle progress, and it was finally given up
as a bad job. One day a long, slim
Yankee came along and said:
"I understand you have a job for a
man here." .
"Yes," was the reply; "we want that
pile of bombs out there broken."
"How muih do you pay?"
"We will give a tip apiece (six and
one-fourth cents) if you will agree to
break them all."
The officers had been so accustomed to
seeing failures that they made this large
offer to draw the man on and see him go -at
the labor with a vim.
''I'll take the contract," answered the
Yankee. Tbe day was a cold one, and
the thermometer down to zero. He im- ,
mediately went to work, but disdained
to take the large sledge hammer which
was offered him. He went out on the
ground, ond every one who had heard of
the new man gathered at the windows to
notice his mode of operation; and have,
as they thought, their usual laugh. The
Yankee laid every bomb out on the
ground with the hole up. He procured
then he came into the house, made out
his bill, and said he would call around
in the morning for the money. Every
one was mystified, but in the morning
their astonishment was great. The water
had frozen dnring the night, and in the
morning a pile of scrap iron was found, .
as the freezing water had broken every
bomb into at least a dozen pieces.
He
was
the Fellow.
A good thing is related as having oc
curred in a barbershop in a certain town
in this county recently, on the occasion
of a too-too wedding.
"Well," sail the barber to the usual
crowd of loungers about such a place,"!
guess the monkey show will come off this
evening."
"What kind of a show is it?" inquired
a stranger in the chair.
"Oh.there s to be a wedding in town."
replied the barber.
" Who is to be married?"
"Well, some traveling man out west is
going to marry old Mrs. Hornswoggle's
daughter. They would have been mar
ried a year ago if it had not been for the
old woman.
"What was wrong with her?"
"Oh, she's a regular tom-cat with gog
gles on. She's too pious to blow her
nose, and the fallow is an out-and-out in
fidel." "And how have they fixed it, that the
marriage is to take place now?"
"Well, he's worth about 840,000. and
she hadn't enough religion to buck
against that. But it'slncky for him that
he lives a good way from the old woman."
The stranger was shaved, and as the
barber was brushing his coat he in
quired:
"Do you live in this neighborhood?
"No," replied the stranger; "I'm from
the west. I'm the fellow that is to be
married
this evening." Courier-Jour-
nal.
Pboposed Resurrection of Phar
aoh s Host. The Abbe Moigno advo
cates the promotion of a joint stock com
pany, with a view to exploring the
bottom of s the Red Sea, "to discover
there the proof of that great event nar
rated by Moses 3000 years ago. To pro
vide tbe needful funds to carry on exca
vations which wouid have for their re-.
suit the restoration to light of the re
mains of the Egyptian armies engulfed
in the Red Sea, with the chgriots,horses,
arms, treasures, archives and perhaps
the King himself that Pharaoh who
was conquered by Moses this will in
deed be a noble enterprise. ' The Abbe
estimates the cost of the excavations at
300,000 franks.
lioBSE POWBB OP AN ENGINE. To find
the horse power of an engine, multiply
the area of the piston by the average
pressure in pounds, less five pounds per
square inch for friction; then multiply
tbe product by the number of feet the
piston travels per minute; then divide
by 32,000. This will give the horse
power of the engine. Another rule is
this: Multiply the area of the piston by
the boiler pressure, and this produot by
the travel of the piston in feet per min
ute; divide this last product by 33,000;
then deduct 13 per cent for friction and
condensation.
Th Canada township of Horn has,
the Toronto Globe says, adopted a by
law giving a bonus of twenty-five cents
for each tree planted within its borders
and protected for three years. At the
end of that time half 'the money will
be refunded by the Ontario govern
ment, in accordance with provisions of
.the recent act.