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DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON.
VOL. 11.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1877.
NO. 47.
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WARREN N. DAVIS, M. D.,
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Uit.luiite of the University of Pennsylvania.
Office at Cliff House.
CHARLES KNIGHT,
0 CAN BY, OREGON.
Physician anI Wrugi'st.
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PAUL BOYCE, M.D.,
raiysician and Mur-oii,
Oueoon City, Oeeuom.
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loiMren a specialty.
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M IJf ST.. OltF.Un CITY. OKEIiOX.
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LANEOLS GOODS.
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o rORTLAM). OREGON.
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OREGON CITY BREWERY.
Uha "8ed the bove Brewery.,
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quality P " mnufacture a No.
OF LAER BEER.
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UZYNAXDIAS.
I jnet a traveler from an antique land.
Aho said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
KStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand.
Half sunk, a shattered vision lies, whose frown.
And -wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command.
Tell that its s:ulitor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on thepe lifeless things.
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that
fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear :
' My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair !"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands t-tretch far away.
THE MOStHTO IU'XT,
Not a sund was heard, but a horrible hum.
As round our chamber we hurried.
In search of the insect whose trumpet and drum
Our delicato slumbeis had worried.
We sought for it darkly at dead of night,
Our coverlet carefully turning,
Ry the struggling moonbeam's tuistv light.
And our caudle dimly burning.
No useless garment confined our breast.
Cut in simple night-dress and slippers.
e wandered about like spirits distressed.
Or the sails of piratical skippers.
Short and few were the words we let fall,
Let the noise should disturb the mosquito.
But we steadily gazed on the whitewashed wall.
And thought how we had been bit, oh I
But half an hour had seemed to elapse.
Ere we met with the wretch that bit us;
And raising our bM ts gave some terrible slaps.
That made the mosquito's quietus.
Quickly a-id gladly we turned from the dead.
And left him all smashed and gory I
We blew out the candle and popped into bed.
Determined to tell you the story.
THE MUSIC OF THE WATERS.
And so all I had to do was to po into
the country and enjoy myself for six
woeks that is what it came to.
"Why, if any one had struck me with
a feather at the moment the doctor ut
tered hia verdict I should certainly have
been knocked down; fortunately no such
atrocity was attempted, so I maintained
ai erect a posture as my enfeebletl
health would allow until the eminent
licentiate of the College of Physicians,
whom I was consulting, begged me to
resume my seat.
"You aro utterly smoke-dried," he
said.
'London or tobacco?" I inquired.
"Both," he answered. "No physic;
fresh air is all you want mountain air,
if possible; perfect rest and quiet; ab
stemious habitj, early hours and no to
bacco." "And then?" I blankly inquired.
"Then? Oh, then," he answered,
"get married and settle down."
It certainly was fortunate I was not
standing up at that moment, for it
would not have needed a touch cf the
aforesaid feather to have laid mo low.
As it was I sank back in my chair
aghast. "Get married!" I thought; I
who was ntterly insensiole to female at
tractions, and who had been always
taught to have an eye to the main
chance, and regard matrimony as a clog
unles3 associateel with a great heiress.
I get married ou a salary of 300 a
year
? "Whew!
I left Savile row with scarce another
word, convinceel that for real, down
right, unpractical men there were none
to compare with doctors.
Thus I took the plunge, and within
five days' found myself at a snug little
inn in North Wales, hard by a celebrat
ed spot known a the "Devil's Bridge,"
a few miles inlanel from Aberystwith.
The change soon refreshed me. I
was astonishetl at feeling neither dull
nor lonely for the tourist season had
hardly set in, and I had the little inn
well uigh to myself. So I wandered
about anil gazeel woneleringly at all I
saw, especially at the deep, craggy,
woodeel gorgo or mountain river bed
across which his Satanic majesty's engi
neering skill M as supposed to have been
displayed.
As 1 stooel looking down upon it from
the bridge near the inn, it certainly
seemeel to me a wondrously romantic
spot. Steep rock-bounel bauks. crown-
eel with trees, hemmed in the rushing,
foaming river, its channel becoming ir
regularly narrower and more precipit
ous as it reached the head of the vallev
in the depths of which it lav. Here
there was a waterfall, as I then thought,
of stupendous magnitude, and yet a lit
tle higher up, a second, still larger. As
I maele my way down to the river by a
well-worn path through a wooel, the
sound of the descending water.', as.
wafted en the soft summer breeze, it
rose and fell in liquid cadence, fascina
ted me from the very first.
The weather hitherto had been superb
mielsummer sunshine, ami not a drop of
rain.
The sunshine glinting through the
trees; the pure sky above; the song of
birds, not yet all hushed in the wooels;
the fresh breezy oilors these all be
came such novelties anel charms that I
hail never conceiveil possible. But
seated on an isolated rock it was still,
alter all, out of the "music of the wa
ters" that I got my chief mental enjoy
ment.
At last there was a sudden change of
wind. Heavy clouds swept over the
landscape, burying in mist or occasion
al showers all forms save those close at
hand.
4 a 1 1 1 TTT . ...
iweguiar w eisu weatlier. sir! said a
fresh-coiored elderly gentlemanlike man
in a tourist s suit, whomlfounel the next
morning in the coffee room. "My par
ty win be honse-bound for a couple of
uajs ai jeasi, n x know anything of this
country; suocKing place for weather.
Been here long, sir ?"
I told him how long, and that I had
not had a drop of rain the whole time.
"Disadvantage in that, too," he went
on; "mountains scenery wants mist and
rain to drift round the peaks, fill up the
torrents ana oring out tne waterfalls.
This one here will present a fine sight
after anotner twenry-iour Hours of such
weather; it was a mere dribble last
night when we arrived.
I was consoleel by this gentleman's
words; for having to spend the best part
of the day indoors tnere was a new sen
sation then yet in store for me; and I
was a little disappointed to find, when
early the following afternoon a lull in
the weather enabled me to go down to
my favorite rocky haunt, that there was
very little perceptible difference in the
volume of water coming over the fall.
So here I sat, I suppose, for more
than an hour in my accustomed state of
placid indolent enjoyment. "With eyes
half shut I was saying over to myself
the first few lines of Southey's "Lo
dore." and trying to make "the music
of the waters" fit into them as an accom
paniment, when there suddenly sound
ed in my ears a roar so loud, and in
creasing so rapidly in volume, that I
started, and looking up perceived that
now indeed the fall had become grandly
augmented. It was swollen at least
twice the size it had been ten minutes
before; it looked magnificent. I turned
toward the stepping stones by which I
always regained the precipitous bank of
the river. To my horror they had all
d sappeared, and "in their place a boil
ing, bubbling ferment of brown water
and frothy foam was sweeping along at
a tremenilous pace. Then in au instant
I knew that the river was rising rapid
ly. Anyone but a fool would have for
seen this as the natural consequence of
the increase in the waterfall. Iiight
and left and all .round the river had
now become a boiling caldron cf broken
water; I was cut off from all hope of re
treat, and should be washeel away like a
fly, I knew.
Helpless and scared, T stood irreso
lute yet a moment longer.
I recollect in this dire emergency
suddenly observing a still further in
crease in the volume of the fall, and al
most simultaneously with it feeling my
legs slip from under me as the brown
water gurgled in my ears and glisteneel
in my eves. Then there was a choking,
helpless, tumbling pressure forward,
several sharp blows upon my legs and
arms, an effort to strike out, met by
coming in contact with more rocks, and
then a whirl and twirl and .spinning
rounel as if I had been a cork.
The swimmer's instinct, however, was
of some use aftr all, for, in the first
place, it enabled me to retain a little
presence of minel, anel, in the second, to
bring my head up to the surface after
the first plunge. I saw I was already a
long way from the upper fall, and an
additional pang was given to my sensa
tions by the recollection that I was be
ing hurried on toward the lower, over
which if I was carrieel I must inevitably
be drowned. Fortunately, just now I
was carried by a close current in under
one of these sheer-down sides, and for
the fiftieth time sent spinning round in
the eddy like a cork.
I made a helpless grab at the smooth
and slippery surface, much as the
drowning man catches at the proverbial
straw, for I was by this time getting ex
hausted and suffocated by the constant
rolling over whicii the torrent gave me.
I did just manage to get a finger-holel
in a crack, and to steailv mvself some
what; but the water was very deep just
here, ami I could not lift much more
than my chin above it, whilst a foothold
of any sort was out of the question.
Yet to remain where I was much
longer was impossible. Could I but
have raisetl mvself some two feet I
should have been able to reach an over
hanging bough of one of the thickly
growing young ash-saplings, the roots
of which projected from the earthv top
of the rock a yard or two above.
Oil. how T Inncfiil for n. rr'nnf'a arm
, r " ,
that I might touch that bough! Twice
1 made a futile effort to spring out of
the water at it, but only exhausted my
self, and had the greatest difficulty in
retaining my support.
Was I sinking and losing conscious
ness i and is this to be the end, I
thought, with that music still in my
ears? And. lo! what vision is that
which I behold ? Surely an angel's face
looking down from amidst the leafy
roof above me! Yes; my life must be
passing away in a dream of beautiful
sights and sounds. For a moment or
two more such was the vague conclu
sion floating through, my dazetl mind,
nor was it at once dispelled by a perfect
ly audible and silvery voice saying:
"Try to reach it now; I think you can;
quick, try!"
This can be no illusion; this is no
phantom born of a drowning man's f tn
cy; this is a sweet realitv; and in that
bending branch, now steadily descend
ing to within my grip, I see my life re
stored to me and my hopes renewed.
I have the delicate end of the bough
in my hands; yes, automatically I have
seized it, ami "already it helps to lift me
out of the water.
"Be very cautions," says the voice
once more. "Take great care, or it will
snap. There, wait so, whilst I pull this
strong one down, and that will hold
your weight better; now, so;" and in
another minute I have graspeel this
stronger one; I manage to raise myself
by it a little and to put the tips of my
toes into the fissure of the rock by
which I had so long held with the tips
of my fingers.
Then a soft, firm hand is held out to
me, anel taking it I finally, by one sn
preme effort, pull myself well np among
the underwooel anel twisted roots at the
top of the cliff.
Too exhansed to speak or think, I
threw myself down upon the steep hill
side among the long grass and ferns be
tween the trees. Then I think I did
really lose consciousness for a while,
for I do not remember seeing the pret
ty, graceful girl who had saved my life
until I found her kneeling at my side,
endeavoring to raise my head as she
wiped the streaming water from my
forehead and hair.
"Wait here," she said, "and I will
run to the inn for help; I won't be long.
There, Jean against that tree trunk."
"Pray, stojJ," I stammered, feebly;
"I shall soon be all right. I am really
very much obliged to you."
"Oh. never mind that," she answered,
brightly; "If you can walk, so much the
better. 'Get up, and come along at
once; you must get your wet clothes
off."
I rose and shook myself, feeling very
bewildered, sick and scared.
"Here up this way," she cried. "I
1
think we can get through tho wood this
way; follow me."
I had scarcely started after her, as
with a firm, light stej she sprang up the
slope among the trees, when I heard
from the top a cry of:
"Hilly-o! Iiucy, hilly-o! where are
you?"
"Here I am," she cried; "all right.
Come down, papa, and give this gentle
man a hand. I have just helped him
out of the water he was nearly drown
ed!" "What? Eh, my dear? What are you
talking about? Gentleman out of water
nearly drowned? ' said a cherry voice;
and looking up, I saw two or three fig
ures coming against the sky over the
crest of the hill Then there was a lit
tle hurried talk as they met -my pre
server, and presently my middie-aged
friend, who had spoken to me about the
weather at the ian the day before had a
vice-like hold upon my arm, and was
lending me very material assistance in
my ascent.
"What a fortunate thing ! Only to
think," he said, "of Lucy happening to
see you! We were wandering about,
and she had gone on ahead by herself to
look at the fall; then of a sudden we
missed her and wondered what had be
come of her; ami then, lo and behold!
all the time she was qualifying for the
Royal Humane Society's medal."
We had stopped, when a second young
lady, evidently a sister of my guardian
angel, came running down toward us,
exebuming:
"Oh, papa, do come up quick; Lucy
has fainteel. She was just beginning to
tell us all about it, when in a moment
she went quite off."
Whereupon I hastened up the re
mainder of the slope in company with
my new friends, to find the brave girl
quite insensible, her head resting on the
lap of a lady, evidently her mother.
Then all solicitude, very properly, was
turned from mo to her; but she soon re
vived, and then, and not till then, I al
lowed myself to be hurried off to the
inn to get dry clothes. These, ami a
little hot stimulant, soon put me to
rights, with no further damage from my
ducking than a few superficial bruises
and scratches.
But what was this tremendous inter
nal wound that I suddenly became con
scious of ? that had not been inflicted
by 2rojecting rocks or slippery crags or
loaming water! JNo; of a certainty that
was the result of a sympathetic glance
from a pair of bright brown eyes, which
hatl gone straight to my heart from tho
moment they had looked down upon me
in my peril.
I now sudtlenly awakened to the pos
sibility of what th doctor has called
"settling down." There absolutely ap
peared a chance of my taking to the
idea, and of so carrying out his prescrip
tion to tho letter. What a wonderful
and beneficent effect it was working!
"Why, there she is in the gartlen at
this moment, and how beautiful she
looks! Now that I havo made myself
presentable," I thought, "I will go down
immediately and thank her like a cohe
rent being and a gentleman."
She was sitting in a little arbor at tho
end of the inn garden. As I approach
eel, a -blush, the more evident from the
paleness which her undue exertion and
subsequent faintness had left, over
spread her sweet face that angel face,
which I had at first thought a dream,
and which to mo now, with my pcwly
awakened poetical sensibilities, scarcely
seemed a reality.
I cannot describe it. Why should I?
Other people would not see it with my
eyes; there were hundreds and hundreels
of faces in the world doubtless far more
beautiful.
"I hope you are feeling better," I
said. "I am afraid that what you have
tlone for me has overtaxed your strength ;
I shall never forgive myself it it has
made you seriously ill."
"Oh, no," she answered, "I was only
a little out of breath with the running
and the scrambling through the brush
wood and trees; but I was sure that if I
was to bo of any use there was no time
to be lost. Please don't say any more
about it."
"Oh, but indeed I must; you must
tell me how you saw me and how you
were able to reach me."
"Oh, I had merely gone down to look
at th wnteifull I knew it would be
very much swollen. anel the moment I
came upon it, to my horror and sur
prise I saw you standing upon that rock
in the middle of the river. I felt sure
that you would be elrownefd ; but before
I could even call out you were washed
off it, and I saw you carried away.
Well, I tlon't know what it was that
made me elo it, but I ran along through
the wood by the side of the river as fat
as I could. I don't suppose I thought
of being able to save you, but it all
seemeel so dreadful; and then I lost
sight of you. But I still ran on to near
the top of the second fall, and got close
down to try if I could see you; the trees
were so thick up above that I was
obliged to get close to the eelge. I was
looking all about for you, when I sud
denly saw you just underneath where I
was standing, and trying to reach that
bough. Well, then I pushed it down
to you, that's all."
"All, indeed! " I cried. "Can I ever
repay yon for that 'all!' You simply
saved my life; I should never have got
out but for you."
' 'Hope you aro not much the worse
for your ducking sir?" litre broke in her
father's voice. "I and my wife hope
that you will give us the pleasure of
your company at dinner this evening;
you must lea little dull and lonely here
by yourself."
Of course I would, anel of course I
diil, and of course, too, I spent the very
pleasantest evening I had ever known
in my life. I told the family who I was
and all about myself; and they told me
a great deal about themselves father,
mother and two daughters and how
they had come out for their annual run,
as they called it, and how they often
made very pleasant acquaintances on
their tours.
"But it's not often," said my host,
"that we make one in this fashion; it is
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not to be wished. We don't expect to
become heroines of a domestic drama
every day. Ha, ha! but, by Jove, it was
very lucky, Lucy saw you."
After this evening followed a succes
sion of the most delightful hours I had
ever known ; morning, evening ami noon
were spent in the company of my new
acqnaintai ces, and at the end of a very
short time those acquaintances had be
come fast friends. I was as completely
over head and ears in love as I had been
over head and ears in tho turbulent
water, and 1 told her so.
"Save me once more," I said, "give
me that hand once again, anel let it be
mine forever; otherwise it would have
been kinder to have left mo to drown
outright."
She dropped her heatl, but held out
her hand, that hand which at this mo
ment has just touched my arm as a sil
very voice says:
"Come, Billy, stop; I have been peep
ing over your shoulder. You neeel not
write any more; people can guess the
rest. I would rather you did not enter
into details."
"Very well, dear," I answered, "as it
Is nearly twelve years ago since it all
happened, perhaps you are right. Yes,
settled down for twelve years; who
would think it! And in a week or two
we must be off, for the nineteenth time
together, on another holiday diversion.
What shall it be and whore shall we find
it?"
"Oh, I am still all for the country,
you know," she cries. "I am never
tired of rural sights and sounds."
"Nor I," is my reply; "we'll go where
'Oentle winds and waters near,
Make mulc to the lonely ear,'
as Byron says. Fancy my quoting By
ron! What a transformation in a man!
Only we shall not bo lonely, shall we?"
"Imleed, no," she savs, "we will only
take care not to sit in the dry beds of
mountain streams when wo want to lis
ten to 'the music of the waters.' "
The Most Beautiful Monument Ever
Erected to Woman.
Tho Rev. W. R. Alger, in "Friend
ships of Women," says: "Still more
costly honors than Artemisia lavished
on her mausoleum diel the great Mogul,
Shah Jehan, pay to his idolized wife,
Moomtaza Mahul. She died in 1G31 in
giving birth to a daughter. Shah Je
han's love for this exquisite being ap
pears to have been supremo and inef
faceable. After her death he at once
set his architect at work, with 20".000
laborers, to build a memorial worthy of
her loveliness and of his grief. For
twenty-two years they toileel, when, at
a cost equivalent to 20,000,000 now,
unveiled from every disfiguring accom
paniment, arose on the banks of the
clear, blue Jumna at Agra, where it still
stands to enchant the soul of every trav
eler who approaches, the Taj Mahul, tho
most exquisite building ou the globe;
an angelic dream of beauty, material
izeel anel translated to earth. It is a ro
mance at once of Oriental royalty, of
marriage, and of the human heart, that
the unrivaleel pearl of architecture iu
all tho world should thus be a tomb
reared over the body of his wife by the
proudest monarch of the East. The
quadrangle in which tho structure
stands is 964 feet one way, 320 the other.
The area around is laid out in parterres,
planted with flowers, blossoming shrubs
and cypresses, interlaced by rows of
bubbling fountains and avenues paved
with freestone slabs. Tho mausoleum
itself, tho terrace anel the minarets, are
formed of the finest white marble, and
thickly inlaid with precious stones.
The funeral vault is a miracle of cool
ness, softness, splendor, tenderness and
solemnity. Fergusson, the historian of
architecture, says: "No words can ex
press the chastened beauty of that cen
tral chamber the most graceful and
the most impressive of all the sepul
chres of the world."
Russell, in his "Diary in India," thus
records the impression the scene made
on him: "Write a description of the
Taj? As well rite a description of that
lovely dream which flushed the poet's
cheek or gently moved the painter's
hand as he lay trembling with delight
the Endymion of the glorious art-goddess,
who reveals herself and then floats
softly away among the moonbeams and
the dew clouds as he spriugs up to grasp
the melting form. Here is a dream in
marble the Taj: solid, permanent. It
is wrong to call it a dream in marble; it
is a thought, an idea, a conception of
tenilerness: where it stands in its aston
ishing perfection, rising from a lofty
platform of marble of dazzling white
ness minarets, dome, portals, all shin
ing like a fresh, crisp snow wreath; the
exquisite screeus of marble in the win
dows, the porches, the archeel doorways,
from which a shower of fleecy marble
mingled with a rain of gems, seems
about to fall on you; the solid walls,
melting anel glowing with tendrils ol
bright flowers and wreaths of agate, jas
per, carnelian. amethyst, snatched as it
were, from the garelen outside and
pressed into the snowy blocks. Enter
by the doorway in front, the arched
roof of the cupola soars above you, and
the light falls dimly on the shrine-like
tomb in the centre of the glistening
marble. See! a Avinter palace, in whose
glacial walls some gentle hand has
buried the last flowers of autumn."
A Coroner with an Eye to Business.
During the strike in Albany, while
Cononer Fitzhenry of that city, who is
a member of the Burgesses' Corps, was
guarding the western end of the upper
railroad bridge, a man attempted to
pass tne guard. The coroner command
ed the intruder to halt. "Who will
stop me from going over this bridge?"
asked the man. "I will," saiel the cor
oner. "Would you stop the likes of me,
who voted for jon for coroner?" The
coroner replied: "I am put here to
shoot, and I get thirty dollars for a
corpse. If you don't leave I'll put a
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ouuei tnrougu you. .
Mr. Large, of Hilton, Arkansas,
gored by a wild bull the other
UV a Willi DUll IDA nt iov Hot
This is what comes of allowine cattle
to run at Large.
Ice Water.
The Cincinnati Commercial has recent
ly published a series of articles pointing
out the evil effects of ice water, and con
demning its use in the strongest terms.
In one of its articles it says:
A man who in a state of perspiration,
with tlie sweat oozing from every pore in
his skin, should suddenly strip off his
clothing and shut himself up in a refrig
erator would be set down in public esti
mation as a natural fool, who ilefied Prov
idence itself to save hirr from death.
Such a thing actually happened in this
city a few y ears ago, and the man was
taken out of his ice-box dead as a her
ring and stiff as a pikestaff.
Ice-water arrests digestion, if it does
not absolutely dri?e out all animal heat,
and it is not resumed till the water is
raised to the temperature required to
carry it on.
Habitual ice-water drinkers are usual
ly very flabby about the region of their
stomach. They complain that their
food lies heavy on that patient organ.
They taste their dinner for hours after
it is bolted. They cultivate the use of
stimul mts to aid digestion. If they are
intelligent they read up on "food and
what the physiologists have to say
about it how long it takes cabbage and
pork and beel and potatoes and other
meats and esculents to go through the
process of assimilation. They roar at
new bread and hot cakes and fried meat,
imagining these to have been the cause
of their maladies.
But the ice water goes down all the
same, anel finally friends are called in
to take a farewell look at one whom a
mysterious Providence has call to a
clime where, so far as is known, ice wa
ter is not used. The number of immor
tal beings who go hence to return no
more on account of an injudicious use
of ice water can hardly be estimated.
The article proceeds to show that in
numberless cases fine teeth are totally
destroyed by its use. It chills the teeth
and cracks the enamel, then follows
rapid decay and frequent visits to the
office of the elentist.
How Poisons areSprkad. G. Owen
Bees, Consulting Physician to Guy's
Hospital, London, has called public at
tention to some unexpected sources of
of arsenical poisoning. The green cal
ico lining of bed curtains have been
found to have produced, for months,
severe symptoms, which were treated as
those of natural disease, without bene
fit to the patients. When the curtains
were removed the patients at once recov
ereel their health. The beautiful pale
grecn muslin, largely used for ladies
tlresses, has been found to contain not
less than GO grains of the arsenical com
pound known ar Scheele's green in every
square yard. He suggests that, in or
der to prevent much of the nausea, vom
iting, headache, inflammation of the eyes,
etc., from which so many suffer, there
be a prohibition of the manufacture of
such deleterious fabrics. Red. scarlet,
and mauve-colored fabrics are'not al
ways free from arsenic. He adds that
the agitation of skirts in dancing dis
charges arsenical poison, which probab
ly causes some of the pallor and langu
or almost wholly attributed to ill-ventilated
and crowded rooms and bad
champagne.
How People Get Sick. Eating too
much and too fast; swallowing imper
fectly masticated food; by taking too
much fluid at meals; tlrinking poisonous
whisky and other intoxicating drinks;
keeping late hours at night, anel sleep
ing too late in the morning; wearing
clothing too tight, so as to relax the cir
culation; wearing thin shoes; neglecting
to take sufficient exercise too keep the
hands and feet warm ; neglecting to wash
the body sufficiently to keep the pores
open; exchanging the wrm clothes
worn in a warm room during the day for
costumes ami exposure so incident to
evening parties; starving the stomach to
gratify a vain and foolish passion for
dress; keeping up constant excitement;
fretting the mind with borrowed troub
les; swallowing quack nostrums for
every imaginary ill; taking meals at ir
regular intervals.
Milk for Gastric Derangements.
A writer in Le Courier Medical, on the
use of milk in hot weather, states that
his attention was directed to the subject
by noting the value of milkindysentry,
ulcer of stomach, and various acute aud
chronic gastro-intestinal affections, and
he therefore employed milk in the treat
ment of gastric derangements so fre
quently induced byhiith temperature
In very hot weather, small draughts of
milk are fouud to relieve thirst anil to
render unnecessary the drinking of
many Uuids, which, though they may
allay thirst, are liable to proeluce some
disorder at the same time. A case is cited
in which during the fearfully hot weath
er oi last summer, gastric derangement
was produced iu the patient, with erreat
thirst and cramping pains in the bowels;
laudanum had been taken without sue
cess, but relief followed the administra
tion of warm milk a small cup every
halt hour by the next day.
Removing Birthmarks. " Profess
or," in the Tribune, says th&t birthmarks
or moles may be removed by the follow
ing means:
For removing moles or birthmarks,
croton oil under the form of pomade or
ointment, tartar emetic, under the form
of paste or plaster. The following is
the mode for using the latter: Take tar
tar emetic in impalpable powder, fifteen
grains; soap paste, one drachm; and
beat them to a paste. Apply to nearly
a line in thickness (not more) and cover
the whole with strips of gummed paper.
In four and five days eruption or suppu
ration will set in, and, in a few days
after, leave a slight scar. Croton oil
ointment effects the same, but less com
pletely unless suppurated, by produc
ing a pustular eruption, which however,
does not perniantly mark the skin.
A Chicago clergyman says that " Goel
never intended that any man should
have 1,000,000," but we'do not propose
to give up a cent. Rochester Chronicle.
Science and tne Sea Serpent.
Professor Proctor, the well-known
English astronomer, has an inclination
toward a belief in the sea serpent which
has taxed people's credulity for so long
a time. In the St. Kicholaa he writes:
I think it may interest your readers
to jot down a few facts some of which
are not commonly known, I believe,
while others are commonly overlooked
or forgotten.
1. A great number of foolish stories
have been told about the sea serpent by
anonymous hoaxers, so that,
2. Persons of known name are apt to
be ashamed, rather than otherwise, to
describe any sea creature (or appear
ance) which they suppose to be the sea
serpent. Yet,
3. In 1817, elevtia Massachusetts wit
nesses of good repute gave evidence on
oath before magistrates (one of whom
coiroborated the evidence from his own
observation) about a serpentine sea
creature 70 or 80 feet long, seen in
some cases within a few yards. It pre
sented all the features afterward de
scribed by the offi"ers of the Da? "alas.
4. In 1833, five British officers record
a similar experience.
5. In 1848, the captain of a British
frigate sent to the Admiralty an official
description of such a creature, seen (by
himself and officers) traveling past his
ship, closo by, so that he "could have
recognized the features" of a human
person at the distance "with the naked
eye."
6. Captain Harrington and his officers
saw such a creature in 1858, nneler such
circumstances that he says: "I could
no more be deceived than (as a seaman)
I could mistake a porpoise for a whale."
7. The story last related, marvelous
though it is (rejected on that account
when first received as a probable hoax) ,
has been deposed to on oath by all who
were on board the Pauline at the time.
The captain of the Pauline writes me
that, instead of being anxious to tell the
story, he and his officers and crew were
in twenty minds to keep it to them
selves, knowing that they would be ex
posed to ridicule and worse.
8. It is certain that creatures of this
kind i. e., not sea serpents, which few
believe in, but sea sauriaus were form
erly numerous.
9. Of other creatures numerous at
the same time occasional living speci
mens are still found.
10. Agassiz states that it would be in
precise conformity with analogy that
such an animal as the enaliosaur should
exist still in the American seas.
11. Of several existent sea creatures
only very few specimens have ever been
seen (in some cases only one).
With these and like facts before us,
we may believe that the above mention
ed observers were deceived and doubt
whether any enaliosaurs continue to ex
ist. But there is no scientific reason
for denying the ossibility of their ex
isting and being occasionally seen. The
foolish stories told by hoaxers have' no
bearing on the case one way or another.
At least, they should have no bearing
with those who can reason aright.
Killing Disabled Horses with
Dynamite. An English paper says:
"An interesting experiment was made
last week at a horse slaughtering estab
lishment at Dudley, with a view of test
ing a new system of slaughtering cattle
by means of dynamite, and thus putting
them out of existence more speedily
and with less suffering than by the or
dinary pole-ax. Two large powerful
horses and a donkey (disabled for work)
were ranged in a line about half a yard
apart under a shed, the donkey being
placed in the center. A small primer
of dynamite, with an electric fuse at
tached, was then placed on each of their
foreheads, and fastened in position by a
piece of string under the jaw. The
wires were then coupled up in circuit,
and attached to the electric machine,
which stood about five yards in front.
The handle of the machine being then
turned, an electric current was dis
charged, which exploded the three
charges simultaneously, and the ani
mals instantly fell dead without a strug
gle. The whole affair was over in two
minutes, and the experimant appears to .
have been a perfect success. It was con
ducted by Mr. Johnson, aerent for No
ble's Explosive Company, Glasgow, as--sistedty
Mr. Harris, one of thedyna-f
mite instructors. By this means, it is
stated, any number, even a hundred cr
more cattle may be instantly killed by
the same current of electricity.
Building a Flying Machine. Visit
ors in the vicinity of Peacock's Point,
Long Island, have been puzzled this
summer over the mysterious working of
two men in the woods there. The mat
ter was made more mysterious at times
by the appearance of sails in the air and
the hurried movements of the men be
low. An enterprising reporter, has,
however, fathomeel the mystery, and
found that two men, father and son,
named Dudgeon, are constructing and
experimenting with a flying machine.
So nearly has it been completed that
the elder" Dudgeon sails it around over
the sound, while the surprised villagers
at Glen Cove watch its manoeuvres with
spy glasses on the neighboring hills.
Dudgeon is not a man of flighty ideas,
it is said, and is confident of perfect
success. He is the inventor of several
other contrivances, among which are
the useful hydraul:c jack, the tube ex
pander for boilers, and a steam carriage
which was exhibited in the Crystal Pal
ace several years ago. His workshop is
a curiosity in itself. The flying ma
chine, when entirely complete, will con
sist of a kite C0xl24 feet, "made of linen,
giving a lifting surface of 500 pounds;
to this will be attached a rotary engine
invented by Dudgeon eight years apo,
which will drive two fans twelve feet
square.
Lecturer "But on lnnb;nr mt
thermometer we find that.our endeavors
not withstand inc. there is still -nn ;nMaco
in the temperature. How shall
proceed?" Son of Erin -'Shoor I'd
warrum the thermometer, sorrl"
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