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About Southwest Oregon recorder. (Denmark, Curry County, Or.) 188?-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1884)
4 a CUPPINGS FOB THE CURIOUS. The first small firearms were a spe cies of cannon borne by two men. A statistician, estimates that the people of the United States have to pay $23 a minute for Congress while in session. The chamois is the only antelope found in Europe, and the baboon, on the rocks of Gibraltar, the only qua drumana. Cashmere shawl3 are embroidered entirely by men, and sometimes a sin gle garment represents the work of three generations. Gold was discovered in Africa by the Spaniards in 1492, and in the period between that time and 1731 they car ried into Europe 6,000,000,000 pieces of eight. I The gold-headed cane, which was carried by all physicians in the seven teenth century, was intended .to be more than ornamental, for the head was hollow, and filled with disinfec tant herbs. Buddhist priests are not allowed even to look upon the face of a wo man, and this rule extends even to those who are passing through the for nial novitiate compulsory upon all the males in Si am. ; Such is the location of Eagle City, NeY., in the Coeur d'Alene mountains, the sun does not shine upon it until 11, a m, and then only for an hour. disaDDearine behind the mountains at noon. j D. II. Ilopkinson, of the Jewelers' Circular, says that the mainsprings of watches are much more liable to break in electrical atmospheric distur bances than at any other time. The aurora borealis is peculiarly destruc tive to the springs of the fine watches. Hair Quickly Turning White. That excessive grief or joy does af. feet some persons in a remarkable man ner is oeyona a uouot. borne persons will die, others go mad, and others turn grey-headed in a short space of time. Many instances are recorded to estab lish the fact that sudden alarm or grief will, as Sir "Walter Scott has said, "blanch at once the hair." The hair of Ludwig of Bavaria, who died in 1294, on his learning of the innocence of his wife, whom he had put to death, became almost suddenly as white as snow. The same thing happened C at TT-n:i. -r s wj luo iieiieuiau v auvuuers, m con- sequence of a terrible dream, and also the French comedian Blizzard, who, having fallen into the Rhone, remained for some time in imjainent danger of Ai3 life, clinging to an iron ring in one of the piles o? the bridge. A like change was wrought in the case of Charles I. in a smgle night when he attempted to escape from Carisbrook Castle. Marie Antoinette, the unfor tunate queen of Louis XVI., found her hair suddenly changed by her distress es, "whitened by affliction." The beard and hair of the Duke of Brunswick whitened in twenty-four hours on his learning that his father had been mor tally wounded at the battle of Auer- stadt. Sometimes one night of intense suffering has been sufficient to turn a Taven head white. We are told of a soldier in India who for some breach of his duty was condemned to pas3 one night in the dark cell appointed for solitary confinement, and who, having thrown himself upon the ground, pres ently found a large cobra di capello gliding over his body and forming him self into a coil upon his chest, attract ed by the warmth. Knowing that his only hope of safety consisted in per feet quiescence he remained motionless throughout the fearful night, until the prison door was unfastened in the morning, which disturbed his fearful companion, and the cobra glided away. The poor soldier left his cell with a head as white as snow.- As an instance or more gradual effect we may cite President Tolk, who entered upon hia official duties with a head of magnifi cent black hair, and left them at the end of four years with one completely white. Politeness Pays. Housekeeper "I don't want any more of your milk, not a drop. It has a very bad taste." Milkman "Guess your cellar needs a coat of white-wash, ma'am.' Housekeeper "No, it don't, you in solent fellow. It was whitewashed ast week." Milkman "Then it must be that your servant girl pours it out herself. and you will find it as sweet as new hay." Housekeeper "Give me two extra quarts." Philadelphia Call Wanted to Go. An old man who had ever made a point of getting the worth of his mon ey, came to the city the other day. Shortly after he arrived he was taken violently ill. In great haste a doctor was sent for, but when the physician arrived and approached the bedside, the sufferer turned over and said : "You the doctor?" "Yes, sir." "Well, I want you to go away from here." I have been summoned to relieve you, and if you don't receive help pret ty soon,youH die." "That's all right. I ought to die. A man that ain't got no more sense than I've got, ain't fitten to live." What have you done to deserve such punishment?" "Well, I'll tell you. I come to town this mornin' an' went to a eatin' house. They said they'd charge me haffer dol lar for a meaL I thought it was mighty steep, an that it would git enough fur my family to live on fur two days, but I sat down and told the feller with a white cloth on to fire his viddilts at me. Well, I commenced nice a man that's in earnest, an' hil out like a man from away back. I had to pay heavy an I was goin to eat heavy. Had to eat fifty cents wuth ef it tuck all the hair an in fifa up flin boil wa loo tec fift se'i thi1 me thi ef iviLi l we u.uii. iuk.0 yuur suuuie-" bags away, doc, an' go down in the country to see the chaps with the chills." Arkansaw Traveller. The Land of Fruit Trees and Tines. John Codman, writing to the New York Evening Post of the future of California, says: "The era of wheat will come to an end like those of gold, of hides and tallow, and of Indian hunting for furs of wild beasts. In the near future we can see in its stead a land of fruit trees and vines, a new France in our republic, greater than France, a republic by herself. There is scarcely any difference in acreage. California has 189,000 square miles, and France has less than 200, 000. In climate and soil California is superior. It could support 30,000,000 Frenchmen, if we had them here with their economical habits, as well as it now supports 1,000,000 extravagant soi-disant Americans. Recipe for Scandal. Take a grain of falsehood, a handful of runabout, the same quantity of nimble-tongue, a sprig of the herb back bite, a teaspoonf ul of don't-you-tell-it, -six drops of malice, and a few drachms of envy. Add a little discontent and jealousy, and strain through a bag of misconstruction, and cork it up in a bottle of malevolence, and hang it up on a skein of street yarn, keep in a hot atmosphere; shake it occasionally for a few days, and it will be fit for use. Let a few drops be taken before walking out, and the desired effect will be found to follow. Pressed to Sing:. "Is this a singing doll?" asked she of the clerk. Yes, mademoiselle." "How do you make it sing?" .4 "Just as you would any other young lady." "How is that?" "By pressing it." "Oh!" An octopus, on exhibition recently in a San Francisco market had a radial spread of 27 1-2 feet Such an animal is reported to have killed an Indian woman at Sitka several years ago. They form part of the bill of fare of the Italian and French population of California, and are said to be quite up Cat Worship. In India they worshipped snakes and serpents; in China monkeys are gods, ind in Egypt petted, pampered, care fully protected and actually adored as divine, were cats by the then most civilized people in the world. Whence came this cat adoration it is now im possible to tell. On the walls at Thebes and on a stone now in the British Museum are representations of sportsmen of the Nile training their cats not only to hunt game but to re trieve it. In one scene Puss is seizing a bird that a sportsman in the boat has brought down. In another the cats are in the boat ready for action. The tutelary deity of cats was Diana, or Pasht, and according to Plutarch the cat was not only sacred to the moon, but an emblem of it; and a figure of a cat, fixed on a sistrum, denoted the moon, just as a frog on a ring denoted a man in embryo. Hence it was that cats were treated with peculiar consid eration in the land of the m Pharaohs. Her death was regarded as a family misfortune, and the household went into mourning. The cat funeral was celebrated with peculiar pomp and ceremony, and the owners showed their respect by shaving off their eye brows. The bodies were 'embalmed and placed in the temple of Babastis, It was a serious thing to kill a cat in those days of Moses and the prophets. Diodorus tells a story of a Roman soldier who killed one, was tried, sen tenced and condemned to death. The bs to this day regard the cat with ,t veneration, and there is a mosque iut of Cairo where in modern times n El Daher provides all cats with ly feast. From terraces and flat is, irom wide streets nd dingy Irs, from latticed windows and high walls the hungry, ravenous crowd is rushing up to where the priest jfe hour of prayer distributes the y provision. Cats are not men- hd in the Bible, nor did the Greeks Romans break their necks with at- on to them. In Greece they were id to the sod of wisdom, iust as were, for they could see in the The mythological story was that Apollo went to frighten his sister ating a roaring lion, the goddess ally replied by opposing to him a Theocritus, the Greek poet,speaks of the cat, but in no very complimentary terms. ."Euona," cries the mistress, scolding her slave, "Euona, bring water! How slow she is! The pussy cat always wants to sleep! Will you 3tir! Quick! Bring water!" Pliny 3ays cats are useful to keep rats and mice out of barns and granaries, yet recommends the weasel Cincinnati Enquirer. Frogs as an Article of Diet. In some portions of Europe frogs have long been an article of diet, but a few years ago frogs' legs were a rare dish in the western world. ' Now it is stated that they are regularly served in all first-class hotels and restaurants at Boston, in the United States', while a considerable number are sold for family use. Frog catching and preparing for market has now, in fact, become a recognized business. Boston is supplied from the adjacent country towns, from Cape Cod, and from Maine and some otner places, rue jNiaine irogs are kept in fresh water until needed, and shipped alive in crates, provided with wet moss or sea weed. At Cape Cod the men engaged in the frog business employ boys to catch the frogs, and have a number of ponds penned up. One frog catcher alone sends from 50 to 100 dozen per week to the New Orleans market, where also a great trade is done. In this southern city the demand is greater than the supply. In the Massachusetts market prices range from 30 cents to 50 cents per dozen, and sometimes higher, according to size and quality. Canada used to ship the frogs legs packed in ice, and to supply the Boston market almost wholly a few years ago, but the com petition of the domestic article ha3 driven the foreign out of the market, and the Canadians now ship wholly to New York city. All kinds of frogs are eaten, but the speckled frog is said to be the most tender. Frogs have re cently been shipped alive to this country by a Boston "dealer, and it is considered possible that an export business may be developed, as the bull-frog is not an inhabitant of British waters. Lady's Journal. In the month of May apple trees go a courting. . Love is evermore father of poetry. A MODERN RESURRECTION. A Miracle tbat Took Plaro in our Midst Una known to I ho Public Tne Detail in Full. One of the most remarkable occurrences ever riven to the public, which took place here in our midst, - has just come to our knowledge and will undoubtedly awaken as ranch surprise and attract as great attention as it has already in newspaper circles. The facts are, briefly, as follows: Mr. William A. Cronibie, a young man formerly residing at Birmingham, a suburb of Detroit, and nowlmngat SJ3 .aiicnigan avenue, in tms city, can truthfully say that he has looked into the future world and yet returned to this. A representative of this paper has in terviewed him upon this important subject and his experiences are given to the public tor the first time. He said: " I had been having most peculiar sensa tions for a long while. My head felt dull and heavy; my eyesight did not seem so clear as formerly; my appetite was uncertain and I was nnaccountabiy tired. It was an effort to arise in the morning and yet I could not sleep at night. My mouth tasted badly, I had a iaint all-gone sensation in tne pic oi my stomach that food did not fatisfy, while my hands and feet felt cold and clammy. I was nervous and irritable, and lost all en thusiasm. At times my head would seem to whirl and my heart paTpitated terribly. I had no energy, no ambition, and I seemed indifferent of the present and thoughtless for the future. I tried to shake the feeline off and persuade myself it was simply a coli or a little malaria. But it would not go. I was determined not to give up, and so time passed along and all the while 1 was getting worse. It was about this time that I noticed ihad be gun to bloat fearfully. My limbs were swol len so that by pressing my fingers upon them deep depressions would be made. My face also Degan to enlarge, ana continues, to unui 1 could scarcely sae out of mv eyes, une oi my friends, describing my appearance at that time, said: 'It is an aoimated some thing, but I should like to know what.' In this condition I passed several weeks of the greatest agony. maiiy, one Saturday mgnt, tne misery culminated. Nature could endure no more. I became irrational and apparently insensible. Cold sweat gathered on my forehead; my eyes became glazed and my throat rattled. 1 seemed to b in another sphere ana witn other surroundings. I knew nothing of what occurred around me, although I have since learned it was considered as death by those who stood by. It was to me a quiet state, and yet one of great agony, l was helpless, hopeless and pain was my only companion. I remember trying to see what was Beyond me, but the mist before my eyes was too great. I tried to reason, bnt I had lost all power. I felt tbat it wai death, and realized how terrible it was. At last the strain upon my mind gave way and all was a blank. How long this continued I do not know, but at last I realized the presence of friends and recognized my mother. I then thought it was earth, but was not certain. I gradually regained consciousness, how ever.and the pain les ened. I found that my friends had, during my unconsciousness, been giving me a prej aration I had never taken before, and the next day, under the influence of this treatment, the bloating began to dis appear and from that time on I steadily im proved, until to-day I am as well as ever be fore in my life, hsve no traces of the terrible acute Bright's disease, which so nearly killed me, and all through the wonderful instra mentality of Warner's Safe Curo, the rem edy that Drought me to life after I was virtu ally in another world." ''You have Lad au unusual experience, Mr. Crombie," said tne writer, who had men breathlessly listening to the recital. "Yes, I think I have," was the reply, " and it has been a valuable lesson to me. I am certain, tnougb, there are thousands of men and women at this very moment who have the same ailment which came so near killing me, and they do not know it. I be lieve kidney disease is the most deceptive trouble in the world. It comes like a thief in (he night. It has no certain symptoms, but seems to attack each one differently. It is quiet, treacherous, and all the more danger ous. It is killing more people, to-day, than any other one complaint. If I had the power I would warn the entire world against it and urge them to remove it from the system be- xore is is too late." One of the members of the firm of White head & Mitchell, proprietors of the Birming ham Eccentric, paid a fraternal visit to this omce yesterday, and in tne course of conver sation. Mr. Crombie's name was mentioned. "I knew about his sickness," said the editor, "and nis remarkable recovery, l nad bis obituary all in type and announced in the Ec centric that he could not live until its nex; issue. It was certainly a most wonderful case." Rev. A. R. Bartlett. formerlvDastorof the M. . Church, at Birmingham, and now of bchooicrait, Alien., in response to a telegram, replied: 'Mr. W. A. Crombie was a member of mv family at the time of his sickness. The pray ers of the church were reauested for him on two different occasions. I was with him on the dav he was re nor ted bv his Dhvsir.iana dying, and consider his recovery almost a miracle." Not one person in a million ever comes so near death as did Mr. Crombie and then re cover, but the men and women who are drifting: toward the fame end, are legion. To note the slightest symptoms, to realize their significance and to meet them in time by the remedy which has been shown to be most efficient, is a duty from which there can be no escape. 1 hey are fortunate who no this ; they are on tne sure roaa to aeain wao aegiet it. uttroxi j ree tress. Canadian telegraph tolls are the cheapest in the world. "I was most deal with heart difficulty, cai now do a good day's w rk, and sincerely re commend Dr. Gra'ves' Heart Regulator as the remedy. George Gladding, Hartagrove, O." $1 per bottle at your drug store. The losses of wheat by the floods is esti mated at 15,000,000 bushels. Dr.Graves'Heart Regulator cures all forms of Heart Disease, neryousness, sleeplessness. Chicago will start & laundry to give alms-begging women work. Messuan's Peptonized beet toxic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutri tious properties. It contains Diooa-maiuns, force generating and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the rpmilt of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over work or acute disease, particularly if resulting f rompulmonary complaints. Ciswell, Hazard fc Co., Proprietors, New X orK. aoia oy aruggiam. itTothov Hwnn'a Warm flrrnn. Infalliole, tasteless, harmless,Cithartic;-for feverishness, restlessness, worms, constipa tion, zac The secret of the large and constant sales of Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound proba bly lies in the fact that whereas there are manv 'Bitters" and "Tonics" of eaual value. be it more or less, the Vegetable Compound is so completely superior to all other prepara tions specially recommended for the needs of women that it has practically no rivals. A Prantifnl Head of Hair. reaching to the ground; such are the effects the justly celebrated and widely known Car boline, the prince of all Hair Restorers. In 1990 thie, English, sppakins populatio of the globe will be 1,000,000,000, After Three Days Mr. CHAKLts vV. Morris, "agle" office, Pittsfleld, Mass., writes, May 2 j, 1&3: " Foi several months my wife's mother (Mrs. Amy Boyce) hal fceen in a very precarious condi tlon with dropsy or Brieht's disease of ths kidneys, and having used all methods and measures for her restoration in the line of treatment by our leadingr physicians, and having failed to benefit her, her family de spaired of seeing her relieved, and gave her up to die. Happening to run across the tes timony of a Mrs. Iaw;ey,who had been cured of similar sickness by nsine Hunt's Remedy, we at once procured a bottle of it, and com menced giving it as directed. After using it three days she was so far improved that she could get from her bed to her chair without assistance (a circumstance that had not hap pened for months). Previous to taking it she was troubled more or less with short , breath, requiring a continuous fanning to keep her alive. This gradually improved as we continued the use of Hunt's Remedy, and onthe fourth bottle she was able to set up all day. She was bloated terribly in both limbs and body upward to the lungs. The tenth day the bloating left her bowels and now she is not swollen above the knees. Her kidneys were very bad at the time, discharges being of a bloody character and emitting a sicken ing odor. I can say that the change in her case has been wonderful, and Hunt's Remedy has worked a miracle in her." A Care of Pneumonia. Mr. D. H. Barnaby, of Owego, N. Y., says that his daughter was taken with a violent cold which terminated with pneumonia, and all the best physicians gave the case up and said she could live but a few hours at most She was in this condition when a friend re commended Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for tne Lungs, and advised her to try it. She ac cepted it as a last resort, and was surprised to find that it produced a marked change f 01 the better, and by persevering a permanent cure was effected. Color Your Butter. Farmers that try to sell white butter are all of the opinion that dairying does not pay. If they would use Wells, Richardson & Co'i Improved Butter Color, and market their butter in perfect condition, they would still get good prices, but it will not pay to make any tut tne best in color and Quality. Thii color is used by all the leading creameries and dairymen, and is sold by druggists and mer chants. 1 When Doctor Disagree it will be time enough to doubt the reality of Kidney-Wort. Doctors all agree that it is a most valuable medicine in au disorders or tne Liver, Kidneys and Bowels, and frequently prescribe it. Dr. P. C. Ballou, of Monkton, says: "The past year l nave u?ed it more than ever, and with the best results. 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