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About Southwest Oregon recorder. (Denmark, Curry County, Or.) 188?-18?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1884)
r . - ; - .. : O o RESCUED FROM THE GRAVE ! WOHDERPUX SXSTTSBECTZOV OF PEOPLE APPARE2TTI.T DEAD. ' A. nomas and a Child Seemingly Dead Keatored to Couciouncs Some Valuable Sujjfestion. ' The "Washington Star prints the fol lowing letter: My attention has been - called to an article contained in your publication entitled "A Wonderful Resurrection," quoted from the Lon don Lancet, relative to the case of a woman fifty-three years old who was found hanging eight min utes after she had been last seen alive, suspended by a cord which encircled her neck. When cut down the latest known appliances failed to indicate the slight est spark of life. The physician in at tendance, however, resolved to try slow 'artificial respiratory action. In the course of ten minutes application of such action the faintest signs of return ing life were observed by means of a stethoscope. The work wa3 continued incessantly for two hours before natural breathing was sufficiently established to dispense with the . artificial means. Apropos of the need ot steadfast and hopeful perseverance in efforts to restore those who have apparently lo3t their lives by strangulation which this lesson teaches I desire to relate an incident of my own experience. While engaged in conversation with relatives, whom I was visiting a year ago, I was abruptly interrupted by the Startling information that the little five-.year-old daughter of the next door neighbor had fallen into a cistern, con taining rain water, and been drowned. Hurriedlv proceeding to the spot I 3earned that the body was still lying in ! the water. . As soon as possible it was gotten out and laid face upward on the ground, with the hands fixedly extended oeyona the Head, then with my hands I exerted a continuous pressure on the chest in imitation of slow Dreathing mo tion. The feet were immediately bared and a large cloth, dipped in boiling .hot water, was held to the soles.. In foeat twenty minutes from the com mencement of the restorative action we were rewarded by seeing the little one breathing naturally, and in a few days she was playing around as well as ever. On a comparison of notes it was dis covered by the closest calculation that the child must have been in the water, which was three feet in depth, at least five minutes. When taken out the body was cold and rigid, the eyes set, the face . of a deathly pallor, and, so far as ordi nary signs indicated, resuscitation was apparently an impossibility. In view of the surprising success at tained in the case of the woman, by means of artificial respiratory action enly, would it be unreasonable to pre sume that if the blood had been forced to circulate by the application of heat, as in the case of the child, that she might have been resuscitated in less than two hours? The result of sutloeation is a sus pension of respiration. Taking for granted, as a matter of couese in all such cases, that the condition of the heart is normal, can any one say positively that asphyxia of ;cven thirty minutes duration rnight not be overcome? The possibility of resuscitation in va rious cases of sudden apparent dissolu tiou, resulting from other causes than those mentioned, is well worthy of seri ous contemplation, in view of instances constantly occurring of persons having been buried alive through ignorance of the attendants concerning prompt and proper action. In any event, what harm can result from a practical application of Birds and Wires. Animals great and small have ways of avoiding danger to which their ancestors have been exposed. But when a new danger arises, they do not know how to meet it. Telegraph and telephone wires are a deadly peril to birds which haunt cities and other places where the wires are numerous. A few generations hence wires will be as harmless to birds as trees are now. In the following extract it is the wires which suffer, owing to the size of the bird ; According to the Brazilian Germania of Rio de Janeiro, the telephone wires in that city have found a formidable enemy in the "assgeier," a large bird of the vulture species a kind of John Crow which, flying very low as it passes over the tops of the houses in scavenging the streets, hits the wires and breaks them, or else becomes entangled. Good wire is very expensive in Brazil. In consequence of the damage done by these birds, the telephone people are compelled to keep up a large force of men for repairs. Ho sooner are the wires mended in one part of the city than re port comes of interruption in another part, owing to the operations of 'the assgeier. . It is against the law to kill these , birds, and as a result they increase very rapidly in number. The Provineia, too, says that nothing positively remedial can be done at pres ent. The telephonists must wait until the bird learns by experience that it will enjoy more personal comfort by flying higher. There are in this country 11 St. Pauls, 20 Bridgeports,18 Buffalos and Newarks, 17 Brooklyns, Clevelands, and Roches ter, 16 llartfords, 15 Louisvilles, 13 Bostons and Pittsburgs, 8 Cincinnatia and Philadelphias, 6 Chicagoes, 7 De troits, 5 Milwaukees and St. Louises, 32 Washingtons.and 2 New Yorks and Bal timores. New Orleans and San Francis - co are not duplicated. A standard rose, said to have been (' Dlanted bv Charlemange, 1000 years ago, 13 one of the great curiosities in the - ancient city of Ilildesheim, Hanover. SELECT SIFTINGS. At Pernambuco a snake of the boa va riety is used to drive rats from houses. Envelopes are now made and sold for thirty cents per thousand. They once cost five cents apiece. The streets of Rome in the time of Do mitian were so blocked up with cob blers' stalls that he caused them to be re moved. In Germany a boy under twelve can not for any offence go before a magis trate ; the schoolmaster must inflict the necessary chastisement; between twelve and eighteen he may be sent to a reform atory and detained till twenty. Large numbers of dried and smoked lizards are imported by the Chinese phy sicians. They are used in cases of con sumption and anaemia with considerable success. Their virtue seems to lie in the large amount of nitrogeneous compounds and phosphates they contain. In 1739 the first type foundry in America was established bv Abel BuelL at Killingworth, Conn., in which he made good long-primer type. That, year he had asked 'assistance of the Con necticut Legislature in establishing a I type foundry. I The year before the introduction of' cheap postage into England, the average J number of letters written by each person in a year was three. The next year it ' was seven, it is now thirty-six. In 1839 there were 82,000,000 letters posted, of which about one in every thirteen was franked. In 1840 the circulation rose to 169,000,000, although franking was abolished. At the present time it has reached the astonishing total of 1,280, 000,000. M. Vulpian, the Paris doctor, had. a ' patient some time ago who was afflicted with that form of aphasia in which speaking is impossible, though the indi- J vidual is able to sinjr without difficulty. The doctor utilized the singing power by teaching this patient and those who fol lowed him to sing whatever they wished to say, without confining themselves to the words of the air. As a consequence, the hospital has become musical with the notes of the opera bouffe and the Mar seillaise, in which the patients ask for everything they desire. chalk once inclosed in the fossil remains of extinct specimens of cuttle fish. Cleo I patra's needle was not erected by the f Egyptian queen nor in her honor. Pom- pey's pillar had no historical conneetion with Pompey in any way. Sealing wax does not contain a particle of wax, but is composed of Venice turpentine, shel- lac and cinnabar. The tuberose i3 no rose, but a species of polyanth. The ( strawberry is no berry, but only a sue- j culent receptacle. Turkish baths did not originate in Turkey, and are not baths, but heated chambers. Whale bone is not bone, and is said not to pos sess a single property of bone. The Paris of America. San Francisco is the Paris of America. The fondness of the people for amuse ments, their ''fastness," love of display, disregard of the Sabbath, wild, reckless habits of, speculation, all tend to justify the comparison with the French capital. Like Paris, this city is decidedly cosmo politan in its character. Through its broad "Golden Gate" and over its conti nental highway people of all nations, creeds and language have thronged, with one idea in common, the thirst for gold. There are probably more rich men in San Francisco, in proportion to its population, than in any city in the world. There are many good and righteous people who are fighting faithfully against evil; but there are many more with whom morality has probably lost all its significance. In pro portion to the population, there are proba bly more vile, criminal and abandoned creatures here than in any city except Paris. Divorces and suicides are matters of lictle or no account here. It is an ad mitted fact that California buries more suicides in proportion to the population than any State in the Union. The prolific causes are dissipation, financial embar rassment, and domestic trouble. No where is the marriage bond, that should be the guarantee of peace and content ment, so lightly regarded; nowhere is fortune so tickle ; nowhere do so many fall in a day from a position of wealth to want. Such transitions disturb the mental balance, and destroy the power of self-control. Rev. Dr. Eccleston. The Blue Grass Country not Blue. The term "Blue Grass Region" of Kentucky is quite extensive in its appli cation, but in its popular sense it applies only to the remarkable body of land in the center of the State, which comprises six or eight countries surrounding Lex ington. The favored district, which scientific authority has styled 44 the very heart or the United States," is underlaid by a decomposable limestone, which im parts to the soil an unsurpassed fertility, and gives to grass, known to botanists as Poc Pretensis, a rich and permanent lux uriance which it attains nowhere else. Hence the term "The Blue Grass Region," a synonym for the acme of fer tility of a district which also bears the proud distinction of " the garden spot of the world." But why our grass is called "blue," when it never is blue, is one of the unsolved problems. It is al ways green except when in bloom, when the heads have a brownish purple tint. If, however, the term "blue grass'' is meant for an abbreviation of blue lime stone grass, then it will do, for certain ly it only reaches its highest perfection on wonderful blue limestone' soil. Pro pagated without cultivation, it comes up thick and juicy early in the spring, ripens in June, renews its growth in au tumn, and, retaining its verdure in spite of snow and ice, furnishes abundant and unequaled pasturage during the entire winter. It is believed to be indigen , ous. Sportsman. PEOPLE LIVING IN TREES. fiuar possessed or TBS attex- BOTE8 OF MOWKBSTS. A. Journey to the Swamps of Laos In Southern Asia The Child Won der, Krao "I am prepared to swallow the whole story, except the pouches in the mouth," said a gentleman, the other day, to whom Professor George G. Shelly, the anthro pologist and member of the geographi cal society, was recounting the story of j the capture of a hairy family, clearly hn- ni3n, but bearing many strong resem blances to the anthropoid apes, which were secured by himself and the well- ' known explorer, Carl, aided by some na tive soldiers, in the wilds of Laos, in the year 182. " There are," said the professor, "three distinct races-of men who live in trees. These are Indiais in South America who inhabit the borders f the Orinoco, Tilcuya, and Mader rivera; the V eddas, ot Ceylon, and the- Krao-Mo'--neik, of Laos., a dependency of Siouu Krao-Moneift means man-monkey. Laos h a part of the world which has never been thoroughly explored, and' but com paratively little is known about it bv ere ographers and scientists. It contains- from eight hundred to one thousand square miles, and lies between the fif teenth and twentieth degrees of north latitude, north of Siam, east of t&e Me naatfKhong, wes of Annam,- and about four hundred miles southwest of Ton quim The reason why Laos has not been thoroughly exrMorod is because" almost every one who has attempted it has died of malarial fever. That part of the country in which the Ksao lives is inhabited only by the men who livcrin trees to escape the snakes and the wet ground. They weere the branches to gether and build hut therein. In climb-. ing the trees they use their toes as a monkey does. They, do not gnisp the trees with their legs, a we do. They do not use fire. They live on dried fish. wild rice, and the rind of green cocoa-H nut. I heir only weapon is a club.' "Ten years ago Carl. Bock, the author of 'The Man Hunter of Borneo' and 'My Travels in Siam,' was traveling in Asia on behalf of Mr. Farini, the-Eng-lish Barnura, to look fcr the tall people which were said to liv there. In the court of the king of Burmah he saw and talked with a hairy family, which were kept by the king for hi amusement, as European kings formerly kept fools and dwarfs. Bock tried in every way to se cure them to take 'to Europe, "but he failed. He offered $100,000 for one of them, but money is no object there; they have more of it than they know what to do with. These people that Bock- saw were the grandchildrenof a hairy couple which Crawford, who want to Burmah in 1835 as English plenipotentiary, saw there, and of which he published an ac count in his book, 'A Mission to the court of Ava.' Crawford-said that these people had been given-to the king, of Burmah by the king of. Laos. . "Early in 1882 I joined- Carl Bock at Singapore. "We went up the straits of Malacca and made an; expedition into Rumbo, in the Malay peninsula, where it was reported that a hairy race lived called Jaccoons, but ws did not find them. "We then went to Rangoon and : thence to Bangkok, the capital of Siam.. Bock had once cured the prime minister of Siam of a malignant disorder. This was the means of procuring us an escort, twenty elephants and letters to the king of Laos. After a four months' journey, partly by land and partly by river, we reached ivjang-Kjang, the capital of Laos. "Our letters from the- king of Siam procured us the good offioes of the king of Laos, who gave us guides, fresh, ele phants, an escort of ten, native soldiers, armed with spears and bows and poisoned arrows. After a journey of several weeks we came to the swamps where the hairy people lived. But we had hard work to catch them or even to see them. They are wonderfully alert, their scent is re markably keen, and they are very shy and timid. We saw many of their huts built up in the branches of trees before we saw a person. At last we sur prised and surrounded a family, a man, wife and child, at their meal. We made a dash for them and captured them. The parents made a little re sistance, but the child fought, scratched, and bit like a monkey. None of them were clothed in anything. We took them to Kjang-Kiangr. and there the king refused to allow the woman to go out of the country. He had a superstition that it would bring him bad luck. She is kept in his court and treated with . high consideration. She appeared to have little affection for the child, and made no opposition to its being taken from her. We started from Bangkok with the father and the child At a stopping place called Chieng-May the whole party was attacked with cholera. The hairy man captured and three of the escort died. The rest re covered, though Mr. Bock came very near dying. We landed in Europe with the child October 4, 1883. The child is the child now known as Krao. We know bv her teeth that she is eight years old. She talks English and Ger man, can read and write, and has devel oped the true feminine love of fine clothes. " She is modest, affectionate, playful and easily managed. Every part of her body is covered with hair except her palms ana soles. 1 he hair on her fore arm grows upward, that on her back grows inward toward the spine and will form a sort of mane, as her father and mother had, when she grows older. Her forehead is covered with thick black hair about three-eighths of an inch long. The hair of her fore head is entirely distinct from the hair on her head. Her hands and feet, though entirely human in shape. have the pre hensile qualities of a monkey's hand. She has thirteen dorsal vertebrae and thirteen pair of ribs, like - the chimpan zee, while we have only twelve. And she has pouches in her mouth in whicr. she carries nuts and other food like tht apes." At this point the visitor made the re mark which stands at the beginning ol this article. Prof. Shelly disappeared for a moment : and returned with the child. The pouches in the mouth were there, and in each one of them was a filbert almost as big as a hickory nut, and all that the professor had said about her was proved5 true. She. talked intelligently and wrote her own name and the visitor! name on the back of a photograph 1 herself, wiich sho presented to her caller; She has been examined by Prof. Virchow. of Berlin university; Prof. Kirchkoff and Prof. Welckrer, of Halle university;: Prof, j Haeckel. of Jena; Pref. Lncae, of Frank-' fort-on-thc-Main ; Prof.- Hale, Washing- ton, D. C, and much has been written ; about her in t&e medical and scientific I journals. Philadelphia Times. j Saved by a Load of Hay. ! A Bradford (Pbnn.) correspondent ol tlar Philadelphia- Times vwites: "I til- yo what, boys, I've railroaded it fen years-and been miacd up in- all kinds of disasters, but 1 hope to croak- right here if I want to be the eye-witness again of? such an: awful sight as. I saw aday or two ago."" Th- speaker was & brakeman-'on the Erie. "A day or so ago,"'Se ; continued, "a tall and' handsome woman : got into the ladies' ear at Dunkirk. With her was a bright and interesting Bey, possibly two years of age. The child laughnd and crowed and played with the passengers. When the train left Cattaraugus- the woman, who seemed nervous, got out 'of her seat, picked up the baity and started for the rear' end of the coach. A short distance east of Cattaraugos is a long, deep gulf, over which the rail road has builS a high trestle. The distance from the top; of the trestle to the wagon road below- is - perhap one hundrwl feet. A sharp -and short curve leads tot the trestle. As the traim rushed over the crulfi a woman's-piercing shriek was heard. I looked and saw an object leap from the platform intothe rocky gulf. That ob ject sirj.was- the lady passenger, and io her arms closely clasped to Iter breast was her-- infant. 1 pulled the? bell-cord and the train came to a halt. How it happened! cannot say, but aithe time the woman jumped a load of hay, drawn by a pair of oxen, passed under that trestle. Motherland child landed squarely in the center o the hay and were thus saved from a horrible death. The farmer.' i, was so horrified that he jumped from his wagon and darted up the hill;!. The-if woman, who was- not hurt in the least, 4IAAV VT (AO' 1111 i?. XiVA'llAA k.Vll d 11 VI . ' her home lnMichigan. She weapon her way to visit friends in the oil country. Hers was indeed a miraculous- escape. Mrs. Soell:eaidithat she could net explain hcr.actiem When near the car Moor she was seized with, an insane desire, to jump from the train. The farmer, as he drove along, was .thinking of his dead wife , and daughter.- When the visitors came through- the cionds, as it were, and landed on. his hay he thought that the- dear departed had come back ta earth to revisit hinu How the Chinese Aim. . Whern the French trops made them first and. unsuccessful advance against Scntay. some importance was attached. by the special correspondents of the Eng lish papers to the circumstance, that the black x1 lags apparently fired low. It was pointed out that most of the bullet woundjj received by the French soldiers were found in the legs and lower parts-. ot their bodies, (jf course, the practice of firing low is one strongly urged upon the- troops,, a shower of bullets being much more effective if fired low, even if it strikes the ground in frcnt of the ad vancing hostile forces, than it would if sent into the air over the heads of the approaching enemy. But a rather inter esting explanation is given of the reason why the Black Flags and their allies fire low by one who has had a- great amount of experience with Chinese troops. He says that the bulk, of the Chinese had no idea of the use of the sights on the rifles, and it is almost' use less to attempt to teach them the use of such contrivances. " Thus, a Chinese sob. dier armed with a modern rifle would never think of raising the sight of. his. weapon when he was called upon to use it, especially in the- face of an enemy. He would fire at aa object six hundred yards off with the sight down, the con sequence being that the muzzle of the rifle not receiving the necessary elevation to carry the bullet over .a long distance, the ball would strike or descend very close to the ground before it reaches its destination. It was also asserted that some of the Chinese soldiers, actually knocked the sights off. their rifles, as be ing entirely useless. The Box Tree. The box tree, from sections of whose trunk the blocks for engravers are made, is found in marketable quantities on the shores of the Mediterranean. It grows very slewly, and seldom reaches more than twenty feet in height, and the pieces in commerce are seldom more than five inches in diameter: The increase of illustrations is said to be causing a rise in the cost, and we may expect soon to have a substitute which the engravers will denounce as the invention of the sons of Belial. Philadelphia Bulletin. St. Augustine, Pla., proposes to cele brate the anniversary of the landing of Ponce de Leon in 1512, and at the same time to commemorate the founding of the city in 1565. by a demonatratien on the 27th of March, 1833, TVISf! TYOBDS. Without earnestness no man U ever great or does really great things. Experience is a trophy composed of all the weapons we have been wounded with. The truly grateful heart may not b able to tell of gratitude, but it ran feel, and love, and act. Genius is only entitled to respect when it promotes the peace and improve the happiness of mankind. In the literary world as well as military world, roost powerful abilities will often be found) concealed under a rustic garb. A plain,, genteel dress is more admired! and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the eyesol the judicious and sensible. The knowledge "Which- we have ac quired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an in vntory; we ought ty know what we possess, and be able to make' it serve us in need. Nothing so cements and holds together in unison all the parts of society as- faith, or credit, which can nevfcr be ftept up unless men are under some force or ne cessity of honestly paying what they owe to oneanother. Remember, tint if thou marry for beauty thou bindest thyself all thy We for that which, perchance,' will neither last nor please thee cae year; and when thou hast it, it will be-to thee of no prices at all, for the desire dicth when it i attained,, and the alection perisheth when it is satisfied. A father has no right' to do business or worry himself out of hsalth, in order t keep young men and wemen in idleness. It is better, for both father and children! thai they go out at once to earn their" bread, andi get that tra:ing which the 1 world never spares to those who will not taks it from a father. Nourishing Fci. Pens, . beans, lentils, vetches and ia1! the seeds' belonging to that class used as vegetables,, contain richi- nourishing -matter, ia the same proportion as the -best grains.. The special nourishing azotio matter; found in graina, as gluten in tho cerealsj albumen in the egg, case in in milk, musculin in meatv dilfers in those seeds, according to the kind, from 24 to 31 percent.; the fecuia and its derivations, .the: dextrine and: glucinum, from 49 to. 59 per cent. ; the fat phosphorated in one part from 2 to 2.8; -the mineral ' matter from 2.1 to 3:5: the cellular matter forming the weft of the seed is similar in its chemical compo sition to- the f acular and dextrine, from 1 to 3.5; and lastly, the water from 10 to 15 per cent. These seeds are therefore very nourishing: food. It will be of great value to -know that the juice of these seeds, when cooked, contains the same rich aliment. It is only necessary to take -care that peas, beans, lentilsP-etc, are not put into boiling water, as that would causo them, to harden instead of. soften, and prevent a solution ot the vegetable. The water must contain as little lime as possible,, and,, the vegetable must be put. ,into. it before it com mences to- heat. Legum3tts are especially valuable on account of the peculiarity of having the richest phosphoric parts of all substances in tho group of albumens which form for man kind the- complete ailment for the con stitution, as well as for the nervous sys. tern. . Especially is such food nourishing to the brain. Comparing grains with le gumens,-. we find that the fcrmer con tains 15- per cent, of the albuminous az otic substances, similar in their constitu ent parts and nourishing qualities to the -. albuminous fibrin, casein, musculin and legumih. The principal albuminous sub stance f grain is gluten; called also fi brin of gluten, or vegetable fibrin, in the same way as the legumen has -been called . vegetable casein. The glutea in the ce reals, represents the legumen of peas, beans, lentils and other seeds of the same, vegetable kind. These two. substances., are considered to be of the same nour ishing value, except that the legumen is. richer in phosphorous then the gluten.. The grain contains GO per cent, of fecuia, 7 of gluten; 1.2 of fat of which one part . is, phosphorous, similar to the legumens. 1-6 of mineral matter, 1.7 of cellular matter, and 14 per cent, f water. Thus, we see that the proportion of nourishing matter in the leguminous seeds is from 24 to 31 per cent., while the npurishing substances ot grain do not exceed. 15 per cent. American Miller. . -Men. of High Standing.. Chang, the Chinese giant,, is by no means as tall as maay celebrated giants. of other nations. Chang is seven feet six inches in height. Patrick Cotter, the Irish giant, was eight feet seven and. one -half inches. He died in 1802. Eleazer, the Jewish giant, mentioned by , Josephus as living in the reign of Yitel lius, was ten feet six inches in height. William Evans, porter to Charles L, was. eight feet talL He died i. 1632. Goliath, whom David slew, was. nine feet four inches in height. Loushkin, drum major of the Russian imperial guards, was eight feet five inches in height. Maximinus, the Roman emperor from 232 to 238 A. was eight feet six inches tall. John Middleton, who was born at Hale, in Lancashire, in the reign of James I., was nine feet six inches in height. His hand was seventeen inches Ions: and eight and one-half inches broad. A human skeleton eight feet six inches in height is preserved in the museum of Trinity college, Dublin. The expression, "a lit'tle bird told me," comes from Ecolesiastes x., 20 : "For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter." The bell of the evening The supnet bell. V