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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1894)
TYPES OF ISSASHi: Some Forme That Arc Developing In Modem Time. . lientsJ Disorders Thl Are Bespoiitlble f or Various Kind! at Crtsw-OlilBkies Advanced by an Kxpart m r Boch DHim 'it the Poat-Qraduate Medical School ot Now York a tew days ago a well known professor ofnervousand mental diseases, who testified as an expert in a murder trial, delivered a lecture on insanity in itsrelatton to homicide. The various types of insanity, said he, all breed homicides, but some more than others. His classification of the various forms of insanity, says the Sun of that city, was as follows, and any phase of mental disorder, he said, would be found to fit under one head or the other: Mania, melancholia, de mentia, oaranoia. and paresis.- The victims of melancholia are most subject to homicide or suicidal out. Waks. Paretics are least to be feared. Melancholia is often the result of borne bodily ailment, or disappointed ambition may cause mis morum ouu ilangerous state of mind. insane homicidal outbreaks dould r.it. occur in nerfectly healthy persons. Uhey might bo apparently sane, and lie suddenly seized with an irresistible i npulse to kill some one or to commit taicide, but there must be ground work of melancholia or some other unhealthy mental state to incite the jijassion. "Doctors now declare," the professor i mtinued, "that there is no such thing 'emotional insanity. 1 believe tne--irdwea not used at all during the f':tzgerald trial, and 1 doubt if any ex pert would take the stand and testify that such a condition as emotional in sanity ever exists." "Paranoia" is a word ol such wide application that it may be' worn out tn the endeavor to make it cover the thou sand and one varieties of mild and ex plosive cranks.- ,., "Paranoia is a very good word to use," said the professor to the young doctors, "as it enables you to classify your cranky acquaintances. Mono mania is the older name for the same peculiarities. 'The condition often manifest itself by a fear of going to tome particular place, by dread of crossing a street, or similar eccentrici ties. The subject is usually possessed -of a single delusion; perhaps has an ex asperated idea of his own greatness, or is b.oont to convulse the world by a worderful invention. There is fre quently, too, some physical peculiarity as a bad-shaped head or peculiarly shaped ears ordeformlty of the jaws." 1 lie professor grouped the paranoiacs together under several heads paranoia religiosa, the crank who talks and thinks of nothing but religion; par anoia inventoria, the victim of which is fuil of foolish schemes, a crank of the Oil. Sellers type; paranoia litigosa, or llti"iouB paranoiacs, who are forever br. :ging suits in the courts, frequently for the most trivial causes. "Cranks of this kind," said the pro fessor, "are, I believe, more numerous in Europe than in the United States, -though the west produces a good many In one notable instance a whole county was engaged in a fight over a turkey in which a few dollars were at stake. "Cnder the head of paranoia re-for-aatoria come a more obnoxious class of monomaniacs political offend ers, anarchists, and 'bomb throwers, who are convinced that only by the mu'der of a few crowned heads, princes, presidents, senators and.mil lioi liresand the destruction of prop en; can the existing state of affairs be chajfred for the better." ii .ilteau the professor mentioned as ODu of the extraordinary cases of homicidal paranoia. Prendergast, the rmrrforer of Mayor Harrison, was an 'ol .r. i rom "maam" all types of insanity my develop. 'Excitability and a generally happy, careless frame of miid characterize thiaphase of lunacy, though the mental state of the victims nui, the whole gamut of emotions. Eoraicidal and suicidal outbursts are frequent. ,: Paretics are generally harmless. '"Paresis is a production of modern civilization," said the professor. "1 don't know of a, happier lot of people thai, are the paretics for a time. Their Imagination is exceedingly vivid. They have boundless wealth, in their own minds, or have a remarkable invention which they are about to give the world. Thiii blissful state of things continues tor awhile, then the patient becomes pathetic, rarely dangerous." E'gnrding the responsibility of the Insane, the professor believed that par anoiacs should be punished or their cruxes, The anarchist .monomaniacs of the Gniteau stripe are very unpleas ant people to have about, and he tninks a few of them should be hanged, the others locked up or exiled. "I hope some time," said he, "to see tliem all corralled and transported to a distant sea island, where they can communicate with the rest of the world but once a year. They should have no r::in or tobacco. They should be fed on fruits and vegetables, and they shoi.ld not be allowed to breed, and than be gradually exterminated. This colonization of paranoiacs may be, a scheme of the future." A Queer Lowiait. The question: Is a man the owner of his own teeth? lately come before a German court at Uera. A man who had been suffering for some time from tootliache made up his mind to have the tooth taken out. The stump proved a difficult one to draw, and when it was out it was of such curious shape that the dentist declared he would Iceep it as a curiosity. His patient, however, thought he would like to iieep it himself, and claimed it; but tho dentist, on the ground that a tooth, when drawn with the free consent of a j-utient, is ownerless property as soon s it tcaves the jaw, refused to give it . o. The patient nt once entered an as tion against lis 4uHrt. EDUCATED IN AMERICA. A wondtrftally Tnfellljrmt Horse Now As-' toMlfthktg- Um) London Public. It cannot be said of the horse, as Heine said of the monkey, that It does not talk for fear of being put to work. Probably the ultimate degree to which the training of animals may be curried is reached in the case of the talking horse that literally made its bow to the public recently at the Crystal palace, says the London Dally News. Mazeppa is an Arab, educated, so to say, in America, and its extraordinary capaci ty for learning was manifested before an astonished and enthusiastic audi ence. In the strict meaning of the word the horse does not talk, but 1b capable of answering questions ad dressed to it. Jt even understands French or German when It hears it spoken, though it does not speak these languages, in which it is not less ac complished than some human beings. The animal not only appears to think, but is capable of expressing Itself in telligibly by signs. It has a special talent for arithmetic. . , The audience was invited promls. cuously to call out a number of figures, which were araonged in rows on a blackboard, and Mazeppa, after looking over them, gave the sum of the addi tion by pawing the ground in every case the exact number of times neces sary to indicate the result, As a mere trick this would be surprising enough, but, considering the figures were taken at random from among the audience, ladies and gentlemen, and, in particu lar, eager little boys contributing, col lusion seemed out of the question, and Mazeppa's good faith was established ! by the still more remarkable achieve I ment that followed. The horse was I directed to count the number of per- sons in friven rows of the audience, and, ' having done so more than once, pro ceeded to indicate the number of women and the number of men in any ' particular tow. Having passed this examination, Mazeppa stood forth to answer any question to which it was possible to givg Tep1? directly, by j means of a shake of the head, signify ing either "Yes" or "No," or in figures," Thus the day of the week and the 1, 4 11 11. Ji,. ..J birthday, revealed to the trainer, Prof, H. S. McGuire, was promptly found by the horse, any attempt to deceive it meeting always with a decidedly em phatic negative. This astounding en tertainment concluded with an imita tion by Mazeppa of a young man pay ing bis addresses to a young lady. The horse's affectation of tenderness add a very humorous touch to an excellent piece of pantomime. A FALLEN EMPRESS. Wieek of the Hoot SoeeeMfttl Aftresi the World lias Kvor Kaowa. The ex-Empress Eugenie, who was always the guest of the De Mouchys when she passed through Paris, has been on the occasions that the visits our Ville Lumiere forced to put up at the Hotel Continental like a simple Cook's tourist, where no one recognizes in the lame, old, broken woman the once radiant empress of the French, says a Paris letter writer. The olden prophecy that used to affright her so, that her fate would be sadder than that of Marie Antoinette, some people think has been realized in her case, as she has outlived all that seemingly makes life worth living. However, luckily for herself, she does not agree with the sentimental theo ries of the outer world, for to an inti mate friend she said the other day: "Although I now drift on a sea ot tor row between two coffins" a royally bad metaphor "still I would not change lots with anyone, for I have been the most radiant and courted of sovereigns." She lives in her past now, having alienated most of her friends by her temper and her avarice. She was the curse of her dynasty, the in stigator of the Franco-Prussian war, and the direct cause of the prince im perial's fatal expedition to Zululand, whither the drove him by her penuri ousness and ceaseless exactions. That she is unconscious of her own share in the ruin of her family is much the bet ter for her; still, when she crawled past us at the Continental the other day all those who recognized her looked with a most certain sorrow at the wreck of the most successful ad venturess the world has ever known. i . CREATURES OF HABIT. ; The Hermits Who Uve in the Bis; Dam Town Office Bolldingt. I The hotel hermits are more widely known than the hermits of the big office buildings, but the latter come in for a good deal of comment in a desul tory way, and are apparently proud of their seclusion. There are men in the big hotels, says the New York Sun, who boast of not having wandered more than two or three blocks from the building in years. Other hotel hermits go to their offices every morning, re turn at a certain time in the after noon, and then remain steadfastly in doors until the following day. They ' are intimately acquainted with all the goings on in the big hostelry which serves them as a home, and j have an active interest in its various j departments. The hermits, of the of fice buildings sometimes sleep in them, but as a rule they have lodgings some where in the lower part of the town, where they put In eight or ten hours out of the twenty-four. But at all other hours they are to be found in the big building which serves them as an office, and practically as a home. A great number of men go to the Equitable building at half-past seven o'clock in the morning, attend to then office duties, eat breakfast, luncheon and dinner at the restaurant, get shaved and have their boots polished in the building, and remain there un til ten or eleven o'clock every night After a time the place gets to be a sort of home to tbem, and what would . teem to be a hardship to other men I really becomes, through habit, a second 1 nature to these inmates. Any proposi' I tion to leave the betel ing to fulfill an ! an appointment outside, at any hour ot ' Wi tfrews wl ViH&fUf' - A ROVAL KID. Baifarki Wm Wild With Joy Over Iks M or to. Baky rasm. A man ol 84 yean and boy of as many honrs are the two most conspicu ous figures tn Europe today. One, it Is feared, must soon oluse one of the moat remarkable pnbllo careers of this or any other age. The other, born In palace, may some day sit upon a rather shaky throne. All Europe bat smiled indul gently over the extravagant welcome with which Prince Ferdinand and hit subjects received the wee bit of human ity at Soils. The royal youngster most think this world an awful humbug. Before he bad a chance to enjoy bit first nieul he was frightened half to death by the firing of 101 cannon under bis window. He h.id hardly donned hit swaddling clothes before he wit con demned to be "Bearer of the Collar of: the Order of St. Alexander." The poor child would have howled tn protest, bat the royal decree informed him that at the chief of three regiments ot Infan try, cavalry and artillery no men weak ness would be tolerated. Borne ordina ry infant Indulgences might be permit ted him at prince and duke, but as a foil Hedged "Knight of the First and Fourth Class Military Order of Valor" he must preserve the stern dignity of his rank, : It was a haul week tor him. In the first place, the palace yard wot thronged night and duy by bit tinging, dancing, affectionate subject!. His royal daddy, in aplte of the nurse's protests, persisted in dangling him at a window several times a day, to the frantio delight of the cheering crowds. The whole prin cipality took a week's holiday, and the rejoicing was to spontaneous and unre strained that the nation found the spec tacle a welcome relief from the solemn eroakings about war, .New York Sun's London Letter. THE NICKEL 8TEEL GUN. Interest at t ko GovoraaHnt Oidaoaee Shops ent the New Method of Aaswabllng. The force at the Washington ordnance shops has nearly completed the asaen bling of the Hint nickel steel gun for the navy, and the result is awaited with in terest. The ordnance officers have been engaged tome time in the construction of a furnace for heating the tube of this gun, which ia of 8 inch caliber. The f nrnace will apply tbt bast to the gun in a horizontal instead of In per peadioniar position. Toe jacket, lbs piece of metal which flts over the bait of the tube and gi vet It greater strength, will be forced over the tubs while the latter is kept beyond the expanding in fluences of the beat by the constant ap plication of a stream of water. The delay in assembling the gun, tbt forging! of which have been ready tor some time, bat been caused by the dif ficulty in securing a pyrometer, a deli cate instrument for registering the fear ful heat of the furnace. This instru ment has been received, and everything is ready for the assembling of the gun. There is naturally much Interest imong ordnance expert! over the result ot the new syatem of patting great gum to gether, for, if the proposed method It a aucceat, it will take the place of the old way, which required a good deal ot shifting of heavy weights and the rue of s shrinking pit. There it alto much interest in 'the trial of the nickel steel gun. It it ex pected tbat it will prove stronger and of longer life than the simple steel gun. Washington Star. Died White tho Here it the latest episode of Parisian life. The cold weather of late has bean rather severe on the simian population of the gay capital, and it wei keenly felt by Maurice, the orang-outang of the Jardian d'Acclimatatloo. When Maurice fell iU, it was decided by the j managers of the Jirdin that inesmnob as Maurice possessed far more resofii Iblancetp a mm than to an animal, a regular doctor tbonld be summoned, and accordingly the services of physi cian were invoked. On bis arrival how ever, the doctor declared that, as the patient occupied an intermediary plsee between the quatlromanes and the ha ms nee, its treatment should devolve upon s veterinary rnrgeon, who. how. ever, hesitated to assume the re sponsibility on the ground that Mau rice was more human than beast. While the discussion was in progress between the two medicos the monkey died. Boston Herald. As Archbishop on Boistdea. , The archbishop of Canterbury, at a church convocation the other day, en tered a strong protest against the grow ing tendency to what Is called "cod dling tnicides. " He protested against the conventional verdict of temporary insanity in order to grant a Christian burial. Intpiteof the repugnance to speak ill of the dead, iniclde is becoming too prevalent, and a healthier publio sentiment against it should be encouraged. He urged tbat newspaper headings, inttesd of being "Romantic," "Pathetic," "Interest ing," should be" Revolting Self Mot dor." London Exchange. Weals a CeeTlet Wife., .. Warden Weyler .recently received it the penitentiary a letter in which tna writer asked "if there is a young girl in your prison the age of 18 ot IT, 18 or 20 yean who can be taken out by marrying." The writer asked an sn swer and signed the name of John Mob ley, adding the names of his father and mother and the Information tbat he was born in Wilton, N. C. Ko address was given to which an antwer to the letter might be sent. Baltimore Son, . PtMfott remllariUea. i Thing! are being ran with a rather high band In not the best localities in Pretcott. The kicking in of doors and the selling against their withes and dragging around of women by men loaded down with tlx abootert it bound to retail in bloodsbed. Presoott (A. T.) Courier, : ' . ..- " -. -' !,.. ' BUSINESS LOCALS? When you want In buy a suit of clot li Ingyou will save money by getting It at Bwti'v; fllram Bairn' lilg Invoice of Im.oIh mid shot will arrive this- week direct from the East. ' J.E. Alleox, agent for the Albany steam laundry, tends washings down on Tuesday! only. ! Those whopatroiilte Pugh 4 Munsey always ge the best there is In the inur- Itei; at lowest prices. ; The best groceries and furnishing Koode Mt the Indent prices at Pugli & Muusey's, Try tliem. Pugh nH Muiivvy have Just received a new lliifrof furitislilng goods, price them before buying elsewhere, You can gn 20 yards of cliallle, 111 yanht of turkey red calico, or 14 yards outing flannel for l.00 at Read, Peacock iO'e. ; Tueae hsrd times we want tnsave u we can. hut ikf course we have tn ent, still you will-eave some by getting your grooerws at 8. P. Bach's. Hiram Baker In receiving a t,g In voice of mlicoen and shirting and so forth direct from Ike East. I will lake wheal, (wis, wood or baled, hay un account, M. A. .Mii.i.kk. do to Hiram linker's for your hop plcklug suppllis. ReiueDiber liu cur rim a full line of groceries, dr.vg olH, brats, aluwe, hats and vliitliing. Every man pureheter of $10 worth r goods at H. P. Hochl store gets a eray. hi portrai of themselves or freiud free He sample of work iu lils window. , A. E. Ansorge it now ready h, do any repairing of nrgam, having h.ul long experience In first-claw fuctiM ies. Will guarantee satisfaction, l.ehuiion, Oregon. ; Bins M. WntHlveNn. t, L.O.T. M. will admit members Into the urder, for $3.20 for theuext aixty days from Aug. I1U8M. flt Aucb Hvnu, R. K. It you want to kuy, sell or trade a faruj, town lot, horses, eow 111 fact auytuiug, call on Peterson & U111 phrey, and tliey will find you a deal If there in one to be found, If yuu want to go East write or call on W. C. Peterson, local agent of I he Northern FaelfloR. ft. Co., at Lelnnon Chogou. fur Jiour ticket. The rates are low, and aectimmedatlons are not ex otlltd by auy road running east. There will be a fruit social at the res idence of G.,Loveleo, Tuesday evening, Hept. 18, 184, to which everybody is invited, regardless of age, sex, color or uny other t'OMditlciw. There will be good Music and all tbat gnea to make a good time. Befretlimeiita will be served. Hop checks will be legal tender. While in Chicago Mr. Charles L. Kalihir. a prominent thoe merchant of De Moines, Iowa, hud quite a seri ous time of it, lie look such a severe cold that he could hardly talk or navi gate, but the prompt use of Chumlwr- laiil's Cough Remedy cured lilm of his itild so quickly that others at the hotel followed bis example and a dozen per sons onlored it from the nearest drug store. They were profuse in their thanks to Mr, Kaliler for telling them how lu cure a tad cold 10 quickly. Fondle by K. VI. Smith, druggist. . Hows Thill WeorTerthie Hundred Dollars Hewunl fur any ease of Catarrh that cannot lie cured by Hill's Catarrh Oure. F.J. CllKNKY 4 CO,, -Props., Toledo, 0. We the undcralKned have known K. J. Cheney fur tin tail 15 years, and believe hint perfectly honorable in all bintjneHS transections and financially able to carry out any ublitcation nude by their llrm. Weit 4 Truax, WhnlesateUraggittsTolHln, Waldlrn:, Kinntn 4 Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Ohio. Hall's- Catarrh Core is taken internally tcting illrtuliy upon the blood anil mucuoiia urftces of the intern, Price, 75c wr Uillle bold by all druggists. . Testimonials free. Hale to Be Made. Tbe circuit court-met in Corvallls last Thursday. Judge Fullerton presiding. nryson, attorney for tiie plalntltl's, In tbe suit against the Oregon Pacific, said, with reference to fixing a tinte for the tale of the property, that bis clients preferred I hat the time for tiling such date should be postponed until thirty or sixty iluyt, us it wu hoped ly that time that a movement tor the purchase of the property would develop with Increase activity in the financial world. Wall It Math askc-d tbat tbe date be fixed and the sale occur as toon as possible. He mild tbat he had assurance that purtles were ready to buy it If the property was offered for cash to the highest bidder, without restrictions and with a d.poslt not to exceed t0,000. He said situ that the prospective pur chasers would take care of the labor and material claims against the prop erly aud would extend the line. Judge Kullertun, at the conclusion of the Mrjriiment, nnmcd October 20th an the date on which he would make the order of sale, and early in December m the date on which the sale should occur, He also Intimated that f.50,000 tbould be the limit of the deposit, and last tbe sale would he unrestricted. ' tkr. Prtiic't Cream Baking Powder WuU. Fslr MlffcMt AUasI tot DlslosM. 1854. Santiam Academy 1 Fall Term Commences September 24th. Normal, College, Preparatory, EBusiness, Music Circu ar Cantainlng Tuition, Courses of Study, Text-Bocks, Etc., Cheer fully Mailed on Application. " S. A. RAN DL E, Principal, LESANON, - - - - - OREGON. Wheels! Wheels!! Tho Two Leaders of tho 'World I VICTOR and RAMBLER Sond fur catalogui a. Write for bargains in second-hand and '93 wheels. CHAS. A. SEARS. Albany, Oregon. Also see Chas. M. 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