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IE TELEPHONE. ,’ERY THE TELEPHONE. DEMOCRATIC prnListnrii FRIDAY MORNING. .'.¿■x . WEST SIDE TELEPHONE PUBLICATION OFF1CB; Door North of eor.sr Third and X Sts , M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATBH: (IN ADVANCE.) *2 00 1 OU SO year............. noutte........... months . VOL. II *w ruBrv.i ■M.'iTrr.i RATHS OF ADVHRTI8ING. MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, FEBRUARY 3, 1888. f NO. 41 One «snare or less, one insertion. ...... ,$1 09 One equare. each subsequent insertion. . M Notice® of appolnlmout and final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisements, 75 cents for first insertion and 40 cents per square for tach sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business oolumns. 10 oente per line. Regular business notices, i eente per line. Professional cards, |1S per year. Special rates for largo display “ads.” I asserts itself at once; fn others a slight cold means death, or a protracted invalidism. But the school room itself needs constant looking after. If it is not properly ventil ated, the vitiated air lowers the tone of the physical system, and renders it very sus ceptible to colds and other ailments. A ten dency to colds will also bo caused by too high a temperature, which weakens the resisting power of the skin. On the other hand, the weakly are sure to suffer from too low a tem perature. This should be regulated by a thermometer, and should not be allowed to vary much from 70 degs. Fahrenheit—Y outh’s Companion. HISTORY OF A GIRL STOW AWAY FROM SCOTLAND. |o<l Manners at Home—School Hygiene. Ignorance of Girls—Ventilation of Bed- Ip,, ms — Advice to Mothers — Pretty Kitchens—Helpful Hints and Items. Eero is tho life history of a woman who is El known to many Now York shoppers as ft forewoman in the suit department. She fttill quite young—on the sunny side of 35— ftli a pleasant face, a sweet, low voice and e liner that helps her greatly in her profes Ei. This may not seem a very exalted po Hon to some people, but when they considei ft long, steep road she has climbed her pres- ft stand may appear an enviable one. At ■ events, her work is light, though the re- Lisibilities are heavy. She gets very Li ly $2,500 a year, and has a cheerful, fttty little flat of her own, where she has Iks and bird;, and flowers, and she cousid- Jherself an individual greatly to be envied, riiis is tho story: Twenty-five years ago a ftn died in a little Sipialid Scotch village by ft sea and a fow miles from a port where ft smaller sort of sailing vessels cleared for ftbors all over the world. There was noth- E uncommon concerning this man’s death; [fact, it was the usual business, helpless now, three crying orphans, no money and [prospect of any. The eldest brat was an Lsh girl with a sharp tongue that offended hlose fisted relative who offered to take the father into his home as housekeeper and the ro boys to work on the farm as soon as ley were able, but wouldn’t have the girl [any price. She heard his proposition and r eyes flashed. She wouldn’t stand in her father's way or in that of the little brothers, [the 10-year-old imp packed her one other ess and a few childish treasures in an old nidkerchief, kissed the three tenderly, and pen they were asleep stole away to the ■ghboring town through tho darkness. She pig about the wharf for two days until she pnd a ship bound for America. When that ship sailed she wasn’t in Scot- pil, and yet she didn’t seem to be on the Ip. Third day out up comes a white faced at from the hold, ghastly with hunger, le captain swore a little, then laughed, and c women fed, clothed and corseted tho only rl stowaway they had ever seen. When B ship reached New York one of the wo- fen took the child to mind her babies at pie. She learned to read from the chil- len’s blocks and picture books; she learned write and figure from one of the older rls, who was going to a primary school and fed to have help ill her lessons. At 15 she is behind a counter in a shop; at 20 she was | the head of her department. The uncle is dead, the boys apprenticed and the Other alone; so she sent for her and took ro rooms. In five years more she was the pdwoman in the big shop, and every two three years her salary increases. She lives ill, saves something each year, has an ac- unt in the savings bank and is as plucky as er.—New York World. Ignorance of Girls. If a girl never hears a word about economy from her birth, and is only conscious that to secure the means to gratify her slightest wish she needs only to stretch out her hands and they will be abundantly filled, how can one expect after marriage that she can have the faintest knowledge of tho duties that must belong to her in the care of her household? She has never been called u{>on to know any thing about her own expenses. What she fancied she wanted she bought without a thought that it might be well to learn whether she could afford the money. How money came, how it was always ready for her when she asked, were questions she had never been taught that she ought to ask uud to understand the answer. As far as any teaching she has ever re ceived, she might imagine that money grew in the woods, and her father had it gathered for her as wanted—aud of course her hus band would do the same. No education be fore marriage ever taught her anything more rational. With such a girlhood, free from every thought save that of her own per sonal gratification, what reason can there be for surprise if she makes many mistakes— well for her if they are not irremediable. Duty was something never mentioned to her when a girl. After marl age her husband gives her uo insight into his business affairs, no cautions as to expenses, never talks io her or consults or advises witn her about their mutual exi>enditures. The same cruel love and indulgence—or it may be indifference— surrounds her iu her new home, and thus she continues to be left iu utter ignorance of all practical knowledge, simply a toy, a butter fly, seeking only sunshine and personal en joyment. And yet under proper training what a noble specimen of womanhood she perhaps was capable of being made!—Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher iu New Yc..*k Star. Air of Sleeping Apartments. The Needed Word of Praise. Many a man rains the jjeace of his house hold forever by neglecting to speak the word of praise which his hungry hearted wife has yiarned all day to hear, and bestowing it upon some chance caller or stranger. The man who fails to notice the careful toilet his wife has made for his sake, and compliments the good taste in dress exh bited by some neighbor, sows the seed of jealousy in a dis appointed heart. Woman was made to be loved, petted and appreciated by man. Whatever else she may achieve in life, she feels herself cheated out of her birthright unless this happiness has come to her. She is jealous of whatever and who ever may stand between her and that desired joy. I have known two mothers who were jealous of their own children. Unnatural and terrible as this may seem, I felt the greatest sympathy for both women. In each case the husband utterly ignored the wife for her offspring. She was a secondary consid eration, neglected and rebuked where the children were caressed and appreciated.— Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Concerning Fatly Marriages. It is, I think, an erroneous idea that early marriages are a hindrance rather than a help to success in life and the mental development and happiness of the parties. That this L sometimes the ease is true; but I believe that more young men, and girls too, have been saved from ruin and wretchedness by an early marriage than have been ruined by it. There is something inspiriting and ennobling in the i>ossession of a home and a family to work for and beautify, and if tho girl and i boy are poor, I should still say, marry young and work together tor the home and the com ! petence, which will be all the more enjoyable because they are the result of toil and self de nial. Don’t wait until you can afford to be gin just where your father and mother leave off, for then the freshness of youth will be gone, and, although it may be morning with you still, the shades will be stretching on towards the noonday, and habits will have been formed which are hard to break, while the chances are they will never be broken at 'all.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. What of sleeping apartments? Shall they be warmed or left cool! Perhaps, in a Yankee way, these questions may be an swered by another: How shall fresh air be admitted W window’s are closed? And, since plenty of fresh air is absolutely essential, and warmth sufficient may readily be secured by bedcovering, it seems better to have them open to outside air and rooms unheated. There are certainly fewer cases of acute catarrh among those who adopt the open air plan than where warm rooms are indulged iu The Best Pct of All. during sleep; and less liability, less sensitive The best i>et of all is the little child old ness to those lurking, sneezing bronchial coughs that uro so annoying and so difficult enough to talk and to understand, with a child’s comprehension. The child that is a to cure. But it is only during sleep that chambers pet is always promising to be a better pet, should be cool. While dressing or preparing because a more appreciative one. Its recep for bed they should bo as warm as the rest of tive and retentive mind is greedily gathering the house—that is, 68 degs. This plunging ten thousand facts and then ten thousand into a cold bed with skin all teuse and pro more, all with each added year the little one testing, is a good way to insure a sleepless not only fills a larger place in your affections, night to any one over twenty-five years of but you are becoming more to the youngster, age, and is a relic of the unscientific past that to be treasured in fond regard through all the looked upon a warm sleeping room as a piece years of mature life. Every month, and week, and day is a step of folly of unmanly coddling. It is easy to shut a register upon opening toward manhood or womanhood, evincing windows, find to open it again iu the moru- expanding intelligence and growing affec ijjg when they are shut down, to let tho room tions, and cementing the bonds of friendship get warm enough to dress comfortably. and love between the little pet and tho elder Then a little nap extra, a leisurely toilet persons who are nourishing its absorbing under comfortable circumstances, and one mind and are guiding its otherwise uncertain goes down to coffee with a sense of readiness footsteps in the best path of life toward the to meet whatever the day may bring forth.— goal of thought, love and action.—Good Housekeeping. Family Physician in American Magazine. Good Manners at Home. il know a woman who is always harping Bout “culture” and “refinement” and “eti- Bette,” and who does not this minute know Ko meaning of that old fashioned term., Bood manners.” She is always regretting K<< lack of culture among her neighbors, and Bere is not one of them who is more polite Ran she is. I have heard her actually yell ft her servants, and storm at her children, Bd 1 do not think her husband is the happi- Kt man in the world. Iu society she is a Banning woman. She knows always just Biat to say and how to say it. I never saw’ ■ woman who could excel her in gliding Bross a room and sinking gracefully into a Bair. Her little boys can tip their hats so fcttily to ladies on the street; her little girls Bn enter a room with toes properly turned Bt and with the grace of little queens; and, R rs ! both the little boys and the little girls Bn be as impertinent and display the worst Knners of any children I ever saw. And Bey literally fight among' themselves. They Bo not taught to bo ¡xylite to each other. Beir mother seldom favors them with her Bvn properly chosen words and graceful Banners when they are alone with her. Dis- Brd reigns until tho door bell rings and then Ke entire household must put ou good man- fcrs. I “If wo don’t,” one of the children said, rwe catch it when the company’s gone!” Iliis is an extreme case, but do we not all lave our “company manners?” Do we speak bst as gently and wveetly tp our children, to Bur husbands and vmves, when we are alone pith them as when in the presence of the nance caller? Do wo say to a transgressing lohnuie or Katie, “Don’t do that, dear,” or, [Stop that this minute, I tell you?” Which ■ it? Do we say “please” and “thank you” » each other and to our servants at all times, IT are these pleasing little words held in re serve with the rest of our “company man tel’s?” Is it only in the presence of strangers ¡hat we smilingly overlook or gently chide the trifling faults of our children? I Oh, these “company manners!” They are iho ruination of a household. They cannot ffways lx? put on and off at will. Traces of ine every day discord and lack of harmony B’ill manifest themselves through the affecta tion of all the mere “company manners” one ¡an assume. Habitual j ^liteness and kind less and gentleness should <? the unwavering *ule in every house, even on “Blue Mou- lays.”—Zenas Dane in Good Housekeeping. j. School Hygiene in Winter* I In summer the child is greatly favored by ffihe free, natural ventilation of the school froorn, the wide range of his sports, his sym pathy with exuberant nature and the long vacation, with its varied rambles, its fre- fcueut bathings, its exhilarating sense of free- Bjoni, and, perhaps, with its change of air. pho absence of these favoring circumstances Un winter suggest greater attention at that Kime to the physical condition of school (children. I Their food should be suited to the season. Fat is to the Ixxly what coal is to the stove. It Ils simply fuel No sailors are allowed in [expeditions to the North Pole who cannot di gest an abundance of fat. The child can bafely withstand our northern cold only as he carries within him a copious source of heat He not only shout. I have, but should, if necessary, be trained to love, fat meat, gravies and well cooked rashers. Where oatmeal is an important part of the daily diet the large proportion of fat it con- (tai’.is meets the need in port, and so docs the well buttered bread, but it is well to add daily the fat of meat I But while we introduce heat producing food within the system, we must guard the heat from too rapid loss. The child may be Exposed to extremely low temperatures. Good woolen flannel should be worn next the skin all winter, while the outside cloth ing should be thick and warm. Woolen •torlrngw, thick boots and good rubl>ers are indisfieusable, and the child should be taught the danger of going with cold or with damp feet It is important, also, to remember the physical difference in children. In some of tbt iu the recuperative power is Strong, and loses a little weight by keeping. When thii is the intention have some of the bone trim med off, and the fat which is not needed foi cooking, and let these trimmings be sent home with the day’s marketing, the bones for the soup pot, and the fat to be tried out, to use in the form of drippings. These small economies are not at all des picable; on the contrary, they are of consid erable consequence in the aggregate. After the meat is trimmed let it be hung in the butcher’s refrigerator until he pronounces it tender, but not long enough to spoil. In this connection remember that meat which has been kept on ice is very susceptible to changes of temperature, and should be cooked as soon as possible after it is taken from the ice, and cooked at a very hot fire, because a slow heat might taint it at the be ginning of the cookery.—American Analyst. Advice to Mothers. If you say “No,” mean “No.” Unless you have a good reason for changing u given command, hold to it. Take an interest in your children’s amuse ments ; mother’s share iu what pleases thorn is a great delight. Be honest with them in small things, as well as in great If you cannot tell them what they wished to know, say so, rather than deceive them. As long as it "is possible kiss tho children good night after they are in bed; they like it, and it keeps them very close. Make your boys ami girls study physiology; when they are ill, try to mako them compre hend why, aud how tho complaint apj«e, aud the remedy, so far as you know it. Impress upon them from early Infancy that their actions have results, and that they cannot escajw consequences, even by being sorry when they have done wrong. Respect their little secrets; if they have concealments, fretting them will never make them tell, and time and patience will. Allow them, as they grow older, to have opinions of their own, mako them individ uals, and not mere echoes. Mothers, whatever else you may teach your girls, do not neglect to instruct them in the mysteries of housekeeping. So shall you teach them in the way of making home bappy.—Herald of Health. Pretty Kitchens. I There is no objection to a pretty kitchen, or to a girl filling one up with bric-a-brac if she keeps it free from dust A kitchen to those who do the work in it is tho living room, and why should it not be made con venient and pretty? If the kitchen is a com fortable, cheery room, most girls will take a pride in keeping it so. Give them pink colored tissue paper for the shelves, if they wish it, and a fancy lamp shade to rest by after the kitchen is tided up for the night See, too, that they have convenient utensils to cook with, a good clothe® wringer and plenty of clothes pins and a good stovo. It will pay you well to look after these things in the good, wholesome dishes that will come on to the table well cooked. Many girls have to do with makeshifts that you would not think possible for yourself to use —a broken wringer, a tub without handles or a wash boiler or teakettle, with a rag ran through a hole to prevent leaking. No girl likes to ask for rcj>airs, and oftentimes the mistress h too careless to look well after the little things of her kitchen. I would add: Let the girl’s sleeping ro^m be a pleasant, attractive place. Many a horse has better quarters for rest tlian our servants have. Look well to the comfort of the servant«. If not appreciative at first they may learn to be so.—Detroit Tribune. now to Clioose Roast Beef. Hot Fomentations. We all know tho value of hot applications, but the mode of making and the applying differ in almost every house. An exchange gives the following: “Wring several thick nesses of flannel out of cold water, so it will not drip ; place lietweon two folds of paper, and lay it upon a hot register or top of a stove. Steam will gefierate and permeate the w hole cloth, and thus the required tem perature will be obtained. In this way there is no running long distances to a kitchen, no burning of the hands, no uncomfortable moisture in the bed and no ruffled tempers. A hot fomentation is beneficial in almost every acute disease accompanied by sever® pain, and is often of great service in chronic inflammations. It is more effectual and more accessible than any other therapeutic agent. By quick, prompt and thorough use severe attacks of illness are ofteu pre vented.”—Herald of Health. Let Us Not Fret. Sometimes my wife and I say on Sunday: “Now let us agree that we will not say a single cross word to any one this whole week. Let us be studiously polite to each other and to the children. Let us be very mindful of the feelings of every person with whom we may come into contact. Ix?t us not fret nor complain nor do anything that good, decent, well behaved Christians should not do.” And if when the next Sunday comes, we have, through the grace of God, kept this resolve, it goes without saying that we have been happy and the world has perha[>s been made a little better for our being in it.—Zenaa Dane in Good Housekeeping. Advice to Young Girls. A word of advico to Ahe young girls: Never contract actpiainLw.ce with strange young mon unless they come in company with those with whom you are well ac quainted and in whom you place confidence. Even then be on your guard, and see that the proprieties of life are not exceeded. For bunions get five cents* worth of salt peter and put it into a bottle with sufficient olivo oil to nearly dissolve it; shake up well and rub the inflamed joints night and morn ing, and more frequently if painful. When the rubber rollers of your wringer become sticky, as they very otter do after wringing flannel, rub with kerosene and wipe dry, and they will bo nice and smooth. For washing flannels use two spoonfuls of borax to three gallons of water; use no soap, and the flannels will be soft and clean and will not shrink. Never use a sharp knife in cleaning the naila Fill under the nails with soap, and then remove it by brushing with u nail brush. If pomible buy the meat of a butcher per sonally known to be an honest mam If the Crackers that are stale can l<e freshened by meat has a reasonable proportion of fat heating them in the oven, but do not let them upon the back and running in little lines ________ through the lean, and if the color is fresh stay long. an<l not very darkened, the meat is good; if Ceilings that have lawn smoked by a kero the butcher has kept it properly for a week sene lamp should 1« sashíd oü by so<la or ten days it may lie rapj<*ed to 1« reason water. _______ ably tender. Most butchers are willing to k<rp meat the right leugth of time for cu» totuers if they taka UM Us Ural weight, it MEXICAN LOVE MAKING. ICE THAT NEVER MELTS. Heat Equal to That of Our Latitude Without F. fleet in Alaska. GERMS IN THE ICE. THE SOCIAL LAW OF MEXICO WHICH It is remarkable indued that so much of the surface ground on the Yukon is frozen solid SEPARATES LOVERS. FREEZING WATER DOES NOT KILL ALL THE BACTERIA. 1 Case of “Doing tho Bear Act*’—One ol the Peculiar Social Customs of Out Sister Republic Which is Sometimes Wai ved. Dr. Pruden*« Analysis of the Ice Con sumed by the City of New York—Some Alarming Results — Suggestions for Health Boards. to a depth of several feet. It is all the more so when we come to realize the fact that dur ing the summer it gets as hot there as in tho south. During the heat of the past season tho miners found it a great convenience to go iu bathing in the streams at least twice a day, and to seek shady places in which to rock the gold out of the gravel. At the break ing up of winter the hours of sunshine are rapidly increasing, and continue so until midsummer, when the sun beams forth twenty-two hours out of the twenty-four, while on the high mountain ¡»oaks it is for a period of several days in June not entirely out of sight the twenty-four hours. But during all this heat and long days of continuous sunshine the sun’s rays do not penetrate the heavy mosses that cover nearly the entire surface of the country, and conse quently the frozen ground uuderneath lies in that state as if packed in an icehouse. After it once becomes frozen, as any dump ground will do in the winter time, it quickly becomes covered with this moss, w hich is of a remarkably rapid growth and attains a depth of some two feet or more. During the heat of summer this moss becomes dry to the depth of several inches, and tho miners think that by a continuous burning of it as fast as it dries they will soon have the gravel bars along the creeks, at least, cleared off, being of the impression that when the gravel de posits are exposed to the scorching rays of the sun and rains and atmosphere they will readily thaw out. When winter sets in the hours of sunshine gradually decrease until during the shortest days the sun shines but four hours out of the twenty-four. But at this period the aurora is most intense, and helps very materially iu driving d »rkness from that dreary land. The thermometer goes down to 70 degs. in winter, but the atmosphere is very dry, and consequently tho cold is not so perceptible as one would imagine.—Juneau (Alaska) Free Press. “ADONIS” DIXEY AND PATTI. Trouble Canned by the Actor’s Irishman and Songbird. Dog. Mr. Henry E. Dixey is the owner of a St. Bernard dog that weighs perhaps 800 pounds, and, after the fashion of the lamb that was platonically attached to Mary, this dog accompanies Mr. Dixey wherever Mr. Dixey goes. Twice across the ocean and all over this continent makes lh-ince tho most extensive traveler of tho canine kind. Mr. Dixey and his leviathan, dog were having a romp through th§ four or live j rooms occupied by the Clan Dixey at the Hotel Richelieu. First Mr. Dixey would shut tho dog up in tho folding lxxl and 1 hide himself in the wardrobe; then the 1 dog would break away from the folding ! bed and begin a hunt for Dixey, humor ( ously tipping over tables and chairs, as humorously breaking the crockery, and i still more humorously accompanying his labors with volcanic vocal eruptions ex pressive of fear, hope, anticipation, joy, etc. This play lasted for about an hour, Mrs. Dixey sitting in the front room mean while smiling contentedly and thinking to herself how much better it was for Henry to be passing a quiet afternoon at home than to I xj frittering away his time in the company of frivolous men about town. But Mme. Patti, whose apartments at tlw Richelieu are located directly under thv Dixey rooms, must have thought different, for while Mr. Dixey and Ills dog were in tho midst of their genial sport—or, we might say, while the festivities were at their height, there came a knock at the door and Mme. Patti’s maid Hortense, looking like one of the “Two Orphans,” presented this message: “Mme. Patti complemongs Mme. Dix-see, and will Mme. Dix-see have ze goodness to make her little boy stop to play wiz ze dog?” Mr. Dixey was highly indignant; he did not care so much for himself, but tho in sult to the dog was one that ho could scarcely brook. Next morning, as he lay in his bed, he became cognizant of an an gelic voice soaring in song—a voice so heavenly that it stayed not in the porches of his ear but penetrated ro the imiermost recesses of Mr. Dixey’s very soul and filled his whole being with an ecstacy of ineffable delight. “Ida, my dear,” called Mr. Dixey to his wife, who was sewing in an adjoining room. “What is it, Henry?” she answered. ’ “You’re in unusually good voice this morning, my dear,” said Mr. Dixey. “I don’t know when I’ve heard you sing so pleasantly.” “Why. Henry,” exclaimed Mrs. Dixey, “I’ve not been singing; that was Mme. Patti you heard—she is practicing Proch’» variations, aud isn’t it just too lovely 1” But there was a cold, meaningless glit ter in Mr. Dixey’s eye as he straightway arose from his bed, donned trousers, and put on one of his red Hibernian wigs. A few moments later, when, in answer to a brutal knock, Mme. Patti opened the door of her parlor, the incomparable songbird’s sloe like orbs beheld what seemed to be a gaunt, raw Irishman standing in the por tal. “Misther Dixey’s compliments to yees, mum,” said this hulking appari tion, “and wad yeez lnolnd stliopping tho tra-la-lu-loo, mum, till Mist her Dixey have a bit av olapeP”—Chicago Nows. An American, just arrived in the city of It is popularly supposed that water in Mexico, made, as ho thought, a sensational freezing becomes purified, and that the in discovery. He was going out of his hotel jurious elements that there may be in it are one afternoon, when the actions of a Mexican eliminated by the action of the frost. For a in an upper window across tho street attract long time it was considered that even though ed him. The Mexican was well dressed. Hit ice was frozen over water known to be filthy silk hat was glossy. His little high heeled boots were polished, and he carried an orna the ice was nevertheless pure, and the ap mental walking stick. He was keeping back parent sanction of science was given to this from the window with the evident design of theory. Recent investigations by learned concealing himself from general view, and microscopists have, however, thrown new at the same time? was trying to get somebody light upon this question, and while it is still in the upper jiart of the hotel to look his admitted that a large percentage of the in way. jurious elements of impure water become “A masher!” the American said to himself. lost when it is frozen it has also been shown “And a mighty bold one,” he added, after that enough impurities remain in the frozen watching the antics for ten minutes and fail water to make it possible to spread to fen ing to discover that any response was made alarming extent any disease tho infectious to them. elements of which we«e contained iu the Tho next day about the samo hour tho water in its liquid state. American repeated his discovery, Mr. Mexi- One of tho persons who Las made an ex can, in all his glory, was at the upper whi haustive study of this subject is Dr. T. Mitch dow, and ttle one sided pantomime for the ell Pradden, the director of tho laUwatory benefit of somebody in the hotel was still of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in going on. This hotel was tho one most this city. In the early part of the year he patronized by visitors from the states. The contributed a long article to Tho Medical American minister was living there. So Record, in which he showed the result of were the representatives of a big American very careful analyst's of different samples of syndicate engaged iu consummating a land ice taken from all the sources of supply deal. Altogether there were probably as around New York. He camo to the conclu many American as Mexican guests. What sion that typhoid fever and possibly cholera if this persistent gallant was trying to force might easily be spread among the consumers his unwelcome attentions upon an American of tho ice which is formed on the Hudson. lady? The thought was enough to start a “This river,’’ ho says, “is at the best rather throb of patriotic indignation. The Ameri shallow, and largo quantities of detritus an can went on about his business, but ho said nually brought down the stream cause con to himself, with a menacing look toward tho stant and considerable change in the bottom. supposed masher, “Somebody will be kicked The islands in the river from Coxsackie to down stairs before he is much older.” Albany are gradually formed from tho sedi That night Mr. Fresh, the American, got mentary deposit. At the upper part of this An English Quack Doctor's Trick. together two or throe of his fellow country A short time ago a quack exfierimented in section, Troy, a city of over 50,000 inhabit men at tho hotel, told what he had seen and Lambeth with considerable success upon tho ants, empties daily 8,000,000 gallons of sew invited suggestions as to tho projier remedy. pockets of an awe stricken crowd. After a age into tho river, which is already charged The Americans listened, looked at each other preliminary and a terse little lect with contributions from Cohoes and Lansing- and grinned. There was one in the ¡»arty a ure on the harangue viscera, which tlw charlatan burg, to say nothing of the impurities six footer from West Point. In his mind’s iu with colored crayons upon a I brought by the Mohawk from tho west. A eye the discoverer of the masher had already sketched on which tho human skeleton few nub's lielow Trey Albany, with over seen tho big lieutenant administering pun« blackboard was outlined in white paint, the fellow came 00,(XX) inhabitants, has also an efficient sew ishment to th » impudent Mexican. But the to business. “I am going to demonstrate to age system, which it pours directly into the widest grin of all was that which spread over you, ” said he, “by a startling experiment river.” the army man’s face. Taking tho results of all his analyses of ice upon one of you bystanders, that my “My friend,” said the American lieutenant, miraculous remedy can cure all diseases of from the various sources, he finds that the “you’ve run up against a caso of hacer el oso. tho lungs ami chest. Now, whoever’® got a average number of living bacteria contained In other words, you now know what ‘doiug bad cough or cold on tho chost let stand for in one cubic centimeter of the melted ice is tho beAr act’ means in Mexico.” ” There was somo little hesitation and 2,033, or, to put it in more common terms, a One of the curious social customs of tho a ward. go<xl dml of giggling. “Don’t be afraid, pint of melted ice would harbor about «500,000 sister republic bars the door when two young my friends, ” said the quack; “it’s all free, living bacteria of various kinds. He who, people become engaged to bo married. gratis, for nothing. Let any afflicted person impressed with tho importance of a pure Thenceforward the lover visits his beloved come forward and I’ll show him the nature drinking water, should perfectly filter half a only tn the presence of tho rest of her family of his disorder, and give him a packet of my glass of average winter Croton water and and at formal intervals. In lieu of “sitting lung healers for nothing.” At last a man then add to it an equal quantity of average up” with his girl he “docs the bear act.” with a violent cold and cough came forward. ico, would have tho satisfaction of replacing This consists in finding an advantageous Tho quack doctor pretended to sound hi» the bacteria removed with more than eight position which commands a view of the sen- with a stethoscope of almost pantomi times as many from more uncertain and orita’s window, and taking possession of it chest mic proportions and informed tho staring questionable sources. during leisure liours. Long loving looks are crowd that tho patient was in a galloping One reason, Dr. Pruden says, why it was exchanged, also pantomime, and occasion consumption. never before known by scientific men that ally when the street is deserted tho maiden “My friend,” said tho quack to tho unfortu ice might contain tho germs of disease was will como from behind tho lattice, and stand nate victim, “so terrible is this disease that that the only method of research was by Superstition of the Fortieth Year. ing on the balcony carry on a rather re you can actually see it.” Ho hamksl a glass chemical examination. These could not, ex When I was traveling in Germany I strained conversation with the wooer on the tube to tho patient and then poured a pint cept inferentially, determine the presi'nee of pavement below or perhaps across the street. of clear water into a largo tumbler. “Just I bacteria. It is no longer necessary to infer learned that there was a superstition in This is what is called “doing tho bear act.” you blow into that water, my friend,” he I their presence. These living germs may now regard to tho fortieth year of each century Tho young Mexican whose queer conduct cried. The man obeyed, and the water grew be actually counted, and their species and that was held by all Prussians and that opposite tho hotel had excited indignation discolored, turbid, and at last as white as if actions on tho animal body definitely deter has its foundation iu the history of the was not a masher, but an exemplary young it had been mixed with milk. The patient mined. The new method by which this in empire. Tho fortieth year of each century gentleman of most honorable intentions. He became as pale as ashes. “This unhappy formation is obtained is called tho biological is regarded by them as marking the begin ning of a new era, and in substantiation was the accepted lover of a high born señ man, my friends,” said the quack, as ho held analysis. orita, whose father had apartments in the the glass on high, “if he had’t had the good In tho experiments made by Dr. Pruden of their belief they go back to the fifteenth hotel, and bo was pursuing his courtship a< - fortune to come across mo to-night wouldn’t samples of ice which contained evident gross century. Frederick HohonzoUern was a simple burgravo of Nuremberg, who rose cording to tho customs of his country. have been long for this world. I should have impurities, such as grass and straw, were in to a great distinction and acquired large would havo been a sad mistake to have given him alxjut a fortnight; that’s all. fl eases rejected as not fairly representative. wealth. In tho early part of the fifteenth kicked him down stairs, and mighc have led Now a packet of my lung healers will euro It has been shown that bacteria may exist in century tho old electoral houso of Bran to international complications. him. What you see in tho glass of water oro auormous numbers without impairing the denburg died out and tho right to name a Sometimes engagements are protracted in his vitiated humors, the products of corrup clearness and transparency of the ice. successor fell to the emperor of Germany. this country by circumstances over which tion. My magic lung healers destroy these Dr. Pruden made biological analyses of 153 the lovers have no control. I/i these cases humors in tho body or out of the Ixxiy. Ob samplss taken from blocks of ice from the Frederick HohenzoHorn bought tho title, “the bear act” goes on season after season serve, my friends, watch me carefully, there j Hudson river at various points from West but the nobility opposed his purchase, and, until everybody for blocks around gets in the is no deception here.” Tho quack dropped a | I Park to the vicinity of Troy. These em after tho fashion of thoso days, some hot way of expecting to see tho faithful swain pinch from one of a packet of powders into a braced samples froTn all the prominent i<* fighting ensued which resulted in a decis put in his appearance at a certain hour of glass, and directed tho pationt to stir it with fields and many of the small ones. In all of ive victory for Frederick in tho year 1440. Is considered the beginning of the tho day and misses him almost as much as the tube. Tho water Ixx'amo immediately these lie foulid a large number of bacteria of This political and military power of tho houso the girl does if he stays away. Instances clear. Then he reaped his harvest. The different kinds. Snow ice, Dr. Pruden HohenzoHorn. In 1540 tho elector of where lovers have kept up this wooing at a water was lime water, and the carbonic acid found, contained many times the number of of Brandenburg embraced the Protestant distance for three and four years are told of. in tho man’s breath naturally threw down bactei ia found in transparent ice taken from religion. 1640 the great elector, as he The custom is not often waived. But bluff the carbonate of lime at once, and rendered the same blocks. Bubbly ice was also im was called, In ascended the throne, and by old Gen. Mier y Teran set society at defiance tho water turbid. And tho miraculous lung pregnated to a much larger extent than skillful diplomacy and power of arms not long ago. His adopted daughter had be healer was simply a little citric acid and transparent ice with these organisms, but he acquired tho kingdom of Pruasia, which come engaged to a worthy young gentleman. • sugar which instantly redissolved it.—Sutur- found that this rule as to bubldy ice and snow he added to Brandenburg, thus doubling Tho latter had hired the use of a room in a <lay Review. Ice holds good only when the water from and trebling the strength of his prin house across the street and luul begun to carry which the ice is formed contains a consider cipality. In 1740 Frederick the Great ou the usual pantomime. able number of lwwteria. A Lowly Refreshment Stand. ascended the throne, and in 18-10 Freder “Tell him to quit that,” said Gen. Teran to Hudson river ice contained a much larger ick William IV ascended the throne, and At the foot of the Fifty-ninth street elo the ladies of his family, “and to come here vated station, between a stout telegraph pole number of bacterial impurities than the ice was succeeded by his br<Uher, the present and see tho girl whenever and as much as he and one of the iron pillars, there sits a buxom taken from the other watera near New York, emperor. During Frederick William likes. They aro going to be married in a colored woman attired in the proverbial blue and, while some of these luicteria may be IV’s reign began tho movement which couple of months and there needn’t be any calico dress, an immaculate white apron, and considered harmless, others, he said, were un culminated in tho Insurrection of 18-18, nonsense about it.” a fantastical headdress of bandanna handker doubtedly injurious. The fact that two com and guve Prussia its constitutional govern The young man came. Everylxxly talked, chief. An ironing board does duty in front mon and very important bacterial forms of ment,—Globe Democrat. but the comments didn’t bother the old gen of her as a counter. Upon this is placed at disease, typhoid fever and diseases associated eral half as much as the buzzing of so many one end a huge coffee urn with an oil stove with blood jxnsoning, are almost constantly In nil scenes requiring a blush, modern flies would during his siesta. underneath. Next to this is an immense present in large towns like Troy and Albany, actresses put the emotion on with a brush An American railroad engineer on th® waiter of deviled crabs. The woman usually and frequently in villages along tho upper before the curtain rise*, and produce it nt Mexican National, who married a Mexican takes up her stand about 11 o’clock at night, Hudson, confirms the statement made by him the projier moment by rubbing oil the lady, told how ho put his foot down against and there she remains until it is nearly morn that Hudson river water is impure for drink complexion powder.—Burlington Free the idea that an engaged couple must lx) al ing. During the few minute intervals on ing pui’iMJses. He says he does not know Press. lowed no privacy. After it had been ar the elevated trains she indulges in cat naps. whether the bacteria of typhoid fever may ranged that there was to lx? a wedding ho As each train deixisits its load of passengers retain life indefinitely or not in ice, as tho went to see his betrothed. The members of she suddenly enthuses with the thought of a longest period in which they have l>een kept her family, one and all, came into the room possible customer. The voice that has been frozen to his knowledge is 103 days. immediately and endeavored to make things ’ trained in the old plantation school of music He sugg»?sts that the state board of health, agreeable for him. They sat him out and he raises its notes and utters the refrain of *Hot or somo other authorized body, should have 8IMM0NS went away disappointed. Tho second visit | coffee and debbled crabs.” If no one sto)#« to full control over tho ice harvesting fields, was no different. Mother, sisters, brother» ' purchase, and the rapidly dispersing crowd and by a system of inspection not less strict and even the father remained iu the room. < warns her to infuse more life into her cry, than that which should exist in the care of all the time. she sings in a higher key, “Hero’s nice hot the ordinary water supply, determine which, “The third time I called," said the engi corphy and debbel crabs. Oh,.won’t you buy if any, of the sources of ice supply are so For all DiMAM. of the neer, “I took the old gentleman one side and d»*e debliel crabs f* situated ns to imperil the health of the con Llvtr, Kidneys, Stomach and Splttn. reasoned with him. lie said it was the cus The belated ¡»asHenger who does try a cup sumers of tho ice. In tho case of tho Hudson This purely vegetable pre tom of the country not to leave engaged peo of her coffee generally adds a nickel to her river it would be necessary to establish by paration. now so celebrated as a ple by themselves. I told him it wasn’t the- price, and, if his digestion be good, a deviled most thorough scientific* examination tho Family Medicine, originated in custom of my country, and I didn’t like it. crab prepared in the old southern style of distances from all existing sources of sewage the South in 182N. It acts gently on the Bowels and If I was to lx? trusted with the girl after i cooking makes him wonder that such things pollution, nt which it might be safely as Kidneys and corrects the marriage I could be trusted with her before. can be found at that time of night. The wo sumed that tho water had freed itself from action of the Liver, and is, there If I couldn’t visit tho bouse and see her by man who keeps the stand is said to make I m > l>acteria and other impurities sufficiently to fore, the '»eat preparatory medicine, whatever the sick« hei*self I would stay away for good. That tween <2 and |3 per night.—New York Even form safe ice. It might in this way l>e jx»- ne-.s may prov« to be. In all brought tho old gentleman to terms. Ho« ing Hun. sible to remove any chance of danger by _________________ common diseases it will, wn- consulted the rest of the family and then an » permitting the questionable or bad ice to be aaalated by any «uher medi cine, effect • speedy cure. nounced the decision—that I was to be per ! Gems in Brown Paper. sold only for non-drinking purpos«*», if such The Regulator is safe to administer In say mitted to do my courting the American way. I heard a curious story about Mrs. Paran a classification is practicable, and thus not condition of ths system, and under no circum After that when I went to call the other Stevens, the other day, which wax extremely essentially interfere with the interests of the stances can N da harm. It will invigorate memlx?rs of the family would greet me all characteristic. A friend calling was shown ice comiMiiiics. like a glass of wine, but is no intoxicating bever age to lead to intemperance; will promote <14- round and then get up ami file out of th©’ up into her boudoir and took the first chair. Dr. Walter De F. Day, the sanitary super gestlon. dissipate headache, and geti«r> room, formally and solemnly, as if they were« They conversed for a while, or rather he intendent of this city, said that tho l>oard of ally tone up the system. The dose is small, doing something very serioua When I got> listened with interest to her caustic comments health does not have any supervision over not unpleasant, and its virtues undoubted. ready to leave, the whole family, under the on men and things, until she said suddtenljr: the ice brought into the city at present. It No loss of time, no Inter ruption or stoppage of lead «»f the old gentleman, would march in “Ob, you're sitting on my diamonds; get has not y< t born demonstrated that any dan business while taking ths and bid me good night The programme was up this minute.” ger exists, or that any infection has Ix’en Regulator. a little emliarrasHing at first. It was carried On examination ho found that a little caused in this way, and the question has Children complaining of out in mich a way as to make me feel that a. crumpled brown paper parcel on the seat of therefore not linen seriously considored. The Colle, Headache, or Midi great deal was being conceded to me.” Stomach, a tea spoonful oe the chair, which he had not noticed when he theoretical |xwwiLility of infection from thin more will give relief. The engineer, who is an intelligent man,, sat down, let slip when he picked It up a |ier- sounhe admitted. Professor (’handler, of If taken ossaslonally by pa- went on to talk alxxit his relations with hi» fuct river of the most splendid gems. | Oolurnbin college, who is one of the most eni- * tients exposed to MALARIA, wife’s family after marriage. He said they “I keep them in brown paper," she ex i inent microscopists in tho city, lias also made will expel the poisoaand protect always made him feel at home when he vis claimed, “to deceive the burg kirn. They’d 1 some examination into the existent e of dis* them from attack. ited there, and he gave it as his conclusion, never think of looking in a brown paper Ixig ! eostNl germs in ico, and has published I pam A PHTBICfAVS •PINIBN. from personal rxjx»ricnc« and general ob lying alxxit anywhere on a shelf or in a phlet on tho subject, which ¡mints out ths 1 have been practicing medicine for twenty years, •nd have never been able to put up a vegetable servation, that the Mexican mother-in law is drawer for somo 175,600 worth of jewels. possibility of infection through the use of ice. compound that would, like Simmons Liver Regu a model. When the señorita becomes the There have been two attempts to steal them —Now York Hun. lator, promptly and effectively move the Liver to señora she is expt*cted to cleave to her hus within a year, and I hit on this as a good way a< tion. and at the saaee time aid (lastoad of weak- ening) the digestive and assimilative powevt of the band, ami she gets no encouragement or sym to keep them.’’—Brooklyn Citizen. Home folks has er tietter way o’ showtn system. L. M Harrow, M D .Waatungtaa, Ark. pathy from the mother fur her marital griev dat <la 'presherates yer kiii’ness den udden ances. —Globe-DenrocraL SEB THAT TffflFeBT THB hENTlNB. ! Darwin wiw a dunce at school and a rake docs, lie long tail houn’ ken '¡mar ter Iw e> Mtsraae» av at college, so says bis life, recently pub heap gladd- r den de 'tump tail dog, Wen <1> Renatorw Edmunds, Hoar, Sherman and- lished. truf U dot be m nt nut be ha'f eo glad.—Ac J. H. Z»iHn • Ce.. FhiMtlphla, Pa. ftueüi read French Uka naUva Parisiana Kuuaw TraveMr. LIVER REGULATOR I riucs, n.w,