BITTEN BY A SCORPION.
A Doctor's 1 orriblo Experience in
the Wilds of Mexico,
Dr. George Mullet, of Brooklyn City,
wlio is on his way to the mining camps
of the interior of Mexico, writes from
Las Yedras the following story of his
journey and his experience with a scor
pion :
"I started across country on mule
back with a dangerous-looking guide,
whom I feared at any moment might
out my thr. at while a'deep for the little
money I had; fortunately, he did noth
ing of the kind and turned out to be a
very goad man. The third night out I
had an experience that I would not re
peat for all the wealth of Mexico. It
was just dark, about 7.30, when I discov
ered a light by the side of a mountain
and thought it would be a good time tc
camp, as we had been in the saddle al
most constantly since 3 o'clock that
morning. We made for it and found n
little slmiity inhabited by two horrible
looking specimens of humanity in the
most abbrevia'ed of costumes.
"The guide told them we wanted tc
stop all night, and the female prepared
a c rncake for me. As they of course
Lid no chairs, 1 sat ou a low stool in
front of the tire to eat it. I was scarce
ly seated before I felt something on my
neck, and putting my hand up, felt an
excee iingly severe sting on my left in
dex finger. It almost made me howl. I
immediately tied my handkerchief about
it ami stopped the circulation and thou
sucked it, and the old woman parted
with a chow of tobacco for it. In about
ten minutes the stinging ceased and ]
thought it was all over, when intense
vertigo came on with much vomiting
and retching, then a sense of great
weakness ami collapse, accompanied by
a profuse cold perspiration, then a sharp
tingling began in the bitten finger, ex
tending over the hand and up the arm,
then the other arm and hand, then both
feet they tingled and stung like au elec
trical current, and yet they were com
pletely dead to all external impressions,
and I could scarcely move them; then
my face began to feel the same way. I
called for water and was terrified to find
that I had lost all sense of taste and my
jaw wa3 getting still' and I could scarce
ly articulate at all.
"Just imagine my feelings— 110 one
near but those ulmo t savages, ami they
understanding not a word 1 said, and
the horrible sense impending death
due to the depression caused by the
poison. I tried to ask if there was a
doctor anywhe o near, but could not
even speak English now, and of course
they did not understand me. It was
pimply horrible, and I thought surely I
was dying, for the dead feeling seemed
to be extending, and I could scarcely
move a muscle. With a great effort I
made signs for a bottle of clnret that I
happened to have in my bag, to use in
case of bad water. Most of this I drank,
and it braced mo up some so that I
made them understand that I wanted
hot water, and it seemed almost a year
before they got any. When it came,
although they could not bear their
hands in it, I put both hands and feet
into it without feeling it. Then I made
them rub hard, And this they did all
night, ?hd by morning I slept for about
two hours, being perfe ;tly exhausted.
On awaking I felt much better; my
limbs tingled just as though they were
asleep, but I could use them; by mov
ing about the sonsution began to return.
"As soon as I could got up I got into
tl:.s saddle again, hoping to reach some
civilization in enso I should get worse.
The journey was just half over, so I
pushed on for Yedras and soon found
that the exercise was of benefit; the tin
gling ceased, and by that night I could
taste the food. I ate the next morning
and had no of the previous night's
experience, except a loss of sensibility
in my left arm and hand and a feeling
of great weakness. Now, five days after,
I am entirely well, oxeept that I have no
feeling at all iu my left index finger and
half of back of forearm up to the elbow.
I was told here that it was a scorpion
that bit me ami that I was lucky in get
ting out of it so easily. I am all right
now and apprehend no further trouble."
The Dairying Business.
Chatting recently with ex-Senator
Warner Miller, lie told mo that the
dairying business was the largest single
industry in the United States, 'lho
facts ore simply stupendous, when they
tiro considered, as I found by question
ing ?, leading merchant in the produeo
line to day. He told me that there are
over#2,ooo,ooo,oooinvested in dairying,
nil amount almost double the money
iuvosted in banking and commercial
industries. It is estimated that it re
unites 15,000,000 cows to supply the
demand for milk and its products in the
United States. To feed those cows
00,000,000 acres of land are under cul
tivation. The agriculture and dairy
machinery and implements in use are
worth over $200,000,000. The men em
ployed in the business number 750,000
una the horses over 1,000,000. The
cows uml horses eousumo annually 30,-
0(10,01X1 tons of hay, nearly 00,000,000
bushels eornmeal, about the same
jimount of oatmeal, 275,001,000 bushels
ot oat), 2,000,000 bushels of bran, and
30,fk.0,000 bushels of corn, to say noth
ing of the brewery grain, sprouts and
other questionable feed of various kinds
that are used to a great extent. It costs
$450,(100,000 to feed these cows and
horses. The average price paid to the
labor necessary in the dairy business is
probably S2O a month, amounting to
$1 H0,000,00 ) a year. The average cow
yields about 450 gallons of milk a year,
which gives a total product of G,750,-
000,000 gallons. Twelve cents a gallon
is a fair price to estimate the value of
this milk at a tolal return to the dairy
funnel's of $810,000,000, if they sold all
their milk as milk. But 50 per cent, of
the milk is made into cheese and butter.
It takes 27 pounds of milk to make 1
pound of butter, and about 10 pounds
to make lof cheese. There is the samo
amount of nutrition in 8 1-2 pounds of
milk lliat there is in 1 pound of beef.
A fat steer furnishes 50 per cent, of
boneless beef, but it would require
about 24,000,000 steers, weighing 1,500
pounds each, to produce the same
amount of nutrition as the annual milk
product does.—[New York Graphic.
FornTEP.N years ago Joseph Buteliel
saw a little fellow knocked down by the
liorsc drawing a street oar oil which ho
was riding in Portland, Oregon. The
driver's head was turned, and Butcliel,
grabbing the re.'ns with one hand,
wheeled the horse away from the child,
and with the other grasped him just as
ll, ( i wheel was about to urush him. The
lather, W. C. Johnson, was profuso in
thanks, and then the afl'air was appa
rently forgotten. The child grew, and
on his eighteenth birthday Mr. Butchel
was invited to Mr. Johnson's office,
where he foaml the family assembled.
The boy made a nont speech, and hand
ed his surprised rescuer a gold-headed
cane, inscribed, "From W. C'arey John
soil, Juno '27, 188!', in memory of a
brave deed, 1875. I owe you my boy's
life." The acknowledgment was a lit
tle slow in coming, but it got there just
the awe,
Deadly Arrow Poison.
Most of the arrow poisons of Africa
hitherto known have been of vegetable
origin, indeed, all the famous poisons
are of this nature. Mr. H. M. Stanley
lias added one poison to the list which
does not appear to he a product of the
vegetable kingdom. In the Lower Con
go district Mr. Stanley's force was as
sailed by a tribe of dwarfs, who used
poisoned arrows. Five members of tiie
expedition were hit by these arrows,
four (black men) dying very shortly
after, their sufferings having been in
tense. The fifth man, Lieutenant Stairs,
had a narrow escape. The poison of
the arrow which hit him had been dry,
and so ho did not experience the full
toxicity of tho barb. It was afterward
found that the poison is manufactured
from he dried bodies of red ants, or
pismires, ground into powder, cooked
in palm oil and smeared over tho
wooden points of tho arrows. What is
the nature of tho poison which causes
death ?
Tho Lancet says it is formic acid,
which exists in the free state in red
ants, and is in the pure state so cor
rosive, that it produces blistors on tho
skin. Hence there is little ground, says
our contemporary, for doubting that it
was the "deadly irritant by which so
many men had been lost with such ter
rible suffering." Tho multitude of
curious insects encountered, which ren
dered their lives "as miserable as they
could well be," bears out Mr. Stanley's
idea, that many similar poisons could
bo prepared from insects. It certainly
is strango that, with tiie exception of
cantharides, and perhaps of blatta ori
entalis, the insect world is so little used
for active therapeutics. Not forgetting
the fact that homoeopaths have long had
that respect for tho insoct kingdom
which tlio Lancet desires, we may men
tion that ptomaines as a source of
toxicity are more likely than formic
acid to have produced the paralytic
symptoms which were oxhihitod by the
dying men.—(New England Druggist.
The Corean Embassy Enjoys Itself.
The Coreans certainly appear to en
joy life in Washington to the full, and
they seom determined to " catch on"
witli all the latest fads and amusements
of the day. At a handsome billiard
table in tlicir commodious mansion in
lowa Circle they hugely enjoy their
initiation into the recondite mysteries
of tho "carom," while on hot summer
evenings recently they were seen strol
ling in tho garden, nay, ovou sitting on
the front door steps in approved Wash
ington stylo, and taking a kindly inter
est in tho various babies of tho neigh
borhood whoso mammas ami nurses
passed with them along the sidewalk.
The Coreans, moreovor, appear to have
become passionately fond of the intri
cate and mysterious game of croquet,
for thoy havo hud an adjoining vacant
lot fenced in, which makes an excellent
crcouet ground. Here the gentlemen
of tlio legation, with their wives, used
to play during the early summer with
great onjoymeut; and even upon occa
sion, would greet a lucky hit with hearty
laughter and loud cries of "Lothor
g-o!" "G-o-o-d 8-h-o-t!" "L-eth-e-r
w e-n-t!"and like expressions so dear
to tho American heart, while their pecu
liar patriotic methods of resting upon
their mallets—somewhat after the soden
tary*nannor of tho " tailors of Tooley
street"—merely added a rare Eastern
flavor to tho kindly scene. Possibly it
is this genial bonhomie which has led
the members of tho Chinese Embassy
to abate somewhat of tho hauteur born
of claims to suzerainty, and to call often
on tho legation in lowa Circle. In any
case our Corean visitors have evidently
somo counterpart in their "Celestial"
language for the old proverb : " When
you are iu Rome do as tho Romans do."
—| New York Tribune.
Two of "Old Hickory's" Slaves.
Two of General Jackson's old slaves
are still living at tho Hermitage. One
is "old Alfred," who has convinced
himself, and would like to convince all
who visit the placo, that he was tho
body servant of his master. The truth
of history coiiqiels tho statement that
this is a figment of his imagination.
Hannah's claims aro, however, beyond
all doubt or controversy. Thoy rest on
the solid foundation of fact. She was a
trusted, confidential household servant
long before General Jackson became
President, and it was in her arms that
Mrs. Jackson died in 1828. Her ago is
at least ninety-five. When James Par
ton visited the Hermitage, about 1800,
ho was struck by tho great number of
vigorous old people whom ho met, and
this sentence occurs in his '• Life of
Jackson" : "Old Hannah, for example,
whose care of tlio children at tho Her
mitage Jackson extols, is now sixty
seven years of age, and she appears to
be still in tho very prime of her vigor.
She strode about the Hermitage with us
ou a chilly, wet day in February, bare
headed, with a spring in her stop that
belongs to thirty five. When informed
of her age I stared incredulous." Nine
and-tweuty anniversaries of that chilly,
wet morning in February huve come
and gone and Hannah, says Mrs. Dorris,
"is so well preserved to day as to load
to doubts as to her age, and is as bright,
animated and spry as a woman of forty,
and much inoro so than many of that
age."
" I'se a sassy nigger, I is, and I be
longed to a sassy white man," is the
way she puts it. To observe her drop
one of her old fashioned curtsies is
worth going miles to see.
" How old are you, Aunt Hannah ?"
" I'se ninety-five yoars old, an' ef you
don't believe it, jes you go up here and
look at Jeemes K. Polk's tomb, an' I'se
jes one year older deu he is." —[New
York World.
A Strange Place for a Bomb.
The death of Signer Bottesini, the
great double-bass plaver, gives rise to
many interesting reminiscences. In one
curious incident of his life. Count Bsc.
ciocchi, Master of Ceremonies to Napo
leon 111. was concerned. Bottesini had
been commanded to play at tlio Tuilor
ies, and iu the antechamber he was ac
costed by the Count with tho astonish
ing inquiry whether his double bass was
"empty or full." It was not until the
Court functionary had made a minute
inspection of tho instrument that the
explanation was afforded. The Orsini
attempt to blow up the Emperor with a
bomb, it seems, had scared the otfieials,
tho 'gh how au explosive could have
been smuggled into a contra basso is
uot quite clear.—[New York Tribuno.
Why He Retired Prematurely.
It was the absent-minded man who
said: "I went home and lighted my
candle, but beforo going to bed I
thought I would smoke a cigar. I look
ed everywhere for a match, but as I
could not find one I blew out my candle
and went to bed," Why didn't youtako
a light from tliooandle /" was the query.
"I never thought of it," was the reply.
—[Boston Journal,
A RULING PASSION.
Strange Bet Made by Two Dying
Consumptive Gamblers.
That the rilling passion asserts itself
even in the very face of the grim de
stroyer is an axiom old as the hilLs.
Its truth was evidenced by an incident
which recently occurred at the San
Francisco City and County Hospital,
and which was related to a Chronicle
reporter.
Some months ago two consumptives
in the last stages of the disease lay dying
on cots in close proximity to each other.
Both victims were sports, who by dissi
pation had contracted phthisis in its
most aggravated form. One was known
as Bill Cunningham, a young gambler
who had enjoyed the reputation among
his class of being a reckless bottcr on
the turn of a card. The other was an
English sailor named Staples, whose
sole passion was to wager whatever lie
possessed in support of any opinion
which he might express. The nature
of the men, in this particular at least,
was identical, and both recognized each
other in a sense as brothers in misfor
tune. As they lay on their cots, hag
gard and hollow-eyed and gasping for
hrcuth, they daily wasted the remnant,
of their vital forces in bantering one
another about their appearance.
"I say, Staples," said Cunningham
one morning in a voice scarcely above a
hoarse whisper, "you're looking blue.
Better brace up, old man."
Staples, who really reemed to bo a
dead man as lie lay almost breathless
witli his glazed eyes half onen and
mouth widely distended, pullca himself
together with an indignant jerk and
made a vain attempt to raise himself
upon his arm,
"Billy:" said he, "you're wrong. To
prove it I'll bet you a dollar, the size of
my pot, that I'll outlive ye."
"I'll sec that bet," replied Billy with
a faint smile.
An attendant was chosen as stake
holder and the money (all they possess
ed) was p'aced in his hands. Then bo
gun the struggle of these men to see who
could retain the spark of life longest.
At a distance of five feet the two dying
men glanced at one uuothor, each eager
to show the other that his stock of vital
ity was the greater. Cunningham l>at
tied bravely, but he \\ns the first to show
signs of weakening. He finally resum
ed his old position, but it could bo seen
that bis respiratory aotion was failing.
Suddenly l|e gave one great gasp, and
with that sigh the spark of his life, pre
maturely cut of)', was extinguished.
"I've won the bet," said Staples, as
he took the stake money with a gratified
smile.
Cunningham's body was at once re
moved to the hospital morgue. The at
tendant had followed tho cortege to the
door and returned immediately to Stapl
es' cot. Scarcely live minutes had passed
since Cunningham had expired, but
when tho attendant glanced at Staples
he saw that lie, too, was dead. The last
pot which ho had raked in was clasped
in his right hand. T1 o grip was viso
liko and an instrument was employed to
remove tho silver from the stiffened,
unwilling fingers of the corpse.
Imitation Antique Furniture.
This is the way in which tho manu
factureis of imitation antique furniture
produce tho goods they sell. If a desk
is the • iclo to be disposed of they
have out: final touch to add that exeitos
unqualified admiration for its ingenui
ty. To cover up an artificial crack in
one of tho drawers they paste over it a
portion of a real letter,properly smoked,
ro i Uohert Morris or some other revo
lt t onary person whoso epistolary mis-
K.V A come cheap at fifty cents apiece or
so, in the autographic market at this
day. One letter U3ed in this manner
will servo for several escritoires, and
thus tho purposes both of economy and
chronological vosoinh'anco are satisfac
torily served. Candlesticks and and
irons in biass are done ad infinitum in
the same fashion as tho knobs above
spoken of. The audi ions, however, arc
first done intowcod for models, and then
cast from the latter, with applications
of pumice and gunpowder to follow. A
special branch of the work has to do
with clocks of the ancient upright pat
tern, which aro copied in every detail
from tho really old ones. Even the
metal faces, with their curious numer
als, are imitated, and the works of
modorn pattern a:o permitted to
lio in a dusty oornor and oxi
dize comfortably while tho framework is
in process of construction. There is
nothing, the makors say, in tho lino of
back-number furniture that cannot bo
reproduced at a few days' notice from
brand new materials, and yet so like tho
old that no ordinary person could pos
sibly tell the difference.—[Washington
Star.
The Peanut Crop.
According to a correspondent of tho
New York Post, 3,200,000 bushels of
peanuts are consumed in this country
every year. They eomo chiefly from
Virginia and North Carolina, although
Tennessee also produces a small crop.
"Peanuts are planted at corn-planting
time. Each kernel produces a running
vine, like crab grass, and each root
produces about twenty pods. When
ripe, the plow is run through the loamy
soil, on a dry day, just before frost.
Tho nuts aro dried and shocked up like
corn to keep dry before housing.
When marketed they go to a cleaner,
whore thoy are put through steam
power machines and polished, alter
which thoy are graded according to sizo
and variety. This year there is but
two thirds of a crop, and thoy aro high
er in price than since 1881. The crop
begins to come into tho market about
tho first of September. The Virginia
nut is the largest and finest. The Wil
mington is a smaller sort, and the Span
ish nut, a still smaller variety, is one
whoi-e kernels peel perfectly clean, thus
making it valuable for confectionery."
The Hottest Weather Known.
"What is the hottest weather ever
known in the United States?" The
question is answered in the bulletin of
the Kentucky Statistical Weather Sor
vice. The h ghost temperature record
ed by tho United States Signal Service
was at Plioouix and Fort McDowell,
Ariz., in June, 1883. Tho thermometer
marked 119 degrees. However, unoffi
cial observers report temperature as
high as 128 degrees ami 122 degrees at
Mammoth Tank and Humboldt, Cal.
Tho coldest weather rocorded by tho
service was CD degrees below zero at
Poplar River, Mon. But this is a warm
place compared with Wend oj in.sk, Si
beria, the coldest inhabited ip it on tho
face of the globe. The thermometer
there lias been us low as 1)0 degroes bo
low zero. In vielv of these figures let
jas not complain of a paltry 90 degrees
ibove zero,—[Louisville Post,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
AN association composed of ex Con- !
federate soldiers is attempting to raise j
a fnnd to erect a monument over the
graves of 7,000 soldiers of the Confeder !
ate Army, who died while prisoners of '
war at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, j
"and who now lie in unmarked and ne
glected graves at Oak wood Cemetery,
near that city."
A BODY of five female sanitary police '
is now established in Chicago, under
the appointment of the Commissioner
of Health, according to an ordinance of
the City Council. The duty of the new
female sanitary police is to inspect fac
tories and tenements for the protection
of the health of working women. There 1
will probably be an effort to secure a I '
body of the same kind in New York. | 1
I
THE immigration from Italy to New 1
York continues to be heavy, and almost 1
every day of the week swarms of the 1
sturdy children of the various Ita'iau {
provinces may bo seen at Castle Garden. |
All Americans who visit Castle Garden
are surprised by the muscularity, solidi- j 1
ty, and strength of many of tlie olive 1
complexioned Italian women who are to '
be seen there. '
I
THE Sunday closing movement is 1 <
spreading from trade to tia le in Phila- ' i
delphia. From the barbers and the i
laundry men it has now extended to the
bakers, most of whom now do consider
able work upon Sunday. The bakers i
have determined to appeal to the Legis
lature of Pennsylvania to pass a law
prohibiting the opening of bakeries on
Sunday.
Tan Campbell air-ship, an ingenious !
combination of gas bags and rotary lans, :
lias gone the way of ail flying-machines, j
says Dr. Oswald in the Cincinnati Fn- '
quirer. The art of flying in a calm will
no doubt continue to improve with the
evolution of Y'ankee inventiveness, but !'
the ideal of aerial navigation will always
encounter the horns of an inevitable
dilemma: Wind-resisting strength at
the mercy of gravitation; or buoyancy
at the mercy of the winds.
ELECTIONS are to be held this year in j
fifteen States. The four new ones, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and
Washington are to choose their Con
gressmen, as well as State officers and !
legislators. Kentucky votes for a State
Treasurer. Ohio, Virginia, New Jersey, j
Massachusetts, lowa, and Mississippi j
will elect Governors. In New York, i
the Secretary of State is the highest of- j
fleer ohoson ;in Pennsylvania, the State •
Treasurer; in Nebraska, a judge of the j I
Supreme Court, and in Maryland, the j
Comptroller.
THE generally accepted theory that a 1
warm suminor follows a cold winter, and 1
vice-versa,lias been examined by London 1
Science with the aid of temperature f
records made in the same place, under j
the same conditions, twice a day for '
forty years. Science cannot find any *
rule on the subject and conies to the j
conclusion that no estimate can be '
formed in regard to the character of a
coming season merely by knowing the
character of the past season of any
greater value than could bo gained by
more guessing. ,
THE fearful menace to life by elec
tricity in new applictions to commercial
needs is strikingly illustrated by the re
port of the deaths from accidental causes
in New York City in 1888. Though
electrical appliances arc used for almost
every purpose and electrical wires inter
lace the city, yet of 1,258 deaths only
five were caused by electrical wires.
This, declares the Commercial Ad- j
vertiser, conclusively shows that the
facts and figures are against the con
stant howl about the dangers from elec
tricity.
TIIE London Pall Mall Gazette says
the heads of the Danish police have in
troduced away of suppressing intern- ;
perance which is both simple and origi- i
nal. If a man is found drunk in tho ■
streets or at public places a cab is
hired and he is taken home. If he is |
too intoxicated to be communicated with
he is taken to a police station and kept
till he is able to give his address, when |
ho is taken home by cab, and the pub
lican who has given the last glass of
drink to the victim is made responsible
for tho cab fares, which sometimes j
amount to a considerable sum.
THE future of Australia for tho next
thirty years will rest with the engineers. :
Tho recent discoveries of underground '
rivers in tho most arid portions of the
continent have given those words a great
er significance. The dilliculty of Aus
tralia has always been tho fear that tho
land will not support a large population.
These discoveries of water dispel that
fear. It now appears that tho volumes \
of rain which fall about once in five 1
years over tho greater part of the Au- j
stralian continent, covering with floods
the plains which for four years previous-1
ly have not known more mo'sture than
might be given in England by a good |
fall of dew, find their way through the
porous soil into channels ami chambers
beneath tho surface, where, at a depth
of one or two thousand fee., they pro
vide an inexhaustible store of the most
pre iious commodity known to the Au
stralian splatter.
THE investment of foreign capital in
American industries is increasing at a
rapid rate. Aside from the 850,000,00.)
or more which English capitalists are
reported as having expended in the
purchase of breweries in tho leading
cities, many millions of English capital
have been used to establish and develop
entirely new enterprises—for instance,
to open mines, build railroads, con
struct iron furnaces and steel works, lay
out cattle ranches, develop timber re
sources and so on adJinitum . Home of
these investments have been very heavy;
in tho vicinity of ( umberland Gap, on
the line between southeastern Kentucky
and east Tennessee, $1,000,000 has al
ready lie 311 spent by the American As
sociation, limited, of London, in devel
oping an iron, steel and railroad centre,
and $5,000,000 additional has been sub
scribed for the further prosecution of
the work. Even on the Pacific coast
large manufacturing enterprises are bo
ing put under way bv foreign capital.
NATURAL gas lias been discovered in
Sonoma County, Cal., and in view of
this cheap fuel the people of San Fran
cisco see "in their mind's eye" that
city developing into a great manufactur
ing centre. Tho San Francisco Chron
icle says that if there is abundance of
the gas the fact "moans more to San
Francihco than half a dozen mw trans
continental railroads."
Cable curs are rim at tho rule o. fourteen
miles un buur in parts ol Chicago
Skin Grafting.
When large areas of the skin are de
| stroyed, as happens in the case of severe
burns or extensive injuries, it is soiue
j times months before the surface is again
1 covered with epidermis, ltepair may
have gone on till the surface is on a
! level with the surrounding parts, and
all that remains is for the skin to creep
in from the edges ; but this process,
| especially in persons weakened by long
confinement in bed, is very slow, and
| the constant discharge of matter from
| the open surface causes irritation, as
' well as weakness.
It has been known for many years
that a flap of skin might be lifted from
: its p'ace and made to adhere in an ad
| joining spot, provided its connection
j with the surrounding skin were not cut
j off. But now we can go farther than
i tliis. In 1869 a French physician dis
covered that small bits of sound skin
I might be snipped off and applied to the
surface of the sore, and that under cer- l
tain conditions they would adhere anil
form new centres from which the pro
cess of healing might go on.
I In order to have the grafts "take"
i well, the surface of the ulcer must be in
| a suitable condition. If it is rough, or j
| discharges too freely, or proje.-ts too far i
! above the surrounding level, there is j
j danger that the small bits of skin will !
i fall off.
The process is as follows: The surface j
; of the ulcer, as well as that of the sound j
skin from which the grafts are to bo :
taken, having been carefully o loan set] j
with carbolic acid, or other solution j
that serves the same purpose, the hit of j
suin is picked up in a small pair of I
forceps or on the point of a noodle, and
is snipped off with a pair of sharp scissors !
or a small knife. Only the superficial
j layer of skin is taken, and if this is j
i properly done there is no bice ling.
I 'lho bit of skin, which is generally ;
not larger than the head of a pin, is |
j then placed firmly upon the nicer, with !
the cut side down, and preferably about j
a quarter of an inch from the free bor- '
tier. A line of grafts may be placed at I
, equal distances completely across the \
denuded surface, and thus a bridge of j
skin is soon formed, for the grafts spread j
< and unite, and thus convert the original
ulcer into two smaller ones. By a aim
| ilar process these two parts may bo
again divided, and the process coutiu
uod till the whole surface is covorod.
In a few instances larger portions of
skin have been made to grow to the
j ulcerated surface, but in general the
I smaller bits cause repair t<> go on as
lapidly, and are more easily applied
■ and eared for.—| Youth's Com pan ion.
Jefferson's Tree.
j Did you oversee Jefferson's tree in
any of your strolls down the avenue near
the Capitol < asks the Washington Crit ;
ie. Of course overyone knows the trudi- j
tion of how the third President rode to '
| his in nimu ration on horseback, and,
: reaching Tiber Crock, ho found it too '
muddy to ford, for the bridge had for
Bomo reason been removed or swept j
away. So he tied his horse to a tiee on
tlio bank and walked across the little '
footway that had boon temporarily erect
| od. Few have seon this tree, though
nearly everyone in the city has passed |
beneath its spreading boughs.
, It stands close to the fence just inside 1
of the Botanical Gardens, and its branch- |
es ox tend over into the streot. It is a
; stunted old affair, not much to look at j
as a tiling of beauty, but it goes as a i
' relic. Mr. Smith makes a sort of pet of j
the tiling. He says it is over 200 years j
old, the patriarch of the Washington |
treo world. It is the father of hundreds ;
of trees scattered over the city, and its |
children do not consider themselves I
above their neighbors because the Fatli j
or of Democracy happened to tie his I
horse to 0119 of the branches of their j
parent a fow months before lie was made
President.
A NOVEL use is made of the electric |
light 011 the St. Lawrence Biver, near j
the Thousand Islands resorts. One of I
the lights has been placed at the end of I
a yard arm 011 I ho steamer St. Lawrence, j
which has a dynamo aboard. The light j
stands in front of a powerful reflector;]
and as tho boat steams about at night '
among the islands the search light is
east upon them, revealing with startl
ing distinctness their beauty ami the
beauty of the landscape.
I Have you tried "Tniisill's Punch" t'igur? |
l'jX-l'icHidcait Mot'onli, of I'riiieolnn College, '
1H spi'iiiliug I In- TIN in IIMT in Miiinc. j
All Run Down
i l'.-om tho woakoulng effects of warm weather, by
hard work, or from 0 long Illness, you need a good
tonic and blood purUWr. Hood's Snrsupnrllla give*
! r. good appetite, strengthens tho whole system, purl
has tho blood, regulates tho digestlou.
"It affords mo much pleasure to recomm ntJ
Hood's Bursaparilla. My health two years ago was
1 vory poor. My friends though'# I was going with
consumption. I conunencod using Hood's S/isa
parUla, took flvo bottles of It, and to-day I can do as
bard a day's work as I over could. It saved we
from tho grave and put me on my feot a sound,
healthy man."- WIIJ. It. D. TIUBBHT, 141 East Main
tit., Wiggonsvlllo, Ohio.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Hold by all druggists. 91; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
I IQO Poses One Dollar
■ PISO'h Remedy for Catarrh Is the SHj
Best, Easiest to Use, and C heapest | M
■ Hold by druggists or sent by mall.
50c. K. T. Hart-It Inc. Warren, l'u. Kg
THE EDWARD UARRISOK
JUt XXs Xj CO.,
und dura Ity .
responsible parties.
JLow I*rlees. ' or
issue end montion this neper.
The Xdwerd lliirrlsou Mill Co.,
New Savon. Oonu. " " olUr
When Vfievfinxi blows your
f i re. itis useless to Kre yaujfseljl"
WSKmf HbouV hedf ofyour toifc&n b®
by the .use ofS%polla
It doesn't nuke us tired to tell about the merits of SAPOLIO. Thousands of
women in the United States thank us every hour of their lives for having told them of
SAPOLIO. Its use saves many weary hours of toil in house-cleaning.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
Grocers often substitute cheaper goods for SAPOLIO to make a better profit
Send back such articles, and insist upon having just what you ordered.
ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO.. NEW YORK.
Gradations in Authority.
Authority on board of a atoaniboat is
nu interesting study. It runs on a slid
ing sca'e, but unlike tho gamut it only
slidos one way. This is bad for lower
"C" on the stcambout, but ho has to
stand it. A good illustration of how
the thing works was given the other
afternoon just above Madison street
bridge.
The cap fain of a steamer was trying
to make a landing at tho dock, but the
operation was attended with some ditti- ;
• culty. A line from the bow had been
run out and made fust to a post, but the I
vessel's stern was swung oil into the '
stream. The skipper with a scowl on his I
brow stood 011 the bridge film ft- tho wheel ;
house and stared at the first mute, who j
was hustling around 011 tho hurricane
roof amidships. Down below 011 the
quarter deck the second mate was help- j
ing tho third mate and a dock hand to
take the turns out of tho stern lino,
which was snarled up 011 deck instead of
being fast 011 tho dock.
"Mr. Olsen," said tho captain in 11 j
; gentlemanly tone of voice to the tirst
mate, "why in thunder don't you get
that line o it, you long, lean, lank, '
j knock-kneed, tar-tuinte l wreck of return
I ing reason ( Don't you see we're
> swinging oil'?"
"Aye, aye, sir," Mr. Olson replied, re
I spectfully touching his cap to the skip
per.
Then Mr. Olson leaned far over tho
: rail, and raising his voice he called the
j second male's attention to a matter of
! great importance.
j "Mr. f'oterson," ho yelled, "what's
j eating you, tow headed, block eyed luh
| k;' r 'Do you want toehoko tho stream <
, del a move on you, and bo quick about
it."
I "Aye, aye, sir," was Mr. Peterson's
| response to this delicate attention 10
; eeived from his superior, lie then gave
| the third mate some instructions.
"Swanson," lut gently but firmly re
i mat ke.l, "I'll crack your blooming skull
J it you don't hump yourself, you gaunt
eyed, bow-legged, stock fish feeder!
Hear a hand tlioro. Lively, uow, and
j get that lino out !*'
! "Aye, ayo, sir," said Swanson in a
humble voice.
Then Swanson gave the deck hand,
who gets Sl'2 per month, a clout on the
side of the bend which knocked him
down. Then he jumped on him with
b .til feet ami shouted: "Why don't you
pay out that slern lino, you low-lived,
white-livered, mule eared, hog baeked,
slab sided, bench-logged molli giubber !
What nro we paying you for if" And lie
finished on tho poor man with a kick in
the l ibs,
I The deck hand ran tho lino out and
: made the boat fust. Then ho wont down
in the hold, where he anointed his per ,
i son and clubbed himself with a hand j
spike. —[Chicago Times.
If Dobbins'* Elect rlo Soap is what so many
tnsiat that It is, y.u cannot afford to g.> without
* .45 9 rocer ha -? It, or cuu got ft, ami you
can aeculc for yourself very aoon. Don't let an
other Monday pass without trying it.
j Lobster catchers along the rouM "(
; Netvlouiiilluud arc having N very MU<- tWiil
| If afflicted witli nm eyes use Or Isaac 'I Uotup
: lon'a Eye Water- Druggist* scH'JSc imr buttle ' '
( It is said that the hair of the Empress Car- i
lotta, Iho widow of Maximilian, is now snow i
white. (J l\:\
USE
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Extra inducements ore now offered to the man of
limited menus. A colony of the best people Is now
being formed for the "rentrutin Colony" In the
Sunlit Anna Valley. I. OH Auvrlei County,
California. CENTRALIA Str.tlou, on South
ern Pocinc It. It., l on those lands. Only ton miles
from the ocean, Boat lands In tho State ut $45 to
gOO per acre. 1 lirce crops por j oar (first two with
I out Irrigation). The second crop will pay for tho
land, will guarantee one hundred bushels of corn
i and 350 bushels of potatoes per acre. Will grow tho !
I orange, lonion, fig, peach, plum, prune, olive, cher- •
ricH, pears, grapes, raisins, walnuts, small fruits, '
alfalfa, groin, and all vegetables to pcrfootton. Kino '
perpetual-flowing artesian wells. No winter, no I
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strokes, no blizzards, no lee, no snow, no oxcesftlve .
heat tu the summer. Cool nights, and with all a
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(A city of 80,000 people). Throe miles from Anaheim 1
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with prosperous farmers and fruit growers. A
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atlou to all I.aud Buyers. Two Grauu Ex
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20 and September 3. 'B9. Fare (N. T. to L Angoloa),
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UKKfIitKNCE.
ANUKUUI NOAIID or TOADS, ) ;
Los AXUULKH, CAU, May 27, 1889. J |
To W/iom it Mau Oonoern—Tbe bearer, Mr. U. F. I
Prltchard, of Los Angeles; California, Is the owner
of two thousand acres of land In tho Souta Anus
Vallsy, 22 miles southeast of Loa Angeles and Is
visiting the cast for thu purposo of colonising tlu
sumu. Having soeu tho land myself I can testify or
to Its good quality, etc., and heartily recommend
Mr. I'rltehord as o thoroughly trustworthy man, i
and know that he la aide to and will fulfill any eon '
tracu he may make. U. W. VAN ALBTINE, fmml
gratlon Agent, Los Angeles Tloard of Trade.
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Machine* for Til It EHiUNC; At I.KANINO
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regarding
EASY DRAFT. DURASILIT* t QUANTITY OF WORK
feT'SMSS ft.W. GRAY'S SONS.
PATKNTKKG AND SOI.G MAXUVAOTI'HKHS.
JHDBLKTOHN NI'KIMGb, Vt
JOSEPH H. HUN
tftter® lfl a man in our town
And ho ig very wlae, sir,
When e'er he doesn't feel just light
1 One remedy he tries, sir.
It's juat tho thing to take in spring
The b'ood (o purify,
c tells his friends, and nothing else
Is ho induced to try
, Decause, having taken Dr. Pierce's Guidon
Medical Discovery to cleanse his system, bine
It up and enrich the blood, and finding that ifc
ahvavs pioduces thu desired result, he consid
ers that ho would \w> foolish to experiment
with anything use. lib motto is: "Prove all
nil! il i h () hl fnst to that which is good."
That a why ho pins bis faith to tho "Golden
Medical Discovery."
Walking odvorttsomenta for Dr. Sago's Ca
tarrh licmody aro tho thousands it has cured.
A company is being Conned in llio Argcn
-1 tine Itcpuhlic lor tlm purpose of holding a
| world s exhibition at. Ihicnos Ay res.
WHAT CALIFORNIA OFFKICM.
A free ride to California lu Pullman Ton rial Cars
•",,r
--i The question of leprosy in India is assuiu
! ing a scriioiK cherneler. It is reported Mint
a British brigadier-general has been sent
home Willi H,e disease.
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Spare moments may be profitably employed also.
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