anaheim-gazette 1884-07-26

ANAHEIM VOL. XIV. HANNA & KEITH REAL ESTATE AGENTS. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. We Are Now Offering Unprecedented Bargains IN Furniture, Carpets, Etc. Etc. Etc. And respectfully invite you to call and examine the same before purchasing. O. T. BARKER & SONS, Barker & Allen's Old Stand, near Pico House. 322, 324, 326 N. Main Street, Los Angeles. NEW No. 8 WHEELER & WILSON, With Straight, Self-Setting Needle and Back-Feed. ABSOLUTEGY NEW! In Price please and design No Shuttle to thread. Seew from the thinnest gauze to the heaviest cloth or leather. Can DARN, PATCH, MEND and EMBROIDER without any attachment. Only needs to be seen and tried to be appreciated. SCIENCE AND A young girl name exhibiting for some what is represented by which she is easily without much strength beyond the athlete. If the performance are acce this young girl has, open palm against a strong man or me about the stage, des tions; if, after prod to which has put the of the experimenters self shows no symptoms; if her respire pulse is not quicken marks of fatigue; the hold that what she muscular effort. In nomena demands scienti al presumption in belong in the region far too little explore In 1864 a paper ap Monthly entitled "The Perriere." The narr spects singularly like The subject, Angelique French girl in whom suddenly developed ed was thrown down wooden articles being ting her open hand on which three persons bifed weight being up pounds, bench and sn the air. In this case a realiness to invest entitic men, and ex which showed an aff between the unknown For instance, it was a girl were cut off from either by placing her tor or merely keeping O. T. BARKER & SONS, Barker & Allen's Old Stand, near Pico House. 322, 324, 826 N. Main Street, Los Angeles. NEW No. 8 WHEELER & WILSON, With Straight, Self-Setting Needle and Back-Feed. ABSOLUTEGY NEW! In Priceple and design No Shuttle to thread. Seew from the thinnest gauge to the heaviest cloth or leather. Can DARN, PATCH, MEND and EMBROIDER without any attachment. Only needs to be seen and tried to be appreciated. Don't buy until you have seen the New No. 8. Satisfaction Guaranteed or no pay. E. C. GLIDDEN, Agent, 33 North Main Street (Ponet Block). LOS ANGELES, CAL. WEEKLY GAZETTE Established 1870. For Terms, see Fourth Page. DR. JAMES ELLIS. OFFICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of GAZETTE office. Homeopathic Medicine wholesale and retail. Office hours at 7 A.M. and at 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. H. C. KELLOGG. Surveyor and Civil Engineer. PARTIES WILL PLEASE LEAVE THEIR ORDERS with Mr. John Hanna, Anaheim. M. B. HARRISON, Attorney-at-Law, ANAHEIM. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OF the State. ROBT. W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND; NOTARY PUBLIC Commissioner of Deeds for Arizona Verrito Rrgeer's Block, Anaheim, Cal. B. H. BESTLRY. WICKS, LUCAS & BENTLEY, Attorneys-at-Law, 86 and 87 Temple Block, Los Angeles, mag 173m VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC Garniture Office. L. GUNTHER, A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING —AND— Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest. Los Angeles Street, Anaheim, (Adjoining the GAZETTE Office). City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Krceger's Block) ANAHEIM. L. F. Lewis.- Proprietor THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commodious in the town and special attention will be paid to breeding and Grooming horses. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice and careful drivers, familiar with the country, supplied when required. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. Anaheim Bakery. Fresh White and Rye Bread EVERY DAY Cakes for Parties on Short Notice. CENTER STREET., ANAHEIM. Bucks for Sale. THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FOR SALE A NUMBER of French and Spanish Merino bucks, of the quality for which the ranch has been noted for many years. Although the quality remains the same in former years, I have put the prices down so as to make them conform to the hard times now experienced by sheepmen. The bucks can be seen at my place, six miles north of Anaheim, and I respectfully request intending purchasers to inspect them. JOHN WAGNER. What is? Pall Mall The question can only perience; soleitur occulta after a decision in the Court yesterday to say it is not legal "considered" in Lambeth kissed a wus husband valued the king geon gave him an IO month after data an VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Post office. Office hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC Garden Office. L. GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to all work guaranteed. WM. R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and keys on hand at all times. Tanks and Tube made to order. Honest Barrels for sale cheap. S. A. DENNIS, Carriage and Sign Painter, Center Street, Anaheim, OFFERS AS REFERENCES THE NUMEROUS wagons and signs painted by him in Anaheim. PRICES REASONABLE. The petroage of the public respectfully solicited may2. "TRAVELS IN MEXICO AND LIFE AMONG the Mexicans," by Frederick A. Ober. The most fully illustrated and the largest popular work on Mexico ever published. A stirring narrative of a most interesting journey from Yucatan to the Rio Grande in one large octavo volume of nearly 700 pages. Agents wanted. Apply to J. DEWING & Co., 490 Bush street, San Francisco, Cal. A PRIZE. Send six cents for postage and re-solve free, a costly box of goods which will help all, of either sex, to more money right away than any being else in this world. Postage waits the workers absolutely sure. At once address Trace & Co., Augusta, Maine. Cakes for Parties on Short Notice. CENTER STREET. ANAHEIM. Bucks for Sale. THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FOR SALE A NUMBER of French and Spanish Merino bucks, of the quality for which the ranch has been noted for many years. Although the quality remains the same as in former years, I have put the prices down so as to make them conform to the hard times now experienced by sheepmen. The bucks can be seen at my place, six miles north of Anaheim, and I respectfully request intending purchasers to inspect them. JOHN WAGNER. Casks, Pipes AND PUNCHEONS IN PERFECT ORDER For Sale at Low Prices. B. DREYFUS & CO., Anaheim. B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York. The Victor Mower, The only Mowing Machine made in California. —OHIO BUCKEYE, Latest Improved. Walter A. Wood's Mowing Machines, And all kinds of HAY RAKES For sale by JACOB YAEGER. Masonic Notice. THE REGULAR MEETINGS OF ANAHEIM Lodge No. 207, F. and A. M. are held in Masonic Hall on the Monday evening o or preceding the full moon in each month dejourning brother in good standing are continually invited to attend. S. GARDINER, Secretary. What is it? Pall Mall The question can only experience; soleiter occult after a decision in the Court yesterday to say It is not legal "considine in Lambeth kissed a wife husband valued the king geon gave him an IO month after date an ad this document, but thered that there was no c a verdict for the defe lady was in court, and been influenced by that mit that there are "kind interesting question is judgment was meant the principle or whether e cided on its merits. An Inhumane Wheeling (W. V. Scholes, a stock dealer wife and an eleven-moor sided in Pottsville, O., purchase cattle, leavin of a young man whom man. He returned yet the house closed, force entered. His child lay to death, and the body His wife and the young peared. There was a bonds and money which wife's care. A campaign biograph of Mr. Cleveland. It six parts, namely: Birth record, State political career, and lastly, his action. The following is ton for the biographer: born. He had early y cord. While sheriff he and the rope never brook to Congress, but know Since his nomination he Kelly must go. Finia. At Victoria, B. C., at wild pigeons, mistoof of Captain Rudlin, whoring cherries, for a brass Mrs. Ludlin's cornetes m part of the charge shatt SCIENCE AND LULU HURST. A young girl named Lulu Hurst has been exhibiting for some nights in New York city what is represented to be a mysterious force, by which she is enabled to perform, apparently without muscular action, tests of strength beyond the capacity of a trained athlete. If the published reports of the performance are accurate; if, that is to say, this young girl has, by merely placing one open palm against a stick or a chair held by a strong man or men, forced him or them about the stage, despite their utmost exertions; if, after producing effects resistance to which has put the entire muscular system of the experimenters on the strain, she herself shows no symptom of muscular exertion; if her respiration is not hurried, her pulse is not quickened, her frame bears no marks of fatigue; then it is not possible to hold that what she does is done by mere muscular effort. In such a case the phenomena demands scientific study, for the rational presumption is that, if genuine, they belong in the region of nerve force; a region far too little explored. In 1864 a paper appeared in The Atlantic Monthly entitled "The Electric Girl of La Perriere." The narrative was in many respects singularly like that of Lulu Hurst. The subject, Angelique Cottin, was a young French girl in whom a mysterious power suddenly developed. Whatever she touched was thrown down, chairs and all kinds of wooden articles being most affected. By putting her open hand on a heavy bench upon which three persons were seated, the combined weight being upward of six hundred pounds, bench and sitters were lifted into the air. In this case there was fortunately a readiness to investigate on the part of scientific men, and experiments were made which showed an affinity, if not an identity, between the unknown force and electricity. For instance, it was discovered "that if the girl were cut off from contact with the earth, either by placing her feet on a non-conductor or merely keeping them raised from the HOPE AS A REMEDY AGAINST DISEASE. Dr. J. Mortimer Granville has been lately rather severely handled by the medical press of London, because he wrote a letter on this subject to one of the daily papers. He is criticised as having performed an unethical act in thus advertising himself in an unprofessional manner in a lay journal. This question we will leave to our transatlantic brethren, while we say a few words upon the subject matter of his letter. But little touched upon, hope as a remedy against disease is, if wisely and judiciously employed, one of the most valuable and useful means that the physician can employ. Call it what we may, and reason about it as we please, no man of experience will for an instant question that imagination, the prejudices, the mental condition, the conviction of the patient, in many cases, exerts a most powerful and a most real influence upon the progress and termination of diseased conditions. Has it not happened to every one of our readers (it repeatedly has to us) to discover accidentally, so to speak, a condition of chronic disease, which has evidently been present for years, and yet the patient has maintained fairly good health, and is at the time of the discovery, in no immediate apparent danger; yet when told that he is afflicted with an incurable disease that may carry him off in a few days, or that he may live for months, immediately wilts, like the sensitive plants when touched, and dies in a day or two! Again, do we not all know of cases of chronic disease, in persons with a happy, hopeful, contented disposition, disease that we felt sure would soon prove fatal? And yet we see them go on day after day and year after year enjoying apparently good health. Of course we are familiar with and thoroughly recognize the fact that worry, that mental anxiety, is diametrically opposed to good health and long life; and in this fact we recognize the explanation of the influence as a remedy against disease. SPOOPENDYKE DICTATES A LETTER. "Now, my dear," said Mr. Spoopendyke, when his wife had propped him up in bed and stuffed some extra pillows under his shoulders; "now my dear, take your pen and ink and I will dictate a letter to Specklewottle. If you will play amuensis I don't see why I can't be sick just as well as not." Mrs. Spoopendyke puttered around and arranged her writing materials. "Shall I write on a card with gilt edge, or shall I take note paper?" she asked. "You'd better use paper," replied Mr. Spoopendyke, severely. "When I want to convey my ideas on a shingle, I'll carve 'em in with a knife. Now get ready, for I'm going to start, and don't you interrupt me or you will put me out." "All ready, dear," murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, dipping her pen into the ink, and confemplating her hushand anxiously. Mr. Peter B. Specklewottle," commenced Mr. Spoopendyke. "Is his middle name 'B?' asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, resting her elbow on the table, her head on her hand, and testing her pen on her blotter. "I don't think I like his name, anyway. Peter isn't nice." "If any other name occurs to you put it in," observed Mr. Spoopendyke, with a growl. "You don't need to have a man's right name in a letter. Put it anything and hurry up, will you? Going to keep me in suspense all day about who this letter is going to?" Mrs. Spoopendyke plunged into her work and wrote hurriedly for a moment. "Now I've got him in, dear." "Got who in? Anybody I know? Am I dictating a private letter to a stranger? Got some particular friend you want this note to go to unbeknown to me? Who's in there? I'm going to know who's at the top before I put my name at the bottom." "Why, Mr. Specklewottle, of course," The subject, Angelique Cottin, was a young French girl in whom a mysterious power suddenly developed. Whatever she touched was thrown down, chairs and all kinds of wooden articles being most affected. By putting her open hand on a heavy bench upon which three persons were seated, the combined weight being upward of six hundred pounds, bench and sitters were lifted into the air. In this case there was fortunately a readiness to investigate on the part of scientific men, and experiments were made which showed an affinity, if not an identity, between the unknown force and electricity. For instance, it was discovered "that if the girl were cut off from contact with the earth, either by placing her feet on a non-condenser or merely keeping them raised from the ground, the power ceased, and one could remain seated quietly." It was also noted that more power emanated from the left hand than the right, and this appears to be also the case with Lulu Hurst; that the influence was repulsive in its nature, the object approached being driven from her violently; that the passage of a current from her body outward was perceptible even to the skin of the hand, producing the sensation of a cool breeze; and that the girl's pulse was very irregular. Now Dr. Carpenter in his "Mental Physiology" has noted the resemblance between discharges of electricity and discharges of nerve-force; and has pointed out many abnormal conditions of the human system in which the action of nerve-force assumes a dynamic energy comparable to electrical phenomena. It is true that in the case of Angelique Cottin it was found that the exhibition of the abnormal force was uncertain and capricious, not appearing amenable to fixed laws like electricity. Thus, at times the girl would be affected by the action of a magnet, and at other times not. At one time a stick of sealing-wax briskly rubbed, and then brought in contact with her arm, conveyed a smart shock, and at another time no result followed. But we may suppose nerve-force to be complicated by the personality, and while it resembles electricity in many respects it does not follow that it is the same thing. The French Academy dalled with this case, but did not seriously examine it. Many eminent physicians and men of science, however, did examine it, and though no satisfactory solution was reached, the reality of the phenomena was testified to by the highest authority. Nerve-force—the force which under the influence of imagination is capable of changing organic tissues—which under other conditions (as in the case of the Convulsionaires) can render the body insensible to violence and pain—which operates outside the body, as in Hypotism, Mesmerism, and what is called Personal Magnetism—appears to afford the key to not only this but a great many other puzzling phenomena. But a patient study of the facts is the only way to render them of value to science, and therefore Luhu Hurst, while her power remains unabated, should be investigated by men of science who know enough of psychology and physiology to appreciate at their real weight the manifestations which at present are being wafted in the gratification of a blind and thoughtless curiosity. What is a Kiss? Pall Mall Gazette. The question can only be answered by experience; soleiter osculando. But it is easy after a decision in the Lambeth County Court yesterday to say what a kiss is not. It is not legal "consideration." A surgeon in Lambeth kitted a workingman's wife; the husband valued the kiss at £5, and the surgeon gave him an I O U for that amount. A month after date an action was brought on parent danger; yet when told that he is afflicted with an incurable disease that may carry him off in a few days, or that he may live for months, immediately wilts, like the sensitive plants when touched, and dies in a day or two? Again, do we not all know of cases of chronic disease, in persons with a happy, hopeful, contented disposition, disease that we felt sure would soon prove fatal! And yet we see them go on day after day and year after year enjoying apparently good health. Of course we are familiar with and thoroughly recognize the fact that worry, that mental anxiety, is diametrically opposed to good health and long life; and in this fact we recognize the explanation of the influence of depressing opinions and advice; for if we tell a man with a nervous temperament that he may die in a few days, from moment all peace and contentment vanishes from his life, while anxiety, worry and unrest take possession of his whole being. The practical point to be deduced from these reflections is that it will redound not only to your patient's advantage, but also to your own professional reputation, to make it a rule always to take the most hopeful view that is possible of the patient's condition, especially when the man or woman is one of the "nervous, worrying kind," and always to remember that "hope kept alive" is the great secret of success among quacks. Let us steal their thunder.—The Med. and Surg. Reporter. A Flame of Gas Eighty Feet High. A measurement of the flame from the new gas well on the Westinghouse property has been made, and it is found to be eighty feet in height. It varies, however, with the condition of the atmosphere. The gas escapes from a six inch pipe seventy-five feet high, so that the top of the jet when the engineer brings his instrument to bear on it was 155 feet from the surface. A still, clear night makes every difference in the volume of the blaze. The successful finding of gas at Pittsburg has stimulated other establishments to try and supply themselves with this valuable fuel. Two firms have already begun the drilling of wells, and four others will begin operations in a day or two. At the Pennsylvania Tube Works use of coal has been discontinued altogether. The workmen find the new fuel superior in its application to the manufacture of wrought iron tubes, and the cost is about half the old expense for coal and coke. What a Democrat Thinks of Mr. Blaine. [From an interview with Daniel Dougherty in the Philadelphia Times.] It will not do for the Democratic party to suppose that they will have an easy victory. With the Republican party brains have again come to the front. I honor the Republicans for nominating Mr. Blaine and if I were a Republican I would love to enter the lists and throw down my glove and challenge all comers as one of his champions. I have no sympathy with the movement in his own party against him. He will make a splendid candidate. He is a statesman and it is urged against him that he is an American in his statesmanship. Power is always conservative and if a Republican is to be elected, Mr. Blaine is of all Republicans the one I would like to see in the White House. It was Mr. Blaine that sprung the tariff issue on us in 1880 and you may rest assured that he will now that he is nominated, neglect no honorable effort to lead his party to vic- “If any other name occurs to you put it in,” observed Mr. Spoopendyke, with a growl. “You don't need to have a man's right name in a letter. Put it anything and hurry up, will you? Going to keep me in suspense all day about who this letter is going to?” Mrs. Spoopendyke plunged into her work and wrote hurriedly for a moment. "Now I've got him in, dear." “Got who in? Anybody I know? Am I dictating a private letter to a stranger? Got some particular friend you want this note to go to unbeknown to me? Who's in there? I'm going to know who's at the top before I put my name at the bottom.” “Why, Mr. Specklewottle, of course,” said she, looking at him with wide-open eyes. "That's what you said. Now go on with the rest.” “Have you got the date and 'dear sir' in too?" asked Mr. Spoopendyke peevishly, for he was trying to think how he should start his letter. “No dear; you didn't say anything about those,” replied his wife. "You only said the name; but I'll put the others in." “Will, will ye!” croaked Mr. Spoopendyke. "Sticking on a great deal of credit to yourself for your kindness to the sick, ain't ye? Willing to yield your own preferences in favor of your suffering husband! Well, you can't fool me that much. Don't put'em in, hear me?” “But I've got 'em in,” pleaded Mrs. Spoopendyke. “Then strike 'em out!" roared her husband. "Spose I'm going to let you put those things in and let you throw 'em up in my face from the moment I get well till the day I die! Scratch 'em out, I tell you. I don't propose to have my life made miserable by reminders of your kindness when I was fishing around in the grave with one leg! Now what have you got!” “Peter B. Specklewottle,” said Mrs. Spoopendyke, montally satisfied there could be no mistake in that. “Anything to show whether he's a man or a woman?” demanded Mr. Spoopendyke. "Any 'Mr.' or 'Eq.' hanging to it anywhere?” “Certainly,” replied Mrs. Spoopendyke. "It says 'Mr. Peter B. Specklewottle.' That's the way you told me to write it, didn't you? Now go on with the letter." “Then put: 'I am dying and wish you —'" “Great grecious!" ejaculated Mrs. Spoopendyke, "no damage not dying, dear." You don't want the man to think that." “Way not!” squealed Mr. Spoopendyke. "Spose a man is going fourteen blocks out of his way to get the mail for a man who only has a cold in his head? You put in that I'm dying, or I'll drop over into that corner and write the whole letter with one application of the ink-stand." “Go on, dear,” coooed Mrs. Spoopendyke. "I've got it so; only you may think it strange that a dying man should write to him." “Then say, 'I want you to get my mail from the office, and tell them I will be over in a day or two.' Got that?” “Yes,” giggled Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Anything else." “What are you laughing at?” howled Mr. Spoopendyke on whom the incongruities of his letter had begun to dawn. "Think I'm dictating a comic almanac! Got a notion that this letter is some kind of a rebuza! Well, it isn't, and it isn't a minstrel entertainment with a funny man at each end. What're you laughing at? Anybody in this country know?” “I wasn't laughing, dear,” murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, with a marvelously straight face." "I was only sympathizing with you." “Was, eh!” grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. "Well, when it takes the form of a virage." What is a Kiss? Paul Mall Gazette: The question can only be answered by experience; solvitur osculando. But it is easy after a decision in the Lambeth County Court yesterday to say what a kiss is not. It is not legal "consideration." A surgeon in Lambeth kissed a workingman's wife; the husband valued the kiss at £5, and the surgeon gave him an IOU for that amount. A month after date an action was brought on this document, but the judge promptly ruled that there was no consideration, and gave a verdict for the defendant. Perhaps the lady was in court, and the judge may have been influenced by that. For even poets admit that there are "kisses and kisses." The interesting question is whether yesterday's judgment was meant to lay down a general principle or whether every case must be decided on its merits. An Inhuman Mother. Wheeling (W. Va.), July 17.—Wm. Scholes, a stock dealer, with a beautiful wife and an eleven-month-old child, who resided in Pottsville, O., recently left home to purchase cattle, leaving everything in charge of a young man whom he employed as foreman. He returned yesterday, and, finding the house closed, forced a shutter open and entered. His child lay on the floor, starved to death, and the body was half decomposed. His wife and the young foreman have disappeared. There was also missing $2,000 in bonds and money which he had left in his wife's care. A campaign biographer is writing the life of Mr. Cleveland. It will be divided into six parts, namely: Birth, early years, war record, State political career, Congressional career, and lastly, his acts after the nomination. The following is suggested as a skeleton for the biographer: Mr. Cleveland was born. He had early years, but no war record. While sheriff he hanged several men and the rope never broke. He never went to Congress, but knows a man that did. Since his nomination he feels his oats. John Kelly must go. Finis. At Victoria, B.C., a man while shooting at wild pigeons mistook the wife and niece of Captain Rudlin, who were in a tree gathering cherries, for a brace of birds, and fired. Mrs. Ludlin's corvets saved her life, but a part of the charge shattered the girl's arm. The editor of the N.E. Medical Monthly having seen encalyptus globulus recommended in pertussis, gave it a trial in his practice. He administered it in some twenty-five or thirty cases, and the results were of a very gratifying nature. Its effect was to greatly modify the severity of the paroxysms in every case, and in so abating the symptoms occasionally, that what gave promise of being a very severe attack in its incipiency turned out to be little more than what is known as a sympathetic cough. These results certainly merit for this agent a trial at the hands of other practitioners, for few will be prepared to admit that the best possible remedy for this affection has yet been employed. Unfermented Temperance Wine: John W. Wheeler, Secretary of the Viti-cultural Commission, says the Commission is having an analysis made of a kind of unfermented, or temperance, wine, of which a large quantity was made from California grapes by a German firm in New York. The liquid is called "grape milk," and is attracting the attention of our grape growers and wine makers. If the Commission find nothing deleterious in the compound after a careful analysis, it is likely that the "grape milk" will be made in considerable quantities by California vintners this season. A Scotchman proclaims himself as the champion post hole digger of the world. He exhibits a well substantiated record of 79 post holes, three feet deep, dug in one day. Hon. G. W.Hasylitt, Waterloo, Iowa, a member of the State Legislature, keeps St. Jacob's Oil, the great pain cure, on the family shelf, and says he considers it the greatest remedy ever used for bodily ailments. In a day or two," Got that?" "Yes," giggled Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Anything else?" "What are you laughing at?" howled Mr. Spoopendyke, on whom the incongruities of his letter had begun to dawn. "Think I'm dictating a comic almanac? Got a notion that this letter is some kind of a rebuja? Well, it ain't, and it ain't a minstrel entertainment with a funny man at each end. What're you laughing at? Anybody in this country know?" "I wasn't laughing, dear," murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, with a marvelously straight face. "I was only sympathizing with you." "Was, oh!" grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. "Well, when it takes the form of a visage like you screwed up a minute ago I want to be hung instead of sympathized with. Another time you open your mouth like that I'm going to put seats in and start a church." And cogitating on this vast improvement in his wife's anatomy, Mr. Spoopendyke, forgetting all about his letter, rolled over and went to sleep. Changing the Color of Flowers. It has for a long time been known that the color of growing flowers can be altered by simply mixing a little dyestuff with the mold in the flower-pot. No one, however, has hitherto thought of changing the color of flowers when cut. A distinguished botanist has found that by simply soaking the stems of cut flowers in a weak dye solution their color can be altered at will without the perfume or richness being destroyed. Singular to say, flowers refuse to absorb certain colors, while they dispose of others in different manners. If placed in a mixed solution they made a complete analysis, and some lilies which had been treated with purple showed distinct red and blue veins, the colors having been divided in the process of absorption. Holliste, July 17.-On Tuesday, in Indian valley, seventy miles south of here, Miss Nora, the 15-year-old daughter of Upton Matthis, was instantly killed by a charge of shot fired from a gun which "wasn't loaded." The young man to whose rocklessness was due the distressing occurrence had discharged the gun the day prior to the shooting, and being certain that it was empty, was pointing and snapping it at Miss Matthis and her sister. It seems, however, that some one had reloaded but failed to cap the gun the evening before. Thinking to frighten them still further, the young man capped the gun at which the young ladies ran when he pulled the trigger, and the full charge entered Miss Matthis' back just below the left shoulder, canning instant death. GAZETTE. JULY 26, 1884. KE DICTATES A BETTER. said Mr. Spoopendyke, propped him up in bed extra pillows under his tiny dear, take your pen dictate a letter to Spee-will play amenuensis I can't be sick just as well as like puttered around and using materials. "Shall I with gilt edge, or shall I be asked, use paper," replied Mr. freely. "When I want to a shingle, I'll carve 'em Now get ready, for I'm don't you interrupt me out." murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke pen into the ink, and unshand anxiously. Bocklewottle," commenca-na name 'B?'" asked Mrs. ling her elbow on the taur-hand, and testing her "I don't think I like Peter isn't nice." Some occurs to you put it. Spoopendyke, with a need to have a man's better. Put it anything and Going to keep me in sus-who this letter is going plunged into her work for a moment. "Now ar." anybody I know? Am I letter to a stranger? Got and you want this note to do me? Who's in there? who's at the top before I bottom." Bocklewottle, of course," Political Paragraphs From Party Papers. The women are against Cleveland. Hon. P. B. Tully was welcomed to Gilroy last week. It is not "Cleveland and Reform," but "Cleveland and Monopoly." Mr. Blaine frequently receives letters now addressed to "The Plumed Knight, Augusta, Me." A good song for the campaign—"Work, for the Knight is coming." The "mugwumps" know who they are against, but will they or anybody living tell who they are for? Mr. Cleveland will have a D. H. passage on the Elevated Road—in workingmen's hours—next November. The Prohibition candidate for Governor of Michigan two years ago received about 7,000 votes; an enthusiast predicts 40,000 for this year. A new office was created by an appropriation bill recently passed by Congress, and in twenty-four hours there were 700 applicants for the place. "The Cleveland is about the last man one would pick out of a room full of men as the candidate for Governor of a great State," wrote a visitor two years ago. The New York Evening Post, always an advocate of free trade, is now so zealous to defeat Mr. Blaine that it advises the Democrats to make a tariff straddle. Mr. Flower seems to have nothing to show for his boom except a bill of expenses to the amount of $25,000 or $50,000 incurred for the sustenance of Tammy at Chicago. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler expects that the Concord School of Philosophy will nominate him and run him on the platform of "The Overmuch of the Too-too." For a man who expects to run for President in thirty-eight States Mr. Cleveland FIGHTING UNDER ARREST. A Captain Who Covida't Keep out of a Fight White on the Squirrel Line. (Inter Obey.) Capt. Whaecker was a born commander of skirmishers. He had a voice like a high-blast, and an unusual amount of push and dash in his composition. He knew all about human nature on the skirmish line, strong points as well as its weakness, and sound guilded by an unerring instinct in ordering forward movements. He always aimed to stampede the enemy's skirmishers, and very often succeeded. The men of the regiment had the greatest confidence in him, and obeyed him with alacrity, and so, somewhat to the disgust of the other officers of the regiment, he monopolized the skirmish business. In other departments he was not so great a success. He was unscrupulous and reckless, and was occasionally under arrest. He was at once the pride and the aggravation of Gen. Nelson. The old soldier generally called him a buccaneer, and had him under arrest half the time for some of his "devilish practical infringements." Capt. Whaecker was under arrest after Shiloh, and Nelson was constantly complaining about the way his skirmishers acted before Corinth. Nothing was done to suit him, and he was on the line every day fuming and swearing and directing. One day he insisted that the post should be advanced. He didn't want any child's play. The attempt was made, but resulted simply in a listless skirmish fight. A man slipped down a line of fence, and was in consultation a moment with the officers. Then he passed along the line to the right. There was a hull. Then rang out the bangle tones of Capt. W., and the line moved forward. There was no child's play. There was a terrible racket. Then there was a charge, and from beyond the wood came the sound of the captain's voice, still urging his men forward. Nelson was delighted and outraged. A body I know? Am I letter to a stranger? Got and you want this note to me? Who's in there? who's at the top before I bottom." The date and 'dair sir' in Spoopendyke peevish, for think how he should start don't say anything about write. "You only said out the others in." Croaked Mr. Spoopen is a great deal of credit to kindness to the sick, ain't and your own preferences interfering husband! Well, that much, Don't put'em out!" roared her hushing to let you put it you throw'em up in moment I get well till them out, I tell you. I see my life made miserable your kindness when I am the grave with one you got?" Skolekwottle, said Mrs. really satisfied there could not whether he's a man or ideal Mr. Spoopendyke. hanging to it any- Nied Mrs. Spoopendyke. B. Speoklewottle,' told me to write it, on with the letter." dying and wish you—"jeaculated Mrs. Spoopper pen. "You are not don't want the man to called Mr. Spoopendyke. long fourteen blocks out mail for a man who head? You put in that hop over into that corneretter with one applica-" Nied Mrs. Spoopendyke. he may think it strange would write to him." It you to get my mail sell them I will be over that?" Ms. Spoopendyke. "Anything at?" howled Mr. from the incongruities of to dawn. "Think I'm maniac? Got a notion some kind of a rebujaain't a minstrel enter-you man at each end. at? Anybody in this ing, dear," murmured with a marvelously was only sympathizing Mr. Spoopendyke. The New York Evening Post, always an advocate of free trade, is now so zealous to defeat Mr Blaine that it advises the Democrats to make a tariff straddle. Mr. Flower seems to have nothing to show for his boom except a bill of expenses to the amount of $25,000 or $50,000 incurred for the sustance of Tammany at Chicago. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler expects that the Concord School of Philosophy will nominate him and run him on the platform of "The Overmuch of the Too-too." For a man who expects to run for President in thirty-eight States Mr. Cleveland has but a slight acquaintance with the lay of the land in America. His only trip abroad was that taken when a boy to Cleveland, Ohio. The rhymsters find the two rival Presidential tickets difficult to handle. Blaine and Logan rhyme only with slogan and brogae, and Cleveland and Hendricks rhyme only with such words as sticks and tricks. Watterson has made a new word-liripoop. A liripoop is a Democrat who won't go with the crowd. He is of the same family as the mugwump which is a Republican who carries his party in his hat. New York has had the Democratic Presidential candidate in every campaign since 1860-McLellan 1864; Seymour, in 1868; Greely, 1872; Tilden, in 1876; Hancock, in 1880, and now Cleveland in 1884. It was time to try an Ohio man. After the nomination of Grover Cleveland the delegates from the Pacific Coast States admitted that Blaine would surely carry California, Oregon and Nevada. The Democrats will hardly make a contest in these States. The Missouri Republicans hope this fall to break the solid Bourbon delegation in Congress from that State, and contribute at least two Congressmen toward a Republican majority in the next house. The First and Fourth districts offer the best prospects for doing this. It is said that Blaine's boyhood was awkward. This proves that he was a natural boy. The boy who at seventeen years old is not awkward, has not the promise of an eventful life. The "gawky" age is the seed-sowing time of a future harvest. The Democratic party reminds us of the old maid who went in the twilight to the woods to pray for a husband. In the midst of her most earnest supplication to send her a husband an owl perched on the tree above sung out. "Hoo-hoo, hoo-o." The aged maid, looking up answered, "Anybody, Lord." Catechism questions in the Tammy class: Q.-Who was the first man? A.-John Kelly. Q.-Who was the first woman? A.-Sammy Tilden. Q.-What is Irving Hall. A.-A place of souls suffering for a time on account of their sins. Koumts. Koamiss has become a very common article of diet with dyspeptics, and according to the Chicago Review it may be made at home at a cost of about 15 cents per quart. The following directions are given its manufacture: Fill a champagne bottle up to the neck with pure milk; add two table-spoonfuls of white sugar, after dissolving the same in a little water over a hot fire; add also a quarter of a two cent cake of corn. Skirmishers acted before Corinth. Nothing was done to suit him, and he was on the line every day fuming and swearing and directing. One day he insisted that the post should be advanced. He didn't want any child's play. The attempt was made, but resulted simply in a listless skirmish fight. A man slipped down a line of fence, and was in consultation a moment with the officers. Then he passed along the line to the right. There was a hill. Then rang out the bugles tones of Capt. W., and the line moved forward. There was no child's play. There was a terrible racket. Then there was a charge, and from beyond the wood came the sound of the captain's voice, still urging his men forward. Nelson was delighted and outraged. He sent an aid to recall Capt. W. "Tell the d-n fool, sir, he is under arrest. Tell him, by heaven, sir, I'll have him hung if he persists in his contempt for me and my orders." And then as she shout in front told another advance, the old general enunciated: "Splendid, splendid, by h-l, sir, I believe that man will go right into Corinth." The whole line was in a fever of excitement. Nelson was advancing his posts and taking advantage of every circumstance. Nelson, proud of having accomplished so much, was still indignant because Capt. W had sent him two or three impudent messages. He had three different officers under orders to arrest the captain and return him to camp. Finally the captain came back Saluting, he said: "General, I have the honor to report that the boys have played—with the rebel line, and that they await your permission to drive the Johnnie into their intrenchments. I took a little swing with the boys and forgot all about the fact that you ordered me to remain in camp. I am now ready to be shot, and you had better shoot me now, because if there is any more advancing to be done, the temptation will be too strong for me to resist." Much to everybody's surprise Nelson thundered out, "Resist! You won't resist it atall. You will delight in it. You will disobey orders every time. And by h-l- sir, so would I. You can return to your company, sir." An American Debutante in England. [Croffut's New York Letter.] On first arriving in England six months ago, Miss Detchon (pronounced De-shon, so-cent on last syllable) spent some weeks in Stratford, where or whereabouts, in a plain blue flannel dress (or gown), as they always say in England), she ransacked all the habits of Shakespeare, and shouted her favorite parts through the woods and over the hills—a pretty vision, doubled, to the rustics of those parts. She went to London, and Mrs Labouchere and husband became her influential friends, and for some months now she has been chirping in the houses of the nobility. At last Mr. Edgar Bruce, manager of the new London theatre to which the prince of Wales has given his name, decided to accord her a hearing as a candidate to open that fine place of annuement. "I have just been through a most trying ordre," she says in her letter. "In my appearance before Mr. Bruce, everything depended on being in good health and voice. Alas! I caught a slight cold, which tightened and tightened, and closed down on my voice, which grew dimmer and dimmer. The vital day came. I was reduced to a whisper and a gasp. I resolved not to run the risk of postponement, but to call up all my resources and depend on pantomime.I did it. Desperately I went ahead.I funned and frolicked recklessly.I sang like a creaking door.I chirruped like a frog.I bobellinked without the bobble.Well.I won.And now I hold a contract with Mr.Bruce, by the terms of which he brings me out properly as a star during the gay London season, on terms highly advantageous." Koumiss. Koumiss has become a very common article of diet with dyspeptics, and according to the Chicago Renew it may be made at home at a cost of about 15 cents per quart. The following directions are given for its manufacture: Fill a champagne bottle up to the neck with pure milk; add two tablespoonfuls of white sugar, after dissolving the same in a little water over a hot fire; add also a quarter of a two cent cake of compressed yeast. Then tie the cork on the bottle securely, and shake the mixture well, place it in a room of the temperature of 50° to 95° Farenheit for six hours, and finally in the ice box over night. Drink in such quantities as the stomach may require. It will be well to observe several important injunctions in preparing the koumiss, and they are: To be sure that the milk is pure; that the bottle is sound; that the yeast is fresh; to open the mixture in the morning with great care, on account of its effervescent properties; not to drink it at all if there is any curdle or thickening part resembling cheese, as this indicates that the fermentation has been prolonged beyond the proper time. Make it as you need to use it. The virtue of koumiss is that it refreshes and stimulates, with no after reaction in its effects. It is almost impossible to obtain good fresh koumiss, especially away from large towns. The above makes it possible for any physician to prescribe it. Looking After the Cholera. WASHINGTON, July 19.—The Cabinet has decided to take vigorous measures to prevent the introduction of cholera into the United States. The State and Treasury Department will set together in enforcing the regulations which are to be prepared. An order will be issued prohibiting the importation of rags from all infected countries for ninety days, or longer, it necessary. It was also decided that vessels in the revenue marine service shall establish a cordon along the coast to prevent the landing of all vessels from foreign ports which do not possess clean bills of health. Not a particle of calamel or any other detritous substance enters into the composition of Ayer's Catholic Pills. On the contrary, they prove of special service to those who have used calamel and other mineral and other mineral poisons as medicines, and feel their injurious effects. In such cases Ayer's Pills are invaluable. At Iron Gate, Va., Thomas Johnson stripped his stapleton and tied his hands to whip him. The boy escaped, run to the river and jumped in. Johnson followed. The current was swift and both were drowned. Their bodies were recovered last night.