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ConereaHumn Outhwalte** Plan.
Representative Outhwatte of Ohio has
taken up and in view of the danger of
•cholera invasion will press vigorously at
the next session Of congress a proposi
tion for the frequent exchange of soiled
’paper moneyffor;new notes. An investi-
gation made at hie suggestion has shown
that old greenbacks and bank notes con-
• tain the germs < Of disease to an unusual
degree and that there is reason for ap-
prehension'of them as a producer of dis-
ease.
In view of the-necessity of the utmost
precaution against th^spread of cholera
in this country this Bummer Mr. Outh-
waite has introduced a bill directing the
secretary of the treasury to make the
necessary regulations to secure the
“speedy and frequent redemption of all
United States paper currency and all
national bank notes which have become
soiled, impure, unclean or otherwise un-
fit' for use when presented in sums of not
less than $100, and for the preparation
and issue of new United States paper
currency in place of such as shall have
been redeemed.”
The subject was first brought to Mr.
Outhwaite's attention by Dr. C. F. Clark
of Columbus, and soon afterward the
Bankers’ association of Ohio adopted a
report in favor of legislation to secure a
frequent exchange of notes. Dr. J. C.
Graham, bacteriologist of Starling Med-
ical college, wife asked to make an in-
vestigation, and his report discloses tho
fact that old paper money is as full erf
bacteria as eggs are said to be of meat.
Dr. Graham writes that he made an ex-
amination of eight bills. A $1 bill of
the series of 1878 showed three kinds of
bacteria, and tme of the series of 4886
two kinds. Two $2 bills of the same
series showed one bacterium each, and
another dollar bill, series of 1886, two
kinds. The bills were all much worn
and very dirty.
The examination of the notes showed
that on each of them were a number of
bacteria colonies which might some day,
under some circumstances, develop en-
ergy enough to immigrate to the human
system. One of the bills had 13 colonies
• of two kinds of bacteria. The doctor
says that it yet remains to determine
the nature of the various microbes to
ascertain whether they be pathogenic
germs capable of producing disease,
This work will reqnire considerable
time. The roughened surface of old
bills affords a place for disease germs,
. and attention should be called to it.—
New England Stationer and Printer.
The Stage In England.
The Standard says it is not be denied
that the art of acting in .England, like
i the art of play writing, has suffered from
i the influence of Mrs. Grundy. If we had
better and greater plays—plays of more
. ambition and more daring—we should
probably seo an improvement in the
mimetic art. It is true that the insular
potentate whom we have named does not
•exercise quite as much authority as she
did. Still she has by no means abdicated
her position,, and it is impossible to pre-
dict or.foresee at what particular mo-
ment she will reassert her imperiled
prerogative. The young ladies of the
period have, no doubt, burst a good
many of the trammels which were en-
sured patiently by their mothers at a
•similar period of life. But la jeune miss
is still a personage on this side of the
•channel, and. though she herself may be
•slow to be shocked her elders and duen-
nas amshocked for her.
It is apparently assumed that nothing
is shocking in French, and we have no
doubt that scores of mothers will take
their daughters to Drury Lane to see
“Frou Frou” or “Be Monde on l’on
eTEtmuie” who would ask with horror
whether the lord chamberlain was dead
if situations at all analogous to those in
either of these,comedies were represented
in honest English. We are a curious
people, and it is certain the French
think ns so. Their best comedies are
seen on the stage. Our most amusing
ones are to be seen off it.—London Pub-
lic Opinion. ____________
The Deacon** Reputation I* Sufe.
Lawyer F-eucb, who represents Pitts-
field in the legislature, passed around
the other day among his fellow oolong a
<ca*d which he found on his table upon
returning to his law office. Be had left
the«&rd bearing two words—“Return
toon.” During his absence a client had
writte» underneath it, “This is a d-d
lie," A second visitor to the office dur-
ing the interval had been a worthy dea*-
con who had called to see Mr. French on
church business, and apparently not
noticing the language already inscribed
had added his own message and signed
his name. Fortunately Mr. French was
able to distinguish between the two
handwritings, and the deacon’s standiri
remains secure.—Springfield (Mass.)
Homestead.
Too Much So.
Dr. Pultze Kounter—But, my dear sir,
I never promised you that I wotild bring
about a complete cure. I have done my
best. The practice of medicine is not
an exact science.
Patient (looking at the bill)—Not ex-
act, but exacting.—Boston Transcript.
A Gentle Protest.
Tourist (at Swiss hotel, giving up the
struggle with an uncommonly tough
steak)—Here, waiter, get them to fasten
these beefsteaks to the bottom of my
boot solas. I am doing a stiff climb to-
morrow.—Hwuorkpve Blatter.
Ml** Uly Knew Her Ul(hu.
Perhaps it is because she is colored
that Miss Lily May Tucker, n professor
of the divine art of cooking at Qtiogne
N. t, knows her civil rights. Anyway
she obtained one of her rights where
strong men would merely have sworn—
and walked. Wishing to go from
Quogue to Riverhead. Monday, by way
of Manor, to do some shopping. Miss
Lily asked for u ticket by that route,
The ticket was supplied to her, and she
paid for it. Then she boarded the train
and arrived rapidly at Manor, but was
there informed that the train which last
summer ran from Manor to Riverhead
was not running this season. Right there
is where a mere white man would have
made a feeble exhibition of the inferior-
ity of his color and sex.
But Laly! f he just looked over that
station agent cud said;
“Yon mean it hasn’t been running,
young man. It’s a-going to run, ’cause
•I’ve got a ticket that calls for my trans-
portation from Manor to Riverhead,
and I’m going by that route.”
Then she sat down on a beuch and let
the station agent walk the platform
After - awhile he went into his office arid
telegraphed something to somebody.
When he got an answer, he went out and
looked at Miss Lily’s ticket. Then ho
telegraphed some more, and some more
was telegraphed to him. Then he went
out again, wiping his brow, and said
that if Miss Lily insisted upon going by
the route called for on her ticket a
Bpecial train would have to be made up
to carry her. Miss Lily made answer;
’ “1 ain’t a-sisting; I’m just a waiting
here for that train what's going to take
me to Riverhead.”
And the train was made up, and Miss
Lily in her lonely majesty was trans-
ported to Riverhead as per her ticket.
New York Sun.
Longfellow's Maine Home.
There are few places of interest in
Maine that attract greater attention than
the “Longfellow house” in Portland,
which was recently presented to the
Maine Historical society by Mrs. Anne
L. Pierce, a sister of the poet. It was
the first brick house erected in Portland,
having been built by General Peleg
Wadsworth, adjutant general of Massa-
chusetts during the Revolution.
General Wadsworth was second in
command during the unsuccessful con-
flict with an English fleet which arrived
at Penobscot bay during the summer of
.1779. It was shortly afterward that his
house at Camden was entered at mid-
night. and he was taken prisoner. The
general established himself in Portland
during the spring of 1774 and in the fol-
lowing year began the erection of the
now historic house. The bricks were
brought from Philadelphia, and over
two years elapsed before the house was
completed.
Stephen Longfellow, father of the poet,
married a daughter of General Wads-
worth. Mrs. Longfellow, mother of
Mrs. Pierce, had eigiit children—four
daughters and four sons. With the ex-
ception of the eldest child and Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow all the children
were born in the old homestead that was
given to the Maine Historical society.
It was only by the merest accident that
Henry W. was not born in the same
house. According to Mrs. Pierce, the
house was undergoing repairs, and while
the changes were being made a small
house at the comer of Fore and Han-
cock streets owned by Captain Stephen-
son was occupied. This house was
burned.—Cor. New York Tribune.
Electric Fans In Theaters.
The electric fan is rapidly passing
from a luxury to a necessity. When a
man realizes that instead of being vir-
tually put out of working condition
while a hot wave is passing he can be
soothed all day by a refreshing breeze
while sitting at his desk, and thus se-
cure full value for his time, he is not
long in .seeing that an electric fan is one
of the best paying investments that
summer brings with it. The fan proves
profitable in other ways, and the pro-
prietors of restaurants and places of,
amusement find that they get their re-
ward for providing for the comfort of
the public by installing electric fans in
a largely augmented amount of custom.
So much is tliis the case that it is safe
to say that the coolest restaurant is the
best patronized at this time of the year.
Theater managers are beginning to rec-
ognize the value of the electric fan, and
one of the New York theaters has been
turned into a delightful summer resort
by the placing of electric fans in differ-
ent parts of the Auditorium. The boxes
have each an individual outfit, and there
is a plentiful distribution of such fans
throughout the stage and dressing rooms.
—Exchange.
The Scold.
There was a little boy of 7 years in
her family whose business it was to
prepare kindling wood. Sometimes he
forgot to prepare it. Seven years isn't
a very great while to live in this world,
and sometimes people who have lived
seven times seven forget things.
This woman who scolded entertains a
memory which will abide with her for-
ever. The memory is associated with
the words of a dying child uttered in a
deliruin: “Don’t scold me. mamma,
dear. I forgot the kindling, but I'll get
it now—and—please don’t—scold me.”
The words have burned into her soul.
They afford no measure of comfort. She
hasn’t scolded anybody for years. There
is no one to scold.—“What One Womar.
CURING A NERVOUS CRANK.
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Treatment Employed In Ceitorfnc a Well
Man Who Imagined He Was 111.
Oo the east side lives a physician whose
success in the treatment of nervous dis-
orders has brought to him, rather against
his own wishes, considerable nractice
among a class whom he describes as
“nervous cranks.” One of these pa-
tients, a man of large means, had caused
no end of trouble to the doctor, who,
seeing that the case was piAely one of
mental idiosyncrasy, was unwilling to
prescribe a course of drugging or other
injurious treatment. The man insisted
that his nervous system was completely
unstrung and that the physician should
take his case in hand.
“There you can see how nervous I
am," said the patient one day, in the doc-
tor’s office, as he picked up an incandes-
cent electric light bulb from an adjoin-
ing table. “Look at that. See how that
carbon coil inside of the bulb vibrates
and trembles from my nervousness!"
“Very well,” replied the physician, de-
termined now to deal with :he case in
another wav, “you are more nervous
than I supposed, but I think I can fetch
you out all right in five or six weeks.”
An assortment of bogus pills and po-
tions was given to the patient, and lie
was placed under a rigid rule for sleep,
diet., baths and exercise. His physical
h'fiami, which had been excellent to be
gin with, improved steadily; but bus nerv-
ous condition, as indicated by the fluc-
tuations of the incandescent bulb, which
he found conveniently at hand every
time he visited the doctor's office showed
little or no trace of mending. i •
One day, however, near tho end of the
fourth week, the patient, upon taking
tho bulb from its accustomed place and
holding it up to the light, was surprised
to find that the vibrations of the carbon
were almost nothing. Beaming with
new hopefulness, he called the physi-
cian’s attention to the fact. The latter
was surprised and delighted. The pa-
tient tested himself with the bulb in his
right hand, then changed it to his left
and then repeated the operation, always
with the same gratifying result. The
treatment bad done its work. He feit
like a well man. He was satisfied from
the first that those pills would fix him.
“He sailed for Europe the other day,”
remarked the physician, “and as he is to
remain abroad for five years I guess
there is no danger of his learning how 1
cured him. He was so taken with the
idea of testing the condition of his nerv-
ous system by the vibrations of the car-
bon in that electric light bulb that I hu-
mored his fancy, After three or four
weeks of careful living, and when he had
put himself into first class physical con-
dition, I simply changed the bulbs for
him. For the ordinary bulb containing
a carbon coil I substituted one that 1
had made with a fine coil of oxidized
silver wire closely resembling the other J
and which was so stiff that it was capa-
ble of almost no vibration when the bulb
was held in the patient's hand. He took
it, saw that the vibrations had ceased
and concluded that he was cured.
“In some way, perhaps by accident or
when in condition of mental excitement
he had noticed the trembling of the car-
bon in a bulb when held in the hand
and had instantly made up his mind that
he was suffering from nervous disorder.
He insisted upon using the same means
in testing his progress toward recovery
that had first persuaded him that he was
ill, and I was compelled to acquiesce
and treat him from that basis. He had
evidently had little experience with these
bulbs. Ordinary tests and observation
would have shown him that no man
however sound, can hold an incandescent
bulb in his unsupported hand so steadiB
that the carbon inside of it will not vt
brate.’’—New York Herald.
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ro*t* In tha Boom of Common*.
Several members of the house of com-
mons have published volumes of poems—
namely: William Abraham, member for
Glamorganshire (Rhondda division),
who is a Welsh bard, under the title of
“Mabon;” William Allen, the member
for Gateshead, who is an engineer and
poet, and whose woiks include “A Book
of Songs In English and Scottish;” Wil-
liam Johnston of Hallykilbeg, member
of the southern division of Belfast, who
is poet laureate of the institution of
Orangemen in Ireland; Professor Jebbof
Cambridge university, who has pub-
lished translations into Greek and Latin
verse, and T. D. Sullivan, member of
the western division of Donegal, who
has published a selection of songs. Sir
George Otto Trevelyan published in
1809 a volume of poems entitled “The
Ladies In Parliament," and other pieces,
and has also written many verses, dra-
matic and satirical, of which another of
the best known is “The Dawk Bunga-
low ’’
Henry Smith Wright has published tho
first four books of the “Iliad” of Homer
in English hexameter verse. The prime
minister (Mr. W. E. Gladstone), though
he has not published a volume of poems,
has written verses both in English and
Latin, while among his papers* is said to
be a Greek tragedy, which may one day
be sent out in book form. Mr. J. W.
Crombie, member for Kincardineshire,
is the author of “Some Poets of the Peo-
ple In Foreign Lands.” Two members
of the hous-' of lords have recently pub-
lished volumes of poems—na-, nely, Lord
Houghton, “Stray Verses," and the bish-
op of Lincoln, “A Ladder of Heaven.”—
London Tit-Bits.
A drawing of Charles I’s head in St.
John’s college, Oxford, presents at a
short distance the appearance of en-
graved lines, but on close inspection
these lines are found to contain the
Psalms, Creed and the Lord’s Prayer.
The shah's favorite wife is named An-
izeh Dooulet. She was a woman of
lowly origin, but bright, intelligent and
courageous. She has never tried to
meddle with politics, but has made it
her one object in life to please and at-
tract her royal husband. Her income is
$00,000 a year.
Deadly Hatred.
“I hate serial stories in magazines,"
said she.
“Why?” he asked.
“Because,” shereplied, “you can never
tell how they are going to turn out till
ou’ve read ’em through.”—Harper’s
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assisting all her natural fuucuuus, ----
putting in perfect order every part of the
female system. It lessens the pains and bur-
dens of child-bearing, supports and strength-
ens weak, nursing mothers, and promotes an
abundant secretion of nourishment j
It’s an invigorating, restorative tonic, a
soothing and bracing nervine, and a guaran-
teed remedy for women’s ills and ailments.
In every chronic “ female complaint” or
weakness, if it ever fails to benefit or cqre,
you have your money back.
Thousands of people, with worse cases of
Catarrh than yours* probably is, have been
permanently cured by Dr. Sage’s Catarrh
Remedy. That is the reason why its pro-
prietors are willing to promise you $500 if
you can’t be cured.
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j Too Much Education.
Teacher (waifs’ night school)—Now,
remember, a diamond i3 pure carbon.
Shoe blacking, by the way, boys, is made
of carbon, and the shine or glisten is
due to millions of tiny diamonds.
Gentleman (the next day)—I want my
boots blacked. How much, boy?
Boy—I don't know, boss. I luun't had
a chance to inquire the priceo’ diamonds
this mornin.—Good News.
An Early Morning Affair.
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“Well, I must go. I have to get down
to business early, you know.”
“Do yon? Well, it is very kind in you
to stop in on your way down, Mr. Stay-
,ate.”~Life. >
His Downfall.
He played on velvet all night long
Until those jackpots came,
And now his wife wears calico;
His neckties are the same.
—Olothjer and Furnisher.
AMONG THE GEMS.
The finest beryls come from Russia.
The best rubies come from Burmali.
When die Kohinoor was first brought
to Europe, it weighed 18G carats, but by
cutting has been reduced to 102.
Artificial agates are now made by so
many different and effective processes
that the stone has lost most of its value
as a gem.
The Russian scepter is of solid gold,
8 feet long and contains among its orna-
ments 268 diamonds, 360 rubies and 15
emeralds.
The stone which the ancients called
sapphire is now known as lapis lazuli.
Its principal color is azure blue shading
into green.
After the conquest of Mexico and Peril
emeralds were so abundant that one
Spanish nobleman took home four bush-
els of them.
With the funds raised by pawning the
Regent diamond Napoleon was enabled
to undertake vtbe. campaign that ended
at Marengo.
Nero’s eyeglass, through which the
nearsighted tyrant watched the gladia-
torial games, was an emerald cut into
the form of a lens.
The emerald improves in color on ex-
posure to the light. Pearls kept in the
dark lose their luster, but regain it on
exposure to the sun.
The ruby in the center of the Maltese
cross on top of the British crown is tho
stone that was given to the Black Prince
by King Pedro of Castile after the battle
of Najara. Henry V of England wore it
in his helmet at the battle of Agincourt
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
We Don’t Tliink
YOU
Want Any Better Line to the World’s Fair Than the
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(Pjicago.
Call on onr Agents before purchasing youi Tickets.
G. T. NICHOLSON, G. P. A., Topeka.
C. H. MOREHOUSE, D. F. & P. A., El Paso,
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