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igr-oisr*-* OLUME IV. -NO 4. ^Eecliltj gcweio. rtTBLTSHKD EVERY WEDNESDAY BY JOS. BOBLETER. Office ovei City Drug Store. TERMS: One Dollar and a half per Yeai in Advance. Rates of lAdvertialuff FURNISHED VPOK APPLICATION. ~A4rrrl8eaea* in doable eolumn, double the jute Hi rates. Valine*) Cards of lite lines, one year S5 OO.eneh vnoMlnneTSata. U Hanslenf.advertieemente to be paid for In advance ASVWftaamenta Inserted In ttie local notice col amn^ Mangels a*llne fer the fret Insertion and 6 enk rle for each'snbaequentand Insertion:s but n.o aatUelaaartcdfor less than tfty tents _-^?0Vi.c*'??,, awing death insert H met bat aMtwury noMces, accept in special cas es, vttl be charged at advertising rates. tl*)KJ aottaea will be ebarged 75 cents per folio for the Srst tawrtlen, and 31 tents per folio for each abmqaeat InserMen All leawl notices must be tarn Ma responsibility ef ttoe Attorney otderine Atom aabMshetl, aat ao afldnvlt of publication will ke Sfiea aa*a tae publication fees are lid. In eaaeatlen with the iper, we have a splon dklaaeertaf fJofcMng material, and we are pre-parad te entente all klndt. ef printing in a style unsurpassed and at moderate rntes fiusiness Cardi, J. R. FOSTER, DENTIST, NEW ULM, MINN. A full set of teeth for $10.00. Gas administered by Dr. Benv and teeth extracted without pain. Office over Beussmann's hardware tore. TVR. C. BERRY, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. OFTICS AT THK CITT UVVB STOKE. iffiW VLM, MINNESOTA r\K A. MARDEN, RESIDENT DENTIST, ftffice, comer Minn, and First fl. 8U. HEW ULM, MINNESOTA ELI KUHLMAN, PH. M. D. PHYSICIAN & CIIEHUST. Office and Drug Store next door to Skandinavian House. New Vim, Minn. DR. B. CARL, Physician and Surgeon. NEW ULM, MINN. Office and residence on 3d Noith Str. DR. J. W. B. WELLCOME, PYUSICUN & SURGEON, SLEEPY EYE, MINN. -)R. H. A. HITCHCOCK, Physician Surgeon, *Vill attend to calls night or cUy. OFFICE AT y%. Hitchcock's Drug Store. Birnj, Broirn Co., Minn. DR. G. WELLNER, Formals Armen Arzt zur "Xoith Star Dispensary," Clneago, hat sich permanent in Burns niedergelassen und empfehlt sich hiermit seinen Landsleute. B. F. WEBBER, Attorney and Counselor AT LAW. Money to Loan Office over Citizen's Nat'l Bank, NEW ULM, MINN. GEORGE KUHLMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Contested cases made a speciality. Will buy notes and advance money on first class piper loft with me for colltct.c Office over Brown County Bank. New Ulm, Minn. LEWIS THIELE, Notary Public and CollectingAgt. Renville, Renville Co., Minn. J. J. RAY, Notary Public, Conveyancer, and Agtnt for St. Paul TIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO., Springfield, Brown Co., Minn. DAKOTA HOUSE. OPP. POST OFFICENEW ULM,MINN. ADOLPH SEITER, Prop'r. This house is the most centrally lo cated house in the city and af fords good Sample Rooms. TO THE Traveling Public. he undersigned would respectfully announce tli it, although the division ha been moved to Slee Eye, he will continue to miko the MERCHANT'S HOTEL one. oftbe most popular resorts in the Minnesota valley He will she his especial attention to the table, which will be first-class in all respects, and afford all the delicacies of the season, especially game. The rooms are all splendidly furnished with clean beds, and the waiters are kind and obliging Rates to suit the times The old and new friends of this hotel are cordially in\ited to give me i call wiiaa traveling New Ulmward CHARLES BRUST Big"Wages Durin 188 0 The meter's text book. Every voterWfcMme It AiMress the Western -Book Exch&ugei16l-fc.loi La Se lleSt, .Chicago III A*** M& ''^^^!^^^ffl^*^^i^^iaM| H. CRABEOURN, C. H. ROB*, President Cashier BROW N CO BANK, Cor. Minn and Centre Stieets. NEW ULM, MINNESOTA Collections and all business pertaining to banking PROMF1LY ATTENDED TO. INDIVIDUAL RSPONSiB!LTiY 5*500,000. W Boesch. Pfenninger 6 Doehne Eagle Mill Co. NEW ULM, MINN. Merchant and Milling Promptly one. Improved Machinery for the Manufacture of the Finest Grades of Flour. Feed of nil Kinds Manufactured. Excellent Machinery for the sawing of lumber. Jhe highest cah price paid or flour exchanged for milling wheat. John Belm, A. Subiha. NE-WULM CITY MILL Centre Street, New [Jim We are running day and night, and can supply any quantity of best brands of Flour at regular rates on short notice. Flour exchanged for wheat on very liberal terms. NEW ULM CITY MILL CO. Frank Burg, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN CIGARS, TOBACCOS, & PIPES. Minnesota street, next door to C. Sommer's Store. NEW ULM, MINN. CENTRE STREET SAMPLE ROO & BILLIARD HALLE. IN BASEMENT OF The best of Wines, Liquors and Ci gars constantly kept on hand. QITY Louis Felkel, Prop'r. Meat Market. GHAS. STUEBE, Prop'r A laige supply of fresh meats, sau sage, hams, lard, etc., constantly on hand. All ordt rs fiom the country promptly attended to. CASH PAID FOR HIDES. Minn. Street, New Ulm, Minn. Meat Market, M. EPPLE, PROP'S A large supply fresh meats, sau^a, bam, laid, etc etc., constantly on band All oreers from the coun try promptly attended to CASH PAID FOR HIDL3. MINN. STREET. NEW ULM. MINN CENTRE STREET I E 3R Sale and Feed Stable, ANTO N BREY, Proprietor, Opposite Union Hall, New Ulm, Minn, C. F. HELD. Undei taker and Dealer in ALL KIND OF FUBN Proprietor and Manufacturer of THE FARMERS' FRIEND. FANNING MILL. The best fanning mill in the maiket. Store and Fartorv on Centre Street near City Mill. NEW ULM, MINN. 30FincyJwith Chromo, Snow Fl ikes, &c Jio two tlifce, name, 10 cents MINKLER &Co, Nassiu, N. Y. Miss T. Westphal. Keeps on hand a large and well sorted stock of MILLINFRY, FAUCY GOODS and ZEPHR WOOL, opposite the Union Hotel, between Second and Third North streets. NEW UM, MINN. MILLINERY --AND DRESS MAKING. MRS. ANTON OLDING, NEXT DOOR TO SOMMER'S STORE, NEW ULM. Has on hand 1 good stock of Millinery Goods, ronsi&tingin pmt of Hats, Bonnets, Velvets, Silks Ribbons, Feather, Human Hair, Flowers, &c. Alto Patterns for stamping monograms *Stamp ine of all kinds, Embioideiy Work and Fashion able Diess iking done to order Fnrin Produce taken in exchange for goods HAIR WORK. Ornamental han jewelry, such as chaims, chains, pins, ear-rings, brace lets, nngs and all kinds of solid work piomptiy made to ordei. Combings 50 cents an ounce. MRS. K, PICKER. Centie Str., New Ulm, Minn, TALBOT & RINKE, Dealeis in DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, READY MADE CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES, LADIES AND GENTS UNDERWEAR, NOTIONS, &c, &c, &c. Highest market price paid for farm produce. SleepY Eje, Minn. QOETZ. ADOLPH MEINEKE. C. PENZHORN. MEINECKE & CO. Importers and Jobbers of Toys,FancyGHs.YankeeNotions WILLOW WARE A CHILDREN'S 0ARRI \?E* No. 92 HURON ST. MILWAUKEE, WIS E. SCHNEIDER & CO. Importers &. Wholesale Dealers in "Serines 5 Liquors, Rectifiers of Spirits. Cor.Clinton & S.Water sts., Mtlwaukee. Hugo C. Stnbbe, Agent C. E. WILTON PAPER CO.her Manufacturers and dcileis in PAPER, STATIONERY, BLANK BOOKS, ALBUMS, PRINTERS' STOCK, &c, &c. No. E. Water St., Milwaukee WINTERIIALTER, Agent. J. FERNEKES, Manufacturing CONFECTIONER, and dealer in NUTS GREEN FRUITS, etc., etc., etc. 351 &, 353 East Water Str. Milw auKe IIJ OfE8 BROTHERS& CUTLER, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, 8T. PAUL, MWN "SHWeSB" HARNESS SHOP. H.H.I Corner Minn, &, 1st North sti's.. New Ulm, Minn. This business is established ana will becondnct- 3d ns heretofore in the ie-ii end of Mr. Bens matin's hardware store It shall be our aim to constantly keep on hand 1 well assorted stock of Harnesses, Saddles Collars, Whips Blankets,tc which will be jold at bottom price,, Upholstery and all kinds of cutom woik promptly and satis factorily attended to. M. &Students SlOO or S200 per month during vacation. For full par ticular, addiess. JIcCt'HV & Chicago I1| ff.BCUSJMAXN &CO. JUENEMANN* of I would respectfully announce to the people rsew Mm mid \icinity, that 1 have opened a fi.m, class In eij, lie intl Feed Stible, at hd Casey's old st 1 ml, opposite Ui ion Hall, ind tint I am now full} prepared to furnish good livery teams Viith top 01 open buggies or en wigons on short no tice first AJSTON BREY. KANtnrACTTJMB AITS DliUB fW Harnesses, Collars, Saddles, Wnips, Saddlery, Blankets, etc., etc., eto. Upholstery, and all custom wort oerUlning my business promptly attended to. tlinn. St, Next Door to Ziher1^ Saloon, NEW ULM. H. H. BEUSMANN, Dealei in Shelfiheavy Hardware, Iron,Steel Carpenter's & Farming Tools FARMING MACHINERY, &c. COE. MINN. & 1st N. STS., SEW Cltl, MINN. NEW WABON & SMITH SHOP. The undersigned wouM respectfully inform the public that they have opened a wagon ind Smith shop on State Street, ind are prepared to do any and all work in their line piomptiy and at living rites All work warranted New Wigons wi 1 nlwaysjbe kept on band A kind patronage 13 re. spectfnll) solicited, Lauterbach and Faas. NEW ULM, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1881. A BALLADIiVE. She was tbe prettiest girl, I ween, That mortal eyes had ever seen Her name is Anabel Christine, Her bangs were curled with bandoline, Her cheeks were smoothed with vaseline. Her teeth were brushed with fine dentine, Her laee was washed in eoaline. Her gloves were cleaned with gasoline. She wore a dress of grenadine. Looped over a skirt of brilliantine. Her petticoat was bombazine. Her foot was shod with a kid bottine. Her wounds were healed with cosmoUoe. She sailed away from Muscatine In a ship they called a brigantine, She flirted with a gay marine Till they reached th' Republic Argentine, Where they were married by the Dean, And lived on oleomargarine. Scrioner's Brioa-Braa. WORKING FOB NOTHINGU "I shall not be able to hire you after this week, George," said a pale, deli cate-looking woman to a boy about four teen years old who had been in the hab it of getting her wood and water for her. I find I cannot spare the money and I shall have to try and do the work myself." She said this in a very sad tone of voice so sad that almost any one would have noticed it. But George Burch did not notice it, or the sad look in her face when she said it. The only thought in his mind was that he should lose the twenty-five cents a week he had been earning. Why? Don't I suit! I work as cheap as anybody, I guess." "O, yes, you don't ask any too much and you do* your work well. But the reason is only that I cannot spare the money, as small as the sum is. I hope you can find something else to do to take the place of this, I am sure. I wish I could keep you, for I am afraid drawing the water is going to be al most too much for me. Here is your money, George." As he took the money and turned to go, Mrs. Noble called to him: George, I guess I shall have to get you to bring me an extra pail of water. I may feel too tired to get it myself in the morning. Here are three cents ex tra for it." George took the three cents as a mat ter of course and listened with satisfac tion to hear them drop down into his pantaloons pocket with the other money he had just received. After he had gone Mrs. Noble seated herself before her fire with a heavy heart. It was a gray November after noon, and she felt more lonely than usu al. She felt sick, too, and she won dered how, with her failing strength, she should be able to bring waterfrom the well, split kindlings and do the other work which George had been doing tor her. She wished that she had spared a few cents more andgot him to cut a few more kindlings, for it seemed to her she needed a day or two to get up courage enough to do it herself. Perhaps it seems strange to most of you that it should seem such a burden to herwork that to you would seem so light. But Mrs. Noble had never drawn a pail of water or split a stick of wood. She had until recently had plenty of money and servants to help her. But within a short time death took from her husband and only child. Mis fortune of various kinds, which boys and girls would not care to stop and read about reduced her large property to a very small one, and theoff small one to an income so small as to hardly support her comfortably, After the death of her husband she re moved to the little village of and occupied alone the cottage of which I have spoken. Tears filled her eyes as she thought of thepast, of the dear ones now gone, of the far-distant home of her youth and of her present condition of loneliness aad poverty. She had a brother, she supposed, somewhere in the world but she knew not where. He had left home many years before, dur ing some family trouble and had never made known his whereabouts. He was probably dead. So, because she hadand no relatives, no special friend to whom she could go for help and no money to spare for hiring her work done, she must try, sick or well, to do it herself. Little did George Burch think what a sorrowing hearthe wasleaving, although tears were in her eyes when she bade him good-bye. Perhaps we ought not to expect a boy of his age to feel orshow sympathy for such a one. Still, I can so easily call to mind one of his age, now gone from earth, who would have been melted to tears by her tears, and would have exclaimed, eagerly: Never mind the money, Mrs. No ble. I will get the wood and water for nothing." So there has been such a boy, and I know there are more. But George Burch was of another sort and it must not be wondered at. From his earliest childhood he had been taught to get all he could and to keep it. Make every cent you can, Georgie," his father would say, and there's nothing to hender ye from being as rich as any of 'em." That had beenfos motto, though as yet he had not made himself very rich by it. He had, however, a good house and all that he needed. George seemed to be born with a love for money. He would never lose a chance to make a cent if he could help it. He was willing to work and to work hard, not because he loved to work, although he really did lore work better than study, but because he loved the money the work would bring. He was always ready to lose a half day's school for a few cents, and it was generally re marked by his schoolmates when he was absent: "George is out making a cent." George was never known to work for nothing. No pay, no work," was his wav of repeating" the motto. When a neighbor wanted him to do an errand he had no hesitation in asking: "How much do you expect to giver' and if he found that he was expected to do it for nothing, even if it were right in his way, he always invented some excuse for not doing it. Don't catch me working for nothing," he would say with a shrewd look in his eyea remark which his father always approved. So, of course, he had no idea of working for Mrs. Noble for nothing. A few days after this, George and several other boys were playing in the yard adjoining Mrs. Noble's. Sudden ly one of them shouted: See old Mis' Noble! She's dressed up nice to get a pail of water, ain't she? See her gloves!" I should think she was goin' to meetin'," added another. Hope she won't catch cold!" "Nodangero' that," said a third. Pity she hadn't a buffalo-robe to wrap 'round her head, on top of her big white shawl. She'd make a good scarecrow wouldn't she, boys?" At this the boys joined in a hearty laugh._ "I "thought you did her chores, George," said a pale, slender boy, who had not yet spoken. Well, I did as long as she could pay bat when the money stopped /stopped. You know, I ain't one of the kind that works for nothin'. No, sir you don't catch me doing that. I ain't so fond of work as all that." Meanwhile, Mrs. Noble was strug gling very hard to turn the heavy crank of the well. The cool November air made her shiver and caused her face to fadw ro whiter than ever. Besides, she heard part of the remarks the boys had made, and she felt as if she must look very ridiculous. Her only thought in wrapping up so much was to protect herself from the cold, knowing by hard experience how she should have to suf fer from any exposure. The nearerthe bucket of water drew to the curb the heavier it grew and as she stopped to lift it over, in order to pour it into her pail, her strength failed her, and she cast a wistful look toward the boys. That look was not lost on Ned Ingatls, the boy to whom George Burch had been giving his ideas about "workhV for nothin'.'' With one bound he cleared the low fence which separated the yards, and, seizing the crank, he said: "Here, Mrs. Noble, let me lift the pail over. It is too heavy for you. I will carry it in, too." O, thank you, dear! but I don't like to trouble you. I find it hard, though, I confess, to get it in myself." It is no trouble at all. I am used to bringing water." So he carried it in and put it in its place by the sink. "Thank you very much," said Mrs. Noble. George Burch used to do this work for me but lately I have been trying to do it myself. But it is quite an undertaking for me to get a pail ot water. I find I have to wrap up as much as if I were going along dis tance." "I will come over and draw what water you need. I live near, and it will only take a few minutes." I should like to have you, but I can not afford to pay you. I gave George up for want ot money." O, I didn't mean to do it for pay. I will do it for nothing. I have plenty of time before and after school." So, without waiting for Mrs. Noble to express her thanks, ne bade her good night and went away. Ned Ingalls' mother was a widow. She was glad to get employment to help support ner family ana to keep Ned at school. She did all the sewing she could get and frequently took in washing and ironing. So, really, Ned could less af ford to work for nothing than George Burch and many of his other boy-com panions. But, with all her work and all her proverty she never lost a chance to teach her children to be kind to others, and to lend a helping hand whenever they could. You will never lose anything by do ing for others," she would often say. "Don't expect to be paid always in dollars and cents." George Burch was surprised when he found that Ned was doing Mrs. Noble's work. "That's pretty queer," said he, an grily. She said she turned me off be cause she couldn't afford to pay and now she's gone and hired you. I'm glad, now, that 1 took three cents for that extra pail of water. I set out not to charge anything, but then I thought I'd better get all I could. That's father's way and mine, too. He says I'm a chip the old block and I guessl am. Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm glad she didn't get nothin' out o' me but what she paid for. I s'pose you work cheaper. How much do you charge her?" Nothing," repliedNed. It doesn't take long to get what little wood and water she uses, and she looked so sorter sick I told her I'd do it for nothing, as long as she couldn't afford to pay. "Do it for nothin'! Well, you are a fool. All right. Go ahead. Gues3 you'll get sick enough of it before win ter's over. I s'pose you'll shovel for nothin', and go to the Postoffice for nothin', and go after yeast for nothin', do everything else she wants done, for nothin'. Well, I hope you'll lay up money. The bank won't be apt to bust while you are so prosperous. Do it for nothin'! Well, as for me, I'd rather work for something." But Ned did not get sick of it before the winter was over. In fact, as time passed, he liked it better and better. Although he did shovel, and go to the Postoffice. and go after yeast, he did not feel as if he did it for nothing. He felt doubly paid when he came in, per haps out of a drifting snow-storm, to meet her pleasant face, and to see her Ettlet oin smilingly to an extra plate on the tea-table, which she had drawn close up to the fire, and her sweet voice say: That plate is for you, dear. You must have a cup of tea with me to-night, and here are some doughnuts which I made purposely for you." Then, after supper she would help him with his lessons, explaining all the difficult portions until she made them clear to him. This last was a great help to Ned, and he progressed so rapidly at school as to exeite the wonder of his teacher and class mates. George Burch, in particular, wondered what had given Ned Ingalls such a start. But Ned and Mrs. Noble knew. So, although she had not money to pay Ned for the work he did, she had many ways of helping him. It was she who knit his mittens, although it was often done with yarn raveledlrom stockings her husband used to wear. It was her delight to make him prettv neckties from bits of bright silk she had in the house. Then they had nice talks about Ned's future prospects, and many a cheery game of checkers and backgammon, and often, in the midst of their enjoyment, Mrs. Noble would exclaim: "Why, Neddie, I don't know what I should do without you. But it doesn't seem right to have you doing my work for nothing.'r "I don't do it for nothing I think I am over-paid every week so if you are suited I am sure I ought to be." And so the weeks went by, and the months went by, and little was said about Ned's doing the work except an occasional inquiry from George Burch, in a rather sneering way, if he still en joyed "working for nothin'." But this state of things could not go on. At the end of two years, George and Ned both left school to go to work. George went into the factory, and Ned got a place to clerk in a book store on smaller wages. But he thought he would have some chance to study there, and though he had said nothing about it to anyone be side his mother and .Mrs. Noble he had a strong idea of trying to work his way through college. About this time a telegram oame to Mrs. Noble, in forming her that her brother was dead and urging her immediate presence in New York. So she closed the cottage and went away, and he missed her very much. But after a few weeks she came back, bringing with her a little girl, the only child of her brother. Ere long it was rumored that the Widow Noble had bought the cottage where she lived. Soon additions began to be made to it It was painted and an ornamental fence was put around it New and handsome furniture arrived, and many signs pointed to the conclu sion that the widow had had a fortune left her. And soshe had. Her brother had left a large property which was di vided between his only sister and his caild, whom he confided to her care. But the greatest sensation of all was Sfed roduced when it was announced that Ingalls had left his place of em ployment and, after a few months at the Academy, was to enter college. "I don't see how you've managed to save money enough to go to college," said George Burch to him one day. "It's going to take a big lot, and you can't be earning much while you're there." No, I shall not have much time to earn anything then. Butto tell you the truth, George, I laid up a lot while I was working for nothing."'Christian Union. The New Anaesthetic Process. A late number of the Medical Record contains a notice of anew and curious method of deadening pain, which is of striking simplicity. It was discovered by Dr. Bonwill, a dentist of Philadel phia, in 1875. In 1876 Dr. A. Hewson made a favorable report of his expe rience with it to the International Med ical Congress and at a recent meeting of the Philadelphia County Medical So ciety several papers were read on the subject, and much discussion followed. In using the method, theoperatormere ly request" the patient to breathe rap idly, making about 100 respirations per minute, ending in rapid puffing expira tions. At the end of from two to five minutes an entire or partial absence of pain results for half a minute or more and during that time the teeth may be drawn or incisions made. The patient may be in any position but that recommended is lying on the side, and it is generally best to throw a handker chief over the face to prevent distrac tion of the patient's attention. When the rapid breathing is first begun the patient may feel some exhilaration fol lowing this comes a sensation of full ness in the head or dizziness. The face is at first Hushed and afterwards pale or even bluish, the heart beats rather feebly and fast, but the sense of touch is not affected, nor is consciousness lost. The effect is produced in females more readily than in males and the mid die-aged more easily than in the old children can scarcely be made to breathe properly. It is denied that there is any possible danger. Several minor operations, other than frequent dental ones, have been successfully made by this method, and it is claimed that in dentistry, minorsurgery and ob stetrics, it may supplant the common anaesthetics. Dr. Hewson's explana tion is that rapid breathing diminishes the oxygenation of the blood, and that the resultant excess of carbonic acid temporarily poisons the nerve centres. Dr. Bonwill gives several explanations one being the specific effect of carbonic acid, another the diversion of will force produced by rapid voluntary muscular action, and the third, the damming up of the blood in the brain, due to the ex cessive amount of air passing into the lungs. The Record is not satisfied with the theories, but considers it well proved that pain may be deadened by the method which it commends to the profession for exact experimental de termination of its precise value. Malaria in New England, We have heretofore referred to the increase of malarial fevers and especial ly of the form calledintermittent fever, or fever and ague, in New England. The State Board of Health of Massa chusetts has taken hold of the subject and has already collected a mass of facts which is astounding and confirms to the fullest extent the rumors. The disease, fever and ague, has been in creasing for three or four years past in the valley of the Connecticut River and cases have appeared in every town on the river from Connecticut to Vermont. In Agawam, Springfield, Holyoke and some other towns, the number of cases this year has been very large, and the disease each year seems to be increas ing and spreading. But malaria is not limited or con trolled by State lines and for a com Slete knowledge of the subject, even in fassachusetts, their State Board of health very properly has thought it necessary to obtain information of the disease as it exists in the neighboring States. With this view, an agent of the Massachusetts Board, a well-skilled physician, came to Providence yester day, and visted the malarial regioa ia Barrington and made a thorough inves tigation of the subject. The result, as we learn from an in terview with this gentleman, is astound ing. The disease, as verified by the examination of cases now existing, is genuine intermittent fever, commonly called fever and ague. Cases now ex ist in all its stages, and some with the characteristic ague cake," or enlarged spleen. Many of the cases have been very severe. The disease has attacked all classes of persons living within the malarial region, and some living at a considerable distance from the origin of the malaria. It has attacked indiscrim inately the old, the middle-aged and the young. It has attacked residents and non-residents, new residents and old residents. The whole number of cases in the malarial district during the present season, say from the 1st of August to the present time, has been at least 250. Of 186 workmen at the brickyard, 185 have had the disease. Of this number 103 were sick at one time. At the pres ent time there are about sixty cases ex isting, of which thirty to thirty-five are at the brickyard, and the rest are scat tered through the malarial district. The gentleman from Massachusetts who has made this investigation thinks that in this proportion of cases to popu lation, and in the severity of the dis ease, the malaral district in Barrington is the worst he has visited and worse than any he has heard of in New En gland, almost equalling the ague dis tricts of the South. The reason why the disease is there this year, where it never was before, he will not under take to giveProvidence (R. I.) Jour nal. Some time ago a dead body curi ously browned, as if cooked, was found at iontainbleauand sent to the Paris Morgue. It was identified as a mummy by a person who brought it from Egypt, but he was arrestedon suspicion of foul play, and had to get the evi dence of scientists to procure his ac quittal. All Paris was agog about the matter and a clever dramatist worked the incident into a play. Some -of the German educational leaders are making efforts to abolish the old style of type in use in Germany, as well as the characters used for writ ing. About all that cunning can do for a man is to make him incredulous. ^rtaBjawc'^a-aw'Bww-^ar^ rACTS AND FIGURES. Vigorous efforts at tobacco culture are being made in Italy. Where a number of bridges were required to cross a small but tortuous stream in Cass County, Iowa, the Chi cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company, which is now replacing its bridges, concluded it would be cheaper to change the course of the stream, and this is being done. A railroad is projected to connect Antioch and Lagrangeville, Cal., a dis tance of 165 miles. It is to be a single track road on the James patent. The cost of construction per mile is esti mated at $1,200 entire cost, $198,000 equipment, $82,200 estimated earn ings for six months, $460,000 working expenses, $60,000. The road will be built in the interest of the farmers ol the great plains, and if successful will revolutionize them by providing a cheap and certain outlet to the sea. The phenomenon of the perfora tion of rocks by sand carried on the wind has been observed in the alley of the Rhone in France. A very vio lent wind often prevads in the neigh borhood of Uzes, and drives large quan tities of sand against a band of quartz ose pebbles contained in a tertiary soil. The pebbles contain cavities which might be believed to have been made by human hands, but which are really produced by the often renewed friction of the sandy particles against their surface. Ocean soundings made with what is known as Sir William Thompson's steel wire show that along the entire coast of California, a depth of 1,500 fathoms or more is reached as near as within a distance of from twenty to seventy miles e3twai from the shores, the greater part of this sudden fall oc curnng the last ten to fifty miles. At one hundred miles west from San Francisco the bottom is found to be over 2,500 fathoms deep. The bed of the ocean continues of a uniform depth, greater than 1,500 fathoms, until the andwich Islands are reached, the greatest depth being 3,000 fathoms, at a distance of about tour hundred miles east of Honolulu, which great depth is maintained until within ninetv milc3 of Honolulu at fifty miles from that place the depth is 1,500 fathoms. The following preparation, it is claimed, wdl render wood incombusti ble and impermeable: Sulphate of zinc, 55 pounds alum, 44 pounds oxide of manganese, 22 pounds sulphuric acid of 60 deg., 22 pounds water, 55 pounds. All the solid ingredients are put into a boiler containing the water at 45 dco\ C. (113 deg. F.), and as soon as they are dissolved the sulphuric acid is poured in gradually until the mass is completely saturated. The pieces of wood are kept about five centimeters (1.97 in.) apart, and after three hours1 boiling they are dried in the onen air. The natural appearance of the wood is not changed. To whatever heat it is subjected it resists combustion, the sur face being simply covered with a thin charred coating, which is easily rubbed off. WIT AftD WISDOM. The last piece of fashion-writers' slang is to call a gown, "restful." Millers make poor party men. They are generally bolters.Toronto Grip. Somebody in New Milford has found an umbrella, and announces that the owner can have it by calling, which shows quite conclusively what sort of an umbrella it is.Danbury News. The latest fashion in ceramics gives us triangular cups and sauceis. By practice a man can get so that he will be able to drink from one and send the liquid down the inside instead of the outside of his throat, and it is better to do the practicing in private, with an old shirt on.Boston Pest. Nothing i3 so admirable as logic. A German traveler hurried out of the car, tired and dusty, and seating himself at a restaurant table cried out, Waiter bring me a beefsteak'" The waiter re plied that he would be charmed to do so, but that it took twenty minutes to cook i steak, while the train only waited ten minutes. The kindly and sweet tempered traveler retorted, "Well, then, bring me half a beefsteak." There is a Galveston merchant who does not keep his stock up, consequent ly it often happens he does not have articles that are called for. When he hasn't got the article he invariably says: "I havn't got any in the store, but I expect two carloads in next week." Gilhooly strayed in yesterday, and, just as an experiment, asked "Have \ou got any skate straps?" The merchant mused awhile, and then said, as usual Havn't got any in the store right now, but expect two carloads in next week, sure." N. B. Galveston ice is raised in Boston, and costs about four cents a pound to bring it here.Galveston News. They were sitting together in the horse car. "I do hate people that are forever talking about their neighbors," said the woman with the peaked hat. "So do I," coincided her companion in the cashmere shawl. "There's Mis' Green," continued PeakedsHat, tinually a carryin1 con- thing back and forth. Think she'd better look to home. Goodness knows she and her husbandlive a reg'lar cat and-doo- life." "Ye s, ludeed," o^id Cashmere^ "and her daughter Sarah isn't half cared for ,1 was tellin' Mis' Jones only jTesterda. that the way Mis' Green neglected that girl was a cryin' shame. Oh! by the way, did you hear that story about Tilda Smith?" "No! what is it?" ex claimed Peased Hat, turning half around in her seat in her eagerness, her eyes sparkling in anticipation of the coming treat. But gentle reader, never mind what it was. Neither you nor I care anything about it. We hate tat tling just as bad as Peaked Hat and" Cashmere did.Boston Transcript. Hogarth Lantern. With Dr. Hoadley (son of the lati tudinarian Bishop), the late worthy Chancellor of Winchester, Mr. Hogarth was always on terms of the thickest friendship, and frequently visited him at Winchester, St. Cross and Alresford. It is well known that the Doctor's fond ness for theatrical exhibitions was so freat that no visitors were ever lono*tat is house before they were solicited9 accept apart in some interlude or oth er. He himself, with Uarrick and Ho garth, once personated a laughable parody on the scene in Julius Casar, where the ghost appears to Brutus. Ho garth personated the specter but so un rotentive was his memory, that, thouo-h his speech consisted only of two lines, he was unable to get them by heart. At last they hit upon the following ex pedient in his favor. The verses he was to deliver were written in such large letters on the outside of an illu minated paper lantern that he could read them when he entered with it in bis hand on the stage.N. Y. Times, '^SMT-^^M^^^f^ t, WHOLE NUMBER 158 The Bod and the ltd. There may have been discipnneT enough in the family of a certain cuizefl of Riverhead, Long Island, for ther* was imminent danger threatening that citizen's son. This lad had incurred his father's displeasure, and the stern parent was about to correct him with the rod, which was suppose to be good for him and to have a tendency to make him abetter boy. So many attempts had been made at improving the morals and manners of this lad that he seemed to be getting continuously worse and worse. He feared his father and hated him, which, under the circum stances, does not seem strange. Hav ing endured thrashing after thrashing and finding no salutary result from them, the poor boy naturally wanted to uee away and be where thrashings are no more. So when the last thrashing was announced, and he was bidden to prepare himself for it, he did so by swallowing a dose of corrosive sub limate, justasif he had been a cockroach or a bedbug The poison nearly carried him beyond the reach of the parental rod, but not quite. The child survives in agony, with the prospect of speedy death. Perhaps a man has aright thus to terrify a thirteen-year-old son to the brink of suicide, but"it must make him leel badly if, owing to the exercise of that right, the poor child is driven to a sorrowtul death. To exercise such a right is brutal. A father can always jjet along better with his boy by treating him as a friend and companion *han by keeping nim down as a slave or lordmg it over him as if he were a conquered enemy. A rebellious boy may seem to be subjugated by fear. He yields a sullen obedience, which is totally lacking in respect and which has not a spark of affection in it. This may pass for compliance with parental de mands, but it is a wretched substitute for that cheerful and loving regard which child should show toward parent Many parents make sorry and troublesome mistakes in the way they treat their boys and girls Thev are not necessarily as cross and severe as the Riverhead man, and yet they man age to indict on the young ones of their families a great deal of needless worry. They regard the children as inferiors, which in some respects they are. They are inferiors as to age, but of that they will in due time mend. Socially they are inferiors, for the parents crowd them down like puppies. As to muscular strength thesyan inferiors of the o! Two Hearts That Beat as One. The other day a young man went into the Young Men's Library to look at London Punch. On approachino* thetable where the newspapers lay, he noticed that Punch was already in the hands of an Englishman. He sat down to wait for the British humorous periodical, and beguiled the time with an Illustrated London News. Every now and then he cast a glance across the table at the Englishman, who showed no signs of getting through with Punch. The glance became a scowl, and the foreigner replied with a frown as the young party turned over leaf after leaf of the Illustrated. Men came in, read newspapers, and went out, but the person still waited for the comic journal as he scanned the pages of the serious one. They scowled across the table at each other silently. At last the young man made up his mind that he would get the sheet sooner by sending over to London for it, and in disgust he flung down the Illustrated News and reached for hia hat. At the same moment the English man threw Punch on the table and reached for the Illustrated, muttering, Hi 'ope 'es read hall the advertise ments!"Puck. A Singular Asset. "I am a peaceable man," said the in truder, grasping his club with both his hands, "but if you don't come down with $17.50 damages for my lacerated feelings, the bombardment will beginat once." The owner of the dog paid down the money, as he was afraid the other fel low might exasperate him if he hit him with a club of that size. The owner of the dog also said that he was sorry the dog had bitten the intruder's son. Why, he ain't my son," said the intruder. Whose son is he, then?" asked the astonished owner of the dog. He is the son of a friend of mine who owed me $17.50, but he is poor, and the only available assets he has are these dog-bites on his body, which he turned over to me for collection." "Well, I'll be blowe4."r "Oh, you needn't complain you are getting off dog cheap. I ought to make you pay in advance for the next time that hoy is going to be HU"CMV$tom. r" are also the folk are sorry for it, too. They lonwforthe time to come when they can Knock their per secutors flat in the dust as some slight compensation for indignities committed. Instead of feeling penitent when pun ished they are stimulated to deeds of greater iniquity. The great aim of their lives is to study methods by which they may frustrate the purposes of their unlovely parents and to execute ven geance upon them. Asa matter of mere economy, the parents who work their offspring into this frame of mind sadly miss it As to the helpful service these children might render it is not a tithe of what it might be if the children gave it cheerfully. The need for the use of the rod is sadly and mischievously overestimated. There are some children who have no more need of it than of coats of tar and feathers. There are others who need it but seldom. The boys and girls who need it frequently are rare exceptions. In many instances they seem to need it because injudicious parents have hard ened them by its use. Many a man who owns a horse will needlessly and rudely pull and jerk the bit in the mouth of the suffering animal under the mistaken impression that he is improv ing the creature's manners, or his mode of traveling. In this he is wron**. He is hardening the delicate and sensi tive tissue of the horse's mouth. He is irritating the beast and doing him no good whatsoever. A child's moral and physical make-up is infinitely more del icate than that of a horse. It is easy to irritate and worry and frighten a child almost to death. Most children, even if they come of brutal parents, are wor thy of better treatment than this. A boy is none the less manly when grown up because kindly treated and with de cent consideration when small enough to thrash. The parent who will cruelly thrash a twelve orthirteen-year-old boy is a coward, who dare not lay hands on the same boy when grown to eighteen, lest he should himself receive the thrashinghe intended for the wayward youth. The law of love is a capital thing in its way, and it will bear ex perimenting with in thousands of cases which it has not been tried.Phila delphia Times. TV .ni "m4 t%