THE WEEKLY REGISTER
VOL. XI. POINT PLEASANT, MASON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19,1872. NO. 45.
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POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA.
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JOB ~WORK.
We are prepared to do Job Work of every
description, ill as good style ah nny ollice in
this part ol' the Stale, and at lower prices.
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Mason County Directory.
Judge Circuit Court?Hn* J.W HOOK.
Clerk Circuit Couri?C. B. WAUlibAliR I
?Recorder?E. KIMBEHLIN'G.
1'ioiocuting Attorney?W. H.TOMLIXSON. i
Sheriff?C fiEHO-N. 1
JDejjuiy Sheriffs?J. P. R B.SMITH,
?' ISAAC EOKAltD.
Jailor-J. JEWKTT.
Slip, rintend't ol Schools?C T. B.MOORE.
Surveyor of Lands?0, N. I'CI.LIN,
Assenar Dist. No. 1?W.H. MACHIR.
'? " No.i-K K. BaKER.
Ass't Assessor U. S Rev.-JOHN MASON.
SiiroKUK Court ?The Supreme Court of Ap
peiln of West Vir^inii. holds its sessions at
Charleston on thewcoml Thursday in Janua
ry, and at the City of Wheeling on the second !
Thursday in July. Judgrs--Hon R L. Berk
shire, President; residence Morgimtown; Hon. I
Kdwin Maxwell, residence Clarksburg; Hon <
Charles P. T. Moore, residence Po lit Pleasant
Cluk?I'lvaiiL's Hall, residence Fairiuouut.
Cibuuit Court ?Ciwctiil Ctuirl meets on the j
?2'ith of February, 2ixh *J Slw, and 1st of Sep
tvllifeel ?Hun. JauiijJl .W. of "
BoAnn or Surmnson - The Board of Su
pervisors meets ttu tie first Tuesday in Janu
?.ry,third Monday w May,first Wednesday in.
August, and ilie fifth day afterjirtiy election.
11. R Howard, Clerk.
TUasoxic ?Minturu Ludge No M, A P. and
A. M., meets monthly,on the night of the full
innon, tlie same being Tuesday, or ou the
ifflesdnj' night itiiundialely preceding.
I. O.'O. F.?The Point Plea?ant Lodge No.
33, l.O. O. K.. i|ieeta?veiy Thufeday night,
v. Katcu.V ilall.
POST OFFirK UOJ ItS.?The Office is
open from'7 o'clock a.m. to8 oclock p m.?
On Similes from 7,?VJock a. m.' to 8 a m.
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FU 1S|C1A\S.
' V. T. B. flOORE,
PHYSICIAN AND SU1WEON,
Point Plkasa'mt, Wkst Va.
OFFERS his professional services to the pro
pie of Potat] pleasant, and vicinity. All
calls promptly a! tended to, Office at the Drug
Store of Moore A.Miller.
DR. L. F. CAMPBELL,
Physician -and Surgeon,
Point Pleatant, (Keif Iro. .
HAVING located permanently ?t Point
Pleasant offers his professional services
to the citizens of the lowu and vicinity. Hej
hopes by strict attention to business, to merit i
? continuance of tlie liberal patrouage he has!
alrqady received. _ ]
He may be found at all times at Lis office
when not professionally engaged.
Nov. 5-ly.
ANDREW R. BAUBEE. WM. P. .SEALS.
Mrs. Barber. & ,\calc,
Office, ou Main Street, Near Courf House,
POINT PLEASANT, W. Va.
PROMPT attention given professional calls,
whether day or uight.
IL/'Dr. Barbee or Or. Neale, one or the other, j
way at all times be fouud iu their office.
inch 21 -3m.
Dr. S. G. SHAW,
P H Y y ICI AN AND SURGEON
the
iptly
?wvuuvu Mf wmw,w...v. ? 'nird
Streets, in his uew building opposite l'resbyle
* rian Church ap 5-ly.
l'uyyiuiAW a?u aujvu&vn
RENDERS his professional services to tl
1 public. Oallsfrom the country prompt!
attended to' Office, corner Main anil Tnii
?. it- -L_i
atio r\evs.
J.W. ENGLISH. R. BEIION.
ENGLISH & SEIION,
Attorney at Law.
WILL practice in the Circbit Court of Mason
county, and in the Court oi Appeals of
West Va.
Officoat tho Court House, Point Pleaannf,
Mason county, Weit Va.
O. P. SIMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Va.
BAVINU moved to tnd permanently located
at Point Pleasant, and having procured
the use of H.J. Fisher's La? Library,I willat
"11 times be found at his office ready to aitend i
loany andall business entrusted to my care;
and will practice hereafter in the counties of
Majon, Putnam, Jackson and Roane.
All persons coining to Point Pleasantby tho
Kanawha or Ohio River Boats, can consult
*ith me at any time of night iu tiiue to return
by same boat, by calling at uiy residence. I
?P"118-iy.
H. R. IIOUMKD,
Attorney at Law.
POINT PLEASANT, W. VA.
(Office ia Court House.)
Prompt attention giveu to the collection ol
claims and all legal business tttrusled to his
c aug. 15-Jy.?
WM. H. TOMLINSON,
Attorney anil Counselor at Law,
WILL practice in the Courts or Mason,
Cabell and Lincoln; aud ill the county
of Gallia, Ohio. Also in the Cuurt of Appeals
of ?est Virgiuia. Prompt attention given to
ihe collection of claims.
F. A. GUTHRIE,
Attorney at T^aw.
(Office in the Court House,)
POINT PLEASANT, W. Va.
Practices exclusively in ilason County, West
W v irgiuia, and Uailia County Ohio.
ILL atlend promptly to all business en
trusted to his care.
JOSWB SMITH. UiSUI C. FUSUM.
. SNITfl 4 FLESHER,
Attorney* at Law and So
licitor* in Chancery,
DRA0TIC8 in the counlips of Jackson,
*? Roane, Wirt and Mason, also in the tha
UniUd Stales District Court at Charleston,
and the Supreme Court of Appeal, for the
iatite. ILT 1'itlis to land investigated.
Address:--Jackson C H.t We-t V*.
sept. tt-ly.
Henry C. Rece,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Point Pleasant, West Va.
ALL business entrusted to his care will re
ceive prompt and careful attentiwu. He
will be found at ihe oflice of H. J Fisher, for
the present. He 1ms located permanently at
Point Pleasant. apr. itl-jy,
D. I'oMey & .Son,
ATTOSWEYa AT LAW
POINT PLEASANT, WEST VA.,
WII.L PRACTICE IN THE COURTS
i.l llth Judicial Circuit. Attention giv
en to tie collection of debts,
Agu I Iti7l?ly
^HOS. B. KLINE,
Attorney at Law,
Cabell C. H., West Va.
ILL practice in Cabell. U ayue, Lincoln,
?Logan, Kanntvha and Ma*on Counties;
an I filso in ihe Oourt of Appeal* and Ihe Uni
ted States' Courts* Prompt attention given to
ihe aollectioii of claims. "[april fi, '7l-y.
?IA8 B MENAGER, ?
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fint ^PleaSSnt, W. Va.
WILL attend promptly to oil bupineftR en
treated lo hia.care. Office on Main and
6th streeth, opposite Court House.
Sfpt. 2G-ly.
polsley & enow,
Attorneys and Counsellors tit Luw,
WILL practice in Ihe Courts of Jurlison
Roane, and adjoining counties.
All btisia??H entrusted to their care will be
promptly attended to.
Address 0 I). Crow Jackson C H., W. Va.,
or D. W Polsley, Point Pleasant, West Va.
mch 31, '70-Iy.
Ebwabu B. Kmuiii. J auks II Coticu, Jr.
K^KiOT&C'OICII, !
Attorneys at Lnv,
WILL PRACTICE in the counties of Mason
and Putnam. Address E. I! Knight,
Charleston, West Va.. or James H. Couch,Jr, j
Point Pleasant West Va.
Mr. Couch will also prailice in Ihe Counties
of Lincoln aii l Cabell. dec. 15-ly.
J Oil A E. TIJLTIK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office iu the Court House, first door on the right
Main Eutrtnce.
Point Pleasant, West Va.
U/ILL practice in the Courts of Roane, Jack
VV son, Mason and Putnam. Collections
solicited and remittances promptly made.
~ W- c. WILEY*
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAMLIN, Lincoln County, West Va.
All business entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention. july 4-lj.
F. W. Sis?on, I
ATTORNEY AT LAW,'
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
POINT PLEASANT, WEST VA.,
Will Practice in the Courts of Mason &
Adjoining Counties, West Virginia,
and Gallia County, Ohio. 1
Special atlrntion Given lo Ihe Collection of Claimt
and Uemillancet Promptly Made.
Refers by permission, lAHotf. 0. P. T-Moore,
Judge of the Court of Appeals, and Ho* :
J auks W. Hook, Judge ol Iltli Judicial Cir
cuit, West Virginia. [June 1, lB7l-ly.
CARDS.
6 Y- WASSON,
Successor to Wasson A Kennedy,
DCALK& IS
BOOKS and GENERAL STATIONERY,
Wall Papers,
Pictures, Cliromas, Croquet Setts, &c.
gallipolis, oiiio.
v
He respectfully solicits a share of the patron
age. pttoplc of Mason county aud the Ka
nawha \ alley.
Aug. 1,1878-Iy. i
A I*ARSON'S STRATEGY
! The following ii old?it belonged to the
list generation?bat it nuy be new to
many at present day: Old Parson Mao
ton, of Woroester, used occasionally to be
. absent from bis flock on missionary tours
into distant States. Upon a certain sum
mer Sabbath, having just returned from
one of these excursions, he found his con
gregation quite drowsy, and for the pur
pose of waking them up broke off in the
midst of bis sermon, be began to tell thciu
of what wonderful things he bad seen in
York State. Among other wonders he
: said be had seen the largest mosquitoes it
! had e7er been his fortune to fall io with?
: so large, io fact, that many of then would
weigh a pound!
The good people were, by tfaia .time,
vide awnko.
"Yes," continued the parson; "and,
moreover, they have been kuown to olimb
up a tree, and bark!"
The congregation was sleepy no more on
that day. On the day following, two of
the deacons of the church waited on Parson
Muusoo, and informed him that the mem
bers of his parish were much acandaliied
by the big stories he had told them from
the pulpit.
"What stories?" said the parson, with
innocent surprise.
"Why, sir, you said that you had seen
mosquitoes in York State that weighed a
pound."
"I said," returned the parson, explana
torily, "that many of them would weigh a
pound.
"Well?but," continued (ho elder dea
con, with a slight choking in his utterance,
"you said they hud been known .to climb
np a tree and bark."
"Certainly," said the parson, with an
assuring nod. "As to their climbing up
on a tree, I have seen them do that here
in Worceiter county, haven't you, dca
cou'/"
"Oh, yes I have seen 'em do that."
"Well, how could they climb a tret
without climbing on the bark?"
The good deacons went their way with
.'omething very like > mosquito humming
in their ears.
THE THICK OF A PROSPECTIVE
BHOTI1EH.1M-LAW.
A rather comtemptible trick *M played
on one of our young clerks Silnday night
He bought a outclass bottle of cologne,
with a glass ptopper and pink ribbon, to
nrMpntlffa soiioff Jad/J>ej* kfi?&IM?2?L
fclt'a little embarrassed for fear there were
members ot the family, present, and bo he
' left the beautiful gift on the stoop and
pH?-ed in. 'The movement was perceived
by u graceless brother of the young ladf,
who appropriated the colonge to his own
u?e auil refilled the bottle with hartshorn
from the family jar, and then hung around
to oVierve the result. Io ? little whilo the
young man slipped out on the stoop and,
securing the fplendid gift slipped back in- ?
to the parlor, whero. with a few appropri
ate words, he pressed it upon the blushing j
girl. Like a good and faithful daughter
that she was she at once hurried into the.
presence of her mother, and the old lady
was charmed. They didn't put up scent
stuff like that when she was a girl; it was
kept in a cbiua tea cup and it was hclo to
gether by sample of ail the family shair.?
Hut she wan very much pleased with it.?
She drew out the stopper, laid the beauti
ful petals of her nostrils ever tbeaperturc.
and fetched a pull at the contents that
fairly made them buddle. Then she laid
the bottle down, and picked up a brass
mounted fire shovel instead, and said she,
as soon as she could say anything:
?Where is that stinking brat* And he,
all unconscious of what had happened, was
in front of the mirror adjusting bis oecktic
and smiling at himself. And here she
found biro, and said to him; Oh, you
arc laughing at the trick of an old woman,
are you, you wall-cycd leper." And then
she pasted him one on the ear. And be
being by nature more eloquent with his
bin legs than his tongue, hastened from the
house bowling like mad, and accompanied to
the gate by that brass mounted "hovel. He
says he would give everything on earth if
he could shake off the itnpre-Mon that a
mistake had been mtde.-lfnubury Ntwi.
A note obtained ,by fraud, or from a
person in a slate of intoxication, cannot be
colectcd. If a note be lost or stolen, it
docs not release the maker; he must pay
it. An endorser of a note is exempt from
liability, if not notified of its dishonor
within twenty four hours of its non-pay
ment. A note by a minor is void.
Notosbear interest only when so Mated.
I'rincipals are responsible for the acts o
their agents. Each individual in a part
ncrship is responsible for the whole am
ount of the debts of the 6?
of the law excuses no one. It is a frau
,o conceal a fraud. The law compels no
one to do impossibilities. _ An *?r?eJneo
without consideration is viod. Signatures
m.do with a lead pencil are good in law.
J A receipt for money is not legally conc u
sive. The acts of ono partner bind all the
others. Contracts made on Sunday can
not be enforced. A contract made with a
jminor is void. A contract made with a
lunatic is void.
It i? proposed to test the constitutional
itv of the Massachusetts law requiring, as
a qualification for suffrage, that the man
should be able to writo bis own name.
There is a case coiuiug from Boston, wbie
will be carried before tho United States
Court.
The Dtlagr^A ConflrMHlloR or Ike Bi
ble Story froBCkaUaic Sources.
We bsve received from llio accomplish
ed discoverer, Mr. George Smith, of the
? British Museum, (he subjoined moat iuter
| esting (count of the record of the deluge,
which, as we luoouoced ? dij or two igo,
! ho hu lately deciphered from the Assyrian
I monuments:
"The cuueiform inscription which I've
recently found and translated gives a long
snd full ireount of the deluge. It con
tains the version or tradition of thiseveu',
which existed in the Ctrl; Chaldean peri
riod at the city of Krccb (one of the cities
of Nitnrod,) now represented by the ruins
of Warlta In this newly discovered in
scription the account of the deluge is put
as a narrative into the mouth of Xisuthrus
or Noah. He delates the wickedness of the
world, the command to build the ark, its
building, the filling of it, the deluge, the
resting of tbc ark on a mountain, the seu
{ding out of the bird), and nthcr matters.
The narrative bas a closcr resemblance to
the account transmitted by the Greeks from
KerosUH tbe Chaldean historian, than to
the bit lical hiatory, but it does not differ
materially from either. Tbe principal dif
ferences arc as to the duration of the del
uge, the name of the mountain on whiob
tho ark rested, the sending out of the birds,
eto. The cuneiform account is muoh lon
ger and fuller than that of Ucrosus, and
lins several details omitted both by the
Bible and the Chaldean historian. This
inscription opens up many cjuostions of
which ire knew nothing previously, and it
is connected with a number of other de
tails of Cbaldoan history which will bo both
interesting and important This is tho
first time any inscription Has been found
with an account of an event mentioned in
Genesis."? London Ttltgruph.
A REMARKABLE EXPEDITION.
The expedition about to be despatched
by the British Admiralty to undurtuk* a
scientific circumnavigation of the globe ii
described at groat length by Nature. The
vessel let apart for thin purpose ii the oor
vetto Uhnlli nycr, of 2,800 tuns, under the
command of 6. 8. Nar?a, R. N., well
known u the author of a valuable work
ou seamanship, who has seen a great deal
of active service, formerly in Arctic ex
ploration, and Utterly in tbo Suei surver,
which be now leaves to head this expedi
ty, chemist; II. N. Mmly, of Oxford, na
turalist; Dr. Von WiTlcmoea Suhm, of
Munich, naturalist; John Murray, of Ed
inburgh University, naturalist. The three
naturalists take charge respectively of the
invertebrata. the vortebrata, and botany.
Professor Thompson assumes the charge
of the general xoological work. A photo
grapher is alio assigned to duty. The
whale expedition is under the immediate
direction of the hvdriigraphio department
of the Admiralty, and the ship is fitted out
with a magnificent collection of scientific
ipparatus. The voyage is expeeted to
take about three aud a half years. It ii
difficult to over-estiiustc the immense ben
efit which science must derive from ao ex
pedition such as tliia. Apart from the re
mits of intense iutcreet which may be ex
pected from the deep-sea work, the princi
pal object of tbe expedition, and which
must go fir to elucidate a subjection which
3ur knowledge is at present of the most
imperfect description, abundant opportu
nity will offer for the accurate investiga
tion of the animal and vegetable life of
many highly interesting and yet imper
fectly known or totally unexplored regions.
Die investigation of the floras of such icl
>ndi as Fernando Norohna and the Mari
30 and Croxctt groups cannot fail to yield
most instructive results; and it is needless
to speak of the iutense interest which cen
tres iu New Guinea.? American Artisan.
Another reason of the delicicy of our
women is the far greater stylve affected bjf
all classes io drew, and the wearing of
during early youih. Naturally, if ono
has attained a full and fine physical devel
opment, tight oorsets, heavy skirts, closo
fitting boots and weighty chignons cannot
injure to the same extent as when those
appliances of fashion are placed upon the
soft and yielding muscles of a young and
growing girl, l'he nobis ladies of Eng
land exercise many hours daily in the open
air. The; do not disdain to don heavy
calfskin shoes and colorod petticoats iu
which to perform this duty. This, of
course, would not alone mako them as
healthy ai they arc, were not their consti
tution strengthened by a proper physical
education before they arc eighteen years of
age, but it suffices to retain them in a good
degree of health. Our fair Americans
early iu tho day attire themselves iu a
charming morning costume, with while
skirts, and tben they are averse to soiliug
these by exercisc, and the least dampness
deters them from a promenade. Ameri
can ladies think far uiore of dress and
fashiuD, and tpend more time on their toi
lets tbau any women in Kurope, tot ex
cepting tho French, from whom all our
fashions come.
A man, stopping his paper, wrototous:
"I thiuke follies otteut to spend there
munny for paypcr, mi dad diddentand ev
erybody aed he was tho intelligentest man
in the country and had the smartist family
of boiz that ever dugged taters."
Bitter known than the postman's knock
to some people?The inu-kocpcr's tap.
A WASHINGTON SKNS\TION.
The social life of Wellington is agita
ted by tho rumor of a lawsuit brewing,
I wherein a gay, dashing widower, aftor
winniug the affectum a young lady, had
| the day agreed upon and the trousseau
purchaaed, suddenly turned up with i
| wife that in lit had married in adjoining
oity The mortification of the young lady,
an official by the way?was made more
painful by the publication that had been
given of the affair. Mot only had the day
| been filed, but, as we hare laid, the tross
r.iii cbuiued ar,u iim guests invited. Her
mortification is somewhat modified by lear
ning fro 11 general ruinor that the poor
girt is not alune. This gay deceiver it
secius, flung his promises, if uot hit iffco
lions, about in the most promiscuous mau
' nor. It has been suggested that the suf
ferers hold an indignation meeting and re
solve. There ia great comfort in your
resolution!. Hut tho suit for breaoh of
promiso ia more substantial, and generally
cuds in bringing upon the head of the of
fender tho wroth, coutcmpt, and indigna
of the virtuoua community, to say nothing
of the damages that will bo assessed.
Tho defendant in thcio eases his gener
ally two suits?ono with his wife and the
other with the disappointed. Tho wife is
generally disappointed then indignaut?t
storm arises! What! this late lover of bora,
now bcr loving husband, to be iu such a
scrapc! Trifling with other women's affeo
tions?has be not boen trifling with hers?
Hut the storm diea out, and the wife from
being an angry enemy becomcs an aolive
ally. Oue esu imagine tho poor devil of
a husband pleading piteouely with his but
tcr-half, by law and tho aanction of the
church, and tbon going exhausted into
Court to fight that other fair one who can
not be o^ptured.
now ?eon?E wasiiihbtoi* was
? ONCE PUiUMELEIM
George Washington's rogard for his per
aoo *ii in consonance with the majesty ol
hid character. Uia reluctance to biro
himself to the sculptor Houdou n well
known. On a certain occasion ono of the
persons alluded to in the annnodoto bolow
ventured to olap hiin familiarly on tho
shoulder, a wager having been laid that
he would not daro do it. Washington*
rebuke waa simply ? glance of tho eye,
but bo intense auu icvere that the faimuar
itv wis oover again attempted. It is out
taowu however, that any human being
memory of arelatiw of Colonel Peyton is
to be trusted. Hor aecount of this remar
kablo iuoidont is as follows:
In tlio heated oanvass which followed
Jefferson's nomination for the Presidency ,
General Washington's personal and inti
mate friend, Light-horse Harry Lee, was
opposed for Cougrcss by Colonel ???
Peyton. So great was the interest felt by
Washington lor Lee, that on election day
he mounted his horse and rodo up from
Mount Vernon to Alexandria for the pur
pose of influencing by his presence as ma
ny votes as possiblo for hie friend. Am
ong the many friends ho encountered was
a plasterer who had been employed at Mt
Vernon. This plasterer wus a small man.
defective, no doubt, iu reverence, and, it
may well be believed, somewhat tho worse
for liquor, early in tho day as it was.?
Having salutod the Pater Petri?, the lit
tie man proceeded to upbraid him for his
known friendship for General Lee?a mun
who, in his opinion (the plasterers,) was
uot only a Federalist, but an aristocrat to
boot; whereas Colonel Peyton wss a Dem
ocrat, a friond of tho people, and especial
ly of the poor laboring classes.
Nettled by tho disparagement of his
personal friend, Washington replied that
(be plasterer's preference was tho result
more of genoral ignoranco on all subjects
than any correct knowledge, either of the
character of the respective csndidatcs or of
the issues involved in tho canvass The
allusion to his want of education was more
than the intoiicatcd little man could stand
To the astonishmhnt of tho witnesses, he
ripped out an oath and said: ' Well, I
dou't csre if I am ignorant; I know my
rights, anyhow. You fought for our lib
erties, and won 'em, and d?m me if I
don't intend to exercise 'cm!" Whereup
on ho delivered ? number of dry blows
upon the ohest of the august chieftuiu ?
The by standers made a rush to tear him
to pieoes, but Washington, placing bi^
band on the small man's shoulder, drew
him close to him, and said: "Ho shall not
be harmed. I have wouoded him in the
teuderest part of his naturo. He is nut to
blame for his ignorance, and it is but nat- j
oral that lie should rceont sn allusion t>
it." So the plaster went scot-fres.
THE EPIDEMIC among houses.
A sudden calamity has fallen upon the
horses of the northern part of tho Ameri
can continent, by which nearly the whole
of them are reudered temporarily useless
The virulenco of the complaint is such
that more tliau half of tho horses of New
York and its suburbs are stricken, and re
quiro rest and treatment. Ilaok-stands
are deserted, travel is impeded, labor ir
suSpcndcd, and an almost Sahbatb-liko
stillness falls upon the ordinarily crowded ,
Bud noisy streets. Fortunately the nature |
of this attack is not so serious ?s it would
Mem to be, and only its singularity gives
ri#c to apprebcusionB which its ohartoter,
does not warrant. Iu other oouutries, es
pecially in Knglaud, its occurrence under
certain atmospheric conditions is looked
upon as a matter of course, and familiarity
although it may not exactly breed eon
tempt, nevertheless prevents cither ostan
Ubiocot or approhonsion. It it neither
directly serious uor necosurily fatal lo any
' subject, unless complications produoe dan
serous scoondary cffoots. It is a catarrhal
! fe.er, which, being causcd by condition!
, ; which aro gonerst, affects at one and tho
ij sauie time the auiuials of a whole district,
tod often of distriuti onmparativelj dist
ant froui each other. It is uot contagious.
It readily yields to proper trcatoieut.??
Ke.it aud careful nursing and palliating
effect an easy euro, The premonitory
symptoms are general liitlcsanou, droop- .
ing head, an excessive secretion of tears,
discharges from the nnso, at first thin and
serous, afterwards thick, like pus; a oougb
which rapidly increases in severity until it
ia ncoompsnied by bleeding front tho nose;
loss of appetite and great weakness, with
cold sweats and fevor The treatment
should be immediate if a rapid recovery |g
desired. Work should bo suspondod at
the first appuaranoe of tho symptom!.?
Warm demulcent driuka', such as flaxseed
toa, should be given. Steaming tho nos
trils and hoad by means of t bag of scald
ed bran suspended beneath the note; warm
and dry bedding and blanketing, and tho
proiuction of a stato of perspiration as soon
ns possiblo after attack, aro necessary.?
The moment healthy perspiration can bo
iuduced, a ourn is commonced. The sta
bles should be disinfected and woll ventil
ated, but' no jurreuls of air should bo per
mitted lo blow upon tho patient. Warm
water, oopiously applied to tho fcot and
logs, which should afterwards be rubbed
quite dry with ooarse woolen cloths, is
useful ns is also similar friction over the
whole body. Medicine should not be ad
ministered unless by a caroful and oompq
tonl Surgeon. The soroooss of the throat
and consequent disinclination to swallow
often cauM! liquid itoedicinos to find their
wav to tho lungs, with fataloffeot. Mild
irritants, sucb as mustard or ammonia,
rubbed on the throat, relieves tho sore
ness, and'tar-watcr for drink is a vsluablo
help. Bran-mashes or soalded oats, with
liltio hay, should be fed. Wiibiuch gen
tle treatment and oafeful nursing, and t
cautious return to work and higher feed,
nothing more serious than a few days'
suspension of tfork is to be dreaded. It
is 'probable. tfiiet horned stook, sheep, ind
pigs may be affeetqd, in which'case treat,
ment is needed similar to that above dqt
cribcd. Vi
owntalk cbanotd upon
an item giving nine reason why people
should dress plainly on Sunday, which an
so sensible that wo hero reproduoe them:
1. It would lessen the burden of many
wbonow find it hard to maintain tbeir
places in sooietv.
2 It would lesson the fcrco of tb?
temptations whioh often lead men to barter
honor and honesty for display.
3. If thero were less strife in dress at
church, people in moderate circumstance!
would bo more inclined to attend.
4. Universal moderation in dresa at
church would improve the worship by tho
removal of many wandering thoughts.
6 It would cnablo all classes of peo
ple to attend ohuroh in unfavorable weath
er.
0 It would lesson, on the part of the
rich, the temptation to vanity.
7. It would lesson oo the part of the
poor, the temptation to bo envious and
malicious.
8. It would live valuable time on the
Sabbath.
9. It would relieve our means from t
serious pressure.
Those reasons are as valid for any othor
day in the week as Sunday, and were they
atriotly lived up to, society and tho oouu
try would be all tbo better for it.
A style of bouse which is said to be com
ing somewhat into vougo is made largely
of paper; this being the best non conduct
or of beat, oold, arid dampness. Tho pa
per, which is hoavy and oompiot, is put on
the outside of the frame, and in turu oov
ered with sizing. The rafters are covered
with rough boards, upon whioh is laid a
double thick roofing paper, and the insido
walls and ceiling are covered with another
kind of papor. It is said that hundreds of
these boures are being built in suburban
places; and also very generally in tho Wes
tern prairie country, where the sosreity of
timber renders pome cheaper material nec
essary, They are said to resist piercing
winds and intense oold bettor than ordio?
ary frame bouses.
Pending tbe occurrence of a threatonei
earthquake a California paterjsmilias sent
his boys to stay with a friend beyond the
limits of the fated section. Tiio oonvul
sion 'id not turn up when due, but the
youngsters remained in their place of safe
ty (ill the following note from the host pro
cured their recall: "Dear P.?Send tbe
corthquakc along here, and take home your
boys."
A sportsman who, during the shooting
season, had gone to puss a week with a
friend in thecouutry, on the strength of a
general invitation, soon found, by agontie
hint, that be would havo dono better to
wait for a special ono. "I saw tome beau
tiful scenery," wos the visitor's first re.
mark, "as I came to-day by the upper
road." "You will see atill finer," was the
reply, "as you go back to-morrow by tbe
lower ono."
A tender-hearted omnibus driver on tbe
Fifth Avenue line, says he hates to run or<
cr a person; he thinks it hurts the spring!.