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    HEIiALD: FLATTSMUUTH, NEBRASKA, WKDESUAY. AUGUST 14, 1883.
TI1F DAILY
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JQr TIIE RAJIADAN.
xfING IN DAYTIME AND FAST
ING AFTER 6UNSET.
Sceuca In Syrian Town Magie Chuogri
IJ rough About by the Boom of tlio
Sunset Con Nntlre Concert Conselen
tlouuira. It whs a Massachusetts boy, I believe, who
aid be "preferred fast to Thonkgiving, be
catiA after Thanksgiving you had to liro on
picking, but there wa always a good,
square inal to make up for the fast." Mo
hammedanism agrees with the. boy from
Massachusetts. It believed in compensation.
lUimalan is the yearly mouth of fasting
daytimes, but from sunset to sunrise the
Moslem may feast on what be pleases. llama
dan follows the lunar division of the months
and falls about ten days earlier every year,
so that the number of hours in the twenty
four when tho jeople must fast varies ac
cording as the sacred month comes in sum
mer or in winter. After the fast there are
three days of feasting, when tho Moslems,
decked out in their bett, indulge in all sorts
' of amusement.
Tho other day I thought that I would pass
through a certain Moslem district about sun
set. Expectancy reigned. In the cafes, in
the shops, in tho street, every one was wait
ing for something, was preparing for some
thing. Wearied looking men hurried along
with frefch loaves of bread in their hand.
An old Moslem with long robe and white
beard passed mo carrying a narghili all pre
pared for use. (small boys bore along little
plates of salad, which caino from an impro
vised 6hop at a corner, where a lank man in
blue sat on a stool turning out salads as fast
as bo could to meet tho increasing demand as
tho sun nearod the horizon. A butcher was
cutting off junks of meat. Turbaued Mos
lems, in bright clothing, Iwrgained for vege
tables with the palo shop keeper, who sat be
hind a lot of trays of wickerwork, covered
with tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, summer
squashes, apricots, etc. A nonchalant young
man adorned a wooden booth in tho street
with plates and bowls of starchy looking sub
stances like jellies, covered with nuts. Num
lM of men and boys stood idly waiting.
Every one seemed tired and languid. There
was no loud talking.
"Boom," roared the cannon from the bar
rack A dozen matches were struck, a
dozen cigarettes lighted, and a cloud of blue
smoke arose. Bmoking even before eating
or drinking! The change was like that
effected by the kiss of the fairy prince. At
tho sound of the gun everything in the line
of eating and drinking and smoking went
quietly on as if it never had stopped. Some
hail a hearty meal in several dishes all ready
before them, and fell to at once, in a business
liko way. Tho "hop keepers broke their fast
with what they were boiling. The fruit
dealer swallowed an apricot, and evidently
enjoyed it. A seller of sweets took up a most
Indigestible looking piece of confectionery,
anil bourishi-d himself with that. Oh! tho joy
of one old fellow, who poured a tiny Etrenrn
of water down his throat from a jug held
high over his bead, in the eastern fashion.
The favorite dish seemed to bo made of
pounded pulse, garnished with a bit sf green
and covered with oil.
Very little sleep Is taken in Ramadan ex
cept by tho rich, who can prolong their si unj
bers into the day. -The cafes are full for two
or three hours after midnight. Last week
some famous wrestlers performed in a cafe
near tho government building. Our guide
was a voung Moslem who is a student in the
American coUeg- Yron the wrestling he
Tt xk us to 4'heai some music" in another part
oftheeitv. I was curious to Bee what the
concert hall might b. We were taken to" an
Open place where several roads meet. At one
corner was a mosque with a brilliantly
lighted minaret, at another a couple of oafes,
at a third a largo building with a small door
and no windows, showing that it was a pub
lic oven. It was at this door I bad seen th
most ludicrous as well as the saddest figure
in Ramadan, I was passing by one day when
there suddenly emerged from he oven a tall,
pole laker in a long robe of blue linen. Be
hind him, as he stood leaping against the
door pott, was the bakery with its gleaming
furnace and fragrant piles of new bread,
crisp and tempting. His white, hungry face
expressed a despair which seemed unable to
stand for a moment longer the bight of food
which he must not touch. The irony of the
situation was too much for hioj.
i A large crowd bad assembled to hear tho
music, but tho people were cither silent or
else spoke only in whispers. All at once the
6weet, shrill notes of a boy's soprano floated
down from behind the three tiers of lights in
tho lofty minaret, Tho voico was of extraor
dinary flexibility, and executed roulades,
turns and cadenzas with a skill that brought
forth ''Ahs and ?'QbV of quiet satisfaction
from tho widely scattered hearers far below.'
It was a unique concert. I could think pf
nothing but larfc3 Mi the Wiltshito dowas.
Presently another boy began to ting alone,
then a third, and the first began again, and
they joined in a soaring trio, full of curious
Oriental transitions. It seemed monotonous,
but then tho Orientals call our music mono
tonous, and who i3 right 1 Is there not per
haps some idea underlying the eastern rousia
-which we have not yet caught ?
f.'How many pf these' people really fast?"
h a'question I have lately put with a variety
pf answers. As such answers are apt to be
largely subjective, it is hard for a stranger
to get a correct estimate. A conscientious
Moslem will be apt to conclude that the ma
jority are conscientious. The man who eatJ
secretly will probably suspect that his pri
vate transgressions are common to many
others. Only the crazy fast," was one
answer I got. I fancy that the truth of the
matter is that Mohammedanism, like all
other religions, has a mixed band of follow
ed with a varied correspondence between
their preaching and their practice. Beirut
(Syria) Cor. New York Post.
1 lie te X-tnperor's Ioliteue.
1 Two years ago the crown prince Frederick
attended a charity bazar where a pretty ac
quaintance of mine was serving as wait
r ess. There was pome entertainment on the
stage, and the audience pressed to the front
where tho crown prince was sitting, Ha
turned to this German girl who stood beside
biai and said:
'Surely it is very improper for a gentle
man to be sitting while so many ladies are
standing. 1Vont you take my seat P
In telling of it afterward she exclaimed,
"What could I say I A request from his
majesty was almost a command, and yet I
did not think, I could sit -down in that chair
while be stood. So I remembered quickly
&at in speaking to royalty one muat net er
yiH the second person, and I said:
t ?If his majesty allows, I think I am too
young and tod humble a person to be seated
. while so many older ladies are standing.'
'lie replied, 'Quite right; you are quite
ribt, Flsase speak to some one who stands
Mnd yon.
"il spbke to Frau IL, and she came for
" irly bristling with importance, to
own prince's chair, while be found
of pleasure in standing Le-
" i Ctt. rcrion Traxsscrt-t.
THE DANGEROUS WASHERWOMAN.
flow Dlseasa Crnu Are Distributed A
Timely Hint to City People.
To the average American housekeeper the
weekly wash day is a constantly recurring
trial of patience. Every domestic arrange
ment must give way to it. Of courso in those
families where several servants are employed
and there are conveniences for laundry jnir
pobes the day is one of less hardship. The
great majority of the middle classes, how
ever, are forced to be content with one ser
vant girl, who is generally assisted by a
washerwoman. That humble and very use
ful individual deserves greater consideration
than is usually given her. Where she comes
from is, as a general thing, u matter of ab
solute indifference to tho housekeeper, as long
as her charges are as low as ossiblc. That
sho is very poor all know, for no one would
"do washing" unless in needy circumstances.
Very probably she lives in a cheap tenement
or in the cellar of some rookery in tho slums
of tho city. Now. it is these very places
which are tho hotbeds of contagious and in
fectious diseases, and consequently tho center
of distribution of disease germs.
An instance of tho truth of this statement
will be given, ono which will also show how
such diseases may bo attributed to the wrong
source. At the south end, on Swett street,
there is a row of ramshackle houses, called by
the neighbors "Buttermilk block." The in
habitants are mostly ragpickers, who ply
their vocation on the neighboring "dump,"
where the ashes and refuse collocted by tho
city wagons are deposited. Tho health au
thorities have condemned the block time and
time again as uufA to live in. Somehow or
other, however, it is still occupied. Some
four years ago a family living on West New
ton street regularly employed a washer
woman who lived in this Buttermilk block.
The eldest daughter was first attacked with
typhoid fever and died. Then the second
daughter had it and dieL The father also
fell a victim to the fever, but fortunately re
covered. The physician in attendance as
cribed the trouble to defective drainage, and,
although the work had been done by a com
petent plumber, all the piping in tho house
was torn out and replaced at an expense of
several hundred dollars.
In tho worry incident to the sickness in tho
house, the fact that the washerwoman had
stopped coming every week, as was her wont,
was not noticed ; some months later it was
learned that she had died of typhoid, fever.
Further inquiries developed the fact that
while she was washing for the unfortunate
family there were three cases of fever in the
house where she lived, and two of thein
proved f ataL Now there is no doubt but that
she was in the early stage of the disease when
she caino to her employer's house for the lost
timo, and that she left there the germs from
which sprung tho fever that cost two lives in
his family. This is but one instance of tho
danger which is incurred by hiring washer
women indiscriminately, it is safe to say
that if the housekeeper in question had gor,
to the place where the woman lived, and had
seen the fdth and squalor with which she was
surrounded, she would not have emploj'ed
her. All these possibilities of danger are
calmly overlooked by tho majority who
patroize these people,' and still, "by 'paying
them starvation wages for ' their vyork," they
compel them to live iii wretched places, and
so, almost from necessity, become tho bear
ers of disease, fuo whole thing is wr-onar.
For very little mcifi than is paid to, the wash
erwoman the heavy family washing can ho
dene at a etearn Jauudry, and only the smal er
and delicate pieows need b washed and
ironed in the house. Boston Herald.
Substances Tor Making Ink.
Common writing ink is the pertannato of
iron, mixed with a little gajlate, held ia sus
pension in water by means of gum 'pi 'some
other adhering substauoe,' The gum also
preserves the ink from being too fluid, an4
also socyes tQ protacg the vpgetatilQ mativ-'
from decomposition. Blue Ink has of late
years been much in demand. The coloring
matter is said to be sulphate of Indigo and
tincture of iron fr according to another
recipe, Prussian aissclved in water by
mean3 of oxalifi pejd. Rtc ik i usualjy.
made by boiixcg two ounces of Braiil wood
in a pint of water for about a quarter of ad
hour, and adding a little gum and water.
This ink is not in demand now, carmine hav
ing superseded it; this color is obtained frn
a solution cf carmine and enmo.nia, aso
adding gum.'"
The great merit of our common writing ink
is in tho freedom with which it from
the pen, allowing of rapid writing, and the
manner in which it bites Into the paper, so
as not to be removed by sponging. The great
def jet is in tho want of durability. Such
iuk3 partake of the nature of dyes. The
writing ink of the ancients, on the contrary,
is charactoriaod by great permanency; its
basis was finely divided charcoal'mixed with
some mucilaginous or adhesive fluid. Indian
ink is pf this character; it is formed pf lam;
black and animal glue, with the addition, ft'f
perfumes, Uvt i.tveisary, however, to use as
an ink, and is made up into cakes. It is used
in China with a brush, both for writing and
painting on Chinese paper, and it is used in
this country for making drawings in black
and white, the different depths of shade
being produced by vary big the dilution wifi
water. Paper World.
Benefits of "Hair Singeing."
A wrinkle in hair dressing not generally
known is "hair singeing." In a barber ?hpp
on Center street, close to the City Loll
bridge, is a sign, prominently displayed, an
nouncing that hair singeing is done there for
twenty-five cents. A reporter dropped into
a chair in the shop this morning and found it
no difficult matter o engage the tonsorial
artist in conversation.
"Hair singeingr he said. "Why that's uot
a new scheme; it's quite old, but is not gener
ally practiced."
-But of what benefit is itr gasped the ro
porter, struggling with a groat ball of lather
that was thoughtlessly dropped on his month
by the barber.
"BanentJ'.' Why, it makes weak hair grow
strong and thick, and ultimately makes the
scalp healthy."
"What is the method f
"I take a wax taper, light it and grasp a
tuft pf hair with tho lingers of my left hand.
Then I carefully apply tho wax dip to the
ends of the hair "and burn them. n thte
manner I touch np all tho Lair, Having con
cluded my labors, I then comb the locks care
fully and give the patient a good shampoo.
After that no one would recognize the work
I had done. Most of my patrons have their
hair singed every two weeks, but the differ
ence depends altogether on the strength of
the person's hair. Today I had five men in
my chair, and all had their hair singed. One
of them was a prieafc." He. comes' hero' regu
larly and enjoys the operation.' Tho capillary
substance on his head was weakening, and he
had a morbid horror of becoming bald. If
has tried the process several times, and. al
ready J notice a vast improvement in th
growth of the bh-," New York Evenina
San. '
Edison's Next Invention.
Edison is now the father of a bouncing
baby, and it is said that be is trying to invent
an electrical contrivance for making the in
t&ntile yell self feediss.
BUSINESS SUCCESS.
THE ELEMENT OF CHANCE THAT
SETS FOR OR AGAINST MEN.
An Example of How Lurk Max Change.
A. T. Stewart's Attention to Details.
Conld's Method Commodore Tander
bllt and Ills Traftte Manager.
Some of the shrewdest merchants in this
town will tell you that there is assuredly an
element of chance which sets for or against
men in business affairs. One of the richest
men in this country before his death told the
most fascinating of tales regarding the play
of chance in his experience. This was tho
late Senator Miller, of California. He was u
man of suerior business qualification, of
pretty shrewd judgment, and far sighted, yet
when he came out cf tho army everything
that he turned his hand to failed, and as a
means of supKrt he was obliged to seek a
government ofllee, and he was rejoiced when
(irant gave him tho custom house at Sail
Francisco. In thut ollieo Senator Miller
hoped to be able to save enough in the courso
of u few years to put him on his feet again,
but ho found that ho wus sliding backward.
He could not see how or why, and he was
firmly impressed with the belief that he was
born under aa unlucky star.
See now how hick changes, and how its
chance may shift about liko a weathercock.
One day there came into Mr. Miller's office a
briny tar, with the smell of whale oil on his
elothea and tho roll of a sea dog in his legs,
lie laid on the collector's desk a bit of fur,
and ho said that he had captied that skiu
himself and knew whero there were millions
more. Ho had a gentle proposition to make,
that the collector should charter and victual
a sLp und "go snooks" with him in the
profit that ho thought would bo obtained
from selling these skins. Ho would not tell
in what part of the sea h.o found the animals,
and his proposition was ubout us unbusiness
like and hare brained as any that Mr. Miller
had ever listened to. His business instinct
told him to dismiss the man, but as ho rubbed
his hand on the fur, which was smoother than
the best silk velvet, it occurred to him to
make tho venture. He interested some pf his
friends in tho schemo and they sent the cap
tain, with great doubt tmi to their sanity in
so doing, oh into tho mystery of tho Polar
sea, and thus tho great Alaska Seal Fur com
pany was organized, and tho shuttlecock of
Miller's fortune shifted from the keen east
wind of disappointment to tho bracing west
erly winds of magnificent prosperity.
The curious thing about it was that from
that day Miller never mado a business in
vestment that was not profitable, although
to many of those which ho did make ho did
not bestow one-half the attention and cau
tion which he had previously jiyf-n to others
that were rmfisvlujiale. Senator 'Jones, of
Nevada, is another of those whoso experience
leads bim to believe in tho doctrine of chance
as an element of business men's success or
misfortune. Into tho great Huil.sc iivcr
tunnel, into his h.atcJ properties', into his
Washington investments, in fact into cver''
thing east of the "Rocky Mountains which
tho senator has " put his money, fato set
against him, and ho has scf.ii millions,
melt away hke ioiulei ii the stmlightl But
in a chance, investment 'which ho almost
thoughtlessly luade in mining proiierties in
the British" poissos.sioji5 and in Alaska, as well
as. soino npp.'tivutly worthless stock in Ne
vada mining property which a few years ago
he would have 6een burned up without a
sigh, chance has brought him a new fortune.
The man who prescribes uuto himself ftn,y
bet of rules, or takes o n mode the career of
any man, will bo yeiy likely to 'meet 'with, a
"slip up' ' There was A. T. Stewart, who as
cribed hia success to the most pidii-nt a(-isH-tion
to trivia d?t?'K but U Willliun QfSce
tmdoi took to run 'his colossal busluessas Stew
art did. he would 1)0 frinuo in a week.
Stewart nol oIiTy gave orders, but followed
them up to see if they were executed. M.u
Grace employs men who ho knis will carry
out iu detaij thi, piuua which ho conceives.
That is also In somb respects Mr. Gould's
habit During the great southwestern strike,
in which ' Mr. Gould's property was s
seriously imperiled, ho was vl;od why ho
seemed to rest so pasuy. Said he: "Wo em
ploy Mr. Hoxie Ho: keeps mo informed a.)
to iTsdlfs, and it is his business to look after
the details.'' A colossal brain racking busi
ness it was, tos, and itr undoubtedly killed
Uoxie. But Mr. Gould, had ho adopted tho
methods of some successful business men,
would have thonght it necessary to havo
penetrated all those details himself, and tha.;
would havo brought ot neuralgia" liko" &
paralytic shoe. '
Jus; so vvith" Commodore Vanderbilt, an
wo pan illustrate it no better than a repeal
ono of Chauncey M. DeiHtw'-s stories. Said
he: '-'The coinmodora heard of a young mau
whq was a freight agent, and a remarkably
bright and successful one, on tho Erie rail
road. The chap had given evidence that lvs
comprehended that the business of freight
transportation was something more than tbj
mere hauling of goods from onj tovn, fca
other. In his liraite "'Jti tae young chap
had shown thai he "possessed geuiu3 for ari
interstate or national trafiio manager. That
was just tho kind of bud that the commodoi)
wanted to blossom on the Central syste'tf.
So ho got Jim Butter away fum the. l!ri'
and paid him fl3,00u a year, as traffic mar
age of the New York Central. Not lou
after Rutter" took charge there aios
a difficult problem, arid one in
volving the iiiWiOst' of the Cei?
tra Wa4 very greatly. RuttcP
went to the commodore with it, The oi l
man looked at him a moment and then said,
Jim, whai does the Central road pay you
15,000 a year forf 'To manage the trafil!
department,' Jim replied. 'Do you expect
I am going to earn your salary for you V sj i
the commodore. Jim caughv the, "point,
turned on his heel, went away and solved thn
problem. S he'hadn't' solved it rightly thft
(Central road had no use for hiro"" Yet thero
are lots of successful business men whc would
have taken it as a compliment to. have been
thus approached by Itiitter had they been in
Vanderbilt's place.
That great merchant prince, John. Wana
makcr, of Philadelphia, might have been n
tailor barker to. this day had he tried to get
rich pn lines laid down by others. He adopted
just one motto: "Do ye next thing," and has
now reached the point where tho next thin
seems to be depositing of bigger sums at tb?
end of one day's business than ho did the day
before, New York Evening Sun.
Napoleon; "3i unci O vex coats.
Of all the historical garments which crowd
the great museums of the world, none ant
more famous than the gray overcoat and
chapeau of Napoleon I, celebrated in Ber
anger's and Raffet's poems, and painted by
ooiesof aspiring French artists. At are
cent search through the archives of the times
of the great conqueror the tailor's and hat
ter's account for some of these articles of
clothing- has been found, and. it appears that
for each of his "chapeaux castors' he paid
$12, while his "rdingotcs grises" cost him
$33 apiece. Toe overcoats were always made
very wide, for, contrary to the custom of tho
oQcen of that period, ITapoleon ' never took
MEN WHO ARE KNOWN.
What the Xewtpapers Are Saying About
Thou Personal Itenia.
Judge Gray, cf tho United States su
preme court, is an enthusiastic hunter
and fisher.
It cost the emperor of Austria $C OO,000
to niter tain the czar of Kussia for three
days.
Tho crown prince of Italy, it is be
lieved, will certainly marry a daughter
of the Conito do Paris.
Pojhj Ijco has decided that all his jubi
lee presents which are of a sacred nature
are to form a Leonine museum.
Emperor Francis Joseph takes Ijcer at
luncheon, a limited amount of cham
pagne at dinner and smokes the com
monest kind of cigars.
Emin Bey ia familiarly known in
Germany, esjiecially at Breslau and
Berlin, where he studied medicine, by tho
prosaic name of Edward Schnitzer.
Tho best paid etory writer in the coun
try is said to bo Harlan 1. llals-y, who
makes an income of $7,500 a year from
the detective fctoriea ho writes for The
New York Ledger.
Mr. Clifford Lanier, a brother of Sid
ney Lanier, w ho is making a name for
himself in literature, lias a btory entitled,
"The Mato'd Race With tho Banshees, '
in a southern magazine.
Mr. F. B. Thurber has a menagerio of
native animals near his country home at
Onteora park, in the Catskills. Tins do
mestic menagerie consists of bears old
and young foxes aid r::rro . Tl
aro kept in cages, and may bo seen at
any time by visitors to this picturesque
mountain resort.
One of the poor boys who started ou
in life to make a fortuno and succeeded
was Thomas Kickcrson, of Boston, who
built and owns a controlling interest in
tho Mexican Central railroad. U father
was a Capo Cod lisherman who left him
penniless when very young.
A Mr. Braunhart, of San Bernardino.
Cal., possesses the identical knife which
the famous Apache Chief Geronimo used
in scalping his victims. It is about four
teen inches long, brass trimmed, with
steel blade and a carved iron wood handle.
Thero are ftll marks of bloo '01'1 uie
knifov
A. J. Drake, of Talatka, Fla., has a
vest that was worn by his grandfather,
Albriltain Drake, during the Revolu
tionary war. It is made of cotton home
spun, with gourd bottone, and measures
z'ly inches around the bottom, ample
confirmation of tho family tradition that
the Revolutionar- ancestor weighed 302
pounds.
It was ens it tho hobbies of Governor
Young, of Ohio, whoso deatli occurred
recently, to keep what he called a. "Black
Book," in which ho pasted every mean
thing that was said about him "in the
newspapers. Nevertheless, lie was a
great friend of the newspaper correspon
dents, among whom he had a wide ac
quaintance. .
Mr. Spofford, tho librarian of congress,
and his assistant, Mr. Ilutchcson, are
noted for their wonderful memories. Not
only can they refer instantly tQ any book
ia the libraor that may le asked for,
but if requested tomention the best books
on a particular topic, they are able t
enumerate Ihep.i with ft rapid'.iy that
would, thruio a book Catvhisser.
Knjrl. a watchmaker of Saxony,
Germany, has a penchant for making
lockets and sending them to distin
guished peoplo. These lockets are made
of Cifu-man pfennig pieces that aro about
two-thirds the size of a copper cent. He
inserts the miniature of the person ho
proposes to honor in ono of these tiny
coins, and sunds it to him. II err Muth
has letters of acknowledgment from
crowned heads and others; among the
others ono from President Cleveland,
whom he honored with one of his pfen
nig locket3.
Judge William D. Kelley, of Philadel
phia, is a remarkable man in many re
spects. He has. been, twenty-eight years
in congrc-iKi, and one characteristic about
Iiim makes him, a rather peculiar examplo
of success in public life, lie is practic
ally unablo to remember for any length
of time either a face or a name, and this
lack of memory would have long since
consigned many another man to private
life. To make up for his want of polit
ical adroitness in this respect tho sturdy
old protectionist in gifted with a most
acute and intelligent car, and he can telj,
meii their-voices where he never could
i-rcognizc them by face or name. So he
closes his eyes when a newcomer ad
dresses liim and thus figures oat his iden
tity. Alth.ovighj quite a young man, Joseph
Howard's whitened locks (they aro as
enowy as Boucicault'e) and white mus
tache and goatee give him a striking ap
pearance when taken in conjunction with
his youthful manner &nd figure. How
ard is now attached to no New York pa
per, but corresponds for a multitude of
out-of-town sheets. From this source his
income is perhaps larger than that of any
other correspondent, save perliaps George
Alfred Townsend, who writes under the,
name of "Gain." Howard is an am.us
ing. and in some ways a profitable com
panion, for ho has known, a host of clever
men, and, having- an excellent memory,
is able te retail many good things at see-,
pad hand. '.-
:nca;e from To4ouinsr by a Cobra.
Dr. Vincent Richards, of Calcutta, an
enthusiastic investigator in many differ
ent lines of medical research, had a nar
row escape recently from poisoning by a
cobra bite. Ho was holding a vigorous
cobra in his right hand for the purpose
of obtaining its venom. In pointing with
his left forefinger to where senna watch
glasses lay, he brought the part close tq
the arnoaal'a head. The snake made a
sudden dart, and fastened its fangs just
below 'the second joint. Retaining hii
presence of mind, Dr, Richards tore the
reptile away and killed it. A tight liga
ture was at once placed on the proximal
aspect of the wounds, which were sucked,
enlarged by knife, allowed to bleed freely t
and thoroughly mopped with a 5 per
cent, solution of permanganate of potash
an India rubber cord was bound around
the wrist. A medical friend subsequently
further enlarged the wounds, and applied
fctror.g nitrio acid to them. The ligatures
were cautiously removed after a-time.
No symptom of poisoning' resulted except
a slight tightness of breathing. ScientiBc
American. -
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