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About Plattsmouth herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1893)
THK AS llKKi.V II KKAl.D: l'LATOMOU HI. NKMIASKA, JaNUaIIY 2fi, 1893. i i hST.s OA ANIMALS. i THI KNGWLEOCc THEY YIELD IN PHYSIOLOGY. Fjf'tA f'niMM'i'iiinu: (In1 liMMv'rlf I)u to ; liilt'lllgfiit VUlm rl ion - lu ItrsiilU Add I to llio Ottuinlirii nf tli? Alfiiit'itl Art. tint !lurvi.y Worked. ! 1 Iih iliM'iiinn hi tin- rhnri'b I'onri'vHoii j tlif Miliji it of "L i inii'iiH L'pmi iii I Animals" the cum spi'tiil' tire n lili li fiilUm-ril it. liitve imliiriilly It- 1 In miinii iv- IMMtl of illtl'IVxt ill till! Wlinltt of tllf fllcs- I tions involvi'il, mill especially in iimi of tlii'in, on which, in t lie opinion of most ! 'oplp, tin? decision roiuvrnini; (it hern i bJimiiIi! ili'jM-iul. W'ii ri'fi-r to the fiit-lini of Hit Hiiiml lii iii'lit to tin; Ii u man met', or i even to the lower minimis tlicnisclvc, i trliifh these xpfiimciit.H hnve Ih-cii t!ie menu of ciitifiTi nitf, mill we propose to hct ' forth Mitiie of these lienelin in a niHinicr i tfllrulntcil to lie ilili'llixililt' to nonmedical Ullllers. The won! 'Vxporimt'iitiitloii on living j aiilnmls" cover 11 very wide r.MK'e of proce I nre, anil it. mny therefore lie ilesliahle, in j the first phfe, tiiattcniit toclasify experi : airtitAl work with referent: to Iih nature I nil objects. Kxpi't itiielits lire performed: A nn orderly series. Intended toa.seer , tain the fiini'tioiiH of oratifioriiseiiihlaeit i tif i.TKMiitt in the li 11 1 mi ii or animal body. ; Am (letHi hed prmeeilillKS, inl ended to tie ' cide Home hinuletpteKtioiiHwIiich mayariso rinrl iik tho course of nn Illness or in tht) I )m.Kren of a medit o-lenal investigation, ' uch a question, for exiimple, an the jinie i lieahility and npplienhility of a proposed ! Bierati(in or t lie tint nre of a poison which j defies chemical analysis, i Kither HitiKly or In series, for the purposn ; f ascertaining the initial and ultimate action of Home di'iitf upon the hninan or Kuisin, wit.li the view either of testing iu tnlue lis n remedial nut-nt or of KUurditiK, liy antidotu or otherwise, against, its in j u llotis effects. Inoculation nnd feed in if experiments, in tended to Identify the speciHc mlcrolio of ome disease and to ascertain whether, ami if no, in what decree, its virulence in capable of belm dest royed or mitigated by cultivation or other circumstances. Itesides the experiments wliich f ill under one or other of the foreoiti(t groups there nay be others which it would bu diiricult lorliuwify, but the groups nerve to in clude the greater titiniher, and each will furnish Illustrations of valuable, results which could probably have been attained hi no other manner. As a conspicuous example of the first group we may recall to mind tho experi ment of Or. William Harvey by which ho discovered tliH circulation of the hlotid. 1'here may be thousands of educated pco fie to whom this phrase is a phrase and Birthing more. Hut the work of Harvey bears about the saute relation to thesuW dent progress of medicine as that of (ial lli to the tibhe(Ueiit progress of astron omy. To the physician of the present day the ignorance of animal function which pre vailed before Harvey, nnd which his dis coveries nerved in time to dispel, can ncarcely he realized by any efTort of the imagination, and it would be impossible to conceive of any progress In physiology I nr of any progress in medicine which could i have been made prior to the completion of ; his wotk. Kvery portion of that work, j from its conmienci'tnisnt to its close, was accomplished anil establlslied by experi ments upon livinipitiimuls, and could have been accomplished in no other way. The Vina placed t he deer of the royal parks at Harvey's disposal for this special purpose, nd cntne hiniHelf to witness the experi ments as noon ux tho results were auf ficlelltly declared. Tlie work which Harvey accomplished (or the benefit of all future generations of (be human race has been tio fruitful that It is scarcely possible to point toany sttlise- quent Uisi'overy in physiohwy or in inedi tine which has not more or less directly followed from it. In order to discover a second exMmple of the kind of experimentation which we have placed in the lirat irroup we mav Mass from ihe circulatory to tho nervous system, which will furnish us with an instance at faast as remarkable and at least as strong m mat which lias beeu already dealt with. To take a third example from the bame KToup, Dr. Hope's experiments on living animals cleared up much which had Is fore tx'enuoubtful reuanliitK heurtdisease. not withstandiiiK bedside excrienee and post mortem examinations, and have enabled physicians ever since to detect the earliest Indications of cardiac chamjes and correct ly to appreciate the souuds which are sii. hi (leant of Improvement or of deterioration. Proceeding totliesecoud group, an ex cellent example of them is furnished by the experiments preliminary to John Hun ter's operat ions for t lie cure of aneurism, or to von uraere s operation for the. eure of glaucoma. 1 he results obtained bv ex periiuenls on the ligation of arteries, from Uietimeof Hunter onward, have led to a rery great anil constantly increiwing sav lug of human life. The third (roup embraces a very largu number of experiments, tlte details of which would mostly be unintelligible to aouuieuical persons, hut which have served to establish the action of some medica tent. The fourth group includes the so called "inoculation" and "feeding" experiments, which have been extensively performed iu connection with modern bacteriology, aud the main features of which have become widely known. It has Iteen established bv these that the active cause of many forms or Ulsease Is a Hpccial microlie, and that in ome instances this microbe may lie culti vated or reared in nuch a manner as to diminish the virulence of its effects, so that it will confer, wheu introduced into the body of a man or an animal, immunity from a severe disease by the pitHlucliou of aiuildone. The effect of inoculation ex periments has been to identify the several microbes of many diseases, to prove that they are the causes of these diseases, to test the degree in which their effects may bediminished by cultivation, anilthede gree in which these diminished effects will chord protection against inoculation, acci dental or designed, with the more ofdimiry forms. Lotidou Times. Two of a Kind. A woman in the western part of tho uate wants to have her pastor dismissed nn the ground that he rides a bicycle and itudied medicine iu his earliest years, which suggests the story of the woman who wrote the following uote to the teuch "l'leas don't teche my Mary Jane any fiaiology. I don't want her to know about ker iunurds." New York Tribune. Very Likely. Mrs. Uiikins What a commanding pre see that tidy has! Mr. Bilklus Ys, I guess she's married. New York fcVeelly. CALirOH'. r'".nMITS. Men I ssiti'- Yiirir I.Mrs in title Nilitiide - ; Ih roan r-.v.-T.;i..:!y n social 11111111111? Tho ' ,y s 1. i. 1 . t i" liiountiiil.S jf ( tl im ii'u jiln.ust etiuu.,li I 1111 n '. .ry-'i'.vs !. .0 h J 11 life of lit ti t ...... - t ihspmve tlio getii'i;i!izii- t in. Tli"' ir, i':::i,:in lienntts can bu lurti'l M af.cred l!:f.iuj;h t'.m Sierr.1.1 and ! tlli' Co ! ; I'.tli;;i' i'i.il.i dill.' end of tlie ht;itc t 'ie i-t'ii r. Ti.'ey ar. p;.i licul.tily mi tin riitt.i tlniin;,'!i t!:ts rcsiimi, cnx v'ui'i iilmi't ';o Yus"tniii! valley mid rtciid ii i;' I' .i' .li U it. to Vt i! l:i,;ll Siernis, Solnii of tin m wi n' om e guides in tiio valh y others Imve been li im ; s, and wuini tiMitt seem to have l,u;, ii Ui tho lilt; of siilitudc Minply hir.iusc tli ' y lncj it. lu this 1 lass beliiiis old i It, (iibsou Old (iil," as hi; is Ki'iier.illv called Klio lives :m :t mountain ranch. Iio t (icvoiitr-f'tvo yean old, but is tiiiHsesscilot tis litiich ;iysiciilstri'iigt!iaiidctiiiiir;inc8 as the nvi :,:i;;i; matt nf half hisue. llii I'atiii' tlii' .y years ho (rotu Tciiiiessi e, whero ho l':it a wifo nnd a largo family of children. Ono of his suns catim v set him r,r iitly itnd tried to induce) him to viait his former luuiii!, but "Old Oil' sti'iiill'n.stlv lei'.lsi'd to lcavo I; in litil rmich and hol.tary cttbin. Ho has ncvui si en u railro-nl, and tho sta;:c drivers trotn llm iicftrest station try their ultnost to iier.su.ulo him to go to town and ut lca:.t look at n truiti of fats. Hut Lis in variably utiswt r iu: "Do you think I'm going down there to lio Mowed up by one of thi iii tlicru MamcJ engines? Nut tuticli!" Kcttrly all tho nicn w ho livo this life of Rolitudi; Very long get It bit queer ill the bead, unit "Old Oili U no i'ci piiuit to tin; rule. He has n riinaroh; de. t t ii tioti of liiniftcll' which uY-i'laivH that hu is "llu; best limn in tho United Slates ot adjoining territories, til her directly m indirectly, financially, coniniercially, cc ( h siiistictilly or uiu hnrchified." Tho old tnnn is a hard worker, nnd wlion ho is not busy on his ranch ho is working i-ii(T;;i'tically inukiti "Kliakes" that is, clapboards ;ilit and sawed by hand from big pino trirs. Old man Lambert, who hits a cabin in the lii;;h Kh'tTiis Rome thirty miles back of tho Viisciiiitc, is mint her of tho niouti tain hermits, llu has neither ranch nor mining claim, but lives by what ho shoot h ami Ly uu occasional few dollars earned from camping parties. Ho han lived alone in that muni) spot for yearn nnd years, nnd will in nil likelihood' stay thcro until ho dies. Tluiro are month lit a tinio that he docs not nee another human being. A party of campers one hummer found him making a hugo stone, wall that Hccnied to havo no put-imse whatever. In surprise they ttslted him what ho was piling up those stones for. " Why," ho said, "a man's got to do Honii'thing, mi here alone, or he'll go wrong, sure, Lor. Augusta iUa.)Chrun icle. Sclionlinir at Twenty Dollar! Year. However moderate tlu expenses of a student or tno present time may bo they can hardly retch tho extremelv tiuxh -it sum which auhiced for Jean Marniontcl, a-1 reach jaa't, during tho reign of Louh XV, for a years schooling. In his "Memoirs" he speaka of his Bi-hool life as follows: I was lodged, as was tho custom of the school, with livo other Miolarsat the houso f an honest mechanic. My provisions fur a week consisted of a large loaf of rve hnnd. a littlu cheese, a piece of bacou and two orthreo I ounus or beer. My mother had added to them a dozen annles. This was the weekly provision of tha utw ten Bciioiar ot tho sc hmiI. Thn 111 s. tress of the house, cooked for us, and for her trouble, her tire, her lamp, her beds her houst room, including even the vege table of her little garden which shn used for our soup, each of lis gave her twelve lence haltpcnny a month. Kech-omiig everything except my clothes, 1 cost my father Ix-twecn four and five pounds a year. This was much to him and an cxpenso of which I was ery anxious to see htm relieved. Clow It Feels to lie In a Rnllwuy Wreck. "A man who lias never been in a wreck woulilu't believe how loner it takes tor the cars to uet throuuh piling up, said another. "After tho first eras thero is a rebound clear to tho hack of the train, and theti the whole thing takes another lune, something gives way, and lliavbo three or four inorn ears telesi'iir.o Then there's another jerk backward and another lunge, and it (teems us if the crocking ami groaning and tumblin Keep on for live minutes. When a man is mixed up with the trucks under the wiiote stack it fceems like an hour. "Make it an hour aud a half." said nn cx-brakeman as he scratched his no.su with the only clawlike finger remaining at the end of 11 twisted and shriveled stump of a hand. The crowd knew how be had been dug out with a derrick and laughed at tho joke.-Chicago News Record. KhiR'a Dauitlilrrii In Turkey. (Smyrna. Turkey, has an active circle of King s Daughters engaged in the prac tical charitable work for which this or der is noted, liy sewing, embroidering, scrubbing Uoors, blackening shoes, or any Work for which money would be paid, they have distributed rice and coal imiong tlio poor, visited the sick, edu cated children, provided medicines, paid rents and done other similar acts of charity. On holidays they divide into committees for the purpose of decorating the rooms where joor families live aud providing small remembrances for the children. New Yolk Sun. Never lli s.U CrltlcUm. Mr. Kmtley, the eminent baritone, de clares that since I Nil ho has rarely read a criticism that lias been passed upon his singing. In that year he wa.s taken severely to task for a iierforniatico at the Birmingham festival, and the renmrksof the caustic critic so affected him that he determined to read no more criticisms. If other performers, distinguished and not distinguished, would follow this ex nmple, what heartburnings would be savll London Tit-Bits. AT THE BABY'S BEDTIME. Tht Is Uiliy'n Is iltieie: My lit Lit- line kiuiis r.i me In l...r ...)' hi uUhiuown And kneels down at lej knee. An 1 I t.mey a sui-.-l chtl.l ui.kcI i for u 1 inn; my i:u -l As -he r.i- I. H little ,iayersov-r W ith ii. r hale.-, ilium I, or tii'.4L. "Nmv I lay inc." she Mlii-inm la Imf M il ... ".inv. 11 lu !-;:--i. J prii) 1 1 1 1 l.oiil"- anil 1 in; blneeyes liull' i' o-e "ley s.ttd to keep. If 1 .-.liouiil die"- oh, tin- Miner At my In-ill 1! "Is lore I wake, 1 pray tlie l.oid"- and ll.e eelids Droop low "my biiul lu lake." 'Mien I lilt tip tin- llt'leiine, chLiinu llercliM' to my liiviic heart, Anil Kive In 1 v. i.rin, kh.1 iiihi kis-ti 'Jill tin' 1 io-,eii lids Ineuk lt;irt As the leaves do. Milium a flower. And ti e 1., I. -is of lu 1 e.,c 1 Look up in tin ir diort sy la.-nioii Anil amile at me iiuki I wim;. "IjikhI nielli," sli l,iiers uiennflly And hlei-pily, with a kis That lin:;. r.-i uilli me in slumlsT, And Mils my heart Willi hli.-.s. As I think nl I In-1,11 le one dn .inilnij With her he.nl utiiilnst tny lilea.it, Till my sleeii Is as :'nll of rapture As her diuuiniuu '3 rest. - KIm-ii E. Ili-xfuid. A Strunge. lleutli. Thomits Odcll, a yoiiiig man of twenty-two years, living seven miles back of Ureetiup, Ky., bus met death in a strange maimer, llo bud been a puzzle to phy sicians lor several years, lie vas nlTectui by what he ate to such an extent that when he indulged in beef eating about uu hour afterward ho would become restless and wander out iu search of cattle and bellow as an ox, and would get down oil his hands and knees and at grass like a cow. When ho partook of mutton his actions were tho:-o of a sheep, ami lie would plaintively bleat like a lamb. When lie ate chicken he would go out and scratch for worms, w hich lie would devour with apparent relish. After eating fish he would wander to tho creek and go in swimming. One day his father killed several squirrels, of which tho son ate heartily for dinner. Ho left tho house shortly niter and was followed by tho father. Tho father saw him enter an oak grove, and soon saw his son jumping nimbly from limb to limb, at the same time burking like a sifiurrcl. lie called for him to come down, but this only seemed to make tlio boy want to escape, and ho attempted to jump from ono tree to another, but missed aud fell to the ground, a man gled, breathless mass of humanity, nnd expired in less titan livo minutes. At lanta Constitution. A Military Humlkereliler. Permission for soldiers to carry pocket handkerchiefs will now probably be given, for 1 see the war office authorities havo sanctioned a military handkerchief being patented by Lieutenant Colonel Fulton. On this handkerchief is printed all sorts of useful information concerning the uso aud construction of the Lee-Met-ford rifle, tho alphabet used by army signalers, general rules to le observed in any position in wliich a soldier may find himself on campaign, the vurious buglo calls and other things, many of which are so nicely illustrated that it would be a thousand pities to uo it iu the manner naturally prompted by a cutting "nor' caster." Leeds Mercury. lu a Itallruuil Wreck. "Say, these things are mighty funny afterward," said the baggageman, "but when they happen it's nothing to laugh about. Winn we bumped into that freight just out of Chicago three years ago I was sitting back in tho car cheefc ing up. It threw me down and then I started to craw 1 for the back door. The tender telescoped and came through at mo. It didn't stop till I was within four feet of the back of the car, and I sat there waiting for it to catch me. I remember it had 'iHV in red figures, and as it came griudin through at me every figure looked ten feet high. When it stopja d I could reach out aud touch it. "Chicago News-Record. A fteautirul Toast. On a grand day in the old chivalriu times, when the lady of each knightly heart was pledged by name, when it came to St. Leon's turn he lifted tlio sparkling cup on high and gave them this: "1 drink to one," ho said, "whose imago never may depart, deep carven ou the human heart, till memory is dead." With that ho paused as if he would not breathe her namo in careless mood thus lightly to another, then bent his noble head as thoiiKh to give that word tlie reverence due, and gently said "my mother!" London Tit-Bits. FtiRlish l aw anil Hidden Treamire. It may lc some encouragement to Eng lish treasure seekers, if any such there be in these enlightened days, to know that the laws of treasure trove only ap ply to such ay is discovered by accident. Treasure discovered by systematic search would not come within this description, neither would finds discovered by asti-o-logical or cabalistic sciences or by the po tent influence of tho divining rod. All the Year Hound. A gentleman pirformed the cleter feat at a Liruiinltani Shakesiearo chb of proposing tho toast of the poet's memory for nineteen years without f peating himself a feat which most of us will euvy. A Kansas City man swallowed a door key early one morning. The TrenUn (Mo.) Tribune says anyone who mis takes his mouth for a keyhole should reform at once. The Temple of Diana at liphests which was about 1111 even hundred yen s in building, was 4"ii) feet to the first 6u. port of the roof. j - Of traditions of buried treasure it tachingto the sites of Kotnan camps alid deserted cities there are plenty still to be met with. Greek women wore the chiton,-a sleeveless garment, and over it a shaVl formed of a fcrunre piece of woohn goods. 1 THE JOY OF LIVING. T would not low the Joy of having dwelt t 'tioa ibis earth: the wondrous pft of mind. The imiver of thinking, skinny with mankind Its holies and fears, which have been freely dealt To all. To know, to suffer, to have felt. To love. Is lite. Whate'er limy He behind. Westriiu'irluonwiril, wornand faintund blind. Put should the ibirkness lillo sunri-o lllelt. And earth's dear insuthclenry recoil Into tho broader, deeier hope which (tleaiuf-d, Shall wo not triumph that throuuhiiiit the toil And warfare of our present life we deemed That evil was but lui-sMitf, faith a foil To kuowlodi;ij,8o transcundini; all wedreamed? -I). SI. ISruce. Tlie Sail Not VunUlilng. There Is a Kreat deal said from time to time about thetleclitio of the sailing ship and the near prospect of her total disap pearance off the seas. ISut, in point of fact, there never were such a lare number of tine sailing vessels, both afloat and ImildiiiK in our yards, as the British merchant service boasts to day. As our colonies t hrive and increase for with them our chief ocean intercourse lies so must the demand for shipping necessarily be come greater, and there will always exist many branches of commerce in Vhich sail ing ships may be far more profitably em ployed than steamers. ' New Zealand annually gives work to a very lart?e licet of clippers, outside the regular liners, in currying the frozen car cases of sheep to the Kuropcaa market, the wheat trade of California employs every seasou many thousands of tons of our shipping; the wool exports from Aus tralia, the jute traffic of India aud the slowly expanding industries of the South American seaboards, are all trades which still give more work to sail than to steam. The sailiiu; ship wiil never again carry passengers; but so long as coal at an aver age of a pound a ton remains a condition of the em ploy men), of the steamer, so long is the clipper ship likely to go 011 flourishing in those trades here prompt dispatch Is not a matter of the very first moment. Herbert Russell in English Illustrated Magazine. A Mimical Cat. There Is a young lady otj Capitol hill who has a musical cat. After nearly a year of hard work on the feline musician she says It can sing the liest portion of two well known songs, "Home, Sweet Home" and "Auld Lang Syne," but without the usual variations When this young lady wants pussy to sing she puts her on a vel vet footstool 11 nd commands, "Push, sing 'Home, Sweet Home,'" at the same time humming the air. Pussy always responds, singing the desired tune in a rather high falsetto voice, a little broken, but sufll cient ly well to be recoguized by the hearers. Sometimes when this cat is out on a moonlight expedition her voice can be heard above those of her companions iu the feline outdoor back fence concert, ring ing cut "Auld Ijitig Syne" or "Home, Sweet Home." Tho young lady does nut want her name mentioned for fear she will Ih; besieged by freak collectors or dime museum proprietors, who want to buy, beg, borrow or steal her musical pet. Washington Post. Kefrartlve Tower of the Ruby. The primitive form of the spinel ruby is like that of the diamond, eight sided, which distinguishes it at once from the oriental stone. The color of the genuine ruby is that of the arterial blood, or pigeon's blood, as it is called. It is ex tremely hard, and after the sapphire is the hardest of the coruudums, which ren ders it difficult to understand why the earth so rarely gives it up. lis tint Is as beautl ful by artificial light as by day, and its powers of refract iou so great that ancient belief credited it with power of emitting light. The ancients even supposed that it would shine through clothing with un diminished power. Jewelers' Ueview. iapiiiusiM-came popular in r ranee sooner than in England. At one time it was cus tomary at great French dinners to change the napkins at every course, to perfumi them with rosewater and to have them folded a different way for each guest. School teachers at Topeka, Kan., are not allowed to keep pupils more than thirty minutes after school, but some of them evade the rule by detaining them half au hour each for two days as punishment for one offense. Pillows of feather are objectionable. While they furnish the needed support for the bead tin y nre too heating, as they have a remarkable capacity for holding and accumulating heat. The family drug store should be kept well stocked, for it may contain something which shall prove to be invaluable in re levitig the sufferer before the doctor could lie summoned. , oviwt ia Made vcU the weak, nervous or ailing w oman who takes Dr. Tierce's Favorite Proscription. It's a medicine that's guaranteed to help her. It's an in yigoratin.tr, restorative tonic, sooth ing cordial and bracing nervine and a certain eure for all the func tional derangements, painful disor ders or chrouiri weaknesses that affect women. For ulcerations, dis placements, bearing-down sensations, everything that's known as a "fe male complaint," it's an unfailing remedy. It's a peculiar one, too. Peculiar in composition, peculiar in its cures, and peculiar iu the way it's sold. It's yuarnnhed to give satisfaction, in every case, or the money is refunded. You pay only for the good you get. It's the big, old fashioned pill that makes the most disturbance hut it's one of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets that does the most good. Mild and gentle, but thorough and effective the smallest, cheapest and easiest to take. They cleanse and regulate the liver, 6tomacb autl bowels. $5,000 I W SHOES, f SIXTY CENTS WM. HEROLD I SON. This i the Largest ever Received in f EVERY STYLE ior humanity from I SACRIFICE SALE ofLadies Jackets the J CALL - IN - AND - EXAMINE. WILLIAM HEROLD i SON, f 506 AND 507 "Well begun is half done " Begin y0nr housework by buying a Cake of SAPOLIO. Sapolio is u solid citke id Scouring foap used tor all Cleaning purposes. Try it j ' THIS SPACE RESERVED BY J. W. HENDEE & CO., THE LEADING HARDWARE MERCHANTS. F G. FRICKE & CO., KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A COMPLETE STOCK OF Drugs, : ledicines, : Paints, AND OILS. DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIKS AND I'UKE LIQUORS. PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY FILLED atall HOURS. WOWTII OF ON A DOLLAR. One Shipment of Shoes thin city consisting of OF SHOES MADE, infancy to old age. llalance of the Month. 1 MAIN STREET. T
