Jewell County Journal from Omio, Kansas • 2

THE POCASSET FANATICS. When she gits this and sees how that JEWELL COUNTY JOUMAL. February, to rocommend measures for the promotion of our trade with Brazil, WIT AND WISDOM. It is because he has heard that close FACTS AND FANCIES. There is nothing mysterious about mosquitoes.

It is easy to see how they may-nip-you-late. A hot summer is predicted. If you wish to be safe, be humble to the ice-cart driver. Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald. A boarding-house mistress, like the rest of us, has her weak and strong points the weak being her coftee, and her strong point the butter.

An Italian naturalist has established the fact that birds in their little nests fight like oats and dogs. Weak men bors of the family get thrown out of the nest without ceremony. Robust effort from the Boston Transcript: "The cigar that looks bad, feels bad, tastes bad, smells bad, and annoys the ear by its spluttering, is a five-sense cigar, if there was such a thing." The proprietor of a building site in Wisconsin advertises bis land for sale in this wise "The town of Poggis and surrounding country is the most beautiful nature ever made. The scenery is celestial; also two wagons and a yoke of steers." Among the articles found in the streets of Paris in one week and deposited at the Prefecture of Police, were a thou-sand-frano note, twelve gold watches, eight ear pendants, nine bracelets, fifteen portemonnaies and a number of snuff-boxes, silver watches and other articles. Solovieff is now kept in the Peter Paul Fortress, in a padded room and in a straight waiscoat.

The Empress is stated to be seriously indisposed, in consequence of the excitement she has gone through. Rumor says that the Czar himself shows much nervousness since the attempt. In the spring, the good wife's fanoy turns to thoughts of cloanlng house; In the spring, the dainty maiden dlggoth greens and eatoth souse In the spring, tfie young man thinkoth, would I hud a little wife! But he scented not the troublos that must wait on married life. A party of Irishmen went to a clothing store to buy a suit of clothing in which to bury a dead comrade. All varieties of garments were examined and discussed by the mourning friends, but none could be decided upon until one of the party held up a light thin suit saying, By gorra, let's take this, b'y; sit's thin and cool, and poor Fat will find it mighty comfortable." TnET say that profanity was not known in the world until one day, and the steamer accommodations limit the members to CO persons, who go out for the purpose of observation and of exhibiting such American products as are likely to find a market in that coun.

try. The cost of the passage will be $300 per head, and the party are expected to return in the latter part of September, the journey thus coming in the Brazil winter, when the climate is healthy and delightful Dr. J. C. Peters of New York, in his recent report on epidemics, showed that there were about 1,000 more cases of scarlatina in the city during the first quarter of 1879 than during the corresponding three months of 1.G00 more than in 1877.

The great advance was due to the length and comparative severity of tho winter. Sevonty-five per cent, of all the cases of scarlatina occur in persons under 5 years of age, and 91 per cent, in persons under 10 years. Dr. Peters also noted an almost epidemic inflammation of the eyes, due, many thought, to dirty streets, as one of the features of the first quarter of 1879. Between 1857 and 1876 the value of imported and cereal food consumed in Great Britain rose from 35,000,000 to 110,000,000, aboutone-half being represented by wheat; in fact, it seems that the half of every loaf eaten in England is made of foreign wheat.

One point which has not been fully noticed before is that to-day tho use of food derived from animal sources has very much increased in England. Thirty years ago not more than one-third of the English people consumed animal food even once in the week. To-day nearly all oi them use it at least once every day. Now, 10 years ago the United Kingdom produced nine-tenths of the meat and dairy produce which was eaten, but last year three-fourths only were made, the other fourth coming from abroad. A bald-headed gentleman stopped at the corner of Meriden and Washington Streets, the other morning, where sat an Italian with a cage containing three canaries with the following placard placed above them: "Ladies and gents take advantage of the occasion of these birds which with five cents will select from the several boxes a planet of the fortune which will tell you of your past and future life; said planets are for all." The bald-headed gentleman handed over a nickel, a little bird flew out, fluttered over the boxes a moment and drew out an envelope with its bill.

He read that he would travel to the East and marry an Egyptian lady of great wealth and beauty, who had long secretly loved him, and who Here a sweet smile was spreading over his countenance, when an elderly lady in smoked spectacles, who had approached him from tho rear, twisted in the ferule of her umbrella between his fifth and sixth ribs, and said: "Why hain't you sent that wood up, Jacob Do you spose I can git dinner without as much as a splinter to burn in the stove?" and he answered not, but meekly followed her. Indianapolis News. A Wonderful Walking-stick. We have received from Messrs. Eber- stein of Dresden a specimen of an interesting walking-stick for naturalists or tourists." The stick is a perfect multum in parvo, and contains quite a museum of scientific instruments.

The hasdle alone contains a compass, a double magnifying glass or pocket microscope, and a whistle. Below it there are a ther mometer on one side of the stick and a sandglass on the other. The body of the stick is partly hollow, and its inte rior holds a small bottle, which is intended to contain chloroform or ether for killing insects. Along the outside of the body there is a half-meter measure, showing decimeters and centimeters. Near the end of the stick a knife-blade may be opened, which serves for cutting off objects which can not be reached by hand.

At the extreme end a scew may hold in turn a spade (for botanists), a hammer (for geologists), a hatchet, or a strong spike, which would be of great use on glaciers. The whole is neatly finished in black polished wood. Nature. A Cnre for Hydrophobia. W.

B. Reynolds, M. writes to the New York Sun I send to the Stm a recipe for rabies less properly called hydrophobia which I have not seen in any medical book, but which I have used for twenty years in my practice. In no case has it ever failed to do all that is claimed for it. The preparation is simple and harmless, and any one can obtain the ingredients at any drug store or from any physician.

It is useful in cases of bites of venomous serpents and stings or bites of poisonous insects, as well as in case of rabies. Chloroform and concentrated ammonia, equal portions; mix and apply with a sponge or piece of soft cloth to the bitten parts for six or ten minutes. The parts bitten, if swollen or inflamed, may be rubbed with equal portions of ammonia and spirits of turpentine for a day or two, to relieve soreness. The above mixture acts mechanically, causing almost instantly a flow of blood from the parts bitten. Also the ammonia, I claim, neutralizes the poison left in the parts.

I have a record of several cases on hand, and intend publishing them soon in the Atlanta Medical explosion wrecked mo, sho'll hunt an other lover quicker'n wink see How do you like the plotP Just gaze on this picture once, and then toll me that Mary Ann won't fend back mylove-lot- ters by first train Ho posted the picture. The letter was brief, but explained all. It said: "My Ewer Dear Gurl, I incloze my pickture that you may see how oiTul bad I was hurt, tho' I know you, will luv mo just tho same." "Ever see that game worked aforeP" he asked of tho artist as ho licked the stamp on the letter. "No; never did." 'Course you never did. It's mine.

It struck me the other day while I was greasin' a wagon, and 1 think it's boss. Blode up see Disfiggered for lifo seeP Picture right here to provo it, and she'll write back that she has at last concluded to yield to her parents' wishes and marry a young man out there who owns eleven steers, a hun dred sheep and an eighty-acro lot." DilroitFree Press. Female Veracity. The English Bench has decided in formally that a woman can toll a better lie than a man. At the Devon Assize3 in Exeter, during the trial of a perjury case, the counsel for the defense made use of the remark that a woman would say any thing.

Baron Huddleston, in addressing the jury, observed that he could not go as far as the counsel, but it was a well known fact that. a woman told a lie better than a man did. It was a remarkable circumstance that when a woman was determined to say that which was untrue, she did it a great deal better than a man. Whether it was that a man was more conscious of his integrity, was a metaphysiaal question he could not answer; but it was certain that a woman could tell a story much more logically aud perseveringly than a man could. He was glad that it was a ques tion for the jury to say whether the girl should be believed, for he himself ad mitted his incapacity to gauge the ve racity of a woman when she appeared in the box.

Romance in IfcealLiifc. That was a sad, sal affaiu that happened recently. A young man, upon learning that a young lady whom he adored but whose love for him was not very warm was about to sail for Europe, engaged passage on the same vessel, so that li3 might bask in her smiles during the voyage. But li3 didn't bask much. Tho second day out he was seized with an internal commotion, a wrenching and wretched feeling that threatened to turn him inside ou aud until he reached Liverpool he was the most miserable man in the world 1 ho youDg lady made her appearance regularly at meals, with an appetite as savage as a bitting Bail Indian, and flirting use au creation with a young Englishman who wore sideboard col lars and a Scotch cap.

When the wretched young man learned this he had a serious relapse, and he wished he was home. Some old scientist says the ocean will be entirely dried up in a few million years hence, -and the blighted young man has concluded to patiently wait until that period arrives, and then return home overland. Death from a Decayed Tooth. D. W.

Clark, of Dixon, died re cently of pyemia, or blood poison, re suiting from an absces3 in the jaw. It originated from caries, or ulceration of a decayed tooth, and had been coming on for five months. He wa3 canvassing Yolo County for a patent flat-iron, and returned from there less than two weeks ago. The nbseess was lanced, and discharged a large quantity of foul matter, but death resulted from the cause men tioned above. Had the tooth, which created the abscess, been extracted at the proper time, he need not have lost his life.

The experiment of homes for inebri ates is to be tried in England-under the sanction of an act of Parliament. In ebriates, according to the provisions of the statute, may determine for them selves whether they will enter the retreat" or not; but having signified be fore a Justice of the Peace their wish to be committed, they will no longer be free agents1, but must stay out the time for which they have bound themselves, and conform to all the regulations of the establishment. The Oglethorpe (Ga.) Eclio has a sensational account of a versatile hen, which, after spending her youth a3 a pullet and after laying many eggs, and hatching several broods of chickens, be gan to crow and tried to assume mas culine airs. Spurs grew from her heete, her tail feathers lengthened and curved, and, in short, she developed into a full fledged rooster, with all that gallant bird's characteristics and ways. Onc of the brightest little sons resid ing on James Street Hill saw his father fixing the billiard-table with a spirit- level.

After tho old man had finished the job he remarked Now, pa, see if my head's level." Syracuse Stand ard. Lord Derby wa3 recently asked. whether M. Waddington, tho Prime Minister of France, was an Englishman. Yes," he said and the Prime Minister of England is not an Englishman." A Touching Letter from Freeman's Wife Describes the Fanaticism which Made Him Kill Ills Child.

The following letter has been receivod by a sister-in-law of Mrs. Freeman, wife of tho Pocassct (Mass.) murderer, since tho latter went to jail, which shows that she believed as implicitly in God's command for the sacrifice of the child as tho father did Barnstable, May 10, 1879. Dear Sisters We have received your letters. I have looked for one for a long time. I never thought it would find us here.

Am glad to know you are well. We are in need of nothing, but we thank you for your kind thoughts for our comfort. I have no doubt you suffer for us. I can not tell you how it all "came to be. You know how dearly we both loved our precious little one.

We have tried for more than a year to live entirely devoted to God and to tho good of others. We had given up dress, the desire for money and evory thing that was not pure in purpose. You would hardly have believed it was Charlie. He never was profane; had not drank since I knew bini, and was one of the best of husbands and fathers. But now be commenced a life of prayer and faith in God, and I with him.

He read his Bible every spare moment, and his whole life was spent it Christian, earnest work for good; and his whole aim, not neglecting other duties, was to win souls to Christ and seek himself eternal life. One trial of our faith came after another, and God blessed us very much the more we trusted him. By and by there came a week and more of great and new trials. Charlie did not sleep, nor eat scarcely, for nearly two weeks. During this time of pain and trial he felt that God required him to have the faith of Abraham.

You know what that was in regard to Isaac. He could not get away from it. The more he tried the more it came home to him. At last he said to the Lord he would be willing to bear tho test. He thought that would be all that God would ask.

That seemed to end it for the day. That night it came to him more powerfully. He could not help it. Oh! God alone knows how I suffered but having such great faith in God to believe he would stop him just as he did Abraham that it was only a trial of faith knowing, as I did, Char lie's life and love, his fear to disobey God and that he had Abraham's faith, I could not hinder him. But neither of us thought God would suffer her to be touched any more than that the day would fail to come.

We thought God would see our faith and give us some token of acceptance. We believed God would thunder from Sinai before any harm should come to our darling cut when I iouna my precious Edie gone, oh, Father, how I felt! But comfort seemed to come again. Abraham believed God would raise Isaac, and so we felt it was God's plan to take her, so as to raise her from the dead, and thu3 show Hi3 mighty power and love. We did believe he would do this in order to show the world that the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob still lives, and so wake up the frozen church of God to its duties, the church so married to the world that there is scarcely any difference between the two. We believed this was to be, and that Eflie would yet go with Charlie to preach the gospel of the kingdom.

What a power she would be what glory to His cause Elijah, Eli-sha, Christ and the apostles raised the dead, and why should not God do it now as then? We believed he would, but the time has so far passed, and we are here. God knows we are innocent of any crime. Charlie still thinks God is going to manifest His power and glory and himself be justified in the eyes of the world. God grant it may bo so you can not know my sorrow! It almost breaks my heart. My dear, dear Eflie! Charlie is innocent.

he is ini ocent of any crime, but I am afraid it was mistaken faith in God. Dear Lord! help us in our need. "Hattie." A Masterly Stroke of Genius. The other day a muscular young fellow, having an odor of the stables about him, entered a Detroit photographer's establishment and explained that he would like to have about one photograph taken, but on learning the price he concluded to invest in a tin-type. After taking hi3 seat in the chair be shut up one eye, drew his mouth around one side, stuck up his nose and patiently waited for the operator, whose astonishment caused bim to exclaim Good gracious! but you don't want to look that way to get a picture.

Nobody will know you from Sitting-Bull." You go ahead," was the reply. "Do you want me to take such a phiz as that?" "I do." The artist took it. It beat Sol Smith Russell all to pieces and was highly satisfactory to the sitter, who paid for it and said You see, I had a sort of object in this. Come here from Allegan County six months ago engaged to a gal there found a gal here I like better got to sever old ties see?" But what has that picture got to do with old ties?" asked the artist. "Lots heaps! I've writ to her that I was blode up here on a boat, and dis-figgered for life.

She's awful proud. attention to little things makes the successful business man, that tho young dry-goods clerk takes cire of bis mus-tacho. New York, Mail. Probably nothing in this world can equal the looks of tho temperance hus band, whoso wife draws forth a half- filled whisky bottle from a remoto cor ner of tho clothes closet during the villainous house-cloaning time. Rhine- beck Gazette.

"The wicked floa, when no man pur- sueth." This sentenco was left incomplete, but can bo easily finished. Tho wicked flea, when no man pursueth, sits upon the wall and tries to find out who seems most comfortable, so as to attack him. Rochester Express. If the agent from a Chicago paper house, who sat for half an hour on our mucilage brush, Monday, will send us his present address and a stamp, we will explain to him why his new pantaloons let such a curront of cold air up his spinal column. Stillwater Lumberman.

A tramp came tumbling over a high fence into the street yesterday to meet his partner. When asked what was the matter ho replied, nothing; I was treated very cur-teously. I was told to wait a few minutes and I could have a bite." The lady of the house had told the hired girl to call the dog. Keokuk Constitution. It isn't the frail, delicate girl, with the soft, gazelle-like eye, that the divine alllatus of spring poetry rest3 upon.

Not at all. Tli8 genius of rbyme and rhythm is more often found in the robust and somewhat wrinkled maiden of forty summers, with a good appetite and superb digestion. Young man, beware of the rhyming female. Shei3 the most expensive kind to feed. New Ravm Register.

Mr. Martin was a conductor on an Iowa railroad. He is a church member, and at a recent church revival meeting told what the Lord had done for him. Among other things, he said he ran his caboose car from Cedar Rapids to Potts- ville without a flange on one wheel. He had faith the Lord would keep tho caboose on the track, and Ho did.

It was not long after he rectived an epistlo from tie General Superintendent, which began thus: "Young man, I don't believe the Lord has any thing to do with running freight trains;" and now Martin has no caboose to run on the aith principle. A minister who had been something of a traveler in his time, turned the talk to his hobby and was reveling in a gorgeous description of his favorite country, Brazil, when the small boy of the family, who was building a block church on the floor, spoke up "Ma, has sister Floy ever traveled any?" "No, child, no you mustn't speak when others are talking." "Then, when I was a lyin' under the sofy Sunday night, and sister and Mr. John came in from church and was a settin' in tho big rocking chair, how come her to say that the nicest land she ever was in was Lap-land?" Louisville Courier-Journal. His Peculiar Position. The sight of a strong, healthy man loafing on Clifford Street yesterday with a snow-shovel on his shoulder was sufficient to attract the attention of every one who passed him, and to an inquiry as to whether he was searching for a job of shoveling snow he replied I am, sir, but I haven't any luck in striking a job.

It is pretty late for snow, I suppose?" Well, you can't look for more than a foot of snow af cer the middle of May, even in this country," said the other. No, I suppose not. If we only had five or six inches I could make three or four dollars and get along somehow. As it is I am placed in a very peculiar position." "How?" Why, all the ready capital I have is locked up in this thirty-five cent snow-shovel, and no snow to work on. If I had my money in a lawn-mower or house-plants or garden seeds I might realize some profit, but now I don't know what I shall do." You are not to blame if it doesn't snow.

You don't run the weather." "That's true," slowly replied the man, but my position is peculiar, just the same. People won't give me credit for my honest intentions. I need work I am just hungry for work but you wait and see how folks use me." He knocked at the door of a privato house and a woman appeared. Da you want the snow shoveled off your walk this morning?" politely inquired the stranger, as he held up his shovel. "No, sir!" was her emphatic response.

I'll do it very cheap, madam." No matter, you can't have the job she snapped. You see how it is," observed the man, as he returned to the walk and leaned against a shade tree with leaves as big as his hand. "My capital is locked up in this shovel, and no prospects of snow for six months. Considering all circumstances, would you like to advance me ten cents until December?" The citizen thought he would. There was something about the circumstance worth five times that money.

Detroit, Free Press. P. WILBUR, Editor. WILBl'U DU.VFKE, Publlahen. OMIO, KANSAS.

HERB AND T1IERE. Tbk Cincinnati Board of Health has passed an order prohibiting the landirg of rags at that city from Southern points. A trial now going on in St. Petersburg has led to the disclosure that poor people arrested for not paying their taxes are liable to be beaten with rods steeped in salt water. The late Bishop Ames once said he could stand the cry of a baby while ho was preaching, but that the thumping of the mother's heels and the buzz-saw "H's's's'sh!" nearly drove him crazy.

A 5-year-old girl, lost in Minnesota woods, had the good sense to hang bits of her dress on bushes as she wandered, and these led to her discovery, after she had lived four days on berries and wild onions. The New York Graphic publishes a portrait of Freeman, the Pocasset fanatic, who murdered his child. According to the picture Freeman is a tine, intelligent looking man, with mild eyes and side whiskers. It is now claimed for Washington that in the month of May it is the most beautiful city in the country. The thirteen thousand young trees, planted a few years ago, add greatly to the attractions of the city at this season.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Cologne Gazette says that no one at all acquainted with the state of affaire in St. Petersburg can any longer doubt that the conspirators have powerful connections, which extend even to the Council of Ministers. The pulpit of a Universalist Church in Watertown, N. was occupied on a recent Sunday morning by the Rev.

G. J. Porter and his father and mother. The son opened the service, the father offered prayer, and the mother preached from the text, "I would not live al-way." Homestead entries at the rate of twenty-five a day are now made at Prairie City Land Office, on the Little Saskatchewan, on the Canadian Northwestern Railway. The settlers are nearly all farmers from the eastern provinces, and express themselves well pleased with the country.

Lavinia Goodell desired to practice as a lawyer in Wisconsin, but Chief Justice Ryan of the Supreme Court de cided that the word "person" in the law did not apply to women. The Legislature subsequently passed an act ad mitting women to the bar, and now Judge Ryan has adjourned his court for the summer without acting on Miss Goodell's second petition. The Rev. Mr. Sanger is an English vicar whose church building was in a dangerous state, and he set himself to build a new house.

He worked as a bookbinder for two years to get money, wrote 2,000 begging letters, designed the building, acted as clerk of works and contractor, carved all the wood and stone, and worked with the men employed. He has the house to his liking, and a debt of $1,000 yet to pay off. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Collins of Rochester, New York, were recently bnried the same day, being also of the same age 61 years.

The wife, though apparently healthy, suddenly died, and her husband, who was lingering with consumption, asked that the funeral might be deferred for a few days. His premonition of death was soon verified, and one funeral answered for both. A correspondent of a New England paper writes from Hartford A Chinese lad, dressed in American clothes, riding on a bycicle in our park this afternoon, was a suggestive token of the progress of the 19th century. It is but a few years since the few Chinese here were the objects of much curiosity; now even the street gamins play with Chinese lads as freely as with any others, and even without temptation to pull their queues, an amusement which lost interest when it ceased to be novel, so that nowadays the boy who "picks on" a Chinese is very liable to get into a fight with some intimate friend of the Chinese of his own nation. Bret Harte's story of the lad who was pronounced ill because he "took no interest in pegging stones at a Chinee" has no force to our Hartford lads.

There are attempts to limit the opium traffic in California. The Grass Valley Trustees have passed an ordinance im posing a license of $30 per quarter upon opium Fellers, drug stores exempted The Sacramento Bee thinks this is wrong, and that opium dens ought to be prohibited, not licensed. On this subject the San Francisco State says "There is great danger that the use of this deadly drug may be added to the list of our body and soul destroying vices. The intensity of life here, ita excitement, strain, and disappointment. the large proportion of our people who are separated from home influences, and the practical materialism which is be coming the prevailing religion, render this a community in which the habit could easily be introduced." Considerable interest is being manifested in the proposed expedition to Rio de Janeiro which is to sail from New York July 5.

The project is the result of the meeting of merchants and manufacturers at Cooper Institute in about five hundred years before the Christian era, when Aristides, chasing from his office in desperate haste to catch the last street-oar, was stopped by Themistocles, who wanted to tell him how the rheumatism had been troubling him nearly all winter, and how many things he had tried for i- A gentleman not extremely given to piety was dismayed by being asked to say grace at a strange table. To refuse and explain would be embarrassing; to comply would be equally so. He chose the latter, and started off briskly enough with Oh, Lord, bless this table" Just here, being unused to the business, he nearly broke down, but by a gigantic effort pulled through with World without end. Yours respectfully, amen." TnE late public executioner of Paris, M. Roch, was stout and agreeable.

He wore black plothes and an enormous gold watch-chain. "In private life," says a French journal, he was a very worthy man, and lived quietly like a good bourgeois in an apartment on the third story, at No. 10 Rue Rochebrune, with his wife and seven children. On the door was a simple brass-plate with this inscription 'Roch, Fonctionnaire It is all wrong to let your church choir go off singing in the opera of Pinafore between Sundays. A dreadfulthing recently happened on this account at a California funeral.

Tfie pastor, a tall, white-haired man, much resembling an admiral, arose in the pulpit and had no sooner finished, in a sing-song tone, the remark, We miss his presence in his usual haunts," than the choir sprang to its feet and shouted in return, And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts." Hattie E. Danforth of Franklin, applied for a divorce the other day from her husband, Chas. Danforth. Hattie is young and good looking, and the Judge jocularly remarked that he would grant the prayer of the petitioner with the proviso that when she again married she would come to him to have the ceremony performed. She left the Court-house free of Danforth, but had not been gone but a short time when she returned, accompanied by one Edward Wilson, who had a license, and requested the Judge to perform the ceremony for the twain.

The daily circulation of the rao3t popular newspaper in the City of Mexico, with a population of 200,000, does not exceed 2,000 copies. All tho newspapers in the republic aggregate a consumption of only abont 800 reams a month, a quantity that many single mills in the United States could supply, and yet not run a fourth of the time. A Manchester (N. child, named Whitten, had its health ruined by having red peper put on its tongue at school for whispering..