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Was it perudvenrare in ' . The hali of German eight, Or in Chemistry, perhaps, Of from a tete-a-tete 7 - Or have yon a worshiper Some Junior, let nie ear ' Who caught them from some friend of bJs And gave them both away ? I know not, pretty Annex maid, But if yoa have a lover, 4 Fortbis-salce end your own I hop That you may soon recover. Harvard Criinon. Jlctc Itcaufy la Rated in. Texas. The voting. men Lave a way in Texas of rating the girls as tiiey do cotton. 'If only moderate in style and appearance elie is a good ordinary, if more than riKusliy attraetive she is a good middling, but if superior in all the graces and charms, then she is the highest grade middling fair. Further West, in the cattle region, she is arlon horn if only if moderate beauty, but a short horn if of superior quality. -llcan. -St. Louis llcpub- Utory of a Hat. 'Twas at the concert. She came bar carolling down the aisle, with that mo- ' tion of hips and arms peculiar to Boston, which is the quintessence of a homely f -.it. Ho had carelessly left a new silk 1 :tt in her seat. Sho sat cm it, rose in dismay, reached for her purse and of fered him an X. He refused, but re quested to kiss her hand. ' She refused ' hIso. " Then," said he, " I will accept the $10, and . say I preferred it to kissing " you." Harvard Lampoon. A Startling; Costume. We trust that none of on? American belles will follow the latest freak of fash ion exhibited at the race3 at Nice by a fascinating Parisian actress. This ad venturous young lady appeared on the course in a toilet of light-colored Cicjl- ienne, embroidered in a most artistic manner with life-sized cats arranged around ttie skirt. The bodice was plaint with paniers, and at the back the mate rial was so draped that two tabbies came face to face, and seemed to be engaged in mauling each: other in the most im- ,: proved back-yard fashion. The effect was startling, to say the least, and we venture to say that tho ' wearer was emi nently successful in creating a. sensa tion. New York Tribune. A 3 fall's 'Choice. "Now whoever saw an old-gold ' rose? '.' she cried, appealing to th.3 mir ror, " or black asters, or brown lilies of the valley, or pea-green chrysanthe mums ? It's just like a man ! Not the least idea of taste ! And they'll put any thing on to him. Probably some old things they had left over from last year, and then 6 tuck them together on a child's hat. and told Jack it was the lab est style ! And he believed them, the ' ninny 1 It's just like him I Well, he may wear it if he wants to, I shan't." Jack arrived at this juncture, his face beaming like a bran-new tin pan in the noonday sunshine. Seeing the millinery in the hands of his helpmate, he ex : claimed; gleefully : . "So you've got it, Mary! A little surprise, you know. . It's a stunner, ain't it?" . "I should.say it was, Mr. Jack." " It was the tone of these words rather than their intrinsic intelligence that caused Jack's face to elongate so sud- denly. i "Why,. what's the; matter, Mary?' he exclaimed in alarm. " Matter, Mr. Jack 1" returned Mary, .holdiug tfye bonnet out at arm's length, as if it had been a recent oocmpant oi . the emall-pox hospital " Matter, Mr. Jack !" she repeated ; "I should think you'd ask 1 Just look at it !" ' " Why, v said Jack, beginning to lose , confidence, in his ideas on taste, " isn't it pretty ?" . " Pretty 1" screeched Mrs. J. With that the let the millinery fall from her grasp, and then dropped all in a heap on the nearest chair, and fell to weeping like a force pump. It was hard on poor Jack. He had promised himself "no end of pleasure a3 tho result of Ms little surprise. "Mary will be so' happy 1" he had said to him self. " It will come so unexpected, too I s And . how she will admire my taste !" N Instead of -this, that beautiful bonnet lay neglected on the floor; and his wife was on the verge of hvsterics ! What wa3 he to do under these dis- . - tressmg circumstances? Do? What " would any husband do in the presence of tears ? " Oh, well, Mary," he said, coaxingly, - "if ifc.doesn't suit yoa, of course you can , 'change it. I ought to have known that a man isn't fitted to pick out a bonnet. There, dear,' don't cry any more ; but put on your things and go right down to Plushington's and pick one out yourself. Now don't cry, dear. Tve got to go to the oSce ; but you'll go to Plushing- foa's ngUt away, rou'i you, dear f ESTABLISHED IS48. Mrs. Jack's tears gradually dried, though a great sob every now and then showed the -terrible anguish which .still rent her bosom. She deiened no answer to her lord's entreaties, excepting some, thing or other about that "horrid thing," and was about to break out again into fresh weeping, when Jack begged her again to go to the milliner's right off, kissed her hastily and discreet ly left lier alone with her grief. ;When the door was safelv shut behind him the truth must be told he did say some thing that rhymed with lamb, but it is certain that "lamb" was not the word he used. It was wonderful how quickly Mrs. Jack recovered from her sorrow. Hard ly liad the street door closed ere she was herself again. There was now a look of triumph on her face. Hastily putting on her street garments, she shoved the despised- bonnet into, the band-box, and a minute later was on har wav t. Plushington's. It is needless to follow her thither. If you are a woman, you know how a woman disports herself in a millinery shop; if a man, the less you know about such places the better for your peace of mind. . The next day was Sunday, Easter Sun day, and as Mrr. Jack walked down the broad aisle in her new bonnet the bon net of her own choice she was su premely happy.; And Jack was happy, too, to see his spouse in so heavenly a frame of mind. "Well, Ivunir ' Thus said Mrs. Jack, a she took her seat; for right in front of her, in the Bangupton pew, there sat Mrs. Bangup- ton the recognized leader in the fash ion nblo- world with a bonnet the rery j counter part of that "horrid thing" which Jack nad sent home as a surprise to Mrs. J. This is what Mrs. J. " manned " about. There were the identical neutral strings; the nondescript roses, chrysan themums, lilies and asters were all there; the "mean, scrimpy, night-cappy thing" was before her in every particu lar. , It is safe to say that Mrs. Jack got little edification from tho service that morning. Mrs. Bangupton's bonnet was mixed up with the hymns; it was every where throughout the creed, collects, prayers; the morning lessons were en tirely devoted to millinery; the sermon, from text to finish,, was Bangupton and bonnet ; and the text was made up of tho same ubiquitous elements. On; her way home Mra. Jack was not so cheerful as when she started thence. On the contrary she was taciturn, sad, not tb say morose. Jack saw that some thing was wrong,, but, being a discreet husband, and havirg yesterday's episode fre3h in his remembrance, he said nothing. It was, no doubt, the wiser coursei TJpon reaching home, Mrs. Jack, flew up the stairs, but not until she was in the solitude of her own chamber did her sorrow find words. Clutching con vulsively at the strings of her new bon net, she pulled it off and then sank into a chair and burst into tears. " I don't care, there " This was her only exclamation. She continued to weep and sob for five miu utes, perhaps. Then suddenly she dried her eyes, took up her bonnet, scanned it all over, and, with a look of satisfaction rather than of joy, exclaimed : "Well, I picted it out myself, at any rate ! None of his buying ! I'd a died rather than have him buy my bonnet l't And no doubt she would. Boston Transcript, Small Talfe. Ohio claims the heaviest woman in the world. She weighs 491 pounds. A great modiste issues the following directions for a new-style head-gear : With this bonnet the mouth i3 worn slightly open." A Missouki girl wrote 2,378 words on a postal-card, and then mailed it without any address. The family didn't get any rest that night. ' ! Chicago had a "paper party the other day, with both men and women dressed more or less completely in the fragile material. There were no bad ac cidents reported. '. A Vwttcttav class manufacturer is fabricating .ladies' bonnets by the thou sands, and selling them, too. The glass cloth of which they are made is shinier than silk, has a finer color, and is none the worse for a heavy shower of rain. Pigeons, are now. used in Paris as or naments for bonnets. . At last a ray of light appears. When this fashion gets to this country a woman anr snap her fingers at the niilliners and merely send her husband out to shoot one of the neighbor's pigeons. ' A- well-dressed and good-looking young woman entered a grocery store in Quincy, and called for a nickel's worth of eggs. The clerk gave her four eggs, and they were devoured on the spot by the suction process. The young woman then wiped her mouth and walked oft - Of the Princess of Wales, the coming QD,!it is iai4 ? " gerjfc&dtr car and PUBLISHED AT EUTHERFORDTON, -NafrJ EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. solicitude for her cinldren are bo well known that her example has made it fashionable among titled ladies to affect a fondness for the presence and society of their children, who otherwise would be left to the care and companionship of servants." ! - ,At a late fashionable dinner party in New York, the dinner cards were in imi tation of fans, and made of different woods, the back being used to form a frame .around the edge. On the handles were pretty bows of satin ribbon, and on each fan was painted the name of the guest and an apprdpriate. design by a well-known artist. .'' Miss Btbxes, of San Francisco, re cently sued a barber for the value of a switch he had furnished her. The bar ber agreed to work over the combings of her own hair, but, as a matter of fact, she claimed, he furnished her with an inferior article. His j lawyer asked her if it was not a better switch than sho could have got in tho city for the same money. "I'll show : you, Judge," she answered, with a bewitching smile, "but I will not le him see." She laid aside her hat and draped her head with the switch. "Now, can't you see for yourself, Judge, it doesn't match my hair at all ?" His Honor moved back a little, .looked over his spectacles around the room, then at the defendant, then at the lovely plaintiff : kneeling befor a him, and stammered" out: "The court renders judgment in her favor for $25." Feminine Smiles. ' Take back the heart thou gavest." He was a butcher, and she wanted liver. They don't speak now. "No," satd she, "Tm not keeping any servants just no. I have quite enough to do to wait .upon myself." A TorjNG lady attending bails and par ties shoul d have a female chaperone un til she is able to call some other chap her own. When a girl has been at school seven years, and spells vaccinate "vaxinate." is it the fault of the school system, or of the girl's system ? "" Fashionable spring bonnets will be provided with step-ladders, so as to allow people to step up to tho roof and ex amine the flowers. Why do elderly spinsters have a predi lection for parrots 2 Well, they have ho man about the house, and they want something round that can swear. A Noeth Country fish-wife went to buy a dress. "None of your gudy colors for me," she said at once to the man at the counter ; i "give me plain red andyaller." ; A New Jeiwey woman who has been divorced from three husbands! says she feels so discouraged that she dcesn't think she'll try marriage more than four times more. . . A scolding: woman's roughly planned to fumo and bluster and command. New York News. A patient man the Lord did form to stand around and let her storm. St. Lb ui Hornet. They were seated on the sofa, where they had been for four long hours. 'Augustus, do you know why you re mind me of the Chinese ?" " No, dear est; why?" ."Because you won't go.'' The meeting then adjourned sine die. " O, Henby, aren't his eyes lovely ?" she murmured, gazing into the face of a very homely poodle. "So liquid 1" " thought he'd lick-wid his tongue," re plied Henry. The match was broken oil the dog gets all the petting now. Harvard Lampoon. Conjugal amenities: "Do you' know, what month of the year my wife talks the least?" "Well, I suppose when she catches cold and loses her voice." Not at all. It is In February. " " Why is that?" "Because February" has the fewest ,days."i jEsTHETic young lady " By the way, Mr. Gosoftly, have you read ' Bascom's Science of Mind?'" "N-n-a-w, I'm not 'reading mucn, nowadays. I pass my time in original thought" -ZEsthetio young lady (witi sympathy) " How very dreary, to be sure." FOROSITT OF MATTER. That granite is porous is shown by placing a piece of it in a vessel of water under the receiver of an air-pnmp and removing the airj Little bubbles will soon be seen rising through the water. These bubbles are the air contained in the invisible pores of the granite. A piece of iron is made smaller by ham mering. This proves its porosity. Its particles could not be brought into closer contact if there were no intersti ces between them.' An experiment per formed some years ago at Florence, Italy, to ascertain whether water could be compressed, proved that gold is porousr A violent pressure was brought to bear on a hollow sphere of gold rilled with water. Thb water made , its way through the gold and appeared on tjie outside of the sphere. Water will thus pass through pores not more than one half of .tho millionth of ah inch in diam eter. ! m ' The meekest may subdue the strongest foe, if he will licfp his place and do bis guty A Family Newspaper; Devoted 1 o Home Interests UPPER MlCHIGJir. H Mining regions are proverbially bar ren and rocky, and the Upper -Peninsula of Michigan at least that portion' of it generations of accomplished and vigor which is so productive of fo and. cop- ous writers, the poetry of Edgar I Poe per forms no exception ttaianile. It still remains the most individual pbetio is old older than most of our hills, for product to which the United State it was the first land tnat -yins attached to have given birth. This is annoying, the original Laurentianuoleus about and they escape it by a direct negation which our continent' hasfceen formed. , Mr. Henry James, the typical literary It has, in consequence, atways been a ' American, even venturing to speak of favorite field for geological' tudy, and Poe's "very valueless verses." Such its novel industrial featured make it no , men as Mr. James ask us if we are sin less interesting to the ordinal- traveler. ! cere in preferring these light tones of The face of the country is rugged and music to the intellectual force I and seamed and worn. Wereat ,;not for its ' severity of Bryant, to the humanity of mineral wealth it would renin perman- J Longfellow, to the wit of Holmes and ently a wilderness. Lumber companies ' Lowell. To this there seems an answer would invade hero and therej and" retire which will hardly satisfy any but those after having robbed tho forest of the who have made poetry their principal pine which is found in afev scattered study. These will have perceived that patches. It would be an e4dy where the ! in the history of the world what has stream of Western migrafeioi fiad left ' really preserved tbfe memories of writers a few Indians and wcodse to subsist ' of verse has not beeu intellectual force, by the methods of primivjre life.' The ! or the clear expression of love and pity, land is generally valueless t'ojn the farm- or even wit, but a certain indefinable er's point of view, for the soil is light felicity of style; a powerof saying things drift too light fr wheat iaiid the cli- j as they never were said before, and so mate a winter modified Fla season of that they can never be forgotten. : It is summer .weather too sh'oit 'fori Indian a very remarkable thing that Edgar Poe, corn to ripen. Hay, oatviand potatoes who was not a man of much weight of yield the farmer a fair rettun, bjut the character, or even originality of intellect climate is so rigorous that "tUc securing yet happened to possess, .to 'a very high of shelter and fuel calls fof; gjp large an degree, this extraordinary gift, of style, amount of energy that htlp is left to de- ; In this no American poet has 'so much vote to cultivation. It lskgi proof of this as approached him, and it is - probable that n very inconsiderable rac tion iof the : that this will preserve his verse, like a population attemptsto subsist by farm- ' rose petal in a drop of glycerine,, bound ing, although the freight ffrobi Chicago 1 to decay because of its ephemeral and is added to the price of allftijso staple ar n i i . a i . - v-i i i i ' i t ticles oi production hay$ r iistance, being from $20 to - d$ t ton, and milk 10 cents a quart. C tuously enough strawberries and currants jejichja per fection unknown in mpre hospitable latitudes, a Marquette strawberry re sembling in size a Seckel patar ;laad in flavor a wild strawberry. Srijtis is7 owing, no doubt, to tho factthtn northern latitudes Marquette ti3 ; febput ; as far north as Quebec the fewsummer days have from eighteen to twenty hours of sunlight and after-glow, t'ad vegetable growth is virtually uninterrupted by darkness. Light, the botanists tell us, bears thcsarue relation i'i kronia that heat does to sweetness; Jpash stirawber- . . j. i - i ries as these must be see&to be appre- ciated, and must be visiter to be seen, too delicate for they are too large, ant'j to bear travel theinselveifc T 1, i a . iii climate as a winter modified by .Short- summer. Tho July and August - weather I can vouch for adelightfl.tven' when the sun is hottest you feel iiisjlnctiyely that there is no prostrating flower in it, and the nights are invariabfj 'cpoL ; In July the mean daily range rsrl9 de'g., and the monthly range 5(ipe:., the lowest recorded temperature nfcieaue 3S deer. Near the lake the presene4of sO large a --5- ; CJ body of water, which atJJarquotte never falls below 52 deg., andp4 theextremo northern end of h& peninsui never below 48 deg., acts an equalizer, and restricts the range with'jompSratively narrow limits. This -jwj temperature of the lake water, whicjt U higher than that of any of the stream's, entering it, precludes the idea of I ybajjUiing ' As a consequence few of therjake sailors can swim, and it would be littl avail to them as a means of saH$rij- life if they could, for the most rpfuwt nfah if he falls into Lake Superiosliills: and dies in a few moments.- Theimerbus trout streams in the woods ajetpj an icy cold ness. The snow, whichals to a depth of six or seven feet, mejf nd sinks into tho sandy ground, 'tfr0appeiar from deep-seated springs wft tenjperature of 39 deg., which is exojlf equal to the average annual tempera.t-nra of the place. The thick forests' present the sun from warming the ground orHh$ water) And finally the lake is so de&;j-4its bed reach ing several hundred feltjbelow the level of the sea, that the suTtner ahr has lit tle effect on it before is again cov ered with ice. There f rjo other place on the globe where so iarge a body of cold fresh water lies at.an elevation of six hundred , fee aljovil-the sea; The air in contact with tMsj deep, chilly water seems to acquire; fpeculiftr vivify ing and refreshing qnafijtyi quite impos sible to describe, buti"ereasy to ap preciate. Here must .btie' great sum mer sanitarium or coolp-off place for Chicago and Milwaukefi 4-P. Johnson, Jr.,-n Harper s Maga, THAT IS THE QlfESTIOX. Many a bustling, successful ! business man would delight in ivjmg-iimply in some quiet country villf ge on one-tenth the money he now sperjjds and without a hundredth part of 1$f? Worry that is now shortening his life; hd-making him the dullest company at Ifme. "But what would his wife say ?' tfyny a plain, quiet little woman is utry fired- of the ceaseless labor of tryiafjo niake as ef. fective an impression a$ her richer ancl handsomer acquaintances; But what would her husband' saf New York Herald. -' !' ' '- n V ii'- f - , . ' -' " " The maids of Athejis are not hand some," says a recent wri Jer; " they have large, heavy faces, darl; ' Jiair and eyes, find pale complexions," ! ; v . - --tiV--' rr n ; r i : : and General Sews. TOE Aim THE EXGZIMH TOETA It is particularly irritating to th Americans to be told that, after so rhany .1 1 i-j l : i. i. i.: disconnected condition, yet never actf ually decaying. '!''"' Here in England, where every un prejudiced thinker must admit ) that poetry, has flourished since the begin ning of the century far more than in America, Edgar Poe has taken his place as one of the fashioners of style. Wheth- i : er his influence has been altogether j "beneficial may perhaps be a matter of not to be doubted. Long agtf Mr. 'Ten nyson canflie under the sway of his music; Mr. Matthew Arnold, in the "New Sirens," and Mr. Kosetti, in more than one piece of structural melody, have felt it ; Mr. Swinburne, though he lias so thoroughly conquered the notes and j made them his own, would scarcely have begun as he did without " Ulalume " ' and the " Conqueror Worm." But the4 j English writer who has most closely re ' Bembled Edgar Poe in his mournful and j mortuary temper, though he worp his ' rue with a difference, was the late Mr. j Arthur O'Shaughnessy, whose "Fountain of Tears," and "Barcarolle " threw; more ! light on the structure and value of Poe's ! verses than pages of the cleverest criti ' cism. In France, where the cadence j and the verbal felicity were lost, the in ! fluence of Poe, which was so strong for ft little time seems to have faded away We do not hear now of the gentleman who was spending years and years on a translation of "The Raven," and whose version was expected by his friends to be a greater masterpiece than 1 the original- Baudelaire's beautiful paraphrases and commentaries, in winch he man aged, while retaining the .essential char acteristics of Poe's work, to infuse a strong quality of . his own, will always be of interest to students of literature Pall Mall Gazette. - AUSTRALIAN TASTNESS. It is not easy to grasp the enormous bulk of the Australian continent-the practically unlimited space within which the colonies have room to grow, j The colony of Victoria the smallest and at the same time the most populous and' highly . developed of the continental group is about as 1vrge as Great Britain; j,New South Wales has an area five times that of England, but it is net half as large as Queensland, and only a third of the size of South Australia. Western Australia is even larger and more empty of population ; after measuring acres with South Australia, it would have al most sufficient land to furnish out New Zealand and Tasmania, and yet New Zealand compares in area with the Brit ish islands, and Tasmania is nearly) as large las Scotland. The acreage under crop in the Australian colonies in 1880 was 6,500,000 acres. That seems a respect able total ; yet it seems ridiculously small 'when we compare with it the illim itable extent'of the land yet lying waste. To take the case of New South Wales, while there are 685,000 acres in cultiva tion and 17,500,000 acres inclosed, there are 180,000,000 acres, much of it excel lent land, still unalienated. Even at the present rapid rate at which the land is being fenced, it will occupy 180 years to dispose of it alL This colony alone con tained the extraordinary number of 32,400,000 sheep in 1880, beside 2,580, 000 cattle and nearly 400,000 horses. Before the close of the next decade: it is expected that the sheep stock of New South Wales will run between 40, 000,00 J and 50,000,000 head. Edinburgh Scots man. Sr He was a disgusted boy. Se hiad ex, ercised great caution, and had finally succeeded in creeping, unobserved, un der the canvas into the tent. And he found it' was not a "circus, jout a revivaj Beeting; u progress I j TERMS $2.00 Ter Annum. INFANT FOOD. There are about twenty European preparations styled infant foods, begin ning with that of Nestle, and at least twice as many American, all of which profess to furnish a complete nutrition for the infant during the first few months of its existence, while yet the conversion of starch into dextrine and sugar is be yond the capacity of the untrained di gestive function. The examination of these with a microscope, assisted by such simple tests as iodine, which turns starch cells blue, and gluten (or album inous) granules yellow, has engaged the careful attention of Dr. Epliraim Cutter, .of Cambridge, and his results will star tle most mothers who have relied lipon the extravagant pretenses set forth in the circulars of manufacturers, Eliza McDonough, who preceded Dr. Cutter in this field, has been in a measure dis credited; but it appears that her asser tion that the starch, so far from being transformed into dextrine, was not suffi ciently altered to render the recognition of its source difficult, whether from wheat, rye, corn or barley was strictly true, and that these pretentious foods are, without exception, nearly valueless for dietetic purposes. All of them con sist of baked flour mainly, either alone or mixed with sugar,' milk or salts. In some cases the baking has been very in adequately performed, and the doctor found one that consisted merely of wheat and oats whose starch cells were proxi mately in their natural condition. The general result of Dr. Cutter's examina tion may be stated in brief terms as fol lows : There was scarcely a single one of the so-called infant foods that con tained a quantity of gluten as large as that contained in ordinary wheat flour. That is to say, a well-compounded wheat gruel is superior to any jof them, partic ularly when boiled with a little milk ; and mothers are in error who place the slightest dependence upon them. As respects one very expensive article, pro e ssing to possess 270 j parts in every 1,000 of phosphatic salts in connection with gluten, Dr. Cutter was unable to find any gluten at all. j The thing was nearly pure -starch sold j at an exorbitant price as a nerve and brain food, and a great remedy for ricketi. So all through the list. Semetimes a trace of gluten was present ; more frequently none at all. In one case there were ninety parts of starch to ten of. gluten ; hut this was exceptional, and the .majority were less Valuable, ounce for ounce, than ordinary wheat flour. Considering the semi-phi-anthropic pretensions which have been put forth by the manufacturers of these foods, some of them sustained by the certificates of eminent physicians, the report of Dr. Cutter is one of the drear iest comments upon human nature that has recently fallen under the notice of the journalist. But if the revelations he has made of fraud and pretense on the part of manufacturers in this field shall serve to protect mothers from further betrayal, and to rescue infant life from quack articles of nutriment, his work, though giving a tremendous shock to our sensibilities and to our faith in med ical certificates, will not have been done in vain. New York Times. VENTILATING It AIL WAT CARS. Everybody wLo nas traveled by raij in winter has suffered from the horrible ventilation, or rather the want of venti lation of, the ordinary passenger car. It is to all a cause of great annoyance and suffering, and to many of serious illness, if not permanent ill health. A gentleman of this city, who travels a good deal, has hit upon an effectual means of relief from the, evil, Ho states it as follows : "When I find the air in Hho car be coming oppressive, I listen fothe loco motive to give the signal of our ap proach to a station. ' As soon as I hear the whistle, I take my station at the rear end of the car, and watch for the conductor or brakeman to make his ap pearance, as I know he will presently do, at the other door ' in the front end. As he opens the front door, I open the back door. The motion of the train in stantly causes the car to be. flushed and swept by a flood of outer air. In five or ten seconds just while the doors are casually open all the foul air is ex- 1 i xi . i' m.j Tit- . peiiea, ana me car is uiieu wnu pure cool, fresh air from without. When the conductor shuts his door, I shut mine. If somebody squalls out for the door to be shut, I promptly beg pardon and shut it. Meantime j the business has been done, and all are relieved and bene fited. I repeat the trick at every sta tion or two, or as often as is necessary and nobody so far as I know has ever suspected the design." It works like a charm, and I have escaped, in this way, many a cold and sore throat, and many hours of half suffocation and suffering. Indianapolis Herald. Matthew Aknolb says: "Sanity that is the great virtue . of the ncient literature ; the want jof that is the great defect of the modern in spite of all 'its varie'y and power. It is impossible to read carefully the great ancients with out losing' something of our caprice and eccentricity, and toj emulate them we must at least read them." Quarter'?. SemUannnal or Yearly tracls wiil be made on liberal terms. Obituaries Rnl Triba'.es charged for at advertising rates. respect , No communications will be published uns les accompanied by the fall nime and ad-, dress of the water. These are not requested for publication, but aj a guarantee of good faith. All commanrcatioc8 for the piper, snd business letters, should be addressed to THE DANKER. Rath fordton, S. C PLEASANTRIES. There are some promising young men who are not careful about keeping their word. "I see that winter is lingering, in the lap of spring. The horrid thing 1" Susan B. A wrr being asked, on the failure of a ' bank, " Were you not upset ?" replied " No; I only lost my balance." Teacher to small boy : " What does the proverb say about those who live in glass houses ?" Small boy : "Pull down the blinds. " "Chabttt vauntelh not itself, is not puffed up," and yet some men expect- a puff every time they give $1 to an Indi gent old woman's society. A Russian proverb Bays: "Before go ing to war, pray once ; before going to sea, pray twice; before getting married, pray three times." A Returned East Indian was compli mented on his crenial disposition and large heartedness. "Yes." he replied, "I need less heart, but more liver." The Oil City Derrick thus sadly mor alizes : "A great many men would rather be a receiver of a defunct insur ance company than a door-tender in the house of the Lord." Ii'does aggravate a man to think that, while his wife isn't afraid to tackle him and nearly yank his head off, she is madly terrorized by a cow that he can chase out of the yard at any time. We look, for the support of every old . woman in this county when we boldly assert that there are not three members of Congress who know to within three hours when soft-soap is ready to wax. Detroit Free Press. From the the album of the Countess deB.: "Men always say, 'If you do not love me, I will kill myself.' Later on we say to them : ' li you love me no longer I shall die.' And, in the end, nobody is buried.'" Adjuration: "By shimminy, how dot poy studies grammer," was the re mark of a German when his sonxalled him a "knock-kneed, pigeon-toed, seven-sided, glazed-eyed son of a saw horse." A minister at Richmond, Va., recent ly swooned while marrying his old sweetheart to another man.' If his part of the ceremony made him swoon, what nerve the man who was married must have had to stand up under it. Boston Post A noted physician says many persons simply by deep and rapid inhalations of pure air, can become as intoxicated on oxygen as if they had taken a draught of alcoholic stimulants. Bere is a point ' for the man who has been walking rap idly home from the club in the night air. "Well, Andrew," a gentleman re. marked to a Scotchman, who, with his brother, was the only remnant of a nar- row sect, "I suppose you and Sandy are the only bodies who will get to heaven, now?" "Deed, sir," replied Andrew, shaking bis head, "an' I'm no' sure about Sandy.'' There was a young lady In Worcester ! go Beared by a crow of a roroester, That her mother cried, Hannah I'm surprised at yourmnmah! ' Vhy don't you behave as you ucester T A quiet young nan from Shanghai Indulged In a piece of mince pai; j His life work is o'er His form here no moer Will visible be to the at At a whafe exhibition, a youngster asked his mamma if the whale that swal lowed Jonah had as large a mouth as the one before them why didn't Jonah walk out at one corner. "Ton must think Jonah was a fool ; he didn't want to walk cut and get drowned," was the quick re plv of "a younger brother, before the " tnother could answer. . " Thrashing by steam," murmured a fond mother as she glanced at an article in, an agricultural paper. "Whatgit ups they do have nowadays. HI had had one of those steam thrashers for my four boys, my arms wouldn't have been as rheumaticky as they are to-day," and, she dreamily thought of the past as it might have been. GROZrXD ALB. " Ground air," or the air in the soil, has a considerable influence on health. Dr. Pettenkofer believes that the po rosity of the ground on which we live is so great that "heavy, towering buildings often stand on a soil which is filled to the extent of a third of its volume with air. This air contains more carbonio acid than that of our atmosphere, as well as deleterious exhalations." When a housef is heated to any extent it be comes adraught-flue, and draws such air out fronvthe ground as if it were a cnppmg-glassV Progress. A musician of foreign birth was re cently praised for playing of the piano. He was toldtnat his playing was very neat Atonce he flew into a rage be cause he felt that he was insulted. "I beg yoar pardon," ho exclaimed, " but English-speaking people say 'neat only .ofBeekties,'' t I It .11 t 1 4 r IT
The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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