Punxsutawney Spirit, 1893-02-15

              ■ ly, : *r*# UHTiNE. HI* rslth Wall rounded. I, ■'. f CLAYTON NORTH. I. 15,1893. Mia nKoraALonauTioxi Ur. Knat BKHh Man mt the IHIMenlt Mmkal UpiwMlin. Berijn, Jtnurr 15,1803. A short mum of hM at the interesting thlnn 1 have «e»n In the various centres of Medical itudy wbtcn lEaveatteocled during ode discountsale J ■ f • M A thIng of the past except on :«y. OYER GOATS. Mn«( the best e It <■! who city, had placed It here, end amrw vMtlt.le-wnanfteahof nature, am In tha wards of Prof. Siwwi wmi of pemphigus folliaceus. A man 40 ye age whose entire body «h covered wNb veeicteeor "'1t. t ml— In ate tmmm paa to a band. The disawe being incarahte, Ifttle could be doae exoept to relieve the Intense itching. At times the surface imaM be almost clear, when in twenty-tour hoon it would again ha uotsted. No iimwI treatment was of say benefit, aad the patient was kept bandaged from head to toot to prevent scratching himself. In Pre* with Prof. Pick I saw a oaaa of lupus volgarlo, in which the two-thirds ef the body of a young woman waa ooTared with the disease, and when we ooo aider that it is a tuberculous disease of the skin mean readily understand the difficulty of treating it. These forms of skin diss ass are fortunately rare with us. and for which we may be very thank f^. At the Children's Hospital in boadon. Prof. Morgan performed a vary Una and interesting operation oa a child. It waa a healthy child bat of weak Intellectaal power, the brain being annhle to develop owing to the doaure of the sutures aad fontamiie during the flret year of life. The first operation waa performed one year ago, and consisted in the trephining of the skull in a line drawn from the occipital to the frontal tuberosity, and by this means one* half inch of »>oue removed along this Una. The child improved so much after the operation that now one year Inter the mother brought it again for operation. The same operation waa performed on the opposite side, end the doctor expects to oonttame these operations until ha baa at least made « fairly intelligent individual. That is if the child holds out. At the London Hoe pital Burgeon Breves made an amputation of ' the right upper extremity, including clavicle and scapula for sarcoma of humerus, one very rarely made. The removal of a tumor the aim of a walnut from the surface of the brain wan ane(wnfnllf performed by Victor Horsaly at the Kplleptli- Hospital. Theae are but a few of the many Interesting and rare operation* and diaeasea 1 have Men. and to mention more would require too much apace. Here in Berlin scientific medicine can be atudled to a better advantage than elaewhere. Work can be bad in the various labratoriee at all timee, and since coming here I have been engaged moat of my time in the labratory of Pref. Koch, whoa* discovery of Tubercnllne made such an excitement in the medical world a few yearn ago. It ia impossible to discover what the Professor ia engaged at, but It ia thought that he it still working and trying to perfect a Tnbercuiine that will prove more effective than the former, and which he waa virtually compelled to give to the world ere he was satisfied with its working by the solicitation* ana almost commands of the Kmperor. Ciiauixs U. Kunst. "I approached the high plateau, and the air became so rare that it would no longer sustain my balloon,and I landed without difficulty at the brink of an immense canyon. "A little whirlwind struck the balloon; it reared, twisted and collapscd, leaving me helpless and alone in the wild mountains. "I looked down the chasm. The midday sun threw his ray# clear to the bottom, and I could see a tiny thread of water far beneath. It looked like a vein of silver. "A large stone lay near. I toppled it off and timed its fall—one, two, three, live,ten seconds and the water splashed, but the sound never reached me. "Some noise caused me to turn about. A Vg grizzly was shalB ing toward me. Hia awkward and comical appearance male me laugh; aad the sound of laughter caused him to atop. He stood up his foil height and looked at me in pmaze■ofnt"Drawing1 my small revolver I liefnw to shoot at hira. Then he got mad and made a grand holiday rush. "4 parachute lay in the little car, and I (teheed it and sprang far out into the chasm just as he roadbed the place where I had stood. "In his blind rage he went over the precipice. One moment he seemed to pause, casting a look of reproach and a silent malediction toward me. Then he shot down out of sight. "I followed hfan slowly and found him lying half submerged on the brink of the silver stream. "With some difficulty I got him out into the do*per current, for I found that what, seemed bata throb of water was ia mlllgr» WMidmble stream. "I climbed his huge body, and, using, my parauhxts for a sail, we sped merrily dowa thejoaayoa. "Just at nightfall we emerged into a more open oouajry, and I moved my craft loag out-from his Juicy loin a steak, which 1 broiled on the bank. "All night I journeyed through mighty forest and gloomy gorge. "At daybreak I same to a small town, where the railroad tcuobes the Grand river. I Jumped into the stream and sw»m ashore. "My mate preserver spun around in the water. I looked at him sadly. The memory of last night's supper came to my mind;. 1 felt that I loved him. A transitory glow of grateful triumph «hoae for a moment la his filmy. eyes; then the waters closed over him, and he sank from sight forevermore in the bosom of the deep."—Chicago Inter Occaa.  CHINESE NOTIONS OF COLOR. Rednretl Kates to WunhlnftOM Bixklu, O., Nov. ~.i, 18U3.—I ilesIre to uy that I have great faith in Chamber!*!*** Cough Remedy for the core of throat ud long troubles; also for croup.—B. W. Mo- Goucsi. There Is good reason why Mr. 11c- Collum should have conildenoe in this remedy . It will cure a cold in less time then nay other treatment. There is notbin g that will loosen and relieve a cold so quickly. It will not only cure croup, but if used as soon aa tha first symptons appear it wiU prevent tks . attack. Fifty cent bottle* for sale by J. M. Beyer, of Punxsutawney, Pa., and Dr. Grnbo & Company, of Clayville, Pa. Chir Spring Stock is coming in. We will still allow 10 per cent. discount on overcoats, but on no other goodB. Our line for spring is the most complete we have ever showed in Punxsutawney. The wonderful increase in our business during the past yqar causes us to buy more extensively in order to supply the want* ' ' of our patrons. Our business in 1892 was so far beyound our expectations. An increase over 1891 of $5,000. Of course we will be satisfied with this ratio of increase in 1893. But I suppose we are no different from the balancswpfjtJie human family— not satisfied. There is one fact that can't bo disputed. That is there is no stand still in business You Will either go forward or back, and we are certainly gratified that we can truthfully make • the above assertions. Men's Suits. It would be a difficult matter for us to describe the different styles, quiUitibs: and patterns we show, but we will say we can show you everything from the cheapest to the finest 1018' AID CffiLDRENS' CLOTHING. We hayo $. surprise lor mother# wishing a handsome suits for your boys. We will save you at least 25 per cent on the above - good?. Boots and Shoes. We i ■■ are headquarters for Cande Rubber Boots, leather boots, J. T. Woods celebrated shoes. We have the reputation of gelling the best Mens and Boys' shoe* in this town or county. Hats, * Hats, just received. Our spring stock ready for inspection. The handsomest, latest, and nobbiest styles. Everything in flanges, soft and stiff hats. Furnishing Goods, Underwear, Orerahirte, Gloves, Neckwear, a beautiful line, Umbrellas, Truks, Satchels. The magnificent facilitiee of the Pennaylvania Railroad make this line the favorite route to the national capital on all occasions. interesting event, and will undoubtedly attract a large number of people from svery section of tike country. For the benefit of thane who ilesire to attend the ceremonies incident to the inauguration of President-elect Cleveland, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell excursion tickets to Washington March 3d, 3d, and 4th, valid to return until Uaroh 71k, 189(1. The excursion rate from New York will be $8, from Pittsburg $10, from Buffalo •15, and from Philadelphia and all otkar principal stations on the Pennsylvania system. two oente per mil*. ■ The inauguration promises to baa moat .i A I'upolar Heasedy for Gelds. Mr. J. B. Copalaad, of V ayaradate, Pasa* who haa baaa aagaged la tba drug boataaaa la Kanaa*, Si* Jaraay, Florida, N«w Tak aad .Fannaylraaia far tha part aba TWRMfi: "Chanbarlala'a Coagb ■ dy Is tha Mat aaUiag ooogh madiciaal avar kaadlad." raopla whouaatMai dy ara ao «ueh plaaaad with It thai rMMDrnfOdittolMrMtBdaradM Thara li aothiag battar far a had « rallavaa tha luaga, praraatiag aay • toward paaaiaoala. It la alao a | aad aafa aa<Mp> far «MMwp. II bottlaa for wla hf J. M. of tawaay, Pa., 'and Dir. Ofwha St Clayrflla, P»-, , In* ni» man. «~The before llrealrfast club of Georgia was organized last August and has for its object the recognition of the rights of farmers' wives. Kach farmer mil>scribing to the club pledges himself to t*et apart a certain portion of his ffrin, the product of which becomes a private purse for the wife. This sort of a, jelub would give enfranchisement to a large number of wives who are snfferitojr from financial bondage. —On® of the famous white oaks of Now Jersey stands in I be Presbyterian churchyard at Basking Ridge. It inciisurcs fourteen feet four inches in circumference at five feet high, while tin- I tranches nhade a circle of 110 feet In diameter. 11 has been a famous tree fur more tJiuu a reninry, and it was no doubt a noble specimen in 1730, when a lot.' church was built on the ground where the present one now stands. —The celebrated Dismal Swamp canal, which was originated by 1-ieorge Washington and has a very interesting history, has lately been sold to a Haitimore Arm. The canal is twenty-three miles long and connects the waters of the Klixabeth, in Virginia, by way of the Dismal Swamp, with the Fasquotbuk, in North Carolina, and it is destined to play an important part in supplying the city of Norfolk with drinkable water from the Dismal Swamp —"The truth of history" gets another blow between the eyes. This time it is the esteemed bnsy bee who is involved. John Burroughs reports that the bee does not gather honey all the day from every opening flower, the fact being that he does not gather honey during My portion of the day, nor from any flower. What he gathers is merely •weet water. "Honey," Mr. Burroughs explains, "is the sweet water plus the Individuality of the bee." —The Boston (ilobe says that in a pair of tea shoes there are two Hewed pieces, two inner soles, two atiffenings, two pieces of steal to give a spring to the instep, two rands, 13 heel pieces, two sole linings, 'to upper pieces, DO tacks 19 nails in the heels and 30 buttons, to say nothing of thread, both silk and flax, but the wonder is foand in the rapidity with which these multitudinous pieces are combined in a single completed work, for, aa an experiment, some shoe factories have from the leather completed a pair of shoes in lesa than an hour and a halt and, as a test, a single pair of men's shoes have been finished u twenty minutes. One of the prettiest microscopical studies is the examination of the lung* of a plant Moat people do not know I plant has longs, bat it has, and iti lungs are in its leaves, baiafaw through a high - microscope les' " iff * ' aan< => i* the •im <•< ©* tbe c —A vein of onyx was discovered in Garfield county, Washington, recently which the report of an expert mineralogist wlio visited and examined the find a week or so since shows to be of considerable extent and probable value. The possible extent of the mines is 1,000 acres, and openings for a mile show a ten-foot vein. The people of the vicinity claim that their eoanty is possessed of the only onyx mines in the United Slates. —Connecticut lias to every 100 square miles of territory over 'JO miles of railroad, Delaware 10 miles, Illinois it*, Iowa 15, Massachusetts 25. New Jersey 27, New York 18, Ohio 16, Pennsylvania 20. The other countries in Europe which have am excess of 10 miles per 100 square miles of territory are Germany, with 12 miles, Great' Britain 10, France 11, Belgium 28, Holland 13 and Switzerland 12. —"Say, mister. Mid Weary WUtdtta, "gimme a quarter; will yer?" "Oertafa*- ly," Mid Barber, handing1 him a dime. "This ain't a quarter," said Willdna. "Yes it is," Mid Barber. "It's a quarter of forty ccnta"—Harper's Baxar. —The times when a policy of dignified silctico would unquestionably do a man the bosfc service are the very times when a dignified silence is particularly bard to keep. — Somerville Journal. —A new genua and species of blind cave sulamarder is reported byL. Stcinger in the "l'roccedlngs of the United States National Museum." The discovery of sueh an animal in North America is regit riled by the writer as a most important and interesting event. —Old Hopeful—"Now, my boy. your education is finished. What are you goiuir to bo? Choose whatever business you like, and I'll give you all the assistance T can.-' Young Hopeful—"Well, I think I'd like to Ikj a king." Old Hopeful—"All right! • You shall be the janitor of the ne-v flats I am building." —Sir Benjamin Baker, one of the engineers of the Forth bridge, has related to the Londcn News the fact that during the progress of the work several of the workmen fell from the bridge IM> or mo feet into the water without being billed or even stunned. They had breath enough left in their bodies to catch a rope when it was thrown to tlieu, but not enough breath to spenk for tbe next fortnight with A very Tin otN which I bad the opporof umWn la tha clinic of Prof. Pick, pnnatM It—If ooa day. A man complalniag ot aoBpa (light (ilnnt, and in which t* vu found that all oltha Tartoo* orgaaa war* traaipoaad. Tha haart waa on tha right Mt, tha lira* ok tha laft, tha aplaaa oa tha right, tha atanatk traaapoaad, ale., yat tor all hU aaamokuM condlUoat, ha waa aad •fetifiM kMMMtkr aa othar ladt▼Mwtk. BarMlly mi an iadlvidoal who ▼m twlattd lataraaliy. tottwettaioof Prof. Kaposi wmm child J»4 bMB Uft la th« hoqriUI wh«M wMks«ti,«MlhwlbMBMiiMWt>af teAiNjwi. ItwwaCMtMl <hkM«i m kthynat* hyrtrix, * llfBMMMU Ml* jiwiHft iiteml MAM wirni" 4borBy*a*te* or «piM» Mfn-,7*g"»7!T—»» While working in Rudolph Hospital, a vary interesting case was brought into the wards of Prof. English, that of an old lady suffering from strangulated hernia, and on ejcaminatioe tfce loop was found to be gangrenous. This was removed and a bent glass tube inserted, connecting the divided ends of the intestine, for owing to her condition it was thought best not to proceed further. But the patient rallied, and in a tew days developed a most voracious appetite, so tha hospital food was not lafflclsnt lor bar, aid bsr relatives brought foed in to her. The contents of the bowel passed through the glass tube and her functions wsrs performed as if mrtMug wtn tvmlfff. She continued to gain in strength, and it was decided to make a final operation. But as the old lady had disappointed the Profsssor in the Irst instancs, she did so again, and snddsnly died the day before the time set for the operation She had lived in nil over a weak. Another vary Interacting case was that performed for pyopreumotborox, in which tbepue-in the pleural cavity bad been removed a number of times by aspiration, but alwaya raturnad. The patient was very low, and to lengthen his days an operation was performed in which portions of the fourth, fifth and sixth ribs were removed on the left side. The portions removed were about four inches long. The patient did wall and after flva montha the wound waa still open and the movements of the lung could be plainly seen and also the pulsations of the heart when the patient lay on hia left side. Two other cases, which, thoughnot dangerous, were Interesting. One, a young man, canae to have a Itoman nose remedied by an operation. Be wished a straight one, or would have been satisfied with a "pug." The Profeasor at first refused to operate, but the young man being so persistent, at last did, and after removing the offensive bump, and leaving a slight dspresston where it had formerly been, the patient was tatisfled. Another case that shows the mental disturbances that oan arise from an imagined deformity, was operated upon. A young man who had normally large eara, and which be thohght stoOd oat from his head in suoh a way as to make him conspicuous, desired to be operated on and on being refused, attempted suicide, hut recovering from this be again made application, stating that If not operated upon he would kill himself. An operation was decided upon, and the akin on the back of the ear removed, and also a like space on the cranium back of the ear. The two raw surfaces brought together and union resulted, and his esrs instead of standing out from his head were very closely attached to it, and he was satisfied.While attending the clinic of Prof. Billroth, who ia probably the moat renowned surgeon in the world, I saw a number of amputations of the stomach for oarimomn of that organ. The most nsual site of the disease is as all know the pyloric orifice. In one case after the incision was made through the abdominal wall and the stomach laid bare, it was aeen that almost the entire atom sob Involved, necessitating the removal of a very large portion. An incision was made from a point one inch to the right of the cardiac orifice down and to the left, cutting off the entire right portion of the atomaah. The wound was then closed, and the intestine amputated just above the entrance of the bile duet, and then closed. This removed all of the diseased portion. Then m loop of intsetine was taken up. a longitudinal cat mad* in it and alto a sin i. lar out made in the lower border of the stomach and the edges of the cuts in the Itmatinee and etomach united by sutures. The patient did well and survived tbe operation, and six month* after was te a very fair condltion of health, but was compelled to diet himself on milk, eggs, soupt, etc., as a large quantity of solid material could not be Introduced into tbe stomach owing to its decreased slse, etc. I also had tbe opportunity of witnessing several similar operations and aawoaaaa that had b*en operated on and all were doing well, but as cancerous diseases almost Infallibly return, the patient succumbs later to It, yet by the operations have their lease of Ufe extended several year*. my studiee abroad would probably internet your medical readers, aad I will therefore couBne my letter to thooe subjects.  'There ia ae much of wjkiah I might write that it is difficult to select that which will be the most interesting and the most instructive, yet I will write those that interested me the most. —O.T. H«t Pueli Taper a Corky Sign Among OlMttSl*. ' 'flic philosophy of Chinese housepalirting is truly curious, though perhaps ' the interest which attaches to this subject lies more in the restrictions impoMxi upon the inan with the pot and brusli than in the free exercise of a dfeeoratire art For among these Celestials art is eminently utilitarian. W« 'enjoy our colors; the Chinese put theirs to work. More, in house-painting, green end red are, so to speak, tie rigueur; other colors would he unpro pltioua, unlucky, ill-omened And even if the average Chinaman (balancing himself as best he can upon the superstHioOs and practices of agea) is ignorant,pf (he precise grounds of his belief, he adheres none the less rigidly to the canon. As Pythagoras taught that music was the first cause of the universe, so the Chinese have pinned their faith to the absolute efficacy of color, endowing it with powers quite beyond '-the laws of chemistry or physics. Indeed, poor-John may be said to live and die by the color seale. r Mo color, not even Imperial yellow, lie* so near the heart of the Chinese aa red. True, they do not, aa did the Hebrews, smear blood on the lintel, bat they have a ens torn of much the wme import Anyone even superficially interested in this curious people mast have noticed the little pieces of red par per—red peach paper it is called by the Chinese—which, covered all over with characters, are attached to the doorposts of their dwellings. The impression is general that these bits of paper in some way indicate the business or emntoyment of ooeupant. But Ah Sin himself will tell you that they are ••just lucky." This is as satisfactory s reply ss ooold te expected from him under the dream "THE 0M6INAL AND POPULAR ONE PRICE CLOTHIER, % ugh & power , J*«ry * will >ow tkonaudtti|ci|iJim- Is of opening*, infinitely small, «£ se, bat etch provided with lipa, tcta, in many tpeeles, are continually ling and closing. These opening* to tiny onvitlea in the body of the , and by the opening and «loafrgo<, savity air la continually Musing in jut. ao that the act or waplratk* manually going on. fhft tap «t the tt ia thus purified, just m tM blood mm of a day, do aa much breath* OBMf IOMI loM'YiiMI JMriMtas* itenoes; th« myitery of life It aoteiaU] expnaaed in t coaple of Words. M why rid ptMh jmpW.5—Henry Bardet MePowcll, to Httprt lfagMlM. — MM Su?yo*g«t MTihhlfftkftfi tettavrtl Hlaf«Bd« Blatter. , i - T , <m J