The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 24, 1887, Page 6

TELLS OF HIS TRAVELS. Fred Douglas Back From fits European Trip. Washington, Aug 15.—Fred Doug- lass has returned from a tour of sev- en months in Europe. His white his trip, came over two weeks ago on account of sickness in her family. Mr. Douglass’ health has been good, and he returns very much pleased with what he had seen and heard while abroad. Mr. Douglass said that he had a very pleasant trip. “You may say,” he added, “that on no occasien during my absence was there any indication by word, look or action that I was less thought of or regarded on account of my color. Even Americans greeted me cordially, and I can say that the American abroad is a very delightful person to meet. In:England I had the pleasure of meeting old friends whom I knew thirty or forty years ago. Then from England I went to Paris, where I remained two months, and was very much interested in this clever and attractive people. I went from there to Nice, Genoa, Rome, Naples, and taking boat, went to Cairo, Egypt. In Egypt I passed the greater part of last winter, and found the climate delightful. Itook my 70 years and 230 pounds to the top of the highest pyramid, and when I reached the top I wished heartily that I was at the bottom. There were two Arabs pulling me in front and Arabs pushing me behind, but when I reached the top I, was completely played out. “The ruins of Memphis and other ancient cities interested me greatly, and after examining the smooth hewn blocks of stone and the exact masonry, I concluded that we are not able to excel the ancients in the construction of buildings, although it is supposed that our facilities for such work are far superior. Then I went to Greece and visited Athens and saw the grove where Socrates walked and talked, the studio where the games were held, and ascended the hill where Paul, surrounded with the evidences of the culture and in- telligence of the city, had the bold- ness to tell that they were supersti- tious. I can't begin to tell you all I saw and what I think about it all. You can say that Mr. Douglass has had a good time and enjoyed himself immensely.” (Sreat Excitement in Texas. Great excitement has been caused inthe vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the remarkable recovery of Mr. J. E. Corley, who was so helpless he could not turn in bed, or raise his head; everybody saidhe was dying ef consumption. A trial bottle of Dr; King’s New Discovery was senthim. Finding reliet, he bought a large bottle and a box ot Dr: King’s New Life Pills; by the time he had taken two boxes of Pills and two bottles of the Discovery, he was well and had gained thirty-six pounds, Trial bottles of this great Discovery tor Consumption free at all drug stores. Large bottles $1. ‘A Noted Mexican Who Has Been Fed »Poison That Produces Insanity. City of Mexico, Aug. 17.—A nge story, resembling the Italian oisoning stories of the Middle Ages, been going the rounds in this ity. A short time ago a prominent politician, whose name is mentioned a connectien with a future presiden- term, fell suddenly and mysteri- busly ill. At first great secrecy was pbserved in regard to the nature of indisposition, but it is now -be- ond doubt that he is insane. It is intained in some quarters that iis disorder is caused by a spinal in- which he suffered some years 0, but the general belief leans to her theory, according to which insanity is caused by poison ob- d from a plant well known to the dians of this country. It is mixed ith food in the shape of a powder, d its effect is to produce acute nti disorder. Personal ven- ce is assigned as the motive of ‘The sufferer is much esteemed by who, by personal intercourse, had the best opportunity of ng. sympathy is ex- il for his wife and‘ ! aman, even though he m wife, who had accompanied him on | hunting in the Shoshone Mounta FEROCIOUS GRIZZLIES. Amazing Adventure with = Number of Rloody-Thirsty Bears. Few persons believe that a grizzly will attack 2 man before he is himself attacked. I was one of these doubting Thomases until two ye go, when I was thoroughly convin by o demonstration that som will attempt to m at least, y not have harmed them previously. We Northern Wyoming. I had killed a large elk in the morning, and on go- ing back to the carcass in the after- noon to skin it, we saw that Bruin had been there ahead of us, but had fled on our approach. Without the least ap- prehension of his return, we leaned our rifles against a tree about fifty feet away, and commenced work. There were three of us, but only two rifles, Mr. Huffman, the photog- rapher, having left hisincamp. He had finished taking views of the car- cass, and we were all busily engaged skinning, when, hearing a crashing in the brush and a series of savage roars and growls, we looked up the hill, and were horrified to see the grizzly bears, an old female and two cubs about two- thirds grown, charging upon us with all the savage fury of a pack of starv- ing wolves upon a sheep-fold. They were between us and our rifics when we first saw them, and we sprang to our horses, which were picketed a few yards below, supposing, of course, that when the bears reached the elk eareass they would procced to eat it, and pay no further attention to us. Strange to say, it was the carcass to which they paid no attention. They stilleame after us; we had no time for flight, and could not even re- lease and mount our terror-stricken horses. Our only chance was to fight for our lives, and with one accord we all three grasped our hunting-knives and dashed at them. We threw our hats and yelled like Comanches, and the savage brutes, seeing themselves thus boldly confronted by equal num- bers, stopped, raised on their haunches, growled, snapped their jaws for a few moments, and then walked sullenly back up the hill into the brush. This Gave us an opportunity to get hold of our rifles, and then it was our turn to charge. To make along story short, we killed the old female and one cub; the other escaped into the jungle be- fore we could get a shot at him. The resolute front we put on alone saved our lives. The grizzly is partially nocturnal in its habits, and apparently divides his labor of obtaining food and his trav- eling about equally between day and night. It is not definitely known to what age he lives in his wild state, but he is supposed to attain to twenty-five or thirty years. Notwithstanding the great courage and ferocity of this formidable bear, he will utter the most pitiable groans and howls when seriously or mortally wounded. Another instance of a grizzly mak- ing an unprovoked attack upon a man whom I know to be strictly truthful. Two brothers were prospecting in a range of mountains near the head- waters of the Stinking Water river. The younger of the two, though an able-bodied man, and capable of doing 8 good day’ s work with a pick or shovel,. was weak-minded, and the elder brother never allowed him to go any distance away from camp or their work alone. He, however, sent him one evening to the spring, a few rods off, to bring a kettleful of water. The spring was in a deep gorge, and the trail to it wound through some fissures in the rock. As the young man passed under a shelving rock, an immense old female grizzly, that had taken up temporary quarters there, reached out and struck a powerful blow at his head, but fortunately could not reach far enough to do him any serious harm. The blow knocked his hat off. and her claws caught his scalp, and laid it open clear across the top of his head in several ugly gashes. The force of the blow sent him spin- ning around, and not know- ing enough to be frightened, he attacked her savagely with the only weapon he had at hand—the camp kettle. The elder brother heard the racket, and catching up his rifle, found his brother vigorously belabor- ing the bear over the head with the camp kettle, and the bear striking at him savage blows, any oneof which, if she could have reached him, would have torn his head grom his shoulders. Three bulletts from the rifie, fired in rapid succession, loosened her hold upon the rocks, and she tumbled life- lessly into the trail. The poor idiotic boy could not even then realize the danger through which he had passed, and could only appease his anger by continuing to maul the bear over the the head with the camp kettle for sev- eral minutes after she was dead —G@. O. Shields, in Harper's Magazine. In some neighborhoods there isso much music, vocal and instrumental, that every one, out of protection to himself or herself, must play on an instrument to drown the discords of the others. Oh, this makes a pleas- ant neighborhood in which to dwell. One of the big redwood trees of California made twenty-four thousand feet of lumber, which Georg: Pullman used in Pullman car interiors. meal off | COUNTING THE STARS. Sixty-Six Million of Millions of Little Twinklers Belonging to Our Universe. § No more beautiful picture seen thanthe starlit sky cloudless night when ther todim the luster of th heavens seem to be alive w glittering points, sparkling like jewels. A few among them are large and brill- iant, a greater number are of medium size; the rest, and by far the larger ; portion, are so small as to be bare visible. Every star that twinkles in the sky is a sun, a great globe of fire, | like our sun, but so far away thatit | looks like a mere$golden point. The largest of the shining throng is Sirius, the bright star that comes upin the southeast on winter nights. It is sup- | posed to be two hundred times as large as our sun, but is so distant that it takes its light sixteen years to reach the earth If Sirius were suddenly destroyed it would be seen shining in the sky for sixteen years to come. Many stars are smaller than the sun, while our great sun himself, seen froin the nearest star, is only a star of medium size. It seems almost impossible to count the stars, but this has been done over and over again. The total number visible to the naked eye of an observer endowed with average visible power is less than six thousand. So accurately has the estimate been made that it is asserted that twenty-four hundred and seventy-eight stars are visible in the northern hemisphere, and thirty-three hundred and seyen in the southern hemisphere. A good opera-gl:ss will bring out twenty thousand. A small telescope will show one hundred and fifty thousand. The most powerful telescopes will reveal more than one hundred millions. In order to compare stars with each other, they have long been divided into classes or magnitudes. Stars from the first to the sixth magnitude are visi- ble to the naked eye. Good telescopes will bring = them up to the fourteenth magnitude. The great tele- scopes will show them to the sixteenth magnitude. In passing from one order to the following, the number of stars seems to follow the law of an increas- ing geometrical progression, of which the first term is nineteen—one less than the number of stars of the first magnitude-—and the ratio three. There are, therefore, fifty-seven stars of the second magnitude, one hundred and seventy-one of the third and so on. The number increases enormously as the stars decrease in size, giving thirty million, two hun- dred and eighty-nine thousand, one hundred and thirty-seven for the stars of the fourteenth magnitude. A French astronomer estimates that the limit of stars is reached at the twentieth and a half magnitude, and that the stars be- longing to our universe number sixty- six million of millions!— Youth's Com- ~anion. is no moon s. The 1 these —Instead of either ordi nary inhuma- tion, cremation, or embalming, one Kergovatz proposes to replace these methods by galvanoplasty. After having covered the subject with a layer of plumbago, it is immersed in a bath. Copper being expensive, zinc may be substituted for those who are poor. On the other hand, gold or silver is used for the rich. It has been suggested to prolong the bath and thus have our friends transformed into statues of natural size.—Public Opinion, Electric lights are now used on some of the London omnibus lines. Some of these lines are immensely wealthy. Mississippi editors are more forci- bie than elegant. One refers to. the other as “a toad who disgraces his own warts. Mrs. Crawford, the Paris corres- pondent, is said to earn $10,000 per year by her pen—the largest sum made by any woman in journalism. Chickens come home to roost. While a compositor in Darlington. Wis., was setting up the advertise ment of a lost canary the little bird flew into the office. A man should improve his oppor- tunities. The mayor of Des Moines, Ta., has been fined eight times for violating city ordinances. He had a chance to veto them and isnow sorry he did not doit. Littleneglects like these often get men into trouble. The Verdict Unanimous W. D. Sult, druggist. Bippus, Ind., testifies; ‘I can recomend Electric Bitters as the very best rem- edy. Every bottle sold has given relief in every case. One man took six bottles, and was cured of rheu— matism of ten years standing.’” A- braham Hare, druggist, Bellyille O. affirms: ‘‘The best selling medicinc I ever handled in my 20 years ex- perience is Electric bitters.” Hnn- dreds ot others have added their tes- timony, so thatthe verdict is unan- imous that Electric Bitters do cure ali diseases of the Liver, Kidneys and the blood. Only - haifa doll- ar a bottle at all drug stores. Certain Cure of Rheumatism Dr. Paine is the leading dentist ot Guthrie. He has a brother a suc cessful practicing physician. His testimony is valuable: Guthrie, Ky, Feb. 26, 837° From my boyhood I was subject to rheumatism. Frequently I had to go to bed so great was the pain. Some time ago I bought six large | \ for Infants and Children. bottles of S. S. S., and began tak ingit. At the end of the fitth bot tle I was entirely tree from all rheu matism, and that has been abont three years ago. There has been no return of the slightest rheumatic symptom. Yours Truly. J. E. Paine. The Certain Gains in Flesh. Gutnrie, Ky., Feb. 26, 1887. Some time ago my blood got into a very disordered condition. Lumps came under my skin all over my body. Frequently without rhyme or reason blood would gush from my nose for several minutes at a time. I took one dozen bottles of s. S.S., which remepied my dis- order entirely. Since taking the Specific my health has been excell- ent, my appetite good and digestion perfect. Yours Truly, Jno. M. Abshire. P. S—When I begantaking S. S. S. I weighed 135 pounds and since then and now I weigh 200 pounds. Jno. M. Abshire Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis- eases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3 Atlanta, Ga. A very peculiar kind of dust fell like rain in Kansas the other day and the people are very much interested in the matter, and are trying to find out what the dust is. We are not certain, but we are inclined to believe that it was some of the stuffing which was knocked out of the prohibition movement in Texas.—New Orleans States. A Case of Deafness Entirely Cured. Office of Shaw & Baldwin’s Wholesale ) Notion House, Toledo, O. Dec. 11°79. § F.y. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O,—Dear Sirs: About three months ago noticing a letter addressed to you in the Bee trom Gen. Slevin, in reference to the cure ot his son by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure, we were induced to com- mence the use of it for our daughter Nel- lie, now fourteen years old, who has been suffering from catarrh tor about eight years, during which time she has been treated by one of the best physicians in the city. We have also tried the useal- ‘most all the known remedies for catarrh, with no mere suceess than temporary rehef. Manv nights have we lain awake to hold her mouth open tokeep her from strangling Her hearing had also be- come affected. We were afraid that she would never recover. We have now us- ed six bottles of Hall’s Catarrh Cure, dnd we believe Nellie to be entirely cured. Ina tew days after commencing the use of it we noticed a de~ided change tor the better, and from that right along she has improved, until now she breathes as easily as any one. She sleeps weil and her hearing is pertectly good. We feel that the disease 1s entirely remoyed. We write this unsolicited letter, reeling that it is due you, and with the hope that others may be benefited in like manner. We can hardly realize that such a change could be effected in so short a time after battling with the disease so long. We are still using the remedv at intervals, as it seems to build up her system. You are at liberty to use this in any manner you see proper. We are yours truly, Mr. and Mrs. S. BALDWIN, 220 Franklin Avenue. BEH_Sold by Druggists, 75 cents. 36-1m. Fair Visitor—“Yes she is lovely. 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