The Newark Journal.
O. F. CRAIQ, Editor.
NEWARK- - , ARKANSAS.
SOME VERY QUEER LAKES.
Bodies of Water That Are a Source of
Wonder to All Who Be
hold Them.
One of the most singular lakes
in the world is the celebrated
Pitch lake of the island of Trini
dad. This lake spreads over an
area of it!I acres, and.its surface is
composed of one great floating
mass of asphaltum. seamed with
veins of clear water. From it,
and a similar lake in Venezuela,
the world's supply of asphalt is
drawn, states the Washington
Post.
The pitch lake is a hideous
place as far as smells are con
corned, for the air all about it is
heavy with noxious vapors, and
from the center of t he lake gushes
a fountain of liquid asphaltum. in j
which there tloat and break bub-1
Ides containing most horrible j
gases.
The workmen go out on the stir-;
face of this lake and cut great
slabs of asphaltum. which are oar- j
tied away. Put the next morning;
the hole they left is tilled up again 1
with the pitch which has risen I
during tin* night, so that the sup
ply seems to be inexhaust ible.
This curious lake was diseov j
ered by Sir Walter Raleigh when
he landed in Trinidad in lob.”, on
Lis way to the mouth of the <>rino
co in search of K1 l>orado.
Another strange hike is siluat
cd on a peninsula which juts out
into the Caspian sea. The whole
surface of this lake is covered with
a crust of salt so thick and strong
that a man can ride across it on
horseback with safety.
In central Asia, near the Caspi
an sea. is a lake of beautiful rose
color, while the banks are covered
with salt crystals as white as
snow. From the waters of this
lake there arises a flower like
odor. The color and the odor are
supposed to be caused by vegeta
ble matter in the depths.
There used to be a curious lake
on the top of the Volcano de Agua.
in Guatemala, 14.000 feet above
the level of the sea. 11 was not fed
by springs nor by rivers, but was
caused by accumulations of snow
and rain in fact, was an immense
reservoir. It lasted for centuries.
Then one day the sides of the lake
gave way, and down the waters
rolled, dealing death and destruc
tion. and digging a great barran
ca, or ravine, in 1 he mountain side,
which is still visible.
A HAINAN CATE SYMBOL.
Odd Object of Mythical History Re
cently Received in New
York City.
A curio importer in Broadway
has received from Hainan. China,
a strange symbol to be set up on
the gatepost of a fashionable New
port residence, says the New ^ ork
'\ imes.
The symbol consists of t he bones
of a python molurus. In Hainan,
its jungle home, it grows to be
t ween lit* and 3<> feet long, has fear
ul teeth in its upper jawbones, and
a double series of shields on the
lower surface of t he tail. This par
ticular beast was killed by the vil
lagers on account of its wicked ap
petite. It has a genealogy that
beats that of almost any famous
family in New York. Its father
and mother held a cave-home for
*ears. The old man-python used to
suffocate harmless Chinamen by
enveloping them in his eoils. seiz
ing them by the head, and grad
ually drawing them down into his
interior. The pythoness-mother
made away with the juicy sheep of
the neighborhood. Cnderneath
the bones will be a plate with the
quotation from Bacon, ‘Saitli the
Pythonissa to Saul, tomorrow
thou and thy sons shall be with
me.’ ”
TIME TO ACT
When the b;iek aches nnd yon are
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cut. depress
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Mrs. \V. S. Marshall, R. F. D. No. 1. I
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without help. I pot himaboxof Doatf’s
Kidney Fills. He felt relief in three
days. One box cured him.”
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all dealers ; price 50 cents per box.
It begins to be apparent now why the
czar thought up that idea of a peace court
at The Hague.—Boston Globe.
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NOTHING BUT CHICKENS
He Had a Bad Cough, But That,
He Said, Was All He
Raised.
Some amusing incidents occur at the
free dispensary of the different hospitals
in town, often because the poor patients
fail to understand the terms used by the
doctors. The following incident occurred
at the University hospital the other day,
and frustrates the point in question, re
lates the Philadelphia Telegraph.
A man came in who the doctor thought
was suffering from beginning penumonia.
so after getting his name and address and
other necessary data, he asked the patient
if he had a dull.
"Yes. a very bad chill yesterday," came
the answer.
"Do you cough much?” asked the doctor.
“Yes, some." replied the patient, with a
practical illustration.
“I)o you raise anything?” was the next
question.
The man hesitated a moment, then an
swered, innocej»-:l>~ "Well, only a few
ebickens.”
A I.ate Hnsinesn Call.
“Curious what men do when they re
drinking.” said Representative “Tim” Sul
livan. “When 1 was in New York I
heard a story about a man I know who
had been out nearly all night, and was
considerably the worse for wear.
“He came along a street and saw an
undertaker's sign, with a night bell, just
over a speaking tube. He rang the hell
fiercely.
“ 'What is it?’ yelled the undertaker
down the tube. 'What do you want.'
“ ‘Nothing in particular.’ the chap re
plied; ‘only I want to say to you that
you're the last man l 11 do business with.
—Philadelphia Telegraph.
BOTH JAWS SHOT AWAY
Still a Successful Business Mac.
A man who had both jaws shot away
nad trouble citing ordinary food but
found a food-drink that supplies the
nutriment neede-d. He says:
"I have been an invalid since the
siege of Vicksburg, in 186b, where I was
wounded by a Minie ball passing
through my head and causing the en
tire loss of my jaws. I was a drummer
boy ana at the time was leading a skir
mish line, carrying a gun. Since that
time I have been awarded the medal of
honor from the Congress of the United
States for gallantry on the field.
“The consequences of my wound
were dyspepsia in its most aggravated
form and 1 finally proved ordinary cof
fee was very hard on my stomach so 1
tried Postum and got better. Then I
tried common coffee again and got
worse. I did this several times and
finally as Postum helped me every
lime I continued to use it, and how
often 1 think that if the Government
had issued Postum to us in the Army
how much better it would have been
for the soldier boys than coffee.
"Coffee constipates me and Postum
does not; coffee makes me spit up my
food, Postum does not; coffee keeps me
r.wake nights, Postum does not. There
is no doubt coffee is too much of a
stimulant for most people and is the
cause of nearly all the constipation.
"This is my experience and you are
at liberty to use my name.” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous lit
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NURSES ARE DETECTIVES.
Many of Both Sexes in England Act
as Feeders to Outside
Officers.
To the credit of their great and
noble profession, be it said, there
are few medical men who would
ever employ a female nurse know- j
ing her to be connected, even in the
remotest way, with the detective j
service. And yet, despite this, I
there are many nurses both male ;
and female, though chiefly the lat
ter. whose main business is t hat of
acting as feeders of tin* detectives
outside, states London Tit-Bits.
In many lawsuits in the court of
probate relating to wills during
the last few years it has been
shown beyond all doubt that anx
ious and suspicious relations have
so arranged matters that testa
tors, desperately ill, have been at
tended by nurse-detectives, whose
mission it has been to see whether
their charges were of sound “tes
tamentary disposition.'” and to as
certain. if possible, in what direc
tion any money left in a new will
would be likely to go. In one case
the judge commented very severe
ly on this matter, for the nurse de
tective in this case had actually in
the emergency of tie* moment been
made one of the witnesses of the
will in dispute.
In another case a nurse-detec
tive had tried to extract admis
sions from a jierson seriously ill.
But one of the most sensational
episodes of this kind was in con
nection with a case tried at the
Newcastle-on Tyne assizes. In the
course of the trial it appeared that
the nurse’s patient had been
placed under chloroform. In many
cases persons recovering from the
effects of the anaesthetic in ques
tion are semi-hysterical and read
ily yield to the effects of sugges
tion, as in the case of hypnotized
persons.
It was shown that the mere bah
blinds of the patient in the rase
in question had formed the basis
of after-inquiry, and that the
nurse's notes of the semi-incoher
erit things said by the patient were
actually suggesting a part of the
cross-examination, though the bar
rister did not know this and was
only following the instructions in
his brief.
A HEDGEROW ARISTOCRAT.
Interesting Points About the Well
Known Sassafras Which May
Be New to Some.
•
An aristocrat of the hedge
rows is the sassafras, the buds of
, whirl] have recently burst into
clustered posies of delicate green
ish yellow bloom. It is an Amer
ican cousin of the camphor tree,
the cinnamon and the laurel, says
j the New York Times.
Comparatively few of the many
to whom sassafras is a household
word know that it hears flowers.
These appear simultaneously with
1 the tirst tender leaves, and. being
of the same color with them, are
apt to be overlooked by all hut the
nectar seeking bees. Yet these
blossoms are among the loveliest
i sights of our spring, contributing
much to the beauty of landscapes.
The aromatic little tree was
highly esteemed by our fore
; fa f hers and served them numerous
uses now all but obsolete. Tim
bark was employed in a variety of
ways in medicine; the pith sup
plied a mucilage from which an
eye wash was made; and as for tlx*
wood itself it was thought to he so
repugnant to hugs that sassafras
bedsteads were said to be immune
fiom insect jests.
Greatest Ocean Depths.
Tin* deepest Houndingever made
lt.v any vessel, says the National
< leographie Magazine, was by the
I nited States steamship Xero
wliilo on the Honolulu Manila
(•able survey, with apparatus bor
rowed from t he Albatmss. When
near tiiiam the Xero got 5,2(i!i,
fathoms, or :!1.014 feet, only C»<;
feet less than six miles. If Mount j
hverest. the highest mountain on
earth, were set down in this hole,
it would have above its summit a
depth of 2,dll' feet, or nearly half :
u mile of v.ater.—X. Y. Times.
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PE-Rl-NA MADE KNIFE INNECESSARY.
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"Mrs. EVA RARTHO, 133 East 12th
St.. New York City, N. Y., writes:
“ I suffered for three years withleucor
rliea aud uleeration of the womb. The
doctor advocated an operation which i
dreaded very much, and strongly ob
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took nine bottles, but I felt so much
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Mrs Senator Roach, of Lari
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street, of Washington, D. C., are
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Miss Helen Rolof, Kaukauna, Wis.,
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years or more my system lias been
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Helen Rolof.
Miss Muriel Armitago. SC Greenwood
Are.. Detroit, Mich.. District Organizer
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“ I suffered for five years with uterine
irregularities, which brought on hys
teria and made me a ph.V' eal wrec...
tried doctors front the different s hon -
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change in my condition. In my despair
I called on‘an old nurse, who advised
me to try Peruna. and promised pood
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and steadily gained strength aud
health, and when I had us. d fi,t<-< n
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Miss Lucy M. Riley. 33 Davenport St,
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I suffered for five years with sever**
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I am now in perfect heal'h, enjoy life
and have neither an ache or pain,
thanks to Pernna."— Lucy M. Riley.
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