IMS 
THE RURAL'NEW-YORKER. 
PERSONALS. 
SWALLOWED A SPIDER. 
“Uncle Charley” Hoag, who gave Min¬ 
neapolis its name, has just died in that city of 
old age. Hoag was a school-teacher, and 
combined the Indian word for “water” with 
the Greek word for “city.” When the mat¬ 
ter was voted on, Hoag’s combination won on 
the first ballot. 
Etta Shattuck, the Nebraska school teach¬ 
er, who was imprisoned for three days in a 
haystack at the time of the great January 
blizzard, died Monday. Both her legs below 
the knees had been amputated. The teacher 
who spent the whole night fighting death to 
save her three little pupils in au open field, 
Louise Royce, had a part of one foot and one 
hand removed, and now the surgeons have 
amputated her other foot just below the 
ankle. A fuud of about $4,000 had been 
raised for Miss Shattuck, and subscriptions 
are in progress for Miss Royce and Minnie 
Freeman, who saved 16 children by tying 
them to one another and to herself and lead- 
ing them three-quarters of a mile through the 
storm. 
Lord Stanley, of Preston, w.ho has at last 
been appointed Governor-General of Canada 
alter a good deal of shilly-shallying, is a son 
of the late Earl of Derby, the scholar, poet 
and statesman, and brother of the present 
Earl, to whose title he is the heir presumptive. 
His name is Frederick Arthur Stanley. He 
was born in London in 1841, entered the Gren¬ 
adier Guards from Platon and was retired as 
colonel in 1865. He has sat in the House of 
Commons for Preston and North Lancashire. 
Since 1868 he has held a number of minor 
Cabinet positions, and he is president of the 
Board of Trade in the present Cabinet. He 
was raised to the peerage in 1886. Lord Stan¬ 
ley is a popular, rather dull man, good enough 
for routine work, but hardly likely to set the 
St. Lawrence on fire. 
THF POST OFFICE CLUB. 
Some of our folks were greatly interested 
in the great walking match which was held 
in New York last week, home of our young 
men try to pass as “sports.” They read the 
daily papers and can give us all the particu¬ 
lars concerning the prize-fights and races. 
Some of them are farmers’ boys too. They 
spend so much time over the daily papers that 
they can’t get around to the agricultural pa¬ 
pers and books. The time will come when 
their farms will show how poor the daily pa¬ 
pers are in manure. Well, these fellows kept 
us well posted on this race. We came to know 
all the walkers by name, how they looked, 
what they ate and how many miles they trav¬ 
eled. The leader. I believe, went 621 miles 
in six days. Uncle Jacob listened to all the 
records carefully. He is too fat to succeed as 
a walker himself, but he thought he saw a 
chance in this match to give us a little in¬ 
struction : 
“Der vas seferal boints about dot valkiug 
match dot vas wort remembering. Dere vas 
a man dot trafolled 621 miles mitin six days. 
Dot proofs dot beeble don’t know what dey 
can do till dey vos dry. Dot vas a lesson to 
dot man dot vas agustomed to sit right down 
und gif up when someding a leedle extra hard 
vas gome around. If dot feller dot run mit 
dot raze bad giffen up den some Oder feller 
would have daken out der brize. Dis world 
vas noding but shust a big raze. Most effery- 
body gets a good enough start, but it vasn’t 
so much der start as it vas der hanging on mit 
dot start after it vas started dot vins der 
brize. It vas alvays der man dot hangs on to 
der main chance mit his hands und his feet 
und his teeth dot comes out mit der brize. 
Anoder ting dot we learns mit dot raze vas 
der fact dot der man dot vin vas dake goot 
care off his feet He vas vear boots dot vas 
big enough for him und vas not dry und vear 
boots dot vas too schmall shust so dot beeble 
would say dot his feet vas schmall und delle- 
gate Dese fellers mit schmall feet vas all 
right mit dere blace, but dey vas notcofer der 
ground like dein fellers dot gifs dere feet blen- 
ty off room. Anoder ting vas der vay dot 
feller vas eat his meals. He vas not eat so 
much, but what he vas eat vas full of goot 
strength und easy to digest. Goot food vas 
der segret of many tings dot Oder beeble calls 
luck. Der vas blenty off men dot tinks dey 
must eat a barrel full of food ven a quart 
would do deni blenty off good. Dose men vas 
do noting but gultivate der stomach. Gulti- 
vation off der stomach vas first-rade mit ani¬ 
mals dot vas to make milk und beef, but a 
man vas intended for sometiug better dan dot 
W0I ' k -” _ SMALL PICA . 
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“Malaria?” 
“Yes, malaria.” 
“No sir. I am no more afraid of malaria 
than I am of you,” and as the speaker was at 
least ten inches taller than the reporter, and 
proportionately broader, his fear of that 
dread malady was probably not excessive. 
“I’ve had malaria, and I’ve been cured.” 
“Yes, but a man can have malaria more 
than once.’ 
“Not if he is cured the way I was. About 
ten years ago I was living in Indiana, in Vigo 
county, near Terra Haute. In those days a 
man was regarded as a stranger until he had 
drauk about a gallon of whiskey and quinine, 
and shaken down his bedstead three or four 
times with the ague. I had a rather reticent 
nature, and I suppose it took the climate long¬ 
er to get acquainted with me than it did the 
ordinary run of men. For I had to drink 
about a barrel of whiskey and take whole 
pounds of quinine before I could get strong 
enough even to shake myself, let alone a bed. ’ 
“How was I cured?” 
“Well it was a novel cure. I boarded with 
a Mrs. Dennis, who told me she could cure me 
if I would take her medicine. Finally I agreed. 
She brought a towel and bound it around my 
head so I could not see; then she brought a 
glass of water, and told me to take my dose, 
and immediately swallow the water. 
The dose tasted like a little ball of dust, and 
as it was going down I felt a sharp pain in my 
throat, as if it had been.scratcbed. 
The next morning Mrs. Dennis brought a 
little box and showed me her medicine. It 
was a big, hairy, black spider, alive, and the 
mate to the one I had swallowed the day be¬ 
fore.” 
The medicine this gentleman took for ma¬ 
laria, may have been effective, but few would 
care to try the remedy. Nor is there any ne¬ 
cessity for it: 
Malaria is a poisoned condition of the blood 
produced by bad air and water, which enter 
the blood channels through the stomach and 
lungs and other ways, and produce injurious 
effects on the liver and kidneys. It is cured 
by putting the liver and kidueys in perfect, 
healthy working order. The drugs ordinarily 
used for such purposes frequently do quite as 
much harm as good, and leave the system in 
an enfeebled condition. 
The certain and harmless remedy for malaria 
is Warner’s safe cure which puts the liver and 
kidneys in healthy action, when the poison is 
carried out of the system, and the serious effects 
it engenders, passaway. J. M. Booth, Spring- 
field, Mass., under date of March 28th, 1887, 
writes:—“One year ago I had the malaria-had 
had it more or less for ten years. I stopped 
all other medicines and took Warner’s safe 
cure, and it cured me. This country is famous 
for malaria, and I know Warner’s safe cure 
will cure it. ” 
People who live in malarious localities will 
find Warner’s safe cure a specific against con¬ 
tracting this disease. The malarial poison can 
find no entrance to the system, if the liver 
and kidneys are kept in healthy action. 
The gentleman who swallowed the spider, 
concludes his narrative in the New York Mail 
and Express, by saying:— 
“I was effectually cured, but I wonldn’t take 
another dose of that medicine to save niy life.” 
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