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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1853, 10 December 1874, Page 3

Turn, for a moment from the Beecher scandal, and ponder over the fact that the footprints of a Chicago lady on the prairie, near Michigan City, got a crowd of men out to hunt for. a stray elephant.—-Detroit Free Press.' Tiltok andßeecheb. —The Cincinnati Inquirer says, " Every time Tilton opens, his mouth, he puts his foot in it." If our friend.of the Inquirer could see Tilton's foot, we are sure he wouldn't say so.— Brooklyn Argus. " Sweet are the uses of advertising. Sc wrote the immortal many-sided Shakespeare, hut the bungling compositor set it up so as to read adversity. Anybody can seei however, what the poet meant. His liead was wonderfully level on the subject of newspapers, <&c—Washington Star. • Plugging Tbeth.—A country paper contains an account of a machine for plugging teeth, which reminds us of the invention patented many years ago by Dr Slugg.. It was a tooth«puller. Slugg had an enormous business, and he concluded to economise his strength by pulling teeth by machinery. He constructed a series of cranks and levers, fixed to a moveable stand, and operating a pair of forceps by means of a leather belt which was connected with an engine. !Be doctor experimented with it several times on nails firmly inserted in a board, and it worked splendidly. The first patient he tried it on was a judge, who called to have an aching molar removed. "When the forceps had been clamped upon the judge's tooth, Dr. Slugg geared the machine and opened the valve. We believeit was never known with any degree of exactness at what rate of power the steamengine was working. , But, in the twinkling of an eye, the judge was twisted out of the chair, and the moveable stand began to execute the most surprising manoeuvres around the room. It would jerk the judge high into the air, and souse him down in an appalling iaanner. Then it would jerk him up against the chandelier three «r four times, and across the room ; it drove the judge's head through the oil portrait of Slugg's father over the mantelpiece. After bumping him against all the ancestors, it flung the judge around among the crockery on the washstand, and danced him up and down in an exciting manner; finally, the machine dashed violently against Dr; Slugg, who seized the judge's leg with the forceps, and cut out the tooth. When they carried the judge home he seemed inordinately glad his tooth was out. —-American Paper. Ifglobiotjs Ease.—A senator, belated recently ia Ms travels, stopped at a . substantial aad comfortable farm-house, and was entertained and hospitably invited to make himself comfortable for the night. He observed in the morning the comfort and substantial thrift and prosperity of everything around, and could not but congratulate his host on his lot. His fields were well fenced, his barns were filled, and his crops most promising. Besides, too, the farmer had an industrious and amiable wife and several bright and healthy children. "A farmer's life," remarked the the guest, "is certainly the happiest of all humin lots, and I must say, my friend, that you are as happily fixed as any farmer I ever knew." ■" Wall," remarked his host, " that's your notion, but 'taint mine. I intend to sell out and move next week." " Whither are you going P" enquired the inquisitive Yankee. " Down into Texas." "What! into that wild and disturbed country, menaced by the whole Mexican army and by roving bands of Comanches and marauding Greasers ; leave this peaceful and happy home for such a savage country, where you would have to sleep, every night on your arms, and carry your rifle strapped across your shoulder while ploughing in the field ?" " Yaas, sir-ree." was the eager reply; " who would give a cuss to live in a country where he couldn't fight for his liberty P'V-New Orleans Picayune, A Plague op Measles.—The Wallaroo Times says:—" The measels have fast hold of this neighborhood. JReligious meetings which generally draw people out in Wallaroo, Kadiria, and Moonta, fail in attracting anything like their usual numbers, very principally because of the number of sick children at home. The few ladies who do attend, are in black, j and attest losses which yet they mourn. The few women that are to be seen in the streets are on urgent business and they are mostly in weeds. Few families but have lost several if not all of their children through measels. In Moonta, the same state of things prevails. People are down with the measles everywhere. The disease is 'by no means confined to infants or children. Strong adults have been on their backs with it for weeks. No one knows who will fall next. Shops and offices are shorthanded in con sequence of measles. Mr Lloyd's school, Wallaroo Mines, boasting some 170 pupils, has 140 absent. In Wallaroo, there are 80 absent out of Mr Wiltshire's 95 pupils, 60 out of Mr Hoar's 80, and a proportionate absence from Mrs Hammence's school. The worst feature of the affair is that tke disease is so universal that medical attendance cannot be procured if even it could be afforded. So common is the measles in families that we know of instances in which, the disease is allowed to* run its, course, as, if the doctor were called arid £3|ke as often as might be supposed nelessary, the purse of the parent would break down under the fees. Ten to one that the docto/would be able to come even if sent for."