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Tui Pall. Mall Budget says: "In an
otmagonal note in our lasue of January
2501 we gave a voogniliu7 of epithets said
to have been compiled frora the speeohes
made by Sir Richard Cartnight 'during
theelectoral campaign of 1878 in Canada.
They inoluded suoh pleasant words as
rascal, har, s000ndrel, blackguard, thief,
ski. We are requested to say, however,
that these uneeensly epithets were applied,
not by Biz Richard to his polidoal oppo-
nents, but by his political opponents to Sir
Rickard."
Ie sat
hnndred and eixty candidates
bltidbeen tltenght Of before, bUtilliObVious
impoirtance ionovitlikely to /Strayer "den -
*ion Min our teachers.
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Wiens is an invention spoken of saki& it
' is thought may abolish the bit. 11 10 ogled
the oarrago, or anti home torture. It is
oompoeed of a oteel band placied over the
front bone of the horse's nose, and to
this appliance the reins are attached. The
inventor olairas for this etibetitute for
the bit that it gives complete control
to the driver over the horse without inflict-
ing the least discomfort or torture on the
animal itietf, It has beep tried with sada.,
factory results.
Ir has been gated by Capt. Galton, in his
work on " Healthy Dwellings," that a new
hone* containing 100,000 Woks teach
0 eat for the St. Andrew's University brick sucking up from 7 to 10 per cent. of
its weight of water), contains, at a rea-
sonable celoulation, 10,000 gallons of water
in it. All this quantity of water has to be
removed by evaporation, and the rapidity
of this process will depend on the tension
of the vapor at a _given temperature.
The rate of transmission of heat through
building materials depends upon their
texture and composition.
A soon time BinOe at the Old Bailey,
London, a barrieter said to a witness: "Da
LL. A. (women) examinations, at various
centres In England, Scotland and Ireland
recently, and 'been examined in Latin,
mathematics, logic, moral philosophy, Eng.
lish literature, natural philoeophy, educa-
tion, comparative philology, history, politi-
osificonomy, French, German, Italian,
eliejaietry, „ physiology, botany, zoology,
geology, Church history and Hebrew. The
unwergity has grantedthe nee of an
academic) badge of the colors of the Univer.
aides of St. Andrews and Paris, with the
St. Andrew's arose in silver, to be worn by
its LL. A's; and a register ie now to be
kept at the university of all who hove ac-
quired the title and wish employment in
4his sohoole and colleges of the country.
Tim Isle of Man, says the St. James'
Gazette, ought to be more correctly:otyled
the Isle of Woman; since it is only in the
kingdom of the Manimon that the clams
of women are properly reoognized. By..
way of precedent to the Government which
has the Franchise Bill in hand, it is 'minted
out that the last time the, Manx Legisla-
ture had before it the question of parlia-
mentary reform it dealt with the question
of tonal& euffrage as well. In 1881 the
• House of Keyl passed a Bill which con-
ferred the same electoral privileges on
women as on men. 'But; enlightened as ib
is in other respects, Dian still groans under
an Asper Chamber, and that body retuatid
to pass the Bill in its entirety and only
allowed,a 24 ownershipqualification to
give the vote to women. However, even
this is something.
A GERMAN professor, Dr. Reinsch, has
made the discovery that coins are active
agents in the propagation of disease. An
eatended series of observations has proved
that the 50 -pfennig pieces, made of mokel,
wee the home and feeding -ground of a
minute kind of bacteria and vegetable
in/Igloo. If one of these coins Which has
been long in circulation be scraped, and the
thin incrustation of organic matterdeposit.
ed on its surface besubjeoted to lenses of
very high power, the fungi and bacteria oan
be distmotly seen. This is, indeed,' a nowdanger, and an addition to tha already
large number Of agents in the spread of
disease. Baoteria, it has been established,
form an aotive part in the propagation 'of
epidemic disease. But Dr. Reinsoh affirmo
that all danger of infection may be averted
by washing, the coin in a boiling weak solu-
tion of caustic potash, which removes all
the organic incrustation from the surface
and so trace it from all. bacteria and fungi.
An iritereeting illustrationofthe unoer.
taintieli of well -boring operations has just
occurred at Burton -on -Trent, .England:
Ono of the largest breweries there had
occasion to increase its Water ciimply.
Recourse was had to boring, and the work
was carried out by a local well sinker. The
spot . Chosen proved an unfortunate one, -
and after a depth ot 176 feet had been
reached, Messrs. Le Grand at, Suroliff, orte-
elan well engineers of London, were eon.
suited as to further scorch for water. This
firm, hiving had considerable experience in
well -making operations at Burtoo, advised
the abandonment of the box*, and sug-
gested a truth site which they %sleeted.
This suggestion was adopted, and at a
depth of only 114 feet a amply of between
5;000 and 6,000 gallons per hour has been
obtained from a single five -inch tube well.
It should be mentioned that the level • of
the two Wks was practically identical, and
the distance between them *bind two hun-
dred yards.
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A Fazilon physician, Dr. Mayet, has just
published the results of his inquiries into
the nature of a singular malady known as
" whioh science has, it seemsi
lately added to the insufficiently long ciao.
logos ot human disorders. Bordeaux is the
chief emporium of vanilla, some 79,000
pounds of that spice being annually im-
ported. The men employed in cleaning
and sorting it have long been known to
suffer, from a peoulier affection of which
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Dr. Layet's nveatigations have now
revealed the cause. Its symptoms are
redness and itching of the skin, • often
attended with detaquamation of the cuticle,
and googly accompanied with general
malaise, lassitude and giddiness. All the
trouble is caused by a minute white ammo
which lives in the vanilla, and finds its way
to the person of those handling it, Dr..
Ideteit's labors have net as yet been orotvned
with the discovery of any mire for the new
disease. ,
RECENT years havebeen unusually proli-
fic in diecoveries of the remains of the pre-
historic inhabitants of England. An
interesting discovery of the kind has lately
been made in the' valley of the Anoholme,
near Brigg, in Lincolnshire. Some laborers
who were excavating brick earth came upon
a corduroy road at a depth of aortae seven
feet below the surface. Above the road is
a stratum of six feet of olay:and upon the
clay lies a layer of peat. It is known that
this peat has ocanipied its present position
for considerabiy more than a thousand
years. a Roman road, which is still in good
order, creasing it. .4 The newly diecovered
track is formed of huge oaken beam, which
are hatched into the glacial drift beneath
by means of oaken pine; and it ice believed.
by geologists who have visited the exam.
done that these timber's • were laid down at
least ten thoueand years ego. The track
seems to be about a mile in length, but
whither it led and what••was its use are
questions Which are seemly likely to be
isolved.
Tram routes might be taken to reach
Khartoum with an English army. The
shortest, yet probably the moat diffioult, is
by way ot &Akins and Berber; the loosest,
yet perhaps the easiest, is up the Nile; one
that aims to share in part the advantages
of the two others, and to avoid in port
'their reepeetive disadvantages, leads from
Maseowah through Abyssinia. -
Dn. Game, of Paris, has folitidthet 20 to
25 per Cent. of children hear only within a
you go by yourself or did you go alone I"
Seeing his blunder, he at Mice said thathis
query sounded "& little like an Irish-
's:Can's." At this Mr. -Justice Stephen
remarked that the counsel had no right to
make observations reflecting upon his fel-
low.subjeots and fellow.countrymeu, adding
that he would not allow any such refleo-
done to be made in his court. It does not
require a man to be born in the green isle
to be able to inaoutheture a formidably
sized "1811" enough:
An undertaker in Neyvoastle-onTyne, in
the north of England, inserted recently, in
a looal newspaper, the following advertise
ment : " Whylive and be miserable when
you can be buried in comfort for three
pounds len? Comfortable,sepulture is one
of the chiefobjects in life of the British
proletariat. TheIriehman's passage to the
grave is egtened by the prospect of what
the Shauglaratin's mother calls " a mighty
grand funeral?' The French ouvrier alone
deapiseo this, and lays by as much money
as will give his daughter a modeeb dowry.
The British wOrkman if he wishes to
atand well with his fellOws. belongs to
burial society.
Tan new kind of gunpowder lately intro.
duoed by M. Himly is superior to all ethera
t
now in use, in the eerie and rapidity of its
produotioo and the entire absence of clanger
in the prooese of manufacture. Its free-
dom from any hygrosoopie qualities is also
evident from the fact that 100 grame of the
article, exposed to ,dainp weather for some
four days in an open window; showed•no
gain of weight, with a delicate balance. It
lEi WO and ono -half times • more powerful
'than common powder, and 'there is but a
very slight residue. Another advantage is
the slight Amount of 'smoke given 'off, and
this as contrasted with, that from nitro.
eiplosivee, hi totally innocuous.
a diseertat- fro den on the .'varioue
Haan MEN Ea &fp t tbe Cologne Gazette
weapons employed .in the Soudan. Both
kinds cif spears are thrusting weapons, not
javelins, and rarely used aellneh., That of
the maritime tribes,Alecompocied Oman
Digmh'it forces, is gloat efix feet long. . In
the distriete around Kordofan it •give's may
to a long lance nnarly*thren 'times the
length.. Bob the two-handedbword, which
is often the heirlobin of generations, is the
most universal arm. Herr lifenges believes
in
the traditionthat several of these have
beep handed ' own' 'from the' Crusading
times, whieli Undinilstedly, slitiplied_ the
model. The shields are of 'hide and aror
always considered ' proof against spear
thrusts, and therefore certainly against the
quick match and recovery now in vogue
with the bayonets, incitead of the lunge
home. - •
•Tan report that Prince Albert Victor of
Wales is to be raised to the peerage As the
Duke of Dublin, says the St. James' Gazette,
requires confirmation, Hie Royal Highneis'
father baths. already Earl of Dublin by
creation of Her present Majesty in 1850:
Such creation is not an. absolute bar to a
similar one. Substantially identical titles
_have before now been conferred on different
persons; the grant of the existing 'earldom
of Leicester in 1837, before that of 1784
had become extinct, being a case in point.
The number of hietorioal titles'at the dis-
posal of the eovereign just now is not ex-
oessive,espeoially if the,choice be restricted,
as it has been in later timee, to titles -which
have. already •boon borng by. prinemsof the
blood. At present there is no Duke of
York, no Duke of Gloucester or of Awned%
A few weeks will dboide the question as to
whether the dukedom of Albany and the
earldom of Clarence he dormant or extinct.
Prince Leopold Was the firat who over bore
the title of Earl of Clarence.
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Thu University of Edinburgh may boast
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of having helped' to form the most thor-
oughly Enilish Minister of later timer§
From Harrow Lind Palmerstonwent tO
Edinburgh, though . he oompleted his
aoadetnioal education at St. John's College,
Cambridge. The .principal attraction of
the northern metropolis, considered as a
Beat of culture, tower& the close of the
eighteenth and the beginning of the nine-
teenth centuries consisted in the •leetureo
of Dugald Stewart. Another • future
Premier, Lord John Russell,. ilia) attended.
the moral philosophy course; and h* it
was who headed the 'deputation of students
that waited on Dugald ' Stewart to.ason-
gratulate him on his recovery from the
illness which had caused -shim- to have re,
course to the help ef Thomas Brown, and
to thank him for having procured so vain- ,
able a substitute. A statesman of whom
_Edinburgh University . may equally be
proud is the third Marquess of Lansdowne,
who was premed about the year 1795—that
is, when a lad of 15—under the care and
tuition of Dugald Stewart: .
ox the way from Oregonby rail is a oar
containing 20,000 pounds of fresh salmon,
whioh is to be delivered in nine days from
the time of starting at New York. Should
this experiment be succeseful, fresh Oregon
Salmon may be familiarly added to the pia.
cards and the cries et the street -vendors in
eastern intim •
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Twin ik a movement in Massaohusetts
for legielation under which the holding of
Wrest property will be more secure and
therefore, more attractive that it is at
present. XIX proteeting foreate from Are%
and by equalizing or lightening the bUrden
ot taxation upon suoh property, It is be.
lieved that owners will be induced to allow
limited range. A practical result of thin their trope to grow to maturity, instead of
disonvery ii that children are now placed loading them down as seen as they are large
at such a dietatioe from the leaoherSi desk enough to be of any oosolnereiAl vele°. Good tante rejeods excessive hieety ; it
'att will correspond. With their strength oftreats little things as little Wilma, and 18bead, The Inatter doss not appear to ' Tap curlew theory of 41310rictiii Symmes , not hurt by them.
thlit LIMA. Greely and hie potty are agoth
the lottiful land of " Synitionia,"
here the region of thepole, entertain -
BO we are not Mire about the lost
tribet having gone there to regal), The
Ruciaion tradition says it is St. John who
Waif driven up there and establiehed the
colony; and Maurice jokai, the Hungarian
noveliet, describes it as the home of the
OA Meade Man."
Sin &mom) Nderatiosn, the Opposi-
tion leader in the British Commons, curtly
describes what, in vulgar soolety,
" bonnet " is. He said "A 'bonnet' is.
She decoy who lures the thimble.rigger's
viedin to his doom—the inn000nt-looking,
artlecie Countryman who is sure he
knowa' Where thepea is. and Who thus is
'enabled to bring into aid wealth to the
coffers of the chief villain of the eon.
federacy."
Das. Utioaa and Bodle,nder, of Bonn,
have recently been engaged in examination
of meats preserved in tin cans, and .report
that "n not inconsiderable quantity of tin
P55805 over into the conserve." Experi-
ments on dogs and rabbits showed that the
tin was absorbed by the intestinal mucous
menitbrane, and it was detected in the
seoretione, heart, liver, kidneys'spleen,
brain and muscles. They think this% the
reason BO little is yet heard of tin' poison -
ins is because the introduction of the
oanned foods is -comparatively recent, and
their prices so high as to make the eon -
gumption limited.
Gamin Wmaini Crows, the United
States orator, pays a high tribute to the
character of Mr. Gladstone as a man and
a states/Dan in Harper's Magazine for June.
Mr. Garda Hays: "This is the year in
which the other great English-speaking
nation calls one of its oitizens to the chief
executive magistraoy. , Happy • that
country if it summon to that office *
statesman so commanding, conecientione
and'ssourageons and a man no spotless as
the English Prime Minister 1 Looking at
Gladstone, and then across the sea at our
Presidential ocintest, the Englishman may
be pardoned it he is not quite seedy to
abandon a political system which brings so'
great a man as Gladstone into the direotion
of the Government; and even the American
may wonder whether his system of -select-
ing the chief magistrate is surer than the
English method to bring the real chief of a
party to the executive ohair."
. To moan persons who wish to grow thne
, and who have tried to no purpose all the
known systems of living to rednoe their
obesity, a correspondent recommends a
trial of the following which is strongly ad•
voehted as amounting to an almost infal-
lible cure for getting rid of superfluous fat :
Only eat three times a day, never take any-
thing to drink between meals and only halt
Dpint of liquid at meals. The amount of
liquid taken has much more to do with the
milking of fat than the quantity of 'food
consumed, although at no meal 'Bilotti('
more than a Moderate amount of solid food
be taken. One 'correspondent affirms that
by following out the above regime he lost
one pound a day in weight, and felt no ill
effects villatever' from it, and he further
states that to a man of moderate appetite
the amount of solid food is of no import. -
slice ; it is the quantity and not quality only
of liquids consumed -teat Makesthe differ-
ence in the omount of fat.
WOOD pavements have been and are
gradually taking the place cif t asphalt° in
London: This example has been 'followed
,to someextent by Paris, where many
•
etre:loth have been reitentlypaved with wood.•
;Some time ago pavements of tiles were
experimentally tried in London. This tile
pavement has now also.been introduced id
Berlin,,,•where cubes 20 centimetres (7.8
inches) square . and .10 centimetres .(3•9
inches) thiok, and impregnated with bitu-
minous products up to 20 per cent. of • their
volume, are employed. The cubes are laid
on concrete 15 centimetres (6 inches), thiok,
and the joints filled lip with hot tar. It is
affirmed that this description of pavement
is superior to wood pavement. 'Whilst the
latter is liable to absorb -organic produota
of composition like a sponge, and thus form
a hotbed of disease, a tile pavement Is oom-
pletely free from, those drawbaoks. It;
permits the water' to flow off freely, and
lads much longer than wood pavement. '
Dz. NORINAN KARR'S recent book, '• The
Truth About Alcohol," 18 the work ot a
total abstainer, yet the author begins, by
referring to rime of, the popular errors of
teetotallers, and advises them to lay aside
some of their habitual arguments. These
errors are—that the brain its hardened by
alcohol, that the red blood corpusges are
°hanged by it, that in all circumstances
all doses of it are poisonous, that all drinks
oontaining even the smalleet proportions
of alcohol are evil, and that alcohol does
net exist in nature. Dr. Kerr does not
regard ginger beer as an intoxieant, in spite
of. its being a fermented liquor and a
" beer," but he dace oorioider any drink
containing more than 1.5 per cent. of alcohol
—:equal to 3 per cent. of proof spirit—in.
toxicating. Cider, perry, pale ale, beer and
clarets are intoxicating drinks. In giving
the testimony of physiology the Doctor re-
futes the ourrent opinion that integrating
beverages arrest wage and take the place
of food. .His computation that 40,000 per.
sons die annually in the United lithgdom
rom the direct, and nearly double that
unaber from the indireot, effects of inteni.
anoe hibelievedto be correct.
Toffy or the Ladies.
(ktexicoLetter in New York Graphic.)
In some -cities of the republic, a Oari01.18
habit prevailci of complimenting unknown
ladies on the street. Of Mime the lady ie
ecoompanied by father, brother, mother,
or duenna, and it is considered by all
parties glide proper for the •passing ad-
mirer to any: "How pretty ehe is!", or
"What a dainty hand 1" or "What fine
eyes!" or "What a lovely foot 1" Then the
objeot of admiration tunas and says to the
stranger with her emoted smile: "Milia
gneiss, senor!" (A thousand thank.) I
know gentlemen who have tried this with
distinguished HUMOR. I have never per.
formed the feat myself, for.I am naturally
nervous. •
nCOttIMk Note.
Rev. David Mamie, Dundee, has left for
Naples for the benefit of his health.
Rev. Wm. Reid, long TJ. P. Minister at
Log:welly, has been presented in Glasgow
with hie portrait and £104, an the meal:lion
of his jubilee as a, minister. '
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11 18 gated that the Duke of Argyll hats
offered to ,oroftere and cotters in Tiree,
willing to emigrate to Manitoba, oonditions
exactly similar to thou) 'given by Lady
Catheart. Emigration, however; is not
favorably entertained by the.people.
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VON111101111"0411al ISONSTARIestilf,
Sento Startling istiastatieit OM the canoe,
at this DIsciase ha J.Lid.
Bowe blghlY interesting Partletilsre re-
garding the infeetiouenese of ooneumption
have recently been given to the world in
the report of this disease which has
recently been issued at the inetanoe of the
British Medical Association. The commit-
tee sot -rusted with the issue of a oiroulex
inviting the opinions and experiences of the
medical profession regarding the comm.
nioability of consumption received 1,078
replies. No fewer than 673 of these were
simple negatives, these replies meaning
that no me on which an opinion Gould be
founded had come under the notice of the
persons Making the return. But the re-
maining answers contain valuable material
enough. Of the remainder three gasses were
oonstruoted—affirnsative answers, number-
ing 261; doubtful answers, 39, and negative
answers, 105. Analysis of the affirmative
returns reveals some astonishing fact*
calculated to make us think seriously
enough of our duty both to the eiok and
to the 'hale. We read, -for example, of
192 observers reporting °SIM of cora-
munioation of eonsumption -believed to
have occurred between husband and wife ,•
and it is distinctly stated -in 130 of such
oases that there existed no family predis-
position or tendency to consumption in
the partner who Oanght the infection.
Again, the oases of communication be-
tween persona entirely unrelated are still
more convincing. A young man dies of
consumption, having been nursed by his
eider. The latter falls All with the
disease and dies in tufo; and
her 'companion, "a girl in excel-
lent health," contraoto consumption from
her friend. A kervant, in whom it is ad-
roitted there may have been a constitu-
tional tendency to the disease, nursed a
solioitor who contracted Diniumption•from
his wife. The servant died stain afterward
wit!. the disease. " A dressinaker livinglis
lonely cottage had three girl- apprenticee
from 17 to 19 y.earh ot Age not relate(); and
these girls took week in turn to remain in
the home, sleeping with then:distress.' 'The
dressmaker died of consumption during
their apprenticeship, and in leas than two
years afterward all three girth died of the
same disesee., Facts like these might be
indefinitely multiplied, but, as quoted, they
nerve to show that the changes are enor-
mously in favor of the idea that consump-
tion is infectioucr,..-antl'ilfaVtliti germs of
" badilli " are conveyed from the patients
to the _healthy in the breath, and, like
!, ill -seed," find only, too frequently a Boil
in which to breed and grow.---leston
Advertiser.
CURE FOIL IllirDILOY110BIA,
Brinorkable Discovery by an Eminent
Irrench Nacional.
One of the most wonderful discoveries in
pathological einem* since those of Jenner
and Kook; Was „Announced today before
-the %blench Aoademy, Bays a cablegram
from Paris.' M. Louie Pasteur, the great
ohernist and professor of physics at the
Eisele des Beau -Arts, read a roper in
which he deseribed and deolared completed
his exrerimeots to obtain a promos of in-
noonlation .tagainst hydrophobia. Prof.
Pasteur olaims .that he has discovered a
epeoifib for the prevention of rabies in the
human Whig, the remedy being the Mown.
lotion Ot the person with virus originally
taken from a rabid animal and weakened by
*agenda's procese of transfusion through
other' animals of inferior size and lower
vitality. M. Pasteur ie enthusiastic over
his disooyery andolaims tu-have made such
thorough experiments wild -be absolutely
certain in his hypothesis. It is reported
that the eminent professor proved hie devo-
tion to science and his faith in the efficieney
of his discovery by experimenting upon him-
self by first inducing a mild form of rabies'
by innoonlation and then allowing himself to
be bitteo by a rabid dog. M. Pasteur, in the
conelusion of his econty„ urged the academy
to memorialize the Government to appoint
an official cOmmiesion to thorough investi-
gate the nuttiest by means of experiments
upon voluntary alibied° or • condemned
prisoners. He ineiets that the.prooese will
be without peril and almost without pain,
and that the boon to humanity in conquer-
ing hydrophobia would far outweigh the
small risk that would be inclined.
Cupid's Odd Capers.
Kate Barry, whose • huaband appeared
against her in a New York Police Court,
told the justice she was willing to go to the
island, for then she could be near Commie.
sioner 'Brennan, the only roan she ever
loved.
Miss Constanoe Bell, a handsome 12 -year-
old girl of Boykin, S.C., oame home from
boarding echool and found Dr. Jasper Ben.
son, an 80 -year-old etranger, Wok in her
father's house. She nursed the old gentle-
men, and at the end Of two weeks, as soon
as he was able to walk, they were married,
the girl's parente-giving full consent.
Mary Sullivan, aged 23, a New York
domestio, is suing Wiltiam Hayes, aged 70,
for breach of promise. She claims that
Hayes made love to tun, and that about
July 1st, 1883, made an agreement with her
-that it she would marry him within a rea.
minable time he would transfer to her all
his real estate, his bank accounts and all
other property he owned in the world.
Mrs. Mary Duffy, of Philadelphia,- drew
pension as a soldier's widow until she was
remarried to William Chambers, when by
law the pension was discontinued. She
has now learned that William has another
wife living, and that her marriage to him,
being illegal, is void. Hence abo olaimeto
be still a Holdier's widow, entitled to the
pension for all the years that ahe supposed
ehe was Mrs. Chambers ' instead of Widow
Duffy. •,
Ella Wheeler's marriage had its romance
behind it. When the Army of the Cumber-
land held its reunion in Milwaukee Mr.
Robert M. Wilcox, a young manufacturer
irons Conneetiout, was present. He had
read Mies Wheeler's poetry and wished to
see her. It happened that she contributed
poem to the ocoasion and was pointed
• out to Mr. Wilcox. On his return home he
wrote to her, and, though she had never
'met him, she liked his letter and replied.
A pleashut correspondence followed, and
Hood a meeting was brought about. It
proved a cue of mutual love at first sight.
Relative Meeting Value of wood.
It the wood is to be uged for item gen-
grating purposes, the relative values per
cord, of varioue seasoned woods, taking into
account weight, heating power, oto., and
valuing hickory sts a booth, at 66 per ,00rd,
wo reach the followipg moults :
Hickory $6 oo White elm $2 90
Whiteoak . , 4 0 flied 2 08
White ash 8 85 Wild chem..... 2 75
Apple 50 Softinaplo 270
Red oak... 4 45 Tallow pine 2 70
`White beech 8 25 Chestnut...—. ..... . 9 60
Black walnat s 25 Butternut • 2
Black birch 65
3 15* White birch 2 40
Bard maple 8 00 White pixie 2 10
There is a ouriotie Old graveyard at Valle.
burg, Sullivan County, N. Y., ahd in it are
nine gravestones standing in a row. They
inark graves of Dr. Benjamin Kyles' family
all of whoisi died between Nov. 23r0 and
Deo. 1601, 1861, of diphtherlin ,
Jell-TORWORIK.
Vitrielles—floe&v, Test Sax
Dna Polly -roc.
Crazy quidta are well named, not .only
boogie° the effect th crazy, but also because
the fonoylor making them hos become o
porteot exam And the crazy quilt, pure
and simple, hail "sitcom° semodifled thot
the ereZB will' talte many dieting) forme.
One ides, is to feateR a flower or opray out
from chintz or brocade to every separate
piece of a quilt, like an applique figure.
Another is to embroider 'every piece with
dowers or conventional, design* in floss or
orev1- tudgtillether, and, perhaps,
tb:0weeonoeirsiodeeorteaet
patch with hand -painting. These pieces
ot crazy patchwork, daintily painted, are
cio beautiful that many hesitate to apply
them to ouch a oommon ubs ante form
part of a bed quilt. Squares of the
work are now tramgd in a deep border of
plush and employed as lambrequine for
windows, mantles and braokets, as tidies
for chairs and ease, or as table covers.
Crazy patohwork also forma borders for
other materials, as velvet, plush, repp or
serge, for hangings and the like. A silk
patchwork quilt, made up in one of the
old-fashioned patterns, now revived—as
tea boa, log cabin or pattypen—is rendered
much more effective by the addition of a
crazy border. Thepieces in crazy patch-
work are joined with heavy ailk or &tee, in,
coarse stitches, as brier patois, eat Mitch or
herring bone: The craze will probably
be short lived, as it stands to reason 040
the ornamental work wit lwear out before the
silk patches, and where, then, will be the
'quilts ? A reaotion most soon come,in
tavor of old time patterns, in which the
patches are neatly' joined by over -
seaming on the wrong Bide. The
prettiest of these old patterns is "tea
box." 'This consists of three equal
diamond, joined so as toform a cube in
perspective. Two of theta, 'Simon& are 'of
celoreC silk; • the third • Or horizontal
OthrOond of blitok, so that when the blocks
are joined the completed work will display
horizontal stripes'ot black diamonds. Tea
box work, when tuined in every. dim:two
mug • appear like' cubes and ini-poioted
eters. "Log Cabin,", or State 'House
steps "consists of one Bissell equare; in the
centre, from which,„ on emit] Me, diverge'
flights of steps, .four in all, the completed
block being one large equare, , the greater
part of whioh is composed of natio* stripe.
It is . made as follows: Add to two
opposite sides of the small equare, narrow
atrips of the same length as thesquare and
half the width. Then to the other opposite
sides • add, strips . 'of the genie width,
but long enough to include the
length of the square and of the two other
stripe, or twice the length of the eqoare. •
Add, in the same way, longer strips to the
opposite aides again, and so continuo add-
ing stripe and preserving the ehalie of the
equare uutil the block. is as large as desired. •
The "patty -pari" pattern consiste simply
of one email hexagoo; to each side of which
is attached by a oorresponding side another
mall hexagon, the whole block thus con-
taining seven hexagons of theean2e size,
the six outer ones being respectively
attached to the inner one, and • also to the
next one on each bide of itself. An entire
quilt in patty -pan pattern thus appears
like a pavement of _hexagonal blocks. tt is
cuetomary io make the centre hexagons.
red, black, or of one dark'color throughout,
and the ,six outer Ones of 'eatils block of one
color, to contrast with the centre hexagon.
The Parnellites have Made a new depar-
ture. They are now actively negotiating
for the open aid of the Catholic hierarchy
in Ireland in support of the Nationalist
seheme for peasant proprietorships of
land. Active agents are making a tour
among the superior Irish Catholic olergy f r
the purpose of enlisting their eympathies
and support in behalf of,the emigration
Miura° embodied in Mr: Parnell's Irish
Land Company. • •
The Sardinian arrived . at Rimonski
yeeterday and landed her • mails and
passengers.
All the rich obese are now flocking. to
Prince Bismarck's deotor, who has so re-
duced him- in size witlmut injury to his
health. 1•
IS LIFE 0/LOWEY% IcOSIGlaili V
"reaaeaseadizyw41,4.DsealirtittatePAP‘Zyd. "
To be told that under prow coUditiono
we ought to live one hundred yore, and
that Via dim:30=040g daotriaa ot the iodn.
enoe of heredity ID shortening Lae 18 only
true in a limited sense, 18 intereating to
most people.' So, also, m the eirounietance
Viat we are living longer than We need to
live, and the assurance that much may yet
he done to prolong our hoists These and
analogous topics were given in a recent
lecture by Dr. John Foster, of Bradford,
Eng., read at the February meeting of the
Sheffield Medicotlhirurgical Seeiety ;
" The late Dr. Fon, in his de-
scription of the march through life
of a million children, has given the
following remits ; Nearly 150,000 will die
in the first year, 62,000 in theameand year,
28,000 in the third, and lees than 4,000 in
the thirteenth year. At the end ot 45
yoara 500,000, or onebalf, will have dieds
At the beginning ot 60 years, 370,000 will
still be living. At the beginning of 80
yeas, 90,000; at 85 years, 38,000; and at
95 years, 2,100. At the beginning of
100 yeara there will be 223, and at 108
years 1. The mean lifetime of both sexes
in England was caloolated some years ago
to be 40,858, or nearly 41 years. Mr. H.
Humphreys bas shown; however, that in
the 5 years, 1876 to 1880, the mean, age at
heath was 43,56 (temales, 45.3), being a
gain of nearly 2S years. Thus within 20
years, notwithstanding an increaeed birth
rate, &toothy of population, and the unsani-
tary condition of towns suddenly grown
large, more than n years have been added
to the life of every inhabitant of England,
"Tho • Landon Spectator asks: What
is the kind of life which is increasing? 'Aro
we young longer, or mature longer, or old
longer? Do .we live tenger, or are we only
a little elower'in dying?' I amboundto
admit that some of the gain in early life
is lost in middle life ; that while the ex-
pectation of life at birth is 26 or more, the
expectation from 35 to 50 is a fiat:akin lees.
But notwithstanding the slight increase of
mortality at 35 and upward, o large portion
ot the additional eurywore live on to•the
higher ages. • Of 1,000 horn, the additional
number of survivors is 35 at theage of 45,
26 at 55,0 at 65, 3a175 and 1 at•85., The
• increase ismuch greater among females.
By tar the: lerger proportion- of the in-
creased duration of human life in England'
is lived betweeri•grand 60." It is interest-
ing to ascertain what is the natural limit of
existence. Dr. FarrsaYs the natural life.
time of mau is a • century. That is the
length of dine the body willlive_under the
roost favorable conditions. Another .most
*interesting question is : ".When does old
age oonimenciel" Di. Farr has divided life
as follows: Boyhood,10 to 15 years; youth
15 io 25 ; manhood, 25 to 55 ; maturity, 55
to 75 ; ripeness, 75 to 35, and old ' age, 85
and upward. .
• In taking the period of 65 to 75, and still
fallowing the fortunes of the million chit.
dren born, we find that 309;029enter this
age and 161,124 leave it alive. Dioceses of
the brain, heart and lubge are the most
common; 31,400 died ot old age. The
number that inter the next decennial—.
75 to 85 --are 161,124, and the number that
leave it alive are 38,565: About 122,590
die, chiefly of lung, brain, heart and other
l000l diseases. Nearly 59,000 die of atrophy,
debility and Lid age. Some writer says he
haemet few or no oases of death from.old
age, everybody dying ot lame recognized
disease. It is true that the•symptome of
disease become obscure in olcl age, many
cities of pneumonia and other inflamma-
tions escaping recognition. Itut it is also
true that many deaths attributed to disease
are Mainly due to old age; slight injuries,
&lid, heat, want, or Attacks which in early
yesxs would have been shaken off. Of the
million with which we started, 2,135 live to
the age of -95-223 to 100. Finally, at the
age of 108 one solitary life New York
Sun.
Marshal YenDishen lives now in a very
quiet, unobtrusive way in Perth. He tom • .
thence for a few monthe every sumnier to
his Chateau- de Scilly, hear Autun, tabor° .
ha has a rare colthotioxisef Trish relics and
memorials. 7
WHO IS UNACQUAINTED WITH THE DEocrtAtniv OF THIS COuNTRY', WILli.,
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