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Row a South Carolina Lake was reisoned
by reaustorea.
A Columbia, S.C.,despatch gays ; The
story of the poisoning of Dawho -Lake,
Georgetown County, by a hailetorm, as
recently described, has been corroborated
in every particular by a pi -eminent citizen
of Georgetown, who has investigated the
matter at the request of Gen. Greely, Chief
of the Weather Service. A dense mass of
black gum trees surround the lake on all
sides. It is well-known that the leaves of
these tiees are strongly impregnated witla
tannic Lipid. It has else been ascertained
that the bottotu of the lake contains a
relight deposit of iron. The poisoningof the
water, therefore, is thus explained. The
hailstorm filled the lake with bruised
leaves and !small branches from the
trees, the tannk aoidemitnating from which
mingled with the iron and formed tannate
of iron, causing the water to turn black as
ink and bitter as quinine, and poisoning
the fish by thousands. One spemes of the
fish inhabiting this lake survived the singu-
lar disaster, and that was the mud fish,
-which buried itself in the mud at the
bottom and thus escaped the effeets of the
poison. The stench arising from the mass
,ef dead and rotten fish is described as fear-
ful. The-411011=de of buzzardeiu taking
-their departure in the evening for their
roosting plaoe after a day's feast are de-
scribed as making a noise similar to that of
an approaching cyclone. On each end of
Dawho Lake, about half a mile distant, is
a small lake in whieh numbers of fish
abound, but which upon examination show
no signs of the hailstorm which swept over
Dawho. This confirms the belief that the
direct cause of the disaster to the fish isdue
to the hailstorm.
Frauds, Tragedies and Disease in cubit.
A Havana despatch says : Three per-
sons have been arrested for eOnneetiOn
with the counterfeiting of the ticket that
drew the capital prize of the last drawing
of the Havana lottery. The fraud was not
discovered until fractions of the false
ticket to the value of $86,000 had been
received and the money paid.
The Holguin papers contain accounts of
a horrible tragedy that •occurred there
recently. A. workingman, as a precaution
against emallpox, built a coal fire before
retiring and placed thereon several leaves
of tobacco, the fumes from which he had
been told furnished ample safeguard against
disease. On the following day the neigh-
bors noticed the absence of any signs of
life in the house, and informed the police.
The door was forced and an awful dis-
covery made. The workman and his wife
and their eight children were all dead.
The escaping gas from the coal had suffo-
cated them.
According to the Santiago de Colea
papers there were 388 cases of smallpox in
that neighborhood during May. Of these
150 proved fatal. From the lat to the 9th
of June the number of cases was 170 and
the deaths 35.
The Green Flag Incident.
A London cable says: The captureof
the green flag carried by Mr. Murphy's
yacht in Bantry Bay is causing a good deal
of cerement. The following are the par.
ticulars of the occurrence: Captain Black-
burne, of H. M. S. Shannon, caught sight
ag flying at the masthead of a
y cht in •try Bay, and at once de-
s tched a bo n pursuit of the treason.
ab emblem. .-lit. Saul, who was in
co and of the b; informed the owner
of t yacht, Mr. . urphy, Nat' nalist
M.P.,• at he was lia • to a fine o 2500,
and in - .ite of that g• leman's . .tests
that he not contemp te makin. -ttr
upon the a sen, but rae y carried e
leag as a dis ' guishing Si: .1, he cox&
dated the obnoxious bunting nd returned
to the Shannon The editor Si. James'
Gazette says: "1113 M. S. Sh non should
have fired into the'e' ft whi flew the
rebel flag in Bantry and s .uid have
sank her or have carrie r off a, prize."
Mr. Murphy has brought s g net Capt.
Blackburne for trespass, lay • . • e dam-
ages at 21,000.
King Halakaua Obtains F
A San Francisco despatch says There
is no doubt now that the Claus ,•reekels
interest has been fomenting t ..uble in
Hawaii. The main desire was • defeat
the English loan. It has come o to -day
that e loan had been made and t money
del ered. Spreckels had $501 .100 of
W •alien bonds, three-fifths on t islands,
al • ayable here. Those here h e been
p• ptly paid. Interest is stopp on the
re and they are to be redeem° on pre -
sen tion, greatly to the disg of the
hou Two hundred thousand • rs of
the ting ilebt has been paid an 00,-
000 a ied to public improvements. • e
main t ble on the island is attribute
objectio on the part of the missiona
party to 'me Minister Gibson, who wa
formerly a ormon, and it is charged that
he panders he Ring's baser tastes. It
is thought b •ose well-informed as to
Hawaiian affai hat a change of •Minis-
try will obviate t ble. The missionary
party desires to die e Gibson.
Starvation ,in
a.
Washington despatch -says :
F. Bauclinet, United States Vice -Consul ai
New Chwang, China, sends a harrowing
account of a trip made by him through
the flooded districts! of China. He was dis-
tributing food and necessaries of life to the
starving people, and relieved 896 persons.
He said he found the people generally liv
ing on bran, or the chaff of a large grass
grown for feeding cattle. Some were
reduced to -eating chopped grass, either
moistened With hot water or baked in
cakes, while others fed on the leaves and
seeds of weeds gathered in the fields. In
'Some of the villages half of the dwelling
places had been washed away and the
inhabitante were huddled together in the
remainirig, ones. The:deaths from 'starva-
tion had been -art numerous, and the
sights he saw in -settle �f the %lieges Were
pitiable, t '
4
Some time age a valuable canary of
Ithaea lost its voice, and when taken t� a
lotal bird dealer, [seemed t� bo chocking to
death. Tho dealer found that there wag a
tumor, as lag° as a pea, growing at the
root of the bird's tongoo, and potting the
little fellow under the influence of chloro-
form, he cut it away. Tho bird soon re-
covered, arid now singe as well as ever.
4 DOYAL SCANDAL,
QualM Ilateue Return, ner X.'1W4l4tPti's
Letters Unopened.
A Vienna cable says; Scandals seem to
lie the order of the day, and that at Bel-
grade seems to be the prettiest one of all.
Queen Natalie, who left Belgrade for Rus-
sia in consequence of her husband's in.
fidelities, has been !staying for some time
at the Czar'slimmer residence of Yalta.
The Ring, in deadly fear of being mur,
dered like his predeceesor, or kidnapped
like Prince Alexander, has withdrawn to
Vienna, where he is staying at the Era.
peror's palace. Queen Natalie has now
signified her intention of returning to Bel-
grade, whereupon the Ring telegraphed in
all haste to his Prime Minister Ristics, not
to Allow the Queen to set her foot in the
kingdom. M. Risties, however, who is not
only a pronounced Russophile, but has also
been guilty of the most flagrant and almost
public relations with the Queen during the
past three years, has refused to obey his
master's orders. Meanwhile Queen Natalie
sends back all her husband's letters un-
opened, and openly advises his removal
from the throne in favor of her 12 -year-old
son, who is with her, Altogether there is
as pretty a state of things at Belgrade at
the present moment as could well be
imagined.
Late Scottish News.
The jubilee of Bev. Dr, Macdonald,
North Leith Free Church, was celebrated
JUIle 15th.
The mansion -house of Westerhill, near
Annan, Dumfriesshire, the residence of
Captain R. Ewart, was destroyed by fire on
the 1.5th inst.
The death is announced, in his 82d year,
of Mr. Robert Johnston, of Mayfield,Looh-
maben, Dumfriesshire. The deceased was
long in the Indian Civil Service, and had
seen much of life and sport in the East.
In connection with the unveiling of the
monument of Ring Alexander III. at Ring.
horn, Fifeshire, on the 19th of July, the
freedom of the burgh is to be conferred.
upon Lord Eigin and Mr. William Nelson,
Edinburgh.
The raemoriabstone of the New Barony
Parish Church, which is being erected in
Townhead, Glasgow, nearly opposite the
old building, was laid on the 15th by Colonel
Hosier of Mauldslie Castle, in presence of a
arge concourse.
At a meeting of the Building Committee
of the Edinbugh Public Library Committee,
Lord Provost Clark presiding, it was
arranged that the foundation -atone of the
Library should be laid by Mr. Andrew
Carnegie on the afternoon of Saturday, 9th
July.
A great honor has been conferred on a
Dumfriesshire artist, Mr. W. E. Lockhart,
R. S. A., he having been commissioned by
the Queen to paint the picture of the Jubilee
service in Westminster Abbey on the 21st
June. Mr. Lockhart is a native of Annan.
A Jubilee cairn has been raised on the
top of Ben Ledi by the Highlanders in the
district. A message was sent to Her
Majesty to the following effect: "Loyal
Highlanders by the sides of Loch Lubnaig
and Looh Vennacher, and of Glenfinlas,
climbed Ben Ledi and erected on the sum-
mit of the hill a Jubilee Memorial Cairn,
fourteen feet high. It Wan christened
The Victoria Jubilee Cairn,' and the
health of Her Majesty was entlusiasticallg
pledged."
According to a statement just published,
colonial securities and investments are
rising rapidly and greatly in favor with
Britoil capitalists. Four years ago the
capita us invested was estimated at
2600,0000 . •hile this year the amount is
said to excee 700,000,000. This is not
surprising, seein at colonial securities
are not, like foreign es, subject to capri-
'ous fluctuations wit every false or silly
or that is raised.
James Barclay, of •ntreal, besides
preach before Her Ma ty in Crathie
Church o e 12th ult., h • the honor
of dining in ke evening wi the Queen
and royal familYnk.
The Queen attended.„the m riage of a
daughter of one of the teentntis n the Bal-
moral estate on the 14th ins te This is
the first wedding in a Scottish ar house
• 'oh Her Majesty was pr ent.
farmers a • rofters in the
Murkle (Cal ict have adopted a
"Plan of Campaign" for themselves the
principal feature of which is that landlords
are to be paid not in money, but in kind,
valued at the rates current when the pre-
sent rents were fixed.
Mr. Sims Reeves will, it is said, shortly
appear in Glasgow as Fancis Osbaldistone in
a revival of "Bob Roy" at the Royalty.
The unrivalled tenor will be supported by
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Howard as Bob and
Helen.
A Den of Horrors.
A New York despatch says: A frightful
ndition of affairs regarding the treatment
uper insane at Ward's Island Asylum
a: ealed at the State Board of Cheri-
,
a i tigation of the Department of
strafe • d Correction, instituted at the
yor's req t, and which was begun at
t City Ha .sterday. It was shown
t at in the b , whose capo.city Wai3
,
00, 1,400 pa re crowded ; that
atients are also •t outside buildings
wholly uninhabit. e; wards, the
capacity of which 45, a. n nearly
twice that number o violently insane per.
sons with only five tendants ; and that
the food furnished is ot sufficient either
in quality or quanti President Sim-
mons!, of the Board, a itted these facts,
and said they could not avoided, because
the Board of Apporti ent refesed to
give them the necessary •nag.
1.10All PoncuEsrsu, eldest
of Carnarvon, le of age this -
at once into the enjoyment
Chesterfield property, whit .
seventh Earl of Chesterfiel • !,
the late Lady CarintrYonfo
, •
then to her children in skeet
property now yields more tha
year. When Lord Porchester
father's estates he will have at le
a year More. Several thouria
making mammas in England are
how to got his Lordship stequitin
their datightere.
on of the Earl
eek, and comes
the tiplendid
as left by the
o hia sister,
er life and
ntail. The
$200,b00 a
herits his
$160,000
match.
inking
With
There is an old lady in Georgia to .11 will
never gond ono of her danghtere id ',Pant
College. "What With their coats, anVOSCEI,
6,n' jockey bets," she says, "women ie nigh
enough like Men how. 'thont makin'
dors of 'cm."—Savannah News.
AN TINTARALLELED DASD,
New York Girl's Attack of Iffccopos
Lasting Six Mouths.
A Fonda,
N. Y., despatch says: The
condition ofMiss Jennie Sullivan, who has
been soffering for the past six months
from hiccoughs, is still attroxiting the at-
tention of the medical fraternity through -
gut central New York. The case becomes
more perplexing every day. Since the
first attack of the malady 'Miss Sullivan
Las been living entirely on milk, her
stomach refusing to retain stronger fond.
When she is suffering a paroxysm it re-
quires the strength of three or four men to
hold the young woman in bed, She is re-
duced to little more then a skeleton but if
her constitution is sufficiently strong it is
said he can wear the hiccouglas out in
time. The case is almost unparalleled in
medical history,
807.110 Freaks of Natore.
Mrs. Aosanna Dennis, of Tiffin, 0. died
of dropsy seventeen years ago, and her
body, which was disinterred the other ,day,
was found to he thoroughly petrified, with
the exception of the feet. It was so heavy
that ten men were required to move it. A
piece chipped from the body resembled
flinty limestone.
The wife of Mr. Hey, of Americus, Ga.,
wears a handsome breastpin which was
made out of a petrified strawberry which
grew on her husband's farm. The berry is
beautifully. colored, resemblinga bright
ruby, and is very hard. It weighs about
two ounces, and glistens in the light like a
ball of the.
Ara Soule, of Grant, Minn, noticed that
one of his favorite hens had ceased laying
eggs, but was growing remarkably large.
Finally, after attaining an astonishing size
the hen died, and Mr. Soule was ourious
enough to hold a post-mortem examination.
He out the fowl open and was somewhat
astonished when four well-developed spring
ohickens popped out and began strutting
around the barnyard. He supposes that
some trouble with the hen's organization
had stopped the egress of the eggs and that
the natural heat of her body incubated the
chicken germs.
The petrified body of a human being was
found on the farm of Martin Edwards,
near Windsor, Ill. in a ditch last week.
The body is that of a short fleshy person,
and is supposed to be that of an ancient
mound-builder. It is very hard, and looks
exactly like soapstone. The head is long
and narrow, the forehead high and promi-
nent, with high cheek -bones, square chin
and a small neck. The body was broken
off at the knees, the lower limbs being
missing. Its total length, to the knees, is
two feet nine inches, and its weight is about
170 pounds.
The climes Bill.
A last (Thursday) night's London cable
says: In the House of Commons to -night
Mr. W. H. Smith moved that if the report
on the Crimes Bill be not reached on Mon-
day closure be applied. The Parnellites
opposed the motion, which, however, was
carried by a vote of 220 to 120. The
Speaker then called upon the Parnellites
to move the amendments standingopposite
their names on the notice paper. The
Parnellites who were watching the pro-
ceedings from the meinbers' side made no
reply. The amendments introduced by Mr.
Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland were
agreed to without debate and the Bill was
reported. Mr. Balfour announced that the
third reading of the Bill would be moved
on Tuesday next.
The Post says that Mr. Gladstone will
move the rejection of the Crimes Bill when
the measure comes up for its third reading.
How He Fooled the Flies.
A bald-headed St. Louis man, who has
been troubled by flies, has devised a scheme
,to get rid of the troublesome insects. He
noticed that a fly always walks upward.
Put a fly on a window, and up he goes
toward the top; he can't be made to walk
downward. Forthwith he made a window
screen divided in half. The upper half
lapped over the lower, with an inch of space
between. As soon as a fly would light on
the screen it would proceed to travel up-
ward, and would thus walk straight out --
doors. On reaching the top of the lower
half he would be outside. Not being able
to walk down, he had no way to return to
the room.
A Fast of Sixty-eight Days.
A Pori Carlin, Muskoka, despatch says:
Early yesterday morning Mr. F. BisSOn-
erte, a former resident of Medora town-
ship, died here after a fast of 68 days.
Some two year ago the deceased had a
paralytic stroke, which finally resulted in
his being unable to take food, and he con-
tinued in this condition for the period
named. hip to Friday last he was quite able
to Bit propped up in bed.
Why It Was Called "She."
When H. Rider Haggard was a child he
had a very ancient and battered wooden
doll, which had been handed down by a
former generation, and was regarded, ugly
as it was, with peculiar affeotion by the
girls of the family. The doll, which had
lost its eyes in the course of time, was
known to all the children as" She." This
is the origin of Mr. Haggard's odd title for
his celebrated romance.
How He Will Fix Them.
Nebraska Farraer—These railroads are
getting entirely too numerous and frapit-
aent, but I'll fix 'ern.
Railroad Superintendent—Well, what no
you propose to do about it ?
Nelaraeka Farreer—Why, you see; they
run so blamed slow that I've brought emit
for damages against 'em fee sheadin the
crope..—Onterlier World.
She Loved Iflm "All the Same."
As the Boston transcript thinks, a
genuine feminine inconsistency appears in
the following note left by a wife in New
York for her husband, from Vehoni she had
run away with another man
DIalt Wira.—I am going to bettor myself, so
dont worry. I leave the city., Your wife.
I love you Just the sable lloMonn.
Sone wag started the story hi Thigiand
thiit the Queen Would present six guineas
and -a silver cradle to every child born on
jubilee day, Already over 400 applicatiens
have :been reade to Hee Majelity tie fillfil
lier premise,
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
The Parthia has arrived at Vieteria, B,
C., from Yokohama.
Payment of the claims adjusted by the
Rebellion LOSSeS Commission Will be com-
menced shortly,
Thehearing of the evidence in the Ayer
customs case won concluded in the Ex.
chequer Court at Ottawa on Saturday, the
Chief Justice fixing September 21s4 'for
hearing the argument of counsel.
Rev. P. C. Angier, a gentleman from
Central France, who has been appointed
Superior of the Oblate Order in Canada/
arrived in Ottawa yesterday. He succeeds
the Rev. Father Antonio, of Montreal, who
goes to Paris.
'While Godfrey, a young man from St.
Jerome was engaged in a friendly wrestling
bout with a friend at Montreal yesterday
morning, the former was thrown violently
to the floor. After arising and staggering
about for a few minutes he again fell to the
ground and almost instantly expired.
Mr. John Shaw, private banker, of Wards-
ville, has departed for the States, leaving
behind him many confiding depositors to
mourn his loss. He left letters stating
that owing to heavy loans he was unable to
meet his obligations, but hoped to do so
at a future day. This event has paralyzed
business in Wardsville, and is a tepie for
the quidnunos to ponder over. His liabili-
ties are reported to be over $10,000.
The Maharajah of Jadhpore has donated
210,000 to the Imperial Institute.
There is a scarcity of water in Belfast in
consequence of the drouth and work in the
mills is being partly stopped.
Queen Rapiolani of Hawaii is among the
passengers on the Servia, which sailed from
Queenstown yesterday for New York.
Advices from Afghanistan confirm the
reports of two defeats of the Ghilzais re-
cently with heavy losses. The first defeat
was on June 13th andsecond on the 16t1a.
The Budget Committee of the French
Chamber of Deputies have postponed the
mobilization of the army until next year on
the ground of economy.
The relations between Germany and Rus-
sia are becoming very strained, and atten-
tion is drawn to the fact of the immense
amount of German money that is invested
in Russian bonds.
The ;United Socialist Clubs of London are
arranging a big excursion to Epping Forest
on July 10th, and will send the proceeds to
Chicago to relieve the Anarchists who are
under sentence of death.
The North Gerntan Gazette says that the
policy pursued by France of persecuting
foreigners: not excepting Englishmen, is a
sufficient justification of the refusal of the
Continental eountries to take part in the
Paris Exposition.
In Valenoia, Spain, on Saturday, the
houses of the Octroi collectors were at-
tacked and destroyed by a mob of the in-
habitants of the town, who protested
against thepayment of taxes. The dis-
turbed district is noW obOupied by troops.
A new Russian coercive measure directs
Government employees in Poland to for-
ward frequently to St. Petersburg com-
plete Hits of resident foreigners. Jay/Sane
not allowed to remain in St. Petersburg
longer than a week, and are not allowed
to enter corporations or academies. •
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies has
adopted a Bill declaring two-fifths of a
workman's pay inalienable, and one-fifth
free from liability to be taken even in local
process. Clerks salaries are made free
from liability to seizure unless they ex-
ceed $240 per annum.
During the Jubilee festivities the Queen
entertained over 5,000 guests. The ex-
pense of entertaining all the sovereigns and
princes from abroad during the past two
weeks is borne entirely by the Queen's
privy purse and is estimated at $600,000, if
not more.
Mgr. Scilla, the Papal Nuncio at Munich,
who went to London to represent the Pope
at the Queen's Jubilee, departed yesterday
for Brussels. The Duke of Norfolk and a
number of other distingnished British
Catholics accompanied the Nuncio to the
railway station and in bidding him fare-
well they kissed his hand.
Commander Charles Le Strange, of the
British despatch boat Surprise, is missing.
He was at Marseilles awaiting the arrival
of the Duke of Edinburgh, whom the
Surprise was to convey to Malta. Last
Wednesday Commander Le Strange visited
the suburbs of Marseilles, and he has not
been seen or heard from since.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
agreed that youths of 20, liable under the
present laws to military duty, may upon
request have the date of their entry post-
poned a year and possibly two years, if the
time is required for the completion of
studies, apprenticeship, ate. A third and
even fourth year may be allowed -university
students, students of seminaries, pupils of
Catholic colleges and those of certain
technical schools.
The Queen on Saturday reviewed the
London Volunteers, who turned out to the
number of 60,000. Several members of
the Canadian Wimbledon team were pre-
sent and were given a position of honor
near the massed bands of the brigade of
Guards. The review took place in front of
Buckingham Palace. There was a great
attendance of spectators. Nuraerically the
review Was a great SIMON& The heat
became great during the marching, and a
number of the men were incapacitated.
One of the features of the drill,. which was
expected to show the troops to greet
advantage, was a march through the Buck-
ingham Palace gates and reforming in
double column. This was se ill-exeduted,
however, that many of the men stumbled
and fell and caused much awkward con-
fusion, The Queen manifested flinch
interest in the drill.
Three cases of 'fatal shooting and assault
occurred in Chicago last night,
_ Heavy earthquakes have taken place at
Bavispe in Sonora. Throe hundred shocks
have occurred since May 8rd.
Jacob Sharp passed a restless night On
Saturday and is growing weaker. Rio fam.
ily spent much ef yesterday with him. At
times he fell into a lethargic date,
Nearly 200 people woke poisoned en Fri-
,
day night at Amboy, 0., by eatingicecreazn
at a ohurch 'social. None of them are den.
gerously ill. The playsiehand are nimble to
explain the presence of poise/inn thecresain,.
The Mva, Mr. William IL Vanderbiltid
magnificent steam yacht, left New York on
Saturday morning for a two years' cruise
round the world. Mr. Vanderbilt, his
Wife and children nre on board. The firet
stop will be et Gibraltar,
Gnstaye arid Tdeonard Drange, brothers,
aged 23 and 29, were drowned while bath-
ing in Buffalo harbor on Saturday after- •
noon. James Newree,n,aged 7, was,
drowned an boor later while bething in the,
same place.
A number of convicts attempted tc).
escape from the State Prison at Folsom,
Cal., yesterday afternoon, the guard
opened fire on the fleeing men with e Gat.
ling gun and one of them was instantly
killed. Another received throe rounds and
will die. Thus ended the enteute,
Dr. James Taylor, of the Bureau of Con-
tagious Diseftees, reports that there is an
alarming increarse of diphtheria in Neve
York city, and especially in the tenement
district. The report for June shows e21 cases
and 216 deaths. Children are the greatest
sufferers. The Board of Health is called
upon to take active measures to stamp out
the disease.
Philip Matthews, aged 13, his sister,
aged 2, and Catharine Kelly, a servant in
the Matthews family, went out in a row
boat on Saturday afternoon on the Croton
River, at New York. When near a small
island young Matthews got out of the boat
and welded in the water. He got beyond
his depth, and throwing up his hand cried
for help. Catharine Jumped into the water -
to save him, but the boy got a tight grip
on her dress and both were drowned
together. Little Ratio managed to row
the boat to shore near her home.
"There Were Great Hen."
An opinion was current in the last
century that our ancestors, at some time
in the past, were the equals or superiors in
size to the largest men now to be found.
M. Henrion presented to the Academie de
Inscriptions, in 1718, a memoir on the
variations in the size of man from the
beginning of the world to the Christian era,.
in which Adam was given 123 feet 0 inches,
i .
and Eve 118 feet 91 nches. But after the
first pair, the human race, in his imagina-
tion, suffered a regular decrease, so that
Noah was only 100 feet high, while Abra-
ham shrank down to twenty-eight feet,
Moses to thirteen feet, the mighty Hercules
to ten feet eight and a half inches, and
Alexander the Great to a bare six feet and
a half. The communication, it is said, was,
received with enthusiasm, and was regarded,
at the time, as a "wonderful discovery"
and a "sublime vision." The complaint
about the degeneracy of the human race is
not new, but dates as far back as the time -
of Homer, at least; for the men of his day
were not like the heroes of whom he sang.
It is not confirmed, but is contradicted by
all the tangible facts, and these are not a.
few. Human remains that are exhumed,
after having reposed in the grave for many
centuries, as in the catacombs of Paris,
have nothing gigantic Meant them. The
armor, the mimeses and the casques of the
warriors of the middle ages can be worn by
modern soldiers, and many of the knight's
suits would be too small for the cuirassiers
of the European armies; yet they were
worn by the selected men, who were better
fed, stronger and more robust than the rest
of the population. The bones of the
ancient Gauls, which wero uncovered in
the excavations of tumuli, while they are
of large dimensions, are comparable with
those of the existing population in many
places in France. The I)gyptistn mummies
are the remains of persons of small or
medium stature, asare also the Peruvian
and Mexican mummies, and. the mummies
and bones found in the ancient monuments
of India and Persia. And even the most
ancient relics we possess of individuals of
the human species, the boners of men who
lived in the tertiary period, an epoch the
remote antiquity of, which goes back for
hundreds of centuries, do not show any
important differences in the size of the
primitive and of the modern inan.—lecens-
lar Science Monthly.
' Why Boys Should Not be Snubbed.
A most charmingly kind and.charito.ble
paper is that little monthly Dumb iinintals.
And now after kind words for all sorts of
birds, beasts and fishes, it bravely speaks a.
kind word for the boys: Don't snub a boy
because he wears shabby clothes. When
Edison, the inventor of the telephone, first
entered Boston he wore a pair of yellow
linen breechee in the depth of winter.
Don't snub a boy because his home is plain
and unpretending. Abraham Lincoln's
home was a log cabin. Don't snub a boy
because of a dulness in his lessons.
Hogarth, the celebrated painter and en-
graver, was a tstupid boy at his books.
Don't snub a boy because of the ignorance
of his parents. Shakspeare, the world's
poet, was the son of a man who wag unable
to write his own name. Don't snub a boy
because he chooses an humble trade. The
author of the "Pilgrim's Progress " was a
tinker. Don't snub a boy because of phy-
sical disability. Milton was blind. Don't
snub a boy because he stutters. Demos-
thenes, the great orator of Greece, over-
come a harsh and stammering voice.
Row it is To -day.
Youth—My dear, we could be married
now if you wouldbeVeilling tolivein a 1 our-
roorri house.
Practical girl—Let mace. Well,we would
have to reserve one room for a parlor, TM
know.
I suppose so."
" Yes, and the second morn could be kept
for a drawing room, just for friends and
relatives, because it would ruin the parlor
to -open it often, you know."
" I suppose do.'
"'that leases us tern rooms, and one of
there walla have to be fitted up for a-
sowing.room, because when people rim in
in a hurry' I would net like to have the
drawing -room all littered up. Has the
house any closets ?"
"No, I believe
"Then the fourth room evonid have to
be used for a eloset. Stich a honk Wouldn't
drwp,
o,ileeear.,.There would be no plaoei to eat
o
Ono hundred Moors, bearing fireerine,
attacked the Spain patrol at liesicati, in
Algiers, 'killing and wounding several.
Many Merin wore Moo killed and wounded,
Tho military intervened and stopped the
fighting: Thirty of tho Moors were
Arrested. Quiet has been Teetered.