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TA,WIW216,1 WITII Pr411r.
The Pernicious Practice of Poison Easing
and What it Must Lead To.
not generally known to what an
alarming extent poisou eating is prectised
, ,
in this country its well aH in Euro*
according to the Boston Herald,In some
of the dietriots of lower Austria, and in
Styria, especially in the mountainous parts,
them prevails the habit of eating amenio.
The peasantry are particularly given to it.
They obtain it under the name of Judie,
from travelling hucksters and gatherere of
herbs, who, on their part, procure it erona
the glassblowers or from the low doctors or
mountebanks. The arsenic eater has a
two -fold aim in the dangerous enjoyment,
one of whioh is the desire to obtain a fresh,
healthy appearance and acquire a° certain
degree of emboppoiat, and on this account
lads and lassies in the European countries
employ the agent that they may become
1320re attractive to each other, and their
endeavors are attended with astonishing
results, for the poison eaters are, generally
awaking, distinguished by a froth
complexion, and have the appearance of
exuberant health. Not long since a farm
servant, who was thin and pale, but well
and healthy, wished to make herself more
sttre.ctive to her lover, and in (leder to
obtain a more pleasing exterior, swallowed
every week several doses of arsenic. The
desired result was obtained. In a few
months she was quite according to her
lover's taste. In order to increase the effeet
she increased the dose of arsenic and fell a
victim to her vanity. She Was poisoned
and died a distressing death. The number
a deaths in consequence of the immoderate
enjoyment of arsenic is not inconsiderable,
especially among the young. Whether is
*rises from fear of the law, which forbids
the unauthorized possession of arsenic, or
whether it be that an inner voice proclaims
to him his ein, the arsenic eater always
conceals, as much as poesibleethe nee of it.
The European peasants Say they..at it to
make themselves "better winded "—that
is, to make the respiration easier when
ascending the mountains. • Whenever they
have far to go, and to mount a considerable
height, they take a minute morselof arsenic
and allow it to gradually dissolve
in the mouth. They say the effect
is surprising, and they ascend
with ease heights which otherwise
they could climb only with distress to the
chest. The dose with which the poison
eaters •begin consists of rather less than
half a grain, and then the quantity is in-
creased according to the effect produced. I
recently learned of a man of 70 years who
at present takes at every dose a piece about
the weight of four grains. For forty years
he has practised the habit, which he in-
herited from his father, and he, in all pro-
bability, will bequeath the same to his
children. It is stated that neither in these
nor in other poison eaters is there the least
trace of an arsenic cechexy discernible,
and that the symptoms of it chronic arse.
mica' poisoning never show themselves in
individuals who adapt the dose to their
constitution, even though that dose thould
be considerable, but when from inability to
obtain the acid or other cause the perilous
indulgence is stopped, there appear symp-
toms of illness which have the closest re.
semblence to those producea by arsenic
poisoning. Those symptoms consist prin-
cipally in a feeling of general discomfort,
attended by a perfect indifference to all
surrounding persons and things, great per-
sonal anxiety, and various dietressing sen-
a/Alone arising from the digestive organs,
Jack of appetite, a constant feeling that
fethe stomach is overloaded in the
morning, a burning from the pylorus to
the throat, pains in the stomach and par-
ticularly great difficulty in breathing. For
all these symptoms there is but one remedy
---a return to the use of arsenic. Poison
eating among the inhabitants of lower Aus-
tria has not grown into a passion, as is the
case with the opium eaters in the East, the
chewers of the betel nut in India and Poly-
nesia, and of the cocoa leaves among, the
natives of Peru. When once commenced,
however, it becomes it necessity. In some
districts sublimate of quicksilver is used in
the same way. An authenticated case is
mentioned by Dr. Von Tschudi of a great
opium.eatee at Breese who daily consumed
the enormous quantity of 40 grains of cor-
mem sublimate, and the practice in
Bolivia, where the poison is openly sold in
the market to the Indians, ie still greater.
.In Vienna the use of arsenic is of every.
day occurrence among horse dealers
and especially with the coachmen
of ,the nobility. They either shake
it in . it pulverized state among
the corn or they tie a bit the size of it pea
in it piece of linen and then fasten it to the
curb when the horse is harnessed, and the
saliva of the animal soon dissolves it.
The sleek, round, shining appearance of
the carriage horses, and especially the
much admired foaming at the mouth, is
the result of this arsenic feeding. It is it
common practice with ferra servants in the
mountainous parts to strew a pinch of
arsenics on the last.feed of hay before going
up it steep road. This is done for years
without the least unfavorable result, but
should the horse fall into the hands of
another owner who withholds the arsenic
he loses flesh immediately, is no longer
lively, and even with the best feeding there
is no possibility of restoring him to his
former sleek appearance. Poisons that are
swallowed for the sake of the agreeable
sensations they occasion owe this effectto
Their action upon the nervous system,
and the Lem:Mee must he kept up by
s constantly increasing dose until the con-
stitution is irremediably injured. In the
case of arsenic, se long as the excitement is
undinlinished all is apparently well, but
the point is at length reached when to turn
back or to proceed are alike death. The
moment the dose is diminished or with-
arawn entirely, then the victim perishes
because he has shrunk from killing him-
self. Arsenio is said by Dr. Pearson to be
as harmless as a glass of wine in the quan-
tity of one -sixteenth part of *grain, and
in the °rise of ,agues it is so oertain in its
effects that the French directciey Onee
hunted ari edict oideringthe sureeions of the
Italian army, under. pain ef inilitary,pun-
ishmene, to paniesh that complaint at two
or three days' notice from among the, vast
numbers of lieldiere who Were'lanenisliing
under it in the marshes of Lombardy,. • It
seems that no poison taken in small and
diluted doses la immediately hurtful, and
the same thing may be said of t.other
agents.
WnERE NO Vfl:PfAN ENTERS.
Why Oueen Victoria Had to Obtain a
r!ef feent the °Pe -
!Queen yietori% had to ebtain it speoiel
brief from the Pope before she coele apply
for entrance ee the Peande Chertreuse Mon-
astery- The PnlY Weinen net Provided
with a brief from His Holinees Pertnitted
to cross the threshold of the monastery are
Prieceeses of the reigning house of France;
but so etrict are the father's, even in this
exception, that when the Count ef Paris,
the present legitimate heir and pretender
to the Bourbon crown of France, went up
there some time ago with the Countess of
Faris, the latter was refused admission.
The Abet wasprofuse in his expressions
of regret, adieng, with the true instinct
of the courtier, that he hoped the day
was not far distant when she would be able
to claim admittance as a right. It is need -
lees to add that the Pope very seldom ac-
cords a brief to a woman, and then it is
only to a crowned or royal personage.
However, once inside, the monks are cour-
teous enough, and Queen Victoria was
shown all over the monastery atd treated
to it collation. None of the women of her
suite were allowed to enter.
A French actress during the Empire
once, for a wager, eucceeded in gaining
admittance to the monastery. She disguised
herself as a man and, together with two
male companions, not only went all over
the monastery but spent the night there.
On passing through the great gate
in the morning the actress tore off
her wig and mustache and dis-
appeared from the horrified view
of the monks with shrieks of laughter, The
Abbot ordered the whole establishment to
be purified—that is, fumigated: The chair
the actress sat upon, the couch she used
and 'everything she could possibly have
touched were burned to ashes, e,nd for
months every place where her footsteps
could have fallen was drenched with holy
water. Remorse eventually came to the
actress, for after her impious escapade
she suffered from bad luck almost as
severely as the Jackdaw of Rheims. It cost
her several thousand francs and many
weary penances before she obtained absolu-
tion from the Archbishop of Paris'and in
a special epistle frotn the Abbot, whose
feelings she had so outraged. The Church
'having forgiven her, however; her stage
geed fortune returned e so there is some
moral,to the episode.
Another Great Trick by Hermann.
A correspondent of the London Standard
writes: The prettiest trick I ever saw was
done by Hermann while at lunch with a
brother conjurer in the hotel at Monte
Video. Five people were seated at the
table (not his own, be it observed), and
there was apparently an entire absence of
any possible preparation. Taking a pear
from the dish, he told us tb mark it. One
left four punctures from his fork in it.
Another dropped a spot of ink on the rind;
I pushed an American three -cent piece into
the soft substance of the fruit until it was
buried; next it large elice was cut out and
eaten. Hermann then took it and tossed
it towards the lofty ceiling. "Catch it
yourselves," he cried, as the pear was
whirling in mid-air. , It fell into my out-
stretched hand, prong -marked, ink -spotted,
and with the three -cent bit still bedded in
its tissue—but whole
This is Fame.
Last week, at about the same hour and
on the same day, an editor and a horse died.
In the papers of his own State the editor
was dismissed with nine or ten lines. A
rninimum space of it half column was de-
voted to the, horse. The editors told his
age, the names of his mother, grandfather
and grandmother; told what they dld ;
what the horse himself did; told what' be
was worth; how he came to be worth so
much, and one man spoke of him as "the
deceased;" and all the writers agreed that
in the death of this horse the country had
suffered a great loss. That is fame, my boy.
If you are at all ambitious you will some
day be mighty sorry that you weren't born
a " hoes " instead of an editor. Still, if you
go with the right kind of people, you may
yet grow to be an ass." That won't help
much, though.—Burdette, in the Brooklyn
Eagle.
• Too Much Enthusiasm.
" Teachisig, to me," said an enthusiastic
young schoolina'am, "is it holy calling. To
sow in the young mind the seeds of future
knowledge and watch them as they grow
and develop is it pleasure greaterthan I can
tell. I never weary of my work. I think
only of—"
"1 am very sorry," interrupted the young
man to whont she was talking. "that you
are so devoted to your profession, Miss
Clara. I had hoped that some day I might
ask you—in fact, I called to -night to—but
I hardly dare go on, in the light of what
you—"
"You may go on, Mr. Smith," eaid the
young lady softly. "I'm it little too enthusi-
astic at times, perhaps."
A Good Joke on the Mayor.
On Thursday last the mayor procured
a supply of Crawford's best champagne
and treated the aldermen in his office.
Some ten bottles, which were untouched,
were locked in the cupboard, so that they
could be returned at the earliest conveni-
ence. Last evening some persons burg-
larized the cupboard, and drank all the
champagne and placed the empty bottles
back in the basket, consequehtly the Mayor
will be out $25 at theleast.—Kineston Whig.
No Change In Him.
.
A very good story 10 being told. An
Irish member coming out of tho British i
House of Commons n a hurry ran into the
arms of it moat malignant Tory. "You're
it confounded fool," said the Irish member.
" You're drunk," said the malignant Tory.
"1 know I'm drnnk," said the Irish mem-
ber (and, indeed he was), and tcemorrow
I'll be ember ; but to' morrow ytnell be it
confounded fool still."
"One cause of baldness," says h PhYsi•
chine" is, great intellectuality.e , Possibly
baldness is for the piirpose of allowing the
intellectuality to shine.
The honorary degree of LL.D. has been
conferred upon Rev. George H. Cornish,
pastor of ,the Methodist Church, Drayton,
Ont., be, Rutherford College, North Caro-,
line.
—Itis better to rise with the lark than W --se-Memphis Avalanche t Watermelons are
with the bent pm. 'dear, int doctors ere dearer.
esee
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CHIrN00}P3 AUE4D.
Ast""Meth9Folegist Seeh .11Milfhq ?ghat
hn Stc WhIFFoul the Stars.
Mr. Walter H. Smith, of Mentreal, writee
calling attention to the. following extract
from 1ie " fiuMmer_ Forecast," Pliblished
in the May nember cif his. journal,
ehlereceney and Meteorology, issued last
April: The summer will soon be upon
as, and all are concerned in seeing Whae
are the probabilhiea ? In two wores, heat
and drought, * * * May will
be fine, more like June than May, and
although June will have its sudden cool
storms and changes, July will give us
some persistent dry weather, which, under
burning skies and with parching chinookse
will wither the tender mops, bum the grass,
bake the soil, dry up many of there
perennial springs,' in which some of my
friends Place se nallal confidence, and turn
the tinder -like forests into an easy prey to
the fires which will make them but smoke
and ashes. * * The heat et
times will be extreme. There will be not
only hot waves, but seas, oceans of heat,
until humanity will suffer severely. Days
in July and August in the west and
south promise temperatures over 100 0
in the shade. Very heavy estornas,
cloud bursts and tornadoes will break
at intervals,
when precipitation will be
abnormal. Cool terms will follow, but in
their wake will come the dry, hot winds
and sultry periods again, parching every-
thing before them. * * Those who
have heard their parents talk of the
drought of 1819, who themselves remember
those of 1854, 1868, 1876 and 1881 will, be-
fore next October, have added 1887 0 their
catalogue of dry, hot summers. *
The ice.dealer who has it full supply; the
dry goods MOM With a heavy line of sum -
neer goods; the amide and summer resort
people; in fact, all who want to see an
abnormal summer for heat are likely to
have their hearts madegladet So far. Mr.
Smith scores.
Will Russia and England Fight?
Russia seems determined to force the
issue with England regarding the Afghan-
istan boundary line, and appears to be in
a position to have it all her own way in
that corner of the world when the war
begins. Indirect information, by wayof
India, is to the effect that the Russian
railway lines have been rapidly as well as
stealthily extended, and now reach a
point within 125 miles of the border of
Afghanistan, and it was rumored that
fifty miles of the intervening space
were or would soon be covered.
The Russian soldiers are in advance
of the construction party, and are reported
to have been enceanped on the banks of
the classic Oxus, only separated by the
waters of that stream from the troops of
the Ameer. That dignitary seems doomed
to defeat. His one chance of Emcees lies
in victory in the inevitable battle with the
rebel Ghilzais, and his chances of winning
are materially reduced by the fact that his
foes have secured possession of the passes
to the otherwise inaccessible mountain re-
treats where the Ameer's ally, Shere Jan,
the leader of the faithful Terakhi clan, is
encamped.
Meanwhile there is it general armistice.
The Indians and Afghans are alike' devout
Mohammedans, and during the holy month
of Ramadan, which this year will expire on
the 23rd of June, the good Mussulman ab-
stains, from the rising to the setting of the
sun, from food and drink,from all nourish-
ment that can restore his strength and from
all pleasure that can gratify his senses.
Next week, however,, or during the week fol-
lowing the decisive struggle must come.
Should the Ameer's forces be routedand
he himself forced to abdicate or be slain,
England may feel justified in taking pos-
session of the country of her fallen ally.
This will enable her to secure the advantage
of position in case of war with Russia.
Otherwise the Russian forces would have
great advantage at the outset, for with
their superior means for transporting
troops they could occupy all the strong-
holds of what they propose to make their
frontier before the British army could
have penetrated the intervening moun-
tains. •
England, however, with the aid of Aus-
tria and Germany, may be able to coerce
Russia into keeping the peace. Unscrupu-
lously ambitious of and constantly in.
triguing for power in tbe Balkan provinces,
Russia cannot but be the object of Austria's
most jealous care, and Germany may eee
in such a triple alliance so many advant-
ages in case of a conflict between that gov-
ernment and France that she may be in-
duced to join it. The Austrian and Ger-
man ambassadore were closeted with Lord
Salisbury on Tuesdayafternoon,for exactly
what purpose is not known, but hes gen..
erally supposed that some such plan of
bringing Russia to terms as we have indi-
cated was the subject of discussion. •
• .
A Dog to be Proud of.
The fidelity of a dog to his master Waft
well illustrated last evening at Seventeenth
street and Portland avenue. Christopher
Hart, well known in police circles, became
intoxicated, and his small yellow cur
Dandy took in the necessities of the case
at once. Dandy left his master's side and
hunted down it policeman. The dog finally
found Officer George Cornell and led the
way to Hart, who was lying in the gutter.
Hart was arrested and taken to Semnteenth
street police station. Dandy would not
rest content nntil admitted to Hart's cell.
The deg slept on the rough bench beside
his master, and became furious with rage
when any one approached or attempted to
interfere with Hart's
Courier -Journal.
One Thing Moro Laid to the Sparrows.
The burning of the Paterson iron works
is attributed to the:English sparrow. The
sparrows have been noticed carrying strew
end other infictnainable eteff and building
•their nests among the girders, and it is
believed -that theetiarke loeging.in theep
nests caused the fire.-.-PhitadelphidEecord.
" e—The thermometer will 'Men celebrate
its eentenniel.
Pine leeees are coining to- furnish a- fibre
whieh is used as it substitute for jute, flax,
doe in carpet nianidadthee, and the pee.
duction of it i becoming a consieerable in-
dustry.
Rev. Abbe-Jesbeili 4ligusto Singer, of
the Seminary of St. Sulpicce Montreal, died
last night. •
TfCC ART or 4cEPIING COOL.
BLts er 41iv1ce Pre!nPied by 0444hshionh4
cohlrhoh Sense.
ihostoe reste
The art a keeping cool these days is
Only Becend in wide htilmen interest te the
art of money -making. Yet the chief factor
in teeth is a little old-fashioned common
sense within the comprehension ef every-
body. The eody is, after all, only a tool of
elle will. If with the Orst aPProlech of
warm weather we inirrender to the heat,
without any effort to overcome the changed
climatic conditions, we are largely to blame
for our sufferings A little philosophy and
experimenting will show the dullest that he
suffers most who dwells most—in thought
and apeech—upon the weather. The first
principle of keeping cool is to keep the
mind fixed on anything and everything but
the height of the mercury. The greetest
trouble is the eating and drinking. Here
people are the slaves of appetite or ignor-
ance. They blindly contunie to take into
the system the most heat -producing foods,
eupplementecl by, frequent potations of iced
drinks in myriad forms. No wonder they
are hot! The food is enough to keep their
blood at a boiling point, and this is aggra-
vated by the ice water and other arctic
drinks, which retard digestion and hinder
the system from throwing off the waste.
The inside of the body is ministered to at
the expense of the outside. Instead of
pouring gallons of drink down the throat,
theefaucet should lie turned on the wrists
and the mouth frequently rinsed as the
jockey " sponges " his horse.
Bathing should become it religion instead
of it heat art. There should be a saving at
the :bar to spend at the laundry. Finally,
there should be some work to do: 'No inis-
iethe is more common than to suppose „that
.work is incompatible with keeping cool. On
the contrary, the man who makes a• busi-
ness- of keeping cool setters ' vastly more
their he whose Mind and hedy aird :moder-
ately occupied. If great 'elor ienecessaty,
it should be judiciously areanged. As much
as possible should be done in the morning
and evening hours to avoid the exhaustion
of the midday heat. If the art of keeping
cool, like that of money -making, thus ap-
pears to depend upon triflee, it must be
remembered that trifles make up perfec-
tion, and perfection is no trifle."
Cured by it :Miracle.
Thomas Bedew, an Allegheny City black-
smith, lost the use of his lege two years
ago, and his physiciantold him that he was
afflicted with an incurable case of paralysis.
He tried every known kind of treatment in
vain and then resigned himself to his fate.
Last week Mr. Bedow read an account of a
remarkable cure wrought by faith, and
when he went to bed that night he prayed
long and earnestly that he might recover.
The moment he awoke in the morning he
felt that he was cured. He sprang from
bed, danced about the floor, jumped .into
his clothing and ran downstairs, shouting
all the time like a madman. Before ending
his antics he ran about the yard several
timee to test his new-found strength. Mr.
Bedow says he hasn't been so well for
twenty years as he is now.
Up to the last week Mrs. B. F. Howe of
Huntington, Ind., had for more than three
years been a bedridden invalid. She
suffered from nervous prostration, was
partially paralyzed and was even too sick
to feed herself. Her physicians told her
that death was rapidly approaching. On
the afternoon of Saturday, June 18th, a
few friends came over from the prayer
meeting at the church and prayed for her
recovery. After they had gone Mrs. Howe
felt better, and in the evening she got out
of bed of ber own accord and walked
around the room unassisted. In the morn-
ing she felt like a new woman, and went
to church to give thanks for her remarka-
ble recovery. She grew stronger and
heartier every day, and seems to be entirely
well.
Mrs. Walter Meade, the wife of an
Adrian (Mich.) drayman, had been con-
fined to her bed for several years with
chronic diseases. A short time ago an in-
ternal abscess began to sap her remaining
strength, and her case was abandoned as
hopeless. At last the physician told her
that at the utmost she could live only two
day. kre. Meade prayed earnestly that
night to be restored to health, and awoke
refreshed. ' ,New life seemed to .course
through her veins, and she grew, stronger
every hour. The Abscess dried up and dis-
appeared, the other ailments departed and
Mrs. Meade is now well. Besides that, her
husband, a long scoffer at religion, is now a
devout church -goer.
Medical circles in Erie are much amazed
at the miraculous recovery from paralysis
of Isaac Bally, a Lancaster soldier,who
has been a patient at the Erie Soldiers'
Home for it long time past. He had suf-
fered almost entire paralysis from a gun-
shot wound, and during his stay at the
Home had been as helpless as it child. A
few mornings ago he astonished his attend-
ants by dressing himself unaided and walk -
hag about the-prenaises as if nothing ailed
him. He now seems to be entirely well.
Mr. Bally is not a praying man.
Mrs. Ruby Mantel, of Reeler, Mich., had
been lying ill in bed for eighteen months
until the other day, when she suddenly
rose and dressed herself without assist-
ance. She now feels perfectly well, whams
previously she had not been ahle to drage
herself around the house. Mrs. Mantel
says that she prayed for recovery from the
time she was taken 111, and that her
prayers just before her restoration to
health were no more earnest than they had
been.
A Chicago woman who has had some
success in the Christian Ocience faith cure
made an astonishing cure last week in the
case of M. F. Potter, an Iowa man, who
injured his spine ten menthe ago, and
came to look en his condition as hopeless.
Nine doctors freated him for six months
and then gave him up to die. ,The Chicitgo
womani
cured him n two eeke without
eideeinistering a deep of medicine; Aria. -111b
is hove edviell that he tan walk ceinile
.brisk gait without ,the ilightest
°Dr. Holmes says that when he. Was in
England he insisted upon meestiting seine
large erne to compare thein with
Boston clme. About eixteen feet
around the trunk is the ineaserement of a
Boston common elm, and from 20 to 23
feet is the ordinary reaxininin of the
largest trees, He found an elm in the
grounds of Magdalen College which
measured 25 feet and 6 inches.
*MORT' ON L4E ONTARIO,
Terrible **Perfenee of a Phhidrk 1(0414P"
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befell the crew of the Mary B. Bucher, a
a 'image to Carteda and was Wrecked on
8=41 819eP Pat of this Plafee, velneh rwle
Monday night on ite return, She hate on
board Fred. Bucher, her owner,' and two
friends, Stanley Gibson, it married men, a
pattern maker in the Brooks shop, and
Homer B. Adapaleof Rushfore, the shipping
cleric at Barber, Scully dt Co.'s planing mil
here.
" The Mary B., with a sloop.belonging to
Frederic Fromm, which carried six people,
sailed. hence oneeiaturclay night, reaching
Port Colborne before the day. They started
to return on Monday afterriegn. In the calm
and succeeding squalls theynecame separ-
ated, Bucher sailingfurther westward than
Frornm. At 11 o'clock at night Bucher was
within eight of the Dunkirk light and the
harbor -beacon above them. Fronana was
soquut °aingdhtat alqhueayrettrraPeahs tt 11181 thwierrae hleyainvyg
in a great calm, which was probably the
centre of the storm. Her jib was down and
her mainsail doubly reefed. Suddenly a,
heavy squall struck her sail flat from the
direction of the shore, in the pitchy dark-
ness, and she was capsized. She thus
floated, with a little of one side out of
water, until 6 o'clock the next day, or nine-
teen hours.
" It was blackness itself ; it howling wind
was raging and a tremendous sea was up.
The waves would strike them from their
hold on the boat and they would get' back
with the greatest difficulty, even evith the
help of life lines which Bucher rigged. The
labor of holding on, the knoeks of the
waves and the chill exhausted them and
they great. weaker. s lineher,s the strongest
ofthe three and the orily one accustonaed to
the water, was the only survivor.
" Adams was the first victim. Toward
dawn he began to act strangely and became
restless. He talked disconnectedly and
soon showed that he had gone crazy. Just
before daybreak he threw himself away
from the boat and resisted three efforts to
bring him back. A life-preservereethout
his neck kept his head up, but he get into
the breaking waves, and rolled and revolved
about and was continually beaten under,
and so was slowly drowned at a distance of
a few feet from the boat, in the sight of his
companions. The corpse, buoyed up by
the float, kept along close by the boat,
which drifted on. Gibson complained of
it, and finally fainted soon after sunrise.
Bucher held him up, and the three, one
dead, one insensible and one conscious,
floated on. Bucher was picked up at 6
o'clock in the evening off his water-logged
and sinking craft, only a few miles off Port
Colborne, whither she had come again. The
Robbie, Mr. McCaig, owner, of Silver
Creek, picked them up, the corpse first,
thefi Bucher and his insensible comrade.
The Robbie set sail for Silver Creek and
reached there at 5.30 o'clock this morning.
Gibson recovered consciousness at 4, sank
back again and died at 9 o'clock. Coroner
Blood brought both bodies up from Silver
Creek. Bucher is very ill from hie long
exposure, but will recover."
Rest Little Girl in London.
Speaking of the small girl chosen to re-
ceive a memorial jubilee cup from the
Queen, the London News says whimsically:
"The double -first is Miss says,
Dunn,
aged 12, of St. Mary's, Westminster,
national schools, whosesupreme distinction
is that, since the year 1880, she has never
missed a single attendance. Others, per-
haps, have 'sometimes been late, or have
now and then been kept at home to mind
the baby. On such an occasion as this it
would be unkind to suggest that they have,
perhaps, occasionally played truant.
Frances has done none of these things, but
with unfailing regnlarity haspresented her-
self day by day, for seven years, at St.
Mary's, Westminster, to receive nourish-
ment at the fount of learning in a contin-
uous flow. The after life of Frances will
be interesting, and her Career ought,to be
watchea. Will it be a life of iselation?
Can any child, after that memorial mug,
invite her to join in it game 'of hop-sootch
or,skipping rope? She.Will be too-'high-
etrunge, and will probably suspect herself
of depravity of taste in the rare moments
in which she ventures to turn from Pin -
nook's catechism .to the history of the
giant -killer."
The Persian Idea of Christians.
After the usual programme of questions,
they suggest:
"Being an Englishman, you are, of
course, a Christian," by which they mean
that I am not a Mussulman.
"Certainly," I reply; whereupon they
lug me into one of their wine -shops and
tender me it glass of raki (a corrupeion of
arrack," raw, fiery spirits of the kind
knowneemong the English soldiers in Indict
by the suggestive pseudonym of "fixed
bayonets '). Smelling the raki, I
make a wry face and shove it away; they
look surprised and order the waiter to
bring cognac; to save the waiter trouble I
make another wry face, indicative of dis-
approval, and suggest that he bring vish-
ner.su.
Vishner-en 1" two or three of them
sing out in a chorns of blank amazement.
" Ingilis ? Christi -an? vishner-su I" they
exclaim, as though such a preposterous
and unaccountable thing, as a Christian
partaking Of it non-inteence.ting beverage
like viehrier-In is altogether beyond their
comprehension.—Around the World on a
Bicycle..
It Wasn't.
He oat on the curb stone in front of the
City Hall, in the full glare of the noonday
sun, with the thermometer seeming to
mark 400 degrees. A Pedestrian who,car-
ried ab umbrella in pne. hand anifebands
kerchief in the other; thOught joke,
hiin.
e. lfttle,snd called out .1,
"Well, is Wallet ehough for you ?"
"No, sire' was the prompt rpply„
"Good lands'-! why not ?" •
" Bedsits° rve got the Comedy vat, and
this id just the time for my chill. Say, is
there any hotter place than this in Detroit ?"
—Detroit Free Press.
"Do you rectify mistakes here ?" asked.
a gentleman, as he stepped lift a drug
htOre. "Yes, she we do, if the patient is
still alive," replied the urbane clerk.