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Immunity From Disease,
The Lancet, of June, 18S5, hes an article
explaining acquired immunity from *niece
Hone dinettes. We give the leading points,
As a rule, one attack £ these dfseasee
confera immunity from a subsequent attack,
A like immunity from certain infectious
dieoases is onnferrod by inoonlation by
modified form of small -pox, generally pro-
tects spinet the violent form,
Pasteur, of Franco, explains such phenom-
ena by supposing that the first attack ex-
hausts some substance in the patient essent-
ial to the development of a microtoopio
parasites which oeuee the disease ; and that
those who are born with such immunity are
naturally free from this substance—just as
some land=, whioh have been fertile in
certain planta, may lose this fertility by ex-
haustion of a single element of the toil;
while other lands are naturally without
this element, and hence unable to grow them.
This ie the exhaustion theory.
If this throry were true, then the flesh of
an animal thus destitute of this essential
substance should not, if made into a broth,
furnish material for the growth of infectious
germs, purposely introduced. But these
germs do ileurish in it.
Tho antidote theory is advocated by Klebs
of Germany, and Klein of England. Accord-
ing to title, during the first attack some
chemical substance is produced which is
antagonietio to the infectious parasite or
germ, and which remains in the body of the
animal and prevents the subsequent develop.
—meat of the latter ; this chemical subatanos
exists naturally in such as are insusceptible
to the disease. The proof against this is
essentially the same as that against the ex-
hanstion theory. Blood from the veins of
animals characterized by immunity does
not kill the infectious germs purposely in-
troduced into it. Besides, the poisons thus
generated must be supposed to remain in the
veins for many years, or for 1.fe ; while we
know that aocidental poisons, if not mortal,
are always soon eliminated from the system.
The theory advanced by -the writer is
called " the vital resistance theory." Vital
characteristics are inherited. Some persona
inherit a feeble, and some a robust, constitu-
tion ; some a tendency to long life, some to
early decay ; some a strong and some a weak
resistance to morbific influence. Further,
whatever lowers the vitality for a time,
lessens this resistance. Whether feeble or
strong, this vital resistaneens a property of
the living matter of the body and resides in
its elementary cella. These cells incessantly
produce their kind. Hence, when the cells
have survived the firat attack, they have
-acquired a new power of resistance, and
this new power is transmitted, in constant
succession, t•o the new progeny of cells,
As for inherited immunity, it results from
the " survival of the fittest." The negro,
as a race, is tolerant of malaria, because,
living in malarial regions for ages, the most
snrceptible have been gradually killed off,
Herbivorous animals are peculiarly suscept-
ible to the poison of putrefaction. It is the
reverse witu tee carnivorous. The latter,
often feeding on putrid flesh and wounding
each other with their teeth, have ever b: on
greatly exp',sed to the poison. Only those
of least auseeptibility Iwo survived.
The Diamonds of the French Drown, i composed of forty-four brilllante, tho[eof the
a traveller who visite the Tower of shoos eighty, The rim of the hat was ad-
Toorned in the same way.
London the most interesting poeseasians he The watch of the king wan ornamented
is likely to gee are the arowu Jewels of Eng- with brilliants of remarkable water and eat.
land, filer Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great The square diamond whioh formed the
Britain and Empress of Indian d ea not wear ! medallion of the chain was worth 80,000
the famous and costly crown except on rare franca. Tho watch had two keys, one of
occasions, With that eye to the practical, them enclosing a round and the other ant
characteristic of the English, the gems and oval atone, The two keys cost 00,
and jewels of the three kingdoms, carefully The seal ie a irrillian4 of s caro shape,
guarded in the Tower of London, and its stamp is the three ?$i0cur de -lie of
are exhibited to any one payingy the France.
price of admission, and it is said that This is far from being all, but enough has
the revenue derive by the Royal Treasury been described to give an idea of the marvel -
from this source is $100 000 a year. loua collection known an the drown jewels
The French orowu jewels are not to famous of France.
Food and Sleep.
The adage of "Early to bed and early to
rl
e makes a man healthy, wealthy and
wise" is a good one if carried out, that is,
if the early to bed induces early rising If
itself ; but the waking of children to have an
early breakfast with the family is an old
time notion that, like many others held to
or so valuable as those of England. As it_�
is well knownthe Koh-i•Noor is the most
brilliant large, diamond in the world, and is Goue with a Handsomer Man.
worth many zillion of dollars, There is aonx,
nothing to be a mpared with it among pre
el us stones. Yet the French collimation is ' I've worked In the eels all day, a•piowin' the
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very valuable, and oontains many acacia, Iwo eoold,dneyetreak my team till Ern hoarse ; ave tramped
fain ma historically, and rare and beautiful I've choked tiy leges e weak; oia (en's not to toll Jana
in themselves, fibs)
Public attention has leen °ailed to them
recently from the foot that the question of When the plow•p'int clinch a atone and the handles
punohed my ribs.
selling them was agitated. A republican 've pmy tein the barn, sad rubbed the
government has no use f r such regal magna- Iewoutaty conteam ;
licence, and it must be said that they are an I've ted 'ern a heap of hay and half a bushel of oat,.
expensive luxury, when it is considered that , rind to no the way they ea; makes ms like eating
theycan never he worn as longas theyre- 1021,
main public ro ert and are reall of no And Jane won't say tonight that i don't= aka out
P property, y, y a meal,
earthly utility to the possessors.
The present collection is, of course, the Well said 1 the door is locked 1 but hero ahe'e left
result of the accumulation of centuries, but the key,
Under th a slope, inn place known only to her and
there have been no additions since the time me.
of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. I wonder who'e dyin' or dead, that she's bustled off
When the Jacobins confieoated the property pelf -mets
of kin nobility and clergy in 1789,the But hors ou the table's a note, and probably this
g,• y gYwill tell.
crown jewels were part of the spoil. The Good God t my wife Is gond ! my w:fo is gone as -
Democratic government, however, did nottrayI
know what to do with their treasure. They The beteit says, "Gaol -bre, for Ion going away !
adopted a neutral position, and ordeed an I•ve lived with you six months, John, and so far 1 ve
inventory to be drawn up. This decree ofbeen true
But l en going away to -day with a handsomer man
the National Aeaembly was passed on the than you."
223 of June, 1791. The inventory was to A han'eomer roan than mel Why, that ain't much
be aupsrinteaded by three deputies appoint- to say;
ed as a comittec for that purpose, Messieurs, There's hen'eomer men than me go past here
or rather Citizens Bien, Deiattre, and every day,
Ch,iettn, Thore'e han'eomer men than me—t ain't of the ban'-
When published, the re ort of the con- some kind ;
p F But loviner man than Iwes I guess you'll Hover
mittee filled a volume of two hundred and find.
seventy pages, containing descriptions of Curse her! curse her I I say, and give my curses
substantially the following jewels : wings!
The French crown in June, 1791, was con- May the words of lova Fie epoeen be changed to
°sed of diamonds to the value of $3 300,- soo,❑ at eo l
p � And now,ptwwith? scratch of a pen, epee let my
000 ; pearls estimates at $200,000 ; colored hea,t'e blood out I
stones$73,000• Oh, ehe filled my heart with joy, ehe emptied my
Besides these there were various chains, heart of doubt•
watches, brooches, regalia of different or- Curse her t curse her: say I; she'll eomettme rue
dere of chivalry, etc., etc., valued at $1,170,- 1111, day ;
000. She'll eomottme learn that hate Is a game that two
The total value of the entire collectioncan pbefia• ,
And long ore she dies she'll grieve oho ever was
was about $5,000,000, not a startling sum born •
when compared with the crowns of other
countries.
The unique gems of this inventory, as of
all inventories past or future, is the Regent
diamond, eatimated by the experts at the
sum of 12 000,000 francs, or $2,400,600. The
stone derived its name from Philippe,
Duo ?'Orleans, who was Regent of France
during the minority of Louie XV. He did
not pay a quarter of its present value for
the diamond. Considered as a business
transao ion, the purchase may be reguarded
as a remarkably good bargain on the part of
the duke.
Among the principal gems may also be
noted a diamond n the form of a pear lying
on a peaoh•blossom, weighing about twenty-
four carats, and valued at 200,000 franca.
Another diamond, cut in the shape of a
boat, la very beautiful, and is regarded as
worth the sum of 250,000 francs.
Bat that which above all, after the Re-
gent, bolds the first place, is the Saucy dia-
mond, one of the half a dozen historic stones
of Europe. This is estimated at 1,000,000
extreme strictness in youth, is apt to be de- francs in round numbers.
parted from iu later years, Sensible people Several other diamonds, also very remark-
eometimes talk of sleep as though it were ab'.e, vary in price, according to their
an accident of life that overtakes us—eome- weight, their cut and their water between
thing we must at times succumb to, but as 10 000 and 250,000 francs
of no importance to our well being ; its hours There are many pearls enumerated in the
can be broken in upon, or be done away inventory of 1791 which attainvery high fig -
with as well as not, forgetting. or not real- urea, 150,000 and even 200 000 francs.
izing, that it ep and proper food are abso- The most beautiful rubies of this collection
lately no, eseary for our life. If sleep comes are none of them worth 50,000 francs, and
not, we die ; if we eat not, we die ; there- few even approach that value.
fore it is essential to health and comfort The fiaeet emerald cost 12 000 fiance, but
that both be furnished in sufficient quanti- a sapphire of thirty-two carate is estimated
ties and at regular intervals. The writer at 100,000 frames.
leas known an excellent mother who The stones of the Order of the Holy Spirit
brought up her family wisely and well in (Cordes Bleu), worn by the king, are valued
every other way, except in regard to these at double that amount.
two points. To the early- breakfast at 6 The Order of the Fleece of Gold (Toison
o'clock, both summer and winter, the child- d'Or), with its various little atones, reaches
ren must come, or go without ; and the the value of about 3,000 000 francs. The
very fact that alwats going to bed early, large blue diamond cut in the shape of a
and then were inclined to sleep longer in triangle, which was the principal piece of
the morning, shows it was needed, and they - this aeooration, is valued at $600,000 in it -
should have been allowed to awaken of self alone. A second diamond, also blue,
themselves. Then, too, the older children, but of a clearer sr.ad.e, at $60,C00
ooming home hungry from echool and find- There is a large ruby cut in the form of a
ing the dinner distasteful (salt fish, perhaps) dragcn, the " king's epaulette," a very
—dinner that must be eaten or have nothing. handsomely arranged set of colored atones,
" It was good, wholesome food—good and la parure Blanche (the white set) also a
enough for anybody"—therefore the logic beautiful arrangement.
was, "You must eat it," and so the child, The King's Sword is a very pretty piece
nibbling the distasteful food and finishing of work ; on its handle, it hilt, its scabbard,
on the lighter dessert, leaves the table un- and its guard there are three hundred and
satisfied and really unfed, for when the twenty-two rose -cut diamonds.
sharpened appetite is met by agreeable food The plaque of the Holy Spirit contained
the ploaeure of eating causes the saliva to two hundred and ninety white brilliants,
flow readily, and mixing with the food is and a little ruby, without counting the
made ready for the stomach's digestion. Iarge diamortd of oval from which conatitut•
Mnch of tbe discomforts and ills of later ed the body of the mystic dove, the heart.
years come from the utter ignorance and shaped diamond whieb formed its head, the
disregard cf these truths ; and children oval diamor d which served for its tail, and
should be taught not by strict rules in re- the two elongateddiamonds which represent-
gard to it, but by pleasing conversation in ed its two wings. The price of each of these
the family, that sleep and eating aro God- diamonds varied from 15,000 to 70,000
given blessings, not to be abused. francs.
In the Firelight.
DT xvnsg' resort,
Tho ere upon the hearth is low
And there is stillness everywhere—
Like troubled spirits here and there
The firelight ehadowe fluttering go.
And as the shadows round me creep,
A cbildleh treble break, the gloom,
And softly atom a further room
Comes; "Now, I lay me down to sleep."
AudAndthatsweet trebthaletinmye rs,
Div thought goes back to distant yearn
And lingers with a dear One there;
And es I laser my thud's amen,
My mother's faith comes back to nee—
Cro Cited at her side I ream to be.
And rr other holds my hands Again.
Oh l for an hour in that dear pleas—
e% I for the pesos of that dear thee—
Oh 1 for that childish trust sublime --
Yet, a the !shadows round me areae
Ido not teem to be atone—
Sweet magfo ot that treble tone
And "Now I fay mo down to sleep t"
Besides the plaque, which the king wore
over hia coat, the Order of the Holy Spirit
had a arose attached to a large Cordon Bleu
Tide cross contained one hundred and sixty
diamonds.
A certain number of the Drown jewels had
been mounted as buttons on the clothing of
the monaroh.
There were twenty-eight largo bitttone for
the coat, eighteeen smaller for the vebt, and
ten little stones for another garment, Each
one of th. se twenty-eight Iarge buttons of
the coat has at the centre a very beautiful
diamond worth 10.000 francs. Around this
central diamond is a circle of thirteen bril-
liants, and beyond tine another circle of
smaller but much more numerous stones
Each button represents a little fortune.
The eighteen buttons of the vest are made
up in a smiler fashion. The whole emit
cost a little less than $60,000. f#ut this is
not all. The artist who conceived the de-
tafle of this remarkable outfit left nothing
undone, The buckle of the garters were
And I'll plow her grave with hate, and seed it down
to acorn 1
Ae sure as the world goes on, there'll a me a time
when ehe
Will rend the devilish heart of the han'eomer man
than ma
And there'll be a time when ho will find as others
do,
That she who le false to one can be the same with
two.
And when her fees grown pale, and when her eyes
grow dim,
And when be is tired of her and the is tired of him,
She'll do what ehe ought to have done and coolly
count tea coat ;
And then she'll see things clear, and know what
the haeloet.
And thoughts that are now asleep will wake up In
her mind,
And ehe will mown and cry for what ehe has let
behind;
And maybe she'll sometimes long for me—tor me—
but not
And yet in her girlish heart there was something or
other one had
That fastenedn man to her, and wasn't entirely bad,
And ehe loved me a little, 1 think, although it akin t
last'
But 1 mustn't think of these things—Ivo burled 'em
in the poet.
t
EPIDEMIOS. all the condition favorable to its rise and
_ progress exist. Here it is said to always ex -
BY \V. B. leEs9$Y, M. D,, LATE ACTING HEALTH tat, but the enlightened management of Brit-
ish Military, Medical and Sanitary Sofencs,
°pewee or TILE CITY ON IIOETIEEAL with movable camps, has eo reduced the
The mod rn. Anglo -Seaton leads th e world danger to garrisonb that almost complete
in Sanitary Sale, or the art o f pre venting immunity i
Saloum, s now enjoyed, and the garrison
the origin and sp end of auntegious d seamswilt escape without a lose even when it ie
—and he, too, .8 hard pressed by the Teutons raging in tsurrounding villages. The
(Germane) ever in the front rank in Expert -ravage? ofhe the present epidemic last year
s
mental &stea and thea, iu Italy, Spain end the south of
That this 14 due in a great measure to the
Franco, is an evidence of the gross superati-
tion ani ignorance whioh still prevail in
enlightenment wh oh therm two races enjoy soma communities among the dark skinned
in consequence of their ,mane ipation from races causing them to openly rebel against
intellectual serf tom and superstition, may be their beat benefaotora, the medical men and
inferred from the foot that all reeome tour sanitariums. And the experience of the pros -
and asnitare regulations are as irksome and ent small - pox epidemic) in Montreal, whioh
as +much neglected! and epidemic the dark- was imported originally on the steamer In-
are as frequent and fatal among dark- di, from London, England, via New York,
skinned ramie ot to -day as they were in the Chicago, and thence by Putman oar conduct-
14thand th centuries, and any attempt at ora to Montreal, where ell the conditions
enforcemeennt of aanftary regulations among favorable to its spread were found existing,
or New York ; Spaniards in Sf
amok people,whother they be Lp.i ns in Italy with negligent offioial suporviaion, no email-
n or Pena- pox hospital, and isolation consequently im-
ma; French f t Normalise or Montreal, is possible ; the bitterest opposition and pre -
met with masse toe and opposition, and ex• judice among the masses against vaccine -
tion, so that from two original cases, in spite
violence. of every effort to prevent and atay its pro-
' This is demonstrated by the cholera epi- grease it has increased unti' now, Oct, 1, there
demi° in Itrly, Spain and Fr awe, and near- are probably, at least 5000 come in that oity,
er home, by the present lamentable epidemic with as many more people infected. A
of eme11•pox in Men treat. health D partment, without competent doe
Sanitary officiate are regarded much as leadership, paralysed before the spectacle of
rats regard cats, as their natural enemies, a pity with its commerce in ruins, its streets
and are opsoled and deesived at every p. int, deserted by v.aitors, its people rioting and
while efeath gathers unhindered an abutldent destructive ; a war of • races inaugurated,
harvest throughout the land, dud all sanitary measures arrested, with
The principal factor in the aproad of epi- such a prospect as IS truly appalling, all be-
demic diseases am •ng the Latins in Eastern cause its people are misled by designing
towns and cities isti etrgeneral poverty,aid demagogues who seek only popularity
the overorowdiog which prevails, living hude through opposition.
died together in old and dil.pid' ted man- Epidemics are preventable visitors, and
aiona that have ceased to be aerviceab'e as where this is not possible their eoverity can
hate's, warehouses or dwellings for the rich, be so modified by modern intprovemonts in
abandoned to the poor who swarm through Sanitary Science, as wilt make them easy to
them like ante in en anthill, but unlike ante, cops with. Let us hopo, then, that the !es -
living in filth and squ'lid poverty with its sons of the past will not be lost on the peoplo
concomitant conditions, 01 the proeent and future generations.
Such was overcrowded London in 1348
when the Bleck Death claimed a holoc Lust of
100,000 as the penalty for violation of natu-
ral law, while at the gime period, in the
towns and cities of the continent of Europe
where the conditinns among the masses were
even woree, and the moat horrible neglect of
the most ordinary sanitary procautiona pre•
veiled, 25 millions of persons, or a fourth
part of the entire population, was swept
away by it.
Other epidemics occurred equally destruct-
ive to human life, All of thein owed their
origin and maintained their violence through
the favoring uncleanly habits and fe-irfut un-
sanitary conditions under which they lived,
In England, smzil-pax pestilencee were of
frequent occurrence, and eo widespread rid
terrible was their devastati g effects„ carry•
ing off from 30,000 to 60 000 enols in one year
in the Midland counties of England alone
—that phil...nthropiets were moved to seek a
remedy, and found one in th' practice of in-
oculation of the disease itself as practised in
Turkey end introduced into England in 1721
by Lady Miry Moutague, wife of the then
Turkish Amhaaaad •r. Thie practice had the
effect of conferring an immunity from further
attacks, but often resulted in a severe attack
and in spreading the disease by contagion.
Finally, In 1794, Jenner, actinguprn the pop-
ular idea prevalent among the peasantry,
that persons who had accidentally acquired
horse or cow poxfromhandling animals, could
nurse small -pox patients without risk of tak-
ing the disease, and, an opportunity occur-
ring, introduced the practice of vaccination,
which he tested three months after on his
first case—the boy Philips—by revaccina-
tion (called Bryce's test) and inoculation
with the small -pox virus itself, when, to his
great satisfaction the boy was found to
be proof against either. And thus be-
gan practically, the greatest boon ever
conferred by s,nitary science—•although in
Gottingen, in Germany, and in the neighbor-
hood of Cork, Ireland, vaccination appears
to have been practised among the peasa •try
by the mothers themselves long anterior to
Jenner's discovery. Indeed there is a tomb-
stone in a village in Herefordshire, which
bears an inscription some years prior to Jen-
ner's discovery, to show that the party buri-
ed there was the first to practice vaccination
in E •gland ; but Jenner made it popular.
The epidemics of the Middle Agee, graph-
ically depicted by Heckel are attributed by
Dr. Guy, in his excellent treatise on public
health, to overcrowding in walled towns and
cities in which no attention was paid to
sewerage, water supply, or habits of person-
al cleanliness ; and it must bo remembered
that these epidemics were not local, appear-
ing only hero and there, but wide spread,
sometimes devastating whole countries or
traversing an entire continent, and in the
ignorance and superstition of the people were
regarded as vi itations of God's anger with
national disaster,
I'll take my hard words back, nor make a bad mat-
ter woree ; •
She'll have trouble enough she shall not have my
curse;
But Ill live a life so square—and I well know that
I can—
That she always will sorry be that ehe went with
that had aOmOr man.
Ah, here ib her kitchen dress! it makes my poor
eyoe blur;
It seams when I look at that, as if 'twee holdin' her.
And here are her weekday shoes, and there is her
week -day hat,
And yonders her weddln' gown; I wonder she
didn't take that,
'Twee only this morning ehe came and called me
her "dearest dear,"
And said I was remain' for her a regular paradise
here;
O 0od t if you wants man to sense the pains of hell,
Before you pitch him in just keep him to heaven a
spell!
Gond-bye! I wish that death had severed us two
apart,
You've loot a worshipper here—you've crushed a lov-
in' heart.
I'll worship no woman again; but I guess 111 learn
to pray,
And kneel as goat used to kneel before you ran away.
And I thought if I could bring my words on heaven
to bear,
And 1 1 1 thought I had some little Influence there,
I would pray that I might he, it it only could be so,
As happy and gay tel I was half an hour ago.
SANE (entering).
Why, John, what's the litter hero 1 you've thrown
things all around;
Come, what's the matter now?? and what've you
lost or found?
And, here's my father hare, a waiting for supper,
too;
I've been a riding with him—he's that "handsomer
man than you."
Ha 1 ha 1 Pa, take a seat, while >i put the kettle on
And get thirge toady for tea, and kite my dear old
John.
Why, John you Iook so etraogcl Oome, what has
crossed your track?
I was only a•joking, you know; I'm wllllng to take
it baok
,roma (aside).
Well, now, if this ain't a joke with rather a bitter
cream 1
It seems sea led woke from a mighty ticklish dream;
And Itbink she ' emells a tat," for oho smiles at 010
SO queer ;
I hope she don't ; gond Mali I hope that they
didn't heart
'Twat+ one of hot practical drives—oho thought I'd
understand!
But 111 never bleak cod again till 1 get the lay of
the lend.
But one thing's eettltd with me—to appreciate
heaven well,
'Tie good tor a man to have some fifteen minutes In
hell.
Lyell estimated that the gorge of Niagara
river was cut out in about 35,000 quare, but
anomie to determine the preterit rata of
recession of the fats indioato that the work
may have boon done in 10,000 years. Dur-
ing forty -ono yearn the average annual wear
of the rock was 21 feet,
PERSONAL.
The Duke of Abercorn, father of Lady
Lansdowne, who celebrated not long ago
his golden wedding, lives now almost entire-
ly at home, Baronsoourt, in the north of Ire-
land, in a sort of patriarchal style. He has
no neighbors, scarcely, as ho owns every
acre for miles around, but the immense man-
sion is always full of his children, grand-
children and great -grand -children, The
Hamilton family are looked upon by the
people as semi -royal, and are very popular
by reason largely of gracious manners and
good books,
In the twelfth century there were fifteen
widespread epidemics and nineteen famines ;
and in the thirteenth century twenty epi-
demics and nineteen famines ; and in the
fourteenth century eight epidomica and nine
famines, aweeping away whole communities
of people living in filth and dependant upon
some one source of food supply which, fail-
ing, brought about famine and pestilence in
its wake. Witness the Irish ship fever and
famine of 1847 —a malignant and contagious
form of typhus fever, engendered purely by
starvation, filth, and overcrowding.
But the world progresses, and with the
general march of improvement sanitary sci-
ence grows apace, and is fighting the battle
between life and death with much success,
crowning its victories with daily marches
which astonteh its Most devoted enthusiasts,
and making it impossible for suck a stito of
things as before described ever again to'reour
among respectable, civilized nations, because
sanitarians, physioiane, legislators, and.
people, all are combining to eradicate evils
and to secure efficient drainage, water sup-
ply, and sanitary regulations, conserving
life and modifying disease by isolation of the
infected and by progressive medicine, pro-
viding humane hospital management, and
skilful .nursing for the sick.
Epidemics of cholera have, from time to
time, arisen ie. the Emit and spread over the
entire oomrnorciel North, devastating town,
and cities in its progroee—thus in 1832.47.54
it reached and raged in Canada, wiping out
the inhabitants of slums and filth•acnmulat-
ing regions, and sweeping away in roost cases
the entire list of customers of the tavern and
restaurant. The interonoe is plain, Southern
Bengal and the delta of the Ganges is the re-
puted home and birth place of cholera, where
The only son of the Duke of Norfolk, a
boy of six, the heir of all the Howard,, and
successor to his father's domains and his
f •cher s good works, is sightless, and no ray
of intelligence has yet dawned on the fair,
fragile, high bred little face. Hope is dying
at last in the breast of bath parents. They
reluctantly, mouri fully begin to admit the
fact that this child of many prayers eau
never be but an object of pity and compas-
sion, and while the father bravely carries
his heavy oro: s, it must be admitted that
its weight is a crushing one for the Frontier
Duke of England.
M. Plateau, the physiologist ot Ghent,
bas been occupied upon acme interesting ex-
periments to eolve the question whether in-
sects can distinguish the shapes of objects
with their eyes. Can a fly rec,'gnize the per-
son who is upon destroying it I Or doss a
wasp exactly know which of a group of per-
sons it intends to sting? M. Plateau replies
`'No." The result of his experiment goes
to confirm the theory already laid down by
Exner, namely, that an insect perceives
with its eyes the intensity of the light upon
an object, and also takes note of the move-
ments of an object, but that it is not able to
distinguish one object from another by its
out seam shape.
The Queen has consented to celebrate the
jubilee anniversary of her reign by a royal
progress through London. Thie will be fol-
lowed by a moneter volunteer review in
Hyde Park, and banquets and illuminations
of the most elaborate description will enc•
ceed the review, and fill out the night with
general rej .iclrgs The spacial and grand
observation of tee jubilee will not be con-
fined to the metropolis, but similar means
will be taken in all the larger cities to male-
brate her Majesty's ascent to the throne,
and even in the smaller towns every avail-
able means will be utilized to render the
affair a notable one. Tho day will bo a holi-
day all over the country, and special exer-
tions will be made to bring the people of
the nation into harmonious action.
Itis related that the Earl of Shaftesbury
lost his watch while walking in the New
Cut, a neighborhood Wetted with vile char-
acters. He advertised his loss. Within
twenty-four hours his household was aroused
by a ring at tbe street door, and the wheels
of a vehicle were heard rapidly departing.
On opening the front door, a sack was found
filled with something that moved. On in-
vestigating, a boy of the Artful Dodger class
was found in it, bound hand and foot and
gagged. Round his neck was the missing
watch, and underneath was a pi •card with
the words : "Lock 'im up, Mi lord, he's a
Disgrace to ourn Profusion, he order known
as how yor lordship was Free of the wad;
giv' 'im five Year 'ard. Yer friends,
The earl kindly went to work to reform the
young thief ; and eventually he lunate an
honest member of the London shoeblack bri-
gade.
In 1808, Haydn was present for the last
time at thepotformance of his own "Crea-
tion." The presence of the old master, bock -
en down by age, wheeled in as he was on
a chair, roused intense enthusiasm in the
audience, which could no longer be suppres-
sed when the chorus and orohastra buret is
full power upon the grand passage, "And
there was light," Amid the tumult of the
enraptured audimetee Haydn was seen try-
ing
rying to raise himself, Omce on his feet, he
mustered tip all his strength; and, in • reply
to the applause of the audience, ho cried
out, "No, no, not from us, bat thence, from
he even cometh all l" Ido fell baok in We
chair, and had to be carried out of the
room. Ilia last days were a veritable song
of the swan. He was led to the piano, and
played thrice the "Hymn to the Emperor,"
as well he might; for a shotdf French can-
non had just fallen into his ,garden, Five
days after he was dead. Ho could not our.
live his cottnt y'wr dc,,radation,