HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-6-14, Page 7STATISTICS.
The Czar's stables cost ,$1,300,000 annu.
ally.
There ere nearly 300,,00OC,hin,emeziin the
United States.
The wheat crop of Europa in 1887 le said
to have aggregated 1,200.000.000 bushels,
It is computed that there. are 10.447,e90
fieua y Schaal scha KA in the c;hristian
world.
The South African diamond fields last
year yielded ens antouwting to 3,648.809
carats, valued et over S2O,000,000.
Viewer of the Revolution, between Eng
land and the American coloniem, coat the
former Pito bundred millions fa treaanre.
A cheaniet eetinnates that theworld swat.
lows 500 tons of pills per annutra, There
aro manufactories that make* a million -Oita
a weak,
Petersburg, 'Virginia, lead* all other
cities is the export of manufactured tobac-
co, hevsug (sent abroad sante 50,000,0001
Tousle in the as twelve years,
Gen, Booth annouu.ee that the Salvation
$rut* conducts 9,100 processions every.
week throagh rho street* of the United
3hiegdoin, or an average of 1,300 daily.
The effect of the high license law in Pitts-
burg has, green immensurable satiefaetien to
iemperancao men. Leet year there were be-
tween 1,4510 and 1,500 saloons in the city.
This year the number rias hems reduced to
223,
It ham boon *Estimated that tbs brrited
Stetee eSnautuea every clay `?5,C00 acres of
timber. Then in,. *eye a atatiatival e -
cltan e, " mamai eight wo retire with 25,000
eeree lees et threat thou the seal gilded with
stat auornieg geld
It bee been figured out say as statistical Of.
C to a1s ti 014
ftaial ttl$t tilers aro, l ..r1 in ry;
1,c00 baohetors,,,041a3 only 11 er-Ruiners to
every 1,001 teemed men. Front tide (show-
ing he Aygnea that: metronoen reeteerne rneR
ircen remm, diad ought, thorefere, to be en.
catarased by 1e ilaletien and otilerwiee.
There are to ltnerice over 4,000,000
farm, Urge and s rind, They cover nearly
29,O00,1309 agree of improved bed, at,ud their
total value IP (su z ething lfko 510,040,000,-
004. Them flfinree aro not, of course, very
eoenpreheneive. They eireply ;envoy the
idea of vaetuete of area and equal vaaatneRS et
ietsportenee, The tetfsuated value el the
;smarty proclucte et these farm(( ie bstwee;zs
42,Qttittref,001 end , 3,t1R0,tfi10,0t14,
It tai extimeted by Professor Iidrehaff of
Valle,, theta the Iseguese meet ipokeu tats the
globe, tor the haat,';boomed, near* at least,
aaietzineaie, for it 3n, without doubt the wily
orae WAD: is t shield by over 4C9,000.099 of the
human mint. The aaext lap uege swoet in
nee, but at A very great d etauce behind'
hiltless, i(s Hindustani, epolaer by over 1CO3-
003,04. Then followa ltoelien (spoken by
about 10,000,000), Maslen (over 70,004,-
000), (lemon (o vcr.57.t;00,o0'0), audSpauiab
(over 17,010,0+20,
Thomateriellos(sof wages c,,nsedby etrilece
is shown by the report of the latter bureau o
the bltatte of Now York. It ix eetfineted that
the less of wa ee lunge the rp et year, owing
to strikes in the State, wee S _,013,22flovbdle
the amount :,pent on strikes in the shape of
embiattauee from the trade unions was ti;17,-
%9. The workiugmen were consequently
peererby $2,0110,000intoned numbore, The
only queaitiou is, were theadvautegcs gained.
by the etrikee ct auiiicient compensation for
the enorrnaut loss in wages I
The Pell lt1aU Gazette soyas the total num-
ber of horses which. the leading countries of
tbo world eau throw Into the field of battle
in :-Itursie, _1,;,`,0,000; Aineriee, 9,540,-
000; Argentine Republic, .1,000,000 ; .]us -
trios, .1,500.000 ; Germany , 3,300,004
Franco, '.1,1+00,000 and 300,000 mules ;
Ivngiaud, 3,790,000 : Canaria, 2,t;:'1,000 ;
',Spann, (I0,000 and .1,500 000 mules; Italy,
2,000,000 ; Belgium, 383,000;
Aeumerk,
310 000 ; Australia, 301.;000; Holland
335,000, and Portugal, 88,0e0 and 50,0
mules,
It is reported that two men were some
time ago arrested in Now York abide on the
charge of violating tate revenue law is sell -
lug wino without a license. They testified
that they sold to saloone about 300 gallons
of a drink wade by this recipe : Put tie -
teen ;gallons of water into a common wash -
boiler, add forth -eight pounds of sugar, one
pound of tartaric acid and some aniline dye
for coloring. After stirring with a stick
until it is dissolved, add a quantity of orris
root, cut with a pint of alcohol, to give the
shear of raspberry wine. This stuff has
been sold for more than a year as wine.
It will be noticed that according to this
table the armies of Europe in teethe service
number over 9.0013,000 men, and including
reserves over 23,000,000. Virtually resting
ou their arms for the first fire, there are
nearly 24,000,000 men diatributed as fol-
lows:
tetetionActive Reserve
Germany ..1,155,000 5,95,000
Rffista 2.450,000 2,100,000
Franc.-, 2 051,459 2,037,106
Italy 2,016,000 1,585,000
Austro-Flungary 000,000 1,110,000
Turkey 360,000 650,000
England 261.057 360,533
Switzerland 117,100 380,000
Belgium....... , 137,000 130,000
spam...,167 000 83,000
'aervia .. 107,000 112,000
rortngal .._ . 81,000 "to.t100
I)enmar1 .-59,563 14,4 38
Roumania 65,000 85,000
Bulgaria •••• 25,000 120+.00
Norway and Sweden. 65,000 55,000
Holland. , 60,000 45,000
Greece............. 36,000 55,000
•
Total,
6,440,000
4,610,000
4,108.655
2,600,000
2,100,000
1,000.000
631,599
502,00G
267,000
250,000
210,000
200,000
2C0 000
150,x:00
145,000
120,000
1055,000
90,000
9,101,078 14,537,166 23,728,214
Medical men have long been familiar with
the fact that sanitation has been a saving to
the community at large in doctors' bills, in
nursing, and even in days of labour to the
industrial classes. But it has been difficult
to put results into figures so as to impress
the public mind. Mr. Brudenell Carter at-
tempted this in his inaugural address to the
College of State Medicine. Every case of.
fever, he calculated, cost the community
£2; the reduotion in the annual death rate
from fever to 484 per million, from the 1851,-
00 rate of 908 per million, represented a to-
tal saving of £300,000, " but of this no one
seemed conscious e while the annual cost
of scarlet fever at the present time was
£400,000 a year. If, therefore, we could
trace scarlet lever to a definite cause,' as a
bovine disease, communicable by niilk, we
could adopt precautions which "would save
the country every year somewhere about
half as much money as the recent conversion
of stocks,' besides "much misery." Here is
new, light upon disease. 'I0 is increasingly
preventable, and as we reduce its virulence
and range we save money. Ratepayers
abould remember male things when they pay
their renitary rates, andthey may profwt-
ably let their thoughts play about Mr.
:Carter's striking figures.
The fxar of Russia.
Stung by the taunts of his oowardioe, when
he made a visit to Moscow, the Czar insis-
ted upon walking alone through a crowd of
twenty or thirty thousand people, without
the slightest protection, hut hie own. sword.
The walls of ane city had two nights before
been .mysteriously decorated with raters
announcing that the end of .Alexander's reign
had come ; that be had been. tried and found
wanting, that the "oommittee' had de-
clared his death for refusing to give the peo-
ple a goustituttonai govermeent.
When the morning ox the dayon which
the Czar's death was to occur arrived, he an-
nounced his intention at attending DIM at
the Church of the Annunciation, within the
walls of the 1 renslin, and a quarter coke stile
or so from the palace. The Czarina and the
other members of bis family implored him
to take no amok risk ; they begged him to
have mess sang in the chapel of the palace,
but he declined, and even ordered that the
police guardshould be withdrawn. ,lie
said that if bis time :o die bad come he was
ready, that he would not die like a cinema
mil ggeclusion, but lee wopid die like a
Soldier with hie uniform on and bis sword
in hie hand, in the preaenee of his people,;
and eo he left the palace alone, elad in the
uniform of a field marshall, resplendent
with gold and silver Lace, and walked across
the parade ground to the therein,
The news of hie regiment spread Toddy
amongthe people, who were naturally on
the 0tsi lire, owingto the mysterious pro.
elaanation of the ihiliath, and before the
mime was over the area within the Eremite
walls was crowded with ill series and eon-
ditieee of men, twenty or thirty thottsapd
in timelier, After teams was Autig, and he
bad oommittad hit soul to Gad, the Czar,
with his groves iso hie hand, left the church
and entered the throng, wheal opened to
mobs passage for him, but oris. So narrow
that he could tom, the bodies of those wlio
stood On either baud. No bomb was requir-
ed on each ar 000asiop ; a ppistol, or .oven a
Wide, would have done trio busiueasa, bo
with his head erect, and bowing to thost
who had saluted hind the Emperor walked
the entire distance. The crowd were ritcnt
end almost breathless, Every man present
expected somothing would occur, but the
only break in the Czar's walk that morning
was when be reached the *tsps of the palace,
*topped, turned hie five to the people and
apo o to them,
lite ((std that be had been t
Should have trouble if be tame
that tinea he lad arrived lee had
ed by mysterious enemies, whose MO
coaald not uuderatand, ;tat the presets
was tote his list. Ila tied thezefere don
as all men elrwuld do who expected danger--
gone to sitnrelt to aisle forgivezeu for his
tns, and protection from on high, This
otlon was not demled bias. Ilia body,
1, was in the bands of God, and
u had no power to injure bine without the.
'ivine.doerce. lie therefore feared nothing,
and believed that as longao he governed the
Bemire with wisdom he should be allowed
to live. Then, thanking the people with
hearty words for their loyalty, he bowed
and entered the parsec,
There lead been silcnee tiU then, but as
the Czar dfsappeared the crowd broke into
e. cheer that atmeet reached the sky,
Hun ;try's Great Tunnel.
An engineering work that has taken over
a century to eonatruot can hardly fail to
offer some points of interest in its history,
and illuatrato the march of events during
the years of its progress. An instance of tufa
Mud is to be found in a tunnel not long
completed, but which was commenced aver
one hundred years ago. This tunnnol or
edit, as it should bo more strictly termed,
Is at Schemnitz, in Hungary. Its oonatruo•
tion was agreed upon in 1782, the object
being to carry off the water from the
Sehenmitz mines to the lower part of the
Gran valley, The work is now complete,
and it forms the longest tunnel in thoworld,
being 10.27 miles loug, or about one mile
longer than St. Gothard, and two and a half
miles longer than Mount Cenia. The heigkt
is nine fent ten inches, and the breadth live
feet three inches, This tunnel, which has
taken so long in making, has cost very near
a million sterling, but it appears to have
been well spent -at least the present gener-
ation has no reason to grumble, for the sav-
ing from being able to do away with water-
raising;appliancesamounts to £15,000 ayear.
There is one further point, however, worth
notice, for if we have the advantage of our
great-grandfathers in the matter of mechani-
cal appliances they were certainly better off
in the price of labour. The original con-
tract for the tunnel, madein 1782, was that
it should be completed in thirty years and
should coat £7 per yard run. For eleven
yearn the work was done at this price, but
the French revolution enhanced the cost of
labour and materials to such an extent that
for thirty years little progress was made.
For ten years following much progress
was made, and then the work dropped for
twenty years more, until the water threaten-
ed to drown the mines altogether. Finally
the tunnel was completed in 1878- the re-
maining part costing £21 a yard, or more
than three times as much as the original.
contract rate.
Bow Fast Can a Train Hove.
Many questions have been asked concern-
ing the highest speed possible to be attained
by a railway locomotive. The London Wage
neer submits the statement that eighty miles
an hour is the greatest possible limit, and
for the following reasons
Because no greater velocity has ever been
attained.
Because of the resistance of the air,
Because of the back pressure of the cylin-
ders.
Because of the amount of power whiel,
must " no doubt be lost in imparting violent
motions to masses of metal which can make
no return when coming to rest. The swing-
ing of the engine, the excessive vibration of
its parts, and the jar and concussion all oper-
ate to; the same end, and tend to keep down
the speed."
Because of " the extraordinary retarding
influence of vary moderate rising gradients."
Because of the coupling rod -"it appears
to be beyond question that coupling an en-
gine tends to keep down the speed."
A girlnever, complains a young man
treating her coldly when he treats her to ice
edam,
Coottery for lite $10k.
Zn, eiolxnee , nourishment and nursing go
band in band. At least the proper prepare-
tion of the food playa a most important part
in the recovery of an invalid. ';i'4 know how
to melee dishes that shall be at once pour-
iahfug and digestible,• ruched a delightful
aocompUsheteut, 'They must be a>i the
same time agreeable to the taste and invit-
ing to the eye. Even with people who ere
not, ill, half the battle of a =Heal ea he the
serving. The most meagre fare if presented
inan attractive way, with pretty china, and
evident attention to .details, will he relished
far better than a more sumptuous ureal
served in a slovenly manner.
I have no doubt that Mrs. Garry Owen
Ganef: could tell us as truthful, and as sad a
tale of the dieastroua effects of ignorance
and obstinacy in the ,are of the sick,, as in
the cringing up of children- I have known
era t eonnterperts of the father referred to
in her "Slaughter of the Innocents" (p.177.)
In Sass Praecisee, at my boardieg-house
table, sat a middle•egel couple, wbo bad
married rather late in life, with a baby nine
months old. It was a remarkably good
baby, and allowed on that account to be
brought to the table, where it* fond father
fed it religiously with a bit of everything,
izseluding mads turtle soup,- cabbage, lemon
and minee pies. When it alaitened and lay
at death's door, they were very much aur.
prised
I give below some plain directionsfor pre-
paring the ;simplest,
i plest, and meet aeoeasary', and
usual food r nvaliche
P A ADA. _.. Tape A yellow earhera bowl,
lay in a lenge smoker, apriehle with little
anger, snit, and hair a dozen large steeled
raising; repeat this until the bawl ifhtwo'
thirds full or until you heve.euoughfforyour
patieut, and never .make enough for twice,
Nearly cover with betting waters put a lid
over the bowl end set it on be baele of the
raege to soale for en hour, 1,1ft cut the
eraokers, sprinkle with more sugar, and,
serve with a little Dream, and eirananon or
untmeg. Omit the raisins and crestas if the
invalid Is toe>'31 to take anything 80 rich,.
Thiele really a delicious dish.
Mew f'onaauon.-•-Boil a pint of milk in
a double boiler, and Gook in it an ounce of
Seeded raisins 'until they are tender ; add a
teaspoonful of corn starch Bier aved in cold
milk ; oat ter three minutes, remove from
the fire, and (stir in the well -beaten white of
an, egg. Sweeten and grate on a little nut.
meg.
Coax your invalid with cru toast, Cut
the cruet from two slices of bread, which
should be stale, Team over w slots- Ara utstil
well•dried, end then Brown delicately.Dip
quickly Into bailing water, dat with bite of
barter (=demur over a very little rich milk
or ereem that has been brought to a basil,
Brown bread ie very nice wo. healthful pre -
red as above, and may be eeten with ruga
d cream.
For persona troulaled with iadigeation,
beef eandwiehea, prepared as folloste, aro
highly recommended : Chop very finely a
piece of tender, uncooked bcefateak, season
with salt and popper, and spread betweeu
thin allose of lightly,.buttered bread. Bo.
taove the cruate witha ebarrp =info, and cut
luta neat diamonds or squares,
TAPIOCA. JPA r.k,-Soak a cupful a tapioca
for five hours in a quart of water ; sweeten
to taste, and set the dish containing ie in a
pan of boiling water; cook until the tapioca
is quite clear,stirring often. Squeezo in the
juice andrated rind of one lemon and pour
to small molds. To be served with cram
and sugar when cold
ItIcr Jeune -Bring to the boiling point
a cupful of water, and atir into it two heap -
bag teaspoonfnls of rice flour that hue been
dissolved in enough cold water to make a
thin pante ; sweeten to taste with loaf sugar,
and boil until clear. If your patient has
fever, flavor with lemon juice; in the naso
of diarrhea, or summer complaint, flavor
by boiling a piece el stick cinnamon with it.
Coolin molds and eat with cream and auger.
OAT ISLAXO ALVSO .--Put two
tablespoonfuls of oat meal, wet with cold
water, into a pint of bailing milk, and aim -
mer gently in a double boiler for two hours.
Hanson with salt, sweeten to taste, and serve
with Dream and nutmeg.
There is a preparation called corealno
flakes that cooks in one minute, and is very
delicate and nice. It must be atirre ` into boil -
lug milk, tasted and eaten with Dream, or
milk and sugar.
AnRowitOoTBeenoMenoz.-Into a coffee
cupful of rich milk that bas been brought
to the boiling point, stir two teaspoonfuls of
sugar, and two heaping teaspoonfuls of the
best arrowroot, rubbed smooth with cold
water. Stir and simmer until it thickens.
It may barnacle with water, when it should
be flavored with lemon juice. If made with
milk, flavor with brandy or wino. Pour
into little molds, and serve with cream and
sugar or with stewed, canned or preserved
fruit.
PARortno RICE Ts very good in the ease
of bowel troubles. Roast it to a nine brown
as you would coffee, throw into salted boil-
ing water, and cook rapidly until done.
Rice water for a drink is made by stirring
a tablespoonful of rice flour, wet with oold
water, into a quart of boiling water. Season
with salt, let it get very cold, and flavor
with wine, brandy, lemon juice or nutmeg,
sweetening to taste.
Fever patients are often troubled greatly
by thirst, when water drank in any quan-
tity would be harmful. Ice broken into
small pieces, and mixed with lemon jelly
also cit into bits, is very refreshing, and
may be given safely.
Mulled buttermilk is strengthening, but
mist not be given if there is any tendency
to summer complaint. Put a pint of fresh
buttermilk on to boil ; add a beaten egg,
drop by drop ; stir and remove from the fire
after one boil ; sweeten. It may be also
boiled, sweetened with honey, and seasoned
with salt. Add a tablespoonful of butter
to each pint of milk.
ram the Note -Reek or a Eemiu
Inc Reporter.
have noticed, as doubtless you all have,
that ruined children are by no means, confin-
ed to the lower classes. Among the well -to
do, these may be divided into two classes
those who are ruined by the careleseeese and
indifference of their parents in leaving their
moral culture almost entirely to ((eremite,
and those who are ruined bythe over -in.
dalgenceend inj udicione attentions of grown
up relatives:, 1 know a child who is fitted
by_ natered graces of person and face, and
(lowliness of mind, to be a very gern in the
gaeden of girls, who is so spoiled by unwise
petting from a half dozen big uncles as to
be utterly disagreeable to strangers. All
the endeavors of a very sensible mother are
set at naught by ;hose loving but unwise.
baobelor nnetes who delight in teaobing the
poor child the pert sayings that make her
unlovely an the eyes of every one..
Very few children are bore with all na-
tural or inherited graces of mind and. diapo-
sitien. There are almost always evil pro-
pensities to be Eradicated and guarded
agaivat, The child of geuerous parent* will
often display a strange selreeeness, which
the wine parent melt net only see, but take
patina to uproot. Indolence, untruthfulness,
a sullen or violent temper, ((jealousy and
vanity tray pens almost unnoticed is an
otherwise lovely and attractive child, but
if you de not take pause to discover and
curb theme grave faults you will embitter
the whole getter life, not only of ane but of
w as family of seven boys frau(( 1.7 to
are what would be termed, "good
'and rightly so. They are obedient
donate to their parents and Agree,
04011 other, They are always at house
in alto old. fare . bailee iu the evenings and do
their work pnoawplaiuiegly throughout the
day, and yet not (meet theee boys will make
a good hueband aunply beaaause their mother
never taught them to be thoughtful for
others. They will do whatever you ask them
to do, but they would never think of doing
anything unasked. They are not selfish,
only thoughtless. ,EL naturally lazy child
will often merle all tasks beeanee it its more
trouble to get hint to do a. thing than to do
itsouraeif, Thia is wrong in the extreme,
and unjust ata well to hits as to bin more
willing brothers and siatere. We think too
much of educating the headnowendays, and
not enough of been education, which is the
beat of all. Sa lunch depends upon :he
natural character Qin child, that it le ivapoa.
Bible for the wisest person to lay down ar 7
fixed rules for the 'renal culture cif ehildrei.
A realizing sense of your reepontibility, and,
arneat !oohing for guidance to .ice wh'a
I a and wi Beg to direst you, will be your
afeguard,
Outdoor Spflaarta in En 3 3lia�.
t<
Sport is the law and the prophet of Eng.
lialitnen, and to confetti to neither pleasure
nor concern in the results of the day's rae-
log, shooting, hunting:, angling, is to totally
emancipate ene a sett from the amiable re.
fiord of a epartloving !triton. American in•
dtfferepee to the ciroumatanoo and event of
aeport is the contempt of the arietacraey and
landed gentry. Sport is the autocrat, It
eontrols tocioty and makes an important
chapter in literature. There is a;univeraal
devotion tc the idea, alike front high and
low. 13ut it is the privilege of the great,
the towptation of the poor. Poaching as
an offense forms stereotyped matter, for
every well regulated Toilish. novel. °pile
dross, the manners, the ilirtatione whish
make the maximum of life in country houses
during autumnal revels are as important a
inciter in British society as the London sea-
son. Wives, mothers and deugibters who
have none of the bates which give zest to
the hunt are constrained to provide them-
selves with more gentle amusement during
that sanguinary period in the British %year.
It is not fine taste -the love of horse-
flesh, oriokoting, deer stalking and the gen-
eral desire of killing something. It seems
to take a pima in the eetegory with pugilism
and bull fighting. ]3ut it develops brawn and
akin(' of rude mental strength, and the cul-
tivation of muscular vigor is something
mare valued than the artistic sensibility in.
the English man's passion for an excess of
animal force.
Htaffy" People.
One of the oddest things to witness, if not
one of the most disagreeable to encounter,
is the faculty some people have of taking of-
fence when no offence is meant -taking
" huff" as the phrase goes, with reason or
without -making themselves and every one
else uncomfortable for nothing deeper than a
mood, or more than a fancy. " Huffy" peo-
ple are to be met with of all ages and in
every station, .neither years [nor condition
bringing, necessarily, wisdom or unsuspiei
oneness. But we are bound to say that the
larger proportion will be generally among'.
those who are of an uncertain' sooial posi-
tion or who are unhappy in their siroum-
stisa.es, nob to speak of their tempera
"liter ladyship."
A sense of official b eatners is ingrained in
the nature of people who have been over-
shadowed by what is known as a peternal
government. Snoh persons form their ow11
conceptions of angelic ministrations. £he
idea of the guide to Westminster Abbey was
original, to say the least.
The man toted as guideto themonuments,
and, upon coming to that of Lord and Lady
Monteagle, which represents the spirit of
Lady. M- ascending to heaven under the
guardianship of angels, finished his pomp -
one description of it with these words
"A hangel is andfng Her Ladyship to
'maven 1"
At the same time he bowed as deferential-
ly as though he himself had been pertorm•
ing the office of master of ceremonies to
" Her Ladyship," and was about to" 'and"
her into some ballroom.
Fond Mother (excitedly)-" Sakes 'Iive,
chile, yo' brndder's gone 'to dat dar dance
at Johnaing's an' he'll nebber come back no
mock 1" " Why not Z " "He's done gone
forgot to take his ratter wid him."
According to the statistics given in Wil-
liam F. Fox's article in the Oentury on " The
chances of being hit in battle," the popular
belief as to the slaughter occurring in single
engagements is not well founded. The loss-
es reported fn killed and wounded at the
elose of a great battle are almost invariably
exaggerated, and it generally happens that
those who are missing or on the sick list are
returned as killed. In the civil war in the
United States there were 2,778,304 men en-
listed on the Union side, while there were
only 110,000 killed in battle, or about five
per cent. of the total number, While five
per cent, was the average for the whole Fed-
eral army, there were of course certain regie
ments which suffered more severely. The
greatest loss occurred to the First Maine
Heavy Artillery, which had 19.2 per cent.
killed, being the largest loss of any regi-
ment, while next came the Fifth New Hemp -
shire with 17,9 per cent. killed.
A number of ladies in Philadelphia get
their bonnets very cheaply by having a clew
er girl milliner out of employment come to
the house. They pay her five dollars a day,
and in one day she tame up the bonnets and
hats for ail the women in the family.
Execution of an Elephant)
A novel excitement was provided to *he
realdente of Mhow, sulfa, recently by the
Transport Department. A huge male els•
pbant, aged, according to oibetal records,
pineteetwo years, rhe property of Govern-
ment, was condemned to death for a long
andehardened comma of iniquity; Re lent
been, long in a ohronie mast stag, and in
this condition had taken a buurau life an.
Poona about a couple of ,yone ago. Ba.
would not work, and was a source et
apprehension to ,all about him and a per-
petual cause of anxious .concern to Govern.
sweet. The fiat went forth that he meet
die, The Maharaja ,Ho'her and the liajah
of Maar each separately telegraapleed to
headquarter$ ant tried for a reprieve, One
pff'ert d to bay the grand -looking Seiner for
33a. 1,000, and the other offered be ea-
cbauge a female elephant of gentle manners
for the sewage brute; but the -Government?
of India where determined ore making the
criminal expiate biasing. These offers were
rdfused, and a private notice wassentronnd
the station that. the execution would take
plena on Thursday Several people.
encLuling volunteer exeautiouers, hurried.
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to a. spot nrlieeted outside of Cantonutepta
where the malefator was already chained
and secured between two death -plan trees,
The volunteer tnarkssaao, armed with,
12 -bore exxpreaa rifles, were selected to carry
out the execution. The elephant was
sitting down when the crowd 'Neese to
assemble, but shortly rained himself on hie
forelegs when the firat of the shoes wee
fared, whio?i bit him low down at the bane
of the trunk. The maned vouchsafed e&o
her uotiee of this and two other equally
inelitetivc theta, than to stand up ea ell
faun legs, shake hie head and blow with hie
trunk. At lessens Mr, Dowell, of the Seventh
Native Infantry, placed n bullet in the
centre of his head met below the level of
hie eyes, and the huge brute dropped down
dead without aapaem..
Laying Trach.
The track of a railway is never done, .ft ie
always weerissg (retell(' always bolas rapla e -
ed
Setae of the early Eoglitb engineers, nob
appreefatiiig this, endeavored to lay downs
solid stone walls coped with atone gut to a
smooth surface, en whiclt they laid. their
9414 They celled titin F4 perananeat way,"
as dis,iogulalhed from the tomperary track
of raise apd erass•ties used by contractoni
is budldfng the lines. Bat ezperiengo sooaa
abowved thee the temporary tract, of sap-
parted by a Led et Wettest etoaao, always
kept Itself drained and was aiwasaa ghats c
rid rezaidued las tia00ls better order than
the mere expensive so called" peruaanent
way." 3i ben the inereeee in the weight of
mar rolling stool:Vegan to take plaer,dating
from abouo370, iron rails were found to be
wearing out very fast. Some railway anen.
eelareaitlrat the raiin syrsyetcrebadxeawhed
eil development, But in tbis world
pply generally equate the demand.
lghesi a thing Is very much wanted, it le
euro to come, eoouvr or later, The process
of mekingateel:Iuveited by, end usaredafter,
Henry Br. semer, of ingland, and perfected
by A. L. Holley, of this country, gave us
a steel rail which et the present time coats
leas than one of iron, anal has a life of five
ar sin ruses as long, even uuder the heavy
loads of today, We are now approaching
very near the limit of what the rail will
carry, while the joints are bceoming less
ebta to do their duty. -,Scrifutr'allfhae.ine.
Blood Letting' in Persia.
In Persia blood letting is the aamo pane•
dee for welt -nigh all fleshly ills to -day that
ft was with our aucestors in the days of
bluff King ifal, In the upriug every Per-
sian tries hien to the barber surge= to have
that professional phlebotomist relieve him
of, say, half a pint of blood. Ono sunny+
Marcia morning I Ant upon tho bale, Elena
of a vilIas•e chaps house and watched the
barber blend a goodly share of the whole
male population. 't1'ith his arras bared
to the elbows, a bunch of raw cotton in lien
of lint beneath his area, and his keen -edged
razor inserted beneathhis cap, the travelling
tonsorial artist took up his ponilion on the
bank of the irriratine aitch that ran through
the viilage of L sgird.. Candidates for hit
services soon began crowding about him.
*Beall sturdy ryot bared his right arm to the
shoulder, and got one of his neighbours to
bind a handkerchief tightly just above the
elbow. Ito then presented himself to the bar-
ber. The tonsorial artist pressed out with
his thumb and forefinger the small vein he
wished to alit, and with the air of a man
who knowshis profession and its importance,
deftly inserted the point of his razor. The
blood epnrted out in a tiny atream; villag-
ers agnanted down on their haunches and
watched it bleed, occasianalIy working the
elbow joint to stimulate the flow. Bali a
pint is considered about the correct quantity
far an adult to lose at one bleeding ; the
barber then completes his services by bind-
ing on a small wad of cotton. Many prefer
being bled in the roof of the mouth, instead
of in the arm. I observed that these were
old men mostly, and judged them to be
knowing customers, who had wise theories
of their own as to why the mouth bleeding
was preferable to the others. I have seen
as many as thirty or forty of the Persian
barber's patients squatting in a low row on
the bank of a stream or ditch, each one lot-
ting the little stream of blood from arm or
month spurt into the water.
Handy Hints.
Lard, if appiiedat once, will remove the
discoloration after a bruise. Earthenware
and china, washed in soap -suds and rinsed
in cold water are freed from grease and stains
with little or no trouble. Soda is good for
greasy dishes. To make tough meat tender,
soak it in vinegar and water ; if a very large
piece, for about twelve hours;' for ten
pounds of beef use three quarts of water to
three quarters of a pint of vinegar, and soak
it for six or seven hours. If you are trou-
bled with moths in your feather beds, boil
the feathers in water for a short time •; then
put them in sacks and dry them, working
them with the hands all the time. Never
enter e. sick room in a state of perspiration as
the moment you become cold your pores ab-
sorb, Do notapproaoh contagious diseases
with au empty stomach ; nor sit between the,
sick and the fire, because the heat attracts:'
the vapour.
Ambitious mamma -Edith, I noticed lase
night that Mr. .De Rich paid yea consider-
able attention. I hope you showed him w
properamount of civility. Ingenuous De-
butante -Oh, yes, mamma, I did 1 I'm sure
he knows he can have me for the: asking,