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A REMARK ABU DIAMOND.
The Emmons Gem Sold by Thomas rut to
the Duke onorteans.
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Sleep
elmoog the phenorriens of lite, no other
one is more ntesterieas, or farther beyond
our eompreheusion then 1eep It awn no
greeter mestery of Inman life ia anywhere
presented to our Weide than this.
Wee man at (Me moment in full active
expreesion of vigor end strength, capable of
graspiog a wide raloge of material and
philosophical truthe—theanext he lies before
us unconscioue and motionless, save tate
gentle and involuntary motion of the heart
AO lungs ewhich continue their unceasing
labor,
li there is on record a phenomenon cif list:
that ia shaoaded he unknown laws, beyond
the poesitality of obteluing any clue to its
philoscphy, it is sleep, As mysterious as
the trance appeare, Alter heeing an oPPor-
tunity to wieneee and carefully exemme
a number of cates in this Pendition, I wail
able to arrive at 14one definite conclusions
pertaining te i, but sleep, as it appears to
no, is to 141,1n1411 _conception mireculoue 111
every sense of thie touch abutted word,
There is no other law which, domande
obedience, in order to maintain physical
existence and perfection that is more ungeree
tive than the hulden one that goverree
Without bleep we cannot be overbilled,
and one will starve to death ea quickly ler
wards of it as from lack of food. It is dur-
ing sleep that the vital forces reedenieh,
with new material, the continualty wasting
tissues of the body,
While we eleep, then, la the redeeming
time of -God to his children., Ire 64 COA.
elitism Ea Vute bete.aUtnt trepotte ail their
thoughtlese, rebellione mature, end aceore.
pilehets Nis work of redemption by replenLeh.
lug and repeiring the exhauatiop, teethe and
inperiee which they have aesteined from ex.
eretsel end eeeeireee abuse, during velnntary
life.
If we me etroug, vigorous, and endowed
with an abundant stock of vitality, we mey
auceeed lo digeating feed when eileep, hut
ie not peeelede far nesimilation—the
ingUjlproe—to take -place When we are
awake. If digeetion and A154411144011 are
both attempted durieg eleep, the vital forcee
will he divided, and neither process will he
aceomplished so perfectly at; U earried on
aeparately.
T4oee W110 lie:re realized the neceerity
peeing Arid Attention to their yhyeleal cou.
ditien, need, to eve eernest heed to tide Aub,.
jecti, order to obtain the beet reeulte frelle
their sleep.
Its !abetter to take this zeposet vixen all le
014.1 thenerilid TleleXilitrroundinga. Sleep
tamed. before midnight le of mu* more
Veltle than thee gotten ls.ter in the night or
during the day. Yet eleepiug at any time
lit better than not at all.
The heat poeition of the body when ;Weep
ia lying on the right slide, slightly inclined
backward, nearly etrAights end with, the head
towerthe north,
There is no time when free and perfeet
ventilation is to important au when we are
asleep. The nutteriele of which the bed are
made ie also of much importune ; vegetable
matter being the heat for that purpose.
Aimal matter le n IKer 00iulueter of elec.
tricity, and is not Wearily, metallic beds
conduct the electricity too rapidly from the
body, and *fa alee dletewbe he electric con-
ditioner. A hod of ;draw coeered with a
light cotton raattrees te perfume the very
best.
The amount of elect, required varies in
different persons, and Is goveneed by tem•
perament and occupation. The number of
hours given to eleeptng should be from five
to twelve one o eeery twentytfour.
The notnner of awakening Should not be
overlooked. Oce &meld not be aroused
hurriedly, nor is it best to Arise in haste.
Fruit as Food.
Taken in the morning, fruit is as helpful
o digestion as it Is refreahing. The newly
awalteued function flatlet in it an object of
such light labor as will exercito without ser -
hourly taxing its energies, and tisanes of the
stomach acquire at little cost a gain of noun
iiihmenb whist& will sustain thoeci energies
in latter and more serioue operations. It is
an excellent plan, with this object in view,
to add a little bread to the fruit eaten.
While admitting its possession of these va1.
liable qualities, however, and while also
agreeing with ekes° who maintain that in
aumnter, when the body is, at all events, in
many caetem lea actively employed than
usual, meat may be less, and fruit or vege-
tables more freely used as a food; we are
not prepared to allow that even then exelu-
sively vegetarian regimen is that moat gent
erally advisable. Meat provides us with a
means of obtaining albuminoid material,
which is indispensable, in its mosb easy aa.
similable form. It affords us in this meter -
la/ not only an important constituent of tie.
ane growth, but a potent excitant of the
*Me process of nutrition. It has, there-
fore, a real definite, and great value in the
ordinary diet of a man, and the wholesome-
ness of fruit combined with farinaceous food
as an alternative dietry is not ao much an
argument in favor of the vegetarian princi.
ple, as a proof that seasonable changes in
food supply are helpful to the digestive pro•
ceases and to nutritive changes in the therms
genera11y,--1London Lancet.
To Strengthen the Back.
Walking is the beat exercise for etrength•
enieg a weak back. When a man says
walking makes his back ache, as a remedy,
let him walk. If he says it makes him
tired, again we say, "Walk." If the simple
act of walkine gives •it backache, it is evi-
dent that the back has not been strength-
ened by walking as it should be; conse-
quently, walking is just what is needed.
Certain gymnastic exercises are excellent,
and so is deep, abdominal breathing. The
majority of people do not use their backe
enough. The first exercise of cadets—lean-
ing forward until the finger tips touch the
floor, while the knees are kept stiff—hi ex-
cellent practice. Backe sometimes become
muscle•bound, because they are not used
enough.
Communing with Nature.
Close by the sparkling brook whose sil-
very waters danced in the Bunlight and
rippled joyously over the golden sands they
sat in silence—George and Laura—drinking
in the glorious beauty of the rustic scene
and communing with nature in one of her
chosen shrines. Afar in the werit the tun
seemed to linger at the h,orizon's brim as if
unwilling to shut out from hie gaze tbe love-
ly landscape that glowed with a softened
and even melancholy radiance in his do.
parting beam.
A thrilling ory kaki from the lips of the
beautifel girl.
" George! George 1" ehe almost shrieked -
"What is it, darling ?" he asked, placing
hie arm tenderly around her waist. 4' Has
the romantic yet oppressive loveliness of the
soeneryddened your spirits—"
"Ne, George 1" she screamed, waving her
her hands validly and making a frantic jab
on the small of her back, "I think it's some
kind of a bug 1
The accumulation of 4 fortune was al wart
the primary objeot of Mottles Pita* ambi-
tion. No promming lo.verstreent, whether it
was in land lo Bagleud or in diamon,is in
India, wee neglected by hire, The rare with
which diamonds were gerried and their
conmant velne, reocentnended them to Itiin
fie a Convenient medium ef exchange with
Earope. His agents le the country kept
him well informed as to the state of the
diamond markets, and he was alweye among
the first to hear of the diecovery of any
stone of rare quality, It wee in this wOY
that he wan first made aware of the diernond
which hart ever sine() been associated, with
hie name. lb waa a prodigious stone, weigh.
left 426 carats, and the price asked for it
was equally prodigious, being no less than
200.000 pegodas (a pagoda equate about 10e)
The offer evidently had its attraction for
Pitt, ad he tear:emitted a model of the
stone, with a description of it, to his Eng-
lish agent, $ir Stephen Evance. But the
magnitude of the proposed putolutee alarmed
Bance, "Wee are now" he writes in
reply, gott in a warn Tee Remit King
has his hand and beers full ern he can't buy
ouch airtime, There is noe Prince in Europe
can buy itt, eoe wuld advise you not to reed.
die with it.tl Bat Pitt atill kept up peptise
dons with the owner, jaurchund, WAP came
in pereen to Fort Se George to tempt the
Governor. The pice asked, however,
was so excessive that Pitt despaired of
becoming pewessed of the prize, and more
in wantonnem than With any intention of
making a eerione bid, he offered 00.000
pagodas for 1t This broke of the nego.
tietione for the time; bet with that per.
aistauce which Eesterne alweye ahow
money transectiene, deurehend, after an
interval of moo weelee, reterned to the
Charge. Thie time he professed Id:emelt
willing to tette 100,000 pagodas, end ab
artbaequent meeting, after much. bagglipg,
Pitt beep Ititn down to r5.,000, But oven
Ole was more by 10,000 pagodas than Pitt
hed determined to give, and agein 4aur.
ehund took his leave—not for loug, however,
r in an hour he sent in woott te say that he
would take 39,00, Upon this Pitt offered
to split the difference. But though an Oziene
tal will attlereit to be beaten dawn in his
Flee time aftPr time he likes at the elm of
;he bargeiet to think' that the yieldlog has
not been altogether on his side. Pitti offer.
ed 47$0. No, mid Jeurehund—nothiug
would induce him to take lees than 48.0011.
Knowitig hie roau and the wool of Eugene
tradera, Pitt gave in to this demand, and
became pameased at the lergeat known dia.
mond in the world for a 131101 Which was
about equivalent to i24,000,
The precious atone Was sent home to Ba-
rone in charge of Pitt's sou, Ribert, onboard
the level Oeoke, which left Madras on the
9,* of °etcher, 1702. It le muting to ob.
Isere° how the poseemion of the diamond
awoke In Pitt'e breast 4 desire for the pertee
of Europe and the nroaperity of its wealthier
sovereigns. 4Rho King of France or Spain,"
he writes to hie agent, "will ieallproability
be the likelleite chapmen for ite unless our
"'Adieu:mat, upon eenne goad 81100086 in onto
Viable undertaking, will be tie puma sus to
buy it for the Crown of England." A. little
laterite lays, "Xis certainly the finestjawell
in the world, and worth. an immense euro,
and I hopo you will never part with it but
for ite mall veleta which, it may be, yip%
not be able to get therein the warretowhioh
God send a!happy and speedy conoluaion„"
But no "fforeigriprince ehowed any alacrity
to become the owner of the jewel ; and after
waiting three yeers he thought thatnoseibly
tbe union of Seolland vrith Eogrand
Jadeite be made an occasion for its purohaeo.
"I heard from Lisbon," ho writes, "that up.
on the union With 'Scotland peeing our
Parliament 'twas intended to present the
Qemeetvith the royal title of Empress. I am
mho nothing is iso proper to aceompany it,
being the beet end, biggest in the everld."
Pate, however, bad decreed that the priza
was to go to the French Crown, and eventu-
ally the Deice of Otleans Weems the per -
°hater of it, nominally at the price of £135,-
000. We Bay nominally; because that sum
was never actually paid. It was agreed that
£40,000 should be handed over as part pay.
ment, and that three boxes of jewels should
be given as security for the payment cf the
balance. This balance was never forthoom•
ing, and the price, therefore, which Pitt/ r e
ceived was £40,000, plus the value of the
jewels. The sale was effected after Pitt'a
xeturn to Europe; and in the company of his
two sons, Lord Londonderry and John Pitt,
and his son-in•law, Mr Cholmondeley, he
personally carried the diamond to the Freech
capital.
So supreme was the value of the atone that
the greatest secrecy was observed in convey-
ing it into Prance; and Col. Yule illustrates
Pites nervous anxiety on this point by a cu-
rious story of an adventure by the way.
When at Calais, Pitt formed a friendship
with the landloral of the hotel at which he
staid, and before leaving expressed a wish
that he might be able to be of service to him.
"To this the landlord innocently replied
that he (Pitt) had a pebble in his possession
which might indeed do him the ntmosb ser-
vice." What he meant by "s. pebble" is
not clear, and Col. Yum does not offer any
explanation. Pitt, however, at once conclud-
ed that his secret had been betrayed, and
broke out in such violent abuse of his host
that the poor man fled from the room, and
Lord Lendonderry, with his companions had
the greatest difficulty in allaying the Gov-
ernor's alarms. Happily the diamond was,
after alheafely deposited with its new owner,
and Pitt returned to England a richer and a
happier man. But having thus gathered his
grapes, he was destined to harvest a crop of
thistles, in the hape of stories invented Iv
the envious about the manner in which he
had become posseesed of the stone. One re•
port was that the diamond was "one of the
eyes of the god Jagunat," and had been
stolen and sold to Pitt, the idol ever after
remaining single eyed. Another was to the
effect that the stone was found by a elave,
who, in order to hide it, made a gash in his
leg, and buried the jewel in the wound. In
a moment of confidence—so ran the legend—
the slave imparted his secret to a sailor, and
pro raised to give him the stone if he would
secure to him his freedom, The sailor made
the required promise, and having enticed the
hapless slave on board his Fillip, took the
diamonds from him, and then threw him
into the sea. So persistent were these
rumors that they gained some eredit ; and
Pope Plainly had them in his mind when in
the history of Sir Belaam he wrote—
Asleep and naked wean bunko lay,
An honedt factor stole a gem away;
He pledged it to the Knight. the Knight had wit,
S3 kept the diamond, and the segue was bit.
In the original version of the poem in Pope's
own handwriting, the laat line stands "So
robbed the robber, and was rich ae
which puts beyond (location the ineident to
which the lines refer.
The fortunes of the diamond have since
been as various as the winds of heaven. It
Was first made publicly 'conspicuous by being
placed in the crown arranged for the corona-
tion of Louis XV. In 1722, During the an-
archy ooneequent on the outbreak of the
Revolution, the Regent, as the atone was
called in France, and the Stunt diamonds
were stolen. Two yeara later, however,
they were reerovered, and in 1716 and 1798
Ube Regent was teritoe pledged to German
bankers as security for the coat of horse
furniture, Ab the coronation, of Napeleon
In 1804 the Regent appeared, set between
the teeth of a croeodile, in the pummel of the
Emmert sword. There the towel remained
until it was carried off in 1814 by Marie
Louise. It was however, returned by ehe
Emperor Franel8, and was rent for the cor-
onation of Charles X Daring the reign of
Napoleon nr,, it was mounted several
Omni, Erma in 1870 was deposited in the
Bank of Fiance, frore which, it was trans-
ferred to the cellars of the treasury, where
it now remeings— (Blackwood Megeelne.
The Speed of G ame Birds,
An old epotteman, talking to reporter
the other day fetid ; "1 ha,ve held my
watch on several kinds of ducks and geese,
but the main part of what I am going to tell
you comes from several old hunters who
have favored me with their experience, and
one of these old timers in a letter says "1
ean, tell you jusb about to the sixtyithird
part of a dot how much space any one of
them can get over in an hour. There is net
reilreed traiu that can hold a candle to
the side of the sleweet duck that Mesh'
"The Gamete -back can distance the whole
duck family, If it leye itself out to do it.
When, this duck is taking thinge easy, en-
ioying a little rim amend the block, as ib
were, it pea through the air at the rate of
About eighty miles an hour. 11 it has buil-
nenn emeewhere and has te get there, It puts
tyres miles beck of it every minute, and does
It may, If yen don't believe this just fire
equare at the leader in a string of canvas.
binges that are out on business °reties some
time. Deck that travela pretty fast, but if
You happen to bit 0)301 yen nee if it is not
the fifth or sixth one back of the drake or
leader. The drake does Ad always lead,
hut tt generally dem if there IS 0418 141 the
fleck ; 11 there are more they will gelatine
take the lead. If you wish to bring (Iowa
the leader you must elm at a apace of ab
iamb eight feet ahead of him, and. if he fella
you wilt find him a. long dietance, 'notably
two or three imams oir,
The mallerd is a elow one; it is all he can,
do to matte a mile 4 minute, but he can do
it if he weete to, Ills regelar rate is ehent
forty•five mites an hoar.
"The Week duolt icsn elOST MOIL Ile is
about as good an then:Miami, end the ntail
widgeen and wood. duck 04U pot do moat bet-
ter, The rod heed On go eaelly, and make
ninety miles an hour as tong so he likes, all
day if neeeeeery. The blue -winged teal, and
ite heantifal cousin, the green.winged teal,
cen fly side' by Ade for 100 miles in an hour
and take it estey,
"The gadwele, you me them here very
aeldom, though well known further West on
the Allegheny River an& at Kiehmenunock,
though looking like the troller& le smarter
duck and harder to ahoote It Cell Ilinke
einoty miles in an hour and not try hard,
44 Maybe you may think a goose can't
Whr, it can double the apeett of the festeet
trains on any of our reilreade. Of °puree I
mean a wild goose. Well, it has a big oar.
poretion, but It eAn get from feeding ground
to feeding ground ao suddenly that le fools
our best wing ehote.
"If you see a flock of honkers moving
along so high up that they aeon to be scrap
lug the sky with their haoke, you would not
think thee they aro mitkiog close on a hen.
dred mites an hour, hub they are. The wild
goose is nob much on foot, but it means bush
nese every times
"The broad -bill goose comes next to the
canvas back duck ie speed. Put the two
together and in an hour the breed 'bill would
nob be more than ten miles behind."
Poison for Rejected Suitors.
A curious custom prevails among the in-
habitants of the Sendeman Maud. When
a native girl, who has had a number of
i
anitore, s marled off by her accepted lover,
the wedded pair, within fertymight hours
of the wediing, send a oup of poison dis
tilted from the halalula tree to each of the
bride's former admirers. If any ot the
recipients feel that they cannot become
reconciled to the marriage, they drink the
poison and die; but if they decide that they
will survive the Ices of their intended
wife, they threw away the poison, and feel
bound in honor never to show'. tho slightest
sign cf disappointment/. By this system
the behead !a nble to live onfriendly terms
with the surviving admirers of his wife.
They were All Acreed,
I shall not marry Miss Creme, after all,'
announced young Bjenkins sadly. "Her
family seems to oppose the match too
much."
"Hang the family 1" exclaimed a aympa-
thizing friend. "Go in and win, Bjeretins,
just the same. What do you care for the
family's opin ion, so tong as the girls will-
ing?'
"That's just ib." explained Bjenkins, still
more sadly. "Mies Ci Ce3tla seems to agree
with them."
Attempted SuicIde.
TORONTO, July 1L —A maninamed James
Gorman, living at 58 Elizabeth street, made
a deliberate attempt to commit euibide at
one o'clock the other day. He swallowed
two spoonfuls of carbolic acid. Medical aid
was summoned, and when the self -victim
had recovered the use of his burning throat
he gave as his reason for the rash act that
his wife harboured a woman of dissolute
character. He was conveyed to the hos.
pital,
She Wanted a Fair Understanding About
the Matter.
A woman in the near vicinity of forty-five
and weighing within a pouud of one hundred
and eighty occupied a seat on the train from
Toledo the other day in company with a
soared looking young man who probably
voted last Fall for the first time. , As they
mentioned Detroit and the face that they
were going to atop there, a citizen who had
a seat ahead turned around and said he
would be glad to give them any information
he possessed.
i •
"Look where," said the woman in answer,
"1 want a fair understanding with you at
the outset. Who do you suppose this young
man is ? ' '
"Your—your grandaon, perhaps,"
" No, air."
"Your nephew, then."
"No, ale."
"Your own
'No, sir."
"Perhaps he is an acquaintance.'
"Re is my husband, sir—married yester-
day—and I don't want any mistakes made.
A dozen different people have taken him for
my grandeon or nephew, and 'I'm getting
tired of it. lie's my husband, sir—hu.r
ba-ind—and now go ahead and tell us
where we can find a hotel withdamily com-
Iforts for about one dollar a day."—[Detroit
Free Press,
TWINS. 1 SAM JONES. 1 LATE GABLE NEM.'
Tim tadennable Sympathy Thee often seine vendee, Expressions item Ie Evart- ,
teems Between Them.
Few thirty, are more mysterious than the
undefinable sympathy which dime exists be-
tween two Inings who came into the world
together. There can be no doubt that this
sympathy 14 real, and nob theeffect of the
imagination, an 801110 have toPPoimit So
far as it is known ib dime not always develop
itself and Admit, it is present Its cause is eob
by any means understood. ,A very real af-
fection generally exists between twins, and
often seems to show itself in, the earliest
dart of trimmer. It is no uecommon thing
for a twin who has losti his or her counter-
geitsies Sermons In New Orleans.
Christianity is the scheme of life.
You boys keep quiet or git out.
Now don't you feel mean, you old devil
you?
A. preacher who does nob hold family
prayer an't fit to be pastor of a. litter of
pups.
Some of you will go off and critialse.
You blebniou,thed fools, who cares whet you
think ?
Brother Black there don't want any more
member!: in his 'Aural; for half he' e gob an't
worth I log.
P°t1; to Pine away, drooping gradually into The °ale difference "'oetween the Ba tiete
the clutches ot the destroyer, who, in tak- and the Methodists is the difference between
high-cook-1,count and low-aochaa.hightem.
If any one here don't believe what I eaYt
and will tell me so, I will give him a hat
and some dentist a jab of replacing his
teeth, from the wisdom tooth down,
e
t.hpnic,
eible th
biggest fieat mime.
The penitent Aber is the man who falls
down, jumps up, rubs hithine, and goes
a-rp
You are all blackenouthed devils who
belong to the church, and when the yellow
fever came were white with fear.
I don't bow of anything too bad for you
old mangy hounds who refuse to vote againett
the damnable whisky traffie,
don't knowwho 'Obese fellows' spirituel
daddy.
You old skunk, you !
A high -license preacher won't be in hell ten
reibteir before the devil vrill have him and.
dled and bridled, riling him around and
exhibiting him as a ourioeity.
If any merchant here keeps open during
theta/ meetings it will be some little 15 cent.
elenext-ilartefor.his hidmand.tallow member of
eome church.
Just mash their menthe and 5 °level Worn.
The Lord on Catell therm infidele ; the
only trouble is he hardly hes le book small
enough 1 xr them to mellow.
I can put 100 of them; little indiele in my
veat packet end, never know they are there
execapt 1 feltifor my toothpick.
Whet are you old Presbyterleue kinking
about —you old pesenin.eatred hounds ?Live
ones kick—dead ones don't. If 9. man 'wee to
come to ertet towel mud talk aboat my
church like I have yours I would father cow-
hide htin or build a new cihurch.
Ing the other, hare -deprived life of all its
joy, But though ietenee fondness is no
doubt to a great extent the cause of suck
sad oecurremees, the sympathy which twine
have for one another shows itaelf here,
WMI MANY SAITkU nexus
hems are heeled out of the world immedii
ately they have entered It; others anew
them to live, but only under certain con-
ditione. In Western Africa, a little below
the equator, between 10' and 12' east longh
live a large tribe called the Ishogo.
They have manypeculiar customs, but none
more so than their treatment of twins and of
the mother who is so anfortneate as to bear
them. An ideeeeerns to exist with them
that no woman aught to produce inore than
a single child at a thee, and they seek to
eeotify the error by giving their deities
every elbeee of killing ono of the children
Were they have arrived at the age at which
they are considered able to take ore of
themeelven Tale is held to be at aboub eix
years cad; tibial, that ago has been pessed it
is thought by there: people that a proper
bale= between life And cloth hes again
been struck, end they do not deem any
further preeentionsneemeary. Inunsdiately
the birth of twins take e piece the hut in
which the event happened is ranked in
male meuner whieh will render it reedily
distinguishable from all others In the vie
lege.
Thom who heve reed amulets of Aid=
travels will probably remember the unani.
mous testimony which explorers of the dare
contleentt bear te the extreorainary loquac-
ity of its natives, Afrieans tellt as they
breatbe—unceetilegly, and yetthe =fortune
ate (nether of twins is
F01001N TO =MUM
elugle word with any but the immediate
membere of her family, She may go into
the forest; for firewood, and. perform the
hemehel4 work neemery for the exiatence
of heraelf and her children, but lb must be
all done in *strict allence, Intim she finds
herself near one of her close relatives. The
consequence of this peculiar custom is that
thelehugo womb dreads the advent of mina
more then anything) except, perhaps, being
ehildiese; And nothing Irritetee "a newly -
Amnia woman more than to tell her that
allele sure to be0Mile OW mother of two
children at a birth, When the she yens of
probation have dragged out their weary
length, a grand ceremony isheld to celebrate
the release of tint three captives, and their
admimion to the soelety of their fellowe.
At daybreak all the villege b %roused by a
proolemetion made (tithe principal street
and the mother and a friend take up a
deed on either aide of the door of the hub,
having previontly Whitened their legs and
hee. Tho reatiof the inbebitants of the
place congregate round About, and
AM A OIVE:g SIOnr,
the white legged women march avrey from
he bun followed by the twins, the mother
clapping her hands and capering about,
the friend beating a lusty tatoo upon a drum
and fringing a long appropelete to the oe.
oardon. Alter title procesreort has gone the
round of the village there is a general dance,
Then every one sits down to Ed great Meet,
and eating, drinking and &noun are car-
ried. on for the rest of the day and alt
through the night. As soon as the next day
dawns all reatriotions upon tho mother and
her offtpring are held to be eemoved. This
i
ceremony s known as "Mheze" a word
which signities both the twins and the rite
by virtue ef whioh they and their mother
are a3mitted to the companionship of their
kind.
awes in which ono of a pair of twins has
felt some disturbing influence at Avork with.
In him when evil was befalling his other
self aro numerous. As with all !netters of
the kind, the instances related are apt to
border upon the land of fietion, but there
are many which are perfectly well authen-
ticated. Though twins are usually alike in
form and feature, this is not invariably the
case. The writer knows twin brothers who
can scarcely be said to bear even a family
likeness to one another, and whose com-
plexions go to the very extremes of dark-
ness and fairness. But though unlike bod-
ily, they resemble one another mentally to
auch an extent that the pessed from bhe
bottom to the top of one of oar great public
Echoes side by side.
Saved by a Country Maid.
A Das .Moines despatch says :—Nebraska
has a Kate Shelly and she is a farmer's
daughter named Mabel Peck, living near
Blair, who risked her life during the storm
Saturday evening to save from certain de-
ettuction freight train No. 20 on the Fre-
mont, Elkhorn and Miesouri Valley line.
Her father's farm lies near the railroad, be-
tween Blair and Hillsdale. Daring Satur-
day's storm Mabel noticed that the water
was running down the track like a river.
Thinking something might be wrong she
threw her father's coat over her shoulders
and went down to the crossing. There she
found that 100 feet of the road -bed had
been washed under and the track wasburied in
debris, At this moment, through the sound
of the storm Mabel heard the whistle of the
east -bound storm,
as it ran into Hillsdale.
There was no one at the farm but her
mother and no one near who could aid her.
Determined to save the train and its crew,
the brave girl ran towards the out through
the torrents of rain and in the gloom of ap•
preaching night. When the train was half
way down the grade approaching the wash-
out the engineer saw the girl standing before
It on the traok waving the coat as a signal
of alarm. The train was stopped in time
and Its crew thank Mabel for saving their
lives. Miss Peck is eighteen yeara old, with
slight, girlish figure and dE rk ey is and hair.
Trein No, 20 has adopted the custom of giv-
her a grateful salute of greeting each time it
rolls past her father's farm-houde.
Altered eases.
Colored Led :—"Gemman to see ya, mune."
Lady of the house (at breakfast): "Very well,
John; show him into the parlor." John;
"Oh! but it's the gemman come to sweep
the chimbly." Lady (much nettled): "Then
show him up the chimney."
The Alternative.
The Dentistdaughter (who hears her
father approaching) "Oh, dear Edward
here comes my fatheri If ke should find us
together here we are lose Oh, he is coming
You will either have; to ask for my hand or
—let him pull out a tooth for you.
WAAER 11014 FITEL.
An ingestions lettentIon T1dda Wenlit
iiteVelnUenfte lieuSelsete Healing.
What appears to be an important lieveni
tion has recently been made public; in Pail -
lips Witt, It is no leas then the practical
andoheap 4198 01 water as fuel, The Anti -
mule maids of nothing linen pieee at gas
pipe from ego inchea ro six lochee in di.
tweeter, ae izay be desired, and of mmven.
ient length to flea cook or a parlor or other
heater, with hart logo or 4 stable support,
to keep 11 10 position. This Is placed in the
stove, with one end elighUy projeotiug, to
which is Attached a vemel of water with
etep cook conduit from the water vessel into
the pipe. Before:caching the steam cham-
ber the water to:mires through the most tm.
portant part et the invention, the part that
conetitutes or =Win the great discovery,
By mewls of it the water may palm into the
etem chamber, while the steam cannot pass
out. The pert of the pipe containing the
stem chamber is within the stove, elthongh
a emelt pert may behelthant if detireci, To
thiethe heatofamodereteveood,or coal fire is
applied, so to to boat the steam to a high
tenmerature sey 300 ° or noarly.400 ° ,when
lb, passes out 01 a small °rifle° Immediately
into the midst of a bed of coale or time
from burning wood or coal, when it is at
once retitled to there quire& temperature, 400'
or more, to be immediately decomposed
into its gases—oxygen and hydrogen—which
instantly becomeeflime, Oely a moderato
Summer are of wood or coal will be required
the coldest day in Winter, the gaseous fittne
furnishing the balance of the heed; needed in
the coldest room. The capacity for reducing
heat may be regulated to suit requirement
When it Is known that hydrogen ft tme
yields a heath burning fi ve ti m es greater than
carbon or about 2000 0 to 2500 *, one may
form some idea of the capacity of this little
contrivance for producing hear,
By increasing the temperature of the gas
pipe to about400 , the vapor may be de-
composed into its gases before axle from the
pipe, and in each cum, it is emitted in a jot
of blue Berne. In either case the oxyhydro.
gen fleme is easily produced and with a very
small consumption of fuel.
Take It Ray.
Now that warrn weather is coming on, the
washing getting larger and the work unusual-
ly laborious, it seems useless for the house
keeper who has all her own work to do to
spend her time and strength in ironing all
the course towels, dish towels, wash cloths,
etc., with the same assiduous care that she
gives to her table linens. In fact] we do not
see why ib is necessary that they should be
ironed at all. If folded neatly and evenly
they will lap in the cupboard or drawei
equally as well and after they have been
used once no one will ever know whether
they have been ironed or not. We will sleep
just as sweetly in sheets just folded from the
tine, and plain underwear needs but
slight attention. Now that it is no longer
considered improper to wear unatarched
dresses, underwear, ate,, much labor
can be saved by following the fail -
ion. It it hard enough to do what is
aotnally necessary to keep the household
in running order when the mercury reaches
100 degrees in the sheele,,and feelings of las.
situde almost overcome us, without our ex-
erting ourselves to do that which is as well
undone. Better spend the time gained in
reading or social intercourse with our neigh-
bors. We will undoubtedly feel better and
Lt is possible we might save a doctor's bill.
One ought also to be provided with a ker.
osene or gasoline stove. They are more
economical than wood, do not heat up the
house so badly, save many steps taken to
keep the stove filled with wood, and the
person ironing feels only the heat from the
irons and consequently is not nearly so much
fatigued. Every housekeeper should insist,
as one of her rights, on having all the con-
venienoe poseible to aid in doing her work
easily and quickly.
ea
'Russia Petting Servia,--The Rival Serviait
Kinn.
The 11 J 37-gual de Saint-Patersbourg" ova
the ovetien given to M. Persieni, the Rest
sian Minister to Servia, at Saitcher, on the
occasion of the anointment of the King,
shows that the Serviae people appreciete
Ituesiaia keen interesv in their country. !tag
The " Iroureal " Aber sa,y1, that Court*
Kaineetris speeeh before the delagationstdat
Vienna.
has hed the effect of inolerating the
tone of the Austrian prose, but Viet thetsite
nation 11415 410 more discptietine at the time
ie wag made than ib is now.
Advisee hems sheen received from Apia
saying thee a treaty of reice hag been cons
eluded between Metaafa. end,Tamasese
Lieutenant Thureten has (melte:lel hie
inquiry into the charges made by Germany
that astistance had been glven 1ffeitetafit by
the British. Consul at Apia. The invealle
gation reeulted in exoneration of the Coat
sal front all the oharges.
la the eU0QuAtere thet have occerred near
Arcpda between the Beyptian troops under
Colonel Wodehonse and the dervishes oao
of the dervishes have been killed and 700
others Immo either been teken prisoners; or
have deserted,
The village of Utebenclorf, on the Weser
River, has been destroye(lby_Bre, The lose
is erl0r111040., bona 01 life se reported,
Admirel Krantz brench Minister of
Marine and of the' Colonies, lute .414d0
demand in the Oharnixer of Peputiea for an
extra, credit ot 60,003,2000, for the navy, and
has threatened to temp if the money Is not
voted.
The Preech Senete committee *Koh had
the wetter he (Marge has approved the bill
for the relief of the FAUeirt4 Canal Gera.
petty.
The aced= of the Portugneee Cortes; clewed
yeaterdey. A general election wilt be held
n Oeto her next,
Two veasele holoeglog to the Utz xrabiqtvx
squadron will isle the Portuguese wreathe
at Delegoa Bay.
The Berlin " Post " eseerts that Emperor
William, whlle at Stuttgart, deolared that,
the new police measures whiele 5 eitzirland
proposed to adopt were euffielent to meet the
demands; of the autea P4were.= He cleeired
that public opinion be celmed.
Tree Spent* Clamber of Depeties held a
event sittiog yeateeday. Several of the
opposition membere endeavoured to explain
the extraordinary outbreak that ormurreel
during yesterday's amnion.
ightmare.
This is the resultof a, oondition of the
nervoue system in which the cerebrum Is
active, but in which there is no control of
the lower part of the brain,—that part which
controls muscular action. A person ean feel,
but cannot move. It seems to be a sort of
temporary paralysis of the muscles of motion.
It is sometimes caused by overheating ot the
spinal cord (feather•beds are not *lithely
out of fashion yet), and also by pressure
of the stomach upon the aorta. Perhaps
the stomach s distended by a late supper of
vedette indigestible viands, and lying upon
the back this great load impels: the oir tuletion
of the blood to the lower part of the body.
Sometimes nightmare is due to purely ner-
vous onuses, and can be cured by curing the
nervous dieorcler which has brought it on.
Weenie Barber Shops
Barber ehops for women seem to be in,
greasing in New York, and rimy of them
heve regular =sterner& The wotk done le,
of course, steamed el.moet wholly to brut&
Ing, eleaulug and making up the hair.
Many of the =tamer* keep their own
eombe end britaltee, ton,inthe pdgeonbtolos
which, one aeos filled, watt cups ta a barber
shop for men. The barber and, her anise,
ants are, of courae, women, and to ono of
them the writer said the other day ;—"How
often should a woman heve her hair
brushiell" "Every night and, morning site
ought to brush ie herself," was the reply.
Iany of them never brush it thoroughly
at all, and as for eleening it, all they know
about that ix; scour it mote or twice a year
with borax or ammonia, as they would their
leitohene. This nave the hair, yet they
know no bettor. Meey a fete lady
ces about with six months accumulation of
kb on her heed under a le:25 bonnet, and
would be horrieed to think herself not as
clean as she ahold be. Women who know
how to care for their hair come here once a
month for a dry thampoo to Olean the acalp,
and once a month I clean their hair itself
with oastile soap and water, drying it brit
mediately by spreadiug ie over a hot air
register. The heir should have air and
sunlight too, I think the hair oE American
women is becoming more and more scanty,
while nearly all the fine switches and wigs
of humsn hair in the market come from the
heads of the Garman and Stein peasant girls,
who work Imre headed in tie° fields, and
whose tresses are so long and thick that
they are glad to sell some of it for next to
nothing.
Tale of an Bsgetimaue
An Esquimau sat on a chunk of ice,
In the land of the Northern Pole;
Ile cracked his heels and he whistled twice
At a sight that alermed his soul.
For a stranger came over the fields cf snow,
At a *peed that was fearful, quite;
His cheeks were pallid and thin with woe,
And the frost: on his beard was white.
"O1, prifthee, pause," cried the Eiquimart
"From s hence do you come so fast ?"
"I come from a land weary leagues below
This realm with its storm and blast.
"1 come from a land in the far off South,
And I've traveled ten thousand miles
Since last the sun like a beaming mouth •
Turned loose on the earth his smiles.
" Pve clambered the mountains, on raging
streams
Full oft' I've been heaved and tossed;
f umpired a game for two base ball name—
Alas 1 And the home club lost."
Christine Nilsson.
It is reported of a Boston millionaire,
who had begun life as a poor boy, that he
gado a "house-warming' on entering his new
mi
mansion, and did not nvite his own brother,
a poor man. A mutual friend said to the
millionaire in the course of the evening, "I
don't see your brother present—I hope he is
not ill." 'No," answered the rich snob,
"but you know we must draw the line some-
where 1"
An anecdote of Christine Nilsrmn the
Swedish singer, told in America, illustrates
her freedom from snobbery :
Christine was onoe at the house of a re-
tired Chicago millionaire near New Yoxk.
A distinguished company had been invited
to meet her at dinner.
On entering the dining -room she dropped
her host'sarm, and hurrying in amazement
to the stately young butler, seized him
effusively by the hand and engaged him in
conversation, while the other gamete etood
waiting and the entertainer looked on in
astonishment.
"That man," she explained to the group
when they were seated, "is the son of a
kind old nobleman on whose estate my father
worked as a day -laborer when we were
ohildren. Fortune has smiled on me while
It has frowned on my old playmate, whom
I find under such changed oircumstancee
"Your father is an easy, mine -day, go.
day' sort of fellow, isn't he, Clara?" "Dan't
mistake hien' , George. I ke.ve had seitore
before now who thought that of lam, and
who have subsequently been obliged to admit
that he was a peeson of oonsidereble Moth,"
ninatee