HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-8-22, Page 3HEALTH.
Care e£ the Siok,
ine or she wiz.) could properly be intrusted
to feed the eeriouslyMMUStILAOW something
of the cmelitiee of different beide. Some foode
in certain die:wens have really a curative ef-
fect, se, for instance, coffee. 4five.gunoe, cup
of strong coffee conteina about 66 grains of ex-
tract or an equivalent to about two grains
of caffeine—often quite sufficient to relieve
neuralgia, or re headache. Beef tea contain -
big a generoue cmantity of red pepper is
quite equal to (mugs in the treatment of
uelirium tremens. In ieflemmation of the
stomach and intestines, liquid food made of
gelatine, isiogiame Irish room and gemmed,
have a very eoothing effect, and iii scene
cases recoyery tikes place under their use
slate.
And ao we might 1ZO on with evidepoe of
the curetive effeeta el many foada. From
whet has been said people ought to be Able
to underate.nd that the deties of the PhYsi-
clan see by no meana confined to drugging,
and that when in any case he is limiting
his treatment to dietetic means, he is doing
what demands equally as much ekill am
wouldtheproperadniinietrationed medleinee.
And here it le well to sem that phyaicians of
the presentwhenever they can do so, em-
ploy Nature's ample dieteticremedies, al.
Weer* in preference to drug. Life dependo
upeu diet, and the reatoration of health de-
penda upon the same principles as ita 'pre-
servation. Dimino is the resulted the viola-
tion of the lawe of hreeth ; hence the Seat
step towarfireemzery le to eetablith these
law, The meterial for repair and eupporb
MUM) agree from diet, and often in &awe
a cure token piece under tat proper admit:de-
tretion alone.
There IS yet one other eoint to bring for-
ward in reletton to feeding the rterteesly
Mak to phew that the applierstIon of dietetic
meeeuree can never properiV be intenilted to
other than alrilful handa No tem patients
are Mike, .110nee AO tWel wIR ecareely de -
Mend Extketly the seine treatment. Oslo
may require that theaeuriebutent be peer -
outs, in feat, ell that the system can dispose
of, and yet, for the other, ill with the Saele
t dtacese0 atm elletwill be much the heat,
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Want of Sleep.
BROM THE UNITED STATES TO
EUROPE.
A itaiiroael trent Waebington Territoee
Through British Columbia and eibislea.
it is highly probable that a railway from
Spokane Falls to Alaska will be constructed
within the next few years, aid M. IL A.
Johnston. I AM OA nay eway bome from
business tali to Washington 'Territory, and
wlaile out there my attention wart called to
this project, and I spent coosiderable time
looking into it. The movement ia tn its
Infancy, but it hoe the baciting of the weelthy
inen of the Northweet and of the people of
Britieh Columbia, end I believe the road will
be built. Tee idea leeks strange and
imprecticeble at the firm glance, bur, as a
matter of feat, the obetaoles tobe encounter.-
ed la the oonatruction of such a line would not
be as great as were met with hy the Central
Facifio andthe Northern Fecific. It is pro.
poised to begin theerallroad at Spokane Fate
making that city the southern and eastern
terminus. Competent engineers place the
total cost at el30,000,000. Mr.Walter fdober.
ly, engineer for the Government of Britieh
Columbia, has exsminedtheproposed route,
and believee the route could be built for less
luoneY Per mile than the Canadian Pacific,
and would prove profitable.
Art to the route projected, ib is neceseary
to explain the physical conditione of the
country so thee the feredbility' of the plea
may be seen, The Rocky Mountains enter
Britisheolumble, in about the longitude of
Salt -Lake Cites and tend westward untll
they join the Alaska coast range, breaking
in the northerepaet of Britigh Columbbe bete
three rk.fAllelreAges, The eaatern rauge 18
the Rookie* proper, the middle renge le the
Selkirk% and the weatera the Columbian,
nog% The Cc/tunable River *ea In tee
valley between, the Booklets and the Selkirke
and flowe north until It reaohes the ex.
tremity of the latter range, around which.
it tune and flow beak south heeweere tire
Selkithe and Celeuthian, mimes into Week-
ingtene Territory, At Ore paint where the
Columble terms the north end of the Sel-
kirk range it reoeiYea 4 strong telbutery in
the Came' River, The toed a,. protected
would run Menthe trailers of the Columbie
and 1,110 Canoe, then over belle from
Tate Cache, and down along the Fraser
River to Front George. Thence ie would
have to °tore a long, out not delt pats
Are you a filictee with insorrada 7 Perimpa to tee eadoy of tile yukou dawn 01011 it
yen ltaVe too =oh timer ter Bleep. Perbape wool go ea the meta ee ;eat great river, a
You denend toa 10'14 an if/eeP for "a° and dieteace altogether of about MOO milett,
recuperattoe. Far aleepie not the stole rested
timed - up nervee. SoeiabUity, congeniality,
enjoyment of geed company rett the body
quite As MU01% si sleep,
The dreary monotony of life in many a
houeetteld, involving this tetanus Into bed
with the methealeal regulerity of a =whine
at mine or ten o'clock in the evening, dace
not elweys zest weary bodies. ° Betty to
bed and early to ztae° doe not eivreye
make a =ea healthy, wealthy or Mb%
Numbers of orgeuizetlene ere only care
able of Smear Mx hour*" sleep at A UM*, and
their arly lybag down to red la often
auceeeded hy an early veking up and a
conetquent restlesta twain for hours prece-
leo daybreak. The practivere of puna'a
ality are often turprteed after breaking
their own wet irorezulea, and pasaing two el
three later home of mirth and jollity put
their weal bed time, to find themeelvee
even more refreshed in the morning than
usual. Tire relaxation of sociebilite hat
vettedthem mon than would sleep or en
attempt to deep. But these are condition
not SO easily reached in the average family.
In fashionable lilo we have a fennel, ex-
hautting and mechanical evening ofemore or
leas dissipation. On the other ihaucl the
eveubles of vele tuenthers el faroiliee are
monotonoue butane,. They tiavolve the
assemblage of the same people, the same
surtoundinga, the mine paterfamilias yawn
ing over his paper, and the same queurions
MIMM4 overladen with family oares. Fresh
people with freah thought, fresh atmosphere,
anything to Mir up and agitate the pool of
&mettle ateseatition, areleadly needed and
eadly mince. Time needs to be also it, con.
Mint auceasion of tuchfreshoeople to bring
about these results. The world is full ef mer
and women, and, in a better regulated Me it
would be the Oedema after the dallier work
was done to entertain eat& other, and give
each other freeh life. As it is now, hen.
deeds if not that:sends of our houeeholds are
little better than cella for the incarceration
of each family. Thousende are thus worn
out premararely from the utter lack of
domestic recreation. There might be written
over the graves of hundreds of thousande
"Bored to death by the atagnation of domes
tic lifeee-iThe Christian at Work.
Ice -Water.
There is a great deal of sentiment and
many opinions regarding the use of iceeve.ter
that vanish when the light of reason and ex-
perience is turned upon them. The fact is,
thab ice -water, drank slowly andin model -
ate quantitiee, oonatitutes a healthful and
invigorating drink. There is no doubt that
ice is a great sanitary agent, and every
family ought to be provided with it during
the warmer months of the year. It is true
that the inordinate use of tee -water, or its
nee under some special conditions and
circumstances, is attended with great danger,
Bo is the improper use of any other drink or
food. The aseumption that iced water is
dangerous, and that iced tea, or iced coffee,
or Ned lemonade le a harmless substitute, is
simply a delusion. As the source of danger
feared by some is the degree of cold, we fail
to see clearly how flavor modifies the effect
of temperature. There are eome individ-
utile. undoubtedly, who cannot drink ioe-
water without injury, and who ought never
to use it, but to a great majority of persons
it is refreehing and healthful. Its use,
temperate and diemete, is in no way to be
condemned, which cannot be said of mune of
its substitutes.— [Sanitary Volunteer.
Hyena-Speating in India.
The Yawl is bordered moat of the way
by a wide lied plain and terrace, and
cenatreetton along Its betake would be ample.
't Where woulel the thati get be revenuer
was aoked.
Well, to began with, it would touch the
famous Eaotenal valley, a eplendid Agri.
cultural and cettleniaing region. The ptople
of Spgisene Falb hews for some time been
figuring on &reed eighty 'Mice to the bound-
ary to counect with a road for whIch.
carepany of Cerradiaue and Engliehmen Imo
mend a charter, frOM the boundary to the
Canadian raelflo at Iteveletoire, 200 Miles
further north. The Euglieh company will
commence vfork thie mourner, and their road
would form the firetilek he the Alaska road.
Thie, however, is merely to traow that tho
Kootenai region ia valuable and thee the
Spokane Felts people know it. There aro a
greet many mines and deb &pelts of ore
Along the Calurobiamind an Euglith company
is betiding a smelter at Reveletoke to handle
them. Needy every stream running into the
Columbia carries float gold. The Come
River rune through a greet Inc end embryo
mining region, and from the Yukou come
gold, fur& and timbersand frora Its mouth
the amis. All along tbe route of the road le
valuable country either for mining, stamen
fiaheries, Agriculture, atock raisin, or tim
ber.
Would not the snow and ice prevent the
aperation of knell a road '
That is apparently the greatese difficulty.
Any one at firat would think that the climate
would be an inenemountable difficulty, but
it is positively inserted by thom who ought
to know that the climate would cause no
more trouble than it does on the Northern
and Cenaeian Perini°, You know that the
mean brazes temper the climate all along
the coast, and and it is very little colder in
Sitka tben it la in New York. Now, this
road would run west of the mountaine nil
the way, and the further north ib gots the
nearer deo it go to the coast, so that the
clime° would be comparatively temperate
all the way.
The road would be operated for the joint
use and benefit of British Columbia and the
United States, and it is proposed to have the
province contribute its proportion of the cost
M lands, and the United States to give ita
guarantees for the payment of interest for
twenty years on $50,000 per mile of the
cost,
There is another important poinb in connec-
tion with this road, The Russian Govern -
meat is now engaged in building a railroad
across Siberia and deem the Amoor to its
mouth. A road is also projected from the
main line on the Amor into Kamchatka,
and to ecime port on Behring's Strait, only a
short distance from the month of the Yukon.
This line, in °inflection with the Alaska
road would form a practically all rail route
from Europe to the United States.
The hyena, though smote; useful scavenger,
se is not a noble looking animal, and his nature
is decidedly mulish. He le not a beast us-
ually.eeleeted Inc the chase, but affords• a
certain amount of fun when nothing better
is to be had. Many a sporteman, when dis-
appointed in finding boar, has liad a run
after a hyena. These beasts do not go at
any great pace or charge like a brave old
boar, yet they are not easy to spear, by rea-
son of the quicknesa with which they
turn and twist. The animal has just
turned sharp at right angles, and
thrown out the mann, who is about to
spear him, letting another out in, while the
home of a third, putting his foot in a hole,
COMM down, and then, getting rid of hie rid-
er continues the chase on his own account,
biting and striking at the hyena, which
makes no attempi3 to resent this strange on-
slaught, We observe that Mr. Moray
Brown, in his excellent book, " Shikar
Sketches," mentions a similar incident Bub
• doubles and turns can not always save the
hyena at last a weledirected speer -thrust
ends hie career on earth and finiehes the
difficult pursuit.
Victimized Innocence.
Not long since a Yankee made his appear-
ance in the goodly Dutch town of German
Flats, profeseing to be a schoolmaster, and
commenced preparations for opening an
English school. The honest Datehmemde-
lighted with the project, received him kind-
ly, entertained him hospitably and stood
ready, as soon as the necessartepreliminaties
could be provided, to patronize his under-
taking. Under these eircumetances the
Yankee purchased of one of them a very fine
horse, giving his note at six months from
date as the purchate money.
Shortly after this both the Yankee and
the horse were missing, and a neighbor,
meeting with the former owner of the home,
mid to him :
"So, Hans, you have lost dat der horse of
yours ?"
• "Row so ?"
Why, dot Yankee you sold Iffin to has
run away enit him."
"Val, vat do I oare for dot ; hain't 1 g o
his note V'
Illdiaa Medicine Idea and War Dancers.
The habite and 0Astores of Nome of the
Western tribes are 00 little known to the
general reader that, perhaps, a description
of some of their curious practices may be of
some interest. Mr. Peel Beckwith has
Published an interestieg paper on the
Dekotehe in the last repent of the Smithson-
ian Institution, and among other things he
remarks that the medicine man or high Priest
is invariably a chief, and although he main -
teem his away by the use of mysteries and
incantations, nevertheless at times shows a
Power wbich is not understood by those out-
side of the cult or °brotherhood, and through
e knowledge of the medicinal properties of
herbs often performs curea that lead one to
believe ..he is not altogether the charlatan he
is represented. Ilia cures are often the
wonder of the army surgeons.
An incident in point is cited in the ease of
an Indian who one day came staggering into
camp with his leg liereibly swell= from
bite of A Ve)3012101113 snake. The camp Burg=
could do nothing for the sufferer, but he was
completely cured by the medicine man. An-
other cage Is quoted in which a cataract, of
the eye was cured by inserting brass filings
into the affected organ. To impress upon
the mind of the patient the &Vine ostAre of
his medicine, the medicine man add e to the
efficacy of his remedy mysterious verde-
mimes, contortion* of the bodyand features0
always to a drum accompaniment. If Vie
patient is affected with a, serious ailment,
he pima a paper or bark figure on the
round, and, while the patient fa head over
it he firea a gun, by which Roe the nick -
nen paws into the image in the mead and
le killed by the diet/barge of the gala They
elate thee all this power IS reeelVed from
the Oreet Spirit, who °Were upon them e
opiritual median(' SO powerful that they eme
kill it will, reSUPeltere the dead, and cure
the sick. This spirituel medicine la rem-
tieutea by anything that etrikat the foamy,
as A benell of feetbere, a 014W, A bird, er the
heed of an animal.
When a ettunall le held* 4 harrteede is
erected lu the form of 44 ettipte, and 4 tent
is raised at each end of the meleriure, one
foe the high pelage or wedging mon And. the
other for ten men who have been eeleeted
to keep girder and conduce the eereMeey,
acting aa & orb of pollee. The high prlest,
from hie seat be the medicine tent, appoints
your assiatente, one hearing a drum, one a
willow and Mick, one a reedit, and the last
mastitis by greeetres. A big dnm in the
center of the envie le being conetently beaten
by mweral drummers!. Tee high prreet then
evoke to them of the holy deuee which woe
founded onto** ago, eud tellethem of the
power of the =Melee of their ancestors
and warning eizeptio net to mall At them or
their crafts, at they have Mellower of linnet -
lug A claw or stem through the body of any
one at will, aiming Cunene (lath. In Fool
of thie eeileetien, be calls one of b18 ASSUIAMM
to him and pointe towerde him wilh the
medicine hag, at theme° instant pulUeg
him with hie lir, whereupon the wedeteut
lalle to the around apparently =teem
Thee the print SalSaUnt ZO the four pointy
of the cempees, awl invokes the Great
Spirit to aid him mid tbe other membere
punt in Wirer* the dead brother to life
The drum are then beaten mad a !natio
&neeje hegunel when the lifeleee
foirm gradually returns to OOteadOUSWOIS end
eptra into his baud 0, mem of froth Mid blood
inivideli is tonna a claw or a stone. Thebigh
priest now dances around the circle, autl
swaying hie median° hag, blow upon eame
one elso, who In the same meaner, falls to the
grimed denselets. The chief continues, tied
the 44 dead mon," reviving, meta ie Amon
lug others, until the Malmo Is fiel of howl'
log savages dancing, yelling, mad ihooting
each other. The Mincing is kept up in the
moat frantic manner. After a certain length
of time the four assistants, wbo have been
trotting around the ring faster an. faster
form in line, and after advancing and retreer!
log several time, thrusts the instrument'
into the halide of others who become theit
euthessore and then take seats, and now re.
presette the gods of the earth, south, east,
and west, the high priest representing the
Great Spirit, or Wan-kan tanka. When ta
new member is initiated, he le taken into
the council tent for instruotiorve which, aro
mord. lle hi then stripped of his clothing,
emptier; an apron about his loins and mom
casino on his feet. He ig then panted en
drely black except ta email red Pilot between
hie shoulder& The candidate is exhorted to
bo good. and is told that his meaicine will be
correspondingly powerful, and he must elm
give a feast once a year. If he don not,
he will meet with misfortune& *idleness, or
death. The candidate now receives the holy
claw oratone. The medicine Mein, approaching
him from the east, desoribee the course of
the sun with the medicine bag, and bowing
to the four points of the commis& mutters
an incantation, and thrusting the bag toward
him nays, " Teere goes the spirit." The
candidate then falls prostrate, and blankets,
akins, ornaments, etc. are thrown as offer-
ings over the candidate.; At command of the
high priest the novice recovers and is pre.
muted with the medicine bag, becoming a
recogniztd member of the order. After
these ceremonial) the feast begins, and the
food which has been cooking before the
tent of she assistants is distriented among
She people. The dance lasts from day-
break tc daybreak of the deg following, and
as these dances are frequently given in
winter with the thermometer often far below
zero, is may easily be imagined how the
candidates must suffer, clad as they are in
a coat of paint. it le generally understood
that the members of the orders have secret
sign' and passesebut the penalty of exposure
is so sure and wife that none of the secrets
are ever divulged. Tbere are well known
instances in which indisoreet members have
mysteriously but permanently disappeared,
at the instance, it issuppiised, of the medicine
men.—[Scientifie American.
What is Fog?
In an interesting letter to "Science," IL
A.Hazen, of Washington, gives some inter-
esting and valuable partionlers respecting
the properties and nature or fete He says
that it is admitted that fog is amply cloud
composed of water duet or solid minute
spheres of water from 1-7,000 to 1-00,0,0 of
an inch in diameter. Many have Happened
that a duet particle must be the nucleus for
each sphere, but an examination under the
microscope of evaporated fog has proved
that such is not the ease. Briefly. aided, the
cause of fog is as follows:—It is essential
that there be no wind. The sky must be
clear. The air must be saturated or nearly
eo. he formation of fog is a purely
When a man goes:out for a "spin" on the mechanical process, unaccompanied with
road he should use a "toe" buggy. heat.—[New York Ieraldc.
The Berth's Fiery Ordeal. '" ODD 4.0kE" ftRN PO UGHT AT WATEW.100,
There are la the SoriPteree end uttered. 97011, my lada, loan see With half a look . one orate combatants Still Wine
oPhwritings. is e thzeugh aof most of the Ancient ramie thrrible ortt of eace, I meet my overboard eye that if I am to have 011
'0110 Story,
Peooeof fierY ordeal ner pyou a m" said
the "'th and its PenPle muzb 8Qme day CfldJack, ae thieboysvie gethered aperroued bhni
eager for a sbOry, "bat just where to be-
gin is a pUSZler."
"1b me Imo, cud 1 ever ten you about
thst thunder Moral we heel away down, in
the tropics? No! Then jest wait a mia.
eta till I fill; my pipe, and ill heave abeath"
"A long time ago, 1 shipped as au ordin-
ary gesanen %board 'a large Nova Sootier
barque celled tee enlitehm. She was mum.
liereeden and was bound trona Vitoria, R.
O., to Cape Town, South Afrie,a. We had
piene melding voyage till we anived 18
Omit 30 degrees eouth Latitude and there
is where I had, my firet experience with a
storm at sea.
"One fine morning we erased within
sight of Pitcairner Ishind and had lovely
weather all day, but ween I relieved the
lookout at eight bells (midnight) I knew
there would soon be a deoided ohmage. Far
away swarth the horizin wart ehrouded by
one solid cloud whose blackness, was enough
to make one sitiver, and gnoe ia Willie
could me a fainb glimmer awh thro4g-a it
and shortly after I could hear a growling,
such a" 014 Carlo melees when he tries to
get away with hie rations..
We were cerrying °considerable ceases
and altogether I did not 1818 the leeke et
Malaga I knew thet my position on the
topgaliant forecastle wee not to be envied
when titer° was lightning to be contended
with.
'N1n a eernerkably /shore speee el time
that aloud was diratly over ne, bet, to my
eerpriee, there wee no more thatader er
light -Meg and 1 was Prat About to eorgretta
late royeelf when there wee a amide n
411413414ge in tlee things 'Oust we loved, Ben
Bolt," for at that Instaut everything which I
eauld have aeon ter breed daylight; Mood oaf;
veldt etertlitag dietlectutese, Appereetly
beentifal hill of elettrioity /tail *lighted
in front of rum and quiekly felletrieg it canie
a emelt that wise aimply oppellieg. I thought
that the :earth had, eplit asunder mad that
we were to be engulfed In A fethOenleSS
Oyes underneath the austere keel.
Then I heard the mate slog out for me to
"let go the fore royal italyarde 1 1 1 1"
obeyed with gut& A degree cf. peomptieude
Mat it ceme near being the rumatioa of the
spec, for as the wind was direetly eft, you
ace the Sall Wa9 becalmed by the- mederoyall
and when 1 cat the helyerde adrift the
whole outfit fell until it was Mopped by the
data and in le A O*tiZery te me thee tee
yard eV:Aped beine sewed in twee
Wells I repined my station agate, and
triad te bad 4 feta leacc, but may search Wall
A failure, AU. baseart were at work therten
Ing
PAM We wonder with more or leas curls
orrity if such a fate be actually la IcaSSZVA
for our planet, and we interrogate mimeo if,
perchance, we may diegover any minima of
ouch a possibility. •
Science hair no area information to give
us, but the astronomer exhibite a circle of
• the heavens Oiled with what he believea are
the: ponderous fragmeete of an enormous
• n!auet, which has been, shattered by SOMO
violent cenvulsion. The geologiet shove tie
vast continental areas of dry land whiCit
• have, as he believes, once boa deep down
under the sea, and the historian precteuts us
with treditions of lands and people that
have been swallowed, up in the abysses of
the ocean. There are Medea of Mars that
• heire &mad icto briiiiaeee and 646117 disap-
peared as if they had been =slimed in a
coeftigration, while the eartinmeares and
volcento eruptions which Wealth our planet
entiounce the actual aurvivel ot formai and
egenclee that make possible the moot ter-
rible ea -badmen, and mem to euggest for
• tbe future disturber -toes as profound and fors
• niidahle as any that aver oocened in any
• peat age.
It le in this connection that we are led te
consider some recent nbterancea On the sub.
jeet of the enormeue volume of Infleternable
gas stored up in the cruet et the earth end
recently brought' Into neater the most Ina
peetant economical purpose& There 19 an
area of COUAtzy 18 WM1sylVania,WeSt Virgin*
Ohio thdeperhape other Stott*, erithraeleg
many themand square ranee, whtele ire trader-
wleir ale MOO extraordinary and ex-
tensive stone el coal oil and cowl gas. In
the past twenty-five yam althea been taken
out to the extent of millions on millione of
Woke while gas la moping at the rete, as
It hefts been recently eatimetha, of 1.000.010,-
000, Wale feet each day. The flew of both
°it and gee te ee greet thee the belief is ware
ranted teat the eupplieg, notwithethading the
extraordinery daily depletion, are etilleurer.
moose
Beyond the exiateace of this gee and oil
aud el the cord bade, which also eaderly the
greater portion of the United States, we
Anew =nay nothing of aubterranean con -
Maxim ; but if we can assumes the presence,
at great depths in the earth, of fire or of
militient hot-mei:lug agencies to operete en
the esiM elder we mey well imegiew that by
the eetten of eacb, beet the petroleum Is
dietilled from the eteal and the gas te, at
the SAM tine, liberated, but betel =main
Mewed up la %vides or la the pores of the
earth weal extracted by the 'wane. Ara
loos ate these ethemulatione of gaa eed ell
retuala sealed up In the depth of the ow
away from actual fize, there is ne risk of A
coutiegretiou. The eralre peesthility of epee
delver tti dependent upon the eld40130e af
fire and On ite contact. under Womble ithu-
dltione, with then infiemmehle computed%
As the ell arta i(44 AVO drewo eat weter.
mad Mr will find their way late the collie*
thus vaceted, aud the geteeglate hen fere,
eaeteda pezeible period where by some meh
appellee all the veto now eppearleg epee
the metro of the lend mid Mak into tbe
cavities of the eerth. Thie netemeery. fluid
will then tally be attainable by drawn% it
from Wile of extort/Mabry depth. It is even
hold that tbe emu Is one of then dry trimmer,
beteg deetitute of tentage teeter, whielt hes
aunt& into treaty end honey -combed Interior
of that body. This water. main Inc =teat
with the interior fires of the moot, produced
terrific internal throes and volcanic erupttena
whit& continued to wreak the moon auttl its
Urea Wete extinguished, and it beeeme, as it
le now believed to be, A dead, dry planet.
Coming beck to our own prospects far a
tonflairration, it would he necessary for the
mut in the earth to be sufficiently mixed
with oxygen to make iv inflammable. This
eould occur from the eir which sepposed
th enter the cavities of the earth to take the
ptece of the eecaped gas, or oxygen could be
eupplied by the decomposition of the water
into its constituent elements through the
action of heat There is no certainty that
the heert of the earth is a mess of fire, al-
though it it ao held to be by some of the
theoriata ; but it would be easy enough to
acme fire there by electrical or °hernial
action or both. A poiverinl onreent of ter-
restrial electricity trying to pass through a
formation of poor conducting power would
easily burst into flame, or water poured. epee.
a bed of quick lime would produce a like
malt.
A Broken Jumping-Sask.
If General Boulanger hoped to fire the
French heart when he penned the bombast%
pronunolamento which he recently iesned
bearing his name and the signatures of
Countaaillon, and the bully and blackguard
Lewis Rochefort, he wars unlucky in his
choice of material. The French aro an ex-
citable race. Oae day they dediate muse-
ums ; the next cley they are shooting ea&
other across a street barricade. They have
impetuously responded to Boulanger's pre-
vious appeals. He has done little in the
last two years but demand and receive yin-
dicatione. The ministry would take some
action which he would construe into an af-
front. He would issue a bulletin and de-
mand a vindication. Some department
would return him. He was charged with
complicity in the decoration scandal; im-
mediately he was vindicated by an election
from another department. He was banish-
ed and—elected; he was deprived of his
rights—and now another proclamation and
the announcement that he is to Mend for
election Inc eighty dietriote at once.
There ia something intensely alluring to
the Frenchmen in Boulanger. He realizes
his ideal of the "man on horaebaole"—
military glory. There is about him ant
enough of the suocessful soldier and just
enough of the charlatan to please the craving
of the Frenoe nature for romance and
sensation. He oan always be depended on
to be picturesque and startling, and those
are the chief qualifications of a French hero.
He is an enigma. Promoted for proficiency
in the science of war, he is a failure as a
Flossie Improves the Occasion. '
Floosie had been eating intemperately of
watermelon.
"Mamma," she said, pressime her hands
wearily on her stomach, My ash is just
like a window ash, isn't it ?"
"In what way, dear ?" asked the mother,
smilinely.
"Because it's around the pains," she re-
plied,. demurely.
"Give me a proof of your love, George,'
she said, and George ad 00 by the manifold
process.
Tho White Hart of Southwark:, one o
England's most famous inns, whoee history
goes back five centuriee, is being pulled
down. It has been assorested •with Jack
Cade and Mr. Pickwick. Shakespeare
makes Cade say, Inc "Henry VI.': "Will
you [needs be hanged with your pardons
about your necks? Hath my sword there-
fore broke through London gates, that you
should leave me at the White Hart Inc
Southwark?" Then Inc "Tho Chroncole if
the Grey Friars" it is recorded that "at the
VVhyt Hate, in Southwark°, one Swap
dyne of Sent Martyns was beheddyd " Inc
1450. But more interesting than these
events was the fact that here Mr. Pickwick
first met Sam Weber, the White Hart
boot&
Meeewlitle, the boralmaineut =tinned,
and, bogie began to wondeelf some of Shorn
tbere zeds, Neptune and Vulan and them
fellows, were not lemming our destruellara.
Every heir oA my heed rote up like a
wire, end if my seu wester had riot lam tied
to my head by a rope yarn, it would. bevel
tekeu grebe on ita own immune forever
end A clay.
Pectey soon It began to rain or rather pour
ilea meat violent meaner. Soddenly there
wee A OW% MON brilliant then the other* ;
then a crab which. tteerned to rear my emu
from my head, while from the iromwork fo
my vicinity there suddenly sprang 10111
shoot of flame which cocteuded at lent sixoy
foot ahead at the ship. 'toll monies' to the
deck, where I lay for Aimee two minutes
totally unconsaloue When I recovered I
thought wee overboard, and iromedietely
hogau to mem, lint soon discovered my Mie
take
and fouad there were eight lecties of
war an the eloping der*.
immediately rushed eh to help men the
boats, but no demagehed been doue the sbip
and ahe was not leaking! A perthile.
All the watch on the deck were knocked
down by the commotion lint I NM the only
one atunned. and lave always thought thia
was caused by there being so much Iron-
work around me. All the ehlp's standing
tiggiog was of iron wire and when duet
thunder bolt strucile so near us it appeared
AO If a million green fiery sorpeate were
°hailing eaoh other through it,
The tqW111101b 110 as suddenly as le wane.
Fifteen minutes after the laab mentioued
flee of lightning.the Sky was prima) clear
and the marts twinkling as merrily as ifeinch
a thing as a %well bad never been thought
of. We sheeted home, hoisted our mile and
once more the temp outwater of the clipper
barque sent tee whiti way flying as she
Rept majer &ally onward towards the eon
ling forties.
fointers on the Pasbions.
gt The correct tints for letter papsr," stem
a Cheatflub street stationer, 'ate cram
white and mauve, or a delicate shade of blue.
Square envelopes are used with paper that
folds onoe. Ladies employ tt monogram in
gold and colors in the left-hand corner, or
directly Inc the centre of the sheet. Some,
however, prefer the double cipher that is
in vogue Inc England."
Fans of etiff feathera have for the moment
usurped the popularity of the ostrich feath-
ers. The edges of the softly -colored qnills
are pinked and scalloped at both sidee and
top, and charming scenes are painted across
or elaborate designs in gold and silver traced
upon the stiff surface.
A pretty sailor hat was made by facing
the brim with white silk lead on in tiny
pleats, a wide ribbon passed about the crown,
and where it was twisted to a olater of
loops was set a bunch of clover lemes and
blomems of uneven length that bobbed and
mimed gracefully with every movement of
the head.
With the univocal Whim for Iblouses of
every sort are the all-important belts that
confine the fulineos of she waist. Taese are
of soft dressed leather, ribbon, canvas and
me tal links. Leather, with silver temps,
La the most popular, and worn by men and
girls alike with tennis end yachting mita
Hints for Housekeepers.
If by chance a fishbone lodges in the
ndethlet
John Scott is an Beghelimen, atilt living
and Ball able bo do some msmnal work,ewlso
took pare Inc the beetle of Weterloo. He is
deecribed aa bealtheelooking man for hia
age, rather but with 4 heavy ateep 18
hts shoulders, which makes him look shorter
that he really is, Ilia featuree are regula_,r,
and though his whiseers ere whiteetbere le
scarcely a Nthibe hair Inc his heard. His
employments is not laborious, even for A man
who ia nearly 85 years of age. chief
work it M ring A bell In the morning, ab
nights and at the meal hours. The personal
recolleetione of the battle be vriiich be took
put are confined to what went ondineneee
gully around him. Intervieviecl shore
thee ago by reporter for the Newcastle
//fader, he said:
"My father was A Soldier in the Black
Watch. I was broughe no in the armeeand
was in Belgium ie Jape, 1815. What I lead
to do was play tee triangle. I wee Inc the
Yileck W3t•ch too, but my arms weren't muah
pet a plieel and a xpaall evrord. Quatro
Brae was rt good deal worm than Waterloo
in my opinioe. My faaher epoke Gaelic are
well as Engiish, and A lot of the Meek
Waeih trite °maim But Welliegton asilL
he IVOUla not have it, for by tbelimee Ged
he would have every Man speele see
"Alter the battle we go e A XeeCi, And then
we had to much to Waterloo. Abotte 11.
• o'clock on the eight of the 17tle of June it
commenced to rein heavily, The raja
poured as bard as it could, Axel Whet A
eight tbAZ WAS i Weil a petate Alld we
were in, bat I wrapped nay oiCrAk areerad
me end gem e good aleep. I remeraber I ley
juat on the skle of 4 little bank, and tee
water was running (IOWA On betlot Side* of
Me. While in the morning there were two
inebea Of reed awned na At daylight we
were up, and gaol; AS go; A gime of zune
mei a ehetsla bieentle
Before the flehting begen the Bake of
weffiegtort came Mehl up to 1:14 0414 cried
N'ow,I hope you ate well and reedy.' One
ur soldiewslagedratta and leaplirel; 'Yea,
we keow our duty,' Wellieglion veined and
rode oft
" for the bettle. I remember vary Me
tie. It wee netaing bur fighting end exelte-
ent The limeveriene 'were 4 splendid lot
et meu and alt of teem fought well; het ea
fee the'llelesees, if Wellingten bad. only
hermit whet they were he would not have
given 011e Of them a berth. We were ahore of
inraee !Mahe would bevel team theize and
made every nun. ef there tremp on foot.
They never fired 4 *heti tor AS Seen MI the
that creek was tweed they were off Al hoed
es they oeld go. Ali they 1Qua tho fight -
g mat en, but the motto Meal; so Wok
weed ite thee we could see little. There
watt nothing but urieg med aboutleig on All
eidee, Sometimes Viers the eineke lifted we
e3uld see delitiog eIi aterawil us. SeMetIMOS
ex levet et to our rielit reel left, when we
rneld ace the cavalry chergiug cab other.
Thee %let el horeee would come ileing acne*
he field. In all dice etieue, intghleg and
elekIng Tasir Adone. were pee •
'hey had hem shot out of the eaddlee au
the horse* were gelleping madly away to
eacepe. Teerie ware ma Zeglish reeitueue
ear ea and I remember seeieg the Breach
eharge at them. As soon as over they
would Appear the F•cglbh woald yell : 'Bog.
baud forever l' Nero they eveseld gat at
them and then they cheered, fired away,
mei off would go the Breath.
" Sometimee we ley on the ground doing
nothing, We could scarcely See twenty
eards aheee of tut for melte, but then We
would know something. was coming. We
eboutee and fired streight at titan, and
away they ;snub teed weregeue the amok°
• again. But they wculd 600A turn, and back
they would emirs again. And so it went on
all the time. I was not frightened: I was
too excited for azythine. I played. my tri-
angle and shouted 4 SCOthAi. for ever l' till
I was hoaxes, and, could, ecarcely speak a
word. I never got a ecrateb, but I tbank
moat have boon nay height that tiered me.
WAS SO little that I bed not much risk to run,
bat the Black Wetelt was to cut up that it
bad to join with the Seventy-Bevouth.
• " Bat the France bed no rearince that day.
They were no match for our army and the
little Frenchmen (mulct not stand' the big
Englishmen. It was the eame with the cav-
alry, for our nein could ride over teem. The
&gash collet have fought all nib e but the
French would not let them,
Mr. Seott maintain° his contempt for the
French to the last. 44 Tney hate tie
nee he, "but the English beat them at
Waterloo, and ecu alweera do it."
Where They .Rear Gir:s Oases.
Inc the report of Uniten States Consul
Griffin, seitioned at Sydney, the consul tells
of a remarkable custom of the inhabitants
of New Britain, as follows: "The inba.bit-
ants, it is said by Wallace,. have a peculiar
custom of confining their girla Inc cages until
they are real enough to be married. The
custom is said to be peculiar M the people of
New Britain. The osges are made of twigs
of the palm tree, and the girls are put into
them when only two or three years of age.
The Rev. George Brown established a
Wesleyan mission Inc New Britain in 1876,
and I learn from him that them cages are
built inside of the houses, and that the girls
are never to leave the house under any
circumstances. The houses are closely
fenoed in with a sort of wickerwork
made of reeds. Ventilation under the
circumstances is rendered very difficult
The girls are said to grow up strong and
healthful in spite of these disadvantages."
"He Got There Just the Same."
Edith ?"
::1!..ThTairoemaVv) sty important queation to
ask you. And—"
" Yes, Tom?'
"Now, don't work any sister racket on
" What is your question, Tom ?"
political leader; decorated for personal.
bravery, he betrays. his friend and pa tron throat a raw egg immediately swallowed •
is gesdis---gIrswbelel,pletfsadot inc
nf ittheis, ionsoz paper
' k -box which will usually detach it.
advertisements, don t you know ; and I was
. .
soon—in the local paper, down titixt to the
wondering vvhether it would be all acme
among the deaths or with yenta among
the meariages ?"
" Oh, Tom I ain't you cute ?"
The Whole &kerne Given Away,
A Kingston woman feels very more over the
riddle, e ,
whenever the ministry shuts the lid, bobs A teaspoonful of ammonia Inc the water Inc
up with a proclamation, which always / whieb silver is walla reduces the labour o
secures him a re-election from somewhere I keepieg it bright. .
Of late however, there have been signs i To move tar, rub well with clean lard,
thee the French are becoming bored with afterward teeth well with sap and water;
Boulanger. He is passe. They are vela- I apply this to either heeds or olothing,
tile, and artily see fresh heroes. Even I
e hey .out .oe linen, dip the inkaepet
Baffelo Bill—William le Baffle, as they 1. T° take
m pure melted tallow, then wash ou the
all him—has eerved to at aot attentton
the exiled mischiefmaker. The tone of his tallow and ink will come out of • latest escapade of her seven-year-old incorri.
latest manliest° showe shat he realizes this, Chemists say that it . takes marc than gible. There were some visitors invited to
for in hie vain attempt to call attention to erwice as much sugar to sweeten preserves,
d d nda tO game eta if put in when they begin 0 course of the meal John Henry Augustus
tea one evening recently, and during the
imse e losestemper
mere jawing. His mietake was Inc leaving cook as it does to sweeten, after the fruit is
France. He should have staid Inc Paris and cooked.Salt should not be added to oa fa
,
fought it out. They would have jailed him, niea luntil it has boiled at least ten minutes.
but what of that! No man is a hero of the —[N. Y. Mail and Express.
B 1 until he has been martyred. •.n.
ou anger sort
There's nothing like martyrdom to raise
sympathy. Then, too, itis a long way from
Dover to Calais, and about as the little gen-
erea will the strong winds of the channel
will not be roared down. We are afraid
Boulanger's name is soup.
A
Limited Conveniencee.
Mattress, entering the 'sheen!) "Bridget,
have you cleaned the chicken yet?" New
cook (with an injured au.)—e As well as I
could, mem, with nothing but yellow soap
M clean it with."
remarked, with e chuckle • " Mother's got
all her best things on the table tonight;
ain't you, ma The mortified mother gave
, the yonimster a kick under the table, when
he added, innocently "i ou needn't kick
me under the table now, 'cause I didn't tell =,
a word about borrowing the napkins."
Dresden china eeM ornamented with fancy
• work Inc silver deposit are much affected in
' aristocratic Circle&