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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-7-3, Page 7pa TKE ILLS of BABYROOD. owls A.dxioe to Mothers About the Rearin Of Infants. THE SACRII'1OE OI vamp LU'E, (Noll Nelson in N. t World,) Prom a physical stand point babyhood, which embraces the first two years of Tito, is the most important period of life. In all the animal kingdom the most helpless is the human offspring. The new-born babe oan utter a feeble ory and is possessed of a degree of automatic motion, but antil. the ninth day of existence there is no evidence of intellectual life. Infancy ie more often than otherwise the victim of ignorance, and in the very first stage of life is laid the foundation of diseases that swell the het of mortality. This fearful saorifioe of child life is not a necessity, but a natural sequence of the violenoe done to nature. There is no more reason why the modern baby ehonld run the list of so-called infantile diseases than the parents should wrestle alternately with the boils, gout and rheumatic twinges, to whioh the clubmen of the day are subjected or violated laws of health. It has been proven by the registry of vital statistics that one out of every five infante dies before the completion of the drat year and one out of pix before the second year, the best argument that can be advanced for the importance of a more general knowledge of the care of young children. For the following facts I am in- debted to Dr. F. J. Bowles; Dating the early weeks of existence the conditions essential to growth are food, digestion, nutrition, respiration and sleep. It ie not until about the sixth month that the monies and ligaments have acquired sufficient strength to enable the child to support its head or to sit upright. Parents who do not heed this natural process of elevelepment must not be surprised to find indications of pressure upon the internal .organs or curvature of the spine. A healthy baby will Bleep a greater part of the time for the first few days, and it ie .not necessary to waken it fortionrishment. It sometimes happens that the milk does not supply the required amount of nourish. went, and nature offers a compensation in an increased amount of sleep. These two states must not be confounded. In the atter a regular habit of weighing, and of noting the conditions of the muscles will show a leek of firmness, and that the baby is not gaining its one pound per month. The demand for warmth for the first week will require that the baby sleep et night in contact with the mother, but not that it be 'wholly covered so that it breathes nothing but impure air, freighted with emanations from the skin. It is well to begin at an early date to accustom the• baby to going to sleep in its crib. This will do much towards establishing a regular and early hour for retiring, and will save the mother a good deal of care, in addition to allowing her the disposition of her even inge. The position of the child in the crib ie more favorable to development than that of lying in the lap, and ite Bleep ie not in. tempted by being transferred to the orib. Some one has suggested a basket for carry- ing a baby to and fro in the nursery, the swaying motion being agreeable and the sides admitting of a oovering being thrown over without interfering with the motion of the limbs. A baby that ie held in the arms of the mothers or nurse a great deal and rooked to sleep before being put in the crib will soon become so exaoting that the mother's time and strength are all consumed in waiting upon a healthy child. Ae the child increases in interest with age the wisdom of having strictly observed the hoar for " putting to bed " will be apparent. The demands made upon the nervone system by vigorous playing in the ,fresh air can only be met by a full night's No child should be out of bed at 7 o'clock in the evening. However pleasing the intercourse with children may be, they cannot with impunity be allowed to figure at evening receptions. Of the many fail- ures to emceed in adult life, how many can he traced to unstable nerves. The way to keep them strong is by enpplying in full . doses that best tonic of all, " Nature's .sweet restorer." It is not well to have the room painfully eatill in order that baby ehall Bleep. Rather accustom it to sleeping in a room where there ie the ordinary noise incident to moving about. We are 'creatures of habit, and this, when acquired, will save many wakeful hours later, as well as add to the comfort and freedom of those in charge. The nursery should be an airy room on the sunny side of the house. Fresh air should be given undiluted and unsparingly. Children born in warm weather may be taken out when a week old. It is better at first to go out often, for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time, than to take a prolonged airing. It is a bad practice to Dover the faces of babies with a thick hood for the purpose of keeping the cold air from the lungs. Yon compel the child to breathe the air it hes already exhaled, atbest but partly mixed with pare air. This inoreases liability to take cold, in addition to depriving it of what the blood and other tisanes need so ranch. The advent of a tooth with its attendant irritation, does not offer an excuse for de. priving a baby of its outing. Neither should a slight cold with a little Dough. Fresh air without medicines will do more to improve both conditions than an unventilated room with medicines. As a rule a cold, unaccompanied by fever, does not offer an obstacle to a child's going into the open air. It does require, though, that they should be more warmly .clad. All are quiok to appreciate the im- portance of protection by clothing against cold when going from a warm room into ethe open air, but all do not recognize the importance of protection against the shook of coming from the cold air into a warm. 'room. The clothing should be laid aside .gradually, -so that the system may acoom• amodate itself to the ohange. A failure to observe this ie a fruitful source of catarrh. It is necessary that the eyes be protected from the glare of the eun'e rays, as well as from the grate fire, The vision in young babies is imperfect and the eyes very sensitive, and great harm may be done by oareleseness in this ,reepeot. ren will be invigorated While strong child orated g by exposure to a degree of cold, others who are frail and weak would have their lives endangered by an bgnal oouree of treat- ment. It would be inhuman to attempt making these vigorous by reokleea exposure. l tistobe remembered that many feeble children, when judiciously oared for, be - •some useful citizens Unless reliable indications to the con• )trary are present, babies should be bathed daily in water at the .1emperature of the ',body, dried and rubbdd with a soft hand, Asad then dusted with unscented starch powder. Tho unscented is to be used, as by it en odor pointing to a condition calling for treatmentis pet maeked. ,After a time the temperature of the water ehould be lowered to that of the room in whioh the bath is given. The beat time ie when the baby wakes in the morning and before it has taken nouriehment. A light bath at night has a' tranquilizing effect upon the nerves and invited sleep. A fixed rule as to frequepoy for all gaeee can- not be given. It is well that the regular morning bath be followed ley feeding and then Bleep before the baby is taken into the open air. Children are very susceptible to odors such as from flowers and certain oils, and their nerves are often disturbed and they made irritable by them. A German physician reports disastrous results to a baby by the father rubbing a rheu. matin joint with Sabine oil while near the Drib. The praotioe of drying wet and soiled 'clothes in the nursery is a pernioione one; and should not be tolerated for a moment. They should not be need a second time until washed, but baby's room shoat, i not be used for laundering purposes. Nothing should be permitted that takes from the purity of the air that the baby breathes. Lost Its Ball Club. An editorial from a recent issue of the Punkin Holler Weekly Bugle laments the. death of its pet baseball nine in the follow- ing touching manner : They have gone ! The darlings of the diamond have evaporated from oar midst, and oar hearts are bowed down in woe, while we sadly turn us to our patent boiler plate visoera and embossed paste -pots.. No more the an ice of the tape.wrestler, suddenly taken ill with the cramps, will disturb the serenity of the dry goods store. No more will the post office close its pigeonhole at 3 p. m. sharp. No more will age notes go to protest because the cashier, teller and clerks of the bank go to spend an American holiday and swell the multitude in whooping np things lively for the heavy hitters. Alas ! The flower has been plucked from the stem, and Punkin Holier is no longer represented among the Great United Consolidated Empyrean Baseball Conde'. lation. They were the very flower and gems of our ohoioe ; they Dame among us strangers —and have left us without settling their board and beer bills. Bat each things are chronic among the fraternity, and we take no note ofeiommon oocurrencee. Like Hagar in the wilderness we wait for our Jim Dandy pitoher, and he returneth not. Gone to a distant clime where his pristine glories will be lost among his en- oroaohing creditors. As the prong.horned deer pants for the water -brook, so do we sigh for our modest catcher, who wore a bird cage, a pair of boxing gloves and a two. fool liver -pad. In the sad silence of the long -drawn hours of the night, we lietto the yells of the bull pen—where of old the kids were wont to congregate—for jest one echo of glad rapture. and we hear it not. The dismal flap of the banner we won last season, and hoped to defend with pride this season, sounds like a knell of mookery as the breezes toy with its rippling folds. The lade -da shortstop hag gone, and the ruminating bovine has usurped the stamp- ing ground of our diadem third baseman. The outfield grows grass and smartweed where once the agile dandies.clomb the bine ether to pluck from the clouds the pigskin. Where the first and second basemen won renown, the fertile tomato cane and ancient Billy -goat flock together. Thus we bewail the aching void that is left ne, and will know no comfort, because a veouum has been left in our being. In the quiet of the night the wind soughs along the grand stand, and the dim phantoms of the Punkin Holler Nine arise to mock our woe. ' Roman Baths in America New York is to have bathe like those of ancient Rome. A company was formed at a -dinner given by John Brieben Walker, editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, at Delmonico's one evening last week, and all details have since been arranged, including plans for the building. The structure will Dover a whole city block and accommodate a vast number of persons at once. It will embody all the principles of the ancient Roman bathe of Caraoalla, and yet will be fitted with all modern appliances and com- forts. The outer walls will be of terra cotta and brick or atone, and all the floors will be marble or tiled. The building will bethree stories high and will contain on the upper floors several rooms that may be converted into libraries or gymnasiums. The bathing- rooms, whioh will consist of a large swim• ming pool, hot bathe, plunges and dressing - rooms, will be on the ground floor. Separate compartments for men and women will be constructed to permit both to bathe• at once. The baths are to be open all the year, and the cost of a visit will not be more than six Dents. Bishop Potter is au the head of the committee in charge of the enterprise and the company includes Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Seth Low, Erastne Wiman, Nugent Robinson, F. Hopkinson Smith, Richard M. Hunt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William Astor, ex•Mayor Hewitt, Brayton Ives and Joseph Choate. This looks like a praotioal scheme. And if it is praotioal in New York—surrounded by Balt water and with water resorts in every direction—why not in Buffalo, which hie none of these advantages ?—Bufalo News. Great Britain Leads. A summary of vessels built during the year 1889 gives a total of 1,20,679 tone for British porta and 46,210 reported from Continental yards, Northeastern ports head the British liet with 717,699 tons, the Clyde standing eeoond, with 335,- 201 tons, and the Belfast next, with 79,885 tome. The exports of engines and machinery were the largest ever recorded in the history of British oommeroe, namely £15,254,658 against £12,932,625 in 1888, an inoreaee of £2,323,038. Taking simply steam engines and parte thereof, the Argentine Republic eves the largest customer last year, taking $610,296 worth. NUMBERING}' TRIS I,'EOPLE. The United Statee oenens ie taken this year. The other oeuntriee that take their census in the year, ending with 0 are Austria-Hungary, Colombia, Denmark load Switzerland. In Groat Britain, Canada, Ceylon, Franoe, India and Venezuela the census is taken in the yours ending with 1. Our turn will therefore come next year, With respect to Great Britain, the paaeing of the 1 oputetion Bill in 1800 was the first provision for a statutory oeneae, The original proposal for Buoy a measure dates from a period some fifty years earlier, when a bill " fpr taking and registering an annual a000unt of the total number of people was brought in by Mr. Thomas Potter, son of the Arohbiebop of Canterbury, a barrister of the Middle 'Temple, and member for St. 'Germans. The project was violently op, posed ; Mr. Thornton, member for the city of York, deolaring in the House that ` until then he " did not believe there was any eat of men, or indeed any individual of the human species, so presumptuous and so abandoned as to make snob a proposal." This gentleman declared his conviotion that the project was " totally eubvereive of the last remains of English liberty." " Moreover," he added, " an annnalregister of our people will acquaint our enemiee abroad with our weakness." This denun- ciator of the oeneae was not alone in his antagonism to the scheme. The feeling was widespread. There was a fear that the proposed covene would prove the pre- eusor of fresh taxes, and would prepare the way for a conscription. By the returne of baptisms and burials, reaching baoldrin the case of many parishes to the year 1571, estimates of the popula- tion have been framed which show marvellous results when compared with recent statistics. It seems almost incredible that the populat on of Engand and Welesene 1651 was actually lees than the present population of what is called " Greater London," a designation which includes " Inner London " and the " Outer Ring." Yet a good authority tells us that the figures may be relied upon as sufficiently correct. It thus appears that the population of England and Wales underwent an increase of less than a million in the hundred years wbioh ended with 1751; whereas in the next century the increase wad nearly twelve millions. Be. tween 1851 and 1881 there was an increase exceeding eight millions, bringing up the total for England and Wales to twenty-eix millions. This point being reached, it was calculated that the population in 1891 would prove to be about 29,843,898. Ac- cording to the yearly estimates since 1881, there is every prospect that this forecast will be found to approximate very closely to the truth. A feature of great im• portanoe in regard to 1871 was, that it afforded the first instance in which a ()ensue was taken of the entire population of the British Empire, the total at that date being found to be nearly 235,000,000. The under- taking was described as "the vastest census that had ever been ,taken in one empire." At the last oenens the number had risen to more than 254,000,000, the increase in the Uoited Kingdom being 3,400,000. " Who Says Women Oannot Beason ? Teacher (at Sunday school)—Betty, what have we to do first before we oan expect forgiveness of our sins ? Betty—We have to sin first.—San Fran- cisco Wasp. • Although 85 years age, Iaaao Mc- Lellan, who was at ooltege tbith Longfellow' and Hawthorne, and who wrote the '' Poona of the Rod and Gun," never niiseea an opportunity to fish. Policemen ought to be very successful in speonlaltion. The servant girls always let them in on ihe ground floor. It is learned that during Me stay in EuroP e Andrew Carnegieie will call u o t Mrs. Mary Schenley to induce her to give a 30•aore site upon which to erect the $1,000,000 library he proposes to build for Pittsburg. Temperance reformer --Have you ever taken the pledge ? Toper—No, but I've taken everything elae. .News from Scotland. Edinburgh Exhibition was on June 6th visited by 12;849 persons. This brings she total since the opening up to that date to 521,769. The failure of James Damen & Co., timber meroleants, Leith, with liabilities which are understood to be heavy, was announced on the 5th inat. Mr: W. A. Bell, of Bletchingley, Surrey, has accepted an invitation of the Unionists of the Leith Burghe to become their can- didate at the general election. Mr. Thomas Shanks, the founder of the well.known engideering firm of Thomas Shanks & Co., and the first P.ovost of Johnstone, Renfrewshire, died on the 4th inst. The Rev. Wm. Alexander, formerly of the Free Church, Duntocher, Dumbarton- shire, died suddenly on the 2nd inat. at Dalmnir. He was 83 yeare of age, and retired from active duty six -years ago. The entries for the Queen's Prize at the National Rifle Association meeting at Bia- ley from Scotland are considerably in ex - cosi' of those of previous years. There are nearly 2,200 from all parte of Great Britain. They new service of trains between the north and south of Scotland by the Forth Bridge over the North British system was commenced on the 2nd inst. Waverley Station, Edinburgh, was found quite in. adequate for the traffic. About a dozen passengers were in1ured by a collision which took plane between two trains near Aberdeen on the 5th inst. Mr. Esalemont, M. P., and Mrs. Esslemont were among the passengers, and were severely shaken, by the accident. The estate of Easfield, Forfershire, was sold the other day for £16,000. Only fifteen years ago this estate was bought for £31,- 500. That shows a depreciation in value of about 50 per Dent. Yet Lord Derby de- clared the other day that the value of agri- culture land had et last reached bottom. A. Man's Rights at Hems. The citizen may, in his own honee wear what clothes be likes, use what language he likes',' and, generally speaking, may do in his own house what he pleases to do ; save only the things which conflict with what some other householder happens to please at the same time, or the things of. whioh the coneequenoee would be injurious to the whole body of citizens. -In Boston, for instance, he may, in his own hoose, swear freely, which he cannot do outside without committing a misdemeanor ; in Washington he may take the name of the Trinity in vain, while if he does it in the streets he renders himself liable to be fined two hogsheads of tobacco, and in Maine and Kansas, if he oan get wine and beer into hie house, he may drink it without let or hinderanoe and withont a physioian'e certificate.—F. W. Whitridge, in Scribner. Methodist Church Statistics. The'reports of the Statistical Commit- tees of' the various .conferences of the Methodist Church show an encouraging increase all along the. line. The member ship returns are as , follows : Toronto, 37,728, an increase of about 700 ; London, 27,254, an increase of 672; Bay of Qainte, 29,965; an . inoreaee, of 787 ; Montreal, 34,156, en increase of 1,073; Gnelph, 28,420; an increase of 126; Niagara, 26,814, en increase of 792. Total membership, 184,437, being an inartistic of 4,150. It is queer. . Soorates was accounted wipe'; but he never read the bible, knew nothing of Kant, Sahopenhauer or Comte, and could not for the life of him have passed an examination on'the snbjeot of American history. Princeton's now dormitory, now nearly tin feted at a cost of something over 5 - completed 7 P g . 000, will be paid for by Mrs. Susan Brown, and the same lady has given to the college $100,000 for another dormitory,the erection of which will be proceeded with et once. There is a brook famine 'inManitoba, and in consequence building operations in'many instances are suspended. TEA. 'Q.BL1?1 GOSSIP YQP'IMM IMPBAVrrY. +' mamma, I link'' Tam not well, Said lazy littlo,pgabel' The beans I'd given her to ehol!, Neglected on the table,. ger dimpled oltoelts with roses vied ; kIer eyes the stars resoitibled; The chubby terns my faith defied "My darling had dissembled,. I'm sorry, dear," I gravely said, Because you'll miss the puddings; The place for sick folks is in bod, With not a taste of good things,' Sho thoughtfully smoothed out her dress, Ibis wicked little sinner ; " Then I'm not sick just now, I doss, 1,11 wait till after dinner." —Onpid'e busy season is over. —Short hair clips are in order, — Fancy buckles are in demand for bate and sashes. —Method is a better businesa qualifica- tion than brilliancy. —My imecess is owing to liberality in advertising,—Robert Bonner. —Advertising has furniehed me with a oompetenoe.—Amos Lawrence, —It's English to torn up the trousers at the ankle if the least cloud be seen in the sky. —There are many people who prey,for a change of heart who ought to pray for a change of head. —Don't fret about what your reputation will be after death. Tombstones are mighty charitable. —" John, have yon sanded the sugar and watered the milk and molasses." " Yes, sir." " Then yon may come in toprayers .' —The discoveries made by Stanley show that the Nile is the longest river in the world, being at least 4,100 miles in length. —Elegant simplicity is the watchword. Get the fruit of the loom and make it up alone and without gather, plait or crease. —As a rule, women need about nine - tenths of the nourishment requisite for men, boys of 16 about the same as women, and children of 10 halt the quantity needed by adults. — A scheme has been taken in hand by Lord Brassey to turn Brussels into a sea- port, by building a canal and three ire. menee basins large enough to admit ships of 1,000 tons. — First find out how many men there are in the world and you oan estimate ex- actly how many ideal women there are. Every man has an ideal woman of his own. —Boston Globe. — Afternoon caller—Is Mise Lippitt dis- engaged ? Nanette—I'm afraid so ma'am. I just seen her young man hurry down the front steps with the diamond ring abe's been wearing since April. —The question Dame np in a gathering of lades the other day, " When does a woman cease to love Dandy ?" but as no body who died was present there could, of course, be no definite decision. —If you can't sleep at night as well as you wish, says the Atchison Globe, find some special reason why you should get up early. It is a sure eure for insomnia. Yon will go to sleep the moment yon get to bed, and sleep till long past the hour you wanted to get up at. —Outside of an orphan asylum the soft- est snap enjoyed by any of the oeneae enumerators was that of the Virginian who ran across Mrs. Martha Gray and her 37 children. She has been married three times and had triplets six times and twins pis times. She ought to have a pension. How a Charge of Shot Travels. nen standing within a few yards of the gun's muzzle at the time of discharge a person would be amazingly astonished were he only able to see the shot as they go whizzing by. Experiments in inetantane. one photography have proved to ns that the shot not only spread out, comet -like, as they fly, but they string out one behind the other to a mnoh greater distance than they spread. Thus, with a cylinder gun, when the first shot of a charge reaobes a target that is forty yards away, the last shot is lagging along ten yards behind. Even with the choke -bore gun some of the shot will lag behind eight yards in forty. This accounts for the wide swath that is mown in a flock of ducks on whioh a charge of shot fella just right. About 5 per cent. only o! the charge of shot arrive simul• taneoualy at the target, but the balance of the first half of the charge is so close be. hind that a bird's muscles are not quick enough to get out of the way, although those who have watched sitting birds when shot at have often seen them start as if to fly when the leading shot whistled by them, only to drop dead as they were overtaken by the leaden hail.—Frank Leslie's. The Fatal Blonder. The proud Boston beauty rose to her feet and rang the bell. "Mr. Terrapin," she said, freezingly our acquaintance is at an end." "For heaven's sake, Mies Osgoodeon— Miriam 1 " exclaimed the thunderstruck young Baltimorean, "what have I done ?" "Sir, yon have spoken of the Ibsen en- thusiasm as a fad. Clytemnestra, show this gentleman to the door." Granite in Maine. It is said that there are thirty-five kinds of granite in this State, each one'' of whioh possesses distinctive oharacterietios readily recognized by workmen acquainted with monumental and building atones. There are all shades o! what are termed white granite, the most beantiful of which is the Hallowell, together with the red granite of Red Beach and the black granite of Addi- son.—Augusta (Me.) Journal. The Frenoh have tried smokeless powder with the biggest gens successfully. -Louisville, By., has about 180,000 of a population. —I advertised my productions and made money. Nicholas Longworth. There is no particular difference between the shop -girl and the ealea-lady; but the difference between them and the floor- walker is often something awful to beh. Edwoldard Bellamy is talked of for the first Mayor of the new oity of Chicopee. Joseph O'Neil, a New York truck driver, started a drunken row with Janitor G. Dreadea in a yard on Oliver street on Saturday night. O'Neil was fatally stabbed. The Moorish Board of Health, as a pre. caution against cholera, has ordered that all vessels arriving from Spanish ports on the Mediterranean shall remain five days in quarantine. Tho majority of Mr. Mercier in the new House is now placed at about 24. Late news fromWolfe returns Mr, Picard, the Conservative candidate.ate. Majority, 86. —Once in a while a girl falls in love with a man becauseho is " so delightfully wicked." It isn't long after the wedding that the "delightfully" is dropped. Large ohippmente of foe are now being amide from Chicago to New York. GETTING TIIINOS MIXED. The Lives of Iwe Western Newspaper Men Saved by,a Proof -Reader. In a certain Western newspaper office the gel, yleman whose business it is to record the fluctuations of the live stook market, sits norm from the young man to whoa() lot is falls to report wedding ceremonies. Both, says the New 'York Times, are gra• phio writers, and enjoy that latitude of ex- pression characteristic of Western.journal. ism. Both use the eame kind of paper and. their pemanship is pot unlike. Not Icing ago the wedding reporter was suddenly oalled out of the office, and left in the middle of the table several sheets of paper on which was a desoription of a fashionable wedding. These sheets were gathered np by the live stook writer when he finished his report, and the two stories became mixed. This. what the zealous care of a proof-reader, later in the evening, saved from reaching the public' eye; " The church was elaborately decorated with holly and evergreen and the altar was hidden in a wealth of flowers. Out .of the recesses rose rare tropical plants, and from the ceiling hung 15 western veale, which at this time of the year are scarce and oorre- spondingly dear at 6 to 81 oents per pound. There was also an active demand for choice lambs, and farmers east of the Mississippi river lean profitably turn to sheep -raising and take the bride, who wore a gown of white corded silk, a creation of Worth's, with pearl ornaments." "Then came the maid of honor, the cousin of the bride, Miss Henrietta Blower, of Chicago, wearing a dress of white tulle with diamond ornaments, and she was followed by a small bunch of Montana sheep, whioh bleated most piteously as they were driven on board and shipped to the winter hotels in Bermuda. They will there be out en train and slightly decollate, and after the rest of the party had reached the rail the minister turned and said impressively : " I cannot bid more than 61 cents for State veals, but cablegrams from London quote refrigerated beef at a price that will enable me to pay $4,90 for a oar of ohoioe Indian beeves, and hearing this there was a rush for the young married couple and the bride fell into the arms of her father, who is known to bear a striking resemblance to— e Connecticut .ox, weighing 1,875 pounds. The market here took an upward turn, and the guests, who numbered about 200, were served with a sumptuous dinner at the hoose of the bride." He Found the Schoolmaster. We were sitting on theveranda of a hotel at Niagara Falls, when I noticed the man on my right looking sharply at the man on my left, and presently he got up in an excited way and walked about. After a bit he halted before the other man and asked : " Isn't yonr nan,,.Graham ? " " Yes, sir," was the prompt reply. " Didn't you used to teach school at Elmira ?" " Yee, sir." " In 1863 ?" " Yes, sir." " Do you remember a boy named God - kin ?" " Very distinctly, sir." " Do you remember that he put a pack- age of firecrackers under hie desk and touched them off ?" " As if it happened only yesterday." " And you basted him for it ?" " I did. I licked him until he could hardly stand, and I've always been glad of it." " You have, eh ?" said the other, breath- ing fast and hard. " Do you know that that boy swore a terrible oath ?" " I presume he did, es he was a thorough young villain." " He swore an oath that he would grow np and hunt for you and pound you within an inch of your life." " But I haven't heard from him yet." " Yon hear from him now ! He stands before yon 1 I am that boy 1" " Well ?" " Prepare to be linked 1 My time has come at last 1" - He made a dive for the old pedagogue, but the latter evaded him, made a half. turn, and hit him on the jaw, and Godkin went over a chair in a heap. Then the whilom schoolmaster piled on to him and licked him until he oried " enough," and it didn't take him over three minutes to do it. Then he retired to get on another collar and replace some buttons, and I helped Godkin up and observed : " Yon didn't wait'gnite long enough, I guess." " Say 1 That's where I made a miscue 1" he replied. " I see now that I ought to have held off until he had got to be about 150 years old. The old devil is all of 70 now, but he licked me right off the reel, and I'll never have the sand to stand op to him again. Here's thirty years of waiting for vengeance knocked into a, cooked 'hat in three minutes 1"—New York Sun. Management of the Lawn. Do now mow a young lawn too closely, nor allow the grass to grow too high. Bear in mind that when a plant seeds, its object for that season is accomplished. Until the groes is well under growth too much mow- ing is an injury. Apply manure on the grass in late fall and ashes in the spring. On bare spots or weak lawns the grass should be allowed to go to seed before froet, which will be an advantage the following spring, when it may be kept in order with the lawn—mower.—Philadelphia Record. Ready to Change Her Religion. I learn that the King of the Belgians is very snaking that his youngest daughter, Princess Clementine, Should marry one of the sons of the Prince of , Wales, and that negotiations have been going on with the object of arranging this alliance. Princess Clementine, who was born in Jnly,1872,will have an immense fortune, and I hear that she is quite ready to become a Protestant if a change of religion should be deemed expedient for her temporal interests.— London Truth. —Briggs -Say, old man, what are you doing for that cold ? Griggs—Coughing. Train boy (to passenger)-" Magazine, sir 1" Passenger (wearily)—" If you have one with nothing in it about Africa, I'll buy it." A NEW W trBEI A'=n A press despatch pays that the Illinois Supreme Court bas affirmed the validity of the sot known as the Chicago Drainage ,Law, widen has for its general purpose the taking of the city sewage and the water of Chicago River along di e line of the Illinois and Idicligan Canal and thence to the Illinois and Mississippi Rivore by gravity. Chicago has suffered from the emptying of the city eewago into the stagnant Clti- oago River, from whioh there is praotioally no onrrent into ,Lake Michigan, The water supply for the city had to be taken from the Lake, and it was hard to get drinking water unpolluted by sewage. Now, it will. be only a question of providing money to complete the canal from Chicago River to the Desplaines River or some other branch of the Illinois River, which empties into the Mississippi. Lake .uliohigan will serve as a huge mill pond, from whioh a never- failing supply of water will be poured through the Chicago, Desplainea ,and I11i- nois Rivera into the Mississippi, carrying all the Chicago sewage with it In diluted form, and leaving plenty of pure water in the Lake opposite Chicago to be pumped into the oity by the waterworks. The change will certainly cause a great redna- tion in the death rate. It will also be of great importance to the shipping interests of the Mississippi. Of late years, since the country has been: cleared and drained, spring floods have been common. The rainfall of the country has gone down to the Gulf of Mexico early in the spring, and later in the season there was not water enough in the river to float the boats. An effort has been made to remedy this by converting the little lakes in Minnesota into storage reservoirs, after the pattern of Joseph's old arrangement for the irrigation of Egypt, bat none of these reservoirs oan compare with Lake Michigan, When the Chicago canal is completed, there will be no soaroity of water on the lower Mississippi. We do not. suppose the Chicago people will make their works big enough to dry up the Detroit and Niagara Rivers. Geologists say that the Lakes used to have their out- let through the Mississippi Valley, before a slight elevation of the land just west of Chicago forced the stream down through Lake Erie. The contemplated partial resumption of the old watercourse is all right, bat it would not be wise to overdo the thing. If Lake Michigan were once encouraged to widen the canal by a rush of water, she might sweep Chicago oat of her way in her mad haste to marry the Gulf of Mexico. Height of Trees. A writer in the London Garden gives the heights which some planted trees have reached in England, among which are the. following : A lime tree at Hampton Court. 120 feet ; Douglass spruce at Dropmore. 125 feet ; elm at Hatfield, 130 feet ; silver fir at Longleat 144 feet. Some trees have reached even a greater height than these. On this side of the Atlantic, without going to the great California giants, and in New- England ewEngland and New York, we have known a number of large trees. In Schuyler county. while a part of the original pine forests remained, some were found whioh after being out down measured 170 feet. A tulip• tree was measured by its shadow 124 feet, and after felling this measurement was found correct. It was 6 feet in diameter, and by counting the annual rings the writer found that it was ninety years old when. Columbus discovered America. Another tulip tree two miles distant was still larger. measuring 7 feet in diameter, and affording 15,000 feet of boards, whioh were used in wholly covering a large barn, now visible to every one who passes a well frequented road. She Was Very Curious to Know. ' " So yon have got your degree, Mr. Ter- williger, have yon ?" said the yonng Iady. "I have," replied the young man with pardonable pride. "I am entitled, Miss Wineberg, to write ' B. A.' after my name." " And I suppose," she rejoined, looking absent-mindedly at the gravel she was dig- ging up with the point of her parasol, "yon: expect always to remain a Bachelor—of Arts?" The invitations are out. Broken glass may become as useful as it is bothersome. The British Warehouseman announces that a progess is now known that will work glass into cloth, of any color or thickness, and incombustible. The pope has protested against the placing of a tablet to Garibaldi's memory in a church at Florence. Stanley has spoken in terms of high praise of Lord Salisbury's settlement with Germany. The British vessels reported as lost dur- ing May, 1890, and the number of liven lost, were 46 Bailing ships and 16 steamers with a total lose of 79 lives. These repre. sent the ships reported during May, not those actually lost in that month. D. C. N. L. 27. 90. Bermuda Bottled. "You must go to Bermuda. If you do not I will not be responsi- ble for the consequences." But, doctor, I can afford neither the time nor the money." "dell, if that is impossible, try SGOTT'B ULSION OF PURE NORWECAAN COD LIVER OIL. I sometimes call it Bermuda Bot- tled, and many cases of CONSUMPTION, Bronchitis, Cough or Severe Cold 1 have CURED with it; and the advantage is that the most sensi- tive stomach can take It. Another thing which commends it Is the stimulating properties of the Hy. pophospltites wf►ieh it contains. You will fled it for sale at your Druggist's, in Salmon wrapper. Be sero you got the genuine." 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