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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-11-27, Page 7TOQUE OUT QUT. 4. 1oat gemarkable Operation in 1311rgery Sueee Through an neeision fender nie Jaw a Septuagenarian eme ittie Tongue Totten out—one Hendren Arteries and Veins Cut. tdurgeone in New York are marveling Over the eeerningly suoneeful but very intricate and diffieult operation performed at Roosevelt kleepital recently. The ease Wee one of cancer of the toogue, and the operation was for the complete removal of *bat organ. The patient was a man 65 years of age. The surgeons were Professor Charles MoBurney of the College of Physi- cians and nurgeone, and Dr. Frank Hartley, of Roosevelt Hospital. Invitations had been sent out to prominent members of the profession, and over 100 speotetors met on the benches. The patient, who had never neen ad. dieted to the use of either toba000 or al. whelk) drink, and who remembered no possible oause for the (numerous growth, bad in six months Buffered a tumorous growth thet invaded the entire right side of the tongue. 'Waite ether was adminis- tered to the patient Dr. MoBurney ex- plained that in suoh a case removal of the cancerous puts ad enough of the healthy tissues eurrouneing these WaS the only way to save the life of the patient. The earlier thin Wati done the better. In the patient's cam death would almost certainly °emir in teem then six months were the cancer allowed to run its course. A second dose of ether having been adminis. tared to the unconecions patient the surgeon made a fund examination with his forefinger and discovered that the dieeeee was more extensive than he hied previously en ppaeed, and that the removal of the tongue ehrough the opening of the mouth would not be possible. He deter- mined, therefore, to remove it by the ." Hooker method "—that is, by malting an inoisioa under the jaw and getting at the root of the tongue first. He made an in- cision parallel with the lower border of the lower jaw from just below the right ear to the chin, thus forming a curved line. The surgeon ionnii that the eub-maxillary gland was affeoted by the disease and was much enlarged and hardened. Dr. Hartley deftly removed it with a few cuts of his surgioal scissors. It now became necessary to cut aoroes the great artery that supplied the tongue from the left side. The surgeons applied ligatures to this vessel, then boldly severed it and proceeded with the cut, which was now trickly made to enter the navity of the mouth. The bleeding points were then caught with artery forceps, and ligatures were applied. In all several hundred ligatures were thus applied before the work of removing the organ could be proceeded with. The incision was now qniokly enlarged, and Professor MoBarney, with a sharp hook, caught the diseased organ and pulled it down through the wound. Then, with deliberate antes he severed it from the hyoid bone and lerynx —commonly called its root. Tie then out &way from the camphagns behind, and dim elected it from the roof of the mouth, thus completing the removal. After stopping the bleeding, a dressingof the wonad completed the operation. Prof. MoBurney says that the patient will not be allowed anything to eat for several days, when he will be fed with liquid food, which will be given through an ceeophageal tube passed down the throat without disturbing the drestings. The floor of his month wilt rise into the place formerly oconpied by the tongue, and will perform some of the important functions of the removed organ. The patient will be able to talk and swan low bis food. Of oouree the effects of the operation will be very severe, and the result can only be awaited with anxiety. A IMPS OR A =ex. Bight hundrea years ago William the Conqueror abolished the death penalty in England. He Wag a warrior, accustomed to see biotin eheel, but be hed a horror of legal °mentions, and only one 111611 Was hanged in Lngland during his retgxe Before hie time and anon ; in England and in many other countries, the legal naachinery for depriving criminels of life has been barbaroue, and capital punishment has often been inflioted for what are pow regarded as very petty offence's, Draw, the Athenian, prescribed the pienishment of denth for a large number of offences, which the law -giver extenuated by eitying that the smallest of the climes speoified deserved death, and there was no greater penalty which he could inflict for more gerIOUS offence's. Under the Hebrew oode, &secretion of the Sabbath, blasphemy, idolatry, Witchcraft, °ming, dieobedience to parents, murder, adultery, incest and kidnapping were puniehable with &Mb. Montesquieu says that under the old Roman law the penalty of death was denounced againet the writers of libels. The Anglo-Saxons and other German nations had a 'male of fines for every orime. Besides paying the relations of the deceased, a murderer was also obliged to make compensation to the master if the deceased WU a slave, or to the lord if the deceased Was a venni under hi a pro- teotion. At the time Blackstone wrote, there were in English law 160 different offenoee which heti been declared felonies, without benefit of clergy, and might be visited with the death penalty; but gradm ally the fearful list has been reclined to the crimes of treason and murder! By the laws of the 'United States the crimes punishable with death are treason, murder, arson, rape, pireoy, robbery of the mail with jeopardy to the life of the portion in charge thereof, rescue of aperson convioted of a capital crime when going to exeoution, burning a vessel of war, and corruptly casting away or destroying a vessel belong- ing to private owners. Some States have abolished capital punishment altogether. In 1863 thirty-seven Indians who bad taken part in the Minnesota massitore were hanged on one scaffold, the nearest ap. preach on this continent to Judge Jeffreys' "bloody dwelt " after the Monmouth rebellion. In former days the endeavor was to make the death of a oriminal as painful as pos. sible. The mode of execution common among the Syriene, Egyptians, Persians, Carthaginians, Greeks and ROM6ES was crucifixion; it was usually a000mpanied by other tortures. Ariarathes of Cappadocia, aged 80, when vanquished by Perdicoas, was discovered among the prisoners, and by the conqueror's orders was flayed alive and nailed to a cross, with his prinoipal officers, 322 B. C. Crucifixion was ordered to be discontinued by Conetantine, A. D. 330. Beheading, the deoollatio of the Romans, was introduced into England from Normandy. It necame fre- quent, particularly in the reigns of Henry VIII and Mary, when even women- of the noblest blood thus perished. Among other instances may be mentioned Lady Jane Grey, beheaded February 12th, 1554, and the venerable Countess of Belie- bury—the latter remarkable for her re. sistanoe of the executioner. When he directed her to lay her head on the bleak, she retailed to do it, telling him that she knew of no guilt, and would not submit to die like a criminal. He pursued her round and round the scaffold, aiming at her hoary head, and at length took it off, after mangling the neok and shoulders of the illuetrione victim in a horrifying man- ner. She was daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and leo of the royal line of Plantagenet. Boiling to death was made a capital punishment in England by a statate ot Henry VIII. in 1531. The punishment was firet applied to John Rouse, a cook, who had poisoned 17 persons. Margarec Davie, a young woman, suffered. in the same manner for a similar crime in 1542. Breaking on the wheel was a barbarous mode of death, of great antiquity, ordered by Francis I. of France, for robbers. Ravaillac, who murdered Henry 117. of France, in 1610, was carried to the Greve, and tied to a rack, a wooden ermine in the shape of St. Andrew's °roes. His right hand, within which was fastened the knife with which he did the murder, was first burned at a slow fire. Then the &shy and most delicate perm of hie body were torn with red-hot pincers, and into the gaping wounds melted lead, oil, pitati and rosin were poured. His body was so robust that he endured this exquisite pain, and his strength re. 'listed that of the four horses by whiell bit •limbs were to be pulled to pieces. The executioner, in consequence, mit him into gam:tern and the spectators dragged him through the streets. Burning alive was inflioted among the Romans, Jews and other nations, on the betrayers of counsels, incendiaries end for incest. The Britons punished heinous crimes by burning alive in wicker beseets. Burning was conntenenced by bulls of the Pope, and witches guttered in this manner. Barrington estimates the judicial mur- ders for witchcraft in England in 200 years at 30,000. Joan of Aro was burned as a witch in 1431. About 500 witches were burned at Geneva in three months, 1515. One thousand were burned in the diocese of Como, in a year, 1524. More than 100,000 were burned in Germany. At Salem, in New England, 19 persoes were hanged by the Puritans for witchcraft, and 55 were tortured. 1 he English laws against witchcraft were enacted under Henry 17111, Elizabeth and James L, and repealed in 1736 under George II. Many persons have been burned alive on account of religions princi. plea. The first sufferer in England was Sir William Sawire, burned in 1401. In the reign of Mary, Bishops Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer were burned. As late as the time of James 1., in 1612, Englishmen were burned to death for heresy. Drowning in a quagmire was a mo3e of capital punishment among the Britons about 450 B.C. The same form of ptiniehment is said to have been inflicted on eighty intreotable bishops near Nioomedia, A. D. 370; and to bave been adopted in France by Louis XI. The wholesale drownings of the Royalists in the Loire at Nantes, by command of the brutal Carrier, in 1793, were termed noyeden Forgery was first paniehed by death in 1634. By the statute of Elizabeth the punishment for forgery was fine, kenn- ing in the pillory, having both ears out eff, nostrils slit up and seared, forfeiture of land and perpetnel imprisonment. Thomas Maynard wat the last person executed for forgery, Dom 31, 1829. In 1777 Rev. Dr. Dodd was hanged at Tyburn for forging a e bond for £4,200 in the name of Lord Chesterfield, John Hatfield, who married, by means of the most odione deceit, the celebrated 1' Beauty of Buttermere," was hanged for forgery at Carlini° in 1803. Captain Charles Montgomery Was ordered for execution for forgery in 1828, but he took a dose of prnseio acid and was found dead in hie cell. Edward Lowe, hanged for coining in 18270 wee the het coiner drawn on a sledge to the maffold. Hanging, with the aocompeniment of drawing and quartering, was first int:bated Peculiar Manitoba Indians. In Manitoba and the western parte of Britieh Americie, where I spent some time this summer, I came in contact with a very peculiar race of Indians, They belong to no pertinuler tribe, and in Mot, to no par. tioular race, having Indian, Sootoh and French blood in their veins. They are the descendants of the old Sootoh agents of the Hudeon Bey convene/ and their Indian wives, with a Mien of Eremite blood from the Canadian woodsmen. Their hair is frequentry of a light brown and wavy. They speak bed Frenoh and all have the broad Scotch burr. They hold themselves aloof from tbe 1 ull- blooded Indiana and the French half.bloods, and are the best car- riers to be found, for no other Indians can compare with them as runners. Sixty miles a day is no uncommon journey for them. By constant intermarriage they have preserved and strengthened their peculierities, and consider themselves a separate tribe. They number about 5,000. —Winnipeg Interview. 1V1NEINO MUMMY JOCKEYS. Tom Loates still continues at the top of the list of winning jockeys on the fiat in England. Here it the list np to Oct. 31st 'Jockey. First Second Third Unpl, T'1 1-12. Loates... 134 110 85 263 2—G. Barrett... 100 95 92 .217 3-3. Watts ...... 54 51 120 4-8 Loates.., 71 59 53 161 5—F. Riekaby71 48 49 180 6-3. Fagan 65 FS 33 95 7-12. Cannon 62 26 32 99 8-12. Calder.. 62 55 39 157 9-8. 'Woodburn48 49 50 198 10—T. Wel •on 42 80 42 66 19 39 49 120 12-10. Barrett 38 35 26 112 13-3, Osborne 37 30 31 121 44—G. Chaloner 36 SE 28 157 15-8. Cbandley 36 35 24 109 16—M. Cannon 36 30 45 158 17—J. Liddiard36 20 22 80 98 35 40 46 900 19-12. Bruokshaw29 32 11 67 — Finlay...—21 20 18 68 upon a pirate, William Mariee, at map's eon, in 1241. rine gentlemen, at. taolied o the Dube ef Crioueestar were Arraigned and condemned for treamri, and at the place of execution were hanged, cut down alive instantly, ',tripped naked, and their bodice marked for quartering, and then pardoned, This was in 1447. Nieholie Bayard, Of New York, Who was tried for high treason and found guilty in 1702, was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. The sentence, however, was not carried into exeoution. The last exeoution in thie manner in England was that of the Cato street conspirators in 1820. Hanging in ohains was abolished in 1834. The Romans punished a parricide, named Oetitte, 172 B. C., by scourging; then sewed him up in a leathern aeon made air tight, with a live dome 000k, , a viper and an ape, and then omit him into the sea. The guillotine was invented about 1785 by Joseph Ignatius Guillotin, an eminent phyaiolan and senator, esteemed for his humanity; it was de- signed to render °emits' punishment len painful by decapitation. During the French Revolution he ran some hazard of being subjected to ite deadly opera- tion, but (contrary to a prevailing opinion) escaped, and lived to be one of the founders of the Academy of Medicine at Paris, and died in 1814, greetly reepeotecl. A somewhat similar instrument has been need in Italy, at Halifax in England, and in Sootland. The Scotch called it the Maiden and the Widow. The Aot of incorporation of Halifax empowered the town to punieh by deoapitation any crimi- nal convicted of stealing to the value of 13n pence. Ring James L in 1620 took thio power ewe In the 38 years of Henry Wiles reign 72,000 criminals were executed in England. In the ten years between 1820 and 1880, there were executed in England alone 797 criminals, but as the levee beneme lese severe the number of executions deoreased. In the three yeere ending 1820 the executions in England and Wales amounted to 312 ; in the three years ending 1840 they were 62. The dissection of the bodies of executed persons was abolished in 1832. Jack Sheppard, the highwayman, perished on the scaffold in 1724; Eugene Aram, the murderer. in 1759; Rev. Henry Haokmen, in 1779; John Holloway and Owen Haggerty in 1807. Thirty 'spectator', of this execution were trodden to death, and numbers were pressed, maimed and wounded. 13arke, who need to commit murder to supply subjects for dissection, suffered death in 1829 • John Bishop, Thomas Williams and Elizabeth Cooke were also hanged for barking. William Dnell, executed for murder at Tyburn in 1740, oame to life when about undergoing dissection at Surgeons' Hall. Mary Hamilton was banged in 1746 for marrying 14 wives of her own sex. Ann Willieme (1753) and Ann Bedingfield (1763) were burned alive f or the murder of their hus- bands. Elizabeth Herring (1773) was hanged and tlaen burned for a similar crime. Renwiok Williams, a "Jack the Ripper" monster, who prowled nightly through the streets of London, in 1790, armed with a double-edged knife, with which he shockingly wounded many females, was hanged. Fifty thousand people witnessed the execution of William Palmer, the poisoner, at Stafford in 1856. The British commission on capital punish- ment reported against public executions in 1865. The advisability of substituting death by electricity for death by hanging Las been much discussed in the 'United States during the leek two years. 597 504 305 341 348 237 240 256 345 210 240 211 219 256 204 269 158 321 139 127 She Was no Turncoat. Texas Siftings: Old lady to butcher— Meat is so dear now I can madly afford to buy any. Butcher—Perheps you had better turn vegetarian, mum. Old Lady—A vegetarian 1 No, indeed. I was born and brought up a Baptist, and it's too late to ohange my religion now. Onstomer—I want a pound of quinine and two quarts of whiskey. Druggist—I'm sorry to say, sir, that we're jest out of .quinine. Customer, brightening Up—Make it three quarts of whiekey. Cardinal Newman was a great admirer of Walter Scott, and every year he offered Waverly novelas prizes in the oratory Mohoolat Edgbarton, and the students were tenet:nod to pees creditable examinations in 'them. To Mrs. Elope -Scott, the novelist's granddatighter, Cardinal Newman wrote: 1 have ever had the extrentoot sympathy for Walter Scott and it would delight me to see hio pla00. When he was dying I was saying prayers (whatever they were Worth) for him, and continually thinking of Ineblele worde, 'Think on the minstrel as ye kneel."' If men would only rtot on the good advice they keep on tap for others the world would santlio half suoh & bad place to live in. gat is Said that the Queen will spend the winter in Flerenee. Trial***Pii4IING mon bees of the dint cm Wane of Hoehn and Pevelopsnent. Writing to the New Yorls Herald, May 1-ni1e amieh earl : So mean attention id being given by the male sex to nthletice and to thotle areneernente that tend to a better development ot the body, and, as is consequence, to better health, that I take the linerty of addressing you on a eubjeot— little thought of at present—that offers to woman a means, not only of enjoyment and °Operation, but for physical improvement— refer to flute -playing. It goes without saying that the nenal ounof-door eporte— as tennis, horseback riding, walking and driving--eaela and all peewee advantages, and tem the mons, when rightly used, of building up the ideal of lite, But there are those who, for various reasons, are unable to indulge in these, I may say, vim lent exercises, and yet for whom some stimulant is needed. This may be found in flute playing. Let me briefly state a few reasons why it serves this end; The act of "filling a flute" blowing into it—neoessi. tates lung expansion. The continued daily praotioe begets deeper and deeper inapirs- tions, old adhesions to the chest walls are broken up and absorbed, 'Moulders stoop- ing forward beoome thrown back, a chest contracted by the habit of too tight laoing beoomes expanded and broadened, the blood, from the more frequent and in- creased supply of oxygen, courses in the 'weasels with more of force. Renewed activities in construction result everywhere, nutrition is improved, and bodily health invigorated. This is also true of all wind instruments, when used with disoretion, but the mule with which the flute is made to speak, it size, and beauty of form, adapt it more than any other to the use of women. Either alone or with other instruments its voice is one of sweet' nese, fitted alike for the parlor or cioncertmoom. Upon it a fair degree of proficiency may be obtained in a compara- tively short time, with the expenditure of but little labor, enough at least to make h a source of pleasure and enjoyment so the player and the hearer. The music that has been written for it include', the oomposi- dons of the masters of the art—sonatas, concertos, songs and dances. A varied list; enough, in feet, to snit the taste and capacities of all. None need fear, as did Minerva, the distortion of the classic lines of face or month, if the inetrument is properly need, while the grace of pose, in form and feature, is quite as &rasa° as that of violin playing, and far beyond that at the piano. Let those of my sex who have never given a thought to one of the sweetest of all inetraments—the queen, as the violin is the king—consider it more carefally,mit only for iteelf, but as a mecum of promoting health and development of the body, and with the added enjoyment it is capable of giving, much may be secured toward making life brighter and happier. 41. Happiness Not Dependent Upon wealth. There are rioh women whose whole lives would have been happier in all probability had they been poor; they keys energy, capacity, industry, and could have sup- ported themseivee honestly and usefully; but now those fact:thief, are all absorbed in the effort to be just etewarde of what is given them. They epend eparingly on themselves and munificentle on others; but the lavishness costs harder work than the economy. Ihey consume days in the care of institations or the guidance of individuals; they never take & holiday; they lie awake at night wondering if they have done rightly in paying the fine and costs of John Jones, and giving him his tenth opportunity to keep out of jail and beat his children; or whether the world is to be benefited; on the whole, by the Combined Institution for Supplying Pennies to the Penniless. While they eeem to be only "in the swim" of society, and are possibly regarded as types of fashion's butterflies, they are in reality working harder than any businesa man, and are un- able to lay aside their mires, as he often does, on closing the doors of the counting - room. The poor think of all the beautiful tastes which they cannot gretify, but which they oonld freely carry out were they only rich. But the rioh meanwhile are some- times envying the poor, who have none of the cares of stewardship, and can spend their epare hour, when earned, as they please. I once went with a young girl who had been economically enjoying a summer's outing on the sea -shore to call upon a Woman more generally envied, per- haps, than any one in her own familiar circle. She had wealth, beauty, immense personal popularity, conscientious activity in a hundred ways, and a totioh of genius in art. "Whet have you been doing this vacation ?" she said to her young visitor. "Sketching," was the answer. " Happy girl!" said her hostess. " 1 have been only able to get one morning's sketching thia whole season." --T. W. Higginson, in Harper's Bazar. Talleyrand's Table Talk. Beauty devoid of grace is a mere hook without the bait. A court is an assemblage of noble and distinguished beggars. Prudence in a woman should be an instinct, not a virtue. The imagination of men is often the refuge of their prejudices. Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance. What I have been. taught I have for- gotten, stint I know I have guessed. Certain Note may be rendered legal, but 030 never be me& legitimate. The love of glory can ouly °recite a hero; the contempt of it °metes a great main Theologians resemble dogs that gnaw large bones for the sake of very little meat. Too ranch seneibility creates unhappi- ness; too much insensibility createorime. We must learn to submit with graoe to commit the follies which depend upon character. The mind of the DEM de Laval is like a dark lantern, only capable of lighting hie own path.—From the Papers of M. Col- ntache. Working a Fake. It was reported some time ago that Harry M. Johnson, the professional sprinter and jumper, holder of the world's 100.yard reeord, had died in San Fran- cisco. No particulars have been received, and an intimate friend of the runner dis- credits the report of his death. " Johnson has died," he 'laid to a reporter, " to my knowledge, at least three times, in order to work 'jobs,' and I really believe he has died thia last time for the same reason. no don't be surprised if he comes to life again. I'd come very near knowing of his real death and the usual reenrrention may &cur in Australia, where a fortune awaits a runner of Johnson's ability, if he can slip into a big handicap and receive a liberal start." WUU OATOOMAAL CAL hhop Welkern Viturelt on Wheels on ANnnibition at the nenItimere (In 0/40 Peron A clethearal on wheele was the novelty on exhibition to.day at the Baltimore 4 Ohio depot. It was built by the PtIllenen onmpany.tor 3310hop Willinne D. Walker, of the epasoopial diocese of North Daketa, who will travel in it from elle little town to another along he different railway lime up shere and give the ',Mien the advantage of church services. Bishop Walker was kept busy all day to.day enter. Mining the viettore who (tailed te eee his DOW OEM " Whell I began my labors in the diocese of North Dakota six peen ago," said he, "1 saw what a useful thiug oar like this would be, and eo deter- mined to have one. It is the only thing of the kind in the world, I suppose. There are very many little towns along the mitres& in whioh it would be a waste of capital just now to build churches. I ehall travel through those towns, stopping a day or two at each one, and give the people— not only Episcopaliens, but of all denom- inalions—a chance to go to church." The exterior of the car looke like that of the ordinary Pullman sleeper, except that it has a gothic projection on each side to make it look something like a (thumb. The oar is sixty feet in length and of the ordinary width. At one end is an &pert- inent about ten feet in depth, used by the bishop as a robing -room, and immediately adjoining it is the raised platform serving as a chancel, at the right of which is the 'mange -way. In the centre of the platform stand a riohly-carved altar, bearing on its feoe the words " Agnus Dei," At the left is the bishop's chair, surmounted by is mitre, and ornamented on the batik with a sunken cross. At the right is a lectern of rich design, bearing a large and riohly- bound bible. The altar is the gift of the Episcopal Church at Summit, N. J., and nearly everything else in the oar was contributed by chttroh or individuals in different parte of the country. The organ was the gift of the young ladies of the Church of Heavenly Rest in New York. The com- munion eervioe was given by Mrs. James H. Walker, of Chicago, who is the bishop's eieter-in-law. Bishop Walker will leave for the north- west with his rolling oathedral to -morrow or the next day. He will go direct to Fargo, whence he will start on a tour of the small townie—Chicago News. But Perhaps He Did. Indianapolis Journal: "There's nothing like having a fair understanding when a fellow and his sweetheart conclude to double up for better or worse, as the case may be,' send the man on the nainkeg. "Now, the firet thing I told Sarah was, that caben I married her I didn't want to marry the whole family. That's what I told her." There was a pause. Then the man on the oracker-barrel, by way of breaking the silence, ventured a dubious " Well ?" e Yeas, that's whet I told her. But I kinder think I lied, I do." —nem_ A Royal Betrothal. The gensation in Court oiroles in the mar - rine of Prinoese Victoria of Prussia with Prince Adolphus of ob antaburg• Lippe. It is well known that the Queen highly approves of the match, which will be celebrated in Berlin on the 19th Met. Though the Prince of Wales will not be able to be present at the ceremony, the English Royal family will be largely represented, for the Duke of Chrome, , the Dukes and Duchene', of Edinburgh and Connaught, and Prince and Princess Christian will Le preeent. The fetes will begin in Berlin on the 17th, and will extend over five days. Several of the large inetitutions for women in England have organized ilre brigades composed exclusively of women. The ladies iladergiarld and perform their duties woll, but have not yet found a cos. turtle that is entirely Satiata0t00. A sort of wetbr-proof bathing snit \ is What ie voluted. Facts About Royalty. The Czar of Russia Is getting eo fat that he is at present engaged in chopping down trees to reduce the surplus. When Prince AlbertVictor of Italy, was at school his money ran short and he sold. a letter from his grandmother to an autograph -hunter for 30 shillings. The negue of Abyssinia has just ordered a new crown of pure gold, weighing three pounda and containing 300 precious stones. Why should not the negus of Abyeeinia be happy? Victor Emanuel, the Italian heir apparent, assumed, while travelling in Russia and Germany last summer, a fictitious title that happens to belong by heredity to an impecanios Italiate who enes the Prince for the use of in He wants to know, not what's in a name, but how much. King Humbert of Italy it a man of un- usual will power. After having for years smoked to excess, he euddenly and com- pletely renounced the habit. When his physicians advised him to abandon the nee of the weed, it is related that he pon- dered a moment and said: "On my kingly honor, I'll never smoke again," and he has kept IliS word. bow Women Expose Themselves. Thousands of women were out on the str mts yeeterday with nothing between the cold air and their arms except the thick- ness of a very thin dress. They were stout ladies, of course, who feared to wear flan- nels or other underwear lest snob covering would make them look stouter than they really were. From the waist down 11 women are reaeonably warmly dressed in New York; but around the neck end arms, unless they wear the little oepee of the moment, they carry so little clothing that it makes a man's teeth (Metter to think of it.—New York Sun. London and Paris. Paris is straight, London is crooked. The Parisian cabman sits in front, the London oabman sits behind. The Parisian cabman takes the right, the London cab- man the left. Paris is compact, London is ecettered. In Paris the windows open like doors, in London they fall like guillotines. In Paris the venetian blinds are onteide, in London they are inside. In Paris the soldier has a blue jecket and red troneers, in London he has a red coat and bine trousers. Paris is gay, London isgrave. Perim walks, London rune. Paris eats, London &Yonne—Paris Figaro. A Growing EVIL Mr. Biegs (to his daughter)—Clara, is it possible that I saw you reading that real- ietio novel, "At Lest," yeeterday 2 Clara (naeekly)—I am afraid you did, father. 111r. Bingo —Has it come to thin that tlae venomone serpent of corrupt literature, the insidione poison of overoherged and fetid imaginations, is even now *reeking its crimson course through my very house- hold? How was it ; good? nlninnla,94 ORIBAT /MOWIN,Ini Belief Growing pat Human heaeohme Have Added to wl4Oir liorxgroi BTet the beet terrible future of liblo 011,0 taatrOpe is gm beUef, Whigh has pined wide currency on eeemingly excellent, ground, that these periodical /lode Are AO altogether the work of nature, It bee been thought that they Were Caused by vut quanthiee of sediment brought down by he Yellow river, and deptesited M ite channel„ Mile raising the bed of the river above the surrounding country, It is now openly charged, says a Canton correepondent of the New York Tribune, and widely believed, that the flood of 1887 and,that which bow just occurred weie caused by artificial means: that, in brief, tho embankmente were moray broken by men. It is hown that the people who live along the flret and second lines of embankments in Shantung and elsewbere have a very strong selfish interest in heaping the level of the river low by epreading its waters over a large area. That they have been thus tempted to oat the embankments and cease the flood* would seem incredible to any one net acquainted with the Chinese character. There is, however, in the Claineee °hammier a very remarkable indifference to pain and suffering. The Chinaman is a thorough stoic. He win endure in his own person the most terrible sufferings with soaroely sign of emotion, and with equal coldneen will look upon the misery of others. It ie. therefore, entirely within the province of belief that these floods were caused by the depravity of men rather than by the natural forces of the elements. The Gov- ernment is accordingly being urged by the press in the strongest manner possible to remove all inhabitants from the banks of the river, both to insure their own safety and to remove them from the temptation of bringing ruin upon their fellows. In the meantime the most extraordinary efforts are being made to propitiate the deity who ia supposed to rule over the rivers and the rain. During the month of June an intense drought prevailed through- out all the northeastern provinces, and for several weeks the officers of the Govern- ment at Pekin and elsewhere resorted daily to the temples and offered up prayera for rain. In Pekin the Emperor him sent took the lead in these mots of worship, and at Teinanfu, the capital at Shantung, the Governor, Chang Yao, spent many days and nights in the temple in earnest suppli- cation. For a time the prayers seemed to be unanswered. Then there suddenly came a tremendous rainstorm which lasted for many days, and produced the highest summer freshet ever known in the Yellow River. Than the banks broke and the flood came. There is not the slightest doubt in any pions Chinese mind that these rains were sent in direct answer to prayer. Consequently as soon as the flood occurred there was a tremendous rush of the faithful to the temples to pray for the rain to stop. The Emperor again set tkie example. The image of Tama, the river dragon, was carried in imperial Mite through the streete of Tientsin and enthroned in the great temple of Tams Miao. Then all the high officers of govern- ment worshipped it and implored its aid in stopping the floods and the rain. Chid among them was the greatest statesman of China Li Hong Chang, who burned many joss-stIcks and spent many hours in a pro - ',trate attitude before the idol. It must be recorded, however' that all these earnest supplications hadlittle or no effect, for the rain continued to fall and the floe& to rise. Ex•King Milan is one of the few person', who find it profitable to make a nuisance ot themselves. The businees of his recent trip into Servia was to make himself so disagreeable that the Government would offer him a handsome sum to stay away. He was offered 200,000 francs a year, but his figure was 360,000 francs. Milan is now etndying up some new combinations of deviltry, and the chances are that the Gov- ernment will come to hie terms. The Traant Officers' Rarvest. SI. Croix (N. B.) Courier : In view of the prominence lately given in this pro- vince to to the question of compulsory at- tendance at school, a statement recently made concerning its working in Illinois, ashore a compulsory law now exists, is of some interest. At a meeting held there 'Moly it was announced that the attend- ance of 1890, tinder compulsion, was better than that of 1889 by 16,000 pupils, that the attendance at private schools had in- oreased by 6,000, and that the inorease in the aggregate number of day a of attend. mace for the year was 4,606,000. Little Johnny—'Mr. Smith, will yon please cool thie anap for ma? Sister Sue, horrified—Why, Johnny, what a requerst ? Little Johnny—Well, I heard you my the otber day that Mr. Smith WWI a great bl°17Serh.e—e Why do poor men alwaye keep Iota of doge 'I" He—" To keep the Wolf tom the door." "Papa, what made Latin It dead language? " "1* was talked to death, my WM." Life and Law in Kentucky. New York Graphic: The other day a Kentucky editor fired at a lawyer who had critioieed an editorial, missed his aim and killed the local parson inetead. The doc- tor, who happened to be passing, injeoted an overdose of morphia into the editor to allay bit excitement. The widows of the parson and editor are now ening the law- yer for damages sustained through his incompetent literary critioism ; he is suing the doctor for compensation for the lose of the editor. a warmish client of his, and the lawyer is judge of the court. Something for the Landlord, Montreal Hera/O: Mrs. Bingo -1 noticed there was a rent in your trousers this morning. Mr. Bingo—Thank heaven 1 Give it to the landlord when he comes. The " Napoleon of tract distributors," Charles Watson, of Halifax, Eng., has just died. He worked for temperanee only, and for more than forty years scattered tracts gretnitonsly. He once said that in twelve months he distributed nearly 3,000,- 000 tracts. Mrs. Bleu A. Lease, a lawyer of Wichita, is send to be the greatest political power and the best organizer within the ranks of the Farmers' Allienee in Kangas, which numbers 130,000 members. Meet Punishment. New York Weekly: Mr. Scrubba (in dignantle ) - Sir, I have just discovered tbe your eon has engaged himself to two onmy daughters. Mr. Grubbs (stnpefied)—The young reseal 1 He should be compelled to merry them both. He was in Doubt. Chicago News: "What did the dootor say about your wife ?" " He told me I must prepare for the worst. So I don't know whether he meant she's going to live or die." "1 have a beautiful wife." "You have, indeed." "What 1 Have you seen her ? 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