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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-2-19, Page 2111111011.11•1111.11‘ AN:a/ANS illeselING IN. ' 'near Wee/eerie—A Deputation fo taasheueeteen A Pine Ridgedebpsteb ems: TheIndians are conaing in. They string aloug the west hauls of the White Cloy Creek for a die. Jamie of two miles, They etre mounted, walking, ridieg on waggons, and, in feet, are advancing in every manner known M them. They are driving end leadiog im- mense bordeu of ponieu. Some are enterit the friendlies' oanap, and .others are ,pitah- ing their tepees on the west bank of the White Clay. These are the Ogedlelas. The Brales are alarming in the bottom around Red Cloud's houee and half a mile from the agency buildings. The Indiana number 3,500, The advesnoe guard of the hest:flee had scarcely reached the agency when Big Road sent word that be bed collected the arm s of his followers and wanted to sur- render them to the agency. When the wespous came in they were found to con- sist of simply two' ebot•guns, e heavy rifle and a'broken carbine, two Sharp's rifiee and one Winchester—nine gime in all. This surrender is an evidence that the Indians do not propose te give up all their guns, end that they have hidden their best weapons in the hills. American Horse, Standing Bear, White Bird and Spotted Horse, friendly obiefs, are now asking pro, Section from the hostilee who have camped among them. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Gen. Sohofield received a telegram from Gen. Miles this morning, dated Pine Ridge, Jan, 14th, as follows : "In order to restore entire con. fidence among these Indians, I have found it necieesary to send a delegation to Wash. ington to reaeive assurance of the highest authority of the good intention of the Government towards them. Thi e will answer a double purpose, namely, satisfy them, bridge over the tiansition period between war and peace, dispel distrust and hostility end restore confidenoe. It will also be a guarantee of peace while they are absent. I ask that my action may receive the approval of the department by tele. graph. Everything is progressing Betide° tinily, and I can see no reaeon why perfect peace may not be established." By direction of Secretary Prootor, Gen. Schofield sent the following reply: " The Secretary ot War oonferred with tbe Presi- dent and the Secretary of the Interior in regard to your proposal to send a delega• 'lion of the Sioux Chiefs to Washington, and they approve of your recommendation. The recretery of the Interior has sent an agent to conduct them. It is desired that the delegation be as small as possible -- five or six, or not more than ten. If the delegation hes already started telegraph at once the number, route and commanding officer." A Pine Ridge, S. D., despatoh says: This morning it was reported Gen. Miles had ordered civilians to keep out of the hostile camp, becenee he intended to die. arm the Indians if he had to shell their camp to do it. The General could not be seen to aubstentiate the statement. Adjutant General Corbin would neither admit nor oeny that such a course had been decided upon. So long, he said, as the arms were being surrendered by the Indians there was no neceseity to nee force. Thie morning twenty Indians came into the egenoy under Little Hetek and sur- rendered 31 guns. Their clothing was not searched, and no one doubted they had hidden arms which they would not hesitate to use in an emergency. Thus far 51 guns have been turned over out of et least 1,400 which the hostiles are believed to poeseee. They Cheyennes belonging to Little Chief's and Standing Elk'a band lett to.day for Tongue River, as they cannot live comfort- ably among the Sioux. REVOLUTION IN CHILI. Iquique and Coquimbo Blockaded. by Chiliau war Vessels. A drspatch from 'Valparaiso states that the Chilian men-of-war have given notice that they will begin a blockade of the port of Iquique January 20th. 'I he importation of provisions into Iquique has already been stopped. Additional despatches say the rebels have deoleaed the ports of Chili blookeded in order to interrupt the nitrate trade. Privete despatches from Iquigne state that the blockade extends to Coquimbo. The Chilian warships Almirante Cochrane and Magell are operating the blockade All the telegraph wires to the north of Valpa- raiso have been out. The Chilian ironclad Almirante COCkl- rane has seized the cargo left by the steamer Santiago at Iquique. The Coch• refloat commander has given notice that he will blockade Iquique on the 201h instant. The Pernvisn consul at Iquique telegrephs that the various consuls will protest against the threatened blockade. It is inferred from the above that the Cochrane is one of the veesels taking part in the Chilian revolt. Terrible Suflbrin;-,. Buffalo News "Yea, we've quarrelled. I think this parting from my Amelia will kill me." " I should think you would feel it " "Feel it I Why, great Scott, it's tor- ture. She had $200,000 in her own right.' Larkin Didn't Say Why. Larkin—It was Chesterfield who said, "Never argue," wasn't it? Dolley—Yes. Larkin—Married man, wasin't he Dolley—Yee, I believe so. Why? Dr. Tanner's challenge to Sued for a starving match, to be held in Chicago dux. ing the World's Fair, is the latest grim and grueeome eide•show proposed for that ex. hibition. —" Shall we go down to lunch now? It is (mite ready," is the English and ap. proved way in which a hostess leads a few frienda to the dining -room. The Press Association has information that the British Government approvee of the eppeed made to the United States Supreme Conrt, asking that court to issue a writ of prohibition to annul the action of the District Court of Alaska in oondenoning the British schooner Say ward. —When a man tells yon that he is per. eotly contented he meow, in nine oases out or ten, that atter thinking the matter ell over he does not see how he can get anything more. The British gustier Carrie, bound from Hartlepool to Bombay, went sehore Wed, nesday night upon the breekwater at the month of the River Tees, and will probably become a complete wreck. Owing to tho heavy eett no boat could leave or reach the vetteel, end the oro ve were faced to remota 'fished to the rigging all night. Yesterdey the life severs shot a line over the Carrie, and the crew were brought ashore in the breeohee buoy. The annual report of the Treasurer of Harvard University thews the invested fiends of the unitersity to be a7,121,854. The etrikelamong the girl employees Of t and o llar factories Koaala SECRET DIVULGED. The Lymph Only Glycerine and Extract of Tubercle Bacnilli, IT EITIOAOY DISCUSSED. A Berlin cable says Before the Medical Association yesterday Prof Virchow re- eumed his letauree on the subject of came alit& have resulted fatally after the appIoation of the Koch remedy. He said nothing against the remedy. He simply wished to give warning regarding applieet• tion. An animated disoueeion followed. Profs. Frankel and Baginelay supported Virchow's oontention tbat dieease was sometimes transferred to sound organs by inooulation. Numerous patiente in Vienna Biter reading the views expressed by Virohow declined to submit to further treatment by the Koch method. Prof. Virohow said in some of the post- mortem examinatione of patients who had died after irmanlation with the lymph the same eymptoms were displayed as in deaths due to abdominal typhne. ile inclined to the belief that the Koch remedy was the oanee tbereof. Dr. Guttman followed. He timid a dozen mutes now under his treatment were nnerly oared, and he argued that the adverse results in various caeca reported by Prof. Virobow and others merely thawed that the lymph should only be used in the early lite.gee of the disease. Prof. Koch's report, issued to -day, as to the ingredients whioh oompoee his lymph, considering the importance of the subject, is of the most brief nature. It says tbe lymph consistof glycerine and an extract from a pure cultivation of the tubercle bacoilli. A Berlin cable says: The secret of the in- gredients entering into the oomposition of Prof. Kooh's lymph is given today to the world. Prof. Koch says " Since pub• lashing two months ago the result of my experiments with the new remedy for tuberimlosie, many physicians who re. ceived the preparation have been able to become acquainted with its pro- perties through their own experiments. So far as I have been able to review the statements published and the communique tions reoeived by letter, my indications have been fully and completely confirmed, The general consensue of opinion is that tbe remedy has a specifio effect on tubercular tissues and is therefore applicable as a very delicate and euro reagent for discovering latent and diagnosing tuberculosis process. Regarding the onrative effects of the remedy, most reports agree %het, despite the comparatively short duration of its application, many patients have shown more or less pronounoed improvement. It has been affirmed that in not a few oases even a cure has been established. Standing quite by itself is the assertion that the remedy may not only be dangerous hi oases which have advanced too far—a faot whioh may forthwith be conceded—but also that it sotuelly pro- motes the tuberoulons process, being, there. fore injurious. Daring the past six weeks I myself have had opportunity to bring together further experiences touching the ourakive effects and diagnostic application of the remedy in the oases of about 150 sufferers from tuberculosis of the most varied types in this city and in the Mottbit Hospital. I oan only Bay that everythiog I have latterly seen accords wish my previone obaervations. There has been nothing to modify in what I have re- ported. As long as it was only a question of proving the scone/toy of my indications it was needless for any one to know what the remedy contained or whence it was derived. On the contrary, subeecenent testing would necessarily be more unbiased the lees people know of the remedy itself. Now after sufficient oonfirmatory testing the importance of the remedy is proved, my next task is to extend my study of the remedy beyond the field where it has hitherto been applied, and if possible to apply the principle underlying the discovery so other dieeases. This task naturally demands a thll knowledge of the remedy. I therefore consider tlae time has arrived when the re. quisite indications in this direction shall be made. This is done in what follows. Before going into the remedy itself, I deem it necessary, for the better underetanding of its mode of operation, to state briefly the way by which I arrived at the discov- ery. If the healthy Gaines pig be inoca- le.ted with the pure cultivation of German creature of tubercle bacilli, the wound caused by the inoculation mostly closes over with a sticky matter and appears in its early days to heel. Only after ten to fourteen days a hard module presents itself, which, soon breaking, forme an ulcerating sore which continues until the animal dies. Quite a different condition of things occurs when a guinea pig already Buffering frorn tuberculosis is inoculated. An animal successfully inoculated from four tosix weeks is best adapted for this purpose. In such an animal the small indentation assumes the same sticky coating at the begin. ning, but no module forms. On the contrary, on the day following, or the second day after the inoculation, the place where the lymph is injected shows a strange hue; it becomea hard and assumes a dark coloring which is not confined to the inoculation spot, but apreade to the neighboring parts until it attains a diameter of 05 to 1 centimeter. In a few days it becomes more and more manifest that the skin thus changed is neorotio, finally falling off, leaving a flat ulceration, which usually heals rapidly and permanently without any cutting into the adjacent lymphatic glande. Continuing from Thursday Prof. Koch's description of his disoovery is as follows : Thus the injected tuberonlar bacilli quite differently affects the skin of a healthy guinea pig from one affected with tuber- culosis. This effect is not exclusively pro (hoed with living tnbercular bacilli, but is also observed with the dead baeilli, the reenit being the some whether, as I die: covered by experiments at the outeet, the are killed by a somewhat prolonged application of a low temperetnre or boiling heat, or by means of certain oheroicals This peculiar fact followed up in all direotions, and this further result was obtained, that killed pure cultivation of tubercular bacilli, after rinsing in water, might be injected in great quantities under a healthy guinea pig's skin without any• thing ocotterieg beyond local suppuration. Tuberoulons guinea piga, on the other hand, are killed by the injection of very small quentitiee of ouch diluted cultivations. In fact, within,6 to 48 ham, scoordiog to the strength of the dose, an injeotion which is not suffioient to produce the death of the animal may omega extended necrosis to the ekin in the vicinity of the place of in. jeotion. EFFECT OF DIL17T/ON. If the dilation is still further dilnted until it la scarcely itialbly clouded the an. mals inoonlated remain elive, and noticea- ble improvement in their condition sewn supervenes. If the injeotione are continued at intereals of from one to two diva the uloerotion inoottletion wound bettonme steadier and finally soars over o whioh other - vitae it never does ; the size of the swollen lymphatio glands is reduced, the body boa meet better nourished, and the morbid process owes, unlese it hae one too far, isa which oaee the animal perielees from ex. heustion. By this means the basiEt of a ourative proof:tee egainet tuberculosis Was esteblieleed. Against the praotioal appli cation of atoll dilutione of dead taberole bacilli there presented itself the tact that tubercle bacilli are not absorbed at the inoculation points, ,nor do they disappear in weather way, but for a long time remain unchanged, and engender greater or smaller suppurative food. A.nathing, therefore, intended eo exercise a healing effect on the tuberoulona preeees must be a soluble sub. stance which would be laxiviated to a certain extent by the fluids of the body floating around the tuberole II:email and be transferred in a fairly rapid manner to the pieces of the body, while the enbetance producing suppuration apparently remeine behind in the tuberouler bacilli, or dissolves but very slowly. The only important point was therefore to induce outside the body the process goiag on inside if possible, and to extreme from the tubercular bacilli alone the curative substance. A VEHICLE FOIIND. Thia demanded time and toil, lentil I finally succeeded with the aid of a 40 to 50 per cent, solution of glycerine in obtaining an effeotive subetsmie from the tubercular health. With the fluid so obtained I made further experiments on animate, and filially on human beings. Theee fluids were given to other physicians to enable them to re• peat the experiments. The remedy which ie used in the new treatment consiete of a glycerine extract derived from the pure cultivation of tubercle bacilli, Into the simple extract there naturally pseees from the tubercular bacilli, besides the effeeotive subetance, all the other matter soluble in 50 per cent. glycerine. Consequently it contains a certain quantity of mineral salts, coloring substances, and other un- known extractive matter. Some of these substances can be removed from it wah tolerable ease. The effective eubstance itself is insoluble in absolute alcohol. It aan be precipitated by it, not indeed in a condition of perfect parity, but when still combined with other extractive matter. The coloring matter may also be removed so as to render it possible to obtain from the extract a colorless dry sub. Btence containing the effective principle in it much more concentrated form than the original glycerine solutions. For applioa• tion in praotioe the purifioation of the glycerine extract offers no advantage, because the substances so eliminated are not essential for the human organism°. The purification process would also make the cost of the remedy unnecessarily high. Regarding the constitution of more t ffeative eubstancee, Prof. Koch says that surmises only can be for the present expreieed. These substances appear to him to be derivative from albuminous bodiea having a close affinity to them. The extract doss not belong to the so called group of tox- albumens, beceuse it bears a higher temperatnre, and in dyallysis goes emaily and quickly through the membrane. The p oportion of tbe effective substance in the Laced is to all appearances very small, and is estimated at fractions of one per oentum, whioh, if correct, shows that we should have to do with matter the effect ot which tmen organierus attacked with tuberoulosie goes far beyond what is known to us of the strongest drugs. SPECIFIC ACTION OF THE REMEDY. Regarding the manner in which the speoffio notion of the remedy on tuberculous tissue le to be represented various hypo- theses may naturally be pueregeard. Without wiehmg to affirreathirreny affords the best explanation. I represent She process myself in the following man- ner : The tubercle bacilli prodtilied when growing in living tissues the same as in artificial cultivations contain certain sub stances which variously and notably un- favorably influence living elements in their vicinity. Among these is a substance which, in a certain degree of concentration, kills or so alters living protoplasm tbat it passes into a oondition that Weigert de- sorthes as coagulation necrosie. El tissue thus become necrotic, the bacillus finds such unfavorable conditions of nourishment that it can grow no more and some- times dies. This explains the re- markable phenomenon that it is found in organs newly attacked with tuberculosis. For instance, in guinea pigs, spleen and liver. which then are covered with grey nodules, numbers of bacilli are found, whereas they are rare or wholly absent when the enormously enlarged spleen consists almost entirely of whitish sub• stance in a condition of coagulation necrosis, such as is often found in casee of natural death in tuberauloue guinea pigs. The single bacillus csnnot therefoie induce neorosis at a great distance, for as soon as necrosis .attains a certain extension the growth of the bacillus subsides, and there- with the production of tbe neorotising sub- stance. A kind of reciprocal compensation thus occurs, (lensing the vegetation of isolated bacilli to remain so extraordinarily restricted, es for instance in lupus and ecrofulous glands. In such CHEWS th• Decrosis generally entends only to a part of the cells, which then, with the further growth, essurnes the peonliar form of riesen zelle or giant cell. GIANT CELLS. Thus, in this interpretation follow first the explanation Weigert elves of the pro - dilation of giant aelle. If now one increaser; artificially in the vicinity of the becillus the amount of necrotising substance in tbe tisane, the necrosis would spread a greater aiBtanoe. The conditions of nourishment for the bacillus would therefore beaome more unfavorable than usual. In the first place, the tisene which bad beccimenecrotio over a larger extent would decay and detach heel!, and where such were possible wonld oerry off the enclosed bacilli, and eject this outwardly, so far disturbing their vegeta tion that they would much more speedily be killed than under ordinary oiroum ritances. It is just in looking at such ohangee that the effect of the remedy appears to consist. It contains a certain quantity of necrotising eubstanoe, a corre- spondingly large dose of which injures oer• tain tisane and elements even in a healthy person, and perhaps the white blood cor pnecles or adjacent cells, thereby producing fever and a complication of symptoms, whereas with tuberculons patients a much entailer quantity suffices to induce at certain plariee, viz., where tubercle becilli are vegetatine and have already impreg- nated the adjacent region with the same neorotieing matter, more or Jew: extensive neorosis of the cells, with the phenomena O the whole organism which result from and are connected with it. Thns, for th. present, at least, it is impossible to explain the specific influence which the remedy in aconrately defined doses exeroisee upon tuberculate tissue, and the poneibilitar of thoreaeing the doses with Emile remarkable rapidity and the remedial effeets which have turiquestiohably been produced under not too favorable oironmstancee, DT:RATION OF THE REMEDY, Prof. ',Koch conoltides with a reference to the Onration of the remedy. Of the oai. snrnptive patientEi whom he deeoribed as temporarily cured, two have returned to the biloabkt Hospital for further observa tion. No bacilli have appeared in their sputum for the pest three months, and their physical symptome have gradually and completely disappeared. PIRATES RA WE A HAUL, Forty Pirates valt aostatesion of a Slalomed Unload its ireapuros. A San Francisco despatch says: Advicee from China state that the Dough's Com. pany's steamer Nemee. left Hong Kong on Deo 10th for Sweeten with tow European and 250 Chinese passengers. When about 45 miles from Hong Kong she was taken possession of by 40 pirate s, armed with re- volvers, whioh they conoealed while coming on board. Captain Pocock was treaoher. ously shot while parleying with the iratFs, and Capt. Petereon, a paseenger, wee also killed. The Malay quartermatiter was kaled and thrown overboard. Two officers and two IYIalay quartermasters, a Chipese sailor and Chineee cook were wounded and three Chineee passengers are said to have been stabbed. The Europeans had no weapons, and were almost power. less. The pirates looked them all in the captain's stateroom. After raneaoking the ship the pirates anchored close to the island. The booty was put on board junks from the island, and the ship was released. She was able to resat Hong Kong next morning. Tbe authorities are purening the pirates. The plunder is estimated at 530,000. Fashionable Coiffures. The era of smooth hair -dressing has again passed away. The braid is no longer the smooth, natty plait ; it is such a one as Tennyson speaks of, from which the ringlet may be blown' so curled and crisped are the tresses ofwhich it is braided. Not that there is anything resembling unkempt. nese in the modern ooiffure—far from it. The hair must look as if burnished, like Rosamond's "looks of crisped gold " ; it most be well brushed, combed and treated to frequent shampooings, till each separate hair is a beautiful elastio thread of silken softness, and then it may be arranged as oareleeely ae the mat artistic taste could desire. If the hair is inclined to straight. ness it is plaited up finely for some hours, or waved with an iron, and then it is fit to be arranged. Without being drawn too tiehtly twist the hair at the crown and let it form a soft loose coil around the twist ; loosen the hair at the top of the head and just above the nape with a few dexterous pulls with a coarse comb, and pin the coil flatly down with shell pins. The front hair is arranged in a curled and (usually) pointed bang. A. variation of this style of colffnre is arranged with the coil slightly below the crown and another just forward of it, and in this case the front hair is often arranged in Pompadour style. This style of coiffure ie that made popular by the beautiful wife of Explorer Stanley, who wears leer lovely heir arranged in the manner just deeoribed. With the bat or bonnet various steles of hair dressing are seen, frequently clusters of looee braids at the nook, and many still adhere to the Psyche knot and the figure 8 twist on the top of the head, bosh of which are so becoming to certain types of features that they never oan become wholly unfeehion. able. A Short Story. Life: She—Please make me up a dose of ometor oil. Smart clerk after a 'epee of five minutes —Have a glass of soda, won't yon She drinks soda and waits for the oil. Smart clerk—Anything else, Mies She —The castor oil, please. Smart clerk—Why, I gave you the oil in the soda She—Well, I didn't want the oil for my. self. It was for my brother. Bertha's 1.110 e Game. 3. Rochester Herald: Bertha Weldon, a Peoria, Illinois, spinister, solved the tin horn nuisance in that town on Christmas eve. She stood at her gate and every boy who came along without a tin horn or other sound nuisance received a bag of popcorn and package of candy. Her's wee a quiet neighborhood after that. Effect of otearettas. Ano'her young luau in New York has become demented in consequence of excessive cigarette smoking.— Philadelphia .Press. He is rot demented, but jwit plain dead; and his exit is 8 warning to a lot of young fellows that two packages cf cigarettes per day may possibly make a merry life, but certainly a mighty short one.—New York Herald. A Landlord in the Chair. Chicago Tribune : Man in back seat (risine)—Mr Chairman, I wish to move— Absent•minded Chairman—I've got several vaonnt fists I'd like—beg pardon, Mr. Williams. What is your motion ? 62,622,200. Above is the exact official return of the totel population of tbe United States in 1890, according to the latest bulletin issued from the Census Bureau Ton Canadian Botanists' Correspondence Aesociation has just been organized, with John Dearnees, Inspector of Public Schools, London chairman, and J. A. Morton, bar- rister, Wingham, eecretary. The associa- tion is a union of botaniets who collect and preserve specimens of the Flora of Canada, and who are willing to afford information and assistance to others in the study of botany wed to further the other objects of the association. its purpose is : la) The increase of botanical knowledge by the interchange of ideas and exchange of fresh and preserved sl nil:0.011R betrymia its members. (b) Tho preservation mod perpetuation of such plants as are of decorative or economic value. (c) And as ancillary thereto, the education of the po Mar ,a,ste, throut,b the medium of the pre, s and other ANOMIE'S of information. Id) The dissemination of information to the public concerning the appropriate eoil, location and cul ivotion of desirable species. (e) The establishment is convenient centres of public herbaria. (1) And to these ends to facilitate communica- tion between its t)ewliers. The latest invention in baberdeshery is tbe buttonless shirt. It is the idea of a canna:lien. It ie not designed to take the place of the full -'areae shirt, but is likely to be a strong every -day favorite with the short -armed frit man, who feels life's emptiness when he tries to reach the but, ton at the back of his neck. It is said that it fite well, and is the easiest garment to get in and out of that was ever invented. -- New York Sun. George Vanderbilt bas expended $400,- 000 on the fotmdation and first etory of his North Carolina castle. Ile employs con- etnntly a large force of men, who are at work maoadamieing the roads, laying out eardens, planting trees, building artificial lakes and doing everything partible to beautify the estate. Speaking of the total deprovity of human natnre, have you ever noticed that nothing makes a doctor so happy at to discover some new disease( ? The annual meeting of tho Canadian eeeiety of Civil Engineers was held yester- day in Montreal. 900D WORDS FOR SALESWIN. Blow the Bentnerreasi Traveller May Best Help otmereit etionee. He ehould be thoroughly poeted on all points that may brise, and be in a posttioe to answer any qu,stion that may come up tn connection with his bueinese. He must diligently read the newspaper, ad be oonvereant with ell important quee tions of the day. He should avoid all arguments with ma tomete, aphey selaern convince, but oftener tend to irritate. Ele is expected to smooth out all difil. ()Jetties or misunderstandings which may exist between his employer as d owatomet, without compromising either. He its required to be convenient with the standing ot every house in the trade over the territory which he covers, in order t avoid uuplessant complications with irre sponsible part lee. He ehonld report to hie firm every deta if possible, and make notes of any infer. a tion obtaineed that may be of interest to them or uld be competeenees He ought never to take advantage of as incompetent or inexperienced buyer and overload him with goods, as it will cer- tainly work against him and the firm in the lopg run. He should avoid all dissipated compare. ionship. He should make it a point to be on good terms with hie fellow travellers. He should alwaya opeak well of his cone petitors, as he will thereby gain the respect of the oustomere. He shoutd under no circumstances mie• represent his goods. He ought not to waste time on parties whose chronic habit is to change, cancel or countermand orders, and who continually report "shortage " and make false claims for " imperfections." He must not allow himself to become die. heartened by a week of dull trade. He should be ee economioal with his firm's money, es circumstances will allow. Commercial Inquirer. Good Manners and Good Morals. We have to fall beak at last for tbe standard of good manners and good morale not upon the few, but upon the many. The mesas of the people are unquestion- ably more critical as to morality than any exclusive circle ; and ae to the essentials— not the conventionalities—of good manners, they are to be found more securely among the many than the few. We have the high authority of Mr. 'Bronson Howard for saying that Bowery audience is far quiolter than a fash- ionable New York audience to frown on any • thing really immoral in & play. More than one English nobleman has been forgiven in Amerioen drawing -rooms for conduct whioh would have caused him, if known, to be summarily ejected from a Rooky Mountain mining camp. Howells, with his moat penetration, selects a rough Californian ea the man who patrols the eleeping oar to be the self-appointed protector of tbe ladies. An unprotected girl may travel by rail from the Atlentio to the Pacifica and meet with less of real rudeness or unkindness than she might encounter in a single evening, even from her own sex, at some very exolueive ball. The little social circles have their value, and a very great value; they furnish a part of the education and experience of social life. Where they happen to be under the leadership of a really onitivated and high-minded woman—like the late Mrs. John Jacob Astor for instance—they afford not merely a school of deportment, but of life. Where they are—as is quite as likely—under a very different style of leadership, the results oorreapond. "He despises me,""said Ben Jonson, " be- cause I live in an alley. Tell him hie sonl lives in an alley." In all parts of the world there are women whose forms are covered with diamonds, but who still carry the habits of the alley in their eonla. In the long run the safety of our national morals and manners does not lie in any of the little smiled circles, but in the average Bense and breeding cf the vast publio from which threw circles are being constantly recruited. —Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in Harper's Bazar. 'Where the Fun Does Not Come in. New York Herald : Tob,gganing down on a slippery slide Is the blissfullest kind of • bliss ; But it isn't's° funny when you strike a stone Ang land no anoS ram i EMI THE Toronto Labor Advocate follows the action of the TIMES in denouncing the pri. vate detective business, a business which is used le often to shield as to expose a crim- inal. Oar contemporary says : Fortunately for Canada, the private detective curse bite not yet assumed its worst form, We have no Pinkerton thugs, as the plutocracy is not yet powerful enough to introduce the sys- tem. But we have private detectives—felTows who make it their business to act tbe sneak and spy upon the private lives and actions of cal- atp.s at the bidding of anyone who will pay for the int', rroation thus obtained—or the stories trumped up by the detective. There is no sort of legitimate reason for the °xi...tone° of 1, is class of parasites, and the whole business ought to be put a stop to by law. 'The regular police and detective force is amply t ufficient for.tbe "Protection of the lives and proierty of •the people. Statistics show that one-fifth of the native married women of Massachusetts are ahildless. It is said that in no country save France nen a similar condition of affairs be found. It is said to be the fond hope of the Hawaiians that King Kelakana may be lost on leis way home from the United Statee. He is very unpopular, notwith- standing his social qualities. Some soothsayer has said that at 20 we know, at 30 we think we know and at 40 we give it tip. It relight be added that long before 50 we refer ail disputed questions to our children. New York State has 1 844,596 children of the echrol age, and of theee 1,042 160 attended the common eohools during 1800. The French are a reading and writing people. Parisians send each year 33,000,- 000 lettere, 13 000,000 postal cards and 85,• 000,000 newspapers. Never (iron et bridge till you come to it, and even then it is often wisdom to stay on thie side. Another peculiar case is reported from Springville, a village a few miles south of Peterborough. A. farmer named John Hooten and his wife dame to town, leaving in charge a boy who worked for them. On their retuen home the boy was missing bnt message was found writtett on a elate that he had been sick for some days and was tired of life. He intended to take a spoonfal of carbolic acid and go and bury himself so that hie employers would be put to leo trouble, A diligent search was made bat no tetwe of the boy had been found. He may have comMitted suicide or simply employ ea thin amuse to run sway. Hewes an emigrant boy not long ont fromithe old country, : modern medicine. Puck First they pumped him full of vireo from eons. mediocre cow, Le 1 the manatee might assail bine and leave pit -marks; • xi bis srow: Then oue day a bulid g bit laim--lee was gunting. delete at Quogue— and thoteyillitaldle-ddooliiiis veins in Paris with an extract Then he caught tuberculosis, so tbey took him, to Berlin And itijected half a gallon of bacilli into lain ; Welenbeitissfioefellesetruiroow, an delighted at tee quick - Till be caught the typhoid fever and speedy death was sure ; Time Italiteeadoit;etno7 with some sewage did inflame - And in e. ed half its gaetric juice into his abaci, men But as e,,on as he recovered, aS of course he bad to do, There • time alonga rattlesnake lana bit his thumb in two ; Once ilea n hi$ Vell1S Were openee to receive. about a gill Of some eereentine solution with the venom Br To preitpsattialb; for it yowls() in an Asiatic sea, New blood st as pumped into hind from a lep'rous old Chine(); Soon his appeti o had vanished and he could not eat at all, So the virus of dyspersia was ihjectod in the fall; But Ina blood was Elo diluted by the remedies- hte'd taken That one day be laid him clbwn and died and, never did awaken; With the Brown Sequard elixir, though they tried resuscitation. He netvioner showed a symptom of reviving anima-. Yet his doctor still could save him the persist- ently maintained) If he only could inject a little lifo into his value, ANTS AS aIIRGEONS. How Brazil Indians Utilize the Insects' 1.1= Worderful Grip. Ants are terrible fighters. They have very powerful jaws, oonsiderir the size of their bodies. and tberefore tlieir method' of fiehting is by biting, says the New York Examiner. hey will bite one another end hold on with a wonderful grip of the jaws, even after their legs have been bitten off by other ants. Sometimes six or eight ants will be clinging with a death grip to one another, makiug a peculiar epectaole, some, with a leg gone and some with half the body gone. One singular fact is that the grip of an ant's jaw is retained even after the body has been bitten off and nothing but the head remains. This knowledge is possessed by a certain tribe of Indiana in Brazil, who put the ante to a very peculiar. nee. When an Indian gets a gash out in his hand, instead of having his hand sewed together, as phyeicians do in this country, he procures five or six large black ants, and, holding their head.s near the gash, they bring their jaws togetner in biting the flesh, and thus pull the two sides of the gash together. Then the Indian pinches off the bodies of the ante and leaves their heads clinging to the gash, which is helde together until it is perfectly healed. Not Like Home. The change of scene between an English. village or a Scotch hillside to a bare farm- house on a vast, grassy plain, on whioh it stands out itself as the only feature to be seen on the landscape, and where ite postal address is Lot 2, Section III., W., must be at firat trying. No trees, no hedges, no - flowers, nothing that makes home look. homelike. And everything has to be begun ; the land has to be cultivated, the barns to • be built, the implements to be bought, and all depends on whether it will be a good wheat year or not, or whether a frost may come and go far to spoil the year's work. Under these oiroumstenoes, even with the hope of prosperity in the end, would it be wonderfol if the desire for higher things then the merely material should slowly be crushed out, end is there not a danger of a purely money -making, miserly, self- absorbed type of life being developed, un- less influences of another and more elevat- ing kind are introduced ?—Lady Aberdeenin the Review of Reviews. Desperate Attempt at Wife -Murder - A Syracuse despatch says: John Barker - shot his wife, a teacher in Bassett school, in this city, this morning. They had lived nnhappily together, and a short time ago she separated from him. This morning he went to the house of his sister, end taking his eixteen months' old inlay in his arms • proceeded to the school -house, and in the presence of the children fired five shots, all of which took effect. He then jumped out of 8 window, got into a cutter, and drove rapidly toward the south. The woman is . still alive. Tbe police are in close pursuit of the murderer. Barker recently was in: the employ of Rand & McNally. Completely Exonerated. Detroit News: Mrs. Peterby—What were - you and your °chain Frank talking about on the stairs? Fanny—Just think of it. He grabbed - nee by the wrists so I could not get away, and tried to kiss me on my cheek. " I hope you did not permit him 2" 1Why, ma, what makes you talk that way? I thought you had a better opinion of me than that." " Well, what did yon do to prevent hira kissing you on the cheek 1" " Held np my mouth." Different Drafts. Chicago Inter Ocean: Bank messenger —Mr. Dinwiddle, here is a draft, drawn on you for a heating furnace. Tonedik—I'm glad it has come. The furnace seemed to have no draft at all. Rut an Evidence of Good Faith., Toronto World: Opening councils with prayer is a very right and proper praotioe, but guarantees absolutely nothing. Tun kind of people who take note of these things say it ia no longer the correct thing in centres of fashion for a gentleman to lift hie hat on meeting a lady friend on the street. He merely, indioatee by a • slight gesture of the right hand and a graceful inclination of the head that he is aware of her presence and wishes to ecquaint her with the fact that he holds her in great regard and ie at her service. This, however, is generally taken for whet it is worth. This new style of salutation is preferable to the old one at this season of tbe year espeoially. It is said that the women of Marienburg, Prussia, recently held a public meeting at which they resolved to permit and advise the other fax no longer to greet them by uncovering their heads in bad weather, and especially dnring the winter season. The movement has11ie iaid, spread to other German cities, and associations have been formed wbictle, with the proverbial elimplicity of the German tongue, are called " niohthut- tebnehrame " doeieties. The schooner Wm. Daieley has been given up for lost with all on board. She sailed from Glonoester, Ikea., for Fortune Bay, November 241h, and has not been heard from einoe. The crew were : Pions McDonald, master; John-MoPhee, mate ; John Masada'native of Prime Edward. Islend ; Stool:16n McDonald, Cape Breton ; Allred Web, Yierrnotith, N. 5 ; Patrick Walsh, Newfoundland, and Albert Deward, of Holland. The vetiteel Wm) owned by Timothy tongford & Son.