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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-8-6, Page 6Auld Lang Syne. The nevex•dyiug Auld .L augsyne Baa many a time been sung, _ Through gilded hall and humble cot Its echoes oft have rung. Beta the wanderer far from home, Itastrains are fax more dear; It ahowa to me, of bygone days, vf$lon bright and clear. I seem to wander In the glen, In dreamy fancy's eye, An sometimes climb may native hills, That rise so grand and high. T sae my father on the hill, Ilia step is amend bold; The bloom is on niy mother's creaks, Aa In the days of old. hear the lambs bleat on the braes, The birds sing is the gien, The rippling of the silvery rlla, Front hill and flowery den. I see the Kith's broad, placid stream, And in its waters lave;; 1 view"t again when winteretorms hake dark its rushing wave. The long gone prat, the praeent time, Seem blended into one, As •o'er the thrilling bridge of song, Our thoughts with rapture run, Stngon that song of olden days, And ming It sweet and free; Its melting strains will cheer the hearts Of numbers more than ane. CHOICE BITS. DIDN'T ORT TRE 14I41.Ca. ; Here ea a copy of a reply to en *Aver - "omelet for a fgetman, inserted in thelria11 "nes.-- -"" Sir, or Maar", & i doant na wich i seed yen: bootiful linea in they irish times & wad like to giv yih a thrde. i am wot yin may cal a rale good inside man, nice to Irak at, up to my dirty,noing, civil spoke, and rites well. I lived iii many bi up pleoes and has }grlinty of papers, yle wn see moat, but sur" 1.11 rayther not, fur some of me employers— had lukto them--waute fur to go fur to say that sometimes I take a dhrep too muoh =any of theraelves did the like & was bad tin Bred & keep very unregular ours & if I did wata that to tate busybodies & may bei'll lie it "gin, & if yea ar daunt people i'U hash* your helth. As to reiigin i ars a general christen 1 dont care one raga wet yea ar so i hop ye will give me a chance. 1 hike the pertekiarty m yer idvertment and shows yer a ;choler Like moult. So no more pitaver from your* truly. i am 40 yers olds batohler odium. blew eyes and remarkable taking to Inik at.. tidy made. tease biota the pin is rale bad was a naticnale ached chap for given s ere. AVMS. The to ;p,rature was well up in the nighties. Two men stood talking earnestly together on a atreet corner. The younger a :heerful, bright-eyed man, said to his ahal low dyspeptiteloaking companion ; "111 tell on what is the matter with you : you are bug to carry to heavy a load, enough to any man, it will floor you before long, you dont give up. Just put two or three lions away, where it will be safe, and here you can draw on i`, and let the rest to the donee, if it will while you take a n over to Europa for a year or so. You'll me back a new man, and I guesa you'll d everything all right on your return. t any rate your health is worth more than. in'il loseby the vacation." The shallow an "mired doubtingly, as though the irons. e had in the fire would have to be watched little longer BP WAS WAnIrED I.T TI .tE. In a Scotch parish church a young and ery energetic preacher was officiating for e parish minister. As he warmed with his bleat lathe sermon, he used liberties with e old pulpit not quite consistent with its ther crazy condition, sometimes throwing weight on it, at other times bringing his d down with a heavy thump. An old ird, sitting in a square table -seat below, been a' xiouely watching all this with aims of an assessment for maintananoe of fabric. At last things .eemed to be ap- oaching a crisis, as the preacher, piling hie 'ode, had wrought himself into a state of use fervor, which would inevitably haee d itself on the rickety pulpit. Just as as gath-ring himself for the final buret, as snuffed out by the warning voice of laird : " Noo, ma mon, mind, gin ye k that, ye'll pay for it," a -.tea -•t, The Alert Damaged by Ice. e expedition to Hudson Bay has proved ilure. The steamship Alert left Halifax may 22. She encountered considerable in the Gulf of St, Lawrence. She reached c Sablon, on the south coast of Labrador, June 1, and, after four daya' delay, pro- ded along the northern coast of Labrador ough a belt of heavy ice varying from to one hundred miles wide. The Alert ed several monster icebergs embedded. e pack. The steamer reached Itaokiack une 12, and there encountered the heavy pack. Before reaching Resolution Island miles of heavy loose ice were passed, e ship then became jammed ten miles theaat of Cape Brest, and remained fast enty-one days. A nix knot current pre - B ed, and the ateamer kept drifting from e land. Meantime the ship's bows were verely damaged, and the stem and stern rtes were swept away. The voyage had he abandoned, and the Alert's head was t for St. Johns; where she arrived on 15th ly. She is being repaired and will resume r voyage shortly. The Manner. of Boys, Boys, .at a certain transitory age, are apt to be awkward- Outdoor exercises and sports do much to make them, strong and straight ; yet it is very common among those who are growing fast, (especially if they read or study a good deal,) to findtbe head thrust (orward, the shoulders round and stooping, and a elonching, ungraceful carriage. Un- til theae things are corrected, no boy can be thoroughly strong and vigorous. Biting the nails is one of the most annoy - lug of habits, and yet one which almeet any boy will fall into, unless his mother nips it in the bud." Not only is it almost: nnin- durable far a nervous person to sit in the room with one of these nail-biting boys, but the young man's hends are injured in appear- ance, and, if the habit be carried to excreta, they will; becamealmostdeformed. Intheae days of professional manicures, mothers. ought, at least, to see that there are no ragged Haile and raw fingers among their children. A habit of snuffing, or of scraping the throat, or of tapping the floor with the foot, or the table with the knuckles, comes on gradually, but once fixed, is exceedingly difficult to overcome. «litern#1 Tigilanoe" should be a mother's watchword, fer the true secret of cnringbad habit,, is' in never allowing them to be formed, QUEER FAOTS. A curiosity at Rockford, Ill., is a young negress with a luxuriant growth of auburn ringlets. Three young bantam chickens belonging to. Charles R. Hambright of York, PL, lay eggs that are pure white on one side and a beautiful strawberry color on the other, Mrs. John Wood, age 67, and the mother of twelve cleldren, eloped from her home near Toledo, Ohio, with William Bradley, aged 21, and went to Detroit, where they were eventually obliged to go to the poor- house.. When Annie Leon left New York twenty- two years ago to attend her husband and sou, wlrowwere mortally wounded at 'Gettya- berg, ahe lost her two-year-old daughter. The girl host just beenfoundin "blind Asylum at Columbus, ,Ohio. The son of the .Scotch millionaire, who has become greatly interested in agriculture, bas hired himself to ea Illinois fanner for $15 a month so as to learn the Amerlcan methods of farming. lie agrees, to labor two years at that rate of pay. David Reedy, a colored man, living near Marietta, Ga., was struck while working by a whirlwind, and, ea he said, "whisked into the air to a height thntmade the trees look like little brushel." His descent wan so eagy that he was not In the least banned. The "ounce of prevention" la worth mor that. the "pound of cure." T would not tike Away Anything of boyishness or nature', nese. A real boy is worth half a dozen fops or dudes. But I do not see why boys should not be as graoeful Aid well-mannered a* their sinters ; wiry they cannot sit down to the table without hitting It and jarring the dishes as well m the tempers of the whole family ; why they Gannet eat. slowly and noiselessly ; why they cannot cross a roods without atumbling against the furniture ; or close a door without slamming It ; or sit quietly while reading or listening, It should be perfectly natural far a boy to lift his hat to his mother or sister when be alumna to meet them on the street; to rise from a comfortable chair when older persons enter the roam ; to esrtesteia a visitor when the reat of the hon*ehold is emulated. Do you say It is too much for .* boy to think of all these things ? If the mother has trained him from babyhood oeustantly and carefully, he will do them without thinking. Good manners are a growth, and boyhood is the time, and home the place, in which they should grow. The Feet. The odor of pure perspiration is not un pleasantaamaybe provedinciean andheelthy babee. When, however, the other elimfnat- ingorgana--those thetatrainthewaate matter from the blood—do not duly perform their functions their work is attempted by the skin. Then a disagreeable odor is general- ly given to the perapiration. Even in theae oagoa the odor is produced mainly after the perspiration haat been absorbed by the cloth- ing This last fact is generally true of the bad odor which is associated with the excessive perspiration of the feet of some people. Dr. George Thin, of England, has been investi- gating the matter, and has communicated the results of his experiments' to the Roya Society. The perspiration of the"body is generally alightly acid. That in the soles of the stock- ings and boots be found to be alkaline, In this there -is a rapid development of a clans of bacteria (microscopic vegetations)charae- terized by a fetid smell (baoteriumfoatidum). The fluid in the solea of thestookinga and of the boots examined by the doctor was found to teem with them. Thus the odor is sup- posed in some canes to be due, not directly to the perspiration as it comes from the feet, but to its subsequent putrefaction. FEOULIAR WARNINGS. Four le, S. x'restdente who Have Died is e*nce Strangely Forewarned. It has been asserted by some curious ob- server, says Harper's Bazar, that the inaug ural ceremonies of each of the four Prete', denten-Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln and Gar field -with whom death, an unseen and un- bidden guest, entered theWhite House, were marked by signs and omens that, interpret- ed by supernatural lore, foreshadowed to the ignorant and superstitious the£uneral pagean try in which they would ere long be oentral figures. Gen, Hanlon arrived at Washington in the midst of a driving thunderstorm, and as ho descended from his carriage a flawh of lightning blinded him and caused him to miss a step and fall. The first night he slept at the White Souse an owl, perched on the roof of his bedroom, hooted centime ously and explained the next morning that the owl and the howling dog near had kept him awake. When Dire. Taylor heard of her husband's election she burst into tears and exclaimed: "0h, why can't they leave us alone? This is all asoheme to break up our home."" When she entered her bedroom at the White House shestarted back, and, pointing to a diamond shaped ornament carved on the mantel, said " See 1 the first thing to greet me is a coffin. Death will rob me in thea dreadful house of some one I lave." To Mr. Lincoln there came an apparition, thus described by him: "On the evening of the day I received news of my election, worn out by excitement and fatigue, I threw my- eoU upon a lounge be my bedroom to rest, dust opporlte to me was a burean with a swinging glass, and looking into it I noticed two operate and distinct images of myself. A little bothered, perhaps startled, I got up arid went to the glans, but the illusion van. bahed, Lying down again, I saw again but noticed that one of the faces was paler than the other, malted ablood ethanol it, When my wife came he I told her of *evident, and she, who had great faith in signs, badgener- ally attached some meaning to them, said "It means that you will be elected to a se- oona term, but will not live through. it.." On their return trip from Springfield to Woolliest= they passed, by Gee, I1'.asrison's burial place and halted to pay a tribute of respect to his memory. Turning from the grave, a blackbird anode a cirale round hie head. The night of his assassination Mrs. Lincoln told one of the wetobors that on that eventful trip through the bright, happy northern villages, decked with flowers habits honor, as well as that mysterious night ride through Baltimore and secret arrival is Washington, the tolling of a death -knell, clear and unmistakable, was sounding in his ear. The dreams and forebodings of the two bins. taxfieids, mother and wife, aro too recent to be repeated. Were they the idle fancies of nervous women? Yon Orn Let Go. Few will read this incident from Mrs, Panther's " Southern Woman's Story" with- out a tear for the hero who so courageously gave the fatal order Private Fisher had remained through at hietriaia stout, fresh, and hearty, interesting in appearance, and trio gentlemanuered and uncomplaining that we all loved him. Supported an his crutches, he had walked up and down his ward inthe hospital for the firat time sinoe he waw wounded, and seemed almost restored. That same night he turned over and ut- teredan exclamation of pain. Following the nurse to his bed, and turn- ing down the covering, a small jet of blood spurted up. The sharp edge of the splintered bone must have severed an artery. I instantly put my finger on the little orifice and awaited the surgeon. He soon came, and took along look, and shook his head. The explanation was easy. The artery was imbedded in thefleshy part of hit thigh, and could not be taken up. No earthly power could save him. There was no object in detaining Dr.— He required his time and strength, and long I sat by the boy, unconscious himself that any serious trouble was apprehended. The hardest trial of my duty was laid upon me, the necessity of telling a man in the prime of life and fulness of strength that there was no hope for him. It wag done at last, and the verdict received patiently and courageously, some directions given by which his -mother was to be informed of his death, and then he turned his ques- tioning eyes upon my face. " How long can I live 1" "Only as long as I keep my fieger upon this artery." A pause ensued, God alone knew what thoughts hurried through •that 'heart and brain, called so un- expectedly from all earthly hopes and lies. 1Ue broke the silence at last. Frank Smilie, a drummer, was In Macon, reoently and was handed a letter dated April 9, 1884, that had travelled thousands of miles in hundredss of mail bags while vainly pursing pini. A year ago he left Cincinnati without aoertaiu perfumed letter that was expected, but he gave instructions to have it forwarded. It arrtved the day after his departure, and was forwarded. It kept rigbtbehincl him, and followed him into Georgia, Alabama, Florida, andMisaieslppl, All this time he wondered why "she ,did not write." About a month ago he read a marriage notice in which the writer of the misplaced letter figured as the bride, Historical Reminiscences of Leke Ohara. - plain. In Frederic G. Diat errs charming aocount of a canoe voyage along Champlain, there is much that will interest the atudent of his- tory, Regarding the Old fort Ticonderoga, he says :-- No matter how much you may slight the detele of the early history :of Cl'amplaln, you cannot fail to be interested when you come to the ruins of Crown Point and Ticonderoga. Not until now have you real ized the etrategicimportanCe of astrip of water which is bare'y 100 feet above tide- water at Montreal and at Albany. Cham- plain was Indeed the gate of the country when it afforded the only way of carrying artillery and troops between the Freneh col antes and those of the English. The shores of the lake bear few evidences of the strug- gles that took place for the poswesaion of a continent. But when we ranch the ruins of these ancientfortreeaee we begin to under• stand that there was a terrible struggle for the mastery, a struggle with 12 -pound can- non balls 1 We recall Sorel, Tracy, Cour- celles, Montcalm, Levi, Frontenao, Beerle- maque, S adreil, Dietl- a, and other names that France has handed down, together with Winthrop, Schuyler, Williams, Johnson, Rogers, Stark, Putnam, Arnold and Webb, contributed by the English colonies. Then the Revolutionary War geve us De la Place, Allen Bourgoyne, and Haldimand, while about these ruined walls Prescott, Pomeroy, and Putnam had muoh of their military training for after years. The old French fort at Crown Point is in decay, but it had an eventful life of twenty-eight years. In its day it commanded the narrow channel of the lake, but the range of modern artillery makes the site of the fort of no account at this time. The same fact is true of Ticon- deroga, -a fact that Bourgoyne stated in emphatic terms when he trained his guns upon the works from the heights of Mount Defiance, and forced St. Clair to retreat un- der cover of the night. To the north of the bold promontory of Ticonderoga, which we must round to enter Lake George, we may easily recognize, from his description, the cove where Champlain and his Algonquin" had their terrible battle with the Iroquois. On that memorable day in 1609 the sound of fire -arms was first heard in American war- fare ; while Hendrick Hudson was ex- ploring the waters of the Upper Hudson, —so narrowly did the two civilizations es- cape a conflict in the very beginning of their endeavors! The afflicted will be glad to learn that this odor can be wholly destroyed by borac- ie acid—the acid of boron. The steekings should be changed twice a day. When tak- en off they should be placed in a jar contain- ing a solution of the acid. They are again fit for use after drying. To prevent the odor from getting into the boots cork soles should be worn, and placed at night in the jar and dried the next day. Washing the tender and sore parts of the feet with the acid will relieve the ac- companying feeling of heat and pain. Advice to a Young Wolman. My daughter, when you note that the man who wants to marry you its just too aw- fully anxious to Learn whether you can bake a loaf of bread, or do up a shirt with Chinese dexterity, before you close the nego- tiations, do you just fly around and ascer- tain whether ',that man is either willing or able to earn enough flour to make a biscuit, and if he has paid for the shirt he wants you to wash. Nine times out of ten, daughter,- the aughter;the man that only wants to marry..a house- keeper,ean be kept more economically in the workhouse, than he can in your father's house. Crue, sibrought, clothing into the world ; through clothing came churches, through churches ministers and bread 1 butter for ministers' children, The dater, therefore, should be the last to rail inst fine clothes. Take away fine cloth - d hoar much of a congregation, think yon would have to -morrow, reverend 1•--44e41411.--R It is the small establishment, the small in•, dustries, with their low rates, cheap wages, and the moderate expenses, that pay the best returns on the capital and labor invest- ed. New York, which, with one exception, is the greatest manufacturing city on the continent and employs over a quarter of a million of mechanics, has not a cotton mill, a rolling mill, or a blast furnace within her limits, but is almost exclusively a city of small industries At a recent musical performance a young, lady smug a song entitled, " There Ia Rest in Heaven." That is one way , of making religion popular. Horrors of the Soudan. Pitiful stories continue to reach the Ital an government ooncerning the condition of the Italian troops atMaesowish. The recent suicide of Col. Putti, commander of theltal. Ian garrison there, was dueto ennui and desgair, and not to delirium caused by fever, al IPA been reported. Se naw sickness and death among the troops daily increasing is spite of all the exertions of the surgeons and extra sanetary precautions. At length he became hopeless of the sbtnatiosof the troops being remedied, and took his own life in the desperate hope that such an act might open the eyea of the home officers and cause them to imitate the action of the English govern- ment by "scuttling out of the Soudan." It is reported that he frequently advised the Italian war minister to order a return of the troops, but his warnings had been unl eed- ed. It is now offielally admitted that 40 per cent. of the soldiers at Massawah are down with enteric fever, but private letters from the men, and even from one of the surgeons, to friends at home say that the surge `general minimises the list of the sick; ud the toss by death. One writer that not more than 25 per cent, of men are able to reapend to roll -call, and ;half of these are suffering more or leu fever, and that the death rate la lur- e hetet ie appaling, the mercury aver - 125 In the shade until night, and then. swans of sand -files and mosquitoes invade the place, and, as the aoldiere bare leo net, aleep is impossible. Similar stories to the above roach Loudon regarding the British troops at Swaim, Thousands of corpses of ruenand animals lying exposed to the sun, being *lightly covered with saudein the vioinity of Suekim have made the soil a vast breeder of typhoid fever, which heti caused many cloths and filled not truly the regular hospitals but also the portable hospitals with aick soldlere, The latter hospitals are usually used only during active servfoe, but so rapid was the increase of disease among the soldiers that they bad to be brought into requisition to amid accommodation far the amgering men. The only water to be had is distilled by the ships in the hit- her, and this is served to the troop. war.", No vegetables are obtainable, and the hard- ships of even those not on the sick -list are almost beyond euduranoa. Rochefort ani d Wolseley, M. Rochefort hays a Paris correspondent) is spitting fire agabnet the English in Egypt, particularly against General Wol,eley, whom ho charges with the murder of 011ivier Fain. The reason the English murdered him was this :--" The capture of Khartoum did not take piece as the telegrams have tried to make us believe. Vet British troops knew that the city had been long in the bands of the Mandl when. Colonel Wilaon was iavit• od by the Mandi hiu.aelf to come and seethe extent of hie victory . . . . 011Ivb- or Pain would have unveiled all there mys- teries, as be would have oontradioted all the lies with which the English Government had deceived Europe. They tried is vain to kill him on his outward journey. They swore he should not escape on his return, low Pain is dead, and the revelations be would have made have died with him, Wolseloy'e despatch is only one imposture more" -&a Rochefort demands that Paia'ta corpse shall be given up to him for a post mortem examination, and ultimately no doubt for burial in the Pantheon. He is try- ing to get up a national movement in honor of the companion of his priaon and exile, and he is lashing his "idea to bring forth more eneregtio screams for vengenance on perfidious Albion. The Figaro, whose cor- respondent Pain was, gives a very different version of his death. It says the unfortu- nate man must have wandered about with some tribe of Bedaween which kept on the borders of the oountry subject to the Mandi, and those of the territory held by the Eng- lish, waiting to see for which aide victory would declare, and then join that aide. After making their choice, and before joining the Mandi, they murdered Clavier Pain to pre- vent his telling the prophet of their wily trimming. The Figaro consoles itself very easily for the loss of its correspondent, It says—" Whetb er fever killed him, or whether he was the victim of a murder, Cllivier Pain. was a lost man on the day he penetrated alone and without resources into the desert n search of an adventure without an issue. The desert does not give up its prey.' Such is the funeral oration of the Figaro on one of its collaborators. fr ful A Loving Stepmother. In order to punish her stepson, a boy 12 years old, a woman living at Minneapolis tied a rope around the boy's wrists and hung him out of a second -story window on the slanting roof of a bay window. After putting the boy out of the window, the mother closed it so that it rested on his wrists, tied the rope to a trunk, and put a nail in the windovv'So that the lad could not raise it to help himself. A great crowd of men and women collected in the street, but no one dared to interfere until. Sergt. Kirkham's little girl came and notified her father, telling him that a boy was being hung. Mr. Kirkham hurried out, and in spite of the fact that the woman Said she " would like to see a police officer come into her house," went in and took the boy down. His hands were black, caused by stopping the flow of blood, and the rope had cut his wrist. In the afternoon the father appeared at the station with the boy and wanted him sent tothe reform school. He said he had whipped him, locked him up in a room with out clothes, but it didn't do any good. 1-41111411110.--11 eh passionate reproof is like a medicine given scalding hot; the patient cannot take it. ftG1BUT TUTE. Birds in$Tfreed*rom E begin to sing long before pairing, and continue it, subject to interrup- tion, long afterward. Domesticated birds, as most persons who have gaged prate know Ong through the whole year without regard to breeding -time, though no female or coma panion ever be in eight. Among the " curiosibies of commerce' none perhaps is more curious than that the major portion of the produce exported from South Africa is simply used for the adorn, wont of ladies. Out of the yearly total val- ue exported of seven million five hundred thousand pounds, oitrioh•feathers and dia- monds account for the large sum of five mil lion pomade. The C.ltinese regard an attack epilepsy as the occupancy of a man's bodyof by the spirit of an animal, usually s pig or es sheep. They try to keep such spirit by staffing the patient's mouth with grass, for if It leave be- fore the return of the man's own spirit-- which must be absent during the fit—the men will die. he wood c f the " jamb "tree, an Austra- produot growing principally in the mat- e tion, is stated to be about the next to everlasting, It appears to defy all orga forms of decay under the most Iry^. In nmstanees ; 1left alone by the white an nd iihipe built of It da not require to b ppered. The " City cf Churohee " lettooklyn, N. 1f, ; the " City of Masts. " ig Loudon ; the " City of Monuments " fs Baltimore, Md. ; the "City of Refuge " ba Medbna, Ara. bin, where Mohammedan took refuge when driven by oonapisators from Moue ; the City of the Sun " is Baalbeo ; the " City of the Tribes " i* Galway, 'Ireland, the rad - dome in 1285 of thirteen tribes who settled there, The Rothschild family control the quick silver supply of the world, with the excep- tion of a new mine just discovered near Bel- grade. There are only a few quioktillver mines known, the two largeetbefngini. Spain and Celifosnfa. Both ase aweed by the house of Rothschild, who only permit a supply but *aver a glut of the market to issue from their mires, and thus they centred an Iain *ease and very profitable monopoly. Many years ago, over the door of an but, in London, hung a sign representing the four mIing elements of the Government, - It was the picture of four men standing upon tge shoulders of eaah other. At the top stood the king—on his breast was the legend, " govern all ;" under him stood tbo so'.dier,. and on his breast the motto, "I fight for ell ;" under bins ;trod the clergyman, and on his breast the motto, " I pray for all ;" at the bottom stood the laborer, with brawny sin- ews, every nerve strained to support the bnr1en resting upon him, and on hie breast was the motto, "I pay for alt.," " You oan let go—" But I could not—not if my own life had trembled in the balance. Hot tears rushed to my eyes, a surging sound to my ears; and deathly coldness to my lips. The pang of obeying him was spared me, and for the first and last time during the trials that surrounded me for four years I fainted away. Australian Rowers. Hanlon says:—" It is justsurprising what big fellows the Australian oarsmen are. I looked quite a boy beside them. Beach is 5ft, loin, high, and a very muscular 'man. Clifford as 61t, lin„ and weighs, when out of condition, 2401b.. Michael Rush is Eft. 2in. in height, and is built in proportion. Of 6 course you know that Trickett is away over The company in which you will improve moat will be the least expensive to you. Simmer Beverages. It fe very dangeroue at this time of the year, when the Lightest arronnt of labour throws the body into a feverish,heteted state, to drink and water, and yet it id just the very time of all others when we feel inclin- ed to consume the moat, So muoh haw been taken out of the body, by perspiration, that it must be made up for is some way or other, Persons who are accustomed to drink ale, spirits, etc., think that at thiaawe eon a double portion is required. But thai6 a de- cided mistake. Inatead of allaying the hat of the body, and quenching the thirst, these beverages intensify and aggravated both. Those persona who have field work, or outside labor of any kind, and who have not the means of procuring any other drink than water, will avoid all evil consequences by adding akout a teaspoonful of vinegar to every half-pint of water. An eminent doctor remarks that "those who have used this bee. eragehavefound themselves more refreshed and less exhausted at night than when they took spirits and water or other muoh-like drinks. There are a numberof summer bev erages which can be made at a very small cost, and which in this hot, tiring weather will be found most refreshing. Try the fol- lowing for Holes -Hann L&Iaomum.—Take half a dozen large, fresh, lemons, rub them very thoroughly with a clean, damp cloth, and out them into slices one-eighth of an inch thick. Put them into a large pitcher with one pound of loaf sugar, and pour over them three quarts of quite boiling water. Stir it round for a minute or two until the sugar is dissolved, then set it aside to cool. When cold stir it again, is oaae any sugar has settled at the bottom ; strain through a piece of muslin, beat the lemons to a pulp, and pour over another pint of cold water. Stir this also, and add to the rest ; it is then ready for use. This will be found a most healthful, cooling drink, as the juice of the lemon is so good for the blood. .411 010 P How to Ride a Horse. He whe rides should ride in aproper man- ner, and should be, as it were, a part of the animal he bestrdea, accommodating himself to every motion of his horse, and not bob- bing up and down like a 'teter-tailed snipe. Ride like the French, like the American, like the Indian, an ungainly wretoh,but who appears graceful on horseback. Bumping in the saddle is English, and don't ride like an Englishman. Ride with a long stirrup, sit up in the saddle, bridle slack and in the left hand left hand, down on the pommel left shoulder • very slightly advanced, the toes straight to the front and resting easily in the stirrup, and only the toes in the atirrupenot the whole foot, Ride with whip and 'spurs els you like, but use neither unless abso- 1 ly neoeasary,as the horse knows, and you ow, that yore have the power to enforce edience other thing,. the inhuman custom of cu ing off the horse's tail ; let it grow. The horse needs his tail if only to brush away the flies that torment him so furiously in the summer. There are no shops in any Abyssineantown. All the trade ie done within the trader's home or compound over a glass of the beer of the country. The Cholera. The rage of the cholera epidemio is' de- creasing in. Spain, if the statistics are to be relied upon, but the authorities have good reason to suppose that the returns give a much underrated estimate of the number of cases. The people refrain from reporting the true cause of death in oholera fatalities, and do not call in the doctors at a11, if left to not as they please in the matter, because the existence of cholera, if it comes to the knowledge of the physicians, entails the aeizu and burning of all the clothing and Glatt belonging to the family in which, a ease re. The higher classes, who ap-. precis the gravity of the epidemic, are never less more reluctant on account of dest tion of property, to confess the exist - en of cholera among them than the lower classes, who have so little tm lose that they do not care muoh. The total of deaths in Spain to date from cholera is nearly 19,000 and the peat is spreading daily into new provinces.