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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-9-3, Page 8A Presentiment. Is an impression on the mind, that some thing ie going to take place, and usually such is the Daae; perhaps we may say without exaggeration, that something always does occur, after a presentiment is formed, if such were not the fact, we cannot conjecture what would become of everybody. Just imagine for a moment, that semething did not take place in 'such a large world as this!, Presentiments love weak places, hence they flourish among weak-minded people, not necessarily weak-minded by nature, but made so by a diseased body, We are told of a young lady at Kinderbook, who was visited by an apparit`on two years ago, at dead hour of night, which announced to her iu solemn aoeeuts, that in two years ahe would be the inhabitant of another world; this circumstance had auch a depressing in- fluence on her mind, that she pined away by degrees and. did die, ataythe term named, and was buried a few days after. the boy in three months returned home con- va emoent, and six months later the cavity had disappeared. Tobacco as an Antizymaaio. M. Pec: ober in,the Montpelier Medical considers that the use of tobacco preserves one from an infinity of contagious diaeasea. He thinks that as typhoid fever is due to a ferment, the poilulation and life of which in the organism is the initial cauae of the di- sease, tobacco is the most powerful deatru't- ire agent, and that its action is due to nico- tine; he declares that a number of smokers have been protected from epidemic influences through tobacco. Perhaps it is for this eaten. that Willis recommends the tree 0 tobacco'in armies, as a preservative against certain epidemic diaeasea, Staley's Faith. "One faith aneinat the whole world's un- belief," sings a poet, and the poet only echoes the doctrines of the great Teacher. Have a right purpose in life, and faith in that purpose. Purpeae and faith are des - An eminent clergyman, on parting frem hey. another said: "I have a etrongpresentin>za.+ A lea€ f eco, the journal of a great explor- that we shall never meet again," and within er ,ivi•al} elustratesa this truth. a few hours he perished at the Gasconade on In the neart of Africa, yesra ago, two the Pacific Railway white men met. One was old, grey-haired An alinoat infallible cure for presentiment, and ill; the other young and enthusiastic. however violent, is: good emetic, a grub- bing hoe, with a few days' bread and water diet; For ourselves, we would omit the emetic, as we do not patronize physic, except by prtxy. The reason we give anadicine at all la the people are always in a hurry, not exaactly tw get well, but to get able to eat ; if they own only eat, nine out of ten think they are get- ting along fsmonsly. Everybody wants to get well ins minute, and for the bare chances of doing so, with a slight degree of mour- aaoe to that effect from any knave who is willing to promise, it having the wit to see At a glance that the assurance moat be father to the fee ---we repeat, with a very slim emir. 211100 of being made ,wall in a *bort time, the large uaajority of invalids would swallow a quart of Shakespeare's soup thrice a (ley, said aoup being made, as the reader may remember, by several old witches, of such things es newt's twee, frees toes, lizard wing', wrings of rattle analrea and other In- gredient' net neeesaary to be named, but ell brought to the climatic point by ---onion,. An emetic will dtsaipate a presentiment in fire minutes, while the vigorous use of the grubbing hoe in the open sir, would work off the extra and thick blood, abate aoenmu- lotion in tae brain generates these diaara ed imaginings, while the diet of bread and water would supply a pure article of blood in the plata of the impure material. Who ever heard of a healthy, out -door, day laborer, having a "presentiment" in the pursuit of his oocupatlon ? The fact is, they have not time to be moping about aueh tocn-foaolerica; the only preeenttment that ever troubles them fi a veritable fact, a tangible reality. " Root pig, or die " is their ever living ghost, Proaentimeuta do net exist except in con- Aectionwith one of the throe following thing -1 A weak mind. 2. A diseased body. 3, ,An idle condition of life. Loafing and gluttony aro the great crgin- ators of this unfortunate condition of mind and its almost oertaia removal follow in- temperate eating, combined with phyeicaI activity. If unattended to, and friendly death does not step in to save from a great- er calamity, insanity winds up the history. To the reflecting, we suggest a fact which dissipates the mystery which hangs around "presentiments. ' In ordinary oases, a thing is not baptized ea a "presentiment," until the coincidence of the fact. Super- stitious minds, in which presentiments mostly deals, telae no note of the countless impressions teat certain things might take place, which did not afterwards take place ; one tech coincidence makes an impression against a million non-conourrenta. The Body's Tolerance. Sometimes a slight blow on the head has resulted in death, or, what is worse, in the permanent loss of reason. A' mere scratch on the hand, or a sliver in the foot, or a ' grain of dust lodging in the eye, or the tin- iest fi h -bone entering the wind -pipe, has proved fatal. Such facts may lead us to accept the poet's statement, " The spider's most attenuated thread is cord, is cable, to man's hold on life." But there is another class of facts quite ;as surprising, that are different from these. An iron bar has been driven through the brain, with a considerable loss of brain sub stance, and yet no permanent harm has come to body or,to mind. The fact is, while a mere prick in a particular part of the brain (the medulla oblongata) may cause death, the great bulk of the brain is exceedingly tolerant of many forms of injury. Even the heart is much more tolerant e than is generally thought. A he physician may thrust his_ fine instrument through it with safety. .an insane woman sought to kill herself Iby piercing it with a hairpin, but wholly failed of her purpose, although the pin interfered with the natural move- ments of the heart. A woman swallowed a paper of pins. The pins traveraed various organs and tissues of the body, and yet she recovered from the local inflammation, A boy was brought to the hospital in- sensible, and nearly dead from asphyxia (want of breath). The doctor having run a catheter down the wind -pipe, a piece of eheanut was coughed up. The next day there was evidence that another piece was lodged in another of the bronchial tubes. It was impossible to dielodge it. There followed al the symptoms of acute con- sumption (pthisis): high temperature, sweat ing, emaciation, copious expectoration of offensive matter, and a large cavity. Yet The elder man was one whose fame as an African explorer was world-wide, but for years the civilized world had lost sight of him, Scientific aas.oclations were asking vainly, "What has become of Dr. Living- stone?" As a correspondent of the New York Ror- alfl, the younger man had distinguished himself for indomitable perseveranoe, rapid. dseieion and sterling Gammon -acne, and in 1870 ha was chosen by Mr. Bennett, its pro- prietor, to find Livingstone, His story is well known. "Draw a thousand pounds naw," said hitt. Bennett, and when you have gone through that, draw another thous- and, and so on, bntfied Ziringarone.'x On January fi, 1871, Henry M. Stanley started from Zanzibar for the interior of Africa, and for eleven months he and his party tailed through swamps and juxgless, expoaad to countless dangers from wild beasts end pestilential atmcsphero. Worn by fatigue, surrounded by insubordinate natives, a less resolute aman. than Stanley wanld have given up the unequal contest with oircumatanoei and gene back, but this, Stanley never thought of doing. He hed faith in God, in himself and his purpose. In bis jeering he wrote, and the words glow with an energy that is enblime, and deatrve a place in the memory of every young man. "No living man shall step me ; only death can prevent mo. But death --nit oven this ; I shell not die—I will not (lie— f cannot die 1 Something tells me I shall find him, and write it larger, FIND HIM 1 FIND Ilil<I1" Full of the intensity of conviotion, a faith born of faith in God, Stanley pressed on, headless cf hardships, till one day he, with. his p,srty, oarne in eight of Lake Tanganika, and a little later be stood in the presence of tbe great trav4Uer, who for yesra had lost tidings of his native land, and had almost oeased to look for aid from Iia fellow coun- trymen. But for the faith of Stanley, Dr, Living- stone might have died of starvation, and the world remained ignorant of his fate. The subsequent career of Stanley has brought into atill greater prominenoohia sub- lime faith and the r..solute persistence which is satisfied with nothing but the at- tainment of him object, and -which has al- ready placed the world deeply in his debt. The leaf from the jour: al repeats an old lesson : Faith is power. "Endurance Is the crowning quality Ana patience all the passion of great hearts: These ars their stay, and when the leaden world Sets its hard face against their fateful thought, And brute-etren{ith like a conqueror Plunges its huge male down on the other scale, Ths inspired soul but flings bis patience in, And slowly that outweighs the ponderous globe, One faith against the whole world's unbelief, One soul against the flesh cf all mankind " s--ess.—as�--- His Annual Pass. The editor of the Rackville Scythe is a smart man. The other day while on board a railway train he sat down beside a peahen - ger and, handing him a paper, said: "Here's a copy of my last iisuo." The passenger took the paper and thanked the editor. "Do you travel much over this road ?" the editor aaked. "Not a great deal." "You bet I do. They give me an annual pass, you know. Nothing like baying an annual. I am con- stitutionally opposed to paying a railroad anything; ain't you?' "Well, I am not fond of paying." "Say," said the editor, "I don't mind telling you a little something. I am rather hard up to -day, and I'll sell you my pass for ten dollars." "Then what will you do ?" "Oh, I'll get another one. I'll tell 'em I lost it, don't you see? Oh, I know how to work 'em. Takes a country newspa- per man for that, eh ?" continued the editor, laughing heartily. "I never saw a railroad that I couldn't work. How far do you go ?' "All the way through." "That so ? Now, sir, if you had a peas like this you would bo fixed. What business are you in ?" "I am the general superintendent of this road. Let me take that pass." At present, the editor of the Rackville Scythe has no annual pees. No man can carry a feather bed and look graceful. What is the difference between weather- ing a storm in a pleasure craft and sitting carelesely in a ship's boat? One is yacht- ing in a squall, and the other is squatting in a yawl. "There's plenty of room at the bottom," said the undertow, as it tried to yank the dude off his pins; but the dude having plenty of room at the top, declined with a gurgle. NEW NOTES Mr. John Roach, the Philadelphia ship- builder, is an Irishman from the neighbor- hood of Mitchellstowu, in the county of Cork. a •+M► Brandy used to be the drink par excellence of the Southerner. It was displaced by whiskey; and now whiskey is giving way to wino, ale, clad beer Prince Louis of Batteuberg Is an excellent practical printer, and once when his ship reached a small port where no one was competent to print the programmes required for a dance given by the offioers, the Prince came forward and undertook the work. Clams to the number of a dozen or so fell recently from a clear sky at Mamscato, Minn, the velocity of their decent shattering the shells. The clams were alive and about four inches in length. The phenomenon, it is aaid, was witnessed by several ,trust-; worthy men. The colored people of Now Bedford had a memorial meeting in honor of Gen. Grant the other evening, at which addresses were made by several clergymen. One of the speakers electrified the assemblage with this declaration : "I believe that when mach names as Hannibal shall have been lost in the vortex of revolution, the name of U.S. Grant shall chine like the morning star in the military diadem," A preacher iu Youngstown, Obio, having declared from his pulpit—"on the authority of a prominent physician"—that "no less than six ladies belonging to the beat circlea require his attendance every month for delirium tremens," the deeters have held a meeting, pronounced the statement to be ridiculous, and demanded that the name of the "prominent phyeloian" shall be given, This the clergymen promises to do. An entirely new kind otbank note, print- ed in colors, instead of the black and white of the Bask of England notes, is being pre- pared for issue by the Bank of Sootleed, The chief novelty of the new note is in its colors, which will, of course, make reproduc- tion by photography impossible, and, it ie believed, will prevent forgery. The paper on which the bank note is printed is made by the same firm that produces the Bank of England note. YOUNG FOLKS. The True Story of Hi -Diddle -Diddle. (OONOLunn'A. ) "Oh, no," says Tiny, in a strange voice also, I motet be going, I left no one at home but my new girl. You can't conoeive," says the little midget, "what trouble my servants give me." And Tiny sat down with her mother's shawl on dragging three feet be- hind, and holding an old parasol over her head, "I quite pity you," says Milly, who has e fan, and one glove, and a huge bonnet on, " I told Jane last night, that I positively could endure it no longer, and I have given her notice. But I haven't asked you yet about the children. Has the baby got rid of his cough yet ? the little dear." "Oh, no," says Tiny, nearly bursting, " I mean yea she is quite well thank you. How is— "The strawberriea are all ready," says Milly, in her awn Yofce, "lat'0 bo done. Jane, you dear, dear, good old girl, have you the sugar and everything?" Jane had the sugar and everything, and Milly and Tiny dropped their strange voices, the shawl, and the bonnet, and took up their spoons'. Jost then Jack mad Ned, with Carlo and the oow, appeared at Date end of the bridge ; and, who should appear on the other, but Uncle Torn, holding up his bag in one hand, and the prettiest Little fiddle you ever saw, in the other. He 'shouted to Jack and Ned, and they shouted back, fifty "Uncle Tom" and he flourished the fiddle in tbe air. The girls didn't know whet to do --the oew abood stili, and was ready to bolt in any di- rection, Mamma appeared at the gate, and the old miner put his head out of the mill, and threw a boot at something, It was a eat; and Carlo saw the oat. Se mads one dash at Tabby, and they both started off, across the road, down the Iawn, under the table, and over the bridge,, before you oould count five. They tipped weer the table and spilled everything, cream, berries and all ; and the piataa, and the dish, and the spoons went rolling down the kill side Leto the water. They scraped by Uncle Tom, who flourished his fiddle at them, and brushed the cat's tail with it ; they °row ed the bridge, and in and out of the oow's legs, and horns, and tali ; and got away from every kink and hook, and °leered away around the mill aad back again. But the poor cow couldn't stand any more, ao ahs made two jumps, first to one side and then back nein; and dashed off as if fifty dogs and cats were after her; and when alae came to the bars thought ne more of jump- ing over them, than if they were just nothing at all. Little MiUy was very fond of the oow, and kept her aye on her during the cat and dog race, and watched her jump over the bars—ever so much higher than there was any need for, Now, the big round moon was getting up, and shone with ite fat face just between the garbs where the baro were, malt really looked as if the cow jumped over the moon. Tho miller came out to see Tom, and the boys came with him ; and every one was talking and asking questions, all at once, and no one getting or giving an orae ;er. Car- lo had got lack from his chase after the cat, aid wan lyiag on the bridge, puffin and panti.g, with his tongue out. "Mamma," said Milly, quite in earnest, "the oow jumped over the moon." "Over the gate, you mean," nays Seek. "NoI don t," said Milly, "I saw her jump over the moon ; and there is the big moon just getting up." " Yes " says Ned, " and there is Carlo on tho bridge, with hie tongue out, laughing." "Oh ho 1" says Uncle Tom, "we have the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. I wonder what next, The little dog laughs to see the sport. Eh, Ned ?' "Well, well !" said the mother,"whatever sport is there in that? My beautifnl berries spilled, the dishes and spoons thrown all about on the grins, and maybe lost. There, I declare, is the diah floating down on the water." " There'a a spoon in the dish," says Jack " The dish is running off with the spoon." So the miller went down with a long pole and drew out the runaway dish and spoon, and Uncle Tom and the whole family went in to tea. That night, all the children thought about it, and dreamt about it ; and in the morning Uncle Tom put it into rhyme —a line for each child—and that is the way we hear it now. Tonovro,1885. The plaits of the Keeper of the Royal Tennis Court is vaoant through the death of the Right Iden, W, &reeferel, the last holder of the einocure, which Ii worth $(1,000 a year. For this pittenoo tee Governor is expected to visit the court once a year and sea theft it still exists. A aomeebat aimUar ainsoare is the Governorahfp of Deck Pond Island, a piece of ground about as large as the assembly room in the Cooper Institute, created by the Merry Monarch, the salary is $7,500. A London paper says: ,, A tele gramfrom Belgium, to the effect that the dock laborers on the Scheldt have consented to the erec- tion of a grain elevator, remhada one that lose than 'sixty years mince' such an exhibi- tion of Iabor-aaving machinery as that now being hold et South Kensington would have been impeasible. If attempted, it would bravo been wrecked by an infuriated mob A good deal of enlightenment on the subject of machinery and hand labor has taken place since then." Crinoline aeoma to be exceedingly an- cient. Healed, who wrote in the eighth century before Christ, must have observed something of the kind, for he advises young man not to be led astray by certain women of his day who worn their clothes puffed out behind. If areas improvers were actually worn by tho Greek women of Heslod'a day it is not improbable that they were alto worn 200 yaara earlier, and that Helen, when she fled with Paris to troy, wore some primitive hind of crinoline. San Francisco continues one of the health- iest citiee in the world, with an , annual death rate of 19.5S per thousand, which is lower than the death rate in thirteen foreign cities and eleven American cities selected for comparison—that is to say, of foreign cities, London, Liverpool, Manches- ter, Sheffield, Leeds, Hull, Stockholm, Buenos Ayres, Dublin, Belfast, Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg ; and of American cities, New York, Boston, Pittsburg, Washington, St. Louie, New Orleans, Charleston, Baltimore, Savannah, and Richmond. The champion family for elaborate names it is to be found near Hardee, Ark. The father's name is Eliaha Shirley, his wife's name is Harriet Suaannoh Maria Jane Shirley, and their oldest daughter, 15 years old, is called Ann Elizabeth Dixie Shirley. Then comes Benjamin Kirby Smith General Harden Shirley, aged 13 ; Robert Enos Napoleon Bonaparte Lee Wilkes Booth Shirley, who is 9 years old ; John Thomas Emanuel Forest Champion Gatewood Shirley is 7 years old, while Joseph Wheel- er Zollicoffer Stonewall Jackson Sam Hilde- brand Sterling Prince Shirley is 5 years old. The family ends with Mary Virginia South Carolina Florida Georgia Alabama Louisiana Shirley, who is 3 years old. Surely it would be hard to beat this. ion as possible. Wo can find plenty of Totalities for the storage of arms, but we cannot adequately repair any damage whieh may be done to our ancient historical land. mark. We can "restore" them in one sense, but not in another. Keeping the Light in Motion. The keeper of the light at Pointe de Monts' relaxes : "Just imagine that towards the close of the fall, at the first snow, my family was attacked by typhoid fever. The first stroke of the disease was to put seven of us in bed, and very soon all the others followed. I was the only one able to work. My near- est neighbor (at Egg Island) was twenty miles off, and as bad news travels without much wind, this lighthouse was avoided even by Indians as an infested place. One man, how- ever, was touched by my misfortunes, and volunteered to help me. Things were better then for a while; but as we were then at the last days of navigation, fogs and snow com- bined against me, and obliged us to fire the cannon every half-hour, or even every quart- er-hur, The vibration was terrible in the tower, seventy-five feet high, and our patients could not endure it. It was necessary to go up the five stories of the tower, traneformed into on inti.nra✓y [hospital], before every shot, to notify the poor fellows, and stuff cotton into the ears of the most nervous, Days and nights thee passed, without bring- ing anything else than pain, anxiety, and sleeplessness, Laurent and I were ready to lose our senses, doing the service of the light and the hospital like machines, when the Lord took pity on us, and in His mercy went no some rant and joy in a general oonvales- oenee," The light at Egg bland ahem a re- volving white light, visible fifteen miles, and giving a flash every minute and a half, "All ashore know how important it le that a flash light should revolve with mathematical ao. curacy ; otherwise one light might be taken roe another, and a wreck might be the fatal oonsequenoe of suck an error, One night, toward the close of the autumn of 1872, a pivot broke in the olock-work rogulatbngthese revolutions. The season was tot far admin. ted to get help from the Ministry of Marine at Quebec ; the only thing to be done was to replace the machine by human energy, and the keeper and his family devoted themaelYea to the task, During five weeks of that au tumn and five other weeks of the next spring, man, wife, girls, and boys turned the machine lay hand. Coad and fatigue &ttffoned the hands, sleep weighed on their eyelids, but nevertheless they tenet turn, tuns, without haste and without rest, all through those long watches, in which the order waa to be. come an automaton and keep turning the ma- chine. Not ono, (ram tun child to the mas- ter, either oomplained or shirked his ditty, and the light at Egg Island ottrtiuued each minute and^ half to flash its protecting light over the tompeateous Gulf." A chemical paradox—That Prussian blue should make tea green. In olden times warriors were proud to be in the van. Nowadays if a man fights and gets in the van he quickly calla on his riends to come and b ail him out. Clerk (to Mr. Ieaacetein in back room)— " Mr. Isaacstein, der shentlemans who is looking at dot beautiful $17 coat says he vos a clergymans." Mr. Isaacstein— " Make dot shentlemens who vas a clergy- man 20 per cond. discount off." Clerk— " Der shentlemans says he vill give five toi- ler for dot coat, and not a cent more." Mr. Isaacstein—" Let him have dot coat, Jacob, but dond make no discount off." The Loudon Tower. In the future, it would seem, the Tower is to be, even more than in the past, one of " the eights o' London." It is to be divested entirely of its utilitarian character. The rifles in the Armory are to remain, but the whole of the large store of arms is to be re- moved to the central depot at Weedon. This, we are told, is in fulfilment of a desire that the Prince Consort had very much at heart—a desire that the Tower should be preserved wholly and simply as a building remarkable for its architecture and for its historical associations. In accordance with this view, the barrack and hospital stores were removed in 1869, and the accoutre- ments a few years after. The workmen, of course, went aleo, and now the building will be deserted, so far as permanent tenants are concerned, by all save the small garrison which has always been maintained there. The arrangement will probably meet with general approval, It is, perhaps, as well to separate in this case the practical and the sentimental elements. The maintenance of the useful functions of the Tower means, of necessity, wear and tear, to which it is, no doubt, desirable that the building should no longer be subjected. There is very touch to be said for keeping such famous old places as the Tower in as perfect a state of preserve - Ike rids a eurtarmnsaeta ehip.wreekedCrew , The Bombay Gazette gives some harrowing details of the loss of the barque Copeland Isle off the west coast of India in June, and the sufferings of the orew, which consisted of Captain Fergusson, two European mates, and a number of Lasears. It appears that the Copeland Isle left Rangoon as long ago as the lit of April, with a cargo of rice and timber for Bombay. Almost from the out. set of her voyage she experienced stress of weather, struggling alternately against ad. verse winds and severe gales, so that on the 6th of June she had only succeeded in reach- ing Laccadive Islands, where she was again met by heavy squalls and rain lasting for two or three days, and culminating in a fear ful cyclone. The vessel then sprang a leak, and threatened every moment to go to pieces,. Entreaties proving unavailing, Captain Fer- gusson had to employ threats to induce the terrified Lucius to work at the puenpa to keep the vessel afloat. So matters went on until June 10, when, with the sails blown to shreds, seven or eight feet of water in the hold, and the pumps choked, Captain F ergns. son called the hands together, and told them he had decided to abandon the ship. By this time two of the four boats the vessel posaes- aed had been destroyed by the waves, and a third was smashed as it was being lowered, over the vessel's side. To prevent a similar calamity attending the fourth, Captain Fer gusson caused oil and "ghee " to be poured over the ehip'e side before the boat was low. ered, -Again the experiment of stilling troubled waters by the atdof oil was suooeas- fully applied, and the whole of the crow and the three European *inters su000eded in get ting clear of the doomed ship, To accommo date the whole of them, however, they h to sacrifice a sea cbeit full of provieions the bad been put into the boat, and were onl able to take a little freak water, a set of nau tical instruments, and a chart of the coax In these oonditiofie they started on the even Ing of June 10 for the Carwar ooeat aboa 100 miles distant. Bed the violence of th storm abated, this journey might have be aeoemplished without oxcoptional suffering but the unfortunate men met with a Contin anoe of the furious gales they had endu for nearly two months and a half, and w obliged to keep continually baling to k their frail craft from sinking. For th days sad nights they were towed about, f isg each msment to be ongelphed, and wi so other sustenance than osuld be derly from some cigars and tobacco—which, by a odd chance, had bean placed in the boat and from the little water they managed catch in the blanket that served them a sail. Their physloal sufferings during tit three days were intense, the constant enc sure to the ane and the bad weather asua their legs to knell, their eyea to become flamed, and boils to break out all aver th bodies But now oomes the melt haul part of the ,tory. One other etf%et of t exposure was to mum the feet of moored the menta beoomo eo hardened end mum Bed that those who were suable to chew tohacoo need to break airplecee of tbeir'o flesh end eat them. Curiously enough, the atarving wretches aro acid to have gr ly roliehed those horrible morsels. M while Captain Fergussoa—who mem to h obtained little or no assistance from his L oar crew, who more tban once refused to out the boat, on the philosophioal gro that, es they had to die, they might as do so without working—bore bravely on way, and kept the boat handed for the war coast, which he waa rewarded by a on the night of the 30th of Juno, the w of the crow being safely landed on the foil Ing day. Degeneration of the Arteries - The arteries oonvey the blood from the heart to every part of the body, They are not pensive tubes, but have a repeleivo ac- tion of there own whereby they old that of the heart. They consist o throe conte, be - aides au enclosing sheath. The middle coat oonaista of elastic muscular rings, by the contraction and dilatation of which the vessels are sucoeesively narrowed and eve larged. The nerves regulate their action. It will be seen that a healthy oondition of the arteries is of prime Importance, But the arteries may become diseased. One of their moat fnequeat and aerioua diseases is a peculiar deeeneratton of their inner coat. It shows itself at fust In thick- ened patches, causing a bulging toward the interior—the result of some inflammatory action. Later these petchea soften and beoome paste like, whence the name of the disease, atheroma, from a Greek word dignifying "meal" Tkia pasty masa may be washed out into the blood ; or it may be- come calcified, and studded with litho hard po:nbe extending into the blood ourront. These atheromatous patches may be of dif- ferent sizes, vary much in number, and be confined to a few arteries, or be extensively diffused. Where the inner coat is thus destroyed, '`the weakened vessel, under the arteria pressure, may swell out into pouches (an- eurisms), or may even burst. When the patch becomes calcified, the blood, flowing against the jutting points, may form fibrin- ous clots, just as we may form them by stir- ring blood in a vessel with a stink. This fib- rin may fill up an artery, and shut off the flow of blood to a part. This is one of the causes of senile gangrene—the death of, per- haps, the foot in an old man. Or bite of the clot may be carried to remote small art- eries, say of the brain, and cause embolism (a plugging), with fatal consequences. These atheromatous changes may also cause softening of the brain, by merely re- tarding the flow of blood to it, and thus in- terfering with its nutrition, and may cause enlargement of the heart—the left ventricle —by the greater labor imposed on it. The calcification of the coronary artery is one cause of angina pectoris. Intemperate habits, violent exertions, gout, excessive anxiety and mental labor are some of its causes, and these also sug- gest tho habits which tend to prevent the disease. Capt. Richard G. Luce, who died at Vine- yard Haven, Mase., last week, was, during his life, at sea 310 months, or nearly twenty- six years. He landed in New Bedford 38,- 000 barrels of whale oil, 8,500 of sperm oil, and 383,000 pounds of whalebone, and he was called the champion of the whale fishery, Clerk—" What do you say ? A shovel en- gineer on the railway ! You mean a civil en- gineer." She—" Oh, deesay you're right, sor, It's him that shovels coal into the en. gine." The Troops at Suakin'. A little time ago wo wero enabled correspondent at Suakim to give the pu some idea of what our soldiers, both 13 and Indian, are suffering at that deleo spot. Another communication ahowa the lowoit depth waa by no means re at the time when our correspondent wrote. "We are having severe time in this awful heat," ho now writes„ thermometer registers 125 degrees tents, and we have neither tattles 110 kahs." Even the moat acclimatised Indian feels suffocated when the the ter rises 100 degrees inside his Ion and what, then, mast be the mise man life when the temperature is cent. higher ? We are not at all ast to hear that the European battali dwindled from 900 to 500 men, or th survivors " are going out like flies." are the native troops apparently muc ter. They do not suffer so much as t opeans from the terrible heat, but sickness has set in among them as phesied it would, and there is no mo tain cause for sickness than that. they ask for is the fixing of some their embarkation. They wero bro the Red Sea littoral for a specific 'that of fighting Oenian Digma, and t eider it a flagrant breach of engage the Government to keep them " stewing in their own juioe " face. i' o period after their proper work long finished. To make matters wo supply of ice has run so short that i longer be issued. " Captain, I am thinking of goin in a whaler. I would like to h opinion on the step." "As a f$ien captain ?" " As a friend." " The advise you to commit suicide befor Bilkins, whose language is Howe his wife " a daisy," during their ment ; during their honeymoon her " a pink," and now when she with a roll -pin, at 2 o'clock in the he calls her a "night -blooming ser