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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-10-1, Page 7Co Lc THE XATOEMAKEH. nized by the glimmering of the watch -light hi pretty aurae. On the 12th day of June, 187—, the geo d "le this an angel of the good God that city of Lisbon was all Joyful. Preparations were being made for a worthy eelebration of the festival of St. Antony of Lisbon, the cityn patron, whom the Iteltana, notwith- standIng, will persiat that St. Aatony of radua, But St Antouy certainly a Por- tuguese, for he was bora at Lion% in 1195. What pretty ahem the little children ereeted wider all the gateways I And this altar -building also Afforded them a pretext to run after weep. paaser-by, with a little bowl, to be A corn for St. Antony—money which was eure to be spent later on. in buy- ing Candies, But It wee still more interest. ug to watch the young gine. Each one striving to triumph over the rest by bring. Mg the most beitutiful offeriug ef flowers to be laid before the holy image, Ah ! it was all because thia good St An- tony brings about happy marnages between Portuguese girls and their lovers. * In a ehamber hung with aky-blue two girls were chattiog, while spreading a cov- ering of linmerculate white lace over the bureau whieh they were about to timn into an altar. "Dear Maria," said one, "It is kind of you to come to pass the holidays with me." "It is no paerifice on my part, Antonia." answerea her companion; I an) so lonely In my country henna that it its real de- light for me to be able to cora° hither to kites thee, and help to celebrate thy eight- eenth birthday." And it is the first time father bas given a reeeption since poor mother died." " What a pity she is not here to see thee, to -day !" murmured tite other. The young girl ejked and pointed heavenward. " look how beautiful our Alter iv ;p- ing to be!" in order to her away the momentary eatineas of her Werth. Now get me the ceaullee,—and St. Antony." Antonia left the room, and soon returned with ratigniticent statuette of terra-cotta, repreeenting St. Antony with the child Jesus in bia arm, " Dole 1—ow beautiful It 14 " Yes ; that was one of pape'e eurprbeen Hebrought it tome yeeterday:" "And. now we muat illummete the dear want, and eurratued him wlth flowerth—eo that he will get ue roamed during the course of the year. Tell me, darling! hest thou made thy amigo yet i—who is thy Ileart's-claneen"! 44 Someoue whom I love, and who dote not love me," auewereci Antonia,Is there indeed Anyone who dares not to love to, my aagelfl eared Merle, Miming her Woad. Yea ; there le oue whom Timm* never embed to Mater for two whole years, and whooniverthelees. enema not to know it." "Tell me who 1" " Agoato de Carvelho, Inv fathers god.- eon," " How can one know? Perla)* he is shy Thou art rich, and be ill lese so, and even in our eountry, where love bolds tbe rt place among the motivee of marriago. this sometimes creme trouble." ;Aid Antonia. "It no rot speak of him any rnore—it would make no feel sea au the evening, and that would Mao make papa, suffer. Let tut go and mike our. solace pretty to active the nterte," 0** Senhor Silva, Antonien father wet•a chermiug entertainment that tight, Of eourae, everebotly Admired. the alter of Ste Antony; then the young folka deuced; there were howiehoid game"; masculine and feminine names were drawn by lot, so that each one might know what the name of hie future wife ot her future huaband would be; and wherathe pleasant gathering broke up it was vety tete. After having received the paternal bene- diction (for Portuguese children still keep up the pious custom of asking the bleasing of their parents before going to bed) Antonia and her friend. retired to their apartment. "And our loves 1" questioned Maria, spilling. "Did be even so much as look at mel" mournftfOiy exclaimed the younii girl. "Thou art blind 1 Why, he worships thee! I watehed him all the evening; and he has eyea for thee only 1" "Thou sayst that to console mo 1" Probably I Come let us pray to thy patron saint together, and beg hira to per- form the miraole for uP," "Nay, I have already prayed to him so much, so much; and he has not heard me." Maria twined her arm about her friend's waist, and, kissing her, whispered : "In my province folks say one rnust mal- treat St. Antony to make him perform mira- cles." "Maltreat him !" " Yea ; they say he never yields except to violence." Antonia stamped her foot, ran to the al- tar, seized the statuette, and flung it through the open window. A cry of pain re.echoed through the night. " Oh ! my God 1—what haat thou done 1" cried Maria, running to the window. The two girb, looking down, beheld the figure of a man lying prostrate on the sidewalk. Wild with fright, Antonia rushed from the room. "Father father! come down quickly 1 I have killed somebody." Senhor Silva, who had not yet retired, descended, accompanied by his servant. The two men carried the injured wayfarer into the house where the young girls await. ed them with fearful anxiety. Poor boy 1—his head is badly hurt; but hew did he happen to be Under our win- dows 1" "Who ?" cried Antonia. "Agosto, my godson." With a scream the young girl sank faint- ing into Maria's arms. When she came to herself, her father was holding her hands in his, and the wounded lad was lying on Sen- hor Silva's own bed. " Cofifort thyself, my darling- gir !— thou nfayest feel assured the poor boy will get well. Antonia threw her arms about her father's neck. "1 love him so much 1" she murmured. " A strange way to manifest one's lo-v.by breaking the head of the beloved! Maria told me all; I know it was St. Antony wbo did the mischief." The physician arrived,' and after an ex- amination of the wound, declard it was quite nerioute and that the young man wouid be confined to bed for no short time, "1 can not," said Senhor Silva, "under- stand how Agosto happened to be under the window at 2 o'clock in the morning 1" "He was sighing beneath the balcony of his sweetheart," whispered Maria. The wounded youth recovered conscioure nese, but soon became delirious. For a whole month Antonia never left the bedside of Agosto de Carvalho; and during his moments of deliriuni the girl had ample op- portunity to discover the depth of ;the af- fection that she had inspired,—the secret of a love whioh difference in fortune alone pre- vented from being revealed. One evening the sick man opened his eyes, and recog- watches over me r he milted, gazing tender- ly at her, .A.utonia plaeed her little hand. over hie mouth to make him cease heels speaking But the patient seized the dear little heed in his own and covered it with kisees "Ab 1 dear -Anemia 1—if you. only new ?I "I know everything," said the youug girl, bending over him. "I also love you!" • * Six months after the "fall," of Se. Len- tony, Bother Silva Molted all his friends and. acquaintances to attend the marriage of hie daughter with. Agosto de Carvalho. After the coachmen of the nuptial core - moue: the invited guests followed the newly - married eoeple to their reeidenoe, where a grand repast awaited them. While all were admiring the rich presenta sent to the young bride, Agosto de Carval- ho drew his wife amide into their future apartment. And here is mywedding gift, !sweet- heart," he maid, placing a pretty case in her hands. The young woman opened it, and uttered a joyful cry of surprise. eilver Saint Antony 1 But, Agosto, you forget that that he nearly awed you 1" And ehe hid her pretty face againet her hutiband's breaat. "But I could not forget that be gave me the happiness I prayed for;' anewered the blissful Agosto;preseing hie bride to his heart. " :cow you see 1 was right when I told you that one must abuse St Antony, in or- der to make bine perform waraelea .1' ex, claimed a mocking voice behind them. And turning, they atm Maria. STE.A.NOE BUT TRUE. A woman in Logan county, bikes her rest In betchea of three days and nightel sleep at time, and then kelp awake for a like period, She is lit! years old. A lew hem been la enacted le Auatrie mak- ing the obiervauce of Sunday compulsory, The law, however, eontains a claim exempt - Ing from Ito operation Jewish tredeamen and 41t14444 who do no work On their Sabbath, In New York there are upward of 90,000 Jews who are eminently aetive and useful members of the comeaueity ; although near- ly =hie per oeut, of the population they. eon. tribute lime filen one per cent. tattle arunin- al elms'. They have 26 synagogues, between 40 and 50 ameil meeting bantam, and 18 alter- itable aecietiee. A couple reeently married In Lynn were at a loom for a brideamelel. A friend called et an intelligence odic* inBoetou said secured the serviette; of a handeorne woman to ;Let in the capacity desired Ile paid tel for her service*, betides paying her expenses both ways. She had never leen nor did the know tba centre:ding partite. Light papers melte a dark, dingy room much more cheerful; Urge figure* male a iunall room look molt smeller and (Toulon" much waste in inatehing the figure'. All low rooms ehould be pepered with atripod paper having the stripes running up and don; as it makes the room imam much higher. Subdued teets take off the glare of too many windows. A proceae of making aca water drink& de has been discovered by an Brglish expert- rnent. It consists in using citrate of eilver to remove the chlorides. One ounce of the citrate of raver will make a half pint of ;tea water drinkeble. If further expert:tomtit confirrn this, it is probable all nee -going ves- sels and lifeboats belouging to them well be provided with bettlea of citrate of silver, The giant bowie of Orholm, on the east side of Chriotiana Fjord, have been deacrib. ad by Herr Geeltneyrien. These curione geo- logieal forrnatiors are the largest of their kind in Scaudiuevia. In two of these de. preesione a few pines and birchee grow in a tolerably natural way until their tops reach the level of the reeks above Which the brew:hoe aro twitted fantastically by the forge of the wicd The Niagara Park commissioners have taken hold of their duties with considerable enthusiasim and are entering in earnestupon the task aueigned them, They have visited the Fells and decided upon the boundaries of the Park, which, we are informed, will be larger than that on the opposite shovel Thus far no serious difficulty has been en- countered, the number and value of the build- ings which will have to be purchased being less than was at first anticipated. The mat ter will be placed. before the Ontario Legis- lature at its next session and if we may judge from the tone of Mr. Mowat's remarks at the opening of the American Park, our own enterprise will receive substantial aid from the Government. 2 4.2-4•111111•1.4. He Was Not Prepared. A few years ago the people of a certain township were about to celebrate the open- ing of a new bridge, and invited a young lawyer to deliver the oration. He had made no written preparation, supposing that a lawyer ought to be capable of speaking with- out note or notice any number of hours, on any subject, in a style of thrilling eloquence. Therefore, he trusted to the occasion. He stood out upon a platform erected near the bridge and began amid the profound and attentive silence of hie audience: " Fellow.citizens : Five and forty years ago this bridge, built by your enterprise, was part and parcel of the howling wilder- ness 1" He paused a moment. "Yea, fellow -citi- zens, only five and forty years ago, this bridge, where we now stand, was part and parcel of the howling wilderness I" Again he paused. (Cries of 'Good!Go on 1") "1 feel it hardly necessary to repeat that this bridge, fellow -citizens, only five and forty years ago was part and parcel of a howling wilderness, and I will conclude by saying that I wish—I wish it was part and parcel of it now I" WOMAN'S WAYS. It has been said of England that her three proudest reigns were women's—Elizabeth, Queen Anne, Victoria. False hair was worn ages ago. It was preached against by the fathers of the Church, but to no purpose. The Japanese Government proposes to de- corate ladies who have distingnished them- selves for the benefit of the country. The correct mourning bouquet is strictly purple and white. A feather fern or two or a little smilax may be used, but no other green. Out of the thirty-eight million dollars of exports from South Africa the ladies account for twenty-five million in diamonds and am tn..% feathers. MissGrant, a native of British India, was one of two ladies who recently passed an ex- amination at the Sorbonne for the degree of Bacheloe of Sciences. YOUNG FOLKS. Haps. She dreams ot time when ahe le tall; She'll have a carriage or her doli ; She'll have a tea -set and a ring 'rain be—the-4ear5St--11ttla—ttIng. ge dreams of Vines when he is big; Bell have DA ship with splendid rig; He'll have a kile and 4, vlos'pede" teo ; ge'll ride it —as—the--191g—hoYe—do. The Fire -Alarm. Up in grandma's attic, one bright, sunny day, Lulu and Hetty were playing with their dolls. It Was thole 4 charming place to play, eel* no end of old epinning-weeels, that the girls called their harp, and a big loom that they called their pipe -organ, and. oheatt full of funny old dresses, that graudina allowed them to drees up in to their hearte content, and bandboxes with the queerest old bon- nets. Each kept holm in one end of the attic, and then miter], each other back and forth, and they always felt sure that befere tea time Mittig, grandma's belp, would come toilitag up the steep eteira with a tray full of goodies for a tea-parey. Lulu was sitting in an old, old rocking - chair, singing to deep her youngest do'', Bonnibel, for Bonnibel had scarlet fever, with a touch of whooping -cough, and was very "worrisome." As Lulu rocked far back in the old chair, softly singing "Daisy Dale," she chanced to glance up among the brown ranters, and her eye caught sight of a thin place in a shingle, where the sun shone through, mak. ing a Rept as red as blood, Hetty Warren," aim ;said alowly and with emphaeb, "this houee is afire ." " Where? where l' cried Hetty, ribbing eiong from her end of the ettim leaving alt trail of dolVe dream* and clothing generally in her wake. "l.p there 1" gasped Lulu pointing with one trembling finger at the red spot. Iletty looked up and saw, then turning, oho fled down entire as awift as a bird, wiille Lulu mune, panting and breatblesa, after her. Into the littlegwooni bunt Petty, aur- prieing greeriena, as the sat there sewing with the little girls' two mothers, by the etartling announeemeat, "The house is afire 1" "Whore? Where is it 1" they all cried at once, jumping up. " Up in the roof I" said atetty, and. Lulu, panting in just then, added her testimony, the house Is all afire up In the roof; all rod coala I" and /slittle come mashies in from the kitchen to hear what the tumult Was about, "Win Oat into the street and holler Fire 1' Mittle," said grandma. "Toll somebody to ring. the tireeleoll, rietty,"; wild her mother sousing a palled water and hurrying nesairs. Lulu's mother Wu cum of the kind who feint easily, so elle dropped late a chair and groaned, and fanned herself with a• newspa. per, looking all the while as white as a ghost, and Lulu clung tight to her apron. Grandma took a china cup down off the bracket, and rushing out into ihe back -yard set it down under a big apple -tree, then hurrying In, went to taking down the kitch- en clock. hlittie ran Into the middle of the street and deed there trying to scream " Fire 1" but though she opened her mouth wide, the Fire 1' only came in a loud, home wide - per. Ifetter went tearing along tbe sidewalk, looking for some one to ring the fire.hell. The tiretmen she met was old Judge Brown, "0 Mr. Brawn .1' reopen Ifetty, "Won't yon go and ring the fire -bell 1" " t‘liat's afire ' asked the judge. " ilrentimen hoes° is afire, and grandpea army, and I don't know what we shall do 1" Judge Brown stared bard at the holm with no traces of smoke about It, and look- ed puzzled. "Where is it afire V' "Up in the roof—it's all live coals—red as blood." run along where 1 oan aee the other side of the roof," said Judge Brown, and along he ran as fast as bie age and, flesh would allow, with }tatty still ahead. He ran clear around the house watehing the roof, but no aign or emend bre could be dis- covered. "Must be inside," he said, and went in at the front -door, and there was Hefty's mother coming down stairs laughing, with the pail of water in her hand. She explain- ed to the Judge how the little girls at play in the attic had seen a red spot in the roof, and thought it was fire. "Come in, Alittie 1" she called to the gal,who was now leauing against the fence, i all n a tremble. "There's no fire, after all." "Well," said grandma, when they brought the good news into the kitchen. "I've got this clock about taken down, so I'll finish the job, and send it off to be cleaned. It hasn't run for a year." And that was how the kitcben-clock hap- pened to get cleaned. False teeth, in their proper place, are a great blessing to all whose teeth have suc- cumbed to the process of decay. Disclosed between slightly parted lips, artificial teeth may arpear positively beautiful and lend a charm to an otherwise commonplace set of features, but store teeth lose all their attrac- tions and become repulsive objects when pro- truded from the mouth or replaced in public. Scene people do not appear to realize this fact, and have a disagreeable habit of pop- ping out a set of contract teeth at all times i and n all sorts of places. There is an old man of our acquaintance who takes pride in the possesion of a fine double set of pottery molars. He obtrudes them at all times, takes them out and wipes them at the restaurant table, examines them frequently while in the street or at church. Sometimes he pops them half -way out of his mouth and chatters them to frighten his grandchildren. He claims to have driven off a wicked bull ter- rier by this plan and illuetrates the story disgustingly every time he tells It. Women are not addicted to making nohow of artificial teeth, and as a general thing are rather care- ful to conceal the fact that they wear them. Some are so particular in this respect that they insist upon having a slight imperfection or a small filling in one of the front teeth. Dentists sometimes consent to make a set of teeth slightly crooked to obtain a closer im- itation of nature. Such work is invariably made for ladies. When men order teeth they want them as pretty and as regular as it is possible to construct them. A change in the shape of the human foot would seem to terve taken place, when it is recorded that Greek statues represent the second toe as longer than the great toe, hut in the modern European foot the great toe is generally the longest. An account is given on the authority of Dr. Hoffman, of Washington, in the Euro- pean anthropological journels, of a curious relic found in South Carolina, The relic is supposed to be a ease which contained the colorinebmatter and implements that had been in tattooing. STOBXS AT SEA, some 'exciting storrve4z Lite on the (keen Ever since the WestIndies were diecover- ehda; nb°ZianneoatrilOyedf othIlart ilthaelldvrieodlenYte4 Luis =wit which ailliet them umally appear in August September! or Ootober. ABA of three hun- dred and sixty -Ove ef such etorroz was nmele out not long ago, and two hutedred and eighty -even ef these minima in the "hard - cane seeeon." So if any ef you. young Neel - pie wish to ;see double -reefed forced's, ep. ternber is the time for you to go clown there, But the experience is not an attractive one, and it la a deal Baler to stay at home and ;study Colonel Reid li "Law of Storms," In which you ratty learn that mile in some ef these storms to salt, like mean water, and that fith fall with it from the thy; that all the ships in the harbor of Mauritius, forty- one in number, were either sunk or driven on shore in a hurricane in 1818; that the British mashy Racer was blown into the Gulf of Mexico during a hurricane 1837, where ahe was nearly capeized, and only righted after losing her nuteta, and even then had to heave overboard some of her guna to eaeape from foundering. A,11 these hurrioanes cloeely resemble, al- though they =teed in vialenee, the Winter storms that you react about in sea news They are called eyclonee, from the whirling of their winds, and their rotary motion may be very fairly liliened to tbat of water eddy - lug around in a lemin before it tuna out by the vent at the bottom, but with the differ- ence that the air ri es at the centre of the whirling storm, while the 'teeter decende through the escape pipe. It is worth while to &ewe beet; with an outlet, full of water and remove the stopper gently, and then watch the fornostion a the rapidly whirling eddy as the water rune out. Although a ilinple experiment, it will give you a fair idee of the motien of the winds in a tropical cyclone, if you imagine the basin turned, up - aide down, Ito eize snotty luoreatied, and the water changed to air. Over the tropicat oceans these storm de. volop a thrride etreegth,Imagine One of them, with its mass of whirling ale two or three miles in dbmeter, turuirig faster atul fader on the miller decline near the centre, ad- vancing along Its treat, from place to place, and beating the eea into great waves. Pic. tura the central parte of the whirl all dark with roaring thunder clouda, from which tor. rents of retie fall, and, etraugeet of all, con- ceive a apace ten or twenty milesiti diameter jurt at tbe centre in whith the sir is alined quiet, although eartauuded with screaming wires% be this calm cods*, which senora call "eye of the iiteirm," although there is no danger film the winde dill the wavea run high and broken. and if a vowel survive them, there ie yet the after side of the atorm to be endured with violence as great aa thet of the front, Only the etouteet Alpe mime the double daeg-re ef the atorm's Central renege. A violent hurricisue creased the West In. dine in August, 1671, giving A *Wiring 11 ne- tration of the eontrait between the greet whirlwiud and it* calm centre. It eau, tint obeerved by two sailing vessels on the 17th, for out on the tropical .Atlantic inlat- titude 3.1 W. and lonettude 13IC, where there were heavy mine and violent winds in opposite eirectioina from which it is inkPn that the etorm centre by then between the two points of ebservation, Thence it advarce dweetwerd. and at nine o'clock on the morning of the alst, the cen trod calm arrived at St, Rat's A little bland iu the Leaser Antilles; this makes ite rate of travel thus for libtrat eighteen miles an hour. The royal Britiith mail steamship alh nay, commanded by Captain Dix, was anahorod in the harbor of St. Thomas at this time; ite log gives a valuable record of tbe passing storm, and introduces to us a new factor ef great importauce, moldy. the de crease of the downward presaure of the air at the storm centre aa shown by the barom- eter. It has long been known that a "fallirg barometer," or low atmospherie measure, foretells the coming of bad weather. We can tiret illustrate the fact, and then consider its cause. Captain Dlx noticed that the bar- ometer stood lower than usual on the morn- ing of the 21st, and. that the wind was blow- ing in puffs of increasing violence, so he gave ordera to get up steam, and prepare for bad weather, Atten o'clock, the term- eter read 29.88 inches, and began failing; at noon, it was 29.82, and the squalls were growing heavier. At one o'clock, 29.77, with very heavy squalls from the N. N. E. : the stronger part of the hurricane was at this hour mat coming over St Thomas. An officer was thin stationed by the bar- ometer with orders to watch it closely. At two in the afternoon, it was 29 50. with very heavy gusts still from the N. N. E., shingles and roofs were seen blowing about in the town on shore, and flying around in the air; about this time the English barque Duke of Wellington, which had been anchored outside the harbor, parted cables, and went ashore a total a reek, but the crew were saved, At half -past three, the barometer was 29.- 38 with terrific gusts backing to the north, and doing great damage on the land. The barometer continued to fall rapidly, and at five o'clock had reached 28.74, when the hurricane suddenly ceased, leaving a perfect stillness, "so that a candle mighthave burnt in the open air!" At 5.25 the barometer reached its lowest point, 28 62; at 5,35, just as the captain saw the ripple of the southerly gale on the after side of the storm -centre coming along over the water, his officer called out, "The bar- ometer is rising, sir 1" and as soon as the wind struok the vessel, it began to rise fast. reaching 23.71 at 5 40, 28 93 at six' and 29.60 at seven o'clock. The gale thatfollowed the calm was reversed from the direction of the first half of the storm and mime from the south, still very heavy, hut steadier than be- fore on account of blowing now mostly over the sea, and hence without the gusts and squalls of the front of the storm that had ome down on the vessel from the high land of the ieland. By eight in the evening the hurricane moderated to a fresh gale'and at midnight had decreased to a strong breeze es the storm moved away, leaving the staunch Mersey unharmed. From this description it may be inferred that the storm crossed St. Thomas to the north of west; as eight hours were required to pass over the one hundred and forty miles from St. Kitt's to St. Thomas, the velocity of the storm as a whole must have been still about eighteen miles an hour; and as the calm lasted thirty-five minutes, the diameter of the eye of the storm must have been close to ten miles. Its further progress carried it northwestward, and then toward the north past Florida, and along our !shores far north- east on the Atlantic. To explain the mechanism of such a storm would require a long chapter of rather diffi- oult description, but a few vvorrle may be given as to the cause of the barometer's fal- ling as the storm approaches, and rising again as it recedes. Referring once more to the experiment with the basin, it will be seen that the surface of the water sinks at the centre as the eddy is farmed; the de- preesion deepens as the eddy strengthens. and finally even an empty fuuneleettaped core neey by formed as the fasted rotation Is gaioed so effeetive is centrifugal force in holding the water out Irene the centre. The whirling air ole tropical hurricane is diniliarly affected by its rapid rotation; the low barometrIc pressure at the centre results ohleily from the eaten of centrifugal force, which draws the air out on all sides, and so diminitihee the weight of the atmosphere at the centre, As the low-pressure storra-cen- tre moves over an observer, his barometer must first fall and then rise again, as in the example reeorded above. Ever since it was discovered by Dove and Redfield, Reid and Pieldington, that etornee were in reality great whirlwinds, and that they alwaye turned from right to lefe in tide hemisphere, and from left to right on the other side of the equetor, and. that their tracks were cleaned, it has been part of a sailor's education to learn how to avoid the violent atorm4entre; and simple rules are now devised by wiliCh a well-informed sea Captain. can shape his course so asto escape all serloua danger from =approaching storm. THE ¥AN AT THE WINDOW. An Irish Choat Story, Having tired ouraelvea bird -mating, climb- ing trees, leaping, And indulging In other preake, we at iast approached the old man- sion, a little eimere, lofty, substantial noun, of three storees. Et had been uninbeitited for yearn Many of the window e were brek en, time ennedwith abutters, the tower QUO bulit up with stones, The hall dor was IT- proeched by a flight of atone step; throogb whine Mate long gram had gross re, was Mee barricaded with lerze atom We exemin- ed In detest the front of Om deserted hall. We reseed round to the back, and, clirebieg the garden walinew the walks eovered wite weeds and green the fruit tree* =rusted tiath mom and mildew, decay on all eroupd. I turned round and booked up to one of the top windows, and there, to my utter coneze- meat and terror, beheld sterelieg at the windOW NA aged main dressed in a blaelg ca. away coat. He wore a three-000ked ht, and his skirted coat wise braided with geld. A large blaok dog was on the window sill before hira, and his arm was stretched before the dog's brown, an if reatraining hira from leaping down 00 08. All this was taken in at a glance. I pointed to the window. The three of tee leaped from the wall, and ruehed aver "littuk, bush, and 'our," through, brake and dram. Arriving at the high road breath - Mem, with clothes tore, hands and faoes lac - ended, feet and garments bedraggled with mire and wet, I leaked the other boys if they had mien the old geatiaman aud hie dog, we I described them. They assured me they had. This extraorditutry apparition at mid. day, so much at- variance with the ordinary experienoe, that such unearthly visitors of the glimpses of the moon, Appear only at the witching hour of night, 1 really behold; SS truly as any object I hod ever leen be. fore. I slatted the place lately. The old house ha" crmpletely diseppearmi, Not a trace of it remain,. Of my two companions on that clay, one lam long eince Stolen to lila eternal rest. The round earth intervenebe- tween the other and myself. For years no doubt croased my mind. that I had seen that goat. If you lurk me if I believe it atilt with the knowledge and experience of after years, I must confees that I have devilled theory to explain the apparitiou. There were ghost stories connected with the deser- ted Illaini0X1 of Martinstown. 1 rceollected, on reflection, to have heard an old nurse tell how, when the family had all left and some servants remained, they were telkirg one night round the tiro in the servauta' Sinidenly they heard a footstep as of one walking down the ataira. Step by atep the foot came until with stately tread there walked into the room an ancient gentleman, with three cocked bat, shoes with broad sil- ver buckles, and a diamond -hilted rapier by hie aide. He gazed intently for a moment on thegroupby the fire, turned slowly round walked from the room in the same dignified manner, wee heard atioendtng step by atep to the top of the houee and shutting a door behind him, That was the last night any servants stayed at Mattinstown. The con - elution to which 1 afterwarda came, looking at my ghost adventure through the shadowa of years Mutt had passed, was that some one with a black dogmust have been in the house at the time; that he came to the window and looked out at us, and that to my mind's eye he assumed even to the minutest partic- ular the appearance of the old gentleman whose apparition I had heard deacribed years beforcebut of whomI had no conscious thought at the time. It may be asked how I account for my two companions having witnessed exactly the aame apparition. The only answer I can give is that they beheld the man and dog, and that it was only in answer to my questions they agreed as to the cocked hat and braided coat. Lighting His Own Funeral Eyre. John Rosenmeyer'a well-to-do farmer in Weisburg, had been drinking deeply of late and was in a state bordering on delirium tremens. Returning to his home, he began O violent attack upon the members of his family, and drove each in terror ram the house. Still imagining himself pursued by devils and hissing serpents, he piled the bedding and furniture in heaps upon the floor and set them on fire. Then, armed with a gun, he placed a chair upon a table in the centre of the room, and, amid the roar and crackle of the blazing combustibles, sat upon his elevated seat,with his weapon in his hands, shouting defiance to the ima- ginary swarm of snakes and devils that were, in the light of his maddened brain, seeking to devour him, The fierce flames spread, and the entire building was soon wrapped. in the consum. Ing elements, yet in the midst of it all could be seen the maniac. Like a monarch on his throne, he sat laughing and exulting at the ruin and havoc around hire, and shouting at the top of his voice defiance to fire, devil, and death. Not until the flames had entirely surrounded him and he had toppled from his lofty seat were the alarmed spectators able to reach him and drag him from certain des- truction. While thus engaged in their hu- mane work he threatened with loaded gun to shoot them. An examination of his burns showed that he could not live many hours. The house with all its contents was destroyed. A story is told of a bishop. He recently addreesed a triage assembly of Sawlay-echool children, and wound up by asking in a very paternal and condescending way: "And now, is there a -a -n -y little boy or a -a -n -y little girl who would like to ask me a ques- tion ?" After a pause he repeated the ques- tion: "Is there a -a -n -y little boy or ma -n -y little girl who would like to age me a gues. tion ?" A shrill voice called out "Please, sir, why did the angel walk up and clown Jacob's ladder when they had wings ?" "Oh! ah yes, 1 see,"said the bishop, "And now, is there a -a -n -y little boy or a -a -n -y little girl who would Ince to answer Mary's question?" HEALTH. •Irrommit Dyspepsia. The great and grievous prevalence ef dy spepsia among Amencana is beyondqueation In part due to their Outrageonely unphyeam bogtoal cuatora of zipping cold. water, above all, iced water, before ead derin moriale.opellaktihneg, hreeadrbasvenldc,wneout t flui t o ertiale, for I mean to epeale as plemly as possible, and to be as candid an 1 oaa from Brat ta liust, for this remit urgeirt of viatione; it is only by using great plaieneee of apeeeh that 1000 bops to do any aerviee, and miles"! I succeed in thatendeavor, it will be uselese to ooeupy valaable space in A popular Petecodicaild water craeka the enamel oft earl °aurae teeth to deoey. American den - Oats! excel all other deataisurgeons la in,g up solid atructures of gold to replaoe the teeth, but that is because the Amereceme people out= all otherpeople In the celerity With which they destroy their natural teeth d it is the cold, or iced, water that does - It is the purpose of this little paper to prime that dyspepsia 15 an Weir of th mouth rather titan of the stomach, but I amen to begin my argument with the stom- ach, and work laiok to the mouth. Is it not in One of the earlier volumes of "'ralea from Bbeckwo•od" that wonderful story of the porteble istomech its to found!? In the old coachieg days, when hurried meala had to be taken while they "changed horse" at tbe wayside in; this humorous piece of fiction narratee how certain trowel - tem were presided with stolnaella like baga, which the guard collected at the window' and heving hsAl tilled with food, returnee, to their respective owners. The fort* of he story, from the physiologtet'a point of dew, "lee in the fact that it treeitea all that preeedea the piecing of a, meal 10 tie° *tome ach85 =important, or at lemt, not strictly over to the pereen who has to perform the unction of " feeding," This is the principle upon which the deo signers of naustioating machines, Aral the prescribers of pepsine and other aids to di gestiou, proceed. Of couree it is true *at the food ve eat only about one yard and a half by lines measurement nearer the organismwhich to be fed, when itia in the 'stomacb than when it is 'still on the UWE:, and so far as appropriation to the needs of the body la concerned, 10 11 in no way neer the fulfill- ment of itepurpotte until it hes been actual- ly aboorbed nor is it even then, Meetly, , speaking, in the hotly, though lit may be elreniating in the bleed, until the buogry 4 tleauee take it up, and mac it pert and per. col of themselvee. 4 Tho mouth prepares the food for the pro - CMS of (lief -lion, and that function reilly commences with the taking of the viCtUalsi between the lips aad teeth. The stomachis practically, a warm cheraber, into which the food is reotived after it has been masticated and mixed witb the secretion frointhe Win- ery glands, and if the food is rot cut 1 up amen enough to be readily. disselved, or it Ina not been 'efficiently mtrei with an ad- equate quentity of the fluid wnioh the glands ot the month secrete, it will deacmpase ln- eteati of being digeated, with the result, of pains, tietulency and clyepepeita • Steering, therefore, from the atornaeb, we find that the tiret end chief came of indigos tion ia want of prep irminees on the pert of the food, and this fault ie dieriectly charge- able to the mouth, ei ith ite el -Tat -Mug tor cutting, tearing and griudieg the facia, and its gleuds which are, and oueht to be, like weitailled castora, ready to eupply the food with the natural, condiments required to ren- der it wholeinme end reedy for the stomach precasts wherewith digestion—properly se- celled—beeins. Now !et SIB look into the subject before us a little more narrowly. As actonas the food is taken between the Bps, the task of preparation begins. The morsel is examined, so to sty, by tongue and teeth as to its nature and properties. If the tenon of teeth be acute and natural, that ie not blunted by the thickeuing or deadening effects of ohronio infismmation, south aa may be set up either by neglect of the teeth and the presence of tartar at their backs by the habitual use of irritating eon- diments, or the abuse of lozenges and ju- jubes taken "for the throat,"—a moat per- nicious practice, or by the much smoking, or the nee of undiluted spirits, the preemies of anything not fit for food will be readily de- tected. Children possesa this faculty of self-pro- tection by taste in a high degree, end those who live the eimplest lives retain it the lopmet. For the sake of healtb we ought to be careful to preserve the function of taste as long M possible, and in an unso- phisticated state. To this end very hot or very cold, very acrid or very sweet, things ought to be avoided,' and a habit should be formed and maintained of making nice discriminations of taste as to what we eat and drink. This will have the double effect of developing taste and of preventing the hinny swallowing of food, than which no fault of herb is more mischievous. The teeth, too, play an Important part in the examination of the food taken into the mouth. We are apt to think of the teeth only as cutting, crushing or grindinginstrue in truth feelers of extraordin- ary 1 that they are meats. A very little observation will show delicacy. They recegnize the slightest ' grit in food; and in health, enable us to form—intuitively and unconsciously—then moat perfect judgement as to the condition of the morsel in the mouth, In regard to the degree of trituration it has received and the further mastication needed by it. Adequate mastication is one of the first and most indispensable conditions of the % fitness of food for the stomach, yet compar- atively few persons know how to use their teeth in this process. The human animal is provided with teeth to cut with, teeth to crush with, and teeth with which to grind his food, but if only he can so divide the morsel in his mouth as to be able to swallow it, he cares nothing more for the mouth pro- cess. This is a grievous offence against na- ture, and like other of our bad habits it gets worse as we grow older. A Rochdale retriever has just out the re- cord in the way of canine attachment and fidelity, beside breaking ground in an en- tirely new direction. Hitherto the faithful brutes of hie species have achieved their most notable successes in the water, but this dog has distinguished himself in another element. The style in which he stuck by the blazing bedside of his owner's children while the house was on fire compares with anything since Mrs. Hemans made the boy stand on the burning deck. A curious physiological fact is noticed by a writer on the late Franco -Chinese war "in Toiaquin, namely, that the bodies of the slain Chinese, unlike those of the' French, "dud not decompose, but merely become dis- colored and like mummies," while, with the exception of the eyes, carrion them untiuchede 10 is suggested t smoking might have been the Callft phenomenon.