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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-10-22, Page 233:BALVil. Asir and Sunshine. Tine dionfeoting power of freely oiroulat- lug pure air is now fully recognized by saui- tarlans. The secret of it is, in pert, SWAM. a. pld diffneioa of the morbid particle*, thus greatly diluting them, AS mineral poisons tray be rendered lteendese by dilation. So great fa this diffusive tendency, acting with the constant circulation of the air in vast as aureate, that. though every variety of harm - fel gases and miasma ie incessantly thrown lath the air of our large cities, no difference can be detected by analysis between the air bhe latter and the air of our rural die- maather expZ*i atony fact is the ached ,gettower of sunshine and oxygen, tt'. the inhaled oxygen that changes the slack, impure mum blood iatto the gave scarlet blood of the arteries. It Leas chemj- eel wer ofst midge that gives ns our won- photographs. It le the aunahine that bluetits the cotton cletb laid on the grass, and, on the other band, changes the pore white of a potato -vine grown in a cellar to Clark green when transferred to the open air. Hence, in oar late armies, notwitteetand- fng SO rainy w boaltby oonditions, typhoid fuer never teude4 to a read, and was ta- mest never fatal. It is for this reason that, in all infection* diseases, the phyaeelan in- aiats OA a free circulation of air in the aiclt- room. Ars inteteating illustration of the same thing is furnished by the celebrated Dr. Itiehardson, of Flighted. ie finds that the noted elute who have rte home", but sheep au iters. and f ecr- t cad iia, how rarely , tract ocutaglouae dittoes', Raul *more merely •convoy then", and that, too, though they wear oast -cd, end, often, infected clothing and occupy the worst of ledging -hones. The gypskea oleo are remarkably free from preaediug diseases ; they ]:now little of smell. pox, though little protected by vaccination One edam Linda peewits them Busies of a *minims neturo. D:. Richardson eon elude* that poverty in itaeIf hu nothing to do with the occur:else of rymotik (Wee. tiaaal diamns ; that Fresh air i• rite one mi jkty di+iinjesiar *, and that luxury and density et population are the two bad Write which conjure up the great pheaical evils of humanity. fetes, oat the recent French teoeferea:.e for the a.dvancene t of *lance, eons intere*tirtg eeperiments were made" on hysterical pa tient% with drugs which were not actuallyy sdminisbored, butwara placed on the beck of the patient"' heads, cad were used without their knowledge, 1, radar tbe.a choir, .tazoes opium prodnoed sleep, alcohol eacaed drenkeanesa, and shilntba brought on para• lye. -is of the lege, In women, camphor gave ries to relieves cutesy, and in men convul- sions ; many drugs were employed, and all of them gave their cbarectetiatie effects though they were all contained lu phial" or wrapped Ittems that from a scientific point of view, perfectly Olean hands are au impose!. bllity. In the fessea.biledica l:atiana Dr. Forster says that after the moat diligent ensbfug% and bruiting' with soap and water and Analogs with carbolic acid and other disinfeotauits, the hands remained so impure that upon touching the fingers to sterilized galettaa mfcro•organiam' were rapidly de• re►lo ad. The Dotter found, indeed, that on s the heed" with a eotution of 1 to *,000 of oorroaive sublimate they became "e iantiiioally clowned" for the time, but that in 'triple gg them upon a towel cot rre- viotrely disk fbetted they returned to their sad condition cf uncleanliness. Dr. Black of Philadelphia gives ten laws of health, the observance of which, he says, will lead man and women to "live es they ought to live, free from chute, and dim u they ought to die, from old age." They are —1, Breathe pure air. i. Take wholesome food and drink. 3 Take adequate out -door exercise. 4. [I'll" adequete and unoonatrain- ing covering for the body. 5, Observe sex-; nal oantinonoa. 6. Live where the climate; is adapted to your physical needs. 7. Avoid oonstraining and dangerous occupations. 8 Regard personal cleanliness. 9. Keep the :Mud tranquil. 10. A.vofd marriage with a blood relation. Weans a bold? A cold is the product of two tactors ; one is a certain condition of the within. the other a oertain condition of the without. The only soil in which thio plant can flour - lab is a certain condition of the system, the predominate feature of which la a deranged stomach. If thesystem is prepared, through a certain gross condition of stomach and liver, it requires but a alight expoaure to draught or dampness to provoke a cold. The system being ready, a cold is not un - frequently excited by aclose, heated atmos- phere. 1 think in a sore -throat cold the proximate cause is generally an unventilat- ed room and rarely external cold. Some habits which give tenienoy to colds should be mentioned. Among these are hot drinks (which in addition to flooding and weakening';the stomach, open the skin and increase the sensibility to external changes), the use of warm water baths, especially hot foot -bathe, sleeping in close, unventilated+ rooms ; bat tenfold more mischievous than all these is the eating excessive quantities of rich meats and pastry. The old saw, "staff a cold and starve a fever," has been the source of muchmischief. When you have taken a cold and have some local inflammation, as a nasal catarrh or an Inflamed throat, it is just as. improper to eat simulating food as when you are suffer- ing from any other inflammation. If, for example, the cold takes the form of pleurisy no one feeds it on beef and mince -pie; but I gee no reason why a pleuritic atitch may not be thus fed if lungs inflamed by a cold may be.—Dio Lewis. Hints to Dyspeptics. Strive in diet to combine always, the greatest nutriment with the least bulk, as we live by what we digeat and not what we eat. The food should be chewed carefully and slowly. A faulty state of the teeth is a potent cause of dyspepsia. If the natural teeth are faulty, artificial ones should be employed; or, if these cannot be tolerated, the food should be minced. Regularity in the hours of meals cannot be too strongly insisted upon. The stomach ought not to be disappointed,for, if it is, a diminished amount of food will be taken later on with- out appetite, ; If this often happens, the se- cretions become deficient in quantity, and the muscular action of the stomach, so ne- cessary for complete digestion, becomes im- paired. As to food, hot meat is more easily digsetible than cold, and under -done more easily than over -done, The flesh of young animals is less digeatible than that of full. grown ones. The flesh of wild' is more di- gestible than that of doniestio animals, With the exception of the "sweet -bread," visceral parts of animals are difficult to di- gest. White -fleshed fish is easier to digest than red. Shellfish are to be avoided. Fried food must not be taken; broiled, roast, or boiled is all that la achnieselthe Hashes, stews, and made diahe* are to be avoided, Other prohipited article* of diet are paatrs, sweetmeats of all kinds, and sugar.. We bets enumerated* somewhat lengthy list of instances to be avoided by the dyspeptic, and we fear that teeny sufferers would rather go an suffering than deny themselves so many ,luxuries ; but to fight a foe with hit own weapons, one mut be as reientlese as that foe. A Olean Head. A clear head iisu rarely found beneath AA un eau scalp; t a clean head and good health are generally, associates. A distin. guished pbysioian, who haaapent mach time at quarantine, said that a peruse whose head wan thoroughly teethed every day rarely teak contagions diseases, but when the hair wan allowed to become dirty and matted, it was hardly possibleeeoape infection, ;limy persons And speedy relief for seer eau headache by washing the head than ouglily in weak soda water, Casee are re- ported to bane been almost wholly cured in ten minates by this afmple remedy, Some lemons find that it relieves "roue cold;" the cold syanptomaentirely leave the eyes after one thorough washing of the hear. The head ehonld be thorueghly dried after- ward and cue should avoid draughts of air for a lithe' while. Winter tiventng ,ainutemeuts. As the cool winter evening; draw near, there is eremite, it buzz of expectation in °v-eryaarnall Ca uadiau town orvillage,*mong the young e, M the hope of atiusement. There are plenty of clever, agreeable be a and girls *ne eaergatic *dolts who are r e to be aroused *04 to contribute their 'bare to amuse °there; but the fun i* apt soon to ia;aguish, with a feeble Sicker or twv, and then die out, Nothing an be duller tbin the social attnosphere of meet of our village" through a long winter. There are two meowter th ". Nobody is willing to take the Iced or to insugurate a new idea; and Thera is tco Hauch di"tinctlon of rank. The mete" of leindo'taa bare not more rigid line* than the "biota" of * little Canadian towu, with IS mongrel population_ The dauggbtera of tiro judge entry the wife of the dry-goode imereb*nt; while she, in turn, will not visit the carpenter's family, who haughtily pass the millieer without a bow ; while the let- ter has nothing to do with the somtude: nee 'who go out to work by the day; 'good people, but not such a" nae could aa"cciate Kith, you know." A well-bred, liberal woman from a large seaboard city happened to rind herself in out of those clique ridden village' m New Nark, at the beginning of a long winter. She invited a member of each circle to her house • laaugurated bnlea-dosaa clubs, which laeluded all the respectable young people of the towu, without the slightest regard to their previous medal staudin Thera was a club for music, smother for roc fag, *therefor tableaux•vivant", and Shake- speare, history and art. Each club met at the heti, of. a member cion a week ; the si tattiest refreshment was ppretitled; and each to its turn provided a fortnightly eatortelunsant to which the members of all the other asaocfations were Invited, For indents, one fortnight the entertainment was tahiosux; the next a conoert ; the uextehort annoys on art with a loan exhibition of such enrravtngs or bric- a brac as the town oould afford ; the next a roaring tire,- played by amateara, The. performau.e, it may be, were trifling ; but int the end of the winter therm good neighbors, had dioovered fine trait' and capabilities in each other, heretofore unauepected, and bad found, too, friends and comrade" in the very men and women whom they bad treat- ed as social pariahs. Cannot the young people who read of tele experiment do smnothiug in their own ]tomes to bring about an era of good feeling Killed by Bee Stings. Thomas Fader of Ciouldville keeps several hives of bees in his gsrden. The other forenoon he was at work among his bees. A. man with whom he had some buianese dealings called at his house to see biro. Mrs, Fader went out to call her husband fo- to the house. As ahe approached the bee bicep a number of bees flew into her face, and she was stung several times. One of the bees stung her fn one of her nostrils, and another one stung her on the upper lip, at the base of the cartilege dividing the two nostrils. Mrs. Fader'" cries brought her husband to the spot. He extracted the stingers and applied wet earth to the wounds. He went with his wife back to the house, and had no thought of any con- sequences resulting from the bee stings more serious than the "welling and pain. He left his wife in the kitchen applying ammonia to the wounds, and entered a front room, where his visitor was. A few minutes later ne heard a heavy fall in the kitchen. He ran out, and found hie wife lying in convul- sions on the floor. Her neat -rile were awol- len shut, and her Iips were twice their nat- ural size, and had turred dark blue. She breathed short and quick through her mouth. Her face was so swollen that its identity was entirely lost. Mr. Fades hurried his visitor after a doctor, but be- fore one arrived his wife died in her hus- band's arms. The doctor staid that the stings in her lip and nostrils had sent a shook like electricity to her brain, and from that to her lugs and heart, ac severe that she was unable to rally from it. Mrs. Fader was 26 years old. It was but forty- five minutes from the time that the was stung until her death. --espeeme-ae. Japan is in a fair way to have great trouble with epidemic diseases. From Jan- uary to July there were 4,472 oases of small- pox, with 1,191 deaths, and recent reports say that at Nagasaki, between Aug. 26 and Sept. 1, there were 300 cases of Asiatic) cholera, Of typhoid fever 7,984 oases are reported for the first half of the year. Those people whohave'imbibedprejudices against vaccinationwould be edified by read. ing the history of the Bath Vaccine Associa- tion, which is the oldest establishment of the kind in England. To test the efficacy of vaccination, it long ago adopted a pecul- iar plan. Persons occasionally applied for vaccination who were already well marked —in some oases thrice marked. After op- erating successfully upon any of this latter class, thus giving the individual concerned a fourth mark, the Association presented him or her with a bond for onehundred pounds -$500--to he redeemed in cash by the As- sociation whenever the person thus vaccin- ated should take small -pox. In other words the Association was willing to pay 4500 for any proof that it was possible for any per- il= thoroughly vaccinated to take small -pox, This proof has never been given, It is stat- ed that some of those so vaccinated placed themselves in contact with small -pox and in instances went so far as to attempt to inoc- ulate themselves with the disease in order to claim the reward, but that their attempts to catch it failed, FIVE MI11'hi'TEtg WITH A MAD DOG. A l'sraict if L A DARK OELr..an Wirn Sxansoe Aa Hrpaocr.a zeActn. The Vital Mechanism The recent death of Sir Mose" Monte- &ore, the eminent philanthropist, in the 101atyear of his age, has drawn attention to the subject of longevity, and the pos. aibility of so preserving and protecting 4 London doctor writes ens Laub week the complex human machinery as to grow I received orders to go to the Britannia old without parting with all that makes public hone, in Soho, awe poison a large life desirable. One thing sppeare to be retrlever belonging to the landlord. My well eatabliehed, that the way to obtain a wasterha4 seen the dog during his rounds, healthy and vigorous oldage is not to end found it'n a. daangerouelyrabid *tate. live an, idle life. There to more danger, I filled a small bottle with hydrocyanic it appears from many examples, of rest- acid, and, taking a syringe, went oft' at ing out than of wearing out, always pres- ence to see about it. Arriving at the vtded that the activity of mind and body hone, I atated my bualneKo, and was is not carried to (emu, That intellec• Wended over to the potboy to be condnc- tual labor, within reasonable bounds, ted to the dog, which I could hear howling does not ehorten life, is evident from the every few aeoemde, There being no yard fact that public men are proverbially long- to tbe house, they ]sad obained the dog lived, .aa, Loudon journal says: "When down in tbe collar to a 'staple in the well, Lord St. Leonardo, at 90, was the oldest "'E's a wery bad cane, sir," "aid my of Her Majesty's privy councillors, the guide, "an' I'll be glad when It's allover; Duke of I,,eiueter. at 80, was our oldest for, although he war a great pet with us duke ; the ¥arquiee of Tweeddale, et 84, all, an' that fold of the kids you never the oldeat marquis ; the Earl of Leven see, it's awf alto see 'im not know any of and Melville, at 85, the oldeat earl; Via - us, but when we goes near 'im to have count Moleaworthy, the oldeat viscount 'im come a.Sying at us. Think 'ell ;suffer at 85; the oldest M. P. was alien 87; mach - Titers a goes 1 'ear ear iia. An day the oldeat judge 75 ; the oldest prelate, long 'e `owls like that." the bishop of St. David's, 84 ; the oldest I assured him; it would soon be over baronet 92; the oldest knight 89; the without mach pain, and desceudiug nouns oldeas recorder in Bogland 84." "tops, we passed through a room he the Mr. Gladabone la now in hit 78th, year, bsaernent that war dimly lit by a sinal] and is supposed to be atilt capable et and grimy window. Cases of wines end guiding the de*tinlea of the British Em- epiritu were ranged molest the walk, rind pine 111101114000041011, in d the popular vote we could hear the tramp of he thickly in the coming elec n call on hint to do shod customer, in the her or taproom eo, Lord Eeaoomfiaald was still in flower jail above our beads. Opening a deer, at 74 yoare of ago. Lord Palmerston we paned into another room ; *.hie was died aged 81, Lord John Russel at 86. lighted only by a small window in the nearly all the British prime ruinfaters mom we hadjuat loft, as it ,bone through were octogenarian. The ntoatiltuetrious the now opened door. i'He'a in there," of modern French authors, 'Victor Hugo, add the potboy, polntfug to another door panned away a few menthe mince ip hia83rd in the wall oppoafte. year. But the ]let might be indefinitely Thinklug there was a window in the extended, sa nuuscrous are the exaaspice roam, I pushed the doer open, and tut. which European Wstory affords of great mediately beard the rattle of a chain and talepte pre.erved cad actively employed the hoarse half howl, belt growl of the Doyond the 1104.1 of threeaoore and ten. poor begat, whose eyes I could see against In the United States there seeing to be the far wall gleaming through the derk, a more rapid o,ueumptlan of the ttauues, Window there was none. Very few of the leading etateamen of the " Why on earth didn't you bring a pertod tnclading and following rite civil light," I asked, angrily. ; '' youdon't don't cup- war attained the age of eaventy years, pane 1 moa poison bin In dark the fierce ezttteenent of the time aeon- theTeough. l ad a match, stein the boy-, fag to have broken sheen down while yet fumbling in his pccketa ; " thero`e a gas to what should have beau the height of jot just*inside the doer." their vigor and capability. This has not I lead no matches, so I sant Mils up always been true of American atateamep. ataira to get some, and, awaiting hi,, re- Daniel Webetor died at 70, Henry eke, turn, sat down en an on ley keg near the at 75, Theresa H. Benton at 76, and these are but aeleotione at random from a great number of instances of long life among the leader* in the political oonfilcta of the Bret halt of tine century. Josiah Qalnoy, of Banton, whenupwarde of 93 year" old, wrote the lite of John Quincy ,Adam,. William 0. Bryant was still an editor at 80, and began bis translation of Homer at 71. Commodore Vanderbilt at 81 was the active manager of four of the begot r*ileoade in America- Moatofthe Proatdents have lived to an advanced"$o. John Adana died in h1a Olat year, Media= at 80, Jefferson at 83, John Quincy Adams at 81, and Mar- tin Van Buren at 80. The ages of the others at their decease, omitting those who diedby violence, were : Jaolteon 78; Buchanan, 77 ; Fillmore, 74; :1Tonroe, 73 ; Tyler, 72 ; A*rrleon, 68 ; Washing- ton, 67 ; Johnson, 67 ; Taylor, 66 ; Pierce, GO ; Grant, 63; Polk, 54. Oa the whole, it's -clearly app*rent that the men who take the most native part in affairs, who bear the heaviest responsibilities and en - dare the greateab strain upon their fuel - ties, are In (rdlnary time the man who live tangent. Women are subject to peculiar cares and dangers, yet they are said to be long- er onger lived than men. The remarkable statement is made that there were at one time 885 widows of Revolutionary sol- diers drawing penaiona in the United States, while only one Revolutionary soldier remained on the roll. Here, again, to find the most illnatrious examples of long tnrvivel, we must revert to the an- nale of the 01d World, wherein it is abundantly shown that no woman need be old at 30, nor even at 50. Nob only is actual long life an especial privilege of the sex, but their charms are susceptible of preservation far beyond the limit or - door, The dog scented =eery, and, fauc$ag the light through the doorway annoyed and dtatremed him, I pushed It to with. ray hand. The boy was sometime gone (I foundafterward he had been to ask his mistrem if she would like 1) have a lose look at the old dog). and I sat there think - tag over the job. The air eif the cel- Ise was close, and the smell of the wet sawdust on the floor was moat unpleasant. Clank went (the dog'" chitin against the wall or the floor, as he moved madly about, wondering, I dare say, what was my errand there. Then the movement ceased for a time, or, partly absorbed in my thoughts, I failed to notice it. The; next minute I started, feeling something' rub against my leg. Looking down, I saw two glaring eyeaa jut et my knee. The dog was loose, the Staple having worked its way out of the damp and yielding mortar. For a second or two I nearly lost con- ecionanese. My haat aeemod to stand.' still ; but by an effort I kept from going cif into amt. I shall never forget the next few minutes es long as Vim, . wan 1 alone in the dark, with this rabid beaab rubbing *bout mylega—first one and then the other, as if he were trying to find out who .1 wax. Then he rented his nose on my knees and looked straight up into my face. 1 sat like a statue, knowing that at the slightest movement he would pro- bably seize ane, and knowing (who bet. tart) that snakebite to his advanaed state of disease was almost certain death, and a horrible death too. Nerving myself, I sat perfectly still, calculating as well as 1 could my chances of escape. Presently the dog put firab one paw then the other, on my knee, and, standing onbia hindbege, gently rubbed his head againsb my breast, then over my arms, and then commenced to explore my face. I shut my eyes, and dinarily assigned. felt his nose pass several times soroes my face, covering It with saliva. Yet I dared Something About the Caroline not move. I expected every instant he Islands. would seize me ; the very beating of my heart might disturb and annoy him ; and The Caroline Islands may be regarded I felt that, come what might, I must fling as a practical exhibition of moat of the him off and make a dash for the door, various systems of government that are Suddenlyhe ceaeed rubbing againatme, Just now is favor. Yap and Knaaie, and appeared to be listening. He could two of the largest islands in thegroup, are hear the ateps of the pot boy descending kingdoms; and, considering that Yap is the ladder. I also could hear it, and knew only a I:'acifio kingdom, ib to a very *d- uet whether to call to him or keep silent. vanced place, its chief town posses ing a The dog now dropped down to my knees well -paved street, and there being on the again, still listening ; and as the light of island no less than sixty, -seven villages, a candle streamed bhrough the crevices of each of which is a semi-independent corn - the badly fitting door he crept into the mune. Unfortunately, consumption is far corner of thecellar, evidentlydreading rampant, and the population rapidly de. being put upon the chain again. Then I Dressing. made a dash at the door, swung ib open, Kutaie le a less enlightened monarchy; and, banging it be behind me, sank, more but,on'the other hand, it has no consump. dead than alive, on a case near the wall. tion, and it bas a number of gigantic ruins Seeing my state, the man bronghb me which have no rivals in Yap. Ponape, a quickly a nip of brandy, and I • pulled third island, is an oligarchy governed by myself together. All this time the dog five princes. Like Kunio it contains re - was growling furiously on the other side markable pre -historic rains, and thirty of bhe door, and tearing at it in his mad en- years ago ib had a population of 15.000. deavor to get at us. Steadying myself as At„ thepresent time, owing to recent ray- well as I could. I planed the light on a ages of small -pox, there are only 2,000. pile of oases, and, filling my syringe with These, however, are well-to-do ani flour - acid, opened the door about two inches. ishing, and they are noted for their Intel - As I expected, the infuriated beast rushed ligence and physical beauty. Other islands at the opening ; andashe did ao I discharged are repubiios, elective despotisms and the contents of the syringe into his open federations of petty princedoms, but none month. In a few aeconds all was over. le so prosperous as oligarchical Ponape. When I went up stairs I found my trouts- `oes"eate ers, vest, coat, hands, and face : covered Attracting Emigrants. with the saliva from his mouth. I' The N. Y. Sun says :-Canada is Very felt sick and faint, and looked -so the active in seeking immigration from En. people said -white as a ghost ; in fact, I rope. ger last move in. that direction is could hardly stand. a proposal to , form at Quebec a landing The dog I had killed was bitten by the Place so attractive that persons arriving mad dog that ran down Piccadilly 'some there may be agreeably impressed the three weeks since,. and had only showed moment they step on shore. For thia symptoms of madness during the last few purpose the great Louise embankment' days. one of the most extensive stone wharves -.«. ..►..,. . — and breakwaters in the world --is to be A literary man who was asked to fur- utilized. It will be turfed, ornamented nish a Shakspearean motto to be framed by trees and garden plants,and have erect - and hung up over the bar of a saloon sun. ed upon ib ornamental receiving houses, gated the words : " As you like ft." finished in native woods. These build - The betrothed bride of a London man Ings will outdo Castle Garden with little effort. objectoto marrying while in mourning for a relative, and he has waited thirty- " They say small bills are scarce," mur- five years for an interval in her grief, so mured Impecunious yesterday, as he look - close together have been the bereave- ed through the mall, " but I seem to be menta, „ getting just as many as ever." THE WORLD OVER. For a;! wager of two dollars, a resident of Danbury, Conn., "wallowed, a ;,small live frog the other day. Near Arabin, Nev., haat week, the Pints Indians killed a squaw and her child be cause the could tate Frenols. Worth says there are not four Brea e maker" in Darla wito ever mane a dress for $1,500, lace dresses, of Douree,except ed, and that the reports regarding the ex- travagant price" paid by wealthy people and actresses are for the most pare non. "Te* A convention of dancing mestere was held in New York a few days ago, They decided to teachthe waltz the same as lett year. The only new feature of the season to the " Highland Schottltohe." Thio corroborates the report of a boom in the hop lnduatry. Perch in Conasius lake have died by thousands, as many as thirtyloads having been carted away in a forenoon. The dead fish have a swelling like a mosquito bite just back of the Boreal fin, which leads to the belief that they are stung by some polaonoua aquatic insect. At. a late meeting of Ohioago Medical society, Dr. W. F. Coleman declared that he knew of in more eunetant effect of the pose of tobaeco than the impairment of vision, known. u amblyophla. The moat of the text -books supportthe idea tbat IMO e of t'bacco cause" iuspairment of It eight. i t. The more are smokers of tea and Or re sufferers I? p gazettes. The crew of the Salvation Arany *team yacht Iole,whtch Is lying atPoole harbour repairing dasnagels autteined in the recent gale, on turning out the other morning found that the yacht had, during the night, been ohrietened the Eliza Arm- etreng, wbich,naree WAS painted on both bows and stern. The :skipper has offered e reward for the detection of the grace. teal jokers. The Chicago Times toile the latent snake story of the season :---" Two ladies who were with a camping party about 'sixteen miles from Leadvblle saw a Iarge eagle sweep to the earth and rise with a snake in his beak. flan of the Spectators aefzad a gun and fired ant the bird, whitish fall mortally wounded, carrying the "Hake with It. The reptile was *barge specimen of the ball "Hake, ramming five feet two 1 tnabes in length The eagle was aim feet from tip to tip otitis wing"." Senator Palmer, of Detroit, Mich., has been prowling about the old homestead at Ashford, Clone,, where he was bora, and has shipped thence s large number of old household relics, with which he will fill a log cabin which he bas built on his groandast home. The eatonfahed ruralex- pressman told the sender that "thehalllot ain't worth the express coat, stranger." Small trees of every avallablokind on the old place are to be taken up and trans- bleated about the log cabin, alio buckle - erry and blackberry bushes, and to com- plete the miniature New England which he proposes to lay out around his Michi- gan cabin, the millionaire Senator even thinks of 'shipping a car -load of genuine New England rooks from the old farm to the smooth and *toneless Wed. A queer story oomes from New Zealand. The owls in that island used to ba as harm]os at as doves ; indeed they were once " matfising owls," and therefore nsefui. lent one night a settler left a sheepskin nailed to his roof, and an owl came along and heated of the fat mutton left thereon. That owl became a eheep.killer, alighting on a Iamb's back three nights later. Stili more strange, all the other owls began to like mutton, and now the New Zealand bird of that apeoies slays thousands upon thousands of sheep, theirappetites growing by what they feed on, and their numbers in- oreaetng inproportion to their prosperity. They light on the backs of the sheep and tear the poor beaate with thelrbesks, go- ing at once down through the carcass to the kidney fat, which to the owls' tongue is the daintleeb of morsels. Temperance people who think it wrong for doctors to prescribe .alcohol, will be interested to know that a medicine has been found which may, inmany diseases, be substituted for Be Dr. Burroughs, in the Therapeutic Gazette, states that nitro- glycerine as ahead stimulant ie far super - ler to brandy, and may be given with confidence whenever the adminlatratton of brandy is indicated. Two drops of a one per cent. solution are equivalent to an ounce of brandy, and the effects of the drug are felt immediately. It creates no unnatural. craving. The Doctor gives a detailed account of the cases in which he has employed it, and finds, after an ex- tensive experience, that it is of great val- ve in shooks from accidents, faintness after surgical operations, failure of the heart's action due toohloroform,for opium, poisoning, asthma, and the collapse of fevers. ►•. Life on a Coral Island: The misery of life on a Doral island, says a writer in the London Saturday Review, can hardly be exaggerated. One English family, a abattoned at Diego, lives"on a lit- tle islet east of the entrance: It rains every day. The mosquitoes are unequal- ed for size and ferocity. The only food is an occasional fresh fish, with tinned meat and vegetables from England. The mon- otony of existence Is only broken by the visit of an occasional ship, or by a gale which nnroofe the house. To the lonely inhabitants it is nothing that beautiful shells and branching coral are to be found Mt the beach; that strange, bright birds. come across the ocean to bnild;their nests in the cocoa trees, or that the sea over the reef is of an ethereal blue such as no one can imagine that has not seen it. The stray visitor goes away disenchanted with life- on a coral island and ready to prefer the discomforts of civilization, the restraint of society and clothes, the paste of the poet and the telegram, to green Io- landa and blue sea, with rate, thunder etorins, moscjniboes, and land -crabs for company, and a thermometer always at; summer heat. At least one ton of gold is burled in the graves of the dead every year. Be pleasant and kind tojthoee around you. The man who stirs his oup with an icicle spoils the tea and chills his own flu - gem. VERY THE TxuL Lo The ne Frankie many as ate amp able pe The gi villain novel was mo syn pro on OSE. Moxisz . n granted egarded by the nitim. at remark - the West. mantic and 0 beats of a to since she riming her nge bond of several very The ground teen her after sh' :n was that the P _., , at _, dulged in too a the defendant in g -Since her good fortune in hav r v erdicb tet aside many people " ted themselves in her , and o trial, which will occur aoou, a .: defended by the ablest lawyer te. A few ye, w ` iz Weatern advent- uress took u , . ung man of her ac- quaintance, ! , , ng ; mining any idea of na,arrlage,11 him as his wife. When he dBend, wh .' ' `;` ems faar atm v to of t to Great e young fr•' , and cut a pretty 1 big figure • suety as the place beaded, • > • `. . as naturally bright and, best 1 beauty of a high or- der, aloe ' fifty to appear ingly w '' ' the oompen ,ler " ro•. AU ' `=t e a Bend she and pp wanbdned = , i, .. d, a young lawyer,'who married her, Mrs. Hurd was a charming conversettonalist, and as nothing was known of her past life alto readily -became a great favorite here. if elle had act de- aired she could have maintained texts pos. Ition but her life with Rurd was unhappy, andonseveraloocaelous he expressed ade- eire to separate from her. With the idea of strengthening the bond between thew she undertook a desperate /scheme. Plead - lug illness she went to Hot Springs, and after remaining there several menthe she returned with a baby, which elle asserted was hero, and widelt was generally ace opted as wait. Thie did net deter her haaband, whose repentance of his folly in marrying her was sincere, and after a time he persuaded her to aubmib to "leg- al aoperation. She afterwards became ec:luainbedwith a young man named Loveland, who had a wife and eoveralchildren, a fine poeitioa in "gaiety and excellent buatneaa pros- pects. He had become infeta*ted with the woman before her divorce, but after that neglected everything for her, aban- doted his family and hies businear, and wan in her oompmny oontianslly. Ela family boat everything, two of iris children died, and Ida wife, broken hearted, boot her reason and was sant to an asylum. As Insanity is a groundfor diverts in Kaman, Loveland was nob long taking the advantage of the law, and when once again fres he would have married the woman with whom he had bean consorting had she been willing, but she had other projects in her mind. Taking thenamo of Mrs,Frankie Morris the girl began to haunt the life inaarance oil ces,and amuse figures on her mother's life. After her divorce, ,Hurtook out a policy for $5,000 an her moth 'e life in the New York Mutual, end the pre- mum on it out of alimony d a to him. Then Frankie moved to Kan'aa City, where she received $10,000 more, though her application was refused in several places. From Kansa' City to Coffeeville, where her mother, Mrs. Nan J. Point. sett, was living, and, by dinbf pavans, alon and promisee of assiatan induced her to move to Chanute where she net up a boarding -bonne. They had been in Chanute a little while --Loveland still remaining her most devoted slave ---when a few days after the election of last Nov ember, Frank's proposed to her mother that they drink a glass of beer in cele- bration of Cleveland's triumph. The old lady consented, and the girl, taking aglasa from the cupboard, poured some beer into it and handed it to her mother, who drank it all, Frankie drinking from the bottle. In a little while the mother was taken sick, and though she lingered along for ten days, she finally died with all the sympto us of arsenical poisoning. She was buried on the day of her death, having had no medical attend.. anon, and the explanations which were given were setiafaetory to the towns- people, to whom the newcomers were strangers, and who were accustomed to such scenes of hardship and suffering. Employing a Ely. Flies are most useful scavengers, for they destroy much matter which is injur- ious to man. They lay their eggs in de- caying animal snbatencea,and these hatch oat in a very short time. The young files begin to eat as soon as they are hatched, and soon eat up the decayed matter: It is aaid that the progeny of two blue -bottle files will eat up a dead horse more quickly than one lion could perform theta*. • Flies have a wonderfal scent. If a piece of deoayedmeab isplaoed in an open place where there are no flies, Byrn not be long before a troop of Woe will be crawling over it. An ingenine thnn once made a fly serve him. A poisoned rat had crawled under the floor of a gentleman's dining -room and died there. The room, which had been fitted up at great expense, became unix- habitabio,and the workmen were called in:. to remove the flooring. Bub one of them suggested that `if a blue -bottle fly be turned' into the room, it would find the exact apot where the dead rat was lying. The fly being caught and turned in, buzzed about the room for some time. At last ib alighted upon a certain spot on the floor, and remained there. " Zhere'a where your dead rat is l" the workman said. A single board was re- moved, and the rat was exposed to view. The fly had scented the body through the crack in the floor. The Rev. Sam Jones thinks men are running to .monkeys, The children. cer- tainly do run to them when they a000m- pany a hand -organ. The stingiest man on record is an Indi-• anion. He walked out to the cemetery and. died to save funeral expenses.