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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-11-12, Page 8HEALTH, Pure Water for Drinking. Prof. Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian' inn it to t u atron 1 ravommends the %notice r g F P of boiling all water need for drinking pur. poses, un ions it is known to be, pure. -The only perfectly safe way of aseertarniag whether water ie pure or not is by having u analyzed by a competent chemist. But to n ie an expensive process, though there are rogues wbo proteae to do it for much less than the operation would vont, and the boll ing for half an hour, though saarewhat ronbleaome, is a good deal less cost! , and would have to b, resorted to anyway if the anal. als should show the water to be unsafe, A porous earthen veaael is a good thing to put the water in to cool, and if boiled in the evening and placed in earthenware vessels in a cool plaoe to get cold, the water will be found cold enough in the morning f,r many persons to drink without ice. It is a simple preventive of the comae of many diseases, and the fact that impure water by no means betrays itaelf, as many people suppose, by an appearance of impariy, but is perfectly deur and limpid and agreeable to the taste, adds to thedanger of this cause, It has been shown over and over again that impure water is not at all confined to cities, but is found even more frequently in the walla which supply our country residents, It used to be held generally that even when surface impurity existed within a radius of the well suibicient- ?y limited to draia into i:, the percolation through the soil a ould remove every part- iele of impurity from the wets% ere it rtach- ed the well t but scientists have shown ua %hat such is s t the case. During the very hot weather% on so muck water is drank, it fa well to be un the safe side. A little :old coffee, or a little vinegar and a little' eagax poured into tk a writer, make a very palatable and refreabing driuk in hot weather, llll very cold drink. should be imbibed slowly. Srdlonly -Hooding the stomach with a large quantity of me-c►1d liguid is always attended with more or less risk, according to the condition of the drink- ers at the time. Dangers of Roller-Skatire• When rotier•aksling was i:rot introduced, we looked on i t with much favor, We put on skates ourselves, and often stv:ompauied ladies to the hall. They, we ax d our aes:ci- atee, enjoyed the exercise much. In some re- speeto roller-skating teemed fully equal to skating on fee, in ita graceful and coni acct• ed movements, rind vastly niperior is its freedom from the interrupttion of scow an i rain, wind andcold. We thought it furnish- ed a fine combination of mental relaxa ion, physical exercise and social life. We naw in it a creep and agreeable diversion for the people, free, we *oppose i, from the tempt- ations wh•cle everywhere beset the young. lint people overdo many things, In p.e:ante, wo. k, politics and religion. If the apostolic injancnon, ""Let your mode.a"ion be known unto all man," were one cf the Ten Commandments, we should be a nation of breakers of the Decalogne. Itolier•akat• ill; became ""a craze." It was pursued as if it were the perpese of life ; every night ie the week, leveret hours at a time, in crowd- ed rinks, with vitiated air and impalpable dust. That moderately indulged in and duly re- gulated it would be healthful, and in many ways helpful for those already vigorous, we atilt believe, But the fruits of the present methods of pursuing the amuaemeut are often evil. The followin , fam the 4teeiical Record, written by J a "bwnaend dill, M. II., is worthy of att ntios • ""Sir: I am erynuch interested in thio subject of roller-Aedting for girls especially, because I hive from thirty to forty girls an - der my care for phyaioal training and treat- ment, With the utmost care as to time and amount, I find it unsatisfactory, It seems to brim% out any latent p'odiepoaition to die-' ears, I have been compelled to forbid those who had tho'b ighteat tendency to kidney or heart trouble, in fact, any organic trouble, indulging, in the sport. A case of anemia, the moat intractable one 1 ever had to deal with, I am sure was caused by skating exo us ively." Other physicians give a similar testimony. .All recreations may have their dangers if carried to excess. This now and popular one, like all others, needs to be used more wisely and conscientiously. Abominations of the Back Yard. Many back yards are abominations to the eye and nose. One finds in them all forte of Litter and refuse, from oyster cane to old boots. Here the slops of the kitchen are poured to increase the odors which ought to warn every thoughtful person of the malari- al influence breeding there, to break out eventually in fevers or diphtheria, If any member of the family dies from one of these diseases his death is probably lamented as a ""mysterious dispensation of Providence," but the minister would say, if he were to visit the back yard, that death was caused solely by a violation of hygienic laws. A very% strong argument against a dirty back yard is the spirit of deception which it is apt to foster in the young members of the family, for it is a constant de:eit to present a clean and attractive front yard to the gaze of the passers, while the back yard is not fit to be seen. Children should be taught to be clean for the sake of cleanliness, and not because outsiders are likely to crit- icise them. The best plan is to have a hogs- head or large box fitted up in one corner of the yard, and make it a rule to throw into this old cane, boots, broken dishes, and all such rubbish, and when there is a great ac- cumulation to bury or burn It. Do not allow anything to be thrown about, Have drains made to onvey slops from the house. Make good we , nd let the ground have a fine .eevore fg of grass, not weeds. Put up strong euppoi�ta for the clothes lines. Keep the fence in repair, and plant currant bushes near it. Set vines about the refuse barrel, and train them over it until it is hidden, If you have a receptacle for ashes, let it be something which can be shut up, not a row of old barrels to offend the eye, and give out a cloud of ashes every time the wind blows. Make it a rule td heyo the back yard at all, times as clean as .the. front one. ue We often hear of goats eating circus post- ers and other luxuries, but they have one in Dracut that chewed up' a horse's tail. A sort of• swallow•tail 'goat, we should say. The old-fashioned spinning wheel was: introduced a short time ago into the Tole. of Man Inpane Asylum with the idea of amusing the patients. The latter seemed delighted that they could inthis way con, tribute to their support, .and 'became so absorbed in their new' occupation that' their nervous symptoms no longer pre dominated. As. Dr. Richardeon,themed-• teal superintendent expressed it, the di rection of the nervous force was changed,. and their condition was, improved. The experimentis to be tried in other asylums. OVER THE QOEAN. The Sultan is as devoted to' Wagner as the King of Bavaria, Iiiuch of hia time is panned at the piano, and two of hie sons are ."e3omplished musicteta, 8 $ sa e Z a-9 a Gil t ,F`, 3t ellen 1� F En land. Tae bath is fi led with long, green aea sed, steeped for an hour before nee in :wiling water. The bather remains in about swsnty minutes, and. the bath is thought very invigorating. A Scat:hman is suffering from a painful disease of the h: n 1 and wrist, brought on by the pressure ag ►first the palm of a round - knobbed cane. The surgeons say that the thing to carry is a stick witha plain, smooth, oylin'irical handle, The proprietors of Loudon reetauranta and hotela are taking to uauslo At the Holborn restaurant sweet music has been discoursed during dinner hours fur some time past, and: quite a number of hotele and restaurants have now applied for a license, The London police have received orders not to take int a castody a person about to commit suicide, but to apply for a warrant to apprehend him on a eharge of miade- meanor. The medical journals ca11 this "" locking up the stable of ter the horse is stolen." Its:ems almost useless to warn people not to take overdoses cf opium and itsaikaiciis. An E^gliah clergeman, who had been accus- tomed to take m rphia pills for s'eepies'nesa, continued the habit agai:�st his physician's expreas instructions, r.nd cue right took a number cf them equal to a grain ar d a half of the drug. He went to aiecp and never awoke. Asia posaeues the most powerfully equip. ped hornets, The Indian .Lf'edical Ga::tee tela of a man who was bitten on the neck by one of theist, Wit-hinten minutes he be- came cold, pulseless, and unoonacioua. He was a robust malt, but the use of active rem. edies only brought him to after a couple of hours, The hornet was of medium size, bright i,etlow and stripedd with blaek, The immeua, gun constructed at Elawiek for the Bee ieh government has a total weight of 300 tons, being considerably in exo es of previousundertekinga. Its length iasteted at some f,rty-four feet, though with an ex- treme diameter at the breech ct but five feet six inches, a very elongated chase cr barrel tare:iag down to twentyeight inohes, with a alightawelling at the muzzle, A curion%pully hou,e ii among the latent ,►ttractloua in Poria. It it called La Ta- zx me du Bane. The walla are hung with elatinga repretent ng the horrors of convict life, interapersed wits portraits of notorious Communists. All tea waiters are dressed in convict uniform. and wear the chains and ?+iotas of the regular farc:i'. The landlord is Citoyen Maxims Li/Leone. ono of the lead - era of the ineurreotion of 14i 1. fair James Paget .h;s bean trach,g the course in life of one thousand medical ata - dents, taken at random from an k ngliah in- atitube. IIs found that 23 out of tk;e 1,000 achieved distinguished success; GO ad con- siderable success; 507 made a living ; 14 hada very limited sacoesa, not having made a fair praetiee within 1G yearn after gra3ua- tion, and 50 failed utterly. Nearly 10 per oent. (p0) of the whole number left the pro. feasion after beginning etcher study or prac- tice; 677 died after entering practice, and 41 died when students, The merry little mosquito has arrived in Dublin. The interacting tourist from this side had already turned up in Landon, evidently with the notion of staying. Ile is reported at opposite outskirts. Ever since the memorial day, some raven yearn since, when the first intruder of his race waylaid an Irish M. P, in Piccadilly, the bloodthirsty insect has not only lurked around Lon don, but has considerably increased and multiplied, though it is doubted whether he will ever prove formidable, Hta develop- ment there promises to form a curious chapter of natural history. In about the centre of the leland of Trin- idad, a dot in the Cirribbean sea, jest off the oaaat of Venezuela, there is an asphalt lake. It is said to cover about 100 acres, and is apparently inexhaustible. It is a black sand subat"nce and is believed to bo crude rotten petroleum, A singular feature of the substance is thea, although about 30,- 000 tons are taken out of this lake annually, it conatantly fills up so there is no lessening of the supply. This singular lake of paving material is owned by the Venezuelan government, but is leased to a company in Washington. The special correspondent of the London Times says of the Italian army ; The Italian soldier always seems contented, cheerful, and willing, while, as to hie conduct, it is remarkably good. I have not, during the more than a fortnight I have been living in the midst of the troops, seen or heard of a single drunken soldier, nor have I been told of misconduct of any sort. The Italian, indeed, as was proved by Napoleon, makes a good soldier, though he is not quite so military in hie style, bearing and talk as the Frenchman; and the army has been a great civilizer of the more uncouth portions of the population, as well as a great fuser of the different races which inhabit the peninsula and the islands. The imperial meeting at •Kremsier, which lasted twenty hours, cost the Austrian Court Treasury upwards of $$300,000. It is a proof of the morbid state of terror and ap- prehension in which the Czar exists that, on arriving at Kremsier, he refused to oc- cupy the splendidly furnished apartments whioh had been prepared for him, and in• stalled himself in a couple of rooms at the other end of the palace, which had been des- tined for some other members of the suite. There mast have been frightful waste, or else the whole company must have indulged in a great orgie, for 1,000 bottles of Rhine Cabinet wines, 3,000 of champagne, 2,500 of claret, 300 of liqueurs, and 300 of brandy were consumed by 800 persons at two meals, One morning twenty-nine yeara'Iago, the body of Mr. John Sadlier, a celebrated Irish financier and, epecuiator was found lying stark and cold near Jackstrews Castle, on the Hampstead Heath and mar it the little vial containing prussic acid with which, in the depth of his despair, he had mid himself of life. An inquest was held, and the medi- eel witness on the occasion was Dr. Edward Staunton. About ten days ago again an- other body' was found, stark and cold on nearly the game spot, and the fingers still gripped a small bottle which had contained prussic acid. i t was taken np and recog. nixed as that of the,same Dr. Edward Staun- ton, whom the weary passage of twenty-nine years had brought to. the same end. A policeman attaoked by cholera morbus Lost: eo much rest thathe was forced to go on duty again to recuperate, A woman who claims to know says it takes more atrategy to marry;offa family of girls than it does .to secure re-election to Parliament, The Problem of Life. EY ISAIAR ItYLEit, M, D., Toron e. Air, water and food are essential to f the couditioaa .of life in both the vegetable and animal kin dome I e to r t , f w I.e a rat oa eo g P ive view, the apparent circumstances of Adam and k re lead us to suppose that these were gifts to man from the Creator, and 5'at t.,ey. were to be used in tee eonditicns in wl;ieh they were presented; By oomparison with our present customs, t'riaview is called barbarous, and a return' to the prescribed use of these necaseitles would be denomin- ated a return to barbarism, If we ins itute a eitreful eaam:nation of t'e results of each we are co.npelied to the conclusion t:.at the ariginal eating and drinking ussgea of cur first parents wer': mare in harmony with the Creator's laws, and are aiapted to afford better results to t lose who are desirous of making the meet of their opportunities as regards the present life, and 5,e immortal• ity to which so large a portion of t'.ie humin race aspire. Tse promise cf an endless life made to Addam and Eve evidently depended upon their conforming to the stipulated conditions of the Creator, and their failure to do tree, itis reasonable t., assume, was the epecial reason why tine "' dying, tnou s halt die," process of which they were so auspiciously warned, was, in the case of t'.aemselves, and so large a portion of their poaterity, so persistently e%rrled out. The superiority of man's •erebral structure, as comps*ed with that of tate lower auimata, afferda ample eeidenes of his ability to grasp the facts in- stitxted in the order of nature sufficiently to di-eriminate between t'e goof and grit, so far as they relate to his physioial statue and destiny. Without assistance it might re- quire an indalaita period for the s uman mind to accomp.is:r tele work ; but we, as a human race, have been S cially favored with revelations from tee Creator, both in its incipiency and at various. perloda since, which not only intimate, but pesitiveiy stip- elate both our privileges and " ur dyu lee, Bat the free agency accorded to l umanity nes permitted mankind to seek out "" many inventions," is the doing of which it k se alienated itaelf from the aimlestruotions of the Creator, Is is evident to the commence: observer that our lungs and pure air are admirably adapted to each other. We instinctively seek it in infeney and adult age ; but as our instinctive intelligence becomes dulled by t're evil customs of society, we gradually come to disregard its great importance, and finally, from the force of habit, prefer evil adore rather tban to enjoy the "" food for the lungs'" in its originai purity, Tide ie eaidence3 by the suability of the smoker to enjoy himself for icy length of time in an nnperverted atmosphere, If farther i lus- tration of this fact were needed, it is ale* found in the preference of city aldermen, commissioners, boards of health eflielals, dectori, lawyers, ministers cf the. Gospel, editors, and other prominent eittzena, for sower -gas, and the effluvia of closet ossa pools. Men In these varlone positions have le in their power to abate these evils, but porelatently decline to do so, though they are asked. through. the public prints and by private regueets. Babylon, home and Lon- don inaugurated a eystem of sewers which was preceded and accompanied by the closet ceea-pools, and that is a sufficient reason why every modern city should tax the pop- ulace for this most expensive and deata- dea'ing luxury. And similarly with our water, Nature dbi. tills it by, the power of the sun, and pre- cipitatee it in the rain•fail—purI6ed, end admirably adapted to su state life ; and the same influential claame persistently oontam. into It with alcohol, tea, ooffeo, etc. ; and by aasoefating our water supply and sewage systems succeed in compelling all classes to praetioally accept their perverted and death- de"ling opinions. The custom of using these contaminated beverages so dulls the vital- nervona intelligence that it fails to diatin- enish as to what is pure and impure, and, as a result, the proper depurating preceaaes are omitted, and the"syatem becomes so load- ed with the debris of broken-down-tiseuee, which ale only poison, as to make a oontio uaus existence impossible, and the purging and purifying processes, called by medical writers" cholera," "" yellow -fever," "" small - pee," etc„ are Instituted by an all -wise providence, in order that Hia instituted laws may find acceptance. in Itis " temple," the human body. Oar food -supply is equally bad. We fail to distinguish between the things given to man, and those preaoribed for the " fishes of the sea, the fowls of the air, and everything that oreepeth upon the earth, in which is life." The leaves of planta are their breath- ing organs, the same as aro our lungs ours. The vegetable kingdom uses the gases that are destructive to animal and human life in building up their own strueturea ; and the persistent efforts of humanity to appropriate these noxious gases first degrades its victims to the standard of intelligence pecu- liar to the vegetable, and then to the"" dust" on which the vegetable kingdom feeds. The fruits and grains were specially pre- scribed for man's food, and are given to him uncontaminated and uncooked. The reason why they were specially prepared by the Creator for man's use, was that he was His favored and best product—the temple in which He was wont to make His own per- manent abode. The method by which this spacial preparation of food is accomplished is simple, though unique. It is done by "" elaborating" or breathing upon the dust a second time through the instrumentality of the ohaff•leavea of seed -bearing herbs and the leaves peculiar to the fruit -buds of all fruit -bearing trees and shrubs, the leaves peculiar to the general plant performing the first elaborating process for the sap peculiar to the cells of all living plants, A comparison of the two systems—the divine andthe human—or imaginary—of sus- taining human life, are so much at variance that it is worth while to pause, and asoer- tain if the death which is so persistently paraded by the advocates of the human method, is an absolute necessity in human experience. If God, in His wisdom, has es- tablished a better order of things, it is our privilege to avail ourselves of it, . But "" they that would Dome to God, must first believe that He is, and that He is. a rewarder of those who'diliigently seek Him." Bridgeport has a church that has opera chairs instead of pews. The "drop curtain" has not yet been painted, Italy is now sending canned oysters to Canada. If It were not so mean we might retaliate by sending come organ -grinders to Italy. Lord Wolseley ought to be the staunch- est defender of .Mr, Gladstone's Egyptian policy, for it has brought him two peerages within three years. Such honors come cheaper now than they used to. A pis= countcy a -which Wolseley now - enjoys -- was considered a sufficient reward to Nelson for the Baltic and the Nile. Wolseley, too, has secured his title -with a epeeist remain- der to his only child, a daughter,:something the illustrious Collingwood was unable to get, his well -won coronet decending to hie tomb ineteed of to, hie daughter's head, • A GIRL JUMPED RIB CLAIM, now a Young 'Settler Lost Iii Farm and. won it Bark .w•ith aWire. A year ago last spring a young man named Blanw. to a e ant Aaketa, took up IO0 soros of land, and built himself a ehace. Two weeks later a girl named` Helen Chapman took up the claim artj .fining his on the west, and also built a cabin. The neighbors be- came aligItly acquainted, but both were too busy to do much visiting, Belden was an easy_ggoing fallow, nens too fond of woe:, and Helen was an active, aggressive, good loo ing, end ambitious�young woman, She r wo days' work to hie one, and had a better farm at the end of sixty days than he would have had at the end of a year. if he had kept en in the way that he was going. After Belden bad been on his place about three months he became weary of the mon• otenons life, and, going to town to have some fan, found so much enjeynent that he came pretty near forgetting to go home. When he bad been gone longer than the bums permitted by the Lone. law, Helen, who had b. en watching her opportunity, jumped hie claim, and it less than ten hours bad a shuck of her own standing on his farm. Belden returned at last, and, finding that a woman had jumped his claim, he said nothing. If. it had been a man it would have been hie duty to go out and fight him to the death, but as it was a soman, and a rather comely one at that, he thought he would say noth- ing and trust to luck to get rid of of her. Oeoupying hie own shack, he was not more than 800 feet from her new habitation. She held her ground well, treating him as an in• terloper, and rover acting as though e'ae had any idea that he beiougad there. iden'a wrath begin to rise finally, and when he reit eted on the comments that would be made if lie permitted a pirl to jump his claim he grew furious. Knowing that the temper of moat settlers would brook no interference with a girl farmer, he went to town for conan'tation, First he talked wish tone of his friends who drank his whiskey. They eha'k their brads and maid it was a mighty bad job, Then he consulted a lawyer who gave him tomo hope.. In the course of a day or two he got two'' of hie friends and a lawyer to go out to hie. place mite him t0 see what they could do toward patching up a settlement. Osce on the ground it was agreed that the lawyer sliouid go and see the girl. He was absent an hour and a half,aud when he returned he acid It was no vac. The girl was posted, -and he didri t see what could be done about it. If itwae a man," be Said, "" we could go over there and throw bim by the heels into, the nex': county, but it won t do to harm a. woman.'' The four talked the matter over, and it was finally agreed that the lawyer should call again in the morning, and represent to her that Beiden s friend* were coming to his assiatanee, and that if ate wanted to avoid serious. trouble ahs bad better atm idon her aback and leave his ahem alone. The law. yet started out cn this errand the neat day, but he was back again in fifteen minutes with a lump on his head the size of a horse oheetnut, where he said she lead hit him with an axe handle, After talking the matter over, everybody being mad, I. was decided that they would give her a scare as soon as it became dark. At about 0 o'clock all hands went over to the girl's naw ahaok and surrounded it. At a given signal they yel'ed and fired their ro- volvers in the air. Tire reports had hardly died away when a shotgun was discharged from cue window of the shank, and a mo- mentlateranother shot was fired from the other side of the house, The men waited to silence for a few minutes, when two more, barrelswerefired. Thisoonvinoedthemthat the girl was not to be frightened, and they crawled away as stealthily as they could.' A11 that night the girl's shotgun thundered at regular intervals, until her adversaries, who were vainlytrying to sleep, wished that it would explode, and blow her and her shack into next week. In the morning Belden's lawyer and two friends started for town, .leaving the jumped farmer alone in hie misery. Afv.rtheir de parture Bilden did some work en the place, taking pare not to run across the girl, and though they saw escii other frequently they both avoided a meetin Things went along in this way until fail, Helen workt.d on her own farm a good part of the time, and Belden paused many days in hunting. He had made up hie miud that he could tire the girl out, and he believed that after she found that he was not to be got rid of, ahe would voluntarily abandon the claim. In this he was mistaken. One day, while out on a hunting expedition, he diachargei his gun accidentally, and receiv- ed several shots in his arm and side. He got home without difficulty, and, examining the wcunde, made up his mind that he would go to town in the morning to have them at- tended to. The next day he was in no con dition to move, and was obliged to keep hie bed. Growing rapidly worse, and fearing that his injuries would result seriously if not attended to, he watched for his next door neighbor, and when he saw her he sig• nailed for her to come to him. The girl came up and heard his story, and volunteered to go to town for a doctor. When the phyai• clan arrived and dressed Belden's wounds Helen told them that ahe would look in oc- casionally and attend to the sick man's wants, and she kept her promise religiously. For nearly a month she visited the Belden shack regularly, cooked and served Belden's meals, dressed his wounds, and helped him as tenderly as a relative could. When he got so that he could sit up and help himself, her visits became shorter and at longer in. tervale, and at length they ceased, altogeth- et. This last spring it became necessary for somebody to pat in the crops if anything was to be done, Belden had had no settle• went with the girl, and she appeared to be making preparations to work his farm as well as her own. He didn't want to give up beaten, and he could not quarrel with a woman, especially one to whom he was under eo many obligations. Finding that things were becoming intolerable as they were, he called on her one evening in May and they had a long talk, the result of which has just been discovered; After that consultation. they were frequently together. They work- ed both -farms this Year and made big crops, and last week they were married. The 0 y have patented an.antomatio milk - stool at last. , Shuts up when the,cove kicks, "Will you please give a sick man a'few' cents to buy some medicine with ?' whined a tramp on the station platform. "" Siok, are you ? What's.,the matter 1" "Been sleopin' in barns, an' I have.a bad case of bay fever." Three-fourths of the grazing land to the west of the Colorado river in Texas is eaten bare and about 100,000 cattle are without anything to feed on. They are kept out 'of New Mexico and Arizona by' alleged quar- antine restrictions. There;is plenty of grass aoross'the border and the Texas "cowboys are getting ready to appeal to the `rifle and the revolver, ", WUO GOES TifERE ?' AN INCIDENT OF TEE SEVEN Yneas' WAR. Davit K r tells, h Golden Ilays,a story of a P nsdi n en r m a inn t I 1n h a Se t v en Yaare' War.. the king bad to be out in a night like this," growled private Wilhelm Baum, watching the camp -;fires of the Anstrians and Realigns from the heights of Bunzalwitz, "he'd coon be as sick of war as T ars. I'' "Ani how do you know he hasn't f'' broke in a strange, aharp voice close be- side bim, while aehadowy figure rose up in f:onb as suddenly as if it had shaped itself out of the darkness. Iostanbly Banco was himself again. At the first sign of a stranger approaching his posh, thesoldier apirit awoke at once, and silenced his grumbling. His musket watt Qa ble shoulder In a moment, and hie voice rang out clear and stern : _• ""S`�and 1 Whogo is there i" ""A. friend,"" replied the unknown. ""Advance, friend, anal give the count- erslgti " ""the Prussian E sgle." "Pare on, and all's well." But instead of passing on the stranger came close up to the sentry, who could jest make out, by astraygleam of moon - tight, that his mysterious visitor was wrapped la a horseman's clank, and had af three-;,ornered slouch hat over his ayes in such a way as completely to hide• his face, ""Yoe seeps to have rather damp quar- tars here, comrade," said he ; "`why don't you have a emeke to warm yonree ( a bft7'' "Smoke " echoed the sentry; casrhy, where do yea Doyne from, brother, not to know thaw smoking on duby's strictly far- b:dden "" But supposing the king gave you leave to smoke I" suggeetett the un- known. ""Tire kine be hanged t' retorted the soldier, grunt,. "What would my cup. txin say I Long before the king contd hear of it, the drummer's cane would make my back like a aurveymap C" "Pooh 1 the oeptain'a nob here to see you. Ont with your pipe, man! I'll tell no tales i" ""Look here, you rascal 1' cried the sentinel, fiaroely. ""I belf snapect you're some fellow who has got aM grudge age net me, and wants to get me into trouble. blow, if that's so, you had bet- ter ba off before warse c amee of it ; for it you worry me any more, I'll be apt to give you such a cuff oa the head as you won't like, ""I'd like to aee you try i.," said the other mockingly. The s aldier's only reply was a blow which, had it gone fairly home, would have bowled down the stranger like a nine -pin. Even as it waa, his battered old three-carnezed hat went tiling into tea air, while he himaasif staggered back several paces. ""Very good?' said he, recovering him- solf, and apoaking in quite a different tone. "�You'Il hoar of tide to -m arrow, my man, and gat what you deserve, never fear. Good -night to you i" He stooped as he spoke, and seeming to pick ap something from the ground, vanlnhed into the darkness The sudden change In hie unknown visitor's tone and manner, coupled with his parting threat, had not been. lost upon Blinn, who began to have dis- mal misgivings, that he bad insulted an officer of high rank, a oo'onel, at the very leant, perhaps even a general. "" However," th�sught he, "" he doesn't know my name, that's one comfort, and he won't had it very easy to describe the spot where I wa, prsted, considering teat the night's as dark as the bottom of a mine." Bat the next moment be gave a terri- ble start, for he had j xat missed bra to- ba.oo•pouch, which usually hang at his belt, and he remembered to have seen the stranger pick up something as be went off. It mese have bean the pone h, and his Hams was upon it in fall. There was not much sleep for poor Baum that right. although he was re- lieved from guard half anhour later. He tried to keep np hie courage by repeating to himself over std over again that the general could hardlypuniah him for obey ing orders ; bat even this did not camfort him much, for in those days "there were vary few things which a general could not do to a private soldier. The next morning, sure enough, a corporal and four men came to conduct private Wilhelm Baum to headquarters, and when be got there he found all the generals grouped around a little, lean, bright-eyed man in a very shabby. uni- form, whom by the reapect. which every one paid him, Baum guessed at once to be the king himself, Frederick the Great, of Prassla. "Gentlemen," said Frederick, with a piercing glance at the unlucky sentry, what does a Prussian soldier deserve who tells his king to be hanged, and then strikes him I" ""Death !" answered the generals, with one voice. ""Good 1" said Frederick. ""The sen- tence is pronounced, and here is the man." And he palled out a tobacco -pouch, marked with the name of "' Wilhelm Baum." "'Mercy, sire, mercy f" roared Baum, falling on his knees. `" I never thought ib was your majesty with whoml had to do." "" No, I didn't suppose ,you dld," said. bhe king, clapping him : on the shoulder; "and I hope all my soldiers will obey or- ders as you do. I said you should get what you deserved, and ao you shall, for I'll mane you a sergeant thfe very day." And bhe king kept his word. Dogs. Stuart Many year since, In my youth, I was. standing by bhe side ..f the taunter ef my brother's grocery in Beaton, when a cua- torner, as 1*vansabo b leaving, n approach, ed me, taking off my hat and putting his handkerchief into it infinch a way as not to besoenbyhis email yellow dog, "Panto." When about to lei.ve, he stopped, look- ed toward the II "cr, as if thinking of some important matter, making no motions tow- ard "Tonto," simply saying to, himself, to all a )pearances, "some one has my handkerohief,�I wish that you wuuid find 18. "Panto" eame back, looked care- fully ar.ued, jumped to the counter noar ran se. z 4 the rim ef my hat in his teeth, took It elf, seized the handkerchief and carried it to his master, never stopping to replace my hat .1 Ha was directed to my hob, propably, by the scent of the hand- kero`alef, ao it is well ?mown that doge follow theirmaster s footsteps by theacenb, the same as they do the steps of any ani- nisl, as the fox, for example. The owner told me that he loot hie handkerchief in tug street cn one acraeion which he did not discover ti I he reached home. He asked hie dog to go and back and find ia. It was known afterward that he found a man in the street, and that it was in his skirt pocket, not in as convenient a place as ft was in my baa. How was he to get it was the question, as the man was walk- ing. Hs smelt is and knew just whero it was, but- could urea well put bis nose in that pocket. He at last decided what to do, as hie beat plan He stood on hie hind lege, seizad the part of the skirt where it was, torn it c if, maxim home as fait as he could, not atopp'ng to thank the man for the part of the cuat captured! Ha also told ME, that when he wlehed any small article,. asash hit Oahe, a:1ppere, & s., he had eireply to asst "Ponta'' to get them, as he would a child or servant. .A few years since the clew of a Soiling - niacin lying at anchor in Brixham Hob or happened one day to be on shore, except one man and a dog. Tea weather being find, and the water smooth, the man threw the animal overboard to have a swim round the veinal. When tired he wanted to be taken up, but an unexpeot- od diffirutty presented i self. T,na smack, being light, was high out of the water, andher aides, so perpeudias-t fir and smooth that. had the dog attempted to climb, he could not have obtained any foothold. The roan, however, got a rope, at the end of which be made a runnbag noose,and thenlowored it to the dog, who, he though;. would have souse enough: to lay hold of it in. some way or another, and so allow him- self to ba drawn up. To the man's sur- prise, he first put one of his fore -legs into the noose, and then hie head. When the man began to haul hie companion up the noose tightened under that part of his foreleg near the body, and so prevented all, pressureupon the animal's throat. Ia this way he was sa€ely brought on deck,. without having received any lujaryin the ascent, We may well ingaire what prompted the dog to put his leg as well as his head into the noono. Could ho have adopted a battorplan. The Omaha Revolving Jail. The peoaliar feature of the jail which mark it as different from any other, is that the cella are arranged in the form of a great iron cylinder, which revoivea about so that only one cell is as the open- ing at any ono time. This cylinder is three atonies high, there being ten cells on each finer. Its weight is forty five tons and this ponderous weight is hueg from above instead of turning on a track below. The strangest part of the arrangement is that the great cylinder can be turned by a simple crank with very little foroo, a man with his left hand moving it reality. When it is c:mipleted it is the intention to have a little watermotor In the base. menb and then by simply moving a lever the cylinder will be Set to rotating. It is suggested that when there are prisoners who,ib is feared, may be trying to cub out the cylinder can, by a motor,be easily kept mov.ng slowly all night, so that the pris- oners do not remain long enough in one place to do any mischief, or even to crawl out if they had made a partial break. It seems that prisoners have little chance for escape from the new jell. A cage of Iron bare completely surrounds the cylin- derin which the cells are. The entrance on each floor is guarded by two' doors. The cfficors standing outside does not have to unlock even the first door, but can awing the cylinder around until the Dell appears in which is the desired prig one%, and then by a simple movement the inner door is opened and the prison- er can step out of his cell. Then the officer can open the other door and let the man out, but the other prisoners areaway beyond possible reach of the offleers, and it is impossible for them to make any break on him while he is taking a man out or putting one in. He can handle any number of men in the same way, and they cannot reach him until he chooses ho let them. Trade wind—A drummers talk. The seasick man who casts his bread upon the waters will nob find it after many days. Clergymen are like railway brakemen In one particular. They do a great deal of coupling. A. belle differs somewhat from, a cow- boy. The more powder she uses the leas dangerous she grows. There lea Quebec girl with ouch a good sized mouth that she has to be measured for her tooth -brushes. Posters have been appearing lately In some of the Pacific coast towns whero difficulties wibh the Chinese exieb, warn- ing firemen not to respond bo alarms of fire from the Chinese quarters. The venerable Andrew Mercer of Mon- treal walked into the Health Office and re- quested to be vaccinated, stating that he was 96 and doubting if the operation would succeed, bat expectingprobably that his good example would take if the :vaccination didn't. Edward. Eggleston is with his family at a little, town in Canton Vaud, Switzerland. He has been taking a two or three weeks' vacation—almost the first rest lie has had since he began work upon his history of "•hife in the American Colonies," five or six years ago. His health is improving, bat he is not able to work more than., three hours a day,. an i Puss Did It A wakeful oat serenaded the guests at an Atlanta hobel,the other night, and succeeded in opening their eyes to the fact that the *Wilding' Watt in flames, The wrath of the inmates at thetunelese strains of the feline was quickly changed to grati- tude. One of the lady gnesta has placed a gold band around the cat's neck, but when pussy depart? this life ahe should have a lofty monument erected to her memory, and composed of; brushem blaok- ingboxes, boobjaoks, mugs, and such other axtioles as are usually thrown at the feet of these midnight serenaders,