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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-1-14, Page 741 Patine and IndiaeiltiOni , Tho fellawlog erise,reptarks on tide oubi ject we IquOte from ' Beat7, azngUh monthly oovoted to scientific) hygiene i— te,"Anuther cause a impvopot digestioa fatigue. When we stattainta'ettnicoit „don not matter much whether the road be rough or not natty 1it1e °Whole •ie avoided With Wed, and we tread our way over rough atonen through taagled heetherre or over e quakiogfiloogowithout caiffintatto 0,0erinerv. ouneysteim is4n rfall vigor, anti Intiegerves perfect co-ordination among the moriemente of the different parte of the body ; so that one helps the ether, and ell diffioultiee are surmounted. But waen we p.m tired, the • case is very different; a little roughnems in the road will (mese us to stumble, and an unexpected atonp may give us a sudden fall. The wearied neeveue smatem no longer co• ordinates the /movements of the varioue parts of the le ody, rio that they no longer work to (044' for a common end. Then' hing occurs with the varioua e tee „e _Tanen. The minter:1- mm by whr the aots otanamiewing and mai- lowing appe to aot as stidinletrta to the circulation and nervous ystem, thua untiring the proper oo-ordination between the fuse: - floras of the mouth, the 'stomach, intestines, and liver has been described. But if the nervous system be exhausted by previews fatigue or debilitated by illness, the requis- ite co-ordination may not take place, and indigestion or biliousne ea may be the result How often do we find that the meal taken by a person immediately after a long railway journey disagrees with him, and either causes dolmen or diarrhea,: or a bilious headaehe I Forty winks after dinner is not always a bad thing; but forty winks be. fore dinner is certainly much better. How often do men who have worked hard all day, with,their mental faculties oontln- ually on the Ora* go home and have dinner forthwith! Exhausted as they aro, how can they expect to digest properly what ,they eat? Almost the only saving point is, that many ot them live some distance from their placee of 'easiness, and have a short time during the homeward drive to sit still and rest. This is sufficient for some, especial- ly for young man; but it is inoulkoient for elderly men, and they ought to make a point of having a little rest at home before dinner. Some men, unfortunately, are so misguided as to believe that exercise after a hard day's :work will do them good; and instead of utilizing the little time they have for rest after a day's labors are over, they walk three or four miles, or take a tricycle. ride of several more, before dinner. The consequence is that, under the combined mental and physical strain, their digestion Is impaired and their strength broken down." There is grave truth it these remarks, and they ehould be well laid to heart by those who are compelled to work at high pressure, and thus fail in that due repair or the bodily waste which lies at the root and foundation of all health. But mental emotions and the play of mind may in their turn produce dis- turbance of thin body's duties in the way of food. digest' . Here, again, the views ex - iv premed tee ' at a common sense and phil- asia osophy whirl mntinend them to the thorough appreciation ef those who find digestion to fail from the nervous influences that chase . ' one another and career over the surface of the mental atmosphere :— . "Effects, somewhat similar so those of fatigue, may 10 produced by depressing or disturbing mental emotions, or bodily condi- _ tions. Weneno Whew readily excitement of almosittny kind will destroy the appetite in some people, and depressing emotions will do it in almond every case. We not unfre. 1 girls in whom consumption e been brought on by an un - air. If we accept the view quently neon appears to fortunate lov that coneuMption depends upon the presence of the tilbereleabacillue (or living germ), we might, at first sight, think that there can be little or no -connection between consump- tion and dissapointed love; but the depres- sing effect of the disappointment will lessen the digestion, impair the nutrition, and ren- der the body more Wisely to afford a euitable nidus (or soil) for the bacillus." , " de le " t Fromthie it wont , rn a be equally pro- bable that various emotions aflect special parts of the digestive sostem. A strong im premien of (Ingest may excite vomiting; companion is said, to produce movements of, gas in the small Intestine; worry is known: to affect the liver; and De Brunton gives some countenanc e to the popular notion that jaundice may be brought on throngh a men- tal causealaustrated, for example, by anxie- ty. The old adage respecting the wisdom of maintabiing an easy mind if we would grow fat, has, therefore, a phyoioal basis. It is the surest of inferenoes that the mind and nervone system which are allowed to remain placid and enruffied are meat likely to be found presiding over a body and preemies which respectfully live and aot in a healthy and normal fashion. If care really kills us, it seems provable that; its method of slaughter ie largely that of deetroning the harmony of those functions' on which, the proper nutrition of our bodies depends, The foregoial considerations have raved the way for tiai discussion of the practical question that faoes es at the close et the interesting lectures we have been etigaged in reviewing. We have seen, in the flret place, how very varied are the causes which pro- duce the clisordernianta collectively known as 'indigestion." The whole subjeot is a complex one, and these papers may have accomplished at least one useful result if our readers have tenoned toilette that each cue requires perinatal stud.y„beforeithe exact. cause of t e digestive disturber* can be traced, T error, a gal to ape lo promo aspects and phases/of the ,cligestive .proe and:its dleturisences, vie shall be the be ter aale to appreciate the nature, of the means which are to be relied on for the relief of the latter conditione Biilrods i.n Every Lind. BY the fromnietiOn last month of the rail. noidifforrit Cepe Town to the South African diamond mines at Kimberley, steam care have tupplanted the tiresome stages and great ox wagons of the Dutah and British traderfor alerlat 'Wynne? *rig tbe direct Monte tonierd, the Zanobten The advent of ,he ,loanniotrve into tho very region Where MonArr and InvIrresmnie lived among benighted savages Li not may an evidence of the etibetental progress of South Africa, but also illuetratea the impu a that is DOW moving civilized nations te penetrate ne • fields of commerce with railroads, These enterprieee seem to be justified by similar ventures eleady °mutilated. South Mricani• 1,5,62 miles of lines, all owned by CepeiColouy, laid all Workbag expenees and maintenance during the firet ens months this year, and three ana a half per cent, to apply cnethe ipterest arnount The British Bun' male railroads returned six per cent. divi- dends last year, and have paid good inter- est sinoe the day they were opened. Gen, Strachey, the greatest authority on Indian rallneada estimates that the benefit" accru- ing froaineer railways to India amount to over 430,000,0tonnw ar num. It is found anto that immense and promis- ing regions will continue to be isolated until they are tapped by railroads. Mr, Holt Hallett has t ho rim that the cost on caravan traffic in Indo-China is from fifty to one hun- dred times as much as by railroads. The Glaegow Chamber of Commerce has declar- ed that rafirends are iudispensable to open new markets for British commerce) in Bur- mah, Siam, and western Chine. Gen. Gor- don wrote in 1882 "A belt of arid eti.nd of 280 miles separates the Egyptian Soudan from ovilization, and till this is spanned no real progress can be made. The route from Suakim to Berber is the natural route to be opened. When that railway is oompleted an entire change evill take place in the whole of this bountry." What Gordon said of the Soudan the International Anoolation now says of the Congo—that the populeus and fertile up -river regione will not be worth a penny to commerce until the worthless dis- trict of the lower river is spanned by rail. The faot also that railroads are needed to further the political purpons of some great nations is giving a remarkable impulse to certain largo enterprises. Had Knartoum been placed within easy reaoh of Europe by the completion of Iemail's railroad from Wady Halfa past the Nile cataracts, Eng- land would have been spared the waste "of treasure and blood that her failure in the Soudan involved. No freeh war cloud be- tween England and Rusaia, on the Afghan border will catch them with railroads pro- jected but unbent. England's Ciron route from the Arabian Sea to Afghenista,n has this month reached the Quetta plateau through the Bolan Pass. The work on Rus- sia's tranocaeplan road is advancing day and night. It is now approanhing Merv, and Russia expects to carry it on to Bokhara and Twehkend. For the purpose of giving facilities to her troops, England loaned the money to Cape Colony with which the rail- road to Kimberley has jaet been completed. From all corners of the world we are hear- ing of railroads projected, surveyed, or in course of building. In Venezuela, for in- stance, eight or nixie different lines of greater or lees extent are under contract, surveys are in progress, grading and track laying are considerably advanced on two lines, and are soon to commence on ,others. Portugal has granted a concession for a railroad from Delagoa Bay in East Africa to the Transvaal border to cionnectavith the Transvaal trail - road which It is reported will be built by German capital. The more progressive among the Boers say they must have rail- road connection with the eea. To its rail- roads is largely due to fact that South Af- rica now stands tenth on the Hat of the chief foreign nations dealing with England. It is in the Oriental world, however, that new railroad schemes are most rapidly ad- vancing. The King of Siam is eager to con- nect his capital with the Chinese frontier by rail, and has proinisedto build this road if the Indiiut Governmentavill build a - road through Bermah to meet tho Siamese rsys- t na at the frontier. The leading Chambers of,Commerce in Great Britian eent agents to reportemon the feasibility of this project, and Messra. Hallett and Colquhotin have returned home with enthusintio endorse- mente of the scheme. In China. the power- ful Viceroy, Li Hang Chang, has for some time been urging the need of railreads and telegraphs. His influence, 'aided :by the support of other able statesmen hem already re is no greater or more foolish which one might be tempted strong tering, than: that which the Idea that all oases and classes of indigo en are of similar nature end ori- gin. It is this idea which encourages that detestable habit of indiecriminate drug -swal- lowing which characterizes our age. Given an ingenious "puff" of any drug or prepar- ation, end the "erect army of martyr' (to indigeotion) will fly thereto for retien—only, of comae, to experience the trebly bitter disappointment which attends the clashing down of hopes ef renewed health and re- gained vigor. If people would only study, • oven glightly tho particulars of their mode ** of 111 e, habita, diet, work, and other details and acquire oven a rudimentary knowledge of the physiology Of digestion, we ahould at least find them infinitely less liable to pour drugs, of which they; know little, into frameo of which they know lees, Let us cleanly recognize that there is no panacea, to univoreal heeler, no one tinfoil. big remedy, no sovereign specific, for the many.headed ailment we have named "dye. pepeia," or "indigestion," Those who labor under sten an idea are only to be compared to the deluded persons who, believing in the absurdities of the quack, &TO found to per- ched° a pill or ointrnerit which, if the ordin- ary statements puffing the wares la question aro to be credited, will as readily heal can- cer se cure eonsumption ; as Unfailingly mire scrofula as dissipote a tamer of salon° nature. Recognizing the true and scientific given to China. over 3,000 miles of telegraphs, manned by Chinese operators, and the little tine -mile railroad near Tientsin, and is pav- ing the way for railroad schemes that, it is believed, will In the course of time reach a large development in China. The railroad that is to connect the chief towns of Siberia is slowly advancing eastward, and surveys for projected lines are in progress in Asia Minor'the Euphrates valley, and Persia. Thedevelopment of some of these projects will be the work of many years, and some of them will doubtless utterly fail. Yet it is one of the most significant signs of the times that these schemes have enter ed so largely into the purpons and ambitions of the com- mercial world. It may yet be one of the chief glories of this century that It intro - du oed on a large Beale among the leas pro- gressive race those inventions and facilities which have essiated Western civilization to outstrip all other% TRB oLus. "My home," salci Brother Gardner as he opened the meeting and nodded to Samuel Shin to ehave .another herring box into the stove, " I trust slat each an ebery one of you rimy take a deeplintereat in astroainla„ Yi but de mail who seta on de fence in de day time lookbei fur de ebenin' star' am gwille to be hungry in summer an' cold in winter. " A speerit of philosophy am to be incoue raged in all, but de nein who sots down no cola itaters an' codatih, an reasons diet it Wae to bei ate darefore in, can't berry any money of me. "De study of Natnt' an to be commend. ed, but clean' git so enthusiaetio over it dat you am' to see de children go barlut in Jimmy fur de sake of etudyin' deir heels an tore. "Pursue de study of pollytical economy, if you will, but doan' make do diskivery dot de hull subjeok resolves itself Into sellin' your wote fur de wery highest market price. "Do science of anatomy may well inter- est ebery one of you, but dean' stop short in your studies et de diokivery Oat an an verage healthy man kin hold down a oard. bottom cheer fur eix straight hours wiclout seriously affectin' his constitushun. " Seek to master de science of mechan- ism, an' dean' imagine dat you hev got de hull bisnees in your pocket as soon as you hey demonstrated to de ole woman dat a dull ax am better dan a sharp one to eplit wood wid. " Bladder Shin will please light two more lamps, tituff an ole hat into det broken pane in de alley winder, an' we will punned to bizness." Giveadam Joann who had just returned from a trip to Toront , reported that "The Colored Cauliflower bociety" of that city, which was made a branch lodge six months ago, had been dissolved. The n Cann - Bowen" started out with a membership of eighty, and were on the high road to succeee when a fire occurred in a grocery, and arti- cles were afterwards traced as follows: To the President—three seeks of flour and a ham. To the Secretary—three hams and a box of herringe. To the Treasuror—twenty.five pounds of flour and fifteen snow Blauvelt. To the Jannor—a bag of meal and fifty pounds cf salt pork. In addition to these named twenty, six other members of the society were f ound to have vartous articles in their poeseesion. Their idea was, of comae to save these goods from the flames, and they fully in- tepded to return them to the grocer as soon as he opened in a new place, bet several ar- rests resulted, and the seamy became dis- couraged. Brother Jones brought back the charter and a poem dedicated to a spring chicken, these being the last sad relica of a once thriving organization. WARNED IN ADVANCE, Long John Davis, Secretary of the "Color- ed Glue -Backs," of Richmond, Va., forward- ed a communication in which he warned the Lime -Kiln Club to look out for a man call- ing himselt Ptof. Overetrung Moses, an al- leged root and herb dater. The man won the confidence of several colored men in Richmond, and ad out to cure corns and Minions for some and to force a growth of hair on the bald -heads of others. The re- sfilt was positively terrifying. Every head practiced on resembled a fresh sheepskin rubbed with a horseiaddish grater, and those who had been doctored for corns would not be able to stir oat of the house for many days to come. The so-called Profaner left Richmond in a hurry, and was believed to have headed this way, and he was heard to inquire about the climate of Michigan and the chances for an eminent doctor to RIC - (Ned here. "Why, sah," remarked Elder Bluegraes Smith, who had just come in, "dat worry man am now in de aunty room, waiting to see de members of die club eater meetin' ad - towns." "Am you Bartle ?" asked the President. "Yes, sale. Heah am his keerdias he gin it to me.' Brother Gardner winked to Giveadarn Jones, and then sat down. Brother Jones disappeared, and then the meeting seemed to wait for something. It 130011 came. Some- thing was heard making a wild flight down stairs, uttering a startling yell .at every jump, and by arid by there was a. rush of feet throughthe alley and a voice was heard shouting: " If die yere am Paradise Hall an' deLime Kiln Club, I want to git outer dis town the etatement that during the appearance right off I" of the let° comet he at upon the roof of his RESOLVED. The Hon. Canterbury Johnston, who bail been wiggling around on his bench for some time in an uneasy manner, now arose and aid he would like to offer a resolution, " Am it a wery important dockerment ?" asked the President. " Yes, sah—wery." " Well, you kin offer it, although it am a leetle late.' Brother Johuston then sent to the Secre- tary's desk the following : .Resdeed, Dat it am de sentiment of die nub dat Ireland should permit England to govern herself, an' dat from di s date, uatil de E glish people hey secured deir full rights an' privileges from de nashun men. aliened, dig club kande, no furder intercourse wid Ireland." Some of the members had turned pale "Continued in our neck's as the fellow said when he poured out a glass of wine. • Loaves are light and useless, and idle, and a/mowing and changeable, and even dance ; yet God has made them part of the oak; in so doing he has given us a lesson not to deny the stoutheartedness within be- aus° we see the iightsomenese without. ' Nineteen years ago a Min Green lost $104 at Eagle Harbor, Mich. Mrs. Mary Sea- man, who now lives at Marquette, found the money, and, after advertising unauconsful. ly for the owner, gave it to an orphan asyl- um, with the provision that should the owner appear it should be refmaded, A short time ago a man who knew of Mies Green's loss happeecd to learn the fixate of its finding, lend, after rem& trouble, Miss' Green's address waii learned, and her long - lost money returned to het. She is a cook a hotel at Montreal. An electric boy is reported at Youngs. town, Ohio—Frank 13urnett. A special to the Cincinnati Enquirer says : "On his sp. proach chairs and tablea dance and heavy articles totter that his natural strength could net move. 'rho lad is unable to ma plain his unnatural power, and has always enjoyed good health. The tests made thus fat ishow the lad to be able to do more than be has claimed It is probable medical ex- perts will examine him to ascertain if poe. able the secret of hie power." He is dem eribed ail being 15 years' old slid slight of build, and liven with his mother, before the eadieg was tialf Billebed, and at Its conolusion there was silence twentyifour feet deep in the hall, Brother Gardner looked at Canterbory a lovg time, and then aaid ; De Committee of de Interior will take dot men to morn 'G' an' put his head to soak ober night in a Imadanamilk poultioe! His brains em dewelopina altogether too foot. De rest of us will now ring de oloiiien ballad an' go home, an' it wil be we fur all of you to remember dat de umbrella wid de white bone handle out den' in de ,oloalt room belongs to me," WINTER WRINKLES TThe world owes every Mall a living, but some of us are finding collections rather slow, eigh of the searnstreaii—A-hem .e "Jennie, do you know what a miracle is?" "Yeann. Ma says if you don't marry our new parson it will be a miraole." "Yes," raid old Colonel Mooney, "you often hear of fh coal dealer who is kind, but he doesn't go much out of his "weigh" to be oo." "Thank heaven," exclaimed a fond father as he paced the floor at mideight with hie thwn howling 1,ngheir, " thank heaven you are not The moat thoughtful man living is the one who iminediatly stopped dying when expired. reminded that his life inaurenee policy had pi The most gigantic sharks in the world are eaid to be found near Australia. Of course this diecovery will make some of our lawyers mad, but facts are facts. Judge Peterby's wife almost talks him to death. "How is your wife coming on ? " asked a friend, " Splendid ; she has caught such a fearful cold she can't talk," "Have pm read "Half Hours with Tn. seats ?" atiked Bromley. "No," sadly re- plied Pompano, with a retrospective gleam in his m e, but I know what it means." fhe more hat a man can bay for two dol. lam the less bonnet a woman can buy for twenty, and yet some folks say this world was slung together in perfect harmony. "What's the &at thing you would do, Jones, if you were stung by a hornet ? " asked Smith, who had been reading an arti- cle on the treatment of stinge. " Swear," replied Jones, solemnly' And the conver- sation abruptly ceased. "So you've been out to the Pacific ooast, eh? Did you see the great gorge of the Col- orado?" '1 th-think so. At least out at Cheyenr et saw a buck Indian eat six pounds of bologna sausage, half a box of crackers and nineteen herrings without a grunt. How Is that for gorge ? " A little fellow of four years went to a blacksmith to are his father's home shod, and was watching closely the work of shoe- ing. The blacksmith began to pare the horse's hoof, and thinking this was wrong, the little boy eaid earneetly ; "My pa don't want his horse made any smaller. Sootchman—" What 11 y' hae ?" Frenoh- man—" I vil take a drop of contradiction." Scotch man—" What's that ? ' Frenchrn au— "Vela yon put in de whiskey to make it strong, de water to make it weak, de lemon to make it sour and sugar to make it sweet. Den you say, 'Here's to you and 'you take - it yourself. A court officer having been questioned as to whether he had spoken to the jury during the night, gravely answered : "No, your honor ; they kept calling out for me to bring them whiekey, but I always said: Gentlemen of the jury it is my duty to tell you that I'm sworn not to speak to you.' " a Small brother—" Where did you"get that cake, Annie ?'' Small Siater—" Mother gave it to me." Small brother—"Al, he always gives you more than me.'' Small sister— "Never mind ; she's going to put mustard plasters on us when we go to bed to night and 111 ask her to let you have the big- gest. Mark Twain has written to a Baton paper and gives himself only two years more to live. There was a story lately that he was beginning to lose the use of his reason; and that he imagined he had been turned into a tombstone, But we euppese that the thing is a fabrication, just as was house all night with a long pole in his hand, te ward otf the errant star. Sonaersby, the birthplace of Lord Tenny- son, is a parish containing hut sixty souls, six miles from Seilsby in Lincelnehire. It has, however, a eoramodions rectory house in which the poet was born, his father being then wagon. Toe Tennysons are ot ancient Lincolushire steak. Admiral Tennyson, the poet's cousin, boa a magnificent place, Bey- on's Manor, in another pert of the country. It was granter' by Wiliiam the Conqueror to Walter d'Eyncourt, but being subsequent- ly forfeited by the late Baron d'Eyncourt, was purchased back by his kinsman, Mr. Tennyeon. The late Rt Hon. C. Tennyson d'Eyncourt warmed the latter name In ad- dition to his own in compliance with his 'father's will to mark his dement from the ,d Eyncourte. Glints Of Itenle tiY ANNIE L. JAOR. There are many lemions to ba learned by the children at Chrietmas that we hardly realize at the time, but often see afterward in the who ordering of a Proyidence that ides all things. be blessedness of giving ehould be Incul gated mere than that of receiving, for it is part of the privilege of the season. There ts a lesson of patience, too, in the waiting for the day and ite enjoyments and a lawns of faith in the trust that it will loriog happineaa ; eo the three graces are taught by the advent of the Christmas morning. To the housekeeper it is a busy season and in the counter., there is as much work all at midsummer, ainenerally a touch of home. cleaning precedee It; then the canning for extra mean and attention to fowls and the cone talents of mina pies, and plum pudding ; and when about the Christmas pudding it is as well to make up sufficient to divide into two or three, Boil them all for five home, then hang in a cool place. They are better forthe keeping, and an hour's bailing prepares them for ten table, and gives a ewe nhange during New Year festivities. There is a grant called corn Sour that the children of one household are fond of, and in the form of porridge it makes a good supper for little ones, when eaten with sugar and milk It is white, and wholesome, and preferable to corn eeareh as being more nutritious, and re- quiring no additions to make It palatable, Children's appetites are often variable about these times, but there is really nothing bet- ter than to wrap them well up and give them plenty of air and exercise, But there must bo warm underwear for all in thie Canadian climate if one would have health, Toon, while the long evenings last, let there be an hour before bed time when they oan meat entirely devoted to newspapers, which TRZ WQRLD OTRA. Tne revenue of the widowed, Queen of Sfaitt is now reduced to $50,000 a year. Adelaide Rudolph, a niece of Nit Gar- neld, hae been elected Latin professor of Ore K4088g State alnierereitYi • Mr, H, F, Bjllbn, who has just returnee ftrhorme e Ho roorepeie uorfa 80,0 drne °char be et hgarto winn bothay e•laarn! inugG. 11101 12 1a rweaucleerruedutwetistrbrerc000mf beys sfiorfat, as tsoak- It then melting it, with gentle heat, in linseed o An Indian runner ran a mile race in Wy. andotte, Kansas, lest week against two cbampions on roller skates and beat both with ease. Prairie chignons; have this year appeared in Abundance in the valley of the Colorado, WeeterarTeXath where they have never been nen hitherto. A negro, overtaken upon a railway trestle by a traiu, a few days ago, jumped down sixty feet into the Etowah River, and es- caped without seriona hurt. Some of the medial papers eay that ai great deal of quiet tippling, especially among women, is carried en by means of the quaen medicament called " beef, iron, and wine.", An organization has been formed in lifladin non Valley, M. T., with this significant motto, "You had better mind whose range you are on and whose cattle you are brand - An interesting relio of the famous Sir • Walter Raleigh Was sold in London the other day. It consists of Sir Walter's orig- inal tobacco pipe, which on a certain mern- „ orable occasion excited the disguet of Quesienn, EIrhi TizhaebeBt tish Museum hag now a depart - play and sing with you—let it be games, or any other pleasant way, and let the Dinging be from their hearts and namething they will remember in after years. About holiday tme, when friends drop in, it is often desirable to dispense hospitality. There is nothing better than a cup of coffee, with a eimple cake and a dish of good fruit. A very agreeable style of canoe hi " Cafe au Lain " made by straining a quart of clear strong coffee through remain and boiling a quart of milk. Scald the coffee urn and pour in coffee and milk alternately stirring the while. Prepare a pint of whip- ped cream' and beat stiff the white a of two eggs witha tablespoonful of powdered sugar. Wrap a cloth around the urn for five minutes and when sent to table put a large spoonful of the eweetened whites and cream upon each oup. The simple hospitality we extend at this time does not depend so much on the quantity of the viands as the man- ner of tne hostess. Given wall a truly plea - ant appreciation of one's gueet the plainest fond becomes ambrosial. The holidays are the children's time of enjoyment, too, and if their home ie made pleasant they will not seek to stray from it Let the New Year be ushered in with good wishes and resolves, but &so with kindly deed, and 'mutual for- bearance in the family circle. 'While,we are busy with the rich food the season makes fashionable, let us not forget that plenty of fruit is a corrective to the system, and much more healthful for children then a eurplue of sweets. An orange after dinner is better than pastry, and apples are always whine - some. A very nice way to use apple sauce is to take a quart of it, fine and smooth, rub into it while hot sugar to make it quite sweet, nutmeg, and a spoonful of butter ; make a heap of it in a dish, wet it all over with braten egg, and sift rolled cracker thickly over it. Bake half an hour and eat hot. It be not the sumptuous fare or ex- travagant expenditure for provieions that makes food palatable, itis the knowing how to make the most of it and to serve it to the best advantage. Hostess (to ontl6ntan, her hushand has koltght howe tO dinner) : How wnrm YOR SPEAK EMILI311, MIL Mr. (1tOt lOtdergandilig): Yrs, 1 "o1:0112 TO... Vosteas ; Bra, Irou irmu itnrAnkoBLY WEIL. Mr. ; I ODOM. 1 RAVE LIVED HERE ALL MY LIFE, T FACT, 1 WAS EORN IN TORONTO, 1108teM ROW STRANDE 1 Ali SURE. MY 11USBAITh TOLD ME Wild YOu WERE A BOREMfAlt, is a great convenience. The number of readers by special ticket, haa now increased ao largely that although only adults are ad- mitted, more room will soon have to be pro- vided or the admission limited. Doctors say that women should be cautious how they oall to offer sympathy to neighbors having siok children. Women's clothing offers inducements; to fugitive bacteria, and several instances have been recorded lately in which contagions diseases are known to have been brought about by germs carried int° the household in the folds of heavy woollen fabrics. • Is Hydrophobia Preventible? Louis Pasteur, an eminent chemist of Paris, determned, about five years ago, to find a remedy tor perhapa the most dieaded of all diseases. He had previously dis- covered a method of inoculation which pre- vented splenio fever in cattle and sheep, and experimented in the expeetation of making the great discovery that hydropho- bia could be prevented by inoculation with the virus of rabies. In October hist ovate= announced that by the means stated Hydro.' phobia was preventible in human being°. Previously, in June, 1884, he had published the seems of his plan in the treatment of doge bitten or ecratched by mad animals. At the present tine M. Pasteur has more than seventy persons under his oare. They are both male and female, and of all ogee, ranging from infancy to an advanced per - ion of life. The French Government has placedthe Hotel Dieu Hospital at Pasteur's disposal for patients whose wounds require drening. Moat patients live near hes la- boratory and call to be inoculated as, often as need be. The discoverer of What prom- ises to prove a great boon to mankind; is neither a surgeon nor physician, and em- ploys a surgeon to operate under hie in- structions. M. Pasteur is a native of Dole, in the Jura, and is about 60 years of age. ' He ie an honorary Fellow of the Royal Seciety of London, and is personally well-known to English men of science. Perhaps the best way of stating his methodo of procedure in the matter which gives him notoriety throughout the world, is to give a tranelit- tion of what he himself said of it, in a re- cent interview: "1 first take the poison from the brain of a mad dog.. With this I vaccinate a rabbit, which will die within fourteen days, and this gives the poison for a second one, which is vaccinated the same way. I con- tinne this practice until I have reached the twentieth or twenty-fifth. From there up to the fiftieth the rabbit will die be eight demi, and after the fiftieth the animal will bee else mad within seven dame, This pro- cedure enables me to determine the most important feature of the treatreeot, namely: the duration of the period of inoutetion. Teem were people who were afflicted with the fatal diseate senor& years after the ac- cident, while others died. after a few weeks," An excursion.of 400 people, on its way to California, stopped at El Paso, Texas, one day laat week. Nearly every one immedi- ately crossed to El Paso del Norte, on the Mexican side, to witnees the bull fights in progreas at a festival. They were chiefly Boston people, and explained. that they went out of purely tenant& curiosity ; but the Mexicans, who observed their enthusiasm, think otherwise, Lord Waterford, Master of the Buck - hounds, is so crippled by a, fall from his horse last year that he cannot ride or even walk without diffloulty. His uncle, the third Marquis, was killed out hunting, as was the eldest son of a former holder of the title. Since the Irish people interferred with his hounds, LedW. has lived in Eng- land. He had pievionely resided eight months of the year in Ireland. An Indiana Congressman recently found in his mail one letter from a woman who complained that her husband had left her seven years ago, and requested the Congress- man to go to the Census Office, get her re- creant spouse's addrese, and send it to her. A second letter requested the Representa- tive to require the United States Minister at Rome to send the writer, by mail, a liv. hog Italian queen bee. A new law in Georgia enjoins that poi- sons must be put upin scarlet wrappers, and the bottles labelledwith paper of the same color, the printing`to be in white letters. "01 all the hard papers to find in this mar- ket," said a wholesale druggiet, " scarlet is the most difficult, and three printers to whom I have applied say that they cannot print in white upnn such a eurface. Those lewmakers could not have hit upon a more difficult problem in the way of packing for us to solve," Killed His Father and a Male With One Shot. The other night at Haddock's, thirteen mile' from allaoon, Gat., John Thomas, 11 years old, hoard a noiee in the lot, and sup - potting it to be made by the cows fired his gun teak° in the direction of the nolo°, On Sunday morning the dead body of Bob Thomas, the father of the boy, was found with the tap of hie head elicit off, A mule was uned by the other Shot. Promises made in the time of afillotioe re. quire a better memory than people cooribion- lyrpoesess. According to a lately issued department report of the British army in 1883, thenum- ber of applicants for military service was 59436. Of these, 35,976 were laborera ; 8,636 were manufacturing artieans, an 9,383 were •tnecnanics- The clerks number- ed 3203,and the professional men or stu- dent 645. An improvement over former years ill the education of the men was es- pecially noted. Of the 57,844 reported up- on, 4,553 are deacribed as melt educated, 41,608 could read and write, 4,507 could read only, and 7,179 were unable to read. Among the 31,677 men serving in the United Kingdom, only six cases of small- pox occurred, with one death, during the yam It Is said that a large part of the pop- corn used in the world comes from Bloom- ington, Ill., where the farmers' wives and children used to consider it their perquisite. In 1884 the crop was so large that the price fell to two cents a pound, and then experi- ments wore made to urse it as a food rather than a confection. A farmer who fed his cows with popcorn says they gave more milk than ever before, Others made "mush" of it, and found it more palatable and nourishing than the ordinary article. Then the chemists analyzed it and declared it to contain more albuminoids than most of the other cereals ; so popcorn bids fair to become, a recognized diet. Men who coniplairinnoat loudly about the inequalities of the human lot are generolly a little blind to those great stores of wealth and pestling that no class can monopolise, and no wealth can buy. A singular sort of manure for potato fields has been introduced on a Pomeranian model farm. Hitherto herring and pots, toes have been known as a palatable dish in family households. The manager of the farm in question has hit upon the idea of blending th em from the start by planting his seed potatoes with a herring placed in every heap, end with go decided a success as to cause him to increase the area thee planted from twenty acres last year to sixty in the prevent one. The expense he calcul- ates at about nine marks per acre, yvhich is cheaper than the coat of any other kind of manure, and amply repays the outlay, Of course it can only be employed near the sea coast, The King of Bavaria keeps carefully out of sight, but contrives to provide matter for more chroniques about big private doings than any of the viaible monarchs of Europe. King Ludwig's latest ecoentrialty is remark- able even for him; he has been photograph- ed. During one of his solitary walks in the Bavarian Alps he encountered an enema. able con winch barred the way and refund to allow his Majeety to Imes, For a bovine subject to make himself so impleasantly conspicuous Wag not to be endured; Where- fore the King seized a plank which happen- ed to be at hand, men placing hinnieli in a position of attaok, ae with a bayonet, he prepared to charges. Then, of course, the surly ot sheered off and allowect the Xing r to pass, and he was so pleaged With he own exploit that lie had himself photographed blithe attitude of charging.