HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-2-11, Page 7HEALTH } The Prinoesse de Lamballe.
One of the most tragic ebonies of the Frenon
Revolueion;ia that of the Prinoesee de Lam-
belle, the wife of a great-grandson of Louie
Hurry,
Some mean are in incessantaction, earl
endlete and all through the day, They have
no timefor family or friends. Au for heli
days, the lees for thorn the better. Tho
have inherited a nervous temparement, and
are doing just the wrong thing with it -al.
lowing it to hurry them to an untimely end,
They wear themselves out. Their brain ie
ever in a Btato of morbid aotivity almost
like that of an lnsane man.
To all such wo stay : Early learn to use
restraint, or, in epite of all later volitions,
your momentum will steadily' increase, and
sooner or later there will be a l:broak.down.
The more nervous the temperament, the
greater the need of husbanding the nervous
energy by intelli ent self control, by appro.
priate divere ii and! frequent seasons of
absolute
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m to a stand -still at
times,
Many persons, not of a narvoue'tempera-
ment, specially hurry at their meals. They
have vigorous appetites, and they eat vora-
ciously, Now, w swine can n do this safely, for
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nothing to do but to digest what they eat.
It Ie otherwise with human beings. That
kind monitor " enough" is seldom hoard in
season by those who eat in a hurry. Rapid
eating' is generally exoesusivo eating, with,
in due time, dyspepsia, •' bilious attacks,"
liver complaints and gout. Besides, not
only health, but the good of all concerned,
demands that the meal time should be one
of restful leisure, pleasant interchange of
thought, and social cheer.
Many persons hurry to catch the depart-
ing ferry -boat or care. They barely get
aboard by hard running—or perhaps just
fail. Suoh nota may start a heart trouble,
or increase one already started,' or precip-
itate it to a fatal termination, The London
Lancet, giving an moonlit of two recent
deaths from hurry and exertion, one a young
man of twenty, the other a girl of sixteen,
adds, "How often has hurry to catch a
train, or some other sudden exertion, throw-
ing extra work on a dilated, fatty, or other-
wise diseased heart, reeulted in fatal syn-
cope !" Remember, people often have heart -
troubles without knowing it.
Eating' in the Evening.
Y XIV., and the ohm:da ted friend of Maria
Antoinette. Left a widow at the ago of
nineteen, elle devoted herself to the, queen,
Y and engaged in various charitable schemes.
A. contemporary describes her as being a
"sweet, kind, obliging woman, incapable of
an evil thought,"
When the black cloudofrevolution and
an%rohy descended upon the. kingdom, the
princess hastened to the side ot the queen,
having been previouely with her father -in.
law in the country. On the evening when
Loeb XVI. 'took flight with his tarn€ly,,sho
also took flight, oroaeed theohannol to Dover,
and went thence to Aix•la,Chapelle, where
the remained to watt„ the progress of events
The nerve from Parisi became more hopeless,
the queen's letters more despairing, and
Madame de Lamballo made her will, and set
out for France. She had now irrevocably
out in her lot with that of the royal family.
Having so reoently been in Germany,
where it was supposed she had carried on
communication with the exiled nobility,
who were there plotting to invade their
country, she was from the first subjected to
the suspicions of the Republican party.
When Louie XVI., with his family, quit-
ted his palace, to seek the treacherous pro-
tection of the Aoaembly,Madamede Lamballo
accompanied them. With them she was
planed in the prison of the Temple, whence,
with two other ladies, she was taken to the
Rotel de Ville, to undergo an examination
on the charge of carrying ou a secret corres-
pondence. They were then transferred to
the prison of La Force.
Tee end was not far away. One morning
the princess lay trembling in her solitary
Dell, when the door was thrown open, and
two rough -looking men, in the uniform of the
National Guard, entered, and ordered her to
get up and prepare to accompany them.
Leaning on the arm of one of the guards,
she descended to the prison hall, where the
men acting as judges were seated. The room
was filled with armed executioners, whose
hands, faces, and garments were stained
with blood. From the gateway came the
roars of the mob, calling for fresh victims.
Twice the poor princess fainted before she
could be made to undergo an examination,
which ran thus :
"Your name 1"
"Maria Louisa, Princess of Savoy."
"Yout condition 1"
"Superintendnnte of the queen's house-
hold."
"Were you aware of the conspiracies at
Court on the tenth of August ?"
"If there were any conspiracies on the
tenth of August, I had no knowledge of
them."
"Then ewoar to love liberty and equality,
and to hate the king and queen and royal-
ty"
"I will take the first oath, but not the
last. It is not in my heart,"
Here some one standing near whispered,—
"Swear, then, or you're a dead woman !
The prisoner made no reply, and one o
the judges gave the usual signal for dismis-
sal, saying,—
"Let madame beset at liberty."
Two of the men caught her by either arm
and led her out between them, with the pro-
bable intention of saving her if they could.
Once outside, in the midst of the mob, in
sight of the ground strewn with corpses, in
hearing of yells for blood, her senses again
forsook her, and she fell backward between
her conductors.
Instantly she received on the head a blow
from a dudgeon ; this was followed by a
stroke from a sabre, and this by a rain of
p.ke-thrusts, which brought her bleeding
to the ground.
The last scene in the sad tragedy was the
display outside the queen's window, by the
mad populace, of the Princess de Lamballe's
head, borne aloft on a pike.
One of the popular errors of this country
is that which regards eating heartily in the
evening as detrimental to health, Almost
any one can find a score of persons among
his acquaintances who have dinner at 2 or
3 o'clock in the afternoon because they are
unwilling, later in the day, to true„ their
stomachs with anything more solid than tea
and toast. If they go abroad they look
upon the eating, on board the steamer, of
Welsh rarebit and the like, at 10 and 11
o'clook in the evening, with much the same
horror that they would regard an excessive
use of liquor. But when once brought
fairly into contuse, with foreign habits, say
English dinners* S and German suppers
aro 10 p. 01,, they usually fall back on the
supposition that the uaage of several gener-
ations has fitted the digestive organs of for-
eigners to bear this excessive' strain. One
very worthy .American lady dismissed a
native doctor in Paris as confessedly incom-
petent because he reoommended for some
dyspeptic trouble that she should eat a.hearty
meal acme two hours before going to bed.
Fortunately his successor took the same
stand, and though she considered the method
of treatment ae wholly wrong she was per-
auaded into felling it, and, what is more,
was cured in sp of herself. If our phy-
sicians would
mthis ematter
of diet more
of a study it would fully repay them. It
cannot be that we are differently organized
from our brethren across the water, and
hence what long experience has shown to
be healthful for them cannot prove other-
wise for us. The !train which our Cana-
dian habits of eatisg puts upon the physical
system is, that it crowds the two really life-
giving meals of the day, breakfast and din-
ner, too close together and then leaves the
body to fast for sixteen hours out of the
twenty. four.
Chilblains.
The treatment of chilblains is both gen-
eral and local. The health must be care-
fully attended to, Tonics may be freely
administered—cod-liver oil, iron, and qui-
nine are very beneficial—combined with a
liberal diet. The parts which are the seat
of chilblains must be kept thoroughly
warm, and the child should aleo be encour-
aged to take as much exercise as possible.
The stockings must be woolen and the boots
or gloves warm and roomy, so as not to
oompresss the hands or feet. ihe parts
may be further stimulated by rubbing, and
it is often advisable to use some mild, stimu-
lating liniment—such as soap liniment or
ammonia liniment. Spirits of any kind,
such its brandy or gin, may be employed for
rubbing the parts. When the chilblains be-
come broken the parts must be kept at rest,
and it may be necessary to apply poultices
or warm water dressing for a time, until the
discharge has ceased. The best dressing for
them atter this period is a mild stimulat-
ing ointment spread upon a soft rag. Resin
ointment or ointment of the oxide of zinc
are both very useful.
s— sm ate -
Canadians who have been Knighted.
The honor of a baronetcy, writes a corre-
spondent, was granted to Canadians in throe
instances before the late Sir George Cattier
was called to ready' it. Sir James Stuart,
Sir John 133 er ' y Robinson and Sir Louis
Hydotite La Fo taine are the throe Cana-
dian s
baronete�wee patents recede
.e p that
of Sir George Cartier. Sir James Stuart,
who was Chief Justice of Lower Canada
from 1838 until his death in 1853, was
created a baronet in 1S40. Ho was the
President of the Special Counsel which as-
sisted the Governor -in Chief to rule Lower
Canada from 1538 till the union in 1841, and
as such was of great service to the Home
Government in the part ho took in the
framing of the Union Act. His son, the
present Sir Charles Stuart, of Temple Bar
(England), succeeded to his title. Str Louis
La Pox,taine and Sir John Robinson were
created baronets in 1854. The former, who
became Sir Steart's suoceesoor as Chief
Justice of Lower Canada, had, while 'a
member of the Parliament had,
by
the Union Act, etronuoualy labored to es-
tablishing and maintaining forever in prac-
tice, the great principle of Responsible Gov-
orament. He died in hie chambers at the
Court House, in Montreal in 1864, when hie
title descended to his eldest son, a minor,
echo, dying shortly afterwards, lett it to hie
little brother. This • latter baronet did not,
however, long survive his older brother and
the title beoemelextiuot. Sir John Robinson;
for many years Chief Justice of Upper. Can-,
Ada, was, perhaps, tho greatest lawyer that
ever adorned the bench of that Provrnoe,
fie distinguished himself to tuck a degree
by his blear and foraibie logic as to deserve
to be surnamed, the Canadian Manefie1c1, Ho
was succeeded ;rt hie death by his eldest
Son, the resent SIT JRobinson,ntea Lakin
of
limvatpresent
Toronto, Y House, .l?oro , 0 ne of whose
brothers is Lieut -Governor of Ontario,
Strangled by an Octopus.
An American travelling in Europe about
ten years ago observed in the gayest assem-
blies of Paris and Vienna, and in the gamb-
ling halls at Monaco, Mr. C—, ono of his
fellow•eountrymen, a scholarly, grave man,
whose tastes and 'pursuits in life, as also
his work, lay wholly in study and research.
" What can bring him night after night
to such places ? Ho looks unuterable wretch-
ed," the stranger asked of an American offi-
tial,
"He is the victim of an aotopus," was
the jesting reply, "His wife is one of those
soft, olingfng, absolutely selfish creatures.
who wrap themselves about a man's life,
and bend it to their will, etifling it and draw.
ing all the strength out of his soul, precisely
as the devil -fish would out of his body.
Mrs, 0— chooses to live a fast, dissipated
lite, and she forces her husband to indulge
her in it by her incessant caresses and pro-
teetatione of affection."
A year later Mr. C= became a bank-
rupt, and soon after lost his reason, and atter
a few months he died. American corres-
pondents writing home stated that the cause
was unknown, as his domeetic relations
were moat happy. But those who knew him
best, said that he had been "stifled by an
octopus."
Lavater declared that each human face
bore a likeness to some animal, and alae in-
dexed the character; thin we found in
some men the features and qualities of the
lion ; the mastiff, or the wolf; and in some
woman those of the rabbit, the dove, the
cow, or the serpent.
If we follow out this whimeioal fancy, we
may class many human beings with the
clammy, bloodless octopus. Thoy are usually
men or, more often, women of weak intel-
lects and indomitable will, who invariably
consider their own comfort or wishes first in
life, and who have found wheedling by,gon.
tie manners and oareesos the surest way to
sncceee.
Such women should remember that not
soft words and fond sentiments are love,
but action'
-work,ltearty and helpful : in a
word, the fulfilling of the law which bids
us sarorifico self, strength, life itself, to
other.•.
We dosiro to hold up the mirror before
them, that they may have a glimpse of their
real selves, The cure is in their own hands.
Even in the old Greek fables, human beings
who had degenerated into the likeness of
animate could regain their first nature and
shape by watchfulness and prayer. So far
the Creek fables are true,
Chinese Notions.
They do some queer things In China, They
don't use any soap to shave with, but simply
rub the part to be shaved with warni water,.
put on with a brush like a toothbrush. The
part to bo shaved is never the face, but the
top of the head, The front of a Chinese
book is the last page, end the reader begins
at the right hand corner of the page and
reads down, The foot notes aro always at
the top. Tho title of the book is printed on
the outside margin of the page.
I'fama.
n wants to know how insignificant
he his, just let hie go with him wife to the
dressmaker's.
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BIG THINGS.
Tho most remarkable artificial echo known
is that of the castle of Simonetta, about Iwo
miles from Milan. It is occasioned by the
existence of two parallel walls of consider,
able length, It repeats the report of a pistol
sixty times.
The moat remarkable whirlpool is the
maeiatron of the northwest coast of Norway
and southwest of Mosk.nacsol, the most
southerly of the Lofoden Isles, It was once
supposed to be unfathomable, but the depth
has been ebewn not to exceed twenty fa-
thoms,
The biggeat diamond in the world, if, in,
deed, it be a diamond, is the Bragaeza,
which forms a part of the Portuguese crown
jewels, It weighs 1,860 carats. However,
not a little doubt exists ot it being a dia-
mond, as the government ha !never allowed
e
to btested.It was found In Brazil in
it
1741.
Among the most remarkable natural
echoes is that of Eagle's Nest, on the banks
of Killarney, Ireland, which repeats a bugle
call until it seems to be sounded from a
hundred instruments, and that of the banks
of the -Naha, between Bineen and Cobientz,
which repeats a sound seventeen times.
The greatest cataract in the world is that
of Niagara. The Horseshoe fall, on the
Canadian side, has a perpendicular descent
of 158 feet. The hight ot the American fall
is 167 feet. The Horseshoe fall, which oar -
ries a larger volume of water than the Am-
erican fall, is about 600 yards wide, and ex-
tends from the Canadian shore to Goat Is-
land.
The greatest wall m the world is the Chi-
nese wall, built by the Emperor of the Tain
dynasty, about 220 13. C„ as a protection
against the Tartars. It traverses the north-
ern boundary of China, and is carried over
the highest hills, through the deepest val-
leys, across rivers, and every other natural
obstacle. Its length is 1,250 miles.
The largest tested, but uncut, diamond is
he Manhattan, belonging to the Rajah of
Mattam in Borneo. It is of pure water,
weighs 267 carats, and is of pear shape, in-
dented at the thiok end. It was found
about 1760 at Lendark, in Borneo. It has
been the Dense of a sanguinary war. Before
it was out the Kohinoor, which is ono of
the English crown jewels, was the largest
tested diamond. It then weighed 793 oar -
rats. When in possession of the Emperor
Aurengezbe it was reduced, by unskillful
cutting, to 186 carats. During the Sikh
mutiny it was captured by British troops
and presented to Queen Victoria. It was
recut and now weighs 106 1-6 carats.
The Early Experiments of a Great Engineer.
W hen about ten years old, Eads' father
fitted for him a small workshop, and there
he constructed models of saw -mills, fire.
engines, steamboats, steam-engines, electri-
cal and other machines, One of the past-
thnes of his childhood was to take in pieces
and put together again the family clock, and
at twelve years he was able to do the same
with a patent -lover watch, with no tools but
his pocketknife. When thirteen, misfor-
tune overtook his father, and he had to
withdraw from school and work his own
way. His parents went, to St. Louis in 1833
and he went with them, The steamer was
burned in the night on the way there, and
he landed bars -footed and coatless, on the
very spot now covered by the abutment of
the great steel bridge which he designed and
built. The only opening in the way of busi-
ness that offered' was to sell apples on the
street, and by this means, for a few months,
he sustained himself and assisted in support-
ing his mother and sisters. In time be ob-
tained a situation in a mercantile firm,
where he remained for five years. One of
the heads of the house having an excellent
library, gave him access to it, and be used
his opportunity well to study subjects bear-
ing upon mechanics, machinery, civil en-
gineering, and physical science. In 1839 he
obtained employment as a clerk or purser on
a Mississippi River steamer. He again
made the beet nae of his opportunity to ac-
quire the complete knowledge of the great
river which he was afterward able to turn to
such good account in the noble enterprises
he so fortunately carried into effect. In 1842
he constructed a diving -bell boat to recover
the cargoes of sunken steamers. This was
followed with a ba..t of larger tonnage, pro-
vided with machinery for pumping out the
sand and water and lifting the entire hull
and cargo of the vessel. A company was
formed to operate this device, and it soon
had a business that covered the entire Mies-
issippi River, from Belize to Galena, and
even branched into some of its tributaries.
By his methods, a great many valuable
steamers were set afloat and restored to use-
fulness which it would not previously have
been possible to save, as they would have
been buried very soon beneath the river -
sands. It was while engaged in this business
that, he gained a thorougtr knowledge of the
laws which control the flow of silt -bearing.
rivers, and of the Misaiesipp€ he was able to
say years afterward that there was not a
stretch in its bed fifty miles long, between
Si. Louis and New Orleans, in which he
had not stood upon the bottom of the stream
beneath the shelter of the diving -bell.
Our Idols.
BY W. P. PENN.
Seems ih strange
How life
Gives but 111
In this endless strife
Of the will ?
For its better self,
Or the pelt
The worlds affil.
Though we strive
And toil
With the days,
Stem the rude turmoil
That repays
Nothing for our needs,
Save a triokster'e boade,
Wherewith to pray.
That we may bo
What then, ---
Only what he or eho
May detend.—
Is ft the rule of might,
Is it the rule of right,
To the bitter end ?
Was it for this that truth
Is ever young 7
Wag 1t for lisle that love,
Led for. h the dawn,
As blooming as a rose,
Less the thorns 7
For this that mauhood'e soul,
le rudely torn
By wrong, ingratitude, and scorn
Shattered, broken, duet,
Thooe idols be,
One by one, Love first,
Proved taleity.
Departed, though unforeotten,
Thoy lead the way untroddon,
In Memory.
Husbands of actresses always have other
man to manage the latter, it being unnatur-
al for husbands to manage their own wives.
The biggeat ruby of the orewnleoe Ring
Thcbaw is missing. It was called the
Man-xin-Budda-mya. Once a damsel stole
the gem, but at that time it waa restored to
the royal lock -box and the hapless maid
wet put to death,
THE DECLINE OP THE POETIC AGE..
BY w, G. EMERSON, is
And tht angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy of mail,
And its hero the conqueror worm..
In this truly wonderful and progressive
age, that has a000mpiished so much and
solved so many mysteries, the seemingly
simple question, " What is poetry ?" re-
mains unexplained. That which we oon-
eider unexplained is a something, oountlees'
leaguee beyond stereotyped definitions.
We have all heard of poetry in real life ; of
poetry in nature. We eee it in sunehine,
feel it at dueky evening, and hear it in the
moaning storm. It blossoms in the tender
floc. ere, it agile o'er desert wastes, and,
though we feel its magic, we fail utterly to
ido Ilii
t its reale
ascus 1
e. We listen to
Y e the
innocent prattle of children, the laughing
voice of the brook, the sweet thrill of
nightingales, the quiet murmur of leafy
groves, and the deep diapason of the storm.
tossed ocean ; and we know that man has
seized and blended them into harmonious
and eloquent melodies, but the soul of song
is and remains unfathomed, for 'tie fathom -
loss indeed in this boasted age of practic-
ability that we do not even attempt to
understand that which we feel belongs to
the age of poetry. Meador, write the name
of all the poote of whom you can think,
strike your pencil through the names of
those upon and againet whom seemed to
reel the dark frown of Providence. Ex-
amine the list and see how few names re-
main uncanoeted, What does this prove ?
That genius finds a potent spur in woe, if
not oftimes its very origin. It hae been
truthfully said that " half our great men
and women have been developed through
aomo startling circumstance that roused
their best energies, but which was looked
upon at the time as a calamity." Thus
poesy must be composed of soul—must
spring from the heart—or it falls short of
moving us ; from heart strings often that
have been attuned to misery, struck by
passion, vibrated by ambition, or it finds
no answering tremor in our own. There
is a long train of misfortunes and unhappy
eccentricities of characters met with in
reading the lives of poets- Publlo opinion
is to day, and has ever been, quick to cen-
sure and slow to appreciate, What an ex-
ample in these immortal lines :
" Seven oities proudly claimed the Homer dead
Through which the living Rymer begged hie bread"'
"Distance lends enchantment," So we,
to -day, look far away to the towering forms
of poeay. We call this Homer, that Virgil,
others Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and
so on down the dazzling coterie, sparkling,
and radiant in the sunlight of universal ap-
plause. Familiar names.; are these in the
geography of literature, but we do not re-
member, as we should, that these giant re-
presentatives of genius were brought forth
from obscurity, uplifted by turbulence,
made enduring by disaster, and that a robe
of poverty and a crown of thorns gave way
for the halo of glory. The earl'est part of
this century witnessed the noontide of thepo-
etic age. The heavens were ablaze with me-
teors which shot upward toward the zenith
of poesy, suddenly to fall beyond the hori-
zon of their times, there to revolve in the
darkness and gloom for a time till another
age should fix them in a constellation, both
fadeless in luster and deathless in sublimity.
After death, genius is appreciated and re-
ceives its reward. Once there was a plow-
boy who Bang as he walked the furrows of
his father's field. The mountain flower and
the talking brook found 1:r ,him the poet;
he led a lite of misery, struggled inpoverty,
and at last died of a broken heart—when,
lo 1 he was suddenly exalted to a place in
lyric poetry, beyond which no one can ever
pass. This was Scotland's bard, Burns, by•
far the greatest and grandest pont that ever
sprang from the bosom of the people. Again,
on a bright Bummer morning the blue waters
of the Mediterranean chanted a quiet re-
quiem as they bore to their shores the stark
and motionless body of an outcast, and the
sunny Italian skies looked sadly down from
above while the sea beneath sang hoarsely
to rest her laureate, At the feet of Mont
Blanc, upon a rocky tablet of her side, you
may yet find his name carved by his own
hand, "P. 13. Shelley, atheist ;" no God,
no hope, no future, and yet ho was a child
of nature ; a lover of the simplest flower, a
worshipper of the tiniest bird, and touched to
tears by the symphony of music. There le
another deformed, dissolute, misanthropic
one—Byron. Hark, there comes a voice :
" Have i not suffered things to bo forgiven'?
Have I not had my brain seared, my heartriven ?
Hopes sapped, name blighted, lie's lifelicd away 7'
Better die young than live on lingering in
pain. Why should we remember the ob-
scurity of Halleck, the unmarked grave of
Drake, the suicide of Raelf, . or why should
we remember that on a wild and boisterous
night, at such a time and such a place, the
demon intemperance should add another to
the long list of victims, whose, rare genius
is heard and felt in "The Raven's" voice
"never mora, never more"—the grandest
star lin our literary Iheaven—the immortal
Edgar Allan Poe. But the sun has gone
down. We are living in "the decline of
poetic age." Public opinion is always
right by education ; seldom, if ever, by in-
stinct. The man of genius may be misap-
prehended ; truths he presented may not
be recognized, but futurity will hold both
him and then: in tender and sacred keeping.
To -day contemporaries may offer insult and
reproach to his ashes : to morrow posterity
will
tend guard by hiss tomb and scatter
flowere upon his casket in token of grate-
ful remembrance. Time will unveil what
the madames of the hour fails to discover,
The noble few will lose nothing when pro-
gress overtakes them.
PHILADELPHIA, PA,
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Vegetable Lace
How many Colonists of even old standing
are aware that there ie a lace producing tree
in New Zealand ? A tree, which, when the
outer bark is stripped off, presents to view
a fibrous network resembling lace, This in
its turn catn be peeled away, and by women
of an ingenious turn of mind, utilized for
ornamented pus poses. &favorite ileo to which
it has been put is that of bonnets ; in the
exhibition Chore is a specimen of one, made,
I believe, in Nelson. Like many more ex-
hibit!, unfortunately, there is no name vis-
ible. In Nelson the tree is very common,
and as a consequence little value is attached
to its natural lace, though at ono time "bark
bonnets" were quite the fashion in that
pretty district. It is to bo regretted that it
was not deemed worth while to show more
of the loco -bark as it was Stripped from the
parent tree ; as it the exhibit it an inter -
eating ono.
According to General .MVIorin, the eminent
expert, the proper temperature in well ven-
tilated placed is as follows : Nurseries, nay -
loins and schools, 69 degrees ; workehope,
barracks and paleone, 59; hospitals, 61 to 64;
theatres and lecture rooms, 66 to 69, In
dwellings in this country' it has been the
oustom to keep the temperature at 65 to 70
degrees,
THE LIAt1-KILN CLUB..
During the past week a diatinguished del-
egation from Marietta, 0,, consisting of the
Ron, Coley Strawder, don. Cush Hander
son and Deacon Fletcher, have been visitin4
the Lime -Kiln Club. The object was to so•
cure "pointers" for the benefit of the color-
ed eooiety, in Marietta, known as "The
Solemn Band of Gideon." The delegation
had never tackled it town of over 4 000 in-
habitants before, and wore rather 'off oiler''
in Detroit,
The Hon. Strawder, for instance, insisted
on walking in the middle of the road, and
in using lard and lamp -black on hie' boots,
The Hon, Henderson loat his wallet. contain -
log $10 while buying peanuts on the market,
and had to raise his fare home by spouting=
hie silver watch. .Deacon Fletcher mailed
letters in fire alarm boxes followed a brass
r a
band a mile' and a half in the as
the mud, and was
foolish enough to mix up in a dog-fight and
get knocked down by the man who owned
the second beat canine.
The delegates went away happy, however,
and chock full of information for the benefit
of their They T sty were granted a charter
to work to the thirty second degri e, and
start out with sixty-seven members, every
ono of whom has a bald spot on top of his
head and knows the difference between a
spring.ehioken and a motherly hen,
T00 HIGII.
The Secretory announced a 'oommunioa-
tion from Prof, Artiohoke Johnson, of Pe-
kin, I11„ exproesing his willingness to ap-
pear before the club and deliver his celebra-
ted lecture on " The Gradual Decay of the
Umbrella." His terms would be $50 cash
down, with a written guarantee that he
should have a feather bed to sleep on.
"While I myself have had no less dan a
dozen umbrellas gradually decay on me,"
Bald the president, " I dean regard de sub-
jeck as one of deep public interest. De
Seckretary will reply to de effeok dat de
price am too high too shed rain."
PETITIONS.
The following patitione were presented :
From twenty-four colored citizens of At-
lanta, asking the United States,Govs rnment
for better protection againet traveling doc-
tors who claim to be able to Dura a, corn of
five years' growth inside of three days.
From thirty-five white citizens of Rich-
mond, praying the Lime -Kiln Club to use
its influence with the present Congress to
prevent colored people from going to the
post-effice mere than twelve times in twenty
four hours.
From eighteen colored residents of Toron-
to, asking the influence of the club to bring
about a closer relationship between the
black races in the two countries. As mat-
ters:now stand a Canadian colored man
never enters the United istotes without put-
ting his money in his boot and feeling a
chill go up and down his baok,
From 10S leading colored citizens of New
Orleans, praying the club to instruct Con -
gross to make it a gallows offense for any
white man to "dose" a watermelon with
intent to lessen the colored population.
Tho above petitoono were referred to the
proper committee, with power to seud for
persons and papers and expend the sum of
twenty-five Dents for stationery and postage.
FROWNED DOWN.
Pickles Smith offered a resolution to the
effect that a committee be appointed to in-
vestigate and pronounce on the skull of De-
mosthenes, now hanging on a nail in the
museum and labelled : " After Using."
He had heard serious doubts expressed as to
whether the skull was genuine, or one made
to order in New Yoek and would like the
fact settled.
"Brudder Smith, cot right down?" ex-
claimed the President as he brought his
gavel down with a bang. " When we label
and hang up a skull in dis museum we hey
gone too fur to back water. Dat sin not
only supposed to be de skull of Demosthenes
but it am 'spouted dat ebery individual
member of dis club am reedy to take off his
coat to support de supposiehun 1 When
you start out to make a musenm de first
great step ,am nebber to doubt your own
labels."
REINSTATED,
The case of Whalebone Howker was then
called np by Sir. Isaac Wolpole. Several
weeks since Brother Howkor signed a paper
reoemmending a certain brand of stove -
blacking, and sold the maker the right to
use his picture on the package. This is in
violation of by law No. 17, and Howkor we s
suspended for six months and fined 5600.
Sir Isaac desired to appeol in his behalf,
The auspended brother lived next door to
him, and the way he took on o' nights kept
his neighbors awake. He had lost flesh at
the rate of a pound a day, and his family
were greatly concerned for hie health. The
fine hung over him like a ten -ton grind -
stems, and his zuspeneion neemed more than
he could bear.
i/ Whar am Brudder Howker jist now ?"
asked the President.
"In de aunty -room, sale"
" You xin bring him in."
Brother Howker was brought in. Ho had
tightened his belt to the last notch, BO as to
appear fearfully emaciated, and walked
with a step which seemed to prove that
this vain world had no further charms for
him. He also managed to get oft three or
four groans which seemed to come from
down among tho shoe -pegs.
"Brudder Howker," said the President,
"friends have interceded in your behalf, an'
I hey decided to remit your fine and rein-
ntateou as an active member of dis club.
Doan let dis solemn warnin' go unheeded,
Frorndis time out I waut to see you a chang
ed man. You kin now take your aocustomed
seat behind de stove, an' I'd advise you to
let dat belt out about two inches afore it
cuts you in two."
NOT ANY,
Waydown Bybee, the elected poet of the
club, arose to ask if it was the intention of
the club to offer any winter prizes for poems
written by colored people,
"I Joan fink it ar'," replied the President,
"De fack am, poetry has become so common
an' cheap nowadays dat we kin git all we
want fur de aekin', Las' summon, when we
offered $5 fur de best poem or, do watormel-
yon, mo' dan thirty pussons spent $100 of
dein valuable time in competih' fur de prison
Incouraigln' poetry am inoouraigin' laziness,
Samuel Shin will now sound de triangle to
bring dis meetin' to a stop, an' Bobo' locking
do alloy dean he will see dot do b'ar-traps
ant properly sot to embrace any vile pusson
who may seek to enter de hall by dot route."
A smart boy—,Telt after a whipping.
John L. Sullivan is getting conceited bee
cause ho read somewhere that Hamlet said
" There's a apcolal providence in the fall of
a !patter."
Thirty students trots the arsenal of Fore
Chen, China, are shortly expected in Franco.
They will be divided among various Gov
eminent; schools withthe object of acquir-
ing and bringing back to the Coleatfal
Ringdown as much western knowledge as
their heads eau hold,
A GHASTLY TABLE,
The most Itemarlcsible Piece et Furniture Int
Vire World—Composed of.it'etrlded
Human llearis, Intestines
and Eyes.
Probably the moat horrible and ghastly
piece of furniture ever conceived will be
shown at the exhibition of the Franklin In,
etituto, this year. The table is new in the
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Ital and is the
work of Guieeppi Sagatti, who was several
years reneged in its construotion. The ma-
terial was drawn from about a hundred hu-
man corpses, and the table consists of a
circular top resting upon a pedestal with
four supports representing claws, The faoe
of the table is about three feet in diameter
and appears to be a fantastio but artistic
work in marble, though, in reality, it is
composed of the hearts, livers, e
, muscles and
intestines of the human body. The weird
orattsman who originated this singular pieoe
of furniture has been dead for many years
and his work was completed half a century
ago, the last corner of the table committing
euicide over it before it was secured
for the
Pal. zzo Pitt!
Sagatti spent several years in perfecting
a system of petrifaction and succeeded in
discovering a process; whereby the natural
animal reaction in a corpse after death
could be changed to mineral reaction by
first securing immunity from decay by an
embalming process, and afterwards immers-
ing the body in a bath where it absorbed
silroi particles. For the purpose of a practi-
cal illustration of the method and its results
he set about making the table. The corpses
necessary for the purpose were obtained
from one of the hospitals. The intestines
were used in the construction of the orna-
mental pedestal, and, having been pressed
into shape, were petrified. The claws of
the table were formed from the hearts,
livers and lungs, which still retain the ap-
pearance of live flesh. The leaf of the table
was composed of the larger muscles of the
body artistically arranged together to form
the desired effect. The table was intended
to be highly ornamental, and though noth-
ing was to be ueed in the conatruotion but
parts of the human body, the mind that first
conceived it was not at a loss to find means
of ornamentation, A hundred pairs of eyes
or more and as many pairs of ears were,
petrified and artistically arranged around:,
the edges, The effect was the moat blood-
curdling that could be imagined, The pro-.
cess succeeded in preserving the eyeballs in•
their natural state, to that after polishing,
they retained their color and general ante-
mortem appearance with an intensified brill
Bance, This completed the task of the sav-
ant. He was proud of the result of his la-
bors. The test of his process of petrifiaa-
tian was eminently successful. He com-
municated his method to the medical world,
out naturally it never became generally
adopted, though it was well understood by
surgeons and physicians.
A CURIOUS STORY.
There is acurious story attached to this re-
markable piece of furniture, Before it was
deposited in the Palazzo Pitti it was in pos-
session of a Florentine gentlemannamed Gla-
cotno Riccabocca, It was the central piece
of furniture in his drawing -room and he de-
lighted to exhibit it to his friends, at first
speaking of it only as a grotesque piece of
handicraft, the work of a mad sculptor, and
subsequently, turning down the lights to
add effect to the recital of its real history,
One Christmas he had several guests from a
distance. Earle" In the evening they sat
down around the ghastly table and began a
game of ecarte. Play was heavy and it had
continued for several hours. The wax tapere
cast a dim light over the scene and caused
the eyes of stone which caught its rays to
assume a ghastly glitter. Riccabocca was
a heavy loser. Ho was noticed to be very
pale, often shuddered and repeatedly wiped
his brow, on which the cold sweat was plain-
ly visible. He gave less attention to the
cards than any of the others, and frequently
turned his gaze upon two of the eyes at the
edge of the table opposite him.
At last he rose and paced the room excit-
edly. But the ornamentation of the table
seemed to faecivate him, and he kept his
looks fired on it, At last he sat de wn, and,
despite the advice of his friends, who could
not understand what was the matter, insist-
ed on resuming play. Still his eyes were
fixed on the ghastly rim of the table. He
bet his money recklessly and played his
cards as carelessly.
"Change.your seat : that one is unlucky,"
said ono of the guests.
"No, I cannot," was the reply, in a plain-
tive tone.
The guest covered the horrible eyes on
the table with his arms, but Riccabocca
pleaded for him to uncover them, and began
talking excitedly.
"I have not yet told you the truth about
this table," he said. "Perhaps you will
not believe me. Those parte of the human
body which you see and fancy to be the fan-
tastic work of a sculptor are not natural
atone, This claw is not of marble. It is
the heart of e, woman turned to stone. Those
eyes arenot of glass, These are vitrified eyes
of mere, To -night, sitting here, those two
eyes became briliant wth the light of life
and fixed their gaze on me. They burned
into my inmost being, but Iwas so fascinated
that I could not look away. Their uncanny
glitter seems to reach my very soul, They
will affect me through eternity. I cannot
stand it. They will drive me mad."
He seized an old dagger from where it
hung on the wall, Before any of his guests
could interfere to prevent his design he
plunged it in his breast and fell dying in the
weans of his friends.
"I escape them at last," were :hie last
words, The blood welling up in his throat
choked further utterance, and he lay dead
beside the table.
His heirs wero only too glad to accept the
liberal offer of the governors of the palace
for a rolio which would have ever been
ghastly reminder of the manner of their in-
heritance.
A Warm Pillow.
A lady in a country town left her child in
her buggy while she stepped into a house on
business. When she came out, horse, buggy
and child were nowhere to be fennel, no
trace was discovered all through a bitterly
cold night. Next morning it was discover-
ed that the horse had wandered into the
woods, and, becoming tired, had lain down...
The child, a btight little glrl, was found by
soane boye, snugly sleeping against the
breast of the horse, with its head lying on
one of the animals forelegs. The little one
had evidently become cold, and, when the
horse lay down, wont to make it got up,
when, the boys think, the eagaoioua animal
managed to place it with its head on its
arm, so to speak, to keep it from freezing to
death. The mother was overjoyed: to re.
cover her child and will keep tate faithful
horse as long as she liven,
Student— Ihave been thinking upon
the subject 'of the alarming prevalence of
divorces, and I almost believe I have dia.
covered the cause," Professor (delightedly)
.-=.t' Yea, yes ; what Is it 1" Sludent_azlVlar-
riago 1"