The Exeter Times, 1886-4-15, Page 2Spring Winde.and Colds'
Oar early spring weather is peouliarly
trying to delicate persona,and no one who
hue any affection of the chest, Mt bronchial
tubes, should expose himself to high winds,
eepeoially those that. blow from north ter
east. Asa rule, stili, oold weather will
never hurt any one, if properly clothed, but
if moderate weather b accompanied by cold
winds, then beware. Nervone people will
molly find a headache, and general depres-,
sten ofthe whole system, to be the result of
awelk ona cold, damp, windy day. But
there are many whose liminess calls them
out in ail weathers, and to these we would
say, take the greatest pains to tone the
eryetem so as to resist oold, and proteot the
body against sudden changes. Chest -pro -
teeters of silk, chamois akin, or even layers
of newspapers, should be scorn both bank
and front, for the lenge lie nearer the shout -
dere than the chest.. It is the food whioh
is digested that eupports life. It is a goad
plan, too, to dash the neok, °hest, and arms,
every morning with cold water, rubbing
them vigorously afterward, with a rough
towel dipped in alcohol. Hot baths should
only be taken at night, and cold once in the
morning. When a creepy, chilly sensation
is felt, and the first symptoms of a gold ap-
pear, three or four drope of oomph r on a
lump of auger, or in water, will often pro.
duce a reaction, and frequently ward off the
threatened attack. Healthful sleep is Na-
ture's great restorer, and this should al-
ways be procured, but by rational means
alone ; narcotics, except in extreme Caere,
are always to be avoided. A biocuit, a
bowl of oatmeal porridge, or glass of warm
milk, taken on retiring, will aid in drawing
the blood from the brain, and produce
sweet, healthy droweinese. Bedrooms
should be well•ventilated and comfortable,
and the bed -clothes warm, brat not heavy.
It is said that colds are often contracted in
bed, and those with weak cheete will do well
to wear the lung -protector at night, as well
as by day, as the portion of the frame most
frequently unprotected is that between the
shoulder blades.
Science for the Sick.
Invalids, as a rule, have a great deal of
leisure on their hande—more of it than they
like—and to fill this time pleasantly is a
question involving a good deal more than
mere amusement. The importance of men-
tal distraction to invalids is a fact too uni-
versally recognized to call for comment here,
my object In this paper being merely to sug-
gest a mode of distraction that, in my own
experience, has not only been attended with
the happiest resulte physically, but has
proved a source of intense and never -failing
pleasure. I allude to the study of botany—
not the tiresome, profitless study of text -
bootee, but of the woods, and fields, and
meadows.
The beauty of this pursuit is that it takes
the student out-of-aoora, and throat and
lung" troubles, as has been truly said, are
heuse•diseases. I am speaking, of course,
to these who hale begun to fight she enemy
before he has captured the inner defenses,
and who are supposed to be strong enough
to do a reasonable amount of walking, and
some solid thinking. For botany, though
the simplest of the: sciences, can not be mas-
tered without some effort. Yon are met
right at the threshold by that fearful, tech-
nical vocabulary which mast be conquered
before advancing a single step—a labor so
formidable and repellent, when undertaken
according to the old schoolbook method,
tbat I do not wonder 80 many have shrunk
away from it in disgust or in despair.
0Va THE OCEAN,
Thomas Car'yle's bowie in Cheyne row,
Chelsea, is the property of a propeletoe of
quack medicine,
Grace 1•lebbard, a civil engineering gradu-
ate of the Iowa State UAivereity, is one.
pioyed by the United S atesGovernment
Servey in Montana to make maps.
The late Gov. Seymour said : "I never
yet made or proonred an appointment for a
young man (ora clerkship which did not in
the end prove to be a great injury to him,"
The recent omens in Bavaria has brought
to light the following tome, though acme•
whatlengtby title : "A—B ,--, Royal Ba-
varian Reiireadconstruotionseotionfire-wood
etorehouaekeeper."
Health and Sunlight.
As the stn now resumes something of his
fervor and brilliance over our hemisphere,
health seekers should make it a point to get
a daily sun' bath. We all understand the
bad effect of the withdrawal of light from
plants in winter. Bat it is too easily for-
gotten that through the short and dark
days of winter the human body suffers in
the same way as vegetation, and hence needs
the therapeutic agency of sunshine at this
season to repair its wasted forces. A writer
in the last number of the Meteorological
Magazine forcibly states the connection be-
tween sunlight and health, and quotes from
Dr. Bell's lute work en climatology the fol-
lowing weighty sentence : " Freeaccess of
light favors nutrition and regularity of de•
velopment, and contributes to beautify the
countenance ; while deficiency of light is
usually characterized by uglinese, rickets
and deformity, and is a fruitful source of
scrofula and consumption in any climate."
Thin statement, we may add, is corroborat-
ed by a fact nbtioed by D. Hammond, that
" variera experiments demonstrate that the
action of dight is of benefit in many condi.
Wens, anemia, chlorosis and phthisis being
among the number." It is probable that
one of the chief benefits derived by invalids
from a winter's sojourn at Alpine or tropi-
cal resorts is due to the larger amount of
sunlight enjoyed.
Scarlet Fever.
After a roam has been occupied by a
scarlet fever patient, all the articles, cloth-
ing, beddirg, etc., that have been used
about the patient, that can be washed,
mint be put into a tub with a disinfecting
;fluid. The following is good
Eight eze. of sulphate of zinc, one oz, of
carbolic acid, and three gals. of water. Lat
them soak at least one hour, and then put
them in boiling water for washing. Feather
beds, pillows, mattresses, flannels, and the
carpet must be fumigated thoroughly. It is
well to have the aide walls and ceilings
cleaned and whitewashed, and the wood-
work and floors thoroughly scrubbed with
soap and water. If the wane are papered,
it should be taken off, and the room re -
papered, It would be better to take up the
carpet and carry away all useless things
from the sick room at the very first, if pos-
sible.
It is said by physicians that the infec-
tion can be conveyed by both books and
papers, and it in certain that it oan be car-
ried by clothing.
Mr. Arch appeared at the recent Parlia-
mentary banquet given in hie honor in a
pepper-and-salt eat and sonnet tie. He sat
beside Mr, Chamberlain, who was in full
evening dress.
Poor Lord Bute, having spent £1,000,000
on his new house, can only afford to give
1.5 000 of that sum to the widows andorphana
of the colliers who were killed while lately
working for him.
A diamond, larger and mare valaablo tban
the Koh-i•Noor, is about to arrive from the
Cape, The lapidary has been engaged eight-
een months in cutting the gem. The Koh -
i -Noor is said to be worth $140,000.
In 1799 the Parliament of Great Britain
had to transact the business, so far as home
effatre were concerned, of about 12,000,000
people; to -day of about 35,000,000, and the
affairs of Ireland (then tranaaoted in Dublin)
absorb about three-fourths of time, so that
pressing English business has to stand over.
Dr, Pnlpson, in a German scientific jour-
nal, advocates the general use of sugar as an
article of diet, not simple as a pleasing ad-
dition to food. He affirms that during
forty years he has eaten at least a quarter of
a pound of sugar daily, not osunting sugar -
forming enlistanoes taken at the same time,
and haw been benefitted by it.
No Rusalan lady can travel without her
husband's aseent to the issue of her pais -
port, but in Auetria woman's right to a
veto has just been recognized. It to stated
that a decree bas recently been promulgated
to the effect that no married Austrian sub-
ject shall henceforth receive a passport for
journeying boyor:d the frontier, without the
exprees consent of his wife,
Prince Krapotkine, the "Citizen Prinoe,"
as he is now affectionately called by the'.
Socialist!, is a studious -looking man of
miedle age, with a bald head and Shake •
apeman face, and weare a manikin cap and
spectacles. He speaks English with scholar-
ly oorrootnese and French with vernacular
fluency. His ideal of government is what
he terms anarchical communism.
A large number of maharajahs and rajahs
will attend the Colonial exhibition in Lon-
don next oummer. They will be accom-
panied by their ladies and native suites.
Darbars, with all the gay and gorgeous
trappings of the East, are to be held in the
grounds, in order to familiarize English peo-
ple with one of the meat interesting phrases
of princely life in India.
The entire efflux through the sewers
of Paris is ascertained to amount, on an
average. to 362 000 cubic metres a day, or
about•66 000,000 gallons, this being almost
exactly three-quarters of the total amount
of water famished by the aqueducts and the
rainfall, the other quarter being carried off
by evaporation absorbed into the soil, or by
flow over the surface directly into the
Seine.
The Danes do not parpoe° to have any
deception in their butter supply, A law en-
acted in Denmark last year compels all
makers and sellers of adulterated, imitation,
and bowie butter to pack it in elliptical tubs,
conepleuouely marked " margarine," and
punishes infractions; of the law by a fine from
200 to 2,000 kroner® about ($51 to $540),
The enactment was forced by the agricultur-
al element; of the country, despite the op-
position by the bogus butter pimple.
There would seem to have been something
more in the questian put to George Steven.
eon, "What if a Dow should get on the rail-
way?" than he, by his answer, was willing
to admit ; for near Sheffield the other day,
a four year old cow escaped from a car, ran
up the railway and proved very trouble-
some. The eine had to be stopped, and
various devices resorted to to catoh the
oreatnre ; but she kept the track for two
miles, knocking everybody down who at•
tempted to reach her, and she could not
even be shot 1111 three hours had elapsed.
Such is the story.
In a sketch cf the Fair Isle it is told that
this isle is part of a Shetland parish, and
is visited, or supposed to be visited, once a
year by a minister of the Established Church
of Scotland. Some years ago the vieite of
the thin ministers were so few and far be.
tween that a boy waiting to be baptized
had grown old enough to uao highly impro•
per language when the tardy rite was at
last administered; What was felt or said
by impatient lovers who had been waiting
so many years to ba married is not record-
ed, but a registrar, it appears, has now been
appointed.
M. Chariee Girard, ohemiet of Paris, re-
cently amused himself by investigation of
the ingredients of a beautiful red currant
jelly charmingly put up for export to the
United States. There was not an atom of
fruit in the mass, as was demonstrated by
the adding to it of methylated alcohol,
whioh woutd have turned it green had it
contained any fruit acid. It was found to
consist of gelatine, sweetened with glycer-
ine residue, colored with piohaine (s poison•
s mineral extract), and flavored with no
ou o ),
one knows what, A great many people
in this country imagine no currant jelly so
good as that whioh is imported from France.
It is announced that Mesere, Appert of
Clichy, Franco, have discovered a process
that will make glass blowing by mouth un-
necessary. Many attempts have been made
to get rid of this painful process in the oiler-
Miens of ghee making, but to this day in
every bottle house, may be seen pale -faced
men with their cheeks hanging limp In folds,
the result of years of glees blowing by the
mouth. Cases have been kr own in whioh
non's cheeks have worn so thin that they
have actually cracked, and it is a common
eight in a bottle house to the blowers at work
with their thin dhoeke pulled out like the
finger of a glove.
A woman who was disguised ea a man
was found out from the fact that there were
no euapender buttons in her pocket.
Mr. Erastue Whelan has entered the lec-
ture field and bas been entertaining his fel•
low -citizens on Staten Island with a 'dis-
couree on "Rapid Transit on Staten Island
and its Effeot' in, New 'xork on Suburban
Development and Harbor Enlargement."
A yBoun - girl had m
d a tcarkable adventure
while travelling on the railway between,
Dover and Canterbury. At the further end
of the open carriage were several men, one
of whoni climbed over the partition into the
middle compartment to clone the window,
The gtriwai alarmed, and, opening the door
ofthe compartment in which eke'' was
travelling, jumped out, The train was at
this timo running at full epeod, but the girl
esoapod withoutiejary.
Mise Braddon and her husband, Mr. Max
wall,
easel a correspondent, are familiar fig•
urea at the Prinoos6 and ileo the Joycean
Theatre on' the first nights, The lady is in
the prime of maturer womanhood. Her
hair has taken on a partial frost. Her face
Is a ruddy one, •suggesting a comfortable
inglieh matron, mother of a numerous fam-
ily, rather than one of the most -prolific
writers of the day, ` She weare a pretty' lace
sap and carries around with her a decidedly
comfortable, good housewife atmosphere.
Her figure ie buxom and of traditional
English build, She ie not a handsome
woman, savo when the talks, and then her
face is full of marvellous expreeeiveneem and
she hag bright speaking eyes and a strangely
ewoet smile,
'YOUNG FOLK$.
When the Arotio Ice Breaks Up.'
BY reainantox SCIIWATKA.
An ocean channel in the arctic seep during
the whiter is rather hard to describe, First,
imagine the ice we have ea a large river at
home to be some seven or eight feet In thiok-
nees, Then in this tillok ice imagine a groat.
number of largo dry -goads boxes, and piles
of dry -goods boxes ;nterepereed here and
there with small cottages, and occasionally,
a two-story houeo, and lave all these thing®
whitewashed to repreeeut snow, and you
will not have a vary bad .representation of
an arctic channel of ice when covered with
snow. All these largo and email jagged pro-
tuberances, whioh give the parte where they
are renting the name of " hummocky" foo,
aro the ice -blocks from the year before that
did not melt during the short summer, and
got frozen in when the new sheet of ice was
formed in'tthe early winter. This lee would
be floating hither and thither, making the
" ice packs" and " ice fields" of which we
road in polar literature, and where the first
gold snap of Doming winter caught it, there
it froze in the "ice 1103" to roman through
the winter and break up again next sum-
mer.
In the sprint, of the year, from the let of
June to the tat of July, aeeerdinr to the lo•
eality, the snow on this ocean cifond les
melte, and the worst trouble a eledgeman
has in crossing it is the fresh water la great
lakes and ponds on tip of the sail water ice.
This tests but a few days, draiug off through
the tide creeks and seal.holes, and tho salt
water ice is exposed to the rays of the never•
setting sun, Wherever the ice is a little
darker color, or near shore where dirt from
the banks has blown out on it, It melte ram
Idly. I have seen a kelpetock of black color
out down through the ice some six feet be
fore the ice broke up, the channel It made
being but two or three inches wide es it
dieappeared, Thus the great sheet of rouge
Ice melts unequally, and when some driving
storm springs up about this period of Ite ex•
istenee, it is broken into pieces and sent
drifting around as los-packs and ioo-
fieida,
On the 24th of July, 1879, we were sledg-
ing en the ice of Victoria Channel in the
Arctic Sea. It was very rotten and honey
combed with seams here and there, and It
was evident that it would go to peices the
first storm. The sledge rose and fell on the
rough surfaoe like a slap in the storm, and
when the day's work was over I was glad
to see my Esquimau dog -driver, Toolooah,
get in to the snore safely with the dogs ane
sledge, for a storm was coming up in the
well-known bad quarter, and to be out on
the ice when it broke up, kind the great
cakes commenced rolling over each other
was certain death to a puny man oaught In
such a fearful predicament. We pitched
our little tent and crawled into it. About
noon of that day, the water coming up
to our tent, I ran out to view the situ
ation, and found that my worst fear®
wore realized. Every where the pond•
erous blocks of the broken ice, some as big
as houses, were in terrible motion, riair,g
and falliug, tumbling and grinding over
each other in a thundering rear upon roar
that made the loudest commands inaudible
at a few rates. Great fields of foe, cover-
ing acme in extent, would be lifted high in
the air by the driving mass, and breaking
by ita own weight Bend blocks of ice an big
as cabins spinning over the whitened, frothy
surface, crushing every thing in their way,
while the terrible splashing of the water
sending geyser spouts aloft, was driven in
fiae spray before the shrieking gale, wrap
ping all these warring forces of nature in a
weird light that added a mysterious solemn•
ity to the appalling scene before us.
Perched high on a newly made hummock,
as if it bad climbed there to look for a
meant c f escape, was the half loaded sledge,
in imminent danger cf being upset. Ab
hands turned out in a twinkling and ow
aeronautical carriage was soon safely ashore
Thus ended sledging, on the 24th of Jolty,
until the Doming winters lee should form
or about the middle of September, less than
two menthe.
Could not Help Thinking.
There wan once a little girl who became
tired of thinking her own thoughts. She
went out of doors and sat down on a stone,
and said to herself, " Now I will not think
any more. I'll just stop thinking,"
But, to her great rnrpeis°, she went on
thinking harder and harder and harder,
Nothing she could do would atop it. She
sang, she shipped, she chased the butter,
flies, she waded in the 1rook. But all the
while the thinking went on, faster than the
'brook or the butter flies, never stopping fo
a single instant.
Then she began to ory, finding how help-
less she was, and that she meet still go on
thinking, whether she wanted to or not.
But that did no good either. So she began
to laugh.
It was so funny that she must keep think
Ing as long as she lived. Although they were
her own thoughts she could not atop them
any more than she could 'top her rosebush
from blooming in June.
Since neither she nor anybody else could
help thinking she oonld think only few
and pleasant thoughts. She found that
this was the only power she had over her
own thoughts. She could not put an end
to them. Bat she could choose what they
should be like, whether kind or unkind,
merry or sad.
According to Professor Langley the in-
herent temperature of the moon is below
that of melting ice.
The average eateries of school teachers
in Nevada are, for melee $140 a month
and for females $96 a month.
It is said that about 10,000,000 crowns
yearly are sent home to the fatherland by
Swedes dwelling in America.
New Haven's cat show was boycotted
hat week because its prizes were made
by a firm under the labor ban.
Gen. Bazaine is described ao "aged,
stout, and bloated, shuffling painfully
along the public streets of Madrid."
Baptism by immersion, with the tem
perature four degrees below zero nearly
killed' ands at California, P.a., recently.
Thirty-two fried egg® and numerous
"trimmings" were eater!, at a single byaft-
g,
tin a Sierra City miner, a ftlw. days
ago.
In Slam
i said, a wife who redeems
her husband
d after he has sold hiinaelf at
gambling owns him thereafter as a chat,
tel.
Caucasian petroleum, which exeelln all
other in illuminating petroleum, which
said to be
gP.
dgreatly inferior as a ltibrlcant to the Canoe
ian oils,
The Egyptian chariots had liuch-pins
Kyp 1
of breeze, and were put together with
pints and nails. Screws, so far as known,
were net invented.
DISASTROUS FIRES.
Bl{ITiSH FIRES OF A DEsTRVCTIVE Cn4u-
AcxER AT Tan ANTIPODES,
The commengement of the year 1886
has been algnalleed in Victoria by the oc-
currence of terrible bush fires, auooeeded
by an unprecedented downpour of rain,
New Year's day was One, and during the
succeeding days the temperature vexed
hone® until it culminated on Taeeday,
the 5th January, in what is regularly
known as "a regular scorcher." In Mel-
bourne the heat was terribly oppreastve,
though the thermometer did not register
more than 101 degrees In the shade, but
a fierce hot wind prevailed, whioh can
only be likened to the blast ironing from
the mouth of a furnace. In some places
in the country the thermometer showed
as high as 113 degrees in the [shade and
149 degrees in the sun. Sometime on
Sunday, or early on Monday, bush fires
cammenoed in the Cape Otway and Hey-
tesbury forests, and the strong north
wind which sprang up on Tuesday morn-
ing fanned the fl nines until hundreds of
square miles of dense bush country were
enveloped in fire. Fortunately this por-
tion of the colony is not very thickly mot-
tled, but small townships have been form-
ed on the outskirts of the forces and a
number of "selectors" are held in their
midst, and to the holders .of this forest
land moat people are disposed to attribute
bho origin of the fire. 11 is the practice
among "selectors" to clear their land of
uudergrowth by burning it off whenever
the weather permits it to become suffi-
olently dry, and. the past season or two
have not been favorable for "a good
burn," ` The spring just past and the
present summer have been exceptionally
dry and warm, and the early days of the
year dried up everything. The interne
heat of the 5bh, combined with the strong
scorching hob wind, caused the "burns"
to get beyond the control of their origin-
ators, and with almost lightning rapidity'
the whole country was the scene of an
immense conflagration. Those who saw
the fires give graphic descriptions of the
awful nature of the catastrophe. Where
the undergrowth wan thick
TEE FLAMES ADVANCED
like a huge wall, clearing all before it, and
where the vegetation was more open the
fire mounted to the higher branches and
spread from tree to tree, enveloping
everything in its lurid embrace, and
levelling the forest to the ground. The
town of Camperdown was at one time in
serious danger bub a large body of the
residents asaembled and successfully com-
batted the advancing fire ; but at two
o'clock the wind ohauged, and the fires
attacked the town at the opposite side.
At this time the smoke ao obscured the
sun's rays that artificial lights had to be
used in the houses, and the poultry were
deceived by appearances and went to
roost. The experiences of the residents
of the townships of CobdenaltElingareite,
Eliiminyt, Yeo, Barongarook, Irrevaillipe
Blrregurra, and Lorne were very similar,
though in some cases the houses in the
outskirts became a prey to the flames,
The pretty little seaside of Lorne narrow-
ly escaped destruction, and had the
change of wind been delayed bub a little
not a vestige of a habitation would have
remained. The telegraph signal station
on Cape Otway was seriously threatened,
but the lighthouse keeper and hie assist-
ants with great diffi lenity beat out the
are. Many families residing in the forest
have been rendered homeless, and several
instances of great heroism have been re.
ported. A case of great hardship occurr
ed near Cabden. The father of the fatal.
ly was at work in the township, and the
mother, with a family of nine children,
including an infant in arms, was at home
In the forest when the fire came upon the
hoose. They fled from the building for
their lives, having no time to save any
thing. Their sufferings for the remaind•
er of the day may be faintly immglned,
The smoke was suffocating and there was
great danger of the fire swooping down
upon them at any moment. The mother
and children had to walk over the heated
ground and glowing embers and their
feet and legs were dreadfully burned
curing their wanderings. Eventually they
encountered a neighboring "selector,"
who, to place them in security, under•
took to fire a patch on acme rising ground
where when it was cleared, they might
hake refuge ; but at the moment the wend
changed and the whole party wore for a
time
IN IMIMINENT PERIL,
and but for the presence of a pool of
watet they must have perished. The
coaches from Cobden to Port Cambell and
from Birreguarra to Winchelsea, had to
pass through the burning forest, and they
repeatedly caught fire, and the pesaen-,
gess had to exercise the utmoab vilgilance
to prevent their clothes from being ignit-
ed. The danger from falling trees was
also great. In one instance as a gentle-
man was driving along, a burning tree
fell across the shafts of the buggy between
the horse and the splashboard and thr
driver escaped with; a severe cut on hie
leg. The great extent of the fires is
shown by the fact that the Garman
barque Mulvina while off Cape Otway,
was deluged in ashes, whioh covered the
deck to a depth of a q uarter of an inch,
and the light was so obscured by the
smoke and driving ashes that the binna-
cle lamp had to be lighted to enable the
man- at the wheel to see the compass.
Similar accounts are given of other vein
eels which passed the locality at the time.
In other parts of the colony, at Gordon,
near Hamilton, and on the Murray river
and In the Goulburn valley, serious con.
Migrations took place, but as no dense
forests wish in these localities the damage
was mostly confined to the destruction of
crepe, grand and fencing, and in a few
can :s barns and outhouses were sacrificed.
I have next to deal with the ravages of
the antagonistic element—water, Soon
after the wind changed on the 5th Inst ,
rain commenced to fall, and it continued
in many places with increasing force for
nearly 48 hoots. This downpour effect-
ually checked the spread of the fire, and
in all but bbe most dense portions of the
forests completely extinguished 11, but it
also occasioned intone° suffering be those
who had been rendered homeless by the
fire and who had been driven from their
homes clad in the lightest garments suit-
able bo the interne) heat. These unfort-
unate` people ;were, in many Instanced,
compelled to. Damp out without ohelter of
any kind and with bob little food, as the
roads and pethlrays to the settlements
bad baoome completely blocked with fall•
en tree®. Tn BA1larat a great flood was
experienoed, the lower portion of the
town being completely inundated, and
great deal of damage was done to property.
SEASONABLE SMILES
Awfully bored—Artesian wells.
A sweet letter—A candied a vowel,
Ilse a big boom—Tho full aohooner.
A rousing appeal—" Time to get up 1"
Gladatono'sfavorite composer. Chopin.
Isn't an attempt to prove an alibi self-de-
nial?
A false face—The face of the girl who
UM you.
When the ear drivers strike they do not
break anything.
A vessel le galled she becauae you see her
bow before meeting her.
Foun'-dry men : Moat saloonkeepers have
had this experience.
When a man planks down his awl for his
board is it u fair inference that his finance*
are knot hole 2
Iron is muoh cheaper than gold, and still
there is more demscnd for gold, and it re•
quires some brass to get it.
Occasionally et good idea comes from
1Pruesia, She has just ordered the poet
Krazowskl to return to prison.
The new song entitled " That bouquet
I bought for a dolhar," promises to be a
greater favorite with the ladies than " Oiely
a pansy blossom."
" All the clothes he bought me was a
bunch of hair and a nail brush," wan the
wail of a woman in court the other day,
who was applying for a divorce.
A man, in his hurry to assist a fainting
lady, got a bottle of mucilage instead ot
camphor and bathed her fano with it, She
was a great deat stuck up by hie atten-
tions.
Oar friend X has just establlahed a news-
paper. One of bib friends, meeting him,
reeked him how his new paper was getting
along. "Oh 1 it is selling like bread," he
replied enthusiastically, " How is that, by
the pound 2"
Fellow -townsman to (manufacturer) :
" Hullo, Jackscrew 1 Your works °losed ?
How's that ? I understood you were busy."
Jackscrew (braes founder) : " So we are ;
but our 'ands took 'emaelves oft to day, to
join the pr'oeesion o' the unemployed."
A husband who had incurred the anger
of his wife, a terrible virago, 'make refuge
under the bed. " Come out of that, you
brigand, you rascal, you atea681n 1" scream-
ed his gentle companion. "No, Madame,"
he replied, calmly, "I won't Demo out. I
am going'! o show you that 1 shall do as I
please in my own house 1"
" Wall," said the granger, " what be
that ticker worth ?" pointing to an ornate
end intricate pieoo of time -recording me-
chanism on'the shelf. " That, sir," matdths
olerk, "is a wonderful time -piece, It is
worth two hundred dollars, and will run
three years without winding." " Great
Scott 1" gasped the granger. " Three yearn
without winding 1 Say, mister, how long
would the thing run if she was wound up 2'
A Pretty Incident.
The St. John N. B. Globe tells the fol-
lowing story of a childish offering : "She
eras a tiny little tot, not more than nix
years old, with a pair of the moat wistful
blue eyes ever you saw, and a perfect
shower of golden hair falling down over
her email shoulders, almost hiding from
view a very pretty face. Yesterday morn-
ing eke presented herself at her school in
Winter street building much later than
was her wont, The teacher, with a stern
expression of countenance, asked the child
if she had any excuse to offer for her
tardiness. The little one advanced to the
teacher's desk, and as she reached "the
foot of the throne," she timidly withdrew
from beneath her apron a paper parcel,
and began undoing 10. After taking of
eeveral rolls of the paper without reaching
the °entente, she saw that the beacher was
becoming impatient. "Please, teaoher,"
and the blue eyes became more wistful
and tender than ever, and the childish
voice began to tremble, "Plerse, teacher,
mamma she bought me a rose -bud for yon
yesterday, and I put it In a cup, and the
water dot froze, and I waited for it to
melt and it wouldn't, t and—" She could
go no farther. The blue eyes became euf-
fased with tears and sobs assumed the
place of the trembling voice. Mechan-
ically, the child handed the parcel to the
teacher. She removed the paper, and
°here lay exposed a little child's cup, all
beautifully flowered and decorated, having
inside a beautiful white rosebud, surround-
ed by frozen water. The stern counte-
nance of the teaaher relaxed at this sight ;
the peace offering had completed its mils
cion, the child was forgiven.
How a Dog Saved a Little Girl.
J. E. Walter, the master of train service
f the Louisville & Nashville railroad, has
a dog he values highly. The dog is a New-
foundland, and has been raised by its owner
from a small puppy. Mr. Walter has a
little girl who is fond of the animal,and d the
affectin between the two is Interesing. A
few morninge since the little girl was loft
in the room along by a large fire in the grate.
She went too near the blaze, and the dog
opened the door and entered. He went to
her and began to pull her away by catching
her clothing In hie teeth, The two compare
hart played about the room for some time,
until the little girl grew tired and sleepy,
She went too near the fire again, and the
dog could not get her away. He pulled at
her clothes for some time, but could net
armee her. He then hurried to her mother's
room and began to cat strangely by rubbing
against her hand and oatohing her dream,`
pulling her toward the door. She caromed
him and told him to go away and find little
Nellie. He made a strange whining noise
with his mouth and then slowly walked back
to where the little one was sleeping, unoou-
aoione of her great danger. The dog made.
another attempt to rouse her and failed. Ho
then crouched down betide her, between
her and the fire, taking care to protect her
well. Mrs. Walter entered the room a few
minutee later and found the noblo dog in
this position, whining and crying, while the
hair was befog hinged from hid book, lath,
Nellie wag eleeping sweetly.
are equal before the
All mon q law,"
Yoe, before the law, but aftorit getshold of
them then it's different.
We never deserve more commendation for
our good deeds than when they are directed
towards ethers,
"The Sinking of the `Alabama.'"
From the account, in the Century, by
John Mckiutosh Kell, the aeoond officer in
commend of the Alabama,we take the fol-.
lowing ; nWheu the firing ceased, Captain,
Semmes ordered me to aiepatoh an either
to the Kearsarge to say that Sur ship was
sinking, and to ask that they send heats to
save our wounded, ai our beets' were dis-
abled, The dingey, our smallest boat, es•
caped damage. I dispatched Master's mate
1 allmen with the rtgneet. Ne boats ap-
pearing, I had one or ons quarter boats
lowered, whioh was slightly sutured, and I
ordered the wounded planed in her. Dr.
Galt, the surgeon who was In charge of the
magazine and shell -room division, oame en
dock at this moment and wan et once l n5 in
charge of the boat. with orders to take the
wounded to the Kearsarge, They shoved
offjust in time to love the pear fellows from
going down in the ship.
".t now gave the order fo every man to
jump overbc and with a spar a d save himself
To, o• focetheor-
om the inks
ahi !' i
it oinking g
p.
der, I walked forward and urged the men
overboard, Au anon as the decks were
°leered, save of the bodies of the dead, 1
returned to the stern -port, where abed
Captain Sommer with one or two of the
mon and his faithful steward, who, poor fel-
low 1 was doomed to a watery grave, as he
could not swim. The Alabama s atorn.port
was now almoat to the water's edge. Partly
undreseing, we plunged into the sea, and
made an offing from the sinking ship, Cap.
Iain Semer,ea with a life preserver and Iona
grating.
" The Alabama settled stern foremost,
launching her bows high in the air. Grace -
Jul even in her death-strugglo, eho in amo-
ment disappeared from the fat of the;. wa-
ters. The sea now presented a masa of liv-
ing heads, striving for thoir lives. Many
poor fellows sank for the want of timely
aid. Near mo I saw a float of empty shell -
boxes, and called to one of the men, a good
ewimmer, to examine it ; he did so and re-
plied, 'It is the doctor, sir, need.' Poor
Llewellyn 1 he1erished almost in sight of
his home. The young Midshipman Meffit
swam to me and offered his life preserver.
My grating was not proving a very buoyant
float. and the white caps breaking over my
head were distrosoingly unoomfortable, to
eay the leant. Maffit said : ' Mr, Keil, take
my llfe•preserver, sir; you are almoat ex-
hausted.' The gallant boy did not oonsider
his own ooudltlon, but his pallid face told
me that his heroism wait superior to hiebod-
iily euffering, and I refused it. After twen-
ty minutes or more I hoard near me some
one call out, ' There is cur first lieutenant,'
and the next moment I was pulled into a
boat, in which was Captain Semmes, stretch-
ed out in the stern•aheots. as pallid as
death. He had received during the action
a slight contusion on the band, and the
struggle in the water had aimed exhausted
him. There were ale° several of our Drew
in the boat, and in a few moments we were
alongside a little steam yacht, whioh had
Dome amongcuriloating men, and by throw-
ing them ropes saved many lives. Upon
reaching her deck, I ascertained for the
first time that shewan the yacht peerhound,
owned by Mr. John Lancastieaf England.
In looking round I saw two 'Wench pilot.
boats engaged in Raving our crew, and final-
ly two boats from the Kearsarge "
An Archooloeical Find in Egypt.
Gen. Grenfell has had the good fortune to
discover an ancient Egyptian necropolis in
the Libyan desert, opposite Athenian, on the
loft bank of the Nile. Among the tombs
already opened are several whioh date from
the twelfth dynasty (circa ir, C. 3,000), and
are constructed in the style of the great
Lyoopolltarn sepulchres in ,the mountain
above Stoat. They consist two or more
n
halls, or chambers, conote by corridors,
the roof being supported by' columns, and
the walls decorated with oolored,bas reliefe
in brilliant preservation. Several of these
tombs appear to belong to members of a
noble family, the heads ot which were prob•
ably Governors of the province.
The largest is a truly magnificent sepul-
chre, measuring 140 feet in depth by forty
feet la breadth, and containing thirty col-
umna—some square, some round. It pur-
ports to be the tomb of a certain prince of
upper and lower Egypt, who lived in the
reign of one Neferkara, and who is repre-
sented in ono of the wall paintings as 0
lame man leaning on a crutch. A fine ahrine
and an altar occupy their original position
In the innermost chamber, and are in perfect
oondition.
The seuiptares are very curious, and the
aspect of the whole tom:, Is reported as ex-
tremely archaic. From the seeend to the
end of the eleventh dynasty there were,
hovve er, many kings named Neferkara ;
,,ed until the inecriptlon3 are fully decipher-
ed P. is lmnoesible to say under which ruler"
this lame functionary flourished. The tomb
is attcibuteu ey those on the spot to the
third dynasty; but it seems for many
reasons more likely to date from the time off
that Neferkara who succeeded Merenra of
the sixth dynasty. The founder of this
line, At!, was a native of the island of Ele,
phantine, opposite Amman, and the place
first rose to importance under his sueoeseore.
ft was during the reign of Merenra that
Una, a famous General and Primo Minister,
quarried the granite of Assouan for the
sepulchre and seroophagus of his sovereign,
and built a fleet of thirteen vessels at Ele-
phantine for the transport of the same.
Pending further details, we should there-
fore be inolined to ascribe the large tomb to
a gentleman of that period, especially if the
neighboring twelfth dynasty tombs are
those of his descendants. In one of these
latter there were fennel a thrice of Oairide
statues, repreaentl"g the diseased ; n mum-
mied form, done in baked olay" -'terra
cotta,
and placed in rooesses al
or he cor-
ridor. Thie, at all events, is an' entire nov-
elty in tomb decoration,
The cemetery will probably prove to be of
great extent, as there io evidence of its bay-
ing been in use down to a late period. The
large tomb, usurped by later oomera, was
found piled to the ceiling with mummies,
mummy cases, and funerary furniture of
Item= time', including upward of sixty
memorial stets Gen, Grenfell is actively
pursuing his work of discovery by the help
of our Eugtish soldiers. who continue to
open and clear out tomb after tomb,
The Bridegroom Not Posted.
A young man in a neighboring- city ap.
plied recently for a marriage license and the
clerk in attendance said in answer to his re -
guest, After he had made some ether inquir-
Les, "Want wan the name of the lady's
father 2" "You've got me there," was tho
reaponso, "Well,{ then, whatwee her
mother's name 2 I give it up, was the
gnawer, "You soon to bo profoundly ig-
norant regarding your intended wife's faun
i;y, but perhaps you II be communicative
enough to toll me the age of the lady, you
intend to bead to the altar, said the long-
suffering registrar. Tee reply was, "Cottidn't
upon my lite ; I never asked her ; *he's got
rod hair," Finally am old acquaintance of
the lady camp forward and the affair watt
settled la a short space in a satisfactory
manner,
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