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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-22, Page 2HEALTH. tion• �ot wbioh a arson Iteoreation in an not by $ exhausted by physical or mental work is re- oreated, made over good is now. The ancients invented the word, and seom to have had a penetration that was in !avenue of the pbyeiologleal knowledge, of their day. But recreation, in popular usage, has dropped down from reoreation, almost ae far as "holiday" bap dropped down from "holy day." All sorts of sports and pleasure seek,- ing are jumbled together, and galled reore- ations, That, however, alone is a reoreation which, Interchanging with customary labor, aids in keeping the system in a state of high health, or helps to reatore it after undue ex- haustion,. What may be reoreation to one man may not be reoreation to his neighbor. A dance may thoroughly recreate some parties, but it is seldom a benefit to the olasa addicted to it, and never ail generally indulged in through the midnight hours, and in vitiated air. The various employments of life gener- ally use men and women up faster at some one point than at others. This is apt to eatablleh a weak point at which they sooner or later break down. What le needed is that the overworked part be allowed to rest, by calling some other part into action. The overworked brain should have Its energy diverted to underworked muscles. Exhausted muscles are equally recreated by interchange with interesting brainwork. The overtaxed housewife and mother is beat renovated by a pleasant ride, by a con- genial visit to pleasing scenes, and by really diverting amusements, Often an hour or two a day with some instructive er entertain- ing book may actually keep her from becom- ing unduly strained by her Dares and work. Brain -workers may find reoreation even in varying their mental employmenta. Glad- stone diverted himself with translating Ho- mer, and ex -Gov. Long with translating Virgil. Rufus Choate, whose excitements were mainly in the court -room and in Con- gress, said that, were it not for books, hie brain would crass. He whose mind tends too strongly to any one mood needs to arouse an eppoeite mental stimulus. Poor Cowper wrote his John Gil- pin as a help against gloom, The sick need to be diverted from their ails by whatever is soothing er hopeful or cheering. To do it effectually often requires as much taut as tenderneee on the part ef friends. XOBTEWEST VETERAI % 8q!eOyhewoundedsoldierswhoareStill on file Sick trot. Gunner Aaeelin, of " A d battery, who was wounded in the shoulder at the battle of F ieh Creek, has received his discharge, He receives a pension of 550. per day and will reaide in Jolliette, Qaeieo,. Provost -sergeant Gaffney, of "B" bee- ‘er y , ah•fiery, is to be discharged, ani his pension will be 90 cents per diem. During the fight at Cut Knife Hill, he received a bullet wound. in the arm, and, a piooe of serge having pen- etrated the wound, hie arm will doubtless be useless, Gunner M Wilson, late of " A " battery, wounded et Fiah Creek, will be the reef- pient of a pension of 55 cents per diene. He has been appointed an usher in the Que. boo legielature, The bullet that disabled Wilson struck him on the breast firat ; but, happening to bit one of the buttons, glanced off and entered the left arm, Atter the am- putation of the arra, the button, which was not before noticed, was taken out. Gunner MoNamee, of " B " battery is in Ottawa. McNamee served with Ms battery in the Northweat, but lately purchased his disohargo, Corporal Willlame and several others of " B " battery,after returning from the aeons of the troubles, went to England, where they now are. Corporal Morton, of " B "battery, wound- ed in the groin at Sat Knife hill, has receiv- ed his diaoharge, Gunner A, Melvoy, of " A " battery, who returned from the Northwest last Ootober, is in the hospital at the Tete de Pont bar. ranks, and is not expected to recover, He is a native of France, and ie on the list for a pension of 60 cents per diem, He caught a very severe cold on active eervioe, and has been in the hospital since January, Gunner Pierre Langlois, of Grosse Isle, P. Q, served five years in " B " battery end six in "A," and is still a member of the lat• ter corps. He returned from the Northwest in November, suffering from rheumatism, and is unable to do any hard work. Long - lois has boon recommended by the medical commission for a pension. Gunner King, of "A" battery, was rup- tured to the Northwest. His pension will be 55 cents per diem, Gunner Fairbank, of "A " battery, who was wounded in the leg at Batoche, will re- oeive a pension of 55 cents per day. He is still on the sick list. Fresh Air and Ventilation, The question naturally 000ura, What rule can we have se aa to know that we get enough fresh air and not too much 2 The general principle is ampler than its appli- cation. It is this : The average amount of air breathed by eery person is about 24 cubic inches at each breath, with about 20 respirations a minute. This would be a cubic foot in three and a half minutes, or 400 cubic feet in 24 hours, or the contents of a room seven feet equare and eight feet high. But this is only a fiftieth part of what every. healthy person needs, for breathing vitiates the air rapidly, because the air exhaled has 100 times as much carbonic acid gas as the atmosphere, while twice the amount contained in the at- mosphere, or eight parts in 10,000, is as large a proportion as can be breathed with- out injury to the health. Crowded rooms in winter, schools, eto., are sometimes found to contain three or four times as much, and headaches and other ailments are the eon- segnencea; of breathing the same air over and ever again. There should, therefore, be enough fresh air for every person daily to amount to 20,000 cubic feet, or enough to fill 18 rooms 10 feet square and 10 feat high. This would be amply supplied by an opening, tube, or orifice three inches square, with a moderate onrren In the daytime there is usually enough air introduced into rooms through opening doors, cracks in window casings and in other ways. The chief danger is in sleep- ing -rooms, where pains ahould be taken to have a circulation. When the room is warm, the air outdoors is quite cold, constant, and often sufficient currents are caused. A nnndred persons should have a ventilating orifice equal to two and a half feet square. Contagion in bearlet Fever. Scarlet fever can be communicated by In- fected milk, and, as far as we know, the milk has only to stand in the room where the disease exlats or has existed to absorb the germs, which are so subtle, so light and yet so tenaclone an to float in the air and ad- here to .particles cf duet, We all know how much dust is constantly floating in the air, Let a beam of sunlight pass through an opening in the shutter, and wa can readily see how the scales of akin fromthe body, pieces of lint, etc., can carry these microbes, which maybe thrown off in the mucus from the nostrils and mouth or in the perspiration, end even in the urine. Not only are these secretions germ car• riera—that is, contagions—and they have all been proved so by direct Inoculation, but the pa asages from the bowels, as well as the urine, are so—in that way sewer -air may be a means of their conveyanoe; drinking -water also, as well as the vapor from soil on which those matters have been thrown. B ar in mind, then, that the scarlatina poison can be carried in this way hundreds of miles ; that it does not need the personal contact of in- dividuate ; that it retains tits vitality for menthe, and even years, unless it be sub jeoted to certain influences that either en- tirely destroy It or deprive it of its malig- nancy. These are intense heat, especially boiling or steam, plenty of fresh air and cer- tain chemical substances, as chlorine, sul- phnrous acid, and ethers, There is one other point which is important. It is now known that animals, such as horses and dogs, have a disease which is evidently scarlatina; they can be infected by the scarlatina of man, and probably their disease can be con municated to man. Tho poison of scarlatina is, then, either in- haled by the individual or is swallowed, It is then taken up by the circulation, and, finding itself surrounded by material which develops it, vivifies it, becomes rapidly re• produced, and the symptoms of the disease show themselves. This period between the reception of the poison and the apperranee of the symptoms is called the period of incn- batien; thfe is known to be either from one to six days, in time taros longer. Economy in Love. Gunner J. Stout, of "A" battery is another man yet on the sick list. He was run over by a gun carriage at Batoche, his spine was injured, and three ribs were brok- en. For seventeen weeks he lay between life and death, but is now recovering. His pension will be 60c. per diem. Staff -sergeant Mawhinney, who anted as sergeant major of " A " battery in the Northwest, will receive 90 cents per diem pension. His experience is a very remark- able one. In the engagement at Fiah Creek, he was shot three times within a period of five minutes—the first bullet went through his right thumb ; the second stauck his for- age cap, knocking it and the tuque off; and the third bullet, when he had hie rifle in po- sition for a shot, penetrated the muscle of hie right arm. Staff -sergeant Walling of "A" battery, will receive a pension of 90 Dents per diem. He is Buffering from eczema and enlarged veins, brought en by excessive marching in the Northwest. THF MAYA INDIANS, Some . Faeles reruns Their Writings. Among the great number of languages now spoken by mankind, one of the meet mellifinous and expressive le the Maya tongue of Yucatan, Denten, and the frontier of Gautemala ; and there le a great charm in llatening to fables told by the natives of those places as they have learned them from their fathers, one generation after another, for centuries past, The ancient Maya poets, when writings were burner by the first Spanish priests that went among them, generally eought in the voices of the animals for something that would enable them to give a pleasing lesson in morality. Thus it is that the tongs of the various birds, and even their moat mournful cries, are explained in fables. We have already published the story of that gorgeous bird called 2'oh, and how it always ureas toh toh I (straight 1 etraight 1), beoauae at the time of the deluge (destruction of Atlautie) it was ordered to parole at the orosa•roada and direct divers creatures to a plane of safety. • The pretty dove celled curatcib seems to be ever grieving. From the depths of those forests where sunbeams danoe among the leaves and struggle with them in a vain en- deavor to roach the delicate ferne and flowers that nestle below, her sweet but plaintive cry ie wafted to ns on the breeze that comes laden with forest echoes. Soft and olear, eaoh syllable strikes our can taut-tu-ttczen ! ending as with a sigh, and the Maya poet tells us why the bird le lamenting. This violet -plumed dove, emblem of the faithful wife, was, on a lovely morning, care- fully guarding the little eggs in the nest. Along Dame tbe equirrel, a sagaoiousand art• ful creature, and perohed on a pliant bough near by the tranquil nest, Making himself as joyous and winning as passible, he ad- dressed himself to the dove, "My dear friend, why do you thus always remain at home, lonely and uneooiable?" "My husband is out," said the innocent wife, "when he returns I will go. We must not leave the tiny eggs unprotected." "Poor little one 1" replied the sly animal, "while you are taking oare of the nest, your hus- band le amusing himself with other doves, This very day, I have just now seen him with my own eyes," Like a pelsoned arrow, j aalouay wounded the heart of the dove and she hastily aban- doned the nest. Immediately the squrrel devoured the small eggs, having won his breakfast by hie own Bunning, and the oredulity of the simple and jealous dove. When she returned to the nest, alas ! she sighed with anguish to find it empty and the frail shells scattered in fragments upon the ground beneath 1 Since then she only repeats in soft and sorrowful accents, cuuc- lu-tuzen t taut -hi -amen, that is, "the equir- rol deceived me, the squirrel deceived me." The fable concludes by saying that in view of what happened to the dove, the married woman should always be extremely prudent, and that people in general ahould be en their guard against malignant and cunning mischief -makers, who are ever ready to reach their own ends by cheating unsuspicious people. A similar fable is that of the owl and the iguana (large lizard), supposed to account for the doleful cry of certain owls that give vent to prolonged Os 1 at all hours of the night. In a snug little grotto the mother owl was arranging her feathers and saying to herself, "I shall go when he returns." Soon her mato was by her aide, and she told him to be very watchful because she had seen a large iguana close by. "Be sure you do not abandon the neat one minute," she said, as she put the last touch to her feathers and flew away. Hardly was she out of sight when an ac- quaintance Dame to invite Mr. Owl to go a short distance with her to look at her own beautiful offsprings that had just opened their lovely eyes. "Impossible 1" he said, "my wife has left me to take oare of the nest." But the other enticed him, saying, "You can return immediately, and she will not know you have been out." The foolish bird allowed himself to be persuaded, and away he flaw to gratify his neighbor's wish and his own curiosity. Meanwhile, the dreaded iguana had the neat in view, being on the trunk of a tree near by, and as soon as the white -breasted owl bad gone, he drawled down to the, ground and rustled through the dry leaves scattered at the foot of the .tree, Stealthily approaching the coveted eggs he carefully took one between his j awe and went behind a big stone to enjoy his ill-gotten moal. Be- fore he had time to go for the other, the truant owl returned, and great was his dismay. "Is it possible 1" he exclaimed, "why 1 I have only been away a minute. What can I des Come what may, I shall not say that I have left the nest, and I will try to persuade my wife that there was but one egg when she went from here." Very soon he saw her coming and hie heart was all a flutter, but he tried to look unconoezned as if nothing had happened. He stood on one side of the neat and made himself as pretty as he could to attract her attention, but the maternal eye instant- ly fell on the nest, and a cry of indignation made the owl start. However, with feign ed surprise he said : "Why! what's the matter ?" "Wretch 1 whore is the other egg?' she demanded. "Other egg 1" eohoed he. "Yes, other egg ! There were two, and well yon know it. Monster 1 you have been away and the iguana has come." Pretending to be very -innocent, the owl opened his eyes wider and said : "You are certainly mistaken, there was only one Expected on the Train. If yon are standing around a railroad de- pot about the time some train is expected in you needn't look twice to identify the man who is down there to welcome hie wife. She has been away three weeks, but the time seems like three months to him. He was never so glad in his life as at tee thought that she is rolling towards him as fast ail steam can travel. There was such a man at the station the other day. He expected hie wife on the up train. He rushed up and down to see if the train was on time. Then he rushed out and engaged a back. Then he promen- aded up and down and wiped his brow, and he was still at it when a man who had been across the road to wet his whistle with old rum Dame slouching back and in- quired : "Expecting someone, eh?" "Yes, sir.'' " Wife, probably 2" "• Yes." " Bin away long?'' " Over two weeks," " Coming on this train 2" " Yes." " Wall, I dunno," continued the man as he rubbed hie back against the ticket win• dow shelf. " I wouldn't be too enthusias- tic about it. Wimen are mighty oneartin. I've had two of 'em run away from me. is your wife any hand to make acquaintances while travelling 2" " No, sir!" " Couldn't be induced to elope 2" " Sir ! Do you intend to insult me ?" " Gosh 1 no. I wouldn't insult nobody nor nothing. Could your wife be carried away by good looks and lots of money 2" " If you wasn't an old man I'd thump you for your impudence!" exclaimed the husband as he grew red all over. " You would I Well, I won't talk to you. If your wife comes in on the train, all right; if she doesn't you needn't blame me." He went into the sitting -room, and presently the train came in. The husband dodged about as if he was walking on glass, and the passengers came out one by one until the coaches were empty. There was no wife. It was ten minutes before the husband could give up, and when he did and started out doors the old man lounged out and ea id "I told him! I've lost two wimen just that way, and I knew what I was talking about 1" De Guy--Frod, I saw you at the Aca- demy with astrange girl last night, Who watt it ? Ponsonby—That was my spring and mummer girl. I've shaken any fall and winter love. De Guy -1'm afraid I don't fully envelope your drift, Ponsonby—Nothing dellen to explain, My winter girl likes /cement and hates oyetern, end my summer girl despises ice- cream and adores the bivalves. By this plan I save enough each year to buy my clothes in Lennon, There is one thing which cannot be t'dlow !rad Pitres" and that is a write Whiskey or Whiskey. 1 am inclined to think that the trade spelling of this word varies somewhat with the nationality of the particular member. I have observed that the Scotch firma seem to Lie opt the form whisky, Irish fiame the form whiskey. In a London periodical devoted to subjects connected with the fiqucr trade generally, entitled Drinks, of which the February number is now before mo, I find the spelling whie/ i used, moreover, quite incidentally throughout a' short article in such a way as to indicate that it is the or. Binary orthography, of that journal, On the whole, therefore. I think that the evi• dance points to whisky as beingboth the modern Soottieh orthography acid that gen. orally in use except in Ireland, HERE AND THESE,. The entireWale population of Ste. Marthe village, Quebec, numbering 2,000 voluntarily assembled in church a day or two ago, and pledged themselves to abstain from alcoholic beverages for one year. Mrs'. John Watkins of Almeria, Mioh., dreaming the other night, kicked violent- ly as she dreamed, and when her :hos• band's shoats woke her she found she had broken several bones in one of hie feet. Pretty sixteen -year-old. Dire. Alice Dawson of Omaha le 'Ring for a divorce from her husband, William S. Dawson, on the ground that he cant support her. She married him beoauae a clairvoyant told her that he had $60,000 The in of Fresh pond, near Cambridge, Mass., is cut almost wholly for export to India. A late fire destroyed the ice houses in which supply was stored and the Hindoos will have to cool their lemonade with ice from some other lake. A new gold country le said bo have been discovered by a shipwrecked French sail- or in Patagonia, between the Straits of Magellan and Ike river Gallegos. The man had collected from the sands a little fortune when taken off the coast by a steamer. Some figures of epoch ; "Gentlemen of the jury," acid an Irish barrister, " it will be for you to say whether thin defendant shall be allowed to come into court with un- blushing footeteps, with the cloak of hypos risy in his month, and draw three bullocks out of lay lleut'd pocket with impunity," Bat hie wife knew better, and upbraided him bitterly, in spite of his assertion that he knew nothing about it. Loudly lament- ing her lose she searched around the grotto, piteously exclaiming 01 0 1 01 and soon tound fragments of egg -shell which told their own sad story, and destroyedall her doubts and all confidence that she ever had in her mate, whe had lied to try and hide the wrong he had dobe, Ever since then the owl has remained inconsolable, and in the dead of night we hoar her bewailing her loss, al- ways repeating 0 ! 0 ! 0 1 And this, con- cludes the poet, should teach us never to bo persuaded to do what is contrary toour con - mince or good judgment, if we woald keep out of trouble, Riohmb'nd, Ky., who is a perfect liable, pend. The other day he bought a box of rat polson, cuh it in two, and. put one part. in the teakettle of the Deatherage family. Three persons who drank of the water a -ere made deathly' alok, and their lives were saved with dlfyioulty. The week before that he ad fire to the houee, and a year ego ho tried to poison the family of a clergyman with whom he lived He onus ehowod his wickedness or hie 'sends tivenees by thrusting a redhob poker into a piano. Dr. John Brooke, who died recently in Samoa, left the following directions, concerning his burial: "Plana me in a quare oak box, dresued plain inside and out, without 'staining, varnish, or clover; no lining; make a pallet of my blankets in the bottom of my box; no pillow : lay me on my right side, with one hand under the aide of my face, the other hand folded on my breast, with my knees drawn up, as if I was aleeping. Drees me in a plain white robe; 'woke, bub no shoes; oover me with a white sheet folded back from my 'shoulder's j net as I would fold it he a natu- ral sleep; my grave to be walled with brick and bricked over the top to keep out the rain." A codes 'aunt dent Cu theSpringfield (Masa) Republican a that in Wales, a suburb Mustard plants used to be the terror of that of there are sloven parsons' and die oat of the California wheat grow - the unit` ages amount to 930 yearn ; g r a source of the younge �t 8D and the oldest I5, One er. Now they areprofit. const, nad•,.;5en married Bixby -four years By an ingenious mechanical harvesting last Christintfh. There are twenty-nine both dope are gathered separate, and the that are oyez; 70 and under 80 whose mustard is worth more than the wheat on united ages are -2,175, making an average thec the same land. of 75 year's*. Among these aro three Great rivalry as to speed exists among couples that ii'ave celebrated their golden the sailing ships that annually take grain weddings the past year. There have and floor to England from Oregon and been buried in the last twenty-five years California. The distance is 18,000 miles, forty-seven persons between the !gee of and three crack ships competed this year, 80 and 96, whose united ages were 4,020 the winner Lucknow, making the voyage years, making an average of 85,} yearn. tosecond Southampton in 100 days, and the Two couples that have died in the last second best reaching Queenstown in 116 fifteen months were married fifty-six and days. fifty-nine years. A Georgia farmer, many of whose chick- ens went to feedowls and hawks, trimmed Residents of Athens, N. Y., are mag - a tree so that little remained but a tall fied by the curious action of a partridge stump, and on the top of this placed a that appears in a lonely part of Griffin's well -baited geed trap. Before a big hawk woods, on the road from Catskill to Ath- broke the fastening of the trap and flew ene. It always appears at dusk, and away with it the farmer had caught six seems very tame. On Thursday evening owls, two hawks, and a buzsard. while George W. Loud and his daughter Morgan White was sewing up sacks of. were driving through the woods. it ap- guano in the third story of the guano works soared trotting along the road by the ab Atlanta and had a skein of coarse side of the horse. The horse stopped. thread around his nook. The thread The bird stopped also. Mr. Loud jumped caught on a belt that was running over out and tried to catch it. It ran frcm hie head, and Morgan was lifted up, car- one side of the road to the other, but did reed over the pulley, and dropped through not offer to fly, and at length hopped into an opening to the first floor. He was the woods and disappeared. On two or killed outright. three previous occasions it alighted on the Sixteen sora ago 6• ear•old Johnnyback of Mr. Loud', horse. Obher Athen Foreman cf Reading swallowed one oinns say it has alighted on their horses. the five• cornered little playthings the The spot where the queer bird le seen is children call "" jackstones." Convulsions described as being a very `" spookish and partial paralysis followed, and to -day place. the boy—a man in years—is a mental Lew Casady of South Bend, has invent - wreck, not knowing even hie own name. ed an invisible duck boat which is said to Physicians say that the " jack" is pro- be a success. He took an ordinary flab - bottom boat, cut. the sides, from the bow in his body. back one-third of the length, down to the The Texas and Pacific bridge over the water line, covered this part; over and Trinity River at Dallas, Texas, is ninety made it air tight, and then placed at the feet above the water level. A negro walk- roar end of this compartment a mirror ing across the bridge recently was over- twentyelght inches high, and as wide as taken by a train and so scared that he the boat. Behind this mirror, he had the am ed from the bride went lumptwo-thirds of the boat in which to paddle down into the water, and after half and shoot. He proved by a trial that he minute arose and swam ashore unhurt, could paddle his boat straight up to a flock of ducks, watching them through a A steer was killed by a Virginia City peep hole in the mirror. When they butcher the other day, whose teeth, were looked toward the boat all they naw was completely encrusted with gold and silver their own reflectione in the glass. When bullion. The aminal came from a ranch within easy shot the hunter dropped the on Carson River, and it is thought the mirror by loosening a catch and got two metal accumulated on his teeth while he shots, one at the ducks one the water and was drinking the river water, which is one as they rose. impregnated with the tailings from the mills reducing Comstock ores. Too Much Information. Rev, Mr. Lofty (pompously) -Mr. Eillot, how did you like my opening prayer this morning? Blunt Deacon—I didn't like it at all, sit, "Why not?' (in great surprise). "Not too long, was it ? I would hardly presume "But you didreeume,Mr, Lofty. You spent half the time in telling the Lord all about the late discoveries in geology. Why, bless your heart, He knew all about geology long before Ile setup the hills. Fault's' profits --The wages ef sin, The amount of coal in the Pittsburgh region is estimated by Prof. Lesley of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey at 30,- 000,000,000 tons. About 11,000,000 tons are now taken annually from this bed, of which two-thirds are bituminous coal, one-third anthracite. Prof. Lesley believes that the oil and gas supply will practical- ly cease ten or twenty years hence. An illicit distillery near Gainaville, Ga,. which for nix years has escaped detoctton. has been discovered and raided. The proprietor had dammed a small creek, ostensibly to make a fish pond, and under the dam is placed his distillery, with tunnels for ingress and egress. The smoke was conveyed to his hoose and passed out through the kitchen chimney. The admirers of Wagner in England formed themselves into a United Society in 1883 for the propagation of the maestro's mesio principles. The society now num- bers over 5,000 members, and includes nearly 200 branches in Europe and Amer- ica, who are pledged to dnitivate and spread the study not only of his music and art theories, but also his views on politics, religion, and sociology. The cottlion, according to the Court Journal, is likely to go out of fashion in England, as there is a strong complaint that it lasts too long -generally speaking over three hours; and as it commences usually at 3 o'clock in the morning, a night's amusement le turned into a most fatiguing and laborioue occupation, which people have good reason to remember. The cotillon is also becoming a costly affair, and a vulgarized means of beetow- Ing valuables. When the Rev. Phillips, Brooks of Bos- ton was travelling in Norway he lost a pair of field glasses which he had bought when ho lived in Philadolphia, and which were marked with his name and address, "2,004 Chestnut street," no city being named. The Norwegian who found the elastics nub them to 'Mr. Brooks, 2,004 Chestnut street, U. S. A.," and the °ceu- pant of 2,0C4 sent them to Mr. Brooks in Boston. All of which proves that the honed men are not all dead. James Filkine, a young farmer of El- gerton, at a public gathering the other night so far forgot himself in the heat of argument as to day "damn." This so shocked 'some of hid neighbors that they. brought snit against, him, under an obdo• late 'statue, for swearing. At the trial twenty-one young women toettfied that James did day "damn," but that never• thelese he was a good young roan; Other young women testified that they had never heard James In "damn," and that he was a good young roan, The jury did- agreed. There is a 13.year old ego" boy in Living Underground. FOOD FOR <MM. The Turks shudder et; the thought of eating oysters. In Mexico parrots are eaten) bub they are rather tough, Tho Ceylonese eat the bees after robbing them of their honey. Caterpillars' and spi'der's the African bushman. After they have wound the silk from Won cocoon the Chinese eat the ohryeelip of the silk worm. Spiders roasted are a sort of dessert with the New Caledonians. Bnokland declares the taste of boa con- strictor good, and much like veal, The French will eat frogs, snails and the diseased livers of geese but draw the line at alligators. The Guaohoe of the Badda rf ental are Intl a i habit b of hunting liken for the sake of their flesh. r �} The ocbopue or devil -fish when boiled and then roasted, is eaten in Corsioa and esteemed a delicacy. The old saying that what is one man's meat is another man's poison is realiz rd in the opposite tastes of people. The negroes of the West Indies eat baked snakes and palm worms fried in their own fat, but they cannot be induced to eat stewed rabbits, In the Pacific Islands and West indeed lizards' eggs are eaten with gusto. The natives of the Antilles eat alligator eggs, and the egg's of the turtle are popular everywhere, though up to the commence- ment of the last century turtle was only eaten by the poor of Jamaol's. Ante are eaten by various nations. In Brezll they are served with a resinous sauce, and in Africa they are stewed with grease and butter. The Eaeb Indians catch them in pita and carefully wash them in handfuls like ratans. In Slam a curry of ants' eggs is a costly luxury. In the Cevennes Mountains, in central France, there is a village named La Beage the inhabitants of which practically live underground a large part of the year. It is 4,250 feet above the ilea, and in the bottom of a pass where the snow is rapidly heaped up by the winds. As soon as the snow begins to fall in large quantities, says a recent visitor, the inhabitants re- tire indoors, and it is not long before the low -roofed cottages are buried, the only means by which air can reach the interior being down the single chimney, which in all the cottages is built very wide and substantial. The snow gradually mounts so high that the door will not open, and at last the windows are blocked up. The inhabitants lay in a good supply of bread, cheese, and salt and pork for themeolves, and of hay and straw in the outhouse for their cow and horse ; and, although the men occasionally go out by way of the chimney, the women and children live In the fetid atmosphere all the winter. They spend their time making cane chairs and baskets, doing a little rude wood -carving and knitbing stockings, while if the snow does not melt in a month or so, the peo- ple burrow tunnels from house bo house, and so got a little society. Should a death occur, the body is roughly coflined and laid upon the roof until a thaw makes the cemetery accessible. are daintien to Tried to be Impressive. When unthinking, ignorant people try to be eloquent, they are likely to be ab surd. Simplicity is becoming under all circumetancee. A brick -layer who had come to his death by being hit on the head with a brick was the subject of eulogy by the member of a fraternal aooiety. The desire of the orator to be solemn and impressive was greater than hie ability bo express the few ideas that he had. My Mende," he said, " I looked oat once on the beauties of nater, and all was c•a•a•aim. Oar deceased friend here was layln' a brick. I looked out once more ; still all was c-a-a•alm, but our deceased friend was no more. He was layin' a cawpse 1•' Desirable Qnatter d—'Pwenty•five pieces. What interjection is of the feminine gun der? Alas 1 When the oar drivers strike, they do not brake anything. A carpenter may have many virtues, tltlll ho can't got along without vide, Swelled heads aro more than coronets and " guilt" -edge stools than Norman gold. Among the " doeiety offcndord who might well be under ground" we may mention the telegraph wired, cent DUEL TO DFATH, AFATAL ENOOmiTER BETWEEN TWO J EAL- OUS HUNGARIAN RIVALS. Ledlelas Radebeky and Josef Cserny- cezcy were friendo. Radetsky was ap- prenticed to a hairdresser in the Andras- systrasse ; Csernyeczky worked close by at a joiner's. They shared a bedroom. spent their holidays together and never had a quarrel till lately, when they made the acquaintance of a fascinating shop girl, with whom both fell desperately in love. One day last week Radetsky got a day off. Contrary to hie custom he spent his holi- day alone. Thiel aroused hie rival's sus- picions, and he jumped to the conclusion that Ladislas had stolen a march on him. He swore to be avenged, and having pawned his overcoat, he cseight a revolver which he carefully concealed'. Some days after Csernycezky walked into the hair- dressers, sat down and began to chat with Radetaky. At noon the neighbors heard shots fired, rushed into the shop, and found the rivals both apparently dead. The bodies were taken to the morgue in the Rochnsapital to await the postmortem. The same evening, as the watchman at the morgue was dozing in the death cham- ber, he heard a noise. Looking round he was struck dumb with horror at seeing the body of Redetskyeeve and sit up, while blood began to'tilckle from his wound. He at last found strength to call for help and the resuscitated victim was removed to a ward. Before the doctor arrived, however, his flickering life went out, and Radetsky was taken back to the morgue really dead.—[Austrian Paper. tt GreatWheeat_Cargoes. The grain fleet which will sail from Chicago at the opening of navigation will be the largest thab ever left that port, or any other port in the world. At present there are 37 steamers and 64 schooners loaded with grain. Their cargoes aggre- gate 5,065,000 bushels, and it is likely that this amount will be swelled to 6,000- 000 by the time the Mackinac Straits are free of ice, which will be about the middle of the present month. Thiele about dote ble the quantity of grain shipped from Chicago at the opening of navigation last year. Vessel men are quite hopeful of a proaperoue season and this feeling is shar- ed by shippers and all others interested in lake commerce. Their expectations are based on the general improvement of the iron and lumber industries, quantity of grain awaiting shipment, the prevalent opinion that railway rates to the seaboard will be held up and the generalprosperity of the country. He Kept a Level Head. Wife—"This !s a nice time of night to come home; ain't you ashamed of your- self ?" H[asband pulling off his boots and put- ting them carefnlly on the bureau) — "Don't—er—soold. Couldn't getaway— er—moment sooner. Had a—hio—big argument." W.—"Big fiddlesttc''' H—"Fact 1'eure you. Whadoher think? All—er—boys of the lodge in ib. Qaeehun was which of us had—er—most amiable and—er—moso beautiful wife. I beat 'em all. Described yo 1—hit—beau- tiful eyes, silky hair, cheeks—hit—roses, teeth pearls, lips cherries, temper—er— hfc—like nangel. Offered to fight 'em if they wouldn't admit ib. They gave in, 'n here I am—late, late—er—victorious, finest wife in-er-world." W. (with a sweet smile)—yon are a sad fellow, John. I'm afraid you'll nevdr be anything better. Let me help you take off your coat, dear." " We will take what we need," is the motto of socialists. That assures a bath, at all events, There is nothing new under the sun. Noah made the "arc -light" when he drove out the animal's on Ararat. " My dear," said a husband to his wife, "I am unable to get any sleep. 1 have tossed about ever sine I came to bad, l wish you would get up and prepare me as little laudanum.' " Ibei hardly worth while, now," she replied, oondulting her watch. It's almost time to build the hitch. en fire," Then he emir into a quiet, red - till 'lumber,