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The Exeter Times, 1887-8-18, Page 7HEALTH. Bed Tin. This is not a "standard" time for ev one that has reached adult life, but ho be so for every child under fourteen year age. Babies may eerly be taught to sleep i quiet, cool, dark room, and if this habit fortned during the firet three months of fart life, it is the greatest blessing in world to the tired mother. City tables, particularly the firstborn families, are oftee kept up at night to " papa," who feels as if he were defrauded part of his enjoyment in life if baby fa asleep before he corn es home from busine and thus baby is z .bbed of his "best sleep" very early in ths little life. At the age of two and even younger, t little ones are kept up, and dressed to company that has been invited for the eve ing, and allowed to stay up until after freshments have been served, said refree in ins consisting of food which is very i oper for the little folks. "hese parents would be horrified if th wee told they were abusing their ohildre and yet they are doing so as surely as they neglected thein in many vases. ' Children 9,re taken to evening entertai ments, parties, etc, in the mistaken id that children mint have "a good time when the excitement of the evening cans their pulses to throb and beat, and oft sleep is a difficult thing for them to fin whets the excitement has passed away. Let seven o'clock be the bedtime for t little ones, and from the five year old to t fourteen year old, fix their hour for retiri at eight, awl let that time invariably s them all tucked away in bed, with the goo night kiss of mother, the last episode their childhood's , day. In our reckle waste of our faculties later in life, we t often burn the„. midnight oil for thrift • pleasure, or, unhappily, sin; so let us f those that are our sacred charges make firm foundation on which to build the stru ture of Life, which, to be fair end comel must be substantial with Health, and c mented with good principles. "Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, weal,by and wise,” -- Airing Beds. As soon as dressed in the morning, the occupant should open the bed, placing pil- lows in open windows and spreading out bedclothes to catch the lereeze in such a way as to be fully aired; wheeling the bed into position before the windows stripped of every article of clothing, thoroughly shaken up, that the 8,ir may penetrate every part of it. Even the boys should be taught to do this, that the busy house.wife, employed with preparations for breakfast, tarty be saved a trip up -stairs. The making of beds should be the very last duty of the morning's workethat every trace of the night's emanationsmay have had a chance to disappear with the fresh breeze and cleansing sunshine. But as es sential to health and sound sleep as is this precaution, feather beds and pillows should not be placed in the sunshine, but given a northern, or northwestern exposure, where a stiff•eeze is very often to be found of a brigrrning. 11 placed where the direct rays of the sun may fall upon them, they will be very like- ly to emit a disagreeable, oily smell, caused by heat drawing from them the oil, which from long use has become rancid. It is not necessary to state that the con - stoat use of featherbeds and pillows is very unwholesome at the best, but if they must be used, keep from the sun, but air thorough- ly every pleasant day. To the other ap- purtenances of the sleeping -room, bed -cloth- ing, mattreeses, and so forth, together with tbe rooitself, it is impossible to give too clw. much a nshine. e ery ulcl s of n a is the in see of lis ss, ity he see n. re. h. m- ey if oa 08 en he he ng ee d. of SS 00 or or a e. Hints. If a hangnail seems likely to be sore and turn to a "run-around," soak in strong soda water, as hot as can be borne. Beware of boils or any eruptions. They indicate that the system is in a low condi- tion, and an infectious disease will be more easily contracted than when the body is in a healthy state. Coffee, especially the higher grades, in the occasional use, stimulates the bowels to action, but the habitual use of strong coffee gives the secondary effect, and torpidity is the result. Curiously enough the poorer and cheaper the coffee the less deleterious its character. Java and Mecca may -really be poisionous to an indivgdual, while Rio coffee is quite inoffensive. • The hot fomentation is a valuable remedi- al agent. It is rare to find acute suffering where it is not indicated. It alleviates neuralgia and rheumatic pain'. It is good for biliousness, constipation and torpid liver. It relieves colics and flatulence. No zvell-regulated famity thoulcl be without a hot water bottle. A wet cloth placed under a hot water bottle will give moisturemi , if de- sired. These rubber bottles co mein n sizes from one to four quarts. e) Hints Upon Emergencies. After all accidents use liquid food, etspe- chilly milk. Never allow thirst, use ice if nothing else cur be procured. In any caeca of doubt as to the existence of life, insert a needle in the flesh and lot it remain half an hoar. If the patient is alive, the needle will rust. Ether is a much better anesthet- ic than chloroform, as the latter sometimes causes paralysis of the heart. But if chlo- roform has been used, and the patient steps' breathing, put him on his head. In admin- istering ether, wring out a sponge from hot Water, saturate it with ether, hold it to the patient's mouth for a breath or two. Stop, tiltes. apply th sponge again. But first of all p*vaseline or cold cream upon the pa. tientlls face. 8YNOOPE OR SMOCK OR COLLATSP,--Firld attend to the circulation. Loosen all gar- ments at the neck and waist, use artificial respiration and apply dry cups to the head. For stimulant e use mustard or coffee or brandy and water. In extreme cases iuject brandy into the thigh and insert warm water and turpentine into the rectum. Aromatic spirits of ammonia, may also be used. linmonnueave—These may he from the bowels kidneys, stomach., or uteres, Nour- ishment should be given hi large quantities. In external hemorrhage, arrest the flow, raise the hands, and 4ply ice to the back of the neck. ArortErY OR CEREBRAL UEMORRITAGES. —This arises in a rich man from high living, lack of exercise, geallltrig the flesh to change to fat. In a poor man it is caused by Starved arteries. Death by apoplexy can be distin gabled from disease of the heart, as in the latter case death ensues in a moment, while in apoplexy it is delayed. eke: vuesioNe :—Are chiefly caused by too ninth or too bad blood in the head. hi , epiglottis spasms, keep the tongue forward, ,for if the patient ewallows his tongue, there ' ie no hope. r4oaNurio AND *USEFUL A warm bath will often be found a valu- able measure in caeca of eleeplessnese. Repent investegations have diapelled the °cannon belief that freezing purities water. An ink that will write on glass is made from ammonium fluoride dissolved in water and mixed with thtee times its weight of barium sulphate. By careful experimenting M. Bloch lute determined thet it takes 1.72 of a second longer to hear a sound than to see a sight, and 1.21 of a second longer to feel a touch than to see a sight, Dr. Doi -emus Faye that the lightest tiesues Call be rendered uninflanunable by dipping them in a eolution of phosphate of ammonia in water. It will be found impossible to set the fare., 00 treated on fire. The buzzing pound of a locomotive boiler at Unice is caused by the circulation of the water in the boiler, and only occurs when the pressul e ef steam is comparatively low, At higher preasuree this eound will not be heard. Malleable brass is made by forming an alloy of thirty-three parts of copper and twenty five of zinc. The copper is first melt- eri iu a crucible which is loosely covered, after whtch tho zinc, which has been puri. fied by sulphur, is added. M. Yellin, a French chemist, has invent- ed an improved kind of cement, possessing durability and the cold appearanee of mar- ble, eo that a wall set with it not only be - coulee impermeable to moisture, but can be polished and made beautiful. One who claims to have tried it says that rubber may be fastened to iron by means of O paint composed of powdered shellac steeped in about ten times its weight in con- centrated ammonia. It should be allowed to stand three or four weeks before being used. Doors formed of two thick paper boards, stamped and molded into panels and glazed together with glue and potash, and then , rolled through heavy rollers, are coming into " use. They are better than wood in that e they will not shrink, swell, meek or wrap. ' They are made waterproof with a mixture. s A correspondent of the Engineer mentions t that two telegraph operators, a male and female,' both otherwise healthy subjects i / are being treated in Berlin for a newly elevei. o oped ailment, namely, the dropping off, one t after another, of the finger nails. Professor t Mendel attributes this curious affection as r the result of the constant jar caused by r hammering and pushing with the finger ends o in working the Morse systera of telegraphy. a as 0 d While hunderds of tourists visit the Falls r of Niagara every season, not one in a es, thousand actually sees the river. But with - the "freeing of Niagara," celebrated by viv New York State and Canada July 15, 1885,1 , the river experienced anew birth. Here -1 afterrin the true spirit of this international i bond, the traveller, having enjoyed restored t nature at the points comprised within the a limits of the Niagara River to where 'e livening en Iller British Majesty ie inAny. thg bet a Sineeure. The maids of honor to the Qiieen earn every p000y of the £300 a year which is their stipend for filling a very difficult pee- ition. With the beet of iutentions and with the kindest heart in the world, the Queett expects so much from hereelf in the way of physielt1 toil, both for business and pleasure, that she may perhaps be exeused for tome - times fergetting that the flesh, eepecielly aristocratic flesh, is weak, The maids of honor are on duty for a month at a time, and at the end of the month they are gen erally fit subjects for a course of tonic treat, went While on duty they can not cell their souls their own. After breakfast, which they take in their own roome, they have to hold themselves in instant readiness to obey the Queen's summons, which comee the moment Sir Henry Ponsonby quits hei• IVIajeety's preeence, with the big red morocco dist:ketch-box, containing his day's work, under his arm. After a brief "Good morning "the Queen suggests a little reading, and the doubtful maid ad- dresses herself to the pile of papers whehein the proper passages for her Majesty's hear- ing have already been marked by Sir Henry. Through columns of parliementaq debate, leading article and correspondence has the poor lady to intone her dismal way,' often having to repeat passages for the Queen never leaves a subject tillshe has thoroughly mastered it, and is not at all sparing in her commands to "Jost read that again, please." The maid of honor ie so busy minding her stops and trying to modu- late her voice that she had little chance of understanding a tithe of what she is react- ing, and yet the moment the reading toyer she has to rush off and get ready for a drive with her royal mistress, during which she will be expected to make lucid remarks on the topics she has just read aloud. After luncheon is the only real time the maids of honor have to themselves, and even that is spodecDfor them by the uncer. slay as to whether they will be wanted to walk or drive with the Queen later in ethe fternoon. They must stay in their apart- ments, for, if by any chanoe they should be ent • for and were not to be found at he moment, their life for a day or two would not be a happy one; so that a stroll n the grounds on their own account is out f the question till after 4 o'clock, when, if he Queen has departed on a drive without hem they know they are free till 6 at an ate. On the Queen's return there is more (fading aloud, this time of ponderous works n heavy philosophical subjects, or else the rranging of sketches, photographs, or it 'ay be the charity needlework is brought ut in such time as her Majesty goes to res s for- 9 o'clock dinner, where, to the thief of the maid. of honor, she is not expmret- to be present. 13y this time she re not threquently faint for want of food, for hen not at court she would naturally be nishing dinner at the hour when it is the ueen's pleasure to commence it. • Young ladies do not, as a rule, jump at he post of maid of honor to the Queen1 Mil they have given themselves a fair , hence of obtaining an "establishment." is not until season after season has been rawn blank that disconsolate ladies have,, 11!fAIDS dF ii01110R. The Neighborhood of Niagara Falls. actually freed from its high, precipitous It mural bounkarees, it pours the waters of d our upper inland seas intothe broad Ontario. re Here culmmates the historic interest 'of tb course to the dignity, very much minus ,It follows that, thougt by no means the." sums tothrost your political opinion, down There are observatione which hint at via. maids of honor are not in the firSt blush of inyei h londlY abast B iti h tang • the Niagara frentier, as at the Whirlpool modern rock -readings tell us to seek a dew to its geological past. For of few other rivers may it be said that they have a threefold charm, appealing alike to artist, historian, and man of science. True lovers of Niagara hope that the day is not far distant when the International Park will consist of not merely a mile strip on the Americanebank, but a grand double. boulevard, running from Buffalo to Younger - town, and on the Canadian cliffs from the Horseshoe Falls to Queenston. As a site for country villas, Lewiston Ridge, with the unnumbered beautiful drives in Its neighborhood and its picturesque historical associations, must, as the cities of Ontario and western New York, grow in wealth and population, become not lees famous than the cliffs of Newport. Below the catatact, the Niagara, although comparatively few tourists discover this fact, has a beauty and grandeur no less' imposing than the falls themselves. Not content with its mig.hty plunge of 195 feet, the river goes surging and tossing down- ward another 104 feet in its rocky bed over the obliterated falls of a preglacial stream, to remains of a third cataract being still preceptible in the Whirlpool Rapids. At the Whirlpool the river untwists itself like some mighty serpent from its sinuous con- tentions in this concave prison to pour itself an emerald -green wave Into a channel at right angles with its former course, and henceforth trends northeast with many a gentle curve. Not until we reach Lewiston Ridge do we turn our backs on the Niagara's stupen- dous exhibition of power. From this height, described by Father Charlevois as "a fright- ' ful mountain which hides itself in clouds on which the Titans might attempt to scale , the heavens," is a view worthy the ex- I pensive canvas of a Bieastadt. The table- I land tern-iinatesaabruptly in an escarpment. ' Beneath 'stretch boundless meadowlands as rich as any in agricultural England? They! slope gently to the river; which, coming headlong down the gorge, with the leap and roar of theWhirlpool upon it, gradually subsides into a* tranquil stream as the bold cmtlines of the banks above Lewiston fall away into broad, (smiling plains. Across he gorge is the Ilunker Hill of Canada, crowned by its lofty shaft. Few menu - meths in the world have so imposing an effect in the landscape as the lonely form of Brock towering in the blue clouds far above the heights of Queenston. • King John and the Italians. The news comes frcm Aden that King John is tired of penning the Italians up in itssowah, and he desires the mediation of Queen Victoria in the qtarrel that he and his white neighbors are engaged' in. King John evidently expected to scare the Itali- ans away from the Red Sea coast, but after they had been there two years, and had repeatedly announced that they were there to stay, they could not leave at the com- mand of a half savage prince without ap- pearing ridiculous, and so they have been preparing co fight it out. They have been free to retreat by sea, but on the land side they have for some menthe been cooped up in Massowah, and with fresh supplies of troops and munitions they are now supposed to be preparing to scatter King John's dusky solclieey now camped round the little neck of land that joins Massowah ta the main- land. The Italianhave repeatedly declared that they have no covetous designs upon any part of Abyssinia. If they can con- vince King John of their sincerity it is liko. ly that he will leave them alone to work out their destiny in East Africe, a destiny which effete no alluring prospect of any Speedy returns for the immense outlay they are making. e leisure of joints) the " Household in Andrew Carnegie in Uinbtirgli• Andrew Carnegie, the big 18oa maz of Pittsburg, has been doing the patron aid schoolmaster to the good folks of 0, Auld Reokie," and he has, beyond any doubt given then" With his coppers a good deal et very plain spoken csunsel as well as Tito= cannot but add, a good meesure of vulgar, seveggering insolence, a la t1f0 ignorant, self•sufficient man that has made money and is bent on making a grand splurge so that men may marvel and admire. The pebple of Dunfermline hate for ages been noted as the most impudent outspoken set of persons in the whole kingdom of Fife, if not in the whole kingdom of Scotland. They have been ultra-Radi- caltime out of mind, and they have prided themselves upon their outspoken ness on all occasions. ,,No fear of thorn call- ing a spade a "horticultural implement." In that crowd of impudent, hovering; outspok- en, intelligent, and illbied radicals, Andrew Carregie's uncle, of whom he brags so much, bore for a generation confessedly, and on all hands, the b11. If a candidate had to be "heckled," if a Lord had to be insulted, if something that required special power of face had to be said or done, Toomey Morris, as he was ,esuelly called for short, was by all odds the man for the job. There must theo be ' sconething in heredity after all, for here comes in that man's Ile, phew, withhis American dollars and "cheek," and he brags to the Edinburgh folks how he said to himself when they refused to adopt the Pubhc Library Act, "I'll make th change that," and how he did do this offering them $250,000 on- condition th they should rescind theirformer resolutio And how they did as he bade them, a how he had cone to, redeem his promise laying the foundation stone of library, and at the same time that could not help telling them that they we a poor, miserable set oft, fellows, a that they needed Americans to show the something like genuine liberality. Not on that he could not but tell them when th hands were full of his money and their 11 accordingly closed against protest, that t institutions of their country were of t most contemptible kind imaginable, a that they would never prosper till they h came republicans and grew public men and benefactors of the type of which the said Andrew Carnegie was such a bright and shining example. In ehort, the whole addrese was pitched in a key that reminded people of one who had risen from the slums and who thought that he had a right to hector round and talkimg because he had paid for the privilege by bestowing on the beggarly Scots of the Northern 1VIetropolis some fifty thousand pounds: in order to brighten up the ignorant barbarism of those benighted regions by helping even the poorest to read books for nothing. It was altogether quite like what was to be expected from th Uncle's nephew and the nephew's ideal. genuine American, who did not eriginall hail from the land of cakes, or special] from the," guid teen Dumfarlin," coul not help publicly putting in his caveat, an this is how it was dents— "e' ''• " Edinburgh, July 9;1887. We hope he W learn and that thus he will makeall his econino lifts more beauti. fully. attractive by the ino est, self -forgetful epitit in vvhieli they will be beetowed. Oh how the " auld Reekians " must have winced under the insolent, swaggering bluster of this csuondam, Dunfermline, beg- gar -boy and how they must have been tempted to threw his gift in his face and to sey, ," Go to the miechief with your dollars marl dragooning. ' Even patience tionae- times ceaeee to be a virtue, end it must have required au effort in this caee to have let that pittleuce have it e perfeet work. Well, well.' They had the coppers and they eeem to have thought that upon the Whole it was better to take the accompany; ing cuffs in a meek and quiet way, " like, in short, as an old writer has it, weari- ed child," though to be sure, even a "weari- ed child" squeals considerably when slapped with too great severity." Cathedral of ,Loreto. Priests, in crimeen,cessooks and exquisite lace embroidery over their cassocks, go to and fro relieving each other in their perpet- ual labors within the shrine, and engaged in confessing those who wish to present them- selves to the Santa Casa unburdened by guilty feers. A guide soon fastened upon me within the building. As a rule, guides are not welcome to me • but I accepteld this men's stervices, and he fed me with some de- gree of pomp:els clatter through the groan- ing pentitents, round the Santa Casa, and em , into the Holy Place itself, "Look 1" he by said in a whisper, pointing toward the altar, at which denied the eyes with its blaze of 23, lights, and coruscating reflections from the nd facets of the many jewels which gleamed by from the altar furniture—" Maria 1" There, his sure enough, by the side 46f the head of the he priest, I saw the curious little effigy which re goes by the name of the Virgin of Loreto. nd It is a bell-shaped piece of cedar wood aboet m four palms in height, the head (or neck of le the•bell) being carved into theeseinblance of eh- a woman and a child. No less & person than •ps he hend e - Saint Luke is the reputed author of the work, and he is supposed to have studied it from the life. Accepting this belief, it may be imagined how the worshippers of Loreto • feel when they set eyes on this little image, which is gilt and mounted with diamonds and emeralds and rubies. When the French sacked Northern Italy, as they afterward sacked the whole of Spain, the vast treasure of Loreto did not escape them. They strip ped the cathedral of all its valuables; and, among other things, the Virgin of Loreto, with her diamonds and emeralds, was trans- orte d to Peris. From 1797 to 1801 the lit - le figure of cedar wood/stayed in captivity like Pius VII. himself. But in 1801 the captive Pope obtained possession of it, and eventually returned it to Loreto, with a magnificent apparel of pearls, brilliants, emeralds, and topazes, and it was welcomed A with tears of joy by the priests and people. y Since then the treasury has been so well y eared for by the opulent faithful that, in a d spite of assertions to the contrary, its wealth d can be little less than it was previous to the 183 a BieCal Of a 0011let Prone an illuetrated paper By William Earl Hidden, in the August Century, we quote as follows : There hae recently come into my possession eho ninly iron meteorite whose fall to the earth has been obSerVed- It is', moreover, the hist meteorite whith seems to evidence a direet conxtectien with a ster shower. The mass ecquires still further intereet from the fact that it is presumably a fragment of the lemons comet of 13iela, A brief accouut of this celestial wonderer will doubtlees be of interest to readers. Astronomers have waited patiently for the fall to the earth's surface, at the time of the periodical starshowers, of something tangible, but until now they have waited in vain. In looking over a considerable amount of astronornical literature, only one record can be found of the falling of a body to the earth at such a time ; this was near Paris, on the 105h of April, 1094, when "many shooting -stars were seen, and a very large one was said to have been found on the ground as a glowing substance." Frorn the 24th to the 29th of November, 1885, the earth was passing through a train of meteors that proceecla from the cone stedation Andromeda., and once formed a part st Biela's comet. These meteors are now known to astronomers as Andromedes or Nell& The maximum of this shower occurred on the 27th, while it was syet broad daylight over America, and at an hour corresponding to 11. A M, at Maza,pil, 1VIexico. Thus, at the tbne of the fall of this meteorite, tea hours after the maxi- mum number of meteors was observed, the earth was meeting with only the stragglers of the train. It cannot be doubted that the cosmical dust proceeding from the disintegration of Biela's Comet wholly en- veloped the earth and was seen as meteors from every peat of it. Sach was the ma,gn.i- ficence of the celestial phenomenon that m some parts of the Eastern Continent un-. educated people believed there would be no stars left in the sky. Of the countlese host of meteers which edema the earth's path on this 27th of November, only oue is as yet known to have reached the earth's surface, and this fell near the village of 1VIazapil, m the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, at about 9 o'clock in the evening. It is tof the rare iron -nickel variety, and weighs ten and a quarter pounds troy. This meteorite was presented to me by Sr. Jose A. Y Bonilla, Director -Professor of the Zacatecas Obeervatory, who received it, five days after its fall, from the ra,nchrean who sew it descend from the heavens. This le:nehmen related •the strangegeccur- rence as followstranslated from the Spathsh "It was at about 9 o'cleck on the night of November 27th, when I went out to feed certain horses; suddenly, t heard a loud ening noise, exactly as though soinething red-hot was being plunged into cold water, nd almost instantly there followed a some- what loud thud. At once the corral was overed with a phosphorescent light, while depredations of the French. DEAR Mn, Canamera; The writer is a native American atonasent residing inthi LifeenthellOon. 8 city, who, though proud of your generous There is reason for thinking that the moon gift to Edbabtirgh, is yet grieved:and veXed is not absolutely airless, and, while it has o ies o water, its sod may, at the sad lack •of tact and delicac which • • ble ytou showed in eeizing upon this, of all ceps • after all, not be entirelY fired end desiccated. sieae and yellow lade,. the 'majority of the *Arcata el ethe Scot.tiell ,people, and `tee ible changes 'in certain 'spot ti that could budding girlhood. .The present senior maid is thelion. Harriet Lepel Phipps, a cousin of the •Marquis of ;Noemandy. Mies •IShippelvilinever,see /hen sfoitysfifeh birth- - again. The Efeneafrances Itee:rinmoith; le daughter of7iseinint,Strailialle*,*thirty ,ThellOneEth40,8„MitiaOliaii born 185a, whichiStete- t; -three 1 Without regard te the, feelings ,of ybiir audi- , .. . . tori. You should have remembered that Edinburgh pimple eccupiedstoward yen the ' "delicate position °fleeing your entertainers, 1 ' and, 'bore all, the are the recipients of your gift: . Itwolild not have' become them loudly and pgsitivelyeto :haveldisputed Yotir expressed opinion, however theyemight differ Sninneersseatid.the itli,daallikeover, a i n belief from you. It certainly did n,ot 18 cane you to exercise our traditional Amehi- an right of boasting! to such an unlimited xtent, and all at the expense of this coma - 1y. It is not usually considered good tate, believe, to offer a man a gift with one hand nd seize the occasion to slap his face with he other, and yet this is very like what you aye done on this occasion." niece of e LicrY WaterPar pe fy 'whose in- I d fluence she got the appointment, is only ' c twenty-sevexiIiindon lettear. e ees t i • . I 1 • Alcohol tind. the Human System. a In the forty-fifth annual report of the t Registrar General of F,ngland and Wales, h there is a supplement which gives a tabu- lated view of the returns of deaths during 6 187080, with remarks on the varied health- .eg iness of different occupations and especially " on the influence of alcohol upon the human 181 These conclusions and statements at are not drawn or made for any special pur- pose. They are unimpassioned official re- Iv Writs and declarations, and have to do with nothing but facts. Here is what is said :-- " " The mortality of men who are directly After telling this purse -proud, vulgar up tart that wealthy Americans were not more enerous and philanthropic than wealthy iitains, and that what he had said against onarchieel institutes was in the circuity. &noes "pure, unmitigated rubbish," the tne writer mentions some few of those ho, among many of Britain's sons had °floured themselves by princely and mo - est liberality, and then be went on in the following fashion to use great plainness of speech "Such are a few of the names from among the many public benefactors' in this coiuu. try, the listsof whom might be indefinitely swelled. Not one of them attemPted to use his wealth, as you term it, "to found a family," and four out of the number men- tioned belong to that nobility which you characterized in your Friday evening speech as composed of this dissolute peer and that infamuus scoundrel," men who are only fit to live in the Canongate—that is, the slums of Edinbu gh. "Such rant as that, Sir, defeats its own purpose, and only exhibits your own ignor- ance on the subject, and your exceeding bad taste, even if it —ere all true, in introducing it on such an occasion. All honour to our noble Americanphilanthropists, in admira- tion of whom I yield to no one, but pray do not let us, by instituting invidious compari- sons, lay ourselves open to the suspicion that ha the matter of benevolence we are not satisfied to give so that our left hand shall not know what our right hand doeth, but to appear as if we wished by crowing over other nations to proclarm that in benevolence also we lick creation.' rn view of known facts, I must confess that your next sarcastic thrust at the aristocracy seemed rather ridiethous. You said—' Not that I condemn evety ram that is so unfortunate as to be born and doomed to live in a community, under the knowledge all the gine that he is enjoying privileges which his fellow -citizens not enjoy with him. They cannot help Very magnanimous of yon, certainly, cherish no anhnosity against them; but are you so sure that you are not in the same category with these much-to.be-pitied in- dividuals? "Do you net enjoy privileges which your fellow -citizens do not enjoy? You said you had travelled the world over. Hove many of oth fellowecitizons et home can enjoy that privilege? I suppose you keep your car- riage, possess a fine residence, have evident- ly some leisure to travel, and can have the luxury, for 11 10 a luxury, of giving large sums for charitable purposes—in all which you are enjoying privileges which the Vast majority of our fellow -citizens do not possess wi'tchWY°huat more can the highest peer • Of this realm enjoy except a title which, unless he hits the wealth to baek it up, is as barren and useless to him who owns it as if he were o poor white' in America, and dubbed by courtesy Co,p'n,' Judge,' or Colonels" YAndrewes, Mr. Andrew Carnegie is not as yet, at any tate, one of those men who do good by stealth and blesh to And it lane." ' concerned in the liquor trade, as brewers, nn -keepers, publicans, inn and hotel ser- vants and malters, is appalling. The com- parative mortality figures are as follows, 1000 being used as a standard or fair aver- age : Brewers, 1361 ; all dealers in spirits, wines and beer, 1521' ; inn and hotel ser- vants, 2205 For /masters'who are only concerned with the materials and not with the liquor itself, the figure is 8:i0." The Report proceeds farther to say :—It is well, whenever the opportunity offers itself, to test the accuracy of our death rates by conmarison with data derived from inde- pendent sources, and in the case of the innkeepers and publicans such comparison is possible. By the experience of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society (1826-1876) the mortality of males occupied in this business was 68 per cent. in excess of the actuaries' or healthy male table and 49 per cent, in excess of the Eng- lish life table. This result tallies very closely with fignres in our table when it appears that the mortality of the inn- keepers and publicans is 52 per 'cent. above the present mortality of Wales. That this terrible mortality is attributable to drink mightbe safely asumed aspi iori, • but the figuresi render it ncontestable. The mortality attributed to alcoholism itself is far higher for inn -keepers and publicans than for any other indostry and more than five times as high as the average : that for brewers falls far short of this, but neverthe- less is the next highest to that of inn keep. do ers with the single exception of that of cab it.' men. Under the heading "liver diseases " 1 to the mortality of inn keepers is no less than six thnes as high as the average and more than twice as high as that of brewers and of butchers who come next in order in thig respect to in keepers. * * "There are in short no organs apparently that are not more or less seriously damaged by the ex. cessive use of alcoholic liquors though the liver appeare to suffer the most." All thia, and a great deal more of eimilar character, pointing to the font thet alcohol is the most 'skint of drinks in all that relates to the circulation of the blood in those organs whoae vitality and function most depend upon the perfectness of such flow. When a bashful young man finds himself in company where there is a creamy infant of ten months, the expression of his Leo when the proud mother thrusts her tendei offspring at him with the remark? "Baby, kiss the nice gentleman," may be imagined, but it cannot be counterfeited. posslblybe causedby vegetation, and ther are other observations which suggest' th display of electric luminosity in a rarefie atmosphere covering the moon. To deelar that no possible form of life can exist unde the conditions prevailing upon the lune, surface would be saying too much, fo human intelligence can not set bounds creative power. Yet, within the isnitso life, such as we know them, it is probabl safe th assert that the moon is a dead in deserted world. In other worda, if a rac of beings resembling ourselves, or resem bling any 'of our contemporaries in terres trial life, ever existed upon the moon they Mint longsince have perished. Tha suspended in the air were small luminous sparks as though from a rocket. I had not recovered from •my surprise before I saw this luminous air disappear, and there re- manied.on the ground only such a light as is made • when a match is rubbed. A nuniber of people came running toward me from the neighboring houses, and they assisted me in quieting the horses, which I had become very much excited. We all asked each other what could be the matter e• and we were afraid to walk in the corral for d fear of being burned. When, in a few e moments, we had recovered from our fright, ✓ we saw the light disappear, and bringing ✓ lanterns to look for , the cause, we found a ✓ holein the ground and in it a baill of light. th We retired to a distance, fearing • it would explode and harm. us. Looking ,up to the , sky, we saw from time totinfe exhalations a or stars, which then went out without e noise. We returned after a little, and found in the hole a hot stone 'which we , could barely handle ; this on the next day, we sew, looked liken. piece of iron. All t, night it rained stars, but we saw, none fall such beings may have existed is possible particularly if it is true, as generally be lieved, that the moon once had a compar- atively dense, atmosphere and water upon its surface, which have now, in the proces of cooling of the lunar globe, been with drawn into its interior. • It certainly does not detract from the interest with which we study the rugged. and beautiful scenery of the moon to reflect that if we could visit those ancient sea -bottoms, or explore those littering mountains we might perchance nd there some remains or mementoes of O race that flourished, and perhaps was all gathered again to tis fathers, before man appeared upon the earth. to'the ground, as they all seemed to be extinguished while not very high -up." Upon further inquiry we learn that there was no explosion or detonation Ireercl, an& e that the mass penetrated the earth only to „ a depth of twelve inelies. This very circum- stantial account leads us to believe that this meteorite is the first one to be secured and preserved that has come to the earth fluring a star shower. eseasseceseete, Military. Dogs. . The Stars. No more beautiful picture can be seen than the starlit sky presents on a cloudless night when there is no moon to dim the lustre of the stars. The heavens seem to be alive with these glittering points, sparkling like jewels.' A few among them are large and brilliant, a greater number are of me- dium size; the rest, ,and by for the larger portion, are so small as to be barely visible. Every star that twinkles in the sky is a • sun, a great globe of fire, like our sun, but so far away that it looks like a mere golden point. The largest of the shining throng is Sirius, the bright star that comes up in the southeast on winter nights. It is supposed to be tevc hundred times as large as our sun, but is so distant that it takes its light six- teenyears to reach the earth. If Sirius were suddenly destroyed it would be seen shining in the sky for sixteen years to come. Many stars are smaller than the nearest star, is only a star of mediu he m asitzne., wMie our great sun himself, seen from t It seems almost impossible to count the stars, but this ha,s been done over and over again. The total number visible to the naked eye of an observer endowed with average visual power is leas than six thousand. So aceurately ha,s the estimate been made that it is asserted that twenty-four hundied and seventy eight stars are visible in the northern hemisphere and thirty-three hun- dred and sei ven n the southern hemisphere. A good opera -glass will bring out twenty thousand. A small telescope will show one hundred and fifty Commend. The most powerful telescopes will reveal tnore than one hundred millions. A Lucky Guess. Some time ago a gigantic ballooe was in - flitted with gas near itotheeay, in the is- land of Bute, bat before all was ready it broke away from its moorings and shot miles into the air. Eventually ibburst and fell near a gardener's eatage at Port Ban- natynce The enormette extent of silk which composed the balloon had completely cover- ed the little tottege, euddenly and tinex- peetedly enveloping it in worse than Egypt- ian darkness. "Oh, John, John," said the gardener's wife, "it's the judgement day at last, and I've my auld cla,es on 1" " Non - !Sense, woma,n," !laid John, " it's just " a disruption somewhere.' Among the thousand and one inventions, appliances, and wonderful uses of men and • beasts which German genius has devised to dekeat France in case General Boulanger's successor becomes unpleasant, the dog plays O significant role, employed, as he is, as mes- senger and sentinel. Experiments have been made for nearly a year now, and have proved highly satisfactory. The dog maneu- ver of the Hunter battalion was decidedly the most interesting of the recent campaign. Several regiments have been furnished with the German shepherd dogs, known for their , wisdom the world over. Each one is attach- ed, so to speak, to the person of a soldier, in whom the dog soon recognizes his master, and who conducts his training. While doing duty, the dog is kept with the senti- nel, and easily karts the requirements of his post A few of the experiments per- formed before Colonel von der Goltz Pacha, who represented the Sultan at the ninetieth birthday of the Emperor, and has since re- mained to witness the reviews, were surpris- ing. A soldier, taking the dog from the sentinel, marched off on a reconnoitering ex- pedition. After writing his observations, and plaeing them in a cask about the neck of the brute, the latter was told to return to Ms master, which he did in an astonish- ingly short time. One dog employed in this soerrevicae jaororoivoetdedatuhhilsepoosethtmerngeminutes inwuittehs tbhee- fsame instructions, though the latter rode at desperate speed. But even more than this was accomplished. With a meseage tied about the neck, as in the former case, the dog was told to seek a distant sentinel and bring a returit answer. This he did with great speed, carrying his message directly to his master without fail. It is little wonder that Paella Goltz was surprised at the Suc- cess of the experiments given in his honor, And they are truly wonderful for the pre - tent, though bidding fair to become a com- monplace institution in that great machine the German` army. The consequencee and possibilities of the shepherd dog service are apparent to all who know anything of military science, alicl make their eitation superfluous. One thing is =thin, that a fu- ture war between Germany and any of its heighten will not be coticlucted without ite dog regiment, which, though not ernpleyed in concerted action, will perform service more valuable than the cats of ancient Egypt. The clays of the book agent are number- ed. A Germi German firm has nvented a steel - clad bullet that will penetrate our inches of brass.