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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-10-29, Page 6TIDE EXETER TIMES H. DItl1 SON, Barrister, Soli - 4 •actor of Supreme court, Notaty Fablle, oonvayanoer, Oommteatouer, Seo MMotley to Loan:. °Biotite auson'sBtook.11z;eter, p H. COLLINS, THE WESTERFIELD SCAR tar -Aster, Solicitor, Conveyancer, Etc, IsIETEIt, - ONT. DFF1GFl : Over O'NeiLe Sant.. of bu in m sto th ni La On fr rif I T wl th th to W T hi ed ri th ee T m j tl th a to g fa c h e 1i Y H a f W o e) t a i s e a t p a 1 s t ELLIOT 84 ELLIOT, Barristers., Solicitors, Notaries Public, Oonveyanoers &o, c&60. to Loan at Lowest Rates of interest. D1'FIOE, . MAIN - STREET, EXETER. Hansell every Thursday. . S. V. ifLLIOT. FREDE1tIOK ELL10 . en wsloom wt� soma MEDICAL T W.B.ROWNING M. D., M. 0 ex • P, ti, Graduate Victoria IIntvo:s ty office and residence, Dom:elan Lebo a toly,Expter, B. RYNDMLN; coroner for l.Ia County of Huron, Onioe. opp,aits Carling Bras. store, Exeter. IRn,ROLLIN ado AMOS, parate Offices. 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To insure insertion, advertisements rhouid be tent, in not later than Wednesday morning. Our JOB PRINTING 17 1PARTMENTis of the largest and best equipped in the County of Huron, All work entrusted to us will etive our prompt attention. Dentate -us Itegardtns Newspapers. 1—Ally person who' takes a paper regularly from the post office, whether directed in name or another's, or whether he has sub- scribed or not, is responsible for payment. o. re...,..nn nrders hie rarer discontinued cite re - his BY T. W. MIGHT. furnace in which the fire had begun to burn low bad beets opened for a lit- tle while. As before, it was visible for a space of from two to three min- utes, and then it disappeared as instan- taneously as it had. come. Then and there I made up my mind to solve the mystery, if it were possible for human ingenuity to do so. The first step,towards doing so was evidently to take up my watch in the churchyard itseltf. This. however, I was unable to do for some nights to .come. in consequence of my father's illness having taken a turn for the worse which made it undesirable that I should be out of call. The first night it seem- ed safe for me to leave him, I let my- self quietly out of the house about half -past ten o'clock., I had my father's key with nae, which admitted me into the churchyard through one of the side doors. I was warmly wrapped up m a dark overcoat, and wore on my head a close -fitting cap. I had provided my- self with a stout cudgel, in view of any possible encounter at close quar- ters. Threading my way cautiously among the graves, I presently took up a position between two large family tombs which I had previously fixed up- on. The point to be borne hi mind was that I should be able to see while myselt remaining unseen. A lit- tle way behind me was a tall head- stone, but in front there was nothing but a few lowly mounds between my - she elf this portiere Lady Deere's long gras , with d the abbey. h my backusupportedin tby aid presently appeared on the scene, one of the tombs, L began my watch in as the rascal vas in the act of with such patience as I could summon fling the jewel -case. For a moment to my aid. Now and than 1 raised 10Y - he two stood confronting each other, seg: cauasusty and it windless, around. pil- e was starlit said windless, and hen, with 'something between a snarl around me reigned silence the most air at a cry, the man -ape took one stride sulutte. Eleven o'clock boomed forth in dwards the woman, who thereupon tower, and themusket n throes from what. seemed to ave utterance to a loud scream and mea space as long as three or four inted. The only description she ordinary hours, midnight. struck. 1 co • afterwards give of hila was that had raised my head and moulders above e was exactlylike a huge monkey, the ler-el ot• the tombs tux about the hundredth time, when suddenly my xcept that he stood perfectly upright eyes were taken by a dark mokabta oU- ke a human being. ject fauniy outlined by the starlight. A detective came down from Scotland i hatever it might be, it was advancing swiftly, and apparently in a direct line ard, and after lingering about Deere towards me. My head went down again Buse and its neighborhood for nearly in an instant; I drew closer to the fortnight, was soca no noir, tomb, and grasping my cudgel more Then Lady Dacre, in her turn, of- tightly, kepi. my ofyemfixed e. alf( it dozen Bred a reward, this time of fifty seconds later a human. toren passed ounds, for "such information as swiftly across my lute of vision, which, ouid," &e.; but must people were of in mY crouching position, was bound - f me. inion that nothing would come of it. by the tomb on each sale o p The figura had coma and gums almost ren as nothing had come of Squirt) while 1 had time to draw a breath-- I}ailisou's offer. Meanwhile, the urea- come and gone, too, without a around, ore was at its pranks again, as au- fur nog E11e faintest noise of footsteps had reached my ears—but that might dations as aver.. And yet, as people perhaps be accounted for by the tact eked themselves in dismay, what was that it was walking on the grass. Hard- s if 11 raised myself had itpassed before i t ) 1. possible to do nailer circtiuiat.aincea Y ee o o unprecedented that not even the old- cautiously and peered the way it lead el inhabitant could remember the like gone; but already •l had vanished—the uarkness had swallowed it up as own - them! It seemed as if the whole pletely as if it had never been. 1 wait- ed an Lull half-hour longer, but saw no- thing more. My watch next night proved of no avail; but the night following that I was more fortunate. I had taken up the same position as befure; midnight had struck; a cold wind swept over the churchyard and moaned drearily among the tombs. I was chilled through and through. At length 1 said to myself: "I will wait another quarter of an hour, but not a moment longer." Scarcely had the words passed my lips when all at once I saw again the same faint disc of yellow light which I had Been twice already from my bedroom win- dow. Now that I was closer to it, it shone out more clearly than before; still, I was utterly puzzled to know whence it emanated- It was not much raised above the level of the ground, and seemed as if it might proceed from the interior of some tomb, and yet I re- membered no tomb just there which could have been made to serve such a purpose. 1 found. that I had somewhat miscalculated its position, that is, as- suming it to be m the same position I sawit first,which was a as when about, point I could not be quite sure abo , and that from the place where I now was I could only obtain a side -view of it. If I wanted to find out more about it, I must get nearer to it, be the risk whatever it might. CHAPTEit 71, After this, nothing was scen or hoard the man -ape for upwards of a week; t then came a piece of startling news dead. Lady Deere's mansion, which as situated about a mile and a hall ygxid the town boundary, had been ken into, and jewelry of the esti- ted ted value of three hundred pounds Olen therefrom. From the evidence. are seemed little or no doubt that the an -ape was the thief. It appeared that while the family were at dinner, dy Deere's dressing -room, which was the second floor, bad been entered oma the window and the jewel -case led. The window ill question over- kedooa lawn at the back of the house. Th • wall outside was thickly covered th ivy, said to be nearly as old as e house itself, by the aid of which e thief had doubtless been enabled reach the window. A shaded lamp as burning in the room at the time. Tb robber, in order, no doubt to secure msele from interruptions, had lock - the door which opened into the cor- der, but had omitted to notice that e dressing -room was only divided om the bedroom by a portiere. ooats, and wrapping my cloak about me. I lay down upon them. Any passerby who might have observed the by that dim light would merely have taken me for one mound more among the scores that surrounded me. Eleven o'clock—midnight. Ten min- utes later the mysterious light shone suddenly out, clear and steady ; but this time I was not more than twenty yards away and in a direct line with at. My theory was verified. The Light proceeded from a. small circular grated opening in the outer wall of the abbey about a couple of feet above the level of the ground outside. The aperture in question was an air -hole, or it might even be called an unglazed window, to the family vault of the Deromes of Standish, one of our great county fam- ilies. This vault, like three or four others pertaining to families of das- tinetion, had originally been formed by enclosing a portion of the crypt, which at one time had extended under nearly the whcee of the abbey. Access could be had from the churchyard to any of these vaults by means of a low-browed iron -studded door, bellow the level, and reached by a descent of three or four steps. But whenever a funeral. took place, a portion of the flooring of the abbey immediately over the required vault vas removed, and the body lower- ed to its last resting plaoe below. I now found the value of my opera - glass. By its aid, a certain section of the interior of the vault was clearly visible to me. On a ledge behind the grating a lamp was burning Close by stood a man with one of the most un - Prepossessing and evil -looking faces it has ever been my lot to behold. He was elute -shaven, and his short blank hair came down to a point in tl`ie mid- dle of his forehead. When he lifted his head for a moment as if to observe the flame of the lamp, I was able to see that he had a cast in his right eye, and the healed scar of some old wound or gash in. his upper lip. He wore a sort of loose pea -jacket, which just now was unbuttoned, exposing a portion of his chest, whack was thickly matted with long brown, coarse hair, as it might be the chess: of some wild animal. A thrill ran through me from head to foot. I could no longer doubt that. I was on the track of te mastery which had baffled. all Westerfield for three months past. What ought I to do? What step ought I to take next. ? If I could but be the means of bringing this scoundrel to justice! If I could but succeed in securing the reward! • tee all, how soon and by what a angular chain of events it. was des- ired to be pec an end to. My father's house, which was the end ane of a, row of cottage tenements all alike in size and appearance, might "be •ard seeing churchyard, the � said to abut on Y hat it was only divided from the wall which enelosed the latter by a gravell- d footway. From the batik of our house. and following the line of the hurchyard, ran the high wall which on that. side shut in the old grammar sehoul and its playground. Along the Masa of the churchyard flowed. the lit- tle river lien. On the farther side, shrouded by its elms and beeches, stood the vicarage; while on the fourth side was the main entrance, with its beau tiful wrought -iron gates, 0L which the u ' justly proud. d. were us P p ole Y t In the gable end. of my father's cot- rage was a window whioh looked full on to the churchyard; it was 'the win- dow of my bedroom. One night when my father had been more restless than usual and unable to sleep, 1 sat up with him for company's sane till be - ween the. h.. g twelve and one tween room, t rt) , went o ' I my ' n at length �Z he g 1 went without a light. It was too Pate to think of reading, and I could undress as well in the dark as not. I o in los and stood g bind drew up the• 1 out for a tittle while, not thinking much of what 1 was doing, but rather ondtwed e beforeg1 howlongg be abletime to get back to Mr. Ayscough and my beloved flow- ars. Then, all at once my eye was caught by something which broke up my waking dream in an instant, and. Drought me back to the place and the hour with a sort. of shoos;;. What I saw was a faint yellow disc of light, evidently emanating from somewhere in the churchyard, and nearly an a line with my window. All the stories I had heard about the man -ape flashed at once across my mind. Alotionless and almost breathless, I stood and watch- ed the light which shone with a faint steady glow, and never varied its posi- tion by as much as a hair's breadth. For a space of about two minutes I stood thus without taking• my eyes off it; and then all at once it was gone, and though I stayed watching for up- wards of an hour longer, I saw it no more. 1 said no word. to any one of what I had seen; but next morning I made a careful examination of that portion of the churchyard which was visible from the window of my room. Not the slightest sign or token did I find of any unhallowed midnight intruder. The grass grew rank and green on the quiet graves; tombstones of various shapes and sizes were scattered about as if they, had been dropped at random, but nowhere was there anything which told of any recent living presence. There was an old right of way through the churchyard; but as it led to no- where. in particular but the river, it was but little used- At sundown the gates were locked, and remained so till morning. My curiosity bad been so much ex- cited, that the next' night found me on watch at my window again; but al- though I at there in the dark and cold far upwards of two hours, my pa- tience went unrewarded. The same thing happened next night Then I . made up my mind that should the third night prove as fruitless as the first and trouble- m second bed dtwae I w my - sett no further in the matter. Butthat third night, and dose upon the game hour, I beheld again the appearance which had so pp'uzz1ed me: before; a sub- dued, yellow Iigfi t, or radiance, almost like aharvest •morn seen through a haze, only not, perhaps, quite so targe. It was as though the member 'door of a ha mug ay all arrears or "tie publisher may continue to send it until the payment is made, mount Whether ab. t and then e he whale a call the paper is taken trom,fhe office or not. 3• --fn suits for subscriptions, the suit may be ria pub- lished, paper .laza where D a' dinthe P P n. ilio eP 3 4 lashed, ;although the Mubscriber may reside hundreds of miles arose. 4—The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers or perlodieals from the post office, or removing andleaving'them uncalled for, is prima faote evidence of intentional fraud. In my excitement I had risen to MY knees, and was still gazing with tbe glass to my eyes, when a shrill cry rent the six close behind me. 1 was on my feet. in an instant. I had heard no one approach. but not more thana yard or two away stood. a woman; evidently the long grass had deadened the sound of her footsteps. I was nearly as much startled as she was, but there was no time for thinking or wondering. Scar- cely had her cry shattered the silence, before the light in the vault disappeared and scarcely was I on my feet before the woman had screamed. out: "Bill, we are betrayed I" Then was I aware of a sec- ond figure springing towards me over the grass, which I knew could be none other than the man I had seen in the vault. and I felt that I was on the point of being attacked; but my cudgel was on the ground and I was entangled in the long cloak, and before I had time to do more than fling up one arm in- stinctively, there came a crashing blow on my head which felled me like a senseless log. eW hen I came to myself 1 was in dark- ness. My head ached as it bad never ached before, and my dazed senses re- fused for some time to tell me more than that I was alive and in great pain. Little by little, however. the evening's incidents began to recall themselves brokenly to my memory, so that, after a time, I was able to piece them into a consecutive whole up to the point of. my having been struck on the head and rendered unconscious. But what had befallen ma after that ? Where was 1 now ? By-and-by I contrived to sit up and stare around. Everywhere dark- ness the most profound. I was chilled to the marrow and ached in every limb. The atmosphere I breathed was cold, but not with the fresh frosty coldness of the open air ; it was the coldness of a place long shut up, which no sunlight ever penetrated ; there was about it, too, a damp earthy flavour which could almost be tasted. Then all at once it flashed across me that the place in which I was could be none other than the vault of the Deromes. Scarcely had this conclusion forced itself on me when the abbey clock struck three, the sound reaching me with a sort of muffl- ed clang from somewhere overhead. 1 had lain there unconscious since a lit- tle after midnight. Presently I contrived ed to getuP upon m myhead felt strange- ly tr e- an ly dfeet,izzalthoughand I s meto have no proper control over my limbs. Once before, when a schoolboy, I had been be the Dertmie vault with my father, and I had a olear recollection of what it was like; for it was a part of my father's duties to visit each of the vaults, as a matter of form. two or three times a yeas. I knew that, ranged around me on their black marble slabs, lay some score or more of dead and gone Deromes in their leaden coffins cased. with oak. But it was ,a thought that had no ter�- rors' for hie. All my life I had been too familial with death and the grave to feel myself thrilled by any touch of the supernatural or any ghostly fears, even now when I knew m what place I was at that hour and alone. With groping outstretched arms I went forward slowly, step by step, till presently my fingers encountered a cold smooth substance, which I at once guessed to be one of the slabs already mentioned. All I had to do now in order to find the door was to keep on feeling my way forward, slab by slab, till I should reach it. My only fear was that I should find it locked, in which case I should be a prisoner, at the very least, for several hours to come. Happily, I found it merely shut to, and was able to open it without difficulty. Never in my life had. I felt more thankful than when I stumbled out of the last home of the defunct De- romes and found myself once more un- der the free sweet air of heaven. About six o'olock my story had been told to the superintendent of police, who was called out of his bad on purpose to hear it. Thanks to the description I was able to give of the fellow, both: he and his wife were arrested about a week later at Liverpool. The man proved to be a very notorious character, who was "wanted" for certain other 'offences against the ilaw, perpetrated in the south of England.. To him punishment was meted out in due course ; but the woman was acquitted, and it is chiefly from her after -confession that I am en- abled to supplement my own narrative with the following particulars. The woman in question was a native of Westerfield, and had at one time been employed as housemaid at Stan- dish, the seat of the Derome family. She had aftemwards gone to London, and had fallen m love with where she h married a worthless scamp, who in days circus,, Ina gone byhad been agymnast but had latterly, taken to.more dubious modes of learning a livelihood. . At length the hue -and ory after him be- came so hot that be determined to go intoclose hiding for sono,; time to come. I had seen nothing of the mysterious beicome and gone so being who bad strangely two nights before, but might he not appear at. any moment? It was needful to proceed with the utmost cau- tion. Slowly and carefully I began to creep forward Y fo ard an m hands and knees through the wet grass in the direction of the light. About balf-way to- wards the point for which I was make ing was a tali headstone; behind this I paused for a moment white I took a careful look round. I was on the point of setting out again when, cast- ing my eyes in the direction where the light had been but an instant before, L found it gone. Not the faintest glim- mer of it was to be seen. I waited where I was for half an hour longer, but nothing more came to pass. I could not sleep till long after 1 got to bed, but the next morning .1 had worked out a certain theory m my mind which I determined to put to the test at the earliest possible moment. Accordingly, in the course of the fore- noon, taking my tape with me, I made my way to that part of the churchyard where I had kept watch the night be- fore. Not knowing what unseen eye might be taking note of my movements, I proceeded to measure a space here and there with my tape, as though I were selecting a site for a grave ; in reality I was deciding on a spot for my next hiding -place. Just- thereabouts, as it happened, there were no large family tombs behind which might be found a convenient shelter, nothing, in fact, but a few scattered headstones and row after row of nameless graves. Such as the situation was, I must make the best of it. In the course of the day I went into the town, and from the tradesman who had tha care of the abbey clock I borrow- ed a powerful opera -glass, and from an undertaker a mourner's cloak long enough to shroud me from head to foot. I was now ready for my enterprise. The evening, however, brought wind and rain, which before midnight in- creased to a storm, and the next night proved nearly as bad; it would have been madness to take up•my .watch un- der such circ„metances. The third night was fair and clear, and at half - past ten I let myself out of the house, carrying with me not only my "inky cloak," but a couple of old overcoats to spread on the ground. I made my wt)stealthilyto the a,r tioulax head- stone Y p It out beforehand. stone T had marked was a very . old stone which had settled down a little on one suds so that it now stood somewhat aslant,t while the mound whose inmate it was intended to commemoratelead. by this time sunk nearly to the original level of the churchyard. Here I spread my over - In this emergency his wife bethought herself of 'the vault of the Deromes in her native town as it likely spot where her husband oould lie by till the heat of pursuit should have somewhat slack- ened. Her residence at Standish had made her acquainted with the existence of the vault, and she was aware that the big old-fashioned key always hung on a certain nail in the armoury. Hav- ing been somewhat of a favorite with the housekeeper at Standish, it seemed only natural, when she returned to Westerfield—wbee she gave herself out as a widow—that she should go up to the Hall to The her respects to that personage. rhe opportunity was uti- lised by her for purloining the key, which a second visit, made on some pre- text or other a day or two later, en- abled her to replace on. its nail before it had been missed. By this time she had engaged hum- ble lodgings in the town, and her hus- band had taken up his quarters in the vault. where he had a sufficiency of blankets and warm clothing, not to speak of a frequently replenished brandy flask, to keep him from suffer- ing from the chills and damps of his strange domicile. His food, which was bought in small quantities at different shops in the town, so as to avoid sus- picion, was conveyed to him by his wife at night; and as he knew exactly when to expect her, he placed his lamp m front of the grating, as a guide to her through the intricacies of the churehyard, the light being shut in at other times by auextemporised curtain. Both the man and his wife were aware that that side of the churchyard was overlooked by one window only, but as they never saw a light in it, they had come to 'the conclusion that the room to which it pertained was unoccupied. But not every night did the lamp shine through the grating. Sometimes the man met his wife at the low wall by the river, where there were no railings, and where easy access could be -had to the churchyard by day or night. It was only when he was too lazy, or otherwise disinclined for stirring out, that the signal was shown ; whereby, as eve have seen, came his own un - It04 ,would seem that in the course of the man's professional career he had more than once personated an apt, in a pantomime, and that he still retained the tight -fitting hairy dress and mask used by ham for that purpose. Tired. and no wonder, of his long days and nights in the company of the dead and gone Deromes, it had seemed no mare than a pleasant relaxation to the fel- low to scare and terrify the good people of Westerfield as they had never been terrified before and never have been since. When funds began to run low, an easy mode of replenishing them was found in the contents of Leidy Dame's jewel case. Doubtless means and op- portunities were not wanting for dis- posing of the diamonds and other r ggems which came into his possession an that occasion; in any case, none of them were found on hon at the time of his arrest. A few last wards and I shall have done. Not only were the rewards offer- ed by Squire Denison and Lady Deere paid over to me, but the townspeople subscribed among themselves a further sum on my behalf, so that, altogether, I was enabled to put away more than a hundred pounds into the savings - bank. Three montbs later I married. My father lived for some years longer, and although before his death he came to understand that he was the last member of the Holditch family who was likely to fill the post of sexton to the old abbey church, he was never quite reconciled to the necessity, neither could he be made to understand why his only son should have so fax degen- erated as not to feel a pride in follow- ing in the footsteps of so many of his progenitors. As long as he lived, Mr. Ayscough remained my true friend, and to him I owe much of the prosperity with which my later years have happily been crowned (The Dud). ELECTRIC STROKE. SOME PIES OF NOTE. They Bold a Prowldeut Place at the Lord slayer's ltangnet. Whatever may be the skill with which the nineteenth century pie is pre- pared, it is surely a very humble af- fair compared with those of early days. This is true not only as to ingredients, but as to size. When Charles I. and his Queen visited. Burleigh -on -the -Hill, the seat of the Duke of Buckingham, the latter served a unique pie. At the proper time during the great state feast a. pie the size of a trunk was brought in by fowr bearers and placed on the table. When the crust was pierced what was the surprise of every ens to find Jeffrey Hudson, the dwarf, squatting complacently beneath it. It is needless to say the pie was not of the hot or- der. Hudson was the dwarf who chal- lenged a gentleman of the court to a duel, and the gentleman appeared on the field of honor armed with a huge syringe. . The " human pie" has not been en- tirely unknown in our own times, as there are numerous tales of such dain- ties being served in. the Latin quarter of Paris. On several occasions favorite models have been served up in gigantic pies. At the banquets of the Lord Mayors of London pies have always had a prom- inent place on the menu. That these have been at tunes of Brobdignaggian propoetions is well attested by the fol- lowing recipe handed down front the sixteenth; century: ' Take eight marrow bones, eighteen sparrows, one pound potatoes, quarter pound erin oes (sea holly), two ounces lettuce stalks, forty chestnuts, half pound dates, one peck oysters, quarter pound preserved citron, three artichokes, twelve eggs, two sliced lemons, a ba.nd- ful of pickled bayberries, quarter ounce whole pepper, half ounce sliced nutmeg, half ounce whole cinnamon, quarter ounce whole cloves, half ounce mace, and quarter pound currants. Liquor, when it is baked with white wine, but- ter and sugar." It would seem quite impossible to imagine the taste of such a bekieg,but, it sounds very tootbsome. From the number of ingredients. one may infer that the author of the recipe put into the pie all the dainties he could call to mind at the time. Or it might be that the recipes for several pies became jumbled together by an madvertent The foregoing pie was rich, to say the least, but at is relatedthat an eccentric old English gentleman outdid it. He tenants ants e in habit fgivinghis en ansannual luncheon, ad t one of these feasts he bad served a simple bran pee. But the pie contained more golden gum - am than it did bran, and each tenant received a heaping spoonful. If not edible the lice was surely wholesome. In 'the latter part of the last cen- tury Sir Henry (Grey had concocted a pie that is well worth mentioning. It was shipped from Hawick, thence to Berwick, and from there on to London. It was made of the following ingredi- ents: ngredients: Two bushels of flour, twenty pounds of butter, four geese, two tur- keys, two rabbits, four wild ducks, two woodcock, six snipe, four partridges,two neat's tongues, two curlews, seven black- birds, anu six pigeons. The weight of this gastronome marvel was about 1(18 pounds and its circumference was nine feet. In order that the guests at Sir Henry's board might the more easily partake of the pie, it was placed upon a four -wheeled truck, which was wheel- ed about the banauet hall by two t soxngmen. 1n honor of the ,jubilee of Queen Vic- toria. in 1887 tbe inhabitants of Denby Dale, in Yorkshire, manufactured a great pie, ten feet long, six feet wide, and a foot thick. Tales of tbe doings of Eastern mon- archs are nearly always taken cum gran salts, but it is related that upon the occasion of his son's marriage a cer- tain Oriental potentate offered his guests a pee of rare make. It was serv- ed in a. bronze dish and the crust con- sisted of pure gold foil. The "meat" of the pie must have cost a fortune. as it was composed of nothing but precious stones. It Affects Workmen as Doers Fierce Sun Meat. One of the most extraordinary mod- ern diseases is a peculiar affection,most aptly termed electric stroke, which not infrequently befalls workmen employed in melting metals by means of electri- city. It appears from observations made at the great steel and iron works at Cruezot, that the intense voltage aro between the carbon and the metal to be melted emits rays which, even at the distance of ten meters, produce a pain- ful,t like -that hot prickingsensation, of burn, n sucuncovered portions of more thethroat,face and the as, body especially the forehea. The skin of the parts affected becomes either copper colored: or assumes a bronze hue; the eyes, m spite of black glasses, are so intensely dazzled as to be useless for some minutes after which xanthopsia (yellow vision) sets in,every- thing appearing, saffron colored, the conjunctive are inflamed, and there is a gritty feeling, as of sand under the eyelids. There is frequently great pain, accompanied often by sleeplessness, and in some 'instances, fever. After a few days these symptoms sub- side, and the skin of the effected parts peels and the . patient is restored to health. Nov, the remarkable thing about all this is that very little hetet is radiated from the electric arc used; all the trou- ble arises from the light rays, and al- though it bas not yet been experiment- ally proved, there can be little doubt that the blue and violet, that is. the chemical, rays are to blame. POINTED TOES. Pointed toes, says an English author- ity, are to disappear from boots and shoes before very long. It has been dis- covered that the shoe has to be very Fifty Years Ago. No theorybf germs to chill Affection's budding biasses; When ardent lovers took their 8i1. No microbes on their kisses. How happy they were not to know The germ -fad -50 years ago. rw.r.•n.v.,,,. 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The fibres of the cotton are finely powdered and sifted, and then suspended in water and allowed to set- tle. This they do in a compact mass forming a paste, which, allowed to dry slowly gives filter plates quite imper- vious to germs, &c. The best results are gained by placing the plates be- tween two plates of sandstone or per- forated metal, and if they are arranged in a battery, like the filter presses so commonly used in Europe for sewage, sludge, &c., very large quantities of wa- ter can be rapidly sterilized. Periodio- al cleanings are necessary, as no mat- ter wheat care is taken;. the rule which holds good in all other filters serving the same end, that the microbes are able to get through tbe filtering materi- al eventually by a process of growth, obtains. 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