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HEALTH.
Cute For GensumpSion, ,
It. is supposed (Sat tws unit red thousand
possum( die yearly ttf enitsumption in tlie
Coiled Stoles 'I he omelet. in all the worin
must rise Lido Wm millions The vtaste by
wat le 'Algid in the effiniscrison.
The groat plagues form srly tilled et0 lons
with terror ; hilt they aro wAV itigh con.
coteeerl, told nee knoWn Mainly .as matters
of history. l•ltri di pox Was a frightful dis.
eafte, ovon within Om present, eentory, hitt
is 'idly powerless to gain a foothohl any.
when in Cheistendoin,
Typhoid is still one of the mod common
fevers, bpi, it. is known to he 0, 111.411 disease,
atut has tdready been limited 10 its rouge,
Fuller and more intelligent attention to
hygiente conditions, private and publiu, may
yet drive it almost completely out of Wyllie.
cd lands.
1 t 1111,8 remained for medieal eeience to de-
vise some means foe arreeting the ravages of
consumption. Now ground for eneourage.
nient was found when the diseette was ahowil
tn be due to the work of microbes, and at
last Professor ISoch, the Cowman rack:Idiot,
bolievee that he has diacovered 1110 great do.
sideratunts—tt field which k file the pavissiteo
by destroying the food on which they live.
The publication of this disenvery has caus-
ed profoond exui foment throughout t lie meth
cid wor1(1,—an excitement gteatly inureased
by Peofessov very high reputation as
a nutn of soience,—tuul phyaieitont are has -
letting to Berlin from every quarter, to learn
anore fully the facts in the case.
le Penfessor ISoult's belief proves well
fnutirled, he will have become one of the
wort l's greatest benefoetors. NV0 must uot
be too stotguine, however, but await the re.
quit of mon protracted experiments.
The facts th us fnr established seem to bo
that, 0000 aftee the injection of the fluid, the
remelt and expectoration gradually lessen,
and 10 the most favorable 011905 wholly die-
anittiete rctiuLt.,11.00te,x1p.cettritIte• tnioi Asa te•epasuer....
the potient's appetite improves, and in a
few tveeks his weight begins to increase.
Consumption in its first stage raceme to be
(used, told oven patients with small lung
eitvities seem to be nearly cured ; but no
improvement is visible in the case of those
who have many large eavities, end even in
the most favorable 08308, time enough tuts
not elapsed to wavrant the assertion that
permanent cures have been ellectorl.
Professor !cosh, however, is a man of
marked scientific: car tion, and 11 is belief Oust
eonstimptioto in its first stages, can bo cured
inny wed fill us with hope ; e1111 even if this
011011 prove to be the full extent, of his dis-
covery, it will 'furnish ample ground foe
hoping that the disease may in time be sub.
elan tially extir pated.
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Sanitary Qualities of Watercress and Onions.
l'he watercress is a plant. con mining very
sanitary quulities. A cut toes characteristic:
of it is that, if' grown in a fereagirmus stream,
it absorbs ode itself five 1111108 the amount
of iron that any other plant does. For all
antemic constitutimis it is, therefore, spe-
cially of -value. But it. elso contains primer.
lions of grurlie stul sulphur, of 'reline and
phosphate'', and ie a I:10011 purifiets tvitile
abosel is thought a most. wholesome con-
diment with meat, roast or grilled. The
si 1 t 'voted plaut is rat her more easy of diges.
tam than the tvild one. Botanically the
"nine belongs to the lily family. The odor
of the regeiable, which is wh (1 makes it 80
implessant, is due to a volatile oil, which is
theeame as that in garlic, thong,: in the onion
it is milder and naturally does not last so
loess There are, besides, etuty ways of re.
IIION ing at once all unpleasantness mon the
break. A little peamley ot• a few getable of
ertiree, or even a swallow or f we of milk, if
taken after eating, proves an effective rem-
edy. onions are the least objections
Ode ill regard. to odor, and are OS easily
digested at any. The oil in the onion passee
on in the water in which the vegetablee are
hoiled, and if the kettle be kept elosely cov-
ered tool the watet: changed after they have
belled five minutes, and then again ten
111111u os lot or, there teill bo no odor through
the house, and the onions 1011 be white in-
stead of gray, as they so often are, Besides
being rich fleah-fortning elements, raw
omons are especially good. in breaking up a
heavy cold, they aro also stiteulating. to
fatigued persons and are otherwise beneficial.
fact that Imman beinge Mtn eXhit by breath.
Mg only front the hip of their I taugo without
any twspleion that. the one.sevouth of the
nee who itentially fall vietime to bermehial
and pulmonary troubles v0111(1 have oohed
Meath and lifo by peoper etre of their re.
spiratary organs.
But Mt the neceStiity for Ode phyateal and
vocal exetviert is not recognized in 0110st:hoots,
thousande of young men and W011100 are out
down upon the very threshold of active life
by the insidious Meuse 10111011 resulte front
yeatm of 'gnomic:amid neglect. Hundreds of
them (8111 be saved from a lingering death by
having their attention (lulled to oust:tin thy.
siological foots 1v111011 in these individual
08000 i 1,18 net yet too late to learn. Who
shall tamest that it is now " ritliculoos"
(emelt them " how to breathe ?" It is not
only "ridiettlous," bagful beyond all espies
01011, that tho 0009011 for so dotng ehould ever
be allowed to rise ? In seeking so steadfastly
for the oultivation of the intellect and the
salvation of the soul, it is well not to altogeth.
er Ignore Ole foundation of these things,
the troath of the body,
Fertilization of Plants.
The foil "wing, the result of experiments
at the. Agilaultneal Experiment Stetion of
Cornell Universary, Ithaca, N. Y., will be
interesting, as testimony for the stapport of
11)e theory that excessive tolleniza Lion is ex-
Imustive to the plant, The statemout is as
follows :
It has been oltdmed that if the tassela
were removed from corn before they have
produced pollen, the etrength thes saved to
the plant would be tuvned tu the ovaries
and s larger amount of grain bo produced.
To test the effect of this theory the follow-
ing trial {1/08 made daring the past season.
In the general corn field a plot of forty-
eigh t rows with forty.two hills rn each row
was selouted for the experiment. From moll
alternate row the tassels were removed 110
soon as they appeared, and before any pollen
had fallen. Tho remaining rows wet•e left
und isturbed.
The nen WW1 Sibley's Pride of the North
plaided the last week in May in hills, three
feet six inches by three feet eight inches, on
dry, gravelly, moderately fertile soil.
Ott July 24, the earliest Meads began to
make their appeat•ance in the folda of the
upper leaves and were removed as soon as
they could be seen, and before they weve
fatly developed. A slight pull 10118 suffici-
ent to break the stalk jest below the tassel
and the removal Wil8 Cagy and rapid.
Oa July tri, the plot was gene over again
for the removol of such teesels as had ap-
peared sinee the previous work, and at this
time by. far the greotee number of tassels
%vele removed.
On Juts. 28, when tho plot was gene over
the third time, the effects of the tasseling
became apparent in the increased nombor
of silks tbat wore visibie on the rows from
whieh the tassels had been removed.
On the 1,008 tasseled hills there WM
visible 50 1 bilks ; on the 1,008 untasseled,
393 silks.
011 August 4, the plot was oone over for
the last thee, but only a few 'tassels were
found on the latest stalks. The preponder-
;moo of visible silks on the tasseled rows WW1
Atilt manifest, there being at this thne 3,542
silks visible on the tasseled rows, ond but
2,044 on the untasseled rows.
The corn W09 0110{5'0(1 to stand tvithout
cutting until ripe.
On September Oil, to October 1, the rows
WCPC 0111 11011 husked, and the stalks and
ears weighed and counted with the follow.
tug results, the first and third oolunms
representing the tassels loft 011, 01141 the
second nod fourth, tassels removed.
Aggregstte Compar u( -
y old t ive yield
No. of good ears 1,551 2,334 1 00 151
No. of poor ears 028 885 1 00 141
No. of abortive oars ,2,500 951 1 00 37
Total No. of ears 4,745 4,174 100 88
Wt. mereltantablecore,
lbs 7 10 1,078 1 00 152
Wt. of poor corn, lbs,1 30 187 1 00 1 44
No, of stalks 4,180 4,228 100 101
1 00 atalks weighed , lbs 82 70 1 00 00
it will thus be seen Mud the number of
good ears told the weight of merchantable
corn were both a little move than fifty per
cent; greoter on the vows from which the
ta.ssels were removed than upon those up
on which the tassels were left. This is not
only true of the two sets of rows its a whole,
bet with Ole individual rows 1748 well. In
no ease did a row upon whi011 the teasels
teem left: produce anywhere near as much as
the untasseled 00508 on either side 01 it. In
fact, the results given shove ate really the
oggregate results of twonty.four distinct
duplicate experiments, each of which alone
showed the same thing as the aggregate of
all.
By abortive mds is meant those sets that
made only a buneh of husks, and some
time a small cob, but no grain. It will be
noticed that they were by far the most nu.
menus on thnee rows from whish tile tassels
were nob removecl. It will also be noticed
that the total of the good, poor and abortive
ease is about fourteen per oent so der on
the rows on which the tassols wen ' left,
while the weight of merchantable corn is
more than Shy pee cent greater on those
rows front whieh the tassels wore remov-
ed.
The Way to Breathe.
" It 18 as ridiculous to teach people how
to breathe," exclaims a certain 1030 111011,
" RS it would be Lo regulate the (»mutation
of the blood. 130th are natural functions,
wholly independent of the will of the in-
dividual."
If natural funotions were beyond inter.
((wenn from the individual, this V.1011. of the
case might be upheld. It is conceded that
the test of soundness in 011 organ is uncon-
sciousness of its action. With perfect
digestion no thought is—or need be7given
to the stomach ; but with the beginning of
gastric dieturbanee comes hiquiry into the
cause of the trouble, and a very natured
desire to remove its
It is perfectly true that there is no neces-
sity For teaching children how to breathe,
bemused is equally One thot respiration,
with children and anomie, if in a normal
condition, is all thot it should be. While 11
is ft goad plan for the teacher of oven the
smallest Children to itultme them to berat'm
as vigorously as possible once in a while as a
good pbystool exernise, it would be the
height of folly for hee to call their attention
to the manner in which this function
should be performed. The result would
be an Rwkward self-consciousness, end forced
attention to an opevation which, because
natstml, would be better earried on in com.
111010 tomonseiousness. WOrdd be
gained and much loss by this injudicious
procedure,
But, unfortunately, it is impossible for
the individual, by a wrong sitting position
long adhered to, by constant over work which
reveres a oonstridited stooping attitude, or
by elothing so tight as to prevent the free
movement ot the muscles,. to so interfere
with cespiratson as to duptove the lungs of
inure flute half of the ad whieh shonit1 be
inhaled, As Lhe oxygen received from the
sir by the lungs is the food of the blood, and
as the purity of the blood depends open
the Rennet of oxygen thus received, it
follows that any deoroose of the respiratory
power has au inevi I Ale (street, 111oro or less
perceptible upOil every organ of the body ;
and if, as physicians agree, all diseases are
(mused by an impure state of thefblood, it is
hardly possible to exaggerate the import,
once of the appavently simple process of
breathing, or the (teed of instriieting the
ignorankoneeming the Injury they aro doing
to themselves.
To prevent the man or woman from drift-
ing Into this simerfloial and injurious way
of breathing, it is only necessary that the
physical development of idle Ohild shall bo
properly attended to, The children troInect
from tho beginning of their school eourse to
sit and stand emit, to breathe vigorously,
smith tisotho fo w simple exorcises nooessary
' for strengthening the respiratory rousolos,
will roach youth, middle ago and old ago
'without perhaps being even 5Ware of 11:0
A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
A
DEATH IN THE DESERT.
The ineeonl. niorrou zerelioe or Members ea
the Deal h Ilvred11110,1.
A rumple of 010 members of the Death
Valley exploring expedition hove reliantly
undergone an extreme oe on the desert which
800 l'08 ILA a striltnig illuetration oi the den.
goys attending those who traverse that re.
ghat without the most ample equipment, It
appears that Prof. Palmer, who le the leader
of the experPtinn, set out from Death Vol•
ley, for Daggett, the nearest railroad point,
for a lood of suppliee. He took a Lwo-fmno
wagon and mule accompanied by a driver,
While in camp on the woy soma mower
tho horses got away from them and stro ok
out for home, This, by the way, is 0, danger
that all old desert travellers guord egaiust.
Horses oppear to hove a perfect'. understand-
ing of the dangers (IOU:tiding such journeys,
and never lose en opportuuity to run away.
Within the writer's personal experience a
leans broke loose from °amp on the Colorado
desert ono evening, and by sunrise the next
morning they had reached home, nearly eixty
miles distant.
Prof. Paintee and his companion being
thus left on foot in the midst of the desert,
their only resource was to push on s best
they could to their destination, They were,
of course, unable tcsearry sufficient, food and
weter, and for two cloys they were obliged
to subsist upon the scantiest supplies, all the
time toiling
rtsoSe nroosseo sex
over the burning waste. The driver, as is
usually the case, became partially insane and
it was with difficulty Prof, Palmer W00 able
to retain control of him. They finally remelts
ed. Daggett, however, in en almost exhaust.
ed condition, and from there Pahner went by
rail to tfieremont, in Los Angeles county,
which is his father's residence, W11000 he ts
nOw recuperating, and is onlecided whether
to return to Death Valley 00 1101.
This experience beings to mind a long list
of cases in which the panktipents were not
so fortunate as Palmer and his companion.
Thu number of men who have lost their
lives on the desert will never be known,
but nu idea may be formed. from the fact
that in a single season the write!! kept a
reeord of thirteen who thus periolted. In
the old ante.railroad days it tette a frequent
occurrence for the Arizona teamsters and
stage (1 rivees to tell of f nding by the road-
eide the bodies of men who had evidently
perished from thirst. Generally the dis-
coverees of such ghastly. vemeins would dig
a sletilote hole and give t110111 burial. The
Carouse was never called on Do officiate, and
if lio had been it doubtful whether he
would have risked his life by going to the
scene,
A notable case, illustrating the clanger to
which even the most experienced desert
traveller is subjected, was that of a resiclent
of San Bettuddino named CD1'11 1111111, which
occurred about fifteen years ago. A young
inan W08 80111 out hy Cornmeal to visit. the
retool. tnining comps of Ivanpah and Rest.
ing Spvinge for the pull -Jose of obteining the
election returns. After he had been gone a
few hours it: streck Cormean that the mes-
songee had. never been on the desert,
and- was in alleges of being lost. As he WO.8
himself futilities with the routes, he saddled
a horse, filled a canteen, and started out,
Overtaking the messenger, ho sent hitnback,
and then mutilated on what was destined
to prove
Tim Gas in the Hold of an 011 Slito Re.
e .. 1 . es 1 1,41 vessel Mi-
er—Ugh 1 sten Killed and Twenty-11re
loured.
LoNnox, May 1 3.—A terrific explosion
°coursed to.clay in the fire's:aid of the British
steamer Tancarville, Gap'stin Carter, Wili011
W118 ttudeegoiug repaire on the drydook
Newport. Sevorel men who wore at work
on the steamer were killed and& number LI.
jurod. The 'Ammer waS badly damaged by
the explosion, The Tanearville is tt, tank
steamer engaged in corrying oil in bulk from
American ports, and her last viyage was
feoln Philadelphia for HELM. After remelt.
fug the lake port and dischorging she
proceeded to Newport, where she WRA
lood for 13rdtimora. Then is no doubt the
oeplosion was canoed by the gases that pre-
vail to it goatee or loss extent ift the hOlds
of all oil -parrying ships. The force of the
00111081011 W158 so great that the foredeck was
torn from its fastening and blown off, As
the steamer Wtts 0111 of water there was no
Pressure on the hell to counterbalance tho
tremendous outward strain exerted by the
explosion, mid it is reported that ammo of
the plates on the boUtom of the steamer
Were blown from their belts. The wood-
work of the forward port of the steamer
caught firo, but the flames Were soon extin-
guished, IL has been definitely learned thtut
five men were killed and thirteen injured,
Vint Student —" Is that now student
city bred 1" Boloond Student (feeetiously)—
" Oh, ; eountey squash,"
'Why do wo frown on the ballot,
Whilo the docolloto we adore ?
Ono's dress is too far froln the coiling
If the other's too far from tho floor,
tits DE,V1.11 .10111NEY,
He enehed the camp, obtioned tne returns,
and then (doled back for Nan Bornarclhio,
But Ite never repelled that place.
Some time °leaped, and finally po ties ar.
rived in town who had lett Ivampali several
days after Cornman's departure. This at
once caused an investigation to be made.
Experieeced trackers were pet on the trail,
and they found where Common, evidently
mood With thirst, had loft the rousl in search
of water, had wandered aimlessly about: for
miles, and finally had come back within a
fetv yards of the hieway. Completely
worn out, he had throw» himself down by
(11 side of a boulder and blown out his
br .ins with the eix.shooter to which he had
clang throtigh his indescribable sufferings.
Ho left a rudely scrawled note stating thtut
ho was lost, that his horse had got away,
and thot there Wa0 110 other refuge except
suicide.
The singular tact that the belief of tho
victim that he is lost is almost immediately
productive of insanity has been noted in
scores of instances. The profound desohu-
tion, 1110 appolling quietude, the tremen-
dous heat ot the sun, and the awful tortures
of thind combine to upset the stoutest in.
telleet au Moredibly short time. While
one of the surseying parties Was running
the lines for the railroad acroso the desert
some twenty years or more ago, es your%
man connected wills the party lost his life
in a remarkable manner. LI some way
'7
of his awful experieece when he recovered
strength 0501101 te epeak. " h1y Cod," Ile
said, 1 tl gh t. bilOald die from thing " t
appeared that he had travelled all the way
from Indio under the burning sun and
through the lint sand, distanon of 801110
thirty miles or more, and had had nothing
to drink for eomething like eighteen home.
How be euvived the suffering, was a wonder.
No one who low not experienced the thie
that besets the desert traveller tom hove the
least idea of Rs terrible intensity. I he larg.
est, canteen that can be carried will be ex.
intueted within a few hours. One may drink
his fill tied within live minutea tho thirst
will be as bad asa ever. Men who habitually
traverse this region train then -wolves to go
without water for bours ata time, and when
lensed to the hortlehip they suffer little.
But the tyro finde it impossible to resist the
desire for repeated libations, and when his
supply of water bocomes exhausted it ends
led little to dr.ve him insane and end his
life.
Sometimes Ole suffering preceding death
is of the most horrible kind. Mon have been
found who hod torn their flesh and sucked
thed own blood, others have reeorted to in-
describable means for alleviating thirst, and
bodies have been from() with the earth torn
up for it dozeit feet in the dying struggleS.
Columns might be filled with the well-
authenticoted talcs of suffering anti death
from thirst:that have come within the ob-
servation of that hardy raeo of pioneers who
travelled the desert with team and stage
long before a railroad was thought of. LI
those times there was far more sun:slug
than now, and hundreds of lives were lost.
Such a thing is not possible now, at lead
along the railroad lines, Train employees are
under orders to pick up men who appear to
be suffering on the desert, and under no cir-
eninstneces are persons to be put ofr the c
between stations while attempting to " beid
their way." These facts, by the Wet,. knock
the foundution from beneath a. grapllic tale,
recently published, which purported to re-
late the horrible desth of a tramp who was
ejected from 11 train on the desert for not
having a Lieke.--
The Honest flours's.
In his address to the young men sunnily
admitted into the Now 'York Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Churuh, Bishop
Fitzgerald strongly censured the pricetice of
those ministers, who, having changed Utak
creed, continue their former relation,
notwithstanding the fact that their pulpits
are held on the condition that docteines in
hermony with certain standards shall be
proultdmed f rom them. After oliaractoriz•
hig 811011 0011d1101 es dishonest and dishouor-
able, the speaker continued 1—." Yoe 111031
say in reply Our views may change in
spite of oureelves, Our (loads may become
settled convictions. What wa believe to.
day wo may not believe toenorrow. How
do we know what WO shall do 1' I'll tell
you. If you have any doubts, keep them
to yourselves. Don't ereaoh about them.
Don't ON 011 ntention them in the privacy of
your own home. Lock them in pod heart
and keep them there, Bet if your doubt
so oppress youv heal t, you find them a
burden 011 you'. conscience, then come to
the conference, rise in your place, and Fay,
'Brethren, on such a day I entered into a
solemn contract with you to maintain and
preach the doctrines of the Methodist Epis.
coital C1100011 because I believed in them ;
but my V10,00 have changed, and I am un-
able to preach them any longer. I cannot
break my contract. I risk you for an houor.
able release.' The brethren will release
you with malty tears. but you will retain
their respect and their love as a true and
honest man," With this opinion every
faironinded person will agree. Of comma
those wIto wish to hove o fling at 01e
chorches will oontinue to denounce the
policy which requires that miuisters alma
subscribe to any standard of doutrine as
narrow end as tending to insincerity and
dishonesty, but the unprejudiced will see
that only thus can a church connexion be
sustained. It Was infinite wisdom that de.
dared, " A house divided against itself (me -
net stand."
11E11000MB SUVA:IA.0ED
from his companions in a section Hat W09
traversed by a rouge of low hills. While
he lost sight of the wagons and his fellow
travellers, they were 111 a position in the
hills whore they 000111 soo him in the valley
below. For a while he appeared to be
walking along, easily followmg the tracks
left by the wagons. Thee Ile began to
wander about. After watching him through
their glasses for some 111110 they became 0011-
vinced that something wee wropg and
several of the party hurried down into the
valley atter him. Whoa they reached him
they found that: lie was stark essay, having
become ar: through thirst tund the entirely
unfounded belief that ho was lost He W119
carried to the camp and tendeely °rued for,
but died tile same night, a victim to his own
imagination.
In it omo w:thin the writers personal
Istumledge twoprospectorsfound themselves
ono day without water, end t5 their dismay
the spring or water hole which they had
depended open for a supply was mainly
driod op. Instead of wasting time swelling
for other springs, which might or might not
exist, they decided that thole only safety lay
in taking the haelt track to the point from
which they had started, Tho journey took
011 day and a portion of the night. Ono
of the men became °easy, imagined ho lette
lokes and rivers, and wanted to rush to them,
'rho other, however, retained his eenses, and
filially had to draW IliS 010.0110010r, and lut
its musaale fusee his companion to keep in the
trail ahead 01 him, Their oufferings were
torriele, but they reached a arpring at lost,
after eighteen hours of torture.
Several yeurs ago the writer happened to
be camping at Agua Caliente, on the olcl
Arizona wagon road, near the fool of San
Jacinto Arisen taim It Was bright moonlight
night, and, ohanoing to walk &short (listen ,e
from camp, 11 wagon was fond, apparently
deserted, and attached to Which four bony
hossesin the
0.,,0s0 STAMM 01, WriTIVATI.ON.
The Old rickety vehicle was covered with a
ragged sheet, of waives, end on turning this
book an old man Was founcl, apparently
dead. Ifixosuination, however, showed him
to bo alive, and some stimulant diluted with
milk was quickly obtained and poured down
his parched and blackened throat. It was
A MEMORABLE JOURNEY.
'rho anstro*sioni primam. LATE CABLE NEWS
A long day over an itgonived pli!.111 hovel
we travelled. " o are Lilo drIVer, MYIGgy Lcndcn - T'ae Russian Government
fricoul Hanna, the superhtleedent, 1,5'151»1111
and the Jews A Pcssible War in
itli it patient baby et the le east, a poliee•
South Africa.
t wo :tiers, l'Ins ugh two
hundred milei of desert, without eleop, this The London 'season bus fairly legun, and
Vaility Fair is in full hinst at the Wee( End.
Hyde Park is thronged each oftener:1i vrith
magnificent equipages, the greet henna of
Mayfair and Belgravia are open, anal the
windows of the swell clubs in Pall Mall, St.
J011108'8 street, and Piccadilly are alive with
gilded youth and age, returning from hunt-
ing and riding in the provinces or Irons
the gayetin of the Continent. The weather*
too, which up to the preeent week has been
cold and cliental, lute changed to sunshine
and genial temperature.
Ths announcement that the Russian Gov -
eminent has suspended the expuleion
Jews from Moecow has sot yet been corro—
borated. The Enttlish Consul has just pre-
sented 001110 $181.1811e8 with regard to the
Jewish population of Warsaw. He say
that in the eity of 'Warsaw the Jews now -
number 40 per cont. of the population and
that the average in all the other towns of
Poland is 50 per cent., while in the villages
it fells to 7 per eent. and in the rest of the
country tn nil. Trades and industries it/
the eity of %Valente are almost entirely in.
the bands of the Hebrew population. In
higher branches of oommeree the ratio is Ili
Jews to 3 Chrietians ; iu lower branches, 19
Jews to 2 Chastises : the agency and
brokerage business, 43 Jews to Christian.
Of the laree industrial enterer see of the
eity 03 per cent. are in the 11 Inds of Jews,
and only 1 8 per sent, beleng to netts e
Christians, As cononen workmen and as
dontesiiee the proportion is the 01 het. way.
Outs. 1 Lotto Jews, or per cent. of the total
Jewish population, being so empleyed,
egainst 13,1.100 Christians, or 20 per cont. of
the total Christian populatisn.
The threatened Boer invasion of Mashona-
land is to be opposed by British troops and
amateur soldiers lathe service of the British
South African Company, and blood must be
shed unlees the scheme be abandoned. '1'he
matter will require very delteate handling
to prevent it from developing into a regular
war between the British colonies and the
Boer and Orange Fvee State Republies. The
calm confidence, nro to say the immense
impudence, of the would.be invaders does
not promise peace. One of their leaders re -
coldly scud: " We shall now enter into
and possess of right all the eastern land
between the Limpopo and the Zatebesi. We
shall go in, not in our own might, but in the
might of the Lord of Lords. Ilia His will
that. we go in and possese the land of the
heathen, and only Ile Atoll stop ea " The
invaders will assemble on the Trensvaal side
of the River Limpopo between May 15 and
June I, so that Lord Randolph Churchill
will have comfortable time to reach the ex-
pected scene nf hostilities, and maybe take
a hand in the fighting.
mother held with weary ar»Is tbe child
no, not all the time, for the amperintendent
had a heart and mottle ante. But at. nod -
night we are (sane to Burke's Cave, /1
historic spot, sadly historie. For here be-
gan the bitter fate which dragged the
veliant Bioko and the faithful W ills to
lonely grsves, and gathered down a fruitIM
expedition to a tragic end.
And then nears us from the line of gray
willows by a waterlese riversbed Sevin of
camels from some great oompany'S Station,
deiven by Arabs, and making for the entre-
pot far to the mouth.. Our horses—warri-
gals they are ealled.—seent the camele afar
off, and they aro wild ; but we are nearing
nue breakfast stotion, and even the
warrigals are offeetesi by that eatisfying
proximity. Yet hew can one eat?
t110 coach passes into tt paddock, those
panting, striokon, eyeless lambs Fall.
en through starvation and weakness,
the ravenous crowe hove picked out
their eyes They strew our path, and far
to where the plain becomes one leaden gray
aro white spots inutimerable —dead and dy.
IT% sheep. It is numb despondency over
which the canion-crow croaks a hateful re-
quiem. This is not the crow of the northern
hemisphere. llowevee It chances, this knave
has caught from the sheep n, cry like its own,
only it itt harsh and desolatiug. It is not
the hearty " caw, caw," of the meadows
nailer the Croat Bear. Yeeterday we 1411.15"
scenes of misery, led we had grown into
them gradually, and their horioe did not
touch us so. Thie morning it bursts noun
us. We are in a groat ohartiel-honse. Upon
1111A 1100000 10,1111 plague of rabbite bus 1,..
seceded, has spread, has swarmed ahead of
the sheep, taken the place of the kangaroo,
and eaten ohs., the land of grass and salt,
bush and edible scrub. Dire are the straits
of this peopie, dire the needs of its enemies.
Four, eve, mu on feet up the boles of the lit.
tie trees have the rab,bits elimbed and eaten
the bark. Here's food for a Darwin, and he
glanced to know it : that robbits should
climb trees How might not this faculty
front necessity grow until it had all the ea.
purities of the monkey
High noon on the plains and a cloudy
sky, and days after. Is it, so that rain is
coming? The darkness gathers in the hori-
son, grows, spreads, thickens. And 110W
rack down the sky great wheels of thunder.
What, Quin of Tortilla, no joy at this
Here's plenty overhanging for your empty
wells. You will not need to Rend your
sheep trovelling into No Man's Land if haply
they may find food and water. But Quin
of Tuella has uo joy in his conntenanee. It
is a bitter kind of irony that says '' Wait. '
Turbulent, angry, ponderous ,orows the sky.
There bursts a volcano of thunder like a
crack in the universe, and then the storm
falls on the world sa storm of wind !--only
wind. It catehes the earth, worries it and
shakes it, lint that is all. Not a drop of
rain And for many and many day the
statiou hand will still chop down the limbs
of the malgadree, that of its tonic loaves the
sheep may eat and live. And for many a
day the clouds will roll up and threaten,
and then mortal in sardonic procession away,
leaeing not a track of moist:me behind,
And all the while the sheep have gone front
grass to salthitsit fin appearance like the
alkali b11011 of the Arizona, plains), and from
lt-bush to the puntie, and peppermint aml
turpentine, the hop, the puttee, the gidja,
and the dead-littish bushes, for their food.
And these now are stymying in the wind,
overswept by the withered grass, and bend.
ing to the sterile plain. And then suddenly
the hot blast passes, the sky is clear
again, and one looks through a palpable
and palpitating Idea of heat, the fiery
waves rolling in billow's backward and for.
ward. And now, blessed reliet 1 is a moue -
tate afar, in a blue buoyancy. What sweet
expanse may lie at its feet ? But that is the
mountain that the valiant Stun saw as he
fought his way into the heart of the eonti.
nent in search of grestieleaul seas. And he
hurried to it —10 10011 1101011 upon not a river,
not a sea, but, a white quartz desolation. And
from this mountain, at whose base we steed,
tl1011 0111! oyeS further westward, and W0
10110W 11101 there is the Groot Stony Desert,
and there nt Milparinka still lies m boat in
which fiturt hoped to sail on his •todesslis-
covered seas. Amiable and indomitable
soul ! You sought, refuge itt a land of hving
death, For thou it was that the tubes of
the thermometer burst, that the solos were
scorched from your shoes, that yon0 finger
nails broke like glees, that your hair ceased
to grow, and the ink (11 ied 111 the pop. Yet
in that region where you wasted and des-
paired, men are living, working, now.—
brave, deSant, conquering and at wlott
cost ! "See here," said Quin of Tuella to
mo ; " WO 0:e gambling wi h God." Ay,
oven that. For in tho hope of one or two
good years of flood in six or seven, these
pioneers live there, and as far west as Mount
13rown and Tibbooburra. and Mount Poole,
playing a desperate game with nature.
Between rabbits mud drought this western
Land of the Golden Fleece fights a, bitter
fight,
11 is a oehiie dreary plaln. There is at line
of gums beside a feeble watercourse. Six
wild horses—warrigals, or brombies, as they
are called—have been driven down, corral-
led, and caught. They have fod. on the
loaves of the »loll and stray bits of salt -
bush, After a time tlfey are got withiu
the troces. 1 hey are all young, and they
look not so had. We start, They can
scoreoly be held in the first few miles.
Then they begin to soak in perspinstion.
Another five ndles, and they look (1011WIl
about tho flanks, and what we thought was
flesh is dripping from them. -Another five,
and the flesh has gone. The ribs show, the
shenidere protrude T.00lt ! A poler's heele
ere losselting against. the whillie-trects, It is
twenty miles now. There is a gulp 111 your
throat as you see a wreck stagger out of the
traces end stumble 05-00 the plain, head near
the ground, and Death npon its back.
Therc•Ss Ill/WM.0V 111 Ulla direction, wormoul. Oononiesiotters Adam Brown tuel W. 1),
'meatus° 1 It comes Upon yell like 0 sudden 1Dimook 11000 arrived from the Westin::
111,0t1-1, t 1,1 ke is1ca ‘11v0hly'S 03A 111.11'000a111100011111. ;.81 01°11' 01ellaptoor dieAs;
1 accident happened to a C. 1', R. train
to kill them on this stage of thirty miles near Sault Ste, Marie on Friday, several
than to feed them chaff at ,C30 a ton, persons being injured.
Ex4.Sneen Natoli° deelinee to leave Slavin,
in spite of the threat Vial the tiovernment
see. will forcibly expel ber,
recent experiments nuole by the
" I do to help me flod do 1 Nit We'Ve , 'United States Government in nickel steel
got to gob there, lot thou, out at ',date armor have been favorable and sails -
another miles" 1
Christian lond 1 t'uAtatrYthe Ietornational Y, .A, con.
Anil yon are an Anglo-Saxon, And this is
volition a, resolution has boon adopted urg-
ing that the Woeld's Fair bo olosocl
The 'Pleasures of Friendship. Sundays.
" the Marquis „ you those IlOwera 7"
" Yen and, oh, Mattel, he actually said Frank (at the ball)—" Yeti AM looking
that 11 io without 1110 meant nothing." lovely this evening." filay—" Do you
" Ves, dear ; everybody says yott aco his think 80.1 'Poin saidl was oat of sight,'
leet 01101100," Frank—" 'Well, not altogether,"
A Sad Story From Vienna.
Perhaps a. more piteims tale has tower
150011 told than ono which lano lust occurred
in Vienne. The porter of a house in the
suburbs heard a report from the eeller on
Tuesday eight, and m giel was found lying
on the ground in tho oellar her forehead
pierced by a ball fromm. revolver, which she
still held inhor hand. • At the hospital to
Which 0110 WM removed she ggve birth to a
ebild, and thee died. Ilde history is a very
earl one. She had received a very good
education, and, when her father and mother
(110(1, she want ottt as a. governess, and sent
all her savings to help her six brothers and
sistees. Sho had been two years in the. house
whon she beeame acquainted with a young
bookskeeper, who prouthed to marry 1100 as
soon as they had saved enough. Tho young
man, however, fell ill, and had to give up hut
post and go to live with a sister. Tho girl
1{01.8 80011 afterwavds 1ismissedond W011 into
service as a house 1naid, lIer mistress know
of her condition, butt she was so bard worktng
mud nod that she kopt her until a week ago,
whon sho announced her intention of golng
to some friends. Instead of this she sold
her last belongings, bought (Involver, and
locked herself in the refine, W110re she hopod
to die of cold and henget.. When at the end
of the week, death luul 1101 come to her she
attempted suicide. Sho gave matter-of-
fact acessent, of all this to the doctors who
questioued her, but she wes absolutely silent
on the of the week spent, the
cellar, 811e was only twenty-threo.
British Empire Mae Populate Than Chine
Ilp.to the present time the ancient empire
of China could truly boost that it was the
most populous realm on the whole globe.
lint although the final numbers can not for
some time to come be made up, it is already
perfectly clear that the dominions of her
majesty Queen Victoria now number more
inhabitants than nro to be folind in any
other existing empire. 11 is 011 extreme
estimate of the population of China which
makes it flambee some 340,000,000 stmts.
13ot, the queee's subjects in the present year
000 Mt tenet 365,000,0,30, thus exceeding the
inhabitants of China by 25,000,000( or by
nearly os many people as there 000 ill the
kingdom of Italy, 'rho British empire is
now the largest, both in area and in popula.
Mon, in the world. The extent of land
under the sway of the rumen is half as largo
again as that under the etile of the mar
while hor majesty's sttbjeots aro throo and
half timoo es Immo:ens as the population of
the Russian 'empire.
Consoling Reflection,
Fweddy Ma 811 his first sett voyage.
Pale, limp, and roady to ho groan.
ing in his bouts,
s'ehelly," hasitid, feebly, after a paroxysm
of unusual violence. had spent itself and ho
had b000mo compidatively calm, " foliose
ought to bo doosicl thankful be isn't cow."
" Why 1" milted Ohollir.
"130001180 00W—Melnffh l—has got four
heartrending to hoar the poor follow stomachs, don't y' know 1
Ether Drinking in Ireland.
A form of intemperance with which for-
tunately few Canadians ere at all familiar
is reporteo to obtain to an alarming extent
in a certain district of Ireland, and to he
working a terrible deterioration, physicalis-
m(' morally. of those addicted to the prac-
tice. It is 110110 other than the drinking of
other, a vile and impure drug so nasty that
the victim must needs hold hle nose while
drinking so aa to avoid the danger of
vomitiug and must swallow a mouthful of
water afterwards to avoid the eructations
which the volatile fluid is tiable to cause, A
correspondent of the London Timos thus
describes the condition of things in the
" infected 0000 1"
" th0011g11 the districts and you will
fiticl mothers, who live open the drug them-
selves, feeding their children with it. L'nter
the humblest cabin and you will see decrepit,
white-haired men, tottering and feeble,. in-
sane as far as brain power is concerned, who
have become the miserable wrooks they are
—helpless to themselves and loathsome and
disgusting to others —through long (tensioned.
use of other, (1 o through the fields where
yonng fellows of 20 to 25 summers are labor-
ing, and there, too, you will see habitues of
the pratetice. Stroll through the tnarkets
and fairs held in the various towns within
the ' infected Idea,' end the prevalent smol
is not, as at country faire, of pigs, tobacco
smoke or of unwashed 111110011 beings, but of
ether.' It ia amongst the small farmers and
laborers that by far the largest quantities
are constuned. Thot the habit is 1101 uni-
versal 10111011981 persons of higher social
standing is true, but toms; that this class of
persons are free from the vice would be &
gross perversion of the truth."
The peculiarity of the intoxication. pro -
ducted by the drug ie, that it passes quackly
away, so quickly Indeed that a person may
begin and end the hour perfectly sober and
have had quite tu spree m the tneantime.
The traffic through the Suez canna steadily
increases. The net tonnage in 1890 was
6,080,014 tons as compared with 0,788,1 87
tons in 1880, with a, eorreopondi2g growth
in Um receipt:1. Of the tounage 71 per cent.
was British. The great majority ot the ves-
sels now go through tha motel by eleetrut
light, which has greatly shortened 1110 time
it takes to make the pass0ge, the average
me of transit hi 1887 beong 33 hours 58
bodes, while last putt was only 24 hours
and 0 minutos. The shortest tone ever mode
going through that canal {Vas 14 hours 15
minutes.
VIRELETS.
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A strong shock of earthquake WWI mai-
o cod at Sofia on Saturday.
The Losver Douse of the Prussian Dio
has voted 105,000 marks to Prof. Koch's in
etituto.
now another sways. Look itt tho
throbbing sides, the quivering limbo Ire
falls,
" Driver, for Heaven's sake, can't you