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JAN, ttl-2.: 1 802
AGRIO U LTITRA.L. ,bgllciattip, your elteep tell! thrive just as
IUnlesti the most COnSerVative moderation
Pact Of FOOd on Milk. ana tlie finest judgment be exercised in
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MYSTERY ILA. °BLEAR.
:Strange Mere ora crime.
No, 27 Rue do °halftone, in the Quartior
it seems te be it feet that the popular working young horses, particularly in epee& do la Roquette, Paris, is a greet five•atorey
opinion that food onn be made to merease ing, them, pernnteent dat»ago is almo't time tenement °counted by resptattable familiea
the quantity and improve the qualit y of milk to arim. of working -mem Among tho (dome 011 the
is hogiening to receive positive eenfirmation, 1 This year Clanatle, and the United States that flow' is that era certain Yaoheresse,
in finite of the past teaehings of the seien• have the largest, pantie crop ever known, who stores Ids gooas in two compartments
data The mistake made by them was in too o , , 1 I :
a'ae y,e.t. .8 over 200,000,000 bushels for ef the great, uglier which runs undo), the en,
011011 periods of experinientation and in not every mail, weinau or child 00 the northern tha• Imilding. About neon of Nov. 4 Yam
propel ly considering the different emplitions ttalf of 1 he continent, holes:to anti two of his employee went clown
of cows fed by themselves and by the farm- . ,
era. They should have pursued their inves• t at norse can live twenty -live clays with. into the collet to stir ohmic. among the boxes
t lad f I, . 1 . 1 • 1 1 " , , and eases for son) 1) sten that he waited,
tigattons Oyer longer periods of tune and or Thu stairway leading to the cellar is in the
seventeen days without, either eating
with cows in different conditions when the The workmen,
drinking ; and only five days when eating rear of the 1911)193 hallwaY.
feeding experiments began. Prof, E. Wi„,-
solitl food without di•inking. Diekx and Carious, went down into the first
Stewart, m a reeeut contribution to tl t .
f Vegetation in the Alps Moneta alternately cf V0011010881'11 emnPartinente• They did
Iftr,71 t;',..sn:1,;(,llie"„11,• f 1,!:13,8„ 311,117 ),),',),,.) ,,o pi 01"10Z111:14. recedes mod advances, or grows higher up, 2t1v0entti n(1'111 Trot tilliceY neVO11:1(tfg,Zgl. )1 t
, :me after age. At present it is receding.
atehxaPseer(11°T;:ittn8g=etatil'f'sitp8tit(r0etithley g')000:1 AlPhle roSes, which were formerly found got a, view of something which made him
pulled dawn a lot of of boxes, and suddenly
rowing al at altitude of 7000 feet, are 110W
shake all ovor, and than dash out of the
km' timl. gre w 0)114" 1111311(11 Y of v°1'3. g• 11 1 to 1 higher than WOO feet,
,se mu 0 ni
common mil . The first, season, when fro811,1 cellar and up the staira, followed elosely by
ohs Ptvo 014 12°110011118 a ndi" Per '1'1'7' 01 la , "1 1 „nether a eon' had 110011 knew, t„
A tostion in The Ph 141 published in Lon, ortiv1,,11'•3111, ac 1 tt lire 1 noaet1 the, tr•
whieh it rettuired 28 pounds to notke a petun 0 1 as 0, 1041:111,n1soittwhf0eli!iiat "eDittfaut'
of butter. During the following wintee she have a n_000den le has brought se Neal atm- t „wkly. Bleb: went, for VaellenSile, 11,1111
was fed for the purpooe of detoloPing ito, wont. N f 0 W 0.1;:tylti,itln, ,1,10,101,1;te‘Oviirtehspeion,i,t11f00111.4ts 1.1.142 three went beak into the cellar. There,
milking. cepteity end the quality of lier have seenicowe 0 ;Yi=f,V)EtysO:'Z'1711)111c''.
: 1,471 [toil otrIllgo bpoil.te,
milk. After calving the next season, , if not wit, 1 grime, witli artificiel limbs. .
she getve 10 pounds of milk per day,, ,.29 1 Au idler boasted to a farmer of Ins ancient NAILS» 1101.41- or A max.
of which made a pound. of butter, 1.11e. family, laying much etreee upon hi, haying It, was stretched out stilt. The feet were
quantity intweased considerably mare , descended front an illestrions man who lived cleated, and one hand was upon the stomach,
than the quality improved. BliM several geuerations ttgo. " So mueli the while the other lay at the side of die body,
Pro'. Stewart, who is always thorough, 1 worse for you," replied the forme]. ; "for WO Oue Avould !lave though% that the body had
did not stop here, He continued expeta-
me ate w th this cow until she Wa8 18 years ifind the older the seed the poorer the crop," been prepaa ed for burial, but for one awful
Is it generly known, asks a correepondent, fact• -the head was gone. It had been
old. The th al 0080011 with her it require."' ,,,,„ wh.. ,
ILO 1 0088 CSAI bo converted into blue hacked entirely awny by seine rude lustre -
only 90 pounds of ber milk for a pound f ""- and the body terminated in the stump
ones by watering the trees during the winter n.ent,
butter, and the. fourth aeason it was reduo- 'ot the neck. In a, short time a magistrate,
„ 1 months with a solution of Prussian blue, and.
ed to 1 8 potted a Here is certainly detective, several pollee, imel a doctor
anti`iieldrii !if it is desired to have theintgreen, by water -
what else shall we attribute it but to per -
remarkable change for the better,
ing them With a solution o p hate of cop- 03:;,dcwooditolomktiltteal,,Lhno 11i,)03,1711•80:1;1(11e0,,,(11100.1toliedneet-
per?
sword: good feeding? We consider this a
demoitstration of the offeet of food on both
quautity and quality, and at the same thne
of a most important uuderlying principle
of improvement in stock -rearing. liy bet -
Golden Thoughts for BVery DaY.
Monday -The longer I live the more
plainly I see that it is not so much wealth
ter food 0101 00 0110011101a progress is made, nor clothing, non servants, 1101 tail 110r
aud by careful inbreeding the improved idleneas, 113r town, nor country, nor rank,
type is taxed and made available for figure nor station -as it is tune and temper that
use. Changes are not Moly to suddenly make:: life joyoue or miserable, and that
follow ; but Prof. Stewart gays that, in renders home happy or wretched.
experimenting on a number 0 cows, he has Tuesday -
nerer found one that dal net respond to Be trustful, be samara -4, sieuttevor betide
persistent feedina., though some improve thee ;
much more rapidly than others. As he g an thou oink of t he Lord •
o nelj.i0ong'otil'1011novaril wluirciver he guide
says " It has Otken time to form ell of ,1,0 troth a
our different breeds of CONVS, and the value tiring an thr hardly:as u ia »ewer eon subdue
of breed vonsists in Me development caused it :
in every instance by tho food 0.11,1 soeromul. Most f till Is His promise, ilis blessing meat
in's." Ho roforo to otilot well'autinol Hoot' Whair.14'0. you find, in My 1141110, I Will 110 it
eecases in confirmation ot his post don. A hid c in My love and be joyful 130 Me.
Wedni oil is a most ender fat her,
Pnetunonia in Sheep. whose mere tender heart Ny0 Wmind by any
aetine (memory 10 His laws. The queation
It is di Nivel) to cure a sheep when suffer- before you, yonng men, 18 how to net and
ing from tune disease. For 1 tine diseases wli t 10 to guide you in rill your deltherat,ons,
in sheep, the Australians practice what gaide yeu in your zeal for your
as this goes (Meetly to the scat of die dis- own physical, intellectual 311111 spiri-
ease ig, every Inspirtfian. •The following is turd advanconwilt, and Lillis all earnestness
the proJess descrilied in he (levernment in all things is inevitable, Each member
bulletin of the province of South Australia ; must feel d he had something to do, and
Sulphite, or sulphur and turpentine, two aim- 'must not leave everything to the officers.
phi and inexpensive remetlies. Fnmigation !Ice mast ne alive and energetic, mod, there.
with sulphur eon be done by erecting a close j fore, tamable 01 much exertion and siterifiee
room, which need not lie expeusively con- to Mime success ; ne must mit depend too
structed. and made to hold 50 to 1 00 sheep, !much on the supernatural, for.etting that
for tho,:e who only have a small number the natural also comes from rod. Every
or three or font. sheep -owners might join to- !prang man must needs think am' act for
gether and erect a room in a central himself, for, in our tiny, the Americon
tion which all coold make use of for Mini- !youth bas 0. noble mission to perform.
gatiug. The sulphur can he placed on hot Thursday. -As a girl is bound to do what
coals in nue, two or three iron pots suspend-, she honestly feels sho can do best, she
ed from the roof or placed on a shelf beside 'should never question how her work may
an opening, so that it email be withdrawn 'seem to another, provided it. does not al: -
quickly. The effect 00 the sheep mug be solutely injure another. In many cases
carefully watched, mod should it he found much more good might be done lot girls and
to be too atrong, the doors shoula at once women, if, instead of telkine so moll about
be thrown open. By bur»ing a small neon- the peivileges they lack, they should con -
thy first, the proportion and the time fidently take the places they ought to fill.
the sheep should be kept ht the room would I shotild not ask, is this anial's work or
be easily ascertained. When the fumes ala woman's work, but rather, is it my work 1
pear to be plentiful enough, t he sulphite But, in whatever I attempted I 8110111 11 re-
pots could be t•eninced and the doors closed peatedly eay to myself, " Am I keeping my
for 90 or 30 miuntes. Two or three Men- wonnuthena strong and real, as God intended
gotten:: should be sufficient, at intervals of it ? Am 1 working womanly Sitter Dorn
seven days. This treatment is very Mex.- never questioned whether sho ouelit, to bind
pensive, and cm be done by any one. In up the womuls of her crushed workmen ;
treatino sheep, if a nutnber of them are bad- she laid them on the beds of her hospital,
ly infeaed, they should be droned orr and and calmly healed them. Caroline Herschel
fumigated by themselves ; byadopting such did not stop to ask whether her telescope
a course a slronger dose could. be given was privileged to find new stars, but swept
when re,piired, it across the heavens, and WAS the &est dis-
--- art erer of at least five comets.
Friday -Wisdom iv the name God gives
to roliguto, so telliug the world what it Wee
not aware of and will hardly believe, that
the two great things which so engross the
desires and designs both of the noble and
ignoble sort of mankind, are to be found in
religion, viz., wisdom nod pleasure, and
that the former is the direct; teal to the
latter, as religion is to both.
Poor Spots on the AIM.
On nearly every farm there are certain
plaxes that have not the same relative fer-
tility as the ether parts of the farm. In the
grass lot patches of grass will be found very
thin and ehort, exhIbiting a sickly growth
tvhioli must be accountea for by the poor
quality of the soil. In the wheat and pas.
ture fields similar patchy spots will he no.
ticed eteey year, and even the Cern is ilot
Saturday -Every temptation resisted,
exempt for the same rule. Near after year eyery noble aspiration encouraged, every
these sante fields are of ten cultivated, and if sinful inclination repressed, every bitter
10 word withheld adds Its little item to the
first-class grain or hay is raipul the plum
item untie vet intro t,0 he left eat of the impetus of that great movement which is
bearing us and so all humanity onward to.
general harvest. They are inferior in size
and developtnent to the rest of the crup, awl 1.11,1.11 td°11,11° 11fe, a higher ehamter and a
neuter (1681111y.
it Would only lower the erander.1 of the
whole i.o 'nix them, sunday-
In good fanning such patchy spots exeunt
• left year after year to spoil the rest of the
field Occasionally 811011 0, poor place in the
field le caused by mime temporary neglect
or troable. Often insects or wroits will
clause it, or the leek of proper cultivation.
Birds frequently pick ap the eeeila before
they have changed. 'Igo a plant, and new
sowing 10 necessary. Tad must be done so
late, however, in the mas.e.,. that, the new
growths cannot Mater(' veoperly before the
main even is harvested. Small temporary
unlooked for cases cannut always be pre.
vented.
Big when the cause is permanently in the
soil, or cornea through lack of etiltivation,
the whole fault is 11 • It the fertning, 0,11,1
remedies eh inhl be applied. In a good,
loamy, vital ;mil a sanely patch will often
exist wbiell will not produce A good crop of
Theu art a holy ladder,
Where angels go end 001110;
Enrh 8001,113v nods us gladder,
Nearer in Heil 0,11 011r 110010 ;
A dm. 1,10weel
n. day of lore,
A day et re,oirreo1 1011
Front Oar( 10 things abOve.
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Where British Goode Are Sold,
Statisties have jest been Jostled in Eno.
land showing where stood manufactured 1»
Great Britain and eXpOrted really go to, In
value the geode omit to belie amount in
001111,1 numbers to 35 1, minion poueds, to th
Unitea. litatee 3'2 111111901, to Australia 93
millions, to Germany 1 11 millions, to 7111,11 00
1 millions, le Hollaud 1 0 millions, to
South Africa 9 millious, to Canada 71'
Indiums: to Italy 711 millirem and t
grans. 1 he eomplete lack ot any fertilizing Thisata 59 atossrs. D. Keyrner
01811101118 "'"7 °deli '1 Patch ef d1411",,le Go., of London, Eng., Who 00111p115 thin
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feet in diameter, while all around it the statement emelt year, 01mila-et/alit their our.
field may lie rich in such ingredients. The i rem circular the foot that while the exporta
washiog and running of wn•llor will of1on to itulia and the linttish Coloniesarelargely
carry all of the plant food out of such a, inemaanig, the exports to othee countries
place, and melte the field appear patahy aro comparatively standing or diminish-
tvben toot:rad with grates. In the Fall of tng,
the year studs barren planes should be spread
over with mack or manure, togl tho whole
mixed up thoroughly. A second application
may be norttle in the Spring, and the poor
patches will be brought up to the atm/gland
of the rest of the Elate'. Application of our
theromeroial fertilizers is not needed so much
a8 muck and barnyard manure. These two
thicken arid enrich the soil, and lay a solid
M1131(44100 for the commereial fertilizers
later if desired. 13y all mettne Bitch patchy
places should have more attention given to
them, for every field looks hotter and pro-
digies better mops when it is evenly do.
voloped, and the grain is productive in every
part of 11.-[A, 33. Barrott.
SODA Odd Paragraph&
Demi wood shouM not be loft about tho
Of ehard, Whether 011 the trees ot net.
itemory's IMpressiene on the Brain.
It is aomputed by leading physiologiste
that, since ono third of a s000nd suffincs to
produce an impression on tho brain, a man
of 100 years of age mast have collected on or
n his brain matter 9,4(17,280,000 Mores.
slims, Or, again, take off one.third or the
thne for sleep, and we still find 0,31 1,320,•
000. This would give 3,155,760,000 separate
waking impressions to tho man who lives to
the ago a 50 years. Allowing an average
weight of four pounde to the brain, deduct-
ing ono -fourth for blood and vessels, and
another fourth for external integument, it
may be said that each grain of brain sub-
stanee contains nob less than 205,542 traces
or impressions of ideas, Of course them
figures and caleulations will need to be ap.
plied according to the temperament of the
26 is a general impression that hills are Individtga0 tO whom they two fitted Mg
necessary for raising sheep, hitt thus is not they all point to 0110 fad.: Mine handl.
ea. If your land is dry, and not the least work is grandly shosvn in memory.
forty eight hours, that the head had been
cut off in wine place other than this cellar,
that the man was dead before the head 'Ma
cut off, and that his death had been caused
either by strangulation or by a blow upon
the head. Thera WAS no mark of violence
upon the body. The body was found to he
that of a man of medium height, dark skin-
ned, and dealt haired, and probably a week -
en in load. This last fact appeared from
the condition of his hands. The police
searched the cellar assiduously. They founa
a few spots ef blood upon the stairway and
leading from 1 10 the Maine ftt the end of
the neck. But they feunil no trace of cloth-
ing or of the instrument with which the
murder was aorimitted and
T1114 11 14..11, C11 01.11314 OFV.
They did find the blood-stained coal which
might linve been used in straugling the clonal
inan. But theee Was nothing to indicate
W110 the man' wee, who his murderer Was,
00 how the body had been got to that place.
'rlio detectives worked that day, inquir-
ing through the house, but at noon the next
day they were still entirely without a, due.
It began to look as though this was to be
added to rhe long list of mysteries in Paris.
In the course of their bigotries the detect-
ives foand that the lunwelcooper Wait per-
mitting a certain person named Vaubourg to
occupy a small room, for which she collected
the rent without saying anything to the
proprietsr. But upon examining into this
they fonnd that Vaubourg always came and
went alone and never received any visits.
They were about to give up when the houee•
keeper etticl-" In Met I haven't seen him
since Saturday morning. He went on t early.
He had abundleof linen under his arm." Asa
measure of precaution the room V•nlibourg
haat occupied was searched again. The
detectives found that the sheets and pillow.
cases had stripped frent the bed, and the
housekeeper said she :mulct not unders1 and it,
at all, They began to search for Vaubourg,
and at 10 o'cloek that same night arrested
him in front of the tenement, to which he
was returning. He WM C001 and mina and to
the police at first thought that lie WaS 111-
noemit. 11711e magistrate quesgened him 1,
closely, however. "DO you not bring some tit
one home with yon in the last few dears ?"
wan asked. Vaubotn•g hesitated, theft said
-" 1 did briog a friend home with me."
" And who WeS this friend?" VatibOlirg „,
hesitated still longer. His hands were ft
twisting nervously, 101111ou 11 his Moo be-
trayed no agitation. At ast 110 Bald—
" His name 18 Boutry." " And where did
yon take the sheets the housekeeper
eaw you going out with?" "I took
them to a, washerwoman. They ts'ere
soiled, and I die' not want, the housekeeper
to sem" "Now," said the magistrate, "why
don't you shorten this and confess that you
strangled your ,friend, and that the sheets
were soiled by his blood ?" "I have not
strangled anyone, sir ?" said Vaubourg, who
was again perfectly oolleeted, " Who then,
is thie laundress to whom you torAt the
sheets ?" Vatibenrg considered a few mont.
ents, and then refused to give her name. The
magistrate dropped this line of inquiry, and
begat upen 'angry. " When was Boutry
with yeti? " Tharstlity and Fridny nights.
He left Saturday morning, and I haven't
Pam him 81000," tuid he refused to talk any
more. 111ey locked him up, and then found
that Beutry had disappeared from his lodg-
ings the Thursday before, and that, the head-
less corpse was lila. They also found the
witshcrwoman, and she said that the sheets
were
STATNIt1) NNT01 111.001)
ing 1 look it to the plums where Homey j °BIEN oF TUE " GRIP,"
and I worked together, anti threw it into it
Y101111," Thila 110 eecond day aftee the un. ' A Di ,0,184, mat is ef it, a ,,,,, :amble my,:
covering of the body the murderer WM fOtInd *Cry,
and 1111d eonfeseed, Shortly after the arrival of Mary Queen
of Soots and hot court Helyrond, the
queen and all her 11011601:01,1, both French
and Illnglish, were taken down with t •te in•
(Monza, The queen kept her bed :or six
days. The 11141110 giVen oy the em, to the
diseaae, front the details ta agil is eas-
Little girl of 7, being asked why She ate ily reeognizable as 000 of the saute close as
her tart 3,10,1,"1 t110 8116" 111•"1, 0111.1. that from whieb humanity hits lately rotifer-
sequetitly got her finger covered With j0.111, 0,1, 3000
"The 110W Regain Omen" Since
"ewelwi "Pmachf1111Y " Keg' d°11't 5.0" that day the dleenso has often visited luau -
"1,0,0101 011)1,110trit,,gffer,11:311)1,1810,,Pillelm"Utiriao 1,3V.f11111',.°'1 11; 01.111111-11d.,,, 11,1,11 to1:1,110 Oft IN:tly0 13c:Lial,,n1g7101cpititIN:iinngg 1111"
ing m goose : Nurse, i$ Mary, undrepilag un eh,
elderly little seems to linve beo;
the gouse to give him Mu bath ? '
learned nitwit it, Notwithstanding the
Little girl to her nurse, who had told her great, improvement which has taken place in
the story of Adam and Eve's di/30118sta em
scientific, observation nutl in statistical fat:i-
dle garden of Eden : "1 auppose they (Iwo Mies, the chief mysteries of the disease re.
both Sent away NV100111 ChiF1.10tOr.' main as emelt mysteeles its ever, The inio-
.A. girl, on healing of the yawing to life ef robe, if it he a ma:robe that does the mix.
the widow's son, thought it oven quietly, ehtet, tE undisetweivit, nee 00 the problem
end eventually remarked ; I presume they of the method a propagation been fully 801 -
hal to pay foe the grave all the same
Mother (reprovingly to the girl just Upon the latter point, liana:vela that of
ready to go for it walk): " Dolly, that hole the inatbod of propnestion the recent official
was not in your glove thi8 morning," Dully
report of the British 00vernment prement
(promptly) : " Where was it then ?"
some important, io formation. It is tru
Little girl (to new governess) : " I know
that the report, the chief points of which
prelim. garde 01013110 1104. before the childrem ar0 given ito the Practilion. r, mainly can -
Mamma, always silts it to papa when he is
corns the epidemic of 1889-90, end doos not
going to say something at tinnier she doesn't
cover that uf tho cutely part of tho present
want me to hoar."
year: 111 winch tne mortality was higher,
A tiny girl of at years, when nurse fetch- and in which tho contagion tens more rapid
od her to be dreased nip dinner, exclaimed than in hat of the yeitr previous liut the
method ef propagatioi»vaa 11 0 donbt much
tl e sane in the two years, aid the eoncIns.
• tea which the repo) astabliehes will prob.
WHAT TES YOUNGSTERS BAY.
Pretty Illard for Their Eiders to Bent Them
In 1,1enepok
" 011, dear ! Literals no yest for the 'hiked."
One day, after giving an object lesson o
name was apithed to a 111011,1tam winch ably not be invalidated by later Mee:gigot.
Y01001100, 0, teacher asked a child. of 8 what
brought forth lire from RA 111011111. " Why, don,. alo enquiry was ona.natea rjr,
apithre of eourse," Witti his answer.
!Pranklin Parsons, who has sought inform-
WaS promised that a ceetain very small
don in every quarter of the globe.
boy should have his portrait painted. He
The bags which the report has got to•
Was greatly distressed, seating, between hi gather seetn to show that the disease Is oar -
sobs : " Oh, father, !don't want to always ried by contagion from person to person itoul
bang up on the wall !"
I is 1101 earned in the atinosphers. This
A boy of having been checked. to too
opinion ie expressed vary decidedly 110 Dr.
PurPeee by m°1•11" fa° te"11"g her whe" P10180110 and other experts anti is deduced
she was busy, Wee them liddressed : " My from a varMty of Mots. The general course
clear little boy, if yott loved mother you of the dissase has been, in the northern
aw°00111:011(1111:v1 and\ 1181 011100 vePuec' ""' "07 fore,in a direction contrary to the prevail-
; ?leas° 1101' by tug, ,w;"t',. 70n hemisphere, from east to west, and, there-
" Mother, I'm trying to please God ; can't ing Enrhtee winds. 11 hes followed the ihiee
please everybody."
ef human intereoarse, striking the cities
Little girt, reading the chapter in genesis firm and tho ;nov(1101111 towns and rural
recounting the fall, mimeo to the curse pro- district:, later. It seems also to be pretty
nouneed upon the serpent " On thy belly welt ',united that he itiannae d„,„ nt,t,
shalt thou go," "Whitt!" exclaime the child, „are] inEto, than human know, in, ilia.
"did be go on his back before ?"
letters cm travel. The fact that the
Tommy, who has listened witb breathless disiease haa
interest to the stoty of Daniel in the den of weather or 01 i itit1etevaisleeedin $4'111,74117 111,3;
lions, and how the wleked. men who accused probability that it is 11,4 of atinespheric
him wen punished: "1 is so glad. those poor „origin. it hat, appeared in au semena,
lions got their breakfast at last."
existing simultaneously ie the mu thorn and
1 he fallowing quaint question NV110 asked southern hemispheres -that, is, at opposite
by my little niece: aged 0 yenta;
'' When seasons of the year. It him 110141 ished to edett
shall I have holes 111 my bend for the hair. all kinds of conditions of heat and cold,
pins to go in ?"
dryness and moisture, in 11ussin. and in
(Mamma, explaining to her little girl,aged
Melia, in Chmat 13ritain and in the dry air of
fi, that everything silo does and tety$ is as
.sgypt. In Spain it Was ustivrell 111 by a
written down in a large book in heaven): month of cold, dry weather, and in Canada
L. O. asks: "Are all the naughty things, by the moistent and mildest s aim)) on re -
too?" Mamma; "Yea, dear." L. 0. (pensive. 000,d.
lyt: "Then I think 111 take et piece of India It is, of course well known that the dis-
rubber with me."
, , ease ha% spread rapidly to the Vatione mean -
Once Tommy was silent at the request. o,
hie elders hor many weary minutes, and bers of households into wli i ell it has been in-
Moduced. It ageords with the theory of
when lie cOUld 110 Jaeger contain himself he infection, Mao, that the disease has usnally
NYas to1d that silence was golden. 1
":"," attacked the pensons liable to infection.
quoth he, "but you know W0 WfIllt 'Mange
sometime." 'Illue, husbands who go to town daily to
A child of at. yams had been taught by bueiness have been attacked before their
wives. It. is chained, further, that persons
his mother a text in the morning. " -1-lake living out of the WILy of fat:talon have, as a
me a clean Mama, 0 God, and ream a right rule,esaaped influenza. The persons so
spirit within n...." At night, at tho end of favored would he deep,00a fishenne„, light -
his privets, ite. unasked, repeated the text
in tho follownia form : bonaetteepeta and the like, Dr. Par00113
0 God, and la, ag mit, o y -
t`' (II:A.!!! !IV 110act, has made many big utiles atnong these classes
A little li-ye,,r•old of my acquaintance oi- they hare „molly isee„ .,,,e,,,r,.
. , of persons and the replies have shown that
inewed Ma mother the other 'My upon that the disesse has often broken7,1111011ra:i
le subject of angels having wings, and, on shipbottrd in midocean seems to point to 11,
eing told that there was reason to believe difierent explanation of its origin, but it is
mt. they were so equipped, exelnitned : said that in no ease has it appeared. upon a
0 mamma, 110w funny they nonat, look
then asleep roosting like turkeys.» vessel which has been so long at NA as to
.A little git•1 on being asked by her mother Preclude the possibility of the infection Imo-
hether Sill, IVIIS 110t glad to hear that ton old nog been brought from shore. Dr,. Righatal
lend, of whom the was oar feed, heti re. Sisley, in his new book on "Epidemic In-
fluenaa," very smougly expresses the same
covered from a daneerons il nese, replied 1
" Yes, of ceurse Pm gloat; but still l'm sorry view, thnt the disca80 in almost entirely pro-
pagated by infection,
fon Ocul not to have his own way some-
times." Olio 'British ofticial report also discusses
A little girl whose attention Wag called 10 the question of the origm of the present
outbreak, giving an account of the " fog
the feet that she had forgotten to say grace
before beginning her fever " of 1885 in Australia, the dengue 10
meal, shut her el,ves the Levant and the anteeedent horse ells.
meekly and sok' : " Exeuse mo. Amen.'
Constance agea 3& ; her mother, having ease, and the Chinese floods et 1888 and
forgotten to 'clo something Mellor which she 1 889. It is pretty clear, however, that all
bitd promised, said : " 0 &thug, I forgot that is lenown definitely of the history of tho
it ; wasn't it naughty of me ?" Cionstance epirlemio called the "grip " is that it firet
broke out in the early , smnmer of 1889 in
replied consoling 1 ' Oh, no, mother dear
not naughty, only stupid I" Bokara, and in Russia m the °attune of the
Little Dorothy (to old wooden home, same year. With regard to infection from
whieh she insists on taking to bed with her animate, it seems pretty clear that the clis-
every night, 1 " You dear old love ; I am a ease may bo communicated from animels to
inare." pears to have been some epidemics of lam
mon and frono men to animals. There ap.
good mind to call yon my sweetest night-
eneat among animals, particularly eanceig
dogs, in 1 889. In the spring of the present
year Dr. Sisley saw many cats suffering from
influemea in London. ne, however, made
inquiries in the zoological gerdens and leave.
ed that there bad been no unusual mortality
Ba.mqoung enimnls during the three epidemics
of 1880, 1800 and 189/. There is a practical
el to the recognition of the contagions
charteter of influenza. Dr, Sisley proposes
that the notification of influnza should be
made coinpulsory by Parliament, The Eng-
lish 10001 authorities &Ready him the power
to decide imeti the infectitens character at
any disease, and to apply to it, the provieions
of the tiontaginue Nemec Act. But it is
11010 proposed that influenea shall be elaseed
byParliament with diphtheria, smallpox ttud
other such maladies, and that the Meal
authorities be required to treat it in a sim-
ilar mention
when Vitubourg brought them to her. When
rimbein•g was confronted with all this he
elorugged his shoulders and said-" 011,
wen, I might tell and be done with it. I
did kill Boutry, We came together last
Friday morniug. 1Ve had both boon drink-
ing. We ale some potatoes and then wont
to bed. In the night Boutry turned over,
and, in doing it, pushed 80 dual awoke,
What made me furious. I leaped upon him
and accidentally killed him, When I saw
that he was dead I pulled out the bed mid
bid him behind it, IM /ay thero three days
undieturbed, I waS thinking all the time
what, to do with the body. 'Pheodour began
to bc impleasant, It inlerforred with my
sleeping, and was every hour getting more
dangerous Lamy secret, Than the callan ea -
current to me, 1 lit a 6011(1 10 late On Mon-
day night and went down into it. I found
the please I wanted. I went bulk into my
room, took the body in int, arms, and carried.
it into a side passage of the °eller. It was
then clad in a stint. I took ofr the shirt
and proceeded te remove the head, I had
decided that with the head and clothing
gone, the body
covim nor MC TnaNtrIVIan.
1 Iva no inetruntent but my knife. It
WitS easy 'Work until 1 eame 1.0 theboneS. I
Mai to bond it until they snapped. Then
decided to cat•ry the body into a Blether
of -impartment, I sealed upon that of Val.
chereesn '1.110 door to it was open. I wont
back and took the body, I supported the
lege with my loft aria end held the arms
With ow right, Thus the body was with
ifs feet in the air told its head down, had
to stop to rosi, several Once. hid tho body
behind the boxes, Mien I went and got the
bead, I cut off tho 11080, the tipper lip, and
%he Ideal.
ith, (11'00111 110t, gentle youth,
ahnt the maiden 11,11(1 fair,
With the oyes outshining nngols'
Anil the flOwtiltK golden hair.
Tho.t. the maid of faultless spirit,
And of soul engaging mien,
W111 stay to 330011 and perish
111 your cottage on the green)
Her brow sustains a Star
'Dint 1,1.0 love 0, DO Wen bostowod,
And her mime ;11.. Imam ether
or no No.loy• eariAtir mode ;
And Omagh pity 1.11070 her huS0111
And oho visit thee by night,
Boy home le ln tho reg10018
Of the immaterial light.
Awake the song of love
And her praise thro' life prolong,-
IA11.11 a, constancy unollanging
a Wreathe ber name in dentbless SOng 1
Oh, worehtp ber and laud hor,
And her foot printS Step 1.0 ktns,
lint believe not Rho wilt tarry
in a land so cold as this.
WILLTA.111 001110
A Strange Crime.
A. Vienna correspondent eve an exteaor-
ditotry case is reported front village In
Western lIungitry, A man, aged about
thiety, asked for elicitor 04,01, night from a
peewit) wotnan whose husband was absent
at the time. He amid that he had come
from America, anti displayed it heavy puree
containing ithoub Haven thousand fi.orine.
Tho tvoinam whose cupidity was aroused,
out his throat diming the night and conceal -
eel the inomty. When her husband 1.01.11011.
ed he recognised in the inuedevoll man their
OW01 SO», 111110 had migrated Bixteen years
before.
--as-a--
Those Dainty Feminine Breakfasts,
According to an tnglish traveler who has
patiently observed the ways of womankind
i» AinerielL, the following breakfast is the
averago for a young American girl: A largo
dish of homiuy, a plate of scrambled eggs, a
ato of picked up codfish and maim a large
ea of tenderloin steak with fried oysters
potatoee, some fried. ham, en immense
h ef buckwheat cakes soaked in hotter
it swimming in maple syrnp, the whole
»gaccompatried IWO) largo bites from hot
end, wallies, graham muffins, etc, end
shod down with three immense cups of
t °erre° and milk,
pf
ono Oar, and buried thorn in. corner of tho dis
As my candle {VAS getting low by ail
this time I hurried back in my room with bei
the rest of the head. I wrapped it, in lir
Boutres olothing, which I had stripped wa
from his body in the cellar, In tho morn. Ito
Breed and Food,
It is possible to do for one's self wind, a
breeder will charge a largo nun for. And if
one shonld purehase the best of puro•bred
animals, he will lose his money and plans if
be faits to follow the methods of tint tn•ectl•
eta Ono of the most important attributes
of high -brad stook is that it has beau educat.
od to make the niost that is possible from
the food. And if we go hack to the begin-
ning of any excellent brood of farm stook
we shell find the breeder was first it feeder,
and built on dint baste by the inherganne
of the quality by the progeny. iflvery one
cannot begin to improve his stook by brood-
ing, but he elm begin, immediately, by
moans of the host, feeding. Five years of
this improvement will do wonders in a herd.
The man who hid his agent in tho gonna!
lives yot. im found stinting his cows of
a handful of meal, when it would he V0111171.
Od tO him many fold, Ho thinks pasture
will keep them alive, and fears he will lose
the little money spout in adding to the
grass, perhaps scant enough, a few pentode
of meal to inereatio tho itnel button.
And 110W that the winter has ecnne with its
hardships, 110 dries loie cows end losee the
profit to bo nude by good feeding: rather
than give the grain food that would make
butter that sells at, this season at the high.
ost prices of the yew. Anti in erring the
bony skeletons will stagger to the iminatanto
pasture to c4naw the last year's roots and
thus lose the ()roam of the simmer's profit,
THE GREIT MONSOON,
PICTURE OF AN INDIAN SUMMER.
'Vito Awn; 2, Ina Dried and Willdniug
Mirth -The Mork (Unit Who Moss or
viers II PO I' k I ng On -The Stain and
ArterWar4i.
Let me try to give a, pen picture of the
oral of au India manner and the beginning
of the period when the monsoon rains de•
seend,
Day after day the sun pout% down wither-
ing heat, the un• is siek with 14, the ground
is hard as iron, 1411(1 gaps in !goal. ormolu, as
thrugh open-mouthed, pleading to the piti-
loss airy for a drop of water; the wide ex.
palm of weary that a few months past
was green and flower -besprinkled is brown,
the grass crisped with it !levee heat:nut fall.
ing to powder if rubbed; the teees, mostly
vet:green:mire parehed and duety; no Meath
f ate rustlee through, no 1001811ra
1'lley mumble gong toy trees, with leaves
of pain Led wood,
Thee:. is no sound of life anywhere; the
noisy, green parrots are Silent, 01111 hide
from the sun in the heata of the denaost
oil leafiest top,
You may, perlinpe, see D. crow or mynah
it solitarily on a bough, With drooping wing
and gaping beak, helpless in this great par.
gator?' of
" monsoon, the 10011000n -will it
ever come ?" yon ask as you t..0116 half nak-
ed ou your bed, woeried by priekly heat and
insects which shall be namelese, not the
worst of which is the persistent, blood suck.
ing mosquito. Heat apopleiy has, perhatis,
ustrated ono or two of your friends, and a
seeond in the open air unhelmeted would be
sudden death.
" Will the 111011110011 110Yer 001110 1"
livery evening the sun drops down in the
west thee a great ball of ere, but leaves tho
heat behind 11110. One evening yet notice
with great joy two or three black clouds
climb op in the oast, to take a peep at his
descending mnjeaty. They are the advance
guard, you think, of the InOnS0011, and it
will snrely rain before morning,
Morning dawns, end the sun sets to blow-
ing his heat furnace strong as ever ; the sky
is once mum 0, gt•cat dome of bernished
!Wass. l'he monsoon at lest blows the 3011.411•
ing trumpet, and the songhing of his wind
to the far -away horizon calls you ont fremi
your bed to tbe veranda. Nature holds her
breath • a great calm, a strange hush -the
bush of' exprctaney- tills earth and air.
Ha ! here comes the monsoon. Away cm
the WeStern horizon a great Mock elood.
wave merges 111) toward the Zenith, Mooing
out the bernished sky in Re progress, just
ns though you poured ink slowly into a,
I.vass bowl, Behind this bleak wave and
1noving with it is a groat dense clam mess,
cut every instant by forked lightning and
bellowing, deafening thunder. The unick
darting adder to:411ms of flames flash every-
where, seareh the bedewing heavena
throughout from top to bottom, through.
out 1 lie whole cloud -packed dome.
Now for a Second, only for a second, the
quick•flasiting lightniug ceases, and an
inky blacluiess, the black ne•es of Erebus,
sue/mode, anti the thunder hollows as an
Englishman in his aelagiet little isle TIOV07
heard it bellow. 1 is no distant rumble,
graalually rolling nearer and culminating in
a resounding crack overhead. No ;.tniotind
Ind just, overhead the infernal din never
ceases.
The bellied clouds are pl.:viola with
thunder, and the flame forks flashing hither
and thither pierce their wombs and loose
the 'thunder from i to prison. 1 reminds
0110 of Michas! and WS celestial host war-
ring with Louder ond his legions. It ie
terrible, says the London Hawk.
Inside your bungelow the Ling advancing
it.ind that; heralded the moneoon carried
with it cloutle of blinding dust, which is
now piled. up nal Melo high on table and chair
and shelf. And still tb o wen of the elements
goes 011,
Yon can not hear your teighbor's voice,
though he aliouts his utmost ; the birds, af-
frighted, shriek in thu thickets and tho
MVO SOrValits huddle themselves together in
dark 0011100S for safety. The sky opens its
Iloodgittes and rein M torrents pour$ down
without intermission for eighty or ninety
hours on the parohed earth, Splash 1
splash 1 au the roof -not in showers, but in
sheets.
This is the monsoon,
And 1011011 it has passed, what a transfer -
!nation it has effected. The arid plain is one
great lake, through widen rise innumerable
trees of glossy green, and crowding their
leafy cathedrals flacks of perrot8 anti illy-
nahs eltatter their thanks to God for the
welcome rain.
Tho great lake 00011 disappears, absorbed
ky Ole thirsty earth, and reveals a far and
fair expanse of verdure, beantifill bet•ond
words in its dazzling greenery end sprinkled
with flowers that have shot up in a night,
earth's embodied hymn of praise to the
Creator for the blessiug of the monsoon.
Death of a Famous Railwayi Dog,
The de 1th is announced of "Help,' the
railway dog or England, which has 30081 oc•
curred at Nowlit:ven, whero he has been
staying since he retired from active servioe.
The dog was trained by Mr. John Olipson,
who hal been :15 years guard of the tidal
train from London Bridge to Newhaven,
and the idea wits to got " Help " to net as a
medium for the collection ot money in aid of
the Orphan Fund of the Amalganated
Soeiety of Pailway Servants. It WM the
late Rem Neiman Macleod, who: etruelt
with the excellence of the object for whieh
the dog was to be trained obtained a. fine
Seotch collie from Mr. W. Riddell, of
Hacidington, Tho mission. of "Help'
WM Made knOWn by a silver collar, to whiall
was appended a silver inadal, having on it
the following inseription " Inn Help, the
railway dog of 35ngland, aucl travailing
vont for the orphans of railway mon who
flro 1010111 00 duty. My office is ett, No. 05
Uolebrooleo Row, London, whore subsorip.
tions will be thankfully received null duly
acknowledged," At the 13ristol Dog Show
in 1884 " Holp"Was presented with asilver
modal, and his visit reit/Wed 10 guineas.
Altogether the fnithful animal, who Wa8
very amigo, was inetrumental in obtaining
upwards of Z1 000 foe the orphan fund.
1884, also, Mr, P. W. Hughes, of the Chau -
ham Olub, presented the dog with a silver
collar and &title% and ho constantly met
with tokens of the esteem in which he and
tho cause of tho orphans W000 held by the
public. In former yeitrs "Help " was tt
regular attendant al the railway•mon's eon -
groom, ing had nob been on active duty
for the last two years,
Voting, one is rich in all the future that
he dreams ; old, ono is poor in all the zutt
that tto regrets.
13lessings orton fail to reach us through
the of circumstances with which we
have surrounded our lives.
Next to invention is the power i»tor.
positing invention ; next to beauty the power
of appreciating beauty.
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