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1+1',1;,;, 1R92. THE BRUSSELS P®ST,
HEALTH. I punent u. roegil exterior aro t•0Lbed in this
Urns. The virus front 0110 abrasion la def.
fieh'ut to 0.01, 10,)00 quills, whi':h atm.
Treatment of Brn.ohiti,, h ring so prerred are tnahnintlly railed
The llr0l.thin towhich1 1111 st1)1tentiononus' thesepoiutowhen ready for
ks11� mm'1 1 lmul( like ordinary goose a tolls,
in menta LralOJiltls is tbu kind M' air whl@i> 1 Y f; , u
is Haled by the patient, C'onlinenent to
the cion:, mating not bminli visible to the
one room should be olo'iotly onfnruod,and filo naked l'y'e,
air of 111)41 000111H11.111141be nude tainel, as ANNafrotida for Grip.
far as+ possible, sato uniform teulperatnru of
11(11 degrees Fehr, 'I'hie IOw88itetes, nfseurao, Speak' he of •' Ino Grippe," lir. Keeley of
either the careful m+ntagmucn1 of the Aro, gold -cats tame a .o +•, it friend the other
or, what is far• better, the eml,leymenl of `ley that hr would 41.'1. amoral, an Mumma
some forst of slow-unmbustimh "love, Venni^ renedy for the 1udady, " 11 is," he wrote,
label meet be 80 regulated as to ensure a 4"eitriplynesafielida,gi veli in fonr.gral11 pills,
constant remold of air without draught0
end, besides this, the atmosphere ehauld lie
rendered elllfleielty whit by the dillusion
of anti= throughout the mein from a brntn.
°Mitis kettle, 11xpeetorant reined tea, 811011
as+
ipecacuanha ant! 89q111110. taro generally
found useful, eunlblnotl with either benzine
tole, esteems, and a atim a tan 1 like the carbon.
aro of anmonia, 01. HOMO sedlttivo according
to the condition of the patient• Counter
irritation is of ton employed, and medicated
inhalations frequently prove of service.
Constipation is usually present, anda purge
is generally beneficial at the onset ot the
disesoe. In severe attacks 'elecinol is invalu-
able, and so is opium, but the late partite
ninety requires to be administered with )much
ottre, and should on no 11ec011111 be given save
under the cdoctor'sdireetlons. Chronic boon•
chitin is a disease in which 011011 can be done
if the patient's temperament and eirenm•
stances permit it. In eases where a winter
cough has become a meteor of course it
it should be made an invariable rule to keep
inside the house during the cold season of the
year. This, or resi,louoo during the wiator
is some warmer climate titan that of ]'ung.
land, is it sine qua nen in the treatment of
ehronio bronchitis, If it atop -at-home policy
ie adopted, everything depends open the
patient's self-control; the temptation to
venture out in the evening, just for once, if
yielded often enclave all the benefit deriv-
ed from the self-denial of months,
Some Health Pointers.
Lot in the sunshine.
Banish all confusion.
Cleanliness is the Iirst rule,
Slake mustard piasters thin,
Ask the (bettor nm to visitors.
Don't salt questions of sick people.
'Wear a slime) dress 0a01 a brigt smile.
Flowers aro pe•nliesil410, butnever in pro.
fusion.
Simple surprises are a pleasure to a con-
valescent.
Rheumatic patients should lie between
woolen sleets.
Eat a cracker or two before going into the
room of contagion.
A sandwich of enticed raw beefsteak often
tempts au invalid.
A mnsterd plaster mixed with the white
of an egg will n01blister.
Watch the veetilntiol and gauge the tem•
pe'atnre by a thermometer.
Treatment of a Gold.
A brisk walk is recommended for breaking
up a cold. Tho person threatened should
put on extra clothing, and walk hard and
fast until he is in a free perspiration.
Then, while still boated np, he should go
home, quickly undressed and get into a
warm bed, and take a glassful of hot water
er lint lenonede. Whore this course is per-
sued the chances are many that all tho
threatening signs will have disappeared the
following morning
!r A "sweat" a whys meta admirably in any
kind of calif, and if not brollgitt about by
exercise, it ought to be produced by some
of the malty other means kllOwll to hoese•
keepers. If the cold is in the head, the fol-
lowing treatment promises well: A111 11
tenspoonful of powdered camphor to a
pitcher of boiling teeter. Over this piece a
cane made of 1 hi1:11 paper or pasteboard,aud
hold the nose and mouth over the smell
opening. The vapor arising frons the water
is changed with canphne, and will speedily
relieve 111any of the disturbing symptoms.
It should bo inhaled for four os+ five inmates
ata sitting. And tare such treatments oro
usually sufficient to merest the ntoet rebel-
lious " oold in the head."
But many of the victims of this trotllo
must be )4111 611(1 about, and they seen! 10
think they cannot spore the time for tho
inhalations. A snuff pleases them best, and
a very good one can be made tip as follows 1
—Menthol, three grains ; powdered hornet°
aoid, ono dranhm ; subnitrate of bismuth
and powder benzion each 1} drachms. A
good sized pinch may be snuffed up five or
six times a day.
When the cold premises to take the form
of bronchitis, tho victim should arrange his
afCaire so that he eau keep his room fora day
or two. Fasting in this kind of oold hes a
rather more brillimnt 01d'oet than in cold in
the head, A"sweat," will, of oaur80, fortify
this treatment and assist a bare if a cough
comes ou, and there there Lightened and
soreness in the upper part of the chest,
whioh mustard pas1e0 do not relieve, then it
is always best to send for a physioitn ; who
by jedi0iou8 medication, will greatly lessen
the danger of complioations, and hasten a
Duro, --
Night is For Sleep.
Beauty sleep is sweet, rofreehiug sleep,
and plenty of lt, before daybreak. Some
get along well, a0 John Wesley and Adam
Clarke, with only six hours, A few are so
constituted that they enjoy good health
with less than Dux hours. Eight hours may
be considered the amount necessary for
moot folks, if taken when darkness is upon
the earth, and is through with in time to
behold the breaking in of the marling light.
Ordinarily this is snllioiont to erase yos1er.
day's ferrow0 and restore tho ciroulotion
and the nerves for tate day's duties which
await.
Sleep a1 no other Lime will steep the flesh,
111e blood and nerves eo fresh and full of
the glow of health, Not only is the night
made for poet, but the sunlight is made for
health. Who lovas a port of the day's light
especially the forepart of the day, tweets
with an 1,roparl1bic loss, and pollee and
prostration are the natural consequences•
So that sleep ab night and to bo out in the
daylight 1p110aerv00 bile body and mill/num
to it the freshness Std glow of hetalth, with•
out wihich there cart bo no lamina lel1l1l
Fatly to hod tend early to riot), is therefore,
fotmded on the true physiology of our
beings.
How Vaccine Virus ie Obtained,
Tho preparation used to produoo what wo
call "vmo01nation" is known among
med11381 man me vaccine virus, to produce
which it in 1 0008sery to go through a
eat'gieal operations, the subject hirings young
cow or oven a calf. After scarifying the
bolly of the animal (the parts laving pre-
viously loon slaved) the wound is 14100111ttr
oil with V1rn0 from 1111 animal already in moa
A sero is thus formed withoutltsting injury
to the beast, and after' a week .nr tot days
a thin monad motor begi1g to flew from the
abrasion, This pus or meter is the mane
virus of O1111me'00, [loose 9(11110 101410)1
have boo/1st/roped veltlr a'knife until they
one pill four time; a day, No 1113n need be:
1(lek of the grip tele dams wee will Lake it.
1''or the (4081 two years, w111) all the patients
here snbjeot, of cones,., to meth one Mine) I
hero not 1)411 ono man go to boil from the
dlse0se, 1 break it up very quickly, and,
in fain eu•e it. If this t'ealmentWits goner.
ally known it w011111 save 0ullerers much ex-
pense awn wretchedness and many panful
and v01114110 lives,"
QUEER THINGS IN HORNS.
As Different from teiwa' end Other ordin-
ary Herne as front 11>e Fabled to ieeru.
"There aro a good many queer t11iug8 to
be told about horns," says Osteologist, Lucas
Take the horn of the rhinoceros, for ex-
ample. It is nothing more Man a protuber-
ance composed of agglutinated hair. You
eat it in two, and, examining 110 structure
under the microscope, and, examining its
structure, you find it is made up 001irrly of
little tubes resembling hair tubes, 01 e.mrse
these aro nob themselves hairs, but the
structure is the sante. Tho horns of the
African rhinoceros soutetz hes grow to the
length of four feof. From them the Dutch
Boors make ramrods and other articles. You
may remember that the handle of the ax
used by Utnslopogwas in ' Allen (Seater -
main '
Seater•main' was a rhinoceros horn. 1n old Unto
rhino0e1os horns were employed for drink-
ing cups by royal personages, the notion
beteg that poison putt into thein wou1(1911014,
itself by bubbling. Toro may have been
some truth in tho idea, inasmuch ea many
of the ancient poisons were acids and they
world decompose the horny material very
quickly,
'Several species of rhinoceroses, now ex-
tinct and only found in a fosil state, used
to exist which hied 110 horns at all. The name
inea11111g as 11 does 'horned nose,' is 144110 (1
misnomer in their ease, Several Kinds of
rhinoceros in Africa have two horns, one bo -
hind the other, but the extinct rhinoceros,
known tae tho dycerathoriunl, hada pair of
horns on its nose side by side. Many of the
gi14n1 reptiles of long ago had enormous
horns. tithe great lizard known as the tric-
eratops had a big horn over each eye and a
little one on its nose. '1'he diem:ores and
the tins eras, gigantic nnannnnots of the tert-
iary epeth, had three pairs of prominences
0u them heads which aro believed to have
supported home. However, the material of
which horn i8 composed of (prickly decays,
being largely composed of gelatine and other
animal matter, 0o that these appendages are
opt to he found absent when the fosssl
bonesofbeasts which had 1110111 aro found.
" Some fishes have horns, which are actu-
ally outgrowths of 1)0110011 their beads. The
box -fish, which inhabits the wenn waters
of the globe—a little fellow 0 or 11 inches
long—has hornsanlnchinl meth. Birdshavo
horns ileo sometimes. Tho horned scream-
er (which is relt11.el to the duck) has & single
horn attached to its skull, springing from a
cartilaginous baso and curving upward. It
1s really modified feather, though a true
horn.
"P:enty of reptiles have horns. Lizards
are very commonly provided with thein.
Thorn aro chameleons with three horns like
the ancient triceratops. Horned Wade have
n sort of cruet at four horns on the back of
their heads. Thorn la a small African snake
which Inas two horns. No horned tortoise
now exists, but a fossil specimen was found
a while ago on Lord How's I81and, in 1 ho
Southern Pacific, which had four )horns on
its crust, mud resembles et cross between a
horned toad cued &snapping turtle. Double
laseyon havo often hoard of human beings
with borne. Such appendages in their case
are abnormal developments of bone,"
What Inoe ism le Made Of.
Tho incense ordered for the service of the
tabernacle, to be burned in a censer and on
the altar, oonsistod of Otacte, ony3ha, gel.
helium and fraukin else in equal parts,
$'Sete, which is the Greek translation of the
Hebrew word nat0ph, signifies a liquid ex.
❑dation, or something fluid. Pliny describes
it as the natural exudation of the myrrh
tree, flowing without the tree being pine.
timed, and more esteemed than the myrrh
itself. Theophra0tns also mentions two
aorta of myrrh, one 11410113 and ono solid,
Ouyoha is the Hebrew Soliseheleth, "odi-
brims shell." lb is the op01401lnnl of a
species of stronlbus, formerly well known
in Europe under the name of blatbm byzan-
tine, found in the rMOditerrenean and in
Vie Red Sea, from which latter the Israelites
ns+ doubt procured it. It is occasionally to
b) aeon at the Custom house ot Bombay,
where it is imported to burn with incense
in the temples, not so 11)01111 on account of
any pleasing odour of its own as to bring out
the odour of other perfumes. It is a white,
traneperent shell, resembling in shape the
Meilen finger -nail; hence its Greek name
onyx, finger -nail. It is generally believed
that the fish lnhabiting this shell empires
peculiar odour by feeling on a species of
Indian nerd. tel word Gall/annul signifies
something nn01notts, awl evitlenbly applies
to It balsam. &wording to some authorities
it is a fine sort of statement found on Mount
Amonus in Syria, differing entirely from the
ordinary galbenum now 0180d in madioine, of
which the odour is anything but sweet,
But the fashions of this world ohango, and
if we, in our day, find no SW0811080 111 gal.
beaten, 0ailhon and spikenard, it f0 no
meson wiry the necienLe did nob, and no
reason wily Orientals should not oven now.
At rho present day the Persians calf aaa-
ftetida " the food of the gods," the Russians
delight in envier°, and the Esquinlaux to
train oil.
A Slie'ht :Mistake.
The editor of a weekly journal lately lost
two of his 8ubserlbe's through 14ccidenit111y
departing front the beaten ta'lacl( in his ans-
wers to 0orrespo11donts, Two of his sub.
scriber's wrote to 14010 hint his remedy for
their respective trembles. No. 1, a hlappy
milia' of twins, wrote to inquire rho hest,
way toget then oarofully over their to01h•
'
ing, ami Noe warted to know how to. pro-1
teat his orchard from the myriads of grass.'
hoppers,
The editor framed his answers mum the
orthodox 11110a, but, tinfnrLntatoly trn110p0s-
ed their two vanes, with the result that, No,
1, who was blessed with the twins, read, in
rattly to his query: " Cover themca'aGnslyl
with straw and tint fire to them, all the
little pests otter jumping about, in the flames
a few minutes will speedily ha settled,"
11hMita No, 31 (lament 1v11.h grasshoppers,
was 101,1 tel " Give m 111t,)o 0a8tne oil and
ub their gulps gently with a bone riug."
ODDS AND .ops, ► LATE FOREIGN NEWS,
More people 114ug11 14t uta than with us,
however it may appear at the tnomeht.
tVhett a OM has nu opporllnnity to stool
1113 mntsi,lors himself net 11011001 man,
The great mid of all 111110an 101ostry is
he att0 11inent of happinoee. —1 flume,
The way to power,/ ittsnite is to submit
to theta. A mini Meats with no more re.
apOal than 11e oxncts,---[liarlitt,
When yell want it hard mllstet', work for
it beggar who hoe just become rich.
Rtt'awbcr—There is a thread on you
'coat collar. Singerly--That'o ILII right. Let
it stay there, 1 /ongoing to call on a girl.
The hulnan heart is so made that it eon
trot 1)11 itself, and it will either be filled
with (foci or the enemy,--4J01011,foNrsih
There are some (Dike in this world who
spend their whole lives a-11pntblg after
rlghteou8uo8s, mud can't find any time to
practice 1t.
There is more saving virtue in one quick
stern reproof than In an hour's n ellen scold -
ng. A scolcling woman 1s a constant thorn
n the flesh.
Collector—I left a bill here yesterday for
some 01111'0 your husband got, Did yen
look it over ? Lady of the house—No, he
overlooked it.
No man can tell whether he is rich or
poor by turning to hits ledger, It is the heart
that makes the man rich, fte 48 ricin ac-
cording to what he is, not according to
what he has.
"Henry," elle said, "papa asked ,no last
night if you smoked." " Yes?" he replied,
wondering, "Nell," she ('0ntinuedl, "I
think it would be It good thing 11 you should
oifet• hint a cigar occasionally."
" (Tow tong has ho been preaching?" naked
the stranger, as he came in during the ser -
01011 and took a seat in a book pew. " Thirty
or forty ycu'0, I think," replied 111e old
member, " but I don't know exactly," "I'll
stay, then. Re meal be nearly done," said
the stranger.
Rome people are born to ill 1nett. Am old
woman who had pasted nearly 5,000 med-
feel recipes in a book (urine the last 40 yoa'o
has not 111,11 an opportunity to use one of
them, because she has never been ill a day
in her life, 01111 she is glowing discouraged.
A fair end Mixon widow, who has buried
three husbands, recently went wl th n gentle-
men
entle-
men who, in his younger dive, hod paid her
marked attention, to inspect the graves of
hor dear departed. After contemplating
1110111 111 mournful silence, she murmured to
her cmnpanten—" Ah 1 James, you might
have been in that row now if yon had had a
little more courage."
Definition of Xiaa.
Some time ago an English paper offered a
prise for thobest definition of a hiss. Seven
thousand definitions wore received. A cor-
respondent hos selected thirty-four from the
list anti forwarded them to the Journal for
publieet'ion. The first ore nn the list was
sent in by Mr. Benjamin J. Greenwood of
Lula ]Till. London, and for which 110 was
awarded the prize.
An insipid, tasteless morsel, which be-
comes delicious anti delectable in proportion
as it is flavored with lova.
What the chimney sweep unprinted on
the rosy lips of the scullery maid when she
told 111111 aha favored his cool.
The 811,001001 frail on the tree of love.
Tho oftener plucked the more abundant it
y'r01 0,
A thing of use to no one, but much prized
by two.
That which you give witlho01 taking anti
cannot take without giving.
The food by which the flame of love is
fool.
Tl10 flag of truce in the petty wars of
conrtehip and marriage.
The Remo of agony to a bashful man.
The only known 'snlaoh" that will calla
0 storm.
A tologrlam to the heart in which the oper-
ation uses the "sounding" system.
Nothing divided between two.
Not enough for one, just enough for two,
and too much for three.
The only really agreeable two faced aulion
tulle' the sun, or on the moon either,
The sweetest labial of the world's lion-
getage.
A woman's moob effective argumcot,
whether to cajole the heart of 1a father-, eon
trot the humors of n hnsbnud, 01001100101110
griefs of childhood.
Something rather dangerous,
Something rather nice,
Sonhethin1 rather wicked,
Though it can't bo called a v100.
Some think it naughty,
Others think it wrong,
Alt agree it's jolly,
'lhongh it don't last long.
A kiss from a pretty girl is like having
hot treacle poured down yonr hack by
angobs.
Tho thunder -clop of the lips which inevit-
ably follows the lightening glance of the
eyes.
A report at headquarters,
Ilveeybody's acting edibion of "Romeo and
Juliet."
Tho drop that runnoth over when filo cup
of love is full.
What rho child receivon free, what the
young man steals, and what the old emu
bnetys.
Thatin 1411)011 two heads are better than
one.
A hiss is three ports of speech --a trans!-
Svc vorb, an invisible noun, and a visible
conjunction.
Prntbing without ink, leaving no visible
impression.
Woman's passport to her husband's purse
and a man's passport to et 100111181'0 heart.
When lips of lovers meet in bliss,
The pleasing act is termed a " kite,"
But when the pair have wed each other
The vapid thing is" called a "bother."
Love's artillery, that Is brengbt into
acting immodietely on the call "to Some."
Contraction of the mouth, dos to the en-
largement of the /Dart:
Thu sounding line used by a woman to
fathoir, the depths el a man's weakness,
An old fashioned telegraphicrerralg0melt
(of trae0mi1Ling front one pe'soe to another
various 80,1s41ione that cannot be tram,
nlftted correctly by any other known mo -
111011.
Nature's volapuk--the universal language
of love,
An article that la always acs0pted, and
(int) printed, belt not always published.
:Cleo action of the lips by which the lips
by which the real sentiments of the heart
aro 000011 OdTOctielaloly expressed or else
disgltised.
With the aid of compressed air a Ger-
man military engineer (driven cement to
the bottom of a 01100m,the water at once
hardens it, and the bed of the stream be-
comes stable enough fee foundation pur-
po8e0.
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katln Dud other dignitary t f the lloluanute• , • �` �'
dee profession must be aat11!u•ofthekite-. Lateo," Frrim i P[�"o{ !
Hhtn language and mate 1118 reports to the C L7tel L I , „„ + I Europe
pe
Cloven; went, in that tongue. rr
Two colored do1hnloolto in ltdleigll• N. C.'., 1lerlie is to hem) "barfly a t'nuu etot•y er-
were recently uuldemnud to receive thirty meted at 1110 city's coat in tl,' Fri elei,ilmft1,i A Russian i1o]ocauat--f'91'tltfal in Tr04"
nine 1 a • u
u hos unh, and 8puahaturH were nil- Cemetery, whore hediea of the pout and uu- I a Di at'eAppointments,
U. plow 1
a ,1,01 to whouax the whipping at 11 cents known and of the us and
Ofpiti10 wi11 in- At Rlobnd8ke' :n8 101 11 111, 0 from vlatke.,
a lealr '1'11e Pim 1'eeeipta Wl'U 1. 1.,, the 1'eHtgilt{nal at 4n111ea Itnd iIU'1111Ii4Ia will be � .1'
II]risoners, as a 0alve for 11)011 Wounds pro• reduced to as11r.0. 'Phu bade" 11) 4 Ilse 1 a feightful'100i,11ut 11,, ,:her (L1,y' caused A
0ably. amtolnint'n ambles ulouu nutuberahout 1,000 uuud,ar ,f d1•mtha. A 11u O eon„tab54.100
A law 11111, bO 17000011 in Coote ulna making genitally, To further this peactee the 1b.r•titr'll titre/nes! ! Sac ,f r he Ilene out t herellns for
the sale to fur0lgners of Indian oetigl>ities lin eloulet. for Cremation hue petitioned the •1
collected in the republic a erllne punishable 111)1'llltl'nentery Commission on Civil Code Wfclt +lubodskuj is colalrolod. V11)114
w0rehip was going on, mud without any
warning, the roof of the church fell in with
a tremendous crash. The people were
crushed beneath the groat beams, and fear.
ful cries wont up from the struggling and
writhing mass.
Those who were able reeled to the wins
down mud doors fat' ogres@ and a number
were hurt in the effort to get out, The
people of the town hurried to the rescue and
aided in extricating the dead and injured.
Meantime fire broke out in the wreck from
the fire that had been used to warm the
church. Fortunately 4118rescuers eneeee(1011
in extinguishing the flanges without addi-
tional hose of life. The >nm,be' of killed
and injured is eetitultted at ei..1).five or
seventy.
Poor little Portugal, after prolonged
ng(111 w•ry fa "o, 1>at as+ al
low•rigglined ,1 Au q1•.y' doge, 1n,d '0 lspatrnlylasdiscuss-
-
ing the uex•en-.ity of selling some of her
colonies. The flatcfnl proposition bee been
made in 11 , 1'"rtee, unci the newspapers
are mppruvin„ it, \\'tat 11(11140 this lined
secretive of dignity ie ill more 10114)ble to
national eOntemplatiou is the tilediug fear
that it w;li ine 810(10 In vain and thee.. no
buyers will appear. Unhappily, it 861)1110
rather more ptohal>11r that the big Slates
will now take What they Want without
When they arrived et Santiago With abort. , mooting the question of pnymeetat all.
5500 In *eight and tariff charges due en seemlier she (le of the diplomatic cards is
then, lialmaocdl4's star had faded, as that tanuouu's:d this morning. Sir Robert
his Hire) friends d00uled to 10)1O 110 pre• atom
is improved, and he remains
setae to hie family and refused to pay the 1Lt rut. 1'etoaburg, whine Lord Vivian, who
hill. The ntnnincturen will sue for wl,<1011, heel been prmnoted from Brussels to the
The now.paperwar between Bavaria and Russh,neapitee goes to home, lv1>inh Sir
141111 Prussia is not without cause, and leeks Robert covrtod and had been prnmieed• Sir
eninone for the empire. 1t is •ery bitter, Robert 1)0rier's (1)411cal adviser i8 Lord
and shove how touch jealousy and disoea Salisbury. The state of Russe -British rola-
tent is rankling in the second largest led. tuns in Central A0it1 told elsewhere requires
oral Mate. It is now dcolsred that the re- au oxpeviouced Anthaseed01 in St, Peters -
port that the Inspoctnt••Generllsliip of the burg, and his health must for the present
German authors have petitioned the Reich- army was offered to a Bavarian Prince 14)11 take care of tteelf. Sir lisnry Wulff goes
stag to afford them the protection in the declined for him by the Regent is nutria. to 1ludrid, his
The controversy over this While will seam0 ,- you
ery bract period,third promotion within a
ly encourage the Keiser to offer the two
susceptible Bavarians anything, The con-
ditions he might lave to impose would only
aron0e 1110 4101'nlaut passions of 1 SGtd.
loath mover) penalties. A menial' law is 1e
be pane. in 1'lcuad00,
the!. the chines+ between burial :41111 1» ll•tdng
granted hereafter to every thorium citiv,m,
Seller Mote, a moral reformer who is A late eeusns of the city of Lima, P,','u,
Mayor of 1108gtlera, a town in the 1J114 tett 011UW0 11 141 have +4 p')pnluttoll 01 108.9511, of
States of Colombia, has decreed that women Which 411,811(4 are males lied 51,1011 ere
arrested fon' disorderly eooduet in his baili• tone/lee ; 10,1111 of the inhabitants elm read
wick shall have their !made shaven before aid 01114 nofthor,oad (1111' write. A
they are set at liberty again. siugnlar reversal of the relative prop.' trot
The olliolel figures for the French vintage in uonbers of the sexes is shown by compari.
show 30,000,000lootolitrss,nearly3,000,000 8011 with prel•ious entunerations, 111 111(111
more than in 189e. The eider crop was 2,- the census showed the 01tV to hove I,d'32
000,000 less than in 1800. more ;wiles than females while 11,e present
The gold medal given 10 Virchow on hie censuts shows that the females outnumber
seventieth birthday is the largest ever made, the mules My 4,750.
It weighs nearly six pounds, and the metal A mts010nary, who has ar111'011 nu the
alone fs worth 51,750, ooaot front the ulterior of Meiva, says that
There is to be It new Prussian throne, one of aha l:urnp}leans 414110 fools part 111 Ilio
Frederick I haddisaetrbus Lattlu between aha %ore vrky ex•
one, but Napoleon took it podilion and the \Vttbebo natives, is now a
off and molted it, and there are only now 171.0011' •un the hoods of the tyahuhe. /WI 1 -
tared small claire of small raise tared through Afreen are whim men who et 0
Several large Vetoes., bankers and mann- in bell doge orhave volnuterilytoken uptheir
facturees 0uninunee that they will prohibit residence there. 1)r. Neehtigal's servant le
all their employees from going to the races an example. Hu deserted his master in the
during the wining spring season. Soudan, and at last accounts be was living
The high priests of Persia who forbade net)' take'1.0dlad, the only white le 111 in that
smoking in order to break up the tobacco part of Africa.
monopoly, have triumphed. The monopoly Paris e(nu•ts are likely soon to Naar the
has been odicially abolished. echo of the recent 0011111/1 in Chili. Last
In the 00110108110 year 1800.01 Si, Peters- February. three a4utirers of 131hnaceda
burg had 259 primary schools, with 122760 ordered 0 Paris Untie umbrellas fnr him
pup110. This year the nun'her of schools f, and his fltmily. Each umbrella watt to
.07 ami ilio, number 01utt>ntlinG papula hove a solid gold handle, •wd was t0 0,441
13,043, 'fI is inehtdos 120 female sohoole, ,$,800• All three were shipped in August,
with an attendanoo of 5,701). that they might be presented this Christmas.
The conductors of all the street cars, 0nt-
nibuses, and other vehicles for public accom-
modation in Warsaw, in the.. part of the
city between Novaya Praga and the suburb
of lirn(lno are woolen, and fulfil their duties
more aoouretoly and to the better satisfac-
tion of the public than men,
On Doc. '21 at midnight, by a new law,
Vienna suddenly expanded from 011 acre of
55 square kilometres to 178 square kilolntres,
or half the size of London and three Limes
as large as Berlin, with a population of
United Statue nolo enjoyo 1 by French,
British, Belgian, and Swiss authors, The
petitioners urge the Government to make at
once the declaration, required by the Copy-
right law, that hereafter 14100 can authors
will eajey the same rights in Germany es
German authors.
Tho higheredenation of•vomen is making
great progress in Sweden. The number of
women students in the universities there is
now large and is constantly increasing,
There are eighteen women students in the
Upsala University, Airtime is Lund, anti
Dight women are studying medicine in the
Carolinako,
London is rather slow in mdopiugimprove-
meats. It is only recently that extensive
use has been made, of the telephone. The
City Council is now considering the intro-
duction of police patrol wagon, so well
known in great Canadian and American
cities, and there is a good prospect that
this summary method of removing drunken
and disorderly persons tvill bo adopted.
The _Vortfa German Gravies somi•olficially
d0:.les Lire rumor that a conference is to be
held here with a view 10 negotiating a com-
mercial treaty with Russta. 1t 0101,1re0
that no delegates have [arrived, and that no
project of the kind has boon put forth from
any responsible quarter.
The project, for a vast nattered exhibition
to bo held in Merlin is not approved by the
1provinc00, }There nothing hub an interuat-
Ionnl f it is ill favor.. The committee on
the subject, with one opposing vote, has as+-
oordingly resolved that the exhibition shall
be international in scope, if possible, and be
'.geld probably in 1800.
A movement to abolish the "annoying
lleaol,ro,,to,,. '' of church -bell ringing is talk-
ed of in Sam Francisco, The report of that
city contends that the theatres hen as
good a right to nee steam whistles, as the
cherishes have to use bells, morn especially
as the theatres would not, in announcing
their perl'ortnanaes, awake people before
daylight in the morning,
A Methodist church hies beeu closed in
Vienna Lemma one of the articles of its
belief (10nonn000 masses as "blasphemous
fables aid dangerous deceits.” These words
constiteto au Insult to " one of the (3811)41008
r000gnieed by the.stato." These words, how-
ever, cone t1onl the artiolea of the Church
of Englund.
Giuseppina Robbie, 000sidete(1 to bo the
most beautiful ballet dan0010 in Italy, fell
unconscious during her appearance at the
Theatre 1avigliauo in Turin abottttwo weol(8
ago. Two dootors bit the audience hurried
to her aid, bub she diad in the glare of the
footlights. In the confusion nobody thought
to lnwor the curtain, so 111e whole house
witnessed the scene.
Odessa is ovorllooded 11110 year with
Chinese tem The 10110011 thereof is that the
Russian tea morello')ts will uo longer buy
their ware through the English tomos in
Chien, and import it directly. The English
morel/ante on the other stand, 100ing the
Russian trade, hove oenterod their activity
in Ceylon teas, wile)) are 11011100d in Russia.
The greater part ot the Chinese to Drop
this 01rr, 1110refcre f0 aao0mulated in
Y , ,
010800,
A lntele intact with whiskey by a New
York liquor (1ealee and carried to sea by a
Now Yorker bound for Europe has reached
rho liquor dealer again after ninny nlotth8
end through a strange 0)tanuel. A friend
of the traveller affirms that the bottle,
oteptetl of its contents, was thrown over.
board while the ship WAS still far from shore,
but the liquor dealer isegaaliy positive that
the bottle cane back to 111= ma ease of 1411111
imported from 1,140 \Veit Indies,
The coil woollier and heavy snow 810r111
in Now Me leo this whiter have beer
unprecedented, Many ponds in Oren
Comity hove boon frozen over, 001110uhin,
which has not happened ceriednly hi nine or
ten years. Many fat antelope )levo been
killed near Maxwell City, the animals being
unable to got away on account of the deep
!MOW, 1I03vy 8110W (tonna 11(840 been general
in the Nest. 1n 001110 poets oP the hooky
Mountains, on the regular roads, snow tuns
drifted to a depth of thirly.fivo foot and
mire. tenowslfdee, with loss of life, hove
been ntnnetems.
The Minister oP the Interior Inas detailed
a epeoial 'lubllovnik 10 enquire into the
allure of the Mohanmedau confession
among [.Ito 'retitle; of the Crimea, He pee -
poses to eufo•ce there rho same law ley which
tie ?lohlanunedans of Orenburg ars, gove •ti-
ed,exceeding to which every tmdla, kadi,
Tho primary public seleols of Moscow
are more favorably situated than those of
the other pities of Russia. While in the
other cities, anal especially in the villages,
one Machete has sometimes to instruct in
two or in three,,lassoo of various degrees of
Scholarship, in the M0000w schools every
degree has its owe toaaher. The develop-
ment of the Moscow school, however, is not
adequate 10 the inerea00 of the population
of the oily, and many pupils have to be re-
fused admission into 11 a aohools for want of
aceonodalioo. Every school has three
grades. On the average, 09 per cent. of the
number of pupils attending graduate in the
third grade 1 the others quit school before
they attain it. Tenting into coneldcration
the entire number of ohildretl cf the lower
alas8es of society for whom these schools
are 081abli011ed, only about 50 per (mnt. of
then enjoy the advantages of a primary
oil mat ien.
A private belonging to the garrison of
Morchingen, Germany, near the French
frontier, recently stole the treasury of his
regiment and escaped with it to Nancy.
'There lie made an open and 17)0(008
display of his ill gotten gains, anti lived
riotously without disguise. Demand 11110
been made for his extradition, but the
authorities of Nancy professes to know
nothing of the fugitive, and refuses to boil -
Rate the extradition proceeding. The fuer•
man War Deportment is furious over the
affair, fearing that the example will have
a dem0ializing effect on frontier garrisons.
It is thought here, in view of the apathy of
the French Government in the business,
11101 France 18 strongly confidant in her
own strength or in Germany's worship of
peace,
1)nrenik of Saratov says that the Govern-
ment will requisition all the stores of grain
withheld from the varketprodneed a sale.
Lary effect upon the price of grain. The.
big firms are 11111x10110 to sell out, their stored
of grain, and will not buy tiny now paries
from the middlemen, The activity of the
latter is consequently checked, and the
1amdo n/ire having grain in sloe most bring
it directly to tiro market, But 1)111mak
doubts whether this will bo productive of
permanent good. 11110116m that the mo-
mentary relief n-111011 the " sequestration"
rumor afford to the grain market will be
fraught with mei consequences. The mid-
dlemen, loosing their trade, will be added
to the trillions of the starving ; the capital
now invested in grain will seek [nativity
elsewhere, perhaps in foreign trade ; and
on the whole, the money that is now saved
by the cheapening of grain will bo lost be-
came) It large proportion of the stores of
farmers who know not how or have not the
means to bring their hares into the market
must get spoilt and wasted.
Too Little.
Children why so n learn the ways of their
elders, and, cttohiug their methods of
thought, use then, in childish fashion, to
evolve conalnoions of their Own, Sometimes
these easelis show a baby wisdom, a11d (181410
they aro only worth a smile, Freddy is the
son of it mill)onaire, and has from his earl-
iest childhood live 1 in the 11111108ph0140 of
pomp and pretense, Ho hears a great duel
about 111Oney and what 11 will buy, and he
is Under the impression that "poor fonts"
really have little business in the world at
all, Ono day his long-suffering governess
gave ]Dint a tilde sum in percentage, the re.
salt of which would she 110rt/ 1111101i capital
n man must hove togmin a certain fnt'ome.
Freddy worked ray with determination,
but ovldettly to 5no purpose. The 11,110we'
w0111,1 1101 conte, and sus face contracted an
011'11001 Seoul. " Well, Freddy," said his
teacher at the mud of fifteen minutes, "how
are yogi gaffing on ?" "Not at all," Wali the
reply. "1 oa1't matte 1100nte out right. 1
don't know bow .I con do it any differently,
and I keep getting the saute answer every
time." ' What Inlolver do your get?" " Fifty
tyousend dollars.' "\\'hy, that's eight
1117 1)111 made you think it wa0)1 1.tFreddy
looked at 1110 figures in soma disgast•
"Anybody would know it within be
right," sold he, hlmeghtdly, "Nobody
would think of h.1vung 811011 a small capital
es 650,000."—[Youth s Cumpahion,
The recent nniehm•1t oP harlot girl
tbrolgll the death of 410x1 1131 relatives ar
Ines that p'op.o are living to a green old age
in these (lava.
The Minstrel's Lot.
My lady, when thy cavaliers
About thy footstool bend,
And wait thy words with eager ears,
Thou duet. not nmudeeettel
To look on me. My faithful lute,
That teetihed thee with iia song,
Hath lost its charm, the strings are mute
Amid the knightly throng.
Than givost one the sleeve to wear,
And nue illy hand to press.
Thou dost believe them when they swear
Eternal faithfulness,
Their Nova thou cleat not seek to prove,
Thou art euetent the while ;
And yet to me whose life is love,
Thou grentest not One smile
Yet when. perchance, some feat of arils
Doth call thy knights away,
And they, forgetful of thy charms,
Ride forth to (mu the fray,
Ern the last pennono1 lance de hid
By hills that lie beyond,
To soothe thy sorrow I aun bid,
And sadly I responds.
Thy thought is with the cavaliers,
Who laughing rode away
And to dispel thy lonely tears
I tune my loving lay,
I am forgot in love's sweet song,
All happiness is thine 3
But love is true, lay leve is strong,
Thy griefs are doubly muse.
Thou knowest not this love I hold,
Thou dost not understand
Tne love that in my songs is told—
Love beautiful and grand,
Songs serve to hast111 lagging time,
Thy dreams are 'breams of pride ;
The lover pictured in my rhyme
Unknown wit)10 at thy side.
—[l+lavel S0ott Alines, in Harper's Weekly
To Girls Who Sing.
Tho best way to discover whether or nob
you have a vote's (says a prima donna) is to
submit yourself to a thoroughly good teach-
er, and rubble by his or her judgment, al-
though, if yon p01d008 good intelligence,
inmate' appreciation, and a really artis)io
sense, yen should bo able to judge for your-
self whether your tones are true and sweet,
and these are the only requisites necessary
fora commencement in vocal education.
Strength, steadiness, volume, and ability
route with training ; lint sweetness and true-
ness are natural gifts. Those can hardly
be acquired. Tne opinion of your friends
end relativoe in this matter, unless they are
pore learned than loving, will be of bit [.little
value to you. They are as a rale—because
its their ign0ranee and 81(0)tion they con-
done and overlook most glaring faults—the
worst critics and advisers that a girl can
possibly havo. If a girl expecte to slake
mach of her voice, by which I mean if she
intends to sing with style, method, good
taste and expre801011, either in public. or in
her home, the usual two lessons a -week,
with the daily practice at home, are, inmost
eases, useless. I boliovein daily lessons, or,
betterstill, in morning and afternoon lessons
daily. This obviates the necessity forprao-
tice alone, and 011abiee the pupil to give her
voice the e1et•O1se 1)0cessery to se0tlre its
dexibilty and bestetloots, nutter intelligent
guardiunahip. Let nue seggesb the crying
evil of ienglhy, as well as of misapplied,
practice. UUnlor no cireunstances should
the 1•oicebe used mmllinuouslyfor more than
half an hour, I think there is but one opin-
ion 111 this matter, and. that is, that longer
coutinmons use tends to destroy both the
quality and capability of a voice. Even
opera singers, who sing during a two or
throe hour performs es+ have always a rust
between their lines, The greatest danger
to a 1441100 is overwork. Nothing will ruin
vocal powers so 11111011 as to overtax them.
Nearly 50 per cont, of the property of
England is insured.
Thomas (a lover from \Vaybaok)'—"I
8upp1100, Susie, that these comes to every
women, sooner or later, an irresistible yearn.
ing to lay her head upon 0om10 strong man's
shoulder, and g1v08 vent to the outpourings
of a full heart?' ,,sic (timidly),--" Yes
'Phomas•" 7'11o,11as--" Well, 1108 e, if you
INCA' lcol that way, my shoulder is at 8001'
disposal." Susie owl ,10,1,0,1 the opportunity
and Thomas embraced Susie.