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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-8-12, Page 74, AUGUST 12, 1802. HEALTH. TartOita Signaler BOVerages. S41011005 deinks 5050 taken to quench dare not to inmost) it. Thirst is caused by ro moh heat in the body, duo to the too gret proportion of heat•produeing food omelet ed, atioll as fatty, farinaceous, and Beech rine ertiolos of diet Liquids two taken to may off this hoe from the borly through the psres of th ekin,and thes to preeerve it normal tempo Gum in it. Now, if the drinks whieli we take to alla I(11011 in the summer season are of them eelves charged with hoet-produciti matter, as is the 0550 WWI undel aweetened soda drink& root beers, ase., th end for which they are tinbibed is defeat& and the thirsty citizen who 01105 to quo= his Ghat by such beverages finds it inorea ed, and keepa 1311 drinking, mnell to his clis eomfort and little to his relief, Fie has an idea that &old drinks are 000 ing,and goes into a well-known place wher tempered= drinks only areoupplicol. Ther he asks for laohart, acid phosphete, orange ade, or lemonade, and, while be is given (tertian amount of the acid, it is smotheve in syrup ; and it is so with all drinks take front the soda fountain, save the plain sod water itself, which is one of the bese hover ages extant to qtioneh thirsts. This leads to the censiclorabion of the sod fountain itself, so called, and the agency i now has in furnishing summer drinks. Th so•called soda water is not soda water a all, but water impregnated with carbont acid goo, deriving its name, however, fro the fact that when it was first made carbon ate of soda was used to obtain the oarboni acid. Now, carbonate of lime or marble dust i used, nod carbonic acid is liberated trom i by the agency of sulphuric acid, which laving a greater affinity for the Moe, seize it, freeing the gas and forming sulphate o lime. The water impregnated by this gas is ti more a soda water thou it is a lime water Ibis neither, in fact, but a carbonic acid water, if it ie anything. The gas fi pro duced in a strong vessel, and tranamitte by pipes into the retorts oontedning th water to be impregnated under a pressure of about 200 pounds to the square inch. A retort will hold about fifteen gallon of water, bat only ten gallons are put in room being reserved for the mixture ot the gas with the water. Thio combination i effected by agitating the water in the retor by subjecting the retort to a kind of oscillat Ing movement by which each end is ratsed and loveerel alternately and the water thrown from one end to the other. An agitation of some ten or twelve minutes use idly suffices to charge the water under pressure, which has increased in the operation by aboub two gallons, or one- 1 Ib may lime be stated that the soda water of to -day is quite a different affair from what it 1185 in former years. Then ordinary service water, and in some casee spring water, was used. Now only distilled water is used to be impregnated with carbonio acid gas. This water is produced from a steam boiler, as is well known, by wendeneetion from the steam, the latter being run into a cooling chamber or condenser, where the heat is abstracted from it by running cold water over the surface. The distilled water when firet condensed is at a high temperature, and, to cool it, it is run through coils in an ice box which are sur• roended with ice. When water is wenn or hot it will not take up the carbonic acid gas anti the lower its temperature the more reatli• ly the latter will combine with it. Now from this source—the soda fountein —is derived the great bulk of our summer temperance drinks, and it is a satisfaction to know that the charged water employed is absolutely pure. Carbonic acid, which is so dangerous to breathe, appears to have a good, if not a • tonic, offeet on the stomach, in wines and beers, where it is produced by fermentation, it is the life of these drinks, for without it they would be flat and tasteless to & de- gree. The art of inbroducing it areificially into nonalcoholio drinks ia a great benefit to humanity. The effect of the extended em. ployment of the soda fountain now is that, if a person is thirsty and wants a cooling effervesoieg drink, lie repairs to the nearest apothecary store, or place where summer drinke are dispensed, and calls for any kind of drink he may desire. The compounding of such drinks is very eimple and very quickly aocomplished by the Clerk. The various extracts, such as root beer, and flavors, !tech as vanilla, letnou, &co are already prepared and combined, and are drawn from faucets in tho fountain to the required amount in the bottom of the tuntbler. Then the glass is filled with the carbonized water, and a palatable drink is ready for the customer. The only criticiam that can be made on these drinks for summer consumption is that they are too sweet, and, therefore, too heating, Perhaps the public taste demands these over -sweetened drinka, but the public taste is wrong. As before stated, 11 111 is desired to quench thirst, a glass 01 pluin soda is the best drink that ottn be taken, even better than apriug water. SO -called tonic bottled beers pro made in the same way that the driuks are cont. pod -tided at the soda tountaito The required amount of ayrup with the flavor is drawn • into the bottle, and the bottle filled with ' the cherged water. Tbese tonic irinks are producted in large quantities, and are good and wholesotne as a beverage, but after the bottle, which is quite large—is opened once or twice, the carbonate acid gas escapee to a greater or less extent, and the tete draughts from it are comparatively dee. Still, where the ' eode, fountain cannob be afforded, this is a good aubstitute for it. • A few kinds of root beer are sttll made, placed in retorts God charged with carbon. trio acid gas The trouble with such bever- ages, owing th the sacchatine ingredients in hem, is that when drawn from the fatiocie they foal to each a degree as to be undrink- able, and to diapenso them in potable form the ahopman must draw the beer in large • voesels ond allow it to condense; when a ghow ef beer is called for he placers it under the faucet, draws 081(3011 amount of foam in ib, and then fills in the bear from & pit- cher. There is another elms of summer drinks, --etyled neree foods, nerve 5001050 ‘150,, whose bitter or tonio principle is usually an extract of wormwood or 501110 other bitter vegetable -Mice or extract—et/Mob may , 1t merit enon'tiorh us they have grown into extended twe On account of their tont° pate rierties, in part, but (pito largely from betel advertising. These nerve food beers aro Made in the game way that the ordinary • tonic hoots ato, only (hot ha addition to flowering extrozto they oonfain the bitter principle aforesaid, mid sometimes only that alone lot conthination with the syrup, THE BRUSSELS POST, These "nerve food" drinks are very agreo. able to some peletee, the hitter prinoiple act- ing 05 (1 tonio, bat no doubt same of their good effects :nay be ascribed to the iniagin. alien ef the oaels or their faith ia the claims 111100 for the drnks. From the above enumeration of Hummer temperance drinks it will be seen that in tbetn all the fermentative prinelple has been altogether eliminated, and lib roeultent cox. both: acid gas artificially produced and M. trod aced, lithether this is for the benefit 0( 1110 hio man stomach or (1011 18 till au open ques• Gott, the gnat majority of opinion, how. ever, 13111 80 doubt be on the affirmetive side of the queetion, for the reason that all fermentative drinke are more or lase alco- holic, and that aleohot is injurious not only to the body, but to mint' aud morels Among summer drinks, ono of the best is buttermilk, but it is not largely used. Med tea or coffee te another of the mild oummor beverages which is largely consumed. Ili should be borne in mind, however, that if cream and sugar are freely employed in these drinks they aro heating in thole adieu rather than cooling. Cold tea or °one, rather than iced, and plain, rather than sweetened and creamed, is tilt beet form of this beverage. Iced drinks are risky rather than dangerous When heated any iced drink is dungaree& After eating ibis not Wit10 to take teed drinks for the reason thee they retard, if they do not stop digention. Plain, simple drinks are the beet where thirst is to be as- suaged. Cold water is, perhape, the ideal summer drink, if it is pure, and therefore pure soda water in cities is the best summer drink. Dan garotte N egligenoe. Every one knows, in a general way, how fatal habits of carelessness znay prove. Yet few mothers—we say mothers, became) the braining of the young is mainly in their handa—are sufficiently impressed with the importance of vigorously training their children to habits of carefulness. Au old Will proverb said, "The mothers of the timid seldom weep." We do not wish children trained to timidity, but to thoughtfulness—to considering the probable consequences of their conduct. Certainly, In the transition period from childhood to youth'the formation of right habits in this respect can be begun. "I didn't think " should not be a full excuse for many little misdeeds, or for a costly pieoe of carelessness. lf the habit of negligence is once formed, it will assert itself through life—possibly in a disastroue way. If a habit of careful. tees is formed, it will be a life•long benefit —.probably beyond all that its possessor may realize. Stagings are constantly giving way, re. suiting in death or broken bones, becauee those who put them up ware careless in their construction. A friend of ours, a re. tired heusebuilder, never had an accident of the kind during his long life. He had formed the habit; ot assuring himself that every nail was sound, and that every nail wee well driven home. A gentleman who had gone to watch with a sick friend opened the door which led to the cellar, but from which the stairs had been removed. He foil and was killed. What a wicked negleet to have meth a dour unbareed in the front hall 1 A. mother stepped out for a moment, leav- ing a tub of boiliug water on thn floor and a young child in the room. She was detained somewhat, and returned to find her child scalded to death. At a eaten -ground laet summet a lady intending to do some ironing filled her stove with wood and went to a neighbor's while the irons were heating. The stove door °pelted, coals fell out., the cottage and several others were burned, and the utmost exere• ions barely saved from destruction all the other oottages and public buildings, with ninny grand and priceless trees. A physician left 1,10 120200 and baggy 1t1 a lane a short distance item his patient's house, where he thought he conld see them from the window. The horse was well broken, kind, tractableand ttocustomed to stand untied for hours. But it quietly hacked out of the lane and ran, and killed allother horse. The law held it a ease of gross neglect, end the physician had to pay for the other horse, besides the cost of the suit. ODDS AND EN Db'. Corea makes paper clothes. Flour is made of shavings. A. tissue paper trust is new. There are 05,000 homeopathic physicians. Uncle Sam has 300,000 commmeroial drummers. Chicago makes 100,000 musical Matra. ments a year. Kansas haa four cities in which the vote of the women is larger than that of the mem The telephone lint over Plke's Peak is said to be eclipsed in latitude by a lino that crosses the Andes on the Transandeen rail. road at an elevation of about 16,500 feeb above the sea level. A novel scientific device is inteuded to aid those who are partially deaf. It consiets of a email rubber disk axed upon a rubber spring, which is Inserted in the ear, and it is so shaped that it will focus the waves of sound upon the drum of the ear. It is said that by the aid of this device many who are warty deaf aro able to hear as well as by tho cumbersome ear trumpet, Itow:the Bishop Conquered. Prejudice of color is harder to overcome than any. Even servants of the Savior who gave His life a ransom for all have needed to be taught that the black man is a brother. Bishop MeIlvaine' of Ohio, was once belting Sunday duty atGambia. At the titne the place was in a ferment, and the question agitating the community was whether a (uttered divinity student should r,eoeivo holy communion in company with his fellow collegians, The chaplain of the school had allowed a barrier to be set up. The white populetion woe received at the communion rails first. Then the black had to ptesent himself alone and feeling hazily the arbitrary division. Biohop Mellvaine was grieved at the weakness of a foith that bould observe such an unjust rule. But he did not make a, noisy pi:otest thet might have been futile, His wish yeas to show a better Way, and illustrate hie creed by an act that could not be inisinterpreted Rud would not soon be forgotten. A. substitute had to preach fot him on the Sunday morn. Mg, When the time came for the admin.. istration of holy communion, the bishop was not with tho clergy. /to waited, and 5000 he was soon kneeling at the cheneel 33(11113 11110 oolorecl student by his side, He earta ed the poor folloWbf Worm and lasting greti• tudo, he broke down a tradition dishonor. Mg to his Mostar, and, beet of ell, he proved that Chrittian love for tho heathen and the etrodiger is a reality and net a, sham, A LIVING SKELETON. -- A IdaiiiillrForty.three Days W151b0515 weed ttaaaneed in It Cotter —It was mad Der. Ing lin prima Close following upon the etorica of death and disaster on ate and lendof railway collisions, boating aceidenta, gigue tic Orem , , tho cholera scourge in Russin, volcanic eruptions, with 13111013 the pamere lave, been ball for the past few weeks, there corne a story of ell occurrence to sestain the in tercet in newspaper columns that 10 et; strange and ghastly 1111(11 11 appears incred - ible. 11 10 inflnitely pathetio, to that the chief actor in it botonge to the brute croa. lion, a polite meta dog, which hes for the past 43 days, in solitary centinement, . dived agonlee past all power of deseription and to which the /tautest pangs of vivisec- tion are inagnificant. The story is one of the most extraordinary over heard, and '13005 111 nob that the poor bead yet lives, it would be *wonted as en utter impoesibility, The facts 01 11110 ease are as follows :—On he fith of June laet at about 11 am. Mrs Freeman of 283 Riohmond street west, Toronto was walking along King street on the south side jest west of tho Kensington Hotel, accompanied by her =patina mastiff, "Limy' which followed at her hoole. When just past an empty store formerly occupied by. Mr. Matheson, druggist, Mrs. Freeman miseed the dog. 'To uso her own words, "He seemed to have DYSAPPEARED AS SUDDENLY as if the earth had opened aud swallowed hitn up." She mado diligent search in all direotions, calling the dog by name, hunted up and down the streee, inquiring of every one for her missing pot, but all to no per. pose. No trace nor sign of hint could be seen. Despairing of finding him herself, Mrs. Freemen advertised in all the papers offering a reward of 825 for the recovery of "Lion" No 110308 3005 received of him, and Mr. and Mrs. Freeman searched the city over, calling at every police station and leaving descripthens of the dog in every di- rection. Week after week passed away, and Mn. and Mrs Freeman had at last re• Inctanely to abandon all hope of recovering their favorite. Yesterday, however, Lion was found. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon a workman in the employ of the gas company entered the vacant store, 163 King street west, where he had been employed by the company in laying the new pipes 43 days before. He opened the door loading do wn to the cellar, and entering was astonished to see in the dim light what appeared to be a doe lying stretched out on the floor. On approaching nearer THE wow WAS SHOOKED at the sight that met ids eyes. Before him lay the skeleton of a dog, the skull lyiug flat between the fore paws, every bone, every joint showing oue plainly and dietinct, the hip end elbow chewedand mangled. The town skin was &awe so tighter er thebonesthat in places they showed white throrigh it. The eyes cavernous, sightless and black. The work- man started in horror when he saw a quiver pass over the heap before him, and he knew that life was not yet: gone. Picking hitn up in his arms, almost feather weight, he cm. - /led it upstairs, and laying it on the ewer of the front room ran across the street to the office of Veterinary Surgeoe, Geo. H. Lucas, for assistance. Thooews spread, and crowds 01 11108 poured out of the neighboring hotel eager to seethe living skeleton. When Mn. Lucas reached the store the crowd was so thick that ho had to enter by the back door, the front being impossible. Through the windows the crowd gazed in horror at the shocking object lying on the floor before them, but no one would enter, for all fearful the poor boast, if still alive, might have strength sufficient to Olsten his poisoned fangs in thetn, Mr. Lucas, however, saw at 11, glance that the wretched beast WaS abso- lutely powerless, and picking him up in Ms arms carried him across to Ills office. Hastily procuring some eater he poured a few drops en the swollen, blackened tougue—the poor boast could not even lap—and in 0 few sec- onds the effect was aeon, and " Linn" feebly and weakly moved his tail. Small doses of brandy and milk were administered. After a few hours Mr. Lucas announced his belief that the dog would live. By 10 o'clock "Lion " wae so far recovered as to raise up an his feet, for a few seconds, when, he would lirop back again. At I a. ut. he was still gettiug better, and stood up again. Mr, Lucas 01011 1313 with him all night, and is 0030 aonfident of pulling him through. Such a sight as the brute present% 1:1 has evidently in the agonies of hunger ane thirst torn the flesh off his paws and hipd The door of the cellar was half gnaw. ed through and several holes have been bit- ten clean through the floor and burrowed into the clay beneath. There is no doubt that the dog has been raving mad during the 43 days he was confined in the store. Earl anyone found him a week or ten days ago he would assuredly have torn him to pieces. The only chance he had of water was a little drop in the pan of a closet in the oorner,which was long since putrid. "Lion" was a, magnificent specimen of 10 thoroughbred mastiff and was imported from England, He is only two years of age and when weighed a few days previous, to his incarceration tuned the stale at 1111 pound. When found he weighed barely 25 pounds. Thought/essness. Farmer Simpson was an exceedingly mild natured man, and would find exausee for the shortcomings of his neighbors, tor the faulb of his horses and, in fact, for every unpleas ant thing that tame in hie way. He pun. chased a cove, and had groat difficulty in keeping her in the pastuce, " She's kind of a rovin' critter, but she means well," he said, after a walk of sever. at miles in pursuit of her. One morning he wee milking the cow, when she began to kith violently, upset the stool, sent the pail flying, and all the milk was spilled. The farmer getup, and contemplating the aruienr, :said gravely to a Nvitneso of the (WO st " Well, now, that's the worst fault this cow has." Then after a moment'a meditation, feeling tho t perhepe he had been unnecessarily severe, ho added. " That is, if you can call eites. as,f,ault ; may be it'e only thoughtlects. The &Matta Stone. The "Rosetta Stone " a famous Egyptian curiosity now in the Eritish Museum, WAR discovered in the year 1799 by M. Bons. eard, a French explorer, near Rosetta O seaport of Lower Egypt. 14 is of black basalt, about 40 iftelies long by 30 wide, with three engraved hiscriptions open its surface. Tho fiest of these ie in Greek ; the second is a congloineration of hierogly. pities, and the third in encliorial writittg, a, system used by the Egyptinms in recording every dtty matters, After years of laborious research the savante of Europe ascertained id at the throe inscriptions, wore three Vet - 0100(8 of a degree En honour of Ptolemy 111piphottee by the Ingests of Egypt, because lie had remitted their Moms, This Wonder- ful rtlic dates baelt to OM the year '200 11. C. VIXENS. FROM THE TORBEN T. 4 'Omitting Experience 0010*1 10Cloadhsirst in au Arizono C01100, "Speaking of oloudburets," said Col Clanger, a San Frencisoo gentleman, tli. other day, "1 lutd a little personal experi- ence In Oat line 01100, and never molt it repeated, It WAS in the summer of 1872. A young follow nettled George Brown and were prospeofing in the littachuca Moult 1101(10 10 Arizo»itt It was 8 comparatively unknown country at thet time, and filled with dangers of all kinds, against winch we were amply preparec. We had a fine out. /it, well storerl with provisions, and we carried good arms and an abundance ot am munition. This for the doable purpose of kith!) g game and defending ourselves egaInst potetible attacks of Apaches, who were bad at that time. We had been out from civiliza- tion about six weeks, and bad madetenee small djsaaveries, but nothing which we felt would justify us in working at that time, so we pushe,l further up the mountains, following up a canon ae far as we could go with our team, and when we could take oat. wagon no further we made camp, and each day prospected the country around it, paoking our tools and water oe our mules, We had started cut early one morning on one of these expeditioue. The air was remarkably cairn ; not a breath stirred, nor was there a elone in the sky. The sun came up clear and hot, mid Brown remarked to me as we toiled up the narrow canon that we were sure of a fine day at any rate. We reached the scene of our operations about 9 o'clock in the morning, and 001$0 ISOLES to a clump of bushes proceeded on our climb up the hills. tVe had not gone far when the air became intensely sultry and a MOSS of light, fleecy clouds began to gather over- head, apparently the vanguard of two dewier mosses which were forming north and south of too Then a few drops of rah, full and the cloud massee thickened, became blacker, and seemed to rapidly approach eac,,hsoestliteogr. that a storm was upon us, 13rown and I started down the mountain for our mules, the clouds above in the mean. Dime coming together, the darkness in. creasing, and drops as large apparently as saucers falling aronncl us. Wo redoubled our speed and gained our mules as the two cloud masses met. It was now almost as dark as midnight, awl the raindrops in- creased in size and rapidity until it seemed as though the clouds had veritably burst, and there was a rush of water like a Niagara coming down from the heavens. " We had reached our mules and were spurring down the canon for our lives. The hillsides were a raging cataract of water. Great trees were washed oat by the mote; huge boulders were rolled down into the canon. The water pouring down the hill- sides found small depressions and in a few minutes tore them out to ravines. In places we could see the soil washed dean to the bedrock, and the whole mass 'ambling into the canon through which we were rid. ing. It was a ride for life. Behind es was O solicl wall of water fifty feet high, coming with the roar of a thousand cataracts, The nmse Ivas deafening. In the face of this wall of water wee a mass of debris—whole trees turning end over end, huge boulders large as a house—being swept forward by the force behincl as dust is swept before she broom of the housewife. "We were twgiug our poor beasts to their utmost limit of ordure/ace, the water around us growing deeper and deeper each second, the ram still falling in torrents, while that terrible wall behind us was in- creasing in height and velocity anci steadily gaining on us. I was a little in advance of Brown, and shouted for him to break for the hills, but the horrible din behind drowned my voice, and I could not hear it myself. I spurred ley mule up the sidehill, and looking back to 500 if Brown wore fol. towing, saw VTAT IRWESTSTIULB 001110E1(0 LION -STALKING IN AnIOA, How me Bushmen or Swath Oilcan pa este Dant nig Dame. Stories of the Bushmen, how they live and bow they hunt, wild beasts, are always interesting to Americans who have never had the opportunit • that their British cousins enjoy of hula mg big game in the is ul • • j 1 Lti. • Mr. Stanley has recently told us 111 11 looteres and writings of theee wenderf little pigmies of the South African lowest —them marvelloue powers of endurance au Mate of strength, Here is an intereatiag 11111e sketch b • Parker Oilmore 4" uldq(3e") which appeal ed In the Londoe "Graphiedeeoribing ho the Bushmen go liometalking : ,An there aro different races of Bushmen and they meet materially differ in appear am and modes of life, it te clesirabl to point out that the two me: who form a prominent feature 0 this sketch are of a, breed of aborig 1000 that at one time were numerous 1 ports of the " Old Colony," but now ar only to be found in Namaque, or Damara land and along the tnargin of the Kalihar Desert. TO atature they are veritabl pigmies, live in caves, and go almost an tinily without clothing when in pursuit o game. They are wonderfully export and furies hunters, while their dogged patience and resolution, coupled with power to endure fatigue and hardship, are truly marvellous. Although guns are being gradually intro duoed among therm dwarf specimens of the human family, yet the majority of them still prefer to two the primitive weaponn o their ancestors, viz., bows with poisoned arrows, ehort throwing assegais, with knotheeries. How they accomplish the death of a troublesotne lion—an aged brute that has taken to man eating -1 will do my best to describe ; however, I should state that as long es the lion behaves himself—that is, confines hitnself to killing game—he is treated with roped ; for the reason that the monaroh of the desert then provides the bush -people with many a meal of flesh which they would not otherwiee obtain. An aged animal driren off from lois troop is almost invariably the offender, and his presence 111 the vicinity of the rest denee of a family of Buslunen Is soon known by the disappearance of stray goats and ocoaeional pickaninnies Theta depre. dations result in the death of the marauder being reselved on, and the followtng is the means adopted to accomplish it : Soon after sunrise vultures are observed circling around some spot in the desert. This is an unfailing indication of the pre. Bence of carrion. Two of the most skilled hunters go in search of the carcass, which generally turns out to be that of a quaha or wild -beast. From this "find "the hunt ac- tually commences. Let us examine these copper•coloured dwarfs who are about to undertake a task which many a brave man would be excused for shrinking frotn, especially when it is ex. plained that one alone carries weapons—a tiny bow and arrow—the other being pro- vided with nothing more then his skin ka• ross—a sleeping covering made of the skins of small quadrupeds, and about the size of a ralwairs7g Ate omrk of these two plucky little fellows is easy enough, for the spoor is gen- erally distinct, and well they know that their prey will not" lie up " till it has druuk. In time a vley or pool is reached; by its side the herbage has been pressed down and broken, for at this spot the mammoth oat has stretched at length and drunk to his heart's content. Now commences more serious work for it is impos• sible to tell how close this lion is to them, and only up wind can the d neerons brute be approached cloao enough to afford any prospect of success. The spoor- ing here beeomes show; in single file 111 10 conducted, and momentarily a halt is called to listen for heavy breathiug, or to sniff if the tur be tainted. By this time we will imagine that Ole sun has gained meridian altitude, the hour when tho carnivore sleep soundest after a heavy meal. The advance of the two sons of the desert is a wonderful performance ; it is the per- fection of stalking; not even one of the cat tribe could surpass them. Al length the Bushmen's patienoe is rewarded; they have heard, smelt, or seen the lion, and learned all details of the position he IOW in, So, ranging themselves side by side, both exert their greatest ingenuity to get close to the foe without being detected. Their 01310011 08 soon attained. With a jerk the kaross is thrown over the sleeping marauder's head, and a moment afterwards a. poisoned arrow is driven fete his flank. Thus unceremon• Musty awakened, he stops not to learn who are his disturbers, but boubds off into the veldb with but one object in view, viz., es. cape. Two or three hours afterwards the desert re•echoes the stricken beast'roars of pain, and ere the sun has set the grand old beast has died. fairly lick him up, and in an instant he, with the mule he was riding, was absorbed in the mass that wee rolling down the can- on as ono might disappear in the MILW of tome monster. "I could not atop to look further for him. The rolling wail of water was coming down the canon with the speed of an express train, and every second lessened the (list tante between it and me. It, WOO a matter of self-preservation—a race for life with the elements. I had gob down the canon to a place where it was widening and the stream spread 0111 10 width, losing somewhet of its depth, but still it eeenied to press on like some hideous monster ihtent upon its prey and fearful lest it should be baffled. I was gaining on the eidehill, bile the current was gaining on 01e, Moment by moment it ozone nearer. It was UOW but a few feet distant. If I could but force my poor 131851 a few toot higher up the mountain we should be above its force and be seta. I thrust the rowels deep in his side, and he gave a marl plunge. The water had reach. ed us, and I felt him carried off Ids feet. I grasped an overhanging beef], and he was swept ttway in tho torrent, leaving me sus- pended, my feeb just totiohing the surface of the water. I hung to that bush for my life, and despite tbe strongest exertions on my pert it wao all I could do to keep from being carried away. "in a few momeete the fury of the storm bad passed, the water abated selliciently to permit me to obtaiu a foobiag, and I forced my way higher and higher up the mountain to a place of safety, where, drenched to the skin, I awaited the subsidence of the waters. "The storm oleared almost as suddenly as it had begun, the whole time ooeupied having been little more than I have taken in the telling, but in those few moments a dry 0001800had been converted into A 000011(0 00013101(11, the mountain sides had been denuded, thousahds upon thousands of tons of earth and rook had been changed. The clouds had expended their force, and in 10 few momeets resolved themselves into fleece and then disappeeted Tho sun shone bright and clear, the torrent had rolled away, and nothing was left to tell of the awful °etas:Oyer/1 but the emote of devastation left behind. A mark on the mountain side, for above the level of the canon, told ita depth. Trees uprooted and scattered mark- ed its course. 'mimosa boulders, whieh had boon carried far from their original resting place and left in its course, showed its power, while the desolatioh ezeund mo proved its destructiveness. 44 As sodn es I could safely deatencl from ity plata nt refoge I went into the canon below cted made a thorough search for poor t Brown, hat could net find the least sign of I him. The =lea eve had ridden also disap• p peered, and nob a vestige of our cam 110 -emitted" ee- Cholera, is ao bad at Bake Wh that all o poesibly ran ate leaving the place, Tle who is in love with himself 10(00 no rivet, Soctiety necoesary to man, even it be only that of a dog, 15.5 AGGREISIVE Uncle , Legislators Moving Against the Canadian Dead. A. Washington despatch says :-.-In the Senate to.day Mr, 'Higgins offered a resole. Hon in reference to the Canadiau Pacific Railroad Company, its largo subventions froin the Cenadian and British Governments and its disctiminationa againet American railroads and American comatose, and directing the Committee on Interstate Comtnerac to investigate the whole subject of the aggressions of the Canadian Pacific railway and ita affiliated Pacific ocean steam. or line on American commerce, and to re- port as to the propriety of suspending the privileges of transit trade on the west side of the continent and to recommend such other legislation as may &ppm necessary in order to protect the international and for- eign commerce of the United States against Canadian aggression. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Inter -state commerce. Fishing for Sponges, The British Conant, in his report of the trade of Tripoli, remarks that the sponge fishery on that comb is entirely in the hands of Greeke, and is carried On by inerms of numeroue small oraft, employing abont 700 men amongst them. The fishing takes plaae in tho slimmer months only, and is effected by machine boats provided with proper dive ing apparatus, or by trawlers aud harpoon boat. Last season there were 21 diving machthes he use. Theee, as the divers have time to eoloot and ea themmaturedly were he bost sponges, but the trawl nets and larpoon boats, which can only fith in com. aratively shallow wotors, to a greater or how extent &silage the sponges by tearing them from the bottom. The best sponges are found to the weatwoord of Tripoli the quality becoming inferior towards the musk The diving ie dengcrous owing to the presenee 01 81(117110 and other accidents to be mob with, such as remaining ton long under the water:, or diving beyond ehc proper limits, winch often eihatists the divers and proves fetal to them, LATE CABLE NEWS. Insurance Swinilers--Noyal Marriage—A, &Amine for 33ridginz the EnzUsk Channel. Lambert Baron, John idellattie and twa. grooms employed by them were too•day in. dieted for coneptracy to defraud forage. marine insurance companies of largo seine of money. The alleged swindles were pan' - 1301110011011 111 1800 and I 80 1, in which yeara the men systematically shipped large eon. signments of horses horn Glaegove to Amer- ioa. Their plan was to 0e411150 heavy insur Armes on the animals shipped and then to have them poleoned during the voyage. Among the oonsigntnents several were shipped on the eteamer Persian Monarch for Montreal and by the steamer Franoisoo aud. Buffalo to Now York. "Land and Water" says the report of the engagement of the Duke of York, sou of the; Prince of Wales and Izeir.preaumptive to the British throne, and Princess 'Victoria of Schleswig-Holeteiu is untrue. The paper, - farther states that the betrothal of the Duke to Princesa Mary, daughter of the Duke of Teck, who was betrothed to the Duke of Clarence and Avondale at the time of tha latter's death, will be officially announced. 0000. LONDOS, jelly 30.—There ie reason to fear that Mr. Gladatone's health ie not so Batts -- factory as his numberless friends colt/el wish. The tromendoue strain of the Met few weeka haa undeniably made itself felt both upon his mental and physical strength, and. the Grand Old Man will certainly have to take O long rest before commeeeing the herou.- lean task of piloting the Home Rule bill through the House of Commons, and light- ing through the House of Lords afterward. If Sir Edward does not make hoste and convert the Britieh Government to his Chan. nel tunnelsehente he will beleftbehind. The rival scheme of a channel bridge is advanc- ing rapidly. It is true that it has mot yet got beyond tho paper stage, but the plans show remarkable progress. A few menthe ago the drawing of the bridge showed 141 piers reciting on the bed of the Channel, and rising high out of the sea. Now sixty-nine of these costly piles have been removed, wet by the fury of the waves, but by the activ- ity of the draughtsman and India rubber. The revisedtbritige will only require seventy- two piers, and the cost will be considerably reduced. It is interesting to note the en, thusiasm of the company, as shown at its meeting yeeterday, over what seem to out eiders very poor prospects. The bridge on. the revised estimate, is to cost R32,000,000. In order that interest may be paid on this enormous capital it would be necestetry for the undertaking to earn daily a net profit of fi3,000 to el4,000. If the Channel bridge does that it will be the best patronized. twenty miles of railway in the world. APPALLING OALAMITY. An Island Withr2,000 Inhabitants Suppoir.- ed to Dare Disappeared. The world knew little of the terrible ate tartrates that now and then befell the help - lose natives of the Malayan Archipelago until Prof A.. R. Wallace wrote so graph- ically of the tremendous volanic outbursts that overwhelm thousands of people and. turn largo parts of beautiful islands into wastes of lava. A. fresh calamity is now. reported to have overtaken Great Sangir, the largest island in the little Sangir group betweeu Celebes and the Philippines. It is thought that most of its inhabitents, about 12,000 111 number, have been killed. Probably no volcano except Mount &but has ever numbered more victims of its fur - Mus otttbursts then Aboe, whose superb pyramid makes Groat Saugir visible for many milee at sea. Ita name signiflos the Cinder, end mariners know this glaut de- stroyer well, for it ts oiled the most prom- inent landmarks on the western edge of the Pacific, In 1711 thousands of the natives were buried in a day under the showers of hot ashes that tortured from its crater. Some Western sailors of that time saw the ca- lamity at a distance, and the story of the awful same witnessed by the native sur- vivors VMS handed down from father to son, and is still rehearsed to the few white vis- itors. En 1812 rivers of lava flowed down the mountain sides, spreading over all the sur- rounding country, and destroying some thousands of acmes of cocoa palms, which form the riches of the island. In 1856 the, natives witnessed another awful outburst, when nob only lova, and ashes but also boil- ing water poured over the surrounding re- gions and 2,800 people perished in the tate, clyern. 111 10 reported, in the brief story of tide latest calamity, that the coast waters of Sangir are covered with half.burned wreck- age, charred and broken sides of huts, ant human bodies. This seems to be a very re- markable statement, but it is easily explain- ed. Not,more than half of the inhabitant* of Great Sitngir live upen the land. Thott- sands of them build their huts on piles over the water along the island's edge. .& shower of hot ashes among thatched roofs would soon reduce all waive habitatione to ruins and scatter the debris over the Sea. Usually a number of families live together under the same roof There is another kind of mine on Great- Sengir whith not oven the outpourings of Mount Aboe have as yet effaced. These are the crumbling walls of churchee thet Roman Catholic missionaries built there °in the sixteenth century, when, in their proselyting zeal, they baptized by force all the natives of this and neighboring islands. At the hand both of nature and of man these simple savages have certainly had eome awful and soma curious experiences. Reversible Snakes in India. A snake nob often heard of, at lease in America, is the liver colored stake with two heade, or perhaps they should be called mouths, though it does not have teto. tnouthe at the same time, They are re- versible mouths, ocoupying the opposite end every six months, It lies with the two ends croseed on each other, as with folded hands. Every six months the change of the seasons 1,8785088 the funotions of the two ends, the head becoming the tail and the tail becoming the head. The inouth at - ens end heals or closes up all but a sinall openffig, whife the opphsite end becomes the mouth for the 1101011 811 months. A friend of mine in India who told me, about this reinerkable snake fetid he retused for a long time to believe that the tona- lities of the two onds were reversed every six months, but ono thoy he found ono of these snakes in bloc jungle and ,16,triott 111 home, where he load it physician az:amine ito The result was, the physioien confirmed tho stories of the °water) and aly friend Wila attention,' no longer, I learned no othet name for this singular reptile than that. of "the livor.colered snake,"