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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-9-23, Page 6HEALTH. THE BRUSSELS POST. Beeteria of the NOntb, It has long been known that warmth and Molder° favor the deyelupment end growth of ntiorobes. The mouth furnishes these conditions to a peculiar degree. All germs that float in the air are liable to finil a lodgement in the mouth anti nose. Here they mayremain, and as afloat of them are not harmful under any eirouniatencee, they give no indicatiou of their presence; and even when noxious germs are thus lodg- ed in the mouth they may produce no symp- tom. If swallowed into the etomaoh the juicea there contained may cause their destruction and disorganization, If for any reason their vitality is not thus destroyed, they may be absorbed in the system. .lt is poesible that even then they may be destroyed or exited - ed, and give rise tu no disease. It is after their entrance into the system, however, that them presence is apt to be manifest. The danger of their entering the 'system, R should be made, clear, is increased when the mucous membrane of the digestive tract is broken at any point. When the skiu or mucous membrane of any pert of the body is broken, one is perhaps considerably more liable to absorb germs of all sorts. At a recent session of the Academy of getlicine of Paris, M. Yellin, in consider. ing the treatment of influenza, recommend- ed as a preventive measure of the greatest importanoe, antiseptto cleaning of the mouth, nose and throat. Many peoplg now use, as part of their toilet, a spraying atomizer containing some harmless " antiseptic" solution, The praotiee is to be commended ane cleanly one and in addition it has a considerable germ - killing power. Under some circumstances a frequent spraying of the throat autl nostrils with such an apparatus might well be the means of areventing infection from diseases like influenza, and diphtheria. It is unnecessary to say that brnshing the teeth is an excellent mode of rendering the mouth antiseptic, mid that as deoayieg teeth furnish excellent lurking -places for germs, they should he promptly attended to. A physician gives 10 00 his belief, based upon repeated observations, thee a solution of borax and salt in water used to lave the month and tonsils will sometimes prevent children in a house infected with diphtheria from contracting the disease. The Value oF Bathing. Every woman feeders herself that she lenows how to bathe, and that she does it well, and yet when some oue induces her to take a Russian bath it dawns on her that never before has she been entirely clean. Personelly, I recommend the Russian or vagor bath taken once a week as the grata est factor toward preserving the sign. leis not as exhausting as the 'Darkish bath, it causes a. nature' perspiration, the pores of the skin throw out the dirt that has aecte ululated in them, clogging and making them 'unhealthy, while the thorough serub that follows and whieh one cannot give to ones self, removes every possibility of 1lncle80li- ae8s,audtheyarioneshowersandspraysbra3e one up anti make one feel capable of great deeds. Women. who caenot taken Russian bath, however, can have its near equivalent at home. That is, a very hot bath can be I gotten into and one can remain there until preapiretion is the result then the shower, warm at first and gradually growing colder, can be used, after which the bether will feel as if her sktn were as smooth and white as satin. I cannot too strongly recommend the SOS of the hot bath. The great beauty of Langtry was her fine skin, and people wlio did not know credited her with taking es cold bath every morning, whereas the truth was that she took cm no hot that for a few moments She could scarcely stand put. ting her foot in it, but in which she even- tually got and from whieh :she went back to sed where she took a cup of tea and a bit of toast, which formed her breakfast. If one aas 000 time 105 a hot bath in the morning it is equally good at night, and if one finds it difficult to sleep, the cold spray can be omitted and the languid feeling resulting from the hot water will teed to make tired eyelids droop upon deed eyes, Tie Hygiene OF the Teeth. The value of preventive measures against the atteeks of disease cannot be too strong- ly insisted upon, and one class of case where these measures are to a great extent with- in the control of the indivicinal is in re. gard to the teeth. All caries of the teeth begin from the outside, un such thing EIS DI, Lethal aeries heving ever been demonstrat. ed : hence if the sedans could be kept absolutely 01000 00 decay could take place, however poor the texture of the teeth, This is of cosine impossible, but much t0. ward such a desirable end can be attained by attention to hygienic rules. Parents oftea ask their dentists ane meth- i eat attentlants with reference to their i babies ; " When ought teeth to be cleaned 1' I The answer assuredly is; "As soon as there , are teeth." A small tooth Metall, charged with some precipitated chalk flavored with 421 aromatic drag to rnake it pleasant, is pereaps the best means—note towel, which . only removes the secretion from the labial said lingual ennead, and not from between the teeth, where decay is most rife, Yet low few ohildren's teeth are so treated, and bete rarely the habit of doing it for thomselvee when they aro old enough is inculcated. But 11 11 be acquired the very alesirable result is likely to follow dim im- munity from dental trouble—at all events to any large extent. Later on something snore can 'redone, by passing a piece of wax. ed cientel floss silk, which can be obtained aimed; °herniate, between the teeth every day, and the value of this earl be easily de- monstrated after thoroughly using the toothbrush by passing the silk between the teeth, when a certein amount of aeoumulet- id matter will be bronght away. "Do toothpicks do harm or good?" 18 0)1. other question often asked, They may do lharm if abused, undoubtedly, by causing irritation of the gum between two teeth end ite eubsequentabsorption; and, if made of wood, eplinters are liable to be left be. hind, which have in many rercirded in. atoms eausee even the loss of 8 tooth ; but need Judidously teat( aro of great value in touting the attacking forces in caries— tamely, accumulations of food and mucus secretions. Tv has been urged whist them that they might dislodge a stopping. 1341 if a dopping le so immure it mud be faulty, . end the sooner it is replotted the better, 2er decay, due to the imposeibility of keep. frog the surface clean, must be going on nederneath itt Obeeityt So many women are daily seeking relief Irate varietal sources for this unsightly and Itheomfortable aticumulation of flesh about dm abdomen that any remedy ie of inter. este For the bettefit of our readers 1 give Say experimme, 'in bile fleet pleee, 1 In too short (five Med tit carry much flesh gracefully, and wean I bad melted IL point whore every dross was unwearable because n twenty- four Mk weed wade not compiles twenty si$ Meters of flesh, other proportions 111 comparieon, I eagerly sought alleviation from discomfort as well as a most theatre& ably obstrattive abdomen. '' Io dein ing at meal -timers," saki 000 physician. " Ent lees than you wish," said another, but still there wits no relief, and 1 suffered front alternate hunger and thirst. Ie a medical journel 1 taw that a French °facer had reaped his °beetle' by unfitting himself to one laud ot food at each meal. That is, he aee all he wished of ;me dish nothing else. 1111 was potatoes be desired he ate potatoes ; if it was meet, then moat "lYt'ried it. The result is that in just six weeks, my waiet has reached the twenty:four state of a year ago, and obesity is a thing of the pd. My health is better, complexion greatly improved, and I eau walk without getting breathless. A friend of mine who was still more bulky than myself is trying the same method with success, Her physician approves, bet &Bowe her to eat piekles with her one 'dish. It is a singular fact that one can eat all mince pie, if wished, for the meal, or any other usually restricted food, and suffer no ill effects. Then, too, it requires less quantity, se the apatite is soon satisfied. It is with great pleasure I contribute my testimony toward this simple method. It costs nothing,ono retains °nee strength, and, as thi ere s no barring out of desired favorite dishes, the unhappy, unsatisfied feeling consequent on other methods is not present. A. Tale of a Cheese. " I say, waiter, this cheese seems un- commonly lively." That lively, sir. Ah, you ought: to have seen the piece of cheese we had beret once. Why that pieee is a mummy to it." " By Jove, it must have been active." ''loo, alt-, It was active. AN e had no end of trouble with it until one day, and after that I tnust say it became the most docile bit of cheese we over had in he house." " Indeed, and may I ask what effected this wonderful temp ?" " Well, you see, sir, that cheese wee real- ly no goat to us, because nobody could manage it at all. It bad already crippled three waiters, and eltnoat killed 4 outman Well, sir, one day we had an old major in to dinner,. and after he lied dined he told me to bring hint some cheese—strong, old cheese lie wanted. So I told bun about this 0115050 01 eurs, and he said, ' Bring .10 in.' It took tour ot ne to carry the thing in and put it on the table, and es soon as Wo lee go the blessed obsess got up and walked off as cool as possible." " Walked off?" " Yes, sir. The major got up to spread himself, and yelled out ' Halt.' The cheese took uo notice. Halt V thundered out the major. This time the ohoese pulled tip, and took a look at him. ' Right about turn,' was the next order, and to our astonishment round came the cheese looking mighty scared. Quiok march,' and the ohoese be. pm to move towards the major. ' Charge,' and, if you will believe me, sir, that cheese fairly bumped hub and bore down on the major like one possessed. I never in all tl oourse of my professional career saw cheese travel like it. " Well, sir, to ant my story short, the major kept that clieese quartering about that table for over a quarter of an hour. Then be got up, and pointing to the cheese, which was now leaning up against the water - bottle , looking fairly dead.beat, said, 1 I've drilled too many obstinate fools in my time to be obliged to give way to a b t of cheese I don't think you will have any more trouble with it.' And he was right, ter, 150 never did. " Aby other prevaricators in our family, die you say sir ? I don't think so. Thenk ye, sir, good morning." Pointe on Griddle Oakee• As I have made and baked all the griddle cakes for our family, ever since I was tall enough to stand by the stove and turn them, I thine I eau give L. W. the recipes she wishes. I very much prefer baking pow - dor to soda, and consider water as good as milk for making the cakes. WRITE Rant Oninnen CAKES.—One quart water, ono tablespoonful of baking powder, one tablespoonful of shortening, a pinch of salt, flour to make a rather thin batter, lent GETDDEE CAKUR —These are almost equal to buckwheet, One quart water, one teaspoonful of baking powder, ote table- spoonful of shortening, a pinch of salt. Leonel] good Rye flour th make a rather thin batter. Beat the batter well, and bake on a very hot griddle, GRAIIA:h GRIDDLE CAAER One quart water, ttvo eggs well beaten, one table- spoonful of balthig powder, same of shorten. ing, 0. pinch of salt, Graham flour to make a rather thick batter. CoriN Mut, Gittinnix aInE,S.—One quart water, one egg, well beeten, one tablespoon. he of baking powder, two tablespoonfuls of salt. Mix two parts of continent with one part of fionr, end stir in enough to make a good batter, Beat well and bake quickly. BREAD eltr:1113 CAKES,—Sonk two cups of stale bread crumbs in one quart of water over night. When the sakes are wanted, add one cup of water, three eggs well beat- en, one tablespoonful of baking powder, Flour to make 4 good Mater. Bake just like common griddle 'lakes. RICE GRIDDLE CARES.—Ons quart water, three ogge well beaten, one tablespoonful of baking -powder, a pitich of gala a oup of eold boiled rice. Flour to melte a good bat- ter. Cold hominy, careeline, oateneal, oat awl wheat fialces, gormea, or fresh or can- ned corn may be used in the place of nee In the reeipe_. nieeo TERRIBLE REVENGE, An Awful Double Tragedy at h Threshing in New Torn mate, Sevanah, N. Y., despatch sap :—The news of a terrible tragedy near Cato, Cap up, county, hes been received here. 71 appears that a boy while cutting bundles for e threshing mehine accidentally cut the feeder's hand, which so inducted him that Iso immediately caught up the lad and threw him into the rapid revolving cylinder, where he was ground to Moms before any one present aould raise a hand ter prevent 11. The brother of the unfortunate lad wit - nosed' the bloody deed Dad loot to time in wreaking vengeatme upon the murderer, Ile felled him to the floor with a blow from re pitchfork end while he lay writhing from tho effeets thereof the brother reputedly plunged the tines of the fork through his body, not ceesing until the man woe dead. All of the threshers atood by and withessed the two tragic 'doable which outlined 00 tiefiekly that they wore pewerless to in- terlace Ile a lamp in the ehrenber if you ten »ot be a, 01105 in the alty,—tGeorge EAgOTTS BURIED TREASURE, An 801)1 tug Narrative, A company hes been °metered for the pur- pose of eurching for the fatuous buried ereasuro (If the Los Arguites, Although mealy years have passed und fruitless efforts have been made to unearth the riches, tbe faith al those who believe in the Meistenee of the burled treasure of Los Arguitos has not been 'menaced. The diseppearanee of the treasure dates bade to the hitter (lays of ehe Spaniards. The regular conduct% or bullion express, with which it was (miaow- ary to trend all velnables, bad been forced by different muses to delny its departure from this city for the city of Mexico for a loeg time. The mines of San Luis Potosi and other adjoining camps were in bonanza, at the time, and a large aocumulation of gold aud silver awaited transportation. The amount is variously estimated front 11100,000 to 11200,000. The fernier is prob. ably nearer the mark, as documents sho that there were about twenty bars of gold, of about fifty pounds each, and about 0118 hundred bars of silver. It was not possible th keep the matter Beard, and it was known generally thet the richest under:Au thee ever left San Luis Potosi was about to talco the road, The numerous BANDITS AND 11101IWAY111EN that infested Mexico in those days kept themselves well Mformed of the movements of the cutlet:true and a large baud had congregated in the vieinity ot this city un- der the leadership of the redoubtable Alejo Diaz. They laid their plans and decided to attack the cond acta at the end of the first day's journey. The head conductor, a use - lute Spaniard named Juan 111111102, W118 ap. prised early in the day by a friendly Indian of the ambush which had been prepared, and knowing. thee the robbers greatly °in- tim/Melted Ins guard, ho deeided to foil them. Ile called a halt, and to the surprise of his meu, gave the order to camp. The treasure was p11011 up, and he placed his , lieutenant in charge, Then picking out four I nien, he ordered them to meant end follow him, taking also it mule tended with parks and shovels. Wheu out of sight of °emir he ordered hie 1111)11 to Cli$1110Uht, Anil to melte forward one hy one to be blindfolded. That being done he led them to their horses, When they had mounted he tied their hands to prevent their removing the bandages. Placing himeeli in the 10001 110 started off, aid, aim circling several times to make his !nen lose their bearings, lie sneak off in a straight line. After an hour's journey he called a second halt, and tater warning his men that 115 WOCLD 011005 the first man that should raise his eyes from the ground, distribeted the picks and shovels among them and ordered them to dig a pit. This was completed to his sneis. faction in a couple of hours, the inen keep- ing their eyes bent 011 their work all the time, while he watched them wills cooked pistol in each hand. He bandaged the ayes of the men again and took tbetn bank to camp over what seemed to them a different and shorter need. The men were released, and he ordered all hands to round up the mules, and, picking nue the strongest, he had them double -loaded with the treasure. Thou, taking ton mules at a dine, he transferred the treasure to the biding place and cover- ed it over with earth and stones. Three tips It ere made and tbe 08.010 precautions were taken to keep the men from finding the spot. Juan elunez and his lieutenant were the only ones in the train who knew the spot. As soon as they renamed to camp the overhanging clouds broke open and a torrent of ram swept and deluged the coma try. OISEITERATII•ID TAB TRACES of the men and mules. The reinforcements thet had been sent for to San Luis Pao were not expeoted until the next day. Juan Nunez unfolded his plan to Ids men. They would push forward next day in advance of the reenforeements, arranging decoy loads ou the mules. They would engage the rob- bers, who were bound to attacle them, and give time for the rainfereements to sur- round and capture them. After the engage. meta they would return for the treasnre. The plan wee laid skillfully, but the rob. bees had grown impatient, and when the scent that they bed sent over the road re- turned and informed them that the train was camping at Los Arguitos, they decided to attack them under 005517 of the night. They broke into email parties and, skirting the road, approached the sleeping oatnp. A. camp fire was burning, and they could dis- tinguish the forms of the men ou the ground. The sentinel was dozing in fancied security by the fire. At the sitenal given the robbers poured a volley upou the sleep- ing men, and rushed with a yell upon the teem, Juan Mend and his lieutenant, who bad been sleeping upon a pile of peck sad. dies, arranged to inmate the trorteure, were killed at the tint fire. The surprise was complete ; the men offered no resistance, and those whd could not floe were weltered. The rage of the robbers on finding that the treasure had been removed was unbounded, and they questioned and tortured the men, but to no avail, The men who knew where the treasure wes buried were dead. The robbers had keened from the confessions of the men reinforcements would arrive in the miming. Fearing that some of the men might giee information that would lead to the discovery of the buried treasure, they murdered all and dispersed over the coun- try, with the intention of returning later mid instituting A 511010011011 8E418011. Solna of the men had eseeped at the ars fire, and had hurried on the reInforcetnents Before they arrived the robbers had °treated The neeve was sent beak to San Luis Potosi end a large committee of officiate and cite teens 080.10 0510 to direct the :march. Ex- peditions were sent out in all direetions,but wader and months pressed by ha fruitless ouch. By a strange coincidence the perked men whom Munez had taken with 11101 151)010 hiding the treasure had beet kill- ed, audit is doubtful if any of them if spared eoula have been of arty assistance), The search that the syndicate proposes to in- stitute is to be carried on by dedribing circles from the camping place at the Los Arguitos, which will widen out until an extreme limit is ruched. The tests knowe to motion educe are to be applied on the surface at all points until the presence of the metal is revealed by the mined° or sensitive rod. Tittle has extinguished all title or eight to the tretteure, arid it, reverts to the discoverers after paying e eertain percentage to the Government, In view of the difficulties of the seareh and the improb. abilitiee of 'muse which attended it, the Government lid made special coneeresione to the company whioh has undertaken to tint earth the turd, How the Money Goo, /11 one of the towns of Illinois a battled put his private mark on the money he peed out on Salutdity night to die wage workers of the town who patronised his beak, On the Mom** night, of the 700 dollen( paid one and marked privately, over 500 dollen bad duo back to Mtn ftom the saloons of that tonne regeshamrmapaasr,...... SEvr, 23, 1892, HABITS or THE SEAL Alt Anterteit n it boosi Coverii, men Content Ion, An iuteresting leder on the habits of Heels has boon addroseed to the Seattle PuteIntelligencer by James G, SWAII of Port Townsemi, one of the best authorities on ehe subjece, end who from personal ob. serviteion and iuformation gleaned from trustworthy soureee has come to the con - elusion thab there is no juetifloation for their Wain) that the dale are iLll by birth the property of the United States. He says : "Tho endeavors of the government of. floors lad epring to obtain information re. garding the betels of our seals along our oust has resulted in sealers taking more notice of the habits of these animals than ever before. Simla the season has closed, whieh was about July 1, I have received 801110 very interesting information regarding the habits of fur seals, whielt goes to prove my assertion that 501110 of there for meals do have their pups in the ocean oe in kelp patehes or roofs along the shore, Thee their E'Ut!tet,;5 „::01r1310uveetraikt10;1711:nabt(t7t?'nPle by Dr. eleIntyre, the special agent of tint: Treasury department, 15110 WILS hero on May 211 last and interviewed me regarding the habits of fur seals at Neali bay. He had been to Noah bay interviewing the 'edifies, but evidently had only questioned them on matters favorable to the United States in the Berieg sea controversy, but tlte gees - tions lie put bo those Indians, as well as the numerous other questions by govern, men t, officers, get the Indians thinking, and this season they here boeu more observant of the habits of fur dais then twee before. "The observation of the sealers this year proves my theory, whieh I had so long maintained, about the habits of the fur seals in the vicinity of Cape Flattery. An- other season the Indians will make older obsetvations, and gradually we will terrine at the truth. itov 20 years I have tried to induce the Covernmeet to have a scientific investigation of the habits of the for seals off of the Pribyloff islands, but without success. All the reports we bave had wove the same old chestnuts taken by observers at the rookeries, Ow stale Munchansenisms of Elliott. The thorough work of the Brit. id commission, eh' Ceorge Thelon -Powell end Dr. George Dawson, shamed the Retiree - hies in Washington City to action, W11 1011 WAS evinced by the flurry of special agents to collect what information they could pillar by propounding a lot of questions skilfully put to elicit replies favorable to our side el the ease. As I remarked. to Dr. McIntyre, the questions put by the govern• ment were like the questions of a lawyer tc witness, not to get at the truth, but simply to get 5511110 would be favorable to the United States. 'Yes,' said. he, 'we don't cere to take clown anything that will prej• udice our ease.' Now that the govern. ments have commeneed this scientific inves- Ligation, I hope ie will be continued, not in the interest of the Bering de question alone, but to got at the simple facts; and they will be found thus . That while the greet herd of fur seals go to Bering sea., there are numbers which do not go there, but have their young along the coast, either in the water or on kelp beds or on the rooky islets." A HIGH-HANDED ACTION. -- Capture of British and Amerleon Captains and Crews by a Russian Cruiser, A Victoria, 13. C., despatch says e—The .American barque Majestic, from leetropaul- ovski, reached here this evening haviug aboard the captains and crews of tour seal. Mg schooners, the Rosie, Olsen, Ariel and Willie McGowan, flying the British flag, and the American schooner 0, H. White, of aan Franoisco. These four were sailing near Copper island, between four and five miles from shore, during the latter part of July, when the Russian warship Zabraka, mounting 10 guns, and the fur company's steamer Kodiak, bearing the Governor of Behring island, rounded them up one by ono, and sent the schooners to be field. at Peteopaulovski, and made the captains and crews prisoners. The fennel: objected to the seizure, claiming they were il`08 men on free waters, whereupon the marines pricked them with the points of bayonets and in. formed them that there was euch a place as Siberia for those who spoke too loudly. Both the British and American skippers recognized that it was no time for talking small. They ventured to protest that they were away outside the thrumile limit and were met with 1 Ile astounding information frotn officers of the Zabraka " Russia is sovereign over water a thousand miles trout her abode' The captain of the Russian cruiser based his action on the gronnd that Resent exer- cised jurisdiction over all hind end water westward of the line of demarkation. After being taken tboard the Zebralta, the master of each schooner was ordered 10 0,211 a prtper written in Ruseian and explained by the interpreter as an acknowlegement thee he had been soaliug in Russian waters. The skippers protested, and we told three those who did not sign would be sent to Viatiivo- stook to be eourt-martialed and then sent to Siberian mines. Under compulsion the captains signed, and they and the crews then underwent a taste of Russian pr son life, 21 mon being kept for days in a romn 11 x 11 with a leaky roof anll broken floor. The men wore finally turned out on the beach, and the 'Majestic coming that way a contract was entered into for transportation to Ameican or British soil, end in the even- ing the prisoners were ehipped away on board, no particular effort being made by the guards to detain them. The Majestic sailed at, nigh t, and next morning the Zabralta started out on another hunting cruise, the schooners being the game sought. The Hee of a Lemon. Take a lemon, What is it good few? Here are 11 fow of its Imes :—Squeezed into water, and a Berm drank every morning you Imo almost a specifio foe inelpient dys• melee A lemon decoction applied to the scalp when your hair is falling out will tend to stop this difficulty. The juice added to milk and applied to the hands on retiring at night will whiten and soften those useful appendages, Applied to the face the effect, will be the same. A little pee glycerine added will do no harm. Apply a few drops of the undiluted juice to bhe sting of a bee or hand, and a ready relief will be found, One to .13111, "713*111 say, Jack, do you know Mr. Gladstone is younger than Lord Salisbury?" Jade 1 "You're wrong there, Bibi; why Glacletone le yeere older." Bill : I toll you he ain't, How can he be older when he has only just reeeutly reached his majorley," Jack : " That's ono to pia DU" --- The Icing deceit skirts ere ping oue of fashion, end in their plebe fii a prettily shaped rotund skirt, whieh just touches the ground. Demi teeing aro fee trailing and 110000 wear, end long treine appear only o» ory elaborde ourteions. 'WEATHER PROVERBS, A curious voiloolion or Old Haws, The bulk or the proverbial prognotaine dons elready known to exist IWO 1818011 upon the adieu of birds, beasts, fish, and Meets, and 11111011 hes been dam towed e acientille explanation of some of these. It has been found teat the 11101110M of aqueous vepor in the atmosphere ia indicetert by itS °abet upon the animal 111111 vegetable world. Annuals aro observed to Immo restless be. fere rain, and plants end trees also indicate obange in the relative humidity of the stir. roundi»g atmosphere by the expansion and oontreetiati of their loaves or flowers. Swat changes ere true signs of atmospheric eerie - dons, and it is these facts that ehe teito weather sayings embody. Those popular atiyings referring to years, menthe, weelcs,. eta, are not considered of any real endue in determining the weather foreceets of tho periods named, and it is in this meted that it is hoped for more valu- able hints from the prognodies based on plants end animals. The ablestmetemologiste of to -day, aided by tho most perfect meteor- ologioal inelruments and the results of years of accurate instrumental obeervadon, are still unable to give reliable forecasts of tho weather for a longer period than two or three clays, and frequently no Mager than tweuty-four hours. Ibis thought that a more accurate obeervation of the condition of plants or the condition end action of animals might lead 10 00100 valuable sugges- non in this important field of investigation. A moot interesting series of prognostica- tions is thiet foundedon the movement of the clouds:— " The motion, rapid or slow, was repai- nt as one of the best methods for foretelling the approach of rain or anew. When there W05 it mist before the rise of the full moon, if clouds wore seen in the west before the suu rose, or there was a mid in the fields before sunrise, wet weather was expected. When the mists vanished rapidly and the moon seemed to rise fader than usual, line weather was Imre to gladclen the Imam of the merrymakers on the succeeding day. When the winds changed end the donde liew along on tail,' the fanners predicted 0101•/».'' Another quint series relates to spiders and gnats and the signs they give of the approaching weather. if spiders in spinning their webs make the termination filament& long, we may, in pro- portion to the length, conclude that the weather will be serene and continue so for ten Le twelve days. If many gnats aro soon in the apring, ex. peat a flue Autumn ; if gnats fly in °mum bodies in the beams•of the setting stne there will be tine weather. If the garden spiders break and destroy their webs and creep 114503', expeot rain or showery weather. The various quadrupeds of course come in for their share of prophesying, and among the weather " rules" received regarding them have been the following If sheep, rains, and goats spring around in the mendows, and fight more than usual, expect rain. If cattle leave off feeding, and chase each other around the pasture, rain. If cats back their bodies and wash their faces, rain. If foxes and dogs howl and bark more than usual ; if dogs grow sleepy and dull, rtimoles cast up hills, ram, If horses stretch out their necks and sniff the air and assemble In the corner of a field with their heads to leeward, rain, If rats and mice be restless, rain. The feathered forecasters have given rise to the following . If peacocks and guinea fowls screatn and turkeys gobble, and if quails make nore noise than usual, rain. If sea birds fly toward laud and land birds toward the am, rain, If the cook crows more than usual and earlier, et peat min. If swallows fly lower 1 han usual expect ram, Ibats finder and beetles fly about, there will be fine weather. If birds in general oleic their feathers, wash themselves, mid fly to their neets, raino. Smo of the queered; miscellaneous quips received are to the effect that : 11 there aro no falling eters to be seen on a bright Sunimee's evening you may look for fine weather. If there be many Miliug stars on a, dear evening in the Stunmer there 'sell' be thun- der. A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warfnie%eg. Imarigolds continue shut after 7 o'clook in the evening, (repeat rain, If fish bite more readily and gambol near the surface of ponds and streams, then look out for rain. If porpoises and whales sport about ships, expect a hurricane. The moon, of eon VIM, is the subjected many of the best weather predictions. Great eon- fldenoe is placed in the old progeostic I saw the now moon late yostreen WI' the now moon ih 1101' arni, And if we'rogoing to son, master, 1 fear we'll come to Mum, It is else said of the moon thee " if the 110W M0011 appears with the points of the meson t turned up, the mouth will be dry. If the points are turned down it will be wet." One weather poet puts the ease of the moon thus : When erst the moon appeare, If then she threads Her silver °rescue tipped with sable clouds, Colleted° she bodes a tempest on the main. And brows for fields impetuous floode of ram. Or if, hor face with fiery fiushinge 51010, 0(X1100b dm rattling -wind aloft to blew. But four nights old, (far that la the best aign,) Withmealnmo,rponed horns, 0 glorious then sho Next day not only that, but all the moon, Till her revolving race be wholly run, Are voki of tempests both by Mel and sea, A good mealy old honfiewives dill remain their own weather prophets, and as a eon. sequence 0.80 of the met popular of familiar weether sittings ia 1 'When rheumetio people complain of mere than ordinary paws in their jnints it, will rain.' Attalla home-made harotneeer hi the tetider corn or sensitive tooth, whose connection with the weather has boon ably ended thus : Acoming dorm your shooting corns presage, And aches Will throb, your holloW tooth will raga Canada to Milford in Beventylwe noun General public interest has been aroused in the often-enema:id QuebeceLabrador rail way scheme by the publication of the report' of a survey of the line, According to this report, the entire length of the proposed lino is 850 miles, its termini belee Qattboo on the south,and on ehe north Port Mon - ham, which is ea present a moll tewn on Lewis Inlet, sixty miles north of the Serrate of Belleiele. lb Reedited by die projeotore of the scheme that the transatlantio run could be made from this 5)01111 10 Milford 'levee in seventy-two home hy. the fast teanithipe now employed on leadeng lame Itney is the huh of discontent and es lip eri when it is green. WHALE AND_SWORDFIS 11 A nese') name Itetwern the two Antenna knee. AtIviceri from San FM11101800 give perdu. litre of a fight witheesed itt Mooterey which end° I more Neatly for the larger but nuna defenceless moneter of eeti deem The whale, 11 15 dated, 4411, frt teent by a party Of bedews one Maori owe, tie appeared to be enjoying himself by Melly 'swimming about: the bay end occanoully eending a shower 01 epray aloft like that thrown by a power- ful fonntain. The presence of the whale or 80111111 other cause seemed to frighten the email fish that abound in these waters, and sboals pressed dosely in shore, the water in places near the beach being FAIRLY ALIVE with thorn, while the surface was kept vale tatted by their leaping into the air es though making to escape from some invisible enemy. The whale followed the shoals inshore, when there was a tram:dour( splashing of the water, the groat mammiti was observed to !novo heeriedly hither end thither, while the contortions of his body and his strange actions convinced the observers thee be Was engaged in combat. 11 was a ai»gular clue and it lasted for 80010 time. Nothing but the whale was viaible, his enemy nevercom. ing to the surface or within range of thou who were watching the scene. Filially the thrashing ceased, the water became calm, and then the whale WAS seen lying motion- less upon the surface of the bay, as if dead. This continued for 801110 time, but after about an hone he seemed to revive, and after lashing the water for some time with his tail, he headed for the mite': bay, when he Was subsequently seen by the aid of a glass to have resumed bis motionless corn -Delon. The following lemming revere' persons hurdled the beach to see if they could find any trace of the previous dayer combat, and they were rewarded by discoveriug the dead hotly of the whale highatid dry 011 L110 rooks only a short distance front Monterey, Some old whalers who were mong tho patty of discovery 53050 struck with 51110 PECCMATI MANNER in which the mammal WM lying. The body was considerably above low-water mark, and the tins were extended, giving the impres- sion that the whale had come ashore him- self end afterwards (lied. It apperws, ac- cording to the testitnony of those versed in mit neaten', diet a whale dying in the water bee his fins close to his dad, and the position in which they sure found lend color to the belief that the monster was still alive when it came ashore. An exitm- ination of the body revealed the existence of several wounds on the under side, which were of a character such as °mild only have been inflietetl by a 8WOCCIfi811, and are con- clusive proof that i eves a duel between these ewo denizecs of the deep that had been wit- nessed the orations afternoon. The amuse measured 7511. in length, and the blubber Was removed and tried out. For several days the stranded whale was the centre of attraction for the entire country rottnd about, and many hundreds of residents Alla tourists visited it. The Visible Stars, There seems to be little doubt that the number of the visible stars is really limibed. Most astronomers now admit that the total number of stars visible in our largest ale. scopes cannot much exceed 100,000,000. ThIs is, of course, a large limber, but obni- pared with an infinite number it is really very mull. It may be proved mathemati. eally—and the demonstration is a very simple one—that were the number of stars really infinite, and equally distributed thrrugh infinite space, the whole heavens would shine with the brightness of the sun. Far from this being the ease, the amount of light efforded by the stars, even on the finest nights, le very small, and the cone Iterative blackuess of the background on dons. T'ne niunber which they are scattered ibsi:uttfloctiheteitillyarkoebd- eye, even with very good eyesight, is not only comperatively but absoleaely smell. Some unreasoning people think that the number risible in this way is almost "countless," but en attempt to count those distinctly visible in any poreion ot the sky —for Maestro, in the "square of Pegasus' —will, I think, (convince any intelligent person that the idea ie merely an optical illusion and a. popular fallacy whioh has no foundation in face The number visible ' to average eyesight oeterd4,000 for b Ili doesnot much exo hemispheres. For exceptionally keen eye- sight, and a very dear sky, we may per- haps allow a total of 10,100 for elle whole star -sphere, or 5,000 visible helm any one place at one time. But surely this is a very small number, scattered over the whole ex. paesee» the heavens. Five thousand mon weld easily be pieced on a small field with. out touching. Allowing a space of four feet square, or sixteen square foot, for each man —a awe allowance—I find that over 50 000 Inca could be placed without touching eaoh other on a field of two acres (a field about a hundred yards square), Now, if we were to rise in to balloon over this two- aore field, we should see a large number of heads, but there would be a lot of ground vieible between the heads, and if we rose to a height of, say, two miles, the field would dwindle to a mere speck on the dueller surfau, To show what a limited number oven 100,- 000,000 is, I may mention that, from a rough celoulation, I find that in a ten -acre field of ripe oats the number of grains of awn .probably exceeds the number of the stars, t111(1 WO 8110111.d 118X0 to multiply, the number of the stellar hosts by at least ten to obtain the number of human . beings now living on out oompdatively tiny %voted l—[The n'entlemem's Magazine. A Novel Procession. A novel procession alkaoted agrowl of acme thirty thonatend people recently at Asbury Park, Now jersey., 13. S. This was the annual earade of babies in perambule. tors. The procession 000upied twenty-five minutes in passing a given point, and eon). prised three huncleed babiee. lb was head. ed by a little boy ten years old in police. men's uniform, followed by a vete:leaden of children and a band of juvenile performers. The perambulators were all prettily decor- ated, some with flowers 0011 80100 with rib. bone &Da laoe. A tiny baby under a tent. like canopy was labelled "Ivloses in tho But. rushee," tell reeds forming his floral adorn. meta. A oradle one hundred years old, containing two bebiee, ate' carried along on wheels, attracted considerWble neteetion. The organizers of the parade presented esolz child with a pound package of sweets, & nursing bottle'and an air -hall of bright colour with a string to it. It le asserted that it silk manufaeturer 151 Mutineer/ near New York sank 00,000 in trying to produce a silk fit for list mak. 14'0 even went so far al 10 import not Wily sbtii10d workinen, but even water from Vranee, 'manse he ealne to beliene duet the quality of weed evith vithieli the tutorial 0018 1.800.110d 11114 something to do with the moue Of the l'rench manufae- time,