The Brussels Post, 1892-11-11, Page 6.1"••••.,
HEALTH,
Biek-Headaehe.
' Siek-headaelie, or what is eometimee it
' correctly celled nervone hertileehe, Wen
heedaehe, attack, or billows votni
ina, aeoording as swede' stream is 'aid upe
one or the other of the eyinPlent,
in the dietiitee, s perheire Buis under,
!, atood any of the eotemon disorder) whir:
..' afflict hunutaity. l'ersene who are subjee
1! .111 -13 BUSSE S POST, Nov. 11, 180:2,
VOMMINION•1010.011,
disease, and deeth aro due, rot to Weal -
denee, um, to uncontrolleble irenmetancest,
but to our oven iguorunee end folly, since
sauitary aelenee im dein ustrating vonatantly
the fact that the woret enemies of life and
health are thoso whielt we oerselv se eneour-
age and teeter within and about our dwell.
t. lege, and in tier habits of lite.
it The Influence of Tobacco Upon Digestion
h .1, Ydaii•Pottolikine reeently reporte
Writteh the renelte of experiments u pen
O set en hea t re persons not addicted to
smoking, for the purpose of determining
n the cticcts of tolyieco upon digo,:tion,
made o4rfal examinatione of the gastric:
✓ pike for three days, riarine irldelt no tolete.
eo wee taken. AL the end of that time,
earth of the Revert pereons triperIntented
g Were allolret1 to antolo tweuty•tive
01;i4,trot leo daily. The gagtrie juice wag or,
„ twinned each day /IA Irefore. The °Leerier-
, treae were :deo coin holed for an additionul
t rewire 1 of three &rye, waieh the lose
Wtsi 11.110 11. The rissillite oh.
to these attacks lien:Illy attribete them
sa hard work, loss of sleep, taking cold, tini
aria, ilisordered liver, the bile getting 0
! the stomaeli or a vtriety of ether cause
a none of whiolt axe the veal or pertieula
•• cause to whieh the disease is elderly amid
•!. uteble.
! While nut dangeroue to life, the sniferin
•• endued IT pereme eribjeet to frequeut
tacks of siekheadeehe 10 011181:411 to Mak
life thoronghly ineserehle, atel helices it i
important. that the eerier of tilie 1111:111,sitslail
revived and ii wresild
aceomplishment. Indeed, It may lie :reel ; 1. Toe:leer) Mei easos the guard lty of tees-
, with meet positive eerteinty that the rear tele jrtiter, dimintehee it. aridity, a
; 1 1 niti tit fa 't w' on it 1., 1' , '111- 1 11 t • 1 • 1 ^
anti allied affeeti 1) is beset dise.ver0.1 te ;farm of eel:lily tho irioric juke the
be tile leveller:mit ot preemie in the atoloaell I Ineaolre of eetivity in tho abaenee of
and howele, usually rho et rineth, 1. ten ros ' arri.1 fermeriter ions.
suit of germe whieh letve leten swallowed The relater ty of ft! hydreetilotie evid
r With the food. These genre) ere present ! the tireS1V11, 31002 i, thminielled under the
1 the stirrer:eh eoustantly ; nevertheless, thee ' ietter 110, (It 1,.h WOO.
• 031180 dlek•iiestaa,lits inity eurtniii.pio•ms1101
..ss The reasou for this is thee while t he germ
, are present in the etotnech, they remit.
.1 favorable 001141 10119 !or tieVelopme111,
• of these conlitirme is a dilated suite of Mt
atom:tele whiter allows the fooa to retuall
ia it a gtese length oi time, so that. th
game have an eppertinut y to rievelop an.
to prodnez the pnieons to wide) the die
tressmg symptom ttecorepanying tide die
erree are due rho writer has found a dilat
ed state of the rite:nub in every epee of thi
malady whieli he hes bad an epportenityth
investigate in the last three years, and be
'levee it to lie :111 unvaryiug aecomparrimen
of the disorder.
Sperial for 'as also eresreneee. the disease
and eepeeially diets tie errors: for exemple,
00E170 veg, 3111.0s W1:1011 171113111 107)4 111 110
E001:111 di 0,11140.(oos.!.., Of Otte great length
of time 'venire 1 :es tle iv solution in the
gaiter:1.'3m, tliet tney may res diemtargsel
, f rom the 01 01110, 10, ;tr.? pa 11.1..011a, ly prerie;.•
tive of atterrke of sieli-liertrieelre. We hat-,
often been teld pereons oulticor to this
disease thet " dinner "
brin4 on .01 attack. For the 81010 reason,
: busty truing, which involves the intreltio-
,e tion into the stomach of food imperfeetly
ineetieated, is prole:give of 0 condition
frivoreble to the development of ick•head-
ache. The earne Ittrtst be said of evened-
. ing. Taking great quantities of ligai is at
' meals, especially of cold liquids, the use of
! tea and coffee or butter, the free use of
. meat, pastry, sweets—anythingwhiall tends
to produce indigestion, and hence the for -
relation of gases and distension, and ulti-
mately dilatation of the stomach, is pro-
ductive cif sick -headache.
As regards treatment, there is no specific
for siok-hendache exempt complete emptying
, of the stomach. The writer has frequent-
_ ly relieved patients suffermg from sick•
headache by passing 11. tIlbe 111/0 the stern•
aeh and emptying it of its content». The
relief obtained in this way is usually in -
striae the patient ceasing to suffer as soon
as the offending substances are removed
from the stomach, It is only necessary,
, then, to keep the stomach in good sanitary
condition to prevent attacks of siek-beed.
aehe. In cases in which the stonuteli is
widely dilated, this is by no means an easy
task, but earefel attention to diet, or at
least a dietetic regimen adapted to the
needs of the individual, will control any
• ease of this disorder. no matter how obstin-
ate it may have proved to be, after medi-
cinal or all other remedies may have been
administered Sometimes the stomach may
be washed. ottt by wallowing a large
amount of warm or hot water. As rule
the bowsls are inactive, and should be
emptied by a large 0110111a at the same time.
By thie means the alimentary canal ean be
thoroughly cleansed, end the pritient
ly relieved,
, I Just in properann as the free hydro-
a.:111.orie acel is dimatished, the digeetive
, vowel. of the gastrio illiee 10 diminished.
e I
b Tobaeoo else dim iniehed t he act ally
a of the reunent fertnrut unntain col in the
, gastric illiee.
, These foots ehould be carefully ceneider.
erl by those physiehme iVeir have been in
the habit of rot:omit:eating tobaerio chewing
to their ilyspepere patients as nu aid to
digestion. We 11 ive conste.ntly noted the
• remarkable feet thet toter:eta smoisine and
ehee•ing, though isia 111froille/itly 11205111-
. liletidoil as on exoeileot remedy Mr cereal]
t deep:Tee tonal 1 10/19 111 111091, are nevee pre-
• serileei for women stneeing from Menaced
cenertien. There has never been the !
slighirret 0.21_ 11: besis air such a mem, '
toe:el:Liam ged the reetats of ,eirefel mach- I
1110 0X.11,.:3111011 LoW ptesiOnt ell by tile
lisOlity abote for/a:41 3 11111a eXeCil•
11.11 l'e10,011 101 preheating tebaceo,
(oily te :hos- serer:Ire from feeble digest ion,
bet aim 1., those wins tusk to keep their !
rl reestive ereeos in a healthy condition.
tobaeo) 111.bit one of the !nest con-
, spienous blernishee upon crer modern re viliz•
alien. No apolegy on be offered for it
! which is not egitelly good, or better, for
the aleohol 10.10t, the opium habit, the
eocaine habit, or the hasheesh habit. It is
te be hoped that the time is not far distant
when metheal leen as a class, will set their
faces eernestly ageinst poison habiLs of
every description, Thou, and not until
then, can We hope for the beginning of a
general reformation on the part of the
laity.
4--
SpentaneOns Typhoid Fever.
That typhoid fever may occur spontan-
eously without any counection with a pre-
' ceding case of typhoid fever, is a notion
. which' has been strongly combined by semi-
• tary authorities, although tnaintained by
Dv. .Murchison, of Englaud, and tho eminent
Sir William Jenner, who held that the dis-
ease is doe, not to a spun' germ, but to a
peculiar decomposition 0111 1011 may be set
up in the etools of healthy persons as well as
those furniehed typhohafever patients,
although 1110011 more likely to occur the
saeols ef person) eutibring Mum typhoid
fever. The ovir fence has seemed to lie against
this view, until trier:idly it has been disecne
erred that the germs which are forend con•
etantly present in the large intestine of
human beinge niay aesume, under certain
eircuinstances, exactly the appearance rind
all the properties of the germ discovered
leberth, which has bean very generally
Irelleverl to be the specific cause or typhoid
0 lever. Roux, Vidlet, rind others have heel)
making a careful inveetigro irer of this mat.
ter, mud, are oonvineed thet Eberth's germ le
:simply a peculiar form of the.gertn referred
to which is eonstuttly f ound in the large in.
testine, from which it has derived the name
`• bacillus coll. '
1 fact developed by these invest igal lone,
7 41011 it Ls roportmit for the puler, tor know ;
a.; the earliest possible moment, that the '
becillus coli is to be foetid 111 a thriving
condition in ecespeole, being poseeeterl of
very great Vitality. It is ideo found grow-
ing vaulter and cloeets, and when "learn.
ed. from enell sollIstee, follila to los OV011
more deet) naive te :mined life titan when
•. obtaireel 11111";t1Y from the etoels of limean
-
••• PI:O111 1:110V, 111,1,8 it 0 ppoiL18 that typhoid
; fere/. 18.111e, not to the introdoatinn Of a
epeeifie germ into 11., 1.13., Lot to emndi.-
i wifich e01160 tle: germs aleaye found
' present in he Maly in :sleet hundare .
take on a weedier developmeut 1T
they acquire unnsuelly waive end virulent
properties.
The bacillus coil has been found to
be a trans.:: of abeeees, reepecially eliscess of
the Leer, pleurisy, inflammation oi tho
bowels, peotototte, ilyeentery, cholera -nun -
bus, aral other allied tanalit 1011s,
The sanitary lesson wheat those !note
teach imareely molls opt/amis. They cur-
tainly shonld. in -Trees upon the inirel most
foreibly that the ditnger of typhoid fever a
eau b avoided, aot simply by evreding eon- I
tact with typhoid fever patiett le, or milk or b
water infected by dejections of persons suf.
loving from this disease, but that eafety a
from this fatal tnalarly tem be ramrod :silly
,by the most scrupuleue sanitary clonal mess
.C11118poola and vaults meet be regardect
hot beds of disease, frOin which may 0100.11*
: ate not only typhola fever but a host of
ether aestro ing and fatal maiadies, and
shotficI be a Wished from every Oirilizod
community. The greater ehare of minoring, 0
" Bitching' it" in liorth-Weetern
Canada.
A feature t.eealiar to life In a settlement
is "baching it," a short phrase for " boob elor-
Mg it." The tnen %rho live by themselves
hsve to do everything for themselves,
When a man " booties it," Ida shanty eon -
Mate of but one mein, generally built of
logs. If he be a tidy and a cleanly man he
periodically scrube his floor ; he earefully
stows away his bedding during the day ; his
cooking utensils are neatly arranged on his
shelves, perhaps elongside a solectiou of the
best books ; his walls are decorated with
the portraits of his relatives and friends
and by the latest pieturee sent out from
England ; and his rougit furniture, most of
it made by himself, is, at any rate, clean.
In such humble though tidy abode the
dashing young fellow who woo a favorite
in drawing rooms and tbe "best waltzer
kno wn," may be seen, pipe in mouth, mend-
ing his stockings (for he is a tidy man), or
reading, or writing home, or kneading
dough, or up to the arms in suds as he
scrubs away at his fortnight's washing.
There is, however, the very opposite
of the above description—viz., the untidy
man, with unkempt hair, unwashed face,
hese a stranger to the waehtub, the interior
of his shanty all higgledly-piggledy, There
is however, much to be said to excuse this.
The young fellow who has been hard at
work all day is too tired to net to house-
hold work in the evening—too tired even to
cook. Leaving his ploueh, or his axe, or
his spade just where he may happen to be
(where it will remain until he next wants it)
he' is too tired to knead, so makes demper
with or without baking powder • too tired
o trouble about a roast, he will oat or chop
off a piece of pork from a joint and cook it
; he cares nothing about "tidying
up • ;" neglects his ablutions ; tutnblos into
Me unshaken best with hie clothes on and
sleeps the sleep of tho halved. The habit
grows upon him ; he becomes dirty both in
appearantre and, in fact, slovenly in all he
does, while his shriety, unswept and ne-
glected, soon lime an abundance of living
proofs thee it is a stranger to tho house-
maid and the chambertnaid.-1.0assell's
Family alagazihe,
,ase. —
atm goad Surgeon
bf the Lubon Medical Company Is now taEi
'Toronto, Canada, and tnay be consulted
either in person or by letter on all ohmic
diseases peculiar to mem .1‘10 n, young, old,
or middle•ageri, who flnd themselves nerv-
ous, weah and exhaueted, who aro broken
down front mem or overwork, resultieg in
many of the following symptoms : Mental
depreseion, premature old age, loss of vital.
ity, loss of memory, bad. dreams, dimness of
sight, paapitation of the heart, emissione,
leek of allergy, pain in tho kindays, head.
ache, pimples an tho face or body, itching
or peculiar seneation about the ecroltim,
wastinp of the organs dizeinees s Jocks
BLOOAN 141NES,
.i.Slontamy Through the Ws trate
eerraspendent of the alentre St
writes 01R 011o1131 1—The Shman mines a
sttuated between Kootenay /take on 1
east, amt the Upper Arrow lake on t
woet. lit August, flail, the first tumors
rleh finds in this district was licatd, at
before, the 51111W foil 11011111ofsi 01 pasepeete
were en their way with peek on Malt
seerelt for hidden wealth, feeme of the
I • I 1' •
ro
he
1,1,7 in the e001 waters. of the tithe we seenred
,a boat to row up to the head of the Lake
dititant eight milee, expeeting to get 11011104
to there. lialf-past two found 110 on ho dime!
aa but no herses to be got. Itungver and foot
Rove we et avted for St:intuit Lake, distant,
nine nelee, bort inuttely the (red was fairly
level, The !wit mile wart covered after
titotry. Then we rested at Carpenter's
tiamp for half an hour and then pushed on
" SOW Denver," it 1.0W11 on the v821 ban it
of 8 oven Lake where We 41.11.1Ved at LIMO
and. found we were down 10 1750 feet.
After letthiug our
Now a:team:ED me,
Mandl surrounding town,. were tided svi
prospeeters from Colorado, elontatui Di
waitiog fur the break up of winto
e_er early ss 110.91411.1113 a small army of bottle:
two and liret, thollAfillg 111011 1Vere afoot, at
oolay his eeetion 18 known far and std.
11S tills fiellis•1 A110.01111 leali crop 0000.
covered, Front Spokane, in 1Vashingui
we totvellea by rail tor rho 1)allee, 411(91
eiI slier 1p tile C011111i1Mit River Ono .
;sae hare 1,, Roleon, where a Manch of
1‘.1,.11. 1, met, taking' us to the town
Nelsee. Nelsort ie the most in) rertant
the minim:. tee 11 r, treeing the Bonk.;
:Montreal reel British Columbia establinlit
there, l'ea,1 aleantain minee 80 WO
1
•
:lark and 11110 Made Under groat. dillieulty
r,
t,„ rum Meese pain. The cook tit the Summit
0. Muse was jure, going to bed, but lighted
a, his lire et mere, rind 80011 had a grand meal
a. ready for us, which eve relielied after eterer.
ing twenty-eight miles, with troth big to eat
aa me twelve lionise To beil 101 00011 11,14 CI1111101
i.„ over. 10 the night it rained, promising n
lc, slippery trail for the rest of rem journey,
e'ortatnately, we reentred horses front page.
her p telt train men, and tofu Seventh Luke
ai! entoyina, an early morning bath, fer
aakusp, ou tile I 7ppee Arrow Lakes, where
1 1 wo strivi :1 at 5.110 11, 111., and felted ours.. [vier
, lead. 111 00111(01 titilie OliCa Moro,
le ,
eroIn Nakiesp hy ritearner. to Reveletoke,
e where wo connected with tile C. P. , and
011 sits: roma Vietol ia. Oot. journey root
• Kaslo or Kootenay Lake to Islaktesp on
La Arrow Lake W.u,SeVerity miles. We visited
nine or ten niiiiee ena obtained a rcorril idea
ut the future proepects of this great e eel),
Mat is required is eureportation facilities.
A wagon road is being constructed faint
leaslo west ward for twenty-eight miles and
g alvalme 11 pi•OjO01 11 from Nekusp east -
11
known tie y meet hut tersserg notice. 'II
or„ Seem [mat. mines earriee Si1Voi• Ulla eta
per. The ralv,,r Km-, et ereeelt
....111ra...1 for sale for AC,3110,1:1111,
Oiiil 11111 dollars worth of' ore ou the annit
file lriesly titer :ma Silver lateen, tl
• . • :tip, t
the Dandy to 1110 Weal Ward mid a doze
minor locations,
rolt11 A 111101'1,,
that Willi the Silver K Lig 1000013, vrorkin
will make one of the busiest earops in tit
province. Taking the steamer trent Nelso
wo trevelled up the Koetteay river passe
Balfour, acress Kootenay Litho to Pik
Bay, where is being erected by enthusiasti
Amerioaus ;1 enieltee tlutt will be ready non
too 50011, Inmost:Asa wharves of laronges
structure, 1ring rows ef eubstantial brie
bui id inge, with maesive pieees of in:whiners.
tell their own tale ; 8306,0.10 will not mor
tban cemplete the work 1111i1c1 19 3y. Fror
Pilot Ilay we re -erase Kootenay 11,,ko
AingWort 11, thence northwatele te the net
:own leaslo, callea into existence by th
Sloven diseoveries. lime We iallitesl, spell
the night, mil early next. raw -niter started 01
1110111113111 rem s West wIrds. The tietil W01111
00 11111 Out 11.111011g die forest- moriercluestend
ily upwards Ono two mike out We WO'
1!...1011 1001 op. Heavy en:eke hung about us
caused by ferett fires, and at one point it wa
questien as to whether we should ae
0:rough, or have to turn lack. ifowever
by deviaritig from the trail and leading au
horses around burning etungis and fallei
trees we passed tho burning district. Th
:de WO8 uncomfortably hot, and the agile
and smoke hart olio's eyes. Tee noiee o
falling trees and the sizzling sound tha
follows the fire's first attack of a moss:may
eyed trunk were experiences
wards to alrew Denver. These will be fol.
lowed by railways. When the mines that
mut refine) to ship ore on peek horses at a
n °est of 0;10 per ton have reilway transpor.
• tation, one ean realize what an immense
e futuve is iu store for the Sloretu, even with
t the priee of silver and lead at their preeent
k low figures.
00 BONE 0 03T_Iiy THINGS.
e New York', enpitel at Albany 11 tho
buildho, of Imam tinieg. tO
t • date 1 11,11111,1KM 'dolial ilitVis been expend-
, 0.1 on it,
d The most expensive tinteieipal hall in
' the worhl Mel 1 he largest in tho idled
e Suttee io the City Building of Penalaphis,
, The largest clook in the World ie to be 111
a ity tower.
L e•he meet, expensive Legielature in the
' ie Oita of Frence, wh telt 09800 mut Ital.
v I ly -.e.720,000, The Italian Parliament costs
• The costliest paintings of wodern timez
X86,000.
, are ..Meissonierds " I 814 " and Millet'e" The
I Angelus, " M. Chauchard gave il35,000
t for " 18 14" and ;1130,000 for " The Angel -
Mr. Ilenry Hilton in 1887 paid a 12,-
500 for Meissonior's " Friedland, 1807, "
and presented it to the Metropolitan ales.
eum of Art,
The most costly book in the world is egad
to be a Hebrew Bible now in the Vatioan.
In 1512 we are told that Pope Julius II.
refused to sell the Bible for its weight in
gold, which would amount to .C21,000.
oThba.tokis, the greatest price ever offered for
The costliest meal ever served according
to history, Wila a supper given by Mitts
Verna, ono of the most lavish of all the
Rotnans of the latter days, to a dozen
gneats. The 0091 was six thousand sester.
tia, or nearly Z50,000.
A celebrated feast given by Vitellius,
Roman emperor of thos.e days, to his In•oth
er Luoius, cost a libtle more than 440,000
Sueranins says that the banquet eonsist-
ed of two thousand different dishes of fish
and seven thousand different fowls, be-
sides many other courses.
The largest sum ever offered for a single
diamond was a4138,000, which the Nizent
of Hyderabad agreed to give to Mr. Jacobs,
the famous jeweller of Simla, for the Tin-
periel Diamond, which ie considered the
finest stono in the world, •
The costliest toy on reoord was a broken•
nosed wooden horse tehich belonged to No-
poleon Bonaparte, and was sold a year or
two ago for ono thousand frauos.
The costliest mats in the world are own-
ed by the Shah of Persia and the Suttee of
Turkey. The 811011 and the Sultan each
possess a nett made of pearls end diamonds
valued at more than 5.:500,00e. The larg-
est mat ever made is owned by the Carleton
Club of London, and is a work of art.
Tho most valuable gold ore ever mined in
tho United States and probably in the
world, was a lot containing 200 lb. of quartz,
carrying gold at the rate of eele,000 a ton.
It was taken from the main shaft of the mine
at Islipemine, Mich.
The greatest sum ever Reid for telegrams
in. one week by e news/time wes the expen-
diture of tho Tame for cable Seirriue
from Buenas Ayers during the revolution in
the Argentine Republic. The cost of cabling
from liuenos Ayres to Loudon was about, 70,
a word, and the " Times" paid out ati,000
for ono week's despatches.
The costliest crown in Europe, exports
say, is that worn by tho Czar of Ruseitt
on ;Rate 0:tensions, It 18 StirInOtilitOd by a
ere, formed of live !lingual:tent diamonds,
resting upon an iminoneo uncut 'nit polish -
ea ruby. The. ruby rests upon eleven large
datmonds, evInell in turn are supported by
a mat of pearls. Tho eoronet of the Em-
press, tt be said, contains the most beauti-
fbualundiass of diamonds ever oollected in ono
NOT TO BE rOltflOTTES.
Along the trail one sees sign posts, hoards
nailed te trees wiLh rough lettering, and an
arrow pointing towards the desired point
" To the Montesuma mince" " to the Dar.
danelles," ete, During Ole morning we
passed a pack train, paoking ore out. This
is the only conveyaneeat present Limitable,
At noon we reached the ten utile house,
altitude 200 1 feet. There we found. a log
house where one oould get a shake down et
night, and hearty meals. Taking our horses
to the corral we spent an hour here, and
then out to Bear Lake, where we :arrived at
5,130 p.m. Alt. 2000, corralling our horses we
started to see the "Lucky Jim," Whiell we
reached after a scramble of 300 feet. This
mine is bonded for $40,000, Ore assays
from 80 to 400 oz. of silver and 75% of lead,
Last spring there were a couple ot hundred
men camped at Bear Lake, waiting for the
snow to disappear from the mountains.
Down the gulch came an avalanche that
:leered the gulch, and the nrst man to make
bis way upwards, found this huge body of
ore [daring him in the face. His name was
Jim ; hence the name "Lucky Jim," It
was after dark when we arrived back at the
log home, aud sve °nee made for the
dinner which was waiting for ns, which was
duly appreeiated after our twenty mile ricks.
In this denary one cannot be too fastidious.
Tin pintos and cups, three pronged iron fork
and knife are the rule, but exercise and
tnountain air take the place of dainty napery
and silver accessories and china.
Next morning found us up bright a.nil
early. A. wash in a mountain stream, clear
as crystal and oold as—well, as any fellow
wants, prepared us for breakfast. Finding
that the usual trail had been bnott out, and
impasealde from fallen trees, we accepted
the offer of Mr, Jackson, who was packing
supplies into his irtine, to go his road. By
7.30 we wore in the saddle and under Way.
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lie day WOO bright and warm, and by 1 0
'clock WO I Ad olimbed 3000 feet, to the
' Dardanelles Mine." Here WO left enr
anting horses, two of 1110111 completely
lown. This 1111 110 has given aesays of 140
z. silver and upwards, with 00 to 70 per
ent, of leatl. At 0700 feet we encountered
now, and at 7000 feet were on the divide
etween Kaslo and Carpenter's orceas,
Need I gay that this last pull was a severe
est of lung power. From this point we
ad a grand view of mountain peaks, mug.
ig on all eides of ue, a huge glacier hanging
s if wetting for the signal to burst its hold
ncl rush down the moue Lain skies, After
breathing spell wo started on the descent
0 Jackson's camp, end arrived at his mine.
The Northern Belle," at 1 1.1311, his log
abin being just below alt, 5800 ft, Here
e etopped for hutch out host and his part.
er eeoking ns meal in good etyle. These
titiors and prespeotore are of the
attar 111.1.M•11
ass. It is part of thir eotla to give any
miser a meat anti hed. 1 f rileent you ure
e liberty to go inehle end eoolt your own
eal, they in turn expeetieg to do the
before the eyes, twitching of the musoles„1
eye lids and elsewhere,bashfulnese, depoeits
in the twine, ef yap/river, tenderness of o
tbeeralpand spine weak an:1141AT rnueelea
dame to eleep, faihne to Ire rested by eleep,
constipation, dullneesof lien ring, lossof voice,
deeire for solitude, excitability of temper,
Dunken eyeesurroundedwith aearnirr masa
oily looking skin, eta, are all aymptoms of
nervous debility that letul to amenity and
death unless cured, The spring or vital
force having 1091 its tension every lunation
me it they happened your wrist, Immo
acirson'e we ;earl npwavile once inere,
iernie the " Stranger," end then on to the
131te; 111rd." The latter 1019 given aetays
of 1.0 to -00 oz. ot ell ver p. hail
(to the ton), and ie one of the fieeet !show.
hip in the elloean. On the (Beale overlook-
ing the " Plue Bird " the aneroid marked
705o, the igh Met point. wo reached. PROSI•
ing the " Last Chance," wo wound up end
down, in and out, aerose streams, until at
four o'clqck we could see far below 1111 a
berietiftil weter fail, 011 Carpenterat Creek,
and twenty teinvice lat er annul 119 over the
divide and at MeGuigen Lake, altitude)
0 100, From here we made dotour of a
mile to we the " Washington " mine, which
is being worked by Americans, There svere
sixty tst eeventy tone of magnificent, ore piled
thatalay on tho annip, 'the assays have
given 150 to '200 ounees of :divers and 00 to
p. o, of lead, At McGuigan Lake were
forty persons, prospootors, minors and stir-
veyors. Two of our party alopt under a
brush loan•to, and the others wore assigned
a blanket with re survey party, Next morn.
ing we breakfasted early, and ,by eoven
o'oloelt wore off on our lougest day'e tramp.
By nine o'clock we bail dropped to 2700 foot,
and covered five miles, the trail having been
very steep and hard on our (031, being
wanes in consequence. Those who through
abuse oommitted in ignorence may be pees
manently mod. fiend you, address for
book on all diseases peculiar to man.
Books trent free sealed. Ileerdisease, the
ymptoms of which are feintspolls, purple
ips, numbness, palpinetion, skip Luta,
ot flushes, rush of blood to the head, dull
pain in the heart with boats strong, rapid
nd irregular, the seond heart bolt
quicker than the first, pain aboub the breast
eto,, ean positively bemired, No aura,
”:10.y. Send for book, Addrese M. V.
"'IN, Macdonell Ave. Toronto, Oita
A historm collection of railway tickete
rem all parts°, the world will be rine of the
xhibits et the Chicago orld's Fair,
•
Whistle For It.
"Georgie, Georgie, mind—your hat will
be blown otr if yott lean so far out of the
carriage
Patereimilitte (quioltly snatching the lett
from the head cri the refrectory youngeter
and hiding it behind hie back); " There,
mats—the hat Inns gone a'
Georgie sets up a howl,
After awhile hie father remold:0 "C'ome,
lm rptiet ; if I whieLle, the hat will mime
beers agein I"
W1 list les and replsces hat on boy's bead.
" l'here it's back agein, you RP° I" 1
While the parents are eng god 0011001,
8311011, Georgie throws his hat ottt the
whylow, itrul cries ;
" Pa, there goes my bat whistle it buck
again."
HUITS ITEMS.
Rubber heels, to facilitate marching, are
to be eta/oho:1 to the shoett worn by lerenelt
soldiere, lExperiments with them have
en :leakier' setisfaction.
A fast penmen will write et the ram
thirty worth, m mite, Which means the
ie an hour's eteatly writing he tete draW
hie pen along m space of 1100 yards,
1 he largest telegraph °inn in the world
is 111 London in 1110 Poet Cease. in there
are over 3,01.IJ irperetora, constently employ.
ed, about one-third of whom ere women.
A revent :meth:site's° in Japan dieter:be
the see iseventydive miler; from the eliore
and drenched the Atneriertu berque 1 forme
with sea wetter whiela Wag Very lit Liu beim
the boiling wird. Some of tlie ere
thought elnit :-W.11.11.8 tea -kettle waif jus
below them, boiling over,
People who like frequent chringee in go
erument may find Variety in :Mexico, DM'
ing the Peet sixty-two ecurs tied, conntrt
lute had tifty•four Preelifents, one fiigioloy
P11111ahisasis.o. 4:0- 1131,10 (.11,1,1111:4U4t; t
evert has toren eine:tad Ily violeeire.
'Ilia the werld was irthabited long befor
authentic 11 14tory hi 110 W otiri of th
gutturally revelator). frees. There 11 said te
be more 1 steno prehistorie beildings in
Sardinia. They are ramose: all in tht• fertile
districts, aurl are bttilt i geoups whiell are
separated from one another by wide and
generally batmen pheree.
The largest. hand eawing machine ii) the
world Ims reeently been eompleted in Eng-
land and sett to attematiia. '1'11e machine
curl saw through a maximum depth of 75
inches, and the earriage will acconinuelete
logs 50 feet long end weighing about 50
tone. ie assorted that this Haw rime even
faster than 14 01.11311110.1. SAW, wrest Mg
75 per cent, lege wood.
Anciently, in nerny parts el Frew's,
when a salu .d lend took 'Aerie, it wee the
custom to have twelve Intuit win:et:saes,
riettompanierl IT twelve little boys; amt
when the je i of he land 11'00 11 1111i1
its1 r look pittee tilts 0318 isi 1 lie boys
were ladle a :nil they wele: beeien seVorelv,
50 Here the p thus to:lieted eirould nude
an impres.deri upen le ir memory ; stria if
1011111.141 iift..i.W31,11s, the,/ might boae
nese to toe elle.
The emcee IleVer iok 4 more than ten
eltilieeil Of elf her eisittipstlilits sir is131.01,
after dinner Ler Maj. ety Ls tteetudemed to
take [t steel' glass of Toltay.
LATE BRITISH NUM
al'e hewn now that the famous jubilee
Mese fired front it ataton gun In Queen
teeitlas jubilee year, to eseertain how far a
if allot could be carried, tumid .e.1 in the air
t ueconds, and Om highest pease reached
in itu flight of twelve Bliley wee 17,000 feet.
A ilaptlee church in Knglend, in pram' to
induce eyeliels to visit It, has provided a
mic shelter for bicycles, Inhere have set
ap.o a cyclists' pew. "
ir Arthur &Mein lays that a railway
[1 carriage is the best, place to compoee in, the
, blinking one gete there being a great mental
r 11111Ulant.
Statistics recently compiled in London
w show 01150 the iminher of cabs, both four -
t' wheeled. and haithom ettlfe,
v street oar routes and democratie ideas.
• 7,0001 hansterie in the city, hue their num.
• . bee lo mesa dintiniehing, though 110 00 rilp.
letiving the last LW5100 months there Ware
lered 1 the yeav 'nervier's. There are ovev
3,0410 fouv-wheeled cabs licensed, neva:Mist
:jails 18 peolably due to the exteeeion of
e I ft wai lately quoted in British mhipping
e eirelire tie a proof of the depression alfecting
the eldiming trade that a splendid four.
masted irou bark of 12,000 tone register,
; 011 the Clyde, cattle into port from
; Aestralia in ballast, was umtble to get a
ramp), and railed back for the antipodes
; again with the same ballast ahe brought.
wi..11 her.
Tiger hunting in India, us now conducted,
is petit:me sport, Formerly the unite:11s
were shot front platforms creole:1 in the
forests. Now the daring sportsmen limit
them on foot.
Dynamite ham been supersedea in Sweden
for blasting Imposes. Electric wiles are
introducea in the rock, and then heated.
Tito sudden heating of tho rock rends it in
pieces, quietly and effectively, without peril
to human life,
A women 5 feet 2 inches in heighb
should weiele at thirty years of age, front
7st. 81b. to tist, ; forty she will be '21b.
heavier ; at fifty nearly 41b. heavier ; at
sixty she should be about tho sante weight
ae at thirty, and elm should get lighter as
she grows older.
The fieberfolk of Bergen, in Nortray,
have for over 500 years inoculated whales
with bacteria in order to kill them. The
whales enter a firth near the town and are
driven into a narrow buy. A. not is then
stretched across its mouth, and the whales
allot wtth poisoned arrows. After a chty oe
two they beeome sickle-, and are easily de-
spatched.
'110 usu.! age at whieb boys enter a
veering stalee as apprentrees is twelve to
1111100011, it being held that above that age
iesestseo old to begin with auy hopes of £100..
Of .einerian apples nearly 1,500,000
barrels are imperted to this country every I
aeaS011, abont a fourth of those finding their
way to Covent Garden. The barrel:. wei h
from 1401b, to loOlb., and are excellent y
packed,
The Empress of Austria is reputed to be
Lire best Royel housekeeper 10 Europe.
Everything in the Austeien palace is under
her own personal care. She orders cooks,
butlers, and laundry -maids, and is constant.
ly inventing sotnething nory in cookery.
The inost ourlotte departmenb of the post
°Ince, and the most fertile in od I and
itinusing incidents, is the Returned Letter
Office, off aluorgate-street. It is here that
all letters are sent and opened, the owners
of which cannot, for somo reason or other,
be found.
The Now River Compamy, which attende
to the wants of the north-east districts and
oE the City of Loudon, supplies a Water
Whiell lute the reputation of being purer
than that of the Thames, from whieh th
other uompanies take their enter. They
pees it throngh large filter beds, and Ole
purity of their supply depends entirely upon
the eflicieuey with which this procees is
carried out.,
Betting tree stumps may he easily re•
moved in this way; tt ith 0 14 111111 auger
bore a hole hi the oentre of the stump about
18 holies deep, and pet in 20 ox. of salt.
petre, fill the hole with water, and plug it
tight. In the miring take out, the ping,
pour into the hole a half-pint of ertule
petroleum, and sst it on fire, The stump
will burn and smoulder to the aka of the
roots, leaving nothing but, ashes.
The Faucet Caves in England are those in
Deebyshire, of which the Peak Cite° at
Castleton is tinted for its granilour. lt, is
rather a snesession of eaves, and is eitueted
at 1110 extremity of it deep rocky gorge Ina
inediately beneath tho Peek Castle. The
entrance is a large arehway in the cliff 42
fuel high end (20 feet wide. A long hall or
corridor rime l'or 1 00 yards into the moun.
coetracting as it precocele into a mere
gallery, and, when this Is paseed, attrition.'
eave is reached,
The 11 11IIIIis r of anchors in British slaps of
svar varleelievording to the Sin of veseel and
lie cletreaer of Om service utended. A
ergo ir melad Oit011, [melee s, two
eiwei t elleeta, 0110 Stream,
ono "Mini," and two " kedges." Smaller
V004,1'1 /MVO fewer and *mailer anchors ;
and the " etream " anchor of a largo Alp
may oonaniently 0011,0 ag 0110 " bower,'
of a snuffler, the difference betwrscat
" bower,'" Mona" and other anehore being
rather in Mae them in aesign.
" Why Ma you toll the Nage your name
wee Murder 1 h
" Ho that ho wouldn't commit 100."
"TIumpll Why didlat you toll him
your mune 'wee Gun "
" What good waald Outt, have dono "
" Ho might have aisehargod you."
Re Took the "'moo,
"You ought. to 110.1/0 80011 that young fel
w travel whet) he left the house last
ight, mid younger brother itt. the
teak feet table, "lie struck a :20 gaits"
"X0," ReAri Mithelas pa, thrughtf
'ho didn't strike the gato at all, Ho wont ,
War the fence,"
Paddy and the &spine,
A raw-boned Iriehman from Cork WaS
1010011 ill as "Boots" in u, Lendonbotel, and
after ho had boomno 80111014 hat Acquainted
with hos surroundings, he n ree sent to light
the gas, bat remaining longer than seas 0311-
sidered necessary, a, party WOO Sent to tind
him.
They found him monnted on tho top of it
pair of stops, pickiag the burner with apin.
When lurked what:110 WW1 doing, be anawer-
oil "Whey, bringieg the 'wick up, to be
shtire."
On being told. that thoro was no wick, lo
and that the application of a, light was all 01
that was necessary, he replied 1 "A rrah,
11014 ; 01 may look a, fool, but Olan net :rich
a fool as to put a loighb to pi= 0' eauld
iron,"
The departure of the troopship Malabar
, teem Pertsmouth, which sailea front Bom-
I bay on Wednesday atm notm, was delayed
110111.411d 3 iittlf n singular mishap. 'rho
veirete was about to leave the dockyard
• whoa 1 he engineets in starling the mach iu ery
dieenvet ell diet the valve below the water-
sese oholted. A diver who was sent
dewn 0 invemfgete the matter. found. that
the el.eteuetion ernsieted of seaweed, which
rer enamelled ill rentoving,
: A man, 40 yeers of age, named Burton
1' hoe died in t Nianeheeter nfirmary
oa em: tar morning f root terenae injuries
snetaile. t al the Old Aneelat
on My by felling front the platform of
an Meeale.1 tight -rep, en t we artiste*
were .e0.011 to perform. thderidee petrel as
1. 11 tisitilt1011 10 it 1,1101'01:M1 frac,
Lure n. the leg he ?sae eevertly hint about
the le lei.
On Tuesday eorifirmation !melted Bair:Let
from the War Unice ot the eentetion of t
yeare' penal servitude in the military prison
and dismissal with ignominy from Her
Majesty's service, recently passed by a
"mut maetialitt Belfast upon Private Thomas
Kelly, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, for an await
upon a sergeant of the same regiment,whoin
he chase I roiled Newry Bacrack Square at
the point of the bayonet.
Two deaths following excessive drinking
have occurred iu Sheffield within five days.
The seeoncl man, a shoveltnaker, natned
Burley, died at the police station on Tues.
day morning, having remained unconscious
since his arrest in a drunken condition on
Saturday night. The other, a bricklayers'
labourer, named Roddis, died in the koss
pit 8.1,where the pollee toek him when found
drunk. He renved from the effects of the
drink, but died a day latee front disease ao.
celerated by excessive drinking.
A letter from 13ombay etatea that a de-
noreble accident, by which Lieutenant C.
a Green, lst 13attalion Riao Brigade, lost his
life, happened at Bankinet on 2nd ult.
While his company was tiring volleys on the
range on that station, at a distance of 800
yards, Lieutcuant Green Was sitting uncle
a tent to breakfast. During en interval be.
tweets the poultice of the two aections of
the oempapy, one of the men fired Ins teal
front about ten yards off, and shot him
through the body. Death was instantane-
ous. Lieutenant Green was a hard•working
popular voting officer,
The Welah newspapers reported a brutal
priee fight between two welt -known pugil-
lets, which took place on Friday last in a
secluded spot on the moors, live or SIX miles
from Swansea. The fight was for i:20,
each uombatant being backed by fourteen
sportsmen for R. W. 'Tho struggle, it iestat-
ed, wart fairly even during the first six
rounds, after whioh both men grew des-
perate and fought severely. Both combat -
auto were shockingly bruised about the face
and limbo, Twenty-seven rounds were
fought when the younger man fell to the
ground end gave up the contest, Theanen
were in training for a week, and the brutal
affair is being investigated by the police.
LioutenanaGeneral Muller who died a
few days ago at Hanover, was one of the
few survivors of the Witterloo campaign.
Ho was fit his 0501 year. When the news ot
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow reached
Hanover, yonng Muller, then in hie lath
year, loft his home, and eireeping through the
French outporas on the Daintili-aleeklen-
burg feentier, reached Oustrow, where he
job, ad the artillery under Captain Wiering,
in October, 1613, be took part, on tho
Leipele plains, in the famons "Battle of the
Nations.' The slaughter oil either aide
was terrible, and during the fighting, whieh
ciontenned during four days, 78,000 b're11011-
men wore either killed, wounded, or
taken prisoners, lIe foug t at Quatro
Bras and at Waterloo, hie battery being at -
Willed to Pietou'e division, and was unins
jured,
On Sunday morning, while waiting for
Mess in Betty Roman thitholle Chapel, uear
Dublin, a tailor, about 115 ye= of age, name
ed Michael Kerman, was seized with a fit,
and died in a few minutcts in the chapel
yard, The polices eatteed the body to be
won eyed to the old 111/111.11 reeitleilea. The
house was in a frightful nontlition of filth,
and gave evidence of tho greateet penury
and svretcheduesa but a sutra revealed de•
pont receipts, sliares, and other certificates
to the value of a7000. There aro mapy dis.
tent relation', tuna the Imard, for Om a0.
• ti011 )vhieli he denied. 111111001f tho
limes:trios of life, bills fair to be dispersed
wit lo ni troll greater facility than i was gath
eved together.
A eingulev !metre war; wannesed Wel-
value's-linen on anturday. While a funeral
party were walkieg !rem the ohapel at tho
cemetery to the grave, two police officers
arrived and stopped the pioceselee, much
to the agora:Minuet of tho mourners. It
transpired that the damned, a railway per -
tor, had met with at accident, and that;
death roeult ed front blood poimoning, Thane
feats heal not, been ouratuunieated to the
coroner entil the funeral proceesion harl
proceeded to the oemotory. inquest
consequently have to ho hold.
A. Oleo Sweep.
Mr, Dobbs " X lost my hearts, Miss
janet, last nighb when I wee talking to you.
Von have it in you posseesion."
Miss janot (frigidly) " You aro mitre
teketa ale. Dobler, but I will nek Bridget,
perhaps dm pielteil 10 up when she swept
out the other rubb_isIL t_his morning,"
Ton million nerve fibres aro said to be
found in the human body.