The Brussels Post, 1893-2-10, Page 66 l E7 .;tB BRUSSELS POST.
HEALTE.
How To Treat a Sum
Presence of mind Is never utero essential
than in the home, Sinall eatastrophles
which may load to most grievous results are
tecque ut. (liven a cool heal and a deft
touch anal all is wall, lint the nervous
woman or the woman who expands her
energies by screaming oven slight tnialtaas
etmay easily bring on dire di:water• from
slight amuses. In case of tire it is ospeoialty
atoaoseary to have seine one about who is
posse -mai of a coal head and is capable of
acting promptly and wisely. The most
euuuassful way 10 which to put nut a small
fire is to smother it in any thick woolen
article which mnaybeathand. Lace curtains
and light window drapery are quite liable
to catch fire from gee jets, when the latter
are unprotected by shades, Send for that
reason a gas jet near a curtain should al-
ways have a shade OVER it, as the slightest
gust of wind natty blow the Inflammable
material against the light, when it will
instantly break intoa blaze. In enol cases
the only thing to do is to tear down the
curtain without the least delay and smother
it in any woolen materials at hard.
It is useless to specify or multiply in-
stances, for each case is an emergency of
its own and brings its own difficulties ;
which only coolness and promptness can
solve. Wuere tsars has been but a slight
fire there frequently are serious burins on
the person. and to the treatment of these It
is well to pay attention, as prompt action
is of the greatest necessity. Where there
has been a serious case of burning, the ab-
sence of pain, often a feature of the case,
is a bad omen, as it shows that the nerves
stave been seriously shocked. Severe pain,
on the other side, is not always an indication
of a dangerous case. Where a burn appears
to be serious a physician should he snmmon-
'ed at once. In the meantime an ehternsl
which shall exclude the air should be used.
Wet a piece of old linen with equal pens of
lithe water and olive oil, shaken well to-
gether, and apply it to the injured part,
covering it with a layer of cotton wadding.
Where lime water and oil are not at hand,
.eJJayer of dry flour or of olive oil Moue may
be applied.
Aa application of equal parts of hot water
and milk with t little bicarbonate of soda
in it is another preparation recommended.
If you have nothing else at hand, use warm
water applied on a linen rag and covered
with another rag or with cotton wadding.
The use of stimulants to support the strength
of a pereou suffering front a severe burn is
essential. In cases of burns from alkalies,
dime or potash, weak vinegar or diluted acid
will frequently soothe the suffering, In
ease of burns from strong acid, like oit of
'vitriol, carbonate of soda and water or lime
water should at once be applied, or even a
thick mixture of soap and water. After
this olive oil may be used. It is a good plan
to keep lime water always on hand in case
of slight burns, such as are sometimes re-
ceived in work about the coon stove.
Cholera in Winter.
Watchfulness against cholera should nc
Obnnd•tntly proved of worse than no avail,
Contpllcato matters, with the feeling that
those who should Lave the moat 'sympathy
in aha afirentisea manifest the greatest hard.
heartedness, told all symptoms are aggro.
vated. In so far the theories of many of the
aloverest medical meu are not Lorne out by
practical expevience ; or rather the lank of
sympathy which they reoonrmond must be
mode to act upon the patient through um
amnia chenuols, pot through fatniline
cues. They roe -video that a nervous wom•
an, taken away from her friends anti moot.
ing with iediliereuoe as to her ease is bone.
&ted. But that the saino indifference
shown her at home would be prejudwial.
The mass of the laity, however, does not
make this distinotiott, hence etlaues mucin
trouble. To say that symptoms of an ex.
citable state of the nervous system call far
prompt treatment in the first stages would
soarbely seem necessary. How often over-
taxed achool teachers, bread -winners,
mothers of families, with 11y'sterioa alts
nervous prostration looming before them,
might cry a halt to the invading foe by ti da o00 001 life
i err od advertisetheir bloody
dropping summarily duties, responsibilities, p y let , y we
family mud ging off to some totals strange
feel sure that It would be it more profitable
for a few months, where even letters bnsines9 venture for any Insurance company
place
could not reach them ! But the momentto issue policies at reduced rates on the
never comas ; the grind of existence holds Lives of this great army of assassins, from
its victims in a vise, Yet, often, if the bits bold and venturesome highwayman to
vietims had but the courage they Would the sneaking ted cowardly abortionist.
break away, notwithstanding, and, in ex- Among tha learned professions, that of
change for their pluck, gain health and pointing the way to Haven keeps its vo-
money in the end. Caries longest on earth, while those who en-
gage in holding others back, or smoothing
The Value of Buttermilk. their path, if go they must, glide swiftly on
themselves anti. soon loose their feeble grip
The value of buttermilk is not as much on worldly things ; thus, according to Eug-
appteciated as it deserves to be• As a lisp statistics, the death rate among physi-
beverage it is of eo much worth that it clans, between 25 and gei years of ago is
has gamed a distinct place in "materia more than ;whits that of clergymen of the
medias" and is largely prescribed by the same age, lawyers keeping about equally
beat phyaietans for chest and lung ailments distant in the race for immortality betwemt
and in most forms of kidney troubles. those who preach and those who practice.
An exclusive, buttermilk diet las seemed Of course, itis easy to see why medical men
to bring about a cure in many oases of die young ; irregular habits, loss of food and
Bright's disease. A proper and constant sleep, exposure to the extremes of weather,
use of it will greatly reduce, and sometimes jolting and shaking over rough roads, in•
cure, the craving for alcohnllo liquors, with baling microbe -laden dost or the foto air of
which many persona are afflicted. So that a close carriage, the constant mental strain
it may be well for the apostles of total aim of weighing diagnostic symptoms and thera-
stinenee to make use of this beverage to poetic imitations with the fear of erring
assist those who have been addicted to the where human livev are at stake,and,last but
use of liquor. Have it near at hand, and not loast,alas ! with many of us, the worry
when the craving is felt for liquor, drink umpressly forbidden by the Master according
half a tuntblerful of buttermilk. The orae- to St, Matthew vi„ 25--34--all these various
ing may be satisfied and the system will bo agencies speed our journey.
benefited and strengthened instead of weak. Of the manual toilers, those whose encu
ened, nation keeps them outdoor are, with some
There are many other good effects from few exceptions being due to other causes as
the free use of buttermilk. It alone will overwork, especially sudden muscular
often remedy acidity of the stomach. The efforts or strains, liability to accident, and
lactic acid needed in many cases ie sap lied exposure to inhalation of dust and poison.
by it, much more than by any other drink ous vapors. Titus gardeners, farmers and &ah-
oy food, It is said to alleviate the oppres. ermen are exceptionally long-lived, and seil-
sion about the heart theeao many old peolle ors would be so but for the poor quality of
suffer from, and it should be constantly food, insufficient and frequently bad water,
drank by them. It is also to a certain ex. and the cramped -up, damp, dingy sleeping
cent a stimulant for the entire system, just quarters furbished them. In these respeots
what the aged need, there has been a great improvement of late
years, but much remains yet to bo done.
To Eat in Cold Weather. Jack's riotous living ashore and too often
Sorra MILK Gxrnnr.E CA/CU.—Use one insufficient clothing at sea are also respoo.
nts.
t unit of sour or buttermilk one quart of BiCa for many of his oans, who
t 9 Carpenters and masons, whose work keeps
them mostly in cities, where the air is less
pure than in the country or at Set, aro not
as healthy as farmers or fishermen, and
painters and plumbers, who ars tamest con:
sten tly exposed to noxious vapors, and suffer
more or less at all times from chronic poison.
iug die comparatively young.
WORK AN) LQNi, LIFE.
Oreematlons Watch Shorten Ono l texlai-
epee.
Some one Inas facetiously observed that of
all 000apations that of the assassin is the
moat conducive to longevity, Certain it is,
says the Pea ° Medical •lournsl, that no
sooner is 0 person known to have commit.
ted ;nurser than all the safeguards that hu.
matt ingcnnlby can devise are thrown around
hits, end everything is done to prolong his
days on earth in comfort, ease, and even
luxury, If the vast stuns of money, the
valuable time, the brilliant talent, the pro.
found learning, the resistless energy, and
the nauseatingsympttthynow wasted onmur-
derere were applied to improve the sent bevy
condition of our schools, it would be more
humane, and the result would be increased
health, wisdom end morality, There were
twentynitte homicides recorded in San
Francisco last year, and the number not re-
corded probably remelted up into the bun -
deeds, for there are many here who live b
f our, a half cup of butter and a nutting
b teaspoonful of soda. Sift the soda through
the flour twice, rub the butter through it,
add the milk to snake the batter and a level
teaspoonful of salt. Beat thoroughly, The
milk must be very sour to neutralize the
amount of soda given. If the milk is not
very soar use less soda, Another way is to
soak the Hour in the milk over night; in
that case add the butter melted in the morn-
ing and the soda dissolved in cold uater,s
be relaxed simply because winter is with
us. While it is true that hot weather is
;tore favorable to the spread of the pesti-
Ilenee than 'old, the popular impression that
the cholera is prevented or killed is not
correct. In 1833 cholera made its first np-
pearanoe in London suburbs on the 13th of
February, and in Dublin there weeks later,
The first death from cholera in North Amer-
ica that year occurred at Quebec on the 5th
of June. Municipal authorities and house-
holders should work together this winter to
the end that sanitation shall be in the best
possible shape to prevent or resist an out-
break in the spring. The importance of
this precaution is aceentuated by the re-
appearance of cholera in Hamburg within
the deat week, to the astonishment of alt
()srmany,which had been officially in-
formed that the disease had been stamped
out.
For Hysterical Women.
What manner of treatment is to bo fol•
lowed by women subject to hysterics or
hysterical conditions? Of course where the
ill has progressed to a pitch where it is
thoroughly defined, the patient gets into a
maze of doctor's visits, consultations and reg.
.alar " cures." But there are women who,
for years, stiffer from nervous conditions
that never taken forth sufficiently empha•
sized to call in medical assistance at all
As Amu 1lttttrstrrt Pre, - This is not
as common as a pie with a pastry cover and
is especially delicious. Line a beep plate
with a moderately rich crust than prepare a
putt of apple sauce by grating in it the rind
of one len,on and adding the joiee. Add a
teaspoonful of flour wet with a little teeter
and sugar enough to sweeten the mixture
to taste. Add also a small mixture of nut-
meg. Beat the apple vigorously a m:note
an
h
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th
sp
sp
ve
co
d poor it into the shell ; set the pie in a
ot oven and let it bake about twentyfive
Mutes or until done. Beat the whites of
res eggs to a stiff froth add two table.
oonfuls of powdered sugar and a tea-
oouful of lemon juice. Set the pie in a
ry cool oven when the meringue will
for in ten minutes. Just before setting in
the oven sprinkle the pie with powdered
sugar ; this will give it a sugery appear.
anee.
hanks Pomonxe.—Four heaping tea -
eons of white corn meal, one quart and a
p of sweet mill, one-third of a cup of
leases, two heaping tablespoons of brown
gar, one even teaspoon of salt, one or two
at. and a piece of butter half the sloe of
an egg, ginger to taste, or if that is not liked
on,n,tnton can be used. Scald the ineal in
lta'f the milk ; then take from the five and
add themolasses,suga•, salt, butter and gin•
ger, and if pool enough the egg can then be
added and the cold milk, Bake an hour in a
moderate oven ; when done the whey will
he almost a jelly, and oho pudding will r s-
quire no settee.
Brto i' Bno,tn,—One pint of sour milk or
buttermilk, three cups of corn meal, two
cups of graham flour, one cup of ntolassee,
one teaspoonful of soda, and Melia teaspoon•
fol of salt. Steam three hours in three one.
quart cans with the tops removed by melt-
ing stem off. They should be well greased,
Three cups of graham flour and two cups of
porn -meal can be used, or either rya flour or
wheat flour substituted for the graham, It
will be found much more convenient to out
the bread steamed in three loaves titan if
:nude in ono large loaf, and itis quite a re-
lief to find some way to utilize old tin fruit
Dans,
CANNOT) Hrrrtc t.ESEnnyPre, —Th is m colons
of preparing the fruit for pies will be found
suitable for any kind of canned fruit which
Is too juicy, Drain the juice from the fruit
and put in a granite•iron saucepan, reserv-
ing a quarter of a cup, Put it on to heat,
and mix with the cold juice as much corn.
starch or arrowroot as you think will thick -
on the entire juice to about the coneistettOy
of thick cream or jolly, When the juice in
the pan is boiling hot, put in the corn.
starch and stir constantly until it scalded,
then remove from the fire and add the fruit.
If the fruit will bear any more sugar, alit
that while it is hot. Bake with two artists
and remove from the oven as soon as the
orust is bakers.
sp
ell
For those precisely so situated a few words mo
may he spoken. Charcot, the greatest lim. sit
ing authority as to nervous diseases, takes , g
a thoroughly hysterical woman from her
Parents, her husband, her children, even
her friends and acquaintances, sends her in
another city, or another country, where
she cannot be reached by any one likely to
sympathize with her and where there are
atringeot orders given that site should form
;no acquaintaucssitip with any other one. A
competent mase is provided, who is to be
elf the homely, unimaginative type, with
iron nerves or no nerves at all, and
who is not likely to encourage the pa.
tient in emotional outbursts of any
' Blind. So far the principle is like that of
:our Philadelphia celebrity, Dr. Weir alit•
obeli, whose fundamental order it is also
that the patient should bo entirely iso-
lated from her friends, even written
:communications being forbidden and
,nurses being discharged for a chance
'word of or interest oommiseration pronoun.
aced stere or there. But where Dr.
Mitoltell completes his treatment by the cure
,of absolute rest, the French doctor sees to it
that his hysterical patients be continually
ecoupied throughout every moment cf the
day in some sort of light, objective employ-
ment, pleasant in its nature and that corn.
pole the mind to dwell 011 it to an extent
that is healthful without being labelling.
He advocates primarily, as does Dr. Mit-
•shell, large, airy rooms, with an exposure
full to the sun, and prefers that the furnish.
ings, hangings and papering should bo of
:colors light rather than somber and gay co
the eye. In addition to these requirements
Dr• Charcot insists on the curative effects of
birds and Bowers, both because of the joyous
note they give to the surroundings and of
the Dare they necessitate, being just saki.
enb to give that light, agreeable employment
1 that is healthful. The huore of the clay
must be so parceled off as to leave no leisure
, for morbid brooding,
' 'Tit a mors specific way massage is roeom•
mended or a regular course of douohes, loot
and cold, in alternation.
In aggravated oases, where the trouble
hats been of long duration, the latter treat.
went is even carried to the extent of two
clenches a day, one in the teeming, one in
the afternoon. From all such forms of treat.
merit moderate sufferers not under thcosro of
a physician may receive valuable hints which
they may carry out with some reference
to their individual needs, In every instance
a temporary removal is found to I monk
better in its nation than the heroic measures
of brusquenoes at home, sometimes tried by
relatives. Those, like the bucketfuls of mild
water dashed over a hysterical woman by
fbe old•thne country practice, have boon
Armes AN» RICE,—Peel end core a
dozen nice apples ; make a syrup of a oup
of sugar ttntl a cup of water and boil them
gently in it until they can Inc pierced with
a straw, Boll a cup of rico in two cults of
water far ten minutes, seasoning it with a
little salt, Now pony off the water and
turn in two cups of milk. Arrange the
apples in an earthen dish and as soon as the
rioe is done anti has absorbed all tate milk
pour it around the apples. It should 811
the insteretices about them, but should not
011 the cores. Into those hollows put a
little sugar and preserved cherry. Spread
arab apple jelly over and serve the pudding
with a soft custard,
Half armour was worn in the Cent:Mon d
armies until the preemie century. In ex.
°optional caeca body armour is still wenn
by special soldiers,
Tailors and shoemakers, who not only
live in a foul atmosphere, but also sit all
day in smolt a cramped position that respir•
Mine and digestion are interfered with, as
well as drapers, wool and cotton workers,
cutlers, filen-takers and printers are liable to
ph tines.
Railroading and other occupations, re-
quiring one to be more or loss constantly on
the road, inc extra hazardous, not so mull
because of the accidents to which one is ex-
posed, as because of the continued jarring,
the superheated and fottl air in the ear ant
severe drafts every time a door or wind)
is opened, and the flue dust which settles
not only in the air passages, but almost
completely ologs up the pores of the skht,
throwing extra work on the kidneys and
giving rise to the so-called "railroad kid-
ney," For this reason, as well as for the
broken sleep and irregular meals, commer-
cial travelers are undesirable life insurance
risks,
To be a oapibelist, whether busy or idle,
is somewhat risky; for, besides being a tar•
get for dynamite bomb•throwers, if busy,
the physical wear and tear and the mental
strain and anxiety of s eoulations will soon
shatter both your mind and body, consign.
ing you either to the toad -house or a pre-
mature grave ; and, if idle, dissipation or
ennui are apt to finish you early.
On the subject of political exeitetnsnt we
oats not do better than to quote an odibortal
in the Medical Free Prase hurl Circular of
June 22, 1802:
' The aecitontent associated with an
elevation possesses a distinctly medical in.
rarest, Apart from the surgical injuries
and sections of outaneons oontinuitycaused
by the impact of brickbats and missiles of
a similar description, to be treated sec.,
are the excitement and the exhausting
physical exertions which canvassing and
electioneering entail upon the candidate and
his chief agents dotertniue a tangible pro•
portion of Lrealc•dowets, It Inas often been
noticed that the election is barely odor
before a contain number of oho candidates
collapse and are forted to retire from active
p,litroal 10e. Indeed, one is surprised that
silo assurance companies do nob insert Into
the conditions of the grant of a polio),
a saving clause relieving then from all
responsibility during the electoral period.
Given a stature age and a sturdy determina-
tion to ettcceed, the position of a parlia-
mentary candidate certainly falls within
the category of dangeroue occupations, The
wonder, indeed, is that a larger number tin
not give way under the strain, but the
effoets can not be measured by the immedi-
ate mortality. The moment seems oppor.
tune to advocate the value of blood-Ietbimg
in heart failure. Such an operation, carried
out on a public platform with promptitude
and dispatch on a syncopal chairman or
lecturer, u ould be enough to emus a popu-
Mr reputation for tlo operator, especially
if by good luck the victim survived the
ordeal,"
Several defeated Presidential candidates
have lain down and died shortly after their
defeat, and Generals Garfield and Arthur
might have been alive today had they loft
politics alone.
From what we have said it follows that If
you would enjoy a happy life, as wall se a
long one, and be prepared to get to a Better
puma when your time comes, practioo not,
but rather preach ; spend not your days in
houses built by man, bob under God's fair
sky ; seep not wealth, for " it is easier fax
a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter the Kingdon
of Heaven ;" keep the Ten Commandments,
and toad and hoed daily the divine injtmo-
tion : ' ^Take no thought for your Ifo, what
fo shall cat, m' what; ye shall drink; nor yet
or your body, what ye shall put on."
Prussia has a treasury deficit of nearly
$1.4,000,000.
SMUGGLERS AND POAOHBnS,
Tho Coal eo httntlists' name WIN hit'aslone or
that Revenue Laws,
When Na olettn the Groat oala-tlated the
chances of the Russian otunpaign, the Duke
of Otranto adt•ised hint to remember that
"the attempts at universal domhi 1111 have
always provoked universal war," and it is
aquttily true that legislation in favor of
olass•privilegos has never failed to beget an
increase of lawlessness.
The fearful heresy laws of the sixteenth
century did not provost the outbreak of
schisms In the heart of Europe, tool the
traditions of Robin Hood suggest the prole -
ability that even in the zenith period of feu-
dalism the 13riefsh bayous did not norm the
good things of life all to tltetnselves. The
system of espionage and olliuial supervis.
ion of modem Resale is unrivaled for thor•
oughness ns wall es for ingenuity, yon the
traffic in that most obnoxious of all contra.
bands, called seditious literates, is carried
on in the very capital of the empire, and
the favorite game prcesrvcs of the Czar are
subject to the inroads of poachers. Lt the
grout forest of Byalistook herds of deer, elk
and urea cattle are watoheti by a standing
army of game -keepers, yet a recent investi•
gation revealed
TILE tltMAAKARLE FACT
MOIL venison to the value of 8,000 rubles is
stolon from that stronghold of sporting
privileges every year. The urns herd rep•
resent the last survivors of a species of
wild cattle ones rebounding in all the forests
of Northern Europe, and being considered
special pets of the Romitnoff dynasty, were
supposed to be as safe as the saddle horses
in the stablee of CzarsltoSelo, till accident An engallanvsea proverb says that wont.
suggested a suspicion that the number• of an and a clog are a bother about 0 ship. The
the imperial protegee was decreasingmore woman in this story wasn't, as her bit•
rapidly than that of the Moscow Hs maws. chested, hronzed young husband, Capt, 1V.
A committee of inquiry was then ordered to D. Lent of the bluenose schooner Mineola,
collect the mailable evidence and reported might have told anybody who asked hint,
that from a total of 2350 head in 1800 the Mrs. Lent landed in Brooklyn the other
urns colony had dwindled to 900 or so in clay from the'Amerioan clipper ship S. D.
1S92, for mamas nob altogether unoonneot- Carleton in her wrapper, with a Bib'e m
ed with the circumstance that in the mar- her hand. That was all she saved frmn the
kets of the neighboring towns urns meat Mineola, which was abandoned in a gale 180
had foe years been sold under the thinly mites southwest of Bermuda on the morn -
disguising synonym of "black beef." The ing ofJan. 0.
Government foresters, confronted with the The Mineola was a little three master,
risk of a salt -beef diet in the Siberian and was heavily loaded with hard pine
mines, at first talked about the contagion lumber when she sailed from Fernandina for
of a cattle plague, but were dually forced Demerara on Dec, 28, The ship's company
to plead the difficulty of watching a foveae consisted of Capt, Lent, Mrs. Lent, who has
of 250 square versos In dark winter nights, followed the sea since her marriage to the
when the horrors of an Arctic frost are skipper two years avo, and five sailors.
aggravated by snow tornadoes. On Den, 3 t, when the Mineola was north-
I3ut in the genial climate of Sardinia the west of Bermuda, a gale sprang up out of
Italian Government has had the same had the northwest. It increased in fury during
luck with a herd of wild sheep (the mullion the night, and at dawn aha little schnottor,
species) whose survival in the highlands of under close -reefed lower sail, was plunging
the sunny isle they had trted to insure by a down the wind almost at steamship speed,
code of rather truculent game lama. The Her timbers, new as they were, couldn't
interesting relatives of our Western big- stand' the racketing, and she was leaking et
horns are on the point of becoming extinct, oho rate ,of 1,000 strokes an hour on the
and the sheep rot theory being oub of the morning. of Jan. 1.
question, it fs not improbable that the Pumpng did not perceptibly relieve her.
Sardinian provision dealers have been carry The water got high in the cabin, forenastle,
ing on a moonlight traffic in black mutton. and galley, and destroyed all the provisions.
The game -keepers of the Austrian Ent- It rose so quickly that the skipper's wife
pito are trained iu special Poesf•srhVire had time nttly to run up the companion way
(" colleges of forestry ") and aro assisted by with nothing on save a wrapper. She didn't
rangers who know every fox -tail of the forget her Bible, which she kept under her
neighboriue mountains; yet ohanois neat pillow.
can alway-e be 'bought under discreet mem She was helped up on oho top of the
donymes, null nvorvigilance every now and afterdeck house, and there site stayed for
then results in the mysterious lis• three days and nights reading her book tad
appearance of a zealous /orreeer. encouraging her husband and the men at
The poachers of the Tyrol could give our the pumps.
moonshtners points on the art of night Capt. Lent took the helm himself, and
travel, but can not nlwaya avoid a daylight the sailors woraotl the pumps until their
campaign and the risk of having to run el a hands were blistered and thele arms were
gaundat of the best long-range marksmen in sora
Christenefom. The traveler Gerstecker re• The Captain was forty hours at the wheel
laces an episode of the Passeyer 7.'ha1, in without a wink of sleep and not a bit eo eat.
the wild highlands of the Central Alps, A cask of water, nouteo-het brackish, had
where acheanois-poeoher was been sieved, and this sustained all hands for
three days,
The Captain hoped that he might be able
to gain on the leak and take his vessel unto
some convenient port nn the way to Deme-
rara. 'Three clays' almost inoessant'pump-
ing told at last, and in oho afternoon of
Tan 4, the pumps showed faun feet of water. Few people in the world have a more
Bet the men were utterly played out then, garcons sleeping coltish than the President
and could not keep up with the leak. of the Froueh Republic, le is a splendid'
All this time the Captain's wife was stand. structure of carved ebony, and stands in
ing, sitting, or lying on oho afber house the cents of the bed-oltamber in his palace
keeping tt lookout for a sail, at oho Elyaee.
The wind was still blowing a gale, vary-
ing from northwest to southwest, and the
water-logged schooner, with onlya shred of
canvas—the foresail, double reefed -was
going sluggishly before it. She labored
heavily and .shipped lots of water forward.
Although it was far below the latitude of
frost, there was a chill in the northwest
wind, and Mrs. 'Lent suffered from the
showers of spray that came aboard and
kept her drenched.
The men, from sheer exhaustion, gave up
work at the pumps on the night of Jau, 4.
and the water rose again. But the sea and
wind went down satnewl tit, The Victoria Cross ]las been awarded to
Before dawn Mee. Lent, who had been870solddersmid thirtyninesailors, ieeluding
sleeping, awoke std said that; their trouble officers, surgeons, and one clergyman. The
would soon be over, as she had seen a ship youngest recipient of this much-ooveted
in a dream sailing toward thein, and that de oration was Drummer Magner, 0lad of
by daylight the ship would be in sight. 'glut fourteen, who was the first to enter Magdala
said the ship would come from the south, in oho Abyssinian War.
and at dawn she got up on her knees and
peered southward,
Sure enough, so the Captain and all the
melt say, there was a sail dor off, Tho hull
WAS soon in view, and it soon became plain
that the ship's lookout had seen the
schooner's aigual of distress.
The boats of the schooner had been
smashed when the crow were engaged in the The English walnut is said to be tate most
perilous work of jettisoning the lumber to profitable of all uub•bsaring trees. When
lighten ship, and when the S. D. Carleton in fall boating they will yield about 900
hove to windward of the Mitieola, Capt. pounds of nuts to the trod The nuts sell on
Amesbury saw that he would have to send average at above 41. per pound. If only
down a boat to her. The transfer wag, not twentysevea trees are planters on an ante,
perilous, for the sea had moderated a good the income would be about o0 35 per alga.
class. t1lrs. Lent was ton wealt to standard
In the Roman Statue there were n
she was 111ted over the lows in silo sf alto b one
1ltneola moo ahs lifeboat• y g time, professional assassins who would kill
Ca a Amesbur ave Mrs. Lent some of a man for ton give bion time od saytheyI were per -
hie K butted to ire him time to m prayer ;
Iris own underclothes, which she made over but if required expressly to kill him with•
to fit herseh'. A11 hails were treatol so
out any nobioe, the strain on chair son -
the
that ahoy worn still talking about soieuoo was molt tkab they required double
the lcinrloss of Capt. Amesbury yesterday. the money.
Two hours after the soheoner was aban•
dorsad there was a gale from the northwest, Playmnking would appear to be ah ex -
in which the Minoola was partially dismast, treacly profitable branch of American in.
ed. An ocean tote, oeuteing of Bermuda for snotty if an author has once euceneded at it.
hapless craft, piclled her up and towed her
Some half•clozmt American playwrights
tato haven two days ago, Only her maim
easily average 15,000 0 year, and Bronson
mast, broker. off at the (heed. was standing.Howard, who stands At the top of the pro -
mast,
All other spars and rigging were floating feesion, has for some years past made nearly
alongside. Tito Minoola was owned by J throe tunas that amount,
W. Smith, of St. John, N. B, There is notating that more intensely de-
lights her illajnsty than to have her tiny
In the United Status there aro forty-four grandchildren about her, to watch the at
people in every hundred who aro engaged in thole childish games, and to personally
agriculture), as compared with fifty-six in superintend all these little details of aims.
Canada, seven in England, sixteen in Ger- cry management whielt aro nous oho less
many, and forbyeightnt France. dear fn her heart hoonus0 fano hasmatle suer
A CAnAatat. PODDING SAm O t,—•Boil a cup the ruler of an empire,
of engtr with a our; of water for son min- ed, now copying p1�aper has been introduo•
Mee adding at the bogie nit three cloves •d, It is necessity
in stash a manner abet
and some chips of lemon peels When this thorn is no ing anhy to moistof the menu.
heaboiled for that length of time emit back, serape tasting bytoohste of the Mot is
Now stir own tablospootfuls of sugar in a inrtpt, it isof de q esec tetsagthe shoots
frying pain with ono teaspnontul of water in a arsttfen of cmannerneut snit, sal once
near St, &emote e, M the department of until a turns a dark brown, Parr the syrup reedyroe u this manner the shoot is always
Ilantespyrmioes,cal1s,lmt".rhrneo'clock!" over this caramel very gralna)lysnail the reedy use. Anoeho,t,oropohents art
fifteen minutes too sons, but ,with a din- ttv0 Aro thoroughly mixed. This sauce has of rt; chloride of ied magnesium, or nn mos is a so
tinotnesa that awekenotf hundreds of re. as pungent a flavor as wino sauce without path m nalehied chloride of lime, is also
sponsor and roused a hornets' swarm of its deleterious effects, recommended.
F. 10, 1893.
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wrathful non•vom nrlseionod ollluot•a, augt'y
diaeussioue failed to reveal the canoe of the
untimely vooiferations, and a few minutes
later a gang ot shadowy forme passed the
lino within a few steps of a bewildered
recruit who had Dome to the conclusion that
ill a world of mystifying eontl•adletrorte, ail•
anus was, on the whole, the bast policy.
In the neighborhood of Gibraltar a lively
trade in Britleh merchandise is going on by
land and sem in apito of all preoautiets, os
peaially northwest of tlto harbor, whore the
rook coast favors the inseams of the little
sailbrntts engaged in the Irrepressible traffic,
Larger voosela 01411 be searched upon their
arrival at the Spanish ports, but out at sea
they can not be prevented froth watching
their chance for dropping little paolingos
wrapped up in oilcloth andnouyed by means
of cork strips. At peep of dawn these final•
era aro picked up by fishing amaoko, pro.
vides with " tips,' that enable them to get
ahead of the revenue cruisers—trot to meta
Won the wholesale tranaantione favored by
an occasional sea fog.
But the largest trade in onntrabaud is that
of the Upper Nilo, where whole caravans of
stungglera run the blockade of oho Egyptian
teon tier guards in broad daylight. The error•
mous extant of the thinly populated border
defies all vigilance, and the British Consul
at Khartomn estinatee that the number of
slaves smuggled morose the Soudan border
will exoee.l 13,000 n year,
DREAMT A SHIP WAS COMING.
The Skipper's Wire Item lirr Rlblc anti
Kept up the lien's Marts!
TRACKED MOH II/LL TO HILL,
till his pursuers fell in with a large hunting
patty who peed to join them in the inter-
est of law and order. Thus re enforoed,
the posse advanced in a wide semicircle and
managed to drive tate outlaw toward a
mountain -side flanked with a range of pre•
olpitous cliffs, whore death at the bottom
of a 1,000 -foot abyss seemed the only alter-
native of surrender• slut when they ap•
preached the brink of the beetling rocks a
a shot rang out from the depth of that very
abyss, and the pursuers hurried down
again expecting to find the body of the
poaottor who seemed to have evaded oaptut'e
y a suicidal leap front the cliffs. They
tound his rifle, but Opt a trace of its owner,
whose whereabouts remained a mystery till
a more thorough search of the summit re•
giou revealed the ruse of the wily fugitive.
When Vhe•posso began to olose in upon him
he had clambered down the roclea to the
very edge of the abyss, but instead of a
salla tnorlale had tried the desperate expe-
dient of Drawling through a tangle of vvack•
older (a sort of juniper throb), which tem.
porarily screened him from view. Then,
after cooking his rifle, he had deliberately
dropped it into the chasm below, where it
exploded by the shook of the fall Its
proprietor, in the meanwhile. bad grasped
a branch of the protecting shrub and dan-
gled between heaven and earth till his
pnteners hurried bask, thus giving him a
chance to emerge from his hiding place
and ()onetime his flight in the opposite
direction.
On the Italian border these poachers re-
cruit the ranks of the daring smugglers
who carry ligltwinns from the mountain
stills to the Piedmont, and silk and velvet
into the dominions of lh•anois Joseph, They
travel by night, passing the daylight hours
in thickets or in cabins with bidden cellar
vaults, where oouaidotmblo deposits of con.
trabend have now and then been discovered
by the sleuth hounds of the law, but hardly
ever by the treachery of a contrehandist,
A. similar traffic is carried on in the
Pyrenees, where the sympathy of the popu-
lation, with rare exceptions, favor the cause
of the outlaws. With a view of utilizing
the enormous surplus of its standing army,
the French Gove"anent put several regi•
ments of regulars under the orders of the
Revenue Department, but, as a rule, that
plan seems to have defeated its main par.
pose. "As a preparatory school for the
training of our light infantry, says the re-
port of tate Commissioner, Msgnault, " the
system is highly commendable; but its
practical result has been an Met -ease of near-
ly 400 per cent in the former average of
smuggled merchandise." To their encounter
with the wily outlaws of the Sierra the in
competence of the French reoureia was, in.
deed, apt io boaome pitifully evident,
On one occasion a troop of fortyysmugglers
passed the cordon of pickets withouta shot
tired, by sheer dint of cunning a id
t superior
of
shook. In order to less tho vigilance of the
sentries it had been made a rule that the
hours anti half hours of the night must be
callers out by the Corporal of each bivouac
guard and repeater. from picket to pioltet all
along the line, In the etnall hours of tt ape.
cially dark night
Tun 5ENTnrlts
BRIEF AND INTEaESTING.
The Queen has not opened Parliament
since 185(1.
Soma natnrulisle sert at h
swallow 15111 layout' 0,as0.)0 flb11ies ovaary dayealthy,
The English Rrlcway Tempetatee Union,
termed in 1881, too now a membershipof
L
15,000,
ibrarians aosort that more than 3qerr
cont. of the literature of England omtslatsof'
&thou•
Thirtyeovop thousand women are em-
pioperoyotaltors, in the United States as telegraph
Tho richest Spnnitrd is the Duke of
?tfedlua•Ctefi, it lad of fourteen, who is
worth 15,000,000.
It may interest rims treaders to know that
Mr, Ruskin permits no interference with
his own punctuaeiet.
Madame Patti has 'never sung in the
States, since she became famous, for less
than $5,000 profit a night,
Eleven Turkish workmen have been senb
by a Constantinople firm to build a Turkish
village at the World's Fair.
Buffalo 1301 (Colonel Cody) intends to give
a representation of a prairie fire and a cy-
clone aG the Chicago Exhibition,
Tho Japanese Government has provided
for a visit of 2,000 of its middle-class citi-
zens to the fair at Chicago this year.
The Emperor of China recently gave an
order to a firm in Pekin for the supply of
200 pairs of boots for itis own personal
use.
Worth, the great milliner of Paris, ha
never received a sin,l° order from her
Britannia Majesty, Worth is an English-
man by birth.
The Government Labour Bnremeestabltsh-
ecl at Sydney has proved a success. The
number of unemployed there has diminished
from 15,000 to 3,000.
livery Engliehnuw is supposed to know
the English. law ; but since King John
signed Magna Charts some 20,000 public
statutes have been passed,
Slaves are just now very dear in Arabia.
100 is paid for able bodied omen from 25 to
38 years old, and 1550 for likely young
women from 14 to 20 years old,
The Prince of Wales receives $000,000 a
year, and by the very lowest computation
he it oompellad by the demands on his
purse, whielt are inseparable from his posi-
tion, to spend nearly $1,000,000 a year.
In Madagascar a dtssatisfietl husband has
only to give his wife a piece of money, and
say : •' Madame, I thank you," and accord-
ing to the laws of Madagascar, he is divorc-
ed straight away.
The turkey is a native of North America,
It is said to have been introduced into
lamellate!, or reared in a domestic state, in
the reign of Henry VIII.
It is said that the latest fad of his Majesty
the German Emperor is the possession of a
piano, the 0050 of whielt is entirely over-
laid with plates of stag-horn.
It is steal that Sweden is losing ground in
the world's markets as a producer of iron,
owing to the improved methods which have
been adopted elsewhere of late years.
A farm of 000 acres in Hampshire, ling.,
with fine buildings attached, let at only be.
an acro, has lust been vacated by a farmer,
who declared he could not make ie pay, even
at such a low rontal,
The German Emperor hes directed that a
portrait of his Empress shall be hung up in
every harrack•room throughout the empire,
so that sentinels may recognise her befit-
tingly,
The telephone eerviee in London is, per.
haps, the worst in the world, Tho number
of subscriber's in London is only obout 0,-
000, whilst in Berlin, a city of about one.
fourth the size, tire number is 18,000.
Germany has some very rich men, and in
the province of Sicilia alone there are six
groat bobles worth more than $25,000,000
each. Otte of these is the Primo Plass,
whose son married Mies Cornwallis West,
some time ago.
The latest gossip aboub the British
Premier, ie that he thinks of having especial
telephone laid on to Downing -street, so that
he can hear the Home Rule debates—and,
indeed, all the proceedings of Parliament—
without the excitement' and fatigue of the
Chamber.
A oab•sltelter can be successfully placed
on any cab -rank with it standing for from
twelve to fifteen cabs at it capital cost of
£200.. About forty of these excellent lit.
tie caravanserais are now erected in various
parts of Loudon, and are used daily by over
8,000 cabmen,, "