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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1888-7-20, Page 6kCaern ? a as nnitiar 00.10 +vanoanrsarda aa� wtatr�v tt er+ftnp nen c a3OUSEHOLD. The Rome. If called upon to give the most significant monosyllable incur language, it is not doullted but that by unanimous vole° it would be Home, Its mention invariably *term in the mind the old homestead, bo it a cottage in a i•illoge etreot, or a ntaneion in the midst of ample grounds and costly environments. Who dens no; revere the home of his childhood, and all the *aeon') things that clustered about the family roof "in the days of auld lane spec," even to thepieturee on the well, the old arm choir and the great overgrown family bible thus rested with folded covers in are allotted place. There, too, was the little flower garden, with its neatly kept beds of merrigolds, pinks, pansies aha bachelor butrona, with hese and there A flowering rose bush then defied the winter mom:, We mein to see them now, as we saw them years arc, and to realize more than ever that we shall never cease to love the picture, for it steals upon the mem. cry with the freshness of Spring days hat renew the verdure of the fields tad 1111 the world with rejoicing, "Be it ever so humble there's no place like home" --no place that in the Bame de- gree rewards the care that is bestowed upan it, for the home is the nursery of the noble and great among the ranee of ,men, We cannot do too much for our homes. Every well chosen ornament within doors and every shrub or flower that lends its beauty to the garden or the lawn, is an educator and sheds upon the whole household a refining influence which is felt in all the years to come. Who has not read " Picciola," and shared with the unfortunate captive his solicitude, for the companionship of the humble little plant that pushed as way above the rocky pavement of his prison yard, and who has not felt at comeP ert' od of kis life lif a like in. tereat in some frail charge committed to his care and upon whose well befog some dear hope wan entertained ? We have known parsimonious men in esti. mating the cost of living to reckon the interest on the money value of the family homestead, as if this sacred spot was capable of being figured out in dollars and cents. Ae well might a sum be set upon a wite-a devotion or the love of children. There has been erected in the park of a n dmeriorn city a statue of Howard Paine. Other statutes have been erected there in boner of men of greater renown, but of none whose single achievement has found such affection- ate rooting in the bosoms of the young. To the little ones that gather about it, all that need to be told them is that this is the image of the man who wrote the song of "Home, Sweet Home." It is because the home is always sacred, and forma an ineffaceable picture in the mind, that we urge its sanctification by every available means. Nothing which adds to its comfort in a material sense, or to its adornment in a purely mabhetio relation, should be neglected. A single iaexpeneive but graceful picture in the living room, a stand of hardy flowers in a window are not without their educational as well as inspita- tionaI value. Stich too are the harbingers of health, the warders of disease and often- times the forerunners of refinements whioh spiritualize the hamblest lives andopen the way to higher levels of thought and action. There is much truth i the homely aphor- ism, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Children should be provided with the means of amusing thamsolvea in suitable ways, and almost any innocent way is suitable. You cannot begin thio too early, nor 0000i000 it too late, Playing cards are often objected to us implements of gambling, but so are wheat and flour and homes, and even men in tests of endurance sometimes coarse and brutalizing. tut aaide from cards there aro various indoor amusements to which no reasonable objec- tion eau be made. By all means encourage seasonable outdoor exeroites, and do not he alarmed a' a little boieteroutnese. A hearty ringing lauen indicates a healthy condition. You will never hear it from the pale and sickly offspring of Dame Propriety who stands ready to check the least naturalness in her little old men and women. There is indeed nothing on earth so near heaven as a little child who has been eufli.rtd to re- tain its simplicity and naturalness. Pet an. imals are a great delight to the young. The care bestowed upon then is never without its reward,as the oft told tales of their filet, ity and inetiact that seems akin to reason - amply testify, Only the violoue or natur- ally cruel would indulge in their abuse, ane to suoh, their companionship should bd denied. In a word, to the inmates of whatever age or station, the horns should be made the dearest, sweeteet place on earth. It is indeed the shield of honor and the sanctuary of love. Think not that Anything which adds to its enjoyment is wasted. No investment yields such precious returns, since neither the love and gratitude of the young, nor the peace and contentment of the old, are cam able of being estimated by the eordid values that obtain in the market plasma. "Bow beautiful is home 1 The wanderer seen, Returning from afar, the village spire, And the ancestral roof, whose aged trees Shelter perchance, wife,mother, child and sire, Not The mpty bauble, vainly called Iich foolS Lencwn ; They ate eentent to light the evening are, To Least on simple cheer, and lay them down In joyous rest, to dream, u °fearing fortune's frown." Collected Recipes. CRteps,-One oup of melamine, one and one•half teaspoonful of saleratus; emooth all lumps out of this soda, then beat with the molasses until all of a foam; now add one. half teacupful of melted lard or butter, one. half teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of ginger and one cup of sifted flour, beat well together; then add one cup of sour milk (buttermilk is better if obtainable) and more flour until it is very hard, roll out as thin as possible and out, and tinen bake in a quick oven until brown. DELP:none CHOCOLATE CAKE, -Ono cup white sugar, one-half cup of butter, two pups of flour, one•half oup of sweet milk. Whitee of three eggo beaten to a froth, one-half tea- spoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of Dream tartar ; whites of eggs added last. Bake in two long tins, with fillings between and on top. billing, -Three-fourths cup of grated oho. calate, one cep of white sugar, yolks of three e s tableap o o n gt3 c two fele of sweet milk; mix in a basin and set in hot water to:mold (while cake is {taking), stir often, flavor with vanilla, let cool until think enough to spread good. CREAM Pte. -On and one-half oupe pow. dared auger, two eggs, pleas butter awe of a walnut, one oup sweet milk, two teaspoons cream tartar, one teaspoon salivates, three cups sifted flour. Cream, butter and sugar ; add the oggoand boat thoroughly, Put in the milk except two largo epoontuls, and stir in bur, in which you have sifted the cream . tartar. Dissolve the soda in the rest of the 1 milk and add the last thing, Bake in two b la�no, deep, round tine. When wanted, g split one of the oaken and Moyer the lower t half with Sloes of banana epriukled with powdered sugar, Have tomo whippedoream prepared ao for shortcake, and spread a few epoonfula over the fruit, On this place the other portion of the mica, which must be oversee with banana and auger; pour the remainder of the creast over the top and aides, and servo immediately. Use n aflver knife to elite the basauae. Tbie reoipo Milken two pies, oe the ornate are thick enough to meat, and will keep for several days if not filled, MOCK CREAM PIE. -Bake two ernes on one plate by putting flour between, eo that they will reparate wham done; you can keep theee several days. When you want a pie make a pint of meek cream, with one pint of milk, one egg, two tablespoonfuls of ecru starch, a little sats, ]amen or nutmeg for spice, Cook well. When told all the°rusts just before you eel ve it. Lay rho top piece on over the under evenly, as you will fled it elmoet irepceeihle to mono it after it i8 filled, MEI.IS-A's Si nlrrcAKR,-One quart of pre! pared flour, halt a cupful of cutter, one even teaspoonful of salt, two cups of milk. Sift the salt with the flour, °hop fn the but- ter until you have yellow duet, wet with the milk and roll out with. as little haadling as possible hell en inch thick, Bake inbreed, shallow pate well greased, When done out into squares, split and butter while hot and send at Duce to the table. The Work Basket. Loons FOR Tootle,—Serviceable loops may bemade by taking cotton tape half aniuoh lu width, double it, turn in the end and sew over and over, or run it all around ; the loop ebould be about two Euchre and a half lone, and the ends should be reourely stitch- ed to the uuder side of the top hem of the towel. A Now TABLE $PRBAn,- A large spread recently executed was of unbleached Canton flannel, used with the twilled side upper. tomb, The design was a rayed olematia, leaves and tendrils, and th 't • em a stitch employed was buttonhole ' P Y a stitch, his stitch h e , T telt ache n discovered to be vary useful in covering large surfaces, the stitches being placed only aloes enough together to preserve the color of the embroidery against the ground, Flax thread is alae recommended for this work. The ordinary rule by which the new buttonhole stitch is worked is titan the die. tanoe between them must very neatly equal the depth of the stitches, DOBTERS.-Pieces of cheese cloth make the very best of dusters. Hem the edges and have a large supply. More e°On0n11001 sod just as useful dusters may he made of old soft print ; pieces torn into equals shape and hemmed ; then they will not get mislaid and torn, GLOVES. -The Brat rip in a glove should be mended atone, using a very fine needle and sewing silk for this purpose. A tear is not so easily repaired. First work around the edges in button hole stitch, then draw these stitches together in the centre, working over and over. 1f this es done neatly the , teem will hardly be noticed, a TRE THIRST FOR GOLD.; I2nrmr,n0t3'a A'emulfar Promote 'Mete, `, Values Wealth Above ZOapn,Inesa. I can see 9. lovely valley where Nature bad gathered into her lap e11 her wealth of scenery and sell ; all her rivers of jewels and purple-eiad mountains, where the castlre of the noblra above and the homesteads of the peasants below and abroad presided over'1 peace at d plenty amid eternal Spring. One day while digging a ditch a lump of gold was turned up ; purauing the search, a mine was revealed. The news of the dfa- eovery overran the valley like an epidemic. Reale and poor were soon employed dlgging up the soil, Teo noble allowed his castle to fall into ruin and hie park to run into a wilderness. The peasant left his fallow to dig in the mountain aide. Rivera ran dry, for the waters were diverted into flames to wash the golden dirt. Woods were out down to furnish sheds to aupport the undermined earth. The fields were mottled with great molehills and holes, and the speckled face of THE BRUSSELS PAST. HEALTH. CAUSES OF SUDDEN DEATH. 111 la Usually hue to tat/cease or tele ilea Greet Vemel0 ar Brain. \Yliy the audden 000urrcuco of de should be deemed an evil of great megnit is a my0tery, The oppoeire—the long•o timed sfoknoss, ending in complete exile Sou and gradual wearing away of eve energy—seems mach rather to be dopier end the fever of the inlay implored in t way of promotion. The different methods by whioh /ifs m be auddenly brought to a close may coca our attention for a few momenta, petite with profit—for if it bo no great dieadv tage for one to die auddenly ; it may decidedly of advantage to regulate to eo degree the age at which this may bo p milted to take place. Life begins in the heart and its last sig are to bo observed in that organ. That to say, the visible, the tangible signs life to the eye or to the senses generally evinced by some movement's or appearat about the heart. In order that the heart shall continue action many conditions must be fulfi le The nervous supply meet be in good ord its blood must be furnished in a regular a systematic manner, its valves must op and shut with a fair degree of oompleti and certainty, Alla its muscular we must preserve their healthy condition. Co sidering the mauy oiroumstanoes that ne interfere with the proper working of t great farce -pump it is really surprising th there should be so little disease affecting and bringing life to a sudden close. Spa is lacking to give a complete sketth of conequences of valvular disease of t hoot, but ane result must be pointed ou The heart having more work to do St normally grows -hypertrophies -in ori to keep u with lt. So len as ill 0 C grow l' gg increases mproportion to the work there th o to do it is all right, but when the work b coulee too great and the blood aocumulat until the heart muscle stretches and beoom thinner, then dilatation has taken pia and a condition of great danger threaten A Iittle uuuaual exertion sends an extr amount of blood to the thinned and we ened heart, whioh becomes suddenly par It zed and sudden death results. DISEASE OF THE GREAT VESSELS. But sadden deaths in diseases of tate hero are usually due to something different fro the valvular diseases jet0 noticed. In ref die and advanced life the heart and arteri are subjected to a condition of degeneratio in whioh the valves °hrink and the bloo tubes become rigid, while there is a depos of chalky material which makes them ve brittle. The varves between the loft veutr ale of the heart and the entrance of tit aorta -tile first and greatest artery-ar 1' it the brain, life may be prolonged for years, but rho efleate ep0n the powers of voluntary movement and upon the intellect tore very sure to be deohledly deleterious, Sudden death may net result, but the condition of paralysis, and perbaps of impaired mind drat is Apt to bo left behind, is after some- thing more to be deplored than would nth have been the most sudden of fatal ee• tide sults. on- ua• ed he ay PY pe AD• be oL'DDEI+I.v' FATAL PN1100400110. Pneumonia may proem suddenly fatal, but this le in a roundabout way. lu thisdioeaee the blood undergoes a curious change, be. coming much nano disposed to coagulate (clot) than in health. Iteontstitnes happens that from debility the hearb is unable to drive the vital fluid through the lungs with 100 uanal farce and velocity. The easily coagulated blood, moving lazily through the mo groat eavitieu of the heart, finds time and opportunity to form a Glob, which fills the great artery going to the lungs, The nese tie guano of this is, no blood goes to the lunge ie to be eubmitted to the action of the air - 'of breathing is ueoleee-and the sufferer per - ere ishas us if shut up in an apurtut0ub from ccs whioh the air bas been exhausted, Aooi• dents of this kind are very rare but aro not its alway�e fatal when they ocour, The " heart a, clog may be but small and fill but one of er, the arteries going to the lunge, The other lid lung being free to perform its duty, the en clot deposited le taken up by absorption on after a rime, and ell is again well, But if lie , the great artery should become clogged n• completely at some point before it divideo ay into one each for the right and left lung, &til thenvery death must nea°saarily be sudden and it There is another way in which pneumonia °e may prove maidenly fatal. This is by pare the lysis of the heart. When a large peeper - tion of a lung is filled with the product(' of O iaflemmation it is about the contiltenm of en liver substance. The blood finds dillleulty ar in finding its way through thitoousolidated- atruot 'hick tiro ii to eo different r front the th h • spongy,�normaI [ n u u substance. Under ng e e• thane circumstances, if the blood is present es fn the body in large amount, and is cont es around the circulation with considerable ce force, there is, occasionally, a condition of danger developed from an accumulation of e an overplua in the right side of the heart, ak• which oannotbe sent through the lungs to a- the left side fast enough, because of the in- tense oongestion of the lungs. This denser lof paralysis front overdistension is ono that must be continually guarded againstiu the treatment of this most formidable ells rt ease. it is here that the nee of alcohol be- e°omen of such surpaesiug value. 00 A CONSUMPTIVE 000DE10 PUPIL n Consumption of the lenge sometimes d'oomes to a very sudden and unexpeoted ter - it urination fn the following manner. Rather ver late in the dieaase the upper portions of i- both lenge are occupied by a dense deposit e of tubercle, together with inflammatory pro - e ducts that render the organs ueelees for •!breathing purposee for one-third or one-half t their extout. The extent of lung that is. r still available for breathing beoemes more a and more Limited with each day's deposit of 'tuberole. If now the cavity of rho pleura • (pleura sae), in whioh the lung lies, and ex. e panda, and contracts in the movements of o breathing, should become connected with a n cavity in the diseased lung, so that air oar 'penetrate and fill the pleural sae, then, of o' course, all movements of expansion or ecu f traction of that lung must cease, for there e fs uo room left for the movements of breath- e ing. The opposite lung being already half , uselese, or even more disable(], the auflcrer e auddenly finds himself deprived of moat of t his breathing space, and must perish within s a very short time, dying actually and liter. e Illy of suffocation, e. There are one or two rare and unusual f modes by which valvular disease of the r. heart may prove suddenly fatal. Ono of these is the formation of the °lot or ooncre. tion from the blood upon one of the valves ; i this being washed away into the °iroulation, travels along in the blood current, until lit reaches a plane too narrow for it to pass, ,where it lodges. This plug -called an embolus -shute off all blood from the parts beyond, and, ff there to no other way for the circulation to reach that region it becomes et rued and decomposes -1n the brain it soften. Softening is the common result of embolism of an artery in the brain; but, if it should bo a largo vowel that hen become plugged and the parts thus cut off from nourishment of great importation, death , may result almost instantly. Such casae are rare; still, they have been known to ocour. 111/ART RUPTURE, t In fatty degeneration of the heart, or as n result of chronic inflammation of the muscle lar• substance of the organ, the heart tray rupture -actually " breaking," not from any sentimental affection of the emotions, but from some sudden and violent excitement of the feelntgs or a violent exertion of the mus- cular system, I There are authentic instances of sudden death occurring fn eoneequence of powerful mental emotions. The mechanism of these seems w be a rapid dilatation of the b.00d vessels, °specielly theme of the abdominal cavity, and a flow of blood away from the bruin, producing a bloodlees condition of the brain like that which is present during fainting. It is the same condition present in surgical " shook" when the latter io not due to hemorrhage. In conclusion Sudden death is due usually to acme die. ease of the heart, great vessels or brain. Itis not so common art ie generally suppos. ed, It is not to be feared so muoh en long and lingering illness, It is not generally preventable. err eepeolally apt to become shrunken and un able to keep the blood in the artery after i had boon sett there by the commotion 1 the heart. ddouoe, more or leas of it drop back foto the heart as soon as the latter re lames after its contraction. The blood in stead of going to the heed to nourish th brain, fails backward and leaves the brat bloodless-autemic-in the condition of a individual who feints. When this happens to an old parson wh is unable to help himself and place himeel in a proper position to avail himself of th force of gravity to embers the blood to th lead, the results may he extremely grave Large numbers of casae of sudden death ar thus brought about and referred to hoar diseases without any clear uuderetaudin<-' a to bow they were produced or may hat been prevented. It is for toe reason her indicated -the euddenly applied force 0 gravity -that it is extremely dangerous fo thin class of patients suddenly to assume the ereetposturofront the reclining position, and that mach patients should not be left entire- ly alone at any time. It is in thieve= class that are to be Been tltoeo casae of soeallod augiva•oeetorls, filth euddenly removes its victime in the nidal of great agooy There is undoubtedly ere than one variety of this formidable affliction. One seems to be duo to the end. en shutting off of blood from the muscular elle of the heart, due to closure of the en. trances of the two coronary arteries whioh supply it. Tho sudden starvation eeema to oauso the intense neuralgic pain. ANEURISMAL DAN0ER8. But the heart is not the only organ that suffers from the degeneration jus, referred to. The lenge and median sized arteries also become softened first, thou hardened and brittle. In the softened • condition (fatty degeneration or atheroma), the great veseloe are prone to dilate and form Simon containing blood, whioh go on enlarging as long aa there is room for them to incr°ase in Blau, finally bursting and causing death by hemorrhage, Should the blood -tumor or aneurism buret into one of the great cavities of the body, as that whioh contains the heart, one of the lungs, or into the atufoco f the abdomen, or $pea the eurfaoe, the mount of blood that man be discharged nosh at moo is enormous, and death re -c Its almost instantaneously. This is the ay many oaees of remarkable sudden death o brought about. These aro all called' deaths from hour* disease," of °aurae. In1 true that the aneurism may bo located eO f to involve the heart itself, but this is un. sual. The great artery, the aorta is the , oat frequent seat of the trouble, and it is t a very uncommon one. When aneurisms ebur in the °hoot or, domen they frequently attain a large 0010 in gi ae w Nature revealed where the goldpox had left m its fi.thy trace. The Soh became poor and the poor reveled in their haile. Vulgarity d and pretense ruled in the castle, while the w noble begged at lata own gate. The idiot sat in the magiste•la/ chair and the vile women, espousing the buffoon, mounted the throne, and they received the homage due to genius. Daring Engineering Feat—Renewing the Niagara Suspension Bridge, The Niagara Falls railway suspension bridge carried snecesefolly a heavy traffic for 26 years ; it was then found that some repairs to the cable were required at the anchorage. These repairs were made, and the r.nohorage was aubotantially reinforced. At the same limo it was found that the Wood- en suspended euperatrueture was in bad condition, and this was entirely removed and replaced by a structure of iron, built and ad• lusted in such a manner as to 'secure the best 0 possible moults, For some time it had bean noticed that the scone towers whioh mh supported the greet cables of the bridge showed evideaoes of disintegration at the to surface, and a careful engineering exam. ar ination in 1885 showed that those towers cr were in a really dangerous condition, is The reason for this was that the saddles over WIIIOn the ea es pass on the top of the towers had not the freedom of me Son which was required for the motion of the cables, caused by differences of tem perature and by paining loads. A most interesting and Bumeseful feat was accomplished in the substitution of iron towers for these atone towers, with. out interrupting the traffic across the bridge, This has been accomplished very recently by building a skeleton iron n tower outside of the stone tower, and no transferring the cables from the stone to go the iron tower by a most ingoeioue ar- ° rangement of hydraulic jacks. The stone not towers were then removed. Thus, by wh the renewal of its enopended retractor and the replacing of its towers, the bridge Un has been given a new lease of life And is in nn excellent condition today, Thio Niagara railway suop000ion bridge to hes been eo long in eucceseful operation that th it ie di ffloulti now to appreciate the general tO disbelief 10 the possibility of its success as a T°h railway bridge, when it was undertaken. It was projected and executed by the late rood John A. Reebling, Before it WAS flnielied, s°'0 Robert Stephenson said to him, "If your ,1101 bridge ouooeeds, mine [the Vintorda tubulat nu bridge at Montreal] is a magnificent blue. he dor. The Niagara bridge did ousneed.— lam Scribner's Magazine. �— I0p Ho who does not help u0 at the needful esu moment, never helps'; he wholdoes not noun. hva eel at the needful moment, never console, r If there is anything in the world that will abr mspiro a woman with a determined desire to the earn shorthand, it le to find among her bus. the d's pnpere a sheet full of nayetorfone wig. trot ly marks, interspersed here and there with not Inc initiate of the woman she doesn't love, int US u m ao ab e, because of the density of the atruoturea volved and the size of the arteries which ve them origin, In the smaller voseele, in those at the base of tine brain, they ever attain a large ciao, but this does t prevent them from being of the very eatesb importance. Not only may they a use hopeless disablement when they do kill, but they may lead to death, 1 ioh may come on as suddenly ea if it 1 re broughtabout by the lighaing's stroke. I der tee influemoe of fatty, or calcareous, generation, the mate of too arteries grad• lly give way in places, permitting them form small, pouch-like dilatations upon' em, varying in else from that of a peal a millet seed, or smaller -many of them t being visible to the unaided eye. 'tl eco are points of very little resistance, 0 when the cirouiation is excited b t n exertion y xor on or powerful emotion, these. e lee acs are likely to give way. If a' tabor of them buret they produce a morrhage whose preeonoe producer pros. o upon the brain, anti when in sufficient ount fa capable of bringing all monta1 erabione to a abundstili, This is the al mechanism of apoplexy or oerebrod fnmorrhage. Of course,apoplexy of this fety does not always ill, But if the odfng takos plaoo into the important uotures at the bate of the brain, where contrite Ilton control the movements of heart and lungs are located, the effect ebbe fatal almost without exception, and delayed long at that, If the bleeding is 0 the large masses of the hemispheres of pu Food of The Stone Age. What food the pre.historio people of the Stone Age io Europa ate in their day, sev- eral thousand years ago, has been ascertain. ed in a novel way, An Englishman took the teeth of a buman beinuof that age, whioh lad been found in recent years, and exaat- ued what he found imprisoned in the den- tal tartar. After using dilute hydrochloric acid, he examined the sediment, and found portions of the harks of corn, hairs from the outside of the husks, spiral, vessels from vegetables, husks and starch, the point of a fish's tooth, a conglomeration of oval cells, probably of fruit, barblete of feathers, por. 'ons of wool, epithelial scales, fragments of artilage and other organio remain. That hese partioles of food of a remote age hould be preserved for several thousand yeare and at last recognized, comes very near the marvelous. .forethought, " Darrfnger, I have come to ask you to do me a great favor." " What f0 it, young man 1•' You've been married a good many years, haven't you 1" et Yes ,' ',And three times, 0 1 mistake not ?" wYea,° " Well, 1 am on the point of marrying, and I want you to dissuade me from my rpo00,0 Tho Prince of Wales' Portion. Tho wound ohild of the Queen is the Primo of Wales who Caine of age in 1003. As seen ua he WAS born he became Prince of nates mad Duke of Cornwall and entitled to the revenues of the Duchy of Onruwall, The Duchy lands oumpriee 74,113 mares, and the rentals trod royalties exceed $410,000 per annum. Cord, tin and load nines are worked upon the property, Daring his minority the revenue of the catchy autumn,. luted to $2,008,605, and when he name of age in 1863 Inc crone into potaoaeion of tliie aunt, About $1,I00,000 of this unmet was anent in the purchase of the Sendriogham carate In Norfolk, and portions of the ro, reminder wore expended on building the mansion there end an outfit for the Prince and his household. The nee rem:ipto of the Prime from the duchy from 1804 to 1506 averaged 3300 160 yearly, and up to the latter date he bud drawn therefrom 36,041,- 05, The nation paye $$1,084 a year to the duchy as oompenatttioa for the abolition of certain auelent dues on tin mina that parliament at one tinto gave auth rity to bo imposed. Tao iuvestect oath balances of the duchy on Doe bee 31, 1886, amounted to ahout$702,500, authority of a vote in parliament the Prin tools possession in 1869 of Marlborea House, to hold the same until his death that of his mother. Tne public expenditt upon this residence since then and up 1886 bas been $223,255. At the age of seventeen Inc became a o onol in the army, at twenty one a full•blo general, and at thirty five a field menthe He holds several military sinecures, wi big pay, and yet If he wanted to go in battle with the army he [couldn't, as the la makes it out that 1110 BODY IS T00 PRECIOUS a o- and will also take time to Welt before ho olid mots; but, having made up his mind, T, m- should expect him to stick to it. What - By over he bo, 11e i0 not a weak Wren. ee and he needs a atrong will to stand gh where he does, Of course, our conversation or was largely about America, what had ire brow ht un to it, end what we had soon of to it, Il° etroagly recommended mu to go west, at least as far me St, Paul's and Mien°• el. amnia. There, Inc said, I mould see the ivn intensity and energy of life hero fur better 1. than in rosy eastern State; but Inc thought th they wore going just a little too fast, Mr. to Cleveland has not Lincoln's homely humour, w and yet there was n tench of fun in his eomewhot heavy foo° when he told me that, though there ie only the breadth of the river between then, St. Paul's vexes Minneapelis, and Minnoapelis on. vies St, Paul's. When the minister of the latter town chose to preach at hlinueapolia from one of Se, Paul',, E latles his hearers P , rose from m th it ° i ' e pews nd'nannat he t t idea of St. Paul's sending letters' to them ; and, on the other hand, when Minnesota built a house for its " Exhibition " in sixty days, St. Paul's next year resolved to erect a big- ger one still, and did it in forty days, I expressed my regret that my time would not allow me to visit either of theoe w eatern cities, but that if 1 over was them I would be careful to avoid "St. Paul's $puttee." Altogether our visit to the White Hesse was very agreeable, very informal, and pro- bably quite as edifying as a presentation at St. Jams, Mrs. Clevebool had enc to virile a friend in the country, 70 a were sorry not to tee her, as by all accounts she is a moat charming lady : and some of hie opponents go eo far ma to say that if Inc is re-elected to the Presidency it will be lenge- ly owing to her. Whether there he tiny likelihood of his re•°leotion, no one 1 have met seems to have any idea yet," A Question of Double Pdreona'ity. The fact of sleep may of itself hove al- ready �uggested the idea of two dialect 11000000, fur we cortafnly are not the same sleeping and walling. Yet, in alecp, we have r000llectione from the waking state, and we can remember front oleep when awake. There is, therefore, an essential connection between the two states. Thera are in natural somnambulism at the same time more and rest of analogy with the wakeful condition. In one respect it more resembles wukoialn°se ; for wane, in natnr- aI sleep, the dream is absolutely incoherent, the eomnambuUst• plays out his dreams • that is, he executes asystem of oo•ordinatod movements having a beg/ming, a middle, and an end, or a certain uoherence. On tho other hand, eomnambulieut is further separ- ated frau wakefulness in the fact that the man awake wholly loans tho recollection of what rho sleeping man has done, while the somnambulist can remember what he Etas done in a previous sleep. Thera are, then, in some foehion, two lives, and the hypothesis dreamed of byy Pascal is very near to being realized ; "If we dreamed every night the r same things, it would affect us as muoh as objects that we the every day ; and if an rt arttaao were aura to dream during tho twelve home of every night that he was a king, I believe then he would bo almost as happy as a king who should dream for twelve hours than he woe au artisan," Pascal speaks here only of dreaming, but it moat not Inc forgotten than somnambulism is composed both of dream and reality. The somnambulist performs actions that take plate in the real world; he walks, he writes, he docs nearly everything that he does while awake, end is even able to epeak and reply. Henna we have only to repreeent to ourselves somnambulism gaining more and more upon the waking condition, encroach. ing upon it, and at Mat becoming a emend waking alternating with the other, and re- taining only one feature of eo nnambuliom- the lots of recollection on waking. Jura' 20, 1888, A Picture of Mr. Cleveland, The Bev, Dr, Walter Smith in , distin- guished preacher of the Free Church of Sootland, :3e Is rot present having A short holiday in the States and may very likely Ilnielt off, like Inctmost of rid country vie. here, by spending the half of an afternoon in Canada, Ho is writlug his impressione in the Sootoh papers and this is how he tc•110 cf hie experiences in an interview with Neel. dont Cieveland :- Tho President received n0 most kindly, and gnus us full ten minutes of that time whioh is the most precious of all things to men in his position, At first hie appearance is not prepossessing, ib0 in of hooey make, and his foutnres do not relieve hie bulky form, being, like the rent of him, largo end oommou•1ike, I eh0uld fancy, too, that his mind moves alnwly an his body would, whioh distinge)ehee him from other American etatoomon, At least such of them as I have mot are brisk and nimble, and also voluble, Mr, Cleveland seems to me a man who will only speak when Inc hae something to say to be planed where thele is any risk of being riddled by an enemy's bullets. Until 1863 he was heir to the Dukedom of 'ax° bbl b Coburg, but in that yearresigned t,. Y his heirship in favour of his brother, the Duk o t Duke f 1. -hob trgh. In the Barna year the Prince was married end he was voted $117,• 275 of public moneys to pay hie wedding expenses. He eva8 et the same time given an auuuily of $_00,000 and hie wife ono of $50,000, to be raised to $ 150,000 if she be- came a widow, In 1875 he went to India and to defray expenses parliament voted him 3710,000, and of this sum 3300,000 ivas specially named " fur pocket money and the exercise of generosity." On the death of his father ho inherited 14,580 norm of land in Norfolk and Aber. deenshiro, bringing in a rental of 548,635 ; but this is to private property. His income from pnblio resources up to the time of his mother's jubilee was :-From Duchy of Cornwall, 510,258,500 ; repairs and alterations at MarlborougHouse, 5223,250 ; coloneloy of the Tenth Hussars, $102,000; wedding expenses, $117,250; $200,000 annuity to bfmself, 34,800,000; $50,000 annuity to his wife, $1,200,000 ; visit to India (pocket money only), $300,. 000; total, 317,061,000. RECEIPTS 005111 .R1•LEu, The names of the ret11110018 of public money* before mentioned, their respective relationship to the Qaean, end the amounts received by each up to the time of her Majesty's jubilee last year, are given in the following table :- \-enw. Am um/. Relation. 1-Prhmsss Augusta 31,55,0 a Aunt '-Landgrnviee , r (lease 2,(75,100 Aunt 0 -Duke of Sussex 17'e ('10 1.1,410 4 -Princess Sophia of Gloster., 1, 0:0,000 Cowin 5 -Princes Sophia 2,010,000 Aunt 0 -Quern Adelaide 000Q0u) Aunt 7 -Duke of Cambridge 1,570,010 Uncle 8 -Ring of Hanover 0,800 000 Coale 0 -Goobers et (5louceater...., 2,275,000 Aunt 10 --Duke of Mecklenburg. Stroh)? 554 2G) Cousin 11-Doehoas of Tient 1,400 000 Mother 12 -Bing of Belgians 1107,000 Uncle 19-Pricoo Consort 91151,000 !Imbued 14-Prioroes Anee 007,000 Daughter 15 -Duke of Albany (and widow) 040,000 Son 10 -Prince of Wales (and wife 17 081,000 Sap 17 -Empress of Germany, 1,905,000 Daughter 1S -Dutra cf Ildlnbornh 1,900,415 Son 10 -Princess Melena 780,000 Daughte 20 -Princess Louise 080,000 Dauahte 21 -Duke of Connaught,,.., 1,070 000 Sou 2$-Pdneoee Boatrlce 010,000 Daughte 20- Duchess of Cambridge 1,110,000 Aunt 24-Daeheas of Mecklenburg Strelita 000,0,0 Cousin 20 - Duke sf Cambridge 0,120,000 Cousin 20 -Princess Mary of Tork 785 000 Cousin 07 -The Queen 140,400,000 - Total $820,702,105 000T ADOUT FIVE MILLIONS A PEAR. Fifteen of the above list of royal person- ages have sine died since Victoria became Qom, and each death WAS a "windfall" to the burdened taxpayers of the United Kingdom. Making every necessary allow- ance from tho above table of the monies drawn by those of the blood royal before Viotoria ascended the throne in 1837, et le cloar that tho Qaoen and her relations had, when she celebrated her jubilee last year, drawn during her 50 years' reign public monies to the amount of over $200,000,000. If but a few of the items spent on the palaces, excluded from the above oaloula- tton, and of the payment to military and naval more and aidos•de•camp, also omitted from the above reckoning, wore added it would be easy to inoreaee the actual betel to $250,000,000, or $5,000,000 per year, Pariner'o Wives. The tired, sad look of very many Cana. dian fanners' wives has often boon remark- ed. As a class, they are overworked, and their dull, continuous employment without break or rest or holiday sonde many of them to the lunatic asylum and to en early graven. One writer lately pub the case well in the following terms ; X remember several years ago a farmer took mo home from an institute to dinner, He bad added farm to farm till he was worth $100,000. We had a good dinner, but the tired•looking wife at the head of the table spoiled it for me, As I was leaving the house, I said to her, " Can you nob get out to our meeting this afternoon 7" Rho said, " I do not see he w, as I have not been asked," Her husband then said " Oh, Mary does not oars much about getting out," and hurried nee off. I had a subjeot that afternoon which gave moa oham°, and some strong words weto Bald for his benefit that were not In the prepared paper, but whioh I could not keep butt. It makes :no angry now just to think of it. I have seen him 51ne0 ; but/ pray to heaven that he may have stopped the mere accumulation of dollars, angiven Mary the rest and some of the enjoyment he oculi so well af- ford, If he hoe not, rho has probably gone to her long rest ere now, or else her mind has given way from the endless monotony of her work, and she is one of those numerous examples of overworked fermer't wives who people our insane asylums. Almost every body could tell Of such cases within the range of personal knowledge. It is the dull, monotonotie grind late and early throe kills, and yon many husbands don't seen to Deo ft, A bill "to prevent the gathering of wild flowers" has, for some unknown reason, been introduced into Parliament by Mr. Shaw Lefevre, The Bell That "Tolle the Knell of Parting Day." The curfew is said to have been introdun. ed into England by William the Conqueror. By that monarch it wan ordained, under se• yore ponaltiee, when the curfew bell rant+ at $ o'clock in the evening all lights and fires should be extinguished. There are those who hold that this was merely the enforcing of an existing and very common polios rep• illation to that affect. The absolute prohr• bition of lights after the ringing of the cur- few boll was aboliehod by Henry L, in the year 1100 but the practice of tolling a bell at a fixed hour in the evening was continued and this, which is still extant iso coma places, is a survival of tho curfew of medieval times. At first the oommon ]tour was 7 o'clock, then it was gradually advanced to 8, and in eotne plums to 0 o'clock ; indeed, in Sootland, 10 o'clock Was not an unusual hour, The curfew was a regulation moat useful in those early days, when it was the custom to plump the fire in a hole in the middle of the floor, under An opening in the roof, to allow the escape of smoke, When the funnily retired for the night, the fire was extinguished by covering it up ; hence the tsmn oouvre£eu, or endow. The regu- lation( was also aervioeablo in obliging the women to keep in their houses, and thus preventing night brawls in the e; root. 1t is believed there is no historical authority for the popular tradition that the severity ex. hfbited by the Conqueror, in enforcing obe- dience to the curfew, was most pertioularly designed to prevent the English from mom - bring in seoret to plan sohomos of rebellion against their Norman lords. Light Verse, " Mr, Blank, do you know 131ifl1 the pont ?" " Yee, I know Blifil," said the editor. " What's his epeoialty-light verse ?" "I fanny it le Indeed, I nover•saw any ofilli$)'s verse that wasn't almost too light Not $o Bad As It Might Bo. Customer (getting hie hair ant) -Didn't you nip off a piece of the ear then ? Barber (reassuringly) -Yea, sail, a small piece, but not 'hough to affect de hearin', salt,