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' n to boob. The took to oho lain at
h o taed's Overland Trlegtvtph Line to Int tion in Germany Benda on word that ho line the Met: tore for wagon, and clipping the
dht•-new It Is Worked and Protected. I roaigued, "11 hate up Jones, old mol I"
flashes along 3,000 n3ijoa of wire, "Oh,
uY TnotlAA e+TavF.NS. nothing," replies. Jones, " only I calx t
stand the bloody Germane."
One day, while the guest of an Eliot') And now there mince a message to the
chief in Persia, 1 netiood that two of the Superintendent at Tehcrnn from London,
nomads in the orowd tint had gathered lim�ry Hobbs will start from London to,
around the tent were without right hands. Morrow, and will report at Teheran." from
Both theao members had been chopped off tlmt day until bis arrival Rabbi; becomes on
at the wriate. This is no unusutal sight In ellen of daily apeenlmtion and commant all
Persia, where mutilations of this nature are along tbo line. It usually telcos hits about
often meted out, Neverthelaae my aurins. a month to gat to Teheran. Now and then
ity was aroused, and I ingairod the mason he reports tat intermediate stations, and is
Of the punish meat. entertained and sized up by the old hands
" 1?crenghi telegraph," replied the nomads all the way along. The old hands send on
with a ahamofaood,,ggrin, much like youngsters their eommonta to Teheran, and long before
who had boon oaaght in some boyish folly he has reached the matinee the boys of Tee
end been punished for it. These people are Hobbs knowHo Hobbs
a good dealbbs betteris tthan
an
children even at the age of 50, and they
harbored uo resentment toward ole because but a stranger when he finally turns up ;
1 belonged to the race whose invasion of every lightning jtrker in Persia knows
their deeerb home with the telegraph wires whether he ie a griffon whom they on safe.
had deprived them of their hands. ly play initiatory pranks when he arrives or
Only the other day while talking over not.
some of these experiences with au English- Teheran, Iepahan, and Shiraz aro the
mean, he looked surprised and sold : three favorite stations in Pude. Operators
"Why, I didn't know we had any tele. are rewarded for good service by being ata•
graph lues in Persia." tinned at these points, or disciplined for mite
' Never heard of the Indo•European conduct by being assigned to some lonely
Telegraph line?" said I. control station, where the only society is a
" No,' he said ; "I supposed our con- few ragged villagers and their station a mere
munioation with India was by oable ohiefly." mud hovel. Dcbeed, about midway between
Others present, all reasonably well•in- Teheran and Buahire, is considered the
formed men, expressed equal ignorance, and worst station in Persia. Tho
then it centered to me that I, too, had eXTREMBS OF HEAT AND COLD
never heard of it until I ran right into the in Dabeed are incense. From many degrees
line itself in Persia. And yet this overland below zero r winter and raging Tony
de lees
telegraph line between England and India g g
ia one of the moat stupendous and interest- blizzards, it gets so hot in summer that the
ing enterprises in the world. operator often site up to his chin in a tub of
Frcm London to Calcutta, overland, by water. None of the 000ling appliances that
the most direct practicable route is some. make life tolerable in India are available
whore near 8,000 miles. Stationed here and here,
there at intervals of a few hundred miles al The Ingiliz telegraph•jee is quite an im-
along this distance are little portant personage in Persia. Outside of
GROUPS OF SOLITARY BRITISH Teheran and Buahire, he ia the sole repre-
sentative of Europe. He is a sahib, whose
subjects, the links of an active chain of galas often exceeds the income of the Per.
political and commercial aynmathy oonuoct. Dian yPrince or Governor ot the town. He
Mg the two widely separated capitals of the has several servants, and keeps the showiest
British Empire, the home capital and the riding horse in tow.o vieing in the matter
metropolis of India. In links of this groat of horseflesh with the local Prince, with
Anglo-Indian chain are strung out through whom he is always on very good terms. He
Belgium, Germany, and European Russia to and the Prince invite each other •to dinner ;
Odessa : thence through the Crimean Penin• not a day passes hut the Prince comes and
sola to Kertoh ; down through Ciraaeaia smokes a Italian or two in the telegraph
and Georgia to Tiflis; aoroea T reez. ucasim than, and in the evening they sit beside
and the Persia frontier to Tabreez. From the etenlning samovar and emcee and drink
Tabreez they continue on eastward to tea. The ng samovar
Benda Ifs makefrtend, the tole -
Teheran. At the Persian capital the Indo ra h• •eo resents of fruit, or a pheasant
graph
THE BRUSSELS `POST, AUG. 3, 1888.
sosHa� hie inhuman bit of idiocy one night.I
HEALTH 1 TELFGRAPf2 OPERATORS IN ASIA 1 otatoos his brother oporntore all along the 1 so they' found pralltublo,j Halile06 of mune-
came very near falling asleep two er three line know e£ it donee at some little sta. (inn t b y g
tinea, but was'atartled wide awe by aud•
Wasted Sunbeams. denly becoming eoneaiou0 that 1 had lost
The relation of eunehine and oxygen to my count, and had to begin over agniu,
health was not at all understood a oeutury This. cure kept mo awake one whole night,
u o No one knew that it was the oxygen whoa I waa so sleepy that I oould seemly
of the air that purified the venous blood of
its effete matter, and that the same ale.
ment waa absorbed by the corpusole,t and
conveyed through every pert of the syetent
for use in its complex chemical processes. of
No one knew the diainfteting power
oxygen out of the body, nor, until quite re.
only, that the sunshine itself was one of
the valuable disinfectants in nature,
Within late years we have learned that
contagious diseases are vastly more curable
and less liable to spread, when treated in
shelter -tents than in our homes or hoepitala ;
and we ere more and mora oaring for the
ventilation of our dwellings and school.
houses and churches, preferring the Bunny
aide of our houses tor sleeping rooms,
We are building our cities with wider
etreete, and providing access to clear ann-
ahine and pure air in extensive parka. We
are, moreover, demanding more scientific
and faithful plumbing, and looking out
better for the condition of our cellars. Bub
we have not reached the limit of what ie
possible or desirable in this matter.
The Medical Record for April 21 has a
^suggestive article on the sunshine wasted on
our house•topa. It says : "Cannot architee•
teras ingenuity contrive some method of
using the thousands of acres of house-
tops on this island, --New York,—.so
that roofs, now ao useful in afford.
ing in -door protection, oan be made ad.
ditionally useful, at certain seasons, by
affording out.door recreation and protec-
tion from invalidism? Cannot the same skill
contrive naw designs for the upper and meet
salutary stories of our dwellings, play -rooms
and sunning rooms, adapted for the winter
season, but so fashioned that too intense
beams oan be excluded in summer 7
"In the more spacious dwellings, the up.
per floors oould be revolutionized; ventilat•
ing shafts' introduced; broad windows made
to ran the width of the house both front and
rear; ready acceesibility to the roof afforded;
and at least a part of these floors made
attractive to children and invalids.
"A pleasure resort might ornament each
raeidenee; neighbourly cement could widen
the range, and turf and flowers brighten the
plain.
'Tor the higher grade of tenement houses,
such fresh air facilities would probably be
hailed with delight by tba inmates. Sum-
mer moonlight evenings could have a new
aspect; and round a familylantern groups
alight gather, to read, sew, or engage in
games, and thus a home•felt pleasure could
quiet restless spirits, craving questionable, or
illicit amusements,"
How to Treat an Eye With a Cinder in It.
A correspondent writes ae follows to the
Medical Summary :—" Nine persona out of
every ten with a cinder or any foreign sub-
stance in the eye will instantly begin to rub
the eye with one hand, while huntingfor
their handkerchief with the other. hey
may, and sometimes do, remove the offending
cinder, but more frequently they rub until
the eye becomes inflamed, bind a handker-
chief around their head, and go to bed. This
is all wrong. The better way is not to rub
the eye with the cinder in it at all, but rub
the other eye as vigorously as you like. A
few years nines was riding on an engine.
The engineer threw open the front win-
dow, and I caught a oinder that gave me
the most exeruoiatiog pain. I began to
rub the eye with both hands. ' Let that
eye alone, and rub the other aye (this
from the engineer). I know you doctors
think you know it all; but if you will let
that eye alone, and rub the other one, the
cinder will be out in two minutes;' persisted
the engineer. I began to rub the other
eye, and Boon I felt the oinder down
near the inner oanthus, and made ready to
take it out. 'Let it alone, and keep at the
well eye,' shouted the doctor pro tem. I did
so for a minute longer, and, looking in a
glass ne gave me, I found the offender on
my cheek. Since then I have tried it many
times, and have advised many others, and I
never known it to fail in one instance (unless
it was ac sharp as a piece of steel, or some -
think that out into the bali, end required an
operation to remove it ). Why it to id do
not know, but that it ie se I do know. and
that one may be saved much sufferingif they
will let the injured eye alone, and rub the
well eye."
hold my eyee open.)
" Drink milk, (This, according tomy ex-
parience, is the beat preseriptiou in the lot.
It will make you sleep better thea all the
bromides going, which are snares and delu-
sicna. But milk diet nob anly makes you
sleep at night, but you want to sleep all the
next day. It in'akos you intolerably et�lplft
all the time. It ie a very pleasant,
awake feeling, if you have nothing else to
do but to enjoy falling asleep et any time,
and in all manner of ,places, like Colville in
" Indian Summer,"—the beet told story of
these times,—but if you have any work to
do, it is embarrassing.)
' So what ie a eleeplecs man who wants
to sleep, going to do ? If he eats a light
luncheon, smokes a mild cigar, reads Ben-
ner an hour, walks amile in the air, comes
back and walks auothor mile about hie room,
takes a epong° bath, cold, followed by a tub
bath, warm, drinks a pint of milk, jumps in-
to bed and lies ou both aides, with his head
on one arm and one hand, , and counts a
thousand, it will be timo to get up, anyhow,
and he oan have a few nervous fits during
the day.
"le is a feat, however, that even men who
think they suffer from eleoplecenese do not
lie awake half so long as they imagine
idthe
do. When a man nye to me, ' II
close my eyee once all night,' I know he
lies,"
EXTRAORDINARY PHOTOGRAPHING
A Beetle's Picture Obtained by Meanc or lie
Owu l'hoephoraaccnee.
Scientific people in Bridgeport are much
interested in a collection of beetles sent from
Cuba by the parents of three ladies attend.
ing Mies Emily Nelson's Seminary, on Gold-
en Hill. These insects belong to the Elates
family, of which there are many varieties,
butthie particular species, Elater nootilucue,
the night shining Elater, the celebrated
Cuouio or fire beetle of the West Indies, is
the first ever seen here, and rarely lives to
reach this latitude.
The insect resembles in form the Elater
ooulatus, the largest of New England spring
beetles, and often measures from an inch
and a quarter to an inch and a half in
length. On each side of the thorax is a
large, oval, velvet, blank spot, like an eye, European line connects with the hoe owne
and from this , or ed insect h of heits and operated by the Indian Government.
name mutates, or eyed. Each of the ( Practically one is but a continuation of the
other, however, and from Teheran the little
groups of Englishmen extend south to Bu•
shire, passing through the cities of Iepahan
aud Shiraz. FromBuehire they follow along
the Mekran coast through Bel000hietan into
India north of Karachi, where the chain,
which has been on foreign soil from the
west coast of Belgium, debouches upon
British territory.
These numerous groups and iaelated sub-
jects of Victoria, Queen of England, Em-
press of India, are simply the working force
of the largest and finest•aquipped telegraph
line in the world. From the Belgian coast
to far distant India, there stretches one con-
tinuous long row of splendid iron poles,
climbing over rugged mountains in the Cau-
casus, stretched out across the level Persian
deserts in long, straight reaches, protruding
like blaok, tapering stems from the white,
glaring eand•waves of Bel000hietan. My
first acquaintance with this remarkable
telegraph line was made at Tabreez. In
riding from Constantinople, through Ana-
tolia and Koordistan, I had been accom-
panied from time to time by stretches of
dilapidated Turkish line, usually one wire
mounted on rough poles, twice as far apart
as they ought to be and leaniog towards all
pointe of the compass. At Erzeroum I
seemed to have got beyond the territory
oovercd by the Turkish eyetem, and had
ridden several days' journey into Persia.
It was a wild barbarous country about
1 the Torko•Persian border, inhabited chiefly
_ — by nomad Koards, and I mused even the oc-
ow and then, and when the line inspeotor
comes along and loaves with the Engliehman
a few bottles of choice Cruiekeen Lawn, the
Prince knows he will not be overlooked.
The months and eeyude and khans and
loading merchants—these, too, are all
friendly, as a general thing, to theFeringhi.
He is the one relief from the monotony of
daily life to them, a speck of human interest
upon which to centre their Oriental cur
Malty.
It is often a remarkable change for the
young Englishman, From an unambitious
berth in England, wages a pound a week, he
finds himself in a month or two hoboobbfng
on equal terms with Persian princes, with
twice as much money to jingle as the Prince,
and riding the finest horse in town. In ad-
ditiou to a large salary, inducements are
held out to him to qualify himself for pre-
ferment. A sum equal to three months' sal-
ary is paid to him for passing an examina-
tion in Persian. Five hundred pounds is
offered ae an inducement to qualify for oar-
tain services in India. For all these ad-
vantages about the only eacrifioe he has to
make is of a social nature.
Food is cheap and plentiful, and in the
larger stations almost everything oan be
found in the bazaars. Some of the men
marry and Bettie down in the service ; they
obtain wives from England, or marry the
maid servants at the Legislation in Teheran.
One or two have married Armenian women;
bob by so doing the " telegraph sahib "
loses caste, much ae a man does out West by
marrying a squaw. He loses caste in the
estimation of his comrades, the Persian,
and also with the Armenians themselves at to himself, It is not his own case, that the
heart, although they consider the capture of barrister pleads, the physician combats, and
a Sahib vory advantaSeoue, the parson arraigns. If again he is but
gh
L'ivcry`thih@ is now so thoroughly equipped email, ares pretty safe, bHe gets is sas near au
and organized that the telegraph seri/too runs
approximation to esottrity as fats iri a world
d 1fi 'nal but this was far
epecimene in question has, in place of the
oval spots, two translucent, opal -like spots
on the aides of the thorax, and from those
at night the Moot throws at will a strong
light, resembling two tiny eleotrio lamps at
full glow. The light from one insect is suf-
ficiently strong to enable one to read fine
print with ease. When agitated the insect
also gives out a similar light from the tissue
between the segments on the under side of
the body, The beetle eats the pulpy sub-
stance of the sugar cane, and subeiete on
nothing else.
An artist in this city has succeeded in
producing photographs by means of phos•
phorescent light emitted by these lantern
beetles. The light is of a greenish hue, but
the aotinia rage are abundant. The results
were novel and aucoeaaful beyond expecta-
tion. Taking the negative of a large taran-
tula, the artist attached 11 to a highly sent
salve plate, and than illuminated it for
thirty seconds by holding the beetle in the
fingers in such a position ae would give rays
perpendicular to the negative. After ex-
posure the plate was developed in the usual
way, and a clear end sharp positive was ob-
tained. The new print was from the nage-
Rue of a dolls head. This plate and others
afterward Dame out in beautiful detail, per.
featly vignebted and surprisingly sharp.
The final experiment of the artist was
photographing the beetle by its own light,
and then printinga pioture from the neve
tive. [New York Herald
Peettdo health iu1ea.
'Pre.bably there is more nonsesne in oircu•
lotion respecting the care of the health than
on any other subject, Flippant newspaper
Writers sow broadcast through the medium
of the press, the moat glaring folishinees
under the heading of " Health Rules." The
humorist, Burdetto, has been making a col-
lection of rules for the prevention of sleep
leseoosa. The absurd variety of recommen-
dations, all warranted to bei Meient, would
be found as evident in a similar collection
made with reference to any other malady.
The following is Burdetto's colleotion of
reined ieeforsleeplessness, with observations:
" What pleases me, whin I am tot mint•.
ed with sleeplessness, is a little health book
of my own, in which I have jotted down a
few, a very few, of the ' infallible romediee'
for sleeplessness, which have been tried in
thousands, or perhaps, millions of cases,
most of which were fn the preeoriber'e own
immediate family, or at the fartheat his
oirole of intimate friends, and ;have never
once failed to affect a permanent pure. All
these oases, oolleotively and individually,
were and are exaotly like my own in cause
duration, and operation. The simplicity of
the combined remedy appeals at once to
human confidence :—
" Eat nothing within three hours before
retiring.
" Eat a light but substantial luncheon just
before going to bed. Nature abhors a vs..
ouum. (This is one of the prescriptions I
like.)
Read light literature Bofors going to I wedding and other festivities. Another
bed. !Parisian of high position is proprietress of a
enooeeaful littleahop which dealstn curios and
artistic trifles, In London,isdy ehop•keopora
are iotenb rather upon success than on pri-
vacy. They wait on customers in person
and work as hard as any of their assistants,
One very charming personage, whose name
may be found in the peerage, tries on the
bonnets herself in the intereate of her cue•
tourers, to the detriment of her coiffure, but
the great advantage of her exchequer, Two
or three ladies are seriously inclining toward
the project of a large poultry farm not far
from London, An elderly ladyof poeitian
hoe already gained for herselquite a re•
eaaional welcome company of the Turkish
' o earaa• arced
Re -Peopling Palestine. telegraph line. Its die pp ee wined
Dr. Sivartha, of Chicago, ie organizing a` Ifke oaeting off the leen strand of western
movement for the resettlement of Palestine, civiliza,ion, At that time I hardly expect-
fe workfn in En lamed ae well ae in ed to see another telegraph line until I
wlrea with bnllete for eport.
Another forst of retire:elou was to stake a
mark up near the thin end of the caat•iron
poles, and stand off 8o many paces and shoot•
at it. Thoy used to gamble on the number
of shoat it would take to emelt the pole, and
bring the upper part, erns -trees, wires, and
ineulutorc down to the ground, This was,
of comae, rare fan for the Pontius, But
for those who Ind to bring iron poles from
leogland, and pack them on camelbemiroda
at miles over the doeerie, it was not quite so
funny,
Tho Hagfish finally bad to appeal to the
Shah to protest the lino, ' Very good,"
said the King el Kluge, blandly, "it shall
be hopped," Orders wore Bout out to out
off the node of people who were found
wearing telegraph wire braoolote, Among
these unfortunates were the two Mantes
mentioned au the beginning of this paper.
Equally effective punishmente were dealt
ono to the =raven people. This had the
desired afoot, and to•day the telegraph wires
aro as safe in Persia as in any country.
A Genuine English Turk,
Henry Selby Rickards, for some reason of
hie own, turned Turk in 1840 after settling
in Egypt. 13e publicly embraced Moham-
medanism and made a pilgrimage to Meooa,
assuming the name of Abdallah. Ho set up
housekeeping in the 'aloelem style, with
invite and all thereat of it, and was married
in 1841 to the daughter of au Egyptian
Sheikh, of Cairo, the fair Fatoom Hanim.
By this lady he had ten children. He enter-
ed the Egyptian service, was given the rank
and title of a Bey, and after twenty.one
years retired in 1870 on a pension This he
proposed to enjoy at Beyrout, in Syria,
where he purchased a house. Ho had a mac
garden given him in Lebanon by the Govern-
or of that province. He was rich in houses,
land, gold, and jewels, and so far all things
seemed to be well with him.
Upon the death of Fatoom the renegade
went through theform of marriage according
to the Moslem rites with Catherine Itiok.
and', the daughter of hie brother. Tbis
sort of thing, however, happens to be invalid
by Mohammedan law as well ae by that of
Christendom. In 1885 Abdallah Bay, alias
H. S. Riokarde, made a will leaving the
bulk of hie property to Catherine Rickards,
He died in 1880, aud then began a strife for
his wealth between the children by the first
wife and the so-called second wife, ending
in an appeal to the court of Chancery. The
whole affair reads like a story out of the
"Arabian Nights," for the testator, it hap.
pens, died worth more than 121,000, besides
'the jewels valued at 12,000, the house at
Beyrout, 17,000, and the Lebanon rose gar.
den, 1000. It seems that there have been
pagoda trees in Rgypt worth shaking as
well au in India,
Healthy Professions.
511 professions are healthy as compared
with trades. What men are longer lived
than scientists, aroba•ologists—there is no
profession of arehieology, but let that pees—
lawyers, clergymen, physicians, actors? In
some professions, notably the bar, to which
might be added the stage, the early training
is said, in a half serious banter, to kill off
the weaklings. To some extent this is true
of all professions, Men without self control
die, as a rule, young, whatever their occupa.
Hons. In other casae, however, the condi-
tions under whioh the classes named exist
are the most favorable. The two things
that most readily kill men who attain mid•
dle age are anxiety or loss of interest. The
man who goee to bed not knowing whether
a turn in the market may elevate him to
wealth or stoop him to ruin dies of soften.
ing of the brain, He who has made his for-
tune and retired feels, unless he has culti
vatted a hobby, that he has no plane in the
world, and dies of inanition.
As a rule, the professional man of fifty
has learned what be can do. If he is unfit
for the line he took ho has slipped out of it ;
if he is making a fortune it ie a career full
of interest, and with little trouble or anxiety
JZO 8 g n I should reach Japan, my intention being to smoothly an a ale y > eget ae this livc+orda; and he mayhope, bar-
Ameriea. He hi making nioi j ponverts to his the Pecif a through Turkistan and from being the gate at first, Thg difijeultieg
views, and be expou a that there Wilt 100h China g •vete a Icing way from being overcome When einfuture exceptional
eptional oireumstanees, that the
P P
be an extensive migration to the Holy Lend
from both Europe and America. The new
colony, although the product ofdeep religions
convictions, is to be formed on atrlotly bust•
Suddenly ohm day When nearing Tabreez,
I naw away off on the deeerb a eight that
made me
news principles. Captain Conder, who has BLINK AND RUB MY BYES
made an affioial survey of Palestine,tiereports i to make sure that it was not a mere ottani
that its agricultural capabilities eater are very illusion I was looking at, The deserts of
great and that it oan be easily made to Persia are famous for producing bogus ob.
rival in fertility the most productive noun. •ante—mirages of lakes and waving palms, of
totes al southern Europe, Plans have been lovely castles and similar fascinating scenes;
formed to rebuild Jerusalem of harmony but this time it was none of these. Miles
with the prophetic deearmade a of the Bible. away to the north, seemingly suspended in
It is proposed to be made a centre of mid-air, was a league long row of telegraph
learning and political 's scheme
co as well as poles, straight as a die, even as the pick-
of religion, Dr. Sivartha's schemeieextcoeive eta of a garden fence.
andfar-reaching, He saysthat he ha0 long Aa I drew nearer the line assumed more
made it his study to revalr.p not only all definite form. Its marvellous symmetry, 1
Palestine but all the great Euphrates Val. then discovered was not the enohanbment
100,00ley, " which is capable of 0u0tainthe of distance, but a solid reality in English
centre
people, and of again being the iron with the name of the contracting firm
centre of the world's activities." Heexpoota stamped on the poles, Every pole tapering
aid both from Jews. and Gentiles. Accord• from a circumference of twenty inches at the
log to his expectations the Jews will bottom to FAX or eight at the top, and morose
form but bitedxth of the population of the dead•levei wastes of the Persian plains
the meinhahited and revived Holy Land. set up ae evenly and perpendioultarly as they
Dr. Sivartha f0 evidently an inthother, might have been in Hyde Park. It is worth
who has the faculty cf inoculating others noting, perhaps, by the way, that the Eng-
lish hie enthusiasm. lisle always take particular pains to have
everything of this kind very superior in the
How Women of Fashion Crowd into Trade. East ; ft is a perpetual source of wonder
Paris is about to follow the example set b and admiration to the natives, a standing
London in the matter of titled ahopkee ere advertieement of England's wealth, power
One of the most popular and pretty of Par- and ability to the multitude who have no
P P other way of learning.
lanae countesses ie opening a millinery es- From Tabreez I woe able to fallow this
tablichment, whence she will dispense hate, infallible guide into Teheran. Often I could
bonnets, and ooatumee to her friends for a see it stretching ahead of mo mile after
consideration. A well-known Marquise has mile, the poles 0o even that they seemed not
for some time beep making a neat little ler to vary an inch, and disappearint! in the
come by hiring out hoz magnificent sliver heavens at the farther end by the curious
plate,' out glean, and silver oandelebrac for legerdemain of the desert. The molian music
of its triple wires as Inc desert breezes play
ed through them, and the messages flashed
past from India to England, from England
to India—how oompanionable it was, that
bit of civiihation in a barbarous oountry,
only those who have been similarly placed
know.
During my stay in Teheran I became quite
intimately acquainted with the doff, not
only it the capital, but throughout all Persia.
There are many curious and interesting
phasoe of life connected with the telegraph
service in such a country as Persia that aro
unknown here, ltd alignment and working
staff represent a narrow streak of western
civilization through all that part of Aida,
Mon two thousand miles apart, who never
saw each other in their lives, aro neverthe•
less welt acquainted,
TIIE LONR ENGL1SIMI N
"Read nothing after supper, Walk a
mile in the open air just before bed -time,
"Go to your „room an hoar before retir-
ing, and read until bedtime. Give up mole -
Mg altogether.
' If you are a smoker, a cigar just before
retiring, will Booth and tranquilize your
nerves, until you oan't keep awako,
"Don't think about Bleeping ; you snare
away slumber by wooing the drowsy god.
.r Resolutely resolve, as you lie down,
that you will go to Bleep, and sloop will come
naturally.
"Take a Warm bath and go from the
tub into bed. natation ae mender of Inc old laoe0, There
"Take a cold sponge bath, and jump into are abundant openings for cultivated women
bed, and you'll be asleep before your head who do not despise the labor of hands.
touches the pillow,
" Walk slowly about your room half an Robert to the Fora,
hour.
"Lie on your right aide, with your cheek
oa youhand,
" Lire en year left side, with your head
resting on your arm,
"Count tip to one thousand, (I tried
the line was put through. 'trot tome year
1t was almost imposeill a to keep oomm0ni-
cation open betemen Teheran and Buahire.
Hate for nearly a thousand mike it follows
along
THE GREATEST CARAVAN' ItonoE
in Persia. The oharvadera and camel men
regarded the long lengths of nice strong
wore strung all along their route almost in
the light of a special dispensation of Allah,
sent to their favored country so that they
might obtain all the material they wanted
from time to time to mend their ramshackle
pack.eaddles, chains and harness, without
paying out any money.
All summer long thousands of camels and
peak mules are constantly employed along
this route, and the caravan people used to
render this line well nigh woothlese. When-
ever anything broke that could be mended
with wire, the oharvadar would simply
shinny up a telegraph pole and help him.
self. In a day or two, perhaps, something
else would nfall to pieces ; but it mattered
little to the oharvadar, for an unlimited
quantity of good English telegraph wire
was always to be had for the trouble of
climbing a pole.
Nexb to the oharvadare the wandering
tribes were the worst depredators. The
nomads of Persia are muoh given to embol-
tiehing their oharme of person by means of
think wire braoelete, Copper or Silver wire
is their preference, but they have no objec-
tion to bracelets of baser metal, especially
if they can obtain them without pay. To
atretah a telegraph wire through their ooun-
try wart about the same thing as placing a
pot of jam where it eon be easily reached
by a boy. Nomads who had caught on
went drubbing about the country wearing
a wealth of telegraph wire bracelets that
made the eyee of their leas lucky tribesmen
bulge with aetoeiebment.
Finding that they could be obtained for
nothing by merely olfmbing up the legilin
poles and haoking off the wire, the popular
sty of the new style bracelets spread far and
wide among the Minutes, Suamania, and
Baatiaria. These
VNS0171tSTIOATED 0IIILDREN OF TIME DIESEI05,
for a time, outdid even the caravan mon.
Ambitious yours nomads thought they saw
in the unlimited r�uentities of telegraph
wire an opportunity to largely inoreaee
their wealth, and they began to parry the
bracelote Into the more remote regions 00
artielea Of aommaree.
All this the Engliah Government stood
A patiently, hoping that time and the em-
at:ytho little interior control station of Da- ployment of numerous native linemen
" Dote your son gob on fast in his etudice, 1 Beed is kept informed from day to day by would eventually put a stop to the depre.
Mrs, Brown T" asked the minieter at dinner. f his °home at Teheran of the doings of the dations. The caravan people, however,
Guess he does,' put in Bobby ; " I European colony there. finding that thoy moped punishment, grow
heard Jim Williams say that George was the If Smith at Boom hoe euoaeedad in his more and more enterprising and aggreasiVe,
fastest man in Toronto University" aohemo of grouting a little patch of Irish They wore not slow to diecovor 1h the thing
ill be as the pest His occupation,
meanwhile, brings him consideration and
intelligent surroundings, and his life is fairly
and pleasantly varied. Once the philosoph.
er temperament hi reaolled the oombustion
of life is very rapid,
eltietnioneutennterstentesineseenterelineer
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL.
Tha Bulletin Namara,/ ipue hates that
a now remedy for phylloxera has been die.
aevend by M. Lefton of ('apeudu, and
that it has proved aucoeaaful, It oonaists
of a weak solution of nitro cf mercury,
Not only does antipyrin diminish fever
and appease pain, but, acen3•ding to Hence.
qua and others, It also Meeks hemorrhage.
For arresting epistaxis and elmilar bleed-
ings the powder should be humiliated in-
to the nasal chantbore, or a solution of an-
tipyrin may be applied by means of a plug
of ootton-wool.
Plaster ousts may bo made to resemble
torra.cotta by painting them with whiting
mixed with very thin Fronoh•pelish tinged
with Venetian red, if the surface ie too
shining, dilute with methylated spirit. Lot
the first uoab dry bafota applying, the sec.
ond which is usually auilloient to give very
eetiefaotory results.
How to wash a chamois -akin: Use a weak
solation of soap and warm water, tub plenty
of eofb.:map into the leather, and allow it to
remain in soak for two hours, than rub it
suflioienbly, and rinse in a weak solution of
warm water, soda, and yellow asap. If
rinsed in water only, ibbeoomes hard when
dry and unfit for use. After rinsing, wring
out in a rough towel and dry quickly, then
pull it about and brush it well.
Soap -balls for removing stains: Out up
some good yellow soap end put it into a jar,
which should stand in a eaucepan ot boiling
water. When the eeap is melted, stir in
woll-washed silver -sand until it is pretty
stiff. Take off the fire, and add two or three
tablespoonfuls of glycerine. When getting
000l and sbitf, snake into balls about the size
of an orange. When cold, they can be
stored away. If the hande aro stained or
unusually rough, these balls will restore
them to there usual whiteness and smooth -
0800.
Creoline, a new antiseptic, is s derivative
of coal tar; its exurb chemical composition
haenot yet been ascertained. It ie possessed
of very marked baoillioide properties, a sol-
ution of one in one thousand sterilising cul-
tures of the cholera bacillus. Ito deoder•
ising properties aro equally remarkable, a
very small quantity of the above solution
removing the offensive smell of putrefying
liquids. According to Kortun, the solution,
applied to wounds, hastens oicatrieation in a
marked degree; it le moreover a powerful
homostyptio.
A very good and agreeable imitation of
the Tartar beverage known as "kefir," which
is, like koumiss, use extensively in phthisis
and other wasting diseases, may be made by
the following simple method, desarihed by
Dr. Levy in s German chemical journal.
Freshly prepared sour milk ie briskly shaken
up and then placed he a soda•water bottle,
together with two per cent, of sirup. The
mixture is well corked and kept in a warm
place for three or four days. At the end of
that time a most agreeableeffervesoing hover.
ago is obtained by uncorking the bottle.
It cohteins save two per cent. of alcohol.
If required for use more speedily, a few
drops of lemon -juice should be added to the
sirup.
To olean white or very light silks, take a
quart of lukewarm water and mix with i1
four ounces of soft soap, four ounces honey,
and a good sized wineglass of gin. Unpick
the silk and lay it in widths on the kitchen
table. Then take a perfectly new sorubbing-
brush, dip it in the mixture, and rub the
silk firmly up and down on both aides, so as
to saturate it. Rinse it in cold water twice
until free from soap, and hang it on a
olothes•horae to drain until half dry; then
iron it with a piece of thin muslin between it
and the iron, or it will be marked on the
ironed side. Keep the silk quite smooth
when laid on the table, so that every part
may some under the brush. White silk re•
quires a little blue in the water, Silk stock-
ings should be carefully washed in water
that ie neither hot nor aeld. Any pure
white soap will do, and the stockings should
be dried on wooden frames made for the
purpose. Whiteeiik handkerchiefs must be
gniokly washed in a lather of pure white
soap, to whish a squeeze of bluo, with a
spoonful of salt, has been added to prevent
the color from running,
Life at Suakim.
The situation at Suakin ie thus described
in the Times by a oorreepondent, who nye,
under date May 1 :—Life at present in Sua•
kim is life in a beleaguered city, It is true
that there is no apparent inveebntenb, end
that the head quarcore of the foe are at Hsu•
doub, some ten miles off, but for European
the isolation is as complete ae though linea
had been traced and trenches opened all
round. In the daytime it is risky to ad-
veuoe a step beyond the ranee of the guns of
the forts; at night it would be the height of
foolhardiness for a straggler to venture be-
yond the walls, From the scrub with which
the plain ie covered at a certain distance out
a prowling bend of rebels may dash at any
moment, while at night they noel in almost
°lose to the forte and fire valleys for defiance
rather than damage. This little trick of
theirs ie so common that no one pays any
more attention to a little musketry fire at
night than one would at home to the rmttl-
ing of rain on the window pane. In the
daytime the same placid indifference pre-
vails. Enforced leisure gives ample oppor•
tunity for the cultivation of social amenities;
dinner parties are frequent, and lawn tennis
in the afternoon continues to be one of the
most serious busineeeee of life, the foe at the
gates notwithstanding. Every one, from the
GovernomGeneral downwards, is firmly
persuaded that the town ie porfeotly aafo
from either assault from without or treach-
ery within, and behaves accordingly.
Flavor of Eggs.
The snorers' .Review says : "We'll wager
a dime that hone fed on the manure heap
and compelled to drink barnyard water
will give their eggs a ' peouliar flavor.' "
We think the Review is oorreat. Tho qual-
ity of eggs on be improved or deteriorated
by the feed. Aoontinuoue feeding with chop.
pad onions will impart a strong onion fla-
vor to eggs, and for that matter, to the flosh
of the fowl too, if killed at the time of eat•
ing onions. Food should be clean and of
good quality, if good food is desired from the
product of the feeding. Remember the old
saying that "Like prodnooc liko."
tickpOustomer (in restaurant)—"A boiled
and a small bottle
vfntaggo'74."on Waiterwaiter-" Yee l3in.." (Later)
" Find everything. right, sir?" Ouatom-
er—" No ; you've made a mistake. You've
brought me spring wino and a '74 vintage
ohioken,"
A Fashionable Woman's Sin.
Reports from Washington relate that
Mies Katharine Willard, one of Mrs. Cleve,
land's most intimate friends and her
guest at the White House last winter,
is getting herself and her late hoatean
into social difficulties by accepting a poen
as instructress in a local young ladies'
seminary. Miss Willard went to Washing•
ton last winter shortly after her return
from Berlin, where she has passed several
years studing vocal mesio. Sho was quite
famous in the Anglo•Amerioan colony of
the German capital as a beauty, a ginger
and a eonveraationadisb. She is tall and
Blender, and brie a pink and white com-
plexion, largo brown oyes and wavy brown
Bair Sho speaks Gorman and French almost
perfectly. She is oonvereanb with the
French, Engliah and German literatures,
Many Amcrioans who have attended the
American balls and the thanksgiving din•
nos in Berlin during the laab four years
oan testify to her cleverness at repartee.
The Sin which Washington society lays
at her door id that elle is turning her
cleverness to financial account for the
benefit of a widowed mother in moderate
ciroumebancea.
Tigers and Ghosts.
Indian folk lore cherishes many strange
traditions about the tiger, Some of these
are collected in a paper read lately before
the Bombay National History Society. Na-
tivae believe, among other things,
that the ghost of a man killed by
a tiger rides on the beast's head to warn
him of danger and to point the way to fresh
viotirne Eatine tiger's flesh gives ono cour-
age ; but unleee the whiakero are first sing-
ed off, the tiger's spirit wilt haunt you, and,
what is worse, you run the risk of being
turned into a tiger in the next world. God
allows a tiger one rupee a day for his food,
so that if a tiger kill a bullook worth five
rupees he will not kill again for five day s;.
To this may be added a true tale of a tiger.
An unfortunate villager was killed by one.
The police held an inquiry into the matter
and eubmittod the following artless report:--
'Pandu died of the tiger eating him ; there
was no other must of death Nothing was
left of Pandu SIM sone fingers, whish prob.
ably belonged either to the right or left
hand,
The Ruling Passion.
Gentleman—What's the matte; Unole
Rados, you look siolc ?
Uncle Raatue—Yea, ash, I ate or whole
watormolyun' larst night jets 'ford I wont
for bed, an' I ain't fealin' bony well die
mawnin.
Gentleman—Aro you going to see a doe.
tor ?
Miele Itaotua No, sah 1 Ise gwine fo'
madder molyun,