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THE BRUSSELS POST.
AUG. 17, 1888.
HEALTH,
Lead WatersPipes,
?.toad pipes are extensively need for eon
'duetting drinking water into dwellings ftpm
the main in pities, and also from dleten
springs in rural districts. The use of lead i
always attended with danger to health,fo
the motel unites with mineral acid contaiue
n the water, and forma lead salts, most o
whioh aro deadly poison, which are introduo
ed into the system of those who drink
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Not all water is equally liable to bec
impregnated with lead malts. That whin
holds lime in solution is generally safe, sine
the lime i0 deposited as an incrustation with
it the pipe, and protect; the water from eon
tact with the lead. But, even in thla can
if sewage finds its way into the water, aoid
are generated which dissolve the coating of
lime.
Lead poison is cumulative in its action,
As it is not readily eliminated from the
system, ft remains, and the quantity in-
creases until the point of danger is reached.
A small quantity taken daily for yeera may
finally prove fatal,
(if one hundred oases, whioh resulted
from a change in the water supply in Dentin,
Germany, not a child was attacked, partly,
no doubt, because small ohildren drink
little water, and partly because the system
has greater eliminating activity in child-
hood.
The symptoms of severe lead•poisoning are
anemia, a dull hue of the skin, digestive,
derangement, bad breath, shrinkage of the
gums, from the teeth, a bluish line in the
gums, colic, constipation, neguralgic pains
in the muscles and joints, end muscular
paralysis. The lash sympton gives rise to
what is called " drop•wrist,"
Severe as are the symptoms, the tendency
is to recovery, with removal of the cause and
proper treatment,
Where death results, a post mortem exam-
ination reveal; lead in almost every organ
and tissue—most in the bones ; and next
after these in the kidneys, liver, brain and
spinal cord.
It should be an unvarying rule to let off
the water which has stood in the service pipe
over night. As tor pipes of lead in the coun-
try conducting the water from distant spring
to the house, they should be wholly discard-
ed. What is called "pure spring water" al.
mostalways contains acidgases which have a
strong chemical affinity for lead, and which
form poieon. Really pure water, that ie
distilled water, has no action on lead.
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Rapid Eating.
If the farmer should cultivate his farm
with as little regard to the conditions of
sacceee as he eats his breakfast, in "bay.
time," pratieularly, he might be obliged
to mortgage it in five years I Some of this
oleos come to the table, hosting from their
work, sit down and commenoe "stowing"
away the food with but little reference to
the rules of politeness, eating almost as if
life depended on dispatch. Let such study
the habits, in this partloular, of t he
"patient ox," at first, ib is true, following
the example of his master, crowding down
the hay or grass with all possible speed,
bur, afterward's, as if repenting of his
folly and indecent haste, "rasing the cud,"
then chewing it like a decent ox 1 The
sensible ox never has the diapepsia, nor
"nervous prostration," never is obliged to
smoke for the purpose of securing good
digestion — never secured by man or
beast in this way 1 But, to be lees play-
fnl, Food taken in, chaste, hastily swal-
lowed, when not more than one-third chewed
or, washed down with hot tea or coffee, or
so greased, like buck wheat griddle cakes,
that it slips down with eaae, can never be in
a proper condition to reach the stomach, can
never be easily or fully penetrated by the
gastric juice, under which circumstances it
can not be folly digested; if not, it can not
furnish its natural nourishment. Again, it is
'necessary to incorporate the saliva with it,
as a means of improving digestion, which
sen be done only by chewing much more
thoroughly than is usual, the importance of
thin being indicated by the generous supply—
from three.and-a-half to six pounds for their
daily supply. I will add that the starchy
foods, ae the grains, potato, rice and the like,
particularly demand a faithful chewing,
that the etaroh may be changed to grape
sugar, by the action of the saliva. Hence,
the impropriety of soaking our food, or
ttiking it in the moat liquid form, or taking
any measures to render the swallowing as
easy and es rapid as poeeible. Everything
connected with the digestive apparatus in-
dioatee the necessity of thorough chewing,
moderate eating, doing it well 1 Thie evil
ie aggravated by the false idea that conver-
sation at inealsis favorable to good digestion.
To show the folly of this notion, it is simply
necessary to know that digestion is not
in progress during the meals, not while we
are talking, but commences et the close of
the meal, or within a half hour, about after
all of the liquids in the stomaoh have been
removed by absorption.
The appalling prevalence of dyspepsia in
this country—more than in any country of
she world —indicates something wrong,
DB, J. H. G 'o)on,
Cold Bathing.
There ie altogether too much of it. Some
persons can take daily or occasional oold
baths with impunity, Many who do so 0r
'hurt by it. Indeed, half the people who
bathe, aside from the negative benefit of
removing dirt, get more harm than good in
the process, as conducted by them. A good
many persons have destroyed their little
remaining health by injudicious bathing.
The use of cold water in bathing is not
cseential to cleanliness. If tepid water
could be substituted for that which is cold
in the idea, becoming so popular, of the
benefits in bathing the public health would
be promoted ae a consequence. Whoever
finds himself or herself exhilarated, refresh-
ed, toned up, strengthened, by the cold
bath, and yeb some hours later feels un-
strung, debilitated or depress ed, may
eonelude with certainty that to him or her
the cold bath is mjurioue. It disturbs the
cheulaion, exhausts the vital powers, and
tends to fix and render permanent any die -
ease or bodily derangment from which the
person may be suffering.
Though one feels feeble in the morning,
and namely able to go about till stimulated A Wife's Little coke.
by a cold bath, better bear the sense of
weakness and so reserve some degree of Sbe—" I'm to glad you eat stay to tea.
otos for the later part of the day, than to Stash a joke ae I m going to have oh my hum
be made to "feel bac " in the morning by band, He's always growling afloat my
drawing on the reserve force, and then "feel 000kfag, and today hie mother happened
to dro
all gone "when the reaction comes, In the p fn anal got her to make some bis -
one ease life fa shortened, in the other it is
Quit. Won't he feet cheap when he begins
preserved, to 001110iee and then We out his mother
bad as a plate of iota cream token after a meal,
because the digeetivo proceee has to be Miff -
pponded until the temperature of the etoinaoh
has been raised to a proper pitch. Cool
water is always more tffeotive in allaying
thirst than ice-cold water, The latter may
iuoreaae the Garet, and it dodo increase the
heat of the body. Cool water may be in -
(bulged inwithout fear of bad results, but the
loo -cold article is always dangeroma.
"The quickest and surest way to cool the
body is to tape a glass of hot lemonade or
hot water. It is instantly absonbed, and in
a few minutes it at being evaporated from
the surface of the body, llvaporetion you
know produces coolness. The hot draughts
also act as tonics to the stomach and remove
the sense of thirst."
How to Drink Milk,
The Analyst says those who cannot drink
milk without suffering from its effeoto may
not underetand that they drink it too
quickly. If a glace of it is swallowed hasti-
ly it enters into the etomaoh and then forms
ina solid, curdled mass, difficult of digestion,
If, on the other hand, the same quantity is
sipped, and three minutes at least are occupi-
ed in drinking it, then on reaching the
stomach it is so divided that, when coagulat-
ed, as it must be by the gastric juice, while
digestion is going on, instead of being in one
hard, ocndeneed saes, upon the outside of
which only the digestive fluid can act, it is
more in the form o` a sponge, and in and
out of the entire bulk the gastric fuice can
play freely and perform its function.
THE GREATEST ATLANTIC LINER.
Description or the New Inman Steamer, the
City orNeir York,
The new Inman line steamer City of New
York had a trial trip at Glaegow the other
day. She is the largest passenger ateomer
afloat, having accommodations for 2 000 per.
sone. She has five decks in addition to her
double bottoms. The topmost dock, called
the promenade, extends unbroken from stem
to stern, and is unlike that in many Atlantic
steamers, as it is open at the sides for the
greater part of its length, and thus affords
shelter for those who wish to promenade in
boisterous weather. The leading feature of
the vessel is the first-class dining saloon,
situated forward on the upper deck. The de-
eigner of the vessel has taken in the height
of two and a half decks to make an arched
roof 20 feet high. The floor of the Deleon
is on the upper deck, and the arch rises four
feet above the top of the houses on the dealt
above the promneade. Along each side of
the saloon there are recesses in which par-
ties may dine separately in comparative
seclusion. The 300 people who may dine in
the saloon at the same time will have light,
air, and a oheery apartment, Theee are
supplied by hydraulic "lifts" from the gal-
ley on the deck below. At the after end
of the saloon is a spacious hall, whioh gives
entrance to a grand stairway—the principal
of many in the ship—also drawing and
library rooms for firab•class passengers.
The library is shaped like an hour glees,
being narrowest in the middle line of the
ship and widest at the aides. The greatest
amount of light is thus got for a given apace.
The library contains 800 volumee,representa.
five of all departments of literature, and
including 250 works by American writers.
Aft of the funnels on the upper deoke there
ie iaceommodation for a large number of
dinners, the idea being that here children
and servants may dine. The fimt.claee
smoking room i0 on the upper deck at the
after end of the ship. It ie 45 feet long
and 27 feet broad, and will ' ed very com-
fortable accommodations for meant 130.
Nearly 700 first-class passengers have been
provided for. The largest and beet private
apartments in the ship are fourteen suites
of rooms, equally divided between the promo,
rade and upper deok. The arrangement
and furnishing are such that the occupant
may, if he chooses, remain in doors during
the whole voyage and have hie food served
to him privately. He may also, if inclined
invite a few fellow vo7agere to his own
cabin and entertain them there. These
cabins look like email drawing rooms. There
are twenty.five day sitting rooms for first.
elan passengers. State rooms, large airy,
and beautifully decorated and upholstered,
have been provided on the main and lower
decks in the centre of the slip for 479 first•
class passengers,
The second-class passengers are amammo
dated on the stain and lower decks in well-
appointed state rooms. There are ninety.
01x staterooms for 390 second.oless pee-
sengere, These are almost as elegantly
and comfortably fitted as the first-clase rooms
in ordinary passenger steamers. Inside
rooms, both for first and aecond•elase pas.
sengere, are made as light, airy, and
comfortable as those against the side of the
ship, and the absence of any toned of the
sea will make them more comfortable than
outside rooms to many voyages. They will
be lit by oleetrio lights, and a unique method
of ventilation has been adopted to insure
fresh air in the inside ae well as outside
rooms.
The emigrants have rooms provided for
them at the two extreme ends of the lower
and main decks. The Bleeping berths are
n the middle line of the ship, and not,
as is usual, built up on the inoide of the
hull. The voyagers are therefore enabled
o use during the day the part of the deck
est lighted.
The engine mud boiler spaces take up
about 140 feet of the length of the ship,
On the bridge is the captain's cabin and
hart room, and a powerful search electric
ight, to enable the operator to dissever a
mall objeot a couple of mites away. This
s need at night, among other things, for
nding the buoys on entering channels at
t the end of the voyage.
The gross tonnage of the City of New
ark, 110,500 tone, makes her tho largest
aeeenger vessel afloat, and her engine
ower will very considerably exoeed that
f any other merchant steamer fn the world,
ting 20,000 -horse power. There are in all
inc boilers, of steel each weighing 74 tone
o enormous capacity for raising steam
high these nine boilers posses may bo
onceived when it ie Bald that were all the
tubes in the nits boiler's to bo joined the
ne to the other, they would extend in
ength 13 Scotch miles,
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Feeble women ought to think of this, and made them herself."
particularly feeble teac here. Let them seek rrAL1 4x 1101111 Uinta
to understand the laws by which vital power Ho—" My dear, you're becoming an angel
esthibita itself, and loath to be enonomical of a cook. These biscuits are as fine as my
in ha expenditure fot they are apt to have mother makes."
but a low stook out 11 at their disposal,
Ise Water.
lee water as a cooling beverage is a snare
and a delusion, A glassful of it ie Pot as
Old avian (to daughter about to be married)
T think, my darling, that my wedding
present will be a °be ue for a thousand
deflate, Daughter.-.0b,t�
a tat
10 nice andow tb h will be
1 be sero to straw it to my ardor,
PASSING NOTES,
The tender tops boiled with the bents aro
delicioue.
Let a man restore order within himself
and chaos without ceases.
The pleasure of doing good is the only
pleasure that never weare otib.
The oontpeny in which you will improve
most will be least expeneive to you.
Fiue armure silke in bird's-eye patterns are
in the looms of France in preparation for next
season's wear.
Marriage has been incorrectly defined
es a partnership, It ie n trust for the pro.
tection of infant industries.
Mre. Langtry'; two children arrived with
their grandmother from England last Sun-
day and will remain in Amoriea permanent-
ly, it is said,
A tailoring firm in Allentown, Pa., em-
ploys an attractive young lady to collect
debts from customers, She is said to be a
great success.
Tanaolored shoes are the "fad" of the fae-
hionable on the other viae, both men and
women wearing them on ocoaeiona when they
look out of place.
Some of the prettist seaside toilets are of
white cloth, braided with gold and colored
braids, or trimmed with Oriental embroi-
dery bands.
Mrs. Gaines, of the Hocking Valley, told
her husband to bring her home a new dress
or she would jump into the well. He forgot dfeonsaed, it is said to have been among the.
the to gete. She kept her hawve
he. It cost him most important oonventione the Con ream
472 to her out and have her bones mend• p g
ed.
It may be worth knowing that water in
whioh three or four onions have been boiled,
applied with a gilding brush to the frames
of pictures and chimney glasses, will prevent
flies from lighting on them and will not
injure the frames,
ing out native labor and that something
mueb be done to cheek this movement. A
committee of parliament has for some time
been investigating the subject, but itis Im•
paseible to toren() that ite members can Dome
to any other oonoluaion than to adopt the
system of eupervieiou in use in the United
Sbatee.
Is there any use, we wonder, in onoe more
calling attention to that abominable hahib
whioh scum people have of carrying through
orowdod thoroughfares, walking etioke and
umbrellas, under their arm pits at right
angles to their plane of locomotion? Do
sucli misguided perilous over read the pews.
papers? Have they any inkling of what
other people think of them when they
see them stalking along the 'street in
that fashion ? We have no means of
solving the question. We trust, how-
ever, that amok persons have intelligence
enough to read the newspapers. And we
may hope also that they are not above re-
adying a friendly hint whioh is meant to
make them much more agreeable members'
of society than they now are. If there
be any much among our readers we
would most affectionately urge them to use
sticks and umbrellas in such a way that in-
nocent brethren and sisters may not be kept
in imminent Bangor of the lose of an eye or
a front tooth by means of them,
The National Prison Congress of this
Continent, whioh met a year or two ago in
Toronto, has recently closed an important
annual meeting at Boston. Both in point
of attendance and in that of the subjects
A cynic has said that one-half of the mar-
riages are for money or for homes, one quar-
ter are arranged out of pique, one-eighth
are love affairs purely and the remainder are
agreed upon in order that one or the other
of the parties may escape the perseoutione of
unwelcome suitors.
Ethel Jones, of China, Me., an infant, was
left outdoors to play by her mother and was
attacked by a large rooster. When her
mother rescued her, blood frum three auto
made by the spurs covered the child's face,
and very serious inj uriee would probably have
been inflicted had the rescue been longer
delayed.
Caterpillars are doing great harm in Maine
towns on the upper Penobeaot. Fences full dieoretionary powers. This certainly
seem to be alive, so thiokly are they oovered makes the warden a good deal of an autocrat
has ever had. Among the reforms intro.
deiced and dimmed wee the Beetillan plan
for the regiotration and identification of
criminals. Ib would take too long to de.
scribe thin in detail, and besides ie would
be of compnratively little interest except to
experts, Suffice ib to say, in brief, that it
consists in taking certain measurements of
different parte of the body, by which a
oriminal may be inevitably recognized
if ever be gets into the clutch of the
law again after his first incarceration, and
registering there meaouremente in such a
way as to ensure the greatest convenience.
Another theme of discussion, if we remem-
ber rightly, also received its ehare of atten-
tion when the Congress met in Toronto—
the namely, advantages of indeterminate
sentences. That is to say the judge does
not sentence a criminal to a definite term of
imprisonment, but leaves the question open
to the discretion of the prison warden, or
in the hands of a pardoning Board to be ap.
pointed by each estate and endowed with
with the wriggling fuzzy things, Orchards
have been stripped clean of leaves, and now
the worms are taking to the woods and clear-
ing the forest trees of their foliage.
The Phildelphia women are as manna the
lawyers of that town. Oneot tb em who want-
ed a divorce induced her husband to aseault
a policeman who came to arrest him. Ho
was sent to the penitentiary, and this, of
course, furnished her with good grounds for
a divorce.
Ibis satisfactory to know that at length
suitable steps have been taken to preserve
the memory of the battle of Lundy'e Lane.
Canadians have not so many historical spots
that they can afford to neglect this one. We
hope that a worthy monument will soon
commemorate in lasting form the day on
whioh Canadian valour and patriotism gave
so good an account of themselves,
Itis fashionable now for husbands and
wives to keep separate bedrooms. Kings
and queens have set the example, and the
newly coupled folks in our fashion world are
following it, No secret is made of the cus-
tom. The nicest of our output of June
brides will calmly show you her own dainty
boudoir, and then exhibit the bedroom of
her husband. And the Duke of Marlborough
and his bride, the beautiful widow Hamers-
ley, sailed away on their honeymoon voyage
in two staterooms.
The first stride of any magnitude in the
manufacture of paper in Britain was
made at the beginning of tho eighteenth
oentury, when Mn James Whatman estab.
liehed a mill at Maidstone, where for the
first time white paper—with any pretensions
to whiteness—was made. Even then they
were paying one hundred thousand pounds
u year for paper to manufacturers in France
and Holland. Dutch paper was renowned
so far back as the sixteenth century, and
some of the most beautiful Elzovir editions
were printed on it. It was far superior to
Frenoh paper.
There is a woman in Belfast, Me., who is
shrewd, if not partioularly honest. Some-
how she got possession of a punched 55 gold
piece, She wanted to pass it for its full va-
lue, and she did. She calmly walked into a
store, pulled out the coin, showed it to the
merchant, and aaid that it was a keepsake
with whioh ahe Woe loath to part, but that
if the storekeeper would promise not to part
with 11 for a week else would buy a small bill
of goods, and redeem it in a few days. The
merchant agreed, gave the woman her geode
and ohange, and still has the punched coin,
though the week has gone several times
over.
The German doctors may rant and tear
around about Sir Morall Muckeozie but
English ouetome aro making headway in
Berlin. Fifteen young Englishmen study.
ing at the German capital, have just started
the first cricket olub ever established in
Germany. One of them has sent home an
amusing account of the interest the event
exoited among the Germans. Bata, ball,
wickets, teg•guarde and batting and wicket.
keeping gloves (which, of oourse, had to be
imported from England) were all examined
with a good deal of curiosity, The first
tier a wickets were pitched about 50 Germans
swarmed around them, seeming to think
that the nearer they got the greater the
assistance they were giving to the players ;
and it was not until ono had received the
ball full in the stomach that the necessity
of keeping at a respectable distance was
assn. the Englishmen have received per-
mission to play three evenings a week on
the Tomplehof, and their modelle beginning
may be the means of induoing the Germans
to take to this English game.
Whop the United Sbatee first proposed to
putan embargo on the importations of foreign
contrect labor and to exercise a strict su•
pervisnon over immigration, Radicals and
philanthropists were horror-struck, declar-
ing that coming and going were the very
eseence of freedom, but now both policies
are acknowledged net be eminently wise
It has hitherto been the proud boast of
Englishmen that their country was free
to all but they, too, are beginning to refloat
whether itis not possible to pay too high a
price for the emanoip;tion of others. Im.
ported foreign labor has eaten into the very
marrow of home induetry, and ie almost en-
tirely responsible for the present diatrese
among the native working classes. Iu for•
mor years thie was not 0o muoh felt, because
the pressure was relieved by promittouous
emigration, but now that that has been
chocked, our kinetnen ;erose tile sea are be.
ginning to and that Pelee, Belgnane, Swedes,
In oases where it is loft to bis discretion.
At the same time much can be said in favor
rf the view, which was the prevailine one
in the Congress, namely, that priaonore
thereby are given opportunities of working
out there own salvation to a degree impoa•
Bible under the usual system. They are not
crushed and dispirited by the sense of hav-
ing to look forward to, perhaps, very many
years of imprisonment. They always have
the incentives of hope to spur them on.
They know that on their own behaviour very
largely depends the time that mueb elapse
before they breathe 0000 more the sweet air
of liberty,
Pauper immigration is a thorn in the
flesh to other governments besides these in
the new world. England is having her own
trouble with the plague. Immigrants of
that etamp are crowding to her shores in
such numbers just now it is said, that the
problem of what to do with them ie becom-
ing a very serious one. Legislation has
fortunately succeeded in abating the nuis-
ance 'somewhat but its proportions are
still weighted with grave considerations.
Beings like these must live seeing that they
have been called into exiatenle for wise no
doubt, if mysteious, reasons. Consequently
in the eagerness of the struggle they are
willing to work for the smiles t pittance
that will keep body and soul together. The
work they do is of the womb, as might be
expected, but they manage to get a good
deal of it out of the hands of British work-
men for the simple reason that they will do
it for wages whioh no English laborer could
accept and preserve his self•re=peat. The
ooneequence is a great deal of hardship and
very natural discontent among the men who
thus see the brand and butter taken out of
their own menthe and the mouths of their
ohildren. What is then to be done? The ques-
tion is a very arduous one, and as old as it isor-
duo, A oommittee of the House of Commons
has been grappling withtheeubjeet. They are
likely, it is thought, to adopt the American
and Canadian plan of simply not allowing
persons who are certain to become public
bnrdens to Iand upon their coasts. It may
seem hard that the poor wretches should be
bandied aboatt from pillar to poet, and allow-
ed no place for the sole of their feat, but
what else oan be done ? Self-protection is the
first law of states, as well es of individuals,
The faot of the matter would 'seem to be
that this world is becoming over populated
with certain elements who reproduce their
Iike in a ratio out of all proportions to their
worth to the comuniey, and to the means
available tor susteutations.
Step by step man advanoee in his con-
quest of the forces of nature. One of the
most recent and most important steps has
been the application, the quite euoceesful
application it it claimed, to yachts of the
same principles of conetruotion by which
life boats are prevented from capsizing. The
gentleman who claims to have accomplished
this great feat is an American named Cap-
tain Norton, who has been nt work for six
years and has spent over $100,000 in efforts
to realize his ideas. And now at length he
chime that hie labours have been blessed
with euooess, and that hereafter even giant
steamships can be built in such a way that
it will be impossible for them to upset or at
least to sink if they do capsize. Is was the
albatross, says Captain Norton that first
suggested hie idea to him, whioh in brief,
may be described as a scientific) adaptation,
of water ballast and atmospheric pressure.
The buoynnoy of the albatross le wonderful,
so remarkable indeed, that the bird cannot
be drowned without first being stunned.
It has three joints in each wing. All its
joints and bones are hollow and full of air.
The bird concentrates his might by folding
hie wings and alights on the water in thatposition. He has also the power of ejecting
a certain amount of air from hie body as he
settles on the venter and that element re.
places the air thus emitted. The conclusion
then is inevitable that the water acting as
ballast together with atmoepherio pressure
are what give thie bird ite phenomenal buoy-
ancy, Here then fa a basis for a water hal-
haat system of bout conetruotion, and such a
system Captain Norton plains to have made
predictable, andfn a fair way to be brought as
near perfection as snob a thing can bo, What
a relief lewill bo to feel that whateverhappens
when you are taking a holiday jaunt on au
over•orowded excursion boat you are not like-
ly to go to the bottom at any tato, At the
worstyou can always have the keel of the
thing to hold on to. Inventere, however,
are proverbially sanguine, and it will be kat
ae well to wait a little before taking all Cap•
ermane and other natiottalit ea aro sgaooz. taro Norton'a hopes as inepirod prophecies,
MIST GARRETT'S WEALTH.
A Woman Who Manages $20,000,100 Worth
01Property .
''Mise Mary Garrett, the daughter of the
founder of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
eyetom, is an extraordinary women," said a
gentleman well aocivainted with the feats,
"and, but that she as a woman, would to -day
be Preeiden1 of that road," Idles Garrett
has never obtruded her individuality in the
management of the groat property which
her father left her at hie death, but her in-
fluence and capacity have noverthelees been
felt and reeognizcd by every ono who has
come in contact with the financial manage.
ment of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. For many years before her
father's death she was his chief assistant.
Her love for her father wee the ruling pas.
sion of her life, and her devotion to him was
the admiration of her !donde and she despair
of those who soaghb to win her band in meta
nage,
Mies Garrett to -day, although few per -
sone know it, controls and managea the
Garrett interest in the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, and has for some time been the
moot potential factor in the manlpulation
of the interests of that great corporation.
She is thoroughly acquainted with all the
details of the business of the road sad its
financial status, and has always been looked
upon as one of ite most sagacious advieera.
Although personally directing the man.
moment of a property worth not lees than
$20,000,000 Mae Garrett is almost unknown
to business man, because hoe fine sense of
modesty and true womanly reserve will nob
permit her to aasumo an individual and
personal control which both her capacity
for fivanainl affairs and her direct control
of millions of money would enable her to
an.
There is no woman in the United States
who eau command more ready "'clash than
Mina Garret. Her knowledge of the road
and its management gives her n position
in the councils of that corporation not
pposseseed by any other individual. When
her father was living Miss Garrett was his
private secretary, his beet adviser and hie
moat trusted friend, even above any of the
old gentleman's sons. It was in this
capacity that she obtained her knowledge
of the road and her insight into its finan-
cial affairs. After the death of her father
Mies Garrett's influence over her brother,
Robert Garrett, was so marked that it
became a matter of current talk in Bal-
timore. But there were certain theories
held by her brother which even the influ-
en00 which she held over him could nob
suooeosfaly combat. When the schemes
which led to the invocation of the aid of
the Drexel syndicate culminated, Robert
Garrett saw the wisdom of hie sister's
counsels, whioh he had failed to follow,
and practically surrendered to her the
management of his interest in the road.
When he started out on his tour around
clic world his enter followed and overtook
him at San Francisco, where he was in-
duced to give to her the control of all of
his interests in the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company.
Recently, when the syndicate which had
helped tho Baltimore and Ohio out of the
difficulties in whioh it had unwittingly been
plunged began to haggle about the commis -
aeons and threatened to place the road in an
embarrassing position, Mies Garrett quietly
brushed them all Beide, and pileup the need-
ed Dash, and saved the credit of the company,
Sine° the recent death of her brother, T.
Harrison Garrett, Mien Mary Garrote's control
of the Garrett es' • hag leemint practically
unlimited during Robert Garreet'sebeence,
Miss Garrett is a most unassuming lady,
and would hover be taken for a great finan.
der, as she is, at first sight. She is not fond
of notoriety, and in manners and habits i; a
most domestic and home -loving woman,
She worehipped her father, and her moat
ardent hope is to see the great road which
he built and brought to such great import-
ance kept up to the position where he left 11,
and perpetuated as one of the great institu-
tions of the country.
SPEED 01' AMERICAN RAILWAY,
TRAINS
Past Rau D°tween Dallimore and Wash..
Ingion—Eleven Miles an 'lour South.
An examination of the official time tables
for June, made by the Railroad Engineering
Journal, shows that the faatoot trains now
scheduled are two on the Baltimore and Ohio,
which aro timed to run the forty miles from
Baltimore to Washington in forty-five min•
anise, without stops, making the rate of speed
fifty-three and three -tenth miles an hour.
No other train can be found whioh makes
over forty miles an hour, and the nearest
approach to it is a train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, which rune from Jersey City to
Philadelphia, making one stop, at an average
speed of 48 3 miles an hour. Oa the opposi-
tion—Bound Brook—line one train makes the
distance from Jersey City to Philadelphia at
the rate of 46 0 miles an hour, without allow-
ance for the four stops. The quickest train
between Philadelphia and Baltimore runs at
the rate of 41,6 miles an hour, The fastest
long distance run is that of the Uhioago li-
mited on the New York Central and Hudson
River road, whioh averages 41 6 miles an hour
from New York to Albany, and 40.6 miles
from Albany to Buffalo. The corresponding
train on the Pennsylvania road rune at the
rate of thirty night miles an hour from Phila.
delphia to Pittsburgh.
The trains whioh are timed to run over
forty miles an hour are thee found to be very
few in number, and there are not many which
are galled upon to make more than thirty.five
or, indeed, over thirty miles for any consider.
able distance. It mueb be remembered, how.
ever, that a train whose average epeod le
forty miles an hour must make much faster
time than that in parts of its run.
What is the slowest passenger train to not
easy to determine, but an "expreae" on a
North Carolina line, whioh takes nine hours
to run 100 miles—an average of 111 wiles an
hour—ie a very promising candidate for the
honor.
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Mark Twain.
No 000 need grudge Math Twain his
onory degree from Yale. Jae well says,
n the most serlous words we ever heard
rom him
"It could not become us—we being in
oma ways, and at Intervale, modeat, like
Cher folk—to remind the world that ours
a a useful trade, a worthy calling; that,
nth all its lightness and frivolity, it has
tie serious purpose, one aim, ono specialty,
an
d it is eonetanb to it—the deriding. of
hams, exposure of pretentious falsities,
ho laughing of stupid superetition0 out of
xietonoo; and that whose le by instinct
ngaged fn this sort of warfare is tho natty.
1 enemy of royalties, nobilities, privileges,
nd all kindred swfndloe, and the natural
mond of human rights and human niece,
ios."
Dleinfeotauta.
A000rding to a recent writer oarbolio acid
is for certain purposes one of the moon olfi-
olout disinfootauts, For washing infooted
clothing a solution of ono part of the oryebal,
lined acid in 20 parts of water is effectual,
the only disadvantage being the emelt, whioh
Jo very annoying to many persons, and es-
pecially invalids, It eau also be used in pro-
portion of oac pound of the orystals to two
gallons of caber, for scrubbing the floor and
base boards of infootedr room a for disinfect•
stables, water closets, ele. It ie p0leeneue,
and should be so labelled
Chloride of lime is, when properly need In
certain places of great value as a disin-
fectant. The prime requieite is that it should
be applied in a confined space, Bo that the
chlorine gas, which is the chief, active agent,
stall bo given off in a ooceentrated
form. For this reason it should only be
need in a dry state for disinfecting
drains, cesspools and the like, which are
enclosed. When employed in planes expos-
ed to the fresh air 10 is practically useless,
for the chlorine boomer' too dilute to be of
value in destroying "germs," and the only
action then is due to the lime in actual
contact with infectious matter.
Passing to the use of sulphur by burning,)it
has been shown that this is extremely unre-
liable. As commonly applied, by burning a
few ounces in an ordinary room, it is posi-
tively of no value. It hes been demonstrat-
ed that, in order to use ib effectually, it ie
necessary to burn about three pounds in a
room of 1600 cubic feet ; and then, boo the
presence of moisture ie a necessity, But
while in certain case this sulphurous gas
will destroythe
germs, it cannot bo colied
upon, and hence should not be used when
methods whioh have been known to be effect•
nal can be employed.
An Old Case Settled.
The nllioiat information just obtained by
Consul General Phelan of the remission of the
fines of $400 each imposed on the Gloucester
fishing vessels Annie W. Hodgson and Arthur
D. Story indicates a desire on the part of the
Dominion to clear up existing cause of dia-
agreement and to remove dissatisfaccion.
These are old oases, and the Hodgson's was a
peculiar one, She was seized a year ago op.'
Shelburne on the ground that she had landed
men without reporting to the Custom house.
The facts, according to the captain of the
Hodgson, were that two of her men in a dory
had been lost in a fog while attending to the
trawls, and, being unable to find their way
beak to the vessel, they had made tor the
harbour and landed. The Hodgson searched
vainly for them a long time, and the next
morning sent a boat's crew ashore to see
whether anything had bean heard of ahem,
Tho Canadian anthorities evidently distrust•
od this story, and probably thought that oven
if the captain of the Hodgson was not in
complicity with the two men the latter had
"lost" themselves purposely. Besides, fresh
fish for bait were found on the Hodgeon,
which, it was thought, had been brought
from tho shore, although the captain sand
they came from his trawls. The case created
much talk at the time, but now, at last, the
fine is remitted,—N. X. Times,
Snooeesful.
Anexohange says, truthfully,fthat thegreat
question for most of us should be, not bow
we can do greater things, but how we can
do the common and homely duties of life
more faithfully, remembering that, after
all life is made up chiefly of common.
places.
There once lived in n western village a we..
man who was anxious that her only eon
should achieve some manse in life, and lift
himself above " the common run of men," as
she said.
When she reflected that even the preeid-
°nay of the United Statesis within the reach
of the poorest and humblest boy she did nob
wish her son to fall far below that exalted
station in life.
Long after the son was a man an acquain-
tance met the ambitious old lady, then
visiting in a distant State, and asked her
about her sou's success in life.
" Well" she said, cheerily, " he ain't the
President of the United States yet; he aint a
Senator, nor yet a Congressman, nor Gover-
nor, nor Mayor, but I tell you he's the very
beet blacksmith there is in our part of the
oountry. Indeed he is"/
To do his duty well and faithfully as a
blaokemith is to lift himself to as High a
plane of life as he eouldreaoh in more exalt-
ed position.
He Sized Her Just Right.
I wandered forth one stilly night, when
Ed and Ef I chanced to meet; Ed stole a
kiss with fond delight, while Effie'; smiles
were charming sweet. And ae he took that
loving kiss I saw him gently take her hand,
and heard him say : " On give me this and
by my aide forever stand."
" Oh, darling Ed, you've nought to fear
my love is deep and strong and true, for no
one else I have a tear; I never loved a
' kid' but you." Then close he pressed her
to his heart and took of kisses fall a aoore ;
she gently 'sighed, then took a start and
said, "Oh darling, kiss me more 1'
She Named the Day,
Octogenarian, but halo and hearty suitor
—"L love you, Mien Amy ; will you be my
bride."
Mise Amy—" But you are eighty if
you're a day."
O, S.—" With you, Mia; Amy, 1 will
only be four young men of twenty."
Mies Amy—" Oh, how nice I"
She names the day.
As Illusion Dispelled.
"Here, head waiter, I want you to give
me another room. My next neighbor anoree
so dreadfully as to shake the pictures on the
walls. Could you not find me quarters soine-
where near that charming fair lady I met at
the table d'hote to•day,"
" Why, she's the very person—her room
ie next to yours 1"
Cleared Up,
I admit, dear Charles, I told Mies Jones
I really did not like you—
Perhaps the meaning of my words
Dobh not yet full strike you.
So hoar me swear by all the stars
A -twinkling now above you,
Tho roaeon why I like you not
Ie this l because I love you.
The Genuine Article,
"Now, ladies an' gente," vociferated an
orator in front of a Hamilton diene mutoum,
"walk rigout in and view the great Athenian
knife swallower, the only ono on exhibition,
Ten emits, ladies ani' gents-, it will neither
make nor break—"
"Is ho a genuine Athenian 1" demanded
tite crowd,
Oho of the fashionable shades Ala year is " Sc hole mc, ht was bora, brought, up
nailed "putty." It matches tho head of the ' 0,01 o they
in Wzo wilds of Athenia I"
fashionable young lody'e boort first rate, y rushed in,