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.--r. I tut opo and occasional immersion in water
we exceedingly desirable, and usually in.
What is Disease 7 I dispensable to health and comfort; copse -
In a general sense, disease is the leg!. , fent thy,batvaudl a fall bathshould
hove aof seam
'timate and neoeseary tomtits of the violations
Of the laws of our physical being—the con- kind, not only 101' general neatness of porton,
ditioue of health. It is reasonable to infer ao desirable to every individual el taste and
that there is no pain, eickneae, and but few culture, bub is a moque of preserving health,
deatthowhich hidao not
health beingfrom
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anent of1 we g leeaanteat and one of the most powerful
fain sense natural and disease accidental P
inflicted in the line of penalty. Woe may andeCtodeffieia t means
eans (cojudgmb tingndis as ,
conclude that the groat and good F th la
to
USA pleated with tiffs children when they other rlemedieth and tis a,aoanhlboauxuoeda when
regard all of His laws, including, moat
certainly, the laws of the body, eetab- internal remedies cannot. In the long
Iished for the regulation of that body, catalogue of dteeaeae to which flesh is heir,
by a proper observance of which a ne• namely one can be named in the troatmen
rural condition of good Health can be of which a bath is usolesa, In an emergency,
seamed—our health being as certainly whish often happens when least exoeoted,
under our enntral, and to as great an as in cholera, cholera intaatum, cholera
extent as any branoh of our business or pores are the openings into minute tubes or
employment, or our education—while die• channels, whichh lead through unseen mean.
obedience, and consequent physical suffer• deringeluto the cancrum of life within,
ing and disease, not only are nob in accord. To those blamed with good health, a bath
once with his pleasure and design, but such as a common sense appliance, gives thrift
violations of his laws will constitute sin, rte and growth to Healthy functions, a bright•
certainly as a violation of a moral law, both Asa and delightful serenity, a clearness of
Laving the same divine origin, mind and buoyancy of spirit. It le certain-
The true condition of the advanced man ly a biasing to both mind and body. For
is that in which his whole being is harmoni• the mental worker, it is a nerve tonic. A
thorough i
cushy developed, the body so oared for andimmersion in water of proper tem•
fed that it will have some of the vigor and Perature will palm and give strength and
endurance of ire original state, as he came tone to his whole system. The indoor la -
from the hand of the Creator, when, as one of borer who gots but a meaty supply of fresh
the beat thinkers of the age in which he air, needs a bath to obtain those mvigorat•
lived, Horace Mann, said of man before he ing elements so common in the open sir.
fell, physically, by groso violations of or. The outdoor laborer—especially the farm•
gismo lawn, "He was so perfect in his bodf- er—who works with heroic energy all day
ly organs, so defiant of cold and heat, or long, unavoidably gathers as the entire sur -
drought and humidity, so surcharged with face of his body a complete prima -wall of
vital fore, that it took more than two dust and thickening, gummy perspiration ;
thousand years of the oombined abomina- and when his day's work is done he needs
tions of appetite and ignorance; it took thea, more than any other thing not only
sneeeaive ages of ontrageoue excess and de•
banohery to drain off hie electric energies
and make him even accessible to disease;
then it took ages moreto breed all of these vile
distempers which now nestle, like verniip,
in every fiber of the body 1" Although
sufferings, tortures, and disease follow in
_jrhg,direot line of penalty for disobedience,
a disregard of necessary laws of our being,
these penalties are administered in mercy,
what we call disease being, generally, only
efforts of nature to avert the worst remake
of our wrong doings, and to improve the
general condition of the system.
Ws may have a dough, yet that is not
the real difficulty, but the result of a
struggle of the recuperative powers, the
vital energies, to dispose of certain accu-
mulations whioh would otherwise prove
harmful, if not fatal. The duty of the
nurse, physician, etc., is to co-operate
with nature in this friendly effort for km
provement and purification, " loosen the
cough " and promoting expectoration. Yet
some young practitioners, who anppose that
they are saturated with science, do the best
(or worst) that they can to antagonize na-
ture, crippling her in et ery respect. by the
administration of opiates, retaining such
foul accumulations, to serve aa irritants in
future, Yet, it is well known that, in the
advanced stage of lung affections, when ex-
pectoration is impossible, when the system
is measurably contaminated, death soon
follows.
Again, when more food is eaten than
.can be digested, the remainder ferments,
decays, putrifies in the stomata, threat-
ening harm to the whole system. A nausea
is instituted, followed by convulsive efforts
of nature to expel the putrid and poisonous
accumulation in mercy, which we call the
disease—vomiting— whioh should always
be encouraged, 'rinsing' out the stomach
with warm water till cleanliness is secured,
Yet, opiates are often given to foil nature iu
her merciful efforts for purification, and
these effo.•ts of the young practitioner to
antagonize the recuperative powers too
oftenprosing a partial success. The result-
ant disease, so-called, may be a flux;
nature, foiled in her attempt to rid
the stomach of its poisonous Burden, by
vomiting, hustle the masa into the bowels,
where another effort at expulsion is institut-
ed. Nature is generally prompt in snoh
measures, doing the beat that can be done,
ander the circumstance, at least, unaided.
By the nae of opiates, this merciful effort
of nature may be suspended, the impurities
retained in the body, yet nature is not 80
easily pacified, not easily conquered. The
next effort to purify may be to produce
outaneoue diseatea, throwing the visceral
impurities to the surface, as the next
most available means of avoiding worse
diseases: Just to the extent that these
discharges are effected, health may bo
secured, the system purified. If astringents
are applied, the discharges checked, in con-
oequence of the foolish fear of "running the
life away," when nothing but impurities,
poisons, are discharged—the more the bet.
ter—outraged nature may still attempt a
cure, s purification, by instituting a fever,
which the meddlesome young practitioner
can not so easily control. If the causes are
not removed, the fever will be quite sure to
have its own course, taking its time for.
the renovation and cure. The vital ener-
gies quicken the circulation, sending the
blood to the lungs for purification,
these two ants energizing the whole sys-
tem. What nature failed to expel, in
consequence of the astringents, as the
next resort is actually burned by feverish
action, the combustion producing the heat
of the fever. Such a fever, if not troubled
by intruders, consumes vaat quantities of
effete matters, purifying and restoring
health.
If our Heavenly Father punishes us
for our physical aim, our reckless disre-
gard of the physical laws whioh he in-
stituted for the protection of our health
and the promotion of our phyeioal welfare
he supplemented such penalties with re•
conetruotive instrumentalities, recupera-
tive measures, conduoive to our real
good. If we suffer, it is because we are
wrong ; we outrage our physical being.
It would be blasphemous to charge the
good Father with creating idiots, mon-
sters, the physically dwarfed and die -
eased, surcharged with the overflowing
rottenneea of lioentfousnese, the gan.
grenons and the deformed, the blind and
the halt, the thousands of the victims
of degraded and vicious parents, in
whom the foul emanations, in the form of
malignant dimness, are constantly out•orop-
ping from week to week, rendering mortal
life but a eerier, of fearful plagues and e.pi-
demioe, the diseased bodies, scarcely being
capable of containing the content stream of
foulness which naturally Howe from a vicious
and licentious life down to a cin -cursed
progeny. No, Owe suffer, it is because wo
procure sufferings, create our own dfaeasea 11
— Dr. J. H. Hansford.
Whv we Should Bathe.
Among all the appliancea for health and
comfort to mankind we may oafoly say
there it; nothing 00 well known, oo useful
a wash, baba good, insolent. fol bath to fit
him for a olean bed and a refit aging sleep.
Tho gluiinoue masa of perspiration, duet
and filth, whioh gathers on the surface of
the body naturally covers and cloge the
pores MA often enters them and poisons the
system. To remove that filth, frequent ab•
morbus, cramps, fits, eta , a pliable, portable
bath, which rcquires but little water, ready
just at the right time, may save some
precious life.
Finally, everyone needs a bath at times,
and every human habitation should contain
aometbiug for a complete immersion in
water, and ainoa convenient and efficient
portable bathe at comparatively low figures
are now extensively advertised for sale,
there is little excuse for anyone to be with.
out this priceleea benefit.
The Breath.
In the night of June 20, 1769, the Indian
nabob, Surajab Dowlah, having captured the
garrison of the Eoglieh port of Calcutta, con-
fined all bio prisoners, ono hundred and
forty-six in number, in a cell scarcely twenty
feet square, with but two small windows,
and these partially obstructed.
Only twenty-three survived the horrors of
the "Black Hole" until morning, and even
them soon came down with a malignant dis-
ease, characterised by violent eruptions on
the surface of the body.
Donbtleaa many of the imprieoned garrison
perished in the fearful struggle to get a
breath of air at the openioge. Most of those
who have written on the subject have inferr.
ed that the carbonic acid expired from the
lenge was the chief cause of their deaths ;
but the condition in which the survivors
were left led some eminent experts, at a la-
ter period, to believe that the deadly poison
in the ease wart contained in the exhalations
from the akin.
Recently two distinguished French physi-
oiana, Brown Sequnrd and D'Areonval, have
been experimenting, and have obtained re-
sults which are thought to prove that expir-
ed air contains another poison, additional to
those of carbonic acid and ammonia, to whioh
mainly the dangerous nature of expired air
must be referred. The exact nature of this
poiaon bee not yet been ascertained, but the
experiments cannot be due either to carbonic
acid or to ammonia.
By passing expired air, whether of human
beings, or of animals, through water, a solu-
tion was obtained which, injected into the
veins of animals, invariably gave rise to the
same symptoms—a slower breath, a rapid
lowering of the temperature, a considerable
paralytic weakness, especially of the binder
limbs, and, after three or four days, a mor-
bid activity of the heart.
Larger injections induced excessive eon•
traction of the pupils, increased paralysis,
and a diarrhena, something like that of obo-
lera. The eminent surgeons who aonduoted
these experiments are disposed to regard
pulmonary consumption as largely due to
this poison. If future experiments should
establish this view, it must greatly empha-
size the supreme importance of thorough ven-
tilation in our homes at.d chnrahes and all
places for pnblio gatherinao.
01 course, persona differ in susceptibility
to all morbid influences. The viyoroue, who
comply with the laws of life may eliminate
them when taken into the system ; but those
of low vitality, whether hereditary or acquit.
ed, may readily become victims.
For Cramps in the Leg.
Many persona of both sexes are greatly
troubled with °ramps in one or both their
lege. It comes on suddenly and is very
severe. Most people jump out of bed (it
nearly always comes on either just after
going to bed or while undressing) and ask
some one to rub the leg. I have known it
to last for hours, till in despair they would
send for the family physician, and even
then it would be houre before the spasm
would let up. There is nothing easier than
to make the spasm let go its hold, and it
can be accomplished without 'tending for a
doctor, who may be tired and in need of
a good night's rest. When 1 have a patient
who is subject to cramp I always advise
him to provide himself with a strong cord.
A long garter will do if nothing else is
handy, When the cramp comes on take
the cord, wind it around the place that is
cramped, and take an end in each hand and
give it a sharp pull, one that will hurt a
little, Instantly the cramp will let up,
and the sufferer can go to bed assured it
will not comp on again that night. For the
permanent mure, give about aix or eight
cells of galvanic battery, with the negative
pole applied over the spot that cramps and
the 'mediae pole over the thigh. Give it
for ten minutes, and repeat every week for
a month. I have saved myself many a good
night's rest simply by posting my patients
eubjeot to spasm of the los how to use
the oord as above. I have never known it
to fail, and 1 have tried it after they had
worked half the night, and the patient was in 1
the mosfjdnteneo agony, ,Even in such °roes 1
at the first jerk of the cord all pain left. ' i A Long Time Between Drinks.
1 Col. Blood (angrily, to waiter)—I say,
. waiter, didn't 1 toll you to bring me another
and withal so oomfortfng, and yet to little When we are laboring under a physical cocktail? the
praotioed, so carelessly and thoughtlessly malady we ee everything through a dieter. i Waiter—Yes,sah ; yea, sok. 1b'11 be hero b
neglected, as judicious bathing, The skin ted medium, We aro no longer masters of drreotly, e
of the human body', from head to foot, is a ourselves, but the viotlma of a distemper, l Co(, Blood—Well hurry ti
network of pores, whioh ought aiwaye to be edjiinagination, P ' Y P• I want you
Lost .Articles on Railways.
The lost article departmonta of the rail
roads are ourioaity shops, They contain
the acoumlations of years, act fully a third
of the artiolee left on trains are never called
for. A dozen or more arbioles are pioked up
in the New Haven ooaohee every day. They
are kept for a time at the Grand Central
Depot awaiting owners' calls. Tho company
has a bushel or more of pursee,a eine of
which are five or aix years old, They con.
rain very little money as a usual thing, but
pictures, newspaper olippings, poetry, and
samples of drese.goode in abundance. The
piokpocket has been through moat of these
purees', no doubt, and after hastily extract-
ing the Mlle, he throws the purse on a neat
or on the floor. Once or twee, however,
pookebbooka containing large sums of money
and bonds worth thousands have been pick.
ed up by the train men. Conductor Canon,
when a baggage man several )ears ago,
picked up a pocketbook on the plat-
form, just as the train was entering Bos.
ton, Containing $40,000 in securities and
$500 in bills. He had just handed it to
the superintendent when the owner rushed
in breathlessly and said that he was ruined
if be couldn't find it. Of the things usually
left in the oars, umbrellas and purses pre-
ponderate. The record laet Saturday on
the Anew Haven road was Five umbrellas,
one parasol, two canoe, shawl, box of pow.
der, =star and package of collars. Yester•
day two siekleo were left by some farmer.
Boxes of cigars and shoes are quite common,
Violoncellos, snare drums and oats in boxes
have been taken one by the conductors.
All that the Grand Central wants to o0m
plete its collection is a real live baby. Two
years ago a man stopped at New Haven
long enough to hand an expressman a travel-
ling bag, directing the latter to take it to a
certain address where he said he lived.
The address WAS fictitious, and the ex rasa -
man was wondering what to do with the
bag when he discovered that it contained a
live infant. The supposed father had taken
another train, 00 the satchel's oontente went
to an asylum.
The King of Greece.
Alexander A, Rangabe writes to the 0hi•
cage Inter•Ocean from Athens as follows :—
It is a common saying in Athena that there
is no king happier than the King of Greece.
I don't know how far this is true, but oar,
tainly no king is freer in his movements than
King George. Strangers, especially Rus•
Mame and Germans, who imagine that
Nihilists and Socialists are everywhere, are
amazed when they come to the conclusion
that the gentleman and lady, walking quietly
in front of them, arm and arm, dressed like
everybody else, must be the King and Queen
because all cbe people bow to them, while
the officers salute and the soldiers present
armaastheypass by. Theycannotunderatand
how a king dares to walk among his subjects
in thia free and easy way, without any escort
and without takingthe slightest precaution
for his safety. Yet this le an everyday
occurrence in Achene.
One often meets the King walking with
the Queen or the Princess Alexandra, goner.
ally followed by a splendid Danish dog ; at
another time itis the Queen with her two
eons or the King with an aide -decamp, both
dressed in civilian's clothes. Sometimes
they go on horoebaek, in which case they are
followed by two servanta in livery ; but the
Queen prefers driving to riding, although she
ie an excellent horsewoman.
They have so much confidence in the affec-
tion of their subjects and are so sure of their
own personal surety that our Royal family
rather enjoys mixing with the orowd on the
000asion of some illumination or other public
amusement, when they walk about among
the people like any ordinary family. On
Holy Friday, for instance, I met them mov-
ing about in this way among the crowds
standing in Constitution Place and along
Hermes atreot, waiting to see the procession
pass by, one of the moat beautiful eights in
Athena,
Both the King and Queen, although be-
longing to differentreligions, are very pious,
and go regplarly to all the church services.
The Royal Palace contains two chapels, one
Protestant, for the King, and the other
Greek, for the Queen, served by a Greek
priest and a choir composed of Greek men
and boyo, who Bing the Greek hymns accord-
ing to European music, The Princes have
also been taught to have great respect for
the Church.
An Unlucky Experiment.
It is not probable that the mishap of
Tiehermen Bill Danbury and Merles Black,
of Eastport, resulting in the capture of their
boat by the Canadian steam oruiaer Dream,
will arouse any fresh diplomatio controversy.
There is no question of commercial privileges
involved, or a violation ot revenue laws
simply. The adventurous pair of Maine
fishermen, if the account from St. John to
correct, committed the undoubted treaty
offence of trying to take fish without a license
in the inshore watere of the Dominion. This
offence has never been one of the points in
dispute between the two Governments. Per-
haps bravado or a desire to do eometbiag
worthy of being talked about was one mo-
tive in the unlucky experiment, since Bill
Danbary's aohrigttet of " King Haddock"
indioates that he hada reputation to sue.
tate. The waters in question are among
those which require the most vigilance to
police, because the line between the two
countries there runs directly through the
bay ; and, indeed,iwhen the fishermen found
that they were discovered they ht ped to get
book m season aoroea the line ; but they had
steam power against them.
Some Friends of the Farmers.
In concluding a recent bulletin from the
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment sta-
tion, Rev. George D. Hulot, entomologist,
says : "It may oleo be an aduantage to
point out tome of the Mende of the farmer,
which, consequently, no tanner should de-
stroy or allowed to be destroyed. Among
these are the toads, whioh are, under all
ofroumttanoea, the farmer's friend ; moles
and field mice probably do a vast deal more
good than harm ; all birds, especially robins,
wrens, thrushes, orioles, ouokooa, phebee,
bluebirds, wood -peckers, swallows and cat-
birds. The destruction of all these and
many others, exoept for eoientido purposes,
should be made under vory heavy penalties,
illegal in every State. The house -sparrow,
known better as the English sparrow, is to
be rated an exception. Thio bird ie now
universally regarded as a nuisance—fire,,
bemuse of its grain and vegetable -destroy
ing propensities ; secondly, it drivee away
inae0b•destroying birds."
SUMMER SMI.LES. Mies Oakley's Marvelloue Performance, FOREIGN NOTES,
Mico Annie Oakley, the celebrated rifle
The reason Mohammed refused togo to a n Shot, o ' e hereon on Thor° will bo an international horse
Mid Wing h t, a Ups d ora t ober lby,
r
ohown
the mountain was b theinParisext
maenu o hotel rates year, whore
nt n ortea r 4a 0
oag e°Y, o e$ 00 will
tthe Wild 1 show,Glouo t r id
'Vatrte City,
ware 00 high. N. Y„ and the tea thousand people present be dlatributad in prizes,
Whatever may bo said of jewelry and showed their appreciation of her wonderful , iTha new rifio recently adopted for the Brit•
winter clothing, it is not considered a skill by loud and continued applause AS oho to Army has been withdrawn. It wait son•
all improper to soak your bathing suit, brought down her birds, some of which damned by "all practical mon.'
A man is judged by the olothoe that he
wears at buaincsa and a woman by the
olothoe she does not wear in a hall room.
The seaside girl who half no bathing tog•
tame said that she didn't go into the water
became she was unsuited for such pastimes,
I hear you have had an addition to your
family, Mr, Brown," Mr.'Brown (oadly)—
Multiplioation, my dear madam—twine 1"
Minister (called upon to marry a young
lady to an effeminate dude)—" To avoid all
mistakes, please state which of you is the
bride."
Seedy Party (to bartender)—" Gimme a
gin fizz." Bartender—" Yoe, sir, Do you
want it extra fizzy?" Seedy Party—" No,
extra ginny."
Yes," said Quigglea, " I have a good
deal on my hands just now." " So 1 per.
oeive," replied Fogg ; " why don't you try
a little soap and water ?"
When Robinson Crusoe landed on his
lonely island he could for the first time
understand the feelings of the landlord of a
Summer resort hotel on a rainy Sunday.
Take her up tenderly,
Touch her with ooze ;
Fashioned so slenderly—
Tao bustle ain't there.
Aa exohange says we have a right to take
an umbrella or a kiss without permission
wherever we can. Well, but if the umbrella
isn't returned the fault is ours; if the kiss
isn't it is the lady's.
Her father—"I can't give her any dowry,
I am very poor, Mr. Browne. My little all
won't foot up to more than $25,000,'' Mr.
Browne—" Oh, 625,000 ie enough for us to
begin en, Mn. Jemyth.° in our final start for the Great Wall. Two Mermen in the Dee, in England,
Wife (with her head out of the second- 1 Had never knows before that the twisted have caught asturgeon, weighing 200 pounds,
story window, to husband at front door)— time, aontortod objeota and queer architect over five feet long, and as thick as a man's
( Can't you jQndpe1lnetyhdo0lae Henry�r?�Henrp fro punted on Chinese punch -bowie and body. The best previous record was a 156-
doubttall " ' t Rsh've platters are not droll oarioatnroe but the pound sturgeon two years ago.
tegk'tgn ataireh widyou, Chfnoae representations of Chinese art ideas
Mta, ii0iiipand—Mal juetrunaoroes Intho actual evorydayscenes of Chinese life.
the street and ask that man with a white- Tho grotesque figures whiob they paint on
wash bucket if he's engaged." Mary Ann fano, or screens, are all well known histori-
(returning after an animated conversation I oal characters, heroes of fiction, or deified
with Julius Plumbob)—Ploaso, mum, he says I saints and philosophers, and each one cornea
he's been married for twelve years. to the Chinese mind its peculiar tradition
Mother —"Johnny, you muon't play with or romantic association.
Willie Brown any more Johnny, "Why There is very little pioturesgae scenery in
not, mamama ?" Mother—"Because he is a China, and the few Mlle, streams and val.
bad little boy." Johnny—" Well mamma, I lays which lovers of natural beauty have die.
ain't eo doggone good myself that you ought covered, have done duty in decoration for
to be kickin'." hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. But
these outlines, made familiar by repetition,
What in the world, John," asked his have a different meaning when the fact is
wife," did you open that man of tomatoes explained that the skill:ul Chinese landscape
with?" "Can opener, of course," he growled. gardeners have made innumerable miniature
"What do you a'pose I opened it with ?" copies of these few bits of scenery in the
"I thought from the language you used that court yards which are enclosed by the inner
you were opening it with prayer." walla of the houses of the better sort. These
A new reporter was sent to iuveettgato a courts, a feet in extent, oblong or square,
rumor that swell -known citizen had become are laid out in little mountain ranges, show -
insane. The next morning the following ing (taverns and lakes, trails and ravines on
paragraph appeared in the paper: "There every side.
was a report yesterday that something was
the matter with Mr. Sander's head. It is as Training the Color Sense•
sound as it bas always been. There is
nothing in it." The reporter's career ended
there and then.
were rapid flyers and would have been hard A club of society women in London hi
to hit oven by the boat male crook shote, going to start a largo poultry farm near Lon -
The Hurlingham rules governed the shoot• don. Doe culture le oleo lnolused in the
ing and fifty bird's had been aelootod to try aohome.
and fiy away from "Little Sure Shot,' but The telephone charge for five minuted
as the more will show, only her thirty-oacand conversation between Paris and Marseilles
bird was declared out of bounds, and that to three francs; between Paris and Lyons
one died but three feet outside the boundary. two frame.
Tho five traps were placed in position by
genial Frank Butler, the well-known crook
shot, who manages Miss 0 eklcy'a intereote.
Frank Kleintz, the champion win K abob of
Nennaylvania, was referee and Miles L,
The Gorman Government has
Johnson who has never been beaten onpaid 300,
mad
Jersey soil, pulled the trope. 000 marks to an Austrian en�ggineer named
Miss Oakley, by her skill, won hundreds Manglioher for a patent oyltndar stopper for
quick loading rifles.
A soldier who was seen to take off his oap
while using the telephone, informed a ques-
tioner that he did so because he was talking
to his superior officer.
A "life-saving saloon" is among the lateab
inventions. It is arranged so that the whole
In Tone Killed, saloon is allowod to elide overboard, and it
First 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1-10 praatioally beoome a small ship.
Seooad 1 2 1 1 2 1 3.1.
1 1 1-10 Tho English Court of Appeal bas decided
Third 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1-20 that relatives of a dead person have no right
Fourth 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1— 9 to plane flowers or other tokens on the grave
Fifth 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-10 except;with the permission of the oemetery
— authorities,
It is proposed in England to provide
judges at race Macke with an instantaneous
photographing apparatua by which to tell
beyond possibility of mistake what horse
There are said to be something like fifty has won in a close finish.
thousand charaoters in the written language
of the Chinese. I am sure it would take
them all to fully describe the queer sights
and strange customs we witnessed in Poking
during the few days we rested there, at the
cheerful United States Legation, before mak-
A little girl, aged 8, died from aoaaickneea
during a voyage from Tiree to the Clyde.
The eioknesa was very severe, and ended fa
e convulsive fit.
of dollars for her friends, and netted a $200
puree for killing forty five out of fifty birds
The little lady used a 20 gauge gun =mg -
ed with if oz. shot, and shot at 25 yards'
rise. She used the second barrel ten times,
as 'the soorm herewith given will show, four
time being unnecessary.
Total
Chinese Art and Landscape Gardening.
The wife of a Breton peasant, for whom
the doctor had prescribed leeches, fried the
leeoheaand gave them to her injured husband
t0 eat. He wag taken fatally ill and it was
attributed to the leeches,
The International Hygienic Society of
London is starting street stands in different
parts of that city where ladies may eend
their pantile ,leave their olonko and arrange
their toilet when on ahoppirg tours,
Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria has
for some time practised euocesfully mean -
oouliet, giving advice and treatment gratia.
Young Prince Louie Ferdinand has just
finished his medical studies, and will begin
to practice also.
While the Episcopal Bishops wore in con-
ference, there was presented to them an
address, signed by about400 lay and clerical
members of the Church ot England, de-
ploring " the departure, unauthorized by law
whioh has been adopted by many individuate
in the Church of England toward the doct-
rines and teachings of the Church of Rome."
Among the signers were several members of
the House of Lords and of the House of
Commons,
A man was tried in Leeds for manslaught-
er of his wife, for her fault. The Crown
Prosecutor declared to the jury that " speak-
ingJenn 7n aiow desarbbes, in the add dialect not as a counsel for the Crown, but as
g a man he should have anted as the prisoner
of the North of England, the process of at the bar had done," so far at least
teaching boys and girls to match colors. It
appears that about four per cent. of the
Proposed. by Calieraph, brit was Not Ao- children were unable to distinguish colors,
even the most unlike.
oepted. There was a alma -room in which was a the man down stairs ; and went on to tug -
Young Thubs is a good business man, but table covered with skeins of German wool, gest that in a paroxysm of rage the prison -
outside of business he is not such a good bibs ot stained glass and silks of all colors, er had turned upon his wile and inflicted
manager. He had a beautiful typewriter, The master said, " Now, bairns, book end upon her the injuries from whioh she died.
on of the perfected kind, aged nineteen a'laat week I tell'd ye I'd gig ye an ould The man was sentenced to one day's im-
years, better than new, wish laughing bine farrant lesson to -day. Ton, Josey, ye see' risonmont.
eyes. Having fallen in love with it, he ono this ?" holding up a red rose. P
day sat down beside it and told it that he 1 Josey, a small child of six years, " Ay,
wanted to dictate a letter of love to his
sweetheart. It went to work mechanically.
"My Dearest Angel. I love yon deeply,
devotedly; no other being could ever in-
spire' in my heart such a fervent and lasting
as -" making straight " for the partner in
his wife's guilt The presiding Judge ex.
pressed his opinion that the prisoner had
done " that which was proper" in kicking
" What be it, basin ?"
" Why, a rose, m m ter, for ohuro."
" Ay, but what kin' o' rose ?"
" A red un, sir "
affection, and I take this method of laying rte " Well, now you go into bha glass -room,
your feet my life, my love, my honor and my and fetch me out a skein o' wool the nigheat
fortune, Will you accept there ? Answer like this rose ever ye can."
immediately. Josey taken the rose, and fetches back
Your sincere lover, B. Trams." the skein of just the same hue. After this mighty chest, eaid: But this is all right is
" There it is," said the typewriter. " To about twenty of the children were sent on it not ?" The doctor looked him over grave -
whom is it addressed 1" the errand, and matched the color perfect -
whom ly and replied : "Yea. As for the teat,
"To your own dear self," said Thubs, ly. At last, a little white-faced fellow, You would make a good American." The,
with a voioe that would make a lemonade went into the olass•room, stayed some time, D°rP°tor enjoyed it all, but the German
shake, and finally came out with two skeins in hie
doctors were simply dumfounded at the
" And you want a reply ?" hand. Shouts of surprise and derision filled
" Yea, precious one,' the room.
Well, you shall have it in the same " Surely, what be ye thinking on 1"
manner ; take this seat at the instrument. " One on 'em's as green as grass, an'
Ready 1" ,'other as gray as a rattan (rat).
"Dear Sir—Yours of thio instant reaeiv. The little boy looks frightened.
ed ; contents noted. In reply I beg to state " Thou's done as well as thou knew how,"
that your offer is exceedingly kind and says the master, rather gently. " Don't
worthy, but there is a bar which would pre- thou be soared ; bhou'a nobbut tried once.
vent its acceptance."
Here, take and match me this." He gives
"Stop," said Thubs. " Why should there him the glooey loaf of a laurei-
be star between us'?" The child goes out again, and, with a
"Well, you write on," muoh more cheerful and confident air, come,
"My marriage last Thursday night with tack and puts into his hand a skein cf the
Mr. Jr. Squigge renders—" brightest scarlet. The other childred, too
But lir. Thebe' distant footetepa were enrprised to laugh, whisper together, " Be
echoing down the corridors of no time at all, bean, a fondy, neither." Fond hero bas the
and in next morning's paper was
WANTED --A YOUNG LADY TYPEWRITER.,
i r 0� TEM
It is told that when Frederick III, of
Germany was in London last Sir Morrell
Mackenzie introduoed him to a celebrated
American phyaioian, who examined his
throat carefully. " I suppoeo," said the
Emperor, " an Imperial throat is very much
like that of other throats?" " Well," an-
swered the American quickly, "we will try
and make it so at any rate." Frederick
appreciated the answer, and smiting his
old 'sense of foolish.
Didn't Want to See the Rest.
According to Teaaa Siftings, an old gamb-
ler
Tho Game Laws. ler who was reduoed to poverty by a rather
protraoted run of bad luck, obtained the posi-
The following is from Judge Jellebb's tion of a street oar driver. He had been so
(Piotonj excellent digest of the game laws : accustomed to playing cards that he could
The only season during which the follow- never divest himself of the idea that he was
ing game may be hunted, taken or killed is not plying his old trade at all houre of the
ay follows:
Deer -16th Ootober to 15th December,
Partridges—let September to let Jane's.
ary.
Wood000k-16th -Magnet to 1st January.
Snipe, rail and golden plover—lsb Sep-
tember to 1st January.
Dunks of all kinds --lar September to 1st stalwart wipe of her parasol she caved the
January, gentleman's hat down over his oars, and in a Of whatever rank or station an Arab wo-
Geese—let September to let May. kind of backward thrust nearly dug out the man may be, her dress con/data only of a
Hare—lot September to 16th March. eye of a ached euperintendont jugs behind skirt reaching down to the ankles, trousers
The above dates aro inclusive, Nor, The pa imagers made a break for rho (not drawers) and a kerchief for the head.
These may be exposed for sale for twenty rearldoor, and(the oar -driver stumbled off the The material varies of comae. Rich people
days after expiration of time for killing. steps. Tho stout Woman was monnrai, of P P
No eggs to be token or deatroyed at any
time. No traps, nets or snares, baited lines
or eh -altar contrivances to be need. Thome
may be destroyed by any poreen without " y u r on ye e e the rime pattern.anTho ekiri moot not bo
liability. No contrivance deeoribed or driver, looking et her from the sidewalk, iso long, that tt may nob hide tire clot em•
known as batterioo, ewivol•guns, sunken where he had ignominiously tied,
a
ante or night lights to be used for kinin `� Want to neo anyof myrelatives you
brotdery of the t:mogul o or the two anklets
p: g g g , y a number ofete
Xlttle
wildfowl. Nile scoundrel? Wheto'a the auperintend- from one of them, whichllmakesas pbetty
Fur -bearing autmals may be only;,takon, ant ?" tinkling
Hunted or killed rte follows ; " No, I don't want to see another darned geeled ribbonsson Nan lood at sely Tme look
Beaver, mink, muskrat, sable, martin, one of them,g y over bh b
utter or fisher -1st November to let May. " I've a notion to come there and Hugh or
its worn round the forehead. fromthho wild
Nor shall any trap or snare or other coo- bha gutter with you, you villain, but 1 muet T
trlvanoe bo eet for them outbids this season. be getting along home," and pinking rip the kerchief reaches down to the ankles,
In her walks an Arab lady puts on the
Nor shall any muskrat hence be out, spear- lines she drove about Ebur bloako, and ins. "eohele," whioh is shawl, waterpproof and 1'
ed, broken or detroyed at any time, Any mounted from her triumphal chariot, The cloak, all in ono. Tho eohele is a lar o
person may destroy snob traps, anarey eco„ crowd yelled and the driver limped up the shawl fir" mantilla of black sill,, more or
ao cot, without any Xiabitiby. street and again boarded his oar; Hereafter l leen richly trimmed with geld or silvor y
N. B. No poison to be need in killing be willjmako an earhet alfort to abstain h-om borders, according to the wealth and teats
animals named, and no poisoned bait to the use of teohnioal terms in the discharge of of its owner. This is the only Wrapper an
0 exposed in any locality where doge or hie duties ad boss of a streetcar, Arab last uses until it is cam letelppworn
Vine= hays ac0005 to the came. K —�*+++ >+• out, its fashion never alsangfn� ; av n con
dog to run at largo from the 16th A honte.made pound take will frequently groatebt and richest ladies do nob possoso
ovember until the 15th Ootobor, give a man a nightmare thatweighsflve tete, more than one sohele at a time,
day, A large, stout lady entering his oar
not long Mime forgot to deposit her fare.
After waiting a reasonable time the driver
stopped his oar, and said, reapeotfnlly :
"1 want to see your ante,"
There was a pause of about three oeconda,
and then the o alone otruok. With one
Rogues hi Training.
The number of horses now on the turf that
run in cowardly fashion is very large, in all
likelihood comparatively much larger than
formerly, soya the London Sperling and 2�ra•
natio 2iTewa. I Was asking Tom Canon the
other day for his experience of the matter,
and also for an explanation, and he suggest-
ed a very simple and probable cause. There
is much more racing than there was former•
ly, horses run oftener, they consequently
try oftener, and the result fa that they get
sick of racing. They know, in most oases,
what a finish means—very likely a dig with
the spur if it is s close thing, at the lightest
two or three smart outs with the whip—the
old butcher boy flogging jockey is not com-
mon in England, though he is nearly the
rule in Franco -and almost invariably a
more or least desperate and distressing effort.
Who oan doubt many of them know also
that if they do not at too near to the head
of affairs, but take it quietly and stay with
the ruok, the flnieh will be muoh easier
very likely the jockey will only ride them
with his hands, at any rate if he takes up
hie whip and there is no response in many
cartes he will give ib up as a bad job?
Horses, as a rule, know so muoh about rap-
ing that they are apt to decline to race.
An Arab Woman's Drees.
all she aurveyed. With blazing eyes and have vete and diad ke
of many pasterns, teff•
armsf likoy o richly trimmed. During the
"waving a windmill, oho shouted
g
ho
season plain t as
"e white aaliaoo o muslin
Want
P o r u
Wn to se myauntie '
edo you "
P
No, b tint do , I d 't 1" )1 d th aro ern. Skirttrousers aro never of
. t0 un ere and that I'm no camel. N
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