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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-3-8, Page 3r MARC B[ 8, 1889. 88i IRGt 'A"+, t ttWe elle telenet@ra..vafd operetta 1'eentbi'3tter'SAu"' teralMallerle HEALTH. A Ifygienio Hereeey. A few yoare ago there were eo many in• estauous a extreme age reported from a oor- tain diatriob in Haglund, that a median oommlealon wan cont there to neaortain the conditions of life that 000tributod to et uh longevity, Tho inveatigutore wore entoand- ed of the ebbe of affairs they found, and their atatament of facto asoma enored1ble, The plum was a little smoky manufacturing settlemenb, eurrouuded by marshee and atsgnont water, without) drainage or the common sanitary naoeneeriea of civilization, Both air and drinking water were as bad AB they could be, and it appeared impossible that any roeident could long retain health or life. Now those are facto that no hygieniot oan ignore, and that medical ocionoo must ere long explain. Perhaps it may yeb appear that all our phyoiologioal notion° aro Ninety founded, and in praotioe induce more dt- gease than they prevent, Absolutely pure air may be found to be ne fatal as ewer gas, and perfectly pure water worse than wnte- key. The order of nature ie one of perfect adap- tation. And may be in her economy, man's organization still requiree a aortain propor- tion of impuritiesnull. that to abruptly al. ter his mode of living, even to improve it, would bo like putting a salt-wntet unh into a mountain brook. Wore there scientific salmon we might suppose them saying, "See hero, this Balt ire a mineral poison and to kill- ing us off. We meet gob Into fresh water an fast as we oan." And were a pollywog to turn physiologist he would say to hie associates, " Why, this is a stagnant, stink- ing puddle. To save our health wo mune skip for Saratoga." Nature has undoubtedly adapted the sur- roundings of man to hiu conditions, and it ie to be presumed that he is not yet enough angelized for perfeotly pure food, air and water, Were it, possible for him to prooure these in hie present state of physical imper- feation, they would probably cause him to become an angel prematurely. Some Healthful $into• Tho common practice of raining fainting persons to a sitting or upright position is often sufficient to doatroy the spark of life whioh remains. Many ;agents ants neom to think that sameness in food is identioal with simplicity, and pride themoelven on the virtue of a oouree of action whioh fn nothing les. than murderous. Let no ono torture himself with the thought that he mud have been twine ae good a man ae he is it he had Haan every morning ab elaylighb. The habit would kill half of un in Tree than five years. It is generally known in a vague way that old men lone a little in height. Quoteleb, who studied the matter Mealy, oulonlated that the shortening began at fifty, and that if a man lived till he was ninety he would be an Molt and a half shorter than ho wan in hie prima, Lang hours of work are often as little to the employer's interest at they are to those employed. No ono oan do as good work at the end ot the day as nt the beginning, and the more the working hours are prolonged the greater will be the deterioration of the work, and as the time for recuperation must inevitably bo ehortomnd the deterioration will very probably become continuous. Eating when tired, and engaging in motive mental or physical exercise immediately Meer a hearty meal, are two of the most cern. mon eine oi' ainet dietetic rectitude in our modern oiviliz.tion. An old medical writer tells that on hundred years ago it WAS the custom among the mere/oats of Edinburgh two take two hours' "nooning" for dinner in the middle of the day, during whioh time the ,hope were closed, and all business sue - paneled. Children's Clothing. As was remarked in a preview' artioie, much care should be exercised f ooneerning the foot clothing of the little °nee. Child- ren's ahoeo when purchased, if nob already sufficiently looeo, should have the buttons set forward until the finger oan be easily inserted tho entire length between the shoe and stooking. Nature bee provided the ankle with sufficient support, in ordinary ones, and a tightly laced or buttoned shoe not only does not aid nature in supporbong the ankle, but actually weakens the muscles and impedes the oiroulation, the same as does a tight ligature around any other por- tion of the body. High heels on children's oboes should never be tolerated, and indeed, raised heels of any highs are objectionable and wholly avoidable, eine ohoee with spring beels oan be obtained in ehitdron'e And miseea'0 sizes, of nearly alt dealers, Another essential qualification of health- olothing•ia equable warmth for all portions of the body. Albhot]gh much has been written on this aubjecb, and the number of sensible mothers who give this matter atten- tion la far greater then formerly, noverthe- less there are still many thousands of little ones who might bo saved from early death were they warmly and equably clad, Ashes been often said, the material beet fitted as a first covering for the body, is some fabrio of wool, Which should be worn throughout the year, being of lighter or heavier material, in accordance with the deo gree of external °old. Many mothers provide their little ones with some forte of flannel under -garments, and then consider that beoauee the proper kind of material bee been supplied, the child is healthfully clothed. The fact that a gar- ment is of flannel, is no proof that ib meets the just•quoted requirement of healthful dress. In perhaps the majority of oases, these garments are vent and drawers whioh overlap each other about the central portion of bhe body, making a double thiokneoa of covering over that region which leash needs it, because it contains the vital organa, and is thus much liable to puffer from cold ; while the limbs and arm°, whioh need the warmest covering because of heat farthest away from the bodily source, have bub the one bhickneae, and that often so abriaged in length es to roach bub little below the elbows and kneed, leaving a spaoo between it and the tops of the ohild's ohoeo only covered by the stocking, whioh if of ordinary merino or nehmen, ie but little warmer than cotton, although it anewere to the name of woolen.—[Goon HkiLrn. To Cons Hraootfan9.—Procure a glees of water and pour a little of it .sown the pationt'e throat. While he is drinking the water ho should preen a finger on the orifice of oaoh oar, By this method you open the glottle, and in five eeoonde the thing is done, Should you by any ehanee moot With an ob- etinete nee, you My reef tenured that the throat and oars were not cloned at ono and the game time ; either the water was swat. lowed before the one were thoroughly ehopped or tho water wee not ouflfoienb to fill the throat. Mather preoaubion is bo keep the thin well up. THE BRUSSELS POST. S • .»:. ^` .,,,.neaten, alai dal'w't eatateHe!'t+Y'ethaethetwe edit/ ramm a renera"Ykk esuree a NEW (MONS, The Trial or Two street War Enables. Two recent foreign publications, one of an event And bhe other of an opiulon, dgnerve to be reworded at the moat importune infor- mation we bave °oncoming the tremendous machinery which ie now ready to play havoc with humanity in the next great war, An encounter tools plane recently in the Sulymah diatriet, on the west aide of Africa, whioh provided a fair teat of the now arm known es bhe Maxim gun, and a fearful weapon it proved to be. Sulymah is a Brit• lab ,protootorate Adjacent to Sierra Loapo, and nonce warlike nativice outside recently threatened an atbaak. The English corn- mender sone againeb thle party, although it could not have boon small, eleven native policemen and ono Britlah officer, taking with them a Maxim gun. They hutted in fronb of a native utooked°, end noon the Motile savages, the " War Boys" as they are called in the country, marched out to the assault, and the gun wets set to working, The elfaob was magioal. The uaeailants turned and fled, but in that short movement 131 of them wore laid on the ground dead, When 11 is remembered that Ravage tribes never operate in very clone formation, the awful offecoiveneas of this maohino gun will be understood, The other publication follows upon the ex- perimentporformed in New York harbor with Capt. Zalineki's dynamite gun. The results of that experimenb have led the Daily Nana, of London,to bhe indisputable opinion than "at this rate the 100 -ton gun may soon b000mo the Brown Bose of heavy ordnance," Such appears to be bho nature of the now weapon, that during the last few years have been peacefully prepared for the next great faternational scrimmage. What a proepeob 1 The Tail of a Mastiff. I was the owner of a mastiff about as largo as a yearling calf ; but one day he womb the way of all dogs, and I employed a taxi- dermic, to wet him up in good shape. While this work was being done the tramps began to put in an appearance. While' Jack' was living not one of the fraternity gob inside bhe yard. He had nob been dead two days be- fore we had callers. How they caught on I don't pretend to say, but that wan the way it worked. When the dog come home he looked an natural ae life. By standing him on the grass beside a rose bush any one looking over the gate would have sworn that "Jack" was alive and ready to tackle an intruder. Dur- ing the first day as many as five tramps halt- ed at; the gate, took p look, shook their heads, and passed on, and throe more were soared off next forenoon. Soon after dinner a dil- apidated pair, fresh from a long tramp, arriv od, and as the first laid his hand on the gate, the seemed exclaimed : " No go, Bill—there's a dog 1" " Stuffeti I" replied the first, as he opened the gate. " How d'yo know 7'' " By the turn of his tail. Ever sena a big dog like that with his tail carried to the left 7 Oouree he'n ,tufted." I gave the men a quarter apiece and then want out to look at the big doge in the neigh- borhood. Every one carried his tail to the right. Indeed, nine dogs out of ten do, and that ragged and penniless old tramp was a oloeer observer than the taxidermtst who had made a life study of peeing epeoimens, I was no hit by it that I stored the dog in the garret and fed every tramp who came for the next three months. To Stop Nose Bleedinw. .A correspondent of the "Scientific Ameri. can" Bays : " The best remedy for bleeding at the nose, as given by Glennon in one of his lectures, is a vigorous motion of the jaws, ae if in the act of rnastlfioation. In the Dace of a child, a wad of paper should be placed in its mouth, and the child instructed to chew it hard. It is the motion of the jaws that stops the flow of blood. This remedy is so very simple that many will feel inclined to laugh at it. But it has never been known to fail, even in very severe cases." Not So Mnoh to be Pitted. " See the poor trees," said a poetic minded girl to the young man with whom oho was walking. " They look eo lonely and comfort- less standing there with no covering what ever out in the bitter coid,'• " Oh, well, it doesn't make et much differ- ence now, even if they do feel ft)." " Why nob?" "They will be re•leaved in spring," That friendship wee broken up I Round Shoulders. A stooping figure and a halting gate, accompanied by the unavoidable weakness of lunge incidental to a narrow cheat, may be entirely oared by the very simple and easily performed exercise of raising one's self upon the tone leisurely in a perpendioular several times daily. To take this exeroiae properly one must take a perfect position, with the heels together and the boos at an angle of 45 degrees. Then drop the arm lifeleaely by the sides animating and raising the chest to its full oapaoity muscularly, the chin well drawn in and the crown of the head feeling, as our proieasor used to put it, ae if attached to a string suspended from the ceiling above. Slowly raise upon the balls of both feet to the peeatest possible height, thereby exercising all the muscles of the lege and body ; come again into the standing position, without swaying the body backward out of the perfect line. Repea the same exercise, first on one foot, then on the other. It is wonderful what a straigh- tening -out power this exorcise has upon round ahouldere'and crooked baoke, and one will be eurprieed to note how goon the lungs begin to show the effeob of such expansive development. Wanted to Borrow Horseshoes. In the phone,. day° of New Hampshire articles of ornamentation were abrnosb un- known, and moat articles of use were rare. In 1768 there were in the town of San- bornton but threw horsed, three great-ooate, and two men oaoh owned a pair of boots, It is said that the first person who had shoos upon hie horse gave great offence to neighbor, who was about to go on In journey, by refusing to lend hie horseshoes to be need n the m:oaeion. What He Died Of, Mra, Hayseed—So young Wiggings is dead. I wonder what he died of. Alonzo Hayseed (from college) --T hear it was pulmonary phthisis. Mre. H,—Dand o'Gcohen 1 and mo thigh. in' all bba time the fellow had the ooneump- tion. Meta has moved up another ten orate i1 Winnipeg. DID PENANOE FOR UR SINS, The We Story el an Ale/ WoOlen iWbe pled ]tear Mal Mutate. Mme. Peynaud, better knee ufn Parts we Mme, Guleaud, died last nigher in a little hub near Catoneville, Baltimore county, sur- rounded by her doge, equirrcla, oats, and birds, The only, human beiog who know of the old woman's demise was the gond priest of the pariah, who Administered the anora manta ot the Church and gov° her abeoletion, For eight yoare she had lived in ecolneion, shunning her neighhore and venturing out only when it was moceasary to ley in a sup- ply of food or when going to ohurob. Op to the hour of her death her confaseor alone knew of the 013 women's binary, which is now for the first time made public, Mono. Peynand was born in Parie, and up to the time of her marriage enjoyed the re. opeob of all who knew her. Soon after her wedding her husband, a barber, died, leav- ing her in persuasion of the secret of beauti- fying the complexion, She continued the bnsincee, but ib was nob eulfioiently remua- (rative, whereupon she conceived the idea of oompelling her customers to pay more liberally. She advertised extensively, prom- ieitg the moot remarkable improvement by the use of her wail, but enjoining absolute annoy on th ladiee whom ehe proposed to benefit, Sr on her busiaeee inoreaeed, and than she pub her ahem into operation. Se- lecting the wealthiest of her patrons, ehe gave them a mixture which, when applied to the face, brought out blotches instead of roses. When they applied for relief she would demand en exorbitant sum to effect a cure, whioh her viotime only too gladly paid. She continued thie business sueoeafnlly for some time, until a Mies Nichols, who wasvic- tfmized, had her arrested for swindling, She wee tried in Paris in 1876 and sontenoed tc prison. After serving several years she managed to escape, and sailed for Now York, where the lived very quietly. One day she attended church, and, over- come wish remorse, sought the officiating prloab and confessed her sins, stating at the same tiro her readineoe bo do patience. The priest advised her to foreake her evil ways and spend her days in prayer. She at once went to Baltimore and bought the hut on the Catonsville road, in whioh she passed the remainder of her life. She prayed con- stantly, and often eoourged herself. Her only companions were the dumb animals the collected. Up to within a few day) before her death oho enjoyed gond health. All her property will probably go to the °Atholi° Church. A WOMAN TOMAHAWKBD, Bad Abair In a Whiskey Dlve at Ottawa. An Ottawa despatch says :—Between the hours of ten and eleven o'olook on Saturday forenoon Dr. Kennedy was summoned to 268 Clarence street, in Lower Town, the resi- dence of a Mrt, Cooper, whose husband le now serving a aix months' term in the Oen- tral Prison, nominee for etealiog coal. On hie arrival there he found the body of o woman named Catherine Kelly, about sixty-two years of age, lying on a bundle of clothes, with a ghastly wound on the skull, from whioh blood was then ooz. hag. The wound, whioh was four Mosinee long, had evidently been made with A dull instrumento. Blood stains aurroanded the lifeless form on the floor. She had been dead for two or three hours. A detective, who arrived shortly after the physician, made an examination of the houao and found in the kitchen a tomahawk, whioh, although evidently partly washed, still had on it the marks of blood. On the stairway were also found blood stains, whioh bore marks of an attempt to out them away with a knife or hatchet. Enough wee discovered to cause the arrest of the inmates. They were Mre. Cooper, the keeper of the house and a man named Henrietta and his wife, who lived across the street, but had spent all night there, as they frequently did. Later on Sam Rothwell, an employee of the Agrioultural Department, was arrested, it having boon discovered that he also stayed there that night. The house bore no good name, it being pot down as a whisky dive by the polio°, and no more noise was hoard by the residents in the vloin- itythat evening than was habitual, Mrs. Kelly was addicted to drink, She had some relations at Buckingham. The statements made by the prisoners are all contradictory. Rothwell, who 1a an old man and has a fam- ily, says be left the heave at o'clock in the morning, and that Mrs. Kelly was there and alive. Whilst the parties arrested state that the woman fell down stairs and was killed, the supposition is that she died from a blow reoeivod in it drunken row, Driven Mad by Cruelty, The Rueaian schooner "Johannes" had hardly left Riga late in November, 1887, when Jan Umb denied an accusation of hav- ing stolen clothing. Induced alternately by foggings and Captain I{arboe'e premien, o onnfeeoion was extorted, which was followed by further whipping and confiuement in a dark cell for several days withoub food or water. When released he was abused by the orew, and, to pub an end to his misery, jumped overboard, The captain promieed bettor treatment if he would allow himself to be rescued, end, a boat being lowered, he was brought back. White oheng- ing hie wet clothes, he received a a brutal kinking about the head and naked body, and was again put below. Next nighb, December 7, 1887, he was ordered to take the wheel, and unable through weakness to perform that duty, the captain etruok him in the face and ordered him to follow, eeem- ingly for further punishment. As the cap- tain was picking up a pieoo of rope, Umb. now a perfect maniac, seized a handspike, and struck and killed the captain. Ho then killed, in a like manner, the two sailors on deok. Procuring a sheath -knife, he stabbed the mate, and proceeding forward, killed two more sailors in their sleep. The cabin boy was killed next. A Danish atomiser eighted the eohooner, which it towed to Co- penhagen, where Jan Urnb was delivered to the Russian authorities. The Dear Departed. An old couple, ahe a widow woman and be a widow man, married after a brief courtship, and be sold his houae and moved over to here. Tho fine article of furniture that he added to her oolleotion waw au old sunbonnet, whioh he hung in the entryway; oaying, "I couldn't be contented no way, Sallie, if I didn't see Betsy Anne bunnit bangin' up dare." "Well," said the, "I shall go straight up garret for Joaiah'e old hat, whioh I was decent enough to pub away when I knew you were coming here." And so the did, and Joeiah'I] old hat, and Betsy Ann's bunnit hang side by side at the pre. oent day.—[Bouton Tranooripb. A, New Bedford man hod his none broken because ho said ho had aeon a whale ninety feet long, The men who broke 11 for him had never even boon to ooa, but he had life idea of how long a whale ought to be. A iloree'e 8agaoity. Some of our oontemporariee have l,.tsly ohronioled wonderful. nnetenoes of equine and canine aagaolty, A marvellous Inomoee ouourred etre yeura ago, the veracity of %blob 1 can personally vouch for, as it hap. peeled on the ebbe land of my (arbor`, rue tory, it WAS fn the autumn during our uloughing time. Ode of the hones had been taken suddenly ill, and wo borrowed a neigh. bour'e Mora° to take its plane. The new bores being Mind stumbled up Against the hedge At the awl of the furrow, ihie It did twice, but on be third ending of the furrow, our own horse remembering the two ptavioaa stumbliuge puehod the strauger batik from the hedge into the return furrow. Now what about a horee's oalculAting and Damon. leg pox ere] On another occasion this self- oame horse of ours did a very much more marvellous thing. During the summer we used to ohmage our winter reeidouoo to our summer ono, 75 miles off, by the nea-aide, in Pembrokeehlre, end our personal "impedi. menta" and sundries were content' down in a van drawn by Chi, .A1.1 heroes On one oa. (Anion we engaged a now waggoner who was totally unacquainted with the tortuoue and didboult route he would have to travel, Ho, having expressed him fear that ho could not find his way, Was enured by my father that if he treated to the horse he would reach the Deanery all right, and ho actually did eo, though the journey wag done in the dark - nese of night through an intricate and sparsely populated country, and those who know the mountainous paean and defiles of "Wild Wales," will cordially and readily substantiate my abatements. Paorasson LAWBLLIN, L. D. C. A Serviceable Cement. A good and oervioeable oemenb may be prepared, according to the "American Manu- faoturer,' iu the follcwing manner. Old paint, the akin forming on the top of paint, settlings from the bottom of paint.pote,land, in foot, any refuse whioh contain oil, white - lead or zinc, or any other miueral body, may be used for the purpose. Thio mese, eepe°- ially if it is hardened by lengthened exposure of the air, is reduced to the consistency of cream by soaking in some oheap oil. Heat- ing may bo resorted to if hard paint cannot otherwise be softened. When the whole is soft enough to be stirred into a homogeneous muse, more oll may bi added, and the whole worked through a sieve and then run through an ordinary paint -mill. A quantity of com- mon whiting is next worked into the oil and painb, in muoh the same way as when putty fs made. The (Ansi: bonny of this putty, as. lb may now be called, should not be as great ae that of patty used for glozing. When the whiting hoe been thoroughly mixed in and the matte well worked over, a enmoient quantity of good Portland oement is added to a consistency whioh will enable it to be readily handled. When in this state, ehe putty may be worked into cracks in brick- work or masonry, much in the same way as ordinary putty is used for filling up oraoko in woodwork. After being allowed to set and harden, it will become nearly as nerd as iron, and impervious to moisture and un- affected by any reasonable degree of heat. The oerrtene thus prepared may be used for factory walls, which frequently develope ugly gape between window -frames and the brinkwork. 'Indite What We Seek. lb is often mid that we find xhab we look for. It is also true that we find what we carry with us. I notice that when I go out to see my parishioners, feeling myself joy- ous, I usually find them joyous, and when I feel depressed, I find them in much the same mood. I have specially noticed this of late because I have been palled to pass through some days that have given my heart much hoavineee. On returning, my constant thought was, How much suffering and misery and woe there are in the world. It seemed to mo I tad found more than uaual in these last days. Suddenly it occurred to me it might be in myself. The world was not sadder than usual. A certain quality in one hae the power of finding and drawing out a similar quality in others. The law of ikeneoe enema to prevail.— [The Advance. A Prediotion That Came True. Mrs. Muggleo.—" Oh, I just tell you the earth is full of wonders I My poor, dear hum band predicted the very day of hie death." Caller—" He wall rather morbid, though, for years, was he not ?'' ' Yee, indeed. fie was always saying he was going to die anon, and T knew in my heart it would conte true some time, and sure enough it did." He Showed Him How, "I want a good two -foot rule," said the young lady, as she paused in the mechanical department of the palatial dry goods store. "Never kick with both feed at once," said the great American humorist, who stood be- hind the oounter. And then the proprietor got onto him with both feet, just to show him how the old thing worked. Bobby's Rejoiner. A good story illtlatrating the rights of children to get in a question or two in re- ply to interrogatories by their elders was told by a prominenb physician here to en lady patient a day or two ago, " Whose boy are you 7" said the doctor to a bright -looking youngster who was playing in the patient's garden. "Mr. Jim --'e. Whose be you,?" was bhe unexpected rejoiner. Times Were Changed. "The times are Badly changed," exolaim- ed one of the " upper ten," who felt that everything was going wrong, and that he himself in particular was being sadly neg. looted. " In what reopecb do you find them changed most 1" he was asked by a friend. "Oh that ie plain," he said, "no regard is paid noWndaye to people of quality." "Well, to be sure," end the friend, " it isn't no much bhe people of quality thab we pay at. tontion to nowadays ea it is the quality of people." Blank poarle end bleak diamonds are very popular as etude for evening wear. The vegetable matter in the sea to the westward of the Azores has been found to contain a large amount of fish and other lifo- onetaining substance. The " Montreal S tar " is afrald that M,nt. real young men, manly and athletic ea they are, cultivate the body at the expense of the mind. It pointe out that bhe Moroantilo '.Library, onto a flourishing institution, boo ppractioally disappeared; that the Meohanies' Institut° has deteriorated, and that book. sellers say they nallfower valuablebooke than they did a few yeere ago. If The Star is right, it ought not to find muoh climoalty In effecting on intellootnal revival among the bright young men who have gained for Montreal preeminence in manly sports. AUSTRIA'S EMPEROR WASSING FEET. A Curious Custom—Twelve Poor 'Women and Men 10 Mare Their Feet Washed by the Emperor titans Ma. V1mcNuA, Feb 280b.—The twelve old mon and twelve old women who will have their feet weshed by the .Empresa and Emperar of Austria on Maundy Thursday (Marob 18) have been eolooted from the rauke of the Vienna poor, Oa the partlouler morning they will alembics at the palace gates end be aeoorted by a ahpmberlain to the hall of Thrones. Certain clothes will have been tent to their plane of abode, eo the mai will be wearing bleak etudes with broad white eollarn, kniokorbookers, and thou, and the women, black drosses, with close -fitting 'berthed nape, These poor people take their seats ab two long tables set on opposite sides of the room, and punctually at 10 the Emperor and Empress arrived, attended by the archduke and arobduobeasee, a throng of court olfiufale and the clergy of the fnetropolitan chapter, headed by the Archbishop of Vienna, A prieeb aseonde to a lectern andintones a prayer, after which the aerving of a aumpeu. cos meal to the almstolk is at once proceeded with, Four -and twenty otalwarth life regards men, in gold -laced menet coats and plumed helmets, march in, carrying traya,on which stands a tureen of soup and two plentiful dishes of fish. The trays are cleared at the men's table by the Emperor and eleven arohdukee, and ea the woman's table by the Emprese and as many archduchesses. This ceremony is re- peated threw times more, for a tray with three entrees 1ollowa the first; then cornea a tray with three sorts of roaete and vega- tables and, lastly, a tray with sweets and fruit. Tho almafolk, however, do nob touch these dainties. Tho Empreror and Empress ask them if they desire to eat and on a negative siren being made the tables are cleared in the name order as the serving, that is, the life -guardsmen come in and vo out four timed with their trays. After thio they enter once more to remove the jug of wine, silver goblet, plate, knife, fork, spoon and napkin from each "cover." All these articles, along with the diehea of food, are carried to an ante•room and there peaked in large white boxes emblazon ed with the imperial arms ; and an hoar later these boxes are delivered ab the houses of the different almamsn and almowomen, and beoome their property. The wine jnas are of a peculiar pattern, colored green with the imperial escutcheon highly gilt and the data of the year on a white scroll. They are much prized by collectors as only twenty-four are made yearly and these oan only be purchased from the actual recipi- ents, Once the meat has been carried out, the tables are removed, and the foot washing begins. A number of pages kneel and take off each alrneman'e right leg stocking and shoe. The same office is performed for the women by the maids of honor. Another prayer is intoned, and the Emperor and Em- press, drawing off their gloves, kneel and proceed reopeotively to pour over the foot of eaoh man and woman a little water out of a golden ewer. This ewer is handed by a chamberlain, another chamberlain holds a golden basin, and a third a lawn towel. This towel servesfor the drying of the feet, this also being doneby the Emperor and Empress. When the lunation is over, pages end maids of honor advance again to replace the shoes and stockings, and the last ant of the cora mony connate in the bestowal of twenty-four purses, containing each fifty florins in gold ooina, fresh minted. These purses are hung round the nuke of the recipients. The whole service lasts about half an hour and is conducted with the most impressive order and gravity. Capt. Lugard'e Pleasure Trip. It be fourteen months since the Arab elev- ere in Central Africa attacked the mission station ab Karonga, on the north-west shore of Lake Nyaeea, and announoed their put. poem to drive all the whites out of Nyassa. land. The cable tells us that the white men and their native allies, commanded by Capt. Lugard, still hold Sarong° against the enemy, who are in posseealon of a lar: a ter- ritory Horth of Nyaoaa. Capt. Lugard must thoroughly believe in the saying, " It is the nnexpeotedwhich always happonsin Africa." He is a British army tiff oar who went to Africa on a leave of absence to wander for hie own pleasure among the highlands, rich in game, at the south end of Hyaena. When the news was brought down the lake that the Arabs had attacked the white station at its north end, he was asked to take command of the relief eapedition, Convinced that fight- ing was necessary he contented to do so, and there he has been confronting the Arabs ever aleoe, a wholly unlooked-for outcome of his pleeaure brig. It is a curious foot that while tide mere visitor to Africa is still able to direct all the movements of the de. fence, all but nix of ohm white men who ao oompanied him have been oompelled by the unhealthful olmate to return to the Shire highlands.—[N. Y. Saw Superstitions and Figures. Virgil tall us that the gods esteemed odd numbers. There were seven wise men inanbiquiby and aevon wonders of the world. Miraculous powere are suppened to be pos- eoseed by the seventh daughter. Nino grains of wheab laid on a four-leaved plover ambles one to see the fairies. It is en ancient belief that a change in the body of a man moms every seventh year. Falstaff ,aye: "They say there in divinity in odd numbers, eibher by nativity, chance or deotbe' Tho number three was the perfoob number of Pythagoreans, who said it repro - embed the beginning, middle and the end. Among the Chinos, heovenis odd, earth is even, and the numbers] 1, 3, 6, 7, and 9, belongs to heaven while the other digits are of the earth earthy. The Siamese have a regard for odd numbers, and insist on having an odd number of doors, windows and room, in their houses, and that all staircases must have an odd number of steps. A Train Out in Two. Bitawrroor, Marton 4,—The other night ab nine o'clock as a Grand Trunk freigbb train waw crossing the 0. P. le. traok a freight train of the latter road crashed into it, oatbing its way through, never stopping, and not a wheel of the 0. P. R, train leav- ing the freak. The engineer and firemen jumped and saved their lives. A btakesman ran forward, setting the brakes, and molt. ing bhe engine brought the train to a stand after runutng two and a half miles paeb the scone of the aooidotb, No ono Was hurt but a groat deal of damage to property of the G. T. R. woe done. A oar of coffins and ono of sugar wore literally smashed Into matohwood, i The Vision of Christ.. Danneeker, bba German soulpbor, aaoupft ed rig htyeoreupon in marble status of Christ. Ho had previously exercised hia genies upon sui,jeete takou (rum the Greek and HAWAII mythology, and had won a groat reputation. The celebrated statue of Ariadne in the gar. den of Herr Betbimaoo at Frankfort ie his work. 0rillew of err have given hint rook wlbh Michael Angelo and Centre, When he had Labored two years upon his statue of Christ, the work was apparently finished. He called into hie stadia it little girl, and, dlrenting her atention to the spat- ae, asked her, " Who is that 1' She replied, " A great roan," The erten turned away diebeertened. His arable eye led been ole. oeim 6. He had failed, and his two yeere of labour wore thrown away. But ho began anew, and, after another year had passed, he invited am child into his studio, and re- peated the inquiry, " Who is that 7" Tab ohne be wan not dfouppointod, After look - Ing in glance for A wb11e, her ouriosfty deep. end into awe and thankfulness, and, berme - lug into tears, she said, in low and gentle bones, " Suffer little children earn onto me," It was enough; the untutored instinct of the ohtld had divined his meaning, and he knew that his work was en namess. He believed then, and ever afterwards, that he had been inspired of God to do that thing. He thought that he had eoen in vista of Chrlab in hie solitary vigils. De had bub transferred to the marble the image which the Lord had shown to him. Hie rising fame attracted the atten- tion of Napoleon, and be wee requested to make a statue of Venus similar to bhe Ariadne, for the .gallery of the Louvre. He refused, saying, "A man who has seen Christ would aomntit• eaorllege if he oonld employ his art in the curving of a pagan goddess, My art Is henceforth a omen - orated thing." Is there nob an experienoe of communion with God in Christ, nob uncommon to na- ture believere, which is equivalent to a vision of the Lord, and which renders life and life's work, even its bnrnbloeb oown- pations, seared? Italian and Spanish art eontsinemany works in painting and. sculpture on subjects derivedfrom nap - enrol biography and history, to whioh their authors have given yearn of toil, and on whioh they labored In a state of religious fervor, Some of them believed that their artistic vision was illumined by the Holy Ghost. The privilege of every Christian life is not loos exalted. The Scriptures seem to assure um of this. "Our fellow- ship is with the .Father, au d with hie Son, Jesus Christ." " Your life fa hid with Christ in God." He that dwellebh in - love, dwelleth in God and Gee in him." Sash words, if they mean anything, mean something unutterably preat. It is no prerogative of an elect few. The lowlieeb, not lees than the loftinst, life may have this element of an infinite dignity. A profoundly prayerful life is by that mingle feature of to lifted into sympathy with God. A mean thing omelet be made noble by it, bub email thing oan be made great. The work of a leundreee or a bricklayer may saran the reopeor of angels,—[Ana- tin Phelps, D. D. A Bear's Love of Molasses. The bears along the head waters of bhe Penob000b, are having a fine time third mild winter, according to all reports. The snow held off eo long and fell so lightly when it did come that brain put off his annual snooze andpaw sucking this anon, and went nos- ing round the country inspecting lumbering operations and Canadian railway oonotruo- tion instead. A bear levee molasses bebtec than a small boy loves the °iroua, and that ie why the furry rangers are always to be found hanging around lumber camps, where, next to beaus, molasses is the most important item in the dinner bill, A logging Drew up on the West Branch at- tribute the loss of part of their provisions and a bad snare to some of their number to bruin's fondness for sweets. A logging camp's provision and general supplies are kept in a " dingy," or hub, separate from the main building, and an intelligent bear oan eometimee burglarize the dingy with neatneea and despatch. Ono night last week a big and hungry black bear got into the dingy of the West Branch oamp alluded to, and anooeeded in breaking open v. keg of mo- lasses, whioh he lopped joyfully until finally, ae la supposed, he oapaized it, besmearing himself from top to toe. In thrashing around after more sweets tine bear pulled down from a shelf a sank of flour, whioh burab and gave him it regular St. Louis shower bath. The flour, adhering to bruin's molaseea.bedaubed front, gave him an appearance at one ghost- ly and ludicrous, and m Hale gable he snllled forth into the logging road, a stinky and disgusted bear. The etrango•looking brute had notgone far when he mot a party of loggers returning from a visit to another camp. On perceiving hie bearship the woodsmen set an up un- earthly howl and made back tracks ab a speed never approached up Libtlewoad, flinging away their weapons as they went. When they came aautiouely book at dawn the frightened loggers wore laughed at, and they will be guyed about their ghost until some of them bring in a bear with a white plush front. OfRightsonsness• Our Saviour said, "When the Comforter is oome he will reprove the world of righteousness , , beoauoe I go bo my Father." John xvi. 8.10. The revised version is, "He will convince the world in resptob to rlghteoueness.' There has been a good deal of disoonnion in regard to the meaning of "tighbsousnees" in this passage. Ie it the righteousness of Christ himself, or ours through him? Does he refer to the vindication of his own chamber by his ronur- reotion, or to the assurance that great miracle gives to those who trust in him for righteous - nen, or jaatfying gran? We think that both are iroluded in the statement. Tho Holy Spirit oenvinoee the world. that Christ wad all that he claimed to be, a holy and divine Savfonr, booanso he rose from the dead and ascended to heaven. Aud he, the Spirit, also convince the world that there is rfght- eoueneae—frac and full ealvition, for every sinner who will trust in Christ, because God raised Linn from the dead and received him into the glory whioh wes 1118120(0ro the foundation of the world. Righteousness in the full got. pal meaning of the word le established by Christ's return fn triumph to his father. Spoiling a Jtuyman• Mr. Noodle—" Wall, 16 do beat all how the laws work, one upeabtin'another rightalang," Friend—Wnh'e wrong, now? " Wall, there ain't much bhab Isn't: wrong. Here 1',o been makin' a good grin' ao a jurymen for years and years, all booause I don't road the papers an' ain't got no 'pinions, yo k ow. Yon can't read." "No ; never learned. Wall, now, I sot great store on that there son o mina, an' wonted to bring him up for a jury. toe but Hen me of ,they ain't talkie' bout laws ter make every boy go ter eoheel. Whore's the jurymen goln' ter mune from in the next ginoretion ? hat's wob beats me."