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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-3-15, Page 3MARCH. 15, 1889. THE BrtussELs POST. ramomparommoommmusuerua?komarroto,ustatkragegAzammatemzsalauswc r ..... HEA.LT] , —m— WILDCATS IN A TIGHT. I OUI' HIS FRIEND IN PIEOBS, A.Peel Between Two Tome in the 1'reeene of an Applauding Female. Levi Smalling a Spring Brook hunter, re. Bondy wibaoseed a remarkable fight between two male wildoate in the woods of that see tion. "1 woe still bunting for squirrels and rabbits," eaid Mr. Smalling, "when I hoard o terrible yowling and snarling down In the ravine from. where I was tramping through the woods. I knew at once that the noise wee mole by wildcats, for I had heard them aoroam et night many a time, and my first thought was that a wildcat hod been oughb in a trap and was yelling from pain, el I listened for a minute, and then I !nerd t two distipot voices. I hurried to rho brink e of a ledge, to look down into the ravine, hand on my way it seemed as though I could hear three wildcats' screaming, and I was r not/ mistaken in this, as I soon found out. r " When I got where I could look down I saw what all the fuss was about. In an open b ewe two ho wildcats were making the hair e fly from one another': bodies,yelling, eoratoh- f ng, and biting, and every now and than • umbling over each other and tearing up the loaves On alimb close by to them set a she wildeab, with her back humped up, and she • wan spitting and dating, and urging the he ones oa. 1 made up my mind right away that bhe two tone were fighting over her, and • I enjoyed, the row more than anything I had ever soon in the woods. When the tome gob tired of dewing' one another they crouched on the ground a few feet apart and lashed their tails and howled, while the she one on Ithe limb kept up a continual noise and lash- ed her tail, too. "After each resting spell the tome rushed d at one another again, and while they were ripping and tearing and making the blood g fly, I olmnbered down the ledge, etopping Y every time they stopped,• for fear they ' might hear me and either run away or make o for me. Ib seemed to be nip and tuok be- bwoon them, for they were both bi, and strong, and each appeared bout on �illin Bating and Overeating, There aro several faotore to bo taken into oonelderatiou in determining the gaantity of food to be lepested, Many eetimatae have been [gado, diloriug, an Is usual in such (aeon, veay much from moll other. From my own experience), and from a thorough in- opootion of the dietaries in use in the hea- pitals and armies of Europe, I em clearly of the opinion that no people eat more than the inhabitants of the United States. Tab• in gg a healthy adult Atnerioan as aur stand• , the quantity of food required to main tato hie organism, not only in a normal oon dition, but up to the full measure of physio andmental capability, may bo placed %bubo forty ounces, of which two•thtrde should b vegetable and one•third animal. This is i addition to the water he may drink, whin will amount to about twenty fluid omen and to eight or ten fluid ounces ot tea o coffee. If an eeoceeive amount of food be held ual.ly taken ;he digestive organs have mor work thrown upon them than they oan 0a ooniplish, and oonequently derangement o their functions wore, Before, however an advanced stage of dyspepsia is reached obesity or plethora is developed, and a tend enoe to disease of the brain, the heart, liver or other organs is eetablisbod. The regula Lion of the appetite receives very little ab tendon unit! warnings, in the shape o funatinnal dieturbanae, are given, and the it is often too late, Mr. Lawrence, in hie leoturee on surgery rolatee a very instructive oaee which bear upon this point : " A very long time ago was intimately aegfiainted with a youn physiolan of :pare habib, active mind au body, zealously pursuing his profession an taking much walking exoroiee. Meotin with deserved euoaesa, he found ib n0ae08ar to leave off walking and to keep a oorriage Having agreeable manners and sooial habit ho lived much in :moiety when the mods living was freer Man at present, though b did not commit excess, He eon begun t increase in bulk and was joked by his friends on the aubjeot It was his outtom to oele- brate hie birthday by a jovial meeting which was oonoluded by a bowl of punch after sap- per, On the lash occasion he had been iu excellent health, and was perfectly wellnext morning when he loft home in Ins oarriage, Having 000aeion to draw up the blind, he found his left arm motionless and the leg very stiff, Ib was an attack ot hemiplegia, which obliged him to give up his profession, After surviving fora few yaare hesank under advancing d'eeaoe of the brain." But the influenoe of excessive indulgence in the pleaeuree of the table does not stop with the digestive system and the esbablioh- went of proolivitiea to diseaoo. Habits of Idieneea and indolence are eat up whioh add to the difficulties. The metamorphosi: of bhotietues does not progress with the nor- mal state ot aotiviby, and hence they become soft and unhealthy, with greatly inoreaoed liability to doeorgamzotion, Moreover, the produote of bhe decay of the tissues, instead of being rapidly excreted, are retained in the system end add to the unhealthy condi- tion, An organism thus oirsumstanaed, al- though not necessarily diseased, is like a powder•mill wnioh only requires a little spark to cause the explosion. A trifling ao• oident or affeotion may aot ae the spark and produce results which never would have fol- lowed hed the system been in a normal :tate. Dn. WILLIAM A HAMMoND, flans.U.uchn is Charged t'itlt o Remarks'. bay llruteI Murder. I ),Tho murderer in chance of Sheriff Jobe M. l4tbes, of Madiaoa, Win,, was for a few hours the other day a prisoner at police • headquarters, New York, awaiting trans portatton to the scene of the orime, Hann Kuehn Ie the murderer 0 mune, and hitt vie. Iim was his employer, William Carlatea, who bad befriended John, and glue to him a home and employment in hit oneese factory at Primrose, Dano ifounty, Wia, Werk woo stopped in the factory Deo, 18, and Chrieton and Kuehn dioappeorod. At first bho noighboro thought that the men were off cm a epreo• Two lade, fishing in 10 email stream near Primrose eight days later, Brow to the bank a heavy bag, which they opened eagerly, ex - pouting to And gold ;end silver. Instead they saw a human head, mangl.�.( by blows with an axe, lying amid fragments of a man'a visors. They lied in terror and told the authorities. Thu head 1000 reoognizod to William Christen's and Kuehn was at ince euepooted, Investigation revealed the full detaile of Ilse horrible butohery, The floor of the artery was covered with bloodstains, whioh sad boon partially wiped away, and in the fire -plans was the partitily oonoumed clothes of the victim, Sooretod in the cellar was a blood-stained axe, over which ashes had been raked, and everywhere was a sign of etadied effort to hide all Waco of the crime, A further investigation showed that Kuehn had bon planning the murder of Christen for a long time. He parallelled a gallon of whiskey Dao, 12, took ib to the room which he 000upiad with his employer, and got him hopoleaoly drunk, While Christen wan lying on his had help• leee and nnoonsoioue from drink, Kuahen robbed him of 8400 in money end then split hie head wen with an axe, He dragged the body to the factory, put it into a large cheese tub and hacked it into small pieces, using an axe and a sharp knife. The head Tanal inteotiooe he sank in the creek, and the reat of the body he forced into two large satchels, whioh he carried with him to Mon- roe, Wie„ and destroyed or buried. He spent an entire day in an endeavor to wash out the stains of blood and in burning the garments which Christen had worn. The day after the tragedy Kuehn made his brother drive him to Monroe, totting him that Chrieton was to meat him there, and that they would go on to Chioago and pron- ably extend their erode to Switzerland. At Monroe Kuehn purchased a steerage d • to a o the otr before he would give up. I want ed to kill them both, and get their hides and the bounty money, and 0o I waited for a good :hob at them. I had a charge of buckshot 1n my righb barrel nod a bullet in the loft, and my intention was to send the buckshot at them when mixed in the naxb bout " They flew at one another again, but before I oould reaoh the spot tbab I want- ed to gab to before I blazed away the toms separated once more, By this time they were pretty well fought out, and for a few minutes all they did waa to glare at one another, swing their toile bank and forth, and howl. To she eat then sprang from her limb to another branch, giving a scream as she leaped, and in lose than ten seconds the he ones dashed at eaoh other and fought more furiuuely than ever, filling the woods with bheir yowls, " Then 1 banged away at the heap with the (barge of buokehot. One of the wild - oats loped into the air and fell down dead, and the other went howling into the buehee out of my sight. I saw that there was no nee in trying to get another shot at him, and I aenb the bullet at the oho 'one and booked her off the limb. I didn't stir from the spot until I had chucked a charge into each barrel, and then I hurried down to see if I had killed the elle one. She was dead enough, Iwo glad to find out, and then I thought I would search for the live Tom, thinking that he might have bean wounded by one of the buck:bob. I found him after a little, and I guess he would have given me a pretty lively time of it if two of his loge hadn't bean broken. As it was, he showed fighb and tried to tear my bootleg off, but I had the advantage of bim, and I shot him through the bead." Spinal Curvatures. Spinal curvatures of the one aided eerie which throw a hip or shoulder out of line, oome not from diseases of the bone so much so weakness of one set of modes or over nee of oma aide, whioh gradually draws the bone into distortion. Bub thesame influence which mused the deformity may effect its cure. It is simply to establish traneaotion ot the muaolee on the opposite aide, whioh will in time draw the bones into place. Plaster jackets and stiff supporters have their noes, but it ie equally possible to cure spinal curvature wibhout ouch rigid methods. Indeed, severe treatment of any kind for a child may be thrown aside ae worse than usoleee, unlace in one ease of a thousand. 'The traction of a linen brace,good nutrition and the exercises of the movement oure, combined wibh easy elings end swinge de- vised by phyeioiana will on 0 the worst lateral curvaturee in a year or b.,o, How To Take Nauseous Medioinee. Considerable amount of tact ie neoetaary, says the Rotpitai, to get some patients to take medicine. Generally the mouth, bub not the lips, ehould be moistened previous. ly. Oily mediainee should not touch the lips, The persistent taste of some atronglybltter drugs—quassia, quinine, stryohnino—is bob removed by giving the patient some bread to chew and swallow repeatedly in email quantities. This wipes mechanically the book of the tongue, and removes the bitter taste which is perceived mainly in this eftuation. Many of the naueooue medicines really offend by their smell and not by their le taste ; in such oases, if the nostrils be dos- ed ed with the fingers before the medicines come wibhin eight and smell, and kept oloee- ed until the mouth is washed out aubsequenb to taking the draught, hardly any taste will be perceived by the patient. Some people ate extremely awkward in taking medicines; but it le not rare to find that their attend- ants are equally awkward in their methods of pereuooion. Holding a draught contain- ing valerian or aesefeebida right under the nose of the patient while coaxing him or her to bake it is not the beat road to 0000800, Some medicines are diffioult to swallow if not well diluted, Preparations containing sulphuric ether or spirits of ammonia oome under this oategory. The sensation of choking produced by them in their ooncen. tutted condition is due to their local aotion, and can be done away with by free dilu- tion, Adulteration of Food, Washington Star i The practiced eugges• lion appears in a western payor that while there are gas, oil, meat and 'milk inapeotors 8a in many Staten and in the large cities goner - ally, there are no inupeotors of whiskey. The omiesion ie a eiagnlar one. The vile adulterations that aro sold ignoranbmen who have a depraved appetite for drink ehould long ago have been forbidden by law. The quickest way to reach the evil in to employ inopeetoro who have zea' coupled with colon• tido knowledge to ferret out the makers of bad whiskey and bring them to punishment. The whole subjeot of food and drink adul- teration has been handled in this country With atnonumental inability to aaoomplish results, I1 is nob until ono producing inter. eat °lushes with another, as in the oloomm'g- arine question, that something is done. Tho Innocent producer goes quietly, uncomplain- ingly on sustaining life on barytes; in his dour, sand in in hie sugar, ships in his coffee logwood in his wine, refuse in his lead, and ho known what sob in all the etaplee of tho table„ SINGULAR PREMONITIONS, A Man Twit: Saves 111s We by Obeying Moutons impulses. A few minutes after the fall of the Will- ney building, while a crowd was gathering to view the ruins in whioh so merry mangled and dead people lay, a etrouger who was gazing at the wrecked etructuree from the opposite side of Wood street entered into conversation with a Pitt:burg reporter. He said : "For about five years on every week day, I have passed along thab side of Wood street at about bhe hour this terrible disaster oo- ourrod. To -day I was on my way to Fifth avenue, and had reached the Chamber of Commerce building whoa a sudden imputes oama upon mo to take the other side of the street, I creased over, audbefore I reached the sidewalk the orash oame. Had I kept along ae I was going I would have been in front of the Woldin building just in time to be oohed by bricks and falling timber, 1 oan no more amount for the aotion whioh probably saved my lifo than you can; I simply felt that I must do it and I do not know that I felt oven a premonition of danger. "Years ago I escaped being robbed and possibly murdered in a way that was equally remarkable. At the time I was a collector in•theprovinoe of Ontario. One bitter cold winter evening I found myeelt in a small town aboub fifty miles from Toronto with a largeaum of money in my possession, Hav- ing determined to go to Toronto that night on the nine o'clock train, I telegraphed to the hotel where I neuslly stopped and asked that a roost be reserved for me and a fire pub in it. When Oho train oamo along I got on tho front of the smoking oar, walked through the oar, through the next one, then got off and walked to the telegraph office and sent anothor message to the Toronto hotel stating that I had changed my mind and wan nob coming that eight. Whet made me do so was more than I could tall —the same indefinable impulse that control. led me today had posses:fou of me. "I went baok to the hoses where I had taken supper and remained there all night, The next morning 1 read in the Toronto papers of an aseanit and attempted robbery of a man who had arrived in that o'ty on the traiu I was going to take but did not. The man was sandbaggad while on his way from the depot to tato hotel, and from the des- cription given he must have been my exact oounterparb—dress, 0ize, color of hair and even the out of his whiekers, being like my own, The thugs had mistaken him for me and they knew I had money." Mr, Spurgeon.. Mr, Spurgeon, the welIknown London preacher, ho it beautiful roaidonoo et Beulah, Upper Norwood, with extensive grounds and ltondsome oonnervatorieo, A silver cafe ket from the Queen is ono of hie moeb pre - ohms household gods. His oorreepondenee averages 500 lettere a day, and he employe three seoretaries to anewor the communion•• Ilona whioh some bo him from all parte of the world, The enormous rovenuee et the Metro. pelitan Tabernacle are entirely devoted to the various philanthropic movements in which tho reverend gentleman i0 interested, as the ample income derived from his booke and mamma le more then sof iafent for hie utmost needs, ticket for Queenstown on the ateamehip Lor Gough, which was to sail Dace 19, and em ployed a man to carry hie two eabuhels. Th porter discovered that the bottoms of th aatohels wero saturated with blood, but ao oopted the exeuee that Kuehn had been ou gunning and carried the rabbits he had kill ed in the satobols, Tho authorities, however, obtained th alue and followed Kuebn to Philadelphia whence he sailed on the Lord Gough. oable message was sent, and the murderer e a arrested at Queens town, He was brough book on the Britannic. He is a small, pal men, twentysix years old. Brute Ethics, A recent writer says 1 " I have been ex- ceedingly interested ae a horticulturist and ebudentof nature inobsorvingthn,recognition ofbhe rights of propertyin dementia animals. A hen will not concede a grain of oorn as be- longing to another, but the one robbed will manifest indignation • but a hen will reaog• Wu the right of another to 000upanoy of a nest, if nob thereby seriously discomforted. A cat makes no claim to possooeion until her Foot is on the piers of meat. After pore auction, however, she asserts her positive rights, and Inavier once will allow the claim. Old on will often allow young ones to rob nhont, but they will not allow older ones to do the same. A dog not only claims a bone while in possession, but establishes hie right to the same bone when buried, and woe be to the dog that opens the ' eaahe.' 'Thio recognition of property rights i0 seen every- where in lower life, although theft is com- mon,' oomments Mary E. Spencer in the St. Louis Globe. Again, if you and your horse in kb neighbor'e stall eating oats and scold bim for ib hie retreat is made with marks of shame. I have aeon the same manestation in a fowl. The idea of right comes of course before the idea of abetraot right. Natural rights aro reoognizod by every oroatnre that exults. The birds recognize not only their own rights and family rights, but the rights of their neighbors, A thieving outlaw is held to be a common enemy to he chased and destroyed by the oo•operation of all honest, birds. We seem, es human beings, to inherit from our animal progeuitore soma - thing very like a moral code. So that, it seems to me, we are not to despise the idea of animal descent, einoo by it we get some- thing more than (structure. Thie study is exceedingly interesting, and if one will keep open eyes he will bo sure to see soine curi- ous moral legislation all about him. 1be- lieve it ie well established that some of the social and associated creatures have a code of punishment. 'I have seen sparrows de. liberaly join in the punishment of a rogue. At least ao it seemed to me, although I could not dieoover the special fault of the delinquent. Ib ie especially interesting to see the indignation excited among all the birds when a prowling hawk has despoiled a nest. ' Come on I" • shout the king birds ; and ' At him 11 cries every robin; and often the crows for once join the smaller birds. Tho obese miter: the whole neighborhood." They Outwitted Him. The parish of Skene in Aberdeenshire was at one time muob given to illicit dietillabion ; a groab part of the land being boggy, was favoureble for the concealment of " wee Mlle" and materials. A ganger named Gil- lespie, one of the strongest and moat effioient offibers of hie time, woe sent to rho district for tee purpose of rooting out the smugglers, On one occasion he got information from a neighbour that on a certain day a quantity ot whiskey would bo oonveyed from the par. fah to Aberdeen, and that it would go by the highway, Accordingly Gillespie was early afoot and lay oouoealed near the four - Mile house. Bub though he continued hie weary watch through the whole day, he naw no sign of smugglers or whiskey, Disap- pointed, and suapioious that a brick had been played on him, he was annoyed and made angry by a viait from his informant, who coked whether ho had .naught the mug - glare, Ho replied that he had not, though he had watched all day. He wag about to mouse the man of having made fun of him, when he said, " Whether you saw the whis- key or not, it wont path you." " Went past ine I Hoo could it do that when I toll ye 1 woe there the whole day 1" "Did yo notioe a funeral goast 1" "A funeral ; yoe, I saw a funeral' "Well, did ye sou what was i' the coffin?' The bill making train robbery a oapital orime has become a law in Arizona. WIT AND WISDOM, "Vara Wiley -" I'm afraid it would:be bettor not to spotk t papa just yob, Jack. Waft until next week," Jack Dtrr—" But why 1" Vera Wiley—" My millioor'e bill will be in then," A geotfemun fu jumping off a street oar the other day fell and rolled Into the gutter. While brnabing the dirt trona hie olothoe a a little girl ran up to him and said i "MN• ter, please do it again. Mamma didn't eco you that time," Mrs, Gaodbeert—" Why don't you give that poor woman a dime t" Mrs, Tiptop— " Morey the I 1 can't afford to spare o Dent, Ar it to, I don't see how we're over going to pay for that 8300 dross 1 had to order for the charity ball," Jtuke (et a party)—" I don't am what's the rubber with that pretty woman over there. She was awfully Sirby a little while ago, but now she won't have anything to do with me." Stranger—" I have jusb come in, She is my wife,'' Mamma (to Flb'aie, who has been lunch- ing wits a tittle friend)--" I hope you were very polite, Moseio, at the table, and said, 'Yea, please,' and 'No, thank you 1 " Floast^ —" Well, I didq't say ' No, thank you beoauoo, yOU ace, I took everything.' at Last ,—In a Pullman sleeper - Bride (in berth)—Darling I Groom (in lowe berth)—Yeo, probes I Bride -I've fours something I've been looking for ever sine my 'sixteenth birthday. Groom—What's the darling? Bride—A man under my bed. Tho beauty of the family (who has a temp- er of her own ) —" Panay, Mr. De Bullion has proposed I Isn'n ib wonderful, after only knowing me two weeke I" Elder sister —" Humph I It would be a great deal more avonderfnl if be had proposed after knowing you two years.' Exceedingly Long Patient—" I eay, doc- tor, are you going to put that mustard plas- ter onony feet to draw the pain from my head ?" Dooter—" Yea ; why ?' " Well, I objoob. I'd rather have it where it is than drawn down through six feet and five inches of new territory." Young girl (at fortuneteller's)—Whabl I am going to marry a poor labourer and live in a shanty and have soventeea children? It's outrageous 1 My friend Sarah had her fortune told here and you said oho was to marry a prince and live in three castles. Huh 1 Here's your quarter. Fortune Teller (with dignity)—Your friend Sarah got a fifty one fortune, Mise, "Did you see that oingalar looking area - toe at the reception? The one in yellow and green?" asked Mrs, Shuttle of Job. "No, I oan'b say thab I did. Bub I saw that charming creature in pink and cream," Of course you did ; that's what all men go to receptione for," Game—Sixpenny nap. Brown gore nap and wins. Parson Robinson pays in three- penny pieces. Jones (very jocosely) — Ha, ha, Robinson 1 been robbing the church plate, eh?' Parson Robinson (with great 'irony)—"You recognize your miser- able little contributions, do you?" Lawyer—And se you really think, Bobby, of becoming a lawyer when you grow ap? Bobby—yes, sir ; my Unole James thinks I ought to be a lwyer. "Does he, indeed. And why does your Uncle James think so —bootee you are bright and smart ?" "No, sir; because I ask so many. foolish questions.' " He went throng t the window like a man going into his hat," said Mr. Jobkias to his wife, speaking of a burglar. "How was that, my dear ?" she enquired, with provok- ing innocence. " Head foremost, of moue. You never saw a man go into hit hat feeb foremost, did you?" replied Jobkine, sharp- ly. " No dear," she said demurely ; "that ia, never till I saw you try to do it at one o'clock in the m trning." Aber that Jobkina somehow frit indisposed to carry on the eon. versat'on. Henry M. Stanley, the Afrioan explorer, went bo Omaha in 1858 or 1859. He was young, handsome, gatlantand fond of adven- uro. Ho fell in love with a vaudeville 00 - trees, who proved a ooquetta. One night, after posting her friends behind the ammo to observe the result, she granted Stanley an interview. Stanley, honest in ei0 fnfa- taation, knelt before the woman and protest- ed his lose deoporately. A reporter des- cribed the sone in hie paper, and Stanley thrashed him for ib. Moving a Metoorolite. For more than a century the travellers along a river in the province of Bahia, Brazil, saw in the edge of the stream a great mess of iron oro. At a low stage of water a pair of chariot wheels have been visible be- neath the edge of the tam. This mase of iron to known to bo of mete• orbs origin, and to have fallen from the sky, though no one knows at precisely what date. It was first discovered in 1784, and an attempt was soon made to transport it to the coast. As the meteorolite had been ascertained to weigh about six tone, the feat of traaeporb- ing it was not an easy one. An immense chariot, or trunk, was oonetruoted, and by dint of the exertione of one hundred and forty oxen, the metoorolite was laden upon thio ohoriob. Bub at the very Ant start the vehicle sank up to the hubs in the mud, and nothing could dislodge it. The attempt was then and there abandoned, and the ohariot wheels testified for more than a cen- tury to the failure of this effort to remove the great moteorolite, A recent attempt, however, aided by modern edema, has been more eueoeoaful, A Brazilian engineer has su0000ded in raid• ing the meteor, and transporting it to Rio de Janeiro, To accomplish this result, the Brazilian Government appropriated twenty thousand dollars, and an equal cum 1000 contributed for the purpose by a rioh private citizen. When the meteorolito oohed Rio de Jaw eiro, it was out into two pieces, in order that be structure might be etadied. It le Dom. posed of iron, of oryotalline formation, and mixed with other aubobonaea —a condition which is oharaoteristlo of all the iron which has fallen from the sky in meteors, and whioh is known ea meteoric) iron, It is a mob interesting fob that none of the met•eorolitee, so far as ie known, oonbain any eiturnioal element) that is not known on the earth. They alwoye contain iron, bub it be compounded diffetently from any known iron native to the earth. We earnestly beg to call the special at. bonbon of parents to the fent that they oan hardly oxercito too close a scrutiny on the Action Which their children road. Nob a few of the novels of tate present day, which aro most widely advertised, and aro sent into the world under the patronage of Allegedly respeotable pnbl1ahera, aro, the products of defiled imagination and oan have only oorru ting effects on the minden of young people, Some of them aro ohmneless• ly corrupt, and ought to be 'oppressed like Any other forth of impure literature 4 FABLS FOR, YOUNG WIVES. The Unly Way They Can Menage Their iiue, bunde dueeesern Ili', Men are naturally lees amiable and more intraoteble than women, The first point, tlferefore, 00 noun a married woman's hap pineoe after the holidays of tiro lionoymoou are over, ie that she ehould study carefully the peoullarities of bur husband's temper. It la in the pawel of a wale atm good woman to make a lamb of the greatest iiear that over wore whiskers ; while by a Joolfah treatment the promise maybe rovereed and a generous bearded creature, with all the ooptbilities of a lion, may end In being a hear or wolf, A wife moat tread on her hue. band's tempos first ao emetic/lusty as a pru- dent boy deo upon rooently formed ice. Only when oho has learned where the slip- pory humor of her husband will boar, and where it will break, oan she perform with safety thoseraooful evolution by whish a devomd wife achieves greater triumphs than ever ttonaparte did by hie artillery. Wise old Plutarch, desoanting on the topic, very appropriately bringa in the old fable of the traveler, whom Bureau, with his ob- ebroperous blasts, tried to disrobe of his good greatcoat; but the resale was quite obherwiee; the marc violently Boreal puffed his cheeks the more Warmly the man w•apped hie coat about him. Bat what Borons could not achieve with all his strength the sun did with a few alight coolies of hie genial beams. The man was so overaomeby the softening influenoe that be flung both his cloak and tunic away. So lot no woman foolishly at- tempt to gain her husband in a rough way what elle oan surely achieve by gentleness, The Eari's Pipers. For several year: the late Earl of Aitlie acted as L trd High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the C0uroh of Scotland, Atnoogeb his attendants at Holyrood were two pipers, who, at every dinner given to the clergy and other gaols at the Palace, marched mayoral times round the large dining•hall, playing the wild and inspiriting music of the Hrghlanda„ One evening, the Moderator of the Monthly, ab some one's request, naked his Grano whether he mad any objections bo instruct the pipers to piny "Tne Bonnie House o' Airlic," " None whatever," replied the Earl, " but I doubt whether we than geb it, for the one piper is au Ogilvie, and the other is a Campbell; but we shall sea." Calling the butler, be gave orders thab ween • the piporo nob come in, they should ploy "Tne Bonnie Rouen o' Airiie." The butler wont et once with the message. By.and-by the pipes were heard approaohiog, and, in a little, one piper, the Ogilvie, marched in, playing the desired tune with greab dignity and vigour. "1 expeoted this," said the Earl in a jocular way to the Moderator. Summoning the butler again, he asked whether his tneseoge had been delivered. " Yea, my lord." " Then why hes Campbell not come in with Ogilvie?" I gave him your mcoeage, my lord," "What did he say then?" The man hesitated. " What did Campbell ray 7" again demanded the Earl. " He said—oh— eh"—atilt heaitatieg—"he said he would see your lordship-- ;" the rest of the sentence was lost in a cough and the skirl of Ogilvie's pipes, How Washington Women Dress. There is very little fine dressing among women in Washington. This abatement will probably astonish people who for years have been reading glowing accounts of brilliant society events at the capital, but ib is true. Some women here dress very elaborately and in many new dresses, hub these are few and are oonspiehous among their associates. A person who has been reading long desorip- tions of dresses mighb look in vain for the gergeoue array that hoe been pictured tc them. About nine out of ten of the women seen ab the evening reception mty be idea. tified from ono time and another by their dresses, and towarde the end of the season the eye is met by a draggled and disrepu- table Iot of gowns. The immense crowds that beoemble at receptions here and the bad manners ao often mob with discourage fine dressing on the part of women of wiper. lenoe, exoept on very select 000aeion:. at is the habib of fashionable women, unless they are to be of the reoeiviug party, to pub on none bub their old evening gowns to attend a reception at the White house. The poor. eeb dresses anywhere are to be seen in the Best room during any of the large formal reoepbions. At a very lorgereoaption given by a prominent official the other evening I sew not lees than half a dozen dishes of various sorts of refreshments dropped on the flour, the painted China crushed, and the oysters, be cream, or salad spilt on the ladies' dresses. There is always a satisfac- tion in euoh a ma to feel tient the dresses are not very valuable.—[Washington Letter. A Strict Law. A Bill has been iutroduoed in the Legielo- ture of the State of New York, and favour, ably reported by the Judiciary Committee, which is certainly very different from what one might have expected in a oonntry whore democratic principles are supposed to pre. wail, and where it oughb to be an axiom that there ehould be no Legislative interfer- enae with private business beyond whab is absolutely necessary, The Bill in question provides that all Commission Merohents doing business in the State, or any other persons who shall reactive geode of any kind to sell on oommiseion, shall, immediately upon their reoeipb "tend a true statement io writing to the ooasignor bhereof, showing what goods have been received, the date of auoh reception, and their or its condition." And as soon as any parb of the ooneignmenb hat been sold tide Bill further provides that the merchant must at once forward a true statement in writing to the consignor, show- ing the amount sold and the price obtained, Negleob of any of the requirements of this iawexpoeeo the merchant to a penalty of 850, This seems an extraordinary interferenoewith freedom of trade between man and man, Matters of this kind ought to be lefOto settle themselves according to a natural law, and it is in a high degree doubtful if the protru. sion of the legislative thumb in this way in- to private businere will be relished by the business men of New York, or will be pro- ductive of any good results. . Beautiful Swiss Custom. Aa soon es the sun has disappeared in the valleys, and its last rays are job glimmering on the snowy summits of the mountains, the herdeman who dwells on the loftiest peak takes tie horn and trumpets forth, "Pralee God, the Lord I" A11 the herdentenin the neighborhood take their horns and repeat the words. 'Thio often continuos a quarter of an hour, while on all sides the mountains echo the name of God. Solemn stillness follows; every eft phard on bonded kneel; with uncovered head, alters hie omit prayer. By this time lb le quite dark, "Good night 1" trumpota forth the herdsman on the loftiest summit, "Good night I" Fri repeated on all tate mounba'ne from the hone of the herdsmen and the olefin of gni rocks, OONDBNSED DESPATOI{ES. Port Arthur 10 already without snow, Fifteen Mormon converts have left Saudi, ern Georgia for Utah, Another rioh strike le reported from the Silver Mountain mine, near Port Arthur, Victoria University. at Cobourg, has an fntoreoting colony ot J.tpaneee students just now, Charloe Phillips, of S •col, Q xebec, a bro- ther of John L Sullivan's backer, hue made an eaoignment, J. W. Rae and Mrs. Cooper, of Oshawa, have been tined $100 and 50 respectively for violation of the Sootb Act. With the single exception of Quebec the reports from the busineoe centres in regard to settling op day are of a eatisfeetory tone. The victims of the eoofdent at St George are reported as improving. The injured waiter, who was taken to Brantford, ie dead, Tho Inaugurati.an of Preaidenb Harrison wee not favored tvith good weather, but there appears to have been no look of en- thusiasm, A Kingston mother disoovered a parool of olothing btelonging to her daughter poked up preparatory to eloping, The mother aubabr- tnted some of her own clothing, and when the sweetheart took the bundle he watt ar- rested for larceny. The body of Hon. George Robertson, late member of the Michigan House of Repre- sentatives, has been recovered from a mill pond at tlhion, Meth. He was despondent over hie wife's deabn, but whether 10 was an accident or a suicide Is not known, Filling a Horse's Teeth, An interacting and unaonol dental opera- tion was performed yesterday afternoon, says the St. Louie R public, at 1306 Wash- ington nvoouo, by Dr. W. E, Murray, D. D. 11„ which for about an hour attracted the close attention of a group of studious specta- tors. This was the somewhat unusual apeotaole of the filling of a horse's teeth—an. operation which had previously been per- formed but twice. D. Murray's dental work yesterday afternoon was very eitni'ar to that of the regular tooth doctor for the human rase, exoopb that the patient was not seabed in that awful plush ohair wherein we all have suffered and groaned. "Billy," the patient, a very dark roan horse about 15) hands high belonging to Dr. Morrill of Washington avenue, has been suffering from toothache for several weeks. He has been unable to drink except by pree0ing his tongue against hie upper teeth so as to keep the water from them, and as soon as Dr. Murray was called in he saw the necessity for the filling of the decayed teeth. Exam inabion showed that three of the iooieors. were badly decayed and preparations wore made to fill them and relieve poor " Billy " of his sufferings. The scene was a peculiar and interesting one. Dr. Murray bad a table placed at the aide of Billy's" stall, upon which he laid out his array of glittering steel inetrumenta, similar to but somewhat larger than those used in human dentistry. Forceps, excavators, probes, scrapers, drillers, all were there, and '•Billy" glanced at them with a wondering eye, but did not evince that shaky nervousness with which a human being undergoes the dentist's work. Strange to say, in his dental work on horses, D. ,Murray, who praoticed regu- lar dentistry for four years before beginning on horses, seas no gag, twitoh, speculum or other contrivance to oeoure the horeo'e head, and states that he can do better work with the head entirely free. An attendant held " Billy" in his stall simply with an arm thrown loosely over hie shoulder while Dr. Murray examined his mouth. There were three teeth to be filled, two of them badly decayed, and the doctor began on them at once, " Billy's " behavior was a model for human visitors to dental establishments, and be :bowed a degree of fortitude and nerve nob often met with. Dr. Murray dug and out and " excavated " largo haute)); of decayed matter from his teeth, and " Billy" stood without, a movement, Ida intelligent eye following the doctor's work ae though he fully appre- ciated it. Only once, when the nerve of the worst tooth was touohed, " Billy" quivered end drew back, but stood firm again and let the doctor finish the filling. The teeth were all deoayed from the bottom upward and the cavities were something fearful to aontem. plate. The amalgam which was driven up and hammered into them would have filled the teebh of a dozen men, and"Billy," with a napkin tied about his mouth and brought over hie nose, seemed to appreciate the ex- tent of the work, as he occasionally glanced ab Dr. Murray with a look of oalm approb- ation which 1008 very encouraging. The work was neighed in about an hour, and "Billy " was led away considerably improved as to teeth, and having believed in the most cour- ageous manner. "I have very little trouble with horses," amid Dr. Murray. "I leave my pedants entirely tree and rely altogether upon lirnoneee mingled with kindness to man- age them. Horses are very intelligent and they eaem to understand when you are en- deavoring to relieve them. Even in pulling teeth 1 never aeoure a horse and have bub little trouble with them, I have performed dental work on over 1000 horses :ince last Janrsop. The Farmer's Pet, the Heathen's Dread. It is a remarkable feat that the ancient Jewish regulations respecting articles of dieb, seems to have descended in come mea- ner to barbarous or hatf•aivilized tribes and nations found in widely separated portions of the globe. For example, while the Amari. oan termer counts his Holten by the number of his hogs, and fairly dote: upon his fatten- ing pigs, bite Hottentot despise: the ooaven- ger,and turns from the begat with loathing, to dine upon a monkey or an ant -eater. The Rindoo would ma coon think of becoming a oannibel as of eating swine's flesh. It is mated that the Indian mutiny so frightful in its results, originated in a fear among the Sepoyr that they ware to be forced to eat pork. A lady had an amusing experience in India whioh llluetratoe the Hindoo sentiment on the subject of the pig. Arriving very late ab a grand dinner party, she and her husband saw the first oourse being carried in as they went down the hall. A row of "kitmagare"wore drawn up, waiting to £oIlow the dish into the dining•room, and serve bheir reepeotive employers ; and as the dish of ham wan carried by, each man geavoty and deliberately spat upon ib I Needless to my, Mrs. B ---and her lord waited for the eeoond coarse." A Lawvor's Precaution, • A celebrated criminal lawyer, having just defended a noted 0osa06121 0o brilliantly that rho wretch was acquitted in the floe of over -whelming evidence, stops up to the judge, "A word in your bat, your Honour," "Well, whet be RV "I would twit that the prisoner be detained Itt goal until to. morrow morning' I have to erose u lonely field on my way home, and the canal hep• pone to know that I have money about me,' "Oh, oertainly,"--[Cartoon,