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ATUGU:ST 9, 1889,
HEALTH..
SD NEMER LIFE,
Be mem L. OSWALD, M 1),
Our Spent* Amerioan neighbors have an
amusing tradition of a Yankee inventor who
settled In Western Mexico, and at once do-
termine4 to utilize hie genius for aha im•
provemanb of hie stook farm. Having natio•
ed the eoentinets of the looal water cunni,,
he instituted a survey of the neighboring
hill cogntry, and by an ingenious oombina-
tion of dome and dikes managed to °elloot
the deranage. of a considerable territory.
That syatem of ditohee ho aoneentreted upon
his ranch, and greatly enjoyed the ono.
quant abundance of atatero water ; bub the
next rainy season opened with a magnificent
thundershower, and two hours labor bhe
inventive foreigner had to run for hie life,
while bit astonished cattle wore Mood
about on the billows of a rapidly rising
lake,
A similar mistake obligee thousende of our
countrymen to abandon their city homes, at
the approach of the midsummer season,
Om houses are winter forte. Jack Fon,
the giant Itrymir of the Edda myth, was
the bugbear of our Northland forefathers,
and alt the resources of potence and con-
structive akill have been exhausted to
mitigate tho affilotion of a low tempera-
ture ; but after May the completeness
of those contrivances beoomee a amuse
of set -Ione diecomforb, and in midsummer of-
ten oompals its inventor, to seek safety in
flight. In the art of oounteraoting the heat
of the summer sun, we are, indeed, sadly
behind the nations of the tropics ; nay the
oonstruotion of onr Northern cities often
completely reverses the arrangements by
which Nature herself moderatos an mons
of temperature. In the very midab of onr
West American deserts, there are isolated
groves where a traveller may pass a mid.
Bummer noon in perfect comfort. When the
sun approaches the meridian, leaf trees
throw their darkest shade, bub withal, ad-
mit every breath or air, ar oven create air
current: of their own, since their foliage is
often stirred by a lively breeze, while
throughout the open fields every pulse of
life aeema to stagnate In the fierce, brooding
heat. The erohiteoture of our Northern
oitiee la ingeniously contrived to aggravate
that heat. Per milsa the high ramparts of
brick intercept every air current, but admit
the fall glare of the vertical nun, while kit-
chen fires, bake -ovens, and furnace blasts
add their share of caloric, thee dooming
millions of our fellow men to a maximum of
physical misery, et the very time when the
children of nature celebrate life as a fere
tival.
Bub even in Hadco the favorite oompan.
ions of Pluto managed to pace their time in
tolerable comfort, and common tense can do
wonders In modifying the martyrdom of the
midsummer season, One finemorning in July
a lady phyeioian of my acquaintance enter•
ed a veranda arbor were the yonngetera of
the proprietor (bhe widow of a Tennessee
planter)werestruggling with a breakfast of
steaming hob milk,
I tee you are following my preocrip
tion," said the dbctreoo; "bub fresh milk
would have answered better. I did nob
mean to pub you to the trouble of boiling
it."
"Nob boil it 1" exclaimed the materfam-
iliae, a ith undisguised amazement. "Why,
ib etonds to reason that a person needs
"something" warm for breakfasb."
"Would you please specify that remeon 1"
inquired the medical reformer,
That qusetion would, indeed, not be quite
easy to answer. Why should we employ
artificial meant to increase the temperature
of a body already suffering from the com-
bined inflnence of atmospheric haat and
superfluous clothing? The popular theory
that ascribes nine out) of ten disorders of the
human organism to the effect of "Cold" (a
modern "alias" of the bugbear Hrymlr) to
strikingly refuted by the inoreaao of mor-
tality during the climax period of the dog.
days ; and it io a suggestive foot that oli-
metm revere are almost unknown in many
parte of the tropine, reeking with ewampa,
but inhabited by people whom experience
has taught the wisdom of the plan, to noun-
teraot sun heat by a refrigerating diet.
Sir Emerosn Tennent, in hie "Natural
History of Ceylon," calla attention to the onr•
lous fact thab in warm weather the temper.
ature of tropical fruit,pluoked'freeh from the
tree, is amoral degroee below that of the
surrounding atineephere, "Plante,"heeays,
"seem to have a faculty of organically re.
during the temperature of their sap in memmar, just as animals increase the tempera-
ture of their blood in winter." Now, tropical
fruit, according to Geode, as wellas to
Darwin, formed the staple diobof out nature,
guided ane eaters, who exceeded their de -
°andante in longevity, and certainly in bod-
ily vigor. A refrigerating diet meet for
ages have tempered the summersun to prim-
itive nations, and the leeeone of inetbnob
seem to oonirm that conclusion. Rothe
Gruetze (cold raspberry pudding with oold
sweet milk) makes, the Rhineland restaurant
attractive
to ail summer visitors. Tha$ raP ee
P ovencal hotels de andan e
and oaken of the r v
ablinhmente
(grape -ours est ) make eanotorinm
lite a deligbb, and Dully Mary Montagu tells
us that in summer, the Turks often eubeld
for weeks exoluefvelyon cooling food : oold
rine and fruit, milk and durrba bread, pantry
and sherbet. Some of our favorite made.
dishes become loalpid by cooling, bub
the belief in the imporbanoe of three daily
hob meals le wholly gratuitous. No circum-
stance in the d'onleetio'hisbory of our aueee-
tore, is more'felly established thea the tan
that the moat civilized nations of antiquity
contented themeelvoa with "a meal and
a half a day "—a very light breakfast,
and a liberal supper, postponed to the The promise of making glucose will be beet
end of the working -day, when leisure -understood, gays the American Analyeb, by
and rest guranteed abundant fa cinder: following the corn from the time ib enters
for digeetion, The Amerioan Spaniards fol. the factory until ib rune out at a spigot, it
low a similar plait during the eight wartime) clear, odorless liquid, The ahellcorn 'is deet
months of the year, and after the end of soaked for several days in water to soften
March, generally epb their principal meal in the hull and prepare it for the oraoking pro.
the cool of the evening, but are apt bo Moro aoss. The eoftenedoornle conveyed by eleVa•
a supply of ripe fruit in the. coolest corner tore to one of the highesbpborieeoi the factory
of the home, and Often go down.btaire for a and shoveled into bergs: hoppers, from which
elige of ice•oold melon, as a froab•numbed ib; poses into mills :hab merely oraok the
Northerner would go indoors for a sip of graine without redoing them mono to fine.
hob tea, meal; The oraoked grain is then conducted
In other respeote, too, the mertyre of our bo alarge tank filled with rinsing water, The
midsummer climate could learn a lesson from hulls of the corn float at the top of the water,
Southern neighbors, What strange pre. the germs sinks to the bottom, and the pot.
jadiee oan have• begot the belief in tho .bone of the grain containing the starch, be.
1. acctflow byfriotion
esoman gradually redo to r
sending oer ohndr n to
necessityof :e d u
$
bed, e $ y
an in an•
jun when the evening beoomlathe pleasantly are held in solution water, Byan
cool, when flowers breathe bheit sweetest lone proem both the hulls and the germs are
perfume, and fawns and young rabbits leave removed and the fiber part now held insole.
the shadow of the thiokebs to play on the tion contains nothing but Mar* and gluten,
moonlight mountain meadows ? The aloe Thio liquid is then made to flow over a
mtedas or public parks of the Spanish Amort- series of tables, representing several aoree
oan cities are almost abandoned during the In area, and the difference in the :Tooldc
hottest house of the afternoon ; bub about gravity of the two cubetancee oanses the
sunset loo•oream venders arrive with their gluten and starch to separate without the
.portable oonfoobionerles, mubfolans tune up Use of ohemfcals, The gluten is of a golden -
their inehrumebte, troop after troop of yellow o olor and the etaroh new white. By
mounted pitasurb•ssekore gallop down the thetimo the gluten has been cofn)iletely
prinoipel avenue, and half an hour after, the °HMI:aatedthe starch aaaumes a plastic form
whole park awof me with promenedere and and fa oolleoted from the separating, tables
romping ohildren, enjoying the balmy night by wheelbarroweful and taken to a drying.
with ubtot disregeed of dew and "damp" room where ib: is prepared as the bteroh of
greet. Ab half post ten youegetete of eight o0mmeroeor le laced In a ohemioalapperatus
Pled hilae FOTO are I(ifi Met in treeing chat• to bo 000veetedd into glueope, ,,,,1,eY,-,
log ligbbning:ledge and running ranee through
grata and bush, and not only taking ogre of
thou:elver, bu t enoonraging their ebin young•
er playmatoo to join in their sports, and
Avoid the promenade rode on 0000000 of the
think clods of tobacoo amoks surrounding
every group of Adult:. Nevertheless, those
young night•rovellere aro up with the aun,
the 000l of the morning being too preotous to
be loot in sleep, but make up for a deficit of
rob by A long siesta, an after.dlnuor nap of
two or throe house,
With 000ling diet, frequent bathe, light
area, and Jighb dinnere, and out door ram.
bias in the cool of the evening, even families
of moderate moans may mitigate the amlo•
donne of the bake.oven season ; but twine
happy they who cum combine bbe advantage
of nob habits with the blowing of a shady
country home, or of a sojourn on the airy
heights of a natio mountain resort—ie the
uplands of the southern Alleghenies, for in.
stone—equally remota from the malaria of
the festering ooaeb swamps and the duety
plaint of the far Wen. Compared with the
mountain parks of our soubhern hlehland
Staten, an onormoue ares of that far West is
Indeed only a repebibion of the for Eaet—the
worn-onb, treeless table -land of centra] Asia
—and the first explorers of our continent
really dieoovered all that was new about the
New World.
The coast eaglens of that East American
Bien, on the other hand, exhibit the "faults
of their virtues"—a boundless fecundity in
fevers, reptiles, and moequitoea, as well as
in vegetable produote. Sultry heat and
bipulary insect* make the eternal summer of
our seetheasteen coast region an eternal
torment. Mosquitoes and malaria all along
the Atlantic seaboard, from Brazil to New
Jereey. Here and there art and aooidenb
have combined to redeem the natural disod•
vantages of that region. Water -fowl, sea•
fish, daily mails, or daily cook•fights attraot
thousands to rho half•Spanfah aeaporte of
southern Florida. Surf baths,too, reconcile
many health•esekere to the winged leaches
of the North American swamp coast,
But in the uplands of the eonthern Al,
legheoles, or in those pine gardens of the
Sou* California Sierras, where
"All meadows and all woods are evergreen,
And spring returns with every rising sun,"
summer life can be made pleasant enough
to convince even an invalid, that the lovers
of'dature have not lob their earthly paea•
nitre,
AN ALPINE HERO.
now a mountain Guide Saved tie Uses of
Ills Companion and a Traveler.
While in Interlaoben several yeare eines,
we were told of the daring attempt made by
an Englishman and guides to mond the
Jungfrau very early in the Spring, The
asoeet, ab all times dangerous, was at Chet
000000 almosb impracticable, bub the Eng-
lishmen, intent upon making the earliest
aeoenb known for years, with difficulty per-
suaded two guides to a000mpany him.
They lefb the village ono brigab morning,
with ropes and Alpine stooks, their only
protection against the treacherous ice and
snow. Upon reaching the mountain the
first guide and hero bound the rope securely
about his wain, leaving several yards bo -
fore tying it about bhe waist of the English-
man—then several yards between . the
Englishman and second guide, and then,
bound together, they began the anent.
After climbing for bonze, and having past
the line of perpetual snow, their path led
near a yawning precipice, where a treacher-
ous rook giving way, caused the sec.
ond guide to fall, and unable to regain tie
footing, he was hurled over the edge of the
chasm,
The Englishmen, nob knowing howto ann.
port himeelf, wan dragged with him. But the
first guide, understanding in a flash their
perilous situation, threw himself upon the
ground, bracing his Alpine stook against a
boulder of ice, and so supported, with almost
superhuman strength, sustained the :bock of
their fall.
Imagine the horror of the oitna.ion 1 That
wilderness of ice and snow—no human being
near save the two helpless men dangling over
stab awful chasm —the guide's only support
the room of ice, which might Many mutant
give way, and those heavy weights on the
rope which bound and out deep into hie body,
Yob the hero, though knowing bhe impoo.
ability of saving the men himself and the ho -
probability of others ascending the mountain
for weeks or months, could easily have cut
the rope and sec himself free, yeb he deter•
mined to be faithful unto death, and as long
as strength would last to hold his two com-
panions.
For hours he held the dangling bodies,
and strength was well nigh gond when sonde
of voices came from above, growing steadily
nearer and nearer. He fancied ib a delusion,
yet cried for help, scarce hoping that aid
was near. A party of six —foolhardy as
these three, though more fortunate—had
aeoended the mountain from the opposite
side, and, hearing the ory for help, hastened
to their aseietanoe. With difficulty they
raised the Englishman and guide, who were
onlyetunnedand terrt
fieri the hero'estren bh
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lasting until he knew the two were r cafe and
e ea and so remained
then he lett oonaoiousns
for many weeks '
When visiting Interlaohen the following
year we inquired for the faithfi l guide and
were told that he :bill lived, but the rope,
having onbolmoeb through lila body, had
left this :Wrong, courageous man a hslpleas
paralytic,
• HOW GLUO03E IS MADE.
A Deaerihtion of the Process orals Interest.
lagMsreudocture.
THE BRUSSELS POST,
SCENES OF SUFFERING IN SI-
BERIA,
Alexander Baranoff, a Russian army olfl•
oer who woo sentonoed to Siberia for alleg.
ad complicity in revalutioaary echemee,
oall to a Bonbon " Advertiser " reporter
recently;
" Were it nob for the oheriby of the poo•
pie of Retain and Siborla no tranvia would
ever live to see the end of hie journey,
Tho obteritfe: of the city of M0000w, from
which 0o so many prisooere chart for Siberia,
are great. It ie the ouebom of the oonviot:
to ah0000 one of their own number as fore.
man when about to start on their long
journey, Wheu our oompeny of 800 men
and women, oecortod by the soldiore with
fixed bayonets, left Moscow our foreman
went up and down the lines of people Beth.
erect to witness our departure, He oolleoted
alms from the orowd the money being put
into bags and carried along to the fleet
station, where Ib was divided. The amount
collected wee 0o groat bhab every man had
$27.
" The government does not interfere with
the ela :•giving on the part of the people,
In every libtle town through whiob you pass
oaoh villager takes off his hab, and crosses
himeelf, and throws in a penny for the ben•
ofib of the ' poor unfortunates,' as the con.
viota are termed by the people.
"All that the American people have heard
and read nbeub the sufferings endured by the
prisoners exiled to Siberia is true. The half
has never been told. The soldiers in Siberia
h ih n 1 t w h wel
ave a name ort a oo vas bio 1 ex
prestos their condition. Ib may be translate
freely ae'you are dead, bub not buried.' ThI
is the truth, It Ma living deabh.
"Typhoid fever ie the worst emerge o
the exiles, More convlote die of bbab the
of any other cause. Ib could nob be other
wise. The Indesoribable filth and frightfu
atmosphere of the crowded sleeping -place
ab the stations along the route are steady au
sure breeders of the disease, which make
dreadful ravages among bhe prieonert. Th
fever broke out among us when we were
a
Tobolok, and the prisoners died at the rat
of thirty or forty a day. I was elok with tb
fever myself, The prfooners received medi
oat attendance, such as ib wee. Tobelak wa
a great stopping place for *anoints, and a
that time there were 3,010 aonvioba °enfiaed
in various barracks opening upon a large in
closure, whir* was strongly fortified.
"Anorher thing from which the convicts
suffer in Siberia le the oold. The coli of a
Siberian winter is intense, and the convict,
on bhe line of march, unable to walk fan and
keep their blood in circulation because of
their chains, suffer much. I remember one
day, near the city of Tara, in the provinoe
of Tobolok, when it was so frosty that some
of the baggage horses even lay down and
died. We loot three women and five mea
that day, who ohilled bhronggh and through
by the dreadful oold, eaooumbed and died in
the road, their bodies being pinked up and
brought along to the next station.
" Some of the prisoners died in Ibis way
every week, especially in the Beateki steppe,
and yeb ib was only the ordinary Siberian
winter.
Convict life in the mines of Siberia ie
well illustrated by cur daily routine at the
gold mines of Nerohiosk. We gob up ab 4
o'olook in the morning and had a breakfast
of black bread and a bowl of gruel. We
worked in the mines till noon and then had remaining nefeting of more gruel and blank
bread, and Mee a piece of meat. The meat
was often horse meat, and young horse, let
me tell you, isn't half bad, especially if you
are a prisoner in Siberia,
" We worked in Inc mines again until
dark. Supper oonmietad of oobbago or some
other kind of soup, mean every bwo or three
days, potatoes or other vegetables, which
were frequently rotten, and blank bread. In
the mines we worked in true miner fashion
with pick and shovel and lamp on hat, We
still wore our chains. They never oame off
The oonvicte had bo live in them and die in
them.
"Such a life,' of oonree, sooner or later
caused the death of many oonvicto. The
political priaooerc, many of whom were of
high rank .and totally unused to manual
labor and to such a diet and manner of liv
ing, coffered the mosb, and succumbed gen-
erally the fastest. The ordinary offenders.
*levee, oommon malefactors, etc, who
oame from the lower °lasses, stood prison
life much bettor, for ib more nearly resew•
bled in its diet and daily toll bheir former
life. I have known ordinary offenders, men
from the lower classes, who were Moab and
strong, who , had lived and worked in the
mines forrtwenby yeare.
"The' women prisoners at the mines were
employed in mobbing, washing, and clothes
making: aThe delicately nurtured iadioa
among diem who were polibiool offendera
did not genetally livo long.
" Some of the soveriblee praoticed upon
convicts in Siberia are juebified, ib must be
said. Many of the ocuvlute are the word ;sort
of humanity. inoluding murderers, thieves;
highwayman, and all kinds of offendsre.
We have one murderer in our community
who killed twontyeeven men.
r'The, political prioonoes were forced to,
mingle ith this cease of oonvicbs
some of
them the dregs of humanity. In our r nom-:
pang of 800 whiolt left Moscow there were
forbp eight) politioal prieonore, four of whom
were women, Sixteen of us were the•ofii..
ore of the Shleselburg regiment, who . had
been oonrt•martialled for alleged complicity
with Polish conspirators. Three ofus of .
°ere stuck together and worked together, I
do not know what ever became of the obliers..
T euppoee they ate all dead by now,
"There is only one chance In 100 of ever
gobbing back to Russia when one is once
Bent to Siberia, for sf a convict is euspeoted
of having further political sohemse it de.
strays his hope of a pardon,
"Many of bhe convicts, as I have said, aro
desperate men. Here is a story of there-
venge some of them book upon a Siberian
whohad murdered one of their number
This Siberian wars one of the mongolian taoe
801101 Braleki, and he bad a farm about 210
aerate from Nerohihsk. Ib lay in the by ay
by which oonyists;escaping from the mines
generally passed. The region was meetly a
dry desert, but this Brateki farmer had a
good well of water, widish , atirsrte - the,
oonviobe, espeolally the green ones who had.
never heard of him,
"Ib was this farmer's custom to oall to a
bonvicb whom he saw parsing by wearing a
good pair of :hoes or a good goat, and entice
him within reaoh, and then shoot him from
araan
d but which he had loo
.hole
about Ho killed and robbed a number ao1f1
a V e
on lot in this way.
" One day a pasty of eeventeeu convicts
went by the farm, and Some of the younger
onee were for stopping, The mere experh
Sneed convicts diebnaded them from doing
thio, saying that they would barely be shob.
By means of a stratagem five of the convicts
captured the farmer unarmed and away from
hip loop,hoied hub, Then the beat means of
patting to death the murderer were die.
mined. Soros wore for hanging him, but
one oonviot said : ' I'll show you a better
way than thab,' The farmer's lege were
ripped up with to knife, from the inside of
the ankle, and a lob el finely chopped horse
hair woo rubbed into the wounds, • The hair
13tne
wee obtained from the tail of a horae, which! Oar Dominion.
was out off, The finely tub hair irritated Land of broad elvers and ruehia at
the wounds meand pub the victim in reap P roma,
agony, The ognviets ab Nerohlnek later Of wild wlnd•bocbteo and oataraob gleams,
beard, through the cone!°, syebem of elgas' Whole "Mighty Wabera" fa thunder fait,
and eommuntoatlon, whin le eproad all over A seething mass, from shear rooky wall;
Siberia, like the tramp language lu this Whose pathless prairies unmeasured roll,
count t In wave on wave to theNorthern
r bat the former died of hie 1 , ed s
Y, m t wounds.
" I remember a oonviot ab Nerohinsk White r, tyn„f forests unconquered stand,
named Betouska who wars an unruly fellow A fitting bgpe of their anbiva band ;
and often brought paolshmenb upon himself, I Wblbsb Tell and forest, and pathless plains
lie used 10 goo 200 or 300 lather:at s 61me for •Aro guarded well by the mountain ohaino.
atsaiiog from the abhor prisoners. Upon ant Two oceans break on thy sturdy shores,
000aslon he was punished for some misdeed
by being thrown into a dark oollar, the in-
tention being to keep him there two hours,
But the overseer, waa was a drunkenfcllow,
forgot him, and be wee nobreloaaed,
"During the night the other conviotcheard
an awful yelling earning from the cellar into
whiob Butouska had been thrown. In the
morning there was nothing so be teen in the
cellar bubButoneke's bones, The rata had
eaten the rest of him,
"I on recall many nets of cruelty to the
prisoners, I remember one political prison
er—a young man of high rauk who had been
a captain fn my own regiment. 13s was
mob beloved by us all. Weak and run
down by the hard life of the minae, he found
himeelf ntberably unable to work one day,
and when they tried to make him keep 01 it
he refused and declared he could not, He
was taken to the hospital, where he died,
being kept without food for twenteafonr
Inure."
Death Caused by Illegal Flogging.
The Governor•General of Seohaan China,
reports the trial of a magistrate who had
been guilty of oaneing the death of a man
by flag;ing him in an unlawful manner.
The official in question, who waa the Megis.
brats of Chien Chou, was a Shantung man,
Wang Hei•yung by name. He wee a Soho].
ar and graduate, end had reoeivsd special
promotion for the good services rendered by
him three yeare ago in the country againeb
bee Yellow River,
One day last year, a few months after he
had been appointed to bis post, a hired
laborer went to ene local market and bought
two baskets of Indian corn. When going
away he put a shirt and a parse on the top
of the baeketee' As be proceeded along a
orewded thoroughfare some ono stole thee°
two articles without befog perceived. As
F 000 as he noticed the lose he reported ib to
thelooalconotebleand to a soldier narnedLin
Tsai•en, who noted as street policeman.
The latter at once suspected that a certain
vagabond, who was constantly pilfering
things, musb know something about the
theft. He therefore gob hold of the fellow
and questioned him, and finding his sue-
pioions to be correct, made bleu deliver up
the property to its • owner,
The thief begged . -hard that he might nob
be taken before the authorities, beseeching
and falling on hie knees. The soldier there.
fore struck him a few blows on his head and
bade him get oub of the neighborhood.
The thief, however, determined to have his
revenge. Next evening he went to the
magistrate's office and laid a complaint
against the soldier. He said that he had
been coming home to see his mother when
the soldier stopped bim and took by force
from him a shirt and a purse containing two
thousand cash.
The magistrate was mush incensed by the
story of such misconduct on the part of a
men acting as police officer, especially as the
victim was a mere boy. He sent for the
soldier and ordered him bo restore what he
had taken. The soldier told the truth of
bhe Daae, but failed to convince the magis-
trate, who gave full oredenoe to the nn•
supported rbory of the thief. The soldier
gob bank the puree and shirt from their
owner, but when ordered to produce the
money, too, he spoke oub plainly and boldly.
The magistate in .a rage male two of hie
liotore seize bhe man and flog him with whipe
formed of ox sinews, .without counting the
blows; As a severe beating Infilobed on his
arms and back failed to make the money
forthcoming, the soldier was thrown into
prison, where he died in the night from ex.
haustion. The magistrate reported the cote
as one of death from disease ; bub bhe mobber
having been brought to the memorialist's
notice, apost•mortem examination was held,
and it was found that the cause of the death
was the infliction of boo severe corporal pun.
ishmenb. The maglstrabe was therefore
stripped of his rank and regularly tried,
when the facts above narrated were clearly
proved.
The mernorialieb then recounts the sem
tenses that be has pesoed upon the differenb
persons concerned in the affair, The thief is
condemned to ebrangelation after imprison-
ment, suoh being the penalty laid down in
the law for any one whobriogs a false charge
against another, with the result that bheao-
°used dies under examination by scourging.
The magistrate was guilty of caning bhe
heath of the soldier by flogging him in an fl•
legal manner, ase whip of oxsinewa is a for-
bidden lnstrumont,,and the book and arms
are parte of the bode. whtoh are not allowed
to be beaten. Hie sentence is therefore oleo
hundred biomes aud'threeyeare'banishmonb,
as the me
requires, res in °asee where
the
offend.
}n o ohas aorad On .public ground, and
hnAnet lnea in$ue000d by private moives.
The,bwo'liotore, by whose instrumentality
'the fatal; besting wee inflfoted, must be pun-
ished' one degree mare lightly— namely, by
ninety blows and two ,eats' banishment.
Referred to the Board of Punishments.
He Knew.
A teaoher was tellitig her little boys about
temptation, and showing how ib somebimee
Dame in the most abtraotive attire. She
used 00an'illitetration the paw of a cat.
"Now," said she, "you have all even the
pew of a oat. 1b 10 as soft as velvet„ isn't
it?"
"Yesem,' from the clan.
"And you have Been the paw of a dog ?"
"Yosetn,"
" Well, although the cab's paw name like
velvet, there is, nevertheless, oonoeated In
it something that hurts. What is 16?"'
No answer.
' The dog bites," said the teaoher, "when
he is in anger : bue what does the oat do ?"
"Serabohob," replied the boy,
" Correct," said the bencher, nodding her
head approvingly, " Now, what hos bhe
oat gob that the doe hasn't."
" Whiskers," said a boy on the book seat ;
and the titer that ran eroun the e
b d e Glees
brought the lesson to an end
Preparobione have just been completed hi
Buffalo for an oleotrio street railroad, form-
ing an extension of the ordinary house -oar
linos out to one of the suburbs. The pysbem
la that in which an overhead wire le used,
and it is how in operation in 20 or Moto
oitiee of the United Sbabss. Pour motor
oars have been provided, each oopablo of
drawing two ordinary 'street cora, and of
attaining a opted, if necessary, of 12 Milos
an hour. The ttroeb relined ofiltiele are
ooepdeut that he aeon es the Butfalonians
have had Ma of judging of boo g
new syeteM objeationu to its general dao Vork and LMoeaeber was brought to a aloe,
will vanish, —.r+ London Bally Telegraph,
The world its wealth in thy coffers pours,
Thy hardy tone are bay eons Indeed,
And draw on thee for their every need,
Yet thy rseouroee, exhaustlese still,
Bring golden grub on thy teeming mill.
Thy ships are known on a dozen seas,
Thine emblems borne anon every breeze,
Thy name is spoken In every boagas,
Thy growing fame to the poles ie flung,
Thy deeds are Bung by a world-wide ohoir,
Thou hardy eon of o hardy sire 1
0, sea girt Canadal Home of mine,
The deepest love of my heart Is thine.
I knew thee not as a place of birth,
Thou front ohlld of a dark'ning earth I
But, ere my summers had numbered three,
My infanb fortunes were oast on thee,
WIthin my palest, thy breezes' strife
Stirred all the blood into quicker life,
The sunny skiee, to my °pirue lent,
Their buoyant brightness and glad oontenb,
Whilst brain and body, and heart and mind
Were braced alike by the bracing wind.
What should shy sons and thy daughters be?
Sboub-hearted, generous, pure, and free.
Stout-hearted, geacrons, pure aro they,
And free indeed as the light of day.
O loyal child of the mother-throne'1
Thy feet are able to stand alone ;
Most favored oounbry beneath the sun I
Thy tale is but as a tale begun ;
Our unborn ohildren shall live to see
The glorious future in store for thee,
For even now, to bbe vision dim
Saooeos and thee are a synonym.
Twenty-five Sind of Garters.
Gilliflower isn't muoh of a scholar, and the
other nigbb when he was reading to his old
fashioned wife out of a newspaper he came
morose an item about some woman having
charge of bwenty.five kindergartens. The
last n being a libels blurred he reed it
"twenty five kind er garters."
"Law *keel" exclaimed the old lady, as
she snatched off her speobaclee in astonish.
mens; "bwenty.five kind er garters I No
wonder there's so many busted people and
repytashena nowadays. Why, when I wet
a gal we need bo knit 'em, or use a string,
and if we wanted something right handsome,
we'd get the selvidge off the oloth when the
boys got a pair of trousers made oub o' store
cloth. Now everybody have 'las**. Twen•
byfive kind o' gerberal Au', of course, other
things bo maboh! This la wbab Serail Togy
and Nary Gained Peer's dein' for us."
Then she replaced her space and went on
with her knitting,—(Texas Siftings.
National Brag.
Frenchman (proudly)—You have nob in ze
German empire anything eo tall as 0e great
Eiffel Tower.
German (indignantly)—No, and you don't
got noddiuge so stout like Limburger
cheese I—[Jeweller's Weekly.
Murder by a Religions Maniac.
WAasew, Ind., July 28 —Mrs. Menthe.
Danko has been arrested, charged with mur-
der, and her husband Daniel aa an accessory.
Danks recently became a Drank un religion,
end, it is said, compelled his wife bo strangle
their fifteen months' old child as a sacrifice,
claiming the Almighty had promised to re•
tureen the child on the third day. When
Danks was arrested he had been carrying
the dead infant in his arms for two days,
Foroe of Habit.
" Why Is it that Cawdle has soh a gait ?
He acts all' the time as if he were walking
on tiptoe."
" Well, you see he bad three babies in
quick sooceselon tip ab hie house, and the
poor fellow actually oaten break himeelf of
going around as if he were afraid of disturb
ing: somebody."
She Had Some Preferenoe of Denom ination
One of the aseietants ab the Posb•off]ce
happened to be standing at one of the deliv-
ery windows the other day when a buxom
damsel of eighteen Summers stepped no and
asked it stamps were sold there. Upon
tieing bold that they weft ohs said that she
wanted to buy a dollar's worth. Grave etatments are made with reference
" A dollar's worth?" replied the assistant, to the condition of the Indiana Oa the Britteh
"Of whet denomination?"
Columbia oast Ib is elletred by Mr. R. A.
The damsel showed sympbons of ember- Pocock in a letter to the Viotoria preen tint
easement and hesitated to reply. She the aborigines are, as a whole, even more.
twirled nee shawl fringe nervously and oast immoral than when the white man found
her eyes about to see if any one was near, them. As an illustration of the result of
moved a little closer to the window and final- immorality upon them it is mentioned that
ly asked in timorous voice : one tribe, the Xwagutle, numbering seven
"Da you hof to write it down?" thousand in 1853, has been redueed to 1,808;
"By "
n0 meant
answered the courteous , The dot m o
i ati n of the tribes Is ked a
eminent; • "b m n
mar r
s hat i not eoenear bub I e- '
r r
y, n the later er Indian reports, erre In 1888,0
efor
sums you P
y have some preference as to the netanoe, the Cowiohan band Is reported to
denomination, heve decreased b eighty-four persons,the
"Ah—wall-yes," replied 'the stranger, west coapt Indiana by 208, and te Swagutle
her face turning starlet, I hof some. I by thirtyeighb. Vise in all its forme reigns
generally go bo bhe Pleaopol Jhiethodisb my eupretne and the officials are powerless to
teff, but the fellow I'm buyin' the stamps check it.
far he'e a Universal Orbhodox."—[Sunday --�.
National. The Yonell•s Mate boat.
Toaoxr°, Aug. 1,—Mr. Thomas Adams,
mate of the schooner Clara Youell, was
drowned on her lath voyage from Toronto to
Fairhaven. The Clare Youell left here last
Wednesday morning for Fairhaven. About
six in the evening while the grow ware ab
supper, Adams, who was on the roof of the
cabin, slipped and fell overboard. A seaman
named Ncrbon threw a line to him, bub he
missed it, The boob was loweted and the
captain sod a tailor pulled: to hie reeoue,
but when they had almost reached him he
went down, ameliorable hoorah was made,
bub without avail. Adams was aboub 80
years of age, and leaves a wife end a largo
den I walk mit him up to deka hie °oat col- ( family, Tho aaoidenb 000nrred at Thirty.
lar holt mid dhrow him dor lob cud • Aber mile Point and a few miles from shore.
I no could gatoh him. flim Aetna hardt
fiede make and shump and dame me pefore
dis vay and deb vay like some monggeye,
vhon pefore 1 somedings know I somedings Mrs, Honeymoon—"Algernon, dear, T
don'd know and la der on'
trr udtl de anti 0o with you edict put on o
r w your rod necktie ktle o
Y P Y for
deadb like come moa e e
n
.r
kor 1 fishes. U dihneC, Mr. Hone mo —
nd on h
w my
vireo I vas to life come opine, some feller love ?" Mrs, Honeymoon —'Because we
say : Yager, yonm peen home fools, Dab are to have radishes, tomatoes, strawberries
vas a Mize fighter,' Uied don I say : 'So I and °lareb."
feels.'"
"Thob, than, ie why you're no down on
prize fighting, eh ?"
"Dot's Ahab I say, p0oauae dot braze Young Husband --"What 3 You are
fightln vas down en me vonoo, ' bwentyflve years old today P Why you
told me a veer ago, just be#ore the wadding,
that you were only twenty," Young Wifo
(wearily)—"I have aged mildly ainoe 1
married.
3
MIS0ELLAITEOUS,
Russia now usee a considerably amounbefi
naphtha ae fuel. Last year 880,000 tans of
it were soot up the Volga for this purpose,
The Minima Dlrsebor.•--.Mrs. Yoangbue-
band—Weil, Arnt Jane, bow did you like
the symphony tonoert? Aunt June (from bee
cou0try)—Oh, pretty won. But It kind o'
spoilt the effoob to see that fool up io itbe
front pretending to drum on nobble',
Irate oitlzen—Who wrote that *dole
about me in to -day's paper? Managing edi-
tor—Our hone editor—the gentleman sit-
ting there in the corner with the bulldog ire
hislap and the double ohin on hie biceps.
Citizen—Shake, sir I You have a thunder-
ing good style,
Louisiana Postman (who Is assisted in his
duties by his youog bride)—" Why, Mary,
what ere all these poste' oards doing here?
They should have gone in the last mail,'
Young Bride (who is a M0esaobusette sohool-
mistrese)—"Ob, I have jueb pat thorn aside
until I shell bevy time to oorreob the spell-
ing,"
A submarine bridge is about to be made
between Elsinore and Heisingborg. It will
be encased In a double tube, having the
outer akin of iron and the inner one of steel,
the epeoe between the shells being filled
with concrete. It will be suffioiently sub
merged to allow chips to pees over it,
A scientist Bays that it requires the
stings of eix)y healthy hooey bees to kill a
man In fair health. Thie fact cannot be
too widely dieseminated. When a man in
fair health wishes to commit snloide via
the stings of honey bees it behooves him to
select sixty that are enjoying good health.
Whether this can be determfwed`by feeling,.
the pulse of the inteobor looking at far
tongue the Golantieb doesn't explain,
The officer of a bank fn Vermont resides
in Canada, and for many long yeare has
walked across the border bo hie basins*.
Now the Washington offioiale are trying be
bring him into their oategory of a laborer
immigrating odor contract. If he were
really to become an immigranb, by tram.
leering his residence to the United Stets
and thus breaking the law, he would hear
nothing more About it. His not breaking
the law fe the reason of his being troubled.
The Washington allele are, however,
anxious bo keep oub the heathen Ohioee, bat
perhaps this le because they fear being cub -
rivalled in dark and peouliar ways,
Tee United States Government has ap'
pointed Professor Todd, of Amherst College
Observatory, chief of an expedition whiob
will be sent to Africa next fall to observe the
total *Aim* of the sun on December 22nd.
The party will take up its nation about 125
miles inland from St. Paul de Londe in the
Portugueee province of Angola. The eolipae
which will bake place at three o'clockin the
afternoon, will last a little over two hours
and it Is expected that the observers wilt
bays a fine view of the solar corona. Ths•
members of the party will risk their lives kr
the interests of aoieuoe, for the climate of
Angola is mosb dangerous to strangers,
came gaa.90re of whom die within three
months after then --,.rival.
;Those who wish to live ..."s—and who
does not ?—will be cheered by the
tion that the duration of human life appears
to be extending. Common sense applied to
the problems of extate:me is doing much to
remove the causes which make for early dia-
solubion. People are indeed learning to
avoid the death traps, and to operate the
human machine with such ogre tbab it will
last long. The point to be remembered is
thab in youth there is a reserve power which
most not, by dissipation or other unnabura1
agencies, be drawn upon. Let thab power
be economized, and it will stand Its posses-
sor in good stead when sickness or old age
overtake, him. The wilful waste of vitality
on the other hand will lead to the proverbial
"woful want" in due tires,
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, esti.
mates that about $2,500,000 has been ex-
pended for the relief of the sufferers by the
Conemaugh flood ; and of this sum nearly
$1,100,000 in oath has passed through hie
hands. The flow of 000tribubions has by no
means oeaeed yet, as on Friday last the
Governor received $11,000 -$8,000 of which
came from Germany—and on the following
day between $2,000 and $3 000. The people
of Johnstown are now protesting against
any feedlot expenditures exoepb in the way
of direob gifts of money. They assert that
the greatest exbrevaganoe and oarste:snees
have been displayed, and thee they have re-
ceived no adequate reburn for the expendi-
ture.
Why He Was Down all Prize Fighting.
"So, neighbor Yager, you are down on
prize fighting, eh P"
"Veil, no yonder. Dot pennons got me
dorm on Vonce,
"How long ago ?"
" Vell, deb vas ahead died, year long go,
vhen I meb mit der show veno yit. Dot von
der Robinson and Lake Show. ' Dot vee on
Buffalo, New 'Tack. Dere woo a leedle
foliar fon Iriehumtandb vhab say he growls
dor ganwaa under and gone dor shote in
midout pay. T' say : ' Yon doe'd,' Thiel
he say: Yount bet my seaweed We Ivill Uod
Wanted Thinte in Keeping.
She Had .Aged.
The land on whfoln the bobble of Tewkee•
bury took place—.a pfeoe of groundof aboub
fifty morn in extent—lo to bo offend tar sole,
Small as it is, titere are not many spots more
memorable in England than the fiell whom
on the ton straggle between the houses of
"Tho pig:sty should nob btaud so near the
house. It le anwholo:oma""Oh no
doctor, you, aro wroni(. My pig hag not
boon doh an hour yeb,'