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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-8-16, Page 66 THE BRUSSELS POST, AUGUST 16, 1889. YOUNG FOLKS. Little Jo and Mary Ann, Little Jo was a little man .And hie little pal was Mary Ann ; It tickled Mary Ann and Jo When they found a neighbor's wboelbarrow, Ha I ha I ha 1 laughed the little man, Eel ho I ho ! laughed Mary Ann. "Will my lady ride?" laid courteous Jo, "Then hop right into the wheelbarrow, It's not a gilded palankeen, tut its got a cheerful mise en scene. Will my lady ride?" said the little man, "You bet your life!' shouted Mary Ann, Assisted by her smiling Jo, Mary Ann climbed Into the wheelbarrow, Chookful of joy It made het feel As the barrow waltzed round on its wheel. Right happy was the little man And ditto, likewloe, Mary Ann. But alas I alae I for little Jo And, alas 1 for Mary Ann alto. In the midst of all their merriment Over the barrow and contents went, Down on his nose went the little man Out on her head went Mary Ann. His mamma came for little Jo, Fcr Mary Ann came her dad, Pedro. Now far apart, their tearlete flow As they sit the stinging switch below. PRACTICAL JOKES, BY AONT MARJORIE PRECEPT, A practical joke is a sort of trick played by ono person upon another, in the hope of making him uncomfortable and ridiculous. To put one's friend in an absurd situation, to interfere with his rights, to do something Which will burl him in body or mind, nob very deeply perbapa, yet really, is tbe object of the practical joker. I have never in my We been able to nee the least good, tbe least innocent fun, in practical jokes, but I have seen a great deal of evil and misoblef resulting ham them. I cannot think of a person ad dieted to practical joking as anything but mean and contemptible.. For how can we honor the dispoeition w hich takes pleasure m cruelty ? Some years ago, just at dusk, a maid -ser- vant in a certain beautiful home took it into her h • ad that it would be ram fun to dress herself in a sheet and frighten another of the eervante. So she Blipped into the grounds, bid bereelf behind a tree, and waited her opportunity. Dancing merrily along, singing with a voice like a bird, came a sweet little daughter of the house, who had been sent on an errand to the lodge ab the end of the green avenue. The merry child, sensitive to her finger-tips, caught a glimpse of the straight, stark figure skulking behind the oaks, and was so frightened that a few months after. ward she died—of nervous shock, the physic ciane said, which then began its fatal work. In one of oar New England colleges a youth who had been studying bard that he might anter the Freshman Claes was startled from hie sleep ab midnight by a party of fel. love in masks, who proceeded to make sport or themselves ty the etupid proems called " hazing " their companion. They had their si•ly fun, but it is to be hoped that none of the number engaged in it can ever think of that night without a pang, for it made the wraith insane. .1 don't like to believe that any of my readers engage in this wretched kind of jeat- ing If they 'do, ib la because they have mover looked at it from the right point of view. There isn't among my friends one, I era sate, who would be happy in making " VI, one else miserable, I caw Fred the other day perched in a nook, 'way, 'way np in o tall tree, and I thought, "What a splendid climber 5/Ott are, Fred, and how nimbly you'd run to the miz• zen-top if you were a sailor -boy 1" I knew tb Fred was as sure•footed al] a cat, and hs eyes like a rquirrel, and the grip of a monkey, so I was not alarmed on his account, Nat ao his mother. She came to the door, called "Fred I Fred 1" and finally descried him in hie airy nest, from which " his voice fell like a falling star." Then she was great- ly distressed and frightened, and 1 was die• appointed in Fred, because instead of re- 1ii ' ing her fears at once, he said " Oh, pouf, mamma 1 there's no danger. >;Y t y are you Bo excited? I've been here doz one oftimea," He did descend ab last, but a true gentle- man—and Fred means to be a gentleman— wonld not have allowed a woman to be fright- ened even for an indent, especially when the woman was his own mother. The spirit which leads one not to Dare when s friend is suffering terrors on one's account is the same which makes the practical jeat possible. Aunt Marjorie'° ohildren moat banish this if they would make their little world happy,—(Harper's Young People. The Foo1 of the Family. A rich Chinese lady had a foolish son, for whom ehe had taken a wife from a cultured family. When he was about to pay the Srat visit to his bride's parents, his mother instructed him bow to behave and what to say, for she wan very anxious that his mental .deficiency should not be discovered, She tried to forecast the questions that would be put to him, and to provide him with answers that would satisfy the questioner, and at the same time forestall further eines- taming. As he carried a costly fen on which a landscape was painted, she thought that guests, disposed to be affable, would oak what acme was thereon represented, and so ehe tanghthlm to reapondto that question by eayfng, "Oh. that is only a fancy sketch." Then, as he was to ride a fine mule she thought the gentlemen would be euro bo comment upon its excellent condition, and to inquire its price ; Bo she drilled her son in replying, with courteous humility," The animal is nothing more than a good beast of burden,reared on our farm, and not worthy your attention." When the young man arrived at the door of hie hoeb, the first to greet him was kis prospective mobher•in-law, who politely in- quired after the health of hie mother. He promptly reoponded, saying, "The animal is nothing more than` LBood boast of burden, reared on our farm, and not worthy of your attention." The horrified mother-in-law drew back, half unconsciously exolaiming, "I was told that yours woe a Very well ordered family I' Who fool, having be thought himself that he ought to have fire aced the answer whioh his motbor fire taught him, hastened to reply, "Oh, tha ie only a fancy eketoh." Frightening Children. The influence that is brought to bear upon a child during the first decade of life will have a decided effect In determining his power of Beit -control in later yearo. It Is in the borne more than in any other plane that this influence must Amp be exercised, and upon numb, governeaeee and parents de. volvea thia moat important duty, a memo. sibility which, ooneidered in its true light, beaomeo a privilege and a scored brunt. A child oannotunder stand the "why and where. tore" of many things which to an adult are perfectly plain and Intelligible. Ho ie timid, and naturally shrinks from eighth and sounds which, to him, are strange and nnaccount. able, To frighten a child in any way is nob only thoughtless and cruel, but the aob itself may be followed by oerioue reaulto. For one to say no harm was intended, and that it was only in fun, is no excuse, It is of some of the ways in which this abuse is sometimes offered, and there CONSEQUENT ATTENDANT EVILS, that I wish to speak. There are some people who seem to take a morbid eatiefaction in frightening young children by suddenly appearing before them with the face hidden by a mask or the en- tire body covered with a sheet, ab the same time uttering laud and unnatural Bounds, and gesticulating in a wild and frantic man- ner. Ocoasionaily we find a person who is so regardless of possible accidents as not to hesitate to point at a child a gun or a pistol, and feign to atriko him with a knife or hat. ohet. The setting of a strange dog upon one who already shows signs of terror ab the constant harking of the animal le name. times followed by unexpected and painful results. For little acts of disobedience, children are sometimes shut op in a dark closet or temporarily confined in the dark attic or collar, At other times they are told strange stories of ghosts, and threat- ened that, ff they do not behave, they will be SOLD TO THE HAG PICKER, or that wandering gipefee will steal them and carry them away. These and other anoh frightful apparitions are relies of bar- barism and superstition, which should have no place in the Christian light and intelli• genoe of this nineteenth century. And not only this : each eoenee, stories and threats are wanly indecent and deliberate false- hoods, the nature of whioh the child will some day understand, and he will be very likely to form a just estimate of the moral character of those in whose nonfidenoe and honesty he firmly believed, Ib is also to be remembered that it is possible that a child may be so often frightened in one way or another as to eventually weaken hie char eater, and even sometimes produce a dopier. able state of mental imbecility ; and there are many eases on record where a child hoe been so frightened as to cause insensibility convnleicne and death,—(Goad Houeekeep fag. Peanuts For Insomnia. Biahcp Lyman, of North Carolina, con• tributes the following to the Raleigh "News and Observer :"— I think I have mode a very valuable dig- oovery, and I am anxious that others should also enjoy the benefit of it. For nearly two years 1 have been suffering greatly from sleeplessness at night, and frequently have not been able to Bleep more than one or two hours during the night. I have tried a great number of propneed remedies, some of which have helped me o little, but not for any length of time. A little more than a fortnight ago, while staying ab the house of a friend in the country, my gocd hosteae brought into the parlour quite late in the evening, a bountiful supply of freshly roast edpeanuba. AsIaria veryfondof them, when they are not too muoh cooked, I ate quite freely of them, and soon after retired to bed. I found the next morningtbat I had enjoyed the beat Bleep I had experienced for ever a month. I attributed this at once to the peanuts, and determined to try ahem again the following evening. I did so, and also drank a glass of fresh, sweet milk after I had fiaiahed the peanut's, That night I slept still better, and now, for a fortnight, I have partaken of the peanuts and the milk every night, and have nob only slept remark- ably well, but have oleo fully recovered from a slight attack of indigestion which had tronblad me before. 1 now find that peanuts, carefully rcaeted and nob done so as to be at all burned, are surely a remedy for Bleep• lemmas, and also for that form of indiges• tion which is one of the producing causes of sleep'.oaenese. There is a popular impression that pea. nuts are indigestible, bub I have never found them so unless they were too muoh roasted, or had been roasted many days before. When.too much cooked or when stale they certainly are indigestible, but when carefully roasted and fresh they promote digestion. They should be eaten shortly before going to bed, and not more than half a pint should be taken. They should be roasted before they are shelled, and shelled only as they are eaten. A half pint of shelled nuts would be too many. I commend this remedy with great confi• dense to those who are efliioted with inoom- nfa, particularly if Indigestion ie, in part, the canoe of ib. The peanut is a vary valu- able article of food when carefully roasted and partaken of in moderation, I hope none of my readers will imagine that I have start• ed a peanut' farm and am wishing to create a boom in that artiole, but I shalt be rejoic- ed if what I have written should be the MORIN of bestowing on any others the great benefit which I have derived from this oimple agency. THEODORE B, LYMAN. Bishop of North Carolina. Mamma's Exaot Words, Wtflfe (regretfully)—I'd like just awfully to kiss yon, Gracie, but 1 aspect it wouldn' do. Yon know your mamma said you uotn'b never kiln the boys. Gracie—Yee, that's what she eoid, Tha is, it's about what she said. I'member jnat ah well: She taye to me, the ear: "Graefe, dou't you ever let me one you kisoin' the boyo. " Mamma, she's gone over to• Mre. Bilby't. The mean le not the extreme, bub if there Sn anything meaner than a hornet's extreme it has nab come this way.) The U. S. Pension List. The United Seabee Congresevoted in 1889 for pensions to soldiers of the rebellion 360,000,000, for 1887 $75,000, .000, for 1888 $83,000,000. For the year ending June 30, 1889, only $80,500,000 was voted, ib being expected that Congress would supply any dofioienoy later on, and the Democrats were anxious to go to the Presidential election as friends of economy, " bub as a matter of fact $90,000,000 was needed. The final year has cloned with a large deficiency, and many pensioners must remain unpaid until after the next Congress has assembled and provid. ed the nauseam, funds. It is interesting to know that three timer, the entire revenue of the Dominion ie expended in the United States for war pensions alone, Ab the rate whiah the new Pension Oommionionor la in °remaing tha pension scale over $100,000,000 will be needed for the current year, It is generally conceded that the pension bureau is a oink of oorruption,—[Montreal Star, The Retort Courteous. Ab a oafs a group of gentlemen disonssing politics ; a young student entered and join• od in the conversation 1 his arguments did not please the others, and ono of them said to him, "Bo quint 1 At your ago I was an ass myself I" " You are wonderfully well preoarved, sir," wee the reply, A PET MONKEY, dome of the Antler' in Which He Induiemt- 111a Extreme Jealousy. My office in the last port where I wa stationed looked over the sea and had a veranda outside it, which of course was kap aaored, eaye a writer in Coamber'a Journal. I was dam g one day in my affirm -chair look, Mg out over the bay beyond to oolleob my thoughto for a dispatch then in hand when I espied a celestial coming along the veranda with some dark object in hie arms, the dark object showing Its appreciation of the atten- tion it was receiving by placing two arms of Inordinate length around the man's neck. I naturally rose up to see what bole phenom anon wee, and having been told that it wa a ram animal I at once made overtures fo ice purohaee, As soon as negotiations were concluded I fastened my purchase—EA black gibbon—to my copying•preas, instead of sending him np to my houeo, being anxious to introduce him myself to my two wogs and to Joseph the bat, I could not intrust a rare anima to my servants, lest the introduction through their agency to Joseph and the rest migh result in some disaster. When 1 fastened the gibbon to the press I took no account o the length of the animal's arms, and I wa therefore not a little ourprleed when a bleak hand took posoeasion of a red and blue pen oil and a black mouth began to eat it. Na tore ie said, in her beneficence, to inetruc the lower animals what to eat and what bo avoid. That, no doubt, applies to an animal in the wild state, truth animal being directed by instinct where to find an anti- dote to anything deleterious whiah it may have eaten. An animal In captivity must, however, be treated differently, and mus not be allowed to do as it likes. So I rem Boned, and as I had no herb ready to oorreo the evil whioh I knew would result from eating a penall I proceeded to recover the stolen article. Though my new pet did no mind being touched, though he would jump into your lap and make himself quite at home, he strongly objected to part with anything which he had once gob hold of, and a good deal of diplomacy had to be used botare I possessed Emmett of the pencil. Soaroely was this fun ab an end before some blank fingers were dipped into the ink, and when the ink was removed out of reach tho gum bottle was next turned over, the gum being particularly appreciated. Think - fug that the animal might/ be thirsty I put a saucer of water before him, hub though easy to put the saucer down it was Impoeeibie to pick it up again, even though there was not a drop of water left in it. At first the name of "Sambo" was given to the gibbon, on account of its jet-black color, then this was changed in coarse of time to " Samuel," the little fellow becem ing too respectable to be called Sambo. At the last port at whiah I was stationed the lower windows of my dwelling.house wore provided with iron bare—about five fnohen apart—as a protection against thieves. These bare were a great convenience to me, as I could attach Sam to them at meal times, thus keeping him onb of mischief while giv- ing iving him plenty of freedom. The quesaion of feeding Sam was not an may ono to tackle. If we sat down and began eating before he was served the most noisy proteste were made, and when the saucer of rite was put down there was no cne courageous enough to recover the empty cancer. The point was often settled by Sam himself, who, having finished his rice, would throw the saucer into the air a few times, catching it very cleverly, and then hurl it away from him, A wooden bowl was found to answer better. bub this also received muck rough usave and had be be repeatedly renewed. Ono very noticeable feature about Sam was hie extreme jealousy. If I stroked the oat in hie presence be need to get into a paroxysm of rage and make great efforts to bite me, He would be almost as muoh vexed if I patted the doge. When a guest oame to luncheon he was so anf,ry at the intrusion that he often had to be removed, Ho would absorb all the conversation until removal, it being quite impossible to keep him quiet. He had a singular objection— he has it now in a mild way—to anything being removed by the servants ; and had he been fastened to my chair instead of the window no plate once put on the table could have been removed. When in the drawing - room with me—std he was often there—he would even fly at my wife if she attempted to tauah the tea things. At this date he has sobered down a gooa deal ; ,but oven now, though a eervanr may bring me a letter, he must not take away a reply If Sam hi with me. He objects to any one rooming near me ; and if my wife shakes my oat, or even touohee my shoulder, he catches hold of her, though now perhaps more in play than in anger. A Sandbagger Sentenced. TORONTO, Aug., 7,—Wm. Adams waB tried by the Colonel the other day on the charge of having feloniously wounded a man named Allen tlrebilaook four years ago. Trebilcook swore that on the night of the 5ch of lOotobor, 1885, he wee attacked by the prisoner at the corner of Elizabeth and Albert etreete. He thought that the prison. er had struck him with a sandbag, whioh had broken hie hand and stunned him. The prisoner had been employed aa a kitchen hand at 40 Albert atreeb, and was dim charged at the instance of the complainant, who suspected Adams of being connected with the robbery of a gold watch and a pair of shoes from the house a month or two previously. Adams is the man who stole the bed quilt from the jail last week while abating a prisoner, and has served a term for highway robbery. He did not deny the assault, but claimed that Trobibcoek had provoke,' it. The Magistrate sentenced him to nine months in the Central Prison, African Lions, THE BILQULA INDIANS, Henry Wall and Zwart Jantje crooned the Zembozi to hunt elepbante, They heard of An. Interesting Account et Their Marriage ❑ man-eating lion who had killed several people, and ordered their "boyo" to make a strong fence behind the Damp every night, eeremuulee. Mr. Ph, Jaoobeon, in a letter to his well. known brother, Capt. A. Jacobson, giver] and to collect plenty of wood, l]0 ita to keep the following description of the marriage up good fires, One night a " bay " was coremoniee of the Bilqula Indiana of British sleeping by himself alongside a fire, and the Columbia, An Irdlan who intends to marry other Kuffire were lying in Grow a little way calls upon hie intended wife'l parents and off. Just before daybreak 11' all heard some. thing like the purr of a lion eloeo to him, Ho cried out, " Here's a lion 1 Wake up, Janie je 1" Ina few acconde the camp wam Miming, but the man who had been Bleeping by hint. self was gone. Immediately they hoard the lion growling, and crunching the dead man Mose behin9 the camp. Two theta fired in the direction of the aoaud canoed the lion to retire from bis prey. At broad daylight the hunters took up the trail, and before long same up with the lion, who, with head turned on ono aide and hold, bag the dead man by the shoulder, so that his lege dragged on the ground, was walking slowly along. When be hoard the hunters, he dropped his prey, half turned, and stood looking at them. A shot oaneed him to run into the thick bush, where pursuit was hope. lees, Tho dead man had been seized by the head and killed Instantly. One night a woman and her two children wero Bleeping in a hut on the ground, while the husband elepb in a little open hut on a platform. Suddenly the woman was awaken- ed by the cries of bet, husband. She rushed out ; the lion was on the platform orunohing the body of her husband. At eight of the woman, the lion sprang from the platform,l killed her, and ate her as she lay. Not until this maneater had killed thirty natives was he killed. One day two young Kuffire were about to go into the forest to chop poles. " Now," said one to the other, " if the lion thob has killed Bo many people attacks no, what shall we do ?•' ' ?Pe must stand and faoe him with our assegais," answered hie companion. " If he attacks one of us, the other can rush in and eta him." Aa they were walking one behind the other, the lion rushed upon them. One Kaffir stab• bed the beast as he sprang upon him, but received a blow from the lion's paw whioh tore his nook and throat open, and laid him upon the ground. His comrade threw hie assegai into the lion, striking him in the ribs behind the shoulder. Mortally wounded, the lion turn- ed and walked away, with two assegais aticking in him, The two men returned to their village, where the injured one died that night. A hunt the next day discovered the lion dead within a hundred yards of the spot where he had sprung upon the man. The natives collected a largo quantity of dry wood, and lighted a huge fire upon whioh they threw the lion's careens, and It wars wholly consumed. In the interior of Africa a man-eating lion, when killed, is always consumed by fire. Mine 1:'amjly, Dimpled scheeks mit eyes of plue, Mout like id vas moiled mit dew. Und leedle teeth shunt peekin' droo— Dot•e dor baby. Curley head, and full of glee, Drowsers all oudt at der knee— He vas peen blaying horse, yon see— Dot's Ieedle Yawoob. Von hundcrd•eeexty in der °bade, Der oder day von she van veighed— She beats me soon, I vas avraid— Dot's mine Katrina. Baro -footed sed and pooty stoudt, Midi grooked legs dot vill bend oudt, Fond of his beer and Bauer kraut— Dot's me, himself, Von suhmall young baby, full of fun, Von leedle prite•eyed, roguish son, Von frau to greet vhen vork le done— Dot's mine family. CHARLES PALLIEST ADAMS. Swindled by a Dream. Hostetter Maginni4 dropped into Mose Shaumburg'e More one day last week, and instead of his usual oordial greeting the lat. ter accoabed him with : 1 "Magionie, old boy, I'ee so mad as der tuyvil I" ' What sae roused your ire ?" interrogab• ed Hostetter. " Goat in himmel 1 I dbream las' nide I vas zelling a oote fur dwenty'Sfe toilers vot ynet coat fife, and it yuot meek me mat, hoe it vas all a dbream. I gif you my wort, I yeah lose dwenty tollars by dat dhream." He Got the Word. Mo0orkle—" There was a terrible shook which threw every passenger into the Mak, When we recovered ourselves, and went for. ward, we fnund that our train and another had—had"—McOrackle (helping him to - word)—" Telescoped," MoCorkle—No ; col. lide•osooped," In the Stilly Night. Mre. Heavidough (waking her bneband)— " Oh, John, what makes yon thump and hammer and bang up and down on the bed so? I can't sleep a wink," John (aleepily)—"Guess that pound oaks of yours is beginning to get to work."—[rem as Siftings. The Only Way. Tho only way of solving the problem, Ie marriage a failure ? is to try it, It reminds us of the story anent the toadatool and the mushroom. How eau you tell a mushroom from a toadstool? By eating its. If it is a toadstool you die ; if it ie a maehroom, you don't. An Anoint Turk Those who are anxious to remain in the flub beyond the ordinary duration of this mortal life will be interested in the habits of the old Turk who hal recently died at H:,ddatha, aged one hundred and thirty yearn. Old Hadji Soften Saba had seven wives, all of whom died before him : he was the father of sixty eons and nine daughtore, who love also gone the way of all fleah, and the year before his death he was thinking of marrying again, but could not obtain the nooesoary funds to buy a bride, Saba was a farmer unto hie life's end ; his diet completed mainly of barley bread beans (vepetariane take nota!) and water and only twice ayear, on high festivals, did he eat meet. rile clothes' were oven more simple then his diet, consisting of shirt only, and when he travel• led a pair of trousers. His bed was a mattress and a straw mat, and it had never boom a ' bed of sickness" till three days .before his death. • long over— servant nob Mother (to) "Bridget, when my daughter is entertaining her young gentleman friend at oho was last evening you must nob intrude upon their sooiot , bub lob them be inbirely alone." Bridget—is Well, now, you're very crazy, mum, f you think I want to steal that little imp oho had lest night. I wonldn'b give the tip of my Patsy's lbtble finger tor a doe en liko him," Kidney Pie. Sonne, Paris. A restaurant where "Eng. limb ie spoke." Farmer Gabbles (over for the Exhibition): "And whab'o this 'ere, wafter ?' Walter : " Vero nice kitteney pie, Bare 1" Farmer Gubbes : " Ooom along, 'Liza, Oi've heeront these furrin- era. Tney wants us to ea `kittens." A good memory is a blessing," says 'a writer. And it may bo remarked that it is one that wealth cannot buy. Jnat look ab the man who b000mee suddenly rioh. Ile cannot oven remember the faces of his old friends, The nnex?voted and unusual prima paid at the recent art ogle for pictures which a few years ago were hawked about by starving artlsto and sold for a song, are awaking the notal comment upon the ingratitude of the public and the cruel fate of mon of genius, who die gnawing a cruet, leaving their coil. Bron in rags to beg for bread ab the feet of their statues. Poor Millet for Inatome, What sunshine would have fallen upon hie life maid he have obtained for hie master - arranges with them how muoh he fe to pay for permission to marry the girl. Among people of high descent this la done by moo• angers, eometlmeo as many as twenty being Dent to call on the girl's !abhor, They are Bent by bho roan's perorate before the young man io of age. In many instances both man and girl aro nob more than 8 or 9 years old. The me'ssengers go in their boats to the girlie house, and parry on their negotiations without going ashore, where the relatives of the girl are standing, The messougers of the young man's parents praise hie excellence and noble descent; the great exploits of bis father, grandfather and ancestors; their warp, victories, and hunting expeditlono, liberality at festivals, etc. Then the girl's relatives praise the girl and her ancestors, and thus the negotiations are carried on. Finally a number of blankets are thrown aaboro by the messengers; and the girl's relatives protest, and maintain that the number is nobouffioient to peg for the per - minion to marry the girl, In order to ob- tain their ooneenb, new blankete are thrown ashore one by one, the messengers contin- ually maintaining that the prioe•paid be boo great. Generally from twenty to fatty blankets, each of the value of about 50o., are paid. After this the boy and the girl are ooneld- ered engaged. When they come to be grown up the young man has to serve a year to his father•in-law. Ho mach fell trees, fetch water, fish, and hunt for the latter. During this time he io called Kos, whioh means "one who wool]." Aftor a year has elapned the marriage le celebrated. At this time great festivals are celebrated. Seven or eight men perform a dance, They wear dancing aprons and leggings, trimmed with puffin - beaks, hoofs of deer, copper plates, and belle. If the groom should be a wealthy man, who has presented to his wife many small copper places, such as are used as presents to a bride, these are carried by the danwrs. The singing -master, who beats the drum, starts a song in which the dancers join. The song need at too marriage festival is sung in unison, while in all other daaoee each danoer has his own tune and song. The first dancer wears a ring made of cedar bark. Hia hair is strewn with eagle down, which flies about when he moves and forma a aloud around his head. Tho groom pre. Bente the first dancer with a piece of calico, which the latter tears to pieces, which he thrown down in front of eaoh house of the village, crying, " Help 1" in order to drive away evil spirits. These pieces of calico which he throws down in front of the houses have a lucky meaning, and at the same time express the idea that the groom, when he comes to be a wealthy man, will not forget the inhabitants of any house when giving a festival. The dancers swing their bodies sad arms, stamp their hot, and show the copper plates to the lookers-on. Then the bride's father brings a great number of blankets, generally double the number of those he had received from the groom, and gives them to his daughter. The bride orders a few blankets to be tiptoed before the groom. She sits down and be pate his hand upon her head. Then the groom is given for each of the parte at his body one or more blankets, Finally he is given a now blanket. After the bride's father has given a blanket to each dancer and to the drum mar, the villagers are invited to a great feast. At this time groom and bride oat for bho first time together. Medusa's Head. Among the ancient Greeks the name of Medusa was given to a very unpleasant - looking female whose hair was a mase of angrily writhing serpents. Fortunately she ceased to exist about the time when it beoame the fashion to require proofs of the truth of every statement, but her name has been given to one of the vast variety of creatures which live in the sea, The Medusa's of the snare really pretty thiogs, sometimes of a pure white and sometimes very brightly colored, whioh float or swim or seek their prey by creating tiny whirlpools by the swift waving motion of a number of delicate branches or arms, thus driving ' the animal- anlm on whioh they live into the Medusa's ever -hungry mouth. It is these soft, waving, branchlike arms which are supposed to bear a resemblance to Meduoa'o serpent -hair and have given her name to the sea creature which is doubtless a terrifying object to its victims, though a pretty and delicate one to our eyes. Various legends are related of the mythical Medusa. The Equilibrium of the Sexes. Whenever careful and reliable etatiatice have been obtained It is found that more male than female children have been born. In Great Britain, where the returns are near• er perfection than elsewhere, the proportion for the last ten years was found to be 1,041 males to 1,000 females. It is a singular feet, however, that the mortality among the male ohildren is greater, so that the equilibrium is restored in ten years, and a cuneus of ohildren of tbab age shows the soxee to be equal. From that age onward, owing to the more pullout' occupatrone of melee to losses in war, eto., the proportion of females begins to inoreaae until the final centrum in England shows 1,000 women of all ages to 949 mon. The Best Time to Ba the, The beat time to bathe io jun before going to bed, al] any danger of °etching cold is thus avoided, and the complexion fl] im- proved by keeping warm for several Inure after leaving the bath. A couple of pounds of bran put into a thin bag and then in the bath•tnb ie excellent for (softening the akin. It should be left to soak in a °mall quantity of water oevoral hours before being used. The internal aide to the complexion ere most of them well known. The old -fashion. ed remedy of sulphur and mola0000 is con- sidered among the boat. l,harcoal powdered and taken with water is said to bo exoollent, but it is most difficult to take. A strictly vegetable and fruit dint ie followed by manyfor:moor bwoweeko,—[London Lenoeb Concerning Dogs. Over 7,000 peroone have been treated for bydrophobia at the Paotonr Inetltnte, Paris, and only 71 have died. M, Pasteur, how, ever, thinks there is no reason why there should bo any hydrophobia at all. He be. 11eves that :ample police rogulatione would stamp out hydrophobia in the British Is. lands, mince the disease is invariably caused by the bite of an animal affootod with it. piece half of the sum yielded at the recent The Prince of Walla has oleo expressed hie auction. Tho Angolue was as noble o picture belief that if all doga in the British Islands in 1850 as today, but people apparently did , were muzzled for ono year rabies would bo not so understand It. t unknown, Look Up. AB the ):10W8 of Sir Henry Clinton's' land. ng with nine thousand troops upon Long Island, followed by Washington's °value. tion of the island, spread along the Sound, there wee a panto among the inhabitants, Deacon Trask, a citizen of magna, had acoumulatod a goodly sum of money in gold, and resolved to hide it where ib would be secure from Tory ravages. He pub his guineas roto a strong bag, and °allied forth an hour before dawn into the wildoroees. When bo had gone about three miles, he stopped beslde an oak in the midst of eomo pines, put down bie bag, and dug a hole In the sandy soil. Then he look- ed carefully on all aides, listened, and satisfied himself that he wan alone, and finally dropped in hie bag, covered It, scattered leaves and twigs over the °pot, and watt home. Ib chanced, however, that Deacon Jones, of the nolghboriag town, was out on a deer - hunt. He had selected that very oak -tree as a hiding -place to watch for hie game, and wan ensconced in ita branohea while the other was so carefully burying his gold. After Deacon Track's departure, he descended from bbe tree, dog up the bag of gold, and carried it home. A day or two later the former revisited the forest, to make cure that everything was safe, ;1'o bis astonishment and dietrese, the hole wao open, his treasure gone. The next week Deacon Jones took the bag of gold and proceeded to the houeo of the owner of the treaeuro, whom he found in a most despondent frame of mind, in fact sick in bed. "Why, Brother Trask," he said, "what is the matter 1" "I am undone, Brother Jones ; I am undone," said the poor man. '' What is ib?" aeked the caller. "Is your trouble due to some worldy lase?' " That'sit," was the answer. "I've loot all my money, and I've lost hope in Providence." At thio Deacon Jones produced the bag of gold. Where did you find it, brother ?" asked his now joyful friend. "That doeon't matter, Brother Trask," said his visitor. "But Iet me give you a bit of advice : whenever you have any bueineas to do, do not forget to look up, as a Chriebian men ought. Open Your Windows at Night. An extraordinary fallacy is the dread ofnigbb air. What air can we breathe at night bub night air? The choice is between pure night] air from without and foul are from within. Moat people prefer the latter—an name• countable choice, What will they any if it is proved to bo true that fully one •half of all the diseases we suffer from are 000aeloned by people eleepiog with their windows shut? An open window moat nights in the year can never hart any ono. In great oitiee night air is often the best and purest to be had in twenty-four hours. One could better understand shut- ting the windows in town during the day than during the night for the sake of the sick. The absence of smoke, the quiet, all tend to make the night the boob time for airing the patient. Ono of our highest medical authors• ties on consumption and climate has told me that the air of London ie never so good ae after 10 o'clook at night, Always air your room, then, from the outside air if poealble. Windows are made to open, doors are made to shut—a troth which Deems extremely diffi. cult of apprehension. Every room must be aired from without, every passage from with- in.—[Sanitary World. As Smart as a Yankee, Among other passengers in a third•olaso compartment in railway oarrf❑ge are an Am- erican and a Sootoh farmer, who are seated tatting each other. American— "Wall, friend, guess yeon think a deal of this ole country of yeoara." Farmer—"Oo, ay ; lb's guid eneaoh for me at any rate." American "'S that so. Gueea yeou'vo ne- ver seen the States ? Graand oountry—jest make yeon stare, Yeov could make yeonr fortin in a year or two, friend ; I'll lay my Ian dollar on that there !" Farmer—"Ah, man, d'ye say sae? Bub yer American bodies aro Moan atroalaue locate that ower here we dinna believe a word yo eaAmerican—"Wall, friend, guess my mouth never uttered alio in all my barnation career." Farmer—"Weel, maybe you're richt ; for, like the rent o' yor kind, yer speak through yer nose." He Called on Miss Lexington. " Did you call on the obawming Mies Lawxington lawn night, Chapple, as you said you would?" "Bah jove, I did," "Naw, bah jovei" "Fant, my deah boy," "Bah jove, you're getting to be a regular terwar. When do you oall again?' " Ib isn't fixed. Mies Lewaiogton wasn't home." Quite Impracticable. A London paper says that all the people now living in the world, or about 1,400,- 000,000, could find standing room within bbe limits of a field ten miles equate, and by aid of a telepbone could bo addreoaed by a Dingle speaker. To onoaeesfully cony out such an undertaking would attraot a largo crowd, no doubt, but we fear the scheme is mpraotioable. An Unguarded Statement. " Where are you two going?" milted a girl of a youth and maiden wbo were wan• daring away from the main group ab the picnic, " Oh, we're going to get some pond lillloo." In a quarter of an hoar they were return. Ing. What's the matter ?" asked the girl who drat spoke. " Couldn't you get what you went after?" " No," replied the other young lady, on. guardedly, "homebody aloe had the ham- mock," And the young manblushed,—(Morohanb' Traveller. President Harrison Is doing well. Up to the present be has appointed to officio his brother, hie brother.in-law, hiefatber-in-law, hie son's father •in -lm e, his wife's cousin, hie aon'e wife's cousin, hianophow,his daughter's brothor•in•Iaw, his brother's soa•in-laws his wife's niece's husband, his eon's fabher•in. law's nieoe'n husband. Apparently the only diflioulty that le looming up ahead is that the list of offices ie nob al] large as the family connection. Tho Albany " Argus" states that bho President redontly remerlred "The only way to get satisfaction club of a public office le to ploase yourself while yon are In it." He is apparently doing hie beet to get all the sabisfaobim pooalbfo out of his position,