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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-9-13, Page 3SEPT, 18, 1889, THE BR TY S S YOUNG FOLKS. TIM P•E BOOIBTYS When Nee. Berton reoeived a teeter from bet deter, Mrs Greham, tusking whether Annie Grainun multi obey with hor aunt and coueine from September till the following January, she wee moil plea:sod. Annie wan twelve yearn old, joint the lige of Tom Burton ; and au the four other children wore much elder„their agoo ranging free: eigh- teen to twenty four, ehe lhoueht it would be very pleasant for Tom to Moto a compata ion of his own ego. Tho whole family thought a bright little girlwould bo an,agree- able addition to the houaehold oink) ; bit when Annie oame they were muoh &leap - pointed. Her appearance was pleasing. rho had a trim little Agure, bright black eyes, pretty dark,ourle, and, tho'hor features were rather irregular, her expression woe both amiable and intelligent ; hor mermen, too, were graceful and refined ; bub she wee painfully shy. She seemed troubled if spoken to, and even a glance would cause her to shrink as if trying to bide from every eye. The thought of going to ethool seem- ed so dietreening that Dere. Burton dropped the eubjeot and allowed her to May ab home. Toni woe disappointed, and oomplained to his mother that ho oould nob get Acquainted with Annie. " Never mind, dear," said Mrs. Burton. "1 think you will get on togebhor nicely when the Joe io once broken "; but Tom feared it never would break. Tom was a good boy, in the main, tho he had a very quick temper, and he was a good looking boy, but—his hair was red. Now, as soma people object to rod hair, I should like ro doeoribe Tom's as auburn or golden or tawny ; but the truth is, that if ever hair was red—genuine, unmistakable, unmitigated, fiery red—that hair was Tom's, and Tom knew ib. Poor boy 1 he oouldn't help knowing it, for bo had been teased about it from hie earliest reeolleotion. Hie trials began with his elder brothers ab home, but they culminated At echoed when the boys found how ib plagued him to have any al- lusion made to his hair. Battle after batbie did Tom fight to compel ailenoe on the sub - jut:, but all in vain. One day when Annie had been at her aunb's for nearly a week, Tom rushed home from school end buret into the sitting-roora, where the family wore assembled, in ouch plight that his appearnca wee greeted by a ahorua of reproof and remonetrance. "Dour me, Tom," paid fastidioun Miss Clara, " you look es tho you had been rolling in an ash-hoap." " Tho sleeve of your jacket la half torn out and your collar is hanging," said Mies Julia. " Hello, Tom, whales the matter with your eyes ?" said Will. "They don't match; one's blue and the other's black." "Sollbvano nothing to you, Tom," said Bore " You're a regular fighting phenom- enon," " Tom, dear, I hope you haven't been fighting again," said Mrs. Burton. "Yoe, I have, Mother," said Tom, "The fellows won't let me alone, and I won't stand being called Carrottop by any one." "Nonsense 1" said Mies Julia. " What harm dose the name do you ?" 'A rose by any other name," quoted literary Beth. "Tho boys aro only in fun," amid Mies Clara. " And your hair is rod, Tom," said Will, eying the said hair critically, wibh the air of having his attention called to ib for the first time. "You should try net to give way to anger bout such a trifle, deer," said Mrs. Burton. ° You:Mould cultivate a forgiving spirit." " This fighting must stop, sir," said Mr, Burton, sternly. "Don't lob mo hear any flora of it." Then, to the utter astoniehmenb of every the, another voice was heard, and Annie Graham epoke, voluntarily, for the first time since she had entered the house. She spoke n a Meer, rather high•pitohed, slightly plaintive voioo, thab gave distinctness to every word. "1 know just how you feel aboub your hair, Tam, ler It ie just the way I bavo felt a great many times." Every one was amazed ; even Mr. Bur - bo laid down hie paper when Annie spoke, aid every eye win; fixed upon her. Tom was as surprised as the others, bub be said " How can you know anything about it, Annie ?" with an appreoiative glance at Annie's: dark earls. " Your hair isn't red." "No," said Annie, solemnly, " lee my nose." " Why, that: isn't red, eibher," said Will, laughing. " No, amid Annie, in the eame clear, plaintive voioo, " bub it's no large. It is dreadful to have suoh none ; it seems to oath• a shadow over my whole existence." Will opeued bio month, etteltg a chance for another joke, but, at a sign from hie mother, he shut ib again, and Annie continu. ed " I think a large nose io oven more trying than red hair, for you can dye your hair, or out it off and wear a wig, or it may turn gray ; but a large nose can never possibly grow smaller, and, as yon grow older, it will look even larger. I never oan forgeb my nom, Xb haa been laughed ab ever since was a little, tiny girl, and every one that saw me would eav Whab a large non that ohild has 1' The girls ab school laugh ab it, and ono of them was angry at me, and nioknamed me Sword -fish,' and the others took ib up. I dread to go to 5 new place. I dreaded even to (tomato see you, and go to school here, on account of nay nose." Annie paused, and Tom, when own trials had taught him something in regard to per sonel sensitiveness, said: "1 don'b think your nose is bed•looking ab all, Annie; and, even if it were a great deal larger than ib le, ib couldn't be so bad as my rod hair, for it doesn't give a chance for ao many jokes. After any one bas said ib is large they can't: say any more." Oh, you do ,not know," .said Annie, "tho number of jokes that oan be made on a large nose. ' I believe they woad fill a volutne." "Those on my hair would fill a whole sob of volumes," said Tom. "Suppose you mat thematter to bhe teat," geld Will. " Each of you take a blank -book, and write in it all the personal remarks and jokes you oan mall, and see whieh has the most." "Agreed," said Tont "I'll bet ril get the most." " And I feel sure that I will," said Annie ; but we Will try," By the time evening came Tom and Annie had eaoh a blank book in readiness. Mies Clara helped to make them, and they were very pretty, Tho costars were of stiff, oream colored paper, On Towis wait painted a hey's: heed, orowned by a oarrot of brit - Ilene orange, while around the edge ran a tette:tie border of poppiee, torched, 1100011. g005, onsets, and other objtote of eau. guinery hue, On the cover of Annie's book was a ewordfish, and the border Wad made tip of elephant'a trunks:, orttnee bine, heath of Mr, Punch, and other euggeetive el j se's Tem and Annie wore in the highest spirlte es they eat Mao by aide, writing aucl number. ing the remerke and jokon--" middies," as they agreed to cell them, Annises thyme was quite forgotten, her bleak eyes shone, and oho was full of animation. Bedtime (same before the Mock of " misellee" woe ex h num bed, The next day Mrs, Burton Again this- gethed Annie:: going to sehool, and she made go objection, Annie was very much liked by teachers and pupils, and ale woe moudi less shy than usual; for, if oho 616 nee succeed in forgetting her unfortunate nom, she was oheered by the thought that may remarks made upon ib would well tho number recorded lo her blank -book, and Oh was beooming very anxieue to excel Toni in this regard, Annie thought that her being a stranger gave Tom an unfair advantage; but Tom taid that was balanoth by the faot that "bhe follows knew he would thrash any one that spoke of his hair," Tom did not know that ib was his very rage at such allusions thab tempted the boys: to make them, Before long his old enemy, Sam Whitney, returned bo the oharge. " Hello, Woodpecker," he called out to Tom, " wish you'd get your hair out, if you don't Vil have to get a pair of green goggloo to wear if you are going to mit in front of me. " Get them then,ate:H, " ;mid Torn saying to himeelf, with a feeling of sati on, 'That makes 107." Sam was surprised at Tom'e 000lness, and kept on with speeches intend. od to be provoking, which Tom quietly recorded in his book, bringing hie number upto 112, Tom and Annie had agreed bhab ajoke repeated should count: the same as a now the, Annie Haply remarking that old jokes were tho most provoking ot all. After a time so many such que tIone arose that at Will's suggestion they made up a set of rules, and formed themselves into a mord society of two members, each wearing a badge, on whith was inscribed the mystic letters I', R. A. J. Se eignifing "Paroonal Remarks and Jokes Sthiety." They eaoh oarried a little notebook. io whioh they made notes in a hind of shorthand of their own invention, to be afterward copied into the larger book. Of oeurse, these badges and notebeeks excited the curiosity of bhe other pupils, but Tom and Annie could nob be pernaded to divulge their meaning, till, one day, Annie said: "Tom'I feel very sorry for Cornie Seethe She is a dear girl, but she is rather stout, and some of the girls make fun of her. Cornie never gate angry, but I found her crying to -day, bemuse Ida Loring called her a porpoise. Suppose we invite hor to join our Society ?" "Agreed," said Tom, "if you will id nie invite Ned Warren, He's a good fel- low, but some of the boys laugh at him, be- cause he'a orose•eyed, The Society, thee enlarged to include four member°, began to hold regular meetings:, at which each member was addressed by a name that had been originally bestowed in Maris ion. Annie was Sword flab, Tom, Wood- pecker, Ned was known ea BM, while Cornie cheerfully responded to the title of Porpoise. Each hod a book, modeled after those origin- ally made by Tom and Annie, and diligently collected "mit:Biles," the it was soon evident Cornie's would exceed all the others, her list growing et a wonderful rate. The Society grew more and more to be a social club, and was soon jointed by Charley Gibson, a freak]. ed boy, enrolled as Leopard, and Emma Davis, a tall, thin miss, who meekly bore the title of Giraffe. The P. R. A. J. Society was kept up du. ing the whole of Annie's stay, and it proved more useful than many societies more pre - tendons. When it came time for Annie bo return home, there wan general regret ab her de- parture. "We shall miss yon very much, my dear," said Mra. Barton. "You have been like a little sunbeam in the house. I hardly thought that would be no when you first oarne to uo, a little maiden all forlorn." "We had only to wait: till bao ire was broken," eaid Mies Clara. "Ansi I think," said Annie, le.eghing, "lb wee my big noue that broke the me." "Or my red hair." said Tom. "Your heir may have melted it," said Will. And Tom nevor winced, but only thought: "Another joke 1 That makes 253 l"—[N. Y. Independent. Plain Talk. With its habitual ignorance of all eubjecto requiting work and study, the Roe:heater "Democrat" (Rep.) says that for 140 yeare previous to bhe sale of Alaska to the United States "Russia enjoyed undisputed gayer. eignty over the waters of Behring Sea." Rend what Secretary Adams wrote on the 22nd July, 1823, to our Minister in St. Petersburg in regard to Russia's olainfs to exolusive control of Behring Sea :—" The United States can admit no path of these °learnt Their tight of navigation and of fishery io perfect, and has been in constant exercise from the earliest times after the peace of 1783." How the "Democrats" greatesb statesman on earth will geb Groab Britain to acknowledge what wo diepated so emphatically, no one wan tell; but if Mr. Blame should engage in any such tremendous undertaking, we oan readily imagine what kind of a hole ho will leave his organ in,— Mow York Peat. Culture in the West A teacher who had asked a girl to pur- ohase a geammar received the following note from the little girl's mother " I do nob desire that Mettle obeli , iugage in grammar, as I prefer her to ingage in more youeful studies and eau learn her to speak and write proper myself. I went through two grammare, and I can't say as they done Inc no good—I prefer Mettle to ingage in German and drawing and yokel mune on the piano." Taxation Without Representation. • Sexton—" Mo,Healthy, I called to pet your there of the fund annually subsoribed for keeping the cemetery in ropear," Mr. Healthy—" Well, I've contributed for fifteen years and none of my busily have all yob gob a mules worth of benefit from it,"—[Omeha World. , Tee fes so little au article of needeity in Fromm that the total consumption in 1888 for 38,000,000 of inhabitants wars only a little over 1,000,000 Ile, the greater part of which was probably coneumed by linglieh, Americab, and Hanoi:el vieitore and residento. The average per head of the population was 13A gramsnos, or less than half an ounce, Tho nee of tea, indeed of increasing, le diminishing, aa the average per head was 14 grammes in 1880 and 1887, Coffee, on the other hand, Increases in favour, and the eons:Mention bit more then quadrupled Aline 1841, and nearly doubled since 1861, 11 toriehed its maximum of 136,000,000 lb. In 1880, and Was 134,000,000 lb., or more than 0 lb, per head, in 1888, ROME OF THE WRITE ART8. A Pallor er Clay A bout Cleo Feet 11150, e, fie a eanipileeted interior, A. letter from Auetralia eays 1 " Upon the brow of a email rounded eminence there stood a sort of pillar of Olay :Meat five feet high, whieh had once filled up the oenter of a hollow tree, the shell of width had bees, from time to time, broken and burned away, This pillar was tho work of white ante. As ib Interfered with the we:eking of the plow, I oommeneed breaking and digging it down, not without Borne diffioulty. " Tho oley, which seas surprisingly sniff, hard, and dry, broke off in large fragments, Ab length, neer the level of the outface: of the ground, a rounded orueb was uncovered, looking like the crown of a dome. Oa breaking through tile the whole city of the ante was laid bare' -.a wonderful name of mile, pH - bars, chambers, and passage:. The spade sense perhaps two feet among the orisp and crack- ling ruins, which seemed formed either of the exoevated remnant of the tree or a thin, shell. like ea:none of clay. The arrangement: of the interior was :Angular. Tbo central part had the appear. anise of innumerable email branching pillars, like the minuted stalaotitio produotione. Towards the outer part the materials as- sumed the appearance of thin laminae, abont half the tisk:knees of a wafer, but moat ingeniously dispooed in the shape of low elliptic etches, eo placed that the center of the aroh below formed the resting place for the abutment of the arch above. "These abutments again formed eloping platforms for ascent to the higher apartments. in other places I thought I could discern spiral meows nob unlike geometrical stair• oases. " The whole formed such an ingenious opeeim en of oomplicated arohi tenure and auoh an Heeled labyrinth of intricate paseagee ao could bid deflanoe to art: and to Ariedne's olew. Bat even the affairs of ante are subject bo mutation. The great city was deaerted— a few loiterers alone remained to tell to what race it had formerly belonged. Their great storehouse had become exhausted—oven bhe very roots had beau laid under contribution, till at lad its myriads of. inhabitante had emigrated to begin anew their operations in some other aoil." Eel Skins for Rheumatism. A reverter tho other day paid a yea to Billingsgate and made some inquiries. One of the largest eel dealers in the great Lon- don fish market gave eome interesting in• formation on the subject. "Well,' he enid, "I know of numbers of oases in which they have been used with complete sumeas They aro stretched on a board and dried ; then to make them pliant they are slightly =widened and tied around the suffering limb. They are worn as garters, anklets, bracelets and armlets. They are even worn around the waist—next to the akin, of oonree—for lumbago and sciatica. Hundreds of cabmen wear bhem and swear by bhem; and I bave a number of gentleman customers in the country who ask tee to send them eel skins to give away to the poor people of their districts. Per- sons who have onoe worn them will never be without bhem If they can help it. But I oannob tell you what medicinal property they possess ; perhaps after all it ie only warmth for of mum they must form an almost air-tighb bandage, like a piece of gutta percha or goldbeater's skin. Perhaps ib is only fancy, and that goes a very long way, ne you probably know. Why, I have heard that a skein of Bilk tied round the waist will euro lumbago, or round bhe knee will :sure rheumatism in the leg. Now whab earthly mediolual property oan there .e in a skein of silk? Of course the skins are generally considered as refuse or offal, and are coneequently thrown away." Life on a Cuban Plantation. In Dakota and Manitobe the employment on single wheat estates of a hundred tempera and an aggregate of three hundred laborers .for a season has been regarded at: something unprecedented in agricultural industry; but 00 000 sugar estate in Ctba—" ell Balboa"— from. fifteen hundred to two thoneend hands, invariably nogroes, are employed, who work under Revere didepline, in watches or relays, during the grinding seaeon, by day ani night, the game as in the large iron -mills and furnaces of the United States and Europe. At the same time there are few village oommunities where a like number of people experience the mune bare and surveil- lance. The mete workers occupy quarters walled and barricaded from the ,women, and the women from the men. There are in all villages an infirmary, a lying -ie hospital, a phyebcian, an apothecary, o ohapel, and priest. At night and morning mem is said in chapel, and the crowds are always large. There is of a Sunday leas restraint, though oeaeolene eopionage is never remitted. On these days and in parts of holidays there are rude mirth, ruder musio, and much danoinse This picture is given somewhat in detail, because it illustrates how all-pervading and tremendous are the foiees-bbat are modifying society everywhere, in oivilized, partially civilized, and even barbarous countriee, conjointly with tho new conditions of production and consumption.—(Popular Sei- sm:3e elonehly. "The Imperial Bagman." Emperor William '61 flormany well de serves the name of "The Imperial Bagman,' given to him by London humeri:4s. Hurrying from the 'aval review at Spithead, he imme- dietwlyappeared conducting the shamfight at Spanduu for the entertainment of the Emper- or of Anabria. The mosb inter:toting fee- rure of this display wet the use of the new smokeless: powder which is the latest inven. tion rolled upon to increase the efficiency of small arms. Wherever William the Gorman sovereign goes it isnot thepeopleof theeoun- bry that he visits or poseefulinetitutions that he inapoots. Ib is the army or the bevy thee be is everywhere anxious to see, in hia eagerness not to keep the peace, bub to study the moot approved methods of making war, The esamatially military oiler:ether of tlit• ropean monarchies is a fearful feature in present civilization, and the Emperor Wil- liam seems to bo the very incarnation of restless warlike rule. Hove different was the come of his fether, " Frederick the Noble," in observing foreign lando I Bet the spirit of Frederick bee died with him, and dragothiern doininatee the Empire he sought to lead in the p the of peaoe. That genera,' harmony cannel long bo reserved during the strain of the rivalry between nations in warlike equipment, and oonetruotion, is eer- tain. European t ewers: met inevitably goon fight Or distent, and the ascendency of the element hypited by Germanyes young Emperor does nob tend toward disarmament, Time for Action. Auntie*" Charlie", your father le aaihbng you." Charlie—" Yen, hear him, Bub he is sallbog ' Charlie.' don't have to go till he yells Charles 1'" ELS POST. 8 wiruseyintkawuresetleserscarssruseswilareitinr"siststra.ritrieenimorkinvotantatt:_esek?201..sytireitessiesaveorreimeimeatenvineveeeeriv.. ORINEiE AND TEE1R WA,ZO. WfRELETfl, They Know Deter Than Any ether People What Oleo nomy Ma we The Chinese ore preeminently econornioal, Whether ib be in limiting the number of wants, In preventing waste, or in adjusting forme in auoh a manner ow to Intake a libtle repro:one a greet deal, The universal diet condi:to of rice, bathe, millet, garden vege. tablee, and telt with a little meat on high feetivale. Wholesome food in abundance may be supplied et lose than a penny a dry for each tsdult, and even in famine times thousand/ of persons have been kept alive for months on aboub & halfpenny a day each. This implies the exit:theme of a high degree of culinary skill In the Chinese. Their modes of preparing food are thorough and various, There la 119 waste ; everything le made to do as much duty as possible. What ie left is the veriest trifle, The phy• Weal oondition of the Chinese dog or oat, who hats to live on the leavings: of the family, shown: Alia They are clearly kept: on Fiber- vation allosvano, Tho Chinese are not extremely fastidious: in regard to food ; alt le fish thio oomrH to their net, and most things acme there sooner or later. OKETAIN DIndlonANoes of the human organization, due bo eating diseased moat are wall recognized among the people, but it is considered better to cab the meat bhe cheapness of which is aer• tale, and run the risk of the coneequenoes, which are not quite oertain, than to buy dear meat even with the assurance of no evil results, Indeed, the meat of animate which have died of ordinary ailments is rather deem= than that of theme whioh have died Mau epidemic such aeplearcepueumonia, Another example of oare:ul, ealaulating• economy le the construdien of Ile cooking pote and boilers, the bottoms of which are tee thin as possible that the center:be may boil all the sooner, for fuel is scene and dear, and consists generally of nothing but the stalks and roots of the crops, whioh make a rapid blaze and disappear. The bnainees of gathering fuel is oonunitted to children, for one who oan do nothing else can at least pick up straws and leaves and weeds. In autumn and winter a vasb army of fuel gatherers: spread over the land. Boys ascend trees and beat them with olub3 to shake all bhe leave:; the very straws get no time to show which way the wind blows before they are annexed by some collector, Similarly professional manure collet:born swarm over all the roads of the counery. Chinese women carry this minute economy into their dress. NOTHING, OOMES AMISS TO THEM ; if it le not used in one place ib is In another, whet e it appears au 0 thing of beauey. Foreign residents who give their cast-off clothes to Chinese may be assured the career of useful- ness of these garments is at lath about to commence. Chinese wheelbarrows squeak for wane of a few drops of oil, but to people who have no nerves the squeak is cheaper than the oil, Similarly dirt is cheaper than hob water, and so, as a rule, the people do not wash, The mince "Cheaper than dirt,' whish the soap dealer puts in hie windows, could not be made intelligible bo the Chi. nese. To them the average foreigners ere mere soap wantons. Scarcely any tool ma be gob ready made, it: be so much oheaper bo buy the parte and put them together for yourself, and as almost everybody takes this view, ready.tmeee tools are nob to be gob. Two 000010 000 dilly lighted with a single lamp deftly placed in a hole in the dividing wall. Chinese, them to be capable of doing anything by means of almost nothing. They will give you an iron foundry on a minute dude of cotnpletenese in a book yard, and will make in an hour a cooking range, a strong and perfect] draught, out of a pile of mud breaks, lasting indefinibely, oper- ating perks:sly, and costing nothing. Tho old woman who in her last moments hobbled as near au possible to the family graveyard in order to die so as bo avoid the expense of coffin bearere was Chinese. A Love Romano.) of Royalty, The Princess Degrade before she became the wife of the Gzar and relinquished her own name in favor of that of Marie Feeder - °VIM, has also had her girlish romanoe: "She was engaged to his eider brother, the Czarevitoh, a tall, handsome man, with flue clear -out features, closely resembling hia beautiful mother, and she loved him with all the fervor of a young ardent heart. In 1865, at Nioe, the Grand Duke Nicholas fell from his bone and was so badly inj area that his life was despaired of. 1110 fiance hastened to him, and never left: hie side till he breathed his last Tho succession to the throne devolved upon the Grand Duke Alexander. He stood by the deathbed of the Czerevlboh. who, in presence of the Emperor and Empresa, placed the hand of the weeping Dagmar into his, saying to her with almost lis lest words: 'Marry my brother; ho is erne an crystal, and I wish it' Enforced by political reasons, this bequest was law to the bereaved girl, A Large Emile, Whenever a prize be offered in the United States for the family thee haa tho great. oth length, breadbh, and thicknon, there would appear to be Melo doubb bhab bhe "Coulter boys:" of Walker meaty, will be sure bo bake the °eke. Of thane interesting "bop:" there are six, and going up be steps and oommenoing at bhe lowest the record stands thus :—Jim is six feet: four, Mack six feet six, Will six feet six, Tom six feet seven, Omar de fed eight, and Richard six feet: eleven. The parents were six feet four and five nine feet respectively, Their weights run from 200 to 202 pounds, making a total of 1,307 pounds, and an average of 228 pounds. Pulpit and Pew. Stories of discourbooua antartness in either pulpit or pow abound, The following le as troll as are thewiuds that blow aorose Cape Cod, whore the inoident me:erred, rho oon. gelation was riot attending to the sermon. Tho minister etopped in hie reading. " My hearers," said he, I have given much thought: bo Ede eormon. Ib has mule mo many deem of labour, / have meditated on 10 10 the night soaeone. V you Cannot listen to it I will step right here and now." The reply WM prompt from a member of the eon. gregation, "Go on, pastor, go on ; you must be aboub through."—[Ohioago Advance, Some jells would make good pubibo apeak- ere, they have awl an easy delivery. Egg.shell was onee need in medioal peer - °Options:. Wben otsloined at a low red -heat, the Shelia afford a very pure form of carbon. ate of limo. The sonsus of, Bulgarian and Elston Ramona gives the population of the bwo principalities as being 3,154 375, of whom 2 326,250 aro Helgatiene, 607,000 Turks, 58,000 Greeks, 50,000 gispies who have no fixed residential and 23,460 JOWL Wm, 0 Brion, MP., le thriouely 111 in Galway jail. The South of Ireland meokerel fishing is a failure this year. Ib le abated that the consuroptiou of aloe. 101111 Frame doubled between 1876 and 1885. Mr, D. M. Meophereon, of Lane:ester, lied t0,000 Oaten from him in Montreal. Mr, Gladstone arrived in Farb the other evening and was presented m ith bouquets by a number of friends. THF Eng OF LH Et. Brown-Sequard Merely Gave the Ba- salt of Experiments Made Upon Rinkelf. with 000 insitestoreTi; Queotioa 00 108 olds Whether MS Resents Can ito loupllented. Every morning brluge reports of this (loo- ter or that one haviag prepared and tried! tho elixir of life a la Brown.Sequard. Beau- tiful malts here, dieastrous results there indifferent results everywhere, and nothing' A despatch from Helena, 74 ont, says ab all calpulated to settle the question any - hero has been a fall of from 1 our to ale where. Now what are the fame in the ease! inehes of snow near Ellieloa, De Brown•Segutard in learning, experience, and integrity compares favorably with any- one who has said a word upon the (subject, and he it: every Ivey the superior of nearly every one who has spoken concerning the meteor. No one who knows him doubt: Met medical abilbby, which is oomeeded to be great; 00 ono doubts his athearity or hie in- tegrity, This grand old man comes before one of the leading medical associations of the world and modestly relates a series of experiments which he Ithe mode upon him- self, He gives is detail bhe formula for pre- paring the medicine, describes minutely bhe methods, time:, and quantities of its nese and then, in plain, uavernished statementse he reports the reettive Those who had already half erased the Then hundreds of experimenters proceed name of England from the roll of the great to test the matter and deoide for themselves. Powers now tad that they have been reek- what value there is in the trestment. Ito ening without: bheir host. The Angle•Sax. mud be borne in mind thee this taming maO- 00 and toughness have often proper- Dor is nob to decide whether Brown-Sequard ed pleasanb surprise: for those who were epoke the truth. Thee is nob in any sends dieposed bo treat them with contempt. If the queetion. The question is to decide tho English Government will now favor a whether his results oan be duplicated, and if rcpproihontn1 to Germany and her allies so In what percentage of ewes and to what with greater decision, and if, by the develop. degree, meat of its incomparable fleet, it gives a war- Not one of these American experimenters,, ning oo both friends and foes alike that the so far as has been reported, has tried bhe ex - English people mud be reckoned with in fair perimente in accordance with Brown•Se- weather and in foul, England's position to a guard's: directions, Hs mad dogs and guiume- worldpower will be secured more firmly than pigs. Hie imitators generally use lambs. even. —[Berlin NationelZ Abu ng, Thus at the very foundations of the experi- ments they ignore a fundamental factor - Very few of them tryany experiment on themselves ; and their usual subjeota ars, A. storekeeper was bombing in tho pres- about as unlike Brown•Sequard as ib is pe— ewee of a cuetomer "bleat he could secure a sible to tad among men. Then, instead of quarter of a pound of tea in a smaller plea() waiting for a result mush time as the original of paper than any ether man in the country." operator waited, they rush into print with. "Yes," said Zedekiah Dryesduste who an affirmation or denial that is aft valueless chanced to hear the remark, "nnd you'll as their experiments are defective and bung - pub a pint of rum in a smaller bobble than ling. any other man thabI ev_er aee, anyway." That there have been meth of bloodpede- _ening is nob ',Mange. Tne wonder is that Liver and Lights. there have been so few, The probability ie that there have been many more than zeported, for a rash and bungling operator dleisprn.00tbirouc.eh into print to advertise his own. in When ib is considered that there aroD many Hake to run and that any one or mer0. behfebhm:em may other in every experiment ib k, y easily seen what exceedingly great care in required et everstep. Here are few oI Is the animal selected healthy—asps:31page in the pees used ? Has he been overheated in catching and killing him ? Has the opera- tion been perfomed wibh p °Mealy clean hands and knives? Has every proems been carried on carefully and speedily, with pee- l:n=1y clean implement!, reoeptaoles, veasele, mothers, pestles filtering cups and papers 1 Has bhe elixir lithe administered promptly While it was absolutely fresh and has the syringe been absolutely clean and properly sterilized 7 Has :the patient been. in a proper oondition to receive the medicine and has he had the proper co ordinate creabment ? Brown- Sequard, who reporbes progres and finds encouragement in his experiment, is 11,11 old man in the decline of lite. He is one who has worn cub in the harness of deep thinking and honest, hard work. He be- long to those who have overtaxed the brain. What They Were For, and nervous system by unremitting mental application. What analogy in there beeweesx him and the man breeen down by drunken- nese, gluttony, or lechery, and what simili- tude between him and the ordinary listless and shiftless inmate of a poorhouse or a hospital? Why expeob that the remedy ap— propriate to Brown•Sequard would be the proper one for the numerous results of those mute ailments whioh are only the beginnings of suoh persistent and troublesome chronic deviteliz atone 7 The enthusiast who trim a few experi- manta and is ready to indorse the remedy for incemperably more than Brown•Sequend even suggested ie nob a safe leader, a env- ful operator, or a reliable witness', and ia likely to be one who is more desirous of seeing his name in print than he is of know- ing or teaching the truth. The c meervative who encore at this, as he does at new reme- dies and new methods, generally, no being. absurd beguiling:: or egotistic therlatatuems, is equally with the all•balieving enthusiast unworthy of 'recognition au a beanhor whose opinion Is worth reading. The honed,careful, and progressive phy- sician will quietly and in his own time and. manner tece the availability of this elixir as ho does other remedies, and be will be in no hurry to rush into print with an opinion, for he knows bhab in medicine any opinion not founded on experiment ib not worth con,: sideration by any layman, much less by any phypician, Nearly every aocepted specific and every standard method of medioal and surgical treatment has upon lee introduotion been landed as bhe universal panaoaa by the unthinking enthusiast, and at the some time ib has been denounced in scientific: and pro - fontanel anathemas by the recognized pillars of Tho pthr odfoeress :Teats: and the denanoiatione of Brown-Suquard's elixir are, rso far, nob worths the paper upon which they are wribben. And this is true because no one of Brown- Sequard'e ability, Integrity, and experience has given to ib the time and the attention whioh he has bestowed upon itt. Few of any of those who have rushed into pelt= have used his material, prepared it according to his formula, or admistered ib in line with bin experience. So ear as bloodepoithning is concerned that could only moue from criminal negligence in the proper preparation of the elixir, in the The akippere and weber -wise mon on ,bhe looso of tainted instrumentsor as the se - upper lakoa are said to have boon afforded of ouoh „dation of the patient Not only needed a very slight emotion for its manifestation. There is oortainly nobhing in the elixir properly pre• pared bhab MUM any =tint to be inoculated in the patient, The elixir may be a valuable remedy; itt may be useless, or it may be diembrously injurious bub no one —not even Brown- Sequard—la competent at this stage of the investigation to pronounce:a:abeam° oleo way or the other. Of course there aro shallow. pated wieeacree who depend upon their imaginations for their facts, and upon their lack of experience for their opinions, who are eager to Indorse or deounoo, Brown dry, and tho jogged rooks that lie in wale S noted, however, who is intelligent, honest for the Indian canoe unmasked, so that their careful, and considerably experienced in the true shapes were learned." Mende have a fair theism of airing their -knowledge on tmonattinerg'edeteinseewle0eaelTeuensfelapVr rg ot Oslo. the question bub meanwhile that comet, When others of 'limner integrity and Eneke, of PrOfeesor Wiggins', reported to * , be keeping unpleasantly oleo to our earth, ,,aibil.ty wan a yob wider experience Embalm, may have nornothing to do with ft. Eno." good expertmente and results there will be some good ground for a deolelon -•unt, bit should bo warned. then, While running to ootoh a fly bell at Red Beek, N. J.., on Monday, Thomas Murray, aged 18, over exerted himself and died shortly afterward, -The body of Jessie Maok lees, who was drowned in the Niagara river, at Chippewa, shout a week ago, was found in bhe river, at L wia on. Forty oar -loads of sealskius, the entire catch of the Alaska Far Company, passe d througb Cheyenne the other day from Se n Francisco on the way to Ilsgland. German Opinto f Britain. Rio Conspicuous Ability. Two gentlemen walking along the streets, observed some workmen baking the windows from a house which they were aboub pull- ing down and which the tenanb had left the day before. " Whab tearing work," said one, "they are making with teeth house I" " Yee,' said the other, "yesterday bhe liver went out and now they are taking out the lighca." A Fifty (lent Fortune. Young Girl (at fortune-teller's)—"What I I'm going to marry a poor man and have seventeen children I Ib outrageous I My friend Sarah hod her fortune told her, and you said she wadi be Marry a millionaire and live on Fifth avenve. Here's your quarter." Fortune-teller, with dignity—"Your friend Sarah gob a fiftywenti fortune, mime." Anything to Oblige. Judge (bo pelt:ones-)-8o you were drunk and disorderly. What heves you to say ? Prisoner—I've a good deal to slay, Your Honor, if you'll only give me time to aay 10. Judge—Certainly with pleaeure. Sixty days will be enough, won't it ? Our object is to please. Inquiring Youth—What ere those proof gloves far, Mr. O'Patrick Mr. O'Patrick—Why, me jewel, eure, and they re for the oonvanienoe of thim folks as wan= to wash their hands without: wetting their skin at all, ab all 1 water - The tailor hopes to emceed by olothe abtention to businese. Several of the large land owners of Soot - land have imported a number of reindeer from Norway and turned bhem onb in the hope that they may become acclimated and incrVge Tgenerally accepted theory that a warm summer follows a oold winter, and vim versa, has been examined by Month with the aid of temperature reeorde mule in the same place, under the same conditions, twice a day for forty years. Science cannot find any rule on the subjeote and comes to the concha - don that no estimate oan be formed in regard bo the chamber of a coming season merely by knowiug the character of the past season of any greater Wm thab could be gained be mere guessing. A Judge of the United States Supreme Court be dapped in bho face.by a desperado, who is immediately shot by a Deputy Mar- shal of blue United States. The Judge, who has taken no pad to the off* whatever, ie accused by the desperedo's wife of murder, ie arrested on & warrant issued by an obscure Californian Justice of the Peace and is now out on bait This queer chapter of incl. dente is bho resulb, nob of peculiar Americen lam, bub of peculiar American manners. In theory the same things: =tight happen to an English Judge, hub they never will. The idea of making Qeeen Vie:bort. a Colonel of German Dragoons has !Amok a good many people as rather odd ; bub ib is paid that female offieers were quite oommon it the British army aboub a hundred and fif by years ago. At that time, ib is aid, persons who had a pull on the Government were in the habit of christening bheir dough- ters by masculine names, getting them °Gm- miselona in the army, and drawing the pay for the earviee which the girls did nob per. form. (Monet Victorie, of mutate, does not draw pay, but is content wibh the milibary glory which goes with the tible, reason lately for reviving an old belief that Lake Superior has a tide. The Seulb ,Ste. Marie News clesoribee a somewhab unusual movemenb of the water at the canal there "The water, all of a sudden, begun to low- er, and one oould alined See it go down until ib wan fully three foeb below its usual etage. Almoot at thee it began to rise, and kept going up until ib reaohod,apoint a foot high. or than the normal depth, And so Ib duo. (mated more or less all day, (musing no end of trouble to boats, and giving riga bo the usual speoulation on blit part of With people. The rapids wore a eight when bhe water lowered. The shoal plaoes were high and