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MN. 24, 1890. T H E
_ and travelled from Asia to Russia. From
St. Petersburg ib spread during the Winter
and Spring ovoriBweden, Germany, Hollaud
end Frenee, and then during the tollowing
Autumn Ib made its eppearenoo in Italy,
tip. tin and Pommel, Craws of vessels
belonging to bot11 the Englleh aad'the 'latah
warn effected with lb far oub on the high
thee, Lbw ohowing ito wide prevalence:, fn
the oily of Vienna Hay throe fourths of the
population were affected with ib, end so
suede nly 111110 eoiz9 them that for the Grab
limo ib received the name of "BA!z !Catarrh'
(lightning caterrb), The thief faeturee of
the affection were paha, referable bo the
bade, breast and throat and oharaotorleed
by extrema feobleneso. Frequent attache
000urred, the Fueled onee oouforrina no
Immunity ; poaumonia, plouriey and oetorrh
el iniltrnm:ti noofthe bowelswere extreme.
ly frequent, to n rule, children wore
exempt, the mortality was vary slight,
obie.Gy occurring among the aged and thee°
suffering from amnia .rlieoasee,
A GREAT TERRITORY AFFEOT0D.
Again, in 1830, was its widespread Iafu•
once felt, when there 000urred a series of
epidemics, whloh were remarkable tor the
breadth of territory they covered and the
rapid methadon with which one followed the
other. Ib began in Chloe.. In September
lb reached the Indian Archipelago, From
there ib swept into Ruoeia and invaded Mos-
cow in November; it raged in St, Potent -
burg in Jannory, 1831; by March it had
reached \Voreew; Nato= Prussia and
Silesia suooumhod in April ; the inhabitants
of Danmark buffered during May, together
with Finland and a great part of Germany ;
the tame month' witnessed 'its arrival in
Paris, and by June 1b had invaded England
and Sweden, and in July held pose:melon of
middle Europe. with the approach of the
early Winter menthe it ewopi northward
into Italy and westward across the Atlantic
to North Amarioa, until in the month of
Fohreory, 1832, ib was raging in ewtein
parte of the United Statue, In the Etat le
continued,epreading to Ja^a, further India
and the Indian Archipelago, and was found
exietirg in Hin.luoten after ib had mesad in
Europe. In 1833 ib revisited Russia, and
thence overran all Europe, which it summed -
ed in doing by November of the same year.
HISTOR5. OP LA QBEIPPB.
,Au Exn0uetiveMeserleelori of lis Past 111004
ogee.
According to the boat authorities the die.
ease has been known by verloue names-
aatarrhelfever, contagious oatarrhe1fever,
dandy fever, coquette, le grippe and others.
Among the Eogilah, eo the disease suggested
nothing, it was oallod an epidemic cold,
The Germane, who alwaya fled some fancied
resemblance among different dieoeaao, and
there bold a dloeeoo epfz:olio in character
off oting sheep, beta conferred the name of
oahoffeueten and obaffkrauicbolt upon lb.
In addition to therm names the oongh
which accompanies the attack, due to the
disturbance of the roepleatory ergan0, re•
eombles the °rowing of a 006k, in 00000
quenoe of whiob it was named huhnorwon
(ehildron'e disease, whooping cough) and
zaep, and Is the same disease among abiok.
one wbioh is known in this country as pip,
La grippe is Bald to bo derived from the
Polish word "grypka." Ib le more likely,
however, that Ete origin le from the word
"Agripper," to se'Z1,
HOW THE TERM INFL1ENEA AROSE.
Ie flaenze is a term which originated with
the Italians, their belief being that the
diocese was duo to the influence of the stars
or from a "ignifiootion of tho word indi'
eating something transient or ephemeral ;
the name was ooneidered fashionable among
them. Hippaor rtes is sale, to have referred
to it, but gives no ex.aab deoorlption of the
disease in his wrltinge. Diodorue Sioulne
recorded an "outbreak in the Athenian army
In Siafly during the year 415 B. 0,, which
is supposed from the desoription to be influ
anza. During the ninth century several
epidemics of catarrahal fever were recorded.
In 827 a aough epreod very rapidly, af•
footing a great many, which was supposed
to have been the affection is question, In
Italy, in the year 570, them occurred en
epidemic similar in character whiob spread
over all Europe with great rapidity.
During this epidemic hie aleimad that doge
and bird. suffered with ten affection having
symptoms not unlike those 000000153 in
man. A fever of which the chief aytnptom
was cough, coourred ae a general epidemic
tbrouebnut Germany and Freud in the
year 976. Until the year 1173 no farthe •
epidemic is noted ; than a widespread affec-
bios, of which the symptoms were prinop•
ally catarrhal, raged throughout the entire
European continent. Minor epidemics are
recorded on having occurred from 1239 to
3299, also during the fourteenth century,
In the writings of Aitken tb is found that so
very fatal was the prev elenee of the disease
in Franco that from the year 1311 to 14!'3
the, mortality was so great it nooeoeltated
the closing of the courts of law in Perla in
00000g00000 of the deabhe which mouthed..
LA 00.101 0 1N IRELA00,
In the " Annals of the Four Masters" iu-
ileums in mentioned as having prevailed in
Ireland during the fourteenth century.
A
similar disease is referred to in the early
a
Gaelic manuscripts under the nme of mem tan, creat, the oltost, Tho firab epidemic
that occurred in Great Britain of which we
have any very accurate description ie the
ono of the year 1510. The disease travelled
from Malta end infested first Sici'y, then
Italy, Spain and Portugal, when lb crossed
the Alpe into Hungary. and Germany,ireaoh-
ing as far as the Bald Sea and extending
thence westward into France and the Bribieh
Isles.
Its tract extendel over entire Europe
from the southeast to tho northwest, and is
le claimed that not a single family escaped
its ravages. Its symptoms were similar to
those witheseed to -day, viz„ great pain In
the head, 0(1830ib breathing, stupor, lose
of strength and appetite, nervousness and
ratohinps from a violent touring cough.
During this epidemic none died except
children. In 1557 there occurred an epi-
demic which started westward from Asia
and speed over entire Europe ; ib then
crossed the Atlantic Ocean and eppeered
in Amerioa, the aff,otian mouthing in
England after an unuoually rainy season,
The attack was characterised by catarrhal
affections of the pulmonary and abdominal
mucous membranae, onerz'.ug and cough-
ing, difficulty of breathing, with fever,
and paine,whloh were usually referred to
the aides. The entire population of Nis-
mee fell ill of it on the same day.
OLD AGE.
By wirer 3Yeueloll ttolntes..
Tho foaling must of ne000aity Om to
many aged poreone tbet they have outlived
their noo(ulneoe ; that they are no longer
wanted but rather in the way, drags on the
whoole rather tha•a holplug them forward,
But lot Thom remember the often quoted fine
of Milton,-
' They also servo eh') 0111y Stead end watt."
This lo poeulioriy true of them. They aro
helping others withonb atweye being uwar0
of it They are tbeehields, the breakwaters
of theca who come after them. Every
decade is a defense of the ono next behind
It. At 30 Cho youth hag cohered into mau
MO, bub the strong Intrt of 49 rise in elmott
mlbrOken rank between him and the apo
proacheo of old ago as they show the mon of
50 At 40 ho Tooke with a armee of soourity
at the atroog mon of 60, mud seas behind
them the row of sturdy sexagenarians
When 50 le ro ohed, oo,nehow 00 dons not
look ea old as it moo used to, and 701e still
afar off, At 60 tho acorn semen° of the
burial service 000010 to have a meening that
one did not notate in former years. There
begin to be something personal about
it. Bub if one lives to 70 ha soon gets
used to the text with the threescore years
and ten In ib, and begins to counb himself
among those who by reason of ebrength are
destined to reach fourscore, of whom he
can see a number lu reasonably good condi-
tion. The o0t0generian loves to read about
people of 90 and over. Ho peers among the
asterisks of the triennial catalogue of the
university for tho namee of graduates who
bave been seventy years oub of college and
remain still nnetarrod. He is onrioue about
the biographioe of oeutenarlane. Such
e0oapade0 as those of the terrible obi sinner
and ancestor of great mon, the Reverend
S ephou B,oholtiur, interest him as they
never did betoro. Bub be cannot deceive
himeolf mnoh louger. See him walking on
a level Gurfaw:, and he stops off almost se
well as over, but watch him owning down a
fiigbb of stairs, and the family record could
cob tell hie years more faithfully. He out
you deed, you say ? Did it coeur to you
that he could not see you clearly enough to
know you from any other son or daughter
of Adam? Hs said he was very glad to
hear it, did bo, when you told him your be-
loved grandmother has just de"em"ed. Dee
you happen to remember that, though he
done not allow that he to deaf, he will not
deny that he does nob bear gene so well as
he used to ? No matter aboub his failings ;
the longer he bolds on to life the longer he
makes lite 1100m to all the living who follow
him, and thus he is their constant benefactor.
-January Atlantic.
BRUSSELS POST,
Macri Watery.
The native orators of New Zeeland agree
with Drmucthenee that "aotlon' is bbe first,
the second, and the third aharmoterielio of
etcquenoe. A short time after BlehopSelwyn
seated in New Z eland 10 became necessary
be remove the Epl000pal realdenoe and
utilege from Waimate to Anokiend. The
native Canadians of the former place opposed
tha removal, and one markeb day there
was a greab deal of apeeohutaking on the
eubjoob in front of the biehop'o house.
A powerful Maori orator opened the
debate, his audience being seated on either
e deuce.
leading
to the r ei
aide of the path g
Dreseod in a handsome native mat, and
holding a spear in hta hand,
the orator
began by trotting y p
iiia slowly u and down
the path. Hs began each sentence with
a run through a given epee, 'and ended it
just an he finished hie run back.
Glrowiog warmer and warmer, he mailed
backward and forward, leaped from the
ground, slapped his thigh, shouted, and
waved his spear. A stranger, iguoreno of
the language, would have tboughb thab
the orator was breathing out death and
destruction ; bob he was simply urging
the bishop to stay at Waimate.
Two missionaries who had been long in
the land replied to the Maori orator. One,
o stonb, old faehloned Eaglieh clergyman,
with a broad -brimmed hat and :modules,
adopted the Maori action so far as to munch
up and down the path with a epoar in hie
hand, Hos "action" elicited shouts of ap.
plause.
lila brother, taking a spear, marked out
a large space in the gravel walk, divided
it into three parts, and then asked whether
It• was nob fair that the bishop ohould
live in the middle of the diocese, iesbead.
of at one ond. Convinced by the marked
out apace, the people esolamed, "It is joetl"
A FATAL EPIDEMIC,
The epidemic was an extremely fate' one,
In the small town of Mantua Carpentaria,
which is near Madrid, the dieeaso broke oat
in the middle of Auguste and 2 000 person,
who were bled and purged -the prevailing
treatment at that time -all died. In 1558,
in Delft, the disease oarried off 5,000 of the
poor.
A very great epidemic of influenza m-
outhed in 1580. From Constantinople and
Venice 10 overran Hungary and Germany,
and reached the furtheet regions of Norway,
Sweden, and Amis. Ib extended into
England, and prevailed during August ani
September there ; aboub the eamo time in
Italy, end the entire summer In Spain. Its
average duration everywhere was about six
waoke,
Dr. Short, a writer of that period, states
that " few died except those that were let
blood of or had. unsound 0100000." Two
thousand diad of 'b in Rome, according to
Dr. Short, but we are informed by Zueiz3r
that not less than nine thousand perished,
and he Mao atsbes that Madrid was almost
entirely depopulated. The great mortality
olted above was undoubtedly due to the
prevalent mode of treatment, viz,, "blood
letting." Several years intervened before
another general outbreak, whioh took plane
in 1691, extending as an epidemic through
Germany, Holland, and Franoo, appearing
in Italy three years later. 10 prevailed
throghout Europe in 1610, and also in
Italy and Frame in 1826 and 1627, with
another appearance in Holland in 1642 and
1643.
ITS 000.90 APPEARAtoe IN AMERIOA,
In Spain and in the colonies of the West.
ern World it prevailed to 1647, which ac-
cording to Webster, In the first wellmutnen
ticated appearance of Nile disease in Ameri-
23a0 annals.. Ib appeared in North America
in 1655, and also in Auebrie. Germany, and
England from 1058 to 1775. Willie, a
writer of this period, states that "about the
end of April, 1656, suddenly a dlsbomper
arose me if sant by the stare, which laid hold
on very many together ; in tome towns in a
space of a week above a thousand people
fell sick together," Epidemics also coourred
throughout Europe in 1088, 1093, 1709, end
1712, In 1729 and 1730 i0 spread from
Denmark to Italy. In Vienna during this
epkdemie over sixty bhouemod people ware
affected, During the epidemic iu 1782;
which swept over nil Europe and the Amari.
ores, the tlieoa0e wes deaorihed Eve occurring fn
Scotland in three forma, viz, the oephalio
(the hoed), the thoracic (the chest) and the
abdominal.
LATER APPEARAHOES,
Thee affection etre) appeared its 1742, 1757
and during 1761, In the latter year it wee
said b'tab0early0ineetehthe of the population
of Germany angered from its effects. In
1782, which was the moot widespread
opldomla recorded, it started in the East
Where is He?
Tho evidence furnished in regard to the
fate of Dr. Peters varies from day to day,
Amconnte of hie death alternate wibh looters
showing that he is elivo and pushing for
the Nilo. Aaouming hie safety, it may be
said that although hie in nominally an Emin
tearoh expedition, no one imoglueo that on
ascertaining that the man is already found
and safe at the ooeob the seerohers will re-
turn thither themselves. On the contrary,
upon learning that the bird had ff.,wn, they
will probably pr0000dto hunt vigorously for
the neat. It bee long been oouoeded that the
philanthropic purpose to aid Emin was a
oovor for the ambitious annexebion and col-
onizlag schemes of energetic Dr. Peters.
He may even set up the Garman flag in the
equetonatregions, on the ground that Emin
has abandoned them. Hence Stanley's per.
oiotence in bringing away the Governor may
lead to a queer result. Fortunately, how-
ever, the German Government menthe ago
repudiated the Peters expedition as encroach-
ing upon British rights, and 10 is therefore
nob to be assumed that Germany would naw
eneoureg0 any such performanoo as is antiol-
pated from the eamo Boothe. Beoidos, Emin
did not give up Egypb'a rights over the
equatorial provineee merely by making a
personal visit to the ooaab: Hie repmeenta-
tivee still hold the provinces,
He Got 1t Exolnsive,
"Hero's semobhing interesting," said the
exchange editor to the paragraphic aorf.
"What ie ib?"
"They hung a newspaper man out welt
for something be wrote."
"Well," said the P. S. wearily, "he had
the satisfaction of gobbing the noose ex.
°h alve."
The Lnokl Man,
G. -The papers are full of serial scandals,
murders. suicides and the like.
fl. -Yeo; when we read about the mieory
there is in
bho world w
e mudt admi4
it is
much bobtor never to have been born.
G. -No doubt, but you musb r000ilecb
that such good luck doeo nob fall to the lob
of one men in a million. -[Texas Slftinge,
The Inevitable Postscript,
Smith -What has become of your wife?
I
bayonet seen nor for motto tiuk past.
donee -No wonder. She hoe beim obeying
with her mother for the lost bwo weeks, I
gob a six•pago lebtar from her this morning.
What did ehe nay?
I don't: know. I haven't Dome to the poste
script yet.- [Texas Siftinge,
The Havoc of the Dane
"Pkyllis 1 Darling 1"
There was a tremor in 010 141, rich, manly
tones. IIo looped up with beseeching yea,
In which the faint sttsplelou of a tear ;dim
toned, at the fair perfect typo of all that
could be lovely in womuu that stood before
him, and as he looked long, earnestly, intense-
ly, his voice broko in a trembling treble.
Outride, on the brlckswathed pave, could be
beard the low, dull e"g of the rainrb'opo and
the soft, pininfIvo gurgle of thee:ma n grinder
as he gyrated the crank for all thyro was in it,
while ilio mr cry invitation of the Brun next
door to " have an+,zer ono 'fore it's go honro"
broke upon his thea with a startling ',distinct,
nese that made bis tired head ache.
"Phyllis 1''
"What fait, Clarence 7" said the beautiful
girl, turning the rare and dazzling loveliness
of her face toward his, but there was no an-
swm'Ing tremor in her voice. "Have you a
pain 7 Perhaps a porous plaster ora pill"-
" Do
ill"-"Do you mock= shill" he cried, springing
to his feet, while all the pent up agony that
bad twisted his internal economy with a gas
plfer twist tortured his features into au awful
look of despair. " You know how madly,
passe ,nately, I love you. It is true, you are
rich, and I "-
" Owe for your last week's board," come the
cold, calm, matter of fact and business like
reply.
"True, alas! too true, But it will not a1 -
ways be thus. I am young "-
" And callow," chipped in the maiden.
Not not -k, ngthe interruptionhe eontin +d:
"I will work, carve a name for myself, and
paste it on each suoresslve rung on the ladder
of fame until wealth and position are mine.
For you I "-
"Listen tome, Clarence Coughdropp"-and
there was a cold, steady glitter in iter eye-
" I
ye -
"I asked you n question last night •a simple
everyday queett011that every schoolboy and
schoolgirl m the land could have answered
with their eyes shut -you stared at me In
blank amaze. 'You remember it, do you
not 7"
" Yes," be faltered, " I remember. It was
whether I favored the league or the brother-
hood."
".And you told me -told me without the
shadow of a jest, but in dead earnest -that
you never heard of the leaguo or brotherhood
and did not know what they meant. Is it
not so 7"
Clarence bowed his head. He could not
speak,
" And you expert nee to marry you," con-
tinued the now tborougbly aroused woman.
"You 1 A man who confesses himself acta-
ally ignorant of the existence of the league
or brotherhood. You must think I'm a
chump."
.And they parted forever. -Pittsburg Dir
patch.
A Canadlaa Tiger.
Perhaps the " giezz'7 " of the Rooky
Mountains takes precedence of all North
ameriomn beasts as the terror end delight
torrific
of hunters. In strength ho is , and he
neither shows fear in the presence of man
anya � ectal desire to court
norexhibits P
seclusion. In strength and savagery he hes a
s g8 Y
rival in the panther, puma or cougar, as the
animal is variously palled, Tai: beast,thougb
ranking, according to tome authorities, no
third among the oat families, and only eu.•
passed in strength and fereolry by the lion
and Bengal tiger, is ordinarily very retiring,
and, perhaps more than any other animal
on this continent, avoids the eight: of man.
Is le ouly w'•on brought to bay that hie enar-
moue etrengbh and agility are displayed. A
few years ago an instance of this was adorded
by a oon¢ar in the Adirondaoke seizing a
hunter by the shoulders and bearing him In
a Dingle leap over the top of a hamlook tree.
The encounter of a brave woman with a
panther near Vancouver, B, 0., is a reminder
nob only of the audacity of the animal in in
voding the haunt" of maubut of the pre•
nonce yet in Canada of this most famous of
the oats of America. The panther is usually
aescalated in the mind with the tropical
regiono of Amtrioa or the territories border
ing on the Mexican frontier. Bub, if mud
leas fie vent than formerly, when he proved
a pest of New England pioneers, he otill is
babl as far
there ro
found hers and p y
north as he ever ranged. He stills lingers in
the foreete and mou,taine of British Col-
umbia and of Northern New York, and
is said to be yob found in Gaspe and else
where near the Sb. Lawrence. It is only a
few pears ninon a panther weighing nearly
200 pnunda was shot in Northern Maine,
In Ontario it is probable that he
may yet haunt some of the swamps and
thickets. Within fourteen years an eight
foot puma watt killed in the county of
Middlesex end another in North Wellington,
A panther hunt by a some or mere of
farmore,who has loch many sheep through
the stealthy visits of the famous depredator
of olden days, was amonah the exciting
events of a rural locality in Huron County
about a dozen years ago, The marvellous
eeoluelon ordinarily preserved by the beast
le probably ono reason why it is op rarely
seen by hunters or any one else. "On Erie's
bank° the bigor steals alone," wrote Camp•
be111ong ago. The visits of the boaatto the
barnyard have 0in0e become more lonely and
stealthy.
The norbhern range of our felio.00noolor
has a parallel amongst the big oats of Asia,
for the Bengal tiger 1e found in the jungles
of the Amour river, In a climate where the
mercury falls lower in winter than et
Quebec.
To sweep a room without roiling a duet,
theater damp grass or dampened bite of paper
1
over the tlarpot, `This 1104 only prevents
the flying of dust, but theme the oarpeb from
wear end tear, Either grass or paper le
bettor than tea leavoe or bran, (often reoom•
trended), as the fo0r00r home no stain or
brat,
New Zealand Holidays.
The colnniabe of New Zealand, a:wording
to Mr, Edward Wakofield, are a holiday -
making people, There la almost an average
of ono recognized holiday to a month, and
it le a oommon practice for all working
people to telco two or more dupe at Chrieb•
mat, New Year's and Easter, so as to make
an unbroken play time of three or tour days,
including a Sunday.
Then the great mato of the people give
themselva" up to amusement. Horse races,
athletic eporbs, boat races and exoursiono
aro carried on In every available spot, and
aro attended by largo and almoso invariably
well-behaved crowds.
The commoneab of all holiday amusements,
however, is the picnic. Tho oaveral trader,
note and . societies have pionioo of
dial'
high the
ublio are car
their own, to w P y
welcome on the payment of a small sum to-
ward the expellee of the onbortainmenb, It
is amnslbg to the railway traveller to note,
as bo panes through some pretty country
aide, not one or two, bub perhaps fifty differ,
ant pionios in full awing, eoah numbering
worth or hundreds of guests, Ib haft boon
avid With much more truth thank usually to
be found in epigrams of thio kind that
"New Zealand people armlike 0atble. You
need only turn a number of them into a
paoturo,and leave thom alone, and they
will brake themselves perfectly happy;"
Oa a warm and tempting Now Year's
day at enberprleing burglar might walk
through a Now Zealand city end help hien•
self, undisturbed, bo tho oontonto of moat of
the home, D,vellingo and streets are alike
deserted, and the owed sojourner who does
nob understand the ways of rho place oeoltn
in vein for solar ono to speak to, co
somothing to do, 13y six or sovon o olook in
the evening the abrade aro lively with re-
�urnlag urowti.
Trying It On.
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Female Novellot-Doling, I bave been nn.
true to you. I love another.
Husband -W -b -art' -I 1 e w 1 e 1 t 1'
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Savalrea in Australia,:'
According to the atetemente of Mr, Lum-
holfz, a Norwegian traveler, 'Australia
presento featuree of oavago life which make'
it equally with Africa a alaimmnb to the;
title of "dark continent," If the depth of
blackness into which he inhabitants are'
plunged in to be taken into a•olunt. Dir.,
Lumhol!z aaye the Interior is a vast noene of
the moat appalling savagery and degrade-'
tion, 1!,•peciaily in 'Northern Queaneland
ho found a nice of people of each low'
culture, &nee Ii,roraaco, vile 'ratite and i
barbarous practical, that the woret stories
told of North American Indiana are, iu
acmperfoan, like telae of advanced coligitt- I
enment. Three Au01001100 ravages are in
eeseontly at war, but their commute aro for
the tole permute of obtaining wiles and
human food. The wives are killed with
dubs on the slightest provocation, and ere
then eaten if their 11011 is stfiadently
tender and of suitable flavor. For the •
nntiv0s, thouuh oaOnlbele, are epicures,
and, fond as they are of human flab, they
prefer that of people who have subsisted on
vegetable dieb. Conerquentiy they will not
oat a white man. A Colnam.en is a great
delicacy, and so is a young female of their
own race. Cannibabam is net with them,
as with acme savages, a religious rite or the
celebration of a vtotory at war. It is an
everyday effete and pert of their regular
system of food enpply. Mr. Lamholte eaye :
"The greatest delicacy known to the
Australian native Is human flesh. The
very thought of it makes his eyes oparkle,"
Many of these tribes, Mr. Lum'ohz nye,
have not yet emerged from the Steno Age,
and they teem very near bo thab doubtful
statue which forme the connecting link be-
tween man and brute. Australia is a strange
country. For many years it was uoed me e
penal colony of England. Ito gold and
other resources, however, attracted many
tattlers, end the population, in certain tee.
done, ^epidly took on the eativitic0, com-
forts and enlightonmente of civilized lite.
In obedience to constant and strong proteote,
Eaglen0 woo otmpolled ab length t0 find
another plane for the troneportetien of bcr
criminate ; and the oivil'z 3d part cf Austrelio
rivals any port of the world in refinement,
luxury, wealth and edterprlee. But it also
furnishes the other extreme of life, se. is
shown by the story of Mr. Lumholsz. The
tale does not afford any new revelatione,
cooed that the deeradatiun portrayed is
rather deeper than most people behaved.
Australia ;a about as large as Canada, the
area of eaoh being a Settle 0000 3,000,0.00
square miles. It ie quite evident that there
ie room enough in the Southern continent
for all torts of people, without their rubbing
together or exerting any appreciable iufle-
e00e on each other's modes of life.
Female Novelist -Cahn yourself, dear,
calm yourself; that is only what my new
heroine says to her husband, and I wanted to
see how the husband would act. -Life.
The Court Was With II►m.
A young lawyer was making ]tis maiden
effort before a jury m defense of a criminal.
The evidence was all fn, and he arose to utter
the brilllant thoughts that had been surging
through his brain. He was printed for a fine
display of oratorical pyrotechnics, but some-
how or other he could not get a stmt, Hie
mind became a blank, and rte stoodtrembling
for a moment. Then,waving his arms, 1e
began: "May it please the court and gentle-
men of the jury -My -ahem l My- -Of-
ficer, kindly get me a drink of water."
He waited for the attendant to return and
tried to gather his faculties. After tatting a
sip of water he began again: "May it please
the court and gentlemen of the jury -I am
happy -no -yes."
After a pause he again extended his arm
and exclaimed: "May it please the court and
gentlemen of the • jury -my unfortunate cli-
ent"-
This impressed him as a particularly bad
opening, so he again hesitated. "Go on,
counselor," said the judge, encouragingly;
"so far I am with you." -New York Herald.
An -Encouraging Prospect.
Many of the good, old-fashioned legal ado -
dotes that have seen bard service intheir day
and have been honorably retired long since
are,great favorites of mine. While they pos-
sess the rich flavor of age for me, I have
found as a general thing that they were now
to my audiences, patiaulaly to the more
youthful element,
Ono of the beet of these old time stories re-
lates to a lawyer, in whose bands was placed
a claim for colleattote, Ile agreed to tinder•
take the work on a contingent fee, viz., a re-
tention of half the amount he would succeed
in collecting. Ho promised to not vigorously,
but weeks passed and the client heard noth-
ing. HO flnally wrote to inquire what bad
been done in the matter, By the return
mall he recelved this reply: t" I have already
got my half of the claim, If you will wall a
few monthe I may be able to secure your
half." -Now Yorks Herald,
:Caere ore no palmate in Ierintel, and suet
things a lo,'ke, 11nit0 or bars are to:iotowa.
'Che 1,i ' ty of the melon, _e t_nding 03'10
1,000 3 1 r,, 1.0000ol0 hub ttvo tl,e It•, avd 100
polio0m n exist an the 1s10n,1,
�A Bombay Barrister's Encounter With
Lioness.
omba
i4 to the B
- e ondnnt writing y
A ocr e
P g
Qtz rtto from Adenfnrnishes exalting details
of a fierce encounter between sen M. J D. In-
Me
temsegetherthathetherealte
,A Story from Ohina of the Bxpici3aa"0
Second Avenue Laundrymen,
It wee joeb about oeventocn m00A0 ;We
nye " Wong " in the Now York Sun, tuna
Yong Porg Day, a laundryman: of P,ra'
avenue, hit a Mott street "pot lea path,'
or poiioy shop, for $1,500 to anld Mellcoxr
don ere On 100 investmeet of $1 oapitai n.r,dt
or a ,.: to vMt has rela'ivcs in Cowen„
g to the lettere reLA•10011 More f:rt'rn
his fei:tlds it esau noticed dutfug tho v ower e,
that Hong remained buried in deep tho03110,
save for an ccoetfanel earnest that within
another good looking young Chinamoame,
whose tarn ie yet a protouod moorot, la:
the port of Hong Kong Hong and his newly
nude friend ditty; eared.
The story as told here among the Chlmer0
le that Yong and tie campenlon pub ll 1100
a fiat class Chinese pnblie house n0de2 000-
Bumod namor, The younger of the two ire••
came the elder's veld, and made the propr3-
otor understand that hie oompenion 30000 a,•
mandarin recently oomrnieolonod be- the
United Statee to inepeet railroads, and t3lM
he was on 'tie way to Poking to report. Moo
effoot of this was to bring the employee tat
the house upon their knees. In a day torr
two nearly 240 men were hired as a body-
guard, secretary, and other necessary n,t-
t1Ohe0 to the person of a "kwanyin,'" ant
high cffiaiel, ou a journey. Yong had at
wash basin mai a to order in solid beaten
gold. It took more than one•half of. Pzbe,
fortune, but it inspired confidence. Tw-.
eaoh of hie 200 foltawere he advance a 13e,1f-
month's wages, whiob meaue $2 apiece. Int
a week Yong set out in a gorg0000 zed=
chair, carried upon the shoulders of a inige
able bodied Chinamen, for Peking in the
character of Iasi Chong Wong, the unola nO
the milt ern, who seldom leaves the capit-
al. He is a parsonage that can be seen only
by viceroys and gwarners. Those ander
these ranks keew him by name only.
The begue Tihi Chong Wong betas err
the city of Soou Chu in the province of Islam
81. The pretest we,s notified by oonrferrr
that hie exoelleney Khi Chong Wong would;
probably need some ready oath for ne0on-
cry expenses, as is ouatomary for all mem
bare of the imperial household, who novas
carry money while travelling. The fright
ened "Chefoo," with a force of gayly clad'
cMeade, went out of the of y to meet obi
Chong Wong, and the next morning the
"Chefoo" upouhis knees handed the boonw
primo $50 000 in gold briake as the ones:
available cash in the public treasury. The
Haab city was Lin Diang, where the perfeaO
gave up 825,000, While in She Hing the
"Chefoo" became enspioions and asked 'near
cxoelleucy question wbioh so offended tion
impostor that ho forthwith di:mfssed Den•
prefect: and cont him oub of town, wbile the
impostors plundered the oily treasury. 00}2.-
er towns were laid under contribution in the
same way until one day Wong and hie ora-
penf:n disappeared. The strangest part cel'
the whole thing was that the body -gamed
as ae completely deceived as were the gro-
tto,
P
too' s.
The discovery of the fraud was not mads
err' to it the o0 of Lyhu palled upon tiro
II -known
Jambes:
barrieter, r unit a ClefC
the well-known B P
vnracity, 4
and an infuriated ''casae, whom he mob on a viceroy of hie province and the latter tele -
scrubby plain ahundred miles from Berbera, graphed to the capital to Khi Chong Wong
Mr. Inverarity was accompanied by two himself. Of course the latter had not laic
Somalia, who, like himself, carried firearms the capital for years. A big reward iu
and were full of pluck. Tho first game of the offered fo- the impostor's apprehension. and
kind of which he wan in queet which it was if caught he will receive the " Ling Chi
his good fortune to see was a lioness, wood punishment-thab is, he q ill be out allose
panted by a oub. She was in the nand, and he into eighteen pieces.
got a fair shot at her and bowled her over Thio ohowa what one civilized Chinamam
She got upend made for 00010 grass. While did with the knowledge he had nrquired
there. He followed her up and gave her while washing shine for the Christians. He
a second shot, wounding her in the jaw and , may have been a nuteral•horn bad heebhsam
breaking a fang. She turned and made for i but the ganiuo and courage with which be
some eorub. When she got in there the re -1 bunkood et ]test twenty-five pities out inn
tweed to come out. Mr. Inverarity, beliov-, over $2 000,000 is something nob born in%
ing she was dying in the scrub, tried to Mongolian who has not seen the world.
get in and give the coup de grace, Foiled
in thio attempt, be oaured the mule to be
tet on fire to windward, and stood within
twenty yards of the fire e0 the other side.
The loineae name out ata spot Faaraciy twen-
ty yards distant from where Mr. heathen y
wee aoandiog riflein band. She charged
otralghb for him. He fired when she wee
within two yards ef the meezne of the rifle
and bit bee, In a second she was on hlmend
got him down beneath her on the geese, She 1
laid bold of his arm, and his fate would have I
been then sealed bub for the intrepidity of
the two Somalia, who rnehod up to the lion-
ess and diachorged two bullets into her
body eloae to Mr. Inverarity'e head. She
let go Mr. Inverarity and made back for
the scrub, but °hanging her mind ohs therm
ed again, and doe more proceeded to maul
Mr, Inverarity, Tho two Sanielle who
had no time to reload, matted the ,
wounded Honed with the mtzzles and butb
endo of their rifle and beat her off. They re•
loaded, and following her up killed her with 1
two more bullets.. Mr. Inverariby pulled him-
self together, and, nobwithatonding hie many
woundo, took a photograph of hie dead
antagonist, who lied sofoarlcouly tried con•
cluaiona with him at cloth quarters. The
number of his wounds was eixtoen, thirteen
being inflicted with the dame and three
with the teeth. He webbed out these with
carbolic acid. The teeth wounds were vary
painful, but those inflicted with the claws
were comparatively Blight, Mr. Inverarity
rode book to Berbers, beteg able to make
only six hours a day. He returned to Aden
in a steamer, and wan there examined by the
residency sturgeon. Tho wounds were pro•
nounood to, be not dangerous, and none of
tho important monies of the arm were found
to be badly injured. The doctor ordered him
to proceed to England, and was in hopes that
a fortnight would see the wounds fairly heal-
ed,
A Womanly Deed.
"A fellow•feeliag makes one wondrous
kind," said Garrick ; and ell tender helpful•
nese springs from the faculty of instantly
putting one's self in another a place. The
Rooheeber Democrat narrates a pleasanb in-
cident a0 having taken place in that city :
A gypsy woman was carrying a bouncing
young 'Damen," and the gay handkerchief
oho wore twisted about her head instead of a
bonnet wan on the point of slipplog, off and
falling on the dirty sidewalk. Having both
arms full of baby oho could nob readjust her
heed -dress, and her evident distress over
whateeemed a rather trifling matter seemed
o fib subject for lag
u bice
to the by s
tenders.
Just then a handsomely dressed lady came
along, and evidently took in the situation,
She walked directly to tho gypsy woman,
smiled en " Allow me I" reached aoroee the
not overolean baby, and with her daintily
gloved hands tied the handkerohief under
the woman's thin. Then she gave the re•
paired head-dress a little bwitoh ab the sldee
to sot 10 straight, and with another smile
and that final pat with the hollow of the
hand, with which all women put the
fiofolling touch to a bow, wont on her way,
We should bo sorry to think snob 001 aot
worth tolling bosause it was annual -though
too many in the same eircumotaneeo would
have oonsidere1b behe lh caste did Y Y
what any real lady would do.
Separation from his wife is sought for by
an Indiana man, end he beako his claim
for it by the statement thee the danced for joy
when he chopped his fingers c1I.
Monaco's Gambling Tables..
The"Qaarberly Review" contains an sett;:
ole on history of the prinoipaliby of Monaca
which is of exceptionel Interest now thse
the question of licensing an acknowledged
evil t0 absorbing so muohattention. Monanc-
is the one country in the world where pae-
an entirely free from taxation, The Gotr-
or_ment is supported by the revenue whirl
comes from the famous Casino gambling-
bables. Not even indirectly aro the subjects,
of the kingdom taxed; for while MunacoOa
the one country in the civil z d world oats
which publiagambling-beblea are tolerated,
tbo population le absolutely prohibited fm=
00109 them, and the prohibition is strictly
enforced. By this strange mixture of pro-
hibition for natives and high license for for-
eigners we have the cartoon spectacle of r
little prfnoipaiity which is supported by clivi
taxation of the latter. The Government
leas been thus supported since 1869. During
the fireb part of this century Monaco ether
ono of the meat tax -oppressed oountrieo
Europe. No wood could be hewn, no mil'
could be made, no breed could be baked.
without psgmenb of a heavy tax. As those
tame were all direst, their burdazc
wee fele e., keenly in the country
districts as bo o0use a revolt which led the
the final enosxetion of the revolting terri-
tory to the Kingdom of Sardinia. Since the,
establishmeno of the Casino bathe and gator.
iug.tablos the population of the little prince
pel!ty has rapidly tuereaoed. Ib now cos-
te n 1 twelve thousand people, as against
three thousand a very few years ago. Then,
its population wee an exceedingly poor one
Today there are aoaroely any paupers, easy
the proportion of the rich is quite marked.,
The government is an absolute monarchy eS
the Russian type. Tho people, having no,
public burdens, have also no public rights„
yell they oro governed as well as they are
dospotiaally. Tho sanitary arrangements,
are euoh that when cholera raged in the
opposite disbriob of Italy there w00000000010
in Menaoo, ex:epting,thous of travelers whet
broughb the disease with them. The adulter•
atios offood and drink ie carefully preclud-
ed.. It ie, of mune, an ahoolutely free•trads
country, but importations era inspected ora
as to insure that nothing injurious to health
is permitted to b0 "old. No disorderly house
is tolerated in the principality, In Shutt,
the Governmont, which would seam to have, I
sold its conscience in licensing the gambling
estmblisltmonts, eden,pas n atone :by the:
greatest possible 000etnenti, 0en0Be in 00007'
n ,r AL o otice
abhor park of its adm,ai t oaten, b g
or, 0e an economic end moral curiosity, the
Government of Monaco is without a rival in
the world.
Last week the Governor of North Dakotan,
appeared before a conference of members of
the Minneapolis Board of Trade, the Dakota
Relief Committee, and prominent elevator
men to discuss means for providing the dea-
0tibnte femme of his Sbeto with seed
whoab. Nino comities wore mentioned as
being In urgent need of aeoiotanod, and 10
Wee estimated that 300 000 bushels would
be t, gnired to meet the neooeeitiee of all
the unfortunate. The remelt of the oilier•
0000 was blab the elevator men agreed to
furnloh the wheat with interest at not more
than ton per cent., provided the L'gisletturo
of the Sato passed a law scouring than
egainab heavy lose What with the dead -
town and the 11111a'i::f.00tery oondition of
ILO finances tho new Sato of North Dakota.
appetwe to bo in a bad Way,