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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-2-14, Page 66 YOUNG FOLKS. t7.11B SLEEPING BEAUTY IN TBE rN OODS, A FAIRY TALL:, napes there wee a royal couple who grieved itemensively because they had no children, 'When et ,eat, after lcrg waiting, the queen eptreeented her hutbtr d with a Iittle daughter, lata majestp alumad hie joy by giving a chrle• eening foot, Ba greed that the like of it was never known, He itvited all the fairies in the laud --there wore seven altogether—to Etons d godmothers to the little prineceat iaesefng that each might bceiow on her eorne good gift, as wee the custom of good fairies show days. After the ceremony all the guests returned ire the palace, (there there was oeb before Kam± fairy godmother a magnificent covered bash, with an embroidered table tapkin, and A knife and fork of pure gold, studded with diamonds oral rubies, Bah alas! as they placed them:elves ab table there Entered on ole fairy who had never been invited, beoauae more than fifty years since she bad left the lv',ag'e dominion ou a tour of pleasure, and had never been heard of until thio day. His majeety, much troubled, desired a cover to be placed for her, but it was of common (telt, Tar ho had ordered from his jeweler only es^•«ea gold dishes for the seven fairies afore. raid. The elderly fairy thought herself neg. teemed, and muttered angry menaces, which mot :ward a veard by one of the youngerfairies, oho chaaoed to alt beside her. This good godmother, afraid et harm to the pretty taby, hastened to hide Muesli behind the emmeetry in the hall. She did thio because s:sto wished all the others to epeak first—so zc if any ill gift were beetowed on the card she might be able to counteract i6, The six now offered their goad wishee— meateh, unlike most vetches, were sure to come sue, The ferteno. a little priucees was to :gnaw up the fairest woman in the world ; to ziutve 0 temper sweet ae an angel ; to be per. -hotly graceful and graeieue ; to slop like a eseaehtingate ; to dance like a leaf cn a tree, meed to peones every accomplishment ander the sun. Then the old laity's turn Dame. Snaking her head spitefully, she tittered the •eh that when the baby grew up into a Tomos lady, and learned to Foist, ebe might tpriek her finger with the spindle and die of Mae wonted. At this tarrable prcpbeey all the gueeta •abvddered, and acme of the more tender- 7vearted began to weep. The lately happy seereota were almost out of their wits with ;fief. Upon which the wisp young fairy ap teamed hem behind the tapestry, toying :.dooerluily : "Your mej-:etfoa may comfort mcnrealves ; the p t mems shall not die. I have ?empower to alter the ill fortune josh wished :ver by my a:ei0nt afater—her finger meet be iaierced, and the aha11 then sink, tot into the 'Weep ot death, but into a sleep that will lest buudred years, After tbab time is ended toe oral to a king will find her, awaken her end marry bet,:' ;+amedietely all the foiriee vanished. The Meg, in the tope of preventing •hie •deme•i ter'' doom issued en edict forbidding mil person to spin and even to have spinning - :totes -ale to their houses, on pain of Instant death, But it was in vain. Oae day, when •who one jest 15 years of age, the king and lawn lett their daughter Mono in one of heir cantles; when, waerlorio , shout et het `will, ebe eau to an ancient dor j m tower, .;limbed to the top of it end there found a •eery old woman—se old and deaf that the ::never heord of the King's edict—busy with sur wheel. ' What are yeu dtitg good old woman?'' elft bi t peincem. etIY.t telnniog, icy pretty child." •4 At, how cba: reirg ! Let me try if I mem spin also." She had no sooner tektn up the spindle slum, being lively end obstinate, she handiro rh: lee awkwardly sad eareletaly that the stent platted her finger. Though 11 wee so ^,nail a wound she fainted away at once and • dr>pped tflently dawn on the floor, Tht ;snot frightened old woman called for help ; :eionrtly came the ladiee in wailing, who trice savory means to restore their young mistreats, :but all their care was useless. She lay, ineeatifnl an an angel, the color still linger Zing .'„n lips and cheeks ; her fair bosom softly --tarred with her breath ; oniy her eyea were ream ctoaod, 1Vhcu the King, ber father, weal the Queer, her mother, beheld her thus, rd toy knew regret was idle—all had happen •ed as the ctuel fairy meant. But they alto know the: their daughter wauld not sleep Xenever, though after oue hundred years it ewes not likely they would either of them etehold the awakening. Until .that happy ,hour should arrive they determined to leave ctier in repose. They sent away all bhe phy- .etdane and atteadente, and themselves nor. a:avfully laid her upon a bed of embroidery *esthe most alegane apartment of the palace, .*':Vlore else aleph and looked like a Bleeping <weed atilt, When this nriefartuue happened, the kind. ?;y ,young fairy who had saved the prinoesa erg changing her Bleep of death into this • odoap of a hundred years, waa twelve thou • stead leagues away in the kingdom of • erfategain. But being informed of every •thing she arrived speedly in a chariot of fire 'le twn by dragons. The King was somewhat ottortled by the sight, but nevertheleeo want to the door of hie palace, and, with a mourn- estehvountenance, pretreated her his hand to • olesreeted. The fairy condoled with hie majesty and xs,pproved of all he had done. Then, befog .*'fairy of great common sense and foresight, mho suggested that the princeet, awakening otter a hundred years in this ancient castle, .nightbe a good deal embarrassed, especially •with a young Prinee by her aide, to find mereelf alone. Accordingly, without aakiog any one's leave, she (cached with her magic wand the entire population of bhe palace— 'except the King and Queen ; governeseee, 'temente of honor, waiting maid'', gentlemen .ratters, cooks, kitchen girls, pagea, footmen --'down to the horses that were in the • eatables, and the gnome thab attended them, 'tshe touohed each and all, Nay with, kind • s:oneideration for the feelings of the Prin• .toes, she even touched bhe little fat lapdog, Baily, who bad laid himself down beside knee mistress on her splendid bed. He, like call tbe reeb, fell feet asleep in a moment. 'Nee very spite that were before the kitchen i re ceased turning, and the fire itself went 'rut and everything became as silent as if lb caro tite middle of the night, or to 11 the ;palace were a palate of the dead. The King and Queen—havinv Mooed their menghter and wept over her a little, but not s. rush, she looked so moots and content— gfeparted from the castle, giving orders that rho bo approached no more. The nom. emend was unnecessary, for in one meatier of :;,n hour there sprung tip around it a wood so i-Sbilok and thorny that neither beaate nor r;itten could attempb to penetrate theta, 1Li oro Seta donee Wee of foresee oonld only tete peroeivcd'the top of the high tower where *he lovely Prinoeeo Diepe, A great many changes happen In a hun• airedyears. The King, who never had a •eeoored child, died, and his throne passed Into et royal family. So entirely was the attary of the poor k`rinceee forgotten, that vitileng the reigning Klug' Sorb boing ottp day THE BRUSSELS POST. FEB, 7, 1890, out hunting and stopped In the ohaao by this formidable woad, irquired what wood it wee and what were those toward which he naw arpearlrg out of the midst of it, no one eould gnawer him. At length au old p0aaant was found who remembered having beard his grandfather any to his father, tbeb in thio tower was a Primate, boauttfal to the day, who was doomed to eleep there ter one hundred years, until awakened by is King's eon, bar doetined bridegroom, At this, the young P,lece, oho had the eplrit of a hero, determined to find out the truth for himself. Spurred on by both generosity and curiosity, he leaped from his horse and began to foroe kis way through the thick wood, To hie amazement the stiff branches all gave way, and the ugly thorns sheathed themtelrea of their own accord and the brambles buticd themselves in the earth to let him past, This dons, they cloned behind him, allowing none of Me Butte to follow; hut ardent and young, he west boldly on alone. Tho first thing he taw wan enough to emits him with tear, B.,odlie's men and tome( lay extended on the grenni, but the men bad facer, not death•whlte, but red at peonies, and beside them were gleans half filed with wine, thawing that they had gone to eleop drink- ing, Next he entered a large courb, paved ttich marble, where stood rows of guards presenting erase, but motionless ae if cut out cfstone; then he !mated through many chombero where gentlemen and ludier, all in the costume of the oast century, slept a' their ease, some standing, eome sitting. The pages were lurking in corners, the ladies of honor were 'weeping over their embroidery frames, or listening appareably with polite attention to the gentleman of the court, but all were as relent as statue(, and as immovable. Their clothes, strange to say, were fresh and new 00 ever, and not a particle of cast or spider web had gather• ed over the furniture, though It had nob known a broom for a hundred years. Finally the astonished Prince came to an inner chamber, where was the fairest sigh his eyes had aver behold. A young gill of weedarfu] beauty la asleep on en embroidered bid, anti she look ed as if she had only just oloeed her eyce Trembling, the Prince approached and keel beeide her. Some eay he kissed her, but a nobody saw it, and she never told, we can not be quite sure of the fob. However as tbe end of the enchantment had come tbe Peincees awakened ab once, and laokln at him with eye0 of the tenderest regard said drowsily, "Ie it you, my Prince? have waited for you very long." Charmed with these words, and etS11 more with bho tone it which they were uttered, the Prince seemed her that he loved her more than his life. Nevertheleee, he was the most embarrassed of the two ; for, thenks to he kind fairy, the Princess had plenty of time to dream of him during her 0ontury of slumber, while he had never even heard of her till an hour before, For a long time did they sib converting, and yet had nem !said half enoegh. Their only interrup• flan was the little dog Puffy, who had awakened with hia mistreat, and now began to be exceedingly jealous that the Pi home did not notice him as much as she was wont to do. Meantime all the attendants, whose en• chantment° was also broken, nob beteg in love, were ready to die of hunger after thele fest of a hundred years. A lady of honor ventured to intimate that dinner was served, whereupon the Prince handed his beloved Prineees at once to the great hall. She did nob wait to dress far dunes, being already portectly and magnificently attired, though in a fashion eomewhab out of date. How. over, her lover had the pollteneae nob to no• ties this, nor to remind her that she waa dressed cxectly like her royal grandmother, whose portrait still hung on the palace walls Daring the banquet a concert took place by the attendant mundane, and considering they hod not touched their instrumento for a century they played extremely well. They ended with the wedding marob, for that very evening the marriage of bhe Prince and le Moo was celebrated; and though the bride was nearly one hundred years older than the bridegroom, it is remarkable that the fact would never have been discovered by any one unacquainted therewith. After a few days they wenb together out of the castle and enohanted wood both of which immediately vaniabed, and were never more behold by mortal eyes. The Prinoesa was reatored to her ancestral kingdom, but ib was not generally declared who elle waa, as dnriug a hundred years people had grown so very much cleverer that nobody thea liv ing would ever have believed the story. So nothing was explained, and nobody presum rd to ask any questions about her, for ought nob a Prince to be able to marry whomsoever he pleases? Nor—whether or not the day of fafrlee was over—did the Princess ever see anything further of her seven godmother'. She live a long and happy life, like any other ordi nary woman, and died ab length, beloved, regretted, but, the Prince being already no more, perfectly contented,—[From -Mies Mnlock'e Fairy Tales, Published by Harper Bros. Affairs in Spain. Tho news from Madrid last week bo the tricot that the Infant King of Spain wa dying, and the') Ma recovery was hopetose, aroused feelings of eympathy for the plucky young Queen Regent in the hearts of all widowed mothers who have been oallod upon to mourn the lova of an only son. Not even the sternest revolutiouiet eau poaoibly Imo any fault to find with cafe tinter mop - arch w toe tyranny and deepootsm have never extended ltoyond the confines of hie turnery. Ite is doubtful, however, If al- though now reported oat of danger, he will ever be permitted to remain in hie kingdom until the date of hie ma jority, since an early overthrow of the monarchy and the eetebliehmnnb of a repub• lie in lieu thereof hate been regarded 0e inevitable for some time past, Senor Soganta, who has bold the Premiereitip winos the death of the late King, appear a to have reached the end of his politioel re• ooun000, and his recent resignation is likely to remain definite. Ho no longer commands a majority in the Cortes. Who Conservatives and the RedIcalo are, how- ever, lu tbe same predicament, and, under the otrcumatanoee, Q.acen Chriatfna will have muoh diftioulty in forming an tsdminia• tration. The illness of the little King has probably been bhe Bole reason why a pro. Denotement° on the path of the malcontent generale and allure has nob taken pica, Possibly sympathy may delay the anti• monarchical outbreak a little longer; bub the discontent among the army and in the civil service has reached such a point that a rising against the throne its aura bo bake place ab an early date, One will hardly be able to regard the revolution when ib does cores as a popular ono, for the people at large are thoroughly Indifferent to the various political parties, and will vote whichever way their priests may direct. Bat it will be a revolution brought about by the pommel ambition of the cfftoere of bho Grown, who, in ooncgaence of the crowded t Meted the services to whioh they belong, see no prospect of advancement or promo - 9 tion except by means of an overthrow of the existing regime. Little King Alfonso, it • might be remarked, began hie life and his t reign simultaneously, having been born a three years ago, several months after the • death of hie father, The circnmeboncea ot , hie birth, and the number XIII attached to , Ilia name have always canoed him to be re- g girded by the superstitious as destined to ill -luck, A Question for the Prophets. "hew York World :" Gen, Greely, who itae °barge of the weather bureau, accounts for the recent warm weather upon the theory that terrible storms ranging in the northern latitudes have drawn the warm cuneate all away from the south and eoubh•eaeb, The passage of the currents to the northward to supply the demand for caloric tae produced a sort of December summer in this section which has destroyed the business of our Inc. riere and damaged the pronpeote of all our merchants, who have not been able to dispose of their winter etocks, Ib has helped nobody In particular save the poor people, who have nob been forced to buy coal and clothing for an Inclement Beason. What we would like to have the gentleman in charge of the weather bureau explain be: What is likely to happen when these warm currents start bank to the part o1 the country they oamo from, after having shaken bands with the ioiclee in the Borean regions ? Will there bo a demand for uletera and overshoes along towerdo spring ? Lost Information Mrs. Qoickiyrich--"Oh, you ought to have heard Prof. Bookworm'e leoture on 'Extinct Birds,' last nfghb. What he mid about the dodo was simply wonderful,' Mrs. Parvenu—" Dear nee I How nnfor• Lunate to here missed it—eepeaially aa we are to have e dodo pentad at tad on our dining - room - p room thio week," One dtt' Mr. Livehigh—"I'll have to have some cosi or my folks will freeze. I can't pay oath, but I can give you good security,' Coal Dobler—"What 'orb t" "Chattel mortgage." "What on ?" "A—a yacht." Why need the wild sea waves lash the :hero There's no danger of the shore get ting 'Way, What is the Matter With Farmine 1 The Chicago "Tribune" of reoente date un- dertakes to show in a lengthy and labored editorial that the trouble with farming is chat farmers work too many home in tbe day, and home aro producing more food than the world can c0nenme. 1t euggeats a' a remedy that they reduce the hours of work to eight, and let part of the land lay idle. The article is both interesting and amusing, It is interesting because it shows that the groat dailies are dimly aoneoioue of the fact that the farmer has a weighty grievance, and that, eomethnig must be done sooner or later to relieve him ; ib is amusing because it shows how amazingly ignorant great writ• ere and newenapere can be on farm matters. The idea of running a farm 0n the 8 -hour plan is too absurd for carious argumenb. Tho idea of aepuring the uniformity of action among farmers neooseary to render a reatriotion of production effective ie, if possible, even more ridiculous and absurd. The better way would be to kelt off the agricultural editor's and abolish agricultural newapapero, end in• chide in the slaughter all progressive farm era. Tax improved stook out of existence, and go back to poor farmipg. Thie would promote ooarofty, bigb price's and prosperity a good deal mare effectively. All this talk about over production is pure rot. Tho wheat crop is but slightly ever the average of the last ten years, and not a whit over the average in proportion to population. Tho nota orop is only an average the country over, according to the name authority, the Department of Agra- culture. gro-culture, The ratio of cattle to population tae been, according bo the same authority, steadily decreasing far three gears, and this year moro rapidly than ever, as State reports show, and an next year's Govern• menti report will Meow more completely, When drove after drove of yearling and cwo year old (steers go into the stock yarda and slaughter houses at every considerable city, dose any one need to ba told that cattle aro decreasing? It is not over.production that fa the matter with the farmer, but the fact thee the farmer is about the only man that is ire competition. Nearly every thing else is In oombination. The railrosda have their association to keep up ,freight rates, the manufaoturere their truth and combinations to limit productions and keep up prices, the merchants have an under - (wending that retail prices must be kept up, and the smaller the Beteg the greater the teaeasiby for larger profite. Tho remedy line in enforced competition. It is largely a legislative remedy. Legis lation cannot enact high prices, but it can and will oruah out, when legislators have the feae of the granger before their eyes, every combination that prevents competi- tion. The matter with farming is largely this, that the humor tae not organized for hie own protection. He mast organize and look ab all questions from the standpoint of bhe farmer before he will obtain effective re lief The Angling Ananias. An angler eat by the winter fire While only his wife was nigh; And he said to himself, Did this cunning old elf, "I'll tell 'em a whopping big lie, A brilliant and intricate lie," He loaned his chin on kis ancient hand While gently he 'evoked hitt beard, !Chen ho altered hie pen, His Inkbottle, and then He alyly and knowingly leered A leer that was foxy sad weird. Ho gazed aloft at the coiling dark, And then he looked down at the floor, Aa he maid, "Of a bout After salmon and trout 1'11 give 'ow 0ome Angling lore, Some lovely and lying old lore." He wrote and he wrote, a solid hear, His wife all the while aiding by, Very certain, however, That her hubbso olever, Yr s Was working up 0ome navel lio— Some wild and extravagant lie. When sudden the old man rosier up stark With look(' that were wizen and cold, "What's the matter?" Dried she; 'The deuoe I" laid ire, "I'm certainly iamb growing old; Every lie 1 oan think of'a been told." The consistent minister will not preach steadily tot two hours upon the inigtilty of lying, and then blandly ask one of the lead, ing members cf the congregation how he Pea the eleraeona LA GRIPPE A CENTURY AGO The Same Epidemic Raged Then as Now. Tb is a fob of Demo interoot that the present epidemic of influerza in merely a oonteenlal oelobration, Just a hundred Team ago this continent had it severe atiketot of "ht grippe" very much as now. Dr, Benjamin Ruob, of Philadlephia, wee inapir• Led to write 15 particular a000ua4 of the epi• demio aa It oamo uuder his observation to that city in 1780. Ae hie works aro now antiquated and rarely disturbed in the duet of our libraries, eome of hie remarks may have the freshness of novelty. Dr. Rush says the weather was oold and without rain from the and of Auguste until Oatober, 1780, when many members of the First Congress, that had mot in New York, complained on errrivieg in Philadelphia of colde, which they attributed to traveling by night in public stages. Bub the malady spread Bo widely and rapidly that ib was soon recognized as the h tluerz s. The eymp• tome were hoarseness, tore throat, chills, fever, a renee of weariueto, headaches, uni• versa( one<z!ng, (often "not lees than fifty .imc0 in a day,") pains in the breast, aides and limbs, and a distressing cough. The fever seldom lasted more than three or four deem, but the sough and obher tronbleeomo eymtome sometimee persisted two or three weeks. The disease sff'eoted both sexes alike, but old people and children moat frequently escaped it, Of the five and thirty maniacs in Pennsylvania Hospital only throe felt sick. Parsons working in open air, as °oilers and longehorameu, had the malady muoh worn than the tradesmen who worked within doors. A oompanyy of aurveyoro in the eastern woods enff,red severely, Tho Indiana around Niagara were afleoted with peculiar foram and they ascribed their irri. taring cough to witchcraft. The epidemic was most fatal on the ser• shore of the United States. Thousands of people suffered in Poilsdelphia without being cotfined to their homers, and Dr. Rush relates that "a parpetuttl coughing wee heard In every Mimic of the city. Buying and Belling were rendered tedicuo by the eoughhtg of the farmer and bhe citizen who met in market pleoee. It even rendered ditties) service scarcely intelligible In the churches." With a few exceptions, the malady proved fatal only to old people and to prone weakened by pulmonary com- plaints, bub ib carried off several hard drinkers. Moat of the deaths resulted from pneumonia. Man did not have a monopoly of the it therm, for bonen, doge, and cats were observed to suffer from it also, and a lady was so disturbed by the coughing of her dog that aha gave thin ten drops of laudanum for several nights, whioh perfectly composed him. S'x woke the epidemic lasted, and from New Yetis and Philadelphia it spread in all directions and pervaded every State of the Union and Canada in the course of a few months. It made ite way from the United S'atee to the West Indies, and later to the Spanish settlements in South America. Tho el inter of 1789.90 resembled the present one in being unuenally mild, and cold weather did not dome until February and March. The month of April, 1790, seas variable and rainy, and the showers that foil on the night of the 17:h were long re• membered by the citizens of Philadelphia in connection with the time of Benjamin Franklin's death. In the last week of April the frit retza broke out again in Philadelphia, coming tom New England and ravaging the inter- mediate States on its way. Sneezing was less common than in the preceding Fall, k tt l • pain in the eyeballs seemed to bo a univer- sal eyntotom. The rpldemio declined in Jane, 1790, but °onval:moenoe from it was slow, and a general languor appeared to pervade the citizens for several weeka after it left the city." In the Winter of 1790 91 there waa a third epidemic of the kitten z., but this time it was fortunately nob 0o gen- eral. Dr. Rush remarks that "the itfluerza passes with the temose rapidity throngh' a eonrtry and affects the greatest number of people, in a given time, of any disease intim world." It certainly has not changed much for the better in the last 100 years, and it is to be hoEed thab our presenb epidemic will ;oho ;peedily come back for a accord and third 'emit as did that of 1789 90. Power of Prayer. There is a mightiness in prayer. George Muller prayed a company of small boys together, and then he prayed up an avybum in which they might be 'haltered. Ile turn- ed bio face toward Edinburgh and prayed, and there came a thousand pounds. He Wined hie faoo towards London and prayed, and there came a thousand pounds. He turned his faro toward Dublin and prayed, and there name a thousand pounds. The breath of Elij th's prayer blew all the Meade together, and 16 rained. Prayer, in Daniei'a time, walked the 0000 as a lime tamer. We have all yet to try the full power of prayer, The time wf,l come when bhe Ametican Church and the English Church, and all the °herohee will pray with their facet toward the west, and all the prairies and inland cibfes will surrender to God, and will pray with their fame toward the sea, and all the iefande and 'hips will become Ohrietlan. Parents who have wayward eons will got down on their knee' and eay, "Lord, send my boy home," and the boy in Canton shall get right up from the gaming table, and go down to the docks to find out which ship 'tarts first. for America or Britain, Not one of us knows yet fully haw to pray. AU we have done as yet has been pottering and guessing, and experimenting• A boy gate hold of kin father'' saw and hammer, and tries to make something ; but itis a poor affair that ho makes. The father comes and takes the same saw and hammer, and builds alehouse or the ship. In the childhood of our Cbtietian faith we make but poor work with these weapons of prayer • but when we Dome to the Mature of men in Christ, then, under these implemonto, the temple of (ltd will rise, and the world's redemption will bo launched. God Dares nob for the length of oar prayer°, or the number of our prayers, or the beauty of our prayers, or the place of our prayers ; i6 is the faith in them that tolls. Believing prayer some higher than the Lark ever sang ; 9100500 deeper than the diving bell ever Dank • darts quicker than lighbning ever flashed.—T. DeWitt Tale mage. • How to Have (food Eyebrows. If one would have good eyebrows, and they are a moat impottant feature, le ie best to brush them ovary day. Brush them up and down, eo 1110.8 bhey make a line in tho centre, Ibis dargarous to trim either the eyolasheo er eyebrows, To rub a little vaso• lino in the latter at night is a good thing, Bub Santa rah them the wrohg way, Tits king of Spain has got ever hit lllaaea, but his constitutional weakness is so graft that it be extremely unlikely that ho wilt live to grow up, THE LAST GE[ AT ORANGE. The dour et Death not Email Weems. John Francis Burne, M,D„ of the No Ytrk Charity Hospital eteff, tee boa null mg inveetigablane and cantparieoee aa to 11 time when death moue frequently occur He rove :— A very general minion is entertained 1 medias) practitioners ansa ethers an aged 1 daring for the Wok that the greatesinumb r of deaths 000urriug in individuals t fli'oto with disease taken place during the hour immediately nucocedieg midnight and pre coding the dawn. This opinion moat prob ably originates in part from Imperfeobobeer ration, and partly from a misapplication o the phytlologloal law gaveruing the ]owes period of vitality in the l.ealehy individual Tho rule is sold to be partioularly true i those suffering from chronic exhausting die easoo, and deductions have boon drawn fro those impressions whioh have nerved to reg Mate the adminiabration of stimulants i ouch oesee, it being said, " if six ounces o whiaky be needed in twenty -font home, fou should be administered from 2 to 6 A. M for then is vitality in the human being ab it loweob," and " more deaths occur the than at any other period," Suoh expressions may he found scattered through works on materia medics and theta. pentane and in many of the text books on the peaotfce of medicine, The idea finch expreaeion aleo In the lacturee of toacbere in our colleges, and usually loaves a well- grounded impression on the minds of the medical ;Andante, whioh is apt to remain a permanent one. I accepted this teaching at college because I had neither the means nor the time to verify or dieprove ib to my own alway satisfaction. Tet I s doubted the oor- reotne0s of the cencluslono drawn, and, to Battle the doubt in my mind, since entering on my duties at the hospital I have oolleoted some statistics, whioh I find do nob agree with tide generally aooepted idea. The statfatios are taken from the rewards of tho Cheri y Hospital on the ono hand, Make frem the tke of tbe New York /Steed of health on alto other, The former aro mainly of deaths occurring in those sfllicted with chronic) exhausting diaeasea ; the latter Sn00efe in. Work. Sir Andrew C'al k, ono of the moot einem. S fil and distinguished of Eogliolr phyaiciauo, hat; recently bad a pent aft of himself preemiew ed•by the etaffof the London Hospital. In r• hie opoech replying to the prenentabioo to addroae Sir Andrew gave acme mount of a. bit life anti of the armee of hie profcesltno, 'motets. Hie story deserves perusal, Sir y Andrew was born in Scotland, and went to n London thirty six yea's ago, a young man In e delicate health, and without a single friend d or influential omit onion. He had, however, o a small patrimony,aud was enabled to pursue • the study of pathology, and to keep himself quite free from trey intrigues or qunrrola. • Ha devoted himself to work, and before f many years, dopt to ill health and oppaaition, t ho waa maclo physician to London Hospital. His snbocquent manse was slow but ooatine• n one, and was achieved without nuy doliniee • expectation ah that that ib would eventually m bo to brilliant, Slr Audrow gavo the follow- - ing as eome of the oondibioua necooeary for n success inmediolne: f " Firstly," bo said, " I believe that every t• man's noon is within himealf, and muse n IN THOSE DYINO from the acute exanthemata. The former represents all the deaths at the hospital for a period of nearly ten years, irrespective of sex, age, dieeaee, or coudition ; ,the latter, all the deaths occurring in tial city and eonn'y of New York from bite acute con• legions clieoaso. At the hospital the reoorde of death are kept with great care, and I am sure can be token as a fair teen. I have no doubb that the health authorities' records are also accurate, but they aro the result of Individual reporters, so that they are nob so reliable se those of tbe hospitals, There are many oiroumatancoe that should greatly tend to increase eke death rate at nfghb in a large public hospital, principal among which is the great vitiation of the atmos• phare daring thin period. During -the night ell the patients are confined bo the wart', and ventilation is apt to be neglected. This must certainly have a very depreaeing effect on those suffering with pulmonary aftectioue, and on those in whom disease has effected extensive alterations in bhe physical and chemical characters of the blood. This alone nhould greatly tend to increase the number of ambles at night, and, if there was any truth In the accepted notion, the records should show quite a preponderance of deaths happening at night. The contrary is, how- ever, the rale. the figuree showing 27 oases fewer from 6 P. M. to 6. A, M. than for the oorreeponding twelve hours of the day. Again, from 2 to 6 Feel. there were 66 marc deaths than from 2 to 6 A. M. The total nnmber of deaths in the list of sante diaeasea for the htvolve hours from 6 P. M. M 6 A. M. is 169 lees than for the oorreeponding period during the day. Tae hours from 2 to 6 A, M. in this lieb show 53 ut.ea more than for the oorretponding period IN THE AFTERNOON ; this in nearly 4,000 casae is very alight, In the ehrcnic eases tbe greatest number of deaths at any one hour was at 4 P. M., with 2 and 5 P. M. and 6 A, M, oloao following ; the gt eatoot in the acute list at 3 A. M., with 11 A. M. and P. M. o'oee follwing. Them lowest number in the acute list is at 12 M,' (midnight), that hour eodreaded in the sick' room by attendants, and to which a good deal of superstition attaches. Ib is noticeable that the number for this hour fo Exceedingly low—about half of the average number, In tee chronic dieeatee the lowest' number appears et 9 A. M. In the chronic oases the number dying from 9A.M.to 12M (noon) seems relatively low compared with the same period in the acute lfet, I have used all the figures available at tbe hospital, and 1 on'y stopped when the death books available were exhausted. I only sought the Health Board's etabiatioa for the purpose of comparison,and, tie the figures run up quickly, I thoughb two records would serve se well ae a longer period In making the collections I -noticed that the fignree did not vary essentially throughout, There was always a preponderance of deaths in favor of the home of the day, while the individual home would vary by comparison at different periods. From 15,000 oases, extending over a per lod of twelve years, it would appear that death mama seemingly wibhoub any partiou• lar predilection for any certain hoot, and beat the number of deaths for each hour is very evetly proportioned, considering rho large number of mesa token and the time covered. The only very positive ooncluefone 1 have formed from the figures are : 1, nab the idea that more deaths take place in the early morning hours io au erroneous ono. 2 If etimu] tate are to be pushed in diaearo during these hours, the practice mueb be justified upon some other around than to avert the possibility of danger supposed to be very,prob,ble at this period. 3 That vibality of an individual in disease ie not regulated by the same influences or subject to the same laws that govern the vitality of a healthy human being, the normal equil - brium maintained in health between bhe mental and physical states being altered. Another Riel On a regioter in one of the hotolo Satur- day, gays the Minneapolis "Tribune," was written the following name in a bold, free handl—"M. Rio), Montreal. " There is nothing to exalts ourioeity about him pampa - al appearance. He is a fiee.loolting man, 0 arks s 30 Dara of a and dark coin. ore• Y. r 1? ]?g lexioned. Ho is a relative of the famous P a qs Louie Mel, who instituted the fate Can- adian war known OS the Biel rebellion. VI, Riel is now on hie way to the scene of the aprieingg, where lie hope, to were facte for a Wilton, of the rebellion and a work on the life of Louie Biel, BAKED nen —:Miro a sauce of a bunch of pereloy, one and a half pinta of milk, a lump of butter the size of an egg, the yolk of two ogge, little nutmeg, salt and pepper; boil till thick, and then pub With ib earns cold boiled fieh ; put in a greased baking dish, sprinklewith crumbs and bake, name out of himeolf. No true, abiding, and jest 0800000 on come to any man in any other way. Secondly, a man meet be seri. only in oarnea6. Flo tnuet not with eingle. nose of heart and purpose ; he must do with all hie might and with all ills oonoentratioa of thought the one thing at the one time whioh he is called upon to do. And if some of my young friends should Bay here, 'I can not do that—I can not love work,' then I answer that there is a oerbain remedy, and it is work. Work in spite of yourself, and make the habit of work, and when the habit of work is formed it will be transfigured into the love of work; and at last you wilt not only abhor idleness, but yon will have no happiness out of work which teen you are constrained from love to do. The man must be charitable, not oeneorlus—eelf- effacing, nob oelf-0oeking ; and he meat try at once to think ane to do the beat for hie rivals and antagoniats that oan be done. Tia man meet believe that labor is life, that eacoesetul later is life and gladneea, and that tueoesafal labor, with h-gh aims and jot objects, will bring to him the fullest, trueeb, and hapeiseb life that oan be lived upon the earth." The Beautiful Snow. Oh 1 the snow, the beautiful snow 1 We never knew that we loved you eo, Till wo were ignored by Frost d Co. Winter without you is soft and slow ; R tads all deep in mnd•like dough, That sticks to your clothes wherever gouge ; And the warm wet winds wrapb all below In a eaeezing ehif6—all noses blow, And the maid with a cold in her head sage " Doe," When she moans to utter a poaitivo " No I" Bet bow Is a fellow all this to know? He kisses the maid, she torearns, and to 1 He makes the acgaainbanoe of papa's toe, Oh 1 the tide of misery's sure to flow, And the row of a man to be hard to hoe, TIIl white wings sprout on the woa6hor'a Crow, Till cold win^'e come, and high and low, Blow the snow—bhe beautiful snow. Don't Rub the Eye. When you get a winder or opeok of dust or other offensive particle in your eye, don's rub it, Don'o touch is Don't pull down ibe lid. Don't put your hand near it. Let ib alone. This is very bald advice to follow, and in nine eases oub of tan you will find yourself rubbing your eye before you know it. Bat if you can refnaln from touching your eye at all the action of that organ will itaoif oaob oil the offending mote in much quicker time, and with far leas irritation, while your c fforts would only hinder it and perhapa fasten the intruder so that ib will stay a long time. Of course if it is a par- ticle of metal you will console a surgeon or mullet at once ; but ordinary subs -ammo are beet treated aa above indioated. Soma people say, " rub the other eye, ' but bleb is of no nee, Shocking Guillotine Story. A painful story is reported from Periguaux. A youth of twenty, under sentence of death for the murder of an old oouple under dream. stances of great atrocity,waa anon; e 1 yeeber- day morning. Owing to kis youth he expect- ed that his 000t0000 would be commuted, and when the exeaabioner and attendant officials appeared in hie ooll,ronsed him from his Bleep, and told him he moat die, he restated to the uttermost, uttering piercing screams. whioh could be beard outside the j ail, He had to be held down to have the fatal toilet perform- ed ; he fought, with the executioner and the gendarmes, and had to be carried to the guillotine screaming all the time at the top of hie voice. The executioner had to pall the youngmen'e head through the lunette by main toroe, keeping hold of hie oars with either hand, until the knife fell and ended this ghastly scene. A Very Qood Beaton. Banklurk—" I wonder why that member gob out of hie scab eo suddenly ?" Repawber—" He probably sat down on a polub of order." Their Style. "i)anghter, I do wish you would learn to talk without using so many oxolamatorito. Everything you speak of is aeoompenied with' Oh I" " The,idea?" "Great goodneeal" or something of that kind," a I How owe I help It 7 Che idoe 1 oodneas gracious, girls all talk that way." All Business Alike. First Beggar—" 1 tell yer, B111, ft's awful hard times thin Winter." Second Beggar—" Seetns kinder 'Arrogate ohonld be hard times with muoh warm weather.' First Boggar—" Any fuller oan see that you're an amechoor. It's always so in an open Winter. It's so blame warm, folks ain't gains sympathy for a feller." The United States to second to no nation upon the globe in her productions, Bub she has never dirooted her energies toward planing her preclude in foreign markets. Sar foreign commerce is almost wholly at the mercy of foreign oat rio e Other no. tions give fiberell q to build ocean lino,, wil'l° the United States ohms so little ae to bo praotioolly oub of the field of competition' Franco gives annually to ]ser ocean linos $6 792,000. England tomos next with 54,• 269,874, Italy with 53,503,036, Gormeny with $3,131610, tine Argoetino RopabHo with $3,000,000, Brazil with 51,700,000, Spain with $1,571,000, the Netherlands with $7715,070 000, Mexico with 5738,000, Canada with $700,000, Japan with $500,000 Russia with over $454,000, while the United States le twenty third on the het, falling below even btnbhrate powers, with the magnificent ohm of $45,966 to domestic vebaels, and $415,964 to forego mask Y 0 do at ire lar nx' em hal wh ora Ba. ore it l • int thi, ere of tote the pep and togi and tare D wll Don war bn rlaii ligh mer( Bah but. nth, that gsrn and. anuli belle and, of ci y aro t Ifto e thud small pl011e anti( often della it' pe joya. ropat ran at hey d that of ca n eo h. unfutoset eome heart, Lau ehoosr almoal banes womai In 1 • ';phildri Yram a a!)5' ma ieitting lug bo. ff,,�� Ayt ,dimitel xoept rennin , Shelve novere . lisp at I oitee 1