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CONQUEST AT PONNtOSA. and sugar in it. 'Re tea espcsially
The Chinese As Last subtle). The swinges 1 nourishing fo, oivw,e0 eafettlihntimit to tht‘
win% tame, mg:aided by substantial and
and deetipy The country. eereles, spinal system, she, the poor
The Chinese troops in Fermosa lave at lest Who is n vet:firmed cleinkee, beeenwa
eempletely defeat the ages who hay, Mel rein:this: a nerveless wreek."
so 1011.; them. A ravage people has s 1:1:1.0,0T1.1 err Ell
never waged a mere stubliore t 1,:tli for fruit, fish or meat frit tors: Stir lightly
these tribes t:f rionitienstern Fenno -qt. ....time one-quarter pound of flour into a gill :if
the Chinese :::•01:ph.:1 the ident in 1 they warm I: :der. wit 11 a tablesisselful oil, a
1""`" ,'"ltoOlr(1 111011 in,11 the pinch of LLua 0,11.whisl,..1 while
of their inegnitivent Mummies,. a meng lie an eg,
loftiest iti the Nror1.1, hore they de:dare:1
they wntild maim:tin their iieltmendence er
perish. The Origin of Death,
IIero itn ish,11,1 lying direetlyin the high- From the dawn of life 1111. ntilictuvev 1.1011
way (of cleesti ravel, and whs.,. northern adapted te surroutuling condition hat e been
part has large eel., i ions with the eentmercial vielors whatever features have proviel use.
world ; and yet , owing 11i the feeceity ef the ful have been seizeil upon by natural. selee•
natives of .11:11,t ileseen who dwell in its tea and 00eured denim:100e. The euei mens
sotitheastern rset ins. fully a quartet. of the moss of the lower forms nave persisted to
country has 110 er I wen ex pl,e•ed, and we do this day, levanee the balanee established
not know toelay whether seeli a thing as a between them and their stair:inn:lines has
good larbor existe shag t e, ;a st. The Amith- remained unaltered. lief Wife:Teel. he
east shores of Forme. have been the terror balanee bet wee)) living things and their
of sailoes, for to 1, shipwreeked en this in- surroundings has been disturbed, new
hospitable coo,: moult speedy 1101111 !it. the demands have been made upon them. to
hands of the nati0 es. Aineng the latest which they responded, or, failing that
oesturrenees (d this sort was the massaere response. perished. fleece it is in the first
of the erew 1 lip British ship ;Bever, eomplexity of strueture, the first departure
includiug Mrs. I bun, the Captain s wife. from simplicity, that the seeds of death
The natives said later that they would
not have killed her, hut dal did not know
that elm was a wsinuta.
A few rear, ;tie) a party from a British
war ship fended among the ravages in force
too strong to be in clanger of molestation.
A shooting inateli at a distance of Omni: 100
yards was iteranged with the natives, Who
were armed with nettehlocks. A target was
milled to a teee, and the English first dis-
played their marksmenship with very satis-
factory results 'The natives did. not seem
at all suiprised, lout suddenly disappeared
iu the underbrush, and presently were seen
crawling on their stomachs toward the tar.
get. When they were within about six feet
of it they blazed away, and of course hit the
target in the centre. 'Ile English protested
that this was not exaetly fair contest.
"Well," replied the nativee, " we don't;
know whether it's fair or nor, lett it's the
way we kill Chinese, and it's good enough
for us."
Along the western side of the narrow
island Chinese settlements have arisen,
while just before them the great mountain
range, whose summits they Neve seen every
morning,. illuminated. by the rising sue, has
been as inaccessible as though an impassable
gulf stretched between. Only in martial
array have the Chinese derail to invade
thesej uplands, and even then their progress
has been slow and uncertain, aml they lave
had many a rough experience. Once a
party of 250 Chinese soldiers who formal an
advance post were killed to it In the
campaign of I 175 the ChMese lost about
1,000 men by sickness, and for some years
all attempts to hold ground th.t had bcen
won were itlandoned during the raiuy
season, on account of the deeituatien of the
army by disease.
Thus the war has been waging for years
in a desultory ways It is a curious fact that
China has regarded Formesa as experimental
ground, where M'estern innovations might
be safely tried and proven before they were
permitted to vain et foothold on the Chinese
mainland. The result is that northern
Formosa lute been more open to Western
influences ant has recently been melting
greater progress than any other part Of the
Chinese dominiens ; and while that part Of
the islasul has been advancing loy really sus -
/nests. strides under the impetus of IVestern
capital', the little region in the southeast has
been closed against all the world. It is
gratifying news that the barriers have at
last been broken clown. Even tile spread
of Chinese civilization there will be a great
blessing in eomparison with the state of
things Oita has made this corner of the
beautiful island a menace to till who
proached it.
THE BRUSSELS POST.
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BRUIN UNDER A EAYSTAWS.
A BIG PA,NTHER, HUNT.
A ulg men:rise for raru:rr 111orker. ma +be Partners Tallied 01.1 (0 V1131
Faraler Leal :of N. ileacher, of the north- finish the eseneinee He emy.
ern part of Coellia ugh Township, heal such
An exciting panther hunt took plaee In
a Iiig erop ,if li;(y 11)4 sitititnel` that his brume
Adams eeonty, Ill.,. recently which result
weeldn't hold it all. lit a, nwa,low nearly
ad in killing it ferocums beast that 1 err:nixed
three :marl:11, of a Mlle front tho far111 bilibl-
the peeple a that omen y all winter. The
ings Mr. !Seeker etaeked several tons of hey,
initial wits heerd from first in the eastern
anti hod Molt:lay Morning lie and his son
portion of Adams mind i'),, Whyte it Was
Halsey, a strapping fellow c:f '22, hit 4001 IT
10 ,,,,„w ,,,,,, „4„,. ,„ killing live stock, An ,dal nein pained Hill
the team laid get ready says he met it in 11. lonely 1'0011 one night,
over to the harn. Bark of the nieado
but tlut beast only gave a scream and dis.
there is 0 loog laurel swamp that ha
not heen frump, over this whiter. and th, illilisai,a91'
A snort, time later Daniel Voorhees, it
sleek stood within it few rods of the sWainp.
1 • farmer liviny near Quincy, vamp to that
rhey drove the wagon up to the front side
11,1, ,,,,,,,l, , ,,,,,.! whik, Farnio, th.,,,k,„..,,,,,Hg,,,, city and mai, that early 0110 in:truing Ito
Gag the rigging in shape Halsey mild tehed was "l laid" in his bar" bY a hug(' wild
mime', but after a short straggle the beast
the lierses itud led them behind i he stark ent into a neighboring strip of timber.
of the 0 111:1. Instead of leaving the horse t\l'11111,011008 received several ugly watches,
there I 1 alsey led them right bark to the feted
The neighborly/oil beettnie al:wine:1, and
end 011110 witigon, and tied then, and his 10111. may people refused to leave their homes
or wanted to knew what ho dill that kw. aft.t. night fearing 11.11 attark.
The fact a the matter Wits that Ralsey
. eporte then came from other farmers
hail made a discoVery that startled him a
that ewe calves and even horses wore
little. The mils had been pulled away fret
being killed and Untie luslies mangled by
the back side of the Meek, there WAS a bi
1ne unknown animal, and tt band of
hole in the base of the mound of hay, 1 armed men hunted for twu dive recently
around the ent ranee to the hole there wet 11 hopes of killing the animal, but not
several clots of blood and, tufts of wool. untill yesterday Was tIliS accomplished.
Halsey told his father what he hail Seen
Were tenni. The big panther, for such it proved to be,
s„ ! and he also snaal he belieyed that It bear bad
For that death becomes a necessity. vas eluoted by dogs into a dense thicket in
far as its oceurrenve by „anima „m„,„, is! dug the hole and. Wall there concealed in th the 13ear Creek county, and it fought with
get center of the big heap of hay, Farmer Becker,
emus -rued, we knew that as organisms desperation when elosely pressed, and one
examined the epot at; once, and made up his
. date, (although this applies More to animals
mind that a bear had Mugged a or two of the :logs were killed. A. volley
than to plants, in which the cells, its they from the Hiles soon laid. the big eat dead.
1:11.01) S11 SEP INTO Snig 1101,01.
become liquefied or converted into worst, are
and gorged itself on the earoass, and that it
overlaid with new ve1101 their power of work
and of renewal is lessened. 1110 cells which was probably lying in there asleep at the
form the vital fabric ef tissues are tvorn by lime.
Halsey then got the binding -pole from the
continual use ; the waste exceeds the repair,
wagon and pushed the sharp end of it into
and death ultimately ensues, " because a
roo,,,, itself the hole half a dozen times. Presently they
worn out tissue cannot forever
heard something growl and snarl, and they
mid because a capacity for increase by means
concluded to plug up the hole with fence
of cell division is not everlasting, but finite."
rails and keep the boast confined until
Why there should be this Ihnit to cell little -
Halsey had time to go to the farm -house
ion we cannet say, but it is clear that with
the and get the rifle Before they luta poked
the modifications of organs according to
osolts a the end of the fourth rail into Mc hole a
work which they discharge there r
good-sized bear came tearins! out. Halsey's
subtler structure which is less easy to repair
thrusts with the pointed pole had evidently
end is shorter of duratioo. The one -celled
roused 111111 out of a sound sleep and made
organisms have found salvation in simplicity,
him very mad, for ho struck at farmer Becker
We are, therefore, driven to the conclit-
as he sprang from underneath the hay, and
sion that since there is, prhna facie, no rea-
son why growth should. be limited or wi?„ then made for the swamp.
function should come to run end, deist 1 Farmer Booker said lie got med, too,
when he found that. the bear lied come
must have been brought about by natural
ox. within two inches of breaking his 011n, and
selection, which determines survival or
he meized the tough bindingpole, headed the
tinction from the standpoint of utility idone.
bear off, and punched him until lie was glad
There needs no showing that it is to the
to tuien back, He and Halsey melded the
advantage of the species that individuels
bear over the head with rails, and tried to
should die. Their immortality would be
drive Min bitek in the hole, but that didn't
harmful all round ; nay, impossible, unless
vicork, for he had his mind set on finding
vigor remain unimpaired, and the multipli-
shelter in the swamp, 011:1 he knocked. them
cation of offspring does not overtake the
e right and left, and got away again. He had
means of subsietenee. "For it is evident,
stufTedhimself with mutton so that hecouldn't
as Mr. Russel Wallace remarks in a note
waddle fast, end this time Halsey heeded.
which he has contributed to Dr. Weismanu's
and prodded him with the pole
essay, "that when one or mere individuals him MI;
of ono. until he belloWed.
have prcWitled a sufficient number
J ust then Almon Richards, of Tobyhasum
eessors, they themselves, as consumers of
who had started out on a bear
nourishment in a cionstantly-increasing du- TmeashiPi
Na. hunt, climbed the fence on a short cut 1101'090
gree. are an injury to those successors,
the meadow. He saW the bear, and he ran
ural selection, therefore, weeds them out,
(Mem and fired two bullets into 111111 when he
and in many eases favors such races as die
was within three or four rods of the swamp.
almost immediately after they have left see -
weighed 31 1 pounds. The next
cessors," as, 0, 9,, among the male bees, the Th° hear
it Wei 1011101 that the sheep he had
drone perishing while pairing, death being 'MY
stolen belonged to Owen Webster, whose
clue to stuldeu neveus shock. —[Lonsonan's
Magazine. place is a mile and a half from where the
haystack stood.
Bacon as a Fuel Food.
This Englishman's praise of baeon fat—as
the most digeetilde form rd. fst next to coil
liver oil—should find. 00011 nan.e acceptance
in this elinutte, and he ;Mos net hesitate to
say that coil liver oil is an inferior form of
fat, 0.1111 11101 1/00011 fat, not fried too 11111011,
is the most easily assimilable foien of fat.
at will be remembered that the objectien-
able trichins is never errand in the fat ef
bacon or hant.) "It has been found that
send:Melt made ef belled baeon is often very
aceeptable to a dainty child of feeble dijis-
thin." Cream. "a natural emulsion," es-
pecially when eninpomeled with malt ex-
trect, mest palatMile, fur "it must be re-
meinbered that fat in the forni of emuleion
111 111000 easily ill:;estible limn fat in bulk."
Without fat healthy tissues cromot be built
tip, and a loathing of fot is the euelmon pre•
.cursor of pulmonary plithisis. Canailien
children who have neciuseins ehould lie fed
freely en laeon fat.
TETE MALTF.1) PlIEP.MATIoNs
0 of whieh Mellins was the pioneer,"
forill Tart 4,1 vastly digeeted food. A pint wash rt, crack its joints und rtil) its head
of milk and a tablespoonful of Mellins or with oil to snider the cranium bonee. It is
other melted foml, boiled together, accord- then wrapped in a tight bundle, and its lids
ing direetions, can caslly emee into the
are anointed with brandy to make it a full
uurse's bill of Mee, at supper time, with Breton.
toast, which fulfils the direetion for twice
Among Vesges peasants ehildren, born at
'baking the stareli in bread,
a new mien eve supposed to have their
„kNoTil En ram, or PA us. tongues better Ming than others, while thoee
Take a pint of milk, with two tablespeons. born at the last quarter are simposed to have
fill of molasses, Mai wen esr 1 5 minutes, less tengue, but better reasoning powers.
then add a quarter pound of ;my biscuit A (laughter born clusing the waxing moon
(crackers) finely broken, and put in the oven is shs,sys preessious, •
for another quarter of an hour. d'his, Dr.
Fothergill says, is enough for the dessert of
three people who have dined upon the fol-
lowing inexpensive dishes; l'our pounds
of cracked bones put into the saucepan with
seasoning, herbs or other, mid 8, quarter
1)01111(1 of riee with a quart of water, 10 be
stewed for three hours, adding more water
t10 required to keep it a thick soup. l'his,
with a baked potato, and the pudding above
. described, lie eays, is a set -1100M meal oven
in cold weather, as it contains both tissue
food and fuel food." When the meane will •
allow he recommended a little fish as it
eouree, 11011 baked in the oven, herring
or haddock, or even to boil 0 red herring, '
reineve the skin and bones, breaking up the
the flesh into smell part ides and mixing it
with the baked potato, All of these sug•
gestione are ina(Te for the advantage, we are
reminded, not only of ehildren, bet of town
•dwellers and tom) workere, who have dB-
- fieult appetitee. 'nese crave meat because
it "sits easiest" en the stomach end givee 1
the twist d iscomfort there hit tli ci meat
whieb ie aeceptable in easing the labors of
the stomach overburdens the liver, hence
poor man's gout" and kidney
troubles. food wilieb. tile hearty
farmer can digest le beyeml the power
• Of the 101011 Work(u., Qllite ofreshing it IS to
find enother Englishman besides Dr.
,Itiebarleon. teliing the field againot the
abuse of tea. The modern fashion of taking
.1. 0111) Of tea, before rising, dispels languor
and enables tke drinker to rise and dress,
So would a brandy and (soda, yet the tett
;thinker sees no disgrace in the morning
stimulant, When taken in excess; by under-
fed persons tea 101.101, exhaust the nervous
r stimulus, The comfort hi tea eoliths from
J..ts svaerntlis•the.nottriehment from The milk
Uniform of British Soldiers,
Viscount Wolseley writes : The practice
of clothing soldiers, by. regiments, in one
uniform dreSS wee not introduced by Louis
XIV. till 1(3(35 and (lid not become general
in our army for many years afterward. It is,
however, eurious to -note that for the hard
marehing and many bodily exercises which
fall to the soldier's lot on active service oar
army WaS more suitably dressed in the
reigns of William III. and ef Queen Anne
than it has been. generally this century.
We have lately done soinething to illiproV0
0110 style of soldier's dress, lmt no Mall tied
llp aS oUrS are in tightly -fitting tunies enti
do a. satisfactory day's work during war.
We dress our sailore for the work they
have to do, but we still cling to a theatrical
style of garments for the soldier.
There are, however, some difficulties at-
tached 10 this question of dress in an army
raised as OUTS is, 011 0, system of voluntary
enlistment. We roust make the (soldier's
clothing aceeptable to the nien who have to
wear it, and, etrange to say, they like very
tightly•fi Ming coats and tronsers, to swagger
about in with their sweethearts. They like
those ridiculous forage caps stuck on the side
of their heads, and which are no protection
from either sun orrttill. I suppose the house-
maid " jill" prefers her soldier " jack" iu
this outlandish costume, for 111 no other way
can I understand why the wearers should
like such tawdry and uncomfortable finery.
The change hoped for generally is that we
should have two costumes—ono for active
semice and field manoeuvres, of the color we
use in India—it is a lightltawney, resembling
that of the hare—and fitting very easily
everywhere, especially about the throat ; the
other, scarlet, and very smart, and erne-
mented with braids and buttons as at present,
to satisfy the young soldier end his " Mary
Anne."
In all our recent little wars we have used
is special dress made for the occasion, and
whet we now want is to make that special
dress the undress unifonn of the twiny. Is
there ;my one outSide a 1111101M asylum. who
would go on a walking tour or shoot in the
backwoods or the prairies trussed and dress-
ed as the 13ritish soldier is This applies to
all ranks, for I confess to a feeling that the
dressedmp monkey on a barrel organ bears
a strong reeemblance to the British General
in his meaningless cooked hat and feathers
of the last century, and in his very expensive
coat, besmeared hoth before and behind with
gold lace.
SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT BABIES.
Irish Times z In Ireland a. belt made with
a woman's hair is placed about 8. child to
keep harm away.
In Spain the infant's face is swept with a
pine tree bough to bring good lack.
ImAmeriea the child. is handed over to a
nurse with instructions 10 " 00.180 11 on the
bot tle.
In Scotland it is said that to rock the
empty cradle will insure the coming of other
eceupante for it.
The Grecian mother before putting the
ehild in the cradle turns three times round
before the fire while singing her favorite
song, tu ward ofT evil spirits.
The Turkish mother loads her child with
amulets as soon as it is born. A small bit of
mud well steeped hot water prepared. by
precious elnuene is stuck on its foreheatt
Welsh anthem put a lair of toags or a
knife in the cradle to insure the safety of
their ehildren ; the knife is also used for the
same purpose in wine parts of England.
The Lenclou mother places a book under
the liecul cif the new-born infant that it may
be quiek at reading, end puts money into the
first ath to guar:nave wealth in the halve.
Roumanian mothers tie red ribbons around
the ankles of their chililren to preserve them
from harm, while Ethiopian mothers attach
bits of aseaketida to the neck of their eff-
spring.
At the birth of a child in LOwor Brittany
the neighbouring women teke it in charge,
Sport in Egypt.
The "sport" at Buenos Ayres seems more
on a par with that described as having oc-
curred in Egypt before the Prince of 11 ales,
"The Nears Ark Stakes," to wit, "for itni-
mals and birds of sorts." The starters were
Au ostrich, driven by Major-Ceneral Hon.
J. C. Dormer ; a turkey, driven by Col- Band -
with ; pelican, by the Earl of Dunmore ; a
sucking -pig, by Capt. Maxwell ; a monkey,
by Capt. S1 eKenwich ,• a eat, by Major Camp-
bell ; a Cairo dog, by Capt. Lewis. This race
is thus described ;
"The Earl of Dunmore took the lead at
starting with his pelican, but the wily bird
snitibil the water behind. the race course and
made for it, distinctly crossing the monkey,
the ostrich and sueking-pig. (4 enema Donner
now took up the running with his ostrich,
closely followed by Major 'Maxwell with his
sueking-pig. Colonel Eandwith being in
close attendance with his turkey. The os-
trich then took a strong lead. followed by the
dog, whose thence was somewhat upset by
his seizing the pig's car as the latter drew up
alongside. Piggy, however, shook him off,
folloWing close on the ostrich, the dog *tick-
ing to the grunter's tail, and so they tinieli-
ed, the oetrich winning easily, the pig being
second, and the dog third. The monkey led
first of all, liut tlie cat challenging hint he
jun:peel (01 her back, which (mused her
breaking away from hie driver, and the two
made straight away for Cairo."
The description of the "native jockey" of
Buenos Ayres and his "get up,' together
vi•ith his hostile style of riding, without
"hands," with head reversed, insane flourish
of whip, eta, is fully as absurd, without
'being half as 811111Sing, as the Egyptian Con-
test here described, and certainly there
would. be far less danger of being killed or
maimed for life.
A New Industry For Australia,
The New Beath 1Vales Government, are
understood to he desirous of promoting the
establishment of a locomotive manufactory
in the colony, to be propoidy equipped witl
all the modern improvements, usel etqable
a turning out first-class work. It is etated
that advertisements meta be issued, both
in the colonies and in Great, Britain, inviting
proposals in connect iim with the matter.
'Cliere is a large demand in New tiouth
IN'altie for locomotives on the Government
railways for renewals and ablitione to
stock, and it is currently reperted that the
therities are prepared to give an order
Mr 101) locennotivee, bo delivered in three
years, the first ;me not later than July 1801,
011 the ltiolorstatilling that the (Jost of get -
ling them made in the colony iS not greater
than the swim) of securing them elsewhere,
Expansion and Contraction,
Pillsbury called mic morning at the house
where the freaks boarded. lie rang the
• bell and the giant come to the door.
"I want to Neu the dwarf," Pillsbury
said.
1 "I'm the dwarf," replied the giant.
! " Your," cried Pillsbury, in amazement,
" Yes," replied the giant, 11 They lot nut
nut in the forenoon,"
At The Olub.
FEB, 28,1890
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QUITE 4 STUMP. FOBEIGN NEWS,
Porgy Men Can 1111T-111 <in 11 And MO Trta
'Wale 111 Earn Ish it fience a Eftrpu,
rudouldeilly the lorgent st111111) 111 1 he State
of Washinglim is the one hsetted just below
1.811011,110141 t'ity, en the farm of W. H. Clay,
t is a huge :Oar, and 118 diallieter lo twenty
fret. -11 surfaer, sualvient for Pwly own to
stand upon. The tree was burned down
some sixteen veers ago, and it Wood 1000 11:101
for follee rails, shingles, die, There was
enough material in the live to tinwhoi rails
roe the Anteing of a largo 're)(11:1 fat tn.
The wood is ved eviler end is 0101110e to the
Umber filen which lead penells are made,
and would also be cherished by any 'milder
for the special woud finish and cheer:IA.1ml of
a home, The farm, upen which the stump
is, was taken up as a homestend by Royal
Haskell in the year 1873, Mr, Haskell con-
tinued to Improve the nem for ti period of
ten years. It was by his hands anti 1110 Sone'
that the giant tree Was prostrattal hy the
agency of tho flames; and its bulk— to other
trees as the elephant to the horse—formed au
article of pleutif el distribution and utility,
A log ten foot in diameter is the largest
that eau be sawed by any mill nOW on Puget
Sound, and even then the o hae to be two
saws, one above the other, each with an int -
11101150 sweep. Allowing two feet in every
twenty for tho tapering of the tree, there
would need to be five twenty -root logs cut off
slava the diameter of which is twenty feet
at the bottom, before it could bo sawed by
any of our mills. The tvd woods of Calor-
nia have to be quartered by blasting before
they can enter the mills, The same plan has
to be followed in lVashington, where the tree
is of exceptional size.
Two years ago the stump was photograph-.
ed, when live horses, standing abreast, three
feet apart, and thirty men were upon it.
Such a photo is now in possession ot the
writer and others in Snohomish. A circle,
whose diameter is 20 foot, must be (19 feet iu
segituure ffeezeietnce, and contains tin area of 314
The five belonging to the big
stump was90 feet in height, and its volume
was, therefore, 8.374 cubic feet. This was a
giant! Poetry has lauded the znajestic oak,
bnt its size is ofen eclipsed by Washington's
cedars.
The people of this State are aware of the
high estimation of our shingles in eastern
markets. They are manufactured entirely
from the Cedar treo, which Is usually larger
than tho ordinary fir. It is no exaggeration
to say that a tree like the giant above men-
tioned would last a shingle mill of consider-
able capacity through three months' sawing.
No crosscut saw yet nutnufactured is large
enough to make a cut through sueb a, tree at
the butt; and if there were, it would take two
man two days to saw a tree of that size down.
—Seattle Press.
Weightier Than Alt
While the minister of Anehterarder was
sitting at breakfast one morning he wee in-
terrupted by the entrance of one of his par-
ishioners, who requested. the loan of his mare,
as his awn was ill, " You shell have her " said
theminister ; "but be careful of the 'beast,
and don't load her too heavily." While the
minister W118 taking a walk the same day
along a eountry road he met John and the
entre, the latter drawing a very heavy load
of sand, This WW1 to Mitch for the worthy
man, who heaped on John's head many a
hearty rebuke. John heard him till lie had
finished, and then said, quietly, "Stumm are
heav,y, and sand heavier, but the rage of the
fool is weightier that all," Bxit nduister,
A Lady on Temperance,
First Reveller --It's tweivoe'eleek, Ain't
you going home?
&mond Reveller —NM yet- 'You mee, the
old lady don't sleep real sound before two,
Civilities Endeavor.
11,007 John H. 13arrows, D. D., of Chicago,
Ross J. Nicholls of Sli, Louis, Bev. T. S.
Hamlin, D. D., of Washington, and Rev.
George B. Wells of Montreal, four of the
leading Presbyterian ministers of the eon.
tinent, have united in addressing a circular
letter to the pastors of Presbyteries) churchee
commending this society. In this letter they
sey "the uniferm 8000058 of the new organ-
izations, Which are Made vertebral end vig-
orous by the pledge, have eonvineed. us that
the Christian Endetwor Mee. is peculiarly
adapted to meet a universal went, and we
expect from it a world wide blessing. We
should rejoice to see sueli societies estab-
lished in churches." 'Bev. J. W. Benin -
Ism, D. 11, of Boston, in writing to his
brethren of the Methodist Episcopal Church
says : "The society of Christian Endeavor ie
ono of the most remarkable inspirations of
the modern ellurels Such united movement
of young people with Christian purpose
eould„have been seemed in no other period
in the history of the church. 1 010W the im-
portance of the society both from its relation
to the local church, and from its inter.de-
nomina,tional relethins in the great interim.
tional body, 'PM society must be what 11
church is In which it is organized. It may
bo Methodist, Presbyterian, 13aptist or Con-
gregational, ati home. In the great ()conven-
tion it is whet all would have it to be, Chris-
tian—the inembere there see Jesus only."
l'he "Pall Mall tiazette" publishes all
11:111 MISS on temperance in London, by lady
Henry Somerset, in which she pictuees the
11110ery Miettsioned by strong drink in the
Whiteelumel district, wherein -there have
boon the past year so many mysterious and
shrieking murders of women 1 `How can I
put before you the sin mid !Maley of that
scene ? To seo the alias= flocking out of
thew) done of sin 1 state no exaggeration,
no overdrawn pieture. you hems 014 to
read the police reports. IAA year you. will
tind in London ahem 500 children under ten
yoars old. wore taken tip dead drunk, and
there were 1 ,tifin under fourteen, and 2,000
under twenty.ono," It is also stated re-
gardieg Lady Renry Somerset thal, she bas
recently struelt a Mow financially ii.1) the
liquor trade. 8110 OW118 It good deed of pro -
party let on lesse, and severd of the lemma
aro about to fall in. Some of these are of
pnblic homes, Her ladyship has announeed
that she will renew no lease of present
mtblicebottise unless tho tenant will agree to
ehange his laminas.
Apples will not freeze if covered with a
linen °loth, nor a pie or custard burn if intho
oven with a dish of water,
Absent -Minded Indeed.
.A. Scoteh fanner who was little absent-
minded WM 0110 day going into Perth with
load of hay, He led the horse out 'of the
stable, but instead of backing it into the
trams of the waggon he absent-mindedly
led the animal along the lead, mid never ae
11101;11 EtS 1001ted behind hiln till he walked
into tho yard, leading the horse, where the
hay was to be delivered. "Whaur will
back into ?" he cried to Et stableman stand-
ing by. " Beek in what 7 " asked the
mass "The hay, you stupid °diet." "What
hay ? yo'vo into hay, ye daft gowlt."
Turning round, to his consteenation, the
farmer for the first lime imprehended the
fact that he had. left the waggon at Minus
and brought the horse alone. In his hurry.
to repair the error he started off at a trot,
and was halfway baelt to his own farm be-
tfohioaillersioteabloiclIal:he foot that ho had loft
A CaUSe of Much heat*,
When a, man runs it quarter of a mile to
catch a, train and jiimps on the platform of
the last ear, " all out of breath," as the
loomnotive deems nut of the statical, 1101001s
as if ha had won a groat vietory. flub when
the train stop0 before it hall proceeded fifty
yards, backs into the statical and 'I,vaits half
an hour for some unexplaitied cause, M1'81)104
enough. to blow tip the whole business with
dynamite. lint he simply "blows up" the
railroad eompany with his month.
There is no real growth of Character me -
omit by a conquest over opposing, difficul-
ties—the doing right when it is against our
inelinations and prejudices,
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
At Yak:nit:41e 1-1ile-tia 11)111' Allan:3 exileis
were rreently massitered by Ititssian
Drlorenee unveiled, 00 .11:11, 1 1. a montt-
men t to 10. 110011ory i3f D1111101 M01111', 110
t10/140 11011,10til' against, the Atm.
Minns in 1 8 18.
1 I is imitouneed that the Russian thwern-
mem 01,111 10 401110 a tioorett prohibiting
hardier 1:vrinaii volonization in South iiitssin.
lit•rinans ii0X0 101111111,1 Illini01114efacreti
of viel: ageie el mai land in 111m. !art of the
vomit ry wit hie a few Y00,15.
111 FI111100 01000111V 111/11111'it t wvety thou-
sand applieant5 for three hundred Viteltnehel
in the pnblie serviee in 1 he Departillent 01
the Seliir. Font. 111011NO11.1 personli applied
for the places of three :Alice boys the
1 Inter de Ville.
A famous table ef Sevres poreelaill, pant-
ed by leaky, known OH t110 1711,1110 1100
MI11.01.111111X, 11111011 11.110 101111011 100 the Prima.
Exposition, has mysteriensly disappeared
einee 1110 close of the slime.
The fortune Mit by the late Elm:rase
Augusta will execed, it is thought, half a
Million .patmile, of which half, together with
all the jewels, goes to the lirand Duebess of
Baden absolutely,
An Angiodionlall company hits undertak-
en a contract to light Bonn, eleetrieity.
The plant is to be set up at Tivell, ie said,
and power supplied by water there, the
eurrent then being transmitted by over-
head wires to the eit.y itself, and throughout
the city by overalead wires fur public
and by subways for lighting of prtvato
houtais.
The Garde du Corps of the lerman army
has been equipped with neW small-bore re-
peating ritles, and the whole (Minuet army
Is expeeted to have the new arm by April 1.
It will be the first minty Ho equipped.
The Americans who are exploring in
Afesopotamitt have uncovered at Niffus, the
:./.1.):1111N0.1pur, the temple of llel, end have found
C., with other artieles of archisological
MIAMI with inseriptione of as early as 0750
The czn,ee Iamb fat Is to force all mem-
bers of the imperial family to wear clothing
of only Russian material, mado op by only
Russian hands. Buth the Czar end the Czar-
ina have heretofore. obtained their clothing
from Paris, and her Majesty las hail twenty
French dressmakers eoustantly employed at
St. Petersburg.
A eonviet for theft, after thirty-two years
of service in the galleys at lientia, wasliberat-
ed 011 Jail. I 11, at the age of sixty-two. A
local paper continent:A on his liberation,
and said that his lino personal appearance
warranted the suspicion that he poseessed
strength einnigh to go through with many
Take things as they are and make the best more years of punishment, whereupon the
ex-econvia wrote IL letter to the editor threat -
of them,
Each day is a little life; our life is but a day ening him with a lawsuit for elander.
A lies:cum new -sewer aeserts that recently
rbeare080ttliT:m. Honed the authorities for he isseallec of a
It costs niOre th relnge injUrieS than to in a spasm of virtue thirty-six villages peta-
l:Everybody smokes in Japan. The plp00 decree forbidding the sale of intoxicating
hold a little wad of five cut tobacco as big as Miners within tilde limits. The petitions
a pea. It is fired, and the smoker takes. one cif thirty-tive of the villages were denied, but
long whiff, blowing the smoke in soloed from the thirty•sixth was grunted, and the 111 -
his mouth and 1'080, Tho ladies have 1)11"8 habitants of it have beaten to death, their
with longer stems titan the mon, anu ono seeretery becauee he made their petition too
eloquent.
of them wishes to show a gentleman a special
mark of favor, she lights her pipe, takes hall
a whiff, hands it to him and lets him Md. t
oat the whiff.
There is no surer way of having everybody's
help than by trying to help everybody.
Happiness is to the heart what sunlight is
to the body, and he who shuts out either is an
enemy to Society.
Life is too short to be wasted in petty wor-
ries, freitings, hatred8 and vexations. Let nebentions of what is believed to up -
us banish all these, and think on whatsoever Printelling suerciis•
There has long liven a tradition in Japan
that once a tresure of gold bars, 1: noW
$800,000,000, Was buried far ls math the
earth einnewitere in the eastle rif uki Ham-
l'hree attempts to dig it out wore
abandoned on oecenut of .weidents to the
work. Last May excavations were begun
again, and the workmen have collie to pieces
of boxee covered with plate iron and other
things are pure, and lovely, and gentle, and of
good report
HOW:30.01. good you may be, you have faults;
however dull you may be, you elm find out
what some of them are; and, however slight
they may be, you had better make some
patient efforts to get quit of them.
Evils in the journey of life arelike the hills
which alarm traiivilers upon their road; they
both appear great at a distance, but when we
approach them, We Bud that they are taxless
insurmountable than we had imagined.
Ability is often reinforced by necessity,
He that will not suffer himself to be discour-
aged by fan eied impossibilities may sometimes
find his abilities invigorated by the necessity
of exerting them at short intervals, as the
force of a current is increased by the contrac-
tion of its channel
It is a great mistake to suppose that the
best work of the world is done by people of
great strength and great opportunities, It
is unquestionably an advantage to have both
these things, but neither of them le a necessity
to tho man who has the spirit and the pluck
to achieve great results. Some of the greatest
work of our time has been done by men of
physical feebleness.—Montreal Star.
summing manuscript with convex.
I was railroading a few days with the edi-
tor of ono of the popular magazines, After
some conversation, sve both turned to our
reading, ho occupying himself with a bundle
of manuscripts which he carried in his valise,
Before settling himself to reading he donned
a pair of gloves, which led to the remark that
this was certainly handling authors with
gloves, "Yes," he replied, "you may eou-
strue it that way, but there is a more practi-
cal reason for my wearing gloves whenever
I handle a quantity of manuseript at one
thne. The feet is, I do it as a self-protection
to health. We naturally receive manuscripts
from all kinds of people, and from all sorts of
'homes and places, No one knows what sick-
ness may Ito in some of the homes from which
these manuscripts come, .And so semetitne
ago, I mado it a practice to don a pair of
gloves whenever I sat down for manuscript
reading, There's nothing like being careful
in all things, and in this case I think care is
exercised by not having a intscellaneotis let of
manuscripts 001110 in contact with nig haUdS."
Malaria and Ettense Plants,
.A. writer in tho Nineteenth Century says
that few years ago a lady residing in a
healthy part of St. Petersburg foil ill of
form There was no doubt as M the
nature of the malady. Nevertheless, a live.
tory bung over the ease, for the lacly hod not
lately visited any other malarial district; but
had boon living at home In a locality purely
nommalarlous. The mystery was further in-
oroasecl by the fact that so long as the patient
remained in her bedroom the disease yielded
to her usual remedies; but on removing to the
sitting -room a relapse invariably followed,
and fever with all the abaraoteristio symp-,
toms sot in onee more, Por 1301110 tuenths
those altorations continued, until the decter's
suspicious 'Welt aroused by observing that
while plants wore growing in the sits
ting -room, they were absent from the bed.
:room Inquiring into their history, he found
they inull been sent direct from a district
knovvn to bo malarions, On gettIng rid of
the plants a complete recovery folleveed and
thoiraystery vras explained. -
Alnong the veterans detailed as a
guard of honor (wee Victor Esnannel's tomb
in the Pantheon et Rome, on the occasion
of the anniversary of the King.tc death, Waft
iwieet wearing the medal of the war for
independence. • HU was ealled. upon to
11110Wor malty questions by the visiting
sightseers, to all of whom he expresecil hie
pride over the met he had taken in Italy's
battles, 0, part that gave him the right to
etatid gourd over the tomb.
As two nierchant8 Were returning lately in.
a earrage Bartfreld from the Ilungasian-
Galician frontier they WOVO attacked by a
peel( of nine welves, the leadee of which
was shot as soon as lie leaped mi ono of the
eneriage horses. The remaining eight, du.
from being frightened oil', furiously pursued
tile travellers, who managed to shoot, two
more of the animals. Just as the
horses began to slacken their pace through.
loss of blood ;toil fatigue, five hunters hove
in sight 111011 a neighboring. fielil and quick-
ly despatched the rest of the pureeing peek.
The Tirana on the Booing Steamer.
It Le a, hot, calm day in tho middle of
Shimmer, the sea rolling in long, 811100111, oily
swells, There ia a light breeze right astern,
but the ship is steaming Re fast OA the wind,
and the sidle hang listlessly from the
yards and flap against the mists and ropes.
As ono des0011110 the engine -room ladder the
air feels (dose and deadly heavy, and brings
on it dull headache, The miginees on wateh
is dragging himself round OS if his limbs wore
of load, 1111(1 01'011 the engines do not seem to
be going (Mead with thew mind energy. As
we pass through the tunnel which. connects
the engine room with the stoke ludo the
stifling atmosphere fleetly drives us back.
There is not a breath it air coming &Ant the
ventlintors, ma the heat so great that one
has a sensation RA of a lump of lead in the
ears, and one's voice sounds thick and far
a0:0'1 '110Y11°.1g in 0 er has very little more on, being
firemen aro stripped te the waist and
only distinguishable lw the gilt band and
badge on kis eap as lie raoveS alma from one
furnace to another, directing the firemen
or regulatim„; the water in the boilers.
In NOM of the heat the fires burn dull, for
they can got no air, and tho firemen, urged
on—one Might almost se deiven—by the
engineer, "are (hang all hey know with
rake and 0110001 to keep up steam, the per-
spiration running in Strea11111 (100011 their nOill-
begrimod bodies and leftving them griped
like zebras,
Hach num in tutu falls back exhausted,
awl is succeeded by another, who lays hold
of the heavy "slice," mid works the firo
through and through; but all to no purpose,
fiw in spite of all they 00,11 (10 the steam will
nor, 1.180, In technical language, "she
is steaming Aid," and, unless.. the wind
(Mangos, or gets stronger, will continuo to
clo
'Po keep (in Itt. this work without, drinking
ie impossible, and. the firemen consume an
'Inman& Onantiliy of water; but., in spite
of all the praise bestowed upon this buyer -
.go by teetotallers, it hoe ite dangers when.
drank to excess, especially in a high tent-
-peralatre, end presently ono of the mon, who
has boon indulging too freoly, is seised. with.
cramps in the stonutoli and has to be carried
on (leek, leaving the tee. tearing away ati
the obstinate fires,
fib