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HOUSEHOLD.
Note for Young Mothers.
When a child is born it should be rubbed
with vatseliue, sweet oil, or unsalted butter,
efore it i$ smelled. This theism/My remotes
the curd-Lke substance which is troublesome
if not disposed of at first,
A. baby must be washed front head to foot
every morniug. Its head 011001(1 he rubbed
with vtntelitle or oil and well washed with
veep find water. if this is carefully (lone the
dark scurf, that disfigures the heads of so
many otherwise sweet babies, will nuvur
form.
After being well tvushed and dried with a
soft towel, the body should be dusted with
powder, particularly in the creaees of the
neck and thighs and under the arras. The
powder absorbs perspiration and prevents
chafing, l?uller'e earth is a good powder to
1Lse,lmd is very healing if there is a tendency
to elude. A mother should herself examine
her child every day to see if it is eta&d.
Should she thnl any symptoms of this painful
state, the parts should be washed in thin,
boiled starch, instead of water—whenever
000essaly to cleanse them cau'efnlly—
mtted dry with 0 yet'y soft hankerelnief, and
kept thickly powdered with Fuller's earth
er lycopodium powder.
EA shall chamber is provided and a baby
held on it two or three times a day, habits
/cleanliness will be formed which will pre.
eat napkins from being soiled. Its motions
hould be light -yellow, unformed, and may
number six or eight a day without canlsine
anxiety.
When the discharges are greenish in ceder
a little limetvater may be given, half a tea-
spoonful at a time. If the bowels are very
loose give a young baby three drops of para.
oleinwater. increase this to ten for a
baby three months old, but Flo nut give more
without a (doctor's advice, as paregoric ecu•
tains opium.
When a napkin is merely wet it can be
dried and used 01100 again. After that it
should be washed a d boiled before being
etir in ewe cup of awhile awl, 1 ante 1(aspet•11.
fulof salt, trial 1)m• of the (at"1ct of lemon.
Ifeee ready a deep pudding-dis)} in which,
after it hes been well buttenel, put as ninny
pared and cured apples, as will stand in
the dish;tnrli ever them the sego, , and lathy
1)110 hour in a moderate oven, Serve With
sugar and cream,
ft.tl;r 11'.rrnorr b'ond's❑, - '1'o a box of
geiatloe add one pint of cold water. Let
ntauol (110 lour add a ,i11t-a1 11.half of su(t'u'
and thin julep of four looms, three pintsof
boiling water, aureiull:mien to taste. '1'o
color, arse+fruit eoloriug, Set 111 ire for five
or six hours.
I n t1• t n Cut stale ,nk" into slieee and
spread preserves between *them 1 lay in a
deep ghaes dish and heup the dish full or
whipped (realll.
Necessity of Sleep for Babies,
s
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A young baby should geoid most of 115
time in sleep, Never allow 1t to be wakened
fur any purpose whatever. A chill's nerves
receive a sileek every twat(. 1t 114 1'011140(1 from
sleep, w ilieh is most injurhais to it. Admiring
friends should be made to want until it is
awake, to kiss it and play with it. After it
is nursed at. Might put It look in its crib, and
if 11 114 comfurttahle it will seen fall asleep, It
should never sleep in the bed with an older
person. Place the crib with its head to the
light so as to protect the eyes from the glare,
A Light °lumpy servos to ward elf draughts.
1 101 110 rut elf the supply of fresh air and,
except 0 moeglitoalnttulg in summer, should
not be used, Until a child is two years old it
should speed part of 11011 day iu sleep, task•
Mg a long nap morning and afternoon.
Missionary Maokay's Death,
The English Church Missionary Society
some weeks ago received a telegram from
Zanzibar announcing the death ,roto fever
of M'. A. 1I. Mackay. It was speaking of
Mr Mackey, whom he linked with Living -
steno and Moffitt, that Mr. Stanley ivnit1
used. It is a good plan to have a square of from Africa, '• Ther, 3 nlissimetry societies
/lautnel that just fits the baby when folded certainly eontrivo to produce extraordinary
in at triangle, put strings on two carnets and 111011." .' \lr. A. 11. Mackay 5011S 1101 0
n buttonhole in the point of the triangle. clergyman," says the Pall .Mall (11,:, Nr,
Pass the strings through the batlolthele and ` although most people call !lint 11.s -creed,
tie it on over the napkin. it prevents the bat was the must enthnsinstfc 01 lay work -
skirts from being wetted, Have tt squared eta, He was 411 years of age, and not
rubber nursery sheeting to protect 11'e mat- 3' , Its, uwiug to bis youthful appearintee
tress 111 the crib. It should be sp(a,geal
every morning and hung in the air to dry.
If the baby (troupe much when teething
.hsave a bib of oil silk put under the linea bit,
10 keep the front of the dress dry,
When the weather is very warns it re-
freshes the baby to ba quickly sponged orf
'With cool water, when it is undressed at
night. At other time)) its day clothhs„'
should be removed, the whole body rubbed
with the hand, and powdered if there is the
least dampness anywhere.
Replace the clay clothing with that worn
at night, which should have been well aired
during the day. Never put a damp or sour -
smelling garment upon a child.
Many young babies sutler from wind in
the inteet ales. Heat seems to afford more
Belief tlan anything else that can be easily
tried. A small rubber, hot-water bag, fill-
ed with water, not too hot, and laid on the
stomach is a good means of applying it.
Tutting the feet in hot water sometimes
eases the pain. Two or three drops of es-
sence of peppermint in hot water, with a
little sugar, ora few teaspoonfuls of sweet•
the enemy. Never give a yolmg baby
soothing syrup or patent medicine of any
description. Most of these preparations
contain opium, and while they may be used
with impunity they may arrest the develop.
ment of the child and ram its health, if not
endanger its life. When medicine is need-
ed ask an experienced, trustworthy doctor
to prescribe it, and allow his prescription
oxaetly.
and cuergy, Stanley surmised. lie was
born in 1'.,iimlur;;h, the 0011 of it Presbyterian
clergyman, \these name is familiar to 14eheol•
boys as the author of ` Mttckays ti reign: -
Mae,' The frame missionary was educated
ter the profession of an engineer, but in
Seotlaaiid such at edaeatfon imp!100 a ulti-
veeity e)ursc end a training quite equal to
that which the build ing clergyman or barrister
receives in England. He ons a young roan
of merited ability, mud was 110(11 appointed
to the Tread of a Mechanical engineering
works fit Betalin.
Hu wa1 there in November, 1171, when
Stanley's famous letter in the Daily Tcle•
graph appearcll, describing his intercourse
with Mtosa, then the King of -Uganda, and
challenging Christendom to send mlissi)u-
aries to that country. Mackay, tei years of
age, brimful of enthusiasm and nobility of
purpose, at 01100 wrote to the Church Mis-
stonarySociety—which had received £10,1)00
for thep,wpose from two generous (lonors—
volunteorieg to go out. IIis oiler was ac-
cepted, and he was despatched, with seven
others, into the heart of Africa. His photo-
oned hot water, will sometimes dove out: graph taken at the time represents a hand-
some and determined face, wtthwell-clefined
features, a hignforclead from which waving
hair is Insshed back, resolute eyes and a
first mouth, 0. light mustache covering the
upper lip. Not a trace of whisker or nuts.
Melte was there then, but by this time Ire
was probably 'beardedlikeapard.' Sineehe
left London, thirteen y ears raga, he never
encu left Africa—indeed, he never returned
to the const f His memory of the coast can
not, as a )natter of fact, have been vary
agreeable, for he was laid low there by sick.
nese on landing and had to allow Ills com-
panions to proceed—only to meet their fate
by massacre. As soon as he recovered he
pushed on to Uganda, and there he labored
without intermission since that day.
"As a practical engineer )lore was n0-
thingtlat he could. not make tido his hands,
and the Wagauda regarded ]tine as endowed
with a divine power of manufacture. It
was au extraordinary point about Irian that
there, in the heart of the Dark Continent,
he kept himself abreast with the Loudon
reviews which some kind friend sent him,
and in Ifs letters /to showed as complete a
knowledge of modern thought as any Lon-
don editor. 'Were it not for such symp-
toms of the great intellectual power which he
possessed marry readers of his letters would
have set Min down as an artisan from the
homely images to borrowed from the voca-
bulary of toil to enforce his argnements as
to the means whereby the African problem
)night be solved. Such, was the man Who
so ably took the place of the murdered bis-
hop, end who has now followed him to the
grave,"
What it is Wise to Forget.
Your neighbor's faults.
All the slander you have ever heard.
The numerous tinges you have told a ser.
','ant ‚how to do things, and the numerous
times she has forgotten. Try again, and
perhaps she will remember.
The clate of your neighbors new dress, so
that she will not believe, when for some
special reason she las to wear it a long time,
that you remember it from season to season.
Forget the faults 01 some of your friends,
and remember the temptations.
Forget the fault-finding and give a little
thought to the cause which provoked it.
Forget the peculiarities of your friend and
0013/ remember the good points that make
you foncl of her.
Forget any personal quarrels, or histories
which you may have heard by accident, and
which, if repeated, would seem e. thousand
times worse than they are.
Forget that somebody's hair is ugly ; re-
member only how soft and beautiful are her
eyes.
Pilot out, as fa' as possible, all the dis-
agreeables of life—they will come, but they
only grow larger when you remember then,
and the constant thoughts of acts of meanness,
or, worse still, malice, will only tend to make
you more familiar with them and to almost
grow tolerant of them.
Obliterate everything disagreeable from
yesterday ; start out with a clean sheet for
to -day andwrite upon it, for sweet memory's
sake, only those things that are lovely and
lovable.
These are the best rules for a peaceful
mind end a contented life.
Some New Recipes.
A Goon Warn RAni;nln.---(Irate a quar-
ter of a pound of good oheese and melt it in
the oven. When melted add one egg and a
quarter of a cup of swept milk well beaten
together. Pepper and salt to taste; beat all
until it resembles custard, and bake it in a
hot oven until a light brown,
AnorolIa Wstsu Ritattecr.—One-quarter
pound cream cheese, } cup of cream or
milk, one teaspoouful mustard, half a tea-
spoon of salt, a few grains of cayenne, ono
egg, one teaspoonful butter, four slices of
toast. Break the cheese in small pieces, or,
if hard, grate it. I'ut it with the milk in a
double boiler; toast the bread and keep it
hot; mix the mustard, salt and pepper, add
the ogg and beat well; when the 1150000 is
melted, stir in the egg and butter, and cook
two minutes, or, until it thiekensa little,
but do no let it curdle; poor it over the
toast.
Wnaa SAVOR Toa Ftsn.—Three tea.
spoonfuls of flour, two ounces of butter,
small teacupful of the liquor in which the
fish was boiled; add four tablespoonfuls of
milk in which a shallot arida head of codery
or a.pinch of aelory seed has been boiled,
then strained out, Boil ono minute and
stir in teaspoonful of chopped parsley.
A (loon S.tno Punnrvo,—Wasit a ludic
cup of sago, and set on the fire with three
;baits of cold water; aiminor two hours; 111e11
Beating her Child to Death.
A woman stood before the Vienna Court of
Justice charged with having beaten her little
six -years -old daughter to death. The wretch -
e(1 woman confessed to having repeatedly
beaten the child, who, she says, was rude
and obstinate. The judge read extruots from
the post-mortem examination, which,( ac.
cording to the Daily Y00.8 correspondent)
proved that the child's liver had burst in
consequence of blows, that several ribs were
broken and that the body was covered with
bruises. The child's schoolmaster declares leer
to have been tractable and obedient, and
says she looked very well when she first
came to Vienna. After a while cruel neglect
was evident from her whole bearing, and
she became subject to epileptic fits, The
father was heard to say that the woman often
heat the child, and hated her in a manner to
make his hair stand on en Some of the.
school children who were in the poor child's
confidence showed that the mother had beet.
en her with a chub, knelt upon her breast,
struck her on the head with a hammer, and
inflicted 111)001 the little creaatnre all the pain
which herhate eoteltl invent. The little school-
children's (lespositiels were so terrible in
their truthful simplicity that the jury could
never for a moment have doubted the
mother's guilt and their verdict was unani-
Inous. The judge pronounced a eentenoe of
ton yeas' imprtsomnent with hard labour.
His Grand Attraotion.
Aunt—"But Ice is poor."
'l'eresc—''True, but I love him,
Aunt—"Odd."
Tereee—":Prue.
Ault . -"Ugly.
Teres° -1O rue."
Aunt---"Itow is it he has fascinated
you
Terese. -"He is the only Man I over mot
W1(0 could wag his ear and taste his hat off
by arching his eyebrows."
RuOsia is negotiating for the purchase of
war meterialfn. Fiance laa..l
THE BRUSSELS POST.
.1.1L t ('11 EN ETIIEKE.
firegc r lasa(Hiir, Tennessee. '
DT it5Y. LEI1OS' 1.100111111!•
It was Decoration Iboy, and the folks went thronging by
To the consecrated ground where their buried 11.or'oes lie,
There were sad -eyed youths and maidens, and many a silvered )lead,
./.11d loving little children gathering round the Nation's Dead.
iI
A passing stranger in the place, I lingered for the day
To join the mourning people, and it is no shame to stay
My alien -heart beat faster and my eyes gave tribute due,
.As I walked, and mused, and listened to the tale I tell to you.
I1I.
Unheeded footsteps bore me where, apart from all the rest, •
A single mount and headstone stood with fresh -blown beauty dressed,
Beside them wag as farmeranan. IIfs snow-white head wets bare
And bowed in reverent attitude as if he altered prayer.
I v.
I would have passed in silence had I not chanced to see
The strange inscription on the slab : "John Stanley cried for me,"
Making bold I said : "flood sir, wits the man you mourn your soil?
Anel pray, what means the legend that is graven on the stone I"
v.
Shamefaced, he turned away, until the flowing sorrow dried,
Then, smothering many a rising sob, he talus to me replied :
"11-aI, no ; he wasn't son of aline ; but, stranger, you can't know
All he's ben to me !"—then choked with tears resistless in their flow.
v7.
Then I asked : "Were there no kinsfolk ---none of his blood to come 7
1)r was it in their stead you laid these lilies on Itis tomb 1"
"IVal, yes ;" his voice still quivering, "guess the neighbors was all gl
To have me come down here to -day to honor this poor lad."
('II.
"But, stranger, seuce you'd like to know, set by rue 011 his grave;
There ail/ t no better place to tell the doin's of the brave ;
And you shall Ileac just hots it was I chose the words you see •
On that stone—and every word is true ! ' John Stanley died for 010 !"'
y1II.
"Feb'uary, sixty-three, way up north in Illinois,—
That's where I've always lived since I was a little boy,
There was a gitirnl draft, and among the rest Seth Stebbs,
That's me, was spotted to be sent down South to fight the ROA,"
ix.
" I wa'nt a pesky copperhead that loved the Soutar too well,
T wa'nt a coward, nuther, as my neighbors all can tell,
But when I heerd rey name by the Recrutin' Sargent read,
It seemed as if chain-]igwent htnin' a crashin' through my head"
x.
"'Twas more'n three mile of crooked road I had to travel home ;
Don't remember how I got there ; some Devil seemed to come
And snarl into my ear : ` h'e'r drafted 1 Becky's always sick 1
You've seven helpless children 1 There's your little cril'ple—Dick 1' "
xI.
There's a mortgage on your farm, so you can't raise cash to pay
For a substitute 1 you'll have only fifty cents a day
To keep your eight a goin' while you'refightin' in the South
And not a soul can earn enough to feed one hungry mouth !'"
x11,
"In them clays I wasn't pious—though I tried to keep my word,
But Becky was as good as any angel of the Lord.
So we took it very different. When I told her of our Gloom
She turned as pale as death and went staggerin' to her room,"
xnl.
"Anel I knew that she would manage to ease her heart in prayer.
But, as for me, I felt and said—Wal, stranger, I don't care
To tell you all I felt and said—for oh,, my blood was hot,
And man and God seemed hateful; I do hope its ben forgot !"
xIv.
"Wal, mornin' come quite soon enough. At seven I had to go.
We'd eat our silent breakfast when 11leard the stage horn blow;
That meant that in five minutes I must leave them, live or die ;
So more than half distracted I begun to say good-bye."
xv
"I'd got all round to Becky and my crippled baby—Dick
When the stage -wheels on the bridge gave me warnln to be quick,
So I ketchecl them both in arms, but I couldn't do no more ;
I couldn't speak ; I couldn't cry ; my heart was hard and sore,"
xrr.
"That minute was the blackest of nay life, I must allow,
My heart cried out : if God is good why don't he help us now !
Just then the front door opened and my teeth began to grit,
I thoughtit was the driver to hurry mo ftp abit"
xv1I
"lint) no; it was John Stanley, the brave boy that's buried here;
There lie stood so tall and handsome—only turned of nineteen year 1
' Wal,' says he, ' I'm just in time !Neighbor Stebbs, you needn't go,
'Twould be a cryin' shame to let you leave your family so 1' "
Ji'Nit 97, 1810,
THE ELECTRIC WORLD, out of thee:intuit singly and without belt.
It renes no other :attention than the re.
nett n at the 011100 and osal auueomitte.
SueI'ilesl'a 1 Es 114`1rlrlrent" ,ilk Telephone
F'fot'k- sec Menaced 11115(s sl' Et'et")4
>
Y0)I linty tieing Witt In lLoesil'n--0111 Ile
of the Civet 110 Search eight—Meetl•1 city'
Ltr
MVP MSC eA'.n,
.1 tlermtu> scientist has dis('usered that
4rees, Flu trades of which a0e. vevurwl with
11100f1 ry When, are more liable to lightning
strokes than others, and imputes to this the
eonlpnnttive huunutity of the oast.
A paper of great interest to electiela11s
tilts ,hest appeeu'(1 from. the pen of 0, T.
Crosby of the \\'cowls 11a1/1,1Trauloit C0111-
patty of N. 1'. The subject of the paper Is
tar resistance at digit speedo. A speed of
111 10011, s an hour by elect Ile ear is promised
before long, At such high speeds the ele-
olla'llt. of airresistulee becomes a 1110'4 1111-
la/1'11111f onr, mid ally addition 11) the slurs
of knowledge on the tetlijeel is of the utmost
value.
An arrangement fifethe prea'entien of
accident by the electric current has been
adopted at the wort. of the \lorgan Engin-
eering('mnpeny of Alliance, Olio, ;1 booed
1e 11110(1 nn aha Won facing the dyutune in the
engine room. 1)n this bon 0,1 are six hooks
on the cheeps of the six sten who are em-
ployed in looking after tate cireuit0. When
a ulna is called o11 duty) he removes his check
Irons the hook null tnhrs it with him, The
engineer see)) by a glance at the board that
one hoop is absent, and that, therefore, 0110
Mall is engaged Mead the lines around the
shop, and and the dynamo is not started nn 11
the cheek is replaced nn the hook, The
engineer then undo:ma ntle that the 010,:0 is
clear, anti turns on his current without fear
of ttecident to any 1)I the linemen,
A defeel i olid to have declared itself in
4d the nleellauical ,onl:tructi'n of the plume-
.grityltic dull, and 31r. Edison .says that
several weeps of had work trill he required
to set it right. Tho utanufaetu•e of the
speaking (lolls itas 1wen giving employment.
to 300 young women, who ere labs off until
the required +d leodilb ntie1111 in the 1atouly' of
the dolls are effecte.l.
XVIII.
"I was too dazed and wild to see,just what ho meant, at first,
And said : 'John Stanley, 'taint notime whenthings is at the worst
For them that's out of trouble to be jokin' them that's in 1'
Says he : 'It ain't no joke, Seth Stebbs ; I'm not so rotten mean 1"
x1x.
"' You stay at home and let me go. I'll take what Gocl has willed ;
For no one will be left to starve if I get hurt or killed.'
Stranger --you should have seen the light that shone from Becky's face 1
It seemed as if the Lord had let his glory fill the place 1"
xx.
" And when she said : 'God bless you, John 1' 'twas just as if the Lord's
Almighty voice, made low and sweet, had spoke in Becky's words.
I trembled like numb -palsy when I recollected how
God heard me think 1 if he is good why don't he help us now 1"
xx1,
"And then I thought : Wal, SethI guess this want sent so much fo
i
It was pity for the children 1 t was Becky's prayer that drew 1
They said good-bye and blessed him as he hurried to the gate ; "
For the time was more than up and the stage -boy couldn't wait."
XxIl.
"I let him go in silence; but I hope he understood
The tears that fell upon his hand when we parted on the road.
It won't take long to finish. Before a year incl passed
He was shot at Chickamauga, and down here he sleeps his lest,"
you!
xx1I1,
"It ain't all told, it can't be 1 But we always keep the day
That he took my place, like Christmas. And when we kneel to pray,
And all comes hack—how, for love of us, our brave young neighbor died—
It don't seem hard to trust in The Man that was Orgeilied, >
The whole seeret of the Neely motor has
been explained I' 110100" '11.rhi,loif. What
Floe ltumdred 111,111001111 do111nw ix to be in-
vested in electric street railroads in Spring.
richt, Slo., rand the company whir!) is now
b.•ing organized for that pa•pos(' will pur-
chase all the tiglltstuul property of 1110 old
street railway 1nnipany.
A Boston Fire Commissioner, speaking ab
la ret 116 (meeting. said: "Meet 'ieit;} is very
important in all lire matters. The quest ion
of getling all engine of the greatest tv,lte•-
U(rewfug empncily to a fire with greatest
celerity will, it 01(111114 10 me, be solved by
electricity. Substitute for the Mean power
of any wader» engine:stored electricity or
electric power convoyed to each hydh'ant,
making of your engine 1a pump on Wiled:4,
and you have lightness itself as n'gards
weight, with almost unlimited power of
throwing water. This will be the lire en-
gine of the future; so say the prophctl,•
A new iron steamer left Noweastlr, ling•
Laud, in the beginning of the month, 1'1)1 tier
first voyage across the Atlantic. in the
course of the voyage she got into tt heavy fog,
The ele(•t'i,' search light showed something
white little distmme ahead. It looked at
first litre a cloud, but fnntn0111151ely afterward
the forst of a great iceberg loomed up. Tho
held was inoilntily pal. Lave in starboard,
and just cleared the ice wall, crashing, how-
ever, into a huge ledge which jult)el out
from the berg, There was a heavy acad.
auc1e of ice, which throw the ship on )ler
beam ends, but she Noon righted: tout though
leaking, got safely into New 'York harbor.
But for the electric light, nothing could
have saved the cess' and crew.
There is naw an excellent opportunity for
an ingenious inventor to dovisc as chest,ll and
trustworthy speed indicator for cher ie cat's.
An instrument of this kind, which e ,' sI.
ways be relied upon to indkate to the driver
the excret Need of hi, r:"•, would meet with
5011! 011c1.lS4.
AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE,
Ale 101a1 Not Villa floppiness and e•eiunilts
nnt9er
It is reported fret' Ll l.ou than 11,e famous
Silva Pei to, the dell and aged Poi t euese
Vail he mule 1111'14111:0 : 10 1011011tug :"'The1a tto,hoSan ,•canal tied stti. L. at Ili1e,
is at triple sympathetic order of vihratiolt A fric,t,itehere long n;;1) Lc ur•nuull,ltc'l a
diverting the pointe 0, and uegatvn rl.'"I fortune in ivory and slaves. Some , f the
to one general polarized venire ; thus rotary ]?ugiish newspapers printed long obituary is centitnoets when sympathetically11 ,11 him ut rr tate years age oleo to
associated with 11,.. polar stream. report of 1!s dearth 111') circulated. Cp to
Liviogatoul s time Silva 1'orto was CPI only
While mall Who 11101100 ,'110dlrx10n`it 01,y in
Equatorial A irica. It has been widely as-
serted that he was the first white man to
cross Afilen. The feet is, liewevef, that in
1039 Silva) Porto travelled from L'fhe almost
to Latae Nyassa, bat did not 5,,0, tint
Indian Urean, though he sent n party ,,f his
black porters on to the east coast
For many years the routes of Silva I'orta
awl the mulles of the villages he tonal en
There is netlingpresai,about thelifeeftln'
electrician in South .Americo. A correspond-
ent at Montevideo
orrespond•ontatMontevideo writes : •'1001101141 watch
lest the lamp lighters of the gas company,
who tiro the sworn fees of the electric light,
do some i nisellief. For half the town I have
thirty men, as well as some secret inspectors,
armed with Intives, who look out for the
mischief makers. I and my nllielid often
range the streets by night, with leaded re-
volvers in our pockets. The chiefs ofthe his travels were 110 most conspicuous teat to es
wire and lamp inspectors nr1: on horseback on tho mom of 10o,„Aftion. 1le 1,,....10110as also myself anti my chief oflleo tI, and as very tvcnithy, but tvoub! never 1(1auu to
soon as any mischief begins we gallop up Europe, la•rhagds because Le Lad a goad nanny
from all sides." native -wives and children to keep biro at his
--
yourself
establishment in ldelnlonte, hilae.
;81171tPur•tote)tataltvayst•erykfndtoexpinr-
era,andgave them every aid, while ,,tier 1'ur-
1 by 1 tl5uese traders, w'iehing t" keep all white
ray , 1 11 1 1 11 sten 01(1 of their preserves. treated 0110110 shab-
bily. "1 ,un an 1)111 inns," Ile wrote to 3)11)11.
1 l 1 t high-
er
float, "but I and still tough, 1f von dud
yourself surrounded by peril, with all but
locomotives. Th ] .,opc gone, tit' to hold your own and scud a
letter to me by the natives at any cost, In
l l l 1 1 the shortest possible time I will be with you,
and will bring tel and meats.
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Judges With Short Bair,
It is well known that ,fudges wear their
hair very short, A Judge, who is still on
the bench, relates an amusing incident which
happened to himself when he was 00 circuit
in the South of England. In company with
another adininistrator of the lav he went fee'
a walla in the country, and being thirsty
their lordships entered a small inn, in the
rear of which they found two laborers play-
ing skittles. They decided to join in the
game, and, each taking one of the men as
a partner, they played in real earnest. Get.
tins hot, Mr. Justice --took off his coat;
becoming hotter, ane removed his hat, His
lordship's partner immediately stepped
plying. " Go on," exclaimed the disthi-
guished Judge; but Hodge remained motion.
less. "What are you stopping for?" asked
,ler. Justice --, all impatience to renew the
gano. "I don't moind Nein' neighborly,"
replied the man, looking at the Jude's
elosely.eropped head, "but I'm darned if I
bo a govt' to play skittles with a ticket -o'.
leaf man,"
Prof. Elilnt Thomsen, in speaking on "The
Problems of the Future," says : "111 the
near future railways will,e run u ' elect -tic-
k)/
ectric-
1At the small roads,heal, but really
the large ales connecting cities, and there
is 110 reason Why t1-0 s mu c not ex 1ec air• 1-
e' speeds than we cm attain at present with
our steam ocom4 ives. tare we have re-
ciprocating parte that must be put u1
(motion sto 1 let and reversed continually,
while in the electric locomotive we have the
simple rotary motion, which is all we nee
which ntakee it possible accordingly to run at
a mach higher rate of speed. Although the
steam locomotive has been very much im.
proved, yet it can hardly compare with the
economy of stationary engines placed where
they eat have at abundant water supply for
condensing purposes. We eau, therefore,
by employing stationary engines and. elec-
tric roads, do away w'fth a great Ileal of mi.
necessary weight, and the moving parts
being symmetrical, w1) can attain a much
higher speed, say m Lunched miles an hoar,
This would be a grand stop forward, whloll
would save us a great deal of time. It
might even be possible to reach to speed of
150 miles an hour ; it simply depends upon
funding the method of applysufifcentpower,
and building the locomotives to sult, ar-
rangements being adopted to steep the ears
on the track.
Serie interesting experiments mule last
week are likely to loaf to important modi-
fications in the use of the search light in
marine work. The idea mainly illustrated
was not so much the disclosure of the where.
'louts of an approaching vessel as the indi-
cation of the position of the ship on which
the light was placed. The piercing of a
thick fog by the horizontal rays of the light
is lot practicable, but it is believed that by
throwing the concentrated rays up vertical-
ly against the clouds a reflection of the light
can bo seen and the danger of a collision
avoided, Fog is generally much less dense
at the height of the pilot house than nearer
to the surface of the water, and, it is this
fact that induces the belief of its being pos-
sible to communicate the position of ap.
preaching vessels by vertical rather than
horizontal rays. In connection with flit
search light thorn is also included in the cir-
cuit all attaclnnent to the steam whistle
which eat ire workedl silnultalaona)y with
the light, or independently, as may be de-
sired, the idea being to call attention by
sound and by sight et the same moment. A
system of blasts of various lengths is to be
introduced, whereby two vessels passing may
communicate with each other, very much in
the sane way that a telegraph operator
reads a message by the ticks of the sounder
One of the most interesting things in ann.
neetimt with the growth and development
of the electric light and paw°' business is
its influence upon allied industries, the the.
wand for =taut classes of material hieing in
some eases greater than has ever before
11,14ae11. Thiols well illnstrrated by and order
which has just been placed by a Louisiana
electric company for two new driving belts,
one of which is to he 100 feet long and 72
inches wide, and the other 41 i,ches in width
and of touch greater length. These will re-
quire the hike of more than 600 plead of
cattle.
A very complete and handy form of eabinet
battery has been put upon the market, It
has been specially (designed to fill the watt
of a battery that shall require practically, no
'Attention, and the manipulation of winch
eau be effected with great facility. The
various connections and switches for placing
any (10001ed number of cells in circuit are
placed on the top of tho cabinet, and by
means of a oenlpeln(3 circle switch any
number of cells can be thrown in, and out
The Youngest Great -Grandmother,
A great-grandmother forty.eight• years of
age has been found in California. She is
:Mrs 0. H. Smith, and lives at San Ber-
nardino, Cab Her family went to Cali-
fornia from Sussex County, Now Jersey.
She was born in 18.2, and was married at
fourteen to Albert (Joie. She had six child-
ren before her twenty-fourth year, Her
husband was killed by Mormons, leaving her
a widow at twenty-five, and she subsequent-
ly married 0. H,.Smith, tubo is still living.
Her oldest child a daughter, married in her
sixteenth year, whoa she is said to have
been fully developed and very beautiful.
She became Mrs. Pendergast. A dal:elder
was 11or11 to her the following year, making
Mrs. Smith a grandmother at thirty-two.
This dangghtor followed the habit of her
family, of marrying early, and at the age
of fifteen became Mrs. Cantles, the wife of a
wealthy Spaniard A son, the represents.
eve of the fifth generation now living, fs
fourteen months old, ttnel rules the whole
Mouse, fvom the groat.graidnlotller of forty-
eight clown. This extraordinary record is
perhaps unparalleled in the temperate zone.
Occupation,
A Novel 'tion p
A New York dentist employs a lady see
Blatant 01 a salary of f150 a week aura conte
mission for every customer, who gods from
house to Neuse and cleans teeth, She is
young and pretty, attractively ch'eased, and,
while self•assertive, site is a lady in all that
the name implies. She has taker a course of
1n01i50.1 dentistry, and knows enough about
the work to cap a nerve, soothe a violent
toothache, put a temporary filling fn a say-
ity requiring immediate attention, remove a
child's tooth and insert wedges to looser the
little molars and incisors that need straight.
ening, In e, haul satchel she carries mater-
ial for that purpose, besides a supply of
drugs, pumice stone and the litre for clean-
ing the teeth. Ordinarily s110 0larges 60
00)1ts to put a set of teeth in order, but the
mouths of a small family are looked foto for
'1 couple of dollars.
Some who pose se self-made mon relieve
their Creator of at great responsibility,
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