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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-7-25, Page 3Juw.' 25, 1890 T RE WONDERS ABOVE US. varscoalcOmegtocaRaM4134.62 Ice Xields on the Planet Mars. s,_ Netv Discoveriee or (Crew Everybody 111100 haVe indeed 110NY Mall! adorns the Ally these summer evettinge, The bettutiful planet, in whielt so high a degree of intereet lies been awakened by Soldaparel wceiderful disenvericte, can Seen pia; in the south between 001 10 o'elock. 11" appears in the emistellation Scorpio, sometime, of a rich yellow ot orange color, and Soinetin108 decidedly red, The various conditions of the atmosphere and the differences in the eyes observere all have their part in determining the de. seription of its color. Not fat. away among the stars Ord are now grouped about the planet of war is Antaves, one of the first magnitmle, WhOSO name eomet think WI18 given 10 1.-1 on account of Its restoublame to Most in color, To most ',yeti Antares will pro. bably appear of a deeper and livelier red than Mars. It is interesting to observe how completely the planet eclipses in splendor so bright a. Mar as Antares. It nuts, (oleo in- tei.est the reader to know thiot while the distance of Mars from the earth now some fifty millione of miles, that of Antitres is so great that astronomers have not suc- ceeded in meiticuring it. They aro only able to say that it canna be lose than lifts. million times as far ((WV 118 Mors is. There is nothing, more certain than that if that red sbor which appears so faint by mimed. son with tho ruddy planet, mere muldenly brought up to the place that Mare oeetipies, night would vanish m ' INco:ItrAltAlux tinAND.Elt sunrise than this terrestrial ball has ever witnessed. In tenth, it, is more than prob. able that in the flory blase of the monster Anil, thus brought at near, all living things would. be destroyed omen tho earth. 'file oceans would boil away in vapor, soil the very ground would smoke. Yet at its ;lethal dientitce Antares apeeavs te us to pate in the presence ot the reflected light of a planet much smaller than the earth. Some highly interestingand significant re- sults have recently been obtained by photo- graphing Mars. A. seriee of photographs made in April by Mr. Wilson, and !elegy described by Prof. Pickering in the ;lid, rillet, suggest the possibility that the southern temperate regenis of Siam have just experieneed an irruption of velar ice 110 less remarkable than that tell kb still adds the zest of dengue to the navigat 1. el of our own North A Oolitic. that our readers may know just what the observed phenomena me, we reproduce Prof. Pickeving's descrip- t hot of the ph e tegraphs ; "Seven views were taken .April 9, be. !wool 221" 501n. ttnd 2:111. 4 lir", Oreensvieh mean time. Seven more were taken April 10, hetween 2:311. 20m. and 2.3h, 32111. Thus the same face ef the planet wets presented in both oases. Distinct and identilialle spas and markings are well shown in all the pietures, lmt in those taken on the letter elide io eon. sIderable accession is shown to the white spot aurrounding the south pole. It has been known for years that the size of these polar spots varied gradually from time to time, apparently diminishing in the summer and increasing in the winter ef their respective hemispheres. But I believe that this is the fit'st time that the precise date and approxi- mate extent of one of these accessions has been observed. The area affected streteltes from the terminator, width at this time was in longitude 70 0 , along ° to longitude 1 I 0*, thenee to longitude 1 '13 , Ittti tude ; thence to the limb, which was in latitude -8h , and the 120 0 Meridian, end *nee book lo the point of starting. It may thus extend also (Wei' all 1111. known area on what was at the time 1r104 1:10)41 , of the planet. The visible area included is surprisingly large, oinounting to about 2,500,0o0 square miles, or somewhat; les.s than the area of the United States. Being near the limb, however, it is not Its con- spicuous 118 might at first sight be supposed, " On the morning of April the area 11118 faintly marked out as if pervaded by haze, or by small separated len ies, too small and far apart, or too faint, to be recognized in. dividually. But on April 10 the whole re. giou was brilliant, fully Needling, that snr. rottuding the north pole. In the mom time a much smeller itia•a on the limb, Which 011 the Oth was vevylwight, had either vanished or joined the mem 1111188 by moving east. wardly, considering Mars as co globe, " The date of these events corresponds to the end of the whiter meason mi the eonthent hemisphere of Mars, 00 what weuld be with us sheet the midel le of 1?ebruary. " As to whatthese observationsinean might most naturally be explained by terrestrial analogies, but be that as it may, the facts are that these appearances aro conspicuous upon each of the fourteen photographs, and so distinctly so that no one who had. once seen them would hesitate an instead in decoding on whicli cloy any particular plate was taken." It is quite oleo that the appearances pro. sented in tho photographs its described by Prof. Pickering 'night be produced by the drifting of vast ice fields from the se nth= polar regions of Mars in the direction of the equator. It seems practically impossible, however, that the drifting fee could cover so iminetwe an atm in the tourse of a single clay, and a little reflection shows that it is not necessary to assinne so vapid a spread of tho ice It Will be observed that, as shown by the . photograph taken on April 9, the i•egion question presented a hany or per- haps mottled appearance. The next day tilus had all changed to a brilliant white. Tho phenomenon of the first day may not improbably have been due to ' win raltilltNent :mg N11101)8 of groat extent the!. had grathally 0,3000111. lated 1111401. 1110 11111110111.10 of polar currents resembling the Labrador current that brings down our icebergs. The fogs and mists thot commonly hang over large fields of ice that have drifted into warmer latitude:3 would assist in peodnoing the hazy appearance ro• corded by the photograph. Then an inflow of warm moist nix front the southward oeev the iee fields woula outhee to aueount for the sudden bittnehing of the whole region the next doy through the formation of a vast sheet of 01011d, Snell aS 1101 infregtiontly, tin- der somewhat similar circumstances, covers extensive areas on the earth. It is woll knoWn that the upper surfaces of clouds re. fleet the sunshiee cos brilliantly as now.ftdlen allow, It is co pity that photographs were not taken for severe/ days in succession, in order that it might have boon determined whether the white area oinclerwent ituell °henget as would inclietto that olonds were it principal cause of the phenomenon, On looking at a Map of IVItors it will be seen that Stich waterway as would be need. eel to convoy VOA quantities of ice from the south polar region into temperate littitados eXiS18 001 thew plonet just at the place Where the strange phenomena described were observed. The drifting iee, if nth there was, must hove covered the largov part of whith has boon called the De Cottigiwz Seit, and extending theneo toword the equator, passed. throligh a broad strait into the icouthern end of the De La. Rile Ocean. lInfortunetely, no photographs wore taken showing the condition of things on the other nide of the planet, led it le probable list a 01011100 extension of the km and cloud region ueoturred. them also, There aro four principal sill/HS ermine:ling the southern polar nett of Mate with the equetorial 00001101 that, 0111, 11110.111 wAT1,311 already ineutioned, and then the &liner :4.0,1 he Newton Stet, and lila Litt»heit Sea, By any of them paseageti, it would appear, the polar hie 110e8 eould make their way to. were! the equatoe. lf it could be proved Oat Mare ham really juet experieneed an extraerdinory vimitation of tee in its 00011.11H, 1110 fact would not be without its weight 111 determining the ques. tion of ex ti.aderrestriel influencee 111 Incter- ology. 'rho 100th he, we are jest beginning to ditwover the Iodine of resemblanoe es well tes of divergence, aiming the vetions members of the 0,1101. system, and the many ways in which they are linked together. The planets can never again be regarded, as they have sometime!: been as mere globes of matter furnishing by their motions beasitiful prae- tieal problems for the nuothematician, but pessessing in theineelvee no oloser interest 0OP 1183 ln place of the strange dreams of Swedenborg, the stately imaginings of Dr. Cholmees, or the fanciful notions of Kepler and Huygens, obout the inhabitants of the other ,planets, we are getting from clay to day views of the aetnel condition of things 011 the surfaces of those globes which, puzzl- ing as they often appear, nevertheless give ns a eubstautlal ground upon which to base opinions as to then: fitness to be inhabited. lan'sintelleetualpossessions and symyathies are widened by every discovery of this kind. Ife 11:18 himself dwelling not merely 011 the (mist of a planet, hitt in the centre of a family of worlds. Home .6d atters, Whole cloves, it is said, will exterminate the moth, Powdered chalk and vinegar are good rot a burn. After eggs are broken they. should. be covered Wail 11804. Brass work tan lie kept beautifully bright by occasionally robbing with salt and vine- gar. Washing floors and shelves with strong pepper tea, or hot alum or borax water, will destroy ants and roaches. Fine shavings from soft pine weed make a pleasant pillow. They hove special cora- tive virtues for coughs, asthmatic: or lung trmtbles. When acid of any kind gets on clothing, spirits of iumnonia will kill it. Apply chloro- form to restore the color. A litt le borax put in the water before wash- ing red or red-bertlered table cloths and napkius prevent their fading, Salt as a tooth powder is better than el - meet anything that. eon be bought. It• keeps the teeth brilliantly white and the gums hard and resy. If a cellar has a damp smell and cannot be thoroughly ventilated to few trays of charcoal set oround on the tloot, shelves and ledges will snake the air pure and sweet. Broken and creoked carpet tacks clean bottles very nicely, They tore better than shot, for the sharp edges cloth off all the stains. Keep them in a box for use in cleansing bottles. Take black enurt plaster, moisten enough to make it stick, and mend the small cracks and holes in your silk umbrelle, by pressing it on the wrong side with a warm iron 000r 0 thin pctper. The simplest way to fumtgate a room is to heat ton iron ehovel very hot, and then pour vinegar upon it, drop by drop, The steam arising from this is a disinfectant. Doors or windows Khania be opened that it may escape. Nair brushes should be washed in soda and warm Water or cworennia and cold water, dipping the bristles frequently downward into the water, Mit keeping the books as clry tts poseible. When the bristles look clean rinse the brush in cold wider, shake it. without wiping the bristles awl set it in the air to dry. Soap should not be used, for it softens the bristles. CLAst Cnowns.n.-13eil a peek of elanis a quart of water. When the shells open take out the meat, stroin the water and boil in it six potatoes, sliced. Slice an onion and fry in pork. When the potatoes ave neorly done add the onion, II, few crackers soaked in milk, salt, pepper, a spoonful of butter, and last the elams. Add milk as needed to thinit. Boil fifteen mintnee and then serve. - BALI:CA 8110nT 0.111:0.—011e cup each of sugar and one-half eup of sweet milk, three eggs, one teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in two or three layerS, pint of milk, one egg, one tablespoonful of corn etareh ; flexes' with vanilla. 'When cold spread wIth sliced bananas on each layer of filling. • IF rim Fon Aug Tim= ou PATN0111 after long stesuling .great relief can be had by bathing them m salt water, A. handl& of salt to a gallon nf water is the right peopor- tint" Have the woter as hot as oan be coin. fortably borne. Immerse the feet and throw wider over the lege as far es the knees with the hands. When the wotet becomes too cool rub briskly with a flesh towel. This method,. if need night and morning, will cure neuralgia of the feet. ToMATO Illset's.—Into two quarts of any kind ef soup stock put one quart of ripe tomatoes, boil up 1 0 minutes, strain through fine strainer, replace in the kettle or stew pion and add ono gnarl) of mewl 01' rich milk and bring to a boil, when acid a largo tablespoonful of corn starch -tonsil smoothed in milk, stir until smooth and creamy, and just before saving add half a teaspoonful of soda. Seaton to taste. Serve with large crackers that hove boon split atiol broWned in the oven. Serve one on °nolo plate, Baby. One little head of golden hale, Two little cheeks so round end fair, Two little lips with fragrant sighs, One little nose and two blue eyes, Two little halide as soft as a, poach, Two little feet with fivo toes each, Two little smile! and two little tears, Two little legs mid two little ears. lfwe little elbows owl two little knees, One little grunt and one little sneeze, One little heart, but; no little sins, Plenty of skirts ond lots o' pins, Ono little elotole and plenty of frocks, One little, hood. and tWO little sooks, A big dispoeition to haul and to pill, One little stomach that's never full One little month of the rose's tie% Ono little bottle of peppermint. After Her, She centlresiastically)r-Olt, Geoygo I don't yen Omit the greatest joy in life IS the puts. suit of the good, the true end the !mai- ? Ho—Yon bet that's why I'm here to. night, THE BRUSSELS POST. He Was "Frightened. "i.irse ?ye), in battle 9" raid au English army (aver, "many. 1341 ' there are dillt•rent kinds of fright, 1 have 1 14.011*P4 111 1 114111, in Egypt and in Western Africa, but the worst 'lank' I Was ever in was W11011 there Wag r10 0110111y W1111111 thousands of miles of ine. "1 11 18 11 0111/1111l1 111.the time and was ista. tioned at Fort Royal, Joinalea. We had jutit get. a lot of reernite 00 our hands, the rawest, greenest reerttits yen over saw. I Was drilling them in rifle practiee at long range, and had great trouble to make them obey order', with preeishm. In fact , onecould ever be sone, whether they would flee when you wanted the' it to presen t or Foment when you wanted them to lire, "1 lind been sending 01081 through e, practite 0110 afternoon and they were so terribly stupid that r got into a vile humor, 'flu, day was feiorfully warm and 1110 14011 beat down No fiercely that tny horse, a wicked lento, got into an ahnost ungovernable temper. I sot on niy horse at the right of the squad and wee giving them volley prac- tice cot loeg range, When my patience, NYILS entirely gee(' the men seemed. ward!, a little sense and began to fire with rapidity and aeonritey. 'flange were running as smooth- ly as clockwork and wits soon soothed in- to cheerfulness despite the heat, Not so my horse. Ire WAS never Inors vicious, "We were getting along so well by this time that it was 'Reidy Present 1 Fire and the volley would ring out like it single report.. "Once I eried out 'Ready and the work was as pretty,as that of veterans. " 'Present, and. rifle went up to shoulder in perfect form, At the very instant NMI about to say 'Fire !' my fretting horse bolted, cutting direetly aureles the range. I was not twenty feet from the squad. My eye caught the glitterbig rifles leveled right at me and inetinctively closed my eyes and ducked my head. lf you know whet British soldiers are you can Magill° my feelings, nty terrible fear, for as I Neel before, I was never before in such a, 'funk.' I knew hat if opened lity mouth those recruits would riddle my body with title balls, for they weee expeeting the word 'Fire 1' and probably would have taken any sound for that, .Nry dcsire to cry 0111 'As you were 1' to get the rifles off my body W118 SO great that I had to clench my teeth to keep from crying not. Of course the whole thing took only ohne seconds, but it was many min- utes longer than that to me. "When my plunginghorse had carried me from before the motionless rifles I managed to wheel him. As he came around I cried 'lire and every one of those stolid men obeyed the command with absolute precision, That assured me ell the more that had I opened my month while crossing their range I should lave hcen a dead man, for they were not drilled setliciently.to distinguish a different order at the last instant and yet followed one's words with a Nina fidelity, "I have often thought," added the officer, with a strange smile on his lips, "that those recruits fancied I had cut across them to test their drill, for they showed no surprise, not the faintest sign of emotion, when 'sud- denly wheeled and cried 'fire 1' But you may well believe that this was not the case. And I pledge you that never afterward in rifle practice did I get caught in so danger- ous and helpless a situation, ' A Few Fly Remarks Oonoerning the Fly, The lly is here Likewise all his relatives on both sides of the house and on the ceiling. The fly seems to think that a North American Summer would be a delusion and a snare i thout m. That is why he comes. The fly is a social beast, los ingthe habita- tions ol man. He also loves man himself, and espeeially the baldheaded variety theta. of. The tly ranks second among the promoters of profanity—the telephone standing first and the fountain pen a good third, Happy is the man who has no use for either, Natural hietney sharps have named the fiy mune, domestica, but I think lie is really Worse than that. At least haski heard move foruible language applie I to him, These gentlemen, after beetowing that designation on the fly, proceeded to take an bwentory of his personal elTects. They say Olathe carries a, long spear, a buzz -saw, a pair of sharp scissors, a stomach ptimp and to pint (or less) bottle of poison ; also whet- stone or some such apparatus, with 10111011 lie keeps his tools in a high ante of efficiency, The fly has one hundred ond forty-three toenails to each fool, and as it has six feet you eau figure up the tothl numbet of toe- nails yourself, or estimate them when the fly is promenading on your menial resetva. Hum heedlees of the sign, "keep off the grass," Then there toe fly \wheels, fly screens, fiy young men, out on tistly, fly•leaves and fly- paper. Ely -paper enjoys its largest emulation in the &unmet time. In the Winter its readers are few and its editors take a vacation, fiesides the flies enumerated above, sve must not forget time flies. The islonth. of Meninges, When the clover's in its prime, Then's the sweetest. marriage time, They the longest honeymoon Have who marry. now in June, When the earth's been wooed and won, And the 8001010es just begun ; When the daylight loves to stay, And steals half the night away ; And the moonbeams shine so deep That there eeems 310 time for sleep ; When the air throbs Nei th the gush Of the silver -throated thrush, And the soil has fat the thii11, And bursts into bloom at will, Imitating every 011010 That the skies have ewer made 1 When the perftnne, eongs, and light, Earth's fulfilment of her plight, Steal into the human heiwt, Making all the love chords start Into harmonies so sweet That there seemeth no retreat But to sin mut blossom, too, Just as the birds ancl flowers do, Circumstantial Bviderioe, Mrs, Verger (to colored sorvant)—Do yon know when Col, Yaeger moue homet ast night Sam—I donne, mum, but when I tuck his boots tot soben o'eloole day WaS wail% The Countess Tolstoi has lately visited Loudon as delegate to the Liberal Women's Federation, She is a beautiful and ttecom. plishod woman, and, unlike her lmsband, is elttrelnely fond of society. She gives up hew prefeveneo, however, and is the novel- ist's private secretary, making, typewritten copies of his prohibited stories, and cir- culating them throtigh tile mails whenever possible, There ate nine children, of whom the eldest, 11 very attractive girl nf eighteen, is liar father's most enthusiastic disciple, denying herself all indulgences, wearing the cheapest; clothing, and attempting. in all thinge to live as clul the primil ive Christians. All the family speak 131nglish, French, and Russian, and most of them are musicians, atir114111101111,1,4121MinardamiloreirsmianzamosialliatailaiMilowaratosapaffi.tr Golden Thougate for Svely Day. Aknota,y Brother' sing 11, 10114 psalm, thir hopeS3 not forlorn! After darkens', ited twilight tweaks forth Lie • Let the Med fIJO get noidilre Never 1 the !adder! Orem), the sword of the Lord, And forwent 1 Brother) up to the breath, For chrlet's freedon: Suit truth. If as, live we shall swell With the strong faith of age itita the bright hop,• of youth ; if periel" 01011 11'1.1. 11,1 WM ring the beef 01101111,, 0,01/ the 8W0811 Of (he Lord, And forward! —Norman Mashood. Tuesday --Friendellip ie 11 good deal like thine, 11 18 0017 beautiful and durable 80 long al, it hi quite whole ; break it, and all the in the ovoid. still never quite re. pair the damage, Yon may stick the pieeee tegether so that at a distance 11 looks nearly AR '31,611 as twee, Inn it will not held hot water, it is alwitys reedy to deceive you if you trust; It, and it is, On the W11010, a wm•thlees thing, lit only to 1)0 put empty on 11 shelf and forgetten there, The finer and more delicate it is the more utter the ruM, A mere aegutintance, which needs only a little ill -humor to help it up, may be coarsely' puttied like that ribl yellow basin in the closet, but tendernees and trust and sweet exchange of confidence can no more be yours when. angry words and thoughts have broken them than delicate porcelain tea 011118 which were splintered to pieces can be restored to their original excellenco.—(Lon. don Athenatun, Weltersda e— To tho weary told the worn Ten of realms where 8011.0Wri COMO 1 To the outcast and forlorn Speak of mercy arid of peace. Beard the helpless, Hoek the et rayed, Comfort oretthie, benteh grief ; With the Spirits, sword arrayed, Scatter sin and unbelief. Bo the banner still unfurled, Bear It bravely edit abroad, Till the kingdoms of the world Aro the kingdoms of our Lord. Praise the songs ef holy glee, sat n 13 of eat 1. and lest min. host. ((enema elle in poNons three, leather, Son, and Bitty chest. Wolltant Thtirsday—If faith can win, as it has won, meth blessings, 0 for more faith 1 Let Elijah teach us that if We will wait at Cod'e appointed Cherith, the ravens Neill light at our feet with bread, and dry heels of ',chides will sing again with water. I do not believe there is such a. thing in fitere universe as an utterly unheard and unheeded prayer that is breathed into floil'e ear seal, docile, sub. missive faith ancl in the mune of Jesus. 11 wo doubt this here, we will not in heaven.— Dr. Onykr. Friday— Give 00 our daily bread, wo say; And look no furtneo. than today ; And be temorrow gray or gold, Or plentiful, or ulnehed with cold; Thine be to -morrow as to -day 1 Even RR the small lard shall receive 'The food its mother gives nor grieve Lest, that to -morrow fail; so we Lifting our lips and hearts to Theo, Trust Thee for all daye we nye 1Seep us within Thy Heart that's wide ; Thy love our nest in which we hide; '1 hy thought, the wing to fold us in All night 011 the neW clay begin— The cloy for which 'rhou wilt provide. —Katharine Tynan. Saturclay—Method, patience, self -trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand, these are our immortal, nvulnerable guardians. By their strength WC are strong, and on the signal 00011810118 111 our eareev their inspirations flow to us and make the simple wise, the weak able, the timid brave, make the selfish and protected and tenderly eared fm• person strong for his duty, wise hi counsel, skilful in action, competent to rule, willing to obey. We arrive at virtue by taking its direction rather than imposmg ours. The forces are infinite. Yon must take this divine direc- tion. In the circuit cd the heavenly wisdom you share the aeoret of God. —Emerson. The Lord's Mink Parm. Lord 1Vynford stopped at North Platte, Nob., during his tour of the prairies. He seemed greatly pleased with the Wild West and intimated thab he would like to invest some money in something good. There Was a sharp young Lish lawyer in the town, whose parents had had some unpleasant dealings with Lord Wynford in the old country. This young lowyer had lived in North Platte about two years. He come there tO examine a claim he had purchased on paper. To his disap.pointment his form was nothing. but a prearm-dog town. You could. not nuse 00en sage brush on the elaim, so close together were the burrows of tin little animals. He had about given up all hopes of disposing of his land when he learn. ed that Lord Wynford Wasi looking for a good investment Then he called upon the wealthy foreigner and offered for sale what he called " the most profitoble induStry in America." Ile told the British Lord thet he had been ten years establishing a mink former, end just as the enterprise WR8 boginuing to coin money he WW1 oblig. ed to go South on account of his poor health. Ho explained how the minks were raised, how their skins were disposed of, and th; great. demand foe mink fur in this actuary. The young Irishman pledged Lord Wynford to say nothing of the dual, as his mink hum) was only known to a few who were /.11 S11111• 11117 entetprises. Then Ito drove his guest out to the prai0e-clog farm. Here an eXtenswe tract of land, destitute of trees and alive with little animals that burrowed the ground and basked like b small dog, was thonmghly inspected, The possibiltoes of furnishing the West with tnink fur in the Autumn delighted Lord Wynford, and returning to tho city he gav, $.5000 for the dog town, He (MIS it now, and the goodsformothing place is called " the Loyd's mink farm" Colors in Bottles. Tithe egnal volnmes of ohloroform, glye. ovine, a mixture of one volume strong ether and three volumes carbon disulphide, water, coltenweed oil and alcohol, Saturate the chloroform with a little weave, then seta - rate the excess. To tho chloroform thus eatttroted with water add it little Bengal red ; shako well a few minutes and filter. In the other and carbon disulphide dissolve to little iodine, In the alcohol dis00100 little Bengal green or chlorophyl from fresh green leaves, Now pour these various colored fluids btu a, clear ilint-glass bottle or other similm container just laego enough to hold them all, beginning with the ohlorotoen and fol. lowing with each in succession down to the aleohol. They should all be added eore. fully down the side of the container, and without agitate% mild, tastily, enough Inore alcohol should be added to completely fill tho ernittoiner aftev the insertion of the cork, This will give ro bottle with six sepa. rate layers of colored fluide, and presents a very pretty sight, TBLEGRAPEIO aurs, IThe kInglieli Covereinent has u.,,,in tied 018 11,vri,t1140 01 3111y 1104 :Alter e4.11,00010118 10 1,11C, t elegrephiste. The Czar, affected with the prevailing land henget., has 11(11111174 WO1'1111,1 140114 Ill 1 illi Belli,' for 1 ,000,000f. John Roth, who outdid Telmer in his eelelnated fast, died on Monday in tholeno, ille„ having passed his Otith day of 10[111 RIM ineevo, Owing te the sleet:mem in the lumber trade work is very 0,N11.13). enema the Chandiere mille, and about 700 alell are out of employ melds The Niiiiliet ISfeadeleseltio ilenouncee the diecomforts of French prisons and their bad condition an regards sanitation. Ilt, declares the Prussian system in far superior. 1,,,ight 10011, Anwriean fishing vessels 111100 80 fa,. 1118015 01,11 110811808 10 '3E41 oaf the 0011$10 Of the Maritime i'rovineeti under the pro. 3.1.110118 Of the modux eircntli, paying fees a noun ting to $1 1,403. Word 11118 been received In Ottawa that the fleet live mike of the Celumbia and Kootenay branch of the t'anadiftli Paeilie ridlway have been 11001,01 over to the coin. puny by the contractors, It is understood that an effort is being made to huluee 'lodge "'manger, of the So. preme Court, :Montreal, to leave the bench and take the leadership of Om Opposition in he Quebec Local Legislature. Smoking in Temoe. is the all but universal custom among the fashionable ladiee ef. veniee ef the pre- sent day to smoke eigarote.; both when alone and in company, The 'hostess itt ball among the nobility r(e.eives her guests with a cigarette between her lingers, and all the fair dames smoke in the pauses of Oas donee, The wife of the son of Robert Drowning, an American lady, created a profound sensa. tion in Venetian eoeiety last yea0 by declar- ing that she would net. invite ladies t e smoke at her house, and the little ;laughter of an- other Anierican lady tine,mscionsly ettered severe eritichtin upon the custom The Imaller was ViSi deg an Dalian WrMUM ef title, and in her honor a bull WU% given in the palace of the hostess. The little girl. whe yeare W30 181011 by 1100 nurse from her bed to a gallery, W1101.0 81113 oould look ilown Mtn the ball.room after the 00111 - pally bad it880.1111/10ti. S118 1001(1b1 ab 1110 111'11- 1111111 Sight for a, moment in eilence, and then asked, 111 11111611 wonder, "Where aro the ladies?" "Why, the hall is full of them, " 11.11SWerall the nurse. "Oh, no," said the child, "ell those women but mamma are smoking." A Long Tramp. An old man who tramped all the way from Halifax reached Winnipeg, Mats, on Sun- day. He 18 sixty years•old, and set ont on the lot of April for British Clolumbia. He followed the railway from Halifax, and it took him alittle over three months to get this far, a distance of 2,107 miles. He beg- eed food and shelter along the road, and manoged to steal two or throe short rides on freight trains. Ho has been fisherman all hishfe on the Atlantic coast, and is now going to British Columbio to follow the same avocation. He was not discouraged in the least by the long distance yet before him when ho reached Winnipeg, and after resting for two days he bravely resumed his journey. His object in leaving home on nth a tedious journey was to see all of Canada bee fore he died, He had never before in. his life been away from Halifax, excepting on fishing expeditions along the coast. Is Vegetarianism Possible. 0a this question Dr. Noel Paton, an emi- nent &etch physician, recently delivered a lecture in Edinburg, in which he maintained that an exclusive nomfiesh diet is possible both theoretically and ptactieally. He very wisely calls attention to ,the fact that the vegotariae mnst make a wise selection Of foods of vegetable orgin, as many vegetables are comment eImracter, and contain a very small proportion of useful nutriment. Other vegetable foods, however, soieh as pulses mul grains, contain an abundance of nutri- tive material in the most nutritinus mid easily digested. form, Dr. Paton especially tmg.ed upon the attention of the poor the folly of spending.so large an amount of their memos for expens1ve muntal food stuffs, when cheaper vegetable foods ere of at least equal value. The -Size of Royal Heads. The Prince of Wales wens bell.shoped silk hats. He pays 25 shillings each for them. He has a remarkably. even.shaped bead, the hatters say, and his size is Prince Albert Victor only takes OR. The brims of his hats are enormously ateh. ed, to take off the effect of his long face. His brother Prince Owego, takes a og. The Ein- peror of Gennany, who has to very uneven head,takes OS, So does the choke of Took. Sweet Girl. "Maria." 'Yes, Tom," "Maria—I—oh," " Yes, Tom." "Marht, do you—that is—" "Yes Tem .1 "0, will you marry mo 9" "Yes, Tom. That 10 1. 11(1 10111111 time I've said it, I knew what yon were driving at all the time" The Latest Kind in Syndicates. "Won, old fellow, you seem to be wor- ried. What is the matter?" "Oh, I am worried to death ; I am in debt," "What Are you in. debt:lunch?" "No, I don't ore large amount, hut I ,10 MVO a great molly small sums and you Imlay they are like giants, the smaller they ore tho inere annoying thoy are. I am en. deavoving to got my co editors to form syn. &este and then I will have to bow only to ono instead of such a large number." •--- Roar to Relieve Nausea. In many eases of nansert, all efforts to re. hove these symptoms by the introduction of reutedies into the stomach Rh) neavalling, but prompt velief may often be obtained by the employment of simple external measures, such as the application of heat or cold to the stomach anti the spine, ice to the back of the head 08 1:0 the threat, mustard plasters applied over tho stomach, or a, similar ap. plication to the spine, WaS 011 Austin girl 'who married at teen, 00 01at she enuld have ber golden wed. ding when it would do her some good, Painting the Pace, 'I'he art of beautifying the ounpfesessi less artifieial meane vcry ',3,1. The women of gray entiquit-y knew how It, give Llurit check the mv huti which naturo harl deiC,o1 that% n Ninweoll the prastiso ennu ed:11,t Ina eotinitoll. The skin W118 1111,1k 1,a1100118 and ele11,1 leitil ptilidee.idone, ant. then 00:17- ered with a, layer of white cheudcal vans. 10118. A 1,11101.8118(1 Mond in the sunlit of Theism ennobled. a whole animist ef betties full of perfumeries said complexion tnetlieittes, The woolen ot Athens paioteti t lannst Ives with white lead 11.1111 The poet Ovid dose:vibes yttrium, paints were tieed by the Roman matrons, and ..0mplained thin the weinen tried to imitate with comnetice the rosy eomplindon whiets health alcam could give. De also spoke of the deeeitfel pallor lent to their chreks by white lead, and of 0111.10118 methcids they bad of beautifying their eyes. Again he mentions that a pale him was a neeeseity fer every W1/1111111 who aspired to be "good i'orici." Pliny speake of a emeoction of Hour 07 peas and barley, eggs, bartshorn, de., W111011 fashionable women in Rome Ivor(' on their faces all night and part of the day for the ptupone of clearing their skim, The (ma- tfett of painting the fats, was brought te. thud and (11181111111y 131. the Romans. A fevr centuries later I 00 different salves for the 80111p10X1011 Were 80111 111 die 13-01411110 market. la modern times France has been the groat. 111111111f1181111.01. 1111,1 coo:mute of cosmetics. In England, too, the UFO of them has hoes general. In I 379 the English Parliament . found it expedient to consider a bill to On: • effect that " all winutin, without dietinetion as to age er rank, mildews US Well RH widows, who should deceive the male subjects of Hi* Majesty and mislead them into marriage' by 01011103 Of .101111 1, salve, beauty water, false teeth, false Spanish wool, corsets or padded; hips, should be punished under the prosi- sums of the low against eorcety, and .tion marriage Shall be ileelitml null." A. GC?, 1111111 Btilliiitie1111), Wilo has accurate data eon- eeriting the use of cosmetics througheut the ,nvilized world, estimates that, the toonty W111,111 American women pay every year for cosmetics would pay fer the pttinting a 117,- 00') houses et an expense of S75 per house. The Girl Who Knovrs Everything. Naturally it ion% yet; or slew friend ; but you certainly know 1101., Mid Pad RS certain-. ly you dielike her. When you dislike' peo- ple there is one thing yon should always do, and that is—look wcfi at their faults and.. make up your mind ohm you are not gob.* to fall Into them. This girl, who is quite too general to be pleasant, is the girl who, having learned something yesterday, knows everything. She makes herself obnoxious by flaunting. r. cently acquired knowledge, concluding always that the people who are 110101 are vorant ; has no hesitanoy in contradicting anybody ; she makes an en- tire luncheon disagreeable by giving her opinion on the 111.8b 111.0111.111010A1OREb forget- ting that custom makes maul; things comet of which the dictionary has no mention. She is more than certain as to dates ; she can tell you exactly what yen ought to des and she fails herself to see that she is a. living example of how disagreeable oneperson can be. Young men dread her, old ones have the utmost contempt for her ; she tosses ber head, says she doesn't care for the opinion of men. 'Well, she is losing her womanliness when she feels that way. Every girl on ht, to care for the opinion of men. S'he has er father to look up to, her brothers to be an inspiration to, and some clay, please Gods she ought to many one and make 11110. happy for life. The girl who knows everything is seldom cultivated either in mind or =miter ; she throws out her bit of informutien as tt. naughty boy would throw bricks, null the: one tired is alle0yS the one just gotten. My clear, don't get into the habit of concluding that the world at large is ignorant. Instead, make up your mind Qat it can teach ,you meth ; intelligence is never lost. Even if absolute information is not given;bythe intell- igent WORUM, the look of cultivation shows in her eyes. Centradiction and ignorance: are the combination that forms the knowing girl, and as you love everything good and goodonannered, beware of driltinginto being this type of girl. Amulets for Babies: In Ireland a belt matte of woinan's liah• is, placed about a child to keep harm loway. Garlic, salt, bread and steak are put into. the cradle of a new-born babe in Holland. Roumanian mothere tiered ribbons atoms& the ankles of their children to preserve thane from harm, while Esthonian mothers attache bite of assafoitida to the neck of their off- • spring. Welsh mothers pat a pair of tongs or es. knife in the cradle to ensure the safety of their children ; the knife is used for the mane- porpose in some parts of England. • Among the Vosges, peasant children bora at a new 1110011 are supposed to have their tongues better hung than others, while those . born at the last quarter are supposed to hove less tongue, but better retwomng powers. A daughter born eluting the waxing moon is al- wasZt; flZturrof a child in Lower Brittany - the neighl3oring women take it in charge,. wash it, Grath its joints and rttb its head' . with oil to solder its manium bones, It iss then wrapped in a tight bundle and ite lips. ore anointed with brandy to make it a lulls Breton, The Grecian mother, before. putting her child in its cradle turne three times oround before the lire while singing her favoritessong to ward of evil spirits. In Scotland it is said that to rook the empty cradle will ensure the coming of other occupants for its The London mother plows a book tinder. the head of the new.born infant that it may be quick at reading, and puts money into ; the tirst bath to guarantee its weolth in. Annie. The Turkish mother loads her child witlis amulets as soon as it is born and a small bit . of 11111d well steeped. in hot water, prepare& by previous &norms, is stuck on its fere-, head. In Spain Ole infant's face is swept with pine tree boughs to bring good hole, The Secret of Beauty. Tho secret of beauty is health. Thoso who desire to be beantitul should clo thoy am 10 restore their health if they hovel lost it, or to keep it if they IMMO it still. No ono can lay down specific rules for other , people in these matters, says the New York Lodger. The work which one may do, the, resthe must take, his baths, his diet, his ex- ereiee, are matters for individual consider- ation; but they must be aaeefullAthought and never neglootect a rule, when a person feele well he looks well, and when he looles ill ho feels ill, There Etre times. When 011 Can ipless, Withent 100king 111•0 glatnt, that the eyes aro dull and the skin is mottled, This is not a case fot something in it pretty perfumery bottle, or for lotion that advertisements praise so highly. To. have a fresh complexion and blight eyes, even to have white hands and a grateful figure, you must be well. Health and tho. happiness whieh comes with it are the time secrets of beauty.