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The Brussels Post, 1890-10-10, Page 34 'OCT. 3 , 1890 irtiblairMrlait4renaNdat44.1.11,46.11 .10310.011MISKIrt. IIEALTH. .11 prevent their reeurrenve. B.BER TONIC. •-- - 1. Kellogg, M. 1 1., of 1/1,1 CI awl:, IN I iele , rrlaat IY twat w I thiS 0111110,1 n t 14 11, eideralde length, in an nide league, ef ebleti tho following hi ai ea:wain-etc 10,1V0 VA 1 0,031, : 11110 tilltnalol, ju often a:40,1, 13 leer hew, ficial for pereens weak frem 01,1 eaw er ether cause's mal for these 01/111,1011 an 1111011 1,000111111011,10,1 1:y physieitotee ! know that the 11. e ad twee in abet to wire : mended 111 emit 010,0i, 113' MO -11110.0), of the ! hal feat entity ; +111,1 we bave Weald of 111'al)11. ' wk. tuke beer to make them eleep, alla 1/000 to /10011 them itwelw, take it 111 the . wham. ait a pro( ((ellen again:, the void. end ! in hot. weather, to avoid feeliiig the ha at. Alcohol claim. to be a good etillaidant, • but it. really makes people ; it elatians ta, build a persen up, who» it raw 11 1111,100111i1100 1114 0,0114tittlt 1011, 11 iu 1.001,101,101111031 10 1011 11001310 to Bleep, but, it deee net, la 111.11; 1 la, 11111180 of sleeplessness ; it only nets as all i anodyne. , I It is a fallacy very 0(411111001y held taint liquere are exeellent for effi people. I although it. is militated that they are ItILli rot ! 010 young, 'file sauna argument alight le. I used, prectieally, foyer of the tobacco habit. Nearly every one saye that. toliaeco 10 very hail for boys, reel there is hardly aa. tOinl,000 11001' 140 depreved that he will tea( I, : 1118 OAV11 bOy to snielte ; yet middle aged anal old men dunk they need it, Or la least the: it dove them no harm. Now, whet clutime tekee phiee tiveen youth aml old age -which mukes a thing whielt havnifel anti p 11$0,10,04 ill yeuth- for 1801101 1 oIv,11 • butielicIal and strengthening in old ago ? In eld sir there is a nu erel 1esecning of t he bodily 1 ,e! ar, and a lowering of the vital powere. F,tty degeneration or the tissues' begins 111 creep 011. lly 11101111H of it the walls ef the blistil weesels are woulconed, and especiaally there its a fatty deposit. in the small 1110,1 vetosels of the brain, width robs them ef mtieity as well us of strung' h. A sudden rush of blood to the head tenni any caese-exeitea ment, eatission StininlaLiOn -fluty in,100 it& Inediately fatal, or et 'emit hasten d'eoole The galiyelologital effects of alcohol in any 1'01'01, 11,181 10 qtliakt,11 1110 notion of the heart flush the face, awl overcharge the 18•11111 with blood. The danger Or apoplexy then le very great, to say 111,1 hing ot other serious e.ni• sequences, Alcohol aceelm ales the Ilegete nation of thane which ha ineffient to old age ; consequently, rut aged person needs specially to abstain from stimulants he needs to 10, toore earefal than a young per- son to avoid anything which taxcs or over- loads his system. '1'he 11(1133,Cat013 of alcohol for ain add per. son, say hat the bodily machinery slow • etl down too 11111011, and niggle quielientng. Nature has pueposely pet on the brakes, because there is always danger in high preseure npen an old. machine. Certainly no engineer eientld take a nearly W11011 out engine to run n lightning express (lain. Nature pots the brakes on the hunitui machine when it bemmies enfeebled through the taking away of some of the natural ett• ergy, by making the muscles so \\mak that here shall be less temptalion to work hard, or t orun, or to do any v i (dolt thingwineli NV, ,11111 Ill1101113' bring on heart failure. !then ie it Wine 10 take Ott th. brakes which nature has put on 1 That 14' emtetly what alcoholic stimulation aloes. It pawalyees the nerve eentves of the brain, which control awl re- gulate the blood vessels, and they relax, and the heart runs 1110110 11.1 tte, rapid a ratty, It is like a chick front which the pendulum weight haa been taken; it W13180011 run down. 'Then what alcohol really (lees for itti pereou 1i1 to hasten the day of Ms death, driving the human maellinery at a tette in• compatible with safety. Ills reeietive pow- ers are already low, and he 1100114 to Coll. serve his forces by well regulated, peaceful habits al life, His food and dein]; should be of the simplest kind, altd he should avehl all manner of excitement, and all overtaxing of the mind or tho body. 1. ie doubtless true, that in many inetanees, 1 e blidreit leen ev till an egil lege ie tenaleney 11111 I ellrell Of i lay tlei intelligent C•000 11011 Imre- ia (4 ef jeirente whereby their boalily weak- , . ::$014 IlrOn101.111,;11)1311,1111,1 1110,1` 00111.0 1101•Volln ,;•,141/11 greatly ehangoal fee t he bolter, even to etate of succeseful reeistetiew of 1 lie t 1(11,0 oiled evil, All 103,11•111 el are 011(ler 11 NIT ions responsibility in respect to all info Len) Irwating the present good. health. and future \yell 1;014 of their natural ollepring, We Eat Too linoh. A recent writer n an lenslish medieril journal shows conclusively that, 1131 ile cer. fain clesses, owing to the ste est; of peverty, cannot obtain the nutriment they madly need, the majority of people eat too inuelt, Fortunately IL moderate degree of 0801' ettte fug, does not appear to be markedly injurious The digestive apparatus, though compelled to do mere -work thitn is really not:emery, proves equal to the demands Intulo upon 1 and does not break duwn or get seriously out of order. This is bat one illustration out of warty that might be givett, showing how the marvellous mechanism th. human body adapts iteelf to cendieions 111111.0 01. les itlmormal, It. is lucky for the average num that physiological limit aro not of 11 etloa Per - sic inflexibility. He can violate them to a limited extent. without incurring the penalty though ho finite that, if he goes beyond. that point, the punishment ie swift atla sure, Careful investigations prove that the daily "closeructiveinetabolism,"orm plain words, the inevitable waste and wear of the body, wheili lathe measure of the work it dace, varies butlittle for different wicupittions. A diet of from twelve to fourteen ounces of ehemically dry food, i f the ingredients are in proper pro- portion and readily digestible, is sufficient to keep the average worker in good health. One pare of nitrogenous to seven or eight parts of notemitrogenous food is formal to be a heir oombinetion, A. very small tuldillon of stim- ulants appears to -increase the amount of possible work but moderately free drinking diminishes it. Women eat less than nfen, after making allowance for difference in weight and work. Whore a man eats nine- teen cameant, a woman of Ow same weight and equally active habits eats only fourteen or fifteen ounces. This latter allowance, as will be seen from tho figures given above, is more than enough for a hard-woeking man, oven when all moat ie excluded from the dtet. It is no uncommon thing, however, for n, of average size and activity to eat double this amount, or from bwenty-five to twenty seven mimeos of 01;00001111y dry food in a day, Wo are inclined to think that excess in eat- ing is least 110 10Sn 001011100in this country than in England, Tho abundanee, variety mid cheapness of food aro naturally fovor- able to this over indulgence. Tho palate is tempted to iutemperance by appetizing dishes, whon it would be fully satisfied with a normal amount of plain and wholosotno food. aonertilsiOne. Not frequently cionvuleions occur in infancy in consequence of some internal difficulty of a, temporary neture, tend atee never repeated in after life. Bub Where they aro of frequent occurrence in childhood there aro grounds to fear that tho offerer will sooner or inter bee come epileptic, Indeed, a large proportion of those troables may be traced to the fro - I -money ef infantile convulsions. It is very difficult to discriminate between those (wetly attacks, whioh are simply iweidental, and no1 likely to reette, and those which aro line the beginning of a hfealong epilepsy. Hence, ite 18 always requielte that the utmost care THE DEVIL'S ARMY. • - tn. Awful! Experlenee en the Wifils or e'en - teal mese ea iv) 'Di rant it tits. have just returned front an expedition into the interim. of Yucatan and Campeche, daring which 1, met with an relventure awful and unarmed that I think my friends !II San Francisco will be 11111011 interested in • ascount of it. In Ole latter part of May last T (fettle to Central Amerioa from Sall Francieco nt the request of the Munich Society for Prehietorie 'bastard, of which 1 ten 11 number, to hivesti. gate the ancient ruins which cover this mum tl'S, with a view of obtaining, if possi1,10, some clue to the period Lo which they be- leng. I got the clue I 0003111 for from some Ileroglyphics among the Conquestador ruins, ., according to my them. aro about s,000 years old, but, of course, a *white proof no1 available. I had as le guide a most intelligent half breed, Manuel Bosom, and he informed me that, according to the trigli- tions of his Indian progenitors, there were some mine of etill greater antiquity some 1 10 miles to the northward, near the Rio Seca, Indeed, be said that this dry banill wail 01100 the bed of a river that had been 1 ;trued from its 00111%0 by the inhabiLants of these 0/1,1110 ruins, Thinking that I inighe possibly lind some corroboration for my theory among these earlier relies of the lost race, I started to find them, accompanied by my faithful guide, it Wan very hard Iravel- ling through the jungles, and we made hard- ly fifteen miles at day. The difficulties were eittltiplied by the enormous intraber of snakes tied poisonous insects that infest Ode notion. We lost one of our pack mules through a bite or a sting of some sort on the third. day. On the afternoon of the fourth day AVO 1$1111110d ill IL little (giteting, clear except, for grass. This we soon burned off. 'We had just needled. wipper, mull was sit- ting at the baeo of a tree smokieg my pipe, when all enormous 00100111a 01e1110 0)11 of the grams into the cleared circle. Ho Wall IllAnitiVely 1110 largemt specimen I had et er seen, ttmt R. the shutting rays of the sun taught hint I notiewl a curious dull, reddieli Eno down his back, I regretted that I had not the means to presevve it, hut 'Manuel settled my regrets by crushing it with a billet of wood. It heel lewdly ceased moving when another and equally large 0110 appeared at the entl of I he burned patch. I did not fear them much as I wore heavy leather leggings reaching to my hips. "We have made a bad camp, Manuel," I ; "there scent to be many tarantulas." "One place is ohm( ta as bad an another," he toiswreed in Spanish ; they usually go by twos," He appeared more troubled, however, than hie eareless tenswee Hymned to intlicate, IMO )3'11110 I killed 1110 second unwelcome visitor he began to poke around in the grass with along branch. 1 to uncovered more of the great spiders and killed them: -when he turned around there were fully half a dozen ef then, in clear space. They fastened on to the dead ones and seemed to sack their blood. '''We mnst get out of this," screamed. the Indictee At this moment fun remaining inule began to :draggle and kick. lfe soon broke his picket repo and dinappeared. 'filen I be- came aware of a steady rustling in the geese, Mora tarantulas clone out. "I. have heard. at It from the Indians," cried my guide. "1 t is a devil's army. They say that the people who lived in the dead cities were killed by them, and that no ono can live there now. They come by thousands, like red. ants, and leave nothing alive eviler° they pass. I thought: it Wan a equaw story. We must fight them with fire. Ho seized. a flaming brand from the camp fire and yelled to me to do likewise. lle tried 1 o fire the grass on all sides of us, but where the trees grew it wail too rnnk and wet, and the fires we started would not go. Meanwhile the spiteful spiders became more end more mm1000118. I crush- ed ono al lenat of them. every stop I took. Many of them bie at my 1033111gs, and hung; there by their fangs. We turned our brands to crushing the tarantulas, but they seemed to coma thicker WO 00111(1 drive them off. "1 ion bitten," I hoard the Indian scream. I passed him my flask. I could do nothing more for him, and deoppiug. rey stick 1 started to run. Every step 111 t110 pass seemed to bring me into W013310 quarters. I tried every direction, but they seemed verywhere. nollood that thoy wore in the bashes and on (11031110s, so high that my loggingis woffid not protect 100, mul peesent- ly found myself back at the camp. There at least they could not reach me 1111110111 climbing up. The ground A13119 perfectly black with them. Poor I\ lannel. was amen 031 his knees and the gra (Lb 1111300t8 were all over 11110. He seemed Grimy, and I have no doubt his mind was nearly gone with terror and the pain of tho bites. oonld barely keep tho tarantulas from getthig above my leggipgs. Suddenly it °oeuvre(' to mo that might find. sefety in ono of the trees. I know that I would soon he exhausted if I remained among the black beasts and that would end it. In ft mo- ment had my arms about a, small tree: I crushed elle insects that clung to Iny logs ageinst the hark as I dragged and scramb- led .A. dozen feet hom the ground 111000 Wan beatifeh from which AVO had 11003 sows 00101 game I had shot!, I pulled myself up 011 10 111in bra11011, Nall got the first moment's rest 1 had had since the tarantulas first appeared. I had hadnotimo to think before this, but now I began to matzo what hadhappened. It soonnalinoro Mos nighemare than anything real. I looked down and almost fell off my bentieh at the horrid sight below me, irly Indian was now fairly on tho ground. I could not see him for the poisonous things that cover. ed lmt the irregular black mass weig. glee'. and squirmed like a woundod snake, an ea 11110W he Wan not yet out of hie agony. On every 01(10 wore mom tarantulas eungri. ly searching for mere victitns. Their crushed fellows were almost torn to pieoes, so fierce were they ht their hunger. They NV000 all enormous; some of them were as big as turtles, end:when the sun struck them I could soo the red line that distin- guished 1110111 f von) the nongregariotts imee- los that are familiar in ether places, They crawled over (me another in their desire to find something intowhielt to sink their fangs Poor Manuel's writhing body Wan the ob. jective point, of most nf them. They fought. fiercely for a epot of flesh where they omuil etrike, and ovory movement of the still EN - THE BRUSSELS POST, Mg 111.111 swanned tar teak. them yet 111010 111Tt,P, aid .1 take Ine ae, long 11, notiee all this ao; it 11000 to (10Ueril,0 alltl 1 018111 $/LAV 1 WAS 001 yet safe !rem t he horrible fat a; elate luel overtaken guide. The 111,14/.01,4 10 01111V1 the 114,0, 1 hough not in any eametaterehle number,: at fleet, britelied them demi with a email launch, and Lime eland were hurt at. all wore inimealliticly eel upon lay their hallowe, reeil al of theme things may 11)100, hat 1 1111V0 110 pen to aletearibe the awful hor- ror of it all. There were ;theta tam 11.111)f of daylight left me. I knew title, fuel wendered what 1 enithl (10 In the dark. Then 1,.theno,or.1 reading that enaltem ,er centh pedes would not ITOSH a hair nme, and 1 theught, 0110 perImps the tame rule might cipply to tarantulas, game witt; winging from the branelt by a horsehair riata, awl it took me 1) very few inintitem to 0111, 1110 rahltitel 1O080 111111 W11111 1)10 repo about the trunk lied below me. Pret ty NO011 1110111 Of the big spidern came up. Alalltlel Wan (111101 110W 11.1 -last and they welded another My hair rope dial some good, They could 1101 81V111111 over it! in each nmulters Unit i cou1,1 not sweep them lack with toy branch. How long stayed there lighting the ineeets hack I ,10 na know, But th. light 11.1. ruaing when I noticed a commotion among the tarantulas. At the einne time I of tser ved a number of blue -1 ;lack wasps darting ()hunt. 1 reeognizeil Henn lie belonging to the Hymenoptera family and realized that they were the tenant ula hawks of which. luul read. In ten 11111111We the four or live Wanpli had become hundreds, and five minutes later there was noe tarantula to be seen, exeopt the numerous (lead ones et the foot, of the tree. Manuel's body, swollen and discolored by the venom of the spiders, stared up at me. I waited all 110110 and then came down. It took ine eight (lays to reach Nevada, and Lhe way I did not see a slitgle tavitutulit, Palmistry. The most, important lino is, of course, the line of life -that lino sweeping, around the base of the thumb from 111(1 wrist, Long, clear, direct in its course and well colored, it, denotes long life, good health and a good character and disposition. Pale and broad, it indicates ill.health, inetlucts and it weak, envione disposhion. Thick and reel, it betrays, violence and brutality. The ages et which events have happened. may 1,c told by the points at which they have marked the line. rite shorter the line the shorter the life ; and (this is rather stertling) front tho point at width the line terminates in both hands may be accurately prealheed the time of death. kcal: in the due is always an illness; if in both hands, there is always a grave danger of death, especially if the low. er branch of the line turns in toward the 111111111X Rays acress the hand from the 111110 of the thumb always denote worriea, and the ege at which they micur is alwaym %hewn by the point at which the rays ter- minate, The " line of head," which is the next great line in the hand -it extends from between the themb end forefinger across to the third finger---elleulal be clear and well closeel, without fork, break or ramification. Pale anal broad, it indicates feebleness Drina: of intellect: but if it is loug end strong, it denotes self-control. The third line is the lino of the heart -the line sweeping from the furefieger aeross the hand. If it goes right across, it indicates 08003381V0 idlectiou, resulting in a morbid jealousy. If it is chained, the subject is an inveterate flirt. Very, very; thin and bury, it is the eign of mullet.. The fourth grettt line in the hand is -bet of fortune, which risee through the whole hand from the \ vrist to between the second and, third lingers, If it starts from the line of life, it shows that one's foetathe resulte from one's own deserts; rising from the wrist, it is always a sign of good luck, Twisted 01. ragged at the base, it indicates ill -luck in early life. The line of health comes front the lase of the lino of life. Clearly traced, it seldom exists in it. band ; but, when it is foetid, it is a eign of good health, gayety and success. There exists, of cotuge, in every band lines whieh 1101 come undue ityn of these rules ; hat the expert in cheirosophy 11,18 no ditlieulty in reading such by reference to their poss. Lion with regard to the principal lines. Cleaning Carpets, Perhaps the most thorough 100y to eleen n. carpet, eepecially a Brussels carpet, is to lay it on st 0101111 grass plat, ftwe down, and beat it as it lies there. .After heing beaten thoroughly, it ean be tliagged by the cornere ovee the graus, which win. brnsh Mr all ad- hering dust, 10111 the carpet will be cleaned in the most approved manner, To beat a carped on a line is but au imperfect way, and the work is not as well done, unless by the most patieet beating, besides not hoing OH easy es the lirstenentioned way. The so-called carpet -beating machines in Imo in this eountry a00 barbarous in their treat. moist of Ounce floor coverings. With per- haps, Wittily °there, our carpete aro tumbled about. in a. great cylinder, until they are folded in a thousand ways, and returned, in- stead of the still', firm carpet sent out, soft, limp articles, that have lost half their wear- ing qualities, In England, Ireland, and Scotland, the prudent-, housetvife compelled the carpet - beaters to discard the rotary carpet destroy- er, and automatic henting machines ins) 11018 used, which beat carpet as near like hand work as is possible for machinery to do it. if living 111 a city it -will pay to employ men to take carpets out into the conntry and boat then), as above described, After com- paring results carpets( Will 1100013 be beaten by maohinery Again, don't let carpets be cleaned on the floor, as is being praticed in some Otiose That slimy compound that is brushed on the carpet is only soft soap, nothing 01130, color. ed and perfumed, perhaps, with sassafras, it is true that it makes the carpet look clean, but ib is well known that more or loss of that tiottp stays in the back of the carpet, Mewing worked its way through, along the sides mid, in the miners. .A physician, or any one versed in chemistry knows that this soap which stays in the cin pet is resolved into common grease, attracting myriads of flies, eitepcit bugs, and insects of all kinds, besides decomposing and filling the 13001115 with gases, from this clisgusLing compound of grease, wool and dim. The Ear of dorm A farmer went; with his little sob into the field ono day to see if the 0001) wore ripe. "Hee, father," said the boy, "how high them cars hold their heads, they are surely efp , but those that bow down almost to the ground 1111101110 bad." The father picked two ears and said 1 "Foolish child, look here. These ears that hold their heads so proudly are dry and withered, these that bow down are the finest m When the head ir held on high The brains Insfsio POOT and dree TUB CAPTAIN'S REVENGE, BLBOTRICAls a- es rom, u esreatiti(ig- se hbatb Anew( el I The following alai...lade givee an int ereet Milne the ilagfetraties, Parade of German troops The Anthill' 111g i"ight (1" 1'1'1..0414's e"'"'"" . 13111 in. Birmingham, and German Emperors. Tim McKinley , tion w.t.1 the sate ay ,111.,,t,ou many yents A. grand parade of the troops engaged in 1 fin' 775 "s"1110 P'111',1 the army netnoeivres wao ledal the other ''14!" '!"4"""ini". "fte . . te eritisea from tima. ti1110, ill 01,10r 14, prIP 11.11 Oar trada and dna reto., the enemy. lt happened unluckily t hat be let itrucd ft:8111 ono of his /anises no ,1 Send:C.1 , $1 110 11:01 10ft 11:), 1ally 11,,n1 .11, 1,0 111011/010 slot heard t be ship s \ slie ha,4 (lied down morning neer la:edit:tale in the presenec Esr perm, Willis's' and Francis Joseph, the K hag of 140.3lotiy, Chunedlor von Capri% i allfl Kalitoky. At the eamelmaion of the youth( Emperor William withered the eili• eers ill a group and addressed ,1,11:•134 00111, tweeting their efforts in the field. Hie Alajesty Om:liked the Emperor Eremite looepli and the King (if Saxony fer al told. Mg the manrettvres, and sitid he hoped what they had 00011 111411 vouvineed them that the army 001111/1/111111 I1H 0111(40111 11111101' 1110 leader - 011111 all 1.1 was under Emperor William I., thus furnishing a guarantee of the continual solidity and etrength of the brotherhood of arum. fie then called for cheers for the Anetrine Emperor, which were entletisiasti- cially given lay the officers, The meeting of the Austrian and Comm Emperors and King. of Saxony in Silesia has caused much editorial runineeing of histories and nitich moralizing over buried 0.111111081 - ties. ICaiser Wilhelm could. afford. to be quakes and for giving had there been need for such display, as the ineeLing piece AVILS within a mile or two of the battlefield of Hohenfriedberg, and he slept in the castle in which Frederick tho Great supped after in- flicting thud terrific defeat upon the Aus- trians, But the meetings and banqueto were not marred by ill-timed roininiseonees. The two emperore fell into each 00100's arms and kiseed with fervor and cordiality, AA•bich to outward appearance might lave boon begotten of centuries of national and anceetral friendship. They led opposite 001010 ill the sham fight and played at soldiering as though tiadowa had never been fought, while the Mg of Saxony looked. 00 happy that no one could have dreamed that he took the wrong side in 1860, and seared in ceneequence. Each evening the monarehs dined. together, eating oil' gold. and silver plate, and drinking much wine out of tine old Bohomianglasses. Itlevas very nnticeable that all were inuell more at ease than upon former similar occasions when prince Bis- marck used to be present. (len, N on Caprivi had no share in the subtle diplomacy which nearly twenty.five years ago led Austria te humiliating defeat end almost te rifle, anal nearly cost the King of Saxony his throne. The Emperor and King were there. fore peeuliarly affable thwart' him, and talk- ed with hint freely and frequently. The Osman who lost Mollie) when the Turk- ish frigate foundered in Japanese waters has been taken to be Otsman Pasha, hero of Plevne, who defeated the Iluseians in three pitched battles and WU taken prisoner W11011 Pleven. fell, This is erroneous. Osman who pv11011011 was a Vice -Admiral of the Turkish fleet, son-in-law of Hassan Pasha, Minister of MILL'ill0. He eves First (laptton of the ill-fated lertogroul. Among the Where who perished by th% disaster were a number of students irom the Turkish School of Marino. The London 8tatularri says: " The con- sumers of tin plate in Birmingham and titalfordshire are alarmed not only at the rapid advance which has taken place in tin plates during the past 111011111, but also at the diflieuhy in obtainiug sup -plies. The peiuoipal Welsh houses are so Intsy complet- -tee( orders for the American market, in anticipation of the McKinley Toxin' bill com- ing into force, that they are refusing con- tracts for delivery before Christmas, and Birmingham firms find themselves unable to secure oven an assortment of goods ex- cept through some of the 8thifordshire houses who are not yet fully employed. The prices of common steel coke plates have advanced in a few weeks about 3 per emit, The local merchants wbo manufacture nitraLes both for home and export exc. careful, however, not to augment theirstockstis they anticipat e a sudden collapse in the demand and prices when the new tariff, which Nvill rise duty to 1 1 per cent. per box, conies into force. In the fee° of tho enheneed duty it is consid- ered that the American trade will 1/13 seri- ously crippled. WIRBLBTS, Cholera hail broken out among tho Italian forces at Alassowah. It is stated Thence %morel: hes Laken a villa at St. Remo far the winter. '.111e Engliele underwritere have given up ILE, loot the ships Lord Raglan and Oreille, The ironclad Sardegna, the hugest vessel in tlso Italian navy, wits launched at Spezzia on Saturday, Eighty tulle manufacturers et Calais have locked out 5,000 employes for demanding. higher wages. 'Phe official report, of the loss of the Turk. ish man-of-war Ertagroul says 587 persons were drowned and 66 saved. .A series of murders, supposed to lave beeu committed by Indians, is reported from the neighbourhood of 'Santa Fe, An explosion of gas took plum on 'Friday itfternoon in a colliery mew NVilkesbarre, Pee, and live men were burned to death. 10 lily wati•er, 81,131 itt 01,h,r to I Prldr0 '1130 captain on 11111,1111g wide:weal llor 11 W11:101111•US U11:1 alleetion, This, ati 11e1 e \vere many spectators I,y, ga1 e great. offence IA1111 Wan 01)113:111011$1 al) Rot Of 1111100011,•y 1111,1 it flagrant profanation of the S01,10011. " The next day, therefore, he MHO HUM - 111011e:1 before the magistrate, who, with many severe. relnikee and pious exhortations, or- dered 1,1111 to 1)(1 publiely whipped, 'ffite captain stifled his itulignation and resew. merit as in evil as possible, and ail 110 1)11111011. went from the frequeney td it, was not altemleal with any great degree of ignominy or disgrave, he mixed wit 11 the I,est company was well received by them, vand they were apparently 300(1 Ira:11118, At 10113111 his time at 010 8131.1,1011 expired end he woe re- called. Ile went, therefore, with seeming coneern to take leave of his worthy friends, and that they might aapend (me happy day together before their filial separatiug, he in - lite(' the pt huts\ 1 magistrate end eelectmen to dine with him on board hie eltip mem the tiny of his departure. They accepted the twel nothing could be mere joy. ons and convivial than the entertainment which he gave then, "At length the fatal moment arrived that Wan eeparate them ; the anebor wasapeak, the :Milli Were 1111111810(1 and nothing more was wanting hut the signal t a, get under way. The captain after taking an affectionate - leave of his worthy friends, uceompanied them upon deek, where the lwatswaiu and ((row were in readiness to receive them. He them thanked them afreelt for the eiviliti:s they had ehown him of which he said he should retain an eternal remembranee, anal to which he wished it had been in his power to have made a more adequate return, One point of eivilit y only reinitineal to be adjuet- ed between them, whieli as it was in his power, so he meant roost justly torecompense them. Ile then reminded them of what had passed, tont ordering the crew to pinion them, hail them brought one by one to the gangway, where the boatswain, with a eat• °mule -tails, laid on the back of each forty stripes MVO one, They were then, amid the shouts and acclamations of the crew, shoved into their boats, and the captain, immedia- tely getting under way, tailed for England." --(Cassell's Magazine. Earthquake Parties. Tito crcdnlity of the human mind was prettily illustrated by he world. of fashion m 1750. A smart shock ol earthquake had startled all England in February, and NA3110 8110000110d by a more violent one 111 the following 'The consternation wasI generel, and Bishops mul clergymen made the event the subject of numerous sermons homilies, and 0511nel:diens, while it is on record that a, country quack reaped agolden harvest by selling eastlegnake pills, Then arose a crazy -minded life goartIsman, solemnly predicting diet a third and special- ly fatal shock wonld 00car on April Tho polite world, as it is called, took fright, and on the evening preceding the fatal day the roads out of Lorelei), wile+ the earthquake WWI 10 11110 rides, wore theonged with vehicles, though the bewspapere threatened to publish "an exact list of all the nobility and gentry who have left or shallleave t his place through fear of another carthimeke, The ladies wrapped themselves in "eerthqualre gewns".--warm gowns intended to be worn while sitting out of doors all night, Not a few persons spout tho might in Hyde Perk, sitting in their mulches, and playing cards by the light of tho moon, There ia parson so found of money that cis said, a flop laying a. bill he walks home wall Mtn, so as to be near, the money as lo»g Its possible. London Society, The eccentric aggregation of humanity known ns London society is alwayit on the lookout for a 110AV craze. At one time it runs wild over profe,sional beauties; at all. 0 11013 11010 it MVOS about savage chieftains from Africa ; to -day the ttawzle.haired, hun- gry -eyed :esthetic occupies its attention ; to- morrow it will be melting to alo honor to a repentant Magdalene, says the Illustrated Ameriean. Not long ag0 high-born midd- ens who heel danced until the early hours of t'lle morning, would be up again betimes scabbing the floor of It favorite church, and thus depriving same poor woman of the means of earning an honest penny, But most of them proved weak-kneed -Telltale. they got that disease known as houeemaers knees -anal wearitel of their work, They wauted something new. The 3,111/1113, 8011$ equal to the demand, A pamphlet appear. ed, called the " Cry of Outeaet London," depicting ill vivid colors the horrors to be seen in the shuns of the great metropolis. " Slumming" beeatme the fashion. Men anal women of education and refinement paid house-to-house visits to those low districts of London where misery and crime flourish as they do in DO other city in the world. But the craze died out, but comperatively few of these smokers for novelty aro left at their posts in the slums. The Salvation Army then stepped in, and, by means of its marvellous system ef organization has, in 0 few years, (lone menisci -8 in helping to amyl. iorate the shacking condition of the London poor. The Bible Tested by Science, Tint if seientitie method, operating in the region of hist ory, of philology, of areluvology, in the course (11 the last 30 or -to years, has become thus formidable to the theological dogmatist, what 1111133 not ne said about scieneifie method working in the province of physical science? For, if it be true that the canonical Scriptures have imounerable points of contact with civil history, it is no less true that they have mimosa tts many with natural history ; and their accuracy is put to the test as sevet ely by the latter as by the former, The (1013111 of the present state of the heavens initl the earth is a problem which lies strietly within the pre. rime of a pliyeical eatience ; so is that of the origin of 1111111 among living, things ; so 10 that of the physical changes which the earth has undergone since the origin of man t so is that of the mirth of the various races and nation3 of mom with all their 1111101105 of language and physical conformation. Whether the earth moves 0011nd the suu or the eontrary ; whethee the bodily and mental diseases ol men and animals are caused by evil spirits 1,1. ; whether there is sueli an agency as witcheraft or not-- all these are purely scientific questions ; and to all of them the canonical Scriptures profess to g1ve true answers, And though nothing is noire common than the aseumption that these books come into conflict only with the spun. Wive part of twalett phystea se 011t11, 110 RS0111111111011 01111 hive less foundation.--tPro. fessor Huxley. DT DILTBESS, A tarte bah ship ruts tato San reaming,- reerl bte texnerieuve to a Merin, Sex 141,1341,184311 Sept, 24. -The British ship Ventura putAn here last evenb, in dis- tress. The Ventura sailed from tore for West Port, Ireland, on September 19. She !encountered burricene. Every thread of ;Can VILS Wan W111113011 to fragments, and an 0110011101ln AVAVO over a hundred foot high passed over the vessel, Everything movable was washed away. Two beets, the rails, and stanchions were torn clean off. The iron door ef the leo cabin was Imrst 1,8 if by a battering ram and the 011.1)111 tilled With AWL - ton Paul Velem able seamen, and John Smite, a Hailmalter, were swept Overheard, Ills shipmates saw Sonata (dinging to apiece of broken boat, lint mold not help him. The waves grow 110/3V1013 1110 ship suddenly turned over (01 her side, leaving only the weather bilge above the sea. Several liotws later the wind began to blow front the op- posite direction, and the vessel partly righ ed, The einglierail road eyetem ha:. ;appeared again. '1'llin time it hie. the italvenhige of' being thaeigned for 1 la, lislr Of (aleetrie gamer, melt:la/1y of t let hit Wart. Mosinee.' I ale aiga.o.. la,: of the system are time aVe ailed. T1113111 111 111, 11.1114 of 11$ ;heti pilesS 0.114 light 11000 . 00/111/111Aul With lit,. 3,10% zit 011 11101 0 il,•A ill 1181', 11,11•1 iln llalltlill0n$ anti 0,10131 i V0110, , int nhar eatrves and maven( grades al e 1 et y 111110 1 ill it), favor. A eleart. 1,Ni:station eh'. voted trash has leen ereered in St. 1.01illt, Wilioll eanir ea a sundl model truck eapable of seating two passengers. 0110 Datil) rail and tu (.. guide rails are 11004. 11,3: termer lea. ing sulaporeed by posts and ameglite. 'I'lle main wheel ef the truck, ivIda 11 ie grooved, resin on the main ;nil, while smaller groov- ed wheels, supportml front crossbars, fit ill 1 111, guide rails tuel poetically ltedi- the ear to the traels. Ilea ear ill impelled by um el- eetric motor, so eonstruaated that the weight io equelly balanced on the truelt frame, and au automatic deviee equalizes the weight tin the centre, naking 1 1 entirely centrifugal ' end obviating all toline friction. 1 - . The English nwuntexturers have been slow to even them:tele-0e of the advantagee of the 1 eleetrie light in their fautories. One firm, - however, whielt has done so gives no tin- ' qualified opinion as to the result; On being iapplied to hy a leading English electrical. Jammu,' for its experience with the electric , light compared with gag, it says : " 'The ' light, is preferable to gas on account of the almost perfcet immunity from tire, and the coolneas anal purity of light. The elightest tliffeeence of color or ehade is easily detect- ed ander the eleutrie light, which could not possildy be done if gas were used. 'limn again, the pure state of the atmosphere has unproved the etamina of the operatives, winch is a valuable eamsideration." The tests of the Ferranti mains, the pro- gress of whealt ie being watelted with so intelest eleetricians all over the world, are new being made in London. Over a. utile hes been leaded at the full pres. sure in one length, and current to a small amount, suflicient 11; actuany light lamps through it, has been sent along this length. The tests ittlopte,1 1110V0 been eltd,omle aid careful, mid comprise graduated ests with potentials of 1 0. 20, 100, e0o, 1 moo, 2,500, lo,(100, and 120.00u volts. The work is pro,. messing rapidly, end in all probability the results will soon be made public. It has been remarked, as shouting whet a powerful element of health the electric light is, that the eetieral health of those who nee it improves,iletir appetite :mil their ability to sleep increawa, ana the visits of the doctor become less freamente This is espevially apparent hi the statistics of the attendance of worIchig people in factories and other places. Io the savings bank in Queen Vic- toria street, London, where 1,2110 persons are 1.111plOyell, absences from illness have been eo far reduced that the extra labor gained is said to have paid for the electric light. The influence of artitheal light on the eyes has also a very important sanitary bearing. It has been asserted that the injury to the eyes, of which the growbag short- sightedness of the day is but one result, is due to the heat raye aiia not to the light rays. If that be so, the eleetrie light isless injuri- ous than any other. If the eyes are exposed to the strong light of the arc lamp its ultra- violet rays 11800 painful effect, but no one has ever complained of the infilionee of a steady glow lamp upon the sight, and it ig poseible to reaul and write for many. hours by fsliteilgi,alelight without experiencing the least An English paper says : " Cfsnalty we look to America for the biggest things on earth, hut, strange to say, although the Americans arn the most extensive vsers electricity,. the meet powerful artitieial light in exist- ence is the property of the English tffivern- It tent, and isto be 1011101 iu the Isle of Wight. The lamp referred to is that of the light- house of St. Catherine's Point, where there. is alee, a powerfnl fog horn. The plant has, three engines of 36 -horse power each. Two of these are used for \working the dynamos and the other for the fog horn. The current. is conducted hy AViV01 across a roact dived from the dynamos to the lamps, theve being no ateetimulators The light is ob- tained froin a carbon lamp of special pat. tern. The ordinary light is egnal to three. million candles, but st light of six million candle power can be and has been ob- tained. It is impossible for any 0110 W110, 11110 1101 00811 it 10 imagine the wonderful brilliancy of the light, but S01110 idete maybe formed heal] the feet that it can be dis- timely seen forty -live miles wily, and that. at the Needles, fourteen miles distant, it is, quite easy to read very fine print by means of the reflection. On ono side of the lamp mem is a quantity of veil. tine It glass for repairing the windows brokeu, not by storms se ninth as by wild ducks and sea birds which are attributed by the light. A singular feature of the light -house tower is a, plummet and line hanging from the ceiling of a lower chamber, the plummetpointing to le emit .11 the floor. This is for the purpose of enabling Ow mon in charge to toll when the tower es out of the porpontherther. The. lighthouse Wan 116113 on cm under eliff,, formed by a gigantic landslip NA'111011 oe- cured in 170e, and some portions of this. cliff are still slipping. The letest paten-ta of Prof, Billut Thom- son cover inventions of groat practical value. 000 of them is for the transmission of powete for long distances by means of alternating currents, the notent ial of current being so. 111311 as to materially reduce the cost of ' wire. Another invention is a kind of elec. tricot tow horeo for exerting a largo quan- tity of power for a moment; In the starting of cars. When a ear is far from a station or 011 a grade IL heavy current is required to 111000 it, and 1 ()supply th is storage betteries aro placed at different points along the line. These batteries, 0100311 of small capacity, ate made capable of quick dischorge, tho object being an extra supply of current at special moments, A number of l'hilitdelphia physicians and suegeons have organized au clecteto.theres sneiety for 1110 discussion of gum. tions of electricity combined with medicine mul surgery. The main objeot of the soot. ety is to recluee the amount of empiricism With which the practice of eloetro.therapeu., ties luts hitherto frequentlyboon associated, mut to induce regularly certified practition- ers to take: up the subject can a seientifie basis. °miens, "Wen, are you going to marry 'Estelle?" 11.1,,,o, I wont to see her father and he gave me the refusal of her." Another 'riling. "Dia yon tell Skittles that I Was an ift- &mums liar ?" "No, I ! not. Quito tho rovers°, In fuels 1 said you wore a famous ono,"