The Brussels Post, 1890-10-10, Page 34
'OCT. 3 , 1890
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IIEALTH.
.11 prevent their reeurrenve.
B.BER TONIC.
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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.
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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,"