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The East Huron Gazette, 1892-05-12, Page 2• 9nnua1 Bep rise Iner- ,' and Elk 'ianeo®v; Furnish( Work t Bank t;ta The annti General wa day. It st< offices in the 8,061, bein€ number in, 1890. The i, ed by 767 to., has been in< 27,152.54:3 ies and Man in mail route creased from umbia also the mileage 5,991. Out furnish they the departii the premier] offices as a number of t was 18,675 rate of mail Ontario and estimated nil Dominion NI 20,300,000 ; culars, book 000 ; of then 000 letters, 000 newspap< In 1890, m miles of rails was 12,121; daily service as follows : P. R. , 4,200 Edward Islay 'antic, 422; total daily s company's set From the 1 January, 189: tween Vancot of Hong Kon and 20,112 m packages amo In January, a direct mail B., and Demes India islands, Government. of to a considi doubtedly bei regularity of t' Tot Toronto, fa. Canada, furnis work to the de age of letters delivered in T Montreal is ha ton comes thin During the f Post -office Sas 147,672, and in withdrawals S: X77 in amours 44.02 and the fhere were 32,006 closed. remaining open was 111,130, ai ;o depositors lige amount at (195.44. A classificat ?luring the yea following resu 610;26,427 fre 621 up to $50 ; 7,965 from 610 up to $400 ; 40'. from $601 up t $1,000. For the year gross postal re• an increase ove year of 6151,27 Lame period wa $80,044 over th The increase and a half per expenditure is per cent., so th increase in mt the expendttur In a large de with a business great railway 1; Pacific, but int the backwoods, the Arctic ocea ent how greatly depends upon those to wbon operations is en co-operation, i White, the dep tends his thank inside and outs THOSE 11L Further Repo: lib Has Germany guiding balloons authorities agrc rolntionized, at _ ane of the most It looks, indeed, run. The Pall 'that is known ti It is reported • rands almost en cress of Thorn, s frontier, that it f'he balloon is fu ;rbc search lights 3pec ially the st ;he River Vistula and Yubitsib, sig ed fires the resul9 the evening of M Warsaw saw a 1 right over their c of light from an which the aeronac After remain* in the morning, t1 ty course: The loon was observed station -at Pronska ung later overthel and the town of Ki balloons cause all the fact that they Similarly from ti Striemeskitsy and have been received balloons, coming seen over those toes and during the ni electric search ligh country. It has, 1 balloons samejses great height for as minute'. Sulking of the e Itis quite.ea HEALTH. - Remedies to Have in the House. Leery mother of little children should be to a certain extent, her own family physi- cian. 4. woman possessed of an. average share of common sense can hardly nurse one or more children through the disorders Incident to -babyhood and childhood with - mit eacteeiring a good stock of information as to how to treat attacks of slight indisposi- tion. Her domestic practice should, how- ever, be restricted to the administration of the simplest remedies, of external applies,- . tions and of. preventives -rather than pro- fessed cures. Her knowledge should stand her in good stead in emergencies, and yet be tempered with the judgment that will direct her to call in a physician at the least menace tf serious sickness. A child should be so closely watched by the mother that no derangement of its system may escape her notice. She should ascertain for herself that all its bodily functions are in proper working order. Her trained touch should note in a moment any unusual heat or chilliness of the child's oody, the dryness of the skin, the. over- Inickness of the pnlse. She should learn ei know at a glance whether the throat and :ongne are in their normal condition, and aer ear should be schooled to detect the dif- !erence between natural and labored or shortened respiration. A fever thermoine- ler should be in every family medicine chest rndthe mother should understand how to take her child's temperature, and thus make her self absolutely sure whether the patient is feverish or not. Even when the symptoms are such as to cause alarm, a physician is not always at Band, and upon the mother there devolves the charge of the little one. A few general hints as te- simple modes of,, treatment may not be amiss. Some children have a tendency toward croup that manifests itself as night ap- proaches in feverishness, hoarseness and a barking cough. Such symptoms should not be disregarded. The child's feet must be well heated before it goes to bed, its chest rubbed with camphorated- oil and covered with a bit of red flannel spread with vasa - line. Aconite may be -given at the mate of half a drop in a teaspoonful of water every half -hoar for three or four doses. If the cold -is a fresh one this may check it and produce a gentle perspiration. When the unpleasant symptoms remain, fifteen drops of syrup of ipecac may be 'given every twenty minutes until the hoarseness is re- lieved or the child vomits. Should the little one waken suddenly from sleep with a hearse cough and tightened breathing, a teaspoonful of ipecac containing as much powdered alum as can be heaped on a silver dime may be administered. If the child does not vomit within half an hour, the dose may be repeated. A bath in water of about ninety-five degrees is, of course, excellent in croup as in congestion or convulsions. Croupy children should be kept housed while there is melting snow on the ground. The -snow air often affects them even then, and makes thaws anxious seasons for mothers. Slight bowel troubles can usually be reg- ulated better by diet than by drugs. Children suffering with looseness of the bowels should be fed with boiled milk, boil- ed rice, arrow -root jelly, ride flour porridge, - sago or tapioca, and soft toast. Raw fruit and sweets should be especially avoided. The regimen is not severe, and is more at- tractive than dozing. Children whose ten- dency is in the opposite direction should have a laxative diet, coneieting of oatmeal, hominy, mush, wheaten grits, baked pota- toes, beef juice, apple sauce, etc. Sugar of milk may be added to the food as a gentle corrective, a teaspoonful three times a day usually being enough to produce the desired effect. Painin the stomach or bowels, or colic, is so varied in its manifestations that it is hard to lay down any fixed rule of treat- ment. If the colic springs from acidity, a •teaspoonful of limewater, or a pinch of car- bonate of soda dissolved in a little water, will often relieve the patient. Where there is any inclination to sourness of stomach, lime water should always be added to the milk which a child drinks. For pain in the bowels a teaspoonful of anise cordial mixed with a teaspoonful of hot water often pro- duces a happy effect. Flannels dipped in het spiritsand wrung out may be laid on the bowels of the sufferer, and frequently prove very soothing. In sharp pain laud- anum may be added te the spirits. An o'd fashioned spice plaster is an excellent remedy. It is made by mixing a heaping teaspoonful each of ground cinnamon, cloves, mace and allspice with two of ginger. The mixture is quilted between two thick- nesses of red flannel about eight inches long by six wide. The plaster may be applied dry or dipped in boiling alcohol and laid on the little patient's abdomen as hot as he can bear it. In cases of weakness of the bowels this- plaster may be worn constantly with benefit. The enumeration of such remedies might be increasedindefinitely. They will sug- gest themselves to every thoughtful mother. Although an overuse of drugs is always to be deplored, each home where there are little folks should be supplied with its medicine chest or cabinet, kept locked, and the key in the mother's possession. In this box or cupboard, besides the paregoric, .ipecac and pepermint bottles, there should, be aconite for feverishness, linseed oil for burns, Pond's Extract for bruises and sprains, _ammonia for bee stings, cam- phor for influenzas, and a vial of brandy for sudden -fainting fits, or the serious ac- pidents that- will sometimes occur in the hest regulated families. Appendicitis. The intestines consist of two principal parts,the small and the large. The small Intestine extends, in a sort of coil, from the stomachto the right side of the lower part of the abdomen. The large intestine, into which the other opens through a narrow slit sxte-nds from this point to the upper part of Elie bdomen,.and then crosses over and de- Icends on the left side. It is called the :don. From the lowest part 'of the ascending Colon :.projects a. hollow, worm -shaped ap .pendage, a few inches long, with a diameter tot the size of a lead -pencil. This is i wn as the vermiform appendix: Fecal meter,, and oecasionally a seed, may find its y into etie appendix, and cause it to be - seine inflamed. - The andammation is - appendicitis. It ends to forrn.an abseess,.which breaks gen- ?rally into thea men,,] u t sometimes into rhe Ive4:=t4e bladder, the -chest; or the rein s+ t -it breaks- into the=abdomen n, tt gives rise( toy that pain€u and dangerous disease, peritonitis Ap ndicitis is : d wore common disease Chars physicians were for nesly aware of; for many cases that were`forinterly looked upon_ coline wet nowknown to have been ,ep- icitls. > of sit a importance cb '.%eco` ` ized early, i�ho � ro 1u►very Ices in a Without such an operation the pus be comes septic, or putrid, and fills the system with blood -poison: This change in the put takes place by the third day. Yet many patients will not consent to an operation until the case becomes one of life or death, and not a few physicians eyes sympathize with them. Doctor Agnew, of New York, saw a case on Monday, and urged an operation ; but the attending physician and the family pre- ferred referred to wait. On the following, Friday being asked to operate, Doctor Agnew re- fused. In another case, a consulting phy- sician .urgedan immediate operation, but the family physician thought the patient would recoyer from this attack, as he had done from others. The consulting physician replied that, without an operation, the man would be dead within three hours. He died in half that time. Pus is at first healthy. By its formation nature seeks to cheek, or cure, inflammation; but if the pus cannot find a free vent, it soon becomes septic, when no medicine -of- fers any hope, and even a surgical oper- ation but little. The time for an operation is before the pus becomes septic—generally on the second or third day. An early re- moval of the appendix will generally save the patient. A very severe pain in the right side of the lower part of the abdomen, extending more or less upward, should suggest appen- dicitis, and result in sending for a physician. A CHINESE RASCAL. He is the Mandarin who was at the Bottom of the Outrages on the Yangtse. The Chinese Government has at last given orders for the arrest of the Mandarin Chouhan, who is mainly responsible for the preparation - and dissemination of the obscene literature which was printed last year and scattered all over the Yangtse Valley. A few weeks ago the printers of these placards and pamphlets were arrested, but the chief offender pleaded illness and was not taken into custody. Some papers have printed specimens of this literature, carefully expurgating por- tions which would not look well in print. Oneof the recent British blue books con- tains a large mass of the material, but even in this official publication, which can give more latitude to such matters than is per- mitted in columns intended for general reading, there are on every page foot notes like these : " The coarser and more profane passages in these papers have been expurgated." " Some passages in the rhymes at the end have been omitted as too indecent for publication." Chouhan has not attempted to conceal his connection with this work. He, in fact, published a letter recently, in which he gloried in the part he had taken in the com- position and `circulation of these documents. In this letter he said his object was to drive the accursed Europeans from the soil of China by exciting the populace against them. Some of the most repulsive of the placards bear his signature and address. Through the efforts of one of the British Consuls in China, and of Mr. John, a well- known missionary, the true inwardness of this method of attacking foreigners has been brought to light. The foul literature emanated from the Hall of the Benevolent Society of Changsha, the capital of the province of Hunan. This wealthy club is frequented by the higher officials and wealthy natives of the district. Here these men discuss the affairs of the universe from their own point of view. Nearly all last year about the,only topic in the society was the hated foreigner and means of getting rid ofehim. The members came to the conclusion that the presence of foreigners in China was a national 'danger and disgrace, and that all Western ideas in the shape of telegraphs, railroads, and other inventions, and the teaching of Christian missionaries was a reflection on the ancient sages from Confucius to the least of the Chinese wise men. The excitement grew by constant discussion, and at length the members of the Benevolent Society formed an extraordinary compact, laying down a plan of campaign. ODDS AND ENDS. South Australia hotels must close on Sun- day. Berlin University is the third largest in the world. Paris, with 9,215 students, and Vienna, with 6,220, are larger. A hive of 5,000 bees will produce about fifty pounds of honey annually. There are between 40,000 and 50,000 rag pickers in Paris divided into three classes besides the maitre chiffonier, who is well- to-do. - In this document they said their purpose was to drive out foreigners and to restore the fame and honor of the sages. As the Government was weak and indifferent, they must themselves assume the discharge of this duty. They intended accordingly to arouse in the mass of the people a burning hatred toward foreigners and their religion and when the common people were educated' to feel as the members of the society did about these matters, they would rise in heir anger and exterminate the wicked men from the West. o Thereupon the rich men of the society subscribed large sums of money, and eight of them paid equally for the printing and distribution of 800,000 copies of one pam- phlet. The poorer members gave their per -- semi services. They assisted in writing or illustrating the-placardsand pamphlets. The idea was to reach even those Chinese who cannot read by presenting before them pic- tures which - they could understand. The literature thus compiled was scattered all over the districts adjoining the Yangtse River. Theplaeards were posted everywhere in the towns and the pamphlets were circu- lated by hundreds of thousands among the ignorant and superstitious people. The consequences were exactly what the authors of the movement had expected. The people became inflamed against the foreign- ers, and outrages occurred wherever Euro- peans were found along 800 miles of the riv- er. The Chinese Government has been very - slow in setting about the work of reaching the bottom of the conspiracy, but the pres- sure of foreign governments, which has been exerted somewhat severely of late, in view of the prospect that the outrages would be renewed, at last induced the Government to take decisive action. There is now little prospect of a renewal this year of the out- rages which caused so much suffering last season among the white residents along the Yangtsekiang. - 0 To Be Read by Bugle Men. Hugh—" Where away, old man ?" Jack (hastily- packing valise)-" A ny- where, so that rget out of town for nine months," Hugh—" Heavens ! Haven't been doing anything crooked?" Jack -"Guess not ! But I have every reason to believe that three girls—one with a squint, one -with a bassvoice, another who says 'I seen,' are going to take advantage of leap year. And I never could' say no- to a woman. WillreturnJanuary 1, 93. Good Reason. Little Boy—"Ceneyintr- sister play?"' Little Girl—"No, she makes awfulnoiles :w' -.en: she tries." L-fttle Bo "The wot did your papa y get.Tter s. giarlti ftir " i _ - insls l erform- _ Title it --� T rto. I Mess it was A Scotch- Presbyterian church is endeav oring to save sinners by expelling a member who supplied a duchess with milk from Id dairy on Sunday. The rarest thing in all Arizona, it is said, is a thunder storm. Sometimes there is not one a year. There are between 1,600 and 1,700 law- yers in Boston, with scarcely business for 200. - No Indian wigwam has been struck by lightning since the dawn of history, and no Indian has been killed by lightning for more than 100 years. Geologists say that when America rose from tho sea the greater part of an older continent was submerged, all that was left of it being what is now known as New Zea- land. Along the Arctic coast m en . cut off th hair on top of their heads, so that they look ike monks, the object being to avoid scar- ing the caribou by the flutter of their locks. The Esquimaux are fond of eggs not yet batched, but about to be. They are much addicted to liquor and tobacco, and it is a common thing to see a nursing infant with a quid of tobacco in its mouth. In 1430 A. D. after nineteen years of ceaseless Iabor and an expenditure of about £800,000, the Chinese Government finished the wonderful porcelain tower at Nankin, which stood for nearly four, and a -quarter centuries, until. 1856, the most marvelous building ever erected by hutnan hands. It was of octagonal form, 260 feet in height, with nine stories, each having a cornice and a gallery without. AFRICA -CANNOT KILL HIM. A Man Who Has Lived Longer in Central Africa than Any Other European. , Amedee Legat is a man of iron physique who has lived longer in Central Africa -than any other white man. It is eleven years since he entered the service of the Congo Free State. Of the hundreds of white ser- vants of the State employed in the far in- terior, not one, except Legat, has lived more than three years in Africa before going home to Europe for recuperation. Legat, alone has never asked for a vacation. For ten years he has not seen the sea. For most of the time he has lived alone, sur- rounded by savage tribes, and with no com- forts or conveniencesof civilization save those which he could himself provide. He is now almost in the geographical centre of Africa, the sole representative of the State in King Msiri's country, northwest of Lake Bangweolo. No agent of the State has seen him for a year, but it is supposed that Delcommune's expedition, carrying sup- plies to the lone Belgian, will soon reach him. Legat is now 32 years old. He is so com- pletely isolated from his fellow officers that if he were to start for the nearest post it would take him three and a half months to reach it ; and he could not reach a steamer for Europe in less than S00 days. For two years he lived without a single European assistant at Luebo, on the Upper Kassai River, nearly 500 miles above Stanley Pool. Twice a year a steamer visited him to re- plenish his supplies, and learn how he was flourishing in the wilderness. These were red-letter days for Legat, for then he receiv- ed letters from his mother and news from the outside world. -Fatigues, privations,and isolation apparently have had no effect upon Legat's iron frame. He was born to pioneer the way into just such savage regions as Central Africa. He was fourhnonths travel- ling to his present post, and all his friends believe he intends to spend years yet in Africa. - The Congo Free State has twelve agents in its service who have spent nine years in the Dark Continent, but every three years they have returned to Europe to recruit their health. The case of Legat is so exceptional that King Leopold II. has honored him with a special medal to commemorate his services. His rank is that of Lieutenant in the 'public force, and he is the most striking example yet known of the possibility of men of certain temperamentsand rugged health living uninterruptedly in Africa without suffering from the trying climate. Was Columbus a Pirate It is astonishing how the history taught us in our youth has to suffer m later life when the fierce glare of research is thrown upon it. Columbus is regarded by every school -boy as a hero, but a professor of history now declares that he was neither more not leas than a vulgar, coarse pirate, who sailed for distant lands out of an innate cussedness and to gratify an absorbing love for plunder and adventure. The fact that America will soon celebrate the four hun- dredth anniversary of its discovery has led to an increased desire for knowledge of the man who gave to mankind a new world. Previously unsought sogrces of historical information have been found i nthe archives of Europe ; and instead of being a saintly in- dividual, who proceeded ,to discover this continent on the most approved pious litera- ture plan, Columbus was as wild a blade as ever sailed the seas over. In the .first place it is doubtful whether Columbus was his real name. In the next, it has been shown conclusively that he was a pirate, and that he belonged to one of the most merciless bands that ever scuttled a ship. Later on in life Columbus was shipwrecked on the shores of Spain, and he was induced by cir- cumstances to give up his piratical profes- sion and marry. It is freely charged that in the New World he plundered the Indians in order tosatisfy the .rapacitrof his patrons in Spain, and he also became a slave trader. In, short Columbus was the product of his time, and not much better or worse than the rent of his contemporaries. The attempt of one of his critics, Mr. Jas tin Winsor, to make him outer mean-spirit- ed creature, however, falls entirely to the ground. - The man who' conceived the bold project of sailing round the world of waters, penetrating that mysterious and illimitable ocean, and continuing until he came to India on the other side; was no coward. It was the most adventurous conception that has in all the centuries dawned upon the mind of man, and it will forever vindicate Col- umbus from the charge of a craven spirit. No matter how!many dark crimes he was engagedin in that dark age, no matterhow many Indians ' he sold into captivity, that splendid dream- of adventure, which °result- ed in the discovery of America, Will b - ays entitle him: to be ranked among tits world's —fl►r aco greatest men. al bin." OUR DEFE fDERS. Major-General Herbert's Opinion of Canadian Militia and their Equipment. So much has been said recently concern ing a possible war between the United States and Great Britain that a short de soription of the military defences of our - country as they stand to -day will interest the most of —our readers. The Imperial Government has never done much at any time for the protection of the Dominion, and for a quarter of a century has almost left it entirely to -its own devices as regards military- defence. It is safe to say that Canadians would have attempted nothing very important in that direction had it not been for the constant agitation of the Con- servative Loyalists, many of whom appear to be firmly persuaded that Canada will at some future date be the battlefield upon which the two great Anglo-Saxon nations of the globe will fight it out. This feeling was at one time so strong in the House of Commons that when the late Sir John Macdonald, then Premier of Canada, proposed the construction ofthe—Canadian Pacific Railway, he spoke of its commercial advantages as of an important, but secondary consideration, his main argument being that the railway would, form an uninterrupted line of communication and defence from ocean to ocean,- which could be placed in direct communication with Great Britain and India by armed steamers at each of its extremities. For the purpose of defending this line and of bearing the brunt of a first attack, a per- manent militia establishment composed of the whole population, divided into classes, was organized, and when, some years ago, the imperial forces evacuated every Cana - di an fortress except Halifax, small gar- risons of Canad ian regulars, doing duty also as military training schools, were quartered at Fredericton, Quebec, St. John, Kingston, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Victoria, in all a total establish' ent of 966 non-commission- ed officers and inen. the As a military line of communication and defence the Canadian Pacific is by no means completed. At its western extremity, be- tween Vancouver and Asia, a line of armed steamers has, it is true, been established, but without the protection of a powerful fortress these steamers could not render very efficient service in the way of disem- barking troops. Portland, Me., is the east- ern terminus of the Canadian Pacific for commercial purposes : the military termin us should be Halifax, butes there arena) direct communications by rail between Halifax and Quebec, owing to the absence of a bridge over the St. Lawrence, Quebec becomes the real terminus of the military line and re- mains, as of old, the key to Canada. Such as it is, the Candian Pacific line of communication_ might, in consequence of the rapidity with which large bodies of men could be moved from one point to another, be -successfully held against an invading enemy by an army numerically weaker. But what could the Canadian Government do for the defence of a frontier extend- ing over 3,000 miles with 1,000 men of regular troops scattered from one end of the country to the other in the military schools, and with a militia force which Gen. Herbert, the Commander -in - Chief, describes in his last report as totally unfit for service, not one single battalion being at present in marching condition. " The equipment in use in the active mili- tia," says the General, " is also obsolete in pattern, and a large proportion perished from age and severe usage. There is not a battalion that could turn out in complete marching order on a given day, though many have, at their own expense, provided some of the most necessary articles. More- over, the equipment does not exist in store which it would be necessary to issue in the event of grave emergency. I have not in• spected a single battalion in which the men's boots would have stood one month's active service, or a regiment of cavalry or battery of artillery in which the saddlery harness could be expected to bear a similar strain." This inefficiency does not come from a want of martial spirit among the people, nor from ignorance or negligence on the part of the officers, of whom, as a body, it is im- possible to speak too highly. 'the General says : " While I cannot express myself as sat- isfied with the condition of the permanent force, I must bear witness to the excellent work it has done in spite of many disadvan- tages. It posseses some excellent officers and non-commissioned officers, to whose con- stant devotion to duty, alone, is to be as- cribed the marked results that are visible, in the superior training of every officer and man of the active militia which has passed under their instruction. The faults that I have noted are, in the majority of cases, due to primary defects of organization." With obsolete arms, worn-out equipment, and.a system utterly bad, no satisfactory re- sults can be expected and none have.been- obtained. During the _ half-breed rebellion of 1885 it required months to -send 4,000 imperfectly equipped men to the front, and it seems extremely doubtful whether, in a case of grave emergency, of the 40,000 men of active militia more than 15;000 could be armed and equjpped from the Government stores. A year would scarcely suffice to drill and discipline such a large number .of raw recruits. Were this accomplished the force would still be almost totally de- ficient in artillery, of which Gen. Herbert speaks as follows : ".In the matter of artillery -materialthe militia is very deficient. The eighteen field batteries are armed with guns which are still good, but there is no reserve of guns, nor is there a spare gun wheel to be had nearer than Woolwich. Of heavy guns the Dominion doesnot possess a single modern specimen. Of the armament handed over by the. Imperial Government, a large portion couldinot be mounted and a park could not be fired. Those at Victoria, B.C., loaned by the Imperial Government, are not at pres- ent fit for service. There is no sufficient reserve of ammunition." It' is evident - that such a force as the General describes would be quite insufficient - to defend the line of communication, and, in case of a -serious invasion; ' the only ap- parent alternative would be to do what Sir Guy Carneton did in 1775, when Montgom- ery invaded Canada, concentrate all the available forces around Quebec, the head of navigation, and await reinforcements from England. -The matter has aesnmed such importance in the mind of tie Commander - in -Chief that he has resolved to give special attention to the question of defence, as he says in his report : " So far I have . dealt only with the active condition of _the force to which the country must look for protec- tion in the event of national emergency.: being twice weighed in this way, he was The larger question of the defence of the made to sit on a square stone while his body Dominion in which the militia is but a unit, was covered with cow dung, the face only remains to be discussed. nave submitted excepted ; he was taken up by two men and proposals during the pelt year for the alr thrown in the river, and ointment of - a corrlmittee of militia, officers to - collaborate with me ' in: the preparation of a scheme bearing- upon this question. The proposals -]lave met with the approval of the Government, #std I lo)k forward, as soon as some depart mental details have been settled, to the commencement of this important work. The problem involves the consideration of the measures to be adopted, not only for the protection of a very extensive land frontier, but/orthat also of certain points on the Pacific oast, which have, recently acquired a more than ordinary importance to the commercial prosperity -of the Dominion." *Useful Hints. The quantity of blood in the human body varies, but is generally about one-tenth the total weight 9f -the body. Baron Liebig says : —" There is more nutriment in an egg than in anything of equal bulk that exists in nature, or that chemistry can produce." Blood is made impure by improper living. It may be by indigestible food, or irregu- larity of meals, or in sleeping in badly ven- tilated rooms, or going insufficiently clad. One of simplest and most efficient means of fumigating a room is by dropping vinegar slowly upon a very hot iron shovel ; a cover from the kitchen range will answer very well. Neuralgia of the feet and limbs can be cured by bathing night end morning with salt and water as hot as can be borne. When taken out rub the feet briskly with a coarse towel. Have your piano tuned at least four times in the year by an experienced tuner. If you allow it to go too long without tuning it usually becomes flat, and troubles a tuner to get it to stay at concert pitch, especially LATE FORfIC1r1�(E A lawyer in Lewiston, ace., wro lialtts note to the Clerk of Courts : " Me/ Clark pleas enter this writt in its a kill Dockitt. " All authorities say that Pekin, the pres ent capital of China, and Nankin, the an- cient capital, are hardly half so large as they were a hundred years ago. They =how all the symptoms of decay. The more en- terprising and energetic individuals are found now in the seaports, that offer a marked contrast to the more conservative and literary communities of the interior. A man in Milbridge, Me., was building s small schooner, and was about to cut Bows a tree for the stempiece when he was ap. proacbed by an elderly French Canadian, asked : " You cut down that tree ?'' " Yes," the shipbuilder replied. " Well, he my safe—I keep my money in there,' the Aced ian responded. Pulling out a care, fully concealed plug at the base he brought forth a tin box filled with gold coins. In the West Indian island of New Pro- vidence there is a new and important indus- try in he cultivation of sisal grass, which is equal to Manila hemp for making rope and twine. This fibre plant, which was formerly regarded as a noxious weed, re- quires four years to reach maturity, and tees of thousands of acres of the land o: New Providence are now"' devoted to its growth. The first big shipment of it will [ made to this country this year. A disgraceful scene occurred in the Cath in the country, edral at N aney, on Monday. Bishop Tur• For boiled eggs dip them in cold water to naz was delivering a discourse on the labour prevent their breaking. Cover with boiling question, and, the speaker's remarks not water, move the dish to the back of the meeting with general approval, some inem• range, cover closely and let stand ten min- bers of the congregation commenced a dist utes. This causes the white to be of creamy turbance, in the course of which chairs were consistency and the yolk not hard and dry thrown about on all sides, and the chandel- Sashes will be much worn this season by iers were broken. Five persons were injur- young ladies. A pretty dress of grey dia. ed. gonal cloth, with touches of white about it, B. R. Young and his family were travel - and a neat bodice, melted at the waist, has a ting in a prairie schooner near Palomas, sash of ribbons, tied in a bow between the Mexico, when a loaded gun in the wagon in shoulder blades that falls almost to the bot- front was discharged accidentally. The ball tom of the skirt. pierced Young's shoulder, passed through A German medical journal asserts that his son's hip, then through the baby's head, incipient boils may be readily cured by the and struck the shoulder of Mrs. Mary Rob - injection of a 3 -per -cent solution of carbolic erts a daughter of Mr. Young. Father and acid. In order to effect a radical cure and son' were seriously wounded, the baby was prevent suppuration the injection must be killed instantly, but Mrs. Roberts received made early. If a boil has already begun to only a slight wound. discharge, the only effect of the injection Within three�eara passenger rates on the will be to hasten the cure and prevent the formation of deep scars. The Robin's Song. railroad across the Isthmus of Panama have been reduced to ten and five cents a mile for first and second class tickets. Up to that time the charge for passenger transportation Welcome, dainty robin! Signal of the Spring? on the Panama Railroad was the highest in With the breast of red -brown, and the satin the world, being $25 in American gold for wing, Filling with the glory of thy limpid song, first class and $10 in gold for second-class Wood and mount and meadow—clear and full passengers between Panama and Colon, or and strong. abort fifty cents and twenty cents a mile, Such an ardent wooing, tender, brave and respectively. sweet, p y° Undismayed by changing skies, never met] Like Jonah's gourd, the journalism of defeat! Japan has grown within the brief period of And the Earth replying with the Spring's soft constitutioal government. Last year there SpeakstheResurrection—Life—that follows g death! Bravo, robin redbreast! with the shining wing, Let thy note exultant loud and louder ring!! were as many as 550 Japanese newspapers and other periodicals, and in the city of Tokio alone there were seventeen political dailies, with a weekly circulation of over Till the woodlands echo with the glad refrain, ! 1,000,000 copies, besides weekly and month. And the soft winds murmur, Spring has come ly publications devoted to progress, science, again Leafy buds are swelling, with the swelling song;' literature, the fine arts, °and social affairs. Unbound brooks are laughing, as they dance Japan, which is at once very ancient and along; Tender -blossoms springing from the brown earth bare— Life and joy and gladness waking everywhere! Ever new the glory that the years repeat, Nature's great heart throbbing all about our feet! Hill and valley springing into tender green, Touched with life and beauty by the Power Unseen; Hope of joy eternal singing in each breast, All the pain and passion lulled to quiet rest! . Everywhere the promise, speaking clear to men, Death is Life immortal. We shall live again ! Sing on robin redbreast, with the shining wing, And the air triumphant that befits a king! From the topmost branches, free the . glad proud song, Life and joy and gladness to the Spring belongs —[Good Housekeeping. Two Women. I have in mind a woman fair— Old then she seemed, for I -vas young, But Time had left no mark noon her hair, And I was babbling with an infant's tongue Another face confronts me now -- 'Tis sweet, with eyes that light in love; And while my lips are forming in a vow I feel an inspiration from above. Two women; they who bless my life— One old and gentle, full of years. The one the mother, one the tender wife— Both fall of love that dissipates all tears. — HOMER BASSFORD. The Wife of 2,000 Years Ago. " Wives, obey your husbands" would seem to be an even stronger point in Confucian than in Pauline doctrine, from the sample translations by Miss A.C. Stafford of an an- cient Chinese work, in313chapters, in- structing women as to the behavior expected of them. The work is 2,000 years old. The - first duty of a Chinese woman, so the book says, was to " reverence her ever youthful, has become one of the great newspaper reading countries of the world. Profs. Milne and Burton of the Imperial University, at Tokio, have written a book on last fall's great earthquake in the centre of Japan, which killed 10,000 persons and levelled 100,000 houses. It has been pub. lisped it Yokohama, but thepaper was pro- duced in the earthquake area. It contains many large photographs. illustrating the disastrous effects of the shocks on the build- ings, bridges, and general surface of the country. The inhabitants of this earth- quake -riven land suffer at least 500 shocks each year, and the islands, too, are fre• quently visited by terrible earthquake catas- trophes. The spectacle of two young women being chased by a bear in the streets of a city is rather unusual, but such a thing oc- curred in Gardiner, Me., the other day. Had the girls stood still when Mr. Mar- shall's pet beer dropped over the garden wall they would have been all right, but they ran and screamed, and the bear follow. ed in high glee. One of the girls fell, and the bear, after poking his "horrid nose" into her face, resumed his pursuit of the other until she sought refuge in a house. Then he seemed to think the fun was spoil. ed, and ambled home. Now the women want the poor bear killed. The public schools in Deming, N. M., had to be closed recently because a violent sand storm prevailed. Little incidents like that indicate the inconvenience, distress and positive danger, not easily comprehend- ed by Eastern dwellers, caused by the minia- ture simooms in the dry, sandy prairie and hot -plain districts of the West. The storms come up suddenly, the sky is darkened as by a thunder storm, everything is envelop- ed in a blinding whirl of fine sand, and see - husband as heaven." She must not hesitate ing is impossible. The worst lasts for a few to die for him, and one of the little anecdotes minutes only usually, but for hours the related to encourage obedience is that of a peasant, who, during a severe famine, was seized by some soldiers, who proposed to make a meal of him. " My husband is very lean," pleaded the wife, " he will be scarce- ly a mouthful. I am fleshy and of dark com- plexion, and they say that the flesh of such of the firemen has been seriously injured, p ersons is excellent eating."Her argumen o and Herr Tegge, , the quay inspector, is prevailed, and spared her husband. As to missing. The merchandise stored in the how she should comport herself the book g says " In the presence of her parents or parents-in-law a woman may not sneeze or cough, neither stretch, yawn, nor loll about when tired, nor may she presume to stare at them. She should wear a happy face and a mild, pleasant deportment in serving them, in order to soothe them." The wife of a cer- tain Liu Kung-tseh comes in for a large share of praise simply because " for three years after her marriage nobody had ever seen her smile." Yet it is not probable this ancient work chronicles any such stories of devotion and sacrifice by women for their husbands and other loved ones as could be told of this era sand is whisked about in a most distressing manner. A fire broke out at 7.30 on Saturday morning at a large warehouse shut \ted on Kaiser Quay, Hamburg. The damn a done is estimated at -several mullion marks. One warehouse included large quantities of coffee cotton, and oranges. In the teller were barrels of palm oil and spirits. The railer was flooded in the hope of saving the con- tents. , The services of six floats and al; the Hamburg fire brigade's were brought ante requisition, and the fire wax thus localised. Shipping was removed from the neighbour- hood of the outbreak as a precautionary measure. In 1842 a Russian farmer named Bokareff conceived the idea of extracting oil from the seed of the sunflower. His neighbors told him it was a visionary idea" and that he would have his labor for his pains. He ofgrace, where nothing compels but woman's persevered, however, and from that humble own sweet heart. beginnipg the industry has expanded to en- ormous proportions. To -day more than Purifying a Hindu. 700,000 acres of land in Russia are devoted to the cultivation off he sunflower. The A i ad Hindu has been restored to area devoted to the crop has nearly doubled his caste by the following process of puri - in five years. Two kinds of sunflowers are castewa The offence by which he ]Drat grown, one with small seeds which art caste was that of eating cooked food in crushed for oil and the other with large railway carriage in which persons of anotherseeds that are consumed by the common caste were traveling. He had to pay his people in enormous quantities, very much own weight first in pice, the amount reach -as pople eat peanuts in this country. ing 180 rupees, and then in wheat. Aftersop A "whale back" steamer 500 feet long, to, carry passengers, will be builtfor the World's Fair. - after a goo a e came out and was received by the Brahmins -fully restored to caste fellowship. Thz Brahm-ins informed the " purified " individ- ual that a great favor had been conferred 101iim in ireb'hing him in copper instead A statistician of small things figures it out that the posterity of one English spar. row amounts in ten years to something like 276,000,000,000 birds. A chicken Tench in Bellingham Bay, Pu- get Sound, hes 100,000 fowls. t'- iia said is be the largest in the world.