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POINT OF AGREEMENT.
Four zealQuooop atriots were die-
outlsing the temperance question at
a down town street corner the other
day. •
"I tell you," said ono, "the only
y to stamp out the iufamous
crinin in whiskey- is to go to the
fountain head. Make it a crimp to
manufacture whisky 1 If there isn't
any made there won't be any sold.
That'e wy dootriue.
"It wouldn't do," said the second
man. "'There has. got to bo eonie
liquor manufactured for chemical
purposes. The right way to crush
the monster is to Fuuish the elan
who retails it for drinking purposes -
Make it a crime to be a saloon-
keeper."
"That won't do, either," observed
the third. "The saioou-keeper is
the neoeesary outgrowth of a de
mend for whiskey. If there were
no drinkers there would be no
dram shops. Punish the man who
drinks 1 That's the only way to
settle,- the pualnese."
"It will never do it," spoke the
fourth. "My idea," he added em-
phatically, "is to punish the vile
stuff itself. Will you assist me,
gentlemen, in inflicting the punish•
nrent 4"
About two minutes later they
were seen assisting him with much
fervor at a convenient place of pun-
ishment around the eoruor.
HIS THIRST WAS ENOR•
MOUS.
IT LED HIST FIRST TO ASK FOR A
DRINK AND TIIEN ItESOLRT TO
STRATEGY.
ALL ,001,1 0110PA .
A MEPIGA.4. EXPLANAT.IQN OF WHAT
THE DISEASE REALLY I8.
TAKE A CHEAR-I yRQPEAN 'rpm�
rirrk''lYt►1tt+r'Tolle now It .Asn Mo a?.ore
Yltbo t IAnge for saoQ. ° ,
D14 you over feel as thQt h yell would
like to go to Euro ?e, and give it lip with a
sigh,\because you fell pot could not afford
it ? asks Park Walter in4he Pittsburg Dis-
patch. Q, you have And yet you went
to Atlantic City Last surruner, and 'admit
you spout about $250 lir a coifp�lo of weeks.
Sihft,yoiir before yo}t did the stone thing,
only you rfianpgeti to get rid of throe weeks
and $300. This year you feel, poor. You
have four weeks' vacation and do not intend
to spend more than $200 or say $250. This
will go in the same old way for the same old
things—the sailingtrips, jack -pots, merry.,
go•rounds, things in tumblers, and all that
sort of nonsense.
Now suppose you had energy enough in
you to look up this European trip what
yon could do it for. You• would find it
rather surprising. You would learn, for
example, that there is such a thing as a
"water rate." Take for example, the Rod
Star line. For a first-class cabin -Passage/
which world cost y e% $175, ono way be-
tween April 21 and July 31, you would find
it cost but $140 for the round trip between
Aug. 1 and April 20. But you need not
fiy so high. You can go first cabin from
New York or Philadelphia to Antwerp on
the Red Star line and return on the Lrmati
line from Liverpool to New York for $108
the round trip. For your trip you need a
satchel, a soft hat, and tennis shoes, in ad-
dition to your usual clothing. If you are
willing to go second class on any of the big
boats of these lines you can do it for $80
to $90 and be well fed and comfortably
lodged for from seven to ten days each way.
Let us suppose you decide to go comfort-
ably at $108. You have a delightful voy-
age, get a glimpse of the South of England
coast as you go up the channel ; 'see the
Isle of Wight, Brighton, the French coast,
and the Flemish country as you pass up
the Scheld. 1 ou arrive early in the morn-
ing at Antwerp, spend $4 for sight-seeing,
food, and lodging that day and night.
Early next morning you leave for Paris ;
fare $6. You stop long enough in Brussels
to get a glimpse of the city, or you remain
until next morning in that notoriously
cheap place. Then you go on through the
fertile Belgian plains into France, with his-
toric towns and cities all along the road.
It is but six hours and a half run from Ant-
werp to Paris.
In the latter city you can get a good,
clean room for $l a day. Your meals will
cost from 20 cents to $20 each, according
to the location of the reytaurant and the
name of the man over the door. You re-
main four days, spend say $40, which in-
cludes more sights of interest and good
things to oat than you have ever before
,'life Danger et Contagion Not tartest 1t
Popple else Intelligence autl #!'orasigh t—
What to Do and What Not tO
kite Pisoaso Is Contracted,
We now seem to be on the verge of an
epidemic of almost media+val roportions,
for the mortality has been awful in Persia
and Russia, and the rapidity of its increase
and spread in several cities and ports of
western Europe is egfficient to justify alarm.
It would be as well to mention at once here
the fact that the word "cholerine," which
has been frequently used during the past
few months in reference to a disorder in
Paris and its suburbs, and at Hamburg,
Stettin, and elsewhere, is not the designa-
tion of an innocuous disorder, as one mlghf,
be led to believe by the statements of .the
civil authorities in regions where it prevails.
Cholerine is Asiatic oholera and nothing
else. Cholerine is a name given to a, type
of the plague which is of medium severity ;
but it is Asiatic cholera all the same.
Cholera is a germ disease, and belongs in
the category of disorders caused by the en.
trance of tnicro•organisrns intt}lthe body,
like scarlet fever, small -pox, diphtheria,
typhus, tuberculosis, and many others. The
cause of cholera is a minute germ or bac-
terium•which entero the body by way of the
alimentary canal, and is, propagated in the
intestines. Koch, who discovered the
bacillus of tuberlosis, and who has indi-
cated by his marvellous methods of ex-
peritnent and research the direction in
which to look for a cure of consumption,
was sent by the German Government in
1883 to India to investigate the cholera
epidemic there. In the intestines of all
who died from this disease he found a
micro-organism of popular shape, curved
and bent like a comma, and to this was
given the name of comma bacillus. Thecom-
ma bacillus has never been observed except
in the victims of cholera. Additionalproof
of its being the cause,of this pest was af-
forded by further experiments, undertaken
not only by Koch, but also by Rietsch and
Nicati, who produced cholera in guinea
pigs by introducing the comma bacillus
into their intestines.
The bacillus enters the system by way of
the stomach and lives and propagates in
the intestines. There it ,ntannfactures a
ptomaine, or poisonous substance, which
being absorbed into the system, gives rise
to the symptoms which we recognize as
Itthan probable
That gentlemanly instincts and
good breeding will assert themselves
even in a man whose life rum has
played a leading part was shown to
me a few days ago, when I not
only became a witness of but a
figure in an interesting and laugh-
able incident.
A friend and myself had stepped
into a cafe to obtain cigars and talk
over a business matter. The cigar
stand was at one end of a bar, bo -
hind which stood white coated at
tendanta ready to serve any one
aufferiug from a parched throat.
We had been talking but a few mo-
ments when a man entered and
stopped only when he had reached
the bar.
There was an air of aristocracy
about the individual albeit his
clothes wore seedy, his hat the
worse for wear and his shoes almost
•soleless. In his face there was a
look of refinelnent that rum, al
though it had marked it, had not
effaced.
"Sir," said the newcomeraddress
ing one of the bartenders, "would
you be so kind as to give me a
drink 1 I have no money, but I
Rewire you I need a drink."
The bartender said with a look
of disgust,. "No sir, we don't give
away drinks here ; it's no money,
no drink 1"
All, thank you," said the man
with a graceful bow and with the
same air with which a plan might
decline a consulship tendered by
the President.
EAFtl• td$f3BERY, , .. ' ` '1'Ha'MQ.P nN +till l,g',ry $
' fla nter:eo . t. n NOW :York Irootk1abk 9At1� c sap 'Ii,o rantt than the .Ot t� fare,
x t toup � �e 1>�. �
' 'Whet At u a of A,
One•day in 1$.7,x, When Earl Reeebery,
Gladstone a newly appointed Secretary of
State far Foreign .hairs, was in' New ork
inspeoting American institutions, he passed
through City Nall square, nod, potioingg
that bis shoes needed pelishint±, lie etoppe`i
in his walk and beckoned to a gnlall boot.'
black, The bootblack apparently was a
bright boy, for after a while Earl Rosebery
asked him his name,
•"Pat," was that reply.
The Earl queationed him further and ask•
'ed him where he lived.
"At Father Drnmgoole'a, at 53 Warren
street," Pat replied.
Tire Earl was curious to know what sort
of a place Father Drumgoole conducted. So
ho went to the storehouse at 53 Warren
street, whore he found the kind old Father
engaged in his miksion of caring for tht
homelesd' boys in New York—a mission
which is now so well known to charitable
people in the city.
The Earl was greatly pleased with the
Father's work, and was also interested in
Pat. He asked Father Druinrg,00lo to in-
vestigate Pat's history, and said if the boy
was found worthy he himself would educate
Pat for the pursuit must suited to him.
Father Drumgoole found that Pat's mother
was a widow with seven children.
After Earl Rosebory returned from a trip
to Washington he called on Father Drum-
goole and gave him money to clothe Pat
and enable him to begin hia studies. The
Earl also gave Father Drumgoole a sum of
money for the mission. The Earl was much
impreased by Father Drumgoole and his,
earnest work, and as he was about to sail
for England he wrote • the tfollowing let-
ter : •
• BAEYOOaT Homs, Dec 17, 1873.
Mr DiAa FATuss,—I cannot get away tq say good -
by to you to -day, but I must in the first piece send
my address to you --2 Berkeley square, London W.—
that you may write and tell me how your good work
is getting on and how Pat is progressing, and what
money front time to time you want for him, and
in the second place, I must express my thankfnl-
ness to have been brought. Lace to face with you
and with your noble work. 1 have never lett you
or your house without feeling better for it and
without feeling that I had got an insight into a
int 010Ottar Aran llltoi'.e Oomtortirrtle, .
Next to ohm's anti tablet}, beds are about
the Most important articles of dgmoatio far-
nilure. The European type of bed sapms to
We gat iteolf fixed at camparatively
early date, and it did not change till very
late. The theory, 'apparently,was to make
the bed a sort of tent or fortification aggainst
MO winds of heaven, The motliteval" up -
bolsterer know something about the media:-
val builder, and realized that when 'you
went tosleep in a room with no paper on
the walla, and huge windows which did not
quite fit their frames, or little arrow•stilts
'with no glass at all, you wanted
something to keep out the draught.
Hence the tremendous timber canopy of old
bedsteads, and the voluminous curtains and
hangings in which the whole structure was
enveloped, Long after there was any neves•
sity for this tent -like arrangement it was
kept up for the honor andgloryof the
thing, so to speak, becauae there was an
air of luxury and costliness about these
folds and lengths of silk or ohiutz which
made people reluctant to part with them.
Even now in France and other parts of the
Continent, they will not willingly -give up
their elaborately upholstered bedteads for
the harsh looking structure of iron bars and
brass tubes which is gradually usurping the
place of honor in the bedrooms of Anglo-
Saxondom.,
It trust be admitted that if the modern
British bedstead is, on the whole. cleaner
and possibly healthier, it is certainly leas
romantic. One hardly likes to fancy Juliet's
bed provided with round brans knobs at the
corner for its sole adornment. At any rate,
the old-fashioned_ type of bedstead lent it-
self 'very well to ornate artistic treat-
ment, and nothing can be more magnificent
than the bedsteads designed tor Marie
Antoinette and other French' ladies in the
great age of furniture during the latter half
of the last century. But that was a period
when the simplest objects of household use
were treated by master hands ; and it
makes an amateur's mouth water to
look at the pictures in Mr. Litch-
field's book of Houle cabinets; Riesener
higher and holier Tito than men are generally bureaus, Gouthiere writing -tables, and
privileged to lead or indeed capable of leading. 1 Chippendale chairs which the work•
hope you may long be spared for it, and that I may shops of that happy period turned
have the pleasure of seeing yen and your institution out.. It is a doubly melancholy reflection
WHAT 1 °SQMgTiM:ga THINK'
That 4 oaaoneft'wilaare ountintlallreaXn
platnitrg• tlit►t they aro :iirsuitl d tlev( to
andel upend that utero is oQrrretiting in thotr
carriage to invite insult. ,i
NM
Ttenser we are ser more subject to attack
mourn our spiritual enemies than when to the
garden of ease, There is leesdanger for us
when out in the conflict of life than ,wizen
wo it down 'to rest.
eas
That as long as we have reasonable wants
we get on comfortably, but it is the struggle
after luxuries that fills society with die -
tress, and populates prisons, and sends hun-
dreds of people stark Mad. Dissatisfied
with a plain house, and ordinary apparel,
and respectable surroundings, they plunge
their heads intonterprisea and specula-
tions from which they have to sneak out hr
disgrace.
MMM
That it is our misfortune that we mistake
God's shadow for the night. If a man
stands between you and the sun hid shadow
falls upon you. So God sometimes comes
and stands between us and worldly sue -
awns, and His shadow falls Upon us, and
we wrongly think th;tt it is night.
MMM
That a great deal of the piety of to -day is
too exolusive ; it hides itself. It needs
more fresh air, more out -door exercise.
prospering and strengthening every year more and
more.
God bless you, it that may be said without pre-
sumption to you from RoaaosaY:
Will you devote a little of Pat's money to having
him photographed and sending me a copy.
The Earl also sent Father Drumgoole his
photograph in a rich frame, which is still at
mission. that forty years ago you could bay marque -
the
In accordance with the plana of Father terie tables and tortoise -shell and orinolu
those of cholera. is more tan pro ra e 1 b f Drnmgoole and the Earl, Pat, who was then cabinets by the best makers for sovereigns,
that the disorder spreads by being scatter- ached into four months. 'Then o are 13years old. was in St. Francis
ed with the intestinal discharges, contanti- P , you placedfor which you would now have to give buns
oil to London via Calais and Dover, Xavier's College, in Sixteenth street. His dreds of pounds. But that was in the days
for the colfoctor of these days that in the
earlier portion of the present Century these
delightful objects could be -purchased almost
for a song. The splendor of the great de-
corative period brought with it a reaction.
The taste for rococo and "Louis .Quinze"
and "Louis Seize" died out so completely
That all the waters that ever leaped in
torrent, or foamed in cascade, or fell in
summer shower, or hung in morning dew, '
give no such coolness to the fevered soul as .
the smallest drop that ever flashed out
from the showering fountains of the divine
Book.
M5*
That some Christians serve God so ,tre-
mendously on Sunday that they are cross
and crabbed all the week. Doing too many
things on Sunday, they do nothing well all
the rest of the week.
Ma*
That when a Christian marries an atheist
it always makes conjoined wretchedness ; •
for if a man does not believe there is a
God he is neither to be trusted with a dol-
lar nor with your lifelong happiness.—Dr.
Talmage.
natiug water courses, rivers, streams, aun faro second-class (which is quite good
wells, defiling the linen and bed cloth- anon h) about j9. You can get
ing, and contriving in an infinite number g.
ways to cuter the human system spear a fair idea of French life and farming at ex-
ofby means of food and drink. The press speed from the windows of the car -
germs are not disseminat, l through the nage
if you travel by day. That -night
early you are in London. Yon have decided
to spend $250 on the trip. You have so
far spent $168—say $170. You can live,
and live well, in London for $3 a day. You
The c tsc Larges o infected terser. spend $20 for odds and eiids for presents,
centers from which contagion radiates. and $20 more for sightseeing, excursions,
and
cabs. Yon
sucHeh et Millis of of disease Bssity of and of destroying leaving, say, 301 left. London Your fare hto Liver-
pool
ivree er
pool is about $8, The remainder will take
atmosphere. They are not blown by the
winds from one place to another. They
follow the lines of travel and commerce.
They are propagated by individuals.
1' I f' ` t l s are the
everything that may in any way serve as au
agent in the sowing and diffusion of the
feeds of death. novelty, your mind is broadened, you have
Will the disease reach New York? Un- irked updata for lies for ted years,ouand
doubtedly. Its ubiquity in Europe is such P
that we cannot escape the visitation. you vow you will do it again next year. If
you want to, do all this on a cheaper basis,
It showrmnains for what ability tthey have Departmentneepinthe you can cover the saine' ground for $'300
scourge at the threshold and not allowing it easily. I have put the figura at a fair esti-
scourge
mate, including comfort and reasonable
to enter into the crowded quarters • of the amount of knocking about. You can't buy
city. It is, however, not probable that w-°
the Louvre or take chambers in Piccadilly
can so strongly- fortify ourselves by gnaran- ort these terms, but you can do it well
ciao regulations, and restraint upon vessels enough for a modest young man with a mod -
and individuals at harbor hospitals, that we est salary.
you home readily after paying fees.
You have had a month of delightful
shall be able to withstand the onslaught
of the army of germs. They will enter in
all likelihood in spite of us; and so we must
be on our guard individually. We must be
prepared, each and all of us, to meet them. 1 insisted upon, and one class of case where
They will enter our food and our drinking Y
water in some manner that we know not of. these measures are to a great extent within
We must watch these avenues of approach. the control of the individual is in regard to
Tho danger to individuals is not great if the teeth. All caries of the teeth begin
they are intelligent and use foresight. The from the outside, no such thing as internal
danger is among the ignorant and careless caries having ever been demonstrated ;
and thoughtless, among the thousands that hence if the surfaces could be kept absolnte-
crowd the tenement houses, subsisting on ly clean no decay could take place, how-
ever poor the texture of the teeth. This is
of course impossible, but much toward such
a desirable end can be attained by attention
to hygienic rules. '
Parents often '.ask their dentists and
professors were pleased with Pat, but he before the great revival—before everybody
did not live to fulfil expectations; he died had become artistic and esthetic.—London
two years later. Standard.
OnTuesday night the Rev. Father Mc-
Nichol of the Drumgoole Mission in Lafay- An Old Tinto Compositor.
ette place, and a brother laborer, while "Uncle Alex" Crockett, a compositor on
talking of English politics, recalled this the Notices, of this city, has recently passed
Episcopalian,story asn above. Earl Roseberyfthe
is an the sixtieth mile post of his life as a printer.
and at the time ei thio favi- Mr.Crockett has spent the greater portion
dent was 25 years old. The incident seem -
of his life at the case, and this is what he
ed noteworthy to 'Father McNichol, and to
has accomplished
him is due credit for the story. At an average of three columns a day he
has "set up" 56,100 columns.
Foreign Notes of Real Interest. This type put in a newspaper of eight
Queen Victoria seems to he not especially columns to the page would fill 7,020 pages.
friendly to the electric light. Her private 'At five minutes per column it would take
cabins in the royal yacht are the only parts one year, three months, and thirteen days
of the vessel not thus lighted. to read this amount of matter.
A young English woman has been con. If treasured by the "em" it would aggre-
victed in Bristol of destroying mail o the gate 140,400,000 ems.
letter boxes by introducing vitriol through At 35 cents per 1,000 ems this amount of
the slot. She was sentenced to six months' labor would be worth $49,140.
imprisonment. This much type would weigh 786,240
A disease peculiar to Japan is known as ld 421,200,000 the kake. It is not contageous, and it can-
not therefore be said that the victims take
the kake. It is supposed to be the result of
eating too much rice.
The editor of Truth writes that he has
reason to believe that Queen Victoria has
decided to hold no more "drawingrooms"
herself, but to delegate that function in the
future to the Princess of Wales.
An Englishman stalking deer in Glen
Tana Forest dropped two fine stags with
one bullet. The ball struck the first animal
in th backbone, killing him instantly, and
passe on into the breast of the second.
Shall a man take off his hat to a maid
servant who is employed in his household,
and, if not, what shall he do when he
chances to meet her ? This matter has
been gravely discussed in -the London Spec-
tator, and it has occurred to somebody to
suggest that the man need not do anything
until the maid, exercising woman's universal
prerogative, has signified that she is graci•
A Woman's Long Voyage in a Small Yacht.
The little six-ton schooner yacht Wave
moored at the foot of Broadway., Oakland,
having just arrived from a perilous ocean
voyage of more than 1,000 miles. The di-
minitive craft appeared to I e little bigger
thane model, and when Captain George J.
Farmer and his wife left Eagle Harbor, on
Puget Sound, just one month ago bound for
Oakland, they had the utmost confidence in
the seaworthiness of their tiny floating
home. The only other person on board
was the chief officer, Mr. Oliver. Captain
Farmer sailed from Oakland three years
ago, and has been cruising on the Sound
ever since. He is always accompanied by
his wife, who is a thorough sailor.
A peep, for it is almost an exaggeration
to say a look, into the interior fittings of the
Wave shows that the baby vessel has been
fitted up with^a strict eye to economy of
space and comfort. The little cabin occu-
pied by the Captain and his wife is a study
in itself, and no one but a woman who has
been many years at sea could hope to ar-
range so much material in so small a space.
Not an inch of room is wasted or ignored,
and nothing that ought to be there is
missing.
Capt. Farmer says that to Itis wife is due
the credit of preventing many a' periloits
disaster. He declares that -no one can beat
Mrs. Farmer at "putting the vessel round,"
"sailing full -and -by," "hauling off a lee
shore;" or preparing a meal. In fact, Mrs.
Fanner is an experienced navigator as
well as thorough housewife, and is prepared
The Hygiene of the Teeth.
The value of preventive measures against
the attacks of disease cannot be too strong.
He turned from the bar and ap•
proaching me said, "My dear sir, I
beg pardon for intruding, but
would it be asking too much of you
to loan me fifteen center
I had overheard his talk with the
bartender and now feeling sorry for
the manI smiled and gave him the
sum .for which he asked. He
thanked me profusely and again
walked down to the bartender.
Approaching the bar the man drew
himself up to his full height and
with a voice of command said, "Let
me have some of your best whis-
key 1" at the same time laying the
fifteen cents I had given him on
the counter.
The bartender set .out the bottle
and the customer poured out a
pretty good nip, which he drank
with a keen relish. It had hardly
disappeared when he took up the
money between his forefinger and
walking towards me proffered the
money with the remark. "I have
always made it a practice to pay my
honest debts."
The bartender stood for an in-
stant with his mouth open and °yea
fixed on his late customer. Then
be broke into�lifugh, in which my
friend and myself could not help
but join.
"Come back here and have an-
other drink with me," said the bar-
tender, appreciating the joke that
bad been played upon him, as the
man moved quickly toward the
door.
"No, sir," said the invited guest,
lifting off his bat. "No, sir. Let
me assure you that I only drink
with gentlemen. Good day."
And out he went.
bad fool, regardless of what they drink,
and heedless of personal cleanliness. Na-
ture has a safeguard against cholera. Few
cholera germs are able to run the gauntlet
of a healthy stomach. The gastric juice, inedieal attendants with reference to their
when sufficiently acid, is an antiseptic. It babies : "When ought teeth to ba cleaned?"
destroys the comma bacillus. Among the The answer assuredly is : "As soon as
victims of cholera are chiefly those whose
general health is impaired, or who suffer.
from disorders of the stomach, such as dys-
pepsia and gastric catarrh. With a diges-
tive apparatus in good condition, plenty f
exercise in the open air, and careful A -
lection of one's food and drink, each may
stand his ground and remain upon the
field of battle without alarm and without
danger.
There are various degrees of cholera in-
fection. In some cases there is the mildest
attack of choleraic diarrhoea, not differing
from common diarrhoea such as every one
has experienced. In others its severity and
deadly character is manifest from the out-
set. Between these extremes are all degrees
of illness.% Tho period of incubation is from
one to three days, only this short period
elapsing after the introduction of the germs
before the complete development of the at-
tack, whether mild or severe.
So far as treatment is concerned, the
medical profession has no certain cure to
offer. Each physician meets the symp-
toms in his own way, according to his
knowledge, skill, and experience. It is best
in any case to call in a physician whose
distinguishing characteristics are intelli-
gence and common sense. Obey his orders
implicitly, especially as regards the disin-
fection and destruction of excreta and of
contaminated linen and bed clothes. Read
and follow the rules of the Board of Health.
Take care of yourself and your family,
their food, their drink, and their stomachs.
See that the food is procured from cleanly
sources and is properly and well cooked.
Let all water be filtered and boiled before
drinking. And don't run away. -N. Y.
Sun.
—Last week $20,000 worth of
cheese, nearly all bought at 10 cents
was shipped from Listowel.
5" -
there are teeth." A very amal1 tooth-
brush, charged with some precipitated
chalk flavored with an aromatic drug to
make it pleasant, is perhaps the best
means—not a towel, which only re-
moves the secretion from the labial and lin-
gual surfaces, and not from between the
teeth, where decay is most rife. Yet how
few children's teeth are so treated, and how
rarely the habit of doing it all themselves
when they are old enough is inculcated.
But if it be acquired the very desirable re-
sult is likely to follow of an immunity from
dental trouble—at all events to any large
extent. Later on something more can be
done, by passing a piece of waxed dental
floss silk, which can be obtained of most
chemists, between the teeth every day, and
the value of this can be easily demonstrated
after thoroughly using the toothbrush by
passing silk between the teeth, when a cer-
tain amount of accumulated matter will be
brought away.
"Do toothpicks do harm or good?" is
another question often asked. They may
do harm if abused, undoubtedly, by causing
irritation of the gum between two teeth and
its subsequent absorption; and, if made of
wood, splinters are liable to be left behind,
which have in many recorded instances
caused even the loss of a tooth; but used
judiciously they are of great value in rout-
ing the attacking forces in caries—namely,
accumulations of food and mucus secretions.
It has been urged against them that they
might dislodge astopping. But ifs stopping
is so insecure it must be faulty, and the
sooner it is replaced the better, for decay,
due to the impossibility of keeping the sur-
face clean, must be going on underneath it.
—London Lancet
pounds. It won contain
let-
ters. at a moment's notice to leave the reefing
If these letters were laid end to end of a jib to attend to the making of a plum
they would cover a distance of 5,816} duff.
miles. The mate's quarters are located in what
in larger vessels is called the forecastle, Mr.
It would make 11,232,000 lines. r f,
He could have set the unabridged edition Oliver speaks of his place as "the forward
of Webster's Dictionary 13 times or the cabin." As he explained this afternoon,
Bible 45 times. there is no danger of his rolling out of his
If placed in one long column it would bunk unless, he rolls through the yacht's
planking into the ocean.
reach 22 miles. "We arc all officers," said the Cap -
If the metal were moulded into bullets it rain. "We have no crew ; in fact, 'we
Cap -
would furnish ammunition to fight the war have neither room nor use for them. Mr.
of 1812 and then have enough type left to Oliver is chief officer ; I am called Captain,
set five copies of "Poor Richard's Almanacan,'
sa
three of Talntage's sermons, and 297 patent ofdn theI guess aheya the chat snarl Mrs. FlI We
,medicine testimhad a very pleasant trip, and the
As we go to press "Uncle Alex" is at itis
case whistling "Comradea " and "pulling only tanto we were in anything like den -
out" on a "fat take."—Ndvada Democrat. ger was when we were passing through the
Deception Straits, between Fidalggo and
The "Toinboy." Whitby islands. Tho tide rushes through
The "tomboy" is a young person whom the narrow pass at a terrific rate. The
the maiden lad who will never see thirt Straits arc not more than sixty yards wide.
y' y Whenwe entered an eddy caught the stern
five again, hold in great abhorrence. Never- and we commenced to turn round and
round until we were carried into the whirl-
pools. Any one of the waves would have
been sufficient to swamp us, but the little
craft danced around and rose on the top of
every breaker like she had brains. There
was hardly any wind, so we stood by,
wondering how it would end. We knew
that a few minutes would settle the busi-
ness '-te way or another. However, we
struck nothing harder than a big spray and
got through all right. On our way down
the coast we met with several pretty stiff
blow,.—San Francisco Examiner.
ously pleased to recognize him in public. theless, we must confess to a sneaking re -
The failure of the club train service be-
tween London and Paris is attributed, no She cannot do fine needlework, it is true,
doubt justly, to the fact that most well -to- nor does she sing, play, or paint—she has
do Englishmen will not pay special rates for no taste for these things. But she can
superior travelling accommodations. They stand up against fairly swift bowling at
commonly travel second-class, and are notcricket, and can jump a ditch with the best
at all ashamed to manage to be forward of of us. Stiles present no difficulties to her,
the gangway on the channel steamers, and for before the timid young man in patent -
thus save the extra fare that otherwiselleather boots has had time to proffer his
would be collected, when the ticket man assistance, she has gripped the top bar
comes around.
A Grasshopper Diet,
Some enterprising person who does not
mind making experiments that would daunt
many Hien of unquestioned bravery, has
discovered that grasshoppers are good to
eat. It is claimed for them that they are
not only nutritious but agreeable tri the taste,
particularly when boiled for two house with
butter and spices and salt added. The value
of this discovery is great, because these
athletic insects have often devastated the
farms in the West to such an extent, that
those who have depended on their farm
produce for their daily food have been
brought face to face with starvation.
Now, knowing the value of the grasshopper
as a means of sustaining life they need
not starve, and if, as the discoverer claims,
the insect is so delicious a morsel, per-
haps many will welcome what has hitherto
been considered a plague simply for the
variety the visitation will afford to their
daily fare.
Van Horne and the Nevrspaler.
From all points of the compass coin° ru-
mors of the gigantic schemes the Canadian
Pacific railway magnates aro maturing.
Having steamships on the Pacific, the next to be reading "improving" books or prac-
move is said to be to obtain a service on the tising the intricate music of German com-
Atlantic. With this object Mr. Van Horne posers, she is probably with her younger
is now in England. The Intercolonial is brothers, tramping through lanes and
next to be absorbed and become part of one fields in seaf•ch of butterflies and birds'
railroad and steamboat system connecting eggs
with England and China. This last move
is opposed by Sir Henry Tyler, on behalf
of the Grand Trunk, who thinks the two
great railways should operate the Interco-
lonial in common. Part of the C. P. R.'s
scheme is said by a Chicago paper to be the
monopolization of the foreign business at
the World's Fair. New York is to be tap-
ped, and to do so a Six million dollar tunnel
under the Hudson is in contemplation.
There is to be a new bridge across the Ni-
agara river just below the cantilever. All
this is to be completed in time for the
World's Fair. But other schemes, we ane
told, are in the air. The route to that Far
West is to be shortened by an air line from
St. Paul to Mnosejaw, and anotl,,er from
Medicine Hat to a point one hundred miles
east of Vancouver. Some of these p tsjects
may be seriously thought of,but they would
be a big undertaking even for the C. P. R.
No wonder Mr. VanElorne says ho waits to
see the papers before he pretends to know
the news about his railway.—Mail.
with one small hand, and has landed safely
on the other side.
She can throw flies for trout with a grace
that would soften the heart of the most
confirmed old bachelor, and has even been
known to ride a bicycle. When she ought
A WVager Was On.
Vieuxtemps, the famous violinist, used to
tell a strange story of his experience in Lon-
don. One day, he said, ire was crossing
London Bridge when a poor wretch jumped
into the water. There was at once a
cry I'll bet he drowns !"
"Two to one he doesn't 1"
"Done !"
In the meantime Vieuxtemps hastened to
get a boatman, and sped to the assistance
of the drowning man. Just as they were
about to reach him there was a roar from
the bridge :
"Leave him alone ! There's a wager
on."
The boatman immediately lay on his
oars, and refused to lend a hand. Vieux -
temps was forced to see the man drown be-
fore his eyes. He told this story so often
that he finally believed it.
t
he oddest thing about the "tomboy" is
that she usual ends by marrying a timid,
somewhat elderly man, who has never had
D. cricket -hat in his hand, and who has a
chronic dread of fire -arms, lest they should
"go off," in some unaccountable way. And
a thoroughly good wife the "tomboy"
makes ; merry, light-hearted, and always
in good health, she is an unfailing source
of cheerfulness and happiness in her little
family circle.
A Great Singer's Advice.
Mme. Albani-Gye says : "I believe the
great thing to do with children is to first
find out their natural gifts and aptitudes.
If they show musical instinct and aptitude
for music, then set them to learning what
music means, of what it is composed, how
to read it understandingly before they try
to sing it. To me it is simply useless this
attempting to sing without the musical
foundation ! And the superficial smatter -
The Manufacture of Wild Men,
They are many curious trades in the
world, but the most strange must surely be
the "artificial manufacture of wild men."
Yet a well-known English doctor in China
has just certified from his own personal ex-
perience that this art is regularly practiced
in the Flowery Kingdom.
First a youth is kidnapped, then bit by
bit he is flayed alive, and the skin of a dog.
or a bear is grafted piece by piece upon him.
His vocal chords are next destroyed by the
action of charcoal to make him dumb, and
the double purpose of causing "etiolation"
of the skin and utter degradation of tht
mental faculties is affected by keeping him
immured in a perfectly black hole for a
number of years. In fact, by treating him
like a brute for a sufficiently long time he is
made into one. At last he is exhibited to
the entirely credulous Chinese as a wild
f is :tors r a
Slender Waists.
The opinions of great men on marriage
and matrimonial topics are always interest-
ing,if not invariably instructive.
Thackeray, who detested "wasp-waisted
women," once told a young relative, who
was much in love, to take his betrothed to
a physician before purchasing an engage-
ment ring.
"What for?" his companion inquired, is
considerable astonishment.
"To see whether that wasp waist is an in-
heritance or a consequence," he replied.
"Consequence !" exclaimed the young
man - "what do you mean?"
"Corsets," said Thackeray, laconically.
"Miss — has the most beautiful figure
in England," said the infatuated lover.,
"Slee is deformed," Thackerayrespondes-
"If it is a natural deformity she may be a
moderately healthy woman. Even'humpbacks
are not always delicate, you know. Mind, I
say moderately healthy. But if that girl's
figure is the result of corsets you might
better go and hang yourself rather than
risk the evils that will inevitably follow."
Abraham Lincoln once remarked that
ev ery man about to marry should stand
over a doctor with a club and make him
l"
tell the truth with refereh to the chosen
partner for life, if there was no other way
of getting it out of him. Also that the par-
ents who would allow a girl to marry a man
without knowing, as nearly as could be
known, his physical as well as his moral
condition, deserved to he scalped.
"The whole marrying business is wrong,"
said Mr. Lincoln. "Fashionable girls have
too often foolish mothers, who care for
nothing but to sell their flesh and blood to
tho highest bidder. —Albany Express.
man of the woods, an( h' posses
eap
rich harvest. The priests, it seems, are
adepts at the art. When a kidnapper,
Mg can never sustain one. Oh, they will however, is caught by the people he is torn
find it out for themselves after a while, to pieces, and when the authorities get him
those unqualified ones who try to sing be- they torture him and promptly behead him.
fore knowing how to read." London Chronicle.
Getting Even.
"My wife gave me a blowing up because
I didn't. get her an nil stove."
"Well, I got her one, and then she blow
herself up."— New York I'ress-