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` hack wee Mated in a moat precari- in any bargalning diftleultiee. he
enot potation oh the .to of a small yet-, soaroely a day pawed that, filie did hot
loW wagon, and WAS lashing out fail- add to her store ofIndian treasurea
'misty at her Pohokemitax e with, a. by eachtingtng penkrtiveet and mashes
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wooden -handled, • two-thonged quirt and ribbone for porcupine head -dress -
which she haci juatietot from at Petgant es and fire-potecheis and charms, their
Italian in exchange for a blue-sille services were often in demand. The
handkerchief. Her cayuses were two disappearance • of various articleof
°halve seautely strapped to the wagon', civilized and Itaxleriouti childish ap-
With various parts of her bridle, diet parol simultaneously with the appear -
light -yellow one, With both arms Miss- arm of evilemelling Indlah trophies
Ing, representlng. to her lively imagin. was the ea•use of hatch Woe to llifes.
talon a fine bueltalein 'steed; the other, Evisten,
whiffle had originally been a respeo- "Whet can Jack want with theta/1h
tthele piem ot walnut furniture, but ehe would ask her -husband plaintively.
had apparently stood the stress of oa.n't go around the corner ot the
' =mix bad weather, until it had ea. ohm* but I Gee same dreadful -looking
mimed a mottled, degraded aspeot, doe Indian henging over the inolosure and
• lug duty as a vicious, unmanageable dangling an embroidered belt or a ant -
pinto, atiek or a bead charm before hack, who
,Stiek• an her spirited team were seerus perfectly fee -cheated with the
. drawn up tennfortably in the iearallelo- horrid things: Andhow she ever
gram ef shade 'before the shack, and makes them understan.d pasees my
tithe to time, during her iragain- omtprehension. But she seems to
aef race over a Prairie infested with tithe their iniPosolblet language quite
' hostile Indians, she would let fly an intelligibly, and it is really very can-
• anew from the bow withah was her venient When they cone around with
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latest treasure, 'shriek out delighted-• berries and things, and Doalehappens
ly and blood -thirstily, ."Another Indian to be away.But 1 wish she would
bites the dust I" and then fall to bele. stady her arithmetic"
ing her steeds more furiously than• • TO be Continued.'
ever in .her attetept to escape her
• Pursuers. ,
There may be Misguided people who
. think that a little girl only seven and •
a half hears old, and of exoeptionally-
• ai•istooratie. lineage should have been
• engaged in more ladylike pursuits-:.
.playing With dolls for exanvple, It
is true that Jack had 'dolls, but she
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n ever played with them. Ignorant and - - -. . . :-
unthinking ' but kindly relatives in . . .5.°°"nl'anen'> • "
England had sent her dolls front time • We had all been warned to appear
. . to time-holls with beautiful flaxen before the magistrate: upon the Thurs-
' . hair eand- languishing orioleteblue eyes,- day, but when the Thursday came.
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.•. • -bot they were all eareftilly put away, 1 theta was no occasion for our testi.
and were regarded by Jack with either ! m,ony. A higher Judge had taken the
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unconcealed . Contempt or perfect in, i matter in hand and ' Jefferson Rape
• difference, - Jeck was not that hind of hed'heen summoned before a tribunal
,httle girl, She was as straight and Where Aria justice would be meted
lithe and active as a boy, and her big out; to him. On the very .night after
g ray eyes looked out curiously and his capture the aneurism 'burst, . and
fearleselY.... from a tangle of . short, he was found in the morning stretched
.• dark -brown ban, on A world all, level upon•the floor of the cell, ,with a placi,d
" prairie, and tovicseing Rockies, and In- smile aeon his hem, as though he had
diane, and •orderlies in zoAri.et toica; heeriable in his irking moments tialook
and peateh had goyerament traps, and back upon a useful life and on work-,
Lee-Pletford rifles. Tier baptisnral well done. . .
mimeo were Jacqueline 'Alberta Math eheegeon and Lestrade will be. wild
jeriba:nks. She hadebeen' offered tip, about his death,!' Holmes remarked; as
when toe:, Young to protest excepteby.. we chattedit over ' next -evening.
• - .unintelligiblescreams, at.... the altar of ."Where will theie•-gtand • advertise-
' her ancestors, and had been basely bah. .inent be xtow?'' ' ' ' ' •
... „posed upon and Made to . bear the "I don't see that they had much to
' .names of -pelvic Who were..absolutely dc with tie. capture" I answered. -
i unknown and uninteresting be her.
No .oata stopped to consider that bee ' "What you -die in this world is :a,
matter . of no consequence," returned
, cause • her mother's . grandmother had, my eampanion bitterly. • "The 'quest.
. - . ,been it, noted :. French beautye-Milee
fl
. 'an- is, "at can you make people bee
• : ...;JACtlaeliap d'Erlinohhtliat was net Yore' liev.e., that, .. you. have'done I ' .Nevet
hoodreason for haihing after her n
mind,' he - continued, .more -brightly,
a- itelielees English:infant, who was eer- aftet a pause, ."I .would not have -miss-
. •i.' ' tainly no beauty at that early period 'ed 'the - investigation: for anything.
. . of her. career. They fitnaPly told the There has been
:officiating clergeratan, and •he poured no better case within
my- recollection. • Simple Malt was,
. ei.' silver gobletof water over her -con- there . were severel retest% instructive
valsed cohnteteneeand inexorablyan, points about it." ' • ' . L --
"Simple!" I ejaculated. • e . - -
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'Well, really, it can hardly be ile-
ac:Sheaas. otherwise,- said Sherlock
• • Holmes, smiling at my eutpriect. The
• . ton put in a, counterehami for:. ' his' proof. of its intrinsic. siniplicity is that
• family by annexing "Marjoribanki" to without - any help, save ,a • few:. very
- 7"Jacqueline.". "Alberta" was 'a ordinary .deductions, 1 was -able to. lay
•. - 'joint concession to the reigning family my hand upon Aye .•criminal •wiehia
! And an official recognition of the fact eheee days."
that Jacqueline rejoiced in the tetrad
, • birthday as the Prince of Wiles. This" "That is true,". said .1.
. ,,,nstguifieont profusion of iismos _ el have already explaihed .to you
• "'"' that what is Out of the Come:tore is
e, luckily reduced in: deity hraaticeto
usually a -guide ..rather than a hind -
"Jack," which was a mist happy and mace. In solving: a hieblean of this
. appropriate name or her.Life was. sort, the grand thing is to be able to
..' foie short and exciting in that little remon' backward. That is a .. very
• • out-of-theaway corner of the "Caliadiart
• useful 'Northwest Territory to •waste than. in f .. accomplishment • and... a very
• bestowing majestic. appellations on! easy one, but people at; not praetice
it much. In the e
any one. ..The garcon ra'anque effect ; . very,day affairs of
; life it is More asefal to reason forWard
. about Jack.iMPressed every one. She ,•
. • 26Ould ride • as straight and. alntoet as i alid` o the other. comes to be neglecte
re are .fifty who •can .reason
her as her . father, never rising tie, the 1 ed! etieally for one who can reason
- -----trotatoeeaseher hired little bones; but n'
. ' sitting theutily tied DirnallinTherhoyee -4-narni°1111Y''' ' I
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".I.,confess;":"-iatd :,-'that -I--do hid.-
. . seddle; and elle hadit way Of .cantere"
• Ouite hallo* you." • - ' • • '.
lag widely. and carelessly home hills;
- . andeofurging her fourteen -hand pony,: ht hardly expected that you would.
.•-Nellie, actoes swift 'little mountain Let Me me If I can make, it • blear.
Most people, if hoti desceibea teethe of
;screams, and up and do*n'inepessable -
. ' trails, that -was decidedly neaseuline,! event0 to•themewill tell yeti what the
- result, would be. They can . put those
• end .eatesed the grown-ups With: her
e - to • . .ed• ' events - together in their mindhe and
shudder as they followUnWill-
- • leigly. -• . toys had no place in e'rgn° i''°‘°1.thOm.diet something will
_ ..., tier existence;'Broke
a leme pony was a come to pass. There are, 'few people,
hewileh if you told thema result,
, calentity Of raiment, and to be Obliged t h
"'to go in the . trap instead of being allow -1 would be able to evolve from theta! own
. . ea to ride her bronco eriben her father 1 Inner consciousness a hal the 'steps
. went on one of his forty -mule drieree to : were which ledup to that hesult,
This power is what I mean when I
an outlying dethebment wantna of the .
reasoning . .
! greatzst sorrow that hat held for her. a ° • a war ' or ene Y -
She observed certaio prohrietin in tically." , • .
-her riding which were rather puzzling.. "I understand" said L
,'
.• , Although she loved her boy's saddle to "Neve, this was a ease in which you
.• ' given
the. atter exclusion of even" the mosthwevh' the remit and had to. find
. .fascinating of pigskin side-saddles, yet ' -everythittg . else for you/heti. ellow,
hhe maned to be:seen riding in knick- let me endeohyou The dif-
or to show y
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flouneed that lier name waa Jacqueline.
Hermother,,having thus established a
*tetra for her side of the family,' gave
way to her husband, and Captain -Evis-
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.0 ?
MOW' A now thing in criminal annals.
The( OW0 of Dolsky, in Odessa, and ot
Leturier, in Montpellier, will %lour at
ones to any toxicologist, ...-
1.'And new came the great queetien
as to the roseate why, .gRobbery had
not been the object of the murder, for
nothing Was taken. Was it politics,
then, or was it a wOMan I That vas '
the question which confronted me. I
was iholined from the first to the tat- -
ter .supposition, Political assassins
are only toe gled to do their work and
to fly. This murder had, on the owe
trarh, been done ' most deliberately,
and the perpetrator had lett his traffics
alt over the room, howing that he had
been there all the time. It must have
been a private wrong, and net A pea -
teal one, which oalled for stteh . a
methodical revenge. When the in-
scription *am discovered upon the wall
I was more Inclined than ever to my,
ohiMon. Tho thing Was too evideatly
a blind. When the ring wits found,
however, it settled the question. Clear-
ly the murder had need it to remind
hie victim of some dead or ebsent.woe
men. It was at thita ,point that 1 ask-
ed Gregson whether he had, inquired in
his telegram to Cleveland as to any
Particular point in hir, Webber's. for-
mer career: He answered, you remem-
ber, in the negatiVe, ' •
"I then proceeded to make a care-
ful examination of the room, which
maimed me in my opittion as to the
murderer's height,- and tarnished nee
villi the additional detail as to the
Trioldnovoly_ cigar and the length of
his nails- e had already -came to the
conelusion., since there Was no Signs
of a struggle, , that the blood Which
covered the floor had hairs( from the
rauderer's nose -in his excitement.' I
could perceive that the track of blood
coincided with the track' of his feet.
It is seldene tbst any man, unless he
is very full-blooded, breaks out in this
war-thresugh emotion, so I hazarded
the opinion that the criminal was pro-
bably a robust and ruddy -faced Men.
Events proved that I had judged cur -
telegraphed to he head of the police.
at Cleveland, limiting my inquiry to
the circemstances oceneeted with till
ineahlage of Enoch Drebber. The an -
ewer was conclusive. It •teht me that
Drebber had already applied for the
protection of ,thelaw against an old
rival hi love, named Jefferson Hope,
and that this -lathe Hope was at pre -
sem in Europe. I knew now that I
held the clue to the mystery Jrt ;my
hand, and alt that remained was to M-
aitre the murderer,
"X had already. 'determined in my
own mind that the Man who had walk-
ed into the house with Drebber was
none other thanthe -Terairteho • had
driven the -cab. 'The mierks in the
road showed me that the horsehad
wandered on in a wah which it would
have been impossible had there been
any one in charge of it. Where, then,
could the driver be, %mime he were:in-,
sitle•the house? Actin,: it is absurd to
suppose that. any eland man would
carry cauha deliberate Crime under the
very eyes, as it were, •of a third per-
son, whowas sure to betray line. Last -
1 ly, supposing one Man wished to 4tig
another through London, what better
, means could he adopt than to turn
cab -driver? . All theiii3 considerations
hed ine he the, irresistible conclusion
that Jefferson Hope Was to be found.
,•actoong !the jarveye of.the 'meteopths:
. hit he bachhheen one there was no
reason to believe that 'liehad ceased
to be. On the contrary, from his
hpoint of View, any . sudden. change!
Would be likely to draw attention to
himself. hHe would probably, for a
time et least, continue to perform his
duties. There was no reason to sup -
Poe° that he was going under an as,
shined mune. Why should he change
; his name in a country. where 'no one
knew his original one? ' e therefore
orgaritzed my street -arab detective
, corps, and sent 'them systereatieelly to
-every ohlt proprietor in London, until
they eferreted out .the Mari. that I
wanted, How well they succeeded and
how quickly 'I took advantage of it
are still fresh in your 'recollection. The
murder of Stangerson was an incihent
whioh was entirely ueexpeoteh; but
which could hardly in any hese have
been prevented. Through it, as you
;-know, lecameeihto possession of the
'hills, the existence of which r-bscr 41.-;--
Iready surmised. Lou see, the whole
thing is a chain of logical sequences
Without a break or flaw." - • e
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"I1. is wendetful I" I cried, '' "tont .
mettle .should he publicly recognized.
; Yeti should publish, an account of the,
;
case. . If you won't, I will for you."
• 'You 'may do What you like, doctor,""
he answered, "See here I" he continu-
ed; handing a paper over to me; "look
at this!" .
It was the !!Echo" for the 'day, and
the paragraph te Which he pointed was
devoted to the case in question.
"The public," it said, "have lost a
sensational treat h rough the iudden
-death of.the man Hdpe, who was I,Ais-
pected of the murder of Mr. Enoch
Drebber and of Mr: 'Joseph Staaigersoh,
The details of the case .veill probably
never be known now, though we are
informed upon good authority that the
crime was the result of an old -stand-
ing. and romantic. feud,; in which love
and Metniontsm bore a part. It seems -
that both the victims helongeh, in
their younger days, tu the Latter -Day
Sabath and Hope, the deceased prison-
er, hails alio fromeitilt Lake City. If
the case ha a had no other effect, it at
least brin'as cat in the most striking
manner the efficiency of our detective
police force, and will serve as a lossoa
Lo chi foreigners that they will do
wisely io t e 1.12 their feuds athome,
tind noC to carry thom on toBritish
SOIL It is an open sehret that • the
credii of this smart capture belongs
entirely to the well-known Scotland
Yard officials, AtiSsrs. Leatrade and
Gregilon. The Man was appee-
hettded, it appears, in the rooms of a
certain Mr. Sherlock Flames, who .has
himself, as an amateur, shown some
with
aueh
talleen tbtt hien dtruotodetectivers, 1 i nmy
ekanhde-pwe who,
v
time le attain to some degree of their
skill. It is espectedithat a testimoti-
tat of some sort will ' lie heasented to
the two officers as it fitting reeegnie
tioa of their services." °
'Didn't I tell you when we stak-
ed V' cried Sherlock Holmes, with it
laugh. 'That's 'the result of all our
Study in Scarlet*) to get them a testi*
innisi rl '
"Never mind," / an.sWeredE,11 have
:all the facts in my journal, and the
bit " shall know them In the Mean-
time, eme•must make yourself content-
ed by the consciousness of success, like
the Homaki ttusee-r,
"Pepulue mo sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipso dwell raineul oes nuMmos contemn -
lar la arca.'"
TIie End.
,
lerenL steps in myreasoning. To ie
erhmkers. They were, usually, mod-
. • •estly hidden- finder a full kilt of blue gio, at the beginning. .1 approached
as you know, on Poch, and
serge. That fact, however, ' did net the house,
ineeent her appearingt at any time in with my mind entirely, free from all
a pair . of gorgeous butslatkin Ethan impressions, I naturally began by ex,
amining the road -way, and there, as• eMbroidered up the aides and -adorned
with innumerable ermne skno, 'there I have already explained to .youel Paw
seemed to he a subtle difference ea_ clearle the marks of a cab, which, r
' ascertained by inquiry, mus
tween knickerbockers and shape • that t have been
. appealed to Sack. - there duringthe night. I saddled
myself that it was a cab, and not a
•
Seek linear a great many things that private carriage, by the harrow gauge
• eller people were ignorant of. She
peseessed a fund of miscellarteou.s. in- o t whee te he ordinary London
growler is eonsiderably lees Wide than
formation, and there was an Odd sort
of reliabiiith end steadhiess about her a gentle,man's brougham.
"ThisI
th it strut:sic one at quite wonderful, and thenwas the first point gained..
gtown-up people were continually star- walked slowly down the garden
thing themselves by discovering that path, which happened to be contposed
. of a• clay soilhpeculiarly suitable for
• they wore talking to her and Consult-
taking impreseuens, No doubt it ate
. ing her as if she were as old as them- peered to you to be a. mere trampled
Selves. It seemed quite natural- for line of slush, but to my trained' eyes
• ' Stott to know that common bluing -.was
better than lime for a saddle -gall; al- every mark neon its surface had a
,- mealtime. There is no branch ode-
. : though one would not ordinarily except f
tective, seience which is •so important
chiltiren of her age to -have ideas on and so much neglected as llie art'
.. -, such a subjetc; and no one seemed to
think it was asking a great deal of hor treeing footsteps. • Happily,
I lathe
Rivals laid. greet threat uponit, and
to Suggest Casualty thatehe should go
forth on her. pony, bareback, and scour mn°Ii Pet141"Ihalisalmv-atdheit
ehseee4lidtonoat--
the sutroUnding prairle'for the riding- totIleartks4ni
.1ofthe. eortstebles, but I saw
horses, and drive them Into the corral. thee the tracks of the two men who
She was also allowed to go batik and had first passed through the garden.
forth to Ilighwood, • the nearest All- it was easy to tell that. they had been
age,quite alone, and entirely
checked by the feet that she jraohi: before the ()there, bealit4C in pieces
most certain to encounter wild cattle , their marka had been entirely oblitere
ated by the others Coming upon the top
• and roving Inditn". of thorn, inthis way, my second.litik
Were her hecial delight. Shu had was framed, which told me that the.
numberless -ri°11 "m-Ang them, and nocturnal visitors were. two In num-
bed picked up a oolloquiat knowledge ber, one tenteritab.lehfori teig)tt,:ia
of the Illankhot langteeIt
he •ttd`was.
vp;,)ld ;Iatteringly into ested IflPOhY- stride, " and: the other fashionably
• r--filoos end' eaPeditionh 'dreseed, to judge from the small and
Thi Indians, oh their side, were grave- elegant impteseion left by his boob',
„ 'iY• Polite to Jack, and would so .400-eutering" the house this last
mn-
"ttow!" impressivelY when they met on hirenee was
con e d My
the trail; and they would offer to let 6 -if -max' lay b ef e me; %tall e
her, title ttrir tricky little ponlee :4Sa3erni,3 hwaads.do;pAertheewMatiurndeerv,:ielufnluttrdeft ieith: While they waited to, see' the inspector
and ihohlh aPPiand her Ouch and laugh the dead faan't person, but the agitat.
, • delightedly Won she would fearlesalf ea expression upon his fade assured me
Mtnint. one an' go "eking And hlhog- .that he had foreseen hie fate before it
• lag about the inolosure, thtleestitich hem epoe him, hien who die trent
goodtittles were eummarlly out short heart disease or any sudden natural
bar tile aPPearanos of her' Mother 011 cause never by any ehagee exhibit
- the verandet Jeer would enjoy. herself Agitation upon their features, Haw.
etiounliPpianuitu 41,141)114c1 nek Infultvlable • ing seined the dead mates lips, de.
'ec ' rind inform teeted a slightly tour smell, and
eettoAL loomughlY ite to the Move- eame to the eonoluelbri that he had had
tnente rilftrsrent tribes: just pigeon forced upon hhrh Again*1 ar-
iehht the Mottles would come to trade gust' that It had been forced upon
Wit 1 vhc eolitens, and when the Mice-. him from the hatred and fear •exprete,
totals might be expeoted to vielt the , eed upon his face. 137 the method of
*eel ether kindled toplee. eheettsiete I had arrived at this result,
hurnieg,intereet.
the ..5.fout ito,ut aritt the" hait.hrepa tio other hypothesis would Meet the
fsets, Do not lenagine that it was it
interp.eter af the post were opine) ,•!erY ufkkol‘rd-of [Gee- The tera1414
friend*, elai bM4Ly st)teil as umpire, aditinistratiets , rift* hi b: no
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OREATEST IiINGINSTI "(1 44" fr414 in teroOmmunlitation
with, the prieeto within their reach. On
O4ROINA.14 MEZZOFANTI. WA.S
MOST REMARKABLE. 1.401.
111100.or or Sow $1811ty Leugusgesi atm
Able to *Andre Allow...One **Three -
wrelloi
THE POTTER OF KUNG. IT 18 11811 ATI
C90 Olm lacer te ittiedwfult the $at
or heridni bee *I0 Old 11$0 THE MACH OREST '
FOR OONSIINFT
re**
altoh co*d aihf i
one Cardinal era°fan
t
would request a delay of three week*1
daring whieb time he would oio come
plately Exeter the language, however
difficult,tbat he could tiRRTebond the
mest minute perttculars tionuittunt.-
°sited to hina"
It would be highly unjust ant the
SANS SIGHT, -,SANS TASTE.
world should forget a man an remark-
••••••• .
Ititudiehded Mtn caul Teti Tea whom
It Wattid WAY see,nt from esperirtIts,
wliloh have been carried on in the (Int*
versity of towel that we do net taste
Many 0 the things which we eat at.
wee daily meats. It is asserted Con-
fidently. that we merelysmelt thVi.
If the nose is tightly closed in the Melt -
nen' Man and he is blindfolded, he
will not be able to distinguish ounce
from water or a weak flotation ot quirt-
ine. This has been proved by expert -
'heats elede on hany persons, Com-
mon coffee was said to be Water, it
wao also said to be quinine; Wates
WAS Said to be coffee. Tee Was call-
ed eoffee. Turkey was called pork.
Raw •apple was called tempo ghee.
Malt extract Was sherry wine. Lard
was pronounced butter, in short, ex-
perienced persons were wiable: to die-
tteguitth many common foods and
drinks, when sensations of smell were
removed, and the conotusioh was reach-.
ea that a person nught even practice
economy in eating by merely.- blindfold-
ing the saes auu substituting lard,
.pork and beef for butter, turkey and
veesion, while if the further precau-
tion was teken. to close the nose, a
very weak solution pf huinine would
pass for good coffee and ;hinegar, for
the most wetly wino. . • .
The experiments whiCh tad to them
oouclusions were parried on by Pref.
G. f.r. W. Patrick, of the University
oe Iowa, who has just eoraneuntcatede
some of the results of his, work to the
American Psychological Society, Prof.'
letitrick• *as enabled to attain great
accuracy in his work by the fact that
one of the persons he experimented
titian was an anotenice-that is, ahso-,
Aueely devoid of the sense of smell. He
was enabled thus to determine which
setunations were these "ot. taste and
Which were thuell. • He experimented
Also on normal aubjects, :and some of
the results were, surprising. .
• There are only four simhte taste sert-
• aatioas, naneely, .sweet, bitter, sour
andeselt. It is said by some that there
are anly two,. sweet and. bitter. All
'other 'sensations which are commonly
called tastes are complex• results of
sensationof emelt; touch,. tehaperatitio
and sight. "e:he means by.. which we
distinguish almost all of our common
:foods and drinks it not; the sense of
taste so much as it is the sense of
smell, touch, temperature and sight.
All the fine differences by. which We
distinguish tha variaus fruits, meats
and drinks dependnot upon taste at
'Ali, 'but upon •these • other seriees. Pure
sensations of taste add •hardly more
than a .certain emotional element to,
the complex sensations.
TRINLDAD'S WONDER:PM LAKE..
itment descriptions of the great lake
of liquid, asphalttion, or bitumen, in the
island Thinidad, ellovit that notwith-
standing the enbrneous quantity of the
substance, rentoved every year, the eup-
' ply hi turdiminlehed. The lake &Were
about 100 mares, and is higher in the
Middle- than at the edges, Near the
°entre the bleek pitch is semi-liquid,
but toward the Siam it crust, %tete
toted with. fistures, °avers the surface,
and On thlei must it Man Dan walk, al-
though when he etands for a time the"
cruet gradually elnke around hint,
forming a kind of baste SOVA6 yards
across. 13etween 90,000 and 90,000 tete
of aephaltuan are reineyed from the
like annually. .
Ole tor the aceuraoy and extent Of
his memory as the famous shierdinal
ihheeofanti, nye the Blahcheeter
Guerdiaa. Perheme, however, it is as
well to remind people in general that
that extraordinary Man passed away,
at the age 04 75, on )1ilerelt 15, 1849.
hiezzofetithihnanee has become rather
dim to the proem: generation, in-
deed, as must alweyit be the ease With
a repu.tp.tion made by q,uotitios that
leave ..tio lasting result* to the world.
lie was nothing of a writ& and only
a philologist he the strict etymological
sense of the. word, -not a critical or
eittet scholar, but a. mall who knew
an Amazing number of languages and,
dialects, kierhaps he is best "knowie
to the modern English reader from the'
eulogy to be found in thee of Byron's
memoranda, published % by Moore.
hhOur therary every -day maia and 1,4
says Byron, "Aiwa what well in cum -
posy, especially, your foreigner, wheut,
1. -never could a,bide. . . I don't
remember it man among theta whom
I ever • wished to see twice, exeePt,
perleups, Mezzophanti, who is a mon-
ster of learning, the Beia.rees of parts
01 aPosOho: a walking pelyglot, mut
marc, who'ought to .have existed. at
the' time of the Tower-. �? label as
Uravial.§2a, orartkuiri;TE.a. •
Hs is indeed a . marthe--unattsuining
also, 1. tried him la ail the Longues of
which 1 knew a ihugle • oath, or tut-
juration to the gods against post -boys,
Tartars, boatmen, saitotie
gondoliers, muleteers, • camel
urlyers, vetturmi, 'postmasters, post -
horses, *postbous,es, post everytiung,
ante 'thaw 1 he astounded me -even. to
My English:" , •
iteezzaitinti's einguititic peweehe.were
. .
indeed ea:remarkable that it is a theus-
and pities that the phoneghiph was
not invented intima to eecOrd some cif
achievements.' We think; and
rightly, that We pay a Man a singth
laxly high ; complanena ...When. eve -my
teat he s.peaks a language other than
his own So accurately as to deoeive
even those who areetopen o it he the
beat. iieneration a great authority([8-
aided' that such a knowledge 01. 'french.
for instance, could only be assigned to'
three lingliehmen; one of thein. was
tne late. Air. lienryleeeve, Whose her-
sion of Tocquevilie's. eDemucraby. in•
..enteriett" was -said tehprohe that a wee,
May know ye -language. very well and
translate it yery• beefy- hut Mezzo,.
faith counted' the, henguages 'that 'lie
spoke like a native" :literally in doze
ens. :Cardinal es isetuan who knew:.
awl levedhine, hes tett u atrikieh tee -
hamar to this almost prete.rnatural
power. In the seventy or eighty lan-
guages of which be was Mester before
his death,' efezzofanti was familiar
with alt' the varieties of -teethe., woe
vincialisms • and patois. hHe would
detect the particular county in Eng-
land from which a person came; or the
province in :letanott. . . By a
±,ortuguesti-lie -was orate, to bis, hare
demi 'Wiseman's, own knowledge, tak-
en for a countrhatan, and on another
occasion . he Was simitarth mistaken
for an Englishman.' ale.speke Ger-
. . ' . • .
"' • • DYING BY WHOLgSALL
Awful Stories of Starvation . Ina Itioeilan
•' Province. ;' . •
' A despatch he the Loneleri Telegraph
from St. Petersburg says that the Pro-
vince Of Kitson, h which is inhabited
chiefly by Tenets, ie he. aeconditten of
Unrest, which is likely te 'result .in it.
bah outbreak agates( the. Gavel:lin:hitt.
AL 'Goreneykin; Minister of the Inter -
toe,' has started post-haste tovisit the
distilet.' The situation is the out-
man and. a,ronah, says lamed eeehey, mint of the terrible famine. Evetye
•
'With -SUM lierrection- that :ithevas .ineh_thitig has • been eaten, including cat-
tle whiehhthemselees had died of star-
vation. The people now haver only
the meals weekly., and are dwelling in
'which 'a. 'learned German scholar gave half-rnmed huts, parts of the roofs and
of blez.xofantis acquirements in 181 's wood -work ' of . which. luive been used
as ,appalling to the averegis rape WW0 for fuel.. •
is particurarty pleased with hinaselt if,.• • ' el'. '
he can easily. read four or five lang12- . he sole occupation : ox tne. people . is
ag'cs 'besides his own, as the list'of Gib- burying their fellows, who'are dying
...
bond's or Madaulay's reading is to the rapidly of typhus 'fever.: Private bents-
•
average student. ht. is worth • quoting iolence is doing what ht can, but , it
m all its baldness, for only a maes ef
detail can help one to appreciate what can do but lithe to relieve the distress.
a knowledge of,seventy or seighty Ian, Government aid was delayed owing to
the roads being. blocked. ..in many
eases. peasants haye gene . a dozen
verets to Obtain, bread, and some of
tiepin have died on the way. The peas -
ern ones of he first class, Such as the mete in some villages attacked theTheal
Greek or Latin; or the Rehm, Erenelli . authorities,"cientending brethi, and then
German, Spanish, Portuguese and Enge •
lisle; his knowledge extends-, tiled to 1 eesalled the police. - • The administra-
lauguages of the second class, viz., thei tion at St. Petersburg thereupon decide
:.-Dutoh; Danish and Swedish; to the i ed that energetic measures vivre neces-
i whole Slavonic family, Russian, Polish, 1 sary to quell the trouble. Large quasi -
I Bohemian or Czech; to the.Servithe• the I titles of corn werehhantmeeted by ex..
those.of the third and f -tth classes- I pehreffsseretrrte.nsseannitderdyVilTdeithatiethelethimt:negi tthhee
Hungarian, the 'Turkish ; and even to
the Irish, the Welsh, th hWallachlan, Red -Cross Society weresent to combat
the -Albanian, the 11 1 n and the the typhus andecurvy; hut ite Boon as
Illyrian. Even the Ro aril of tbe the Bed Cross people arrived the Tar -
Alps and the Lettieh are not unknown tare, arlui are Mohammeditne, spread
to him; nay, he has made himself ape rumours that they had conic Co take
quainted with Lappish. Ile is nuts_ advantage of Ahem:leery to cempet the
ter of the languages which fall with- Mohammedans to be baptized into the
in the. incle-Geemenite family; the hark_ Orthodox 'faith. The Mohammedan
`G. a, the Aritienian; he is familiar I rage
riciv,;3:grd Persian, the Koordish, the priests fostered thich idea. Then the
of.the people rose, and they ston-
ith all the menibers • of the Semitic, i ed the relief*parties and refused help
family, the Hebrew, the Arable, the I from them. The• officials are now try -
Syriac, the Samaritan, the Chaldeeel ing to PeelfY them, end have summon -
the Sabaie; nay, Been with the heatless ed M. Soultanoff, the Mufti of Oren -
which he not •only 'reads, but speaks. Iturg, who will go to Kitson to explain
Among the Herniae languages he the objects of the Government.
kooevie Colette, Ethiopic, Ahysliniati, •••••••• ..•••••. p.m* ..... y.........a.
. Amharic and Angolem." e /
After the permed of this not very i "DRIVER" :ANTS,
soleittific but amusing catalogue, • • -......
ONE PAUSES TO TAXE BREATH'. 'flier DPW° People Out or Their IttouseA Ill
Zpralltio whieh are supported by the In atrial, there o,e ants that travel
erehet, . •., -
The linguistic attaintnehts of Ater,:
most unexceptionable testimony from at night in great . droves and visit
all sides„ can only he compared with every house in the village. Then every*
the achievements of the "calculating body in that house wakes right up and
h what Menet tos he a special and hurries eut hate tile str eta. They have
wit
rare Welty' for m:ental arithmetic, to, and Ito do the do and the cats
Mezzofaiiti put his -ability to •a much .and the fats and the spiders and the'
better usa than r calculating •
horse' except Bidder, ever did; No cockroaches, and everythieg that has
one could have made' a better Use of life and am =Ye, for these ante are
the "eacellentheveraory" and "remark. so fierce and so hungry, and there are
able fieftibiliff of the organs of speeeho so many of tboth,
to which theseofanti Iiitaself atteibuted that everything must
get out of their vray or be eaten up.
his linguintia exlMite• In nOnle§ a° It does not take. thorn long to get
the Secretary to the 1$r4Vegandat he , through eating everything there is in
hed quite unusual opportunities of
:using and extending his foteign, a houee, for the people there are poor
- tonguee. In hie itpare hours he inn;. allel de not keen,ratieh to eat in the
ored by choice in the Papal. petunia home at one time, and then they goon
to the next pleat, and the 'OeoPis go
where he found natives of every bah!.
table country. Many of these °mild . back and brawl In bed, These tem -
not ape* Italian and bed emallchanee blesome inflects are known as driver
-.of finding a prieet reedy and abie to ants and they teavel in ti long proces-
'giV6 them spirltuai onnniatinn in a *ion -that is mild with ants About four
-. tongue Hut they could underatend. feet wide and adnietilnelf several blocks
long. Travellers in Afrlea who Meet
Cardinal Mezzofttliti set himeelf to thorn in inn* plaaas ken) as far away
theet this *ant Ere moved among the
prisoners, tninintering. in. his, Own from them all they tem, for there are
he had revived the mireete of Pente. bneoteNeannYuprople wbo reedit+ want .to
tongue to each, until it was said that
oomt-lii his Own person. 4'esees have •
been IffIOWII," soya Wheelie/a, "of per-. 118TIMATIlt OT WEIGHT,
Sana °°Minit to "118 extraardinlirr man The Sandwich Wanders astir/ate din
:for eonfese an, but speekithe oaly Wine
'outeof-th la tut which d b bottoti of in bl thAdr watithto '
poseihie to believe that u was an Ital-
ian, who was speaking." •
ISIERE CATA.LOGITE
• guagett really •meens; •
"Ho is familiar,'' wrtite Gorres,
• "with all the European languages, and
by this I understand not only the an-
- went classioal too u d -Ibm inc
When Capt. Stiffe of England waft
...,.
IreedinS towns along the 'Persian /Suit
a while ago be Caine to the large fish- No efelliehies No aneulattou„ Ne ireddlies
Ing village of 'Conga wbere a couple of -elteinly hare -Msfer
r .nsad
eenturiea ago had, stood a city of much Itlighte
ibtorweits igeolie horetelly hathelafeit
Commercial importance, for it was °lee hherchn 0,401 joss •
of the leading porta of RlaTThere Is an intereeting article in The
rules of the eld town aretietrilalsc. attehre-Nineteenth Century in which Mr. X. A,,
ea far around end beyond Lee emits 'Gibson tells how he WWI cured of nonf;
of tire mat buts that shelter the fish- ennal)tinn* Mr' Ginjann °n'n:d ni-n41814
armee and their families, about ham at the age of 28, ;suffering from aoute
Miaow all telel, who now inhablt the Phthisia. Ms Paso Was Pronouhoad to
ary sort of pottery. There he Plenfh
huh. be 444,:ratel bythe dootors. lite weigh,.
od only, nine stone eleven pounds, and
the disetuse bad such a bold upon him
Place. The only industry besides
hag Is the production of a Very ordin-
of pottery clay in the neighborhood and that he never exPeeted to re0OVer,
at one time superior Wares of this sort However, he weat off into ehe country.
as the dootore advitied and after three
'Were made an Kting. Capt„ Stilfe, in
menthe of complete! rest midi 4 diet of
narrating his adeentures, around the
Persian Gulf of the RoyalGeographical more than half a gallon of milk a der
' .
Society; told thist curious story of the he had put ona few poundsweight
Then a friend urged him to go to Nor -
days whim wee man made. the earthen-
draohe in the Bleck Awash and platie
Ware of ung that became famous in
himself Under Dr. :Walther.
Peribt. The incident he describes is
' He did SO, andin four months he came
not at all improbable, considering the
Government under which, the Persiaback to England in a state of herbaria
ns
live. , a•, . .. health, weighing 12 lea stone and vvith e,
CORE
The people of Kung say there was
one Particular artlean among them who
discovered a.way of making far better
pottery wares than any of his rivals
in.business. Ile kept his georet to
hitbself and thrived by it, for the :rich
soon began' to show a preference for
nist.goOds, and he had all he could do
to supply the growing demand. At
hast l the Wile of his wares reached. Te-
heraki, and a feed specimens of them
got tato the Shah's palace. That pet-
entate decided that he wanted ,more of
the same sort and ao he took amps to
CHANGE THE RESIDENCE
of the skittle', potter from Kung to the
'capital. .
FPS Highmees sent an order down to
the coast instructing, the local Geyer -
nor at Kung to immediately despatch
the man to Teheran, where he was to
recteiee ' the appointMent of special
maker of chinaware to the Shah. The
order was communicated to the young
hos" IA* now and then tome to light
chest - measueement to correeepohde
What was this magical treattaeat of.
doWirelity and. night, epormousamea,
Drers.t.W: eith.er.? NO.::: rTe.n.t,.. rest. an:
fresh -eV . medieines, no ihoottlit-
and carefully reguratediehea. T
tion, op •coddling, but simply open '
IT ,.SOUNDS 'AN EA.SY CURE,
and it began. to take effeet. Oaten-
tentaeusly in Mr. Gibeon's case, The
'hest thing Was -to eaten in weight, and,.
with this object in view Dr, Walther. . •
fairly crammed Ulu patient; ° Kr. Gib-
son gabled in . weight, Everybody hhehe '
.else gained in weight, There .was a ••
competition as to who sheath'. gain .
•
most, and people- ate for diet:
whle eie eye on the. acale.
• "We used to say among •outsiders,", ...e
manufacturer and the intelligence fat -
good with:less where _hilts e w-wea:. adhodinghaad .wt.hriletteS tRritire. s*Gltbhsone ordinary, "thatw.ealithaodwatotettott.
ttd him with dismay.
not the slightest inclination to plebe food -one portion to eeplatie natural
himself ander the , eye twit the direc,
hon. of a tyraen uf.: eniployet. Moth- ."Ste.' second portioo, to replaces the,
rorreedr, farampeearl phiehiheand ehteatrithsehahhadodea-. third
da
powel3etoenf•rtolin-rjlt oen!lwiaeeiagElhetioll4;that.
paymaster, and whether or not he had,
hoed ground for his heliefi he felt cer- the systenietnight be .strengthened and
tain that: if Is": went toe Teheran he fhnelly get , the better. of thee disease' • . , .
mhedoukidohnithveeetteo,d' izta wkiethpotthteetyefeehrrreheatza- IE)erelorryethcidroaaisha.ditloo- oi eij tialwu n ninef o ran dh upt r
would receive or nopo got' the..at: seven; bre.akfaistgat eightedinnee at .
fritith of and industry on, one, .supper setete.4-1Aia was theta:.
except the 'high honor -of •seduritig the day's. tentine, with: a !vatic at aehilaithi
Most distinguished. patronage in the eeeee. . . • :
lande iHe cencliided e thee he e 'Phone the moment Of arrival. until.
.wt Luigi el>443ifpet hitt. sialefi.e4ire.°t6h4erinitulattan3Yeebre3; I brea.thes one breath of aitee. but.
:letiving.Noedrach • the patient h never ,
,the behest of his name, . . tthe purest itit, NordraCh isan the •
Ths mandate of the. Shah was imperti- Linea eeeeste: eh' elevetionelof 1,500
tive, but th.ere•ere occasions when hie, feet, .surrounded by. trees,. anh long .
litigliiiesS• may . be hoodwinked. lehd bis iway.fronn. tchvu or- each a villhge.. The
eahtmanheeetroumeeixteh; and thei vats : ca.eement window .s 'of the , huhu:edam
one of 7 . theme a The , potter I eohi are kept ')Osie . -opee . day.: OA athlete,
the Money.. ' he timid . eemmer and. Winter,' enein, dene
to the. - beat • Governor, ." and , etaneee -the'.wineanve :ar
after that ...higithninded'..offielal had eletoly oat ch the fra
.texiketed the -hribe• be and the potter hams it he praetio
concocted a. plan to deceive Atte ruleteithe pateent lives
of. Persia: They. hit then. tbe Mimic'. therefore ho da
of acetifying his figliness that. most ;melte enyekin
unfortunately ' the man whose earthen-hour,as the
on himself aid. Rung had.inaysteriousiy L
ware had coitiferrecl ecemachecredit ; witheeitiateLueeaoeva.
disappeared. it short time before the the pitient,m
arrival or his suramens to: . Thieerahh. {tau an, -lretal,
eiid, no trace lath yet .. been found of • , lea hetheeehehee
bith. The. Governor deePly regretted; .
eon but he was -unable to 'materialize
his inability to deliver the eesiredepere `fa°,4'eh.nnehehta°,.11haivneeaeat°s.4'eMei
Being at such a conside
h'm' • .
and more important ...Matters,. houbtahnh
a charm. Ties feet ..Witbje,, rise in
The ,plan winked- like
detiephon we-einem:iced aeon ;the Sh..h, ; wale's .(i4
to get the same amo
another 1,50. fee
le..s,.' diverted his further
i" lgaetaiv•ietlythmtehrts. Bois tthejne 'refrusef
feom the Potter of Kung. 'But.- that
longer.profit by his supeeiorknoivied
etvioeutthtoa iheletohitastefetas:... fllel4onot:iittitrio:ibm lung dha'Aajoietirthe'.'ih;u;one14.7ehn.).404,:est p.40
of. pottery Making:. • • For the rest . of erannleasr,o
ventilated,. *
hie life :he • had : to' content • himself heath/
with making ordinary el:4 ware, wadi welhiag oh hill ih onunen'ti
„x_ to efect, white. at thy sain
this is the. way .the people of Kung
tehost elholute teat • th
plain the • filet that their town. has
lost • its lormer .repthation for aupee'
(Mina product" e zhierttlibedran
• inh erchess to pi
••
• I
• ,
ttlital:tidhials4 lreinn- "
th ' doubt theate.
its the he i-
fhe •elimate is
• DANGERS:OF K./11'qt MAKING. , i. huite a.; high a r,
• . .
— • . ter it Li'much °Auer. ..
:mull lhe:sana as
nothing to ,'..d6 '
land, ' . There
Farther. Reports on. the It.e or the IsallAuen. I caleinitnoatt( est. rhatt4edabsbotOtenidy:
' . • . sable VelIeW ealeame.
satisfactory sthisfitute • for this yeLow 1,h,..eaarol(Ithatiorgai.;61fie
ebernical •proriuct which is the 'halting -
agency'. has, been discovered.. ...S.ane
. PhoiiphAus friction matches • haveli.1.11' •111° .cu'a°i'te•r. •tlay in all.ginre...
been made hor.stxty-sie years and no gularly day
tehoehifsewest olethes afte
. .
:011* hi the rain ev.ithout ever thinking
- there the patient" who go oat
tiontetimeteewohi hours at .1:
GoVOrnmente cli....e iitrage . their nt mu-. ad. ins and finds
which the persoies Malting. tlinn are
feiture on.'aecount, of .the. danger to .eesolnetimm:setosruvlicde.
i: chelli ihum,rcItnlit h:
sitt the lax on tha mantifaceure •..
exposed of oontracting necrosii, or raor- ! hihesyhee
ti.ication of •.the lower jaw. ':.; la RUH- 111•01>s of st4oss:
,of I rsielwetiltateeleholit aNle"
yellow phosphorus matches ler so high
bahniest clime; , that a
that they are being 'displaced by safety. , ,
mile:hes. Behead toad Belgium Benet illmhh° was a hphe whert5
July be ignited' onytyhere, and 3.elany i t•
stimers, lioevever, want. a match that !, i .• 1
the use of the chemical. ' t I '
edhaelth,it at ituttatittre.ds;tes: a
ham; eon_ 'too bsi;
plioepherus is the best means of prat carr oult,E. inpneiGmyibsTonituE.:,
that this is 4,
(tubing this rie8sjualtqlystett. 1..tnhoisvsnmeolots,isoe; vi:ebe:ohtutly nothing
hoped wh rod phospholus was! first
ne
I: :.hhero )ushet :lone? s,eidne
the making Di eafety match- to be so necessary go tor nothing. A
iliwould. take the place of the Freedom. trem wind, a .12!gh eve
element, but it dors net fide of sunshine, dry climate and all 0
hough uaed with satistactory other things as are generally stuns*
ea. Oh; is the crux or the whole. It is pos.
The evils resulting from the use of slide to cure here, on the spot, ttlinost
yelloW phoaphot tut in match factories .all the people of this country who are
have been partioularly prevalent in all M. phthiels. Why, then; are sane,
Great Britain, where ethe Government tariume not erected at once to,oure the
has jitst issued a, Blue Ilook contain. hundreds of thousands of those. who '
ing the reports. of P.tofi. ohorpe and 'ill and who have not the me 11.9 i
°lifter and Dr. Cunningham, who wore abroad -hundreds of thous
employed to investigate the subjec . are as certainly doome
They .sity the difficulty in the way Of they were hireada tides
preventing' n; crests is that yellow some such steps be not at
phosphortnt is still required to prOduco it fa sad, t� think, that, ae
till "'strike anywhle ' matches ple ntugt die when they might
thts public eeetni to peeler; They tW be saved.
otts elm et be prohibited, beeause
not advise that the use of the hanger-
• A. CURIOUS EP;---ThP11.
Great Britain hittnufael u res largely
ifyor4eiveeprotrtthanied trreodbeibiltoiocinthiv;,roueludiumitereiee; wahshereefeonlitoiympateemaottaarnaluticediin
preventing the diseasee---
but they suggeel. certain measures Inc
• ary..--ellere lie the remains
tho centetery of Debreezin.
They say that their • Investigation, h
Which hus been extended to eleven Moritz, the elder, who died a
countriee, .has revealed no evideiace
that neeroain tentracted unless the '
°sfirialstelIdtt4y7is sYo6an."-Iletialiede h:t
working people are' deoayed. They
adVise that no person with unsound remains PC gine. 40a6Ph Zdqft
teeth '.'•:;p employed, that dentistry be eider, wile died- eit.,
made oornpulnery, that thts utmost sevext rearm, hteviiitit
olennliness of the premises where
matched are made be required and that w" her daughter., Eli
'Great Britaitt follow the example of who died in her /event
the Continent and Alneriba by Imbed- ing committed culeide
luting nraohinery for direct handling assassinated her motile
in the plocesses of manufaeture. ihS ?MAWS Oi
Mtn Main Willie of these reports is asstuelinated b18 robe
not that they tell mut& that new, iri ft convict prise. 4 t
bet • that, as the result of the Most seven years.
searching inquiry yet made, they con,- mock have
firm and emplumiee the belief already 'ed souls."
ourrent that cleanliness, ventilation ' This insert
and careful attention to the teeth are the lombston
fin almoat eartein preventive of anal. surviving • me
otts dieetuto that has brought muoh family whie
suffering upon alarms body of work. lug ChM,
eevray eig • at- Itvio MOIL ,1118111,
,