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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1880-06-17, Page 2• Wide. old cradle, vu this was your cradle? Wily surely, my Jenny, Snell slender dimensions go clearly to show , You wet.° an exceedingly sumil picaninuy Some nineteen or twenty short summers age. TOUr haby-days dewed in a zatsch-troubled chan- nel ; Ise° you, as then in yew impotent strife, tight little bundle ex waning and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly -found fordo), called , Life. • To hint at at. infautine.frailty's a scaudal; • • Lot by -gone s be by-gonea and somebody knows It was bli4s Such a baby to dance and to dandle. Your cheeks were so velvet, so rosy your toes. .Ay here Is your cradle; and Hope, at times IQflttiyJ With Love now is watchiug beside it X know; They guard the small nest youluherited only Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago. It is gope gilds the future, Love welcomes it sunline.; Thus wa-Nthe ola world, therefore stay uot to ask, 4 Illy future bias fair, is my future beguiling?' . •tf inask'doitill i Pleees--then raise net the mask. Is Life a poor eoil some would gladly be doping; nods riding post-haste who their wrongs ; ror at most 'tls a footstep from cradle to coinuL Prom a spounfal of pap ma nienthful of dust. Then smile as your future Is smiling, my Jenny. 1 see you, except for those this nth° woes, Little elianged bUleti you were but a small plea - ninny -.Tour cheeks were So velvet so rosy your toes Ay, here is your cradle! inueh, *path. to my ' liking, Taotegii niuoteen or twenty long winters have spolBut ;Os I'm talking there's sixo'clock • It is time Jonny's'baby should bo M its boa. FAM AND DADDEN. Seasonable Albite °Et Sea.satlaa late Topics. -.- •-- -- • sAriit- og. suour-nonx• e.trri.s• . The .Couiltry (et:Vernal: publishes a ao- . cord 'of the: •saaea of shorthorn cattle • in the variousStates mai Coneda for the year. - • 1679, from ..whieli at- appears- that 2,866 •aninials were sold during tho year„ The la.rgest number sold in any. state - was in - Kent= y, . where. 1,100 cattle were sold, • . 'realizin an ayeanaiegprice of. 1O9.$8 each. • Thehighest. average. prices. ,were realized •, . in Canada, waere..49 short-horue- .were 'Sala •• at . au average of $278.88 , each. The lowestaverage priCee were realized in New York, 'Where ate -taloa 'aepe#ocl•aouly ' anicatuted to fifty-one cattle, at an average . price, of $51.78 eade Tae• followieg isa •summary - of the stiles Made and, avoraae. prioes received :throughput • the' 'United. •• ..States and Canada or the pasV10- years.: • Saies of is•;_e • 'vas. aile. • Sams of 1876 ' • ' 4,048 ' 155 Sales of 1677.. . • , , .,4,.:3,9,37 ' 230 •' Sales of1H7(1.. : ,, ; . ...Cow •Soles of acck3 ,, . ,, . ,,, 4,347 ..,W, sales of 1411' 2,071i 185 • ---,-------liales, of 1373 . . •• hs.34,,,,,,.......,,.... ..... lt.•• • en ' ' • Sales -OfTiro - . 1,4)14. . • :ffi3. og.16.7.4.;......4,.....,..,....,....497;:::,.. .... ____,....:i.•Pe., sales of ism ...... - , , .. -,, . .. . sa3 - • -" 343 .. - • ' From this statement it appears that the . price of thortherns has cleclited very; inuch' cluringalie past three. years. . Although "the lawest price was reached in 1879, it was during the early peat of this y,e'ar but now '*----theyartrgraduay-risiiia an -pa -ice, bantgood • ale:rt.-horn bulls have notheeu f keen demand for thelast ten years; and ave rimy s,afely say all around Durhams are 2,5 per cent. higher than they tveae a ear age. . Armlike TatISC• •. eShellyee of kitchen, pantry and etip- board should be Covered- with ficsia clean. tipper neatly cut at theedgeta once. in. two weeks -or oftener, if the wear to which they are subject makes theme sliabby. It is. net eceinomy to 'have -too feW brooms a one for • the sleeping -room upstairs, one for the Parlor and sittingLreom. and tine for the °. kitchen are, not too many. As . they are. Woruathea may be passed ' down a grade' at a timeathe new one always going to the, parlor, If the new broom is allowed t0. stand in; cold water twelve limns, •after: wardt thbrotighly drying it, it will last mud:1640k. A broom should never be al- - loved to stand on its bauph, as tt parmaneetly one,sitlea sad. • ill -shaped. Hang it up by a loop in. the .handle. Per hard, steady W•ericers, •antl for inaaliati suffering fronaavasting diseases, foods- rich.. •an carbon, such as the inner part of all toaan (particularly corn), -fat •Merit liver, • 'milk, honey ma othet pure, unadulterated. • sWeets, grapes, peas, beans, potatoes, beets,. carrots and parsnips are best adapted to sustein strength.' •For thh-se who Work rapidly, .and intensely, but with intervals of -rest, foods rich inultrogen, Or. 'hash forth- • int' foods, such as leen meat, unbolted • flour, oat -meal, eggs, cheese, cabbage, cauliflower, onions and asparagus -are 'the• most suitable feeds; • ror areal workers,. light and easily digested food shquld bo • selected, each teafish, oysters, game aild vegetables, whichaluate-a-an . exeese of mmeral salts,' womow. PLANTS. to the diSposition which the cow makes ot the after -birth if left to herself, bat we have thought that perhape nature luMws more titan, the average of cow doctors ana we lot her alone. If the cow shame with the calf the Arst railk that is drawn from the udder it will have a laxative effect. We do not give water until the chill has beee. taken from it, or meal for three de,ye after calving, alauy cows do well thet have no extra care, but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of oure.-Excliange. USES Or 1ru1 POTATO, In France farina is largely use4 for cut- ina,ry purposes. The famed gravies, sauces and soups of .France are largely indebted for their excellence to that source, and its bread and pastry equally so, while a groat deal of the so-calledeogna,o, imported into England. from France, is the product of the potato. Througbout Germany the same uses are common. In Poland the mama facture of spirits from tho potato is a Most extensive trade. Stettin brandy,' well knowu in commerce, is largely imported iuto England, and is sent front thence to" maul of her foreign pessessions as the produce of the grape, and is placed on many a table of England as tile same, qwliile the fair ladies of our country per - fame themselves with the spirit of potato, under the designation of eau de Cologne, Bat tilde) are other uses to which this esculent is tamed to abroad. ,after extract- iaglalie farina the pulp is inanufaetured into ornamentalartieles, each as picture frames, snuff boxes and several • descrip- tions of toys, and the water that runs from it in the process of manufacture is 4 most valuable scourer. For perfectly eleansing woollens and such like articles, it is the lionsewife's panacea, and if the washer - Women happeas to Lave chilblains she beconeet cured brthe operation. AITSCELLANEOUS NOTES. it is not generallY known how easy It is to propagate most shrubs by• root cuttings. Roots the size ef a penholder are the best. • Cutatliesainto pieoes an inch long, and plant them au inch deep in a cold frame, ' and they will be six baches Ligh and ready to plant by the time the garden plat is ready.. Alderney cows, at t1,400 moll, tire iMt likely to become popular with the average dairyman. Only the wealthy can afford the infamy of those superlative Milkers. Some of a herd sold in New York, recently, were bought as low as 1a2130 and 6800 each, but twe went for 01400 and 0,425. Fancy • farmers enjoy such stock. • A Warwick Ont farmer has been vic- timized to the tune -of $190 by a pair of land fertilizer agents; The unsuspecting former.signed what he supposed to be an agreement for the distribution Of a quanti- ty of the grandest thine in the slutpe of a fertilizer on record and. in a few days lie finds his note of hand is lying in one of the local banks for collection. A large proportion of *abutter sold in our. Markets is artificially colored. The faatneed not al in the butter -eating public, for in general ,the coloring matter used 18 • perfectly -harmless. --The annotto; a berry, -.of meat, cheese, onions, lamed, fruit, and monivAL AAT_D sciErvivirt0., The English statutes against ad:titers- tied are vigorously onforeed, in India. Seven thousand chests of tee, adulterated by 4 dust' were burned reeently. D. Clendenin, of -Ostend, has discovered a new source of danger as regards triobince. He found the titame of a pike full of theile parasites and supposes that the fish derived them frora eating the offal in the barber, The Sanitary Record says that the four- teen cbief wateaing placespf Englan4 show ita average annual death-ratp of 21 per 1,000 and the zyraotio death -rate 2 per 1,000-A favorable exhibit. Such places must in future set forta their death rate, In view of the great importance of im- proving all schools as sanitary seminaries for the bodies as well as the minds of the rising generation, the authorities of Paris have established medical officers to inspect them once, or twice a week, noting their appointments and also looking to the gen-. ma health of the children, •' The average depth ot tee ocean Beers is now ascertained to be about 13,000 feet. As the average beight of the entire land inaSs of the globe above sea level is about 1,000 feet, and the sea area about two and throe -quarter time that of the land, it follows that the total volume of ocean water is UM:thy...six tilfics' that of the land above the sea level. , . • The whistling buoys now in use Weigh abut fifteen tons eaola and in their plump ing, even duringcalm Nt eathea, 'a force ot nearly three horse -power is evolved, Tst • utilize this waste energy, Mr. • Edison has devised a small dynamo machine to be car, lied by the buoy, the current • from which will suetain ail electric light equal to one gas jet. If suceessful, these selaillurninat:- Mg buoys uauSt be of great use to mariners, Dr, Macadam, of Edinburgh,. peints out iu the .Sanitary Record the varmus matters containing arsenic and injanams to health. Wall paper contains a good deal of it in the green colorine and it also exists in textile Itamicsrtoystrartificial- towers; •eto.' The eMerald green, sold by druggists for a few cents per pound, 'holds 50 per con. ef ar- senio, Dr. Macadant contelida-that arsenic disseminated by those mons is as injnrious to life as -drain air. • The Continental Gazette notes that the birth rate in 'Prance js steadtly *diminish- ing ; so is that of marriage, but in a teaser degree, the .nrimber of children resulting from these marriages having greatly de- clinba. In the (doss composed of potty tradesmen or the well-to-do peasants there is seldom more than (Me child per mar- riage' anait is ,atatect that 'in one of the royalcommunes in:Picardy the uribiliCeof• children, eneong the best -off of the peasants is thirty-seven for -thirty-five families. What, asks the Gazette, is to be the ulti- mate destiny of Frame if this decline Of tho population continues? • , .A.writefin a, recent imbiber of'Nature ' says that milk is especially liable to be affected by the atinbsphere about it, when- • ever, it Tests in open. vessels. In the clean, • est pantry or larder,itgathers the eilhaVia grown extensively in larezialets. a slightly Aromatic: Seed, ayliielt is used te.. impart,the. 'Taai golden color' to 'butter Se =eh Veined by ,.,euetoraers, .but which very' little un- colored butter posseettes, ..Tarmeric isaleo such matters ; the result being that it is • soured. and spoiled.. In kitobous, nurseries, living and sleeping reoms; closets, ete„ the ease is worse. • Nature inteiided that milk should be drunk at once at its source a and .sueed for the sarae. parpetea _ ' • : it is vpay ilicety:that'aexpesurealtealtlelaye -•• Londoa-p le eppears, lilielYt9.•falaa the ' impair. its poWor of nutriment. place Of Teri' green...as an exterminator ef should be kept as xnudt as possible elose ' potato bugs and other insects, It is well ' 'that it should do So'„ for it is less dangerou• s to handle and is said to 'be quite as -effect!' ave. Moreover, itis much cheaper. . Prof. Cook paysalutt it cen be sold for ten coats a pound, aid oven less. . Xeiug laglitet tlicut:Paris green', it will go tauch farther. A. powid is enoryth for 100 gallonie,ef water. DISCRILDIIVED CialiCKETElata settee arta Charged with Tredleg on the Name or enneallonot-Thete, Captain • Aereeted tor Deseetleta LONDoN, rune -.--The cricketers calling themselves the Canadian Team are playing in England and Scotland, but on their Arst appearance they were discredited. A, para- graph in the newspapers says they are composed Of three maim: of the United States, • seven Englishmen aud only five real Canadiafts. 'XII° paragraph • continues as follows: Every honest • cricketer M Canada scouts the scheme as ridiculous in tae extreme. The newspapers are all down on the uudertak. ing, atul hope steps may be taken to pre- vent their playing as the representatives ef Canada. Their only hope is that they may collar sufficient gate mouey to pay expenses and secure an enjoyable pleasure trip under the guise of Canadian represen- tative cricketers There is not one of them, . - unless it be Kearney, of Halifax, who plays • well enough to be in a second eleven of county mats, therefore their reception has not been too enthusiastic.' • ' A denouement has been reached in that a'ordan, the captain of the team, was*" ap- preliendea last night at Leicester by Detective Crisp, of the county police, on the information of Sergeant Stranger, eharged with deserting from the Second Royal Horse Guards. His name is stated to be Thomas Dale. Since his alleged desertion he has been in Canada eight years, and 1:eld the captaincy of several chubs. Ile ia married, and has severaachildren. In the pollee court at Leicester to.day Dale alias Jordan was aliargea with desertion from thalamic, Guards since November, 1872. A sergeaut of the same regiment identified the defendant, and produced hie descrip- tion. The defendant admitted the =rect. • nobs of the charge and was keneanded„ to await an escort.-2Globe cable. Delmore, June 4.-A reporter talkod,with Secretary Calvert aid other member:: of the Peninsular Cricket Club tat/ morning, and leaaned: 'that oda arrtalna at -Paw Oi'leans in 187.2, Dale first located in 8t. Louis as a member of tho inounted police,' In 1874 and: '75 ae. had the temerity to Mt ,as • professional for the -British officers' cricket team at Halifax. In 1876 he was located in Toledo and in 1877 he accepted an invitation to act as professional for the Peninsular Cricket Club,. a position' which he has held over since. After remoVing to Detroit he imported,a' young wife from Toledo, and she and her twe children aro' now Hying ia the keeper's house the Penindular cricket grounds on Woodward vessels. • • Sonia writers on sefence do not seem to know it has long been well Understood that certain forms of dot:Maass are partially remedied by receiving the sounds throngh • the ruoutia The ticking of 0, *Mali,. which • cannotbe hettaa varen the watch is placed' aaainst t• he eer, is itedible when the Watch Ittieeds lesa stirring than Paris green, and. in put' into the. inoatir, and so on. The from all accounte would seem tobethe best 'Milwaukee Sentinel, when describing the ansectitude now in the market. • ' , ; Attention, is being called in the wade* stetes to the cruelties inflicted upon hogs and eattle:by•drivers, and railroad employ - me. • A favorite histrument • for hurrying thesbeasts is a pole with a screw brad pn 'the end. This iron • ie jabbed into the ffank of a hog or steer and on being vith- drawn it tears Out • a piece of flesh. •A Chiang° packer says that out of 3,500 hides Iso found. 2,100 punctured. • A common niettot of rousing exhausted cattle is to ttvist their tails until the joints are broken. A law to punish these torturers bas boon /mese& by the Minois Legislature. • The potted plaits that are to stand out of doors, should lin,vo a partly shaded place • and be provided with a thick layer of coal ashes, to ptevetit worms from entering the ' pots from below. The plants -in the greeo- house will need shade, and this can bepro- cluced by coating the glass with whitewash., Muslin screens will answer in small heuses. ;Witter shbuld be freely used, and:the • houses provided with an abundance of heal air. l'ucheias willservo to 'decorate • verandas aad like plaeee, otherwise they had best romein ih the greenhouse. Hauge inc baskets will need- freoneut , attention, • and should be plunged into. a tub of water ancl well Soaked at least twice a week. If • is safer to keel) all choice tropical plants: in dm greenhouse,than to sun. any , risk Wita agaaaaaeitt •door% <akar the house ef atlf, 'insects and nialte any repalti necessary; while most of the pleats are out. As the days get longer and -wartime • the attaelts of tii3O illBaCt post will be more Vigorout. It 'maybe neeessary to fumigate • ea often as twice a. week, 'using tobacco sterns freely for this purpose. For the red spider, thorough wasbihgs and. the use of the syringe aro the most effectual: remedy. An tibutulanco of .tvatef and air will _be ladaiiireartiretalies and may bo • loft opal much of the aaatinte, 13ulbi brought into heat will soon etart and pro - duo° flOwers. Those that have bloomed sheula be allowed to eoniplete the growth of their loaves. . Propagation of stock of , bedding plants for salo ok home lite should aow be going 61. Seeds for plena.) to go 'into the open .gratind aro to. bo sown in boxes and given elenta of heat, '' • enrions "Vacti.4 Albput Wafer.: The:extent . to which water reangleS with bodies apparently solid is Wonderful. • The glittering. opal, which beauty weers an ornament, I is. only fliut and wetera The dnowacapped summits tif Snowdop. had Beia Nevis 4aVe many Milltontons of water in a solidified. feato, In everyplader .o.f Paris statue which ma Italian carries through our streets for sale there is one pound of water' to every four pounds of chalk, . The air we • breethe contains five grains of water to •each cubic foot of its bulk. The potatoes and tornips which ere boile•d for our -dinner • have, in their raw state, the one 75 pea cent, the other 00 per `ceat, of water. If a man • . . weighing lOst, were squeezed fiat in an hydraulic press, 'list.- kef water would run out, and only 2ast. of dry resi- due remain. A man is, chenaically speelting, forty -ave pounds of carbon .'ana nitrogen, diffused through five and a half pailfula. of water. In plants we find water thus mingling no less wonderfully,. A %milt:Wok evaporates ono' anet a gearter. pinta ..of water a day and a cabbage tttout the sarne quantity. A. wheat Plant exhales th 172 daye.abeut 10.0a0tal gra,ineef water. An -acro of gaceviiig wheat op this • calculation area% and passes Out about ten tont of watet per day. The sap of Plants is the rtmaium' through *(whicla this mast of fluid is conveyed. It torbas a deli- cate pump, of whicir. gle.i„,,nat*V.:xtark*!, • run:with the ,rapi&5-4614.4•Iinide 33y the aotidn Of the sap ;various properties may bo Communicated to tho growing, plant. Timber in Fame° is, for instance, dyed by aturious colors being mixed with water and poured -over the root of the tree. - .Dahlias • aro also colored by' a. similar process. • -An old Windsorite i'ays Barnum's miss- ing.Zulu is in Windsor ; that befoke lie en. wcgortas a lain lii3-vd.s-kheA,;r3i- `a Val 6* a gent naniedeTack Moffat-, ,who bueltectaveo4 fer a living ; that the hot weather and. scarcity ot work led him to engage in tire an1e. business for thirty days at 61.25 per dity that after the show ' was over in Detroit he forma hew -as Otay.getting $1 por daY,• and becoming enraged in true Zulu - like manner be celled for his time, received his money and. skedaddled back to his nu. tivo heath. • • taut mama.. • Numbers of good. cows Ole every year of 'what it celled milk fever ana it is noticca that etch cows sae generally in good cone ditiot of fat. Wi3 have never heal 811880 aimaso id our herd, but Whether that OXMIOPtiO4 is ails to • inatiageroent or luck wo knew' pot .11 has been noticed. that when. sows aaop their Woes in the turn:nor tboy almost always do well, their bowels 'being kept open by mice:Ilea food, and thoy do- not got elalloa by arbildng loY water, Wo make it a rulo to feed a, 'own, fow days before she is expeeted tO come in with early cat luay atta roots; smallyotatoes are exceirent. Some °bloat There aro some curious avocations in Paris.. There aro men who visit tho hos. pitals oollecting the linseed plasters that have served thosturn of doctor and patient, afterwards pressing the oils from tho seed. and disposing of the linen, after bleaching it, to the paper maker. Others make a couple of francs par day by collect. ing old corks, which, being cleaned and parocli sell for half a franc:, per hundred, ' In 'Vienna there are police districts in Which surgeries are maintained, at public ta.ponso, so thatinstruments, bandages and stretelides may tro furnished while a doctor iirriving. THE OTTAWA EICAirlE11116196r. Chute anal Catalina: of the- Two .11.ageleo nu lffiligzunnIt rapa—,Xian amen Well aeanked and Left in 'hien. Oreates, June•-.-Tbe two girls of 14 yearswho elamed on, Tuesday with 416- year 14 Lothario, whose name is Willmot, were brought back to the oity to- day by one of their male parents. There was only one boy who eloped. with the girls, and not two as previously stated. The` second wished to go. to the menio, as lie ex- plained to his tnispanous maninict, but that sensible woman forbade his going, and on his becoming obstreperous she looked him Up in a eupboard with a piece ot bread and treacle, or sonae other luxury dear to the testes of precocious juveniles. Willmot, how- ever, not only eloped with the pearl of his ex- istence, but feeling compassion for the sor- awful deratiel whose laver did not turn up, eloped with her •also. The two went to. Utica, N.Y., vellere Willmot and his amor- ite, Passingats brother and sister, registered 'themselves .at betel as Master and Nies Gordon, and the second girl as Miss Kinge- fora, all of Qtia' ebee. OWednesday,their absence having been noticed the night be- fore, one ot the girl's father followed in pursuit. Ile reached Utica at half -past 10 o'clock the same night. The conductor of the train froaa Ogdensburg in -which he travelled was also col:doctor of the train on which the children liad. journeyed, and on being questioned he remembered the trio, -his notice havingbeen attrected by their actions. On arriving at the Utica depot who El1011id the conductor notice but tho' boy Willmot, standing on the ,platform. Ile immediately jumped from the train awl. grasped the boy, but the nimble youngster • was too lithe for his fingers. and he escaped. The father weut to a hotel, but the boy, desirous of knowing • 'who was piirsu it, followed, aud • with tlie assurance of an old traveller; inspeoted the guest$' book, Unfortunately for ho Was aoticed and traced to a boardinghouse. essietan,ea: of the petioeateagattateined vuntIo the house made: :Tattle re- maloato be told, save that the girls wore there, and that they consented to return home. Thattliese chilarenwere determined to commence at 05100 ;the bane. of• •lifo itt histanced by the fact that the boa' luta already obtained a poeitionas news agent on the Utica Si Blaok River railroad, while the girls were Seeking employment in the ;shops. The enragea parent before • leaving spanked Don Juan, the youngster, in the most approved orthodox manner,and loft him behind to mourn the loss of his sweetheart and possible bride. In the, meantime it is said he does not despair awl will workavigeroaely to save another 1180, when he will invite the venturesome beauty.to fly to some secluded spot freer: the wrath of an interfering parent. 0 . amnia: • • • a —• • IFOOL, 1?.414111ONS. . •Atilors Sloiskings $44) a Pair. • Our tam readers will no doubt be pleased to read about stockings that cost 1;30 aaid ,040 a pair, evenif they cannot afford the loamy of wearingtharn. We -find the fol- lowing in the lieston Herald : •Stackilige _acealpy_tua-inipetteart titan in Some pure silk garnet steekings are orna- mented' atiathe aides; reaclinig. abovetan ankle, withan insertion of the finest point lace, finished with white pills -laud embroia dery. • 'These are 1180 a'pair. The pompa- dour StYles Of Ore eilk, glittering -with gold 'threads wovea in the scarlet grouud are -ooaorad with gaaa little: clusters. of et- broidorcil Alowersa and eost 1140.tt pair -• Scarcely less ill pried-taw:exquisite hlaelt siU stockinge, with iosteps Of real•Brussols lace and others Of Chantilly. The .inille- deur it open, worked in colors of deep ditrk -blue, having garlands of pink"roses, forming stripes, hand einbroidered. Those cost 012 • a pair, and are shown in Other fashionable colors, duel as amaranth, , medic, belie trope, jonquil and salmon rod..• Stockings for croquet, lawn tennis and archery show the richest handwork on spun silk Maroon, black ana blue grounds, of mallets, balls and aarowsa Rate silk stockings, of the ,brigand patteria have :blue grounds crossed in bars of white and rod, .and bow, ana endsat the top, closely ima tating ribbon. These cost 1111 a pear. Some -beautifully Ane Balbriggan steoltings are worked by the *nuns in Irish convents in garlands of margueritea, forget-me-nots, or drooping- clusters of'fuchsias and little ,white daisies. These aro considered eheap 114 a pair.- Plain, opera -worked spun. silk May be iota.. for $3.50. Sanaaled stales ate embraiderect ip richeateoloit on Ile& or heliotrope grounds. In mourning stockings • of black and lavender the instep and sides are. heavily" embroidered in garlands of • ferns aud white daisies, and tell.at Sandaled boots and sandaled shoes for the • street and sandaled slippers for home' weal.: • aro a necessary luxury, that the. alarming . hosiery ma. may not be bidden.' ..• ' Elgin acoustic tolephone, says: It is ex- tremely Fsimple and economical in.eonstrue,. time' The artiele states : Bot the most wonderful test is •the ono which hes been tried of getting at nc1ra distimae frpm the iontrument •thaV by no • possibility can Mends be hoard, and then taking the wile) between the teeth. A person quite deaf canundeastand words spoken in a moderate tone, the effect being the same as fellows from the Use of ae.audiplionea-Blectriaian. • The dangerous consequences • whipli may follow from a leakyaoil pipe aro illusteated by la late kambat i8 tlie New York Hospital Gazette osee eases., .asoribea to sewer gag poisoning, at the Presbyterian hospital, Those patients, a man and his wife and her tieter wereadi of robust constitution, and- hardavorldng people. They occupied loclg: ;lugs 111 whiell oao of. the inspeaters of the Board of Health found a large hole in the • soya:- pipe beneath their .roems, from which enough sewer gas could ,esoape to :poison tae, •entire neighborhood.. They were all suadenly taken iffwith malariel symptoms; the man was under treatmeat 46 days, his wife 82 days, andler sister 36 days, oi a total., of 164 days' lots of time, to • say nothing of eafeebled constitutions, .and y outlahar Medicine and attendance. -This Wm sample of the results which • follow • ecampea buildaig and crooked plumbing. • In the 'Itlacniiliau Maga,zine,'.Mr. Torreas,. M.P., in treating of the water supply of. London, describes the Mama eondition of aa out-ofdoots cistern .41 a locality near the Seven Dials poor Woman Who had known better days, of Vigorousago and • strong cPonstitution, sickened and (lied ; And the tank which supplied her only beverage was found fo.cottaiu two incliet of mud, the decomposing boaies:of fourteen rats, a • bat of soap, two etuidles and many dead beetles.' Even in the Mansion House itself, 'as an instance of what occurs iri in -door cisterns 'iii • the. houses . of the wealthy, the• civic' cistern a Was fouua to contain three-quarters of an inch of fun.gagerub atahe top, sad three-eighths eu inch of mud at the 'bottom ;' • while; in a bottle of water on the lord mayor's table coula be seen hundreds of noinatoid wormsY From cisterns thug situated, adds thelluildingNows,probably needy one-third o tho inhabitants of London obtaiu their only: Stook of drinking water; and Whosi we • reflect on the lia- bility of • Water - to • absorbgerms' and ferments withotit .actual contaat, and tebeeomaputritlaunderuertain • ronaitions. within a few heats ; • when we remember also the untimely fate of the old 4:ay ie Mr. Torrens'ttory, we -can hardly escape a shudder. • : a. little alyear-ola iriena, who was always allowed. to °Mom the prettiest kitten foe his pet and, playmate before the other nurslings woke drowned, was taken to his mother's siek room the other Morning to See tli0 two, tiny, now • twin. babies. 1/o looked reflectively from ono tothe ether for a, minute or two, then,poking his chubby finger into the cheek of the plumpest of tho two ho said. doeindly : BONS this ono.' . • 4:This Is it sad commentary ail our boast-, ed.• civilization,' a, tramp despondently observed, when be alio:Wore(' that the ham ho itati taken from thee -front of a shop was a wooden tam. •4 r.*J LOMBOATIngtein, beving fat years. boon In the noose of Commons as special re. porter for the Queen, to whoni every oven. big a resume -of proceodingsis tolograplied, has boon made a baron for his pains. •41 • curious cystoms. . The tribe. of Setith American • Indians known 'as Jiva,ros have, according to •a paper recently read at 'the .Authropolegical Institut° of Great Britain,. some .peculiar and somewhatampleasant customs. " They aro hospitable, afid their hotates are largo_ and built of.pahne. .They have' a most perfect method of scalping, by which the victim's hod is reduced to the -size of a moderately large orange, Maintaining tolerably well all the features., The skin is Cut round the base of the neck, and the entire covering of the skull remOvea in one piece. This is then 'dried gradually by medals of aot stones -placed inside it, uutil the bonelese head slitnats to the • reqUired size. They also Wear their slain enemies' hair tied, in long plaits round-tho waist. Groat festivities. take piece.. when a calla itt 3 or 3 yeare of ego is hiibitad -into the art .aud mysteries of totoking. The Jivaios ot the Pinta° have the habit Of vomiting nearly every; morning by tho- aid •of a feather, arguing that cal food remain- ing in the stomach overnight is unwhole- some mid undigeeted, 0,Da shouldtherefore be ojectect-London Medical Record. , NTRUCK BY. AN • liCEBBliaG. • 1EsetmOo ot a Canadian -bound. . • .1 • • Steamer. • ' • The_stnEnririp_tiking, from London to Montreal, Ilea. a terrible experience. When -atititit three hundred miles off Newfouad- land,- at midnighton the 16th ult., the • -vessel struck -an Mcaerswith a tree mencloas, crash. Toni Tont of ce fell on the' deck, and the taffrail towards the stern Was swept away. • The boats were ordered._ to belga out -a result- Which, :eiceeraing to e- correspondent, erew' -Made' • frantic efforts to aecomplisha The cliffidalty attending the cleating aWay of ohips' boats, which are almost invariably arranged with, • slightregerd to ;speed in .lowerirtg, was no doubt of the iienal character, for •he- :seas there were •nearly' thirty minutes of in- cleseribable suspense and anguish, and it seemed' as if we could not get the boats .1auuched: in time.' , Fortunately they wore not needed, an examination showing that while she had a narrow hole a yard long anockectin. her port bow 'Omit six feet above the -water line, below she was right and seaworthy;' Daylight feund the yessel environed with innumerable moun- tains of ibci,but with fair • Weather • she escApe. them4. and ran the gtaintlet of ,the ice,lields-io the gulf up.to Quebec... a • 3111003kiNION mimic .11*SOCK.A.TJKON. pittSSES kr A QI:,,ESN'S IntaWnaalloona- Many c,f the dresses were magniacent and the display of flowers was extraorclinitay. Tao Trincese of Wales' chase of gold brocade otter gold. edema. satin was very striking. On seeing the names of two Indiahladiet, the tamed expadesed a wish that they tvealci •eapear in their native dress, anct accordingly they. attraoted all eyes in whito muslin thickly %tripod with gold, with a profusion �f -gold jewellery ittul . gold bands rotted tho head. The Duchess of Westminster wore violet Dna T114,1,1V0 trit11111.0a With goal lace. The Dueling of Cleveland's colored jot trinteeings attracted much • attention. The Duchess of Man- chester appearecl in dark brown, of rocl. dish shade, no her daughter, the Maims ea Hamilton, in pink satio, trimmed with 1ame-0, brocade train, Lady Kuightleyat dross was one oaths most remarkable, as its train Was thickly embroidered with tows of peacock's feathers. LadyLOVdoun (presented on her marriage by her sistor-in- • law, the Ducliess' of Norfolk) wore white brocinlea satin, and tho seine color was worn by another bride, 'Lady Leighton, presented by hor `mother, Mrs, lIoulds. worth, of Coltnoss, Lady. "tasting was presented by Lady Suffield, Ono lady appeal:ea' 151 a white satin dread With hand painted violet, pansies end, lilacs all over it.....46011a0110XrUt114 Suunnnii °film progranimn for 039 Seit • ft:mace Week,' 11110. 'annual Prize -ram -tins,' of the De - minion Bide 'Association will .begip at, Ottawa on. the Oth of 'September. The aggregate cash prizes amount to 1.$5,913,. •exclusive of prizes in kind, viz:: ,Lonclon merchants' vete, ealacdougall Cup,' three: Snitler rides, N. R. A. modal and D..p. A. medal: • ' • . Prizes: Cash. • . All-epmers' match • • re • •.$460 Dominion of Canada .nlatch ...... 52635 • 13.attalibn match , •ea 455 • tfaceougall.obellenge_cup . . ; 44 385 Provinoial match,vase, 3 rifles, and.. 43 444 Affiliated association match 48 • 439 • Grand aggregate, e mecials aud 20 • sqo Prizes.nresented by His Excellency . the Governor-General and H. the Princess LOUISE); badges Etna • 3 sob • • Wo,1 ' 1.7• 150 17 150 3 100 10 245 '20 • ' 750 378 $5,013 The Wimbledon team prize cousists of 11500 given by Sir John Rose, and 11250 by Lieut., 'Colonel Gzciaaki. Extra series, _No. 2 Skirinisbing Watch Small,bore match Withbledon team for 1361 HOME AND FOREIGN, It tieeatimated that over aiit thollead different kinds of postage Atazopa have been issued in the varieue countries of the world. Oue of Lord BoaconsAelaat Tory Mairt- bers ie said to describe his party in 'As present condition as the remnants of the houae of Israel.' The eldest unmarried daughter of the Duke of Argyll, Lady allgzaboth Campbell, i$ engaged to &young officer, Mr. Taylor, who ha $ just been appointed aide-de-camp, to Lord Ripon. Tb.e marriage with take place in a tew weeks, a.nd the young couple then go out to India. Prince Metternich, wbo is about to pub-. lish tile third velure°of his fittherae Memoirs, is said to be a' -man of sterling qualities hidden undera somewhat phleg- iaisttic tool elsilly exterior. His manners are those of a polished meat of the ' world. . 11 Count William Bismarck, eldest son of -the Clime:111er, has just made his maiden speed: in the-Gerinan, Parliament. Ira apa - pet:aft/ice and manner of speaking he re- sembles his father -has his rather hoarse voice, his pauses in the niidet of his sen- tences, 00l. aahis energetic but unvaried .Itiehard Cobaon's daughters wish still to associate their father's name with kindness to men. They are about to estdblish v. workingmen's club aid. °toffee merit at • Heyeliott, his birthplace, as a Bort of memorial philanthropy, and in order to raise money for this enterprise they have been giving a send -private represoutation of GoldsmIth!s. Mmedy of the Good Natured Man.' t • • • Pastor Hirsch, of Vutorf, attributes a decrease of 9 per cent. in suicides -in Nob - way to the recent aattislation against drunkenness, and he calls attention to the increase of suicides in' Gerinany. The last decade shows the annual euieides pea rail - lieu inhabitants to bo: Saxony, 300; Den- • mark, '280; Wurtemberg, 180; Xecklen- berg,167; • Baden, .156; Preseia, 133; Austria, 122; Sweden, 81; Belgium, 73; entlahorway 40 • Sir William Gull says that a great part • of the art of nursing rests wholly on the science of medicine. Only thee:nail who knows what the danger of moving a typhoid patient is Can properly be trusted to give orders as to tho treatment of auch a, patient by the niirses. 'Only a man who knows .what the danger of getting poisonous germs into a wound is can be treated to give the right orders for the cleansing of that wound. -Only-the -max-who knows the aelatienada the position of the bodyth the aotion of the' heart can be trusted to diteet the nurses how to deal with a Patient whose heart is attiteked. The Russian Government is severela- exorcised regarding the ravage's of the corn • beetle. • The losses to the farmers this seit-;• son from the destructive pests are astir:rat- . ea at • from £4,000,000 ato 25,000,000.a DeeleataittaAmeriean grain, aro prepataang-- .to take tuivantage of this calamity, and • . calls upoia the United States will undmibt- : edly. be. 'Very Imayy: • Professor Sindmar 'asserts ' that; tiniest he eadmeas in the efforts heretofore iiesabcestful to distever preventiate. pf these ravages, Aussie's future as aigrain•grevaug aountry ie glotmay During the pait Winter a hauseef ice wee bilitHi Moscow, iis.imitation of the one . Which was construetect by the Empress , Anga Xvanovna4t t. Petersburg,on the •° river Neva, ' ItWas built on the :pond. of- - the Zoologioal Gardens, and occupied talent ' . aifty feet iquareanclading the space inclosed. by the ice railiog., The home itself Wae• .abbut twelve feet high, with a roof .some." nine feet higher, and built in the. form of a. panallelograna-The sight of this house of iceailluminated by electricity, has been a novel attractiOn to the pleasure -seekers of . Itoseow, and a spectacle Well wok.* seeing. • London Examiner : A Otto tramp's -offspring are as irreelahnable as 8 savage. • A yoeng.savage may bataken, oducatecl and_ put hit° tho way of doing wall. . Sooner o• r later, the chences a,re', he Will deserttown and take to the vvotels, just as will the wild ducks hatched under a, beauyard fowl. The same has been toticed about the children of old tramp's: The :vagabond • is. inherent in them, and:if the history of half of those •who begin ae ' street arab) ' ansi ond m tramps ' were.traced out, it would ho found that they belona to a. .itteaaaa-less unbrolteu lino of 0,ncestetalike auto them- "ivet of tho big nativ7It Sieft: are:ptevieg themselves, says the Times of India, groat sportsmen: One of them, the Maharejah of Duraliangit, who is describeffby those who Imow him as a very fairly odueated man, ' poesessing geoll bueiness• habits, :liberal- ideas •ancl-tt-lovo-of-reanly sport - wont out the other day, with a amain:arta talc -shooting expedition, and, it is said, baggea no loss thee Six tigers, 31 buffaloes,' 101-pige aed 230 cled. It is believed thet no. such luck has over before attended a siisglo eporttng party. The young Nawab af Ilhawulpore 18, also malting a name for himself as a Military.. • Within the past mot:* lie has baggea two fine tigers in the neighborhood of Cawnporo. ' At a great ffatny fancy dress balls late- ly,' says tho Whitehall Review, 'the meet expoesivo aressee wore those worn by the mem Arlie mom vain onough to seizo this (their only) opportunity of arraying thorn. selves in silks and satins of tho most aorgeoue description.' •• • The Acv. .of Galt, Ont., ena formerly pastor of Fort 'Massey 3?ros. byterian (Anatol' in Ifalifax, N, S., will fill the Fort Massey pulpit for ono month for Dr. 33urns,during tho letter's visit to the old country, In Apail 00+8014 Were diapoeod of by the Ottawapolico magistrate, the Allot imnosoa ateenuting to $420. • . . • . • ,Glehproaght suw 50 (10 Nothing. • , Before' the Freddi Bevolutionthe mem- here of athe royal family and:the grand, lords • and ladies never thought of 'doing anything forthemselved that others etield - de for tan. • Taine, in his 'Ancient Reginie,' gives it curious illustration of the •. •effect of this •enforced helpleasness.* In the •course of • a conversation With Mine - Louise, the daughterof Louis XV., Who, was a Carmelite nuo, Maw de Genliasaia: 4 I should like to know waat troUbled you moatingetting accustomed. to -'your ••new, profeSsion:' 'You .couldacver imagine,' she replied. was the descent of a sthall flight tits:tops alone by myself: At -first it' sec:Matto rne e 'dreadful precipice, and WOI3obliged to, sit dawn on the steps and slide downin 'that attitude.' IThe princess had. never descended by staircase save by the grand pile itt Versailles, and Only that • whileleauing on tho arm Of a neble Cavalier.- • • The steep and wiedine, stairs of the con-' • vent, therefore; seemedappaling when she • had- to ,descend them alone. A story is told of the Duchess of Edinburgh, the daughter of • tho Cza,r of Russia, which exhibits"a'similar training. Shortly aftet • her marriage the duchess was entertained at a noble:m:1'$ house. A party was made up to visit the extensive greenhouses,the duchess, • as was'her-right,leading theWay. In passing up tho narrow aisle of one of the houses the real:lady caine to A closed dooi. Thepastege Was too narrow for any of her suite to pess her ruid,open the door, aild." she atootl as motionless atatt .statue. • • Oblige mea'saia the duko hi a whisper, tending some one- around to open the • door from the other side, for she'll not opea it if she'staaids• theiefota niontha-Youths' Compauton, - sornbilefttood Man wjthlonS hair like a corn -doctor or a poet .entered a dountry , post -office one day last'week and laia aown .0, •'eicitel anti inquired, for two 3 -coat stamps. Ile wits =forms' that Weenie via6 noceseary for the purchase, 'This it the economy of the country, • 18 it? •In ths. country whore I came frotri. I always get two stamps for 5 centa, • is this the only- post-ofam ia 'town?' ha atiuttatedounta faraita -Geteaditganitawlmt,_ . .gives fife hi all businets, If you,lealyhacl two. or .three post -offices hero stamps would go'. down to 20 contli 9, dozenan ne gine.. It's a avonclor sorne enterprising capitalist don't go into the post -office business hero and bring, prices down where they might to be.' . Then lishina. an 01(14i:sine:led copper out of his pocket ana layaig, it in alio delivery' window he adhered hie stamps to a yellow envelope ana Nat:jailed like a 'beautiful areram •" r They were plaaieg' fl game they eall euchre. She held both bowers end the - king, :Ina two acts of other snit, brit sho • was a novice at the game. A young man who was teaching hot looked at liet catas and warmly exclaimed, What a lovely handl She looked at him straight in the oyes and murmured, Oren -may have it if you want it: All the rest of the evening ho wondered .11 116 wa4 to bo the victjrn of a, leap -year .proposition or a breaok of pro - 'Luise .sult. Every woman knows that beauty, not lasting; bat a little more tan bo put on When the lifst coat foam • •