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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1881-10-13, Page 7Oct. 13, 1881.
• Dies inliserrlasst
(8eatemaer loth, 184)
91 God, Thou lived whoso lives Dr dies,
0 God, Thou reignest when the rulers fall.;
Around Thee now, the cloudeil darkness lies,
Yet Thou art iu tho darkness, and we call
To Thee, our Sovereign ah I cloth .blood
atone?
Xlis_guiltless blood is plied, our foto, one.
All got:41y gifts Thou givest to the land;
FeaCe grantest iu nil borders, harvest store-.
Earth's golden grain and. fruittill the fined hand,.
With more than plenty needs, can grasp no
more.
"Yet hast Thou smitten where we wore most
; trong;
Thou /last rebuked us, show us now our
Wrong.
Notafrom the dust could our great 0011:0w mount
The serpent that did poison this true life,
Sucked he his venom from the deadly fount
01 faction swollen t� hatred, till the strife
That is unreason, save for common, good,,
Becomes $ curse, because of rignt withstood.
This Matt who rose to serve through patient
deed—
Heroic purpose steadfastly pursued—
'To fall, even in achievement, is his mood;
Thou rulest, shallweesk Theo, whorefore,Lord?
Nay rather how the head and bend the knee
And say, or good or ill, it is of Thee l t
'Of Thee, for evil Thou (lest still control,
Dialling its ending help to mould Thine end;
Sprinkle this blood upon the nation's soul,
This martyr blood, so henceforth it forefend
Against the peril lies in faction base,
So will he serve his people, though his place
On earth no more shall knoW.,:that still, death -
shrouded, face.
aBEAlt A. Mor.,Lon, Lincoln, Neb.
• An Old Bahl% Lila,
Sweet 16—Builds castles and dwells OIL
love in cottage.
18—Joins an archery club. Affeets
intellectual repasts, such as a Reading
Clubs." Dances every set and rejects all
. love proposals. .
10—Drops love in a cottage and thinks
of a browi . stone or pressed brick front.,
20, 21, 22—Modesty begins to take its
departure. Abhors eimplicity.
• 23—Laces tighter and wishes to marry
for rank—a colonel, Congressman et' Sena-
tor would do.
24, 25, •26—Aitonished not a little at
remaining single. Why don't the then pre -
pose ?
27, 28, 29—Takes the lead in charades
and tableaux. Begins to tease her pa
about the springs. Subscribes to Home
Journal for,sooiety news. rites cosmetics
glaringly.
30, 31, 32, 33—Wouldn't mind a widower
if not -too old. Willing to manage charades
and tableaux, but won't take a prominent
part. Begins ta turn charitable and, hunt
out the poor. Joins the church.
34, 35, 36—As a general thing despises
men. " They are all so sill ; but of
course there are exceptions to all rules."
Elected President of the Children's Aid
Society.
37, 38, 39—Allows boys of 18 or 20 to
take her to prayer meeting, as " intellect-
uality defies all considerations of age."
40 to 45—Would accept a preacher ofher
own denomination without • responsibility.
Takes a large interest in the Sabbath
•School, and in cats and canary • birds.
45 to 50—Sees•n'o harin in a little more
rouge—particularly at night. '1 Scraggy,
fretfuland desperate.". A preacher with
half a dozen responsibilities—all boys—she
would not object to.
50 to 55—Thank heaven she was never
married. All- men; are brutes. More
rouge. Terribly startled by a remark from.
her widoWed pastor that " it is..the duty of
all Christians to marry)' More startled
next day to hear of the good fortune of
"that horrid old maid," Miss Shipsovlio
to merry her pastor. Makes her will and•
cuts off all her relatives by leaving.her
entire fortune to the. heathera
sunshine tor-Bitettutatisum.
Sunehine as a remedy for rheumatism
must not be • forgotten. We all know that,
a change from a cold, .damp, to a warm,
dry atmosphere, oftea proves most ser-
viceable in this disease. The warm, dry
air stimulates the skin to greater activity,
and this organ then, no doubt, throws off
those poisonous products of transformation
of tissue and imperfect assimilation, and
the reliel from it is very great In
many cases a' pealed cureresults from this
alone. But it ts not always conveaient to
leave one's home in such "cases,
and so the sun bath' may be used
as a partial substitute for a change of '
climate, daring a, portion of the year at
least It may not be generally known that
a person may produce a considerable sweat-
ing by lying with the skin exposed to the
sun for an hour in the month of November.
Of course the patient 'should be in a room
and the sun let shine ou,the‘body only from
the nook down. It qmay- come. through • a
'large open or closed—according to the heat
—window exposed to, -,the south. The
body must be protected from currents of
air. There is a little danger to the inex-
perienced in taking a sun bath by sunburn-
ing the skin. This is avoided by oiling
the body first, and gradually accustoming
one's -self to its rays. Care must be taken
not to overdo the bath at Arst, or injury
will result. The temperature of the body
may be raised two or three degrees in an
hour, and a delightful feeling of ceinfort
had by managing just right. By wrong
management great discomfort may be pro-
duced. The head, as said before, must be
protected from the sun's rays. In sum.'
mer, when on the seaside, rheumatic
patients are often improved by lying cov-
ered up in the hot sand dering a part of,
the day.—Dr. Holbrook.
PEIVATION AND DEATH.
The tiattEirperienee of•Dellf fishennen.
Telegraphing this (Monday) afternoon,
our Ottawa correspondent says: Advice!:
received in this pity Oat° that the flehing
on most parts of the coasts of Labrador
and Anticosti has been above the average,
but in eotne places where the oatoh was
short, owing to the want of bait, great
destitutionprevails, more espeoiallyin some
parts of Anticosti. In these places many
of the people are ill with low fever, owing
to the want of proper nourishment. Some
twenty -Ave of the inhabitants, mostly
children, have alreadyaied fromtliis cause.
At English Bay and Strawberry Cove, on
the west end of the island, many of the
families are utterly destitute. At Thunder
Bay, Labrador, the fishing village of Masa.
BOutellier Bros. was destroyed by fire.
Storage of Bent.
Foreign papers during the past few
montbs;bave contained acoounts of apparta
tus designed for storing elestrieity, so that
it may be transporte4 and made an artiole
of commerce. It is suggested that batteries
may be charged with electricity generated
by, the power of wind or falling water,
Safely oceaveyed long distances and em..
ployed for surgical purpeses,produeing light
and for running small znacatin'ery. SOMe
think that electricity stored in this way
may be used for lighting railway cols and
for illuminating parks, public buildings
and titivate houses on special occasions.
It is also suggested that batteries charged.
with electricity will befurnishedprivate
families lot fanning sewing machines, and
that they Will be reoharged as occasion
requires at suaall cost. ,
• M. . Ancelin, of France, also, brings out
an ingenious apparatus for • storing heat
that is adapted to a great number of ',tac-
tical purpasee. It is based on the prinoia,
ple that metallic salts, especially those
' that are alkaline, absorb a large amount of
'beat•Whou they are, dissolved or melted,
retain it 'labile' they are kept in a fluid
state, and evolve it when the salts pass
into a solid ham. The substance • he
employs for storing and giving out beat is•
aoetate of soda.. The chemical heater con-
sists of a metallic flask filled with the
above-named . salt, and soldered airtight.
The flask is made of thin copper or brass.
It has a Jeep or handle for suspending it in
a vessel Of hot water,, from which the Sup-
ply of heat is obtained. If the heater is
not tainted one charge of acetate of soda is
flufficient far all time.
Tile time reqpired for the apparatus to
storeall.the heat it is capable of will
.depend on its size, and the period it will
continuo to discharge heat will- be in pro-
portion to • the quantity of the salt
employed. A heater sufficiently large to
keepthe hands *arm for an hour or more
can be -charged by :immersing it in hot
water for five minutes, A foot -warmer,
however, intended to be put in a sleigh,
must be immersed in bailing: water for
:about" twenty Minutes. A foot -warmer,
that on temoval from the water -bath indi-
cated 153 degrees of temperature, at the
end of eleven limas registered 111 degrees.
The most sudden fall was at the end of
.two hours. It thenarese two degrees, after
temtiekatiire gradually subeided
uatil it became as cold as the surrounding
ittnaktiphere. .
Some of the wee to which this piece of
apparatus maybe put have already been
*cited, 844 many ethers will suggest them-
selves to, persens employed itt-aifferent
aradations. If Will doubtless be found very
convenient Ipt keeping cooked food warm
when there is inmate:1 to remove it some
distance freta the are. It may beadaan-
tageouely employed. for warming beds and
sleeping -rooms in yiThichthere are no stoves.
It ban be placed in a carriageof anyatina
and nsed•during very cold days invader.
It may be rendered very useful for warm-
ing &alma in Which frail and vegetables are
aepton, the ma:vision of severely cold wea-
ther; and may be suspended in a poultry -
house when there is danger that fowls will
freeze.—Chicago Times. , '
Accusations of witchcraft and maltreat-
ment of supposed witches by the illiterate
country people are still things of frequent
occurrence in Germany. A recent nunia
ber of the Danziger Zeititny tells of an
incident of this kind in the village. of
Stangenwalde, where an old lone woman
was accused of having bewitched an intro:lid
widow, because; as the latter was ariving
past the other's hut the horse. suddenly
came to a stop. This was assumed to le
owing to the old woman's occult influence,
and to prove that the widow's 'illness had•
been caused by her. The old creature,
frightened out of her senses, was dragged
to the widow's bedside ancl subjected to
various torments to coerce her into expel-
ling the devil from her victim. This mode
of procedure failing; she was compelled to
inflict cuts in three of her fingers, and
pertait the widow to suck her blood, after
which the invalid immediately began to
feel better. It was then proposed to baba
the witch, and a rope was fastened around
her nook, while the crowd beat her • about
the head and face with slippers and shoe-
makers' lasts. Sh,e was finally readied,
but in a dangerously injured, condition.
The large sum bequeathed by the great
composer, Rossini,' for the founding of an
asylum to be exolusively devoted to aged
musicians in straitened circumstances,
appears at length to be in a wayt� produce
seine visible result. 'Cadet the will of the
popular composer and musician Manta,
who died last yearatasuni of 100,000 fame%
destined to be applied in aid of this object,
has come into the heads of the Prefed Of
the Sable, and it is announced that the coma
Mon fund is about to be applied to the oon,
struction of the propoted asylana for whiCh
a Rite is to he purchased in the Matins of
Paris.
: The 'management of Sick children.
The vicissitudes necessarily incident to
an out -door and primitive Mode of life are
never -the first causes of any disease,
though they • May sometimes betray its
preeende. Bronchitis, nowadays Perhaps
the Moat frequent of all infantile aisealtes,
makes no exception to this rule; a draught
of cold air may reveal the latent progress
• of the disorder, but its cause is long con-
finement in a vitiated and overheated
atmosphere, and'its proper remedy ventila-
tion and it mild, phlegm -loosening (sac-
ehatine) 'diet, warm laved znilk, sweet
‘eatraeal porridge, or honey -water. Select
an airy -bed-room and do not be afraid
to open the windows; among the children
of 'the Indiantribes who -brave in open
tents the -tertible•winters of the Hudson
Bay Territory, bronchitis, croup and diph-
theria are whcillyanknowit ; and what we
call "taking cold ". might often be more
correctly described as taking hot ;* glowing
stoves, and even open fires, in a night-nur-
seaya greatly aggravate the pernicious
effects of an impure atmosphere.'• The
first paroxysmofcroup can be promptly.
relieved by . very simple remedies: fresh
air and a, rapid forward-andhackward
movement of the arms, combined in urgent
• oases with the application of a flesh -brush
(or piece of flannel) to the neck: and the
upper part of the chest. Paregoric and
poppy -syrup stop the cough by lethargizing,
the •irritability and thus preventing the
discharge of the phlegm till its accumulta
tion produces a edema and far more
dangerous paroxysm. These sawed
attacks of croup (after the administration
of palliatives) are generally the fatal ones.
Wilma the child is convalescing, let him
•bewate of stimulating food and overheated
rooms. Do not give aperientmedieines
costiveness, as an after-effect of pleuritic
affections 'will soon yield to faith airaud
vegetable diet.—Dr. Pelix L. Oswald,' in
"Popular Science Monthly" for October.
, •
..• • Boil Doubtful slim.
It is with the fallowing wards that Dr.
Piohon closes his account of the epizootic
of 1879-80 : " MosVauthors are silent as to
'the quaility of the milk yielded by cattle
during the prevalence of epiaootios.,It is
possible that experience .has not yet* sup-
plied sufficient ground for its condemna-
tion, and it is true that while a diminution
of milk secretion is usually an ear%
symptom in almost all diseases of the'
'cow, complete suppression of that secretion
amid:oval:dee ,any , aggravation or prolong?,
tion of disease. The source of danger is
thus removed, to the question of natural
causes, and the discustion is narroWed to
the question Whether tnilk secreted et the
very (Mast may not have ettquired hurtful
proptaties. In this date of Uncertainty,
which has not been Cleared tip by any
authority on hygiene the precaution of
boiling the r:lioald be adopted.
Boiling destroys any infective germ that
it may Contain."
The printing business mast be booming
tip in Morris, Manitoba'. Mr. lathes
Hooper, of the tlerald (formerly of London),
annoUnaed that he has putchatled a corner
lot and is going to Omit thereon, next
spring, a brialt block Containing two stores,
illilfiliCINct BEAM.
An Impoeunlime Outdone Commit* Onichle
by Throwing libudeit Before u Locos
motive.
A despatch from London,Out., dated
Saturday, says :* About 5.8that evening
an unknown man, who was walking along
the Great Western Railway track towards
the oity, suddenly threw himself before the
engine Of No. 7 express for the west. A
relief party was sent out with a laitifdltiar
and brellgbfl the body to the Great Western
depot, in a horribly mangled condition.
Search in the pockets revealed that the
deceased's name was Hugo - Sohliefer,
a law student admitted at Osgoode
Hall on the 10th of February, 1877, An
envelope addressed to 3, B. McGurn, pub -
lather; 36 King street east, Toronto, and a
lettet addressed to O. A,Wade, of Parkhill,
were also found upon him. The latter
was written upon the office paper of
McDougall and Gordon, barristers and wh-
etter% asking Mr. Wade to let the writer
have the German gehool certificates from
his trunk in, artier to enable him to earn
motley to pay what he owed Mr.„Wade. It
is thought that, footsore'weary and hun-
gry, after a long tramp on the track, unable
to get work, repulsed on all sides when he
applied for work, the poor student yielded
to a sudden impulse to put an end to his
miseries on earth. Dr. Flock will hold an
inquest on Monday. • '
WHAT NICXT ?
The Language ,�f rostage &winos-
S4upingenious liPersons have given a
meaning to the location of a postage stamp
on a letter, For example, they say that
when a stamp is inverted on the right hand
upper corner it means the aerson written
to 18 to write na more. If the stamp. be
placed on the left hand upper corner and
inverted, then the writer deolares' his
affection for the receiyer of the letter.
When the stamp is in the centre at the top,
it signifies an affirmative answer to saluta-
tion, or the question, as the case may
be; and when it is at the bottom,
or opposite this, it- is it negative.
.Should the stamp be on the right
hand corner, at a right angle, it asks
the question if the receiver of the letter
loves the sender.; while in the left hand
corner means that the writerhates the
other. There is a shade of difference
between desiring one's acquaintance and
friendelap, for example: The stamp at the
upper corner on the right expresses the
former, and du the lower left hand corner
means the latter. The learned in this
language request their correspondents to
adeept their love . by placing the stamp on
a lino with the surname, and the response
is made, if the party addressed be engaged,
by placing the stamp in the sameplace hut
reversing it. The writer may wish to say
farewell to "his sweetheart, or vice.rersa,
and does so by pleciag the stamp straight
up and down in the left hand corner. And
so on to tbe end �f the chapter. There
are in the world about • 6,000 varieties or
stamps. • "
hichigan Forest' Eireg,
To the Baiter of theXontr_eal Witness: .
Sia,—On eeelng the article in last
day's issue on " Immediate Action Needed,"
Mid noticing that it referred to forest firea,
I searched it through expecting to -find some
reference to Canadian sufferers, but was
•sorry.to see that therm...wee noathought Or,
feeling expressed, except for our "neigh-
bors, If not brethren, in Michigan." Now;
I beg tcf•subinit, Mr: Editor, that' to help
-
the Michiganders is: no duty Of route. St.
Paul's dictuta is,aa If any man provide not
'for his Own, he is worse than aninfideaa.
and while it as :all NO can dote provide for
our own, there is no. nation better able than
the :United States to provide for its own.
If Sir Hugh Allan were to lose a spat or
.fes, yards Of cable off r one of his floating
palitoea no one would come around to poor
men like you ••tind me, Mr, •Ectitor, to be
aaliatle assistance for hitt; yet that woula
be -rt precisely parallel -case. . I tliere is opo
thing Mere than another that our 11 Amen-
caa cuestas ":anti, their atireiters are fond
of it is flaunting 'theirenormous riches in
everybadya faces. We are constantly
reminded how they are paying off their'
debt attae rate of. a100,000,000, per annum;
let them take. what is necessary out of theft'
surplas:revenue and send it to Michigan. -
We, aro eonetantla told hoar. many of their'
Citizeus reckon their fortunes by millions,
and • indeed •do apt lake •the trouble.
to • remember • whether- they' spend
ave or ten million dollars ; let some
.of them give theta chomies and settle this
matter at *once. We are often lord Vow
many times. over New York could latty tip
the, whole af Canada; let it -buy up the
'wade of •Michigan and pension off the
"suffering brethren." If, 'however, Cana -
Aisne • ate determined to squander thefr.
hard-earned savings . on* people twenty
times richer thin themselves; they ought,
in view of past experience, to choose some
'aation where public funds areahonestly
administered.. I challenge you to give the
names.Of a dozen .sufferers frani the Cha
.mago fire Whoreceiaed a ono. dollar of
.Canadian motiey out of • the's many
thousands -• we sent, nor. could; a
hundred, •Chiettamiians . be. found -who
ever even heard of the Canadian- relief
fund. Of ooinie I would rule out a this.
Cotartilaise Who handled the Money Said to
whose fingere it stuck.: • No doubt there
will be numbers of our people who Will try
to relieve out Wealthy.'"American cousins"
�f doing their duty. toward.' their suffering
brethren; • the good Book tells us that
"The eyes;of thelool are in the ends of
•the eartlaa- and no doubt -many will sub -
'Bailie who will not give the tame of a atiek
of firewood for our own peer in the coming
winter; mid who did not even think of
giving a cent for our burned out brethren
in.Quebec. However,if it Will be ancont
venlence to any oae I• shall be happy to
give you it number of atddiesses whore
collectors, should: there be any, abed net
.call, for thda.wohld not get a cent if they
• should. • • •• ANTI-liIII0100. .
• a
TO Rentove llidt Stains.
' The. Journal de Pharmaele Anvers
recomnataida pyrophosphate of soda lot the
retnovta of ink stains,. This salt does not
injure vegetable fiber and yields colorless
compounds with the Patio oxide of the ink.'•
It is best to first apply tallow to the ink
spot, then wash in a solution of pyropho%
phate until both tallow and flak have dis-
appeared. Stains of • red aniline ink may
'bo removed by -moistening the spot with
sarong alcohol acidulated with nitric acid.
Unless the stain is produced by eosine, it
disappears withOut difficulty. Paper is
hardly affected by the process; still it is
always advisable to make a blank experi-
ment first.
In the German towe of 'Honda:Ina there
were Such hordes of mice that it reward
a fourth of a cent for every one killed was
offered by the municipal authoritiss. tinder
this stimalus proof • has been farnished
within a short time of the death of over
840,000;
An Indianapolis Mart 'broke a Matra.
menial engagement 'With a plain woman in
evict id marry her pretty aervant girl, and
hat bean stied by the aormer for datnagea.
RASTOR AND PBOBLE.
Vriricomant ifitate ei Altair* lit a Ifloniire•
gution.
. A despatch from Belleville dated Monday ;
says: There was troutfle ip, the XE.
-
Tabernaole yesterday morning appears1
that the pastor of the church, lataaB• AMU;
B. Aa, has not received hie salary aa roma
laxly as could have been desired, and :tome
even Pay that all the minor expenses of the
church were paid before his ealitry was ;
advanced, Rev. Mr. Lane's saleay is ,
§1,000 per annum, but it itt stated the first
four months of the present year, which
WWI in May, he received only $100.
note of his . fell clue some weeks
ago, while he was in New 'York,
and he requested the trustees of the
church' to meet it,which they refused to
do. He then remained in New York, earned
the money by preaching, and came home and
redeemed the note, Yesterday morning he
informed the congregation of the trim state
of affairs, and intimated that whether he
should stay with them or not would depend
on the actimi of the Finance Committee with
regard to hie salary. A lively discussion
ensued, ia Which prominent members of the
congregation took part. The management
of the finances of the -church were severely
condemned by the :several spealters. An
arrangement was filially made, Mr. Lane
agreeing to mach in the evening, and it
being determined that the Finance Com-
mittee should meet this evening and con-
sider the situation
The Exchange ot Courtettles.
A story is told elan exchange of courtesy
between a Scotch ininister and his parish-
ioner which is tharacteristio of both. • The
minister was but lately banded into a
country living, =din his mind of parochial
visits called at the.cettage of a little tailor.
Takinga seat uninvited, he proceeded to
talk, but found it hard work, as he mei with
no responee. Tae tailor sat upon the table,:
stitching in pullai silence. At length he.
spoke. "Sir," he said, "1 regard it as an,
unwarrantable hatrusion yeur entering my
house, and I ask you inagaitt capacity you
come?" • "My good man," was the reply,
"1 coma as your parisa clergyman—
it is my duty to know all my parishioners.
I know you don't attend church,but that is
no reason why we should not be friends."
TO wbich the tailor responded: "1 diena
regard ye as a minister of Christ, but at it
servant of aten's, if ye come as it gentle-
man well and. good, but as a minister I
refuse to rotative you," which could hardly'
be °ailed courteous, but the tailor's polite-
ness was outrivaled by his minister's, who,
rising; said:"My good fellow, be pleased'
to understand. that it is only as your parish
plowman that I ever dreamt of visiting.
you; when I visit as it ' gentleman I don't
visit persons tat your position in society,"
witlY which he 'departed:- .
Broteetfug Bub ana,Gazne.
The followiug ;mace has just been issued:
to the Inspectors froha the dace of Pat F.
'Witcher; Commissioner of Fisheries:
Piekerel, 'maskinoage and bass cannot be
caught from 15th April to 15th May;
speckled•trout, brook or riaet trout cannot
becaught from 15th September to latMay;
'salmon trputalake trout Mad whitefish from
.1st to 10th November. Net or. seine falling
without licenses id prohibited; nets muat,
be' raised from Saturday night until Mon-
day morning of each week; nets mallet be
set ekeeines neesle so as ,te,,.:har channels
bays; Ihdiansarsforbiddeu Cattail illegally,
the same as white mei; each pereon guilty
Of violating these regulatioztais liable t� fine;
and coats, or in default of payment is -sub-.
ject to. imprisonment; 110 person shall;
dating such prohibited; tireeta Ash for,
catch, kill; buy,. sell or ,have in possession
any' of the kinds of fish -meationed aboae.
.aa. reference to game the penalties are
unusually severe, and all who are lovers Of
aport should keep the laavs.. .Partridge
shall not bekilled between: the let, of
January and the 1st d Seaternbet. Quail
shall not be killed 'between the qat of
January mul the 1st of October: •
FEARFUL WEATHER ON THE ATLASTIO,'
A Steamer Twelve Days In, a Tremendous
Cale.
WOMAN AND CHILD KILLED.
A telegram from. St. Johns (Newfound-
land) Bays: The British steamship Juliet,
Captain Williams master, owned by Boar-
ing Brothers, of Liverpool, has just arrived
at this port. The Juliet is on a voyage
from Dundee, Scotland, to New York,Isalen
with iron and, a general cargo of bale goods.
She has onboard fifty passengers for the
United States. The passage from Dundee
to St, johrte occupied twelve days, and is
pronounced by Captain Williams to have
been boisterous beyond all his former
lengthy experience on the Atlantic. From
the time of leaving Dundee until last night
the wind blew it tremendous gale, varying
from weet-southwest to northwestbut Oat -
fug not one jot in violence. In fact, the
Juliet may be said to have been under
water for ten complete days, On Thursday
last, when the storm was at its height, the
sea crashed in through 'one of the port side
lights and Carried eveiything before it. itt,
poor lady passenger was dashed to leeward
ana had her skull fractured. She was
leaded this morningan a dying state with a,
maned child that succumbed last night to
its suffering. The Wallet leaves this port
for New York at noon sharp,
acamasiAN aaolnittan.
---.
atriarse ilian War
in ito Worst Pornt—A Fatality of 77
Per cont.—People runic -stricken.
A London despatch says the reports from
Orel, a province of Central Russia, show
that diphtheria still prevails in that dis-
tressed community. NQoutbreals'of which
the history of the placelias any record bas
been worse than this. It is actually stated
on the authority of local 4Octors that in 77
CaSea out•of a hundred the persons attacked
by the disease die. att attacks all classes
and baffles the skill of the oldest
phasigitias. The epidemic: so far has not
seriously affected any of the adjoining pro-
vinces, and as the boundaries of Orel are
'exceedingly irregular many of the outlying
districts are yet unattacikeda The province
covers about 20,000 square none% and is one
of the MOO thickly populatein Central
Russia, containing .no loss than 1,500,000
people. The soil is productive, and there
•ars rich mines of iron and copper ore and
other minetals. The people are panic-
atrioaen and all viho can do so are flying
for safety to other parts of the country.
"The despatolme reoeiyed are by no Amapa
full, but the seenernow being enacted in
the devoted province must be distressing
beytnd desotaaaion.
TEA, TABLE GOSSIr,
,-11;:laticlthalineer—tbt:;AoeyVatiPS.
—Wiad turkey and quail can new be oho*.
--The woman faiestion—to beep pr 04
to „off" 2 0.
its of fuanitare are new made
out
of
lar'
— iare yet revelingin eirelleeahl
sunny South.
a-Lotta, will bob up serenely." In si new
play entitled " BO."
ine---,brTiahteeo—Onehethhtetoupn.either diem% •nor
• ..
—A lore is au -unlucky animal, who is
moat welcome after he has gone,
—The Mormon question—Will yoube te
fractioa of my wife, dealing?
--To confide too much is to put your
lemons into another mane squeezer.
—A new odor is called blue chalk."
It will be. fashionable in the families of
niakinen.
—Lightning is more just than the amnia
borreowpelar9e,;seldom strikee twice inhe.
t
om
— in Chicago the father of the bride
kisses the groom and then takes hiraanto
partnership. •
—An exohange says "pigs will be piga
this year" Alas, too true! goweVer,
they May be hogs next year,
— It is nowlame for our exchanges to
begin remarking that the melanoholy dealt* .
"ba—ireOgn9.1133yei"Othrtahdinage8"pftPelyteenTeat -alep;;"—
Botenweitz from outdoing Dr Tanner's. . •
"fast. He died pa the twentyaniuth day,
-Says an exchange, 1, Where is Outgo= •
to bang?" Well, we should think-qour
pfeite.above the ground- would .be the hest
—TheOontmercial Bulletin says the man
avho. dosnotadvertise has it done for him '
finally, under the head of a failures Ira --
business." aa •
—Better lay in a good stOok in time. It '
is officially guessed that the supply of coal •
will • be exhausted in about two million
years, •
,The prebabilities are that cold weather
•miming, Those infallible weather •
proplietaa:wild geese—are flying toward
thLTsoilhtehoit• izens of a Colorade mining toaaat
.
want to borrow Guitteau for it few -minutes.
If they don't return hina in good order they
atomise to pay the .Governmeat his full .
alueThine eioasuli.abitaxit
s came near lynching a
'tailor who endeavored to introdace the new
• style of tight 'Oat fliceVea in Deadwood..
They rewarded it as a ,direi3t blow at the '
poker. industry.. - • a .
, is thoaght that aeorge .Fraticas -
Train is regaining hie senses: •He did not
inflict upon the country a so-oalled poem '
upon the national afflictien. . •
The Elmira Five Press thinks that 1, the •
President's physicians eouldn't have been
more astonished if the bullet which killed
their patient.had been:finally out out of a .
_••
saw login one of the lumber districts:a
liberal translation . of the 'woida
"Strangulates pro. Ileptiblica,". Vlach Alm.
President wrote the hat time he uized7the
pen, ie. a Murdered for the Republica":
Mi; 'Annie?? the' Pabinet Ministers
are not sent abroad to .preitoli the, gospel:,
They,go for the express- puramie of 'being ...".
On hand during big dituiera and. bein.g
absent during- office hours. • . • .
. —Mr. Aleott says We take but cider% •
'ohainelitthaike,• from each other.a. This
may be true in some easee, but the maia
with the red. nose cnn 00V0X pal313 it oyer
to.anether fellow. :
• ,
;---Snooks hail • saiorn• • off " whiskear
'drinking in hotels,' because be is afraid of a
catehing typhoid fever, having come tothis • •
Conclusion in conae4hence Of the bad coni., ,
dition of the city watet.—.T.Mente Telegram.
it PaTs to Take a Newspaper.
Some papers are -net of nalich aecountlas
to appearance; but I never took one that
,aid not pay me, in aoixte way, more tban.4
paid for it. ."01,1e firaffan old friend started
a little paper in Brant County' gad tent it
to Me, addLsubseribed just to •enooutage
him, and after a while it published a notice
that stri aaaiiniatratet had an order to sell
, several iota at publici reitcry, and Op of the
lots was in my county. • Se r :inquired
about the lot, and Waite to •my friend to
attead the sale and run it up to fifty
dollar% He did so,..and aia me Off the lot
ler . lit' a Meath,
to a man: it joined for alum:area, and so I•
made eixty-eight dollars -clear by , taking
that paper. My father told me that when
he , Was it young man be saw a lattice in'a
-paper that ; ea.school teacher Was wanted
away off in a distant 'county; and he went •
there; and -got the situation, and a little girl
was eent to hina, and eater a While she
grew upamighty sweet and pretty; and he
fell in love with her and married her—now,
if he hadn't taken that paper, What. do you
reckon :would have become of- Me?
Wouldn't I have been some other fellow, or
may be not at all. .
Tailors' .
• A Watnfrig to tailors bits just been given
loy an ablaEnglash judge, Robert Maloolra
Kett to wheat 'lawyers owe what is
reputed to be the best edition of Black -
done. A • London oity tailor named.
Richter sought to recover the :value of an
overcoat ordered and suaplied to a defend-
ant, alat Reed,. who was a soraethiug au
the city,". and. who coatended•that the coat
was two inches too low in the goner; and
Ili fact such a garment taat .no. gentleman
'maid condeicend to wear. Ile returned
the matte the plaintiff several times, who
finally thaw it in at theaaefeadant's office
doer. The coat was produced; Mid His
Honor, amid the merrinient of the court
requested the defendant to put • Rama
This was done, whereuppia the learned
judge aid that the defects were abalone
even to his unpidessional and unsartorial
eye. Indeed, he added, the defendant
might aewell -have gone to HollyWell, fitted
and purchased a second-hand coat flute
the shop dealers.: He accordingly gave
judgment for the defendant with cost% '
' • '
-Tim greatest curiosity at a country fait
is theorator. He is usually•in his speech
iso distant:from atythiag agricultural, even
when he talks of crops afad stook, that the
farmers like to listen to him. He . patron-
izee the ocnintryman by 'saying. that tbe-
sons of the soil areas good as other people;
Rev. Mr. Beecher ased to talk about heifers
• and palate and posies in it' manner that
caused the farmers' wives to snail° when
they discovered how little he knew: Ex.
President Hayes 'shook hands, kissed the,
babies and wrote coreMonplaCes in albums.
•Tlie agrioultufal otafor is an ornamental
hero at country fairs, and the lesealua
knows about the thins he talks about. the
more he is supposed to anOita about (witty.'
thing else,' Fortunately, in Canada, the
orator is scarcely ,atiown at our cetuttry
fairs; the imager he remains so the better.
An amusing story is related toneetning
Mr. Bradley, the new Dean of Weatmin-
ster. He was once staying . with the
Atuolas in' Westmoreland., when a plena:
was =waged. Lots wore drawp as to who
should stay at home and "mind the
house," and the dace fell to Mr. Bradley.
On the return of the picnic party he
•remarked that " it' was a very good thing
he had stayed behind, as a tramp had tried
his best to get in through the drawing -room
window, and would liave done so had it not
been for him." The -tramp, at !nest people
widowed with imagination would have
guessed, Was the poet Wordsworth. •
Guiteans mail is every day very large,
and consists mostly of pastel cards. Sortie
writers coadettui him to hell; others volun-
teer to be his cotinsel for the sake of the
notoriety.. One . Texas man sends him it
bundle of awitchea. with whioh to whip
himself to death a Georgia tatin Wants to
be hangman. There are pictures data
Outten. is not tame that these things are
`sea to
Wilkie Collins, Who is recovering from a.
severe attack of rheutaittie gout, valdoli
necessitated his confinement to a darkened
room for three weeks, his eyes having been
seriously affected, has been otaered to
abstain from all WM* for at lout sbt
Months.
A Corn Cornerer Cornered.
A despatch . from. Buffalo , says: A
reporter who interyiewati the leading grain
nien and shippers upon the:probable effects
of the J:13: Lyon failure .at Chicago learns
that a divided opinion. exists. Grain men,
are of the idea •that tae synlicate beldam
the vast body of grain now stated- at
.Clifettgo and Miivatukee, who are known to
be backed by New York' capital almett
'entirely, have entered &ate their ,specula.;
tion with the intention of carrying the
whole aniouat anti' an advance is forced in.
New /eta, and that the failure of Lyon
has the look, frtini tae fact that hie ehorts.
were • not bought up On a deolitea market;
of being more from effect than froin neces-
sity; That a general tumble is not likely
is proven by the fact that 110 aid. hue been
asked. from Chicago bank% ad that the•
market has adaanced -to-day and is .quoted
firm Shippers view the advance in rates
by lake to this pert from ..ac pea bushel
yesterday. to 8o toality as an indication that
tbehody ai to commence =cab* to New
York before the usual fall rise in prices by
the railroads later in the •month. .Atiother'
theory is that the advance in .freighta is to
get caualers in New York, where they will
be used for the pupae° of storing gremlin
• conjunction with the elevators there.,
Pasha Stone, he leader of the revolt in
the Egyptian army, is an American. He
graduatea Welt Point in 1845. He
distinguished himself bathe Mexicali war.
In 1856 he .resigned •his position its fitst
lieutenant in the army and went to Safi
,Francisco, where he ' became a banker.,
When the relienitha broke out be entered.
the Federal army, and in 11361 he was Made
Brigaaier-General. Having blundered in
risking a battle with the rebels at Rail's
Bluff in October of „that year, in. which the
Vilion• troops were defeated; he was attested
. and coafined in Fort Lafayette in 186. ' In
1869 he went to Egypt, and became , chief
of staff under the late Mediae.
The latest interestma electric experiment
has been made et Liverpool. Seine time
ago it wolaitua• named Benny was 'bought
before the Police Court there, but, repre-
senting herself as deaf and dumb, was
pitied by the magistrate and discharged.
She was again apprehended on' a charge of ;
theft, and was soon Afterwards brought
into contact with a galaanie battery. 'The
result was that she at once recovered her
powers of Breech and talked most fluently.
In the court she denied tlie theft, but itt the
midst of her prdestatione the stolen pro-
perty aroppedfroni her clothing. . She was
sent to jail for two menthe.
All the beautiful presents given to Gen.
and Mrs. Grant vial° they were abroad
have just been tient to New 'York ly Mr.
George W. Childs, who has had charge of
the eighty.two oases containing thenl. The
Philadelphia.RecOrd says: 1' It is tinder -
stood that in the tiro and a half year trip
around the world. General Grant received
presents equivalent hi value to cloak) the
expenses of his journey,"
The trousers, an English critic writes,
it the 'weak point in the German military
costume. Those worn by the officers are
no tight that they remind one Of the Eng-
lish dandy in aa times Who would never
'venture to at down in his walking tteuefire,
'Nice city to live in. • - • ,
•
—Old maids stand it poor chance of.
getting married in Philadelphia, and had .
patter move Out of 'the city.. During the
year 1880 the official statistics .show that a
no Women over 30 years of age was married- •
.
• '—Dr. Talmage on Sender last inquired.
if any Member of his congregation had any •
pool tickets inhis pockets. Every one 'Waft "
too bashful to answer, but after the servioes •
were over more than afty men went to the
'defter and offered to sell him their tickets "
ata slight advance, • a . • • .
• —Now is the time to begin toplant
bye:Math-and tulip.bfi
ilbs for blooms n the
lioase in the winter. The bulb catalogue-
d any prominent set:aim:nen will give the
:Ample directions for management.
1)ea,r George," said an Indianapolis
yoang•woman, 1, am willing to marry you
if we have to live on bread and water."
11 Well," said the •enthusiastic George,
"you furnish the bread and I'll, skirmish
around and find the water."
'
-a.N err let a child bang a piano. The
firstimptession of treating the instrument
as 8 toy may -do lasting damage to later.
masical instructiona cleat:litre teach-
ing of it 'tote at a time shottla be all that is "
• allowed, even to the youngest childtena
officer in the regular army laughed •
:at a timid woman because she was alarmed
at the noise of a cannon when a salute wits '
fired. He subsequently married that timid
*omen, and six months after he took off., •
his boots in the hall when he came in late
at night: . •
—The costume of the Persian wonten is
the handsomest upon the lace of the earth.
It eonaists of a loose waist, short skirt ana
trousers not too lose. I have read° this
costume beautifully and hung it up in
Paris, but the women will not wear it. I
can do nothing more, •They must' suffer
till they are willing to adopt it.—Worth.
—It was demonstrated . by: actual per- '
formanoe that the, engines of the new ocean.
steamer Cityof 'Rome could be brougat to
i "
a dead stop n two seconds by; burning- a •
single leaet, and that from going at full
peed ahead they could be reversed to•full
speed v,Stern in the incredible space of five
eeeends. There Shotild be nd Occasien far
collisions now. ' .
—Larger hoops are already demanded by a
the leaden of fashion in the larger • °Wei,
ends vague, undefinedfear pervades the
sensitive masculine heart that the old shin -
barking 1, tilters '* will soon..again coma
upon us with all their bliglitiag power.
The art of fashion symmatricals hail
reached such a state of perfection during
the past five years that if the " tiltets" are
once introduced they will spring into popu-
lar feminine favor with a rapidity never
be!irel eyhortrlatieebut a dual° Bartlett pear,
the proper thing to do IS to out off the big
end and ghat it to your friend, keeping only
the steal end for yourself. This hake like
p..senerous ad, and your friend will appro. •• • •
mate your disinterested kiadtmea, and
bedded, the smell mid of the Bartlett cOn-
tolls all the ltioiouttness Of the pear, whule
the big end is dry and ptiropkiny. How
trae it is that it good aot never goes Wire.
warded 1