The New Era, 1884-08-15, Page 2Aligust 15.1884,
TDB CAllOYAIRA•
Abating in France and Appearing in
crIP0
A Pane donate)] saye ; The orowd out-
side of. the Marie at Menial* yesterds/
&tiered when they slaw the bulletin an.
hounoilig 'a decrease ,n the nunther of
deriths. The tidal number Of deaths in
Mumbles iiince the outbreak is 1,248. The
streets of that city are again assuming
their normal aspect of gayety. Physicians
there believe Vie cholera will die,
appear from the oity in a few days.
There have been eix caries of cholera at
Garfagnena, Italy, four of whith Were
fetal, and twenty-one oases at Panooliere,
eight a whith were fatal. Tho ports of
Brazil have been olosed to vessels from
Marseillee, Toulon, f3pezzia and all ports
at which cholera prevails. The Governor,
in reply`to a Spanish deputation, has agreed
to admit Spaideb workmen into Gibraltar
on condition that they return to their
Spanish homes every night. '
Another despeteh says:* Dr, Hooh
strongly objected to water flowing through
the streets, and to the use of disinfectants
generally; Yet the deorease in the epi-
demic here is regarded as due to greater
sanitary precautions, and hence to havis
justified dieinfectante. - To -day several
carriages bringing patients to the Pharo
Hospital were mobbed and the doctors
denounced as poisoners. It is believed
' here that numerous Places in' Italy are
infeoted with cholera, but the Italians con-
ceal the facts, though it is known that
occasional oases of cholera have been fatal.
At Monealieri the epidemio is taking.
There were seventeen oases there. to -day.
The epidemic has appeared in as many ae
thirty villages in south France, and there
may have been as many as the or more
deaths in eaph, but so • ter there are
no signs of a general infection. There
was considerable. A not an Warm-
ing increase' increase of deaths late) yester-
day, arid this mering flee of the infirmiers„.
"hospital nurses,"at the Pharo, Hospital
have been suddenly taken down and two of
them are seriously ill. No explanation is
offered for this in the diet of these nurses'
or in anything else. "A dense heavy fog is
still spread over the whole west, mom -
pooled by great he'at.
IRELAND IMPBOVING.
Solid Benefits ol the Land Act --The
IGlarrison to be Reduced.
A London oablegrani says: A letter from'
Mr. Parnell to a looal secretary of the
Nationalist League in Ireland has just been
made public. In this Mr. Parnell says he
anticipates as the outcome of the Parlia-
mentary Committees' Report that an im-
portant improvement in the condition of
the- laboring classes' in Ireland will be
effeoted. Officials of the Local Govern-
ment Board hem° given evidence confirm-
ing the report circulated by the Irish party
that a measure- is to be prepared giving
local authorities power to take or lease
land compulsorily, whether attached to
laborers' cottages or not, for the purpose of
letting it to the laborers at moderate
prices. The measure will also empower
, the authorities to make repairs in the
cottages.
A return has just been made to Balla.
ment in regard to the' operation 'of the
Irish Arrears of Rent Act. According to
this, the sum of 22,570,000, which was
owing to the landlords by the farmers, has
been wiped oot under the Aot since 1882.
Of this large amount Ulster gained
2820,000 in remissions of rent • Leinster,
1250,000 • Connaught, 21,000000, and
MuneterA500,000.
The Nationalist papers, commenting
upon thie return, state that the Land Aot
has already secured to the farmers a per-
manent reduction ^ of rent exceeding
2500,006 yearly. The Bishop of Limerick,
the Earl of Belmore and other members
of the commission which had been consid-
ering the condition of education in Ireland,
state that the curtailed rents were better
and more regularly paid last year than at
any time since' the Parnell agitation began:
The relations now existing between land-
lords and tenants are amicable. Primary
schools, established for the benefit of the
tenants, are everywhere appreciated.
A BIS1ILOP,11 YARN..
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Extraordinary Discovery of Civilized
Nations in Africa.
Rev. William Taylor, the recently ap-
pointed Methodist Episeopal Bishop for
Africa, at his farewell reception in Bolden,
made this statement: "It is reported
that a most extraordinary discovery has
recently; been made in Africa in a tour from
east to west. There have been found nations
of people hitherto unknown, who number
50,000,0(10, and live in houthabuilt of stone,
with gardens in the rear and properly laid -
out streets, who work in iron, copper and
ivory, and are pretty web up lathe in-
duetrial arts, many of them being well to do.
This is a country neverbeard of before, and
the Lord has furnished me a man. This
man, William Riohard Sinamonde was for-
merly an unbeliever Nod addressed great
audiences in Belfast and Dublin, •but he'
became convinced of his. error and joined
the Salvation Army. He, has for years
been studying all about Africa, with a de-
sire to go there on missionary work, and he
has offered to go with me. Our plan is to
strike for these people."
BURIED ALIVE. •
iSad Fate oi Three Child -fen Near King -
aeon.
Last evening about 7 o'olook James Bur-
gess, an employee of Chicago Granite Co„
at Grindstene Island, near Hingston, had
his attention attracted by an unusdal
noise. Remembering that his three little
children had been playing about he rushed
out to seek them. He ran down' to an
adjacenimarsh and there rad throe chits
dren, who informed him that his little ones
were at the river bank. Thither Mr. Bur-
gess ran, and to his horror ',found that
about fifty feet of the batik at that snet
and eleven feet in depth had caved In,
crushing his children to death. The fore..
man of the Chicago Granite Company was
soon on hand with asaietance, and they
removed the earth where 'the children had
been killed. The bodies; with the ocean.
tion of one of the girlswere 'found to be
terribly mangled. The little bey'o head
was crushed and broken. The lfttle boy
was nine years old, the eldest of the two,
the other two being girls.
A JIICUNDBAD I8ATTI.113,DIS.
Xxeltemiest me the Chicago *ode Yards—
Dread of Texas Fever,.
The Chicago noes of leotards/ had the
followlog ; "Apprehension !Ogee& M the
stock yards Monday because of a puzzling
malady that led within a few home to the
death of 120 cattle in a drove of 375.
Th .herd Was the property of Oberly &
=aster, of IPtileall City, and it camefrom
the firm's ranch in the Indian Territory.
They arrived in the morning- When the
care wore opened forty were found lying
dead at the feet of nearly as
many More which were shaking as
with an agne, bellowing loudly and
humping their brake as though affected
by pain. "T1y God I it's the Texas
fever I" a stockman ojactilated, and then
the news epread throughout the yarde and
the cattle -dealers outside that the dictum
most dreaded in the trade had made, its
appearance here in virulent type. There
was a rush for the shipping platform. The
dead and the dying were carefully exam-
ined, and numerous conjeotioree as to the
00,11130 of the astounding fatality were ad-
vanced; but no effort to secure the im-
mediate attendance of a veterinary Otirg6013,
VMS made.
At 2 o'clook in the afternoon the Live
Stook Exchange had e mission and resolved
to have an investigation 'made. To that
end Dr. N 'Paaren the State Veterinar-
ian, was notified. Having heard that one
ot the health °Ewen had asserted the
cause of death was poisoning from the nse
of alkali water, the,Exchange deliberately
settled upon that as the proper conclusion.
It was a queer procedure, for nto
iuvesti-
gation was to be made till next day. Then
a raeBBRO was received direoting that the
herd be 'delivered to Heenan & flan000k,
commission merchants. And Messrs,
Keenan es Hancock gave notice by writing
as follower
The =at reliable report wecan get is that
the oattle that ssrived here this morning drank
alkalisater before landing.
REERAN & next:loom
Meanwhile the Hying had been put in
quarantine—in pens separate from the car-
rels in use by bunches or other stook. Some
were dead since their. removal from the
care, and others were dying. It was a Rick -
ening spectacle, ,The largest. and strongest
Were the victims. A great steer was sud-
denly Relied with a treitior tvhile he was
chewing grass. He stretched out his front
feet and lowed. Then he drew up
his ' back and distended his belly
and flattened his paw against the ground
and lowed. Suddenly he jumped high in
the air, bellowing as he did so. He fell in
a ditch; and when approached a moment
later he was dead: The symptoms were
those of congestion of the bowels. Late
in the evening, after a careful examination,
some of the older stockmen said the cattle
had drank too much water after thirsting
for a loogperiod.
The trainmen could not •say whether the
opinion was cornet or not. Health officers
killed twenty -two -to relieve them of their
suffering. About lifty.one otheee died in
horrible agony at the pens. . The official
investigation is awaited with interest. -
Settling Accounts with the Garden Wei.:
The once despised saw -palmetto of the
south in likely to become a very useful tree.
The fibre obtained from the inner lining of
the bud is manufitotured into a substance
no closely resembling human hair that it.
is employed as a oubstitute for the genuine
artiole. Papier fibre, hate, fano and in all
probability cordage and clothing, can be
furnished by thie tree, hitherto oonsidered
only an ineUmbrance to the soil.
Mustapha Ben Ismail bee just arrived in
Polio from Tunis. His retinhe imiludes
tieventeen governante for his Wife and two
Children.
evaitie
min. •„.
Now it is no part of our commission to
mold people. Our duty • and our pleasure
is, and will be, to help them.' Therefore, in
this time of,roses and green fly, we will
compress into a few words the sum of our
, experience in a run of nearly forty years of
experimental gardening. Ibis this: If all
that in needful to ensure healthy and vigor.
011B growth is provided for plants (of what.
trierkind), they will pretty well take mire
of themselves eh regarde the vermin. It
will be found that the eickly plants are first
attacked, and the poor, loan -growing things
seem always to invite the vermin. But this
is not to be understood as a general indict-
ment implying that wherever the ver-
minare seen the general cultivation
is faulty. By no means is oath a positive
conclusion to be deduced from negative
evidence. As accidents will happen in the
best regulated families, so vermin will
appear in the best kept gardens and on the
most vigorous and healthy plate. But
when all reservations and exceptions have
been taken into mount, the golden' rule
remains, and should be kept in mind, that
the vigorous and healthy .growth of plants
is the surest protection against thq insects
that assail.them. When you plant, there-
fore, have the ground well made up for the
purpose, and when you give water, imitate
the stound logiolan and ,go to the root of the
'matter. • You will hear of insecticides
innumerable. But amongst them • all
tobacco is theleading nostrum, and tobatioo
and sulphur are often combined. But
there is at every amateur's command a
a very cheap and effectual insecticide in
the shape of water, and a nice shower from
the engine or syringe'combined with
occasional watering at the roots, Will do
,wonders for roses, for insects, generally
speaking, bate water; it je deadly to them.
But there is a matter of special interest
and 'importance in connection with the use
of water. It is that hot water is more deadly
to insects than cold water, and ell kinds of
plants may be sprinkled or dipped in hot
water without injury, provided only ibis
not too hot. You may, by using a trusty
therinometer,.make a safo rule and use the
water at from 190 -deg. to 140 deg. of Fah-
renheit, and with thie simple agent you
may deal out death to the vermin and „life
to the plants—a very ourioue example of
killing two birde with one stone. In prac-
tising this° plan a few °libretti' trials should
bernade. Trust not your hand to know
how hot the water is, for you may make a
mistake and hold no responsible for the
consequential. Provied a bucket of hot
water and stir it web about, and by adding
hot or cold bring it to 120 di ;4. Then take„
a few pot plants, such as fah y mite, prim.
alas, eto., and diethern head downwards,
so as to wash the leaves, and move them up
and down a few times, and then set them
aside to drain. They will be none the
worse for it, and the green fly will be com-
pletely washed frora them.--Antateur Gar-
dening.
Fifealtia oft Colorado.
New cameo to the front our cattle inter.
este, nye the Denver liepubficani which to-
day reaches, in good round numbers, over
1,500,000 cattle roamimg over Colerado's
pluipe with, a valuation attached to them
of not leas than 40,000,000;$and the field
is open for many millione more. While
we are unable accurately to give the iigures
on sheep and other live stook, such as
homes and mules, we eau safely place them
, at a nominal valuation of over $13,000,000.
And sampling the records as correct for
J883, • in agricultural products we will not
fall far short of $15,000,000 in 1884. Then
add to this the value of ell out other
industrial, and Colorado finds herself a
magnet of auth power that Arightly used
by her people cannot fail in oeouring for
her all the wealth and immigration dear-
ble.
letraclUez AND TOE
A, 1Polieentimies Unhappy "experience will*
Ilydropitobiti Anintat,
" Thore'e a mad dog in my cellar. Ile
just rim in there from the street. 1 want
him abet," breathlessly exolaimeditatizen,
as he twilled into station 16 0. few evenings
age.
The lieutenant in charge detailed Officer
tellell to attend to the matter, and the
°Ricer and citizen departed in company:
"There he ie," said the citizen, otoopmg
down and peering through the cellar win-
dow. "See his eyes glare?"
Officer Mundt flaw the eye ,e but de.
alined a versional interview with the ani.
"
"Can't you shoot him?" ioquired the
ilit,/'m
112enP a ;rind idiot with a gun," Paid the
officer, but,I am not so sure of killing him
with my pistol. X oar bit him—oh, yes, I
can hit him, but I want to make perfectly
sure of killing him at the &Barbet. Iknow
a man on Lawrence street who bas a gun;
I'll go and borrow it and be back pro-
w st loy
e offioer went for the gun. But the
Lawrence steeet man had Bold his gun.
"A man on Michigan avenue has one
which he will loan you," he said to the
officer.
The Michigan avenue man was found,
but had loaned his to a friend to take into
the country, but a man on Hovey street
had one which amid doubtless be borrowed
•The man on Hovey street bad broken the
look of his gun the day .before, but a Wan
on Blount Bowdoin OVOLAIO had one,
The man on Mount Bowdoin avenue had
left his gun in the tawdry, and the man
on Hamilton avenue to whom he Bent the
officer never owned a gun in his life.
At length a man was found on Melville
avenue who had one at his store, and he
Wits induced to Hee, dress and go after the
gun.
Thai Officer MacKell was happy, and
shouldering thegun, he trudged back to the
house where the fierce animal had taken
refuge.- But it Was dark, not a glimmer
of light was visible about the premises. He
rang the doorbell two or three times with
much energy, and at length a stir was beard
within, a glimmer of light wos seen, a win-
dow slowly opened in the second story,
and a voice deme;nded
"What ie wanted?" ,
"1 am Officer Mat:Hell. I have brought
the gun and will shoot that dog fee younow."
• "Dog?What dog? ". •
"Why, the mad dog in your cellar."
' "Lord ,bless you! That dog's been dead
mor'n four hours. Mr. Thompson, my
next.door neighbor, came in with his gun,
not ten minutes after you left, and shot
him. • Just as much obliged to you. What
made you gone so long ? "
Officer Mullen groaned and went away
unhappy, says the Boston Globe.
Bdissuind Fates on,Cremation. • ••
No, argument worthy of the name, or
that could bo immediately refuted, has yet
been adduced against cremation. , We have
been told that the system iii and must re,
main costly, and that it will offer a pre-
mium to a scientific) poisoner. • It has been
conclusively demonstrated that a body can
be cremated for the moderate sum Of ten
shillings, and that an absolutely infallible
safeguard against poisoning with impunity
and without detection oan betaken. There
remains the objections to Cremation on
sentimental or theologian!' grounds. The
first are completely dispoeed of if creme -
bon is made. optional and not corn.
•puloory. The second'are contained in the
first. If a man; when he is alive, has no
religious compunctions on the subject of
reducing. his body to same in a certain
number of 'Minutes by the agency of fire,
and, thus anticipating the processes' of
nature, no perm else has it right to pro-
test egainst it. In the epitaph which
Charles Heade has written for himself the
following solemn and pathetic words occur:
"1 hop° for a resurrection, not from anyi'
power n Nature, but from the will of the
Lord God Omnipotent who made Nature
and rne. He created man out of nothing,
which Nature could not. He oast restore
man from the dust, which Nature cannot."
If the supreme miracle of the resurrection
of the dead is worked at all, .as, according
to the creeds -of the Church, we are hound
to believe it in, it must be immaterial
whether the body decays in the earth, or
is consumed in the flames. To take ex-
ceptions to cremation from religious rea-
sons is a materialistic superstition.—Lon-
don World.
. How did your son pas his
college exarilinatials 2 X ouppoth he premed
without' conditiong ? " Yes ; that
le to rirty, they said they would take biln
under no conditione."
'There is one blind person in every 1,150
lathe tinitedliongdoni. _ _
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• flanker College,
" The latest thing in °decagonal news,:
Fiaid a naturalist to an Enquirer writer, "in
the college ot monkeys in London. Half a
dozen evolutionists and naturalists of the
very advanced school are attempting to
teach monkeys to talk or express their
wade. The method is at first by letter
bionics. A block alphabet, in whieh the
letters are distinotly colored, is 'arranged
before the monkey studenfoshich is find
taught to select some simple word, as pie,
and when he picks out the letters and
forme the Word he is given a piece of pie;
so there is a constant Incentive to learn,
the prizes rill being bread and butter, so
to epeak." " And what are the results 2"
asked the visitor. "They havenot been
divulged yeti" was the reply"; "but one
of the authors of the • eoheme states that
there in to be a public exhibition in June,
when the monkeys can bb hoard for them-
selves. If a pig can be taught so many
wonderful things I see no reason' why a
monkey should not. It is aoknowledged
that ants have a language and talk to one
Another, and that the light of some insects
hi used as a means of communication
between them, sci why not other and higher
animals y"—Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Water•Oposit ilatko ers
A water:spout termed on Lake George,
In thisfitate, Saturday afternoon, and woe
witnessed by several ptirsono from thie eitY.
The Hon. D. P. McQueen, of this Intl, was
one of the fortunate feW Who eav/ the won-
der. Mr. McQueen said that he and Mr0-
McQueen and a party of friends left Cald-
well, on Lake George, for Hatekill Bay on
the steamer Ticonderoga at 4.30 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. The day had been
exceedingly gloomy, and the clouds hung
low all around the horizon. Thunder and
lightning were frequent, and „the atmos-
phere had a mono 'Peculiar appearance.
Suddenly Mr. BleQuden's attention was
allied to the singular movement of a cloud
which 'warned to approach the endow of
the voter at a distance of about a Lmile
from the steamer. The cloud was very
large and dark colored, and it wont
out a spiral which had the appearance of an
elephant's trunk. This spiral became
gradually elongated until it touched the
water, when for a. single emend all was
still and the cloud and the hike were
joined. In another instant, however, the
commotion both on the surface of the water
and underneath it was terrible to witnees.
The elongated cloud expanded to a tremens
dous size, and the waters were convulsed.
For many yards around the mit where
the cloud rested the waters seethed, boiled
and made great waves, all of which rolled
with terrifto force against the spout, and
broke in such a maoner that a spray as
unfree smoke Mee to a height of many feet
and added to the wonder and beauty of
the scene. The cloud or waterspout re.
maned stationary for a moment, as if it
were drinking itself full, and while it con-
tinued in that position the waters grew
more troubled around and underneath, a d
were formed into a perfect maelstrom,
whieb, had it „ }razed the Ticonderoga,
would have broken it in an instant. After
the cloud bad sucked up hundreds .of tone
of water, it moved maiestioally toward the
land, still testing on the lake, with a wav-
ing motion, similar to a soap -bubble cling-
ing to the end of a pipe. It reached the
land in about three minutes and burst.
Mr. McQueen said that from _where his
vessel lay he judged the 'Tout to be about
twenty feet in circumference. There was
a photographer on board the Ticonderoga,
whose camera was all prepared for 'taking
an instantaneous pioture, but the gentle.
man was so amazed at the phenomenon'
that he was unable to nee° hie implements
to photograph the scene until it was too
late.—Scheneciacie Union, New York. ,
A School of Sportive Whales.' •
A school of about twenty whales, accord.
ing to a Block Island letter, has been
reporting about that island for some days
past. Solnetimes the great oreetures oome
into the bay by the breakwater, but keen,
most of the time a mile or two to the east.
They attraot no little attention. Indeed,
with the exception of a few weeks in 1882,,
such a eight hal not been witnessed here
for years. Swordfish and mackerel are
unusually plenty in the vioinity, also; and,
as a cOnsequeneet North of amateur fisher-
men are engaged in their pursuit. Bluefish,
all MIMI, aro fickle, now favoring some
boats with all the trollingheart can wish',
and, again, wholly disdainiog the most
tempting bait. Some of the most noted
bass fiehermen in the .country have arrived
during the put two Or three days. As yet
'Mr. -Robert Broker, of NeW York, has
taken the only genuine prize, a bath weigh-
ing about thirty pomade—New York Com.
menial Advertiser.
The correspondent of the Pritish Medical
JoUrnal(july 121h) nays that the report of
ohdlera having appeared in Paris was
untrue. A landlord, Wiehing to get rid of
&auk coaohman in a hurry, reported him
as stricken with cholera. .
Out of the 500,000 inhabitants Of Naples
only 50,000 pay texas, and an English doc-
tor declares that it is the dirtieet, raggediet
tula most equalid city in Europe.
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TAKING- report IN srasIr„ -
Four the .Fiethossi I 011l-sealnii
Bxperissemt Recovering.
Philadelyhia dovetail says The four
omens who survived, out ef the five that
ate up o box of strychnine pile last night
for a joke, are now in a fair way to
reoover. The girl, Annie Cannon, who
died, was not Ora% enough to resist the•
operation of the poise:oh being hiSt 13 Years
of age, while the othero were adults. The
doctors do not think any of the others will
die. It trauopires that the pills were pur-
chased by a man who boarded at the
house, and when he departed, a month
ago, he threw the box aside as worthless,
BO that when they were taken up no one
had any idea of what they were for or of
what they were composed, No little Wig -
nation is felt toward Thomas Moran, who
seems to be the prime mover in the pill
taking experiment.
sonic Big itish.
The big salmon 'of the present seamen
donerve to be opeoially chronicled. Four
of the fish taken have •been respectively of
the weights of 60, 53, 50 and 43 pounds,
giving for the quartet a total weight of 206
pounds; while a good many fish have this'
year been captured which turned the Beale
at 34 pounds. In Berrie previous years,
however, salmon have been taken in Soot -
Utah watere of still greater weight. A.oast
of a Tay filth which ,weighed 70 pounds
may be seen in Mr. Buokland's collection,
and Mt. Buokland 'has himself related in
various no* stories of the big fish which
he had from time to time the opportunity
of handling. 11 15 somewhat of a reflection
on our naturalistic that the respective ages
of these Monarchs of our salmen waters
cannot bedetermined with , any degree
of acouraoy, while ' it is a =done
fact in the natural history ofthe salmon
that a fifty -pound fish, may be even a year
dilator than one which is ten pounds heavier
--eize being dependent 00. the date at
whi4 the parr becomes a emelt and jeer -
'retie for the first time to the sea. Judging
from the fish captured in this and the two
preceding yearn iu Loch Tay during the
spring angling semen; Balmer are decrees.
ing moinewhat in weight, probably, as some
fishery economists think,' from the waters
being rather crowded with fieh o the aver-
age weight of the Loch Tay salmon during
these last three yee,ro having been only a_
little over nineteen pounds. instead of
being, as was the ease from 1873 to 1881,
of an average weight, of about twenty-two
pounds. The heaviest fish captured at
Lath Tay this season weighed thirty-seven
pounds, as against a fifty pounder in 1874,
and one Which weighed only onepound less
in 1881.—St. James' Gazette. • \
glogpicketot. Luck.:
In New York the other morning a rag-
pioker found an old envelope, in the upper
left-hand corner of which 'was' a dark
brown rectangular stamp, finely engraved,
reading, " liattleboro, Vt., P. 0., 5 cents,"
with the "F. M.P. ' in the centre.
It was oaneelled sod had. the postmork
" Batileboro; to its right. Thinking
he might sell the stamp he took it to Mr.
Henry Collin, of No. 79 Manful street, who
paid 0300 for it. The ragspither Was porn.
the that Mr. Collin was a lunatics and was
confirmed in his belief when the money
was placed in his hand. He did not wait
to count it, but bolted. it is the only can-
celled Battleboro stamp known to be in
exiatem. Eight uncancelled stamps,
" left over stook," are in collections, and
are elated , as "gems," and are worth
$1,000 each. , This cancelled stamp is
almoid priceless, and the bidding for it
among the philatelomaniace of the world
will be spirited. Even the' 460,000 collec-
tion of Baron Edward Rothschild and the'
more of almost equally valuable collections
in England and this country will lose one-
half of their interest without this "eye of
the pothook throne."--Tashinqtan Star.
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Epidemics and Temperature.
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• It has happened over and over again that
an epidemic at a particular spot has lingered
on for several weeks in a (desultory fatthion
before its real intensity was felt. This was
the ease at Toulon itself in 1865, when the
mortality for the fond few weeks remained
even below what it has been on the present
omission rising suddenly to about fifty
deaths atday in the 'middle Of September.
A sudden rise or fall is generally to be ex-
plained by a change in the weather. Noth-
ing is more likely than the decline of an
epidemio of cholera in any one place, or all
over the country, when the winter cold
begins. On the other hand, the disease
usually reaches its height as the tempera-
ture goes Up, although the rule is not an
invariable one. Moisture and heat together
are much more likely te cause an increase
of cholera than heat and drought, and, in
feet, the autumnal months have generally
seen a larger Mortality than the opting and
outnmer.—New York Commercial Advertiser.
A. Daring Deed.
A Port .11.rthtir, Ont., despatch says: A
prisoner nailed Wbittere. who was being
brought to Port Arthur tc serve an six
months' sentence, jtimped1t01:0 the steamer
Coati while nesting thie port at an early
hour thie intoning, and Invitoming to the
shore, a distance of about a quarter of a
mile, made good hie escape.
Anton Rubinstein 10 nervoue of portrait.
1411116re; and will not sit. A friend, how.
ever, caught him not long since playing at
nap and transformed hie features 16.09.11Vall.
This vigorous and rapid little theft& in
gray% and browno now hangs in Maitre
GotipiErs galletiee in London.
Keeping a Cow.
"1 can remember," said Henry Ward
Beecher, " when, I received an old
cow in payment of a bad debt.
It was a very bad debt, and X came
to coneider it bad peyment. She was a
thin cow, but the termer owner said she
,was better than she looked, being a cross
between the Jersey and the Durham. She
looked as if she might have been a °roes
between an old hair trunk and an aban-
doned hoopskirts. I kept the brute three
dayo,and no one,except perhaps Lieutenant
Atwell, would ever appreciate the suffering
I endured at that time. The 'first night
ohe broke through the fence and reduced to
a pulp all the underclothing, belonging to
my next-door neighbor. he put her horns
through my bath -tub and, ate up my
getaniums. She was to. give three gallons
of milk a day, but seemed to -bei short
jut then and neVer had that much to
spare while we kept her. Thesecond day
the walked into the kitchen, upset a pan of
butter and a tub of lard. Then she fell
down a well, and when I got her out, at the
oast of $5, she took the colic, whooping -
cough, or something,"and kept us aware all
night. Not a green thing waeleft in my
garden ; my neighbor's peach trees and the
rcpa on which bie underwear grew were
as bare of fruit as a single tree, and he did
not have a twig of shrubbery left."
Wanted -A Word.
A correspondent writes to the Literary
World as follows: "Tho English language,
with all its boasted oopieusness, is still in
weut of an word, and hardly a day passes
that any one speaking the language dthe
not feel the want. The word is a word
that obeli exprese personality without de-
noting gender—a,word that can be need in
plata of either he or she. The need of such
an word is top otrongly felt by every one to
require MI1011 argument. .A.13 present two
ways are devised to overcome the difficulty.
Ordinarily one would say, 'Every one ie
the architect of their own fortune '--inoor-
reot but expressive. If the *esker is one
acouttomed to speak by the card he says,
Every one is the artillitect of his or her
own fortune '—ourabereoine kant exect.
Canntt sortie of our scholars devisea word
that shall predicate nothing what sver about
geridersthat can' be used- Indifferently for
he or she ?"
Hard on the Littryers.
•To three Milwaukee lewyers who pot in
'bills amounting to 025,000 for Bermes in
Bottling an estate Worth $32,000, Judge
Thomas Drummond said: ',Gentlemen,
you consider yourselves good lawyers.
How inuoh more are your services worth to
your clients than mine to the people? You
have charged 625,op0 for sixtydays' ser-
vice. Could you,not be oontent, each of
you, to take my pro rata • for the sem°
time? These charges are infamous. They
are such an men who are thoundrelb and
thieves at heazt would make. This charge
of 015,000 is out down to $1,500, thole of
$5,000 each to S500. Repeat mush a piece
of rapine 10 thie court and I will dis.bar
every one of you."
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smellier Explanation el Red Sfinsets.
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The red sunsets of Boole tirae ago have at
lastheen solved. Our reporter returned
this Morning from a flying trip to Gunni-
eon County. 'While there he found the snow
on the tops of the rangee as red as if it had
been sprinkled with red pepper. Being sup.
plied with chemicals and a blew -pipe outfit,
he was enabled to make a test,and found,
it be meteoric iron. It could not have been
an wash from a mountain, as it was on the
top of the range as well as lower down,'and
only on the surface of the - snow. Upon
diggnok^down is few inches the snow was
clean and white. The sun shining through
this cloud of red oxide of iron caused - its
rays' to appear red, giving the same effect
as a piece of red glue. The dust fell over
the entire earth, but was inviable exoep
where caught by the perpetual snow on the
mountain.—Denver Reporter. _
LATEST' OLD WORLD SOSSIK.
London Xruill has the following note.:
Her Majesty will invest Prim George 01
Walestwith the Grand Croft of the Bath
before her departure from Othorne.
One effect ot the action of the Lords Will
be that it will insure us Mr. Gladstone's
Presenee al the head of affairs for some
Inc at least.
It is a noandalous injuotice that the,
clergy should he receiving burial folio which
they do nothing to earn, and whiola are
really it very serious tax on the poor. AIM
One of the latent eccentricities of the
present Board of Admiralty ut an attempt 1.
to induce naval chaplains to abandon their
black coats in favor of a naval uniform,
am very glad to see that the Home
Secretary has lost no time in bringing in a•
Bill for abolishieg the office of Public
Preseoutor, which, however', is marred by
the inevitable compensation clause.
I dare say cholera will soon get to Eng- ,
land. Avoid crowds when it is there, and
keep rather in London than in the environs
after next St. Lubbook. It might be well
not to grant the usual bank holiday thits
season should the plague be upon you.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer got es
rare windfall by the death of the late Puke -
or Buceleuels, as the succession and legacy
duty paid hy hie eldeet son in respect to
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the Scotch properties alone amounts to •
2220,000.
For Fame extraordinary reason the heirs
of Lord Byron- informed. Mr. Jeaffreson
that if he attempted to publiell" any ot the
lettere which proved that their ancestor
had not bath guilty of a monstrous offence
they would ask for an injunction.
Wreathe sent -by the Queen, the Prince
of Wales and the Duchess of Albany were
JAW:led by Mr. Stuart upon the coffin of the
late Prince of Orange, whose eider biother
("Citron") -would very probably have mar-
ried Primes Alice but for the unprinapled
intrigues of the late Louis Napoleon,
A. new edition of Lord Hervey's
!' Memoirs of the Reign of George II." will
be publeihed next mouth by Messrs.-Biok-
ere, who recently broughtsout a Complete
edition tot the entertainnig and instructive
" Memoirs of Sir Nathaniel Wraxall."
The " Ickworth Papers" were originally
published about forty years ago by Mr.
Murray.-•
Another very ineresting work will be the
0' Reminiscences of Lord Maltnesbury,"
which may also be looked for in the autumn.
Lord Malmesbnry was in the smote of the
Tory, leaders, and altogether very muoh
behind the scenes for nearly twenty years,
and he ought to be able to tell ne many
new and good stories about Lord Beacons-
field and the late Lord Derby.
Franois Clark, the victim of the • Windsor
.robbery, is described an "John Brown's
sucoeseor," but he' is nothingof the sort.
He attends the Queen in her walks and
rides, and performs some of the other •, ss -
duties of a " gillie," but he is in no respect
a confidential servent, nor does he enjoy
the numerthe perquisities of "3.-B.," whose
rooms at Windsor are permariently closed. -
It is said that the following anecdote,
which has been told of a numberof people, — -
originated with Lord ' Cowley, who at one
of ,his own parties in Paris was leaning
against the mantelpiece when an unknown -
gentleman said to him,. "Do you mean t0.
say that Lord Cowley's parties are never ,
• livelier than this 2" "Never." "Well,"
said the stranger, "then I shall take.
myself off at onee." "You're a lucky mato"'
said Lord Cowlew with a sigh; "
ebliged to eta)." •. •
For and About Women.
A Cincinnati young lady, who has seen.
better days, makes olivine by writing notes,
for society girls. SEM writes all the letter's.
f* heir customers, be they love letters or.
what not. '
The women of San Francisco will found
it cemetery for Bailees. Two thousand
sailors are known to have been buried
within the city limits anoe its foundations
and the graves of but one hundred and fifty
are known. "
Ladies who adapt their fancy work to the. •
season are now embroidering on linen,. •
duck and bamboo cloth wbile they drink in .
,
sat
• Bea breezes on the hotel piazza.
BUS. Agnes M. Dirkheim hag been ap- -
pointed matron at the Cornell University,
and all the young women Students of the
institution will, be under her general, super-
, visioo.
At the Goodwood raoes in England the '
man feature of the droning was the
assumption of semi -masculine attire by the
high-toned ladies who play with gambling
on the lawn of Goodwood. They were ,
attired in white. weistooets, manly collars
and white soars 'fastened with horseehoe •
pans, and a society journalist desoribes
them as quite killing.
A poor English lady wheal house on the
outskiits of London was overrun by black
beetles, whieh dwelt not only on the walls, •
but in the beds, applied the other day to
the magistrate to know whether she could ,
be compelled, under such circumstances. to
pay tent. The magistrate explained to her
that the mutts were divided upon, the ques-s
tion. A house overrun with bugs has been
pronounced uninhabitable, but not with .
beetles She would have to carry the mat-
ter to the House of Lords.
take o in ouring is incident to a broken erre," •
and where Such mistakes occur (the injured
The Charms el Black currant Wine.
A. curious Legal Beds:on. •
A person injured in a railroad collision
brought snit for damages in Mimi& The
company aoserted that he had ,thosen an
'incompetent Burgeon. The Coutt held that
thie claim, if true, was no defence to the
soden, and the verdict for the plaintiff was
therefore suotoined. The liability of the
surgeon in the matter was net considered.
The Court said: "The liability to D3is.
party ming ordinary euro), the injury re -
milting from Binh mistakes Is properly re-
garded as port of the immediate and direot
damages resulting from the breaking of the
arno."
puddings, jam and wine Black curran
Lionized Royal Alricanerst .
jam isn't to be sneered at, but the wine
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The royal African coal black family of
vaedrheavrink [tufted to the Queen's taste. 11 is
percentage of alcohol. As to flavor,. it
takes the distillery every time. It you,
over have a chance to test it when made by ' •
a genuine John Bull, just tiokle your .
palate."
" Very few Americans buy black our
said a New York commission mer
chant. " Ouribot customers ter them are
Engs peep
h le,who use t bem in
bodied and contains but a small
making
Moab, Italy's new colony, is being lionized -
at Turin. Queen Kaliza is sweet 16 and
has taken a great fancy to European gar -
mento; Prince Amadeus sent a modiste to
dress her up, and the Queen kept her seven
Bond hours fitting on and trying the current
fashions. Her sat, Ali, 7, and Mohammed
5, run about the areete and are' great pets
of the publics.% hely is showering upon the
dispossessed family ougar candies and
jewellery with an idea to extend her coloni-
zation in Africa, in view of the rapid head-
way Marta by France.
Typhoid and CYclonee„
(prom the Columbia 8. C. Register.)
nem reliable 'authority the Register
leant; that typhoid fever prevails to a
great extent along the track of the cyclone
width passed through Fairfield County
last spring. Several deaths have occurred
in families attacked by the fever, and
physicians have noted it as a singular fact
that the majority of typhoid fever Oaffee are
confined to thir etreteh of country visited
by the cyclone.
Thera are some insults worse than
°there A single lady of uncertain age was
on the Witness stand in a Westext Polka
Cant, when the 'squire asked her, "What
is your age?" Your Honor," maid the
lawyer on the other side, 'I yeti should not
press that question. A woman of _her age
never likes to tauten it," Then the gave
one Kneel and Went into byeteritio.
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A Had Blow tap Out West.
At Madigan's Camp, near Tunnel Moun-
teinsas one of the men employed on the O.
P. R. was warming some dynamite for
MO in blasting, he unfortunately placed it
too near the fire, when it exploded, killing
him inetantiy, and the foreman of the
gangovhe was BOMB distance higher up on
the mountain, was literally blown to woes.
—Calgary (N. 1Y..6,2'.) Herald.
1)r. Seltzer, in the Boston Medical an
Surgical journal,reoommends'13eef tea made •
very hot 'with red pepper for delirium
tremens, A Laden surgeon u. stated to
have treated' 150 oases suceetrefully with
the remedy alone.
French Admiral recently reported that
the Ahlerioan was the weakest navy in
existence. Francis has many morale, but
the United States have an big batch of
officers. . .
,--NO wonder American travellers tiro
'Welding Manillas. Not a watermelon is
to be mold there this season.
Smuggling is simply another nate for
thieving, but somehow or other nobody
coke upon n the game ligh
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