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The Exeter Times, 1886-9-23, Page 6UEALT: Roods itS Quaatity and QtlalitV. The woottectioe between life and nutritien so oleee and inseparable, that the contitn canoe of the former depth& upon the purply of the latter. The variation and Rom ef rife, whether animal or vegetable, depende upon the quantity and quality ef nntrition, with which, it is kupplled. We are readily able to judge of the quan- tity and euaaity of nouriehment supplied to a vegetoble tivt we are attring fin', and will at once dedde whether the Randy i Bonne!, insuifielent or in enclose of tiler rutrition roe - canary. Every living organism demands its own peculiar supply deeigned for it by the lima of nisture, When the natural supply is normal in all respecter, the life is healthy. The same law holds good in the higher order et ille that we observe in the lower. In- stil:6°1°2A alimentatien in the vegetable) king - done le followed by consequences which we Bre not liable to mistanderetand. There is lees of health and vigor, a gradual ahrink- hag, and if the procees la pernattted to go en, death occurs. A great excess of even the natural nutrition tends to the frame result, A marked departure in either direction from the normal standard of supply will, with very few exceptions, be followed by a mark- ed departure frem the nerreal standard of life. In man the died of overeating er under- , atirg is not so ebeervahle, owing to the more oompiex nature, still the frame rule deubtless holds good, It is needless to men. tlen that brutes sutler from impreper feedIrg and particularly over -feeding. Excessive alimentation in the human being Is followed by the same baneful conecquenoete Is it not feat that the generality of people; eat too muoh ? Very few eat too little. It is a cern- men-place ephedrine : "He eats so much that it makes him peer to carry it." As a rub, a large, lean, cadaverousilooking man, le an Immoderate eater, whilst the mei ority of eur robust and healthy men are m(xierate consumer° ef feod, or are what we oall small eaters, The reaeen of this is plain. He whe eats more than is demanded by nature, anpeees a heavy strain on the organs involv- ed In the process ef digestion and elimina- dm The etemach, for instance, Is capable ef doing a certain amount of work, hence U ever -taxed tulduly, the reeult aeoner or later will be impeded digestion, impure bleed, disordered functions'and gradual toes of vier and strength. As certain as we ever - step the beunds of nature and overtax our stomach for our palate's sake'we begin ts sew the Eeed of disease. Certainly the stomach is a remediable organ, and Mile to read the aseaultE of imprudence with wan- derfnl courage, but its Row( r of endtrance will net withatand every imposition heaped ripen it, and sooner or later it will succumb to the force of the unrelenting overwork. The physician should be as careful in re- gard to the treatment of over -fed and under- fed patients, as in the quantity and kind of :medicine used in the treatment of a special disease. It is toe common an error, when we aee patients emaciated, to advise abund- ance ef neuriehing toed, while probably it Is a well -laden table that Is at the foundation of the condition sought to be relieved. There is far mere danger from over indulgence than under -eating. Although we desire to im- prelim the fact that evermating Is common and should be strictly guarded againat, we are not unaware of the existence of under- fed er half-starved people, but this is by ne meanie as common an evil, and very little disease is traceable thereto. rotes. Goethe says " man is what he eats," Of the adult men living in cities one-half are estimated to be bald. The best teet of the mother's milk is the tact that the child thrives er does not thrive. Caulophyllum is a valuable remedy in rheumatic troubles of the hands and feet, especially of the smaller joints. It Is claimed that the popular dritk of the future will be milk charged with carbonic acid gas. Milk se charged keeps well. Of 25 coniumptives treated at the Adhere deck Sanitarium two have died, four have shewn ne improvement, eight are still under treatment, and 12 have been apparently m- etered to health. Den't. forget to offer the baby pure cold water several times a day these warm days. Don't give it the turtling bottle when it is thirsty. It needs water jest aa much as you de. We notice) in one of our Southern eentem- peraries that the white teeth of the negro is said to be due to the excees af white blood eorpruidee. We can now account for the " white livered" negrees. A human skeleton weighs frcrn ten to sixteen pounds and the blood ef the body about twenty-eight pounds ; but cremation reduces the whole to no more than eight euncea ; all doe is restored to the gaseous elements. The early appearance of the oholera this year in so many scattered and distant parts of Italy is of bad omen, and a rapid and ex- tensive diffusion ef the epidemic with the increasing summer heat is almost inevitable. Never was there a mere perniolona notion than that wine, ale or porter is neceesary to a nursing woman in order te keep up her strength, or to increase the quantity or to improve the nutritive qualities of her milk. LOTION ron SUNDURN. —Take of powdered bran and glycerine, each six drams ; rose- water or elder -flower water, twelve Emcee, Mix. The daily application of this -lotion to the face and bander will keep them white and olean by lite excellent cleansing proper- ties, will prevent chaps, and remove dun. berm Statistics tell us that of one theuoand children born one hundred and fifty die with- in twelve menthe. This gives us a faint idea of the vaet amount of ignorance preva- lent in the care of infants, We beliete that by intelligent care the usual infant mortality ocuid be reduced two thirds. The British Medical Journal "Infallible says : "The beat remedy for worms* is a powder, containing from three to five grains of eantemino, according to age, and o. fourth of a grain of calomel., Prepare aix ; the Wont two powders 'to be taken at twelve haunt interval and the remainder at twentyifour hours intorvel, followed by a dote of castor oil. Borate AND SOALDS.—Cover the injured part with a cloth soaked in ell, and ever thin place eetne cotton wool, the object being to exclude the air and keep the part warm., The pain of alight burros er scalds may be eased by dusting there with flour. When severe er extensive, further surgical treat- * &Antis required, A mathonatatiolon speaking of the late Mr VanderblItal great woalth—$500,000,. 000"—sayo "the human mind cannot grasp that groat Aura." Perhaps not ; but the Inn Man band eati—if, it elaould got the oppor- tunity, LTE Domnuoil N4ws, •Lsbstera are melting Charlottetown, III I., at four to efight cents each. A. echoed for the Hied was opened the ether clay at Halifax, N. S. Young women making elyare httelIded a circus at Charlottetewr, It, V, 1,.10- cently. Mr. Stewart °timberland bas been "bind. readive at Halifax, N. Se to aernewhat email houoss Mr, John Hill, of West Garafraxa, be two lamb of the Shropshire breed width weighed 125 Forma each when Nue and a halt months old. A Grand Trunk train ran Into a flook of 'sheep et a deeming between Fergus and Alma hurt week, ;Wang and fetidly wound- ing sixty- tv Q. A two year old child of F. X. Betide, of Viteidon, Qom, a few dart age was found dead in a barrel which had been mink into eprieg of water. Mr. John T. Rowe, of Charlottetown, P. E. 1., exhibite a cucumber weighing five pounds two ounces, and measuring two feet tour inches In circumference. Diphtheria la said to be malting sad havoc among the children around Mira Gut, and that it has also broken out near Cow By and Bridgeport, Nova Scotia. The first Wield flah glue ever raanufam tured on Canadian territory was sent by a recent (Weimer by Medals. Chaim & Cos, of Sr. John, N. B , to Lendon, England, Sharks are said to be quite numerous ofl Traoaciie. A fisherman caught one there the other day, In about 17 fathoms of water, which measured ever five feet in length. A bear, weighirg upwarde of 350 lbs., was killed the other day near South Moun- tain, N, S. Beare are new semewhem nu- merous in the vicinities of Yarmouth and Grand Pre. Twe Lunetburg echooners pasted through the Strait the ether day en their way home from Labrabor. They report the Labrador ood fishery a toted failure, and were only able to secure one-third of their cargoera Col, Gieder, 'the Arctic explorer, Imo a persenel knowledge of the Hudson's Smelts, and he is firmly convinced that they are navigable even by sailing veestels during a °meld erable pottion of the year. Jeceph Menders died at Grey Nunnery, at Montreal, on Fridatr last, aged 106 years, 4 menthe, and 17 days, He was born'in P ortugal, in April, 1780, and, when a moldier inlhe Peninaular wow was takenprisoner by Napoleon, MasIted nun entered the hem° of Mr. John Wright at the Baxter Settlement, N. B., !eat week, and presenting a revolver - at the head of Mr. and Mrs, Wright ccm- polled them to hand ever $1,000 in Amer - dean and English mad, tldr entire env - savings for yeare. On the lot inst, asen of EL Haddecket far- mer near Montreal, was accidentally thrown from a home that he was hurriedly riding, etriking the back part of hie head against a jagged rook, making an ugly wound and severely fracturing the Anil, The young man's conditicn is precarieus, medical epin- ion being doubtful about hia recovery from the dangerous injuries doubtful. A Gaepe correspondent writes ef the island et Anticosti.:—" The Island is a terrible place for emigrants to settle on, where hardship and hunger are sure te accompany them. Better far for poor emigranta in Europe to beg their bread among their kith and kin than to leave home and friends in search of fortunes on Anticosti, whence the Government will be obliged to remove them ere they die of starvation." Tens of thousands of blackbirds, flying in one flock in a mouth -easterly direction from Wardsville, was a eight DOD often wit- nessed which happened one day recently. Hundreds of them alighted en a large tree in the English Church parsonage for a few ethane% and then were off again, while otherwteeki their places, and they in tarn, after a few einconds reat, followed their derapanions„ The notes made by the chirp- ing of the birds and the fluttering of that wings could be heard for a considereble dis- tance. Brackbirds have ah o betn eeen in large numbers in ether places. Fiehermen tending nets in tbe ticinity of Cape Ssbiz have been much annoyed hy sharks constantly swimming broiled their boats and clevourieg the dead betting which beppened to drep out of the meihea, Oa laidey last they invaded a lenge extent of the did fish ground, and sonic narrow diet:pea 01 flehermen are re- ported, One fithernaan had to change his ground to get clear of a thark described as ever twenty feet long and bent on mis- chief, Another person out fn a small thiff bad to call a beat to his aseintence to prevent his oraft Inlets ce.psizeci and to aid him in beating off a huge dunk which eeemed determined to sample him, A remarkable instance of presence of mind was displayed by a gentleman in Hull the other night, and which, although im- perilling himself, in 1:1,11 probability prevent- ed another wideapread and disastrous con- flagration. It theme that Mr, Wm. MoEwan, a. grocer, was "handling a barrel of high - wines when the spigget fell out end a quan- tity of the liquid flew out of the hole and, netwIthetanaing that both hands were sev- verely burned, he kept it there until the times were extinguished. If the flames had reached the contents an exploeion must have ensued, and as the store was merely a frame building, similar to all the surround- ing houses, a disastrous fire would in all probability 'nye resulted. SOIENTIFIC AND USEFUL. Experiments by M, Bouchut have proved that the tapenworm eueorimbe to the diges. tive action of pepsine in large doses, while the more highly -organized tissues of the oternach are unaffected.' To make a good blaok japan for small out- ings take of eaphaltum half e, pound; melt and add hot balsam of capivl one pound; tribe well and thin with oil of turpentine, Give three coats, and dry In an oven at be- tviieen 250* and 300* Fehr, A very tereful hind of varnieh is desoHbed by M. Leon Vidal, which is excellent for produoing hnitation ground glom, and will doubtless be fouxid available , for other par- r:ma, The formula is—Sandarac*'eighteen parts; meatio, four; ether, two hundred; benzol i eighty to one hundred parts. By coating over the surface of glans mita rote with glycerine, their clouding by the accumulation ot condensed water vapour will be prevented fot a Wtheiderable time. The attraotioxt ef the glycerine le so great for the water at to alcolorb the latter ne fast an deposited, This hint may prove of great 1190 to deRihti3, tvho are frequently teoublet by tho clouding of mouthanirrers, and d may also be of velue to th000 who are com. polled to shatro therneelvess 40 °hilly tiara- ariontra . , THE 011ARLESTON RAUB QUAKE. tweet orate abode on the Negroot. It weuld be slimplY impoissible to etiaggeti ete er to depict in tuttleiently deteriptive leuguage the effete; of the visitation of that Tuesday night en the colored people of Charleston. A great deal has been written about Lim e people) and their aotiona under the strong reeling!' of sorrow or deotwilr but there was never, until within the past few days, an opportueity of notloinet a publio eabibition ot ouperstitieue fear to the degree that bas exited among all °lessee of the darted people ainoe the tremendous ehook of that Tueeclay night. Oaly a few minutes after the warning voice) ot the earthquake had palmed avvey, the effect en the mina and SiMagtnation of every colored man woman, and child in the city waa complete, . They tied from their homes, they knew not where, and as they ran hitherand thither, through blinding clonal of pulverized mortar which was shaken from notelets and entree again from the etreeto, they filled the air with DISMAL GROAts S OF DESPAIR and lementations of terrified and terrifying dietrees. As urinal with them in tneir funeral devotions, the name Jaime was most f equently used, and as though suppliosting Goa face to face, they shrieked out in the very laelpleaeneos and pathos of despair such sentonoes as "Do, my Master, Jesus, hey° mercy on me !" " Oh, meet jowl% save me, save me I" " Lam me live threugh this night, dear God, my Saviour 1" Hold me up once mere, Thou boned Christ, my Master I" and ether tearful supplioations, which intensified the horror of the situation, and went far toward demorallzIng the white purple, who were also ruehing blindly and blinded hither and thither In the fitful glare of flickering lights, almost eclipsed by the shower of descending and ascending dust. As usual, the faces of the white man and white weman in the den° of danger was a sight of sudden joy in the gloom to many poor wandering mitered boy or girl, who era deavored to stop their white friends as they ran by in the confusion to supplicate that they weuld remain with them until the Judgment was done." In many an instance a trembling colored girl SANK DOWN ON HER /KNEES and eefzed with frantic energy the folds of some white lady's drees and, failing to express their terror in words, with ecarcely moving lips betokened that they wanted only the moral support of a friend in the hour of distress and agony, But the white faoes were blanched a paler Lee. There could be no stop or stay in the mad room away from tottering home tope and toppling parapets. The trembling suppliants were hastily thruet aside by those whom events have proved were powerless to save themselves. There was death in the air—nay, mere, it was be- low and eiround and was expected nene knew whence, Only the feeling was ever present that every body steed face to face with the menace of instant death. SCENES IN THE STREETS ON TUESDAY NIGHT Certain scenes that were observed on the etreete immediately after the first shook de- serve to be described, and especially one that indicated the general feeling through- out the city. Further north on King street than the morality just mentioned there was a tremendeue throng of talents assembled, Nothing oan account for the fact of the great; crowd but the suppeeition that for home reason the people left the side streets and were poured, like a stream into the principal thoroughfares. The remarkable instance referred to was the exhibitlen'of joy and the voices of congratulation that were heard en every sidee and all mingled with words of thanksgiving to the Divine Providence, People clung to eaoh ether like brothers and slaters. There were no etrangers there. Trey all knew eaoh ether tre part and parcel of a community that had escaped a terrible fate. Some, WITH TEARS OF REPENTA.NCE and joy in their eyes, embraced each other. Women fell en each other'e necks, and, with hearts toe full to speak, rooked to and fro in the happy embrace, devoutly thank- ing Gad in Silence for His blessing inthe dreadful hour, and the children in SIMS and at their mother's knees lisped out they knew not what, bat it was plain that they all realized that somebody had been killed, and immediate danger was ever. Not so with the trembling and demoralized oolored people. After the hand ef Providence had been apparently removed they began to pro- phesy, and to recall all they knew in their confer:8d way ef Bible ecenes and Bible hie - tory. " He the night of Sodom and Go- morrah," Shouted one in a frenzy of appar- ent delight "The city of St. Michael is down to the ground," yelled another ; " I told you so," cried a third ; " Abe, 'how abent my wife' i dream now 7" maid a fourth; "Look tor the rock of Horeb to via," said another; "Pray, my white people, why don't you pray 7' Old women began croonieg over onatahos of negro roligieuo melee din and frantically seizing each passer iby and inviting them to join in the "song of praise to the Redeemer," After an hour or so prayer meetings were orgenized, and the singing and Ecreaming were kep; up until daylight. At that time the watchword was passed around. '1 The battle is over, but the seldiers must not rest ;" and this order wee carried out an Wednesday and Thursday nights. . FRENZIED NEGROES. On Thursday night, hetvever, en Merlon square, tiro alghto and ocenoo bafflact de- sciptien, The colored people were unre- strained and,committed all manner of riot- ous and and frenzled excess. A report of their actions as they took place would per- haps be coneidered blasphemous in thole a staid and conservative oity as Charleston. The first object, and that one Interested everybody's attention was an assemblage of colored boys, about a half dozen in number, who had fallen to the ground in a paroxysm of religious frerzy. They were grovellitig with their flame down in the grams, and were einging a hymn in a loud voice, The hymn Was, "The Angels a Rappin' at the Door," and the refrain, sung rapidly, was, "Oh, tell ole Noah to bill on de ark, to bill on de ark, to bill en de ark." Thic song they re- peated over and ever again until they wore quite tired and ceased from utter exhaus- tion. In a few minutes they Were fast asleep, Near the Imo was a large tent which had been gaily decorated for some festive co - cation, In the door stood a very old cooler. ed woman swaying backward and forward, her lipri only moving, but tittering no sound, The droWd in front of her vvatohed with in - tonere anxiety. Suddenly the buret out with the hymn, "Oh, Raslin Jacob, Let Me Go," and the crowd joined in the mighty refrain. The crowd swayed their bodies forward to the right and to the left, alternately, just like a sacred dame°, oratnarara THEIR HANDS al AN EcsThov of emotion. Finally one men dropped to the ground " converted," The lamp wan hattily brought trona the tent, and 40 WAS eurrounded by a ceowd ef women who hold his halide., Ho cried aloud tor nerivoyo and etteattlally Mooned away and wee tiliaoat no thlid at a onrivo• The work of converaiew thou went OR, and to lees than a half hour about ten men and women succerabed to the etnotioaal 'sometimes of tlIGOOGaBIOXI. SAO& lar oodles were being enaoted all over the tquare, The prayers which were offered up were simple in every orinse ef the word but they evidently came from the bottom of hearts that were paleled with fear, One of theta* prevere was as followe ; Keep my brothers and astute. , What is the matter now? Oh, Lord rook on last Tueeday night : Nome ie dead and gone. Oki, my handedne God, dear sir, look down en us, WE know what the little finger of the Lord can do, Smetimes the world can kick up in thunder, but do take care of oar broth- s. Ain't the black lamb and the white lion done lie down together in peace? Move .along, my brothers, move along. Good gimme graoe to move along. Ain't 1 done promise to be beptiza Just here the crowd took up the words "promise to be baptized," and sang it to the end with peculiar force and pathos. Then the exhorter proceeded, Fight the battle, fight thetattle ; fight out girl, fight it out boy l' Oh, yea, ma am, the time is conie; Wake up, wake up, de last chance Is come to save sold Charleston. Oh, my Lord, don't touch my city any more I pray God to hold the world up, Ah, ah, I thank God; Take for t is country people, fight for It people. Walk on brothers, Hip, hip, Hp, Oh, Lord, take me in your eharge tonight, Night before hot I didn't (sped) to see Jean% Oh, God look down at these dry bones in the valley, Didn't you hear Gabler°horn blow 7- -Oh 1 Gabriel, turn that horn to the land of Egypt on the the mieerable airmen and not on we. Oh, Lord, we are here to -night. The birds have neat% but we are here to -night for meroy. Ohl Lord, havemercy," After this hynan about a dozen people were converted, and the werk was kept up in a eimilar strain until broad daylight. To the white people who were there the scenes of Thursday night can never be forgetten. Au Rom that Repaid. ,1 Yes, mamma, industry shall be my bread and attention my butter," so said the bey Macaulay. In childhood he often made remarke like this. One day, when visiting a lady, a servant spilled Borne hot coffee over his legs. Tee lady toek him on her lap, comforted him, and aeked hien how he felt. "Thank yen, madam," said the boy, four years ef age; "the agony is abated.' In dealing with this ohild, Zachary Mumulay, his father, aoted up faithfully to the best light he had. He made it a rule not te praise his youthful vviedom, not to notice his mart replies, and in ether ways to check that tendency to arrogance which is the great danger of boys and men who have ex ceptIonal power over words. Zatiliary Macaulay spent forty years of hw life in assisting to bring his country to the point of abolishing slavery„ He worked in cedoporation with VVilberforde, Babing- ton and their circle, and did as much in the cause as the best of them. He sacrificed te it health, fortune and pleasure his business dwindled and perished through Iris devotion to it, and he died poor and dependent. But there came an hour of repayment, He had the pleiteure of hearing his son elo- quently advecate the muse en the platform and in the House of Commons, and saw a length the principle incorporated in th Bridal Constitution, that no slave oan livo upon any soil over which the flag ef Britain brats. The excellent biographer of Lord Macau- lay, Mr. G. 0. Trevelysm, le of epinion that the happiest half-hour of 'Zachary Macau - lay's life was when he heard his gifted eon make hie maiden speech en the platform of an anti -slavery meeting, a speech was per- haps never surpiussel by an orator who was addressing an audience for the first time, One passage called forth "a whirlwind of cheers." "The hour is at hand when the peasant of the Antilles will no tenger crawl in list- less and trembling dejection round a plant', tion from when fruits he must derive no advantage, and a hut whose door yields hire no proteotion ; but when hie cheerful and velanteey labor Is performed, he will return with the firm step and erect brow of a Bridah citizen from the field, whioh la his freehold, to his cottage, which is his castle," These worda, delivered with the calm, re - bust potter of the yourig Macaulay, thrilIng the father's heart, - The next opeaker Was Mr, Wilberforoe, who alluded to the presence of his ancient ally on au °melon of ee much interest to hire, both as a father and as a citizen. " My friend," Said Mr, Wilberforde, " wenici deubtless willingly boar with all the base falsehoods, all the vile oaltimniere all the detestaiole artifices, which have been mimed at Win, to render him the victim and martyr of our canoe, for the gratifioation he halt this day eirjayed In hearing one BO dear to him plead such a cause in such a man - nen" Tho old man, true to his eId-fashioned principle of concealing from He boy the pride and jay he felt in him, sat metionlees during the sPeeoh, with his eyes' fixed upon a piece of paper held as if he meant to take notes. • In talking to his son in the evening, he made only one slight allusion to the scene or the afternoon, when he remarked that it wee unbecoming in BO young a man to speak with folded, arms in thca presence of the royal prindrythe had preildedet Zichary Maoaulaylived Onitil 1838, long enough ter see hie ,cian tile .foremest young man did; dine. tne waSliuried in West. tuinsterAbbey. LYpon bs 'iraenument he is desortbed egeone who -Worked, -forty years against sliniery; ancitilaresignediita other's the prairie and the reward." There are hours that inertial` life's- efforts. It came to the father in the son la title cane, and happy Is the father to whem the son brings the orown. A Forgotten American Earthquake, Newapapers that have commented on the great earthquake at °haricot= stem to have entirely forgotten a sirailaraataeteophe ef nearly two centuries ago, by which tine town of Port Royal, en the Island of Jana - Ica, on the same harbor upon which the city of Megaton is misstated, was overwhelmed and almost wholly obliterated, Churohea, monasteries, basilicas blocks and hundred,* of houses wince ewaliewed up by the Waves, The blue flea still rolls over them, but beat. nien fancy that they can B00 the 'moires mud housetopdeep down in the waters, and when the the roller high they !Men for the muffled tolling of the bells that once called the people of an almost foreotten city to prayer, relenting fathor recently signified him desire for recionciliation With the fairing piaallgal JOY the &hewing curt , telegram; —a—a, Pueblo, Col.—The vealtepread is ready When you are," , The objectien to moat fieli starlet* la that the fisli aro Weighed in their own scales. " Tbete are her/ times," vigil the young debt collectea. Fvery plaop .1 wont to to, and that was. when 1 dropped to see my dcajyr(questsd to can again, hut 0110 6 A journal &coated to angilog (mutable an inettuotive artiekt entitled "What to Take on a Flahing Eicoureien," It may eurpritio BOD1e poremos to learn that two ef the artfoles oamod as beleg uco:cisary far suoh a trip are o red end Hue. "Dimly did yen be r edict In tbe neoe- pipers that; Jay Gould's Weenie Cs tin oints Ivory toime the ;gook ticker ? ' "Troth, an' I did. Wouldn't it be a Mane Ulrich, now, if tome blaggyard Was to snake in ate sthop hie clock fpr Pim." Miss Jones is imarriato Mr. Smith, arid they say she had a check placed beeide her plate at the wedding breakfast, though I do not, know how muck it was for," '"Yea, they took their wedding brealrfaut in a teetaurant and the oheok Was for $1, but her hueband paid it at the counter." At a dinner party lag Winter the cold weather lied done coneiclerable duty in sup plying converaation, when a , plump, happy - looking married lady made a ren -ark about cold feet, "Surely,'t said a lady opposite, "you are not troubled Whit odd feat ?" Amid an awful pause the lady naively an- swered; "Yo, indeed. 1 am very much troubled—but then they are not my own."' Her husband blushed scarlet, • "Who made you ?' ingalted a teacher of a tubbed), boy who he'd lately' joined her " Don't knew," he trail "Don't know? You ought to be aohained'of ,your- self — a boy 14 years old 1 Why, there's Dickey Felton, ho'e only three ; be actia tell, I dare say. Come hero Dickey. Whe made yon?" "Gad," lisped the ,child, *1 'Mete ?" said the teaoher. , "I 'knew he would remember," " Well, he oughter," said the stupid boy, "'taint but a little while age oboe he was made." They tell a story, mild to be a true ane, of a farm hand in Oaterio who was se abash- ed by the rosy cheek& and blight eyes of a el a school-m:4'am boarding with hie em- ployer that he one day remerked with a sigh te the latter. "1 weuld give a denim to kise her." "Alt right 1" said :at complais- ant employer, "you may." When, settling time came the man found his "cash $1 short; " Why did you take out that della ? ' Was asked. " Oh I drat .was for kissing the school -ma'am," was replied. "Bat 1 didn't kiss her,", protested . the man. "Well, if you didn't it was your own fault. I gave you 1eohynnec JWas Posted on Miracles. Little Johnny Jordan wao a passenger en enburban train. Beside him eat a tall, solemn -looking man with side whiekers, In front were ifehnriy'a pa and ma; and behind him his' aunt Hetty. The vohele party had been to church, and the inan sitting, beside Johnny was the minister going mato spend the afternoon with the Jordon% "[y little man," - said the minister to Johnny, "did you pay cloeo attention to the sermon?" " Yeah." 1' Do you remember that I paid something about reiracleo " Yessir." "Well, Johnny, do you know what a miracle is V' " Yessir," " Tell me, please." "Wali, all I know about it la nim said., this morning that it woeld be a miracle if we could go to church once without havin' the minister taggIni home with tie to din- ner. SO I guava this Juliet no mir—" "Johnny Jordon ! (from the front seat.) "Yesam.' Playing Dead in Earnest, It is related that Peter the Great, stroll- ing Incognito through the cantle, came upon a party ef nen cemmissioned efficere and grenadiero enacting a comedy. All at once hie brew became clouded, In the piece lie, soldier, in the uniform of his guard, commits at a certain moment a robbery. Neverthe- less he allowed the play to prooeed. The ceurt-martial is summoned on the stage and the thief is sentenced te death. The spectra - tors, (reimposed of °Steers and men showed the meat lively concern in the pedormance, and laughed at the grotesque contortions sf the condemned culprit. The amateur actor played Ids part very well. Plete came the ',quad that is -to execute him. " Fire 1' orders the'lleutenent, and the amateur drop- ped down dead, his heont pierced by seven bulleto. No make believe but dead indeed, vVieercamen the Ecraperor dropped his inceg- nito anal addreseed those assembled soldier of my guard who committed a rob- bery must die. If he did not steel why did he beset of it and soil hie uniform? It it r who ordered the leaded rifles given to the MOM I henceforth forbid my soldiers to ply the trade of mummers," Just Like Mamma. If mothers couldadways realize the Ideals they represent to their children, they would, be greatly encouraged in their arduous duties, A lady riding in a street oar saw a little bey whom she knew. "Bo you have a little slater, Willie," she remarked ploshantly. i" le she a pretty baby?" "She loolcs just like mamma," was the sinning answer. "What do you call her ?" asked the lady. " named after mamma," anevvered the little fellow promptly. Everybody was nailing, and to relieve the lady's embarrassment her friend on mitred the color of the baby's hair. "It's the same (rotor BIB mamma's," he re- sponded thnidly, A gentleman who had been amused by the dialogue asked the wee man if the new little sister wee a geed baby. "Yes, sir," was the prompt reply, "She s jest like ' 1. An Exaggerating Family:, "Father, I don't want to saw any wood to day; yeeterday I satved shut a thousand cora and mother made mo walk a himaired Mlles and carry three or four barrelo of water for her. I haven't had a holiday for ten years. Let Jirn slaw seven or eight hun- dred cords of wood far a change)." ti William, you Must cease this exaggeri ated way of talking. I've spoken to yeti about it a million times, and if have to do it again, rn break your neck." The fernier knotte he oennot change tho species of the seed and make rye yield wheat or barley °ate ; but he Itiso knows that he oan bring many influences to bear upon the growth ef each plant aftet its kind—that he oan se accommodate its relations to eun, air, water, and soil as to ensure its batter doyen eminent et Ina stunt add lthpovtrfbhit, Se, it we learn the true leetsort oil heredity, we shall irnow that human tendenclea, real and 6.`OtESO. ACI they arra depend for their dovelop met latgolY upon the way they ate treated, _ - A rt ULU T'OigONER, he First Vfollualikixiseide.d ha Allonaletterto On a recent Meadey neornitig the pellt01108 of deeth pelted on Melly Ann Britlaed, Not- ory operative, of Action under Lexie, for pole - 0° anrhr)iguidgorulti ePti xt re "SWtrialen 116 el wTahyl'elnglItifiNiiMx°Anil'owle:: tor. In her It hours the peitoeuer wee very much excited. She ate weirdly anythling on Sunday night, mad at midnight and during the mall boara of Monday morning she who hoard moaning heavily anti singleg munches of hymn% In the worning,when the werdere entered the, oell to prepare her or eXed.41011 She looked weeded end excited, and elle had no appetite for Pitch refreshrneato as Were effered to her. With as little delay as pitiable the exectutioner, Berry, of Bradford, had her pinioned, and the °motor:eery eget cession etarted for tho soaffoldr which le erected on the eouthrwest, corner of the she on. Heading the procession nap the wain t3it on chaplain, reading the pray 0,lil , e were followed by the prieener, aup drted by two feznale warden, with twe treale warders in the rear, As the prooeoeion left the cell In which the prisoner had been confined, one of the warctera took up a poeition en the roadway a ahort distenoe frora the eoaffeld, In erder to see that the iienteece Was are- , pally carried into effeot. A little further away stood the reprerientetives of the prees. Save the tolling of the prieon bell veld the =earning of the poor woman, who we being led to execut' ion nothing was seen or heard fer a minute or twe by thoee who were wait- ing, As the pram:onion A1PR14CHED THE SCAFFOLD the voice of the chaplain WWI drOWIled by the prisoner's appeals ite *God for meroy. "O, Lord have mercy- l" "Oh, forgive me, forgive me I ' She cried piteously. A few Minutes aufficed to , bring the pretension along the covered: way connecting the cello with the scaffold, and the prinner, who looked thin and pale, was still iihrieking with such yoke as watt left to her. It wag feared there would soon be a tonne en the scaffold, but it wasafot so. As soon as the prisoner had been plowed under the beam her face covered in the usual manner, the rope was put round her neck, and at a given signal from thetexecutioner, the two female warders let go -their hold of the prisoner. The bolt was then drawn, and b an instant the woman was harging at the end of the rope dead. The length of the rope was seven feet. The length of the drop Was seven feet. The holetingtof the black flag informed the crowd outside that the prisoner had suffered the last penalty of the law, STORY OF THE GRIME. The crime far which Mrs, &Mama heti paid the full penalt y of the law was of a very extraordineay diameter, At the beginning of the year she resided at Ashton with her husband and two grown up daughters, and near them lived 1116111a3 Dixon and his wife. A doom intimacy named to exhit between the two famine°, and Mes. Britland was often seen in the company. of Dixon, and on one eocacion went en a journey to Oldham, in hie company. In March lent Mrs. Brit. land'e daughter, who was ergeged to be married, became suddenlygreat M 'agony. Eerly in ay lia, Britland's ! and died in husband died under similar eiroumstancest and a fortnight later Mrs. Dixon suddenly became illand eucioumbed- Various rumors were circulated, and on the polioo making erquirlee they found Mrs, Britland had been a frequent purchaser of "mouse powder." The ;symptoms before death and an invest!. widen of the bodies of the deoeaced led to the belief that they had boon poisoned. Af- ter the death of Mts. Dixon, Mt% &Wend seem; to have been greatly alarmed, and in a oenverration with Mr. Law, a coffee tavern keeper, asked him "11 they, could tell if a person bid been poisoned?" i' wad " If they could discover if the paten -' Ammo() Pow- der ?" The police apprehentled Mrs. Bilt- land, and also Themes Dixon, the husband of the deceased woman but DiXOD was sub- sequently discharged. 'When being sentenc- ed to death, Mra. Britland strongly pro- tested her innocence, and said she had not given polEen to Mrs. Dixon. A Young Leader. At a time when old men are pre-eminent in European councils the advanoe ole young man to the front rank of British party lead- ers in worthy of notice. Says the "SI. James Gazetb :" Lord Randolph Churchill Is the youngest leader that the Hou ee of Commons has had eines the claya of Pitt, who flret accepted the poet at the ago of twenty-three. Peel was called to the same responsibility at forty, Ruseell at forty -two, Disraeli at forty - %even, Palmerston at seventy. Happily the nation is unfettered by any hard and -fast rule of age in respect to such appointments. Had Lord Randolph been a citizen of R. publican Rome, lie must have waited another eix years to be legally eligible for the con- suisalp. Under the French constitution of 1875 he could not be °hereon a senator for three years to come. On the other hand„ ho has added two years to the tbirty-flva which an American must have lived before he can hold the presideney of the United States, No doubt a majority of the men who have made history had'shown the mea- sure of their capacity at thirty-seven, Bis- marck was joist thirth-six when be became minister at Frankfort, and his aggreseive personality began to assert itself. Gambetta entered an his thirty-third Year theaoknow- lodged diotator of France outside Pad% Gorden had Jett completed the third decade ef hla life when he aseumed the command of the " evervictorious " army. Liahtning A young woman in a country town in Franco was hurrying home during, wethun- nor otorm, shielding hernelf wit* an uma broth," when she auddenly exyerienced a strange and alarming soneation, the shook being eimultaneous, with a very vivid flash of lightning. She felt 41 quite npoet," but, prooeeded on her way. On reaching home, ehentirrieved her bonnet, when she discover- ed that her hair had been literally out Off, her head presenting, as the hair fell, t40. same appearance as though it had been shaved with a razor. Her narrow cscapct produced such an effect upon the giri's mind Met she has been oonfiaed to her bed, ever Since, . The dories of the thinking of eld are something we °emit equal now. In the old days the Judges lu Scotland never thought 'of going to led, On the arena they dranir all night, Or as long as thoy could sit up, and then they tell under the table. Yet they gave wise docisieno, and many of these same men have laid down the law in abstruse arisen thet holde to day beyond dispute, r think It is Dean Ramsey who tells the otory Of a 14 .drinkiog party at whit& it was no that one man Was vory quiet. "Klls- aaddour called out tho presiding gatialtis ;,, "Kilsoadden, you're no driukini There was ne atewer, bat the man on the right of him lookod up and mid qctietly ; "It's nao Imo caPin on Xilsoridden., lie's dead, , H9 13aSBOa aWa' ak1911t iltInitsora rein, but 1 didna lilts tao diottirb the itatinety o' Alice oc- Wien,"