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The Exeter Times, 1887-10-6, Page 6_ L -V 1 -r-r - . ()VP S riR I I..., MI)Ii. 'By tile Author of "KanS1S Pease:noon," " BEA-TRU/WS AMBITION," " Love OR KVDRED ?" "A Goiania Dux," kee., &e. She was cowed now ; Mee OQuid. not pre, .erve the proud, conteteptuone, calm ex• Reeesion of her aloe under dile ancusatioa, tor the black end sheniefel shedow of crime seemed to fall upoe her and hill her, She still ineintained her upright carriage, but the clear whiteness of her complexion tinned to an by hue, anda.wve a agony shook her from head to foot. She tried to description of the waste place by the Nile, as would enable her to find the mottled of sand beneaeli which her husband lay. " So," she seta oahnly, " ie that all you ask, CapteSe Isleughtoe ? Bunt yoe thus's.- the terms are a little high?' " High," he repeated eneeily---"high I am net asking you for huslinnortey ; I am &inking you with areapect, aa I would any speak, but eould uot. lady of spotless characteie to beeoine iny "You say I need not trr'nhie mYself t° wife. Who do you think woeld say the tell you. how I found out your carefelly ltt same to you,, kunwIng what / know 1, secret. Now I choose you to know"— "No °Ile," she answered at once, with a •changing his insolent mauner for a kind. of sooruful glance—"uo oue, sir, but one in patronising, solemoity almost as intolerieble where every aped, a neenespeetg gown, —" not because I wept to be paid for keep- and manliness was dead—no nus but a 1408t 'lug it, or because I d.esire to triamPh shameless scoundrel!" over you and law you bank hi Yalu He haa felt before this that to crush title own oom by holding you up to the opeu con- beautiful woman's soft white throat, to strike tempt a all who know you as a thief—no, her ineolent fees with his clenched hand, he 33iyaninth"—here he leaned -forward, and hts would have risked the gallows; her words harshvoice was changed for one of tender kindled his anger afresh, but he was able to adoration—" I am going to tell you the check it, for a sweeter, more cruel revenge wnole story because I love you and would was in store for him—a revenge that would. wed you. Yes--" . torture and humble and shame her as no Wit,11 a sharp ory that ended in something bruise upon the •whiteness of her Abe, no like a sob, she interrupted him, and said—, endurieg blemish of her fair loveliness, ever " Then he is dead—he his dead ? Oh, could. Yes, lie must be !11 e would never break , , &is solemn promise to me while he lived. "You are a brave women pHyacinth— The.secret was stolen from him when his rave wonaan to defy me so I" he muttered, ' true hart was cold, and °meld guard it no looking at her with furious bloodshot eyes. She was not afraid of him ; the rage which longer 1" She drew her white mantle acres shs could see possessed him awed her net at her face, wrapped her arms in its empl: all. If he were to seize her by her slender folds, and relapsed into silence. Elaugliton, nding himself unequal to the waist and force her over the side of the boat, fi tank oe making love to an extremely bshe felt that she would shudder more at the 'eau - contamination of his touch than rut the black fat piece of ',Idiom embroidery,hitiresumed s water. What wonld it matter? She was acileran tone and manner. -"Yes, he is dead ; you have guesse i . tired—tired to the heart—of this monotonous d 't pain called life, all the more so because of On the day after one of those night -attacks :that the Arabs favored us with so often—h as at %place called. El something—Hassal 1 think—on the banks of the Nile—I was out with a burial partyabeastly job, by-theway, in that climate—and we found him speared, poor fellow! There was a pocket book sew- ed in the linine of hisjacket, and I looked n through it to hnd eut somethingabout him —duty, soldier's widow, killed in action, arrears of pay, and so on, you know—and, by Jove, 1 was surprised to find that I had found the missing heir of Verschoyle and Shangannon who was advertised for and talked of all over the three kingdoms five years ago! Ah, are you going to faint? smut we return. Be sensible, my darling In was scoured for toads. The eenghbors were This is too much for you—another time !"— for the shrouded figure opposite him had spite of our strange wooing, we shall be called into service. They captured them by , happy, 1 am certain; " and he bent forward the dozen. Ingfatfellowswere at a premium, swayed helplessly forward and moaned as he and tried to seize her hand. When they had a large number of them spoke, But she sprang up, her eyes flaming, her penned up operation commenced. This is "No," she whispered—"1 will hear it all 1 th' k f little white cheeks soar , let • she was not conquered the way it was done. The legs of the toad . for four years, during whieh thee he lived at cest of ouly an a month, As his wages heal been $.11:3 a month he had saved $6'24, and was about to return to his native country Iviiere he could live vely comfortably at ease after his own fashion, on S3O year. The immigration of such people is, therefore, very uudeeirable. LIVE TOADS APPLIED. eitia's easel cure tor a ssaineer. Tete esetennees of toad S has been a debated question. While theg,erdenerhas contended that the betrachima had its place es a dee troyer of insects, even this has been pooh - levelled by doubting humauity, and as a medical remedy—why they have not even been dreamed of. It has remained for a Counectieut man to discover a new field of usefulness for the toad as a remedy for what has been hitherto coneidered ineurable—the 9a1;ern'sas Gladden, a resident of New Bri- tain, Conn., tells the remarkable story of his experience. Mr. Gladden is a vender of tin, who has followed the occupation of selling front house to house for many years, and is one of the few specimens of Yankee peddler still following his profession. He is known in many towns within a radius of twenty- five miles from his home, where he has been a regular visitor from time to time. .About five years ago a small pimple on the left cheek of Mr. Ciladden developed into a cancer. So he was informed by varioue re- putable physicians whom he Consulted. He tried various remedies without success, al- though some of them succeeded in staying the progress of the deadly scourge, which had increased nieauwhile toa great sore that covered a good part of his face. But while the disgusting maladyedid not increase it did not gee much better, and indeed Mr. Glad- den was told that he might eventually lose !his life. It was very panful at times. Finally, a neighbor suggested a new remedy 1—live toads. W.S. Campbell was tne neighbor. Campbell looks like a man who thot rough mouud of sand beside the Nile, 'might suggest a remedy of that nature. He and the form that mouldered beneath it. J gives theidea, of being a manwhose ablutions But there was no indication of these are not of ever-recurrinefrequency. Never - thoughts in her voice or manner as she spoke. theless,. it is said thatthere are a good many "If you will be good enough to drop hero. things in his head that other mortals have los and make me another offer, understand- not dreamed of in their philoEosphy. He ing once for ell that I will not listen to your studied. medicine years ago, but has not first one, you will oblige me," she said; "for practised. I do not wish people to say that I have "Toads will cure it," was the constant re - spent the greater part of the evening out freia of Mr. Campbell, who 'called often on here with you. I leave missed one dance, his neighbor. Finally Mr. Gladden, who and Lord Avenmore of octane has been ask- ing for me." "It does not matter in the least, as Lin - tend to announce our engagement the mo- resente the theory at first, was prevailed upon to try it. He thought it would not kill him at any rate, and the oancerwas sure to do that in time. So the neighborhood ut -while, for he was my husband, and he gave were secured to prevent scratching a,nd he yet. ' "Take me back," she cried out—"take me was laid on the centre of the sore. The P , b h loved " back at owe ! ..I will pay you, Captain operation was painful. The sufferer could "As you wish. It is better to get it over Haughton --I will give yon five thousand feel every breath. The toads lived for sev- d and a certain yearly income ; but I i eral hours. The first dozen who were all - at once, so that we may understand each1 will not be insulted! other," he replied, taking up the paddles and propelling the chunsy boat a few feet'plied lived perhaps for five. When they had "Is it an insult to ask you to marry me, ; absorbed a certain quantity of the poison through the water. to tell you that your wealth is nothing to they would cease to breathe. Ithis process He was not nervous now—he had settled down to his work, and all was going well me, your crime nothing—that it is you, and !went on for several days until over twenty you only, I want ?" he answered, with pas- toads were used. The last one was not visibly and exactly as he wished. She believed him sionate vehemence. "I am a bad man, but affected. Audit suited him that she should have some blackmail a woman who is helpless and at I The neighbors watched the case with great moments for reflection, to get the f act of her my mercy I could not, and never will! You interest, and it was a constant theme of con - husband's death thoroughly into her mind forget that I aan a gentleman; and do.you versation in the vicinity. Many , will bear before he passed to the next item on the think yourself incapable of inspiring love, 'witness to the efficacy of the remedy and programme Hyacinth?" ' the truth of the facts %bow: eteted. As for Hyacinth, with her face hidden in the She was still standing up in the boat, still , Mr. Campbell, he shuffles about in great glee, folds of her mantle, tried to estimate the looking down at him with imperious eyes, :and will talk by the hour to any one who danger that threatened her, the price that not vanquished yet. !will hear him discant upon the case. Mr. this mart expected her to pay—fried to plan "No, but I think that you are utterly in- I Gladden was seen yesterday upon his wazon, ssome wey vile of the dilemma that he had capable of any such feeling. However"— looking apparently well. He is a man fifty placed her in; bus she could not. She could with a gesture of the hand—"let us end this years of ageand, while he has always been only picture mentally a fiat track of yellow altercation; it can lead. to nothing. I shall , a hard worker, hasbeen amen of goodhabits, sand with a slight mound, scarcelyto be send you the amount I named to -morrow, I The firsteppea ,a,nceof the cancer wastwenty- ni oticed, beneath which, mouldering n the and trust to you to send me in return, the five years ago, but it did not develop mien ground, soon to be dust itself, was the body pocket book mentioned, its contents, a plan, ' within a few years. It now seems entirely -of the brave and simple gentleman who had or description, or map by *hash his—my , cured, and Mr. Gladden bids fair to enjoy loved her, who had given up all that men husband's"—her voice broke here for the many years. live for so that she might be happy, whose first time—"grave may be found." 'reward was to lie beneath the sands of the Capt. Haughton seized the paddles, and desert and be forgotten. Her own danger, forced the heavy boat a few yards through SEWS IN RUSSIA. the desperate plight she was in, was nothing , the water, putting forth all his strength as to this. j he did so. He felt that without this physig Revival' oe The Persecution or Them in various Section*. Hyacinth's whole being seemed to turn to cal outlet for the fury that raged within him .....— that lonely ,grave beneath the glaring sun, he should strike her. There are symptoms of a revival of the web she sobbed to herself— (eo BE CONTINEED.) Jewishquestion, or rather of the persecution "He is dead—he is dead! Dead through of the Jews, in several parts of the empire. me—dead for me 1 And I—I killed him— A telegram from Khoths, near No vochopersk, and Ilovecl him !" reports the outbreak in that district of anti- Lovedhim 1 k es I She had never whis- Th e Jewish riots, Several persons have been Girls, Beware. eL&nwerthy divorce case is stillbe- pared it to herself—she had never wilfully hie dwelt upon by the English newspapers. recalled him to her mind. She took with They have got the length of drawing morals eager hands every pleasure, every triumph from it, and so it is to be hoped the whole that the world she lived in had to offer; she draws near an end. The one great "moral' ignored her own unhappinesss, her restless to be drawn from the whole affair is that discontent, her utter weariness of her false oun women should not et into rnatrimon- position, and told herself that her heart was 3'. g ldlled and many wounded, and houses have been wrecked. The authorities took mea- sures to quell the disturbances, but up to the time of the dispatch of the telegram order had not been restored. At. the beginning of the month the people of Ekaterinoslav, in t the south, were thrown into a panic, espe- ial entan temente with man about whose turned to stone. But she knew that et was anti ,cially the Hebrews, by persistent alarming antecedents they know little or nothing, not so ; she knew that it was the happiness rumors of an intended repetition of the especially that they should have nothing to .of her life as well as his that shehad so fran- terrible anti-Semitie riots of four years ago. ' do with wealthy personages who propose clan- . The Jews shut up their premiees and fled in iically flung away fromherfive years before: destine marriages and woad fain take them she knew that she had not forgotten him, . all directious. The troops were called out, on solitary drives. In such cases they may that she lov-ed him and now for the first and on prooeeding to the Briansk factory ill be quite sure that nothing either good or time she deliberately opened the door of honourable is aimed at. This Langworthy the district it was found that the rioters, that secret chamber in her heart, whose march on the town had been feared, saw tilt" , was an unhanged scoundrel, but he had -what she had locked away there was alive woman had already been mastered. and arrested by plenty of money and this young and breathing yet, whispering to her of the police- The rioters, it is now said, did , suffered him to show her very special atten- ' what might heve been, and she listened and not intend to molest the Jews. 1 tions. and at last to propose marriage with - was punished as only such emotions can pun- I The other day the policeof St. Pe'sersburg out her knowing almost anything about his eish, and a voice within her cried— hid a mustered in force at the Tsarskoe Selo Rail. . I antecedents. Aloney, not charity, "Look back 1 This happiness you might way terminus and interrogated a nuniker of multitude of sins. In this case the miser - have had—these kisses and clinging arms d d d 'persons arriving in town whether they were P g and deep affectiom but you would not—anel ear Jews and had any right to be in the capital. pay £20,000 in dame es and ZI 700 a "Can't you listen to me now ?" asked movv they have all passed from you forever.' as long as his injuredgwife and their rlauY Several "Ws Were invited to the police station to show their passports and papers, ter live. But it might very easily have been Haugh -tau vrhen he thought that he had and here the matter for the time eeenis to be wise to rue the risk in the hopethat she waited long enoue,,h. She started slightly and gleamed about might be equally suecessful. This marrying her, as if she had forgotten where she was, for money is a horrible system of legalized. then with a strong effort of will he forced prostitution and it is not by any means un- : 'herself back to the present to listen to this known even in Canada. Careless godless,n 3 man who was staring at her, bending to- rotten -hearted and rotten bodied wretches wards her, to comprehend him aud to an- , find no difficulty in getting nice girls for . swer him. ; wives if they have only plenty of cash. Such "Yes," she said, "go OIL" i . girls, t is urged, are not cut out for poor different, and no other young woman would *7'1 found in that pocket -book his real Teen's wives and very likely they are not. nanee a copy of yotir marriage certificate— They accordingly ere put upon the marriage which I have since verified---eand a copy Of market with the resul; all that could not be a letter front Me uncle, Mark Verschoyle, desired, health sacrifieed and something which explained his conduct. When I carte more than health. to Engleed, I obtained a copy of Verschoyle's usually Dreseute utile dia. minutes." father. 0 God, dost thou not curse these and can prove it in court if necessary." , will also, so yen see Iboth know your Secret 1 1 Undesirable Emigrants. Every great personage has hie falcoeer and li tor,,,sucthheamttaaclakdavare most off culty. Says Queen a Me nal Dictionary, ness '? Dost thou not nnpress unon them cruel people and these riches of unriahteous- Hawking le a favourite pastime in Persia. • . , - - d. "Then your cake's dough, my friend, for One of the worst features of the system of "1 °°mY— actually prevent, yol,.1, attit;ctleiratva,ingitvonlotsne?,:'hslyaid the poet. - • ' . - He pansed and looked ether, but she only y f 1 • " squireeri " his t 'dg every par ri e- I ed. by cue," replied the the marks of desolation and misfortune, careful regulation of diet, and the IER411111, IIERVO'Cri$4, DYSPEPSIA.. _ We shlolu°171 fi"r:tik(rneekolna4:1Z1zlitl.e:nli'lla-diet— lukewarm milk, with or without ernshed rusk. Unfortunately, through the habit of using highly seasoned diehee from youth up, ,Ive often find au aversion to milk. To cover its taste with sweet is not to the purpose, but we have at times added a small quantity of malt extract. The eddition of cognac to the milk, es is used with plithisicel patients, is equally imprudent. The best thing to give it an agreeable taste is a little teble salt. Arnoug other things we may add a little cocoe, deprived of oil, but with little sweetening, and some interrup ioe, as in many eases an aversion for cocoa sets in. Tea is iu eome cases tolerated when cocoa causes loathing, but coffee has a dyspeptic effect. Tea has a tendency, especially if strong, to produce nervous palpitation of the heart, and, if left too long on the leaves, dysPepsie. If none ot the beverages can be taken, we may at first ese soup for break. feet. Amylaceous substances here especially find theieplace, and in the preparation of such among these as barley, oats, nee, be, the precaution to have them long and thor- oughly boiled should be given. For a sec. oud breeklasie Some bouillon free from fat, with an, egg; at noon, a plate of soup, with corresponding portion ot extract of meat. The last mealof the day oneht to be taken at least two hours before going to bed, and should consist of beef tea, with eggs and stale white bread. Milk may at any time be taken in place of one of these meals ; so may eggs beeten with a little salt and water. According to physiological experiments on digestion, boiled albumen appears to be more easily and rapidly digested, but in reality raw elbumen is more easily peptoniz • ed than the solidly cooked lumps of albumen, because the movements of thestomachsepar- ate it easily, and it is soon satureted with gastric juice. If the appetite gradually returns, and the articles of food named aee tolerated. in larger quantities, we may intercalate another meal; the soup may also be prepared from scrapped beef, and the latter eaten. with it, Gradually, a saucerful of the articles already mentioned may be taken every two or three hours. This amount will be sufficient for a long time. If, under this regimen, gastric digestion takes a normal and rapid course, the aeuse of hunger may be felt oftener than every two or three hours, but the patient should not yield to his cravings., The time will then soon areive when more consistent food can be taken, especially properly cooked meat. The opinion that so-called white meat is especially well borne has not always been coiafirmed in practice. It may, perhaps, be the case with pigeon and chicken, &e., but the veal M Certemily barely tolerated, I owing probably, to the large amount of gela- tine it contains. As a rule, boiled meat is better tolerated. thanroast ; and, cold roast better than warm, and this is particularly true of game. With the latter, fat gravy, and the fat of pork especially, plays a very injurious part. Meat not too strongly salted is well borne, but the smoking process will spoil this ativantage. The flesh of geese and ducks is difficult to digest. Most patients will dislike to dispense with vegetables, but the very lightest of those only should be allowed until after im- provement has made some progress; we may then allow carrots spinach, and tomatoes; lettuce and salad's, and especially potato salad should be strictly forbidden. 11 the patient chafes under tee prohibition of all kinds of preserves, he may when convales- cent, partake of stewed cranberries, strain- ed and sweetened.. Dyspeptics cannot bear raw fruit at all. In all cases where cirmunstances will not permit the diet vehich has been described, a milk diet will be the best thing. Or when place and time are favorable, Krukenbergla direction : "When you are hungry eat buttermilk, and when you are thirsty drink buttermilk," should be observed, This milk freed from the lerge mass of caseine, is a real panacea, and a dietary course of it is easily carried out in the country during the summer season. But caution prescribes that it should not be taken simultaneously with other food, as the rule not to drink when you eat, and not to eat when you drink, is even more imperative for dyspep- tics thanfor persons'suffering frornadiposity. Patients are most difficult to manage in re- gard to their diet after they begin to feel ) better ; and when in consequence of 1 their long fasting and their neces- sexily reduced condition, a strong desire for food is manifested, an adequate addition of 1 fat of the proper consistency will greatly ' lessen the danger of excess. Bilious Attack. This is the popular name for an affection with which most are familiar. The name, however, is somewhat deceptive, and often leads to injudicious treatment. It is doubt. ful if there is any special ailment of the liver in the case. It isprobably only a brief, functional disorder of the digestive system. This is the general view of the medical pro- fession. It is a mild form of acute, as distinguished from chronic, dyspepsia, induced, it maybe. by indigestible food, over -eating, physical exhaustion, ex'aessive brain work, violent emotions, or by general care end worry. It is more liable to occur in the spring, be - cense, while one continues to eat the same have ended. This measure appears to have food and in nearly the same quantity es in been adopted in consequence of the belief , winter, the power of the system to assimi- that a large number of Jews without per. late food is reduced. mission to reside in St. Petersburg live in l The most prominent symptoms Of the suburbs, especially about Tsarskoe Selo,1 " biliousness " are loes of appetite, nensea This narrow belt of level ground at Avig- BOISon. uon between the foot of the wall and the It ie openly stated by the American De - brink of the Rhone witnessed 105 years ago parttnent of Agriculture that not snore than Oa nvemi;yn o morning in 1n7s8e2n,iorubstle aSbpoeuOttaCtihee. butter rri ne the Borfittihsiei ;:isetiltdifis is gooerinbuninnelecl as time when many of the Frenchmen who hal been lighting for American independence were beeiiming to straggle home again there was a great excitement in Aviguon. Through the river gate the townspeople came pouring by hundreds and by thousauds to erowd around a group of local officials and scientific experts who weee standing on the bank beside a largo eilken bag, which was heaving and bulging in a curious way as if it were being gradually inflated vkdch air, The better informed amone the crowd eager, ly announced to their ueighbours that the two men who were so busy with this bag of silk— "two crazy fellows named Montgolder" —had uudertaken to send it up into the air 05 511 experiment, having been foolish enough to assert the poesibility of tnekine similar beet:, of larger size navigate the sky just as ships navigate the sea, carrying with there ntunber of men fully equipped with all necetreary stores and implements. The gen- eral laugh which greeted the thought of such an extravagant absurdity had scarcely died away when two unbelievers were confouuded to see the silken case (which the" two crazy follows" lied fully inflated by this time) give one final heave and then sail slowly up- ward into the air, passing over the town at a height of soma', hundred test. The first balloon had been launched into space, and the news of this achievement drew forth a few monthe later the Wet flesh of that esus - to wit which had made so many enemiesfor Frederick the Great "The French in • balloons as their own claim the air, The English will domineer over the sea, Mb eland Russia has, and no morsel can spare, Then fire—there is nothing but fire left for me. " Who Were They Some one who keeps Ms eaTS open on steamers ancitether public places where glide do soniethnes congregate has written out a few of his observations for the benefitof reads era. Here they are. Read them over and then think over your acquaintances, begin- ning at home, and see if you know any girls like these: During a day's journey lately I was seated for some time so near to a circle of young women that I could not help heare ing much of their conversa 'on. My attention was drawn to the constai misuse of two words which are now heard continually in certain classes of our society. One of the circle spoke of some cake she had eaten somewhere as being" horrid," and of an- other kind as being" lovely." I determin- ed to notice to what objects these giddy girls would apply those two greatly abus- ed adjectives. This, to the best of my re. collection was the amusing result : forming ingredient in their diet Isalta The "horrid" things were: ea", Pie, pigeon -pea, or dhal, one of the best and handkerchief, several novels, a band of most uourishing of Indian pulses. This is music, several men, some withered flowers, eaten in various ways, but a sort of thick a ring, grasshoppers, crickets, canary birds, pea -soup poured over boiled rice is perhaPe peppermint candy, somebody's nose, boat- the most frequent and most epproved pre. ing, fishing, a certain dance, seasickness, a paration. The pigeon -pea is, hon -eve e b certain girl, somebody's singing, the pountann no means the best pea in India, althoug , hot weather, somebody's smile, a certam from its abundance and cheapness, it is the girl's necktie, The "lovely" things were : , one of which there is the greatest hope for a Peppermint 'future export trade. The soy -bean is more candy, cake, pie, [several novels, a ring, expensive than dhal, but it is much more nutritious. About 1868 the first steameaunch ap peered on the upper Thames, There are more than six hunched slice vessele now aeed as habitations ors the upper river. Moat of these contain an average of six or more residente, , IL is said that goldnlust is the only cur- rency used at 13oure ; and this is the only couutry in the interior of Africa where gold is eo used; being kept and carried e.bout in quills. All the traders aro provided with small salee made in the country, which are remarktibly accurate, The needs rsf a tree are used for weights. When a' Chinamen meets another, he . ehaltes and squeezes his own hands and ) covers his head. If great friends have not seen each other for a long time, after the mutual hand -shaking they will tub shoulders Instil they become tired. Inset:ad of asking after each other's health they say, " Have you eaten your rice? SVhere are yon goinee e What is your busizess when you et there ? How old are you t how much id you pay for yieur shoe?" In the last century there were as many as twenty-two fliut-glaee manufactories in , re - laud. At the beginuiug of the ureseut can tury there wore fifteem Of these, thirteen lived to well within the century. There now remains only one. The factoriee a.t Waterford, Cork end Newry ueed to turn out goods of the very finest quality. Old Irish cut -glass ia ezsgerly bought up by col- lectors. A Waterford decanter will uow, it is said, fetch treble the price of the best English crystal. The earliest foreshadowing of the device which appeeas upon the union flag and the union jack is to be found in the old national banner of Si. George, a red cross in a white field. With this flag of St. George the Soottiebil ag of St. Andrew- a white crux aeoussata upon a blue ground—was incor- porated soon after the union of the crowns of the two kingdoms in 1603. The naval flag of the Commonwealth, as the flag of l'arliamene, had no Scottish device upon it, but Was a red flag, with the arms of Eng- land and Ireland in two escutcheons "with - 18 a compartment or ; " and this was in use until 1660, wheu the union flag was restored and the Duke of York ordered that it should be carried only by the king's ships. It is a COMmOn error, to say that rice is the staple food of the people of India. It is the staple of perhaps eighty or ninety mil- lions out of the two hundred and fifty-three millions of inhabitants. Millets and pulses, with a little rice, wheat, or maize as luxuries are the food -stuffs of the great, bulk of the people of India. Even the rice - eaters rarely eat rice alone. The muscle - boating, somebody's nose, fishing, a certain dance, several girls, the country, dress but- tons, a certain color, somebody's fingernails, postage stamps, a certain perfume a prepa- don for the hair, roase beef, oysters, lob- ster, soraebody's shoes, somebody's ring, a parfor-car, a locomotive, somebody's smile, house furnace coal the White Mountains. Australian Gold -Digging in the Old Days. Here, in the nerrow valley, between densely thnbered ranges, there was a scene difficult to picture to an English reader. Rough huts of bark and timber, tents, and shanties were perched on spurs of the ranges, hidden away in gullies, or oil ed A Bea Telephone. together on the flats, with the yellow er At Fernbank, ten miles from Cincinnati dashing down between them in race and city, are the workshop and laboratory of ditch to the claims. Swiftly were the Harvey B. Cox, a young electrician, who, banks and gullies being sluiced away and though known by few, is attracting the at- guttered and channelled with head -races tention of scientists and electricians in this and. tail -races; every ravine and water - country and Europe by his inventions, in course was being filled up with mud and which he is as prolific and ingenious gravel, and the fair product face of Nature as Edison. His latest device is a trumpet to spoiled and ruined for a few handfuls of be used for telephoning at sea, on which he glittering dust. But if the scene was has been working for some months. The strange, still stranger was the society. The invention is the outgrowth of his discovery grater portion of the old diggers, as I knew of the great distance an echoed or reverber- them, were Englishmea, of every class and ated sound will carry and the discovery profession, all trades, and no trade; gentle - that speaking trumpets, if made to give the men of broken fortunes, tradesmen who had same fundamental note, would vibrate and failed at home, convicts, runaway sailors, produce the phenomenon known in acoustics bronzed veterans from the Sikh wars, as "sympathy.".'With this trumpet con- younger sons, ne'er-do-wells whose friends, versation in an ordinary tone of voice was gave them a benison for going. away, carried on between persons four and a quer- whalers, doctors, artisans, ship stewards, ter miles apart. People sitting at their young fellows fresh from college, and windows or on their porches a nine away fellows who had fought at Waterloo. Such conversing ha an ordinary tone could be a motley crowd of men of action had never distinctly heard, and in a couple of instances been gathered into one spot out of the rough they were told the nature of their conver- jostle and scramble of Old World life before. sation and admitted that such had taken Here they were, with a purpose common to place. By listening to the whistle of a train, them all, unit to tho heart with the auri and tracing it to and beyond Fernbank to sacra fames, labouring like dragons and Lawrenceburg, Ind., it was found that the calling no man master. They drank, stied instrument has h well-defined range of gambled, and swore, played at skittles with twenty-six miles; that is, a loud sound like , dozens of champagne, lit pipes with bank- & locomotive whistle or the rumbling of a notes, and in many a strange and madcap train can be distinctly heard at a distance of fashion snatched fearful joys. "Easily got, thirteen miles in every direction. Conver- easily gone," seemed to be written across satiou was readily carried on between two the reckless, spendthrift lir-es swallowed up gentlemen on high hills on opposite sides of uselessly between work and waste. the Ohio River, about four and one half miles apart. Tests made on the water Nobles and Tenants. showed that the trumpet was even more available than on /and. The instrument Massillon the great French pulpit orator will be patented as goon as perfected. A in one of his great sermons preached before' name has not yet been chosen for it. Mr. Dena teeten and his courtiers denowiceg in Cox has a great many other curious and burning language the conduct' of the nobles valuable devices, both electrical and meehan. to their tenants and dependents—" Do any Mal, but none as curious as his sea lep ione t,e I • cares for the tondition of your poor take up 46. your thoughts when you appear on your , estates end examine the condition of your Takes the Cake. 'property ? Ah, you come only to exact with and dome into town regularly every day to (sometimes vomiting) coating of the tongue Said a Pr'pf ess s er the ogle]. lonal rhym t barbarous rigor what you call your dues transact their business. j an unpleasant taste, headache, and a gegeral ay— from these poor wretches ; to tear from I A project is on foot, if it has not been sense of ailing (malctin). j " Thep e is cne word for which no allow- their very bowels the mere pricer of their a.ctually adopted, to 'prevent ru the Jews These may have been preceded by a feel- able rhyme has ever been found, the word toil without tho slightest regard for their 4 • 1 •3 outside of the towns or settlements among ' Sometimes in persons inclined that A sknart b'iker heard. the remark, and 'you often plead t f s in the provincee of Poland from residinlinibs g ing of fatigue, and eching in the back and said -- wins ow. the peasants and to restrict their aequisition •c•i? az, the headache becomes what is known iy alnisgiving, or for their tears asp misery, for the hardness ef the times which o us as an excuse or ssop- produce a perfect their espeirs. What seals say Per- hapscit and possession of property in the rural dis- as sick headache." "1,11 untl,ert.ake to, tricts of the Vistula provinces As to treatment,f edi d aside ram m c ne an .c rhyme for window, and will uafer, thess, you come to opprees their weakne tonics which should be perscribed by a doe- Price of a gingercake that I can do in ten to be their tyrant, not their lord and waved her head as a sigrt for him to go on, ratiou by whirli this eontinent is being hawks and hoancls. e t laf baker • wait es little. and sat still and upright before him. flooded witb foreigners is the feet that trimly ' A citizen of Providence, R. 1,, makes many tigue, and undue mental exertion and anxie- i In nine minutes he recited the followinr •• i , • , 3/ "You asked me a iew minutes ago to tell of the latter twine With no intention of re- , a dollar by catching bats which he sells to ty ; when they oorne on, abstinence froth "I'm afraid- I5 re mane ny dough too you the priee that I require for keepieg this mottling, The Chinese antotg us, it is well , taxidermist% for fiftyeen-s e dangerous seeret of yours. I will tell you— aPieee• He food is desirable, with rest in the recumbent Said Jack, as he shied. his lump at the and remember it is the only price I will take. der of eheir lives on this continent, but hope ;horsewhip, and on elle hook he fa.etees a posture, and perfect quiet." window ; known, have no idea of spending the remain- j futons a fish hook to the end of a long The writer in Reyuold's System of Medi, 81. Jill, "If Yan want to make it stick It is yourself I I love you, I am marl when , to reture hoine as soon as they have gathered. ; moth miller. Then, standing neer an elec. cine saye, " In the Milder forms, a tolerably 1 think of every contereptuoue word, every sufficient wealth to enable them to live at i tric light in the evening he waves the whip complete ensednet1o3 from food for four -and. You nmet Ilse the very thinnest of thin (lough." all at mice crumbling to tint, ancient and Etcornfill look you have given ine, hyacinth ease es their owe rand. The same thing is ' until one of the many bate which are hunt- 1 twenay houre 'will feequently do tench to. " That takes the cake," faietly w hisperecl formerly distinguished names fallen into will you be my wife ?" i • true of many th of e Italians and Hungarians ' ing the insects that fly around the lieffCt' Te ght . war. C ing a c r d ‘ u e his abstinence e, the poet. obseerity and drhgeing before the public . . e able to contempleee her terrible eorition, and Canada. United States Consul Stern, Thomas Whitson, a, 8Wi100MEM in the so essential to the cure. After this rest, Buy at a (hag gore one ounce of camphor- former grandeur, While their lando haste and knowing that Ilanebton wee in diffieul. of Buda Peeth says that the majoeity of the railroad. yard in Jeffersoin Ky., eves recent. light farinaceous puddings may be alloveed, ated oil, end five cents worth of , hlorate of become the property of their rivals o,r their elaves 1" And 80 on. 3,Vhen such latignage was used the French nobles were in all their glory. They did not hear end obey the warning, and itt due time the fined of the which aro drying up the very existence of families, and withering up the very root of haugh posterity? Which are bringing on domestic quarrels, disgraceful ricandele, the deeper and utter 1010 of great houses / Alas 1 people are sOmetimes surprised to see the most firmly established fortunes She had recovered herself eufficieritly to be who ere now flocking to the United Stetes 'grabs the millar, "4 then i?e Yanks bine cures for the stomach that #.691 of the organ eYe, Only the miserable wrecks of their ties, she thought that he was Merely driving latter are Slevacke, who do not come to the hardest possible bargain with her. Of America to becerne citizens, their only aim course he did not really expeet her to marry being to accumulate a fortune and then re - hint —no, She resolved to offer him fiVe i turn. This they nsuelly do in about three ly running along the track ahead of several , followed by a eatitione return to a more ears which were being pushed by a Leconte- nourishing diet." tive, and which he was about to couple to The too cOMM011 practice of people who other care. While thus running, One foot fancy that they are " bilious" of dosing thousand pounds down, and five hundred a years, which le explained by the fact that eaught between a gtusrd rail and the mein themSelvee with cathartics, to " clear out year to bong as het secret was kept Per , seek a fortune is only abeute$500 and not veil arid before he could. poseibly extricate the system," should. be diseoureged. In tide she evorild demand the contents of the more than $0t0. One of them recently it he was overteken by the cars and crushed most cages nature will cute the patient if pocket -book, and such a plan, drawing, or stated that he had been in the United Statee to death, I he will give her e chance, potash. Whenever any soreness ,tppears 10 the throat, put the potash in half a tumbler of water, and with ie gargle the throat thoroughly, then rub the neck thormighly with the camph prated oil at night before revolutien earn.° and ewept them or their ' going to bed, and also &tee amend the Property away. Things Ate noee not eo bad, throat a small trip of Woolen flannel but too Many teed lie lesSon till, and at Ilia is a simple, cheap mid euro remedy. present far more in Britain han France. •