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The Brussels Post, 1905-9-14, Page 3CURRENT TOPICS There is always more or less spec- ulation as to the permanence of yen - temporary fiction, and we note that Professor Shaper Mathews has rec- ently expressed the opinion that many of the novels now being turned out will be lasting. What shall we take as a basis for a judgment? Mere popularity is, of course, not a proof of oxcellunce, But excellent books may bo popular, as "David Copperficld" certainly was. We have read an old literary judgment, how- ever, to the effect that ono of Charles ]-4ever's stories was worth all that Dickens ever wrote, And if Dickens's sales were large, "The Wide Wide World" is said to have sold 500,000 copies between 1050 and 1860, and "Qneeelny," by the same author, Susan Warner, was in great demand also. There 15, more- over, still enough interest in these books to keep than going. Popu- larity and to a considerable extent the test of time are both favorable to them, Nevertheless it is probable that "David Copperlleld" will bo read when "The Wide, Wide World" is forgotten; and it is probable, also, that the latter work will not last as long as "Vanity Fair" or "Adam Bede." In instituting comparisons general references to authors aro not very helphd, but something is to be learned by pitting book i+gainst book. Theta are critics who say that 'Phomas Hardy is the greatest of tho living writers of English fic- tion and that "The Return of the Native" is his greatest story. This, moreover, is unquestionably a book of exceptional worth. But people will hardly recur to it as they do to such an inexhaustible mind of hu- mor and pathos as "Copperfield."_ 4}0$04-04-0$0$Q4.0.4- OE 0 again, waribu•+utangl" as the mate of. «,,at,� �,,s asete,.ff'ea,aue :«see.a,,»qtq,y the dealt and the body bent, the There is a bigness about some of the old books that does not consist in bulk alone, although their size is often ridiculed, It is a bigness, we may say, in quality, and has the effect of the sum total of the attri- butes of a man which makes us call him big. 'You aro impressed with their extraordinary scope and power, the assured touch of the writer, his apparently easy command of his ma- terial. Scott and Dickens squander- ed matter that most authors would husband carefully. But such fertil- ity of genius is rare in any age, and this leads us to think that the ques- tion of moderns and ancients is cer- tainly much too complex to admit of any sweeping condemnation of our own times. Though the big modern author does not seem to be looming up at present he may ap- pear almost any day, and perhaps some of our workers in miniature are gaining an immortality like Miss Austen's. Trllflflillp wil8 Deasis -0+0404-0÷0+0+-04-04-04-0+0+ Charles Mayer, trapper for the King' of Slain, has written an inter- esting article on bis busittosa, in which ho aayat If we were asked why we adopted the profession we have chosen in tree "Rio worm within about 3, to four formica to all others 1 doubt not miles of the 1t'ajn, with tho herd go- rnost of tis would find it a rjuestimr I ing so well that 1 was in hopes of difficult to answer, and 1 San only I seeing them in the trap the next explain evening, when toivuu'd midnight the o trapping t 6 lg g it p dreaded accident took Pince. The elephants had got wind of us; pessi- alts fallen fee came into the clearing, •. - - spine le much twisted. The left TRAPPING ELEPHANTS. ?: ribs are lowered until they touch Elephant trapping pays well when t 1 the business is rightly managed, but 1 Pince, the heart., trtrleet, liver, and iL stampedes wcolcs of work mrY be A9 4� «;.y.0.tf,..,.yhr«w,se eriy;: other organs are pressed upon, and thrown away, with the possible loss to add to the evil, the nook is also of two or three lives. Where It 000 Cli1LONIC 11u1J:TJ.YtA'1'ISM• twisted, squeezing the blood -vessels be arranged the better plan is to 411(1 causing congestion of the brain. work with, a tame oephent, which The term rhou)uatistn has been, acts as a decoy to :seduce the herd La and 1a even yet, so loosely employed Obviously no fmuition can bo proper- enter tho stockade, but this i$ often not only by the general public. but lY Arrtumed in :hose eircumslanues, impossible, and was so on tate first by Physicians themselves, that it is and Incurable dyaprpsla is a certain occasion 1. trent hunting in the little impossible to determine just what result.. known and unexplored state of is meant by it. But the greatest number of evils 'l'ringgaur, in the Malay peninsula. Almost. any painful alTnction of the we wort. on ourselves are produced rmiscles of joints, whcitit' acute or by faulty�artidrrs et nb••tsno 'Phis chronic, is popularly termed rheuma- tism. hoe been wt+:stat othin so mush A °Int' "'I's have nothing ucw• to tism, iseasenly two or three dis- say upon the 111111 ler, cacept, per - 'a, haps, with regard to the waterproof are thns confused, but there seems soot.. And although that. is nut of to bo 01111 painful affection 01 muscles season juef now, Ib may bo puiniod anis Joints, chronic, in charaetet• and out iltat the man tvlio Weera a wat- not peodttring distortion of rho erproof cont while Walking or c'. cl- nhnbs, which is distinct from the gy other rheumatic troubles, and wnich ht; 1jep. is the caki'tt 1 1,1)):T° ae is called chronic rheumatism. le in th. ainc+n os tans?s j1 ar. The trouble may come on after is in the. same position its if he had 0011 0!• several . previous attacks of put on very damp clothes, and this aceta inflammatory rheumntistn, the et n thbtong no one would be senseless Inst or these never entirely disap- enough Lo dn, nearing. More or less pail, stiffness and swelling persist in one or more of the joints, or the disease may FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND come gradually without any preced- ing acute attack. This is the more NOTES OF INTFF.EST FROM common way. fromthis PIER BAN1CS AHD BRAES. A tendency to suffer h form of rheumatism seems ,tot in- frequently to be inherited, for IL is What is Going an in the Nigh- frequently to run in ramtiies, Exposure lands and Lowlands of to cold aid wet is a comntott cause Auld Se rtia. of the disease. Only one, o• at Leith proposes borrowing menet' to most two or three, joints are usually construct a new gravingclock. affected, rind the changes in these are not vett' noticeable. The chief It is said that the government is purchasing land near the I•ylcs of Bfor military purposes. ALTII the edge of the hip -bone. Cense- gunntly the stomach and intestines t0111 compressed and moved out of if the hoed that is being trapped that ]: took to the bus 'less 1' ring h ante because a - Peered to offer a life of adventure not altogether disassociated with . b1,V a baby ulephnnt, had seen one of pleasure nor devoid of profit. Since thn ern and with true rrt.in •s land I made mychoice eighteen ears ago t b y ianl feeq the lot tuned and stam- peded, crashing through the jungle like a hurricane and clearing every- thing in their way. I had just time to jump behind a tree—in fact, 1 was almost thrown there—away from a big bull elephant. He missed Inc, but unfortunately ceug'ht the native who had officiated at the ceremony of blessing the trap, grasping his body with his trunk, Placing one foot on the poor fellow's chest, he literally tore hitt( in halves, splashing me with his blood, A moment later he had another man in his trunk and dashed hint to death against the tree he was trying to reach for shelter. I have Pursued arty calling mostly m the Malay archipelago, with Occa- sional expeditions in China, India, Slam and South America. Tho risk the trapper is called upon to run does not end with the caging of the quarry. 'Prue, the actual peril of the hunt is at an end, but he has yet to get his merchandise to market or to the purchaser, which is not always a matter of ease. The varia- tions of climate the animals encoun- ter during a voyage and their liabil- ity to succumb under unfavorable conditions snake it imperative that no chance of transportation shall be lost during the favorable seasuns. REASONS FOR HIGH PRICES. The obvious remedy against loss, both at the port and on the sea, would be Insurance, but it is a car- go that nu insurance company will take risks on. Consequently, the best thing to do is personally to interview the captain and give him an interest in the selling value of tho cargo—say, of a third or a half. This may seem a lot to give away, but it is wiser to pocket a reduced profit than sustain a total loss, + GERMANY'S COSTLY WAR. The Hottentots Are Showing No Signs of Giving 'Up, Efforts are being made t.hrough- ont the German empire to bring pressure to boar of the Government to surmnon. the Reichstag Inc an early autumn session. The chief matter regarding which the nation wants information is the condition of alTairs in South -Western Africa. Although operations have now been carried 011 101' eighteen months and tL constant drain of men and money has been leaving Germany for this protectorate, the end of the war is not yet within sight, both the Her - eros and the Hottentot tribes bong apparently able to carry of their gorrilla tactics for anothor eighteen months. , Various estimates have been made as to the cost of the expedition so tar, 501110 anthoritics putting it as high as $50,000,000., It is suggest- ed in influential quarters that the Reichstag should bo given en op- portunity of discussing the entire position with tho object of showing the Government that seine sort of an honorable peace is better than this continuous drain on the re- sources of the cotmtry. Feeling is all the more bitter on the subject htasnmch as it itt well known :hitt the greater part of South -Western Africa le nothing bet- ter than a hopeless desert. STAGGERING FYGURRS. lVLail Matter Going Through Bri- tain's Post -Office, Figures only to be described as eLagg'erhrg aro dealt ivith in 0 re- turn that has JusL boon- issued by the Postal Union for the year 1003, and the mind fails to realize what h5 contained in the statement, that in that period of twelve months 2,- 507,000,000 of letters were posted in Great Britain. The correspond- ence of all other countries is, of 00(11; 0, tabulated, In regard to postcards Germany hearts the list, with '1,id1.,000,000, to be followed by the United States with 770,050,- 000 of such miesitc.5. Great Tlritnin taking the third place wi(h 613,000,- 0(11). 'Tint., however, is e Striking total, and is a good cvldeeee of tho 00pu111ridy of the picture card, wh1111, of course, has becu a largely et Ill ribs Ling factor le the vast mass. Germany, it is interesting to nota, Itis tho fnurlh place in the world's enplovment �f postcards and used about 487,50ti1.!�00 diu'hrg the Sallie Ironed, It is because of such difficulties as these and of the personal danger run by the trapper that the prices of hig game for livo delivery run high. Tigers aro worth anything from £50 to £100, leopards from £50 to £80, elephants from £100 to 5%200, while a rhinoceros or a giraffe tops the list as profitable bags, selling at from £800 to £1,000 each. Lions, then tries to withdraw his bulging however, are a drug on the market fist. This is impossible, but lie and worth comparatively nothhng, be- would rather be captured than relin- ing such good breeders in captivity; quish the tasty morsel, and lie ac - nor is there much stoney in bears. cordingly is. Snakes are a good line, when they But it is no use trying this game run to any size. 'I'he largest I ever with an o'ang-outang—which is as- hes] the good fortune to handle was cured] the artfulcst and most diilt- a 32 -foot P3thon.and sold for handle. of all beasts to capture—for And there is the advantage about there is no sort of trap which he can IIIG CAPTURE OF ANIMALS. When torches were lighted and the men collected we 1ountl twelve had been dashed' or trampled to death, and the whole thing occurred in much shorter time than it takes to relate. But seven clays later, having reor- ganized safely in the trap, including a rarity in the way of a youngster with five toes on each foot, which passed into the possession of the maharajah of Mysore, Small monkeys are easy to catch; they can be caught with birdlime or n bottle, and by means of the latter I bave captured hundreds. The bot- tle must not be too wide in the neck and it must be hafted inside with sweotstuil or a damp rag sweetened with sugar; then it is fastened by a string to a tree. Tho monkey cones along, scents the sweetmeat and promptly inserts his hand in the bottle. Tie gets a handful of bait, these reptiles—they can be stuffed with sufficient food to last for months, and, being fed ere shipped, wtil travel in a state of coma, giv- ing 110 trouble during the voyage. DANGERS ENCOUNTERED. Hunting big game to capture is, I need hardly point out, a far more dangerous business than hunting merely to kill, and when on the trail ono can not be too cautious. Cer- tainly one of the closest 1 over had was clue to no negligence on my part or on the part of my attendants. t had got news that a couple of rhin- oee'oses worn i n the neighborhood, strong erns came through the net, and as I had an order for a pair I gripping my shit as In a vise. I started out with eighteen Malay grasped a tree in an effort to pro - coolies to track and trap them. We veutf him dragging me to the not, whore my life would not have been worth a moment's purchase, but my a11115 were almost torn from any body in an instant, and the next I a spot suitable for the furtherance had released my hold and was being of these operations, and were pros- dragged, as I thought, to my death. Ilentarking my peril, two men pectins around, when, suddenly my dashed to my aid, beating the gun bearer, who always walked just orang-outang's arm with their sticks, behind me, Siad Orihu-utang!" With a twist of his wrist he cracked toy shinbone like a dry stick and bent my foot until the bone pierced out through the flesh. Luckily he released his hold on rte, but as he did so he caught one of the men who had cotlte to my assistance, pulled him to the net and tore his face clean away, the man dropping 'dead. In the same moment he clutched the other roan with both hands, tore his throat open, strangled him and broke his neck. Meanwhile, the female had crushed if it .trees it, it will wait around the the life out of another man, besides Never - tree till its prey either comes down badly wounding two others. Never - to fight or falls exhausted from hun- thclesa, I had the satisfaction of get', It stands five feet from the capturing the murderous pair, but shoulder, weighs from 1# to Y tons spent a mentis on my back and carry - and moves with the speed of a horse, Ng evidence of the terrible struggle Its horns spread from threw to foto' and my narrowest escape from what font, pointed as spears, but Its short - scarred certain _death in a beautifully scarred shin, bo enticed into, and it he walked into one he would got out again, though its bars were of steel. The orang- outang is as strong as any "dozen riot and will bend a steel bar as easily as a man bends a match. FIGIDT WITH ORANG-OUTANGS. In execution of an order I located a couple of orang-outangs, mato and female, in their tree and ntatle pre- parations for their capture tin the lines I have described. All went well until the nets were over the brutes, but I did not get quickl3 enough away from the male. Els long, were soon of their' trail, and, after following it far a couple of clays, came to a spot which I judged emi- nently suitable to lay the trap, Wo had atrivecl, as I have said, et dropped the rife and, followed by the others, bolted for the 'nearest tree, Now, the Malays are among the bravest of the earth, and will face any dnimal at any hour of the day or night—with one exeeption— that is, the sladong, or wild buffalo, and certainly their fear is well 10011l - ed, for it is the most ferocious brute I have ever encountered. It is a murderous beast, too, of malice aforethought, for not only does it at. tack on sight, but it will pick up the scent and track its quarry, while neck prevents it using them on any object that is lying 011 the ground, otherwise I altooid never be • telling this story, HUNTING, WILD BUFFALO, Evan as I hoard my gun bearer shout sladong, in his native tongue, and hoard my risen flee, I saw, too, the huge beast bcaring,down upon me like a whirlwind and for the moment I was too paralyzed to move, the next I realized my danger and as the buffalo charged gave it the benefit of three bullets from my revolver, throwing myself at the same Limo on one side. The speed apt which the slaciong was going carried it past me, but ns I slipped any foot caught in a root and I fell, twisting my ankle badly. In that seeottl I thorght my tuna had surely come, for I. saw the animal turd and bear down upon me again with a foal' of po.in (tad rage. In any left hand I was carrying my pivang—a long, broad, keen -bladed knife that I used to Cut uty way through the, jungle-- and ingle— and with it slashed out wildly at the boast when it 0111110 within reach, cutting its knees to the bone and severing tho leaders, it lurched and fall aeross..my legs, triad to rise, but failed, On seeing the sla.dong fall Iver treed Coolies came down and ono put a bullet into the animal's brain. I was side with pain when they lugged ire out from beneath its corpse and, h k- • k k thank- ed T ankle, a bad'a broken a though ! ell my 1101cy star t wile still alive, Than ' slit/dimly the cry wont up GERMAN SUICIDES. Steadily Increasing Both Among Men and Women. Some curious statistics relating to suicides have just been published by the Government Statistical Depart- ment at Berlin. From these states- -00s it appears.tltat during the post few years the number of suicides has been steadily increasing, both among men and women, although so far the men exceed the women in the propor- tion of foul' to one. The report shows that suicicles among school children are largely increasing, es- pecially just berme and after examination. In one year 69 Child- ren tinder 15 years of age tools their symptoms aro pain, especially on at- etcimnpted molter, anti stillness of the At Ayr it is proposed to have a joint, Pressure, particularly at ccr- Corporation bowling green at the thin points, also causes pain. Some north end of Newton Public Park, times manipulation of the joint will Provost Mathieson, Iunerlekthen, give rise to a grating noise or crack- has received from Mr, ;Aucleew Carno- ing, !'here may be some swelling of gio £69 for library purposes. the affected joint, but this is seldom Owing to tha long drought the very marked, and it is sometimes river Forth has not been so low for only simulated by a toasting of the years as it is at present at Stirling. surrounding muscles. The Carnegie Trustees have agreed If proper treatment is not prompt to pay the class fees of Scottish and persistent there is danger of students attending university Vaca - fibrous adhesions forming which re- sult in a permanently stiffened joint, or one which can be loosened only by an operation of more or less gravi ty. A strange peculiarity of chronic rheumatism in its early stages be- fore adheslone have formed, is that although pain is at first increased by notion, both pain and stiffness may be rade to disappear by per- sistent and methodical movements of the ,joint. This indicates one of the best. modes of treatment, name- ly, massage and passive motion., Sometimes much relief is obtained by exposing the joint to a very high temperature In an apparatus devised for the purpose. 1 -rot baths, electri- city, blistering and painting with iodirr are also of value. Drugs are of limited service in most cases. Re- sidence in a warm, dry climate is often curative.—Youth's Companion. 'CEALTH LAWS WE BREAK. It is rather curious that many of the ills which make life a wretched affair are caused by our own daily actions. Sitting on chairs, for in- stance, is "the cause of nearly all our evils in regard to the spine," according to Dr. Noble Smith, a surgeon of repute. It would sur- prise the layman to know how many men, women, and children who pass muster in the street or the dancing - room sutler from deformity of the spine. They aro the surgeon's hest customers. Ansi if Dr. Smith is right, we ought to abolish chairs and introduce the ancient fashion of reclining or mats. Dr. Cowers, one of the greatest authorities on diseases of the nerv- ous system, brings another charge against chairs, If one habitually sits on a Bard chair, he says, the pressure of tate edge is likely to give rise to sciatica. This is worth re- menbering, for there must be thou- sands of people who spend large sums trying to cure their sciatica while they are all the time adding fuel to it by sitting on hard -edged chairs. This same disease, as well as the still more painful one of lumbago, aro caused by other every -clay hab- its. In hot weather people sit, without thought of the conseeq)lences, on thus gimes, the sands, and, worst of all, on rocks. Perhaps they es- cape. for the time; but as soon as the first touch of winter Comes the lumbago and sciatica make their appearance. Then in the morning bath we have the seeds of rheumatism, Sooner or later this daily chilling of the feet produces that inflammatory con- dition of the joint Cartilages which results in crippling rheumatism. A simple precaution is to use a cork mat or a piece of wood for standing on in the bath. A. block that would raise tie feet out of the water is better still• Perhaps i.ho inventor of oilcloth has been the greatest enemy of those Predisposed to rheumatism, Even when wearing thick boots, if you stand much on oilcloth you can scarcely escape rheumatism in the feet, If you cannot afford carpets, stain the. (hoer, and you will bo say - eel nnrclt su0'rrring lives, The 119'0 when most suicicles Mast. ,people 11la100 themselves ill o0eue among men is between 50 and ort Huntley. At least, a =Jar -1W00, and among women between e0 01.0 not ;hu such good form on Mon- day morning as on other clays of tho week. This fact has been ex- plained by suggesting that people and 80, Most suicides 00011. in the spring, arcs fewest in December. In nine -tenths of the cases tho =- teas estop -Led aro drowning, hanging, eat too much and take too little ex - and shooting. There aro compare- oicisa of ho Sablralh, But probab- tfvely fav instances of tiro use of Iy the chief oan50 is closed doors poison, which Is the means choses, and wjnclows. On Sundays the by women. Women, says rho doors nee closed, and too Often, the Windows also, fleece the Sunday night dulness and IVtonelay morning below par condition. Doctors find those dyspeptic pa - Wide who are elgaged in book» keeping and other desk -Work almost incurable. The reason to that the most, un tit siolo- i triode 'le c v writing a,i urgedsuicide u � f w•ut1 1 . them aro a go to st at o Foca so o g fm'egleited aflaction, giene, With the loft arm resting on report, shote an inevitable dislike to select any mode of death which might cldtlgul'o their faces. Among men it is need or pecuniary otubarrassmont which drives most to tako their own lives, This fact also plays an important part with wom- en, Steen body, of t it addition a on b but 5 all y HOW PERFUME IS MADE DESCRIPTION or A GREAT FRENCH INDUSTRY, Processes by Which Tons of I3lossoens Give 'Up Their Odors. In the southern part of France, which borders on the Mediterranean and extends between the Alps and the phone, the culture of flowers has developed into a great industry for the manufnt•ture of perfumes. "In thn department of the Alpes-Maritmes the perfumery industry has probably made greater strides than in any oilier portion of France," says M. Georges Cayes in the Monde Moderne of Paris."Here aro more than sixty factories, the total product of which is valued at inure than four million dollars per year, and over over fifteen hundred persons are con- stantly employed, without counting the multitude of harvest hands. The more important harvests are those of the rose, 4,000,1100 pounds, the orange flower 0,000,000 pounds, the violet (100,000 pounds, the jasmine 1,200,000 pounds, the tuberose 300, 000 lbs., the geranium 70,000 lbs., and the cassia 300,000 pounds. If we consider the fact that all these flowers are weigheci without their stems it is evident that the quantity is enormous, and this fact will be still better appreciate(] when we say that in order to obtain two Pounds of rose loaves no less titan a thou- sand flowers required, while a thou- sand bunches of violets, each with a diameter of more than a foot, furn- ish only forty pounds of flowers." MTt:TI30D 0.1+' DISTILLATION. Flowers all go through a prelim- inary treatment of being placed in a cold room, and plants such as lavender, thyme, spike, mint, toots such as orris, fruits and woods, are passed through cutting and macer- ating machines. After this has been done the perfume is extracted, the principal methods being distillation. maceration, enfleurage and by the use of dissolvents. DissLillatton is only employed when the perfurne is not injured by beat or steam, In (fan courses. this case the flowers and water are Quite a number of seals were oil- put in a great alembic: and heated, served off Dunbar recently. One of Atter the water begins to boil fC dis- them was seen to have a salmon in organizes the vegetable cells con - its mouth. The late Sir John Neilson Cuth- bertson has left a year's wages to each of his emp]yees who have had three or more years' sem ice. Miss Lizzie :Lamb, who (von the tabling the perfume, and this is car- ried by the steam through the worm and condensed. There is thus ob- tained a mixture of water and per- fume and it is merely necessary now to separate the two. The Process girls' dux .medal of Strant•ae' Aca- a distillation, however, has the denny the other clay, was the third great disadvantage of frequently al - member of the family to merit that tering the perfumes obtained, and, distinction, therefore, when it is desired to ob- tain finer extracts recourse must be had to other methods. BOILING IN FAT. For maceration the flowers are mous rhubard Rant in the garden of thrown into a mass of fat melted 112x. J. Nickson, 1t has ae stalk of and raised to a temperature of 65 10 inches iu girth, and the leaf meas- d@grecs centigrade, and completely ores 17 feet 0 inches in circumfer' submerged, after several hours the arcaperfume being incorporated with the At, no time during the past ten fat. The mess is then strained to years has the storage of water in the get rid of the Powers, after which Edinburgh reservoirs been so low as; the latter are soaked in boiling wa- nt the present time. The civaUtity ter and compressed hydraulically. In of water at the present date is 509; this way all of the perfume is ex - 000,000 gallons less than at the cor- responding elate in 1004, The threa- tonech wal.an famine is by no means improbable. Glasgow Corporation, following the example of Huddersfield, has agreed read or the glass and the flowers that the enesieitl officer of health be : spread ered to give fee of a shilling' are placed in direct contact with the forempoweach birth repoarted to him with-! fat, At the ctid of a certain time, in forty-eight hours, in certain clfs- which varies with the flowers, the tricts of tiro city. As soon es the perfume is absorbed by the fat, af- notification is received a woman san- 1 ter which tite flowers are renewed un- itary inspector will visit the parents til the pomade is of the desired and instruct thein 1n the care of tie Anthrax has broken out on the farm of Da.nshot, near Pollokshaws, where a herd of cattle is being gray ed. Eight cows have already suc- cumbed to the disease Caulkerbush is booming an tutor- tracted, In the etfucragc method frames aro used, the bottoms of which aro glass. The frames are placed one above the other, small space being left between the glass plates. The fatty substance is infant, Tho Marquis of Linlithgow, Secte- tart' for Scotland, ]las received a A third method is that of volatile memorial from trawl owners in the Scottish ports urging that, inter dissolvents. In general the dissol- alia, the territorial waters of the vent employed i5 an ether of refined Moray It'irth should be open to Bit- Pttrpleum. Tho ePPatate used aro ish as wall as to foreign trawlers.of different forms, bunt they must all The memorial is signed by the repro- contain an extractor, into which the placed cold with the seltatives of 280 boats, with 2,500 powers ate men amployoil"at;. sea, an approxi- dissolvent, a dectutter where the wa- mato capital of .212,000, and afford - ter contained in the flowers is separ- ated from the mixture, a distilling alembic which forces the dissolvent back through the flowers, and a cer- tain number of reservoirs in which the dissolvent is kept, in a pure state or charged with perfume. The dissolvent after being charged with the perfume evapo'at.es and leaves behind the essential oil. This meth- od is by far the best. In the single department of the Alpee-Maritimes rho animal produet.ioe is 8(10,000 strength. DISSOLVING ODORS. ing employment of shore to 25,000 mat and women. When it comes to having good opinions of themselves most people overdo the thing. By violent brushing of the teeth we ruin our gums and produces decay of the teeth; by leaving a little moisture in the ears after washing we cause neuralgia; by drinking too freely in hot weather we paralyze the stomach. peace SOMEMIXEU METAPHORES ORATORICAL BREAKS NO'D CONFINED TO PARLIAMENT, Declamations That Went to thet Bad --Footprints of the seen ,Hand.. When an horablo member, crosse questioning the Attorney -General foxy Ireland in (ho British. House of Com- mons the other day, announced hit intention of putting another ques- tion "which distinctly arises, Int',. Speaker, out of the 0115we' which the right hon. gentleman has not given, he was merely following in the oratorical footsteps of many a famous legislator who has "opened his mouth only to put his foot in lt,' Iiut the House of Comrmone is far. from having a monopoly of those verbal eccentricities, and you will find "bulls" as fine and plentiful outside Parliament as Wostminstee eau show. A member of the Queensland Leg- islature once solemnly warned 'tbo House that "they would keep cutting the wool off the sheep that laid the golden egg until they punlped le dry"; but this performance was feeble compared with that of a rival West Australian law -maker who thus delivered himself: "Spurious vulgar fosslldotn secretly urges mem- bers to oppose this non-party meas- ure. History shows that the same kind of ruptured -brained vultures sit owl -like on the dying limb of the tree of reason, and by hooting and screeching attempt to impede the progress of every great representa- tive of reform who climbs to the topmost peaks of the imperishable tree of indestructible democratic knowledge:" IRISil OBITUARY. The London Times, in its obituary notice of Baron Dowse, the Irish judge, said: "A. great Irishman has passed away. God grant that many of the great men who wisely love • their country may follow him"; and the Irish Times, not to be outdone; wrote thus on landslips some time ago: "To find the solid earth rock beneath his feet, to have his natural foothold on the globe's surface swept so to speak, out of his grasp, is, to the stoutest heart of man, terrifying in the extreme." The intention of a certain orator who, at a municipal banquet, paid bis tribute to the late Mr. Glad- stone was admirable; but this is what he actually said: "It was my privilege once to hear him speak. and I shall never forget the glorious oration. A shining whirlwind of words seemed to pour from his lips like a smooth -flowing stream, that. I tell you, actually flamed from his mouth in a fiery speech that seemed painted before our mental eyes by tho Angers of a skilful magician." EVEN IN DICTIONARIES. It was at a meeting of the Solici- tors' Apprentices' Debating Society in Dublin that Sir Thomas Myles,, President of the Irish College of Sur- geons, spoke of men who looked on the condition of things at the out- break of the South African War with folded arms and their hands in their pockets." Even Dr. Johnson defined a garret as "a room on the highest floor in the house," and the "cockloft" as "the room over the garret"; and in a recent translation of a Continental novel We find those annaaiog son- tences:—`Tho Countess was about to reply when a door opened and closed her mouth"; "The colonel paced backward and forward with his hands behind his back, reading his newspaper"; and "At this sight the negro'a face grew deadly pale." "The princely eagle has got beyond his depth," wrote the editor of a London daily; the Spectator once. assured its readers that "Sir Wil- liam Earcaurt's harpoons had miss- ed fire"; and a famous English nov- elist, speaking in America, compared life with "a foul and stagnant river which is running In the bottom of a channel," It was an American cleric who prayed "if any spark of grace bas been kindled, let that spark be watered." YET SOME MORE. "All along the untrodden paths of rho past," declaimed a member of a north -country debating society, "WO discern the footprint's of an un- seen hand"; while another member in the same debate spoke of recent bye,- elections yeelections as "Ilaystacles of straws showing which way the wind blows. At a peace meeting in Birmingham town hall a speaker referred to the Czar's Rescript as "a dove bearing tho olive -branch of peace which burst like a thunderbolt on the world," But this night of oratory pounds of pomade and 400,000 cannot compare for a moment with quarts of extracts a peroration of Mr, Want, Attorney - General for New South Wales, "Fed - CON'FERE.NCE Flt)' lese5lttute n telettt11riniueetolnetl4ietl) t, uiu "rt ft 1 illi. IN li'fiifitIhi° IF THE M0'rtlTiUS \V 41(13 I.R131PRESENTED The haggling over peace terms wouldn't last ion oration," he claimed "is a fashion- able vermin which threatens to un- dormine the free constitution of the colony, Until lately it has been. hanging up like M'ahomct's coffin, Now it has come to earth with a sickening thud, and is seen in all its nakedness and nastiness, and people lintl that they have been mistaking a, scoured tankard for a Celestial be- ing." No wreuan should expect to bo A lawyer of renown. She can't trace up the law, for she Likes most to lay it down, Tho Judge—You soy your ate not a vagrant, yet 7011 have no visible Means of support. The hobo—I did have this niornin', ycr Honor, Tho Judge --Then why isn't it visible int the present tlu7ca The Iloha'Canso 1 went ail' eat les Hawker—"1 ant introducing a 'new kind of hair -brush 35111011—" Ihtsilna,s Ilan (innpatdently)—"I've no use for 11 hair -blush. Can't you sae I'm bald?" 1I:s,wkor--"Yes, sit', Your good lady, perhaps—" Dustiness Asan —"Skiers bald too, except when alto gees ottt," Havelctr.-- l'es, sit', Child °at home, probably—"' Business Map." --"Olney a month old. Bald too," hawker-- "Yes, sir. Veil keep a pet dog; maybe---" Business Alan— Wo do, but it's a hateless dog.' IlawkCr'( desperately —"Can't I wit s rr otla flyp-anerV.