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The Brussels Post, 1891-3-27, Page 3Molex 27, 1 SO1 HOUSEHOLD. ---,- alternately jinni) il--n feat that would test the skill of the Canadian rope swingers. March. I.le1,ht looted Mach, wild maid of spring, Your frolic, lootetops hither stray. Smiles Ment with tarn•, will April bring - "Pie April's sentimental way - Bet you r wild wlmds with laughter ring, While young and okl your will ahoy ; A.mament hero, then on the wing, Coquettish March, what ganos you play I i know a mall ns blithe as you - Child of the Mo king and I ho en 9- A her fah' fent fond lovers 1800 She floats earl cheers thele, every ane; And then the smiles -*.nee move they silo; Then blows Rho 0011 -they aro endow) ; 0 March ; could ;emir she ho true, Then all were nail t, se yon were won. --eboulrne chandler Muniton, The Home, If one's hone; is fair and fine, with aoft carpets, rage, pictures, marbles, china, with gentle service, luxurious living, lov- ing children, gracious wife, should all the blessings that these things give, oven if ono is the apparent source of thorn himself, has gathered and secured theist by close effort and self denial, be kept to one's self alone, like the bone the flog gnaws and buries till he can tomo back to it? It is not privacy an seclusion that give a home its sacred- ness. Par from it. Itis its happiness, its healthiness, its helpfulness, its capacity to do good, to impart that happiness and healthiness, its power of lifting all the rest of the world into its own atmosphere, Those homes that aro npen to the home- less are the sacred ones ; the homes where there is always a pillow for the weary, al- ways a spare place at the table for the wanderer ; the homes whose beatify is shed abroad like the verities dew from heaven that Portia talked about. There may be many mansions in heaven, but he who thinks they are mansions from which every other heavenly habitant is excluded has made a *.Michele in the place ; it would net be heaven then. However we may dispnto rind declare that a nam has a right to be nndisterhed in his o11'» house, yet we Manly in our inner co115ci008lleaa that we all regard alto man whe brings another home to dinner sure of a cordial greeting for him there ; who will not let the steamier find hie welcome in an int on 8 holiday when homes are dear- est ; who throws open his house to he par. id, whose lights are always shining and in - VI Ling as you pass kis windows, acrosswhose doorstep guests are often corning and going; who loves his home so much and finds it so complete that he must have other people to love it, too, and if they have nothing half so choice, then share some brief portion of it with them -that mal we all know to be a good citizen, a husband honoring his wife, a Christian in deed whatever he may be in faith, and withal a gentleman. Best a Little. Coot] mother, maker of numerous pies, mender of numerous hose, overseer of a {,rent province --a household, rest a little. Have a chair by the stove, and when you peep into the oven, sit while you look, yea, e'en a moment after; you will work all the faster for the short change of posture. While mending have your (hair in the coziest 808• ner, where good light will come in, and let the sun strike upon you if possible, so that you may get the strengthening, heal thgiving influence of it. Drop your hands occasio]- ally and lot them rest. Let your eye wan- der out through the window glass as far as possible, land rest yonr eyes by looking at something interesting out of doors. Don't rale ell the time, Drop the reins of house- hold government for a little while, unbend yourself and sit down on the rug and piny with the children, and as i1. were become again a child. Economize your strength. Sit when you can. Do not hold the baby when it can rest and grow jest as well in its crib. ]3S' resting when you vas, by planning the work to be done, and by being 93stematic and orderly in all things, a woman's work at home is more easily done. The Secret of It. "Don't you think you would make more money and enjoy better health in doing house work?" " Yes, I rather think I would," answered the saleslady. "And yet your false pride--" "011, pride has nothing to do with it. I don't want to be bossed by a woman, that's a11." Home Happiness, Probably nineteen -twentieths of the hap• pleas you will over have you will get at home, Tho independence that comes to a man when his work is over, and he feels that he has run out of the storm into the quiet harbor of home, where be can rest in peace and with his family, is something real. It does not make much difference whether you own your house or have one little room in that house, you Can make that one little room a true house to you, says "Farm and Fireside," You can people ftwith such moods, you can turn to itwlth such sweet fancies that it will be fairly h1mino18 with their presence, and it will be to you the very per - 100110n of a hone. Against this horse none of you should over transgress, You should always treat each other with courtesy. It is often not so difficult to love a parser! its it is to bo courteous to flim. courtesy is of more value and more royal grace than some people scent to think, If you will be but oonrbeoua to each other, you will soon learn to love more wisely, profound- ly, not to say lastingly, than you ever did before, Keeping Flowers. A new method of preserving natural flow - ere has been discovered by an English lady, whose pro005s is well worth oonsidering. Tho flower buds Were crit ,just 108 they were about to open aid the ends of the stems covered with settling wax. 1(0411 was then wrapped separately in paper and laid away in a box. When they were wanted sho clipped the stens just above the wax and immersed then in water, to which a littlo Vitro had boon added ; and, though the flowers had been gathered nearly tt month before, on time morrow they ()pulled well as tnuoh beauty and fragrance as if freshly pluckocl. Pan of Bekimo woman, The Eskimo 3(0100n have two very curious way's of diverting the 100180x, Ono is by throwing various sorts of loops with la string, rafter the mammy of the oat's cradle of Yam kee children. The other 10 by making faces. When (ho men are away hlmtiug seals the 'wo111011 not infrequently gather In ono hut, whore all but ono work et sowing, while rho 0110 trite 111 the piddle of the 11oer and scrov8 her face into ovary sort of grotostpto shape possible, Tho women aro oleo experts in skipping the rope, after the fashion of our schoolgirls, but they have a wary of swinging the rope so that two standing side by side THE BRUSSELS POST. An Old Paehion Returning. A hundred years back it wile customary for fussy peopie, old Dodds particularly, God 11,less t1e111 1 to hong little begs at the head of their' beds and put away amt aaY things they might want before 0l'nlrl Wu have not t seen anything of the kind for yea'8, but now we (11880181' that those bed poohetsare being sold in England, although the oxtOnt of their use is not stated, They are arranged in fanciful sinnes of brass and bung b aortia i, Y or ribbons iron the loud of the bedstead. There 10 0 place for the pocket handkerchief and a place for the 1vat011. Likewise a place for the pocketbook end. a sign to the bugler. " Step softly and don't disturb the sleeper." One can keep here 1110 cough mixture or bottle of night caps and eye openers. Solve of these devices take the forst of niches to hold holy water or saintly figures, for use in Boman Catholic countrtee, 1\'o have not seen them in America, but once let them be 1,11 0dmced 01131 they certainly would sell, ICs a big improvement over poking things under the pillow, How to Dress For a Photograph, If you are short and stout don't asst the pool' llrtist to make a picture of you full length. He will if you theist, but ho knows he is doing a great wrong thereby. Noth- ing issegraceful and pleasing in a picture of 0 stair lady a8 a sitting at halt length, the figure so turned as to (nide the too too stoutness, Again, if you are sling and angu- lar, do not for an instant forget. Diet a full. length figura will stake you appear more slim and angnla'. 'Then the pretty Unlit picture is your only hope, end you should insist on laving note other. Ha gentleman has a very long neck -no platter how nicely he looks in a high collar, his picture if taken 111 such a high affair would look grotesque. A short neck and high collar, and long 11eek and a low tm•ned-down collar, by all means. No loud stripes, no grout cheeks, nostrikiug figures should be worn in a photograph, One thing bear In mind when you visit the studio -bring along your home expression. Don't spend two days before you cone to the studio practicing poses and different ex- pressions before your mirror and, lastly, give the photographer the benefit of exercis- ing his artistic and professional ability. Children, If you would see a woman or a child grace- ful, beautiful and charming, you must find one that is loved, The child that dreads to be cor• rested or criticised for every word or move- ment never has a mane' of elegance or an expression of charm, Fill your child's soul with an ideal of good manners, of benevo- lence end beauty; teach it to dislike vul- garity, selfishness, rudeness, and to feel that you love and adore it, and expect of it charming manners, and the work is aecom• pushed, It is impossible for a slave to have any style. if you would have your child dignified, you must treat it with dignity, It is wrong to correct a child in public. Any proud child feels degraded by it. It should be a case of dire necessity when you find fault with a child before strangers ; to des- troy a ohild's pride is to do him a1 irrep01. able injury, lake advantage of some roti• mate hour when patent and child are alone together, and then let the parent tenderly explain how the child has behaved ill the day before or that morning, and why int conduct was wrong, how it should have behaved ; it shows that the parent respects it and loves it, and believes illi to capacity to dotal good things. This will have ten times the effect of punishment, when the child is in a state of excitement and the parent usually angry. Get in the habit of oxplaniug the reason of things to your child. Let there be as little confusion in its mind as possible. Above all, keep the feet of yonr love uppermost in the child's mind, and let ft understand that you have nn wish to domineer over it, only that, being older and (Meer, and 10 -rag the child so much, your 11.001(1 sale it tram its inexperiOoe,tlat this is your duty,/ int you are teaching it to he its own master. If your child 1s cross, do not punish hien, but distract his mind from the subject that annoys him. If he continues to bo cross, suspect his stomach, and assure yourself that this is in perfect order ; a troubled digestion is the root of bad temper. Betting in India, " The natives of India," says an old trav- eller, " have a method of gambling which admits of no possibility of cheating. They bet on the next rainfall. When it rains in India it rains; there is no halfway business about it -no mist or drizzle to leave matters doubtful, but a heavy shower or none at all. The natives wager that there will be n shower before a certain future hour. The settlement of tho wager depends entirely upon nature and the elements, you see, and there is no opportunity for ohicanery. The eminent fairness of this form of betting has made it so popular that it has practically superseded all other gambling games in India, and the government of Bombay has passed a stringent law prohibiting betting on the weather. Say Agreeable Things. There is a certain el0s8 of people who take great satisfaction in saying ttepleasent tllings. They call this peculiarity "8peak• ing their minds," or 'plain speaking." Sometimes they dignify it by rho nam of "telling the truth." •1s if truths )lost be unpleasant in order to bo true 1 Are there 130 lovely, charming, gracious truths 111 the world? asks Harpers Bazaar. And if there are, why ca11[lot people diligently toll these, malting others happier for titatolling, rather than hasten to proclaim all the disagreeable ones they can dinoo er? The sum of human misery i8 always 8o 1(1101 gloater than the suns of human happi- nesse diet it 1(00,1rd appear the plainest duty to add to the latter all we sen, and do what lies in our power to dlmiei811 the former. Trifles make up this amount, and in trifles lie the best. and most frequent opportunities. It may seem to little thing to toll another what is out of piece in her reppearn ica or p0se000iolls ; but if the information is un• necessary mid makes her unhappy, it is obesely an unkind and tulfeiandly action. Would it not be well to cultivate the grace of saying agreeable things, even to the extent of hunting them up and (fagging them to the light when they happen to be x1180010 ? This power to may pleasant things -true ones -is an nec0nlpbshlnent which la ;generally overlooked 01 left es a stere worldly *.tatter to 11p1t: nlindnd;ample. ilnt why it should be counted more Christian - like to Litter lltlple1aa113 tinnitus 111ta11 pleasant Ones is a smnewhat pumlin(t question. A Family railing, 3,1r, Boaster --"I'd have you to knew, Mfr, Curly, that I come of genuine .Bennion stocic ; my family rums batik to 1110 1.11110 of Henry 1V Mr. Cu1'tly--"Well,you'd be willing to run beast that fMEM far y01rs011 if you n1iodtoget your bourbon any other Wily, Clouting His Wife. "' I'll doit1" 1'alhemus Dilts laid down the paper he was reading, put his nose -glasses beak ht his pocket, took hie hat and overcoat clown from their hook nod started home, " 310 it 1" he repeated to himself as he walked ideng. " court my wife as if she were a girl again, the wiry the fellow did in that newspaper story, f expect it'll go pretty tough," he reflected, throwing away his cigar and wiping, his month carefully es ho approached ifs home, " 1're been reg0od dent of a rhinoceros aboutthe house, and it's a hard thing to break off old habits all at once, but I'm going to give it a (vial if it takes the hide off," Mr, Diltz centered the 1110100, hung his hat and overcoat in the hall instead of throwing thein down in a heap or, the sofa in ills usual fashion, Then ho went on tip•tOe upstairs, put on his best necktie, coalbed hie hair carefully and creme softly down the stairs again. - " Mary .Jane r' he called out. " Where are you, dear ?" Out here,' answered a voice in the kit. chef. " Did you bring that package of chocolate I told you not to forget when you event down -town dila morning':" " Why no," said Mr. Diltz, regretfully, as she welt into the kitchen. " I forgot it, dear." 11rs. Diltz looped at him suspiciously. Ifo hadn't culled her " dear" for about eleven years, " You forgot it? flnfnpb 1 I just expected it. What are you up to noir ?" This query, somewhat sharply tittered, 14(10 prompted by an unexpected forward movement on the part of Mr, D]ltz. " Don't you see I'm cleaning this thick- en?" she exclaimed, " Look out 1 You'll 0lake tea cut myself. I'm working at the gizzard, -A man hes no business poking round in the kitchen when lie can't tlo tray good." Mr, Dille stepped back, He bad intended to kiss his wife, but concluded to postpone the matte' fora little while, " Aley Jane," he said, " my dear--" " What are you ell slicked up for any• how? Going anywhere ?" "No, love. I expect to spend the rest of the day at lame. I came an hour or two earlier, thinking--" " I wish you had brought that chocolate That's what 1 w38h." " Darling," said Mr. Diltz, " I -that's no way to go to work ata chicken gizzard. Let ane-" " Maybe ycu know more about this kind of work than I do. Maybe I haven't cleaned hundreds of ohf0kena since I've been keeping house? Whet are you snooping around out here for anyhow, with your hair all plastered down and that smirk on your face?" " My dearest Mary Jane, I-" "Polhemus," broke in his wife, laying down the portion of the fowl's anatomy she bad been dissecting and looking at him keenly, " What on earth is the object of this palavering? What new dodge are you trying to work now ?" ' Why, Mary Jane, I've made up my mind to try to get along with yon in a dif-" "To get 01(21g with me? What do you mean? Do you tell mo to my face I'm hard to get along with?" " Not at all, Mary Jane ; not at all. I was only going to say that we might live to- gether more comfortably, you know, if -er-if we'd quit this quarreling and be sociable, you know, as we used to bo, There's no need of us acting like cats and dogs-" Who says we act like oats and dogs, I'd like to know ? Look here, Polhemus 1 You've been drinking." " It's a blamed 1 -now, Mary Jure, don't you give bray to that temper of yours 4' " Who started tris fuss?" "You did." " 1 didn't, You di'1 yourself." " I didn't 1" "Yon did 1" " Yon know better." " Tell your wife she lies, do yon ? Well, it isn't the first time. If yon have any business to attend to at your calico there will be plenty time for you to go do it before supper. I'll get along. I don't need any help on this chicken." Diddledy clad -swing the dag•gono old hen 1" shouted Mr. Diltz, beside himself with rage. "Dad•swizzle its everlasting gol-dinged carcass 1" He went mut of the kitchen, slamming the door behind 1111n, and in less that a quarter of a minute was on his way back to his office, muttering excitedly to himself and crushing the inofl'ensive sidewalk ]lard beneath hie vindictive heel es he 011.0,10 along. 211'. Dilte has not entirely given op the idea of muting his wife, bet he has register- ed a 00013110(1 80W lever 10 undertake the yob again 1141031 she is antagonizing a 0hi0ken. Empress Frederick in Paris, It is not; likely that ]impress Frederick 1140 carried away very pleasant remembrances of her recent visit to the gay capita]. Com trary to the general custom when members of foreign courts pay friendly visits, the Trench government refrained from giving their diet:ncufshed visitor a public reception of making any demonstration which Haight give the impression that in their represents• tine capacity they approved of her coining, That they acted wisely in withholding the 0nsto1lmry expressions of welcome, the closing day of the Empress' visit showed, The intlilfereneo with which the people first greeted her coming, was follow ed by numerous manifestations of dislike and hatred. Indeed, to such proportions dill the agitation groan and so 01,11081mmdid he'pre- sence become that the government f00nd themselves in a very o ilateresaing position, while oven the more moderato papers oPenly advised their imperial visitor, to hasten her departure tram the city. That the visit to the French capital should have been matin at this time is said to be owing to the representations and in• fluence of A11' llerbetto, the french Ambas- sador at Berlin, upon whorl the responsibility for the 31111110318811111000 arising nitt of the visit is thrown, However this may be, it is exceedinglyuuf0rtnnlate that1381.it to Franco oh any 11pers013 No closely allied to the (Mecism LIn0(11 rh1mhl have been decided on until some 01031' 113,1 been employed to es - certain the seniinie ,t8 of the lerenc11 people toward 11. Oernu'lp), As it is, 1110 recent oretn'emccs Will only tent. to areino and keep alivo feelings that, had they not been: tirret1 up, time might have entirely obliterated. The incident is t,1'ni110.1118 as showing that, however desirous hem -Innen of 111,rrul views old 38ido outloolt airy be for 0 reh,01 of peace and good will to 1 e u+labia:hed between the two nations, the `.eat body of the French people have nor 1), '1(e) the events of twenty years ago, and sl ill1eol that at wrong was then perpetrated upon 1110111 by the Ger- man nation which nailing but the restoration of Alsace and Loraine tent possibly sot night, -'-`-r#0-weama.•-err ...,.•._..,,...... '.Plc most of whet a glutton eels goon to Oroate a desire for mora, --[Basford, Warbles on Cattle.. All who have had anything to do with cattle know that at this time of the year there ere large lumps, known 110 enables, re/sed up along' the back of cattle, says U. (1. Davie in Farm, Field end stockman. Nearly all know that inside of these aro ]urge grubs that praduee these swellinga, but thele are few who have not, taken special pains to note the effect of them on their stock, that realize how maul injury they do. Not duly ]e it the hide that is injured when we with to sell that ; but it is terribly trying to the health of stock to have frons one to three hundred ol'tlmse largo maggots with their ]rough prickly skin holing around in the flesh, irritating 11 till the l,arblo becomes putrid and tilled with pee like a boil, Wo are sick and suffer ter- ribly from the efi'eete produced by a single boil on the body, yet, because tilers poor dumb animate cell not speak, they have to suffer from those numerous festering warbles for several months annually, Maly do nothing to alleviate this pain and suffering of their animals, while others press the grubs out, along ]ate in the trea- son when the maggot has done about all the injury it can and is ready to leave the warble and enter the ground to pupate. Much good can be done if the stockman will begin at once on his stook, 01,d it will be money in his pocket to relieve his stock its they will be heitIthicr and in a mutein mere thriving condition when spring opens. Probably the most °cetera remedy to be aired at this t11n0 of time year is inert:minl ointment. It should be applied thoroughly to each warble about once a heel: till the grubs have all been killed. After the death of the grab, the warble will soon subside and heal, While Lheee grubs ave in the warble, they have to breath, and it is sail that lard or tar implied thoroughly will ebectuully kill the grub by smothering it, \\ latever is done, do not let a grub es- cape to grow to maturity and enter the ground, for if allowed to do so, along in dune and July it will conte forth as a fly, and deposit eggs for another generation next winter. Good authority says that the warble fly seldom goes far from whore it is reared, and that ]oealtitiee where people have killed all of them in 111(1 grub state are almost en• tirely exempt from therm for several years thereafter. Stabling stock in summer is of course an excellent thing to prevent the fly from de- positing eggs on the stock ; but, where one does not do this and wishes to prevent the fly from depositing the eggs, an excellent remedy isa compound consisting of one quart of whale•oil soap, one gill of of of tar and four ounces of flowers of sulphite. Mix and apply with a brush along the back once a weep through June, July and August. The Egg Problem. A1. Af. Trumbell, a school teacher, says : In my class was a little Irish boy about my 013)1 age, whose name was Jerry Grady ; and when school was out for noon, Jerry said to ale, " Did ye mind that athory about Col- umbus and the egg? Sure that's not the way the thriek was [lomat all, at all. Come wid the and I'll show ye how 001001111s done it," 33Tow it so happened that Jerry's moth- er kept chickens, and when we reached the house he had no trouble in finding a fresh egg. First putting a clean plate on the table, Jerry took the egg, and shook it vio- lently for some seconds, or until the yells and white were thoroughly *.Mixed, like a com- pound of milk and hater. Then after hold- ing the egg upright on the plate int 1 the mixture inside of it had settled quietly into the broad base of it, he withdrew his hand and left the egg standing upright end alone. " There," said he, " that's the way Colum• bus done it ;" and I have no doubt it was, for I have often done it myself that way, and anybody else eau de it. My object in correcting this bit of history, is to sot Col- umbus right before the world and to rescue hint from the suspicion that he was ignorant of the easy, scientific, and purely mechanical solution of the egg problem. The leaeon why an egg will not stand on end is, that its contests are not balanced either in weight or place, but after they are thoroughly mix- ed, the eget will easily recognize its own 0011. Ire of gravity and stand upright, like a toy soldier which is made on the saute principle. A Generous Gift, McGill University is again in luck. Mr. W. C. McDonald of 3lontrea], whose gifts to that institution amount to not less than one million dollars, has just added to his former benefactions a gift of $.10,000 for the establishment of a chair of electrical engineering. For some time it has been felt that the leak ofsuoh a chair has been noting prejudicially to that institution, causing many Canadians students to pass by their own college for the bettor equipped schools in the United States. lir. M000nald's gift will strengthen this weak point and 1811011 the governors of the University hive added 'the chair of mitring engineering, for which subscriptions aro now being raised, will con- stitute MeGill on•stitute.hleGill one of time best egeipped uni- versities in the Dominion, if not on the Con• tin nt. If " to give is mere blessed than to receive" -and who that has ever tried it doubts it -then must the wealthy tobacco 111an11f1ae1U808 of the island city have a sense of inward satisfaction which even a prince alight covet. A Strange .Reminder, Burly in;Jauary Germany was curiously reminded of the fact that just twenty yea. had elapsed since the great, war with Franca by the *.amber of young men eligible for military setwie0 in the coating spring beteg exceedingly small, owing to the great dindentian iu rho number of births in 1971. 1t is now learned that' most of the mountain districts of Frnuconia will 1101 contribute a single recruit in April, Mast Change the Place, Miss Tv illh1g-T suppose you remember, Mr. Calloway, that last night, in Spite of my fruitless straggles, you had the effrontery, air, to actually lase me. Calloway (meekly) --Yes, I remember the 01remnstanee, Aliss Twilling -\\roll, if yen think \oil are going to repeat that operation in the 11,111 to. idiot, you aro much tniatadisnl. I don't pro. pose to leave this room all the evening, There is only one real ftailm'0 in life pos. siblo, end that Is not to be true to the beet that or knows. A Royal 110*. 011140on of which Mr, Joseph Chamberlain, 111. 1',, is chairman, hes been appointed to enquire into the effect of coal - dust 1n colliery explosions, "\Nay does A1r, Luunniv 03)0)11 of the pawnbroker as his uncle ' ae100i1 Mrs. Trot - tor of her htishand, " Are they really re - Mated 'P' " 01,, yore" replied Trotter. "Their relationship is a ololheo ole. A Manley do ]tor level beet, ' Ura powder by the batch, And yob abo'lt fell to go off right Unless she finds a hate11, A WONDERFUL CHILD, The Aslonlshing I'rQgreeN Of Miele*. Heller, Trio 11 ileal' midi Jllind, Much has been written in educational pa pore of the 111110 girl Helen Boller, now a the asylum for the blind in Boston, A cot reepondemt recently visited her and nil funnelled the fallowing account of what 11 sale and heard, It i8, ua the pllraze gnus 158 interesting as a novel, and gives 01 ex cellent idea of the almost ndtaeulons pro Fees of thio girl of 111 years. "lt was my j,rivilego a few days ago t call on Nolen holler, the deaf and blind gib who has attracted 50 mulch attention anion philatltllropio aid et:km(110 I(topic for 811 lust three or four yent's. :Much has heel written of this marvelous child, 11111011 the judged by all ordinary sttuldar,ls of attain meet of deaf notes, or even by tI,o attain menta of the occasional brilliant exceptions seemed almost illcreclible. I must conies that before I sale lair for t he fleet time a lit tle more than a year ago I could not believe that 1110 reports 0on0erniug her progress in language were not grossly exaggerated, but after seeing her and talking to }ler my self through the manual alphabet I was pre pared to believe almost anything regarding her progress in thatdirection. I never knew of a child deaf a8 so early an age as was Helen (sight and lean lig we•eboth lost at the ago of 11) months On omgh disease) who made such rapid progress in the knowledge. of the English lungoagc. It was simplyphelome- naL "The greatest wonder was yet to come. 8080 we heart] that Helen was trying 10learu to talk, That seemed the most absurd thins; in the world. To think of teaching speech to a chill totally deaf and Lund was propos• te1one. Yet that seemingly impossible thing lie been done, The lige of miracles fs not yet past. " Last Monday morning, 1 sat down beside her and carried on it running conversation concerning a great variety of subjects for nearly half an hour, end during all that time her part of the oo,verseticn, which was animate and sprightly and full of fun, wee colnlneted entirely by speech, and speech so distinct that I failed to understand veryltttle of what she said. she seemed ne1-e1' ata lose for language to express an idea nor even to hesitate it orally, I1, was til intelligible speech in dpleasant Vfdee and it was wonder - fol. In the course of our conversation Helen informed ale that she could play our tine pinto mad when I asked her to play for me she sat down and played the air of a little song with her right hand, playing tine same palm with her left hand an octave below. It would hardly pass for flrst•class music, the thee not being very accurate, but it was music. Then at my request she sung for me a line of the song she had just played, and the singing was more accurate in time, though less so in tune than the playing. "Her memory is as remarkable as her grasp of language and her power of speech, and probably is the chief source of her sum cess in both these. She grasps an idea al- most before it is given her, and once hers it seems to be ineradicably fixed in her mem- ory. A fete days ago a book of poems print- ed in raised letters was presented to her. She opened 11 and read the first poem over twice, reading it aloud as she passed her finger over the lines. Then the book was laid away, and not referred to again until the next clay, when it 1805 found that she could repeat the whole poem of seven star zas of four lines each without missing a word. " Laura Bridgeman was a brilliant ex- ample of what may be accomplished under seat difficulties, Helen Koller is a prodigy. There is no one, nor ever was any one, to be compared with her. HER LIFEFOR HER HUSBAND'S. e ed i, the .91et'rlll'so J'retsMizins, At the time of the dralln•atiou of Frlmco•t,eram10 war AlpIonee Delnrnle ie living quietly u'ith flit wily eon, Aid n 8pmt their little fano, situated between 1 Genevieve and Fleury. The yentli was b g nineteen years of apse, and, his 10031308 ha O lag died in ifs fn1ancy, the whole of the' 1 poor old man's affection wits centered in the t boy, \\'he 111,) dread war (01011,1 Ion el. ovo • France y01(11g Deb,1111e, Who Maas a youth of • ardent, adventure* spirit, determined to , defend his men try against the I'russiens. The old man bed *.01-03 13' many Misgivings, but wait too patriotic a Fre,c'hmail to in- terfere with the lviehes 01 his son, who forthwith enlisted as a private in 0 foot regiment early in the lnanth of August. • These ]vete stirring tim00, aria tho corps young Andre 3011,0.1 was entered to the f 0111, and the lad went away to the frontier after bidding an effete3,l:ate adient to his father, 741E 1.0v0li 5 F1'itwrnd,, Andre had a sweotbrnu t, a beautiful young girl of 17 W110 lived some three miles from the house MID, hither, aril he was allowed by special permission of leis c0:on01 to go and bol her farewell e'er his regiment marched for the theatre rf wag. The parting between the young lovers was most affirming one, and Andre** fi:u,0e withher own hands placed n arose as a tril.ete c.f. her love inside his kepi ns he ave hes' a serial e p n ' I 6 1 ill ,n ao be- fore he sta'tef nil on a "tarry midnight to rejoin his reg10,0(t, 111.,,1, tone 1111der ul'ders to march at daybreak. It would be making the tale too long to follow the fortunes 0t young Andre during the tear, bit stalk:0 it to say that Ire behaved with rouspricuons bravery in several engage- ments. \ ielory, horewer, rested with the arms of the German troupe, rind yonngAndre was mo88(011y wounded in a 9.0roe eugage- ment nem' Choisy while saving the life of a wounded officer of his regiment who had been attached 113 half a donne! (10, mans. He knew that his condition was 110polees- the regimental surgeon told him so -turd he determined to make his way to the house o his fiance, and to bid her f reweil 1104010 h died. The ende•takin3 was a dalguren one, for the country wits overrun with Ge mars, who had entere.1 Moutle'y 101(31 ectal. Belled a camp near the residence of hi sweetheart, between Saint -Genevieve an Fleury. However, young Deboi'nle knee the country well, and by the exercise of great caution managed to elude his foes. He painfully dragged himself through the woods and by paths known only co the na- tives of that part of France, and thus was able to reach the home of his beloved un- perceived. Tlhe young girl, Jeanne Bernier, lived in a pretty white farm home surround- ed by vineyards, with a spacious yard in front. A 8IBL.4881101,3 Tr:Ai:ltDT. On the eve of a hot autumn day tine dy- ne soldier arrived at the gate with his um - form blood-stained, torn and covered with durst and his wenn features rigid with pain. Poor Andre knew be had not many hours to live, for the blood wits again beginning to flow from the wound where the foetnan's 6ulleE iced pierced his breast. He could not open the door, so he broke the glees in one o1'' the windows, and raising it quietly, entered the house and matte his way to the morn where he knew he would find his fin- 'a.ee, On opening the door, what was. his horror tofind .Jeanneatrnggling terrified in the arms of a Prussia] 031icer, whose object it was not difficult: to determine. Andre, maddened with rage, Inured himself up and fired his loaded 85801 Veto at the cowardly ass salient of the young girl, 18110 rolled over dead on the floor with a ballet through his heart. The young love's had barely time to embrace each other when a body el Prus- sian soldiers, who had heard the report of the firearms, horst into the house and en- tered the roost. IV hen they saw the French uniform and their dead officer lying on the floor, they with brutal violence 070Arl1501 T1IE vytlni (OLDI010 front the arms of the almost fainting girl, and taking him outside, placed hint roughly against 111e wall for instant execution. It was in vain that Jeanne pleaded with Andre's captor's to let hint die in peace ; the soldiers pushed iter aside and a rile of rifle- men were drawn ftp, who leveled their guns at the figure of the dyingsoldier, whose life blood Was welling Meth over his travel - stained 31111fo1711 and dripping on the ground. \With a supreme ettort the youth straighten-. od his beak against the 18(011 and, defiantly feeing ifs foes, exclaimed, " I die for my 000311ry and my fiance." While the men were slaking ready to tiro Jeanne crept closer ail closer, and when she sale the lips of the lean in charge of the firing party about to give tate fatal order she rusher] in with out -stretched arms as if to shield her lover, mss when the smoke cleared awe.yy there were two corpses on the ground, oao]1 pierced with several bullets. The lovers were buried side by aide 113 two graves in the little cemetery of Saint Gen- e des Bole with a tombstone at the - eed of each. The young girl's grave bore a sentence in French intimating that she had been "killed by the enemy," and on the anniversary of the death of herself and her love' the youths and maidens of the adjacent villages cower th0ie graves with flower's. ROMANCE OF TWO GRAVES, A STORY OP THE FR 4NOO-PRUSSIAN WAR, French Noldt, t• .'cares 114,, lin vellien0l J'ronl Illebeo,,r and Belli are• Ai. Venlig Woman Prevents a Murder nett is Murdered Itercel4 Mrs. Neil Nelson, it youngmarried women of 1i1, was murdered at midnight in Now Or. leans, by Philip Baker, her husband's clerk. Nilson and Baker were settling up the ac- counts of the store for the weep when they got into a quarrel over money matters. The clerk knocked his employer down, and was about to stab him with a knife when Airs Nel- son, hearing the struggle, rushed from her room in her bare feet rind night dress. Al• though she is slender and in delicate health, she grasped Baker's arms just as the knife wits descending, While Baker was struggling with the wo- man, who clung desperately to him, Nel- son staggered to his feet, and instead of a851081ngg Ills wife, either in fright or dazed by the blow which had felled 1110), rushed from the store into the street calling for help. At that hour of the night it Was some dile before he could got aid. Fifteen minutes later, when lie entered the house with an officer and several citizens, they found 23100. Nelson stone dead at the foot of the stairs with her throat cut and her head almost severed from the body, She had staggered only a few feet from the spot where she had grasped the murderer. Baker, in the meanwhile, had gone to 1110 room in the sane building, changed his clothes, and escaped, Alts. Nelson had been married only six months. She was 11031ds0010, and very popular. A Bigamist Foiled. OTTAWA, March 19. --During a visit to Cleveland. Ohio, Bate Warren, daughter of one of J. It, Booth's managers meta young Lnglisemen named Fred, W. Hall. They were mutually pleased with each other, and bet re .she left Cleveland for hone the two •" ca ore betrothed, Hall me to Ottawa to vhainl his bride, and on Thursday the pair wore married by Rev. Mr. Garrod in St. Luke's church. The groom and bride end their friends repaired after the ceremony to her father's house, where the wedding feast was held. Fortunately for the young laxly, however, there happpenetd to be a gentleman in the city, Mfr. J. W. Pain, who !thew Hall 1n I:ngla1tl, and this gentleman 0111veil in bine 80 03111 the groom from the banquet• table and charge him with his perfidy. Ho ednritted that 11e had a wife alive, but 013cimed to be divorced from hers The news of the episode spread from guest to guest, anti amid the excitement the green escaped and has not since been 10011, 'The Millie has created a 001sa11011 i1 that quarter of the city. He Swallowed His Cigarette, Dr. Llqlcyro 113811110118 1(1 a ]'aria medical journal a remarkable case in Which an elderly gentleman, in 0011000 011031 01 to 0(1,1(1011 slap on the baclt, m)WO100b00sly drew the cigar - et to he was smoking into his right brouchus, where it rona11110a lawith0tlt r101141ing any •y'inptOills or in any tray 1.0ve11131•31 its pro• 101(30 for nearly two manila, 1811011 it set: ul, pneuu"nitt in a rireonlaeibed area and pro- .h,cel cardiac weakness, After tht:a coudi- tiol lasted withait lapel change for about lvve swaths more the patient expelled, dur- i031a violent fit of coughing, the cigarette, en. *.doped in 101100s 10114181183' .1o01111314 matter, and then remembered that he had never found his cigarette after the slap on the back four months before. The pneutunl]e, persisted for two or three months after the expulsion of the foreign body, Flowing Inward, Theo is an interesting cresting instance of water flowing inlaid from the sea. 1t is found on the Island of Cephalonia, in the Ionian sea, west of Greece. The 31110100111013(0 00001'8 on the southwest side of tho island, near the small town and port of Argostoli, says Golrlthwaito's 0eograp11ica1 Magazine. Two 8100alt8 flow at a 811Ort distance front one another, straight from the sea, for a few yards, and then follow different courses. Ono turns at right angles and 11(110 for some. ways -parallel with the shoe 11110 close to it. Thor it turns again toward the sea, and run- Mug of coarse, deeper and deeper, doubles completely 'Under itself, thee fouling a loop, and finally pasit08 mut of sight deep down in a la tlemed tureeti,n. In its course it turns two floor mills, 1v11ich will give an idea of ' the strength of the current, "Neer is no tido in the sea herr, and the they of the salt water brook is perfectly steady and 0011 1111 - MM. '191011110r'st0aul disappears in the gronud i11 a similar way. This curious phenomenon hos not attract. ed north attrutio Coal' n„ax k li is net 1A1 elle (f tile` re;,11:11 L+013.8 (otmle5, NO elle knows Wluat hewn*. v 0t this water, but it probably flaws to ,;,,100 snbterrali0an ere &overlie, laud it 10)1 have something to tit) With the earthquakes that (meat in that ncighiewhn,11 ono' in a long while, or, peg. sibly, it: feeds setae distant volcano, for anis well halawn, rho most g000llally accepted thcnry of the cause of volcanic 0ruption5 is tint they are duo to steam generated 48031] water, e,dntittod through tracks In 1110 earth's 01110, or In some outer way,