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The Brussels Post, 1891-8-21, Page 31 AtmusT 21, 101, THE BRUSSELS POST, 3 HEALTH, Sunstroke—HOW to Treat it, It Is the general impression that sunstroke prevails niost at the very hotteet rwason. Physicians say it depends rather upon the Met of one's tieing aecustomed to the heat. A very hot spell in June may be worse in its remelts then the hottest (buys of Augnst, mar le the Mule heeting known as sunstroke confined to those eeposed to the direct rays of the sem It is the same thing when e man i$ overcome by heat in a close room or workshop. From an article by a physieian of high standing we gather some important facite and Mute its to treatment. In fluted eases it is found that lho brain and lungs are gorged wi Ili blood, end the blood itself is thickened as if its watery constituents had beeu dissiptuted by exces- sive heat. There have been eevertd cases in the Pennsylvania Respite', says this writer, in which the operation of venesection wits resoeted to with the objec1 of relieving the internal congestion, and in which the lilood was so thick Chet it, would not run out (Ind had to be semeezed out by pressure and friction. For those who are obliged to be in the sun it is advisable to emir light clothing, a straw or felt hat, perforated to allow a free circulation of air ; drink freely of cold water and other refreehing liquids, and aim to drink a email quantity very often rather than a large quantity at once, The large amount of icy fluid entering the stomach at one time chills its surface, and forces three or Mier ounces of blood to the bruin in excess uf its natural requirements, resulting in cerebral cougestion and death. Those exposed to the sen ought to bathe the face and head several times during the day. Especially little children ought to be cooled off in this manner. A lean who sud- denly finds he has stopped perspiring dur- ing a hot day is in great danger, especially if his skin feels cm ediugly hot, He ought to stop work, get 11110 the shade, and bathe his head with very cold water, and drink either a cup of hot tea or milk the object being to draw tile blood from the brain by a cold effueion to the head and a gentle stimulating drink to the stomach, In more violent cases, where the men Ad- denly drops, becomes unconseious, treat. ment ought to begin at once. The man should he placed In the ailed°, ice water should be poured on his head or kept against his head by means of cloths, and ordinury cold hydrant or well water poured over his body 11111.11 11. physician arrives, who ehould be sent for tut onee. Sunstroke ought never to be regarded as of slight importamie nr be neglected for any reason. The mortality is usually high in sunstroke cases. The hospital records give the deaths, in some years, as one.thied of those admitted, in spite of all treatment. TILE RIVER'S STORY, Anil Whet Ihe Oren:lir r saw lit There IVO bright, glowing platens of Gotl'e henaiworic here ; painted 10 brilliant Wore, and gleaming, like vehicle weighe in the wiling raindrops, rippling in fantastio belies o'er the green vendure.. Iffiere are cloinlet dreamily fleeting across the blue end peecefol sky, and the ellitinner- ing river drifts its cooling length towards tlue horizon : far awtty, where the smiling sky seems to meet the grey old hille, and cheers the eyes that long have watched the unvarying radiance of the shifting wotere. Holidays in the country, and a county), town ! Long walke 111 the breeey air, and Iney saunterer under the murmuring trees . How sweet and fragrant are the flowers, and how woutlerful are Thy works, 0 Lortt Here the poetic) fancy can wander at will, and the aching brow can woo the gentle breezes from green end shady nooks, cooling and grateful, while borne across the breast of the waters comes the drowsy murmur of distantbells, lulling the senses and easing the tired brain. Days of sunlight and flashing waters I Dreams of past, and alinost forgotten stories, rising like misty shadows from -vanished days l Then evening gray steals on, and the red moon peers over the distant hills. A great stillness falls upon t lis earth, and the Gad of Nature is worshipped. Higher, and yet higher tho orb of night sweeps until her pale light floods the dim lielrls, and great massy clouds gather on the horizon and awe the Dreamer, who wanders o'er the hills and stands where his eye can trace the distant horizon and see the grand old Son 'diem star, whose brilliant beauty carries hien back to the ninny South and early dreams, Now the long ehadows steal up from the shore, and stump weird sounds break the stillness of Ote summer evening. 11. 10 al- most midnight now, and the pale moon sinks towards the west. Red lightnings flash epee the eye from murky clouds now rising hist, and the warn) air clings an though a thousand impish fiends were winding their arms around the throat. The mourn- ful cry of the night bird is borne to the ear with a etartling clearness, and eoon the dull rumble of heaven's ortillery trembles the limp end withered leaf ot the berth. Now the storm breaks, and rain deeps pelt the leaves and dark waters with vehe- ment fierceness. Crash I And the heavens seem to open and hurl theft, vengeful darts upon the shrinking earth, while the thunder shakes and rolls, and muses the dreamer to cronch in awestreck wonder beneath the sheltering fouls. The woods are filled with strange elfish mutterings, as thongh peopled with howling ghosts, and the wild winds sweep over the waters with unrelenting fury. But the storm is over, and the moonlight, new fast growing pelt) and cold, shines upon elle face of au inanimate form with tender and lingering touch. The dreamer, who has wondered to the slier° again, draws to the shore a mass of weeds and clothes, and brushing away the Clinging mass that ob. enures the features he sees the pale face of one who was once beautiful, but who now wears the face of death. Her dear eyes are closed now, and the dear and tender lips that once smiled so sweetly are cold and damp. Only a short time ago she had laughed, and held her dimpled face up to receive the kisses of loved ones, but God looked down and waved His hand over her fate, and the dark and gloomy river told the dreamer the story. The Ear. The human ear is a tench more delicate organ time most people suppose. It is ex- tremely dangerous to interfere with it by use of ear -picks, or any of the various instru- ments used for the purpose of cleaning it from wax. The wex ts et, natural secretion, and unless the ear becomes diseased it does not accumulate any faster than is necessary to protect the passage from the entrance of insects and various palliates which might otherwise be forced in and tend to interfere permanently with the hearing. The great. est care is necessary in washing the ears of little children. They should be washed out- side, but on the inside only so far as the finger wrapped in a soft towel will go. The practice of forcing. hair pin or any other hard iustrument into the ear paesuge is fraught with danger of injuring the mem- brana and eausingpermanent deafness. Ear- ache is a malady of childhood and causes most distressing pain. The simplest remedy for it is to take a little cotton dipped in warm sweet oil anti put it in the ear pas. sage. A. danger that may arise from doing so simple 0 thing as this is that minutepar• ticles of the cotton nio, be left in the ear. To prevent this, 801118 physiciaus advise makinga little wad of the cotton mid wrap. ping i it n the finest and thinnest linen cam. brio that can be found, and (lipping this in warm sweet oil. In ease of intense pain, ft few chops of hot laudanum or camphor may be used with the oil. When foreign bodies get into the ear they should be removed by syringing them out with warm water. To attempt: to remove anything from the ear passage by forcing an instrument in is a rash thing for any, ono except an tturist to under. tate. The best medical practitioners refuse to treat affections of the ear or eye, but send their patient to specialists. Insomnia And Its Care. A correspondent, who asks for a ettre for insomnia, is advised to drop all anodynes and opiates. Subjective mental exercise of the right kind, is far more effiettoious than any drug, or even hot milk. Upon retiring, resolutely bar out of mind tile material en- vironment and rivet the thought tenaciously to some one lofty spiritual conception. Per- sist thie, even if at first the exercise seems purely meohanical. The power of mental concentration will grow. It is a fact that thie °muse will often Aire chronic) and severe insomnia in a few weeks. There is nothing strange or miraeulous about it, but when understood it is sem) to be nettual, reason - Ode and scientific. Those who have not looked into this subject will be stupefied at tlie rapidly developing power of mind in this direceion when faithfully tried 11 amounts to a self-mentel treatmena and the nerves will respond in a reaseneble time. The cutm will be pernutneat, and tho self- control which is geined svill be found very valuable. Oatmeal as a Drink. With the season of sunstrokes at hand the following recipe from the pen of the late Dr. Parkes, an emtnent EnglIshphysi- (dam, may prove a blessing to workingmen —espeeielly to those who mud bear the heat and burden of the day in mill or liar - vest field. It is seed by those who have tried this driek that they could accomplish more work than when using boor, and were physically in better condition, The proportions are a quarter pound of oatmeal to two or three quarts of water, according to the heat of the day and the work and thirst ; it should be well boiled, and then 80 001100 or one and a 11811 ennuis of brown segrur added, It you find it thick- er than you like add thre5 quttrts of water. Before dvinkipg it shoke up the manual well through the liquid. In summee drink this cold ;111 winter hot, You will find it not oely quenches thirst 1)511. 1.1.111 give you more strength and endurance than telly other drink, If ,you cannot boil It you eau take a little oatmeal mixed with cold water anti sugar, but tide is not so good ; seaway)) boil it if you mum If et any time you have to make ru very Long clay, as in luttemet, earmot stop for racalti, inerease the etuteneal to hell portna or even three-quartere pelmet, ma the water to three-cm:tam it' you are likely to be very thirsty, A LEAK IN A GASF.11)E, 111811.11 1'1111101.0er NeltriY 0.041 11111 Mee by 'king J0110no4ll 8111)11 0.1 Settee. There is a by-law of the London Board Health to the effect that ell new Memo bui without basements ehoold 11111.5 a space eighteen inches between the 11001 01111 a layer of conerete with which the ground ehoula lie covered. Along this open ewe in maul, of the more cheaply 1)11111. 11011888 the gas Snd water pipes supplying the house are Ire- queet1y laid to &vide running them up in the walls. So much of lie prologue is noes - teary before I tell you that I am a, plumber by trade and that a couple of yeare ago I wee in business at, Fulham, a southeaetern district of London, where a large 00101181. 01 email, cheap houses have recently been Am up, A. twelvemonth ago to -day 1 was called to 47 Mimosa street to discover and stop a leak in a _gaspipe. The leak WO.E1 EIMMIbly under 1100!) fl, beettese it was in the ground floor dining room that the smell of gee wad so strong. The house had only recently been repaper• ed and painted 1,110 11011. cerpee laid clown and the room prettily, though heavily, de• (mated. An immense antique oak sideboard took up nearly tlie whole of one side wall, and the rest of the furniture teas of these= description. Mrs. Thornton asked me if it would not be possible to find the leak withouttlisturb- ing the room, and as she was a good pitying ustomer I snel I would try. 1 had a mate with me, bat he WAS a big man, whereas I am el utile small. Of course, I knew all about the open space beneath the house, and I gemmed I could Drawl in under and find the leak. There was a means of doing this first from just below the kitchen doorway, so after a short consultation with Jim (my mate), in which the impossibility of his erawling under vvas clearly demonstrated, 1 off with my coat and prepared to make the exploration. A small dark lantern, a little White lead and a few tools were quickly Slipped into my pocketsgand away I crept between the beams and rafters under the house. I had no difficulty in finding my way. I just made for the front of the house, drugging myself along on my back by means of the beams. Then guiding myself .by the founda• tions of the front well, I soon got to the dining room fireplace and sure enough here I found the leek. 11 was not much of a leak, any way, and I was not many minutes before I had stopped it with white lead, tested it -with a light, and was beginning to crawl back again, Somehow or another, just. as .1 had got about half way back, I remembered that I bad left my big pineers behind me, and I couldn't well spare them, sol turned around to go book and fetch them. In moving I knocked over the lamp, and it went out, leaving me in total cleakness. 1Vell, I thought, I'll just keep along a beam till I reach a wall and crawl along to the fireplace. I made another turn to do this, when suddenly I found that, in turn- ing, I had got myself over upon my side,and that I was jammed up between two beams, with one of my legs underneath me, and I could not move one way or the other. Here was a pretty- predicament to be in l I bad not the remotest idea what position I was in according to the topography of the house. I might be under the dining room, the parlor or the kitchen, but at any nute I was a fixture, and the more I struggled the tighter I got fixed. Neither had Iany very clear idea of how long I had been under the floor. I had been at work and time passes quickly when one is busy. Besides, crawl- ing under a floor was a new business, and I had no precedent from which to make an estitnate. Presently, however what with breathing the confined air and wearying my ecu with my futile struggles, to say nothing of a gradual sensation of mortal fear (weep- ing CIVar me, I suppose I lost consciousness, Ana here I shall give you the part of my narrative which J im related to me when Some hours later I found myself in my bed 8.1 1101118 in a weak and played -out oondition, " I gave you twenty minutes," said Jim, 1110 do tlie job, and I expected to see yon bath at the kitchen door by thrut time. I watched you for quite a while crawling along, because I could see the glimmer of the lantern. But when you passed beyond the section wall of the dining room I couldn't see you any more. Then I went into the diming room to listen for you at work. The twenty minutes soon passed by, but you didn't return, and I began to be afraid you were suffocated. " Then I up end went to the lady of the house, and I told her I was afraid some- thing dreadful had happened to you, and that she would be to bleane as the cause, as she ought never to have let you crawl under that narrow place. Well, she got frighten. ed and tusked what 1 ought to ,do. r took my hammer and sounded all over the floor, but coaldn't make you hear, and at last) we (Mrs. Thornton first) thought we heard faint tappings under the floor. " Sure enough we did, and they were right under that big oak sideboard. I said 11 would have to be moved and the flooring taken up to gee you out. She was terribly put out, said she'd have to take everything out of the drawers and cupboards, and then it would take three or four men to move it. ettid that couldn't be helped, 1 wasn't going to let a man die underneath that floor for the sake of an old sideboard. So I ran up the street and brought down Adam on Bill (ewe More of my men), and by that titne the sideboard was empty. "1 seppose quite tun hour had gone by by this time, bee I know we were all 111 St con. siderteble stet° of funk lest you should be dead, and I can tell you it took no four men to move that sideboard ; we three had Rout into the middle of the room while the lady was tolling us we couldn't do it. In a few minutes more the cerpet and the flooring wets up, end there you were, fainted dead —between the rafters and the place where the section wall sinks a little. Didn't we have you °Amuck, tool And the lady made ns put you on to her swell softie and lent us a mattress to take you home on, and sent this bottle of brandy too ; and now, thank goodness, you're all right again." Znd then the greet big baby burst out crying. Yee, they put back the floor and the car- pet ond the sideboard, and no harm was done to anything, and Mrs; Thornton gave each of my men five shillinge for their share of the work. 1 was all eight next day, but I totur up floors now when I look for leaks in garipipera The Standard of Time. Mr. Tupper has introduced a bill which provides for the adoption in Canada of the twenty-four hour system. The measure is 10 008 sense permissory. It does not come into operation until the various provinces have through their legislatures approved of it. That legislation should be neceseary to the adoption of the new time standard is on the face of it etrange. But obviously there must lie some law authorizing a departure from the old plan. Many of our statutes fix the hours within which oertein acts may be performed. For example, banks muet be kept open until three o'clock p. In, for the convenience of persons whose notes of hand they hold., and the polling booths must not be closed (11101 five o'clock. If we are to change three o'clock into fifteen o'clock and five o'clock into seventeen o'clock there must be a statutory provision for the alteration so that the ante performable at these hours may be legalized. The new arrangement has already been adopted by one of tho great railways. In the North•West time is reckoned entirely on the twenty-four hour basis. The zone system has also come into operation throughout Canada and the United States. Every fifteen degrees of longitude represents one hoer, and as we pass westerly from elle zone to another so WO 1001.e from one mode of time -reckoning into another, which is one hour behind its predecessor. This systetn is an advance in that is gives us the same tone over a large area. Formerly Ottawa, WM twenty min- utes ahead of Toronto. Now the time in both cities hi the same. The twenty-four hour system is another move forward. Should Canacla adopt 11 111 will lead many of the nations in what ie admitted to be one of the important movements of the clay. We will also do honour to the prophet in his own country, for Mr. Sandford Fleming is the author of the scheme. HIS Hand Print Cenvietea Him. A horrible case of murder of the ,Tack -the. Ripper kind lime been tried at the Court of AssizesabLagonegro, Italy. The defendant WAS a certain Domenico Museari, who had brutally murdered his mistress, Annunziata del Gaudio, a handstune woman, to whom he was said to have been betrothed. He wanted to marry another girl with whom he had fallen in love, and had made an offer to her. Muscoxi was a handsome young man and the girl aceepted him, but when she learned of hie relations with the Gaudio woman she refused to have anything to do with him and broke the engagement. This nutde Museeri furious, and he made up his mind to gee rid of the other woman. He went) to her house ono evening, and said he was going to spend the night there. When the Gaudio 1001118.11 WeS asleep Muscatel quietly got up, seized Ms knife, and stabbed her in the nook, A jet) of blood spurted from the wound, and the 01.0018.11 jumped up and begged for her life. The answer was another stab, and Whee the poor creature might hold of the knife the inhuman wreteh pulled mway, omsi nearly savored her fingers from the hand. The womau struggled hard for life, and both wore covered with the blood. Finelly she succumbed. Imo then 10(1(18 01 dash for the Arne, but left his mark behind him. In pushing open the door with his bloody hand he left an excellent imprint ht. blood of Ids poles on the panel, and it was through this mark 11181 110 was detected, bis wee 101.01.1011 011 suspielon the following day, but he had already washed, the blood fi,0111 his face and hands. The bloody imprint, of hie hand on the wonuen's (Mar, however, proved a pelmet, 0 silent, whiners ngainst him, TEM TRIPLE ALLIANOE, I A WEB-FOOTED MAIL 11.111 .101,111111,1,141frmany, Austria Deforni1ly Retneecee 037 11 Pouliot vanla Three events, ell of which have happened einem Emitter Wilhelm started upon his pre- 1 John Ealtiejli°e"Ni 11118Ing'sTill'or with feet Ant tour, have given AD unusual interest to and hands weideel exontly like 0 (look, pre - the European situation. These are the re- Anted himself 51 1.1(8 Pennsylvania Hospital newel of the Tt•Iple Alliance, by which Ger- Philadelphia the ether dtuy 01111 reqaustEd many, Austria and Italy league them- that an operatith be performed to relieve Alves together in a defensive tiompact, him of his deformity, the visit, of the Ring and Queen of Dr. John AsIthuret, jr,, examined the Italy 10 that pot•tIon of the Brit. man and determined to attempt the perilous tish fleet) at present in the Adriaele, operation, After ploping Ealan under the and the hearty and enthudastic welcome no• 15058800 01 an aneethetie the doctor and his corded 1.),,y England to Germany'a young Elm- ausistente began upon the left hand. The parer. l'hat these events that is the last soft, flabby flesh joining each of the fingers Iwo, have political significance few are dis. and lapping over like the ribs of a fan was posed to doubt. On the continent, and no wholly cat away, and the fingers, after being doubt at home as vell, the opinion is goner. sewed properly, were carefully wrapped in ally entertained that while England }menet cotton. After each finger WW1 bound, splinte ortnally entered into a compact with the nations embraced under the Triple Al- liance, she has virtuoIly committed her- self to espouse the cease of all or any of them should they be attacked from without, Nor is this an opinion merely, seeing that Sir James Ferguson has stetted in the House that it is the intention of the Beetle!) Government to malutain the Wand quo in the Mediterranean, This 11104118 that England has resolved to protect Italy against the French fleet, and as Italy is the only point at which Terence 801114 1180 her fleet against the Triple Alliance, the alliance has received England as a naval ally for thepresent. Naturaely in viewer thistiewdemonstration of friendliness on the part of England towards Germany and Italy there etriles the question, what will the next move be in the game of len- ropean politics? 11111 the other nations be content to look upon this powerful combine: don without making some attempt to offset it by another alliance? Although this is a question Mutt none can confidently allSWer, 'here are not lacking important rumors con - earning the matter. It is reported that Frence end Russia are about to enter into a compact and t• 01. Sereia, Greece and Mon- tenegro 01.111 probably be added. This rumor is rendered credible by the circumstance that France and Russia have manifestly been drawing netwer together of late, and also by the fact that both countries are greatly irritated over the great demon- strations made by England in honor of France's greatest enemy. So exasperated do they feel thee it ia stated that M. Ribot, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has ap- proached the Russian government on the snbjeet of a coalition agnenst England, offer. ing to co-operate with .Russia in theaeizure of Constantinople and the formation of a new Turkish State in Asia, embracing Egypt, under Franco-Russian protection. Whether the rumor is true or not cannot be determined, this at least is certain, that the relations between England and Germany on the one hand, and France and. Russia on the other, are considerably strained, What then are the prospects for the peace of Europe, and is it likely to be rendered more precarious by the recent occurrences? Such is not the popular feeling in Englund where it is generally regarded that the ontoome of the Emperor's visit will be to render peace more eecure. In this connection the utterances of the young Kaiser are significant. In his address at Guildhall he is reported as saying : "My ahn above all ie the maintenance of peace, for peace alone can give the confidence necessary to tt healthy developmentof science, Abend trade. Only so long as peace reigns cure we at lib- erty to bestow earnest thoughts upon the great problems the solution of which in fair- ness end equity I consider the mostpromin- ent duty of our time. You may thereforerest assured that I shall always be ready to unite with you and with other nations in the com- reonlaborforpeacefulprogress,friendly inter- course and tho advancement of civilization." These words from the Monarch who is the absolute 'nester of the most powerful army on the face of the globe, taken in connection with the known tsentiments of Lord Salis- bury whole emphatically a man of peace and who is withal master of the most powerful fleet in the world, give ground for the opin- ion that "peace is more assured DOW than it was." But will the cordial relations at present ex- isting between England and Germany, and which the recent occurrences have exhibited in a manner so impressive, be them- selves continued 1 This is a ques- tion one does not care to contemplate, especially with the iestrucitive examples that history furnishes before one's eyes. Twice et least within the last half century has England welcomed to her shores the monarch who for the time being was the most powerful ruler in all Europe ; once when the Emperor Nicholas of Russia came to pee, his respects to Her 01.11010115 Majesty, and again when Napoleon III, a little later, crossed the channel on 0 friendly visit to his neighbor. The demonstration on these 00- 811010110 071.115 only less enthusiastic than that with which the young Kaiser hes been re- ceived. Each of these potentates visited England because each was, like William, the arbiter of Europe ; each was the recent end accepted ally of England; each was in absolute control of the country, and the army—by common consent deemed the most powerful in Europe—and both for Nicholas and Louis Napoleon all men predicted at the time of his visit, the prosperity, power, and permanent supremacy now universally textredited to William of Germany,. But how were these predictions lul- filled? Soat•cely bad the decorations of emelt visie faded before the inexorable logic of events fumed England to oppose the policy of her Imperial visitor. Russia vves soon at war with Great Britein, France drifted to tho edge of war and has stood ever since in the secret or avowed antagonism which gives England a diftlicult question to meet and master wherever her interests or her frontiersmarch with those of Franee—in Newfoundland, in Morocco, on the 011 Rivers, in Egypt, in Idaciagasater, in the eountry of Laos, or in Yunnan. Certainly it is nob absolutely necessary thee history should repeat itself in this instance, and that the German moinurch should attempt to fore° the paw or to exert his influence so opacity as to awaken opposition or compel 11.10150H to embark on 501110 foolhardy enter- prise that will end his career ; nevertheless it must be confessed that Ole (longer is im. nent and that oven now the situation is not tubsolutely free from disturbing elements. Of those 11 18 enough to mention the scheme which is the Emperor's own motion and by which it is proposed to unite Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland in o zollver- °in or Oustotn's League as against the rest of the woeld. It is ditlieult to see how Beth a union of the powers named can be carried out without impediments being offered to English traria which will awake British jealousy. England is above all things cote - menial. The sympathy of her government goes, like her wares, to the °homiest market. II) would not be surprisin , therefore, if The man who is waiting to be happy wil next you, at 0118 time lie waiting still. • The latest faa in &settle, Wash., is paper 1181.5 101' ladies, They aro made in varicella styles, mid being•usually preety ond showy and costing only a few cents each, two apt to b000mo (pito popular. Choice butter should always be wrepped within a fow yeare 1411141801't should make in the parchineut piper now made for this an effort to detaoh Italy fu•ons whith punmse. 11 18 air tigbt, °lean, white and would ea seriously obstteet, the freoclem ot cheep. Butter properly put up is half sold, their preeent ecantnereitul intercourse. Ana ena if it testa (10 01.011 es it looks, a gond that woula mean 1tly dettlehod from the oustortiet is stentred, Whe>1 praoticable, Triple Alluuias, and that agein would mean every dairy farm should sell its butter mark- Germany and Austria left alone to face Rue - ea with its own brand, situ and !Uralic° in an unequal struggle. were placed betweep them and the whale arm up to the elbow was then placed is splints, The sailor's feet were treated in the same vvay, and it is expected that when the wounds heal Eaten will 1101.0 full use of every muscle of his hands and feet. Not only were hie feet and bands webbed like a 'leek's foot, but the fingers and toes were so misshapen as to give them the exact ap- pearance of a chick's foot. The operation was successful in every uvay. OANNIBALISN AT HANLEY FALLS Sutures 10111 1i1141 Ent 50 Mrinbrre or a Tribe FrIentlis 10 the Hunilsii— MI winery V1011(011$1101.. Advices from Stanley Falls in the Congo 11 ren State nay that 11/111VOS along the Lo- rnani River, who had blocked the stream with hundreds of twined canoes, killed and ate 50 natives friendly to Eurepeans. An expedition composed of 10 Europeaue and 50 Arabs soon after left Stanley leaflet to punish the cannibals, and after a day's bat- tle routed them and oceupied their villages. Hundreds of rebellious uatives were killed and wounded. The Cakumas around Stanley Falls are returning to canibalism, and several of them have been courtmartialed and execut. ed. DISTURBANCES I11 OHINA. nosiness welt Tepee emeesstitie and For arm Itraldents 111 Constant Danner. Advices received at Victoria, B. C., by the steamer Empress of India say that the whole southern portion of China is in a state of turmoil, and armed bands of !fiend. erers make business almost impossible. Le Wing Chuen, :ffivernor-Cleneral of Formosa, is in very bad health. It is be- lieved his death will be the signal for revolts and generel uprising against Chinese rule, The feeling around Shangluti is one of disquiet on ac went of the late riots. Foreign resident fear that attacks may be made upon them at any time. How to be Happy in Summer. Seek cool, shady nooks. Read the latest books. Bathe early and often. Throw fancy work away. Wear lightest, lowest shoes. Ride at morn and walk at eve. Believe that waiters are human. Let hats be light and bonnets airy. Think the best possible of all men. Eschew kid gioves and linen collars. Hurry never, thus being at leisure ever. Dress in cambrics, lawns and gingliams. Be lavish with laundresses, fruit men and fans. Court the sea breezes, but avoid the hot sands. Let melons precede, and berries follow the breakfast. Store up the sweet and give small place to the bitter. Remember that seeming idleness is some- times gain. Listen to the break of the waves instead of the fog -horn. Retire when in the mood, and ae•ise when most inclined. Send flowers to the living; kind thoughts serve the dead as well. Order freshest fish and corn -rake ; never mind the heavy fritters. Take your loftiest ideas to the beach, and your lowliest thoughts to the mountains. Remember that nine -tenths of the people are at the seashore for rest, and do not sing to them. If you feel like doing agood deed, treat a dozen street children i to ce-cream. That is mission work. Do not tell your hostess how sweet the butter and crown were at your last summer's boarding place. Remember that children are only small editions of older people, and they have feel- ings quite as acute. Look pleasantly at the tired stranger who glances wistfully at the part of your ear seat oecepied by your wraps, even if you do not offer her the seat. The MtutyrdOM of 'EN The martyrs to vice far exceed the mar- tyrs to virtue, both in endurance and num- bets. So blinded are we by our passions that we suffer more to ensure perdition than salvation, Religion does not forbid the rational enjoyments of life as sternly as avarice forbids them. She does not require Buell sacrifices of ease or ambition, or such renunciations of quiet, or pride. She does not murder sleep, like dissipation ;or health, like intemperance or seetter wealth, like extravagance or gambling. She does not embitter life like discord, or shorten it, like duelling ; or harrow it, like revenge. She does not impose more vigileunce, than sus- picion ; more anxiety, than selfishness ; or half as many mortifications as vanity.— (lianutth More. MILITARY EXBOUTION IN IND A, The (Wins Itrii very 01.11 05100 Alheni to he Mown front it cannon's Monlli. Unman Aizul Khan, being a strict Mo ham- meden, wad seuteneed by the general court inertial to be executed by being blown front the mouthof ague. Saterdey, ow day after their Sabbath, which is our Friday, was the day apuointed, subjeet to the approval of the ' finding " of the Commetieleet. The Commandant approved of the finding of the cou r t,and the exam Hon pareele took place tit° following Saturday. 'the native troops, all utterined, formed two sides 01 0. square oppottite to one another and facing inward. The white troops formed 0110 side. They parwled with fixed bayonets and loaded with ball cartridge in view of the Sepoys. On the fourth side of the square 0, twelve - pounder gun was posted, the inuzzol point- ing inward, M charge of the European az- tillory, The commandant and stuff stood in the centre of the square. Presently the convicted subadar-major was marched into the square and halted in front of the gun facing the troops. The Mimeo finding, and sentence were rea'1 by the Adjetant in Eng. fish and Hindustani, and the Cornutandaut asked the prisoner to s uy his last words. The prisoner, who was, to do him but justice, a brave , soldierly man, said in a firm voice that 118 WAS justly punished for Itis gross breach of military discipline, and exhorted the reepoys to adhere to the &Riffle Roe, which he fetid would be succeseful as it hail always been, He was then tied securely to the muzzle of the gun, Ids back to it, facing the parade. The gun was loaded with an extra tharge ot powder, with a elod of grassy turf lightly rammed home, The mans face was pale Its death, but he 8011 had a reeoln to look and did not tremble (Inc whit. He certainly died a bravo man. The woul 0505 given by the Commandant arta the lanyard pulled. A dull explosion followel, and the nultappy wretch was launched hue) eternity. blown into fragments ! De, however, had a certain re- venge even in death, for his right arm, being tightly drawn back on the gun, on the latter bettig fired, was violently projected baak, striking with force a stalwart sergeant of artillery on the throat and hurling him to the earth. The eergetint was she months in hospital before he recovered stiffiffiently to join his corps. A party of the deceased mutineer's regiinent picked up the pieces very carefully, 110 1.0 miss any of them would , entail much suffering in it future state, and carried the remains off to be buried by his riends, Three Pretty Things. A pretty scarf is made of yellow India silk and satin -edged ribbon. The side edges and ends are turned over 011 the out- side for wide hems, which are herring bone stitched to place with yellow floss. A row of Brussels net wheels are sewed along each end and to the top of a section of ribbon, with the effect of insertion. Similar wheels are sewed together to form one large point, which is joined to the lower edge of the ribbon at one end, and also to form two pretty points, which depend from the rib- bon et the opposite end. To make the wheels, cut one circular section about four inches in diameter from white 13r055el8 net for each wheel, gather the section all around the edge, drawing the gathering up closely so that the edge comes over the eenter. Thread a needle with yellow wash embroidery silk and draw it up through the, center from underneath ; make a, kuot stitch, by twisting the thread several times about the needle and passing the needle down close to the point of first insertion; then pass the needle up near the fold, then back to the center, make a knot stitch and con- tinue until five long stitches, extending from the center to the fold, are made, being care- ful to space the stitches so that they look evenly apart near the fold. The scarf is equally pretty and less expensive all made of white Brussels net, using any preferred color of wash embroidery silk or linen floss for the feney stitching. The foundation of a beautiful floral cen- ter piece for the table ie a tin dish enamel- ed In white, Three wires are fastened about the dish—one at the top, one at the bottom, and one in the middle—and on them ordinary clothes -pins made beautiful by gold paint, are mounted, with truly artistic effect. The pins are placed close together all around the dish, the white enamel, which shows prettily, between the bright gold. The dish may contain earth or water and any preferred variety or varieties of flowers or foliage. It may be round, square, oblong, oval or any prefer- red shape, and the enameling may be done in a dainty shade of blue, pink, yellow or green. The pins also may he all over en- emeled in the same color, or they may be enameled below the heads, which may be painted gold or silver. _k pretty combina- tion would be to enamel the dish in a deli - mute shade of blue and paint the pins with silver. Here is a fire -place fernery for the sum- mer months. A box about a font deop, and long and wide enough to lit into the fire- place on the floor is the first requisite for a fernery of 0115 kind. Several holes should be made in the bottom for drainage, and a shallow tin plate set tinder the box for a drain. A piece of molding set along the bottom of a box will conceal the pan. The box should be filled nearly to the top with rich soil, in which all kinds of fermi may be planted. Vines that will thrive in sandy places will be very pretty to train up the sides of the mantel, ivy being particularly Mee for the purpose. Looked Suepielone, Squire—Morning,Uncile Rufus. See you've got now neighbors moving in over there, What aro they like?" Mole Refus—Cein't always judge by do appearance, Squiah, hut (leyhes two monat'ons big foittheh beds foh niggelis w'at don't keep fowls. A fit of 08141.1. 18 as fetal to dignity es a dose of arsenic is to life. is impoesible for that, mart to despair who remembers that his helper is omni- potent. Diseneeing a small peveonal airlift, with Ditudet, Gambetta 00.111, " After all, Avliat does it matter 1 Remember the answivi, of the bricklayer, who, falling from the fifth lloor of a 1101100, 11.1.8 /1,81011 111 11111 descent ivy e lodger leaniug 01.51. 01 the whelow half Wily clown how he telt. Pretty 15011 111 pi &tent the man answered ; hut time will show.' Embroidered chiffon for neck wear shows flowers wrought in the natural colors. Booth's new saw mill, said to be the hug- est in the world, commenced operations at Ottawa last week. To an honest mind, the best perquisites of a place aro the advantages it gives 1111>1111 of doing good. The man who weds a Summerg girl In some capricious whim Ought not to be surprised if she Should make things warm for him It would seem that Mr, Leary, the fam- ous Now Brunswick lumber merchant, has at length discovered a method of construct- ing mammoth timber rafts so that they can be ettocesesfully towed from one mean port to enother. ()f five attempts to run a raft from St. John's N. B. to New York the first resulted hi a total loss, the second and third were badly broken up and only pole Cobs awed, while the fourth and fifth Were entirely successful. Leary is himself settsfied that shipment115 this manner is quite practicable. The last raft, whioh landed at New York only a few days go was fouteliftlis ef a mile long, and con- tained 3,1100,000 feet of timber. Two higs were emploVed in towing it down at an ,xpeilso 54,1)15) each. Had the old me - tiled been employed the met. ef transport would 1, e been eltteeotto, its the freight l'01e 10 1 ilrn''nts 5 foot. Mert)ovt•r it would have required telly sehengere eg have doue Bice work, Whether the suceese would have been so pronounced bad the weather been less propitious tellable in open qtteetion.