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The Brussels Post, 1891-11-6, Page 66 BE,ALTH. Abortive Treatment of Typhoid Paver. Whatever may be the cause or the men. WHY BRUTES ARE DUMB. A Cartons Tradltton or the bake woven Indians o1' 1 0lllh4.l0 i-'nm4IIn. tial features of this disease, the question of 'Tee Anur•tennIntl its, especially those of greatest interest in roger(' to it is, " What the lake regime of Southern tetuada, relate is to be clone with it?" If it is possible to a curious tradittml to accrual for the foot strip it of he terrors, and to sac, to ita vie- teat all (ower animals tiro dumb. In volt', time, " You are in no danger'," imd " you very ear ly times, they say, the taJ her of all will be quite well In 0 fray days," and to tribes lived iu tt haanti(01 century over make the assurance good, it will be a step t 'Sines the ricin sun. y 1 aN g n. His form wits perfect —yea, a Ioug ,tinea—in medical prngroxs, and hit, ince handsome in the extreme, bis It to not the object of this paper to discuss doecute!,tuts being all superb speciiutns of the merits or the demerits of any theory or humanity'. Knewher of their aoculnplish- to controvert any of the doctrines that caw ciente, and bc1114 (ninth given to flattering prevail or that have prevailed, in the pro. e;te't other, they became very haughty and femme, or out of it, in regard to the nature arrogant. Asa punishment for their bigotry of this justly dreaded malady. Theories the Great leather warned the father of the without emotionl results are at best only wawa in a droaut that a deluge wonld be voiteloss. The circumstances that led to sent to ,frown them from off the face of the the adoption of the treatment detailed ht earth, Iu the dream which forewarned the this paper need not be mentioned. It to father of the tribes of the groat (eternity ime a matter of no cousoquenoe whether the peeling there was presented to his visionary course pursued was prompted by theory or view the form and outlines of a raft, which by no theory. What the case was, as men. was to be used in saving a remuaut of the sured by ordinary diagnosis, what was done bigoted people, b a for it and the results, are the things that In those days all 00tmale talked as men claim attention, do ; and, when the father of rho tribes in - The patient was a business man of formed the beasts of the field of his dreams middle age, of good 0000iittttiou and extort. and of his intentions coneorning talo build - site acquaintance, His habits were oxcep- ing of a great raft, they protested, declaring tionallygood, bathes business euterpriseshad their unwillingness to accompany ]him on overtaxed his brain and deranged Ins tremens any each expedition. 13u t the titan's supe. system. Theprogreseofhisdtsease wasrapid, riot intelligence prevailed. He built the Early in the second weak tho sordes on teeth raft, and lo ! had hardly finished when the and lips, the hard, black coating on the great Hood came, `,Tho man's family and tongue, the sleep red color of its furrowed pairs of every beast took pes0age and fivat- and bleeding edges, the strong typhoid ed for many month', on the surface of the odor, the peculiar wild expression of the deluge, The clouds %leaped away on the eyes, the constant muttering delirium, the second day after the embarkatiou, and for tremulous movements of the hands, the 17 aucc000ive moons the ratan used the set picking of bedclothes and of imaginary ob. as a guide, continually steering toward his jects in the air, the frequent and feeble place of setting. But the animate, every pulse, the tympanitic abdomen, the theme. one of them (who, it will be remembered, teristte 'requi m., all pointed to at speedy had the power of speech), protested 0901011 an:: fatal torntination. Thu gravity of the sailing to the West, declaring in one voice symptoms increased till the tenth day. that they proferred steering toward tate hope was almost gone. The cad could not sun's rising Oleo. These murmurs had be many days distant. Books uuct medical been going on for some clays when, to the teachings afforded no ground of encourage. infinite joy of the nen, who had been holtl- ment. 1\'hat was to be done? leg the fort against this horde of creatures This is what was done. The patient was who had the voices of Wren and the reason put in 0sitz bath, 110 0, and closely wrap- of beasts, great spots of dry laud began to ped; head kept carefully cool ; tempera- appear. Filially this rudely constructed arty tote, site and toot, kept up for two hours ; grounded, and the man and his family and patient carefully pillowed tip; sweating the beasts were again permitted to press freely in thirty minutes ; continued for the Moe of the earth with their feet. But ninety minutes ; removed to a lounge ; a groat and lasting enlenity had overtaken wraps and hot jugs prolonged cutaneous the animals, For their murmurs against action ; washed off alter four hours and the man while on the war.r they were Be- taken to ilea room; sweating continued as prived of their power of speech, and have before ; deliriumand subsultus nearly gone ; remained dumb front that day. enjoyed the sweating; begged to have it continued at bed time ; next morning, after' 17 hours, it was discontinued for a short Nourishing Power of Oatmeal. time; symptoms greatly modified; treat- Dr. J. W. Smith remarks that oatmeal mens repeated from 8a. m, to 10p. in, ; fur- has recently received some adverse critic - rows of tongue closing up ; black surface isles, and that this is not surprising, as no becoming moist ; delirium gone; typhoid food article is just the thing in every ease odor almost gone ; pulse nearly natural, ami at all times. Our daily experience cam The patient slept well and was mtt011 re• winces tie of such troth by likes and dislikes freshed next morning ; appetite good enough of very common and meat wholesome foods. to enjoy a hgilt breakfast and pall for more It is natural and bust to ha? es0me variation than was allowed hint. Sweating repeated of diet. One thing may be just adapted to for 11 hours next clay at his own request. the state of the individual—bodily and After a wash off ho dressed himself, went ulontaliy—at one time and not at another, out among the patients and enjoyed their while with another person, it may never sunset sports for a short time, Fron, that agree. The so-called 14e.ternal fitness of hour he justly considered himself a well things" needs to be carefully studied before man, as he really was. 0tn the course of deciding an important question too hastily, typhoid be cut short? W\'ithottt entering into lengthy and uninter. estiug details, chemistry, physiology and experience all prove oatmeal one of the most valuable cereal foods for producing good muscles and clear beads. Why, tinea, is it fre.tuently found to disagree? It is easily answered. By being used tdmost °x)11101 sly as mush, it is swallowed so easily that it is not properly mixed with the saliva—the fleet step for digestion. When there is little or no saliva, as en some discuses, there is also a very weak or no digestion. A good authority Days; "No saliva, no digestion." if any soft feed, mush, toast, eta., is swallowed too rapidly, or any food is washed down 101 h tea, col ee, milk, beer, wine or water, some degree of indigestion 18 thereby Y Prode ce<sooner or later, as often shown by a sense of fullness, diecontfort, belching and other disturbances. If there is a lack of saliva, or that ofproper quality, it is often best to eat some hard kind of bread, as thin, hard, Scotch oatmeal bread, bread-o•uste, rusks, ate„ whet the teeth admit of it, and very slowly, to thus naturally increase the anonnt and quality of For several years we have been in the the saliva. Such a court/trio often better and habit of employing hot water in the treat. a safer corrective than all the drugs and went of sprains and bruises, and with such no8tr0ms in the country. good results that we consider it the best of Good o health can usually acrd should applications, especially when the injury is be securedby correct tiring. The best recent. A correspondent of the Afar/ire/ physicians are those who recognize this fact .Record refers to it as an unfailing remedy," and try to teach it to such patients as are and mini -tends A half hoer'° douching wise enough to employ them Oatmeal can with water at a temperature of 120 degrees be used its a variety of ways. As nm0hei'0 F., and the fixation of the joint by a splint is often drowned in too muoh milk, sughi•, on the flexor side of the joint, or upon the butter, etc., for good digestion ; ie etvallow• extensor side, if that be more convenient. ed so easily that it helps lead to overeating For example, in a case of ankle sprain, after and its bad results. Let us go slow 'before a half hour ssteady douching with hot water we reject oatmeal as a food. at 120 degrees F., I prepare an anterior To which we would add. It would be splint of ten to sixteen layers of mosquito- folly, indeed, to reject oatmeal, whish is bar which is thoroughly filed by immersion one of the best foods given by nature—es in wet plaster of Paris. This is trimmed the Scotch and Irish people by spreading it on a board and cuttingP pie are readyeto e. to shape with u knife. The Iength maattest attar many gontrntiene of experience. be thirteen to sixteen inches, breadth four to Six inches, Where the splint pa00e0 over the instsp the edges on each aide are folded over to make the splint narrower and thicker. A Iayer of cotton is then spread oder the face of the splint and the splint is applied from the base of the toes to a point about halfway up the leg and carefully secured and moulded by a narrow roller bandage. While the plaster hardens, hold the foot in whatever way is easiest to the patient. There is rarely any further complaint of pain if the splint fits neatly. This, with perfect rest, constitutes the whole treatment, which should continue at least a week, or until all extravasation is absorbed. Fourteen years' experience and observation of results obtained by other methods satisfies me that it is the best and "Can you tell me, my friend," said t most rational treatment." elderly gentleman to the keeper of th© The hot water may bo poured on the in. camel, " what the hump on that animal's lured part from a pitoher, which is in niy book is for?" opinion the better way of treating the case " What's it for 7" soon after the accident, oe it may "Yes: of what value isle?" be applied with 0, sponge or cloth. " Well, it's lots of value. Do camel A sprain of the ankle that appeared to wouldn't ho no good widout it." be very serious, was treated by me in this " Why not?" way within half an hour after the accident "Why not? Tor don't suppose people ' that caused it, and three days later the nd pay twenty -flue conte to see It cant patient was able to go about with a cane, widout any hump on him, do 80?" el That the sprain was really a severe ono, was Y shown by the fact that the ankle remained tender and 0oro for six months, Case :4—The patient was a little girl, twelve years of age. :headache, longnor and falling appetite were neglected tor some days. Typhoid symptoms, well marked, roll eared a grave run, if not a Speedily fatal termination. Hot sitz and foot, 105 0 , soot increased to 110 c sweating continued three hours ; treat. meat repeated next cloy, :Nothing more was done, because nothing more was necessary every morbid symptom was gone. These cases have been reported to physi- cians of various schools in the neighborhood. It 11 not known that soy one of then has ever tested the treatment. But what a boutt tI o microbe theory? What heoones of the ulceration of Payor s glands? If the results are satisfactory, it is of little consequence what becomes of them, Treatment of Sprains, Row He Enjoyed it, "Did you enjoy the sermon this morn. Ing?" asked the landlady eat Sunda of the star boarder, y "00, yes, very much,"he replied prompt• It'" What was the text 7" "I don't knot,." "Why, Mr, Chinkley, 110(0 netted you enjoy the sermon if you didn't know the text?" T wasn't there, Mrs. Biel:eke; please pass me the butter." What Oainels Are );Lumped For. Wanted Everywhere, Fakir—"Here you arc, gentlemen, the greatest invention of the ago," Passengers (stopping to listen)—(1 What is it?" Fakir—" A magnetized keyhole plate for front doors, It will attract an ordinary steel Ivey froth a distanoo of two feet, All you have to do to find the keyhole is to take out � your key and hang onto it," l,. (Three mon were injured in t that gathered to imp)d the crowd Panto at a Bull and Bear Fight. Ind0pondence Day Was celebrated a Tiajana, Mexico, on Wednesday by a, fight, between a bull and a bear, both of whet) wore tied to a stake in the middle of an arena by short ropes. In the otruggtothat ensued tho boar bronco the rope by which be was tied, and climbed out of the arena into the part reserved for s eototore, A panie ensued, in the course of which a largo number of women and ohildren were trampled upon and »overly hart, A Mexican named Alvozo chow a pletol, and fired twice at the boar. He did not hit the animal, but slightly wounded another man, The bear was finally lassoed. TIE BRUSSELS ]:'OST. FIVE MLr1UTBS W1T11 A MADMAN, A 'Malting Stene 10 a ('oars lloolu. "'That you hang by the neck until you are donee,' 1(11,1 may (nervy n r,ulonwyourith 0 ivilhnhurghMediclalSelmolmaybeo; 'r tor' fool,'' Import through 011 clearly ,1 court °at : " This 11'113'," said my 1leeren • lone of. ream• 'l'ho rt thro elan listened ud t:o seemingly t10 brilliant 0111,1811(0 of lttat year, noel 01101..1 6 y with a passion for pathologi''al xtndice). Ile unmoved, but a glare, like that of a wild ; lull �ho way up (1 l,t•uatl Ili del of St„ ,,011.111 g attend, fur a moment lit up his dark brown open a couple of doors, au i leilhuut further eyes, swiftly giving plaoo to a 1„ok of death• eererlanY ushered nit into the dial sting less despaij•. Ho swayed to sod fro, then rmn. l lie hest eenl 1ao bravinghimself bya bumrlitinlun were hal A 1 tuns 01(17 W1lly drew ne, long breath ath tein turned i x tijott11 adeqTeeuately is about the bet 8,411,1 ! cl with hie which adoegu,ei,ly eannuys the 11rilYcssion guard to lone a the hall, ono receives 011 entering, There w01 1 Mall been engaged by the {'town as 01G- 1(00 to say a ghastly, look about the 1(000. dal eteaogrn1ther, and, with the Met gilau 0,A long, wide room, well li., 1 at the man whose hand watt red with a web's plod and well ventilated (fere the nduur wax really nut so DISSEOTING 2,00M R01tRORS, All Old In booth Narrative. The following account of a cento,,.attion with a doctor iu tete ,Ileseeling row 1 of til .• blood, a feolleg of sympathy possessed m0, increasing hourly, as f wrote the damning evidelice of his guilt, I was completely fascinated, l+laeb time 1 raised my eyes, I knew, intuitively, 1should encounter the prisoner's pathetic gaze. And now, I watch• ed hint as he walked to the iron door which was to shut him from tho outer world for- ever. On the last stone step hepatised, and turning, with the aucurneyy of thought, darted at me a final glance whose fierceness burnt into my very heart. The advooate'e gentle reminder that all was over brought with it a sense of relief ; and gathering my notes I left the court house with itsainladen nnemoriea beheld ale, Weeks passed Sud, although I could not quite forget the condemned eau, I banished, like an nnpleasent dream, all -thoughts of his tragic fate. The dread clay drew near, and poor Faubert, the wife murderer, could count his epee of life by flours. Tho evening of the day previous to his execution I sat transcribing some legal notes, when, suddenly the venerable minister of an anjoining church was ,uuntuiCelt \Yonder- iug a little at the unusual call, 1 greeted my guest with a warmth of feeling evolved by the ellapl,aio'o many virtues. ” I have come to nth a favor," said ho. " Poor Faubert, you remember him, wants atrusty woman to receive hie last message to his mother. Will yeti shoulder the re- sponsibility ? " I hoaitated, In some mystic way I drawl - el the man—and yet, 1 could not, dared not, refuse. I undertook the charge and promised to be at the jail at 10 next morning —six hours before rho fatal moment of death. \Vith n heavy heat's I weeded my way to the court house, one side of whish was a prison. Being expected, I was met by the Governor, who, almost in total silence, led tato way to the condemned ward. The sun's warm rays sent a beam across the floor, the figura of the prisoner standing in bold out- line againet the white walls. He turned as the warden called hinl,and startedpercepti. bly when his eyes met nine. After a foto sympathetic words on my part, and an almost Haughty expression of gratitude on bis, he requested to see m0. alone, Tho prison rules forbidding tltis,t)te guard was dismissed for a halt hour, the governor alone remaining. At one end of the corridor was the cell ; towards thisFaubert asked his keeper to teinaiu while iae spoke to mc. Tho kind official compiied. Like a lightning flash came a change. Faubert, with a wild laugh, seized the nu- su0poetiug guardian in his grip, hurled hien 1 ,e tar end of his call, the door of whish he Meted, slaking a prisoner of his master, 1 shrieking loudly for help. Like a tiger Ito then sprang tit me, and effectively silenced my cries by grasping my throat with bode hands. I gasped and gurgled ; my ayes felt es if they would leave my ead, while he laughed like a demon. Dragging me to the Dell door where the captive guard still lay ho lifted me bodily, and still by the throat, swung me to and fro, shouting : " Hang by the neck till you are dead 1" The last words sounded faint in my oats. I could just see his glittering eyes, feel his hot breath on my cheek, the moist touch of His heeds—and I knew no more I When consciousness returned the alarmed nod gnmrc swerebarsti n into the cell T could hear rho shuffling of feet, the clanging of chains, and on the floor the writhing form of the maniac murderer. Kind hands minister• ed to me, my injuries bring serious. I was careject away to the parlor, below and six hours after, that steno Faubert, wife murder. or and maniac, mot his disgraceful death with a quiet dignity and calm courage which won the pity of all who witnessed his exeau• tion, I subsequently discovered that he had been totally oblivious to the terrible deed he attempted, and few yet know of the awful tragedy so nearly completed that morning. The Fertile Sahara, Cargoes of bones aro now being collected of the desert of Sahara and shipped to Now York, just as buffalo belles have been gath• ered on our \eastern prairies for ntanyyears. They are ground up and used as fertilizers, Tho interesting query at once presents itself as to what particular time, more or leas re- mote, these localities on the great Africa" desert where these bones are found were covered with verdure suillsiently luxurious to produce the food which gave sustenance to the enimels whose bones are mow being gathered. Not fifty years ago the school Inagsof North America reproseeted the great plains as a desert. The acne are now cove Beed with cultivated fields, granaries and stock ranges, In Texas tato Staked Plains were regarded as arid, and up to the time of Pope's fain. rue expedition in the forties, when wells were emit and good water founts not far from the surface, hundreds of men sad animals perished In the Menet to cross diem. It has siueo been discovered that a large port- ion of this region is arable and then abundant water can generally be had by digging, .ilaf the old route been deflected only afew miles much of the distress and nmreelity of the journey might have boon avoided. Now, In Africa the caravans have followed the scene old trail for oenturies, and until themilitary campaigns of the lest foto yeas disclosed forth l o spots end oases which were previously unknown, the whole vast region was rumpus.ad to bo an arid waste of shifting sand. lexploration meq yet discover that as large a proportion of tho Afrioan desert is arable as of the so-called Amo'ietan desert, Aseuredly 10 must at one time have been clothed with verdure to have harbored the immense number of animals represented by these numerous oollections of bongs, An old lace -maitre, who lute woven many n gossamer web for then connoisseur of laces, Mina, Modjonlce, and has taugght the fair aotrees to fashjpn some of tho daintiest materna icor cleft fingers delight in doing, gives this simple tempo for laoe-oleaniug; Spread Oho loco out carefully on wrapping. paper, then sprinkle it with oolcined mag' meet; place another paper over ft, and put it away between the leaves of a book for two '1 T have always had rho idea," began or throe days. A1110 needs is aa1(1111nl81100 Ftvoddy, but the young lady looked at him to stattor the white powder, and then itis with such evident stirrise and incredulity ready or weer, with slender threads Intact, that he forgot wh t 1 o a and eh fresh at when now, and stopped, had), with rows of blood-oteined honchos, and human oarea00sor limbs ((pun them ; at every bench a young man absorbed with a pair of Mimeos or a scalpel, a heat of con- versation, broken by an ocetsionnl music hall lilt, and a roar of laughter --such did the dissecting room appear at first sight. Our entrance was not immediately recognis- ed, but e0 soon alt we stepped 111 among the benches n human hand (or something like it) CAMS Whizzing from the further end of the room, and made a magpie on my friend's hat --only the urbanity of student left, Wo proceeded, and it needed but another glance to show that each man, or oat of men, was investigating a particular section of the human organism. w1I0 WIlistie Timm. ,1 You are now standing," said tate doctor, " in what ie allowed to be oto of the eroatest, if not thereatest, anatomical schools in the world. �)o you SCA tat dark fellow in the corner, with the gold and dilvnond rings on his fingers? That is an Indian prince. He is on the cart -theme of tate joints. These three men in front of him are all Boos. They are supposed to be in- vestigetio g the system 1,f tile muscles. Ono of them split a mutt's nose in the 1Vaverle y Market the other night" " WVas ho IIIVOSti. gating ?" " P",clsely," interrupted the doctor. t1 Ole wanted to make a practical examination of tho longitudinal section of the nasal fosatte, and he narrowly escaped a Montle in the Calton. But there is a tam of a different typo—ho with his head in the cavity of that trunk. That is a New Zeal- ander. Ile is working for honours. Ho revels in viscera, The individual referred to withdrew his head, gave Ills mustachios a mischievous twirl with his blood -wet fingers, and winked comically at the doctor. " You seem to have all the nationalities represented ?" "That is so. They aro here from the four wines of heaven, and every year they are scattered to the four winds. Some of them work hard in this room—many of them fool away their time If a man has any enthusiasm for the profession which ho Inas adopted, it will come out here. What the laboratory is to the chemist, the dissect. ing-room is to the "mad,'" "Does rho " med." pay for his experiments ?" " Yes, in more ways than our, He pays first of all for his material. Every leg 0r 0rm tint he dissects must be paid for. The rate varies according to the supply of bodies. I have know a log cost half-a-gainoa, and I have seen it 00 1015' as half-a-crown. COST 00 LRCS, An518, AND 000IL0. There is often great scarcity of bodies, so much so that we hays had to send to other towns for thont. Glasgow always refused to send bodies, even although they had plenty. Glasgow always said—' Send ns the students.' Tho usual prices paid for different parts of the body are—for a leg, 7s 64 ; arta. 7s Oil; head and neck, 7s 6d ; thorax, 48 Od ; abdonen, 4a (id ;—total, 310 04, But very often two students h we to be put on to a single limb, and ee each pays the same money for the body the total value of a dead bopy in the dessoce- ing loon may bo 12.2 es 04. That money tgoes to the demonstrators of anatomy, and o the man who injects a solution of wax and mercury into the body. Then the student sometimes—though lane gladtosay it doesn't often occur—pays for his knowledge by a dt as Dation wound. Aant or a puncture is to ser. P lops thing, i sustained f a' st inadwhi aeo11jeceIn which death has resulted from erysipelas or any similar diseases." " And who supplies your material;" "Well, you know, times aro changed. Como to this skeleton in the corner. That is the skeleton of an Irishman who, 00 years ago, started a lodging -house clown in the ',Vest Port, An Four-fifths of the world's atom engine's at old ponsioneer died in his house one night present in operation have been constructed and, instead of burying the body, he (i, e., within the last quarter of a century. France the man who was formerly inside these possesses 47,501) stationary engines, 7,000 bones) sold it for ctissectioe to 1)r, Knox. I locomotives, and 1,850 marine engines ; iter.. believe the irtvtsactioi was an ;tealtlalht ; many, 10,000 stationary engines 1,14 boilers, but having discovered that lie had 'struck 10,0u0l000motiveo,and 1,700mariue eng'ete; ile,' he at once set up as a wholesale and Austria, only ]2,000 stationary engines, retell dead body merchant to the doctors. and 2,S00lo0onMive0. Tho force of thesteam engines In operation in the United States equal to 7,100,000 horse power, of those in England to 7,000,000, in Germany to 4,500, 001,, in Prance to 3,000,000, and in Austrja, to 1,500,000 horse power. In those figures the horse power of locomotives is not inclu- ded; in the begetting of 1800 the total number of the world's locomotives amounted to 105,000, representing trate 5,500,000 to 7,000,000 lora° power. Taking the figures as 6,000,000 only, this gives the total horse power of %e s hete of the steam engines and locomotives on the earth as 40,000,000. The horse power of a steam engine may be estimated as equivalent to the power of three horses, and the power of a horse as equivalent to that of coven mon, The world's steam engines, therefore, represent the enormous total of 1,000,000,000 moll or double the number of workers in the world, Oho total population of the earth being estimated at 1,400,000,000 souls. Nov, 0, 1891 THE LOST OASIS FOUND, 0.xnlerel•s Ilei Smelted rnr 0t. 11 Vale five.° Since chiles lllseeverrd 11. In 1375, when Sit•, E. Giles ten10 his fans. one journey across the southern part of Auettnfia, travelling 111(00gh &Neve that had never been visaed bef,t'e, ho dioeevoretl a place that w110 groan and fertile, This oasts 111 t110 tieet•11 wits the remelt of ao111e Whigs which elyno 00 the surface there, rand gave the country for a large di06anee around the a0pe00 of rich and veal1ut ngriculOu'ai lauds, Ile named tete plat'&' Victoria 0Ipt'ing, and when he tuns 1101110 ho said ninny thousands of cattle or sheep cattle be raised there. 1[u had 'lowlier° aeon more pruntieing grazing Mod than this nasea, Clurionaly euoi,gh, he did not accurately define the 11oeiW00 of Victoria Spring. Ever 0incc his journey the place hos boon marked upon the mop, but several ox lor- re who tried to rime Victoria Spring have failed, and 001110 critics were unkind enough to intimate that tho ease had existed only in the imagination of Oho man who dosed!). eel it, The news conies now from Australia that Victoria Spring has been discovered again, Mr. e. P, lirooks writes from Israelite Bay to Baron vol Muller, who is well known for hie important labors in behalf of Ane. tralian exploration, that a Swodo named Frank Neuman has found Victoria Spring, This letter says that the spring is 135 miles north of the short Fraser range of moan• tains, in the southern part of West Amara - lie, and that hereafter this oasis may be early reached from the south coast. Nen, man says, am Wee reported earlier, that animal life iv abundant, that there is a fine growth of grass, and that about 4,000 acres aro splendidly adapted for sheep or cattle raising. In foot it to a very beautiful and fertile oasis iu the midst of a sea of sand, which will never be turned to any profitable account. 1311 the most carious thing about Victoria Spring is that although all the maps have shown it where It Was elppeeed (files found the spring, no one was able to the heroes it tiering the sixteen years since he discovered it until the present time. As near as can be ascertained he located it about fifty utiles from its position, and no subtle - quest traveller ever happened to see it. English Roads. It is only about one hundred years sines, England pulled herself out of the mud and began building those solid, excellent roads which have so enriched her people and con- tributed so immensely to their comfort, health and happiness. The Westminster paving act of 1701 may be regarded as the beginning of the better state of things now shown by English roads. In 1760 Arthur Zony gave a meat graphic description of the terrors of English country roads, and numerous other accounts fully corroborate his nerrative. In Scotland things were not any better. So bad wore the roads there that oatmeal, turf, straw and other n 010100 were carried on horseback, and it took o common carrier a fortnight for his journey between Selkirk and Edinburgh, a distance of only 38 miles, tied a coach and six requir- ed six days to go from Edinburgh to Glas- gow and return, a distance of 44 miles. More than n century ago London began the work of extending roads into the country. This movement was, of ;muse, violently and obstinately opposed by those to whom it proved to bo of tho greatest benefit. 13c the work was carried on, and, under the direction of each engineers as Rennie and Telford, England now boasts roads that are not excelled anywhere except by that imperial accomplishment of the first Napodoou, the road over the Simplon Pass. The result is what was foreseen by the Intelligent and persistent advocates of good roads. The country has been made immensely richer and more attractive, and both town and country immeasurably bone. flied,I America rica' mtalligentro ndmakin g in the ruraldistrl gets is, as ag °nor al thing, ' almost wholly unknown. The ridiculous misapplication of the rustic labor and fool- ishness known as "road working " is the graves; farce au ordinarily intelligent people ever took part in year after year. Steam Power on Earth. Ft 110 00' tn'lrili AND DABS, That, sir, is the skoloton of William 13nrko partner of the firm of Bunko & Hare. To what base uses may we not come to," apoe- trophised the doctor. " You see Burke vves hoist on his own petard. \Vo diasootecd ]tint in the end, There used to be a tradition in this room that Burke's jowl moved every time n dead body was brought in. That, I think, is on a per with the story of the bronze lion wagging his tail. (Moo, however, the skeleton did create a laugh. An Irish student, who ought to have ),eel studying the system of nerves, spent forenoon 11001. pulaLing Btu•ko'e joints. In the afternoon ile brought a friend to see the dissecting room, and, having carefully attracted b&'neral attention, he placed his friend's ook against 13urlce's skoletoo, when, draw. Ing a cord, tine bony arms of the resurrection. 1st closed round the bewildered stranger, Whose predicament was not relieved by the loud guffaws that rose front every quarter of the room." " That, surely, was a practi- cal test to the neves eysten 1" " Perhaps he meant it for a toss. The joke is still handed down. But you wanted to know Where we get one present; mettles ? If yon tomo upstairs I will slow you what wo have on hand," He w811t along through corridors and ap ataire, and finally opened tine door of a dingy apartment, where were stored several ooffens—all, as ho said, containing bodies of unclaimed persons who had died , in the publio institutions, such as tato poor• housoe, 100. 'rho vessels of the bodies had reeeivod an antiseptic injection, which, lvholi preserving the body, would, he asset. - ed me, remove all clanger to the dissectors, cc And what do you do with the dobris of the dissecting room?" I ventured to ask as I was corning away. "It is buried, of oourso," replied. the doctor. " The aloanoro gather up the fragments and put them In a coffin. I don't say the cleaners can distill. gtiislh whose disseoted arm this i0, or whose skull that is. I rather 0u0peet that tha coffin gree out with the heterogeneous frog, meets of half a dozen unclaimed mortals - who will never bo fixed toaettor till the last syllable of recorded tittle," Rash Assertion. Found at Last, "You say you want my daughter," said the proprietor of a morning newspaper to a young mat who was sitting ner0onsly on the edge of a ohatr end wiping his feverish brow with a trembling handkerchief, " Y—yoe, sir•" "Haveyott spoken to heron this matter?" "Sho—she referred mo to you, sir," "I0 your alioeden for her drop and sin. were?" ' Sincere 1" gasped the young man. " pledge you my word 1 haven't slept a wink nor eaten e mouthful for six whole weeks for thinking of hor," "George,' said the father, after looking et him a moment reflectively, "I think you (soy come into my faintly. I nerd a young man of your capabilities to swear to the oiroulaton of my paper." Bernhardt drinks stone, but she doesn't look it. Remarkable Enterprise, Woodot—"What do you consider the greatest piece of enterprise you ever saw?" Bulfincb—" Well, 1 s0ppo00 old than Meltepenny dict Ole most enterprising thin I over know," g "W1hat wee it?" 33tdfinoh--'" Why, ho hoard that Signer Basso Profunda was troubled with frogs in his throat and ho triad to melte arrange.) tante with him to get their hind logs.' THE LEPROUS DUZJ3, rhe Last 01070 ora Penner lord or Purl. bind. ❑t ).01'I91t C1tANin.ltrl n11.1d1N, \v'hat a. colony there moat be in that nvlber world of Hund Preach ports ! Lo C nate do fillers de !'Isle Adam joined this o, deny not long ago: and I have 00an rending hl re at Aix that one book of his width the Net French °011 ie„ have prontemeed "0 col - tem ion of mast's' p'ecen," the "Conte° Cruel." Well nut,' they be vaned " Creel T(1108," for Illere 10 scarcely one of them that in not m tragedy in little ; or worse yet, it tetter farce, that (hooka at the tragedy that Under- lies it, One of theca terrible tales le foul. ed on the cruel history of the late Duke of 1'ortland, who diad, as every one knows, of leprnoy, When I first wont to London the high garden walls behind which the Delco dwelt in he horrible solitude were pointed to Ise; 'and it used to seem to me whenever I went by the place that the clay turned cold. 7(1. de I'Isle Adana adds to the story which the world knows well, the thrilling note of ro- mantic novo. According to him the Duke's leprosy was limb made known in answer to a »nmmon0 from the Queen. She had heard of his return from foreign travel and his seclusion, and she sent for hint to come to court, When his reply arrived a young girl woe reading to her Majesty and the dispatch 1V00 put into her hands toopen and road. She broke the seal, unfolded the let- ter, and glanced at it with her eyes blur and clear RR the summer heavens. Then sud- denly she shut those eyes, bright with youth and hope, anti blindly and without ono word reached out the letter toward ler royal mistress, The Queen took it and rend it. It was the announcement of Duke Rit'hard's leprosy as the reason for his not obeying the royal summons, and thegirl who had opener) it was Helena, his betrothed wife. The Queen's hand trembled as she road and tion held the peters in the flame of a candle until they were enteurned. f1 My Lords," site said to some cf her nobles Nein had witnes- sed this acerae—" my Lords, you will never sen again our beloved Duke of Portland. la:e will never;, ,n" sit among yon in Perlia. merit. We shall grant him a dispensation from itis clothes, and we will keep hie secret, Do not seek to see or to 0poalc with hint." Then she sent the messenger, who waited to report to rho Duke what le had heard, and after this ale rose to go away by her- self into her innermost chamber, but sho turned to dismiss hor young reader, and lo 1 the girl hay as one dead—she 1;ad fainted, One renes not know what letters went and came between the Duke and Helena. But at last, one evening of autumn, there cane to the girl a notowritten by one of the Duke's secretaries, in which were only two words ; " This evening 1" 1t was toward midnight when Helena en - toted the gates whence the world had for 00 long a time been excluded, She came to a place where a matt lay on the turf wrapped in 0 mantle and with o mask over his face. She threw herself nn hor knee; beside him, sobbing bitterly. Ile strove to Iif 1. his bead, but it sunk back again helplessly, "Adieu," he cried, "Adieu, Helena 1 Yon are free henceforth," "And you—you are delivered," she answered, and then the silence between them was long. Suddenly there sante from Lite lips of the masked man a profound sigh. "Till our next meeting," she hoard itis, say in estrange voice, like that of a vanishing sone, and all wee over. When the attend- ants returned Helena said quietly : " The Duke is dead." 'Three days tater in the journal of the court all men might road the tidings that Helena H---, the betrothed of the lien Duke of Portland, had taken the veil and entered o. convent of the Carmel- ites. Three Women Walk to Inner Africa. Three women footed a od it inJul and August t last from the Indian Ocean overern0 0 miles to Mashonaland. They were members of an Episcopal order, and were trained nurses sent mit to take charge of the hospital which has beep ,sorted in that new country. The iliehop of elashonaland expected that provi- sion would be made to carry these young women in hammocks into the interior, but the fore° of porters was unexpectedly small, and the women said they would endeavor to wa\1'ilk, th'extraordinery courage they set out nn the jnurnoy. There was no wagon road, and for 00011 of the W0y no paths were found, The party suffered terribly et times from thirst. At night the bush was always alive with lions, byenes, buffaloes, leopards, and other admaOS. At oto time the party observed two limns drinking quietly thirty rods from them. The ernes often exceeded twelve foot in height for mules and miles, and some clays rho little maven marched through incessant rain. They suffered severely from the de- sertion of 0l, it porters, and of the thirty- two 000(10rs with whom they started only four remained at the and of their journey. The women hal no tonus to sleep in, and altogether they made the journey under conditions which would have tried the strength and courage of the stoutest men. They safely reached their destination, how- ever, and they are the first white women to have made such a journey into the interior of Afrio,t, the others travelling either on steamboats or being carried in hammocks or chairs. Large English Land Owners. There is only one landed proprietor in England possessed of more than 100,000 acres in one county, there being three in Ireland and no less than fourteen in Soothed. In England the Duke of North. umberland is proprietor of 181,61(3 novas in Northumberland. Ln Ireland ivir, Richard Berridge is proprietor of 160,152 acres in Galway, Ole Marquis Conyrgham 1241,846 acres in Donegal, and the Marquis of Sligo 0 121,002 in Mayo. In Scotland the Duke of Arg •leis the proprietor of 168,315 agree ih Argyle, the Earl of Breadalbane 234,106 nares fu Perth and 204,102 north in Argyle; Mr,l,vat Baillie, of Dockfonr, 141,148 (001(00 in Itvarn0s9 ; the :Duke of 1311olonnit, 2513,- 1743 soros en Dulnfrica and .10.1,401 in Rox- burgh ; Mr. Donald Cameron, of Goebial, 1011,574, acres in Inverness ; the Earl of Dalhousie, 36,602 acme 311 Forfar ; the Duke of Fife, ,130,820 arras in Aberdeen ; the Duke of Hamilton, 102,210 acres in Bute; Sir George Maophoroon4406,00, 103,- 372 acres in Inverness ; Sir James Matheson, 405,070 acres in Boss; the Dolce t+1 Rich- mond, 100,002 acres in Banff; Sir Cherle0 Boss, 110,145 acres in Ross ; the Earl of Seafield, 160,224 woe in Inverness ; and last, but not least, the Duke of Hnthorlatd, with no less than 1,17(1,454 Roves in Suther- land, so that his Grata is 100)0080001 of very nearly the whole county, too total area of which is 1,207,840 acres. 13usinc,t0 is the rub of 1110, perverts our aims, casts off the bits, and loaves us wide and short of the intender mark,—CCon. g rave.