The Brussels Post, 1889-7-19, Page 7JULY 19, 1889. THE BRUSSELS HOST.
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WEALTH,
called In Emetic, and the Finny diamonds
A REMARKABLE DIAMOND,
The rumens Gem 8717 by Thema,' hitt to
Sleep the leuI a of hieenns. they were raoovered, and in 1700 and 1708
The accumulation of a fortune wee always
p r mar o eo oflomat thea i•
tion. No romisie investment whether I
Walt in land in Englund or in (Nanton is in
India, was neglected by him. The oath with
which diamonds were parried and their
constant value, recommended them to him
aa a convenient medium of exchange with
Europe, His agent' in the country kept
him well informed ae to the state of the
diamond markets, and he was always among
the firth to hear of the dieoovery of any
atone of rare quality. It was is this way
that he woe filet made aware of the diamond
whioh has ever sine° been associated with
his name, It was a prodigious stone, weigh.
ing 420 carats, and the prise asked for it
wee equally prodigious, being no lees then
200,000 pogodue (a pagoda equals about 10a.)
The offer evidently had its attraotion for
Pitt, and ho tranemtbted a model of the
atone, with a description of ib, to his Eng.
lith agent, Sir Stephen Evanae. Bub the
magnitude of the proposed purohaoo alurmed
Evanoe, " Weo aro now," he writes in
reply, "" gate in a wart, Tee French Bing
has. his hand and hears full sot he can't buy
'such a stone, There is nae Prince in Europe
oen buy itt, sae weld advi'e you not to med•
die with 10." But Pith'still kept up negotia-
tions with bhe owner, Jaurahund, who Dame
in person to Fort•St. George bo tempb the
Governor, The pride asked, however,
weir 00 exoeseive thab Pith despaired of
becoming possessed of bhe prize, and more
in wantonness than with any intention of
moktag a serious bid, he offered 30,000
pagodas for it. Thie broke off the nego-
tiations for the time; bub with that per.
distance whioh Easterne always show in
money traneaotious, Jaurahund, after an
interval of some weeks, returned to the
charge. This time he professed himself
willing to take 100,000 pagodas, and at a
subsequent meeting, after moob haggling,'
Pitt beat him, down to 55,000. Bub even
this was more by 10,000 pagodas than Pith
had determined to give, and again Jaur-
°hund took his leave—not for long, however,
for in an hour he tent in word to say that he
would take 50,000, Up= this Pitt offered
to split the difference. But though anO:ien•
tal will submit to be beaten down in his
price time after time, he likes at the close of
the bargain to think that the yielding has
not been altogether on his aide. Pita offer-
ed 47,500. No, said Jaurohund-nothing
would induce him to take lees than 48,000.
Knowing his man and the ways of Bittern
traders, Pitt gave in to this demand, and
became poseeesed of the largest known dia-
mond in the world for a sum whioh was
about equivalent to £24,000.
The precious atone. was sent home to Eu-
rope in obarge of Pitt's eon, Rebut, onboard
the Loyal Cooke, whioh left Madras on the
Ott of October, 1702. It is amusing .to ob.
serve how the po0eesaion of the diamond
awoke in P:bt's breast a desire for the peace
of Europe and the prosperity of Ito wealthier
sovereigns, "The King of France or Spain,"
he writes to his agent, "will inallproability
bo the likeliest ohepmon for it, unless our
Parliament, upon come good success in some
noble undertaking, will be so generous as to
buy it for the Crown of England," A little.
later he says, "Pis certainly the finest jswell
in the world, and worth an immense sum,
and I hope you will never part with It but
for its reallvalue, whioh, ib may be, you'll
not be able to get dureing the warr, towhioh
God send a [happy and speedy conclusion."
But no "fforeignprinoe" showed any alacrity
to beeome the owner of the jewel ; and after
waiting three years he thought that possibly
the union of Soobland with England'
might be made an 000aeion for its purahaee.
"I heard from Lisbon," he writes, "that up.
on the union with Scotland passing our
Perliemeab 'twee intended to present the
Queen with the royal title of Empress, I am
sure nothing is so proper to acoompany'10,
being the bob and biggest in the world."
Fate, however, hod decreed that the. prize
was to go to the French Crown, and eventu-
ally the Dike of O:leans became the pur-
chaser of it, nominally at the price of 4135,-
000. We eay nominally; because that sum
was never actually paid. Ib wee agreed that
£40,000 should be handed over as part. pay
menb, and that three boxes of jewels should
be given ae eeourity for the payment cf the
belanoe. This balance was never forthoom,
ing, and the prioe, therefore, whioh Pith r e
oetvad was £40,000, plus the value of the
jewels. The vale was effeoted after Pitt's
return to Europe ; and in the company of Inc
two sons, Lord Londonderry and John Pitt,
and his son-in•law, Mr Cholmondeley, he
personally carrled the diamond to the Preach
capital. •
So supreme was the value of the atone that
the greatesb seoreoy was observed in convey-
ing it into France; and Ool., Yule illustrates
P,tt'e nervous anxiety on this point by a cu-
rious story of au adventure by (he way.
When at Ool,ie, Pitt formed a friendship
with the landlord of the hotel at which be
staid, and before leaving expressed a wish
he might be a e to e o serviceto him
Revolution, the Itegont, as the stone was TWINS.
were stolen. Two years litter, however,
Among the phenomena of lite, no other bhe Regent was twine pledged to German
one is more mysterloae, or farther beyond
the p t y tj t Tl PI mb bankora as security for the cost of horse
our comprehension then Bleep, It feat, no p g , b furniture, Ab the eoronatien of Napoleon
greater mystery of human life is anywhere
presented to our minds than this.
We see man nt one moment in full active
exprceeion of vigor and strength, capable ei
grasping a wide range of material and
philo'sophloal truths—the,nexb he lies before
us unooneoioue and ruotionloes, save the
gentle and involuntary motion of the heart
end lungs 'whioh continuo their unceasing
labor.
If there le on record a phenomenon of Set
that be shrouded in unknown laws, beyond
the pceeibllity of obtaining any slue to its
phlloecphy, it is Bleep, Aa myetorioue as
the trauce appears, after having an oppor-
tunity to whines and carefully examine
a number of 08000 in this condition, I was
able to arrive Ms acme definite conolueigne
pertaining tc 10, but sleep, as it appears to
me, is to human oonception miraouloue in
every gena° of this much abused word.
There is no other law whioh demands
obedience, in order to maintain phyaioal
existence and perfection that le more impera-
tive, than the hidden ono that governe Bleep,
Without sleep we oennot be nourished,
and ono will starve to death as quickly for
want of ib as from lack of food. It is dur.
ing Bleep that the vital forces replenish,
with new material, the continually wasting
thanes of the body.
While we sleep, then, ie the redeeming
time of God to hie children. In this con-
dition He puts into silent repose all their
thoughtleee, rebellious nature, and acoom-
plishee His work of redemption by replenish-
ing and repairing the exhaustion, waste and
injuries which they have sustained from ex-
eroiee, sed oft•timeo abuse, during voluntary
life.
If we aro 'strong, vigorous, and endowed
with an abundant stock of vitality, we may
succeed in digesting food when asleep, but
it is nob possible for assimilation—bhe build-
ing up promos—to take plane when we are
awake. If digeetion and aetimildtion are
both attempted during sleep, the vital forces
will he divided, and neither process will be
a000mpliehod so perfectly as if carried on
separately.
Those who have realized the necessity of
paying etriob attention to their phyetoal con-
dition, need to give earnest heed to this sub-
ject in order to obtain the beet results from
their Bleep,
Ib is better to take this repose when,all is
quiet, than amid noisy surroundings. Sleep
obtained before midnight is of muoh more
value than that gotten later in the oighb or
during the day. Yet aleepiog ab any time
is better than not ab all.
The beat position of the body when asleep
is lying on the right aide, alightly inclined
backward, nearly straight', and with the head
toward the north.
There ie no time when free and perfect
ventilation is eo important as when we are
asleep. The materials of whioh the bed are
made ie also of much importance; vegetable
matter being the beet for that purpose,
Animal matter ie a poor conductor of elec•
trinity, and is nob cleanly, metallio beds
oonduct the electricity too rapidly from the
body, and this also disturbs its.electric con-
ditions. .4. bed of straw Dowered with a
light cotton mattress is perhaps the very
beet.
The amount of sleep required varies in
different persons, and ie governed by tem-
perament and occupation. The number of
hours given to sleeping should be from five
to twelve oat of every twenty-four,
The manner of awakening should nob be
overlooked. One should nob be aroused
hurriedly, nor is ib best to arias in haste.
Fruit as food.
Taken in the morning, fruit is 0s helpful
o digestion as 10 is refreshing. The newly
awakened function tirade in it an object of
such light labor as will exeroiae without ser•
tautly taxing its energies, and tissues of the
stomach acquire at little coat a gain of nous
iehment which will sustain those energies
in latter and more serious operations. 10 is
an excellent plan, with this objeob in view,
to add a little bread to the fruit eaten.
While admitting its poeseeeion of theta val..
ueble qualities, however, and while also
agreeing with theso who maintain that in
summer, when the body is, ab all events', in,
many oases, leas actively employed than
usual, meat may be less, and fruit or vege-
table, more freely used as a food ; we aro
nob prepared to allow that even then exolu-
eiveiy vegetarian regimen is that moth gen-
erally advisable. Meat provides us with a
means of obbainieg albuminoid material,
which is indispeneoble, in its moat easy are
aimilable fora. It affords u0 in this mater-
ial not only an important constituent of tis-
sue growth, but a potent excitanb of ,the
whole process of nutrition. It hae, there.
fore, a real definite, and great value in the
ordinary dieb of a man, and the wholesome-
ness of fruit combined with farinaceous:food
as an alternative dietry isnot so much en
argumenb in favor of the vegetarian prinof•
pie, as a proof that seasonable changes in
food supply are helpful to the digeetive pro•
messes and to nutritive ohangea in the tissues
generally,—[London Lancet,
To Strengthen the Back,
Walking is the beet exerolee'or strength•
ening a weak baok. When a man iays"
walking makes hie backaohe,- eo aremedy,
let him walk. If he gays 1t makes him
tired, again we eay, "Walk." If the simple
aot of walking gives a backaoh0, lb' is evi-
dent that the back has nob been strength-
ened by walking as it should be ; conpe-
quently, walking is jueb what is needed.
Certain gymnoetio exeroiaeo are excellent,
and so is deep, .abdominal breathing, The
majority of people do not 000 their baeke
enough. The firth oxeraioe of cadets—lean•
ing forward until the finger tips touoh the
floor, while the knees are kepb stiff -bo ex•
oellont practice. Backe eometimoo become
musole.bound, because they are not heed
enough.
Communis with Nature.
.g
Close by the sparkling brook whose oil•
very wateee danced in the aunlighb and
rippled joyously over the golden sands they
sat in silence—George and Laura—drinking
in the glorioue -beauty of the ruatio eoene
and communing with nature in one of het
chosen shrines. Alar in the west the sun
seemed to linger at the horizon's brim as if
unwilling to shut out from his gaze the love.
ly landscape that glowed with a ;mitring
and even melancholyradiance in hie de.
parting
fling ory buret from the lis of the
tf1 Y P
beautiful girl.
"Geore 1 George I": sko almost ehriokod•
"What ie It, darling 1" he asked, platting
hie arm tenderly around het waist, " 3I00
the romantio yet oppressive lovelinese of the.
000neryddened your spirits—"
Ne, George 1' she eoreamed, waving her
her hands wildly and making a Motto jab
on the small of her batik, "I think it'o00mo
kind of a bug 1"
that bl b E
"To this the landlord innocently replied
that he (Pitt) hada pebble in his poteessiou
which might indeed do him the utmost ser-
vice." What he meant by " a pebble" is
not clear, end Col. Yule dose not offer any
explanation. Pltb, however, at onoe oonolud'
ed that his ieorethad been betrayed, and
broke out in such violent abuse of his hoeb
that the poor man fled from the room, and
Lord Londonderry, evibh hie companions had
the greatest difsoulty in allaying the Gov
ernor a alarms. Happily the diamond was,
after all,eafely deposited with its new owner,
and Pitt returned to England a richer and a
happier man, Bub having thus gathered his
gropes, he was destined to hetvoet a prop of
thistles, in the shape of stories invented by
the envious about the •manner in whioh he
had become poeeee0ed of the atone. One re-
port was that the diamond woe " ono of the
eyes of the god .1 -mutat," and had been
stolen and sold to Pith, bhe idol ever after
remaining Bingle eyed. Another was to the
effcotthat the atone wag found by a blave,
who, in order to hide it, made o gash in his
leg, and buried the jewel in the wound. In
a moment of confidence—eo ran the legend—
the slave imparted his motet to a sailor, and
promised to give him the stone if he would
oeoure to him hie freedom, The sailor made
the required promise, and haying enticed the
hapless slave on board his ship, took the
diamonds from him, and then threw him
into the eels So pereistenb were these
rumors that they gained some credit; and
Pope plainly had them in his mind when in
the history of Sir Balsam he wrote—
Asleep and naked a0 an Indian lay,
An hoaeet tactor stole a gem away;
lie pledged it to the Knight, the height bed pit,
So ltoptthe diamond, and the segue was bat.
In 1801 the Regent appeared, the between
the tooth of a crocodile, In the pummel of the
1'lmparor'e award, Th ore the jewel remained
until it wee carried off in 1814 by Merle
Louise. It woe however, returned by the
Emperor Fronola, and was meet for the nor.
°nation of Charles X Daring the reign of
Napoleon I10. It was mounted several
times, and in 1870 was deposited In the
Bank of Prance from whioh it was trans-
forred to the collars of tho treasury, whore
it now remeine.—(13'aokwood Msgseine.
The Speed of Game Birds,
An old eporteman, talking to a reporter
the other day said : "I have held my
watch on Beveled kinds of duke and geese,
but the main port of what I am going to tell
you Domes from several old hunters who
have favored me with their experience, and
one of these old timers in a letter says : "1
au tell you just about to the sixty-third
part of a dot how muoh apace any one of
them can gab over in an hour. There is nob
a railroad train that can hold a candle to
the aide of the sloweet duck that flies,"
'• The oanvae-back can distance the whole
duok family, If it lays itself out to do it.
When this duck is baking things easy, en-
joyfng'a little run around the block, as 10
were, it goes through the air at the rate of
about eighty miles an hour.' If it has boob -
nese somewhere and has to get there, 10 putt
two miles book of lb every minute, and does
it easily. If you don't believe this jueb fire
equal's at the leader in a string of oanvae•
backs that are out on bueineee cruise some
time. Duck ehob travels pretty fast', but if
you happen eo hit one, you see if it is not
the fifth or sixth one bask of the drake or
leader. The drake does not always lead,
but it generally does if there is one in time
Soak ; if there are mora they will seldom
take the lead. If you wish to bring down
the leader you mush aim at a space of at
least eight feet ahead of him, and if he falls
you will find him a long distance, probably
two or three squares off.
The mallard is a slow one; itis all he can
do to make a mile a minute, but he can do
it if he wants to. His regular rate is about
fortyfive miles an hour.
" The blank duck is s. slow coach. He is
about ae good as the mallard, and the fintail
widgeon and wood dunk can not do much bet-
ter. The red head oon go easily, and sake
ninety miles an hour as long oe he likes, all
day if necessary. Tho blue•winged teal, and.
its beautiful cousin, the green -winged teal,
can fly aide by aide ler 100 milesin an hour
and take ib easy.
"The gadwale, you see them here vary
seldom, though well known farther West on
the Allegheny River and at Rishmammook,
though looking like the mallard, is a smarter
duck and harder to shoob. It can make
ninety miles in an hour and not try hard.
"Maybe you may think a goose can't fly.
Why, it can double the speed of the fastest
traine on any of our railroads. Of oouree I
mean a wild goose. Well, it hae a big cor-
poration, bub it can get from feeding ground
to feeding ground so euddonly that it fools
our beet wing shote.
"If you see a Hoak of honkers moving
along so high up that they seem to be scrap
fug the sky with their beaks, you would not
think that they are making close on a bun.
dred miles an hour, bub they are. The wild
goose is not much on foot, but it means buss
nese every time.
"T'he broad -bill goose comes next to the
oanvae back dunk in speed. Put the two
together and in an hour the broad bill would
not be more than ten miles behind."
•
Poison for Rejeoted Suitors.
A ourfow custom prevails among the in-
habitants of the Sandeman Island. When
a native girl, who has had a number, of
suitors, is parried off by her eooepted lover,
the wedded pair, within ferty-eight hours
of the wedding, send a sup of poison die
tilled from the halalula tree to each of the
bride's former admirers. If any ot the
reoipiente feel that they cannot beoome
reconciled to the marriage, they drink the
poison and die; bub if they decide that they
will survive the lose of their intended
wife, they throw away the poison, and feel
bound in honor never to show the alighted
sign of disappointment. By this system
the husband is able to live =friendly terms
wibh the surviving admirers ,of hie wife,
They were All Agreed, -
I shall not marry Mies Crnsoue, after all,"
announced young Bjenkine sadly. " Her
family theme to oppose the match too.
much."
" Hang 'the femi ,y I" exclaimed a'sy.mpa-
thizing friend. "l..o in and win, Bjenkine,
just the same. Whet do you care for the
family's opin ion, eo long as the girls will.
ing
That's just ib." explained Bjankins, still
more sadly. "Mies Crmeuo imams to agree
with them,"
Attempted Suio'de.
TonotaTo, July 11.-A man'named James
Gorman, living at 58 Elizabeth street', made
a deliberate attempt to comma enfold° at
one o'clock the. other day.' He swallowed
two spoonfuls of carbolic aoid. Medical aid
was summoned, and when the self•viotim
had recovered the use of hie burning throat
he gave as his reason for the raeb nab that
his wife harboured a woman of dissolute
eharaoter.' He was conveyed to the hoe.
pital, .
She Wanted a Fair Understanding About
the Matter.
A woman in the near vicinity of forty-five
and weighing within a pound of one hundred
and eighty Occupied a that on the brain from
Toledo the other day in company with a
soared looking young man who probably
voted fast Fall for the first time. Aa they
Mentioned Detroit and the fact that they
were going to atop there, a olbizen who load
o seat ahead turned around and said he
would be glad to give them any information
he posseeeed,
"Look where," said the woman in answer,
"I want a fair understanding with yen ab
the outset.. Who do you suppose this young
man le 1'
u Your—your grandson, perhaps."
" No, air."
" Your nephew, then."
" No, air.'
" Your own eon."
In the original version of the poem in Pope's "No, air."
own handwriting, the lash line stands, "So "Perhaps he ie an acquaintance,"
robbed the robber, and wee rfoh as P=;' "Re ie my husband, air -»married pester•
whioh pute beyond question the incident to day—and I don't want any mietakeo made.
which the lints refer. A dozen different people have taken him for
The fortunes of the diamond have sine my grandson or nephew, and I'm getting
been 00 various as the winds of heaven. It tired of it, He's my husband, air—h.0-e'
woe Bret made publicly ooneplouaus by being b•a'n d—and now go ahead and tell us
paced in tbo crown artanged for the corona- where we can find a total with family coin.tion of Lcuis XV, In 1122, During the sal forte for about one dollar a day,"—[Detroit
;rosy eoheequent on the outbreak of the Free hese.
The t/ndeli n ante :remi"Uhy 'I'1, 0 Often
reels Is Bel n'I','ta Them.
Paw things are more myeteriouo than the
undefinable sympathy which often oxiote be
tweon two bangs who came into the world
together, There can bs no doubt that this
sympathy is real, and not the effect of the
imagination, ae some have tuppesed, So
far as It is known it does not alwaye develop
ltsolf and when it to present its oause la nob
by any means understood. A vary real af-
feotion generally exists between twine, mid
often theme to 'how itself in the earliest
day' of idiocy, It la no uncommon thing
for a twin who he lots hie or her onunter•
part to pine away, drooping gradually Into
the clutches of the destroyer, who, In mak•
Mg the other, hoe deprived life of all lee
joy, But though Intense fondness is no
doubt to a groat extent the thine of euoh
sad occurrences, the eympothy whioh twins
have for one another shows itself here,
WITIH :RANT SAVAGE RACES
twine are hurled out of the world immedi-
ately they have entered it; others allow
there to live, bub only under certain con.
ditions. In Western Africa, a little below
the equator, between 10° and 12° east longi.,
tude, live a largo trihecalled the Iehogo,'
They have many peculiar customs, butnone,
more so than their treatment of twins and of
the mother who is so unfortunate as to bear
them, An idea theme to exist with them
that no woman ought to produce more than,
a tingle ohild at a time, and they seek to
rectify the error by giving their deities
every chance of killing one of the ohildren
before they have arrived at the age at which
they are considered able to take care of
themselves. This is held to be at about six
years old; since that age has been passed it
is thought by these people that a proper
balance between life and death has again
been etruok, and they do not deem any
further preo0ntione neoe0eary. Immediately
the birth of twins takes plane the hue in
whioh the evenb happened le marked in
801110 manner which will render ib readily
distinguishable from all others in the vit.'.
lege.
Thoth who have read imamate of African
travels will probably remember the unani-
mous testimony whioh explorers of the dux
oontiaenb bear to the extraordinary, toque.
ity of its natives. Africans talk as they
breathe—unceasingly, end yet the unfortun-
ate mother of twine is
FORBIDDEN TO EXCHANGE
a single word with any but the immediate
methbere of her family. She may go into
the forest for firewood, and perform the
household work neosoary for the existence
of herself and her children, but ib must be
all done in strict silence, unlet' she Sods
herself near one of her oloee relatives. The
consequence of'bhie peculiar eustom is that
the lehugo woman dreads the advent of swine
more than anything, except, perhaps, being
childless; and nothing irritates' a newly
married woman tnore than to bell her that
she is sure to beonme the mother of two
children ab abirth, When the eix years of
probation have dragged out their weary
length, a grand ceremony ieheldto celebrate
the release of the three captives, and their
admission to the society of their fellows.
At daybreak all the village is aroused by a
proclamation made in the principal street
and the mother and a friend take up.a
stand on eibher aide of the door of the hub,
having previously whitened their legs and
facet, The reot of 100 Inhabitants of the
place congregate round about, and
AT A GIVEN SIGNAL '
the white legged women maroh away from
the hub, followed by the twins, bhe mother
slapping her hands and capering about,
the friend beating a lusty tatoo upon a dram
and singing a song appropriate to the. oc-
eaeien. After this prooeesion has gone the
round of the village there is a general dance.
Then every one 'sits down 'to a great feast,
and eating,. drinking and dancing are oar-
ried on for the rest of the day and all.
through the night.• Ae soon as the next day
dawns all restrictions upon the mother and
her offspring ere held to be removed. This
ceremony, is known as "M'peza," a word
which signidoa both the twine and the rite
by virtue of whioh they and their mother
are admitted to the companionship of their
kind.
C.teee in which one of a pair of twine has
felt some disturbing influence at work with-
in him when evil was befalling his other
self are numerous. As with all =there of
the kind, the inetanoes related are apt to
border upon the land of fiction, bub there
are many whioh are perfectly well authen-
ticated. Though twin are usually alike in
form and feature, thin is not invariably the
0000. The writer knows twin brothers who
can scarcely be said to bear even a family
likeness to one another, and whose com-
plexions go to the very extremes of dark-
ness and Writhes. But though unlike bod-
ily, they resemble one another mentally to
such an extent that Orel placid from bhe
bottom to the top of one of oar greet public
echoes side by aide.
Saved by a Country Maid,
A Dae Moines deepetoh says :—Nebraska
has a Kate Shelly and. she is a farmer's
daughter named Mabel Peck, living near
Blair, who risked her life during the storm
Saturday evening to save from certain de
sttuotion'freight train No. 22 oh 'the Fre•'
monb, Elkhorn and Missouri Palley line,
Her father's farm Hee near the railroad, be.
tween Blair and Hillsdale. Daring Satin..
clay's. storm Mabel noticed that the water
was running down the track like is river.
Thinking eomebhfng mlgbt'bo wrong she
threw her father's goat over her aboulders
and wenb down to the otossing, There she
found that 100 feet of the road -bed had
been washed under and bhetrack was buried in
debris. Ab this moment, bhrough the sound
of the storm; Wheel heard the whistle of bhe
oast -bound freighb ae ib ran into Hillsdale.
There was no one at the farm but her
mother and no one n00.1. who could aid her.
Determined to save the train and its crew,
bhe brave girl ran towards the out through
time torrents of rain and in the gloom of ap•
preaching night, When the train was half.
way down the grade approaching the wash•
out the engineer saw the girl standing before
it on the track waving tate soot 0e a signal
of plasm, The train Was stopped in time
and its crew thank Mabel for saving their
lives, Mies Peek 10 eighteen penis old, with
slight, girlish figure and do rk ey t0 and hair.
Train No, 20 hoe adopted the oustom of giv'
her to, grateful salute of greeting eaoh time it
rolls past her father'e farmhouse.
F. r..s....sw.-•
Altered Cases.
Colored Lad :—"Gemman to the ye, mum,"
Lady of the house (at breakfast), Very well,
John; show him into the porton" John;
"Oh 1 but it's the gammon come to sweep
Oho obirnbly," Lady (muoh nettled); "Then
ahow him up the chimney,"
The Alternative.
The Dentist's daughter (who bore hot
father approaching) : "Oh, dear Alward
hero camas my father I If he should find ne
together here we are,icat. Oh, ho is doming
You will either have to oak for my hand or
—let him pull out a tooth for you.
SAK JONES, LATE CABLE NEWS.
Santo (Melee klopreoa/Ana Emit, the J1v,,t. ,_..
gelid' $erntona In New' Orleuna.
t ilristianity Is the science of 1110.Russia Patting Servia,—The it(vtl Service
You boys keep quiet or git out, Kings.
Tne "Journal do Salnt•Petorabourg"says
the ovation given to M. Perolool, the Ra-
dom Minister to Servia, at Seitobar, on the
occasion of the anointment of the King,
shows that the Sorvian people appreolata
Rosin's keen interest in their country.,
The " Journal " aloe says that Coun,
Kalnoky'e speech before the delagationa" e.t
Vienna hoe had the effect of noolerating the
tone of the Auetriou press, but that the site
nation was no more disquieting at the time
it was made than it ie now.
Meiotic' have ibeen received from Apia
saying that a treaty of peace has been con-
cluded between Mataafa and Tamooeo,
Lieutenant Thurston has amoluded Ida
inquiry into theohargee made by Germany,
thab aesietanoe had been given Matesfa by
the British Consul att Apta. The Inveeti-
gatiou resulted in exoneration of the Con•
sal from all the chargee,
In the enoountero that have occurred near
Argsi 1 b'twoen the Egyptian troops under
Culuaal Wodehonae and bhe dervieheo 030
of the dervishes have been killed and 700.
obhere have either bean taken prisoners or
have deserted,
The village of Ubbendorf, on the Weser
R'ver, has been destroyed by fire. The loan
is enormous. Nu loos of life is reported,
Admiral Krantz, Brenoh Minister of
Marine and of the Colonies, has made a
demand in the Chamber of Deputies for an
extra credit of 00 003,000 for the navy, and
has threatened to resign if the money is nota
voted,
The French Senate committee whioh had
the mutter in charge has approved the bill
for the relief of the Panama Canal Corn-
meal'.
p.
The session of the Portuguese Cortes closed
yesterday. A general election will be held
n Ono ber nexb.
Two veesele belonging to the Meeunbiqus.
squadron will join the Portugusee oorveate
at Dolagaa Bay.
The Berlin " Post " asserts that Emperor
William, while at Stuttgart, declared that.
the new polios measures which 5 mite irland
proposed to adopt were euffm.ient to meet the
demands of the allied Powers• He desired
that publio opinion be calmed.
Tae Spanish Chamber of Deputies held a
secret sitting yesterday. Several of the
opposition members tndesvoured to explaim
theextraordinaryoutbreak that occurred
during yesterday's seesion.
Now don't you feel mann, you old devil
ybul
A preacher who dons nob hold family
prayer an't fit to be pastor of a litter of
pups.
Some of you will go off and oritioleo,
You blabn,outhed fools, who cares what you
think 0
Brother Bleak there don't wont any more
mem"oro in bis ohnrch, for half he's got an't
worth killing.
The only difference between the Baptists
and the Mothodlate is the difference) between
high-cook-c•lorum and low-000k•a•highrem.
If any one hero don't believe what I eay,
and will tell me Bo, I will give hire a hat
and some deotiat a jab of replooing hie
teeth, from the wisdom tooth down.
I, the biggest fish that swims,
The .penitent sinner is the man who falls
down, umps up, rube hie thine, and goes
a running,
.Yon are all black mouthed devils who
belong to the church, and when the yellow
fever came were white with fear,
I don't know of anything too bad for you
old mangy hounds who refuse to vote against
the damnable whisky brafli3.
I don't know who la those fellows' spiritual
daddy.
You old skunk, you 1
A high -license preacher won't be In hell ten
minutes before the devil will have him sad
died and bridled, riding him around and
exhibiting him as a curiosity.
If any merchant here keeps open during
these meetings it will be some little 15 out.
okin•a-fl ea-for•his hide-and•tallaw member of
some church.
Ioet mash their mouths and you've got'em.
The Lord can cetob these infidels ; the
only trouble is he hardly has a hook small
enough f or them to swallow.
1 can pub 100 of these little infidels in my
veeb pocket and never know they are there
excepb 1 felb;for my toothpick.
Whab are you old Presbyterians kinking
about—you old possum -eared hounds 1 Live
ones kiok—dead ones don't. If a man was to
some to my town and ',talk about my
church like I have yours I would either sow.
hide him or build a new chetah,
WATER FOR FUEL.
An IagcniO"S Inaetdtan Warms Would
ReVolutlonize Iloulohold Healing..
What appears to be an important inven-
tion has recently been made public in Pail -
lips, Wis. It is no lees than the praotioal
and oheap tree of water as'fael. The appli.
'ace omelets of nothing buta piece ot gat
pipe from two inohee to six inches in di-
ameter, as may be desired, and of maven.
fent length to fit a cook or a parlor or other
beater, with short lege or a stable support,
to keep it in position. This is planed in the
stove, with one end slightly proleotiog, to
whioh is attached a vessel of water with
stop cook conduib from the water vessel into
she pipe. Beforereaohing the steam sham.
ber the water passes through the most im-
portant pare of the invention, the part that
oonatitutee or oonbains bhe great discovery,
By means of:ib the water may pass into the
steam ohamber, while the steam cannot pass
out, The part of the pipe containing the
steam chamber is within the stove, although
a small part may be without if desired, To
thio.theheatofamederatowood,or coal fire is
applied, 0o ae to heat the steam to a high
temperature, eay 300 0 or nearly 400 ° ,when
it panes out of a small orifice immediately
into the midst of a bed of coals or flame
from burning wood or coal, when ib is at
once raised to the required temperature, 400°
or more, to be immediately decomposed
Into its gams—oxygen and hydrogen—whioh
instantly beoome flice, Only a moderate
Summer Eire of wood or opal will be rc gnired
the coldest day in Winter, the g00eou0 fl"me
Tarnishing the below* of the heat needed in
the coldest room, The capsoity for reducing
heat may be regulated to alio requirement
When it is known that hydrogen fl ice
yields a heatin burning five times greater than
carbon or about 2000 ° to 2500, one may
form some idea of bhe oapaoity of this little
oontrivancofor producing hear.
By increasing the tempsreture of the gas
pipe to about 400 ° , the vapor may be de-
composed into iba gases before exit from the
pipe, and in such cases it is omitted in 0 j ab
ofble° flame. In either tote the oxyhydro-
gen flame is easily produced and with a very
small consumption of fuel.
Take It .Easy.
Now that warns weather is oomi00 on, the
washing getting larger and the work unusual•
ly laborious, it seems useless for the hones
keeper who has all her own work to do to
spend her time and strength in ironing all
the coarse towels, dish towels, wash clothe,
eta., with the same assiduous care Oust ase
givee to her table linens, In fad we do nob
tea why ibis necessary that ,shay • should be
ironed at all. If foldedneatly and evenly
they will lap in the cupboard or drowet
equally as well and after they have been
used onoe no one will everknow whether
they have been ironed or not. We will Bleep
just as sweetly in sheets jueb folded from the
line,; and plain underwear needs but
alight attention. Novi that it is no longer
considered unproper to wear unetarohed
dresses, underwear, oto, muoh labor
can be caved, by following tho fash-
ion. It it hard enough to do whab is
actually necessary to keep the household
in running order when bhe meroary reaoheo
100 degrees in the shade, and feelings of lee.
situde almost overcome no, without our ex-
erting ourselves to do that whioh is as well
undone. Better spend the time gained in
reading or social intercourse with our neigh.
bore: We will undoubtedly feel better and
it is possible we might ewe a dootor'e bill.
One ought also to be provided with a ker.
°gene or gasoline stove. they are more
eoonomioai than wood, do hot heab up the
house 00 badly, save many steno token to
keep the stove filled with wood, and the
poreon ironing feels only the hent . from the
irons and ooneequently is not nearly to much
fatigued, Every honeeleeepor should insist
ae one of her rights, on having all the oon
voidance poseiblo to aid in doing her work
family and quickly.
Nightmare.
This is the result of a condition of the
nervous system in which the cerebrum is
active, but in whioh there is no control o
the lower part of the brain,—that part whioh
controls muscular action. A, person can feel,
but oennot move. It enema to be a Bort o
temporary paralyeie of the minutiae of motion
It is eometunea muted by overheating of the
spinal cord (foathor•beds are not entirely
out of fashion yet), and also by present%
of the atomaoh upon the aorto. Perhaps
the otomeols 0 distended by elate supper 0
various indigestible viands, and lying upon
the book this great load Impale the dr I
of the blood to the lower part of bite body
Sometimes nightmare is dose to purely nor
volts cameos, and oon bo cured by oaring the
nervous disorder which line brought it on. f
Women's Barber Shops,
Barber shops for woman seem to be in-
creasing in New York, and many of theta
have regular oustomers. The work done is; '
of course, confined- almost wholly to brush-
ing, cleaning and making up the hair.
Ibany of the ouetomsre keep their own_.
combs and brushes, ton, in the pigeonholes
which one epee filled with onpa in a barber
ehop for men, The barber and her assist-
ants are, of mires, women, and to one of
them the writer said the other day :—" How
often should a woman haveher hair,
bruahed 1" "Every night and morning the
ought to brush it herself," was the reply.
"Many of them never bruah it thoroughly
ee all, and as for cleaning it, all they know
about that is scour it once or twioe a year
with borax or ammonia, as they would their
kitchens. Trois mine the hair, yet they
know no better. Many a fine lady:
goes about with eix months' accumulation of
Erb on her head under a g25 bonneb, and
would be horrified to think herself not as
olean as the ehou'd be. Women who know:
how to care for their hair Dome here once a
month for a dry shampoo to Olean the scalp,
and once a month I Glean their hair itself
with mobile soap and water, drying it im-
mediately by spreading it over a bob air
register. The hair should have air an&.
sunlight too. I think the hair of American
women is becoming more and more ecanby,
while nearly all the fine switches and wigs
of human hair in the market Dome from the
heade of the German and Swiss peasantgirls"
who work bare headed in the fields, and
whose trainee are so long and thick that
they are glad to sell some of it for next bo,
nothing.
Tate of an Etgnimau•
An Esquimau tab on a ebunk of ice,
In the land of the Nut here Pole ;
Ole °racked hie heels and he whistled twine
Ab a sight that alarmed his soul.
For a stranger came over the flelde of snow,,
Ata speed those was fearful, quite ;
IIs cheeks were pallid and thin with woe,.
And the froab on his beard was white. •
"01, pritnee, pause," cried the E quimaih
"From whence do you come so fast Y• • •
"I come from eland weary leagues below,
This realm with its storm and blast.
"1 oomo from a land in the far off South,
And I've traveled ten thousand miles
Since last the tun like a beaming month
Turned loose on the earth hie smiles,
"I've olambsred the mountains, enraging,,
streams
Full oft' I've been heaved and tossed ;
I umpired a game for two base ball t,amcat
Alta; And the home club lost."
Christine Nilsson..
It ie reported of a Boston millionaire,
tvho had begun life a0 a poor boy, that he
gave a "houte•warming" on entering his flaw
mansion, and did not invite his own brother,
a poor man. A mutual friend said to the
millionaire in the oouree of the evening, "I
don't see your brother present—I hope he be
nob ill," "No," enowerod the •rich snob,
"bub you know we must draw the lino some.
where 1"
An anecdote of Christine Hamm the
Swedish Binger, told in America, illustrates
her freedom from snobbery t
Christina was once at the house of a re-
tired Chicago millionaire near Now York.
A distinguished oompany had been invited
to meet her at dinner.
On entering the dining•room she dropped
her heat's arm, and hurrying in amazement
to the stately young butler, seized him,
effusively by the hand and engaged him in.
oonvoreation, while the other guests stoodt
waiting and the entertainer looked on in,
astonishment.
"That man," the explained to the group
when they were seated, "ie the eon of a
kind old nobleman on whose estate my father
worked a0 a clay.laborer when we were
children, L'ertune )las smiled on me while
it hart frowned on my old playmate, whom.
I find under nth changed oeroumataneee,.
ll'
"Your father is an easy, " come -day, gee.
day' sort of follow, isn't ho, Claral "Don't
mistake him, George, I have had suitors
before now who thonghb that of him, and
who have enbeequently boon obliged to admit
that he was a preen of oouelderable