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The Brussels Post, 1889-7-26, Page 3JULY 26, 1839. THE BRUSSELS POST, 3 Ists�esseverteamireaweiessewateaseessessismassis+.rsrrnutareisivenecesseucaaseca'a'amedielkeamoscaapeseweWessetesemewawrepstetdauiszenc'eesussauesstietitflseee;ma'POeyrpwatkatratrate!waieWemacruratoral'ltawt7rdrLWaMasiesse orris treeseire Istsls?t�tbir YOUNt* FOLKS. RRUM AND MOLASSES, BY AMOS it, WELLS, Billy was thirteen. So was Tommy, Billy Sid red hair and [rookies, So had Tommy, Tommy was an onhualootio en- tomologist, 8o W00 Billy, it wao in the aftornaon of the early autumn under en elm in Biliy'a front yard. Croquet had just lost ire charm, and the abandoned balls and mallets lay about them, "How are your term getting on, Billy ?" said Tommy, luxuriouoly kicking up his heels on the grace. "Pretty well. My ' Coaropia' has be; gun to spin. I'm deoidadly glad. 1'11 not have to gob loaves for him any more. He was such an eater I How are yours ?" " Tho last of my ' Ajarea ' mime out to. day, A lino fellow. Tho most mugalloenb albs I have in my collection. Found a new larva today an some white plover. A big fuzzy one. Slack and white. "It isn't a ' woolly bear,' is ib ?" "Guess not, tho' it mighb be. Did I show you that lasb atrat:Mertnt of 'woolly hears' of mind ? Well, did I telt you bhab I forgob to fill up the diehee of water it was standing in, and the ante just riddled it ? There ion't a perfect specimen left." "That'll too bad. But you needn't grum- ble, Tommymy 107118 is gone I Ib makes me aiok to think of it, I found duet be- neath it yesterday, and bo -day I plaited several museum beetles oub of ib. It's just hanging together. I mean to keep cyanide of;potaseiem in my oases all the time after this," "We must manage to geb some more large moths. Billy, did you ever try the sohome the lad eutomologiob speaks of—smearing a tree with rum and molasses, you know, and pioking off the moths in the morning?" "The vety identical thing 1 Let's try ib 1" "All right, When ? To -night ?" "Yes, righb off. Where'll we seethe rum, Tommy ?' "I can got that if you'll geb the molas- ses." "Well, I will, because I don't know where tc get any rum without going to the saloon for it, and I won'b do that." "Nor I either, of oouree, I'll bring the ram here after supper, and we oan mix i t then. And let's spread it on some trees down in the Glen. It won't be disturbed there, yon know." All right. Now I'll beat you another game of croquet, "You can't do ib." Ib is after supper, and the two are met again, Billy with quite a large pail of mo- lasses, the purohaee of which had made a serious breach in hie tin bank account, Tommy with a very email bottle. " Whab'e that, Tammy ? The rum ?" " Yeo." " There's mighty little of it. Where'd you get it ?" "Drug•atore ; and you wouldn't think it little if you had to pay for ib." "Let's look ab the label, Why, Tommy Shepherd 1 This is bay -rum 1" " Well, that's rum, isn't it, Billy ?" " It isn'b the kind men geb drunk on. Why, the rum is to make the moths drunk, you know, Tommy, and then they Wok to the mold ieee." " Well, how do yon know bayrum won't melee thorn drunk? Insects don b geb drunk in the same way men do, of course. Let's mix them." The Glen wao a wild ravine near the town, broad and well wooded along the bottom, through which wound a beautiful belle stream. Down the rooky side -path the bucket of the preotous liquid was safely borne, and two trees selected across the stream, a hickory by Tommy, an ash by Billy. These were liberally anointed and the booted scraped Olean. "Flowing with toenail and wild honey,' murmurodBillyy, with vaguereminiote waa tt Sabbath -school• lessons. "These . treats are flowing with the wild honey part, anyway.' "Huh 1" said the butter informed Tommy. "That isn't right 1" "What is, then?" "When'Il we comedown hereto -morrow?" said Tommy, directly and quickly. The conversation here drifted into more absorbing topics, and preliminaries for the morrow's campaign were arranged. fhe morning twilighb had not yet bright ened the eastern sky when a longdrawn about of "Those 1' was heard outside Tom. my's window, lifting many a head from the pillow along that quieb ailed. That ory was the two boys' long established signal, being the epeoifia name of the largest butterfly of that neighborhood, rather rare and difficult to capture. A white apparition glimmered dimly at Tommy's window, and a voioo, dreadfully sleepy for all its owner could do, made answer, "Ajax I" a signal adopted in honor of the most beautiful and swiftest among the papilios, A pause, during whioh a blvd woke up, and ventured on afew experimental chirps, Then the front door was ooftly opened, and a hastily attired boy emerged therefrom bearing a butterfly nob, and a wide-mouthed jar charged with cyanide of potaooium, for the reception of the expeotod prey. A alma lsrly equipped young gentlemen waited at the gate, with one hand up to stifle a yawn. A not unneoeseary lantern made a yellow circle on the oide-walk. Through bhe town they pond with steps involuntarily oubdued out of respect to the sleepers on either hand, Outside of town the unfamiliar husli of. early Morning still farther quieted their voices. "Now don't forgot, Billy," said ,Tommy, when they bad climbed the lase fen0et; "All the moths on the hiokory are mine." "And all the moth° on the ash are mine." "Yon. WO meat keep cool, 'or some of 'em will geb away. My I I hope there's a "lung" on mine, and a "Polyphemus 1" "And I want an "Io" and a "Pxomebhens, and a "Oeoroppis 1" They "tumbled down the dark side of the raving, the edges of whose rooks. tho Dom• ing dawn was but beginning to show. An owl hooted mournfully near by, and in the atillneea the ripple of the brook sounded startlingly distinob. Carefully throwing the leghb on the etepping•etonoe they Dross• ed the stream with unwonted slowness, and made their way to Tomniy'e lfiokory. The lantern was held up and rho handles of the note firmly grasped as thoy approaohod the trop, Alas 1 What a boor not abetcmiuo neem bad seized the insect tribe? Savo a flimsy little moth or two, with gnmmod and ruined wings, the trunk was bare of lepi• dopterous life 1 Their hearts had been beat. ing fast in expectation. They were now heavy ao load, espeolally Tommy'ee But Billy's ash remained, and Billy's helms again rose high, as they drew near. IYor wan ho disappointed A superb Cecropfa flapped hie groat wingo before their eager eyed, a dozen smaller fry made the trunk bewilderingt,ith movingwino and hint" of oolor in the lantern liht, aim, ea they ala proaohed, from bho direction of Tommy'o tree flew a great green Mucro moth, and settled down opposite bho deerepia. "Tab dam 0 from my tree! That i0 minerI shouted Tommy, rueftingimputeively Muted the tree And making a wild dive for the lune, while Billy indignantly and exaltedly sprang forward to head elf. Alas, far entomologica zeal and ooiootiflaaeleahnese I Tommy trip- ped ovore p•"booting root in hie blind hurry,. And oamo hotly, with outetretohod arms, molnar the rum and molasses covered tree I The greet Qecropico, startled, made one vigorous and anooeaoful flutter witb wide, Dole wino, and eooaped from its sticky bondage. With a ory of deepair ]silly threw dawn the lantern and looped after it a few feet In tho dark, owning up sharply, ore ho know it, against Tommy's profitloae, Ma abundantly stinky hickory, Clothes and tree•trunk parted lingeringly, Finally dia. engaged, Billy wont book, pinked up the Ian. tern, and caro its still fllakoring light on a woe begone object, face, hands and coat yet - low with the uncomfortable ombotauoe, Billy stood with stinky ormo akimbo, and said as majeetioally as hie molaaaee•besmlrohod countenance permitted : "Tommy Shepherd, you oughb to be athamod of youroelf I from now on and for evermome I" To which Tommy could make no reply. The eaeb was glowing with eoarlet and green and already bright with the herald glaame of the advancing eon as two wretch• od youths, with draggled nets and empty collecting bottles, ooftly opened the gates of their respective homes. Not all the water In the Glen could make their olothee any thing but sticky, stiff and uncomfortable, tho' water had evidently been freely used ; nor could It remove the wonderful odor, Dom• pounded of molaeoee and bayrum. Ae their siatera later said; " The boys never were so sweet before." Bub they made up for this in the sourness of their temper, and Billy grimly remarked that, Beide from hie own trouble, ho was glad enough that a follow who, like Tommy, did not care to etiok to a bargain, should be made to stink to a tree 1 A hitieal Year, It is atleash somewhat significant that the year 1889 is one of those which students of the Soripturee, who give themeelvee es. peeially to the study of the prophecies Maim as a critical year in the history of the world. According to them this world is rapidly hastening to a crisis, and the grand denouement has been always advanced by degas, each stage in its beginning being marked off from its prodeaeesor by some oonvulaion in the moral and intatleetuai experience of mankind, Certain deduotione then, and oolautatione from the prophecies of Daniel and others, have led some bighly respectable authorities to oonaider 1859, as in all probability, one of the momentous epochs of the world's ooreer. And what do we actually find. Well, on the European stage, where the prophecies may be eup- poaed to centre, we find a state of tension which it would be difficult to parallel for many years book. War mares of oouree there have been, plenty of them. Rumours of war have bean yearly °emurrences for a long time. The clouds have gathered 0m inanely, and some of the quicker•witted have heard or thought they heard the actual rumbling of the thunder ; but the clouds have always dispersed, and the sun of pease has shone from a clear sky upon the much relieved nations. But notwith• standing this, a feeling has never been far away that these things were all premonitory of a future struggle, Little oonfidenoe was felt that these intervals of peace and quiet• nose were anything bob temporary. The conviction has been growing that the nations of Europe aro walking over a voloano, the cruet covering of which grows thinner every day. Ominous forebodings have op pressed the hearts of men. Though "peaoe,. peace" has been said, the air has been bur- dened with preparations for war, until naw, more almoeb than ever before, the continent of Europe is ono vast damp of armed men, waiting for the signal. And within the laet week or two events seem to have been hast ening. The clouds on the horizon are deeper and more ominous than ever, and two men aro being watched by the world with an air of awful intensity, for it seems as if with them lies the deaieion whether or not the rivers of Europe are to run with blood, These two are the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany. All professions of friendliness to the contrary notwithstanding, those two sovereigns are on the brink of an open rupture, unless all the newapapor correspondents in Europe are so far astray as to be contemptible. The Czar it eeeme has deliberately inanitod the Emper, or, by spending a couple of hours in the railroad station at Berlin, without sending any sort of a greeting to his brother King. The world eagorly watches to see how the hob -blooded young German will counter the indignity. Another fact, supposed by. the learned in the interpretation of euoh things to be full of foreboding, is the oirmela• tion of an anonymous pampleb which says that in case of war Bavaria need not be relied on to fight beside Italian troops, and that Austria will have all she oan do to pre• vent or eupproae upriainge among ther awn Slavin populations, And so the hell.broth gods on bubbling in the ooldron with pre. monition of toil and trouble and sore pre. plexity to the weary nations, Amid all the atone and strata ib le comforting to believe that the hand of ono who i9 mightier than the mightiest man, holds the helm and guides the ehip, Meanwhile ib is pleasant to know that a Utile romance mingles with tho sterner as. pecto of European lite, and that a daughter of the Prince of Wales ie engaged to be mar. ried. Nat to a poverty-strioken German Ptinaeliog either whom the Britleh nag tion will have to support, but to a bonny Scots lord • with broad woo of bio own, and. a puree full enough to satisfy any girl, even a prinaeee. Lord Fife is a lucky man, who may; perhaps barn oub to be the ancestor of a line of Enplieh kings, for failing the Prince of Wales' sone, the lines of deeoent will bo through Lord Fife and hie royal wife. The prospective marriage is said to be very popu- lar among the Britiehere who are intensely relieved to find that another Gernon loirdie le nob to be fastened on them. The Only Thing He Wanted. "Prisoner ab the bar," said the Judge "is there anything you wish to say before 'lantana° le passed upon you ?" "No, there is nothin' I caro to say ;• but if you'll Clear away the tables and benoheo long enough for me to thrash lily lawyer yon oan give me a year or two extra," Rhe Alternative in Store. Pond Father—My dear girl, another new dress ? You tneeb think your poor old father is made of money, Fashionable Daughter—Now, papa, don't be arose. This is 00 hemming that you should i oL end, hie ears laid bank, and hie tail be delighted to see me in it. It is vety otylish ewitohing violouoiy as he lay ab full length, now—faille Francais, hie head turned away from me, evidently Fond Father—If you keep this up 1 wig; Watching done object down the canon, The have to fail Amerioaine. female, too, advanood nearly betide him, her hair ttiokiug out like briotlee, and her "Oa, we had Buell a dlffiaulby in finding s angry snarling was deeper and mato threat- " e, J tiouoo for them said she. Naw York A lane belonging to a swarm theta Dnrsat.. ening than his, Itaused are 0o dull, and matnma wanted Aire farmer was attempting to hive got down "At first I could see nothing of tho In- Nellie to have a little one," the mane throat and 0tung hien, end, the trudee against which thio :latae threatening "Ye es" said Smith, at ho helped himeelf throat ewelling very rapidly, the man died WAS lauuohed, but I mere than suspeoted its to more champagne, "bas alio settled on hie of suffeoabIOn, t nature, and my Oxoitemenb rose. Either name yet?" A DEADLY ENOOUNTER, another lion or a bear woe epproaoblag, I felt certain, and eel ft proved; it was a nem have often mob old Bunters who have grizzly, and one of the largest I bad over heard of battles between the grizzly bear and the Immense, tawny panther cf the Ifo roared himself suddenly out of the Rooky Mountains; but L have only once' bed of the little straatn, only a few yards lineman a man who had seen ouch a combat. I from the Nous and the elk. Ho had been Sergeant Rommel; of the —th United 1 travelling up the bed of the crook,—as been; Staten Cavalry, whom I met in Wyoming I ed by the marls of he lions ten do in A !hallow who hod hoard raab. while e. a hunting expedition d '$g, toad . hire owning had emerged to see what tbo me of a Karoo light between Cld Eph' and g d two mountain !tone whiob he had " umpire ed,"—ao he put it,—near Casper efountaln fuse was about. "To my delight he book io the situation eoveral yaore torero, at a glance, and without a minete'e heoita- At that time he waa stationed at Fort blonjljej'haniblod toward the belligerent oats, Fetterman. A party of oicizone had come ming ii g hla hoarse growle with heir suvage out from St, foul, Minn„ to bunt rho ouur nbad heard that the maunteiu lion big Pine, then ao plentiful In Eastern Wycrning, and bho eergoant,waa of rho would not ren from a grizzly, but did nob best hunters in his rogimont, woo ullow• believe it, and daapito the fearful threaten. ed to go with them, taking a small ing of the two before me, I expected to ewe detachment of soldiers to look after the them gave way as the moaotroue haat acme camp, and take ogre of the game, Tho up. Imagine my aotoniohmonb when, as the party had been huntingfootelk among aha grizaly obarged within leaping diebanoe, nboth grout rlaggsdls of tmounthe aiu whier ch Is tthofr chief near the of "hI could not properlypdeearibe the scene feature, when the adventure befell him, which followed ; both brutes pounced upon "I killed an elk," said ho, "early Dna the grizzly tooth and nail, and oloted with morning, and as I often did in a region whore him in male of fury a savage outcries as made there were grizzly or eslver•tip bears, I lef b my hair rime, and my whole body prickle ib where it tell, for bear bulb, There to with teems excitement. nothing the big bears of Ohio region are The grizzly reared as the two animals more fond of than a freshly killed elk ora struck him ; as he Dame up into a eitbiug blank -tail. I had aiready, at one time andposition upon his haunches he ohook the another, ehob seven bears by baiting in this female lion from hie shoulder. Bub bho way, and watahlog by the bodies of the male Bon held him by the throat, hie tawny dead elks. body lay along the bear's belly, and his hind "Perched comfortably in the branches of lege were working with llghtnlag•like speed an evergreen, or lying upon the top of some and strength. high rook within a few rode of your bait, It The bear opened his mouth wide, and isn't dual a desperate adventure, tho killing roared ae he turned his head sidewise and of a grizzly. A good gun, using beavy am• downward, and strove to moth hie entagon• munition, dome marksmanship, and a feta neck with hie teeth. He failed in his ateady nerve are all that is required. If attempt, but ab the same moment he caught you aro fresh ab the business though, yon the lions body just below the shoulders in a probably won't fret a groat deal if the bear clutch of his terrible °laws, which seemed fails to come. literally to flatten the animal between them, "Thio time I had killed an elk in just The lion relaxed his bold of the hearer tenth a epob and with just auoh surroundings nook, threw bank hie head, and Bought to as I would have aeleoted could I have had writhe loose from the bear, It would have full choice. I shot it in the nob of drinking at gone hard with him, had nob the female lion 0 email basin of water in the bed of a elation, by a desperate spring faetenod herself so whloh out book into the foot of old Camper strongly upon the bank of the boar's neck Mountain. The aide of tho mountain on that he was forded to drop the mato and turn either hand was rutted with deep gorges to her, leading into the canon. Quaking asp think• "Over and over they relied about the elk eta °teetered around the heads of theme carcase. They clawed, bit and tore ab each ravines, while the bottoms, wherever vege• other with deep, muffied snarls and growls. tation could take hold, were grown to wit. Sometimes the bear was on top of allon, and love, currant and bullberry bushes. It was again both Bone were on top of him, just the plane for bears, and their sign was "The grizzly would gather one of them as plentiful at I had ever seen it anywhere. suddenly in his huge forearms, beer it down ' The epob was only a mile from our upon the ground in the effort to oruah and (amp, and when I dame in from my hunt, bite the life out of it, then feeling the teeth —for we hunted singly or in twos and threes of the other which would invariably seize as the notion took ne,—I found three of the upon the baok of hie neck, the infuriated St. Paul men taking a late dinner, I told monster would loose hie hold, and whirl them of me success, and invited tbem to go upon that one. with me, and lie in wait for bears that even- "Soon, in one of those whirls, he naught Ing. They declined, deolaring that they the smaller lion, and gave her such a ter - hadn't loot any beano, and, therefore, didn't rible bite before the male's attack—which feel celled upon to hent foram, I was wel was from behind as usual—could induce him come, they said, to gather all the stray to release her, that she loot `sand' complete. grizzlies in the region, and put my portion- ly, and slunk limping away, evidently badly lar brand on 'ens. hurt. "So about three o cloak I went up to my "Tho male lion immediately took the de• bait alone, I found it; undisturbed,and Pensive, dodged about the grizzly, and perched myself in the crevice of a ledge of leaped easily out of reach of hie furious rook, some thirty yards distant, which pone charges, I saw that bruin had the beet of tion I reached by making a ladder of dry the fight and was likely to maintain hie poles that lay among some drift of a recent advantage; and as I was far more 'washout,' My hiding -plane wao perfectly anxious to 00oure the tremendous beast safe from the attack of a bear, should I be than I was to geb the lions, I opened fire lucky enough to lure one within allot a0 it upon him with my Winoheeter, and gave was fully fifteen feet from the base of thebfm a bail behind the shoulder as he turned ledge, at a perpendicular height, broadside in one of hie rushes at the lion. "I found the amok, in which I could Luckily the first shot killed him, stretch myself at full length, such a Dom. "The lion, more frightened at the report fortsble place that I oonoluded to watch all of the gun than he had been ab the bear, night, provided no beer name to my bait bounded aurone the creek, and though I fired sooner. I had not long to wait, however, two shots ab him before he got out of eight before I WAS treated to the most thorough I missed him. The male got off scot-free, am and thrilling =prise of all my hunting ex I do not think the bear had given him more parlance. than afew scratches, bub I followed the fee "I had lain, perhaps, an boar, and the male, and overtook her in a orippled condi sun bad just sunk behind the mountains tion some half a mile up tho Canon ; a single bank of me, so that their ehadowa hadbttllebkilled her."[Youths' Companion, Drawled over the tops of the lower ones he front, when I heard the Bound of soft Human Lives Offered as a Snaps After foot•fal:e just on the other side of s fringe of bullberry bushes, which skirted the Death of an And Afrioan King. the atreom above the spring where my elk Lennox, July 20.—By late advises from lay, 1prioked my earn and looked sharply the went mad of Aimee it is learned that a for the game, which from the mottled mound mace revolting esorifioe has bast taken place I took to be two or three bears running down in the interior. the canon. A few months ago the old kingof Moe"I had no time to speculate on the nature died, and, as is customary, traderfrom New of the animals, before there bounded in eight Calabar went up to pay their reepeobe to two big tawny mountain -lions 1 They were the new monarch. On their arrival the caning down the canon, jumping sidewise traders found the "Ju Ju" rites, performed and running against each other in a way ,on the death of the native king, still in pro• that was, no doubt, intended to be playful, rase, and about fort viobime had been and I was josh about to atop one of them sacrificed, The old king was still lying in with a °hob from my rifle, when in the same an open grave large enough to a000mmodate breath each of them caught a tomb of the nine of the departed ruler's youngest wives, elk's carcase, and 0am0 to a sudden halt, who had been murdered in the most cruel "They stood for a moment with heads manner. Each of them had her ankles and erect, ears prinked forward, and tails awrtoh• wrista broken, so that she oould neither ing eagerly, their yellow eyea gleaming and walk nor crawl. In bhie maimed condition, eotntillating, the white spots on their breasts and suffering moat excruciating pain, the offering a splendid target if I had cared to poor creatures were laced ab the bobtom of shoot at once, They were fine, sleek animals the grave, seven of them lying aide by aide, with glossy ooata, far more imposing in. looks, The king's body was then planed on them in and much larger than the pouther of the a transverse direction, Then the two re. East and South, and I was'anxioue to bag maiming women were laid by his aide, both of them, which T thought I might They were left without food or water to make sure of doing if they attacked my bait, wait for death, whish, however, it is said, as I might easily bore them both with a did not 001110 until after four or five days of single shot from my 11 inoheeter express if intense suffering. In the meantime four they gob in range. men were stationed around the grave, arm- " They hesitated but an instant, a few ed with clubs, ready to knock backward any seconds rather,' then leaped the obaunel of of the woman who despite their tortures the the el with (netlikethey .caand approach• and their pain, might menage to °taw' to ed the elks which bboy cautiously sniffed the tido of the pit. with pointed noses. I'rojeloed at the pros- In other parte of the town other human pant of securing eutlk magnifioeub eats. oaorifi0eo were taking places. Suspended One of them, the larger and a male, came from various trees were the bodies of several up to the baitfireb, snuffed it over, liokod the man. They too, ware undergoing agonizing fresh blood about the neck, thea with a end, deaths, holes having in moat oases been bor- den proprietary air he mountedthe 0000aaed through their feet near the ankles: with his forefeet:, gave a satisfied purr, thatThrough these holes ropes were drawn and sounded like the muffled drumming in;r of a the men tied to a high tree, head downward partridge's wings, and owitohed has tail and left to die. about with a snapping motitn at the end, just as a oat with a fresh•oaughb mouse in her paws might have done. A Child's Rimed r for a Mother's 4rief. " The female took lehen at linking the bloody nook, and snared d her oat-pleaeuro at Nob many days ago a gentleman had taken affectionate leave of his wife and daughter the prospect of a gratuitous feast, They did for a three months' trip abroad. Tho ohild, not seem to be in the least hungry, for they a lovely libtle girl of two and a half year0, made no move toward devouring, but after stood by a ohair with her thumb in her theysganel examining the game fora bit, month—a. favorite pastime, and, to her, a they nab about eora.alting leaves and dirt pana0ea for all her childish ills. She watch. ing or hiding it for futureeusese.. over 00, wiht the evident intention 0f preserve ed her mother for a few memento, saw 'the "Thinking my timo had now coma, I enacts Ailing the lovely myna and dropping Dna shifted my position carefully, and brought by ono an lrin com her (Matins, then went; to her tong looking pity- an ity a yopportunity neheal upon thorn, waiting Only for tugty np to her facie, said : "Mamma, musk n eel make one bullet kill of +ao fun 1" As if nothiafscould so much oo01• orippta them both, ao Ifearod that the unhurt fart bore -[Bouton Courier, ono would yet out of sight before I could got r a fair shot at it " Suddenly, the 'big ono threw himself up. Ito Was So Absent -Minded, on the elk with a harsh snarl, hie hairrloing .smith Is a good follow, but ao absent. mauled, The other day he went to a wed- ding, After the ceremony, as guests worn dimming wedding -cake and champagne In the drawhlg•roont, Smith got into cooversa- fon with rho bride's alar IIOW PEOPLE SLEEP, Some Interesting Dream Stttiaties ellearned by tr Russian-Gulre"ally, An {ntereoting Investigation upon the above eubjeob has recently been made under the auopleea of the Unlvorolty of Ilorpath, Itueeia, Some 600 olrculero were sone out with a aeries of galtedeflnIto queetionshiob wore enewered with equal detail by AlAAatu- dente, 113 other melee, 148 Comeau. The result for the two eexoe were 0° different that tboy demand eepnratleo, while the Btu - dente formed a homogeneous clams Interest ing os a Bpoelal study, The firdb problem that was propooed woe the relation between the frequency and the vividness of dreo� ls, It appears that 62.6 per mint, of those who dream every night dream vividly, 00 5 par cent, of those who dream frequently, and only 26 8 per cent. of thooe who dream eaI- dom, showing that the vividneee of dreams Inoroaeeo very rapidly with their frequency. Next, how ie the intenelty of sleep related bo the frequency of dreams? Of the 0tu•' dente who dream nightly, 08 per oent have a light sleep (and only 28 per cont. 'have a deep Bleep) ; of those dreaming fregyy{thy, 40 per ooat, : of those dreaming Beldon • 32.8 per cent. Similar peroontageo for the other males are 08 8, 42 1, and 39 3 and for wog men, 72 40 and 60 per cent. We conclude, then, that frequent dreams are a oonoomit ant of light sleep, though the relation ea far from universal. Aa regards sex, women have 73 per cent, of their number DREAMING NIGIITLY or frequently, while etudente have only 50 per cent. and other males 43 per Dent, Again, 63 per cent. of the women eleep lightly end only 42 per cent. of etudenta, and 44 per sent, of other males. We cot, e'nde, then, that women have a very math lighter sleep than men, and that their dreams are proportionately more frequent. Another oonaluoion the evidence of which is too detailed at present, iB that as we grow older our dreams become less frequent, but aur sleep beoomae lighter, age affeoting Inten. sity of sleep more than frequency of dream, The author regards the atudonte as in the period of maximum dreaming (20 to 24 yearn of age). The deep sleep of childhood (hoe- ti'e to frequency of dreams) is then least counter-halsnoed by the lessening of dreams due to ago. The vividneee of dreams shows a similar relation to age and sex : the women dream moat vividly; the students, being younger than the other men, have more vivid dreams. The power of remembering dreams is also dreams is else dependent upon vivid - nese and frequency of dreaming ; ib is ac- oordingly greatest in women and greater in atudenta than in more mature mon. The liveliness of TILE EMOTIONAL NATDLLE, a prominent feature of women and youth, seems thus to be marked out ae the causative agent in the production of dreams. The dur. atiou of sleep should naturally be related to the habit of dreaming, but in the men no such relation oan bo dieoovered. In the wo- men, however, it appears that those who dream frequently Bleep nearly an hour longer than those who seldom dream. This differ- ence is regarded as due to the fact that men are more under duty to break short their Bleep and thus vitiate the statistics. This le oorroborated by the frequency with whioh the men who dream frequently declare them• selves tired in the morning, indicating in- complete sleep. The need of Bleep to greater in women than in men, the duration of sleep being longer and the peroentage of tired morn. Ing and evening and of not tired being 3to land 2 to 3 reepeabively as compared to the men. Students sleep longer and are less tired than other men, The time needed to fall saloon hi about the same in ;all three alaesee— 20.8 minutes for the men. 17.1 minutes for atudente, and 21.2 minutes for the woman. In each ease, however, it takes longer for those who are frequent dreamers and light sleepers to fall asleep than parous of opposite characteristics. Eight per cent. of students sleep unintarrapledly through the night, 70 per cent. of other men, and only 43 per oent, of women. Light sleep and frequent dreams inoreaae the interrupt• edema of Bleep. The power of falliugaeleep at will Is pow/eased by few. It is greater iu youth bhen in age. Twenty-elehb per rent of men, 19 per cent of students, and 20 per Dent. of women Bleep to the afternoon, indicating a making up of ineufficienb sleep on the part of the men. The effeob of dream habits upon mental work is also evident. THOSE WHO DREAM SELDOM or sleep deeply, are better disposed far work in the forenoon than light sleepers and frequent dreamers. The forenoon seems in general to be the preferred time of work. The etatietiae regarding nervousness confirm the accepted fame beat this is greater among students than other men at large. Ib ia, too, a concomitant of light Bleep, and fre• quentdroams. Ae to temperament, thophleg• matio people are Tutu constantly deep sleeping and infrequent dreamers. Finally s contrast between teachers and professore of the same average age chows the effect of the oocupotion, The teaoher with hie daily toil, has a lighter sleep and more frequent theme, while the profeaeor, leading 0 com- paratively oongenial and worrilees lite, is a deeper eleeper and a leas frequent dreamer than the teacher, Stperfluons.-Book aggent—I should like to show you our new cheap edition of the EneyolopedioBritannioa, Vermont farmer— Mister, you needn't show me any'oyalopedias, My boy graduated from college this week, Tho extraordinary rush of English oapita to the United Status this year is attracting a great deal of attention. Hitherto English- men have made their inveetmente in than oounbry chiefly in the Wosb, in agrloultural properties and cattle ranches, but of late they have turned their attention largely to the New South, and, as our readers are aware, aro besides actually striving to ars- quire oquite control of entire American industries. Ono roo0an of this Budden desire for foreign indeetmenbo ie undoubtedly the oonveraion of the English national throe per conte„ the holders of whieh now find themselves obliged to accept two and bhree•quartors per eine. To very loony holders of consols this means a serious loss of Income, and ft is not aurprie• ing, therefore, thab they should look abroad for a better field for the investment of their capital. One elfeot whioh the) brutal murder of Dr. Cronin hat had ie to stir up an intense feel- ing in Chicago over the eupinoneoe is the past of tbo pollee authorities in suppressing otime) and punishing criminals. Chicagoans seem resolved to ohange the state of affairs, which must be pretty bad when one of the lomat papere, the "Herald," can remark : 'Burglaro and murderers have held the day. Wcl1•known burdlare have leaned nabob lamp p00te, enjoying a freedom whloh they had forfeited loo before. Of- ficers of police have wielded power, and yet were themselves burglars, Ofheere of pollee have insolently oharged on the robbed the robbery, on the deed the deed of blond," 1'110 community which has permitted such a disregard of law Hud order bee simply boon putting apremium on anarchy and murder of the worst kind, The Confession of Paith in the Lstabliell- ed Ohuroh of Scotland, Ah the lata General Assembly of the " Kirk " of Scotland, the formula whiob ail ministers have to alga on ordination WO aonslderably relaxed. Henceforth u general Approbation of the Confoselon of Craith will be expeotod. but no ;pedal Assent to any of its particular dootriaee; while, still further, a distinction is now made between the Bub. mtanee of that Confession, which la to be approved, and tho details, which eau be re. jeoted at the diaorotlon of each, This eon- venlonb arrangement ought surely to Involve no practical bondage to even the moan senBl- tive of aonoolenaee. Upon thio modification being carried, which it was by a majority of ninety, Prinolpal Cunningham congratulated him- self and hie brethren on what had been done, and deolared that now they would be able to " look people in the face like honest men," Why He Killed the Sheep. T.oere 'was a fellow in a certain neighbor- hood in New Jersey who WAS strongly sue- pectod of sheep stealing, There were a good many epees of the mysterious disappearance of ',twice mutton from the bake of the farm- ers, which were traoed to his door; bob, being a very mild and ingenious chap, he generally succeeded in proving an alibi, or acme other defence whiob reduosd the oharge to a mere suspicion. At last, however, a farmer riding through the woods perceived the enopeated sheep thief stealing through the woods ; and, af ter 'making around to see that no one was near, walked up to a Sock of sheep, and deliberately knocked over the largeot and fatted. Ab bhie moment the farmer rode up, and oonfronting the thief, exclaimed ; "Now, air, I have got you 1 You can't get cff; you are oaughb in the not." " What act?" indignantly inquired the thief, ' Sheep stealing," was the confident reply. ' Sir, you had better mind how you oharge a respectable American attain with auoh a crime as oheep atealing," replied the gentleman with a panohant for mutton. "Now, will you deny that I saw you kill that sheep ?" asked the farmer. "No, air," was the prompt answer. "I did kill him, and I'd do it again. I'll kill anybody's sheep that bites me as 1 am going peaceably along the road 1" The Elixir of Life Found. - According to a oommoufoation recently addressed by tho eminent ooienbiet, M. Brown•Segnard, to the French Academy of Medicine, it appears that he has prepared a concoction warranted toinfaae fresh doges of vital energy into constitutions shattered by age or illnere. As yet, for there is no public record of its trial as a recuperative and revitalizing agent, all that can be said Is that it is intrineioally compounded of revolting materials. The phyeiologtst, it is stated, out out oortain parte of living ani - mala, mush ao guinea pigs, and the pieces of quivering flesh, pounded together by the pestle and mortar of pharmaoeutioal Com• marcs, are made into a kind of paste with water. The essenoe of this compound is then injeoted ander the skin of the patient with a syringe similar to that employed by the votaries of morphine. It is needless to say that the results of al. Brown Sequord's experiments are awaited with eagerness by elderly Faints,— [London Telegraph. Tho Prinoese gown, either short or trained is the robe of the day in Paris, An -ice TO MOTHERS —Are you disturbed nights and broken of your teat by a aide ohild suffering and crying with pain of Cut- ting Teeth. If so Bend ab once and get a bottle of "blra, 1 inelow'e Soothing Syrup" for Children Teething Its value is remark- able. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it mothers; there is no mistake about ib. It owe Dyeen- bery and Diarrl o a, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures Wind Colla, softens the Gums, ereduae Inflammation and gives tone and energy to the whole system. "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for children teething is ploasant to the taste and is the prescription of ono of the oldest and boat female physicians and nurses in The United Statee. Price $1 hotels. Be sure and eek for ",`,IRS, WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP' and take no other kind. There iv No Explanation, When a man site ab the end of the Beat en an open horse oar, and a woman wishes to get in, he gathers himself up closely and allows her to pass him, or, in rare ogees, he steps out and lets her go in more comfortably. In either ease he keepo the end of the Beat. When a woman site at the end and a man appears she gathers herself up into the smallest possible apace so that he may pass her, and—he does not do it 1 He simply stands on the step and waits for her to move over, and in a moment the does 17, Inwardly she doubtless wonders why it is that while women move over for men and pass to the inside sesta for them, men do not do the same for women. There are many things in life of whloh the only explanation to be Dome ab ie that they are ae they 000, and this is one of them. —[Bootan Conder. 4s kutgai Satisfaotion. Mr. C1 eeriefull—" Yon seem quite en- grossed in that book, dear. Yon haven't nttered a word tor the lane hour," Mrs. Weeriefut—" Yes, I've been enjoy- ing 'The Silence of Dean Maitland.' I notioe you don't speak a word yourself either." Mr. Weeriefull—" Because I've been en- joying your silence, dear." • He Weant Afraid of the:Dog, Idiom Sweetlip—"A]gy, dear, I hove got A distressing piece of news for you. Pa has g one and bought a large dog." Algernon dlightdt—•"where didhe get him?" Miss Sweotlip—"Of Mr, Brown," Algernon Tightflt—"Oh,l'm not 'afraid." (Sotto v000—"I made friends with that dog when I was courting Amanda Brown.")— [Burlington Free Prase. A Penal (felony, The llnitod States dopa not got quite all the rascals wielded to emigrate from Euro- pean countries, A young man oonvioted of felony in an English court recently woe let off from punishment on his friends promi0ing to send him to Canada at ono, The De - minion le therefore playing the pare of a penal colony for Great Britain, a0 well as a Om of refuge for American boodloru,. [Pittsburg C.hroniale.Telegr aph. . 'Mbize or aornoolor is revived among ether Mhtonabio shades of yellow.