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HEALTH 1 FRO11. TRE UNITED STATES TO
EUROPE.
Care of the Wok. A Railroad from Washington Territory
Ido or oho who oould properly be Intruabod
tm feed the eorlouely mat know something
of the qualities of different rode. Soma foods
in oertaln diseaueo have really a mirage() of.
fent, as, for 'potence, coffee, A flvo ono cup
of strong coffee 0onteineabout 06grains ofex-
traob. or an equivalent to about two groins
of oaffeiae—often quite o ffloienb to relieve
neuralgia or a beauacbo. Beef tea contain-
ing a genorone quantity of rod pepper ie
quite equal co erupt in the treatment] of
uelirium tremono. ,[a inflammotiou of the
etomooh and intestines, liquid food made of
gelatine, Wingless, Irish moss and flaxseed,
bavo a very soothing effect, and In some
oases recovery takes place under their use
alone.
And so we might eo on with evidonoe of
the curative effects of many foods. Prom
what has been said people ought to be able
to understand that bho duties of the phyla.
oian aro by no moans confined to drugging,
and that when in any ease he Is limiting
hie treatment to dietetic mono, he is doing
what demands equally as muoh shill ae
wouldbheproper odminletratlon!of madiolaee.
And here it in well to toy that physioians of
the present, whenever they oan do to, em-
ploy Nature's temple dietetio remedies, al.
ways in preference to drugs. Life depends
upon diet, and the restoratiou of health de.
ponds upon the same principles as its pre.
servation. Disease is the result of the viola-
tion of the laws of health ; hence the first
step toward recovery is to eotabliah those
laws. The material for repair and support
must Dome from dint, and often in disease
a euro takes place under its proper adminis-
tration alone.
Thera is yob one other point to bring for-
ward in relation to feeding the seriously
siok to show thab the application of dietetic
measures oan never properly be intrusted to
other than skilful hands. No two patients
are alike, hence no two will scarcely de-
mand cxaobly the same treatment. One
may require that the nourishment be gener•
oue, in fact, all that the system on dispose
of, and yet, for the other, ill with the some
disease, a low diet will be much the beet.
Want of Sleep.
Are you a(Rioted with insomnia ? Perhaps
you have too much titne for sleep. Perhaps
you depend too much on sleep for rest end
reouperatiou. For sleep is not the solo rest of
used up nerves. Sociability, congeniality,
enjoyment of good company rest the body
quite as much as sleep.
The dreary monotony of life in many a
household, involving this tumbling into bed
with the mechanical regularity of a machine
at nine or ten o'olook in the evening, dose
nob alwoya rest weary bodies. " Early to
bed and early to ries" does nob always
make a man healthy, wealthy or wise.
Numbers of organizations are only cap-
able of five or six hours' sleep at a time, and
their early lying down to rest is often
eucoeeded by an early waking up and a
consequent restless to0e0mg or hours prem.
inn daybreak. Tho practia0rs of puoo n
ality aro often eurpnaod after breaking
their own oast ironrulee, and passing two ox
three later hours of mirth and jollity post
their usual bad timo, to find themsolvoe
even more refreshed in the morning than
meal, The relaxation of eoaiabilit} has
rested tbem more than would Bleep or an
attempt to sleep. But theta are oonditione
nob so easily reached in the average family.
In fashionable lite we have a formal, ex•
haustiog and mechanical evening :Amore or
leas dissipation. On the other [hand the
evoninge of grea tmembers of families are
monotonous humdrum. They ,involve the
aasomblogo of the same people, the same
surroundings, the same paterfamilias yawn
ing over his paper, and the same qucurlone
mamma overladen with family Dares. Freak
people with fresh thought, fresh atmosphere,
anything to stir up and agitate the pool of
domestic stagnation, aretcadiy needed and
sadly scarce. There needs to be also a con
stint snoceesion of such fresh people to bring
about theta results. Tho world le full of mer
and women, and in a bettor regulated life it
would be the buafneas after the day's' work
was done to entertain eaoh other, and give
each other fresh life. As ib is now, bun
dreds if nob thousands of our households are
little bettor than cella for the incarceration
of each family. Thousands aro thus worn
out prematurely from the utter lack of
domestic recreation. Thera might be written
over the graves of hundreds of thousands,
"Bored to death by the stagnation of domes
tin life."—[The Christian at Work.
Through British Columbia stud Alaska.
lb le highly probable that a railway from
Spoke= Falls to Alaska will be oonotruoted
within the nexb few years), said Mr, H. A,
Johnston. I am on my ,away home from o
bueineso trip to Weahington'Territory, and
while out there my attention was nailed to
this project, and I event coneidorable time
looking into It, The movement is in its
infancy, but it has the bolting of the wealthy
men of the Northweab and of the people of
Britlah Columbia, and 1 believe the road will
be built. The idea Woke strange and
impraotioable et the first gianoo, but, 00 a
matter of foot, bho obstaolee to bo enoounteo'
ed in the oonstruotion of ouch a line would nob
bo as great as were mot with by the Central
Pacifies and the Northern Paoifio. 11 is pro-
posed to begin the railroad at Spokane Falls,
making that city bho southern and eastern
terminus. Competent engineers plane the
total octet at $130,000,000. Mr, W alter Mober-
ly, engineer for the Government of British
Columbia, has exeminod the proposed route,
and believes the route oculd be built for leas
money per mile than the Canadian Pacifies,
and would prove profitable.
As to the route projected, it is necessary
to explain the physical conditions of the
country so that the feaeibil(by of the plan
may be seen. The Rooky Mountains enter
British Columbia in about the longitude of
Salb fake City, and tend westward until
they join the Alaska comb range, breaking
in the northern part of Bribieh Columbia into
three parallel ranges. Tho eastern range is
the Rookies proper, the middle range is the
Selkirk's, and the western the Columbian
range. The Columbia River rises in the
valley between the Rookies and the Selkirk'
and flows north until ib reaches the ex-
tremity of the latter range, around which
it turn' end flows beak south between the
Selkirkeand Columbian ranges into Week
ington Territory. At the point where the
Columbia turns the north end of the Sol
kirk Tango, it receives a strong tributary in
the Cance River. The road as projeoted
would run along the valleys of the Columbia
and the Canoe, then over the hills from
Tate Cache, and down along the Fraser
River to Frons George. Thence it would
have to cross a long, but not difficult pa's
to the valley of the Yukon, down wbioh it
would go to the month of that great river, a
distance altogether of about 3,000 miles.
The Yukon is bordered most of the way
by a wide flood plain and terrace., and
construction along its banks would be simple.
" Where would the road got its revenue?'
was asked.
Well, to began with, it would tonoh the
famous Kootenai valley, a splendid agri-
cultural and cattle raising region. The people
of Spokane Fells have for some time been
figuring on a road eighty tnileo to the bound.
ary to connect with a road for whisk a
company of Canadians and Englishmen have
secured a charter, from the boundary to the
Canadian Peei&o at Revelstoke, 200 mile'
further north. The English company will
oommenoe work this summer, and their road
wonid forms the first link in the Alaska road.
This, however, is merely to show that the
Kootenai region is valuable and that the
Spokane Falls people know it. Thera are a
great many mines and rich deposit' of ore
along the Columbia, and an English company
le building a smelter ab Revelstoke to handle
them. Nearly every stream running into the
Columbia parries haat gold. The Canoe
River runs through a groat fur and embryo
mining region, and from the Yukon oome
gold, furs, and timber,and from its mouth
the seals. All along the route of the road is
valuable country either for mining, salmon
fisheries, agrionlbure, 'took raising, or tim
bar.
" Would not the snow and We prevent the
operation ot such a road ?''
That is apparently the greatest d:ffioulty,
Any one at first would think that the oilman
would be an inoutmountable difficulty, but
it is positively aeserted by those who ought
to know that the climate would canoe no
more trouble than it doe' on the Northern
and Dilute ion Paoifio. You know that the
ocean breezes tamper the climate ell along
the coast, and and it is vary little colder in
Sitka than ib is in Now York, Now, this
road wuuld run west of the mountains all
the way, and the farther north it gets the
nearer does it go to the coast, so that the
climate would be comparatively temperate
all the way.
THE BRUSSELS POST
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Iad'an idedioiee Men and War Dancers•
The habits' and ouotome of soma of the
Western tribes' are so little known to the
general reader that, perhaps, a d000riptfon
of eomo of their curious praotioeo may no of
twine Iatoroeb. Mr. Paul Beckwith has
published an lnterootirg paper on the
Dakotahe in bho last ropers of the Smithson.
Ian Institution, and among other things he
remarks that the mediajn° man or high priest
is inverlably a chief, and although he main•
taloa hie away by the use of mysteries and
incantation', nevertheless ab boss ehowo a
power whioh le not understood by those out.
aide of the onit or brotherhood, and through
a knowledge of the medioinal properties of
herbs often performs cures that lead one to
believe he Is nob altogether the charlatan he
is represented. His ouree are often the
wonder of the army enrgeon'.
An Incident in point to cited in the awe of
an Indian who one day same etaggering into
stamp wibh hie leg horribly swollen from a
bite of %venomous snake. The camp surgeon
could do nothing for the sufferer, but ho was
completely cared by the medicine moo, An.
other mase is quoted in which a cataract] of
the eye woes cured by inserting braise filings
Into the affected organ. To Impress upon
the mind of bhe patient the divine nature of
his medicine, the medicine man adds to the
efficacy of hie remedy myoterioue panto.
mimos, contortions of the body and features,
alwaye to a drum accompaniment. If the
patient is affected with a serious' ailment,
he plane a paper or bark figure on the
round, and, while the patienb is held over
it he firm' a gen, by which aob the sick.
nese paeeee into the image in the ground and
ie killed by the discharge of the gun. They
oleim that all this power is received from
the Great Spirit, who confers upon them e
spiritual mmdiaine so powerful that they Dao
kill at will, reousoitate the dead, and euro
bho sink. This spiritual medicine le repre•
eentod by anything that strikes the fancy,
as a bunch of feathers, a claw, a bird, or the
head of an animal.
When a council is held, a barricade is
ogeoted in the form of an ellipse, and a tent
ie raised ab eaoh end of the inoloeure, ono
for bhe high prieate or medicine men and the
other for ton men who have been selected
to keep order and conduct the ceremony,
acting ae a sort of police. Tho high priest,
from his Dent in the medicine tent, appoints
your aesietante, one bearing a drum, one a
willow and stick, one a rattle, and the last
aeoistiog by grunting. A big drum in the
canter of the circle is being constantly beaten
by several drummers. The high priest then
'peaks to them of the holy dance which was
founded centuries ago, and tells them of the
power cf the medicine of their ancestors
and warning skeptics not to scoff at them or
their crafts, au they have the power of thrust-
ing a claw or atone through the body of any
one at will, causing inetantdeath. In proof
of this assertion, he oaths one of his assistants
to him and points towards him with the
medicine bag, ab the same instants pufii.ng at
him with his lips, whereupon the aesiotont
Malls to the mound apparently senseless.
Then the priest salaams to the four pointe
of the compass, and invokes the Great
Spirit to aid bine and the other members
present in bringing the dead brother to life
The drums aro then beaten and a frantic
dance ie begun,, . when the lifeless
foirm gradually returns to consciousness and
spite into hie hand a mase of froth and blood
inwhich is found a claw or a atone. Thehigh
priest now dances around the circle, and
waving hie medicine bag, blows upon some
one else, who in the same manner, falloto the
ground senseless. The ohief continues, and
the " dead men," reviving, avast) in shoot-
ing other', until the inalosure fa full of howl-
ing ravages dauoing,, yelling, and shooting
each other. The dancing is kept up in the
most frantic manner. After a certain length
of time Oho four assistants, who have been
trotting around the ring Ember and fatter,
form in line, and after advancing and retreat
ing several times, thrusts the instruments
into the bands cf others who become their
successors and then take spats, and now re-
presents the gods of the north, south, eaeb,
and went, the high pries° repreuenting the
Great Split, or Wan -ken tanks. When e
new member is initiated, ha is taken into
the counoil teat for instructions, which are
secret.He ie then stripped of his clothing,
excepting an apron about his loins and moa
cosine on hie feet. He is then painted en
birely black except a email red rpob between
his ahouldere. The candidate is exhorted to
be good, and is told that hie medicine will be
uorreepondingly powerful, and he mast also
give a foaeb once a year. if he does not,
he will meet with misfortunes, aiakneas, or
death. The candidate now receives] the holy
claw or stone. Tho medicine man, approaching
him from the easy, describes the mune of
the sun with the medioino bag, and bowing
to the four pointe of the compass, mutters
an incantation, and thrusting the bag toward
him says, " There goes the spirit." The
candidate then fulls prostrate, and blankets,
akin', ornamonts, eto., aro thrown as offer-
ings over the candidate,; At command of oho
high priest the novice recovers and le pre
rented with the medicine bag, becoming a
recognized member of the order, After
these ceremonies the feast begins, end the
food whioh has beau cooking before the
tent of uhe assistants is distributed among
the people. The dance taste from day
break tc daybreak of the day following, and
as these danced aro frequently given in
winter with the thermometer often far below
zero, is may easily be imagined how the
candidates must suffer, olad as they are in
a coat of paint. 'Ib le generally understood
that the membero of the orders have secret
Digo and ps'Bee, bub the penalty of exposure
is so sure and awifb, that none of the secrete
aro ever divulged.. There are well known
instance, in which indiooreot members have
mysteriously but permanently disappeared,
at the inetanoe, it i'supposed, of the medicine
men.—[Solentifio American,
Ioe-Water,
There to a great deal of sentiment anti
many opinions regarding the use of len: water
that vanieh when the light of reaeou and exp
perienoe fa turned upou them. The fact le,
that lee -water, drank olowly and in model-
ate quantities, oonatitutee a healthful and
invigorating drink. There to no doubt that
ice ie a great sanitary agent, and every
family ought to be provided with it during
the warmer months of the year. It to true
that the inordinate use of iso -water, or its'
use under some special oonditiono and
circumstances, is attended with great danger,
so is the improper vee of any other drink or
food. The assumption that Toed water ie
dangereue, and that iced tea, or toed coffee,
or iced lemonade la a herniate eubetituto, lsr.
simply a delusion. As the source of danger
feared by some la the degree of cold, we fail
to see clearly how flevgr modifies the effect
of temperature, There are some individ
nate, undoubtedly, who cannot drink Inc.
water without Injury, and who ought never
to use it, bub to a great majority of persona
it is refreshing and healthful. Ito nee,
temperate and' dieetote, le in no way to be
condemned, which cannot be said of some of
Ito substitutes.— [Sanitary Volunteer.
Hyena -Spearing in India. •
The hyena, though amoatuseful scavenger,
is nob a noble looking animal, and his nature
le decidedly ourrish. Ho is nob a besot us'•
ualty aeleated for the aheee, but affords a
certain amount of fun when nothing better
is to be had. Many a sportsman, when die.
appointed in findbog boar, kat had a run
go at
leoe boasts do not a hyena. tL
after y
any great pace or 0harge like a brave old
boar, yet they are nob easy to spear, by rea-
son of the quiokn000 with which they
turn and twiot, The animal has just
turned eharp at right angles, and
thrown out the man who to about to
spear him, lettiug another out in, while the
horse of a third, putting his foot In a hole,
comes down, and then, getting rid of hits rid-
er continuo the charm on hie own account,
biting and striking at the hyena, which
makes no attempt to orient title strange on.
olaughb. We observe that Mr. Moray
Brown, in hie excellent book "Shikar
Skotoheo," mentions a (Moiler incident. But
doubles and turns oan not always have the
hyena ; at fait a woll•dirootod eppear•thrust
ends hie career on earth and finiohoe the that o
diffioult pursuit. 1460, But more interesting than these
00. The formation of fog is a purely Quanta woo the foot that hero Mr. i'iokwlek
When a1nalt goeo;out for a "spin" on the i moo a teal prorlc 0, eonHerel000mpanied with firstmetSam Weller, the White Hort
road he should use a top buggy.
The road would be operated for the joint
nee and benefit of British Columbia and the
United States, and it is proposed to have the
province contribute its proportion of the coat
to lands, and the United States to give its
guarantee' for the payment of intoreab for
twenty year:: on $60,000 per mile of the
poet,
There is another important point in couneo
tion with title road. The Rutaian Govern-
ment is now engaged in building a railroad
&Dross Siberia and down the Amoor to its
mouth. A road is also projected from the
main line on the Amoor into Kameohatka,
and to some port on Behriog'e Strait, only a
short dlotanee front tbo mouthof the Yukon.
This line, in connection with the Alaska
road would form a practically all rail route
from Europe to the United States.
Victimized Innocence,
Not long since aYankee made hie appear-
ance in the goodly Dutch town of German
Flats, professing to be a eohoolmaeter, and
oommenoed preparations for opening an
English Rehool. The honest Dutchmen, de-
lighted with the projeob, received him kind-
ly, entertained him hospitably and stood
ready, as soon ea the 000000ary preliminaries
could be provided, to patronize his under-
taking, Under these oiroumsbaneee .the
Yankee purchased of one of them a very fine
horse, giving his nota at six months from
date lathe purohaee money.
Shortly after this both the Yankee and
the horse were mi'sing, and a neighbor,
meeting with the former owner of the horse,
said to hint :
"So, Hans, you have lost dab dor horse of
yours?"
"How so 7"
" Why, dot Yankee you Bold him to has
run away mib him."
rfor dot ha
do Dare
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Val, vatf
his note 1'
What is Fog?
In au luteresting letter to " Science," H.
A,Hazen,of Washington, gives ;omelnter•
eating and valuable particulars reeppooting
re settee and nature of fog. H0 Hoye
the p p
that It is admitted that fog is simply aloud
composed of water duet or solid minute
spheres of water item 1.7,000 to 1.00,0.0 of
an inch in diameter, Many have ouppooed
that a dual) partial° must be the nucleus for
each ophere, but an examination under the
microscope of evaporated fog has proved
that each le not the case, Briefly abated, the
cause of fog Is se follows:—It ie esoential
thereb no wind The sky must be
or nearly
o saturated ' must b Y
clear.
The air
The Earth's Fiery Ordeal, "OLD JA0K'S" !AO.
There ere In the Sorlpturee and aaorad ssyyell, my lads, 1 oan neo with half a look
writings of most of the ancient raoee terrible out of my starboard eye that tf I am to have
prophaviea of a fiery ordeal through which any pea0e, I must spin you a yarn," acid
the earth end Ito people moat some clay '6%47k, ae bbeiboye gathered aronnd him
PASO. We wonder with more or lees oar!• eager for a atony, ' but j000 where to be.
osity If such u fate be avtuatly In reserve to is a puzzler."
for our planet, and we interrogate solemn if, gin
Letmeneo, did I ever tell you about
pentanes], we may discover any evidence of bhab thuadur storm we had away down En
such a possibility, the capitol No? Thou jasb wait a min•
Balance has no direob Information to give ate till I fill my pipe, and I'll heave ahead,"
are, but the astronomer exhibits a oirele of "A long time ago, I shipped ea as' ordin•
the heavens filled with what he believes Are bra);
i seaman aboard a lar a Neva Soobia
the ye/Marotta fragmonto of an enormous barque called the Salltehna. Sha was lune.
ptaneb, whioh has been ahabterad by some her -laden and was bound from. Victoria, 33.
vtolonb cenvuleion, The geologleb 'shows ns 0, to Cape Town, Saubh AErloa. We had
vast continental areae of dry land which a plum pudding voyage till we arrived in
have, as he bell:wee, once been deep down about 30 dogma South Latitude and there
under bho an, and the historian presents us) fes where I had mylimb experience with a
with traditions of lands and people that B
hove been swallowed n in the absentee of storm at sou.
the ocean. There are stories' of stare that "Ono fine morning we passed within
have lamed into brilliance and finally diaap• eight of Ylteairn'e Island and had lovely
eared as if they had been consumed Ina weather all day, but when I relieved the
P Y lookout at eight belle (midnight) I knew
oonfl3grablon, while the earbbquakes and bhere would goon be a decided change. Far
volcanic eruptions' which Blake our planet awayastern the horizon was shrouded by
aonouaoe the actual survival ot foresee and one olid oloud whose blaakoeae woo enough
ag000lee bhab make poeolble the moat bar• bo make one shiver, and once in a while I
title cataclysm, and seam to suggest for oould see a faint glimmer flash through it:
the future dtsturbenoes as profound and for -
and shortly after i oould hear a growling,
mfdable os any that ever occurred in any euoh ae old Canto makes when he tries to
paat age+ et awaywith his redone.
Ib le In this connection blab we are led to
„ We arn carrying considerable oauvae
oonaider some recenb utterances on the sub• and altogether I did nob like the looks of
jest of the enormous volume of Inflammable thing'. t knew that myoeition on tete
gas stored up in the cruet ot the earth end bo ollanb foreoaeble wanot to be envied
recently brought' into use for the moat im• when there was lightning to be contended
portant eoonemioat purposes. There is an with,
area ofoonntryinPennsylvania, Went Virgin. "In a remarkably short space of time
la, Ohio and,perhapo other Staten, embracing that cloud was directly over us, but, to my
many thousand square miles, whiok is under- surprise, there was no more thunder or
laid with the most extraordinary end ex, lightning and i was just about to oorgrabu•
teneive stores cf coal oil and coal gas. Io late myself when there was a sudden
the past twenty five years oil has been taken „change in the things that we loved, Ben
onb to the extent of millions on millions of Bolt,"for at that instant everything which I
barrels, while gas to escaping at the rate, 60 coulhave Been in broad daylight stood out
it has been recently °At{mated, 061,000,000n with ebartling dietinotness. Apparently
000, oubio feet each day. The flow of bock beautiful belt of electricity had alighted
all and gee is iso great that the belief is war• in front of me, and quickly following it Dame
ranted that the supplies, notwithstanding the a crash that was simply appealing. 1 thought
extraordinary daily depletion, ere atillenor • that tae earth had apljb asunder and that
mann. we were to be engulfed in u fathomless
Beyond the existence of this gas and oil abyss underneath the veaeol'e keel.
and of the coal bade, which also undorly the Then I heard the mate sing out for me to
greater portion of the United States, we „let go the fore royal halyards 1 ! ! !" I
know aotnally nothing ofoubbarranean eon -obeyed with molt a degree of promptitude
ditions ; but if we oau oseume the presence that it cams' near being the ruination of the
at great depths in the earth, of fire or of ear, for ae the wind was directly aft, you
seffiaentheat•meking agencies to operate on. see the sell was becalmed by the mainroyal,
the coat bade we may well Imagine that by and when I oast the halyards adrift the
the notion of ouch heat the petroleum is whole outfit fall until it was stopped by the
distilled from the coal and the gas is, at drifts, and 1b to a my story bo me theb the
the same time, liberated, but both remain and escaped beingsnapped in two,
stored up in cavities or in the pores of the
yard
1 regainemy station again, and
earth until extracted by the borings. As tried to find a safe place, but my search woe
long as these accumulations of gas and ol, a failure. All hands were at work shorten.
remain sealed up in the depth of the earth, is oatl.
away from actual fire, there ie no risk of a gMeanwhile, the bombardment continued,
mnflogrntion. The entire possibility of euoe and, boys, I began to wonder if some of them
danger is dependant upon the existence of there gods, Neptune end Vnloan and those
fire and on its contact, under favorable con {ellotve, were not p'anaing our deetrnotion.
ditions, with these inflammable compounds. Every hair an my bead rose up dike a
As the oil and gas are drawn out water wire, and if my sou -wester had not been tied
end air will find their way into the cavities tom head bys rope aro, it would have
thus vacated, and the geologists have fore taken a onto on be awn account forever
(lasted a poaaiblo period when by some euoh and a day,
operation all the water note appearing upon Prettoon it began to rain or rather pour
the surface of the land will sink into the in a most violent manner. Suddenly there
cavities of the earth. This necessary fluid was a flash more brilliant than the others ;
will than only be obtainable by drawing it then a crash which seemed to tear my ears
from wells of extraordinary depth. It ie even from my head, while from the iroa•work in
held that the moon is one of these dry planets, myvicinitythere soddenly sprang a solid
being destitute of surface water, which has seet of flae which extended ab least sixty
sunk into the dry and honey -combed interior feet ahead ot the ship. I fell senseless to the
of that body. Thin water, naming in contact deck, where I lay for abonb two minutes
with the interior tires of the moon, produced totally unconscious. When I recovered I
terrific internal throes and volcanic eruptions
thought 1 wan overboard, and immediately
which oontiaued to wreak the moon until its
began to swim, bub soon discovered my mis
fires were extinguished, and it became, ae It
tali e, and tonna there were eight inches of
is now believed to be, a dead, dry planet, water on the sloping cloak
Coming hack to one own prospects fora I immediately rushed aft to help man the
0onflagration, it would be aaoesoary for the boats, but no damage had been done the ship
gas in the earth to be sufficiently mixed and she was not leaking a particle.
with oxygen to make it inflammable. This All the watch on the dock were knocked
could occur from the air which is enpposed down by the oonmuaefon but I was the only
to anter the cavities of the earth to bake the one etuaned and have always thought this
place of the escaped gas, or oxygen oould be was caused by there being so moon Iron
supplied by the decomposition of the water work around me, All the ship's standing
into its ooastituent elements through the i in was of iron wire and when that
nation of boat. There is no certainty that thunder bolt abruok so near are it appeared
the heart of the earth fen mass of fire, al-
ae if a million green fiery serpents wore
though it is as' held to be by some of the ohating each other through it,
theorists ;hat ib would be 0087 enough to The squall left u0 as suddenly as it Dame,
some fire there by electrical or chemical Fifteen minutes attar the lues mentioned
notion, or both. A powoof at oorreab of kw flash of lightning the slay wag perfootl3 clear
rattled oleabrioiby trying to pass through a and the stare twinklinges merrily as if such
formation of poor oonduotiog power would
0 thing as a squall bad ever been thought
easily buret into game, or wager poured upon of. We sheeted home, heeded our sails and
a hod of quick limo would produce a lake
ono more the sharp outwater of the clipper
result. barque seat bFe whit) spray Eying nes she
A Broken Jnmpin -Jeal• swept maje. Wally onward towards the rob
lingforties,
If General Boulanger hoped to fire bho .m« French heart) heart when he penned bhe bombastic Pointers on the Fashions.
pronunotamento which ho recently {sowed „The (lorreot tints for letter paper," Bays
bearing hie name and the eignetarea of a Chest nub street etotiotter•'are "ream
Count Dillon, and the bully and blackguard white and mauve, or a atic:0 tr shade of blue.
Lewitt Raterial be wate F unlw% areky an his Square envelopes are used with paper that
choice of motorial. The they
de cat an ex -se. q P
oitablo raga.. .One'day ahoy dediaato muse. foists Duos. Ladies employ a monogram in
unto ; the nest clay theyare s Betio each gold and colors in the left-hand oorner, or
other across a otro t baricade. They have directly in the centre of the eheeb. Some,
fm otuouol responded to Boulanger's pre• however, prefer the double elphor that is
vt us appeals. pEo has done little in the In vogue in England."
lain two years but demand and res oive vin• Fans of stiff feathers have for the moment
dioations, The ministry would take some usurped the popularity of the ostrich feath-
action which he would oonsbruo into au an erg. The edges of the oaftlyoolored quills
front. He would issue a bulletin and do- are pinked and scalloped au both aides and
:nand a vindication. Some department top, and charming scenes are painted across
would return him. Ho wan charged with or elaborate designs in gold and silver traced
complicity in the decoration scandal ; im- upon the stiff surfaoe,
mediately ho was vindwated by an eleobiou A pretty sailor hat was made by facing
from another department. He was banish- the brim with white silk laid on in tiny
ed and—elected; he wan deprived of hie pleats, a wide ribbon passed about the orown,
rights—and now anobhor proclamation and and where 1b was twisted to a ouster of
the announcement that he is to &band for loops was set a bunch of olover 1. -even and
election in eighty diatriote at s'as's'. bloaeome of uneven length that bobbed and
There is nomothing intensely alluring to swayed graoefally with every movement of
the Frenohmau in Boulanger. He realizes the head.
his ideal of the " men on horseback"- With the univeraelfaahion for blouses of
military glory. There is shout him just every sort aro the all-important belts that
enough 01 the euooeoaful soldier and just °online the fullness of she waist. Tose are
enough of the charlatan bo plsaee the arayiug of eofb draoeod leather, ribbon, oeuvres and
of the France nature for romenoo and me tel links. Leather, with 'Elver elope,
seneotion. He on always be depended on is bho most popular, and worn by men and
to be pioturosque and startling and throe girlo alike with tanto and yachting gaits,
are the :thief qualifioatione of a Fronoh horn,
He is an enigma. Promoted for proficiency Hints for HOose&eepers•
in the odium of war, he is a failure es a
political leader ; d000rated for personal, If by ohauoo a fishbone lodges in the " What la your question, Tom ?"
bravery, he betrays his friend and patron throat h raw egg immediately swallowed '' I—I—well, the feat of it is, my name•
He is a riddle, e. sphinx, a jaok In -box which will ueualiy dmtaoh it. Es going to be printed in rho local paper
whenever the minlotry abuts the lid, bobs A teaep0011f�tl of ammonia in the water in soon—in the doom paper, down neat to the
up with a proclamation, whisk always whioh silver is 'domed reducon the labour o '
'n it bright
from somewherekgs i
o•elabtinnb
him urg
aC0ur0ap
Of late however, there have been aligns To move tar, rub well with clean lard,
that the Freuob aro becoming bored with afterward wash well with seep and water;
Boulanger, Ho is passe. They tore vola• apply this to 01 her hands or clothing,
filo, and easily see froah herons. Evan To tette ink out of linen, dip the ink spot
Buffalo 13111—William le Bnidlo, as they 1u pure melted tallow, then wash out the
ash Hint las served to attract) attention to tallow and ink will come club of it,
the exiled misehiefmakor, The tone of his
Flossie Improves the Oocaeion.
Flossie had been eating intemperately of
watermelon.
"Mamma," offs said, proosiny, her hands
wearily on her atomeoh, "My oaeb is just
like a window sash, isn't it?"
"In what way, dear 7" asked Ehe mother,
smilimply.
"Because It's around the pains," aha re -
led demurely,
1
p ,
,
"Gita mo a proof of your love, George,
oho sold, and George did so by the manifold
process.
The Whitt Hart of Southwark, ono o,
England's moot famous tuns, whooe history
gcos back five oenturtes, is being pulled
down. It has been associated with Jack
Carlo and Mr. l'iokwtek, Shakespeare
maks Gado say, fa "Henry VI." : " Will
you 'node bo hanged with your pardons
about your neoke? Habh my sword there.
fore broke through London paten, that you
should leave mo at the White Hart in
Southwark?' When in "Tito Chronoolo if
the Gray Priam" it is recorded that "at the
Wttyt Harts', in Southwark's, one Haway'
dyne of Sent Martyne was boheddyd" in
FOUGHT AT WATERLOG•
one of tilt Combatants Still Living upe7y,bL
lo Tell Ills 500,0y,
John Scott Is an Eogllobmon, still living
and still able to do some mama{ work, who
took part In the battle of Waterloo, He is
deooribed an a healthytooking man for his
age, rather tall, but with a heavy 000ap is'
hie ehouiders, wbioh makes him look shorter'.
that he really le, Hie foaturoe ere regular,,
and though his whiskers are white;bhere fa
scarcely a white hair in his head, His
employment is not iaborioue, even for a man
who 10 nearly 85 years of age, His chief
work ie to ring a bell in the morning, abs
night, and at the meal hours, His personal
recollections of the babble in which he took
part are confined to what went on immedi.
ately around him, Interviewed a shore
time ago by a reporter for the Newcastle
Leader, he said
' My father was a 'soldier in the Black
Watch. I was brought up in the armyfand
was in Belgium In Jane, 1815. What d had:
to do was to play bee triangle. I was in the
Blank W itch too, but my arena weren't mnoL
just a ptetol and a small sword. Quatro
Bras woo a good deal worse than Waterloo•
in my opinion. My father 'spoke Gaelio as
veal as English, and a lot of the Black
Ws eh ,poke Gaelic. But Wellington wild
he would not have ib, for ' by the living God
he would have every man speak Eoglish.' telil
'After the battle we got a rest, and thews
we had to march to Waterloo. About 11
o'clock on the night of the 17th of June ib
commenced to rain heavily. The rain
poured as hard as lb could, and when a
night that was 1 Ib was a potato field we
were in, but 1 wrapped my cloak aronnd
me and got a good sleep. 1 remember I. lay
just on the side of a little bank, and the
water was running down on both aides nit
me, while in the morning there were two
Moho of mud amend us. At daylight we,
were up, and each of are got a glees of ram
and a ship's biscuit.
Before bho fighting began the Dake of
Wellington came riding up to are and cried
Now,I hope you are well and ready.' One
of our soldiers saluted him and replied: 'Yea,
we know our duty.' Wellington smiled and
rode off.
" As for the battle, I remember very fib -
Ile. Ib was nothing but fighting and txcite-
meut. The Hanoverianswere a splendid lots
of men, and all of teem fought wall ; but as
for the Belgians, if Wellington had only
known what they were he would not have
given one of them a horse. We were short of
horses and he would have taken theirs and.
madeevery man of them tramp on foot.
They never fired a 'shot, for as soon as the
fleet crack was heard they were off as hard.
as they could go. All day long the fight,
ing went on, but the smoke hung so thick -
around us that we could see little. There -
was nothing but firing and ehautiug on all
sides. Sometimes when the smoke lifted wa-
oould see fighting all around us, sometimes
In front or to our right and left, whew we
could see the cavalry charging nobs Ohm.
Then a lot of horses would some flying utast'
the field in all directions, nelgbiug end
kinking wildly. Teeir riders were gone
they bad been shot out of the saddles and:
the horses wore galloping madly away to
escape. Thera was an English resimeub
near n0 and I remember outing the French,
charge at them. As soon as ever they
would appear the English would yell : ' Eng.
land forever 1' Hare they would gab abs
them I and then thev cheered, fired away..
and off would go the French.
" Sometimes we lay on the ground doing
nothing. We could scarcely see twenty:
yards ahead of us) for smoke, but then we.
would know something was coming. We
shouted and fired straight at them, and
away they went and were gone in the smoke
again. But they would soon turn, and book
they wonid mune again. And so it went cis
all the bunt. I was not frightened : I was
too excited for anything. I played my tri-
angle and shouted ' Soobland for ever 1' till
I was hoarse, and could scarcely speak a
word. I never got a eoratoh, but I think 111
must have been my height that saved ma. L
was so little that I had not mach rook to run,,
but the Black Watch was s0 Out up that it
had to join with the Seventy-seventh.
"Bao the Frenoh had no chance that day..
They were no match for our army, and the
little Frenchmen could not stand the big
Englishmen. It was the same with the cav-
alry, for our men could ride over them. The
Eoglish oould have fought all night but the
French would not let them,
Mn Scott maintains his contempt for the
Fronk to the last. "Tney hate no yet,"
Bald he, " but the Engliah beat them at.
Waterloo, and on always do it,"
Where They Rear Gir'.s in Cages.
In the report of United States Consul
Griffin, stationed at Sydney, the ooneul tells
of a remarkable custom of the inhabitants
of New Britain, as follows: " The inhabit-
ants, ib is said by Wallace, have a peculiar
custom of confining their girls in cages until
they aro old enough to be married. The
oustom. is said to bo peooliar to the people of
New Britain. The cages are made of twigs.
of the palm tree, and the girls are put into
them when only two or three years of age,
The Rev. George Brown established a
Wesleyan mission in New Britain in 1876,
sad I learn from him that these cages are
built insists of the houses, and that the girls
are never to leave the hones under any
oireumetancee. The houses are closely
fenced in with a sort of wickerwork
made of reeds. Ventilation under the
circumstances is rendered very difiioult.
The girls are said to grow up strong and
healthful in spite of these disadvantages."
" He Got There Just the Same,"
" Edith 1"
" Yes, Tom 1'
"I—I have a very important question to.
ask you. And—"
" Yes, Tom 7"
" Naw, don't work any sister racket on.
me,"
advortteemente don't you know ; and I woe
wondering whether it would be all alone
among the clothe to with curs arson
bho marriages 0"
Y
" 011, Tom 1 ain't you mute ?"
The Whole Soheme Given Awav,
A Kingston women feels very sore over they
latest eaoapado of her Seven-yoar•oldfnoorri•
latest manifesto ahowp bloat he raslizee this, Cnemieta say that it takes more than gibto. There were eome visitors invited to
for In hie vain attempt to call attention to twice ae much sugar to sweeten preserves,
bo tea one evening moonily, pad during tam•
himself he Iola hie temper and descends to tattoo, abs'., if put in when that' beg course of the meal John Henry Augustan
mere jawing, RIO miobake was in leaving cook as tc done to eweotee after the fruit is remarked, with a ahuokle , " Mother's' gob
Franca. He should bavo staid in Paris and cooked. Suit should not be added to os) b all her best things on the table to•night;,
would have `ailed him MBA it has boiled et lost ton minutes , atn'byou)
esu ma 7" The Mortified mother apo
fought it out. They } r y i g
hut what of throb? No man is a hero of the —1111, Y. Mail and Express. the youngster a Holt under the table whew
Boulanger sort until ho has been martyre.l,
he added, innocently : "Yon needn't kick"
There's nothing like martyrdom to rale° : Limited. Oonvollionoee. me under the table now, cause I didn't tells
Then, too,Pile a ion wa ftotu I Miofreee, entering the kitohon -"Brfdrteb, a word about borrowing the nap kits,"
Dover
T , 8 Y 1 „ , g nap
kine."
to Calais, and slant as the little eon• have vol gleaned the ohiekon yule Hew
era' will the strong winds of she ohennel 000k (with au injured air)--" As well to Ii Dresden china eebo ornamented with. fano?
will nob bo roared down. W:3 ate afraid odd, mum, with nothing but yellow soap work in sliver dopoofb are much affooted in.
Boulanger's name le soup. to glean 1b with." aristocratic oiroloe,