The Gazette, 1893-09-14, Page 89
World's Fair.
Chainh,r of
France
m,
ember or the
Paris, France,
Toron'o.
the \Vor!d's
esse,l. «'hen
exhW Lion, be
fut. The !ake
and. The im-
stanee present
.le a:fir is too
buildings cost
- and are used
nn:.-,,nt. They
ey cover a large
hibition build-
-cheep," said
gush, with an
pt. He looked
'noddy.
-;xhibition that
n. Foreigners
e an opporrun-
school,but soon
ane, All Ameri-
of the Euro -
re Siamese af-
wa,nted ?"
v_ANTED.
wanted to get
.lam clear north
eeeded, This
India wedge -
he south and
rth. This is
anted. Some
'rtance of that
vas lifted, En -
'd that France
and and that
ke it warm for
othing of the
.en` succeeded
:sired, and the
e the remit of
ztTieen Italy
othing. Italy
war because of
tournament at
d with the ap-
rs. The Am -
treat them dis-
the contempt
NG SYNE."
tion With the
ament-
Baud Played
A I rs.
ecurred at the
t in Toronto.
to overflowing
nt and fashion-
ty this summer,
and when the
ao was ofliciat-
ies announced
ent would play
pause passed
nd struck up a
caned upon the
• the "° Maple
�t from a thou -
drowning the
applauded to
enthusiasm and
raved their hats
efs. The band -
he number, and
ted, whilst the
is president of
s, and who was
rmly congratu-
W hen the ap-
d played " Rule
.gene followed,
.e," which toot;
eident was very
er caught the
perhaps one of
sentiment ever
London•
trated one even
mmercial Road,
asting an hour,
the neighbors.
occupied by a
his wife, and
was sent to hi a
and on arriv-
ying flat on the
Jackson was
• a dazed way,
ie is dead. You
'She aent for a
the police had
kson threw up
ee the eet be-
nd w picked
ondon Hospital
11 and a dislocate that Jackson
ife had almost to
lgs a fancy
the army, and
o her support,
rg. The unhap-
ipearances indi-
elt on her and
irely with elec.
initial expendi-
e
"What's your
valise, one fire
pe ten stories
st you help me
have seen bea-
t! - Well, whet
a steamers are
:ally, supposed.
eighteen feet
rn :m are ever
1
eleisfeeseentienee
HOUSEHOLD.
Flossie'a Upinplaint.
Says dear little Floss,
With an angry toss
Of her curls, as white as tow,
" What under the sun,
Now, could I have done
That should make folks treat me so !
Nov,"it used to be,
When folk: came to see
My PapA and Mamma dear,
Tney'd ask for et, curl,
Call me a sweet girl.
Now, they've forgot ine, I fear.
•° They don't notice me,
But,iust that baby,
That ain't got any teeth nor hair!
It just lies and squalls,
Wrapped up in old shawls,
Away from the leas; bit of air.
" And now Papa dear,
If I go very near,
will not take me on his knee,
But says, 'run away,
My big girl, aid play,'
Nothing seems like it used to be!
"Now, it does seem strange,
What should cause such change;
But I thinly I could guess, maybe,
Yes, without a doubt,
What brought it about
Was the buying of that baby!"
—[The Housekeeper,
Care of the Baby.
The hygienic treatment of a baby at-
tacked with diarrhoea is explained by Dr.
Rowe as follows:
When an infant is attacked with diar-
rhoea in the summer time one of the mostim-
portant things to do is to keep it perfectly
clean and cool. This will require consider-
able hard work on the part of the mother
or nurse, but it will do very much towards
saving the baby's life. The room occupied
by the sick child should be large, perfectly
clean and well ventilated. It is hardly
possible to give these little sufferers too
much fresh air. Diapers should be changed
after each movement of the bowels and
those that are soiled removed to a distant
room to be washed. A bath two or three
times a day of moderately strong salt
water is not only cleansing but decidedly
refreshing and stimulating. It also prevents
that peculiar "sour smelling" condition so
common in summer diarrhoea. The water
for the bath may be either very hot or cool,
but not tepid, .as tepid baths are weaken-
ing. If there is much fever the temples,
forehead and wrists may be bathed fre-
quently in cool water, which has a tendency
to keep down the fever.
A child sick with summer diarrhoea is
to be kept quiet and not taken up and
carried about the room every time it cries.
This precaution is most imperative. I have
seen many a mother hasten to the cradle
every time the child would cry, take it up
in her arms and walk the floor with it until
it would stop crying. Now such treat-
ment will not only spoil a well baby but it
will make a sick one worse, and especially
if it is sick with bowel trouble.
A grown person does not want to be jolt-
ed or carried about if he has an attack of
cholera morbus, and an infant is the same
way.
A sick child that cries considerably does
so because it has pain, and the pain is gen-
erally located in the stomach or bowels. In
a case of summer diarrhoea the child should
be comfortably but not too warmly covered
and he on a firm mattress. I have seen in-
stances in which the child was almost buried
in a large pillow or feather matrtess, so that
it could scarcely get a breath of fresh air
custard, and set away until perfectly cold ;
then pour over the potatoes, liftingthem
and stirring•carefully with a fork until the
dressing is well mixed through. Let stand
half an hour or longer before serving.
Fried Tomatoes with Cream Gravy. -Wash
and wipe large ripe tomatoes and cut them
in slices halt an inch in thickness ; season
with pepper and salt and fry them in sweet
dripping or half butter and half lard. When
they are all done, dish them and dust a
little flour in the pan, pour in a teacup of
, rich cream or tinned milk, give a boil up,
pour over the tomatoes and serve. This is
a nice breakfasts dish.
Rice for Dessert. -One quart of sweet milk,
two-thirds of a cup of uncooked riee and a
little salt. Set in a steamer over boiling
water, and cook until the rice is almost like
a jelly. Put in small cups to cool, then
turn into saucers and serve with cream.
Sprinkle with white sugar. This also mases
a safe dessert for invalids and delicate
children,
Blackberry Short-cake.—Blackberries
when they are very ripe, make a good short
cake, though they are better in a steamed
batter pudding. Use one quart of flour,
three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a lit-
tle salt, two tablespoonfuls of butter. Wet
this with milk or water, just stiff enough
to roll out nicely, and mix it just as little
as possible in getting it ready to roll, Use
a hot knife for splitting the crust, and in
putting it together again invert the upper
crust so that the top of the crust hes on the
berries, and the soft part will hold the top
Iayer of berries better than the hard crust,
and the middle of the short -cake will not
run the risk of steaming until it is soggy.
Chop the the fruit medium fine and sprinkle
with sugar a few minutes before your short-
cake is ready for them.
Sponge Cream.—Soak one-quarter of a
box of gelatine in three cups of milk one-
half hour. Then heat in a double boiler.
Beat the yolks of three eggs, add three
tablespoonfuls of sugar and one-half a salt -
spoonful of salt. Pour on the hot milk, and
cook until it thickens tike soft custard.
Strain ; add one teaspoonful of vanilla and
the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff. When
cold, serve with cream. After the gelatine
is put in the double boiler it should come
to the boiling point. After the hot
milk is added, beat with the egg -beater.
Then let it come to a boil again, and strain
through a tin strainer. Dip small moalds
in cold water, and turn the cream into them
to cool.
Pickling Peaches.
Pickled Peeled Peaches.—Use only ripe
perfect fruit, discarding all else. Weigh
after peeling, and for each ten pounds of
peaches take a quart of vinegar, four and a
half pounds of sugar, and as much mace,
cloves and cinnamon, or whatever spice is
preferred, as will give the desired flavor.
Lay the peeled peaches upon the sugar for
an hour, then drain off the syrup thus form-
ed, and add a cupful of water. Bring this
to a boil and skim as long as any skum rises;
then put in the peaches, boil for five min-
utes, and lay them upon flat dishes to cool.
When cool, put them into jars. In the
meantime, add the vinegar and spices to
the syrup, boil gently for fifteen minutes,
and then pour it over the fruit in the jars.
Protect from the atmosphere in any ap-
proved manner.
Unpeeled Peach Pickles.—The course of
procedure with the unpeeled fruit is quite
different in some respects. The peaches
Food : Much depends upon proper food should not be too ripe, but they must be fair
for these cases, and there is nothing quite and without blemish, in order to give satis-
factory results. Seven pounds of fruit is
taken as the unit of action. Wipe with a
coarse cloth to remove the down, prick
each peach with a fork and heat in just
feeding. Two parts milk and one part enough water to cover them. When the
water with a little sugar added makes a water has nearly reached a boil, take out
good food for a bottle-fed child. It may be the peaches and put in three pounds of
necessary to change the food at times,
for what will agree with one will disagree
with another. Such articles of diet as
welded milk, barley water, boiled flour,
rice and milk, milk and arrowroot, kumyss
and a number of the artificial food stuffs
may be used in these cases.
Medical Treatment : There are numerous
drugs used in this disease, but I shall only
mention a few that I consider safe and effi-
cient. I especially advise against the giving
of soothing syrups and cordials,for they are
almost certain to impair the stomach and
aggravate the disease. The child's tongue
should always he examined and if it is found
to be coated white as it often is, and if it
cries a good deal, the following medicine
may be prepared by the druggist and given :
Take fluid extract nux vomica, drops four ;
powdered bismuth, grains five ; water,
ounces four ; mix. Dose : Teaspoonful every
four hours.
Ifthe discharges are frequent and thin,
and if there is fever, give the following :
Take fluid extract ipecac,drops five ; water,
ounces four ; mix. Dose : Teaspoonful
every two or three hours. If there is much
vomiting a tea made from peach tree bark
will generally check it. If the stools are of
a greenish character get three or four ounces
of the milk of magnesia from the druggist
and give one-half to one teaspoonful in five
or six swallows of water about every three
hours.
equal to a mothers milk, provided she her-
self is in good health. If the child is bottle-
fed the bottle is to be scalded twice daily
and the rubber nipple washed after each
In the Pantry.
Add a cup of blueberries to the ordinary
tea -biscuit, made from a quart of flour,
three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking-pow-
der,a large tablespoonful of butter and two
scant cups of rich milk. Make up the bis-
cuit as soft as possible, and bake in a quick
oven. These are delightful for tea or
luncheon.
Blueberry Griddle Cakes.—Add a cup of
blueberries or common huckleberries to a
quart of batter, made from wheat flour, and
bake like ordinary cakes.
Hash.—Chop the hash fine and season
well, then bake in the oven in a deep dish.
When nearly done break over it two or
three eggsbroken carefully so that the
yolks remain whole. Sprinkle with a dash
of pepper, salt and bits of butter. Re-
place in the oven until the eggs are set hard
enough to cut through. Serve with small
squares of toast.
Poto ato. Salad.—Place in a salj d bowl three
laves. thinly sliced cold boiled potatoes,
and twoof onions, also thinly sliced, alternat-
ing them, with potatoesatbottom and attop.
Make a dressing as follows : Beat two eggs
thoroughly, add two heaping teaspoons
sugar, one of salt, one of mustard,a piece'
of butter the size of an egg and one cup of
vinegar : set in boiling water and stir con-
etautly until the mixture thickens like soft
white sugar, boiling the syrup thus formed
for fifteen minutes, and skimming it till
clear. Then add three pints of vinegar and
the spices,which should be placed in a small,
thin muslin bag, and consist of one table-
spoonful each of mace, allspice and cinna-
mon stick, with a teaspoonful each of celery
seed and cloves. Boil all together for ten
minutes, then return the peaches, and con-
tinue the boiling till the fruit can be pierc-
ed with a straw. Then remove the fruit to
be cooled and packed in jars, continue boil-
ing the syrup till it is of satisfactory thick-
ness, and pour it over the peaches while
still scalding hot. Cover and seal in the
usual manner
Pickled Peaches. No. 2.—Peel a peck
of ripe but firm peaches, dropping them in-
to water as fast as the skins are removed,
to keep them from changing color. Put a
quart of best cider vinegar and two pounds
of sugar into a preserving kettle, and let it
come to a boil. Take from the water as
many peaches as will go into this quantity
of syrup without crowding, allow them to
stand on a linen towel for a minute or two,
while the water runs off, stick two cloves
into each peach, immerse them in the
syrup and boil for five minutes. Take this
lot of peaches from the kettle, supplying
the place with others, and put those which
have been cooked iuto glass jars, continuing
till all have been done. Then fill the jars
with the syrup, screw on the tops and allow
them to stand for a week. At that time
turn off the syrup, scald and skim it, re-
turning it to the jars while still hot. On
either occasion, if there is not enough syrup
to cover the fruit, supply the deficiency
by melting sugar in an equal volume of
vinegar and turning it on while boiling hot.
[Good Housekeeping.
Itousekeepina Ideas.
All forms of table. garniture are required
to be low.
The purest and best disinfectant for .de-
cay is the earth itself.
Fine shavings from soft pine wood make
a pleasant pillow that may be utilized for
comfort in a hammock.
Drugs of all description should be labelled
plainly. Old prescriptions should, as a
rule, be thrown away.
In arranging blossoms on the table it is
a matter of no small moment that they are
kept low, so that they do not interfere
with the view across the table.
Let the Sunday meals be regular, but
lighter than those of other days, and Sun-
day headaches will be happily conspicuous
by their absence.
Any spot that is kept continually moist,
however, like a spot where the water of the
weekly wash and the dishwater are thrown
as it was in earlier times, is likely, in the
course of time, to become a plague spot.
Get the "new" out of your towels be-
fore putting them to use. It is indeed
treating a guest ill to offer him a towel
with the "store" starch upon it. Let the
family take the "new" off your "company'
linen.
The old rule of an ounce of prevention
applies, and although screens may be re-
quisite to an entire freedom from flies an
energetic cleaning of the premises and care
in keeping them clean will do more good
than any amount of sticky paper, traps,
powders or poisons.
BRUDDER JOHNSON'S FEARS
Ile Scares at the Comet, and Beer Gardner
Roasts Dim For It,
" Am Brudder Rambo Johnson in de
room dis eavenin' ?" queried Brother Gard-
ner as the regular .business of the meeting
was concluded.
" He ar, sal]," was the prompt reply of
the brother named as he rose up and remov-
ed a horn button he had been holding in his
mouth for the last half hour.
66 Step dis way, Brudder Johnson. I
hev a few words to say to yo.' Yo' war
not at de last meetin' of dis Limekiln club."
" No, Sah."
" Fur three days last week yo' war sittin'
in yo'r house in fear an' tremblin'."
"Sorter fear and tremblin', sah."
" Last Sunday yo' begun shoutin' at de
top of yo'r voice an' kept it up till a police-
man was on de pint of takin' yo' to jail."
" Sorter shoutin', sah."
"Brudder Johnson, I want yo' to look
me squat' in de eye fur three or fo' minits,"
continued Brother Gardner. " I knows
what's de matter wid yo' an' seberal odder
menibersof dis club. It started wid de comet.
Some fool nigger went around seyin' dat de
comet was a sign dat de eand of de world
was nigh to hand, and about a dozen of yo'
hev bin half scared to death fur de last
month. Last Sunday yo' had yo'r coat an
vest an' brogans off, an' was 'specting to
sail upward ebery minit. A week ago to
night yo' sot on de doahstep till yo' had a
chill, but dar was no sariin'. Ar yo' still
lookin' fur de world to eaad up ?"
" S•sorter look in', sah," stammered
Brother Johnson.
" Reckon yo' am keepin' boaf ears open
to h'ar a biff—bang—crash ! as de comet
smashes into de world and knocks down
all de dishes in de pantry, Den, as the
plaster falls an de shingles fly off de roof,
yo' figger on spreadin' yo'r wings and Bail-
in' away. I think I know de program, an'
I think I understand de gineral situashun.
Brudder Johnson, look k at me instead of de
floah. Now, sah, by varchew of de author,
ity given me as president of dis club, I
shall fine y o' in de sum of $6,000 an' costs,
an' it ani needless to say dat de costs will
be about fo' times de rine. It will take yo'
as I figger it, about 13,000 y'ars to pay de
sutra total, but until it am all handed in to
de treasurer yo' will stand suspended on de
,books: Yo' kin sot down."
Brother Johnson wobbled down the aisle
to his seat, and the president looked
severely around him and continued :
" Dar am no by-law techin' dis matter of
de eandin' of de airth, but I'm gwine to
make one. De next member of dis club who
quits work to sot around his house an' wait
fur de trumpet to blow will drap outer dis
club wid appallin' suddenness ! While I
doan' say nuffin' agin de rabbit's fut nor de
dream book, an' while I expect moas' of yo'
to consult de goose bone an' be guided mo'
or leas by de new moon, I'ze gwine to hev a
limit. De white man han't afeared of
comets. He jest keeps peggin' right along,
comet or no comet. He reckons dat de
world will eand some day, but he doan' let
it interfere wid his sleep. He wants to go
to heaben jest as bad as de cull'd man does,
but dat loan' stop him from makin' $2 or
$2.50 a day right along. De chances are
dat when the trumpet blows he will get a
long start of us- I want dis foolishness to
stop right heal] ! If de white man kin take
chances, so kin we. While he continues to
walk up an down wid his hands in his
pockets, dar am no call fur us to be trem-
hlin' wid fear. I once backed a note fur de
Rev. Penstock an' had to pay it, an' I'ze
inclined to be powerful caushus, but I'ze
perfectly willin' to guarantee dat if de
comet hits de world de smash won't eben
stop a clock. De world roust come to an
eand some day, of co'se, but it han't gwine
ter be next week nor de week after.
" We will now disperse to our var'us
homes, an' in gwine ter bed we'll figger dat
de world will be rennin' on de same old
time card at seben o'clock in de mawnin'
an' dat we've got to put in our best licks to
make up fur lost time."
M. QUAD.
An Exoitinz Piz -Hunt.
At a recent meeting of the Jacobabad
Tent Club (says the Colonies and India), a
large boar broke from a piece of jungle
acrost cultivated fields, and was followed
by Mr. Vincent, of the 7th Bombay Lancers,
on an Arab named Helenus, a grand old
fencer, whose name appeared frequently
some years ago in racing accounts; After
running to the Mohair Road, the pig jinked
to the right and went back towards his old
jungle, followed by Helenus, who was doing
his best to make up the quarter -mile start
the pig had been allowed. Two or three
small nullahs were cleared, pig and horse
being about 25 yards apart, and finally,
about 40 `yards from the thick jungle the
pig was making for, there were two nullahs
filled with running water and a bank divid-
ing them. The boar made an " on -and -off"
of it, but Helenus, who was graduae'
gaining, took the two nullahs in his sum ,
and made up so much ground in the'tand
b barely threedseparated, �`e
fx�
HEALTH.
A Great Germ Killer.
In view of the possible advent of cholera
in this country, many cheap and simple
disinfectants have been proposed 'for the
use of the people. Of these, one of the
most efl'ective is common soot. Soot is
composed of pure carbon, and is formed by
the hot vapor of the hydro -carbon coming
from burning fuel striking the cold walls of
the chimney or stove pipe and condensing
thereon.
•
It is a very light, porous and impalpable
powder, and like charcoal, which is the
same element in a different form, possesses
the property of absorbing and retaining a
wonderfully large amount of gas.
The great danger of disease about sewers,
drains and other places is almost entirely
due to gas given off by decomposing mat-
ter. If soot be sprinkled about these places
it will absorb the foul gas. When cholera
was expected in Baltimore some sixteen
years ago, Dr. Piggot, a celebrated chemist
of the time, announced that the old disin-
fectant with which cholera could be at all
effectively combatted was copperas or sul-
phate of iron, and he made a composition
of charcoal and copperas which was said to
have been invaluable in its disinfecting
properties.
The general idea in disinfecting is first,
to provide a means for absorbing the death -
dealing gas, carrying with it millions of
diseased germs, and then to have the neces•
sary agent to destroy the germs after they
are absorbed. Charcoal has always been
regarded as an excellent disinfectant, but,
as a matter of fact, soot is superior to it
from containing some of the unoxidized hy-
drocarbons contained in the smoke from the
fuel, and among these hydrocarbons is
creosote, a germ -killer of wonderful power.
Only Healthy Persons Sneeze.
This is a point alluded to by Mr. Jona-
than Hutchinson in a recent number of his
"Archives." He does not recollect himself
to have seen any but fairly healthy persons
sneeze. He puts the question with especial
reference to the widely -spread popular sup-
erstition that sneezing is a sign of health
and good luck. It is possible, he thinks,
that this may have had its origin in the
fact that it is for the most part an act re-
stricted to those in fair health. Taylor, in
his "Primitive Culture," gives interesting
facts as to the prevalence of this creed and
as to certain customs associated with it,
and traces it in part to doctrines of anim-
ism, but Mr. Hutchinson thinks the sugges-
tion he has given may also have some value.
Wrinkles.
No evidence of advancing years is so un-
welcome as wrinkles. «'rinkles are but
the expression of the inner life, thought,
and feeling as the years go by. The best
remedies for wrinkles are altogether pre-
ventive. A cheerful spirit, contented mind,
plenty of sleep, exercise in the open air, and
a healthful diet will insure against the
appearance of wrinkles almost entirely.
When once developed, these measures stand
among the best cures known. We may,
however, aid in the removal of these un-
welcome marks of advancing yearsby spong-
ing the face with hot water and daily taking
a face message with some oil that is readily
absorbed, as lanoline or malvena salve.
These lines are trailed as the expression
of the face gives them existence, and are
encouraged by the absorption of the fat
which underlies the skin ; when this is de-
veloped by massage, the removal of the
wrinkles is hastened, but the principal thing
to be attained is to prevent their existence
by a change of thought, condition of mind
and heart.
Waste of Force.
A source of dyspepsia is emotional waste
of nervous force. The nerve force is to the
physical system what steam is to the ma-
chine. In the normal condition of things,
it is renewed as fast as it is used. But na-
ture makes no provision for the immense
amount expended by excessive care, by fuss
and worry, by hurry and drive, by explo-
sions of passion and by the undue excite-
ments of pleasure. All these are like a
great leakage of steam. The stomach is
the first and largest sharer in the loss.
SUFFERINGS OF A STOWAWAY.
Sixteen Days on Rations Intended for One
Day Only.
A remarkable adventure of hardship
coupled with human endurance is related by
Capt. Evans of the British steamship Will-
iam Anning, which arrived at Baltimore,
the other day with iron ore from St. Jago,
Cuba. The case occurred upon the trip be-
tween Baltimore aad Bordeaux, France.
The Anning sailed from here May 13 with a
full cargo of wheat. On the sixteenth day
out the chief officer reported to Capt. Evans
that there were strange sounds in No. 3
hatch, which could be heard at intervals.
The sounds continued till all on bard were
more or less impressed with the necessity of
investigating what were thosgbt by some
to be spirit rappings, as all conceded that
no human being could le in the small space
between the bagged"')°heat and the iron
deck above.
At last Capt- peens decided to investigate.
The battens tarpaulins were removed
and one o e hatches was taken off. Sud-
denly / ciated man, who looked like a
b
struggled on deck. He looked about
Aan
l n made a rush for the ship's side,
nting like a person who is driven wild by
hirst. Seeing that the cool water of the
sea had allured the man, Capt. Evans or-
dered his crew to seize him. Then water
was given the man in small quantities, not
that are y yards across withstanding his piteous appeals for more. The boar jinked to they Brandyand water were also administered
,died ch of lit
thehorse's frmt,and then con u ten aids him with good effect.
for the jungle, but whenimseIf char ed As soon as possible Capt. Evans drew out
of his haven he foolishiy�eceived a sear the man's story, and recorded his name,
on the near side, . antmortally wound home and qge, in case he should die before
which rolled him ,lthe nullah was most reaching Iand. He said he belonged to
ed. The jump afterwards, and found Denmark and had stowed away on the
carefully meat' Anning in Baltimore. When he hid in the
to be 23ft lir hold he had one loaf of bread ani a small
John ``Pa ��there's s+DZr, Footthey scufficin ent until f water, h the heich thought
grheached would sea,
poet. Pa— Sh : Don't men -
say ,nobody can tell what misfortunes when he intended to come from his hiding
tio,-{lefall him." place. To his astonishment, when the
uitor--"I have come, sir, to ask you to
During the hot weather food should be/give me- your ,. daughter's hand." Pater -
quickly cleared away
and floors
swept- t of l ffam.ilias-e" Why, sir, when I last saw it, it
meals that no crumbswasin your possession,
bliss this self-appointed board of h
hatch was fastened he saw his last chance
for liberty out off, and he made the voyage
in the dark under . the most terrible sus-
pense and agony. Much that he told Capt.
Evans of his experience was awtal to hear.
of
He had probably fasted the whole time, ex-
cept the first day of his imprisonment. He
tried to eat wheat from the cargo, but his
mouth produced no saliva and he could not
masticate the grain. Capt. Evans kiss -dip
cared for the man. When Bordeaux was.
reached he went ashore with the determines,
tion co walk to his home in Denmark.
Capt. Evans thinks if he could spend seven,
teen days in the ship's hold he would l
equal to the task before him.
SOME SINGUL &It OUSTOMS•
In many parts of Java the bride shows
her subjection by washing the feet of the
groom,
The Chinese have an academy of manners
that prescribes etiquette for the whole em-
pire.
The body -of a dead Chinaman is 'often
kept in his late home for three or four
years before burial.
A Roman bride was carried to her future
home and lifted across the threshold by
her husband.
Japanese ladies of the olden time gilded
their teeth ; in the East Indies black teeth
were the fashion.
The practice of using eggs at Easter is
of Hindoo origin, the eggs being in India
an emblem of immortality.
At the time of the discovery of America
the rank of a Peruvian lady might be de-
termined by the size of the ring she wore
in her nose.
The Dyak head hunting has a religions
origin. The Dyak believes that every per-
son he kills in this world will be his slave
in the next.
Roman mourning extended during a
whole year ; but a great feast or victory,
or public rejoicing of any kind, might
terminate it sooner.
In China white is the color of mourning;
in Egypt, yellow ; in Turkey, violet ; in
Ethiopia, brown ; in Europe, during the
Middle Ages, white.
Down to the present century a part of
the marriage ceremony in Hungary consist-
ed in the groom giving the bride a kick to
remind her of her sub jection.
Among the head hunters of Borneo a
man is not permitted to offer marriage to a
woman of his tribe until he brings her the
head of a man killed by himself.
The Maldivian Islanders always eat in
the most private room in the house, and
carefully close the doors and darken the
windows that they may be unobserved.
Down to the time of Domitian the female
mourning dress among the Romans was a
black gown and white vets ; after that time
it was a white robe and black veil.
In some parts of Ethiopia men present
themselves entirely without clothes before
a person to whom they wish to pay especial
reverence, in order to show their humil-
ity.
The nobles of Spain claim the right of
appearing in the presence of the K ing with
their hats on, to show that they are not
so much subject to him as the other Span-
iards are.
Greeks, on the loss of a relative, abstain-
ed from wine and agreeable food, took off
all ornaments, dressed in coarse black stuff,
shaved the head and rolled in the mire or
ashes.
At ancient British feasts each guest had
his portion placsd before him in a little
wicker basket. The most honored or noble
guest had the biggest piece, and, taking it
in his hands, tore it to pieces with his
teeth.
Orthodox Turks shave the head with the
exception of a tuft on the crown, which is
left to insure a tight grip to the angel of
the resurrection when he comes to pull them
out of the grave on the day of judgment.
A Chinaman buys his coffin often 'many
years before his death and keeps it in his
house as a most valuable article of furni-
ture. The most cherished present a son
can make to the father is a handsome
coffin.
A thenaeus describes a feast given by a
prince of Gaul, which continued without
interruption for a whole year. Even
strarnges passing through his dominions
during this time were compelled to come
and eat.
In noble Roman houses a slave was kept
to read to the family while at their meals. e
Sometimes this office was performed by a
member of the family. The Emperor Sew
erus often read aloud while his wife and
friends ate.
The City of London is sacred from intru-
sion by the royal troops, and only two regi-
ments in the British service have the right
to march through it in martial array, with
bands playing, bayonets fixed and colors
displayed.
In salutation the English, Canadians and
Americans say, How do you do? The French
demand, How do you carry yournelf ? The
Germans, How do find yourself ? The Rus-
sians, How is your nose ? the Chia e, Have
you eaten rice to -day ?
A Day in a Gorilla's Life.
At the Aquarium in Berlin there is a big
gorilla whose habits are about as correct as
those of most of his distant relatives. He
gets up at eight o'clock in the morning,
takes a bath and uses soap without hesita-
tion. When his toilet is completed he
takes a cup cf milk, after which he eats
two loaves of bread with Frankfort sausages
and smoked Hamburg beef, all of which
he moistens with a glass of Weiss beer. At:
1 p. m. he takes a bowl of soup, with rice
and potatoes, and a wing of a chicken. He
uses his knife and fork and a napkin like a
human being; but when he thinks that his
keepers are not observing him he discards
the impedimen is of civilisation and plunges
his muzzle into the bowl, as if to give evi-
dence of the melancholy fact that even a
gorilla can be a hog.
Hoaxing 30,030 People.
An extraordinary hoax was perpetrated
at Newcastle on Monday. Bills bad been
posted throughout the . city anelancing
that as a special attraction for a Bank Holi-
day an aeronaut would make an ascent from
the Turf , Moor in a hot-air balloon, and
descend from the greatest height on record
in a parachute, and that a collection would
be made on the ground for the "professoir.
About 30,000 people assembled on the Moor
towitness the feat and waited-patic tle for
the "artist" till darkness set in.:- .There
was no sign of the a ronaut, and the hoaxed
thousands left the -Moor disgusted,