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He said her buil^^Ks dyed, and
when she indignantly- txslaimed,
“’Tis false!” he sa d he presumed so.
Madame Albani has recently re
ceived from King Ktl kaua, of the
Sandwich Islands, the jewel of the
loyal order of merit, as a token of his
Majesty’s appreciation of her musical
talent.
The Prit cess of Wales is nnxkus to
preserve her children from snobbish
notions, and will not permit them tc
wear the numerous decorations usually
bestowed on juvenile royalty.
Three quito young girls boarded at
the National Hotel, in Washington,
seventeen years ago. They were all
daughters of United States Senators,
and were Mary Harlan, Lucy Hale
and Minnie Chandler They are now
respectively Mrs. Robert Lincoln
(wife of the Secretary of War), Mrs.
William E. Chandler (wife of the
Secretary of the Navy), and Mrs. Eu
gene Hale (wife of the Senator from
Maine)
Miss Jean Armour Burns, great-
grand-daughter of the Scotch poet, is
sixteen or seventeen years old and
bears a striking resemblance to her
great ancestor. She and her mother
earn a scanty living oy dusting the
pews of a Dumfries church.
London Truth : It is now fashion
able to nave small children for brides
maids The older the bride the
younger, I observe, are the child
bridesm ids.
Cali a young girl a witeh and she is
pleased ; call an eldsrly woman a
witch and her indignation knows no
bounds
It was Longfellow who slyly de
scribed the lady as wearing flowers on
he congregation side of her bonnet.
Rapid Growth and Quality.
As a general rule, the “soft woods’
(poplars, willows, etc.) are rapid in
their growth, and in many other
kinds, the rapidity of growth bears an
inverse proportion to the solidity of
the timber. There may be real or ap
parent exceptions to this statement,
but the general fact however remains
true. Mr. Shuttleworth, Conservator
of Forests, in reporting from the North
ern Division of the Bombay Presi
k dency for 1871-3, in reference to ex-
B perience upon this subject, says :
H “In reports on Teak Plantations we
frequently read, that the plantation of
those seedlings have attained the
greatest LeigUt in the shortest period
j^B~'"Of time is considered the most flourish
ing and satisfactory. This is a mis-
V take. It is very pleasing to the eye to
■ see teak-plants growing tall with gaint
f strides, but when they come under the
axe, the result will not be considered
/ satisfactory instead of a close, even,
r graiD, the heart of the sapling will be
found full of pitchy matter. Three or
four years ago, called in to sur-
vey some teak rafters from the Madras
plantations,Supplied to her Majesty’s
Dock Yard, Bombay. These rafters
weri 9 to 12 inches in girth, about 20
feet long, and remarkably straight,
bearing outward evidence of rapid
growth. I found them quite scf r , full
of pitch inside, and broke several < f
them across, by hitting one ehd on
the grcuid. It hi.aeedless to say tha’
they were utterly worthless for roofing
purposes, and for use where strength
and toughuess are required.”
. - As an exception to the above rule,
we find white-ash, elm, hickory and
some other trees, when grown in the
open fields as a second growth, very
solid and firm ; although the amount
of yearly gain is large. Although
rapidly-grown woods in all climates,
may lack that solidity, strength, and
durability, which are acquired by age,
there are processes of impregnation
that will in a partial degiree supply
these defects, as we have elsewhere
noticed, in the preparation of the
Maritime Pine. j
Congressional Play,
Mousing among the records of the
past some enterprising seeker after
facts has learned what pay the mem-
Imprisonment for Debt.
Imprisonment for debt is still nol
uncommon in England, though a
man cannot be locked up for not
paying his bills so easily as he might
have been some years ago. Judges
frequently order debtors, againsi
whom their creditors make out case-,
to pay in monthly installments, and
one who fails to do so regularly,
month by month, until he has made
good the uttermost farthing, may be
committed for contempt of Court. No
one owing less than $250 can take ad
vantage of the bankrupt laws, so that
small debtors frequently have a hard
time of it. Men have sometimes been
sent to jail for contempt in not mak
ing the decreed monthly payments,
who not only had and could earn
nothing, but were actually receiving
parish relief. Some members of par
liament have set about instituting
reform in this business.
of the First Congre
jach colony paid its own
Hampshire allowed
s received,
delegation,
to each all
■ VY ixauipeiiuii aiiuwtJU, wi tacn all
“lenses, a servant, twevhorses and a
fuinea a day; Mijarfiachusetts, ex
penses and $3 a da^qlRhode Island aud
billings a day aud ex-
la, a half Johannes per
iolina, £50 per annum ;
ia, £300 per auuum;
| per montn while in
never realizes the im-
Dl the Invention of pins
buttons on his pantaloons
ij, been there.
■
to a nj|n as
and is prompt-
ry it looks
rson referr
Modern Egyptian Fleshpots.
W hat is a fleshpot ? This is no co
nundrum, but only the humble groping
of an earnest searcher after truth. Is
it merely a pot—more or less ornamen
tal according to taste of designer—or
(to lie desirable and a thing for non-
possess.- rs to be envious of) must it be
a cornucopia of good things ? The
condition of the hotels here just now
suggests this abstruse question : Is an
hotel of necessity a place to dine in or
a place where you can procure a bed
and nothing more? Instead of dine, I
should say feed, for no one dines just
now except successful commanders-in-
chief and their lucky guests. We fill
our vacuum when we can, aud aie
thankful, independent of quality.
We are ravenously hungry, and dip
our noses in the manger. But what
if that mauger contains brickbats or
priceless Egyptian curiosities manu
factured at Birmingham, or any other
utterly useless and unnutritious ol ject.
Shepherd’s Hotel is closed—like the
shoj s, which are enjoying a prolonged
Bank Holiday. The royal is bo
crammed with officers of high degree
—gentlemen who, quiet and courteous
and hospitable in their own familiar
Rag, are awful despot here. The
New Hotel—vast bsiraik—is hope
lessly uncomfortabi; nothing remains
but the Oriental, whither we have all
learned lo congregate, That does not
mean, however, that we are “taken in
and done for.” Fresh from the tender
mercies of the British commissariat,
we £re not difficult to please; but,
resiling our haven at last, we did
''hope to give up the munching of hard
biscuits, the scraping of empty potted-
meat tins. We have reached the
promised lund, but the grapes Eschol
have not arrived. Such a scene of
confusion as this caravanserai presents
at what the proprietor is pleased to
call dinner time would require the
facile pencil of a Frith to depict. The
dining hall is spacious, lofty, decorated
with taste. The long tables by the
glitter of their cloths and cutlery in
vite the hungry guest, but the pom
pous show is akin to the wniteness of
the sepulchre. Happily, there are no
dead men’s bones under the tables—
we have had a surfeit of them lately
on the field—neither is there more
uncleanness that we can well put up
with : but, alas! there is instead of
nothingne-s—a non-existence of the
important—which rouses the British
Lion. It is “Hamlet” without the
princely Dane. The plates are there
and eke the knives and forks, but
where is the dinner? A smooth-faced
little man assures us of the pr< ximate
arrival of the delicacies of the season
if our Excellencies will wait two little,
minutes. We wait thirty, a whole
long hour, still no signs of aught to
plaoe upon these plates. We storm,
we rage; the little man appears with
sweeter smiles than ever. “If Uielr
Excellencies will have a little
patience ” But the fifty guests or
so, with their unshorn chins and con
vict hair and bespattered and stained
red coats, are young English warriors,
who stood without blenching under
that withering fire at Tel-el-Kebir.
They are ravenous as young hawks ;
they are lion-whelps whom mamma—
kind Mother Commissariat—has^left to
wean themselves. They have driven
before them the ridiculous A^ab—will
they submit to bad practical j ikes on
the part of this plausible smiler? No.
With one accord they bowl him over
and advance a pas de charge over his
prostrate form. They escalade the
lobby, take t ae kitohen with a rush,
aud full to searching for the spoil. Ah,
me! The practical joke is tolerably
oomplete and well managed. Two or
three small fowls, half-roasted, about
the size of a thrush ; a pot oontalnln
hen with a curl
pound in it that might be meant for a
dark curry or a pallid hash. And
that is all; all that the smiler has pro
vided for the lion whelps. This is
worse than the tender mercies of the
Commissariat, for we expected noth
ing from her, and were not, therefore,
disappointed : but in Cairo—the splen
did city bo magnifijen:ly Hauss-
manized by the ex-Khedive Ismail—
it is very, very painful. Oh, for
Spiers aud Pond, or Bertram and
Roberts. Oh, for a modest sand which,
a humble hard-boiled egg ! But no ; in
this city of palaces, of metal work from
Damascus, of textile marvels from the
looms of Tor, we are reduced to
anxious searching In our discarded
haversacks for fragments of Huntley
and Palmer, scraps of Peak & Frean,
half-gnawed knobs of chocolate—we
will tenderly draw the veil, for the
subject is unspeakably painful. The
fleshpots are delusions and snares;
the smiler, though he profisses to be a
German, must be in secret league with
Arabi.—London Telegraph.
The St* Bernard Morgue.
The great curiosity at the Monastery
of the Mount St. Bernard is the mor
gue. If the day is a little warm the
brother who attends to visitors hesi
tates a bit before opening the door of
the wooden house just outside the
chief building. He first drives away
the dogs, who come prowling about,
snufflugtheair suspiciously, and has
them shut into their room opposite
the huge refectory. Then he marshals
the little company of international
tourists in lifte before the mysterious
door, and opens the chamber of hor
rors. The keen mountain air rushes
in, aud presently you are conscious of
a faint, sickly odor—not strong enough
to be repulsive, but eminently sugges
tive of death. Then as you stand
there peering with strained eyeballs
into the darkness,you become vaguely
conscious that a face is looking at you.
I defy anyone who is possessed of the
smallest grain of imagination to see
that mysterious face growing
slowly out of the obscurity
without a sudden sinking of the
heart and a chill which no effort
of the will can suppress. It is the face
of a woman—and yet of a ghost; a
kind of corporeal presence divested of
life, and yet so horribly like life that
you are almost afraid the bony and
skinny frame to which it belongs will
arise and stretch out its dreadful arms,
and drag you down into the depths
which you so distinctively shun. The
good brother does not say anything ;
he watches the effect of this curious
spectacle upon you. Pretty soon you
can discern that the face belongs to
the body of a woman—and that this
woman is clasping to her breast the
form of a tiny babe. The mother Is
seated on the ground, and appears to
be dazed by the light pouring down
into her darksome habitation. But
oh ! the horror of her face! Here is
death without decay; here, in this
wondrous air, on this pass more than
eight thousand feet above the sea
levtl putrefaction is unknown; and
bodies found in the snows in winter—
or after the white shroud has melted
away from the bosom of Nature in
the spring—are preserved entire so
long as the monks care to keep them.
The grimness of the spectacle is en
hanced by the fact that nearly every
body found is contorted, twisted,
strained and knotted in fantastic
shapes. Now and then one which
bears all the appearance of tranquil
sleep is brought in ; but in most cases
there are indications that man and
woman, in their battle with Nature,
fought hard and desperately and re
fused to be overcome until every par
ticle of force was exhausted. The
brethren gather up h* bodies with
tender care.aud place them in thedead
house in the usually vain hope that
some relatives may come to recognize
them. Where is the father of the
child which this stranle spectral
mother olasps in her arfts? What
was the history of the roman who
had thus wandered in the mild winter
from the Rhone valley bwvard the
kinder and warmer Itallm slopes?
Perhaps her husband was roth her—
and perhaps his body now As at the
bottom of some precipice wh«e even
the “pious monks of Saint Barnard”
cannot find him—or perhaps lro is in
the dead house; perhaps that pwtrate
body, seeming to grovel on thenoky
floor,is his. The peasants rarely carry
any paper which can completely
identify them, aud sometimes the un
fortunates found dead in the pass here
led such wandering lives—going to
Switzerland for harvest in the sum
mer aud to Italy when thfe winter
nip^hem—that their passports even
Pl<«q olew to their bi
11m.
Trichinae.
Some Interesting Facts £bout the Disease.
Trichime consists of a male and
iemale. When mature the male is
about one-twenty fifih of an inch long
by one-six-hundredth of an inch in
thickness ; the female of at least twice
this length and thickness. The eggs
measure about 1-1200 of an inch in
diameter, and each female, though so
small, contains from 800 to 2000 ova.
These, after fertilization and six or
eight days of gestation, are developed
into embryos, which, when extruded
within the intestines of an animal,
commence at once their migration.
Finding their way through the intes
tinal walls,‘they travel on until they
locate themselves in or between the
fibers of some of the muscles. There
they coil into a spiral form, and be
come gradually surrounded by a cal
careous sac or cyst. When incysted,
if left alone, they soon change into so
many specks of lime ; but, if ingested
into the body of an animal, they burst
out and infest the system. The sac
has an ovoid or lemon-like shape, and
is visible sometimes to the naked eye
as a whitish or gray speck.
The muscles mostly affected are dif
ferently slated by the vai ious authors ;
but, generally, the insects migrate to
the muscles of the back, tbe chest,
neck and limbs, also the muscles of
the eyeball and throat. For examina
tion during life, the muscular tissue of
the under part of the tongue is prefera
ble ; a fragment is obtained, and,
when placed under the lens of the
microscope, the free worm may be
seer.
The hog is especially liable to trichi-
l to, but they have been found in the
horse, eheep, dog, cat, mole, pigeon,
eel, and, tome assert, in the ox. Ex
perimentally, by feeding the animals
upon infected meat, they have been
communicated to the rabbit, guinea
pig, and other creatures.
8 imetimes death follows, but it is
astonishing how little disturbance of
health occurs in a large number of in
stances. Stiffness of movtments and
hoarseness of the voice show the affec
tion in the swine in a large number of
cases. Much more often, however,
they appear to be, during life, in as
good condition as other animals not
so effected. The number of parasites
in the muscles of an animal may be
immense. As many as 10,000 to 18,000
have been found in a cubic inch of
hog’s flesh. Prof. Dalton estimates
the number of them in a human sub
ject at 85,000 to the cubic inch, and
Prof. Flint found in a piece of a human
muscle, one-twelfth of an inch square
and one-fiftieth of an inch thick,
twenty-nine trichinae, thus giving a
little over 208,000 to the cubic inch,
and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 of them may
exist in a single human body, accord
ing to examinations made in several
cases. It is said that enough trichinae
may be present in a half a pound of
meat to give birth in a few days to a
brood numbering over 30,000,000.
It wa3 not until 1860 that the morbid
effects of the parasite, when inhabiting
the body of man, were distinctly recog-
i^zed. Zenker, of Dresden, then found
trichinae in ham and sausages eaten
by those affected by tbe insects. Wun
derlich saw two cases in Leipsic in
1862, and several persons died from
this cause the same year In Plowen, in
Saxony. In 1863 occurred a startling
example of the disease in a town in
Prussia, called Hesttadt. Of 103 per
sons there dining together dta a festive
occasion, twenty died and eighty
others were for some time very ill, A
part of their dinner consisted of sau
sages smoked and warmed, but not
cooked. Some of the sausages left
were examined, and found to be
swarming with trichinae. The same
was ascertained to be the case with
the muscles of those who had eaten of
them. Since that occurrence a num
ber of other instances have been re
ported throughout Germany. In
another village, called Hadersleben,
of 2000 inhabitants, 300 were affected,
of whom eighty died. All of those
effected had eaten raw or but slightly
cooked meat, mostly ham or sausage.
The first cases of trlchniosis recorded
In America were seen by Dr. Schuet-
lei, of New York, in 1864. About the
same time Dr. Voss, of the same city,
saw four persons so affected on a
steamer from Bremen. Afterward
cases were reported from various parts
of the country ; and a number of oases
occurred in Canada.
Do not forget to have your meats
well cooked before eating them, for,
by so doing, you need never have fear
to become victims of trichina).— Dr.
Lagori, of Chicago.
The Health of American Boys.
There has been some alarm manifest
ed by the press over the stalement that
nearly nine-tenths c f the boys who
recently endeavored to enlist as ap
prentices in the navy were rtjeeted on
the ground that they were physically
unfit for tlie service. From this it is
argued that the American physique
is. degenerating. Our contemporaries
could not have made this mistake had
they seen the boys who applied, for
tiie youngsters were not, as a rule, chil
dren who had been reared with or
dinary care. The majority of them
were unfortunate enough to be sons of
drunken parents or members of fami
lies too poor to buy sufficient food and
clothing. Many of them bad been
picking up their own living and not
succeeding very well, and some were
irredeemable little vagabonds who had
run away from home and added to the
careless habits of roving animals the
vices of men. Very few appointees to
the academies at Annapolis and
West Point are rejected on physical
grounds, although therequirem nts at
these institutions are higher than those
of the naval apprentice system. Ac
cording to men who were in the neanut
and short jacket state twe ty cr
thirty years ago there has been a mark
ed improvement in the physical condi
tion of American boys ; it may not be
noticeable in large cities, where the
young have little or no opportunity for
the exercise that is necessary to proper
development; even here, ho wever, boy
invalids are rare in respectable circles
such as contained many of them a
quarter of a century ago. Food and
clothing are better and more appropri
ate than they were in olden times, and
the change is working wonders in boys
as well as men.
What Made the Other Passen
gers Glad.
The seventh passenger was a lady,
There was an abundance of room in
the car, but as she entered an elderly
man rose with a great flourish and
called out: "Take my seat, Madame,
I am not the kind of a man to keep a
seat in the street car and oblige a lady
to stand up.” She sank down with a
half bow in acknowledgment and he
held out his hand for her fare with
the remark: “Sime men are brutal
enough to permit a lady to stumble to
the fare-box and back, but that \ isn’t
me.” He took her ticket and deposi
ted it, and then hung to the strap\ and
continued : “And I know men Who
think that passing a lady’s fare to\ the
box gives them the privilege of enter
ing into conversation with her ab^
the weather, crops, rate of mortal!))
politics,^^1 so forth. That isn’t
speech had lta(
in cludi]
out an^
ing uj
does nTJWfTtitl^
her off the car, of aS!
or single, or in any manner
down the stern barriers of so<|
nudity. It is simply an act o|
tesy and I shall so consider it.” There
was something painful in the situation
to the other six, but relief came by the
man reaching the end of his journey.
As he was ready to get off he looked
back and said: “I have seen men
whose conceit obliged them to lift
their hats and bow to everybody in
the car bafor# stepping off, but that
isn’t me. I shall step off without any
formality, and without hoping that I
will be missed.” When the six looked
back and saw him sprawled in the
dust they were glad of it.
An Important Discovery,
A most important discovery has
just been made in the neighborhood
of Poitiers, In France, where an entire
Gallo-Roman town has been un
earthed. It contains a temple 114
yards in length by 70 yards in breadth,
baths occupying two hectares, a thea
tre, the stage of which alone measures
90 yards, streets, houses, and other
buildings covering a space of nearly
seven hiotares, or about 17 acres. The
excavations are being continued with
further success, disclosing more edi
fices, soulpture in very best style and
in good preservation—dating, it is
thought, from the second century—
and a quantity of iron, bronze, and
earthen articles. M. Lisoh, the in
spector of historic monuments, is en
thusiastic over this discovery, and de
clares that the town is a little Pompeii
in the centre of France.
Wherever there is power there is
age. Don’t be deoeived by dimj
and ourls.