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Newspaper Page Text1 EDWARD YOUNG & CO mttori and Proprietor*. CRAW FORI) V1 LEE - . GEORGIA. NEWS GLEANINGS. There are 1,100 blacks and 115 whiten t) tlie Georgia penitentiary. Tlie Mississippi State Grange favors the repeal of the agricultural lien law. The Atlanta City Council has voted $15 000 for the purchase of a site for a city park. Centenary Methodist church, at Rich¬ mond, Va., will have a chime of bells to cost $7,000. A company, with a capital of $100, 000, has been organized to introduce the electric light at Columbus, Ga. Commissioner Hawkins of Tennessee is making arrangements for experimen¬ tal tests in the effect of commercial for tilieers on the crops in every county in the Htate. Some Chicago capitalists arc negoti ating for the purchase 13,0! 0 acres of land in Bcpuicheo county, fenn., as an investment, It is well timbered ami rich in coal. The marble quarry near Calhoun. Tcnn., has been leased, and 100 steam drills will be operated there, A railroad will be built and other preparations made for extensive quarrying. The Atlanta Constitution discovers in the fact that the Eagle and Phoenix mills of Columbus, Ga., last year earned 25 per cent, on their capital stock, one of the most overwhelming political tri umplis for the South. The Georgia railroad has compromised with Henry Hill, whom the passenger conductor put off near Madison last summer for not wearing his coat in the ladies’ car. Tthe road paid $5,000 for this treatise on etiquette. Sturgeon fishing in the waters around Georgetown, 8. C., has become a large and profitable industry. About 100 men are employed in the business, and large quantities of sturgeon meat are shipped to Charleston in kegs every week. A short time since a bar-room was found hid in a pen of cotton seed near Athens, Gn. It scorns the proprietor kept a barrel secreted in this j>en, with rubber tube leading therefrom, an* 1 when 6Uf UU Atlanta ( Columbus is about to turn her attention to budding cauuL According to all accounts it won’t be a difficult job. With canals in Augusta, Columbus, Macon and At¬ lanta, Georgia will have sufficient im¬ proved water power to run all the cotton mill in the United States. But, really, wc don’t want all. Wo will be satisfied with just half. Columbus (Ga.) Times: There were four bales of cotton brought to market yesterday from the plantation of Cel. F. Terry, who lives near Waverly Hall, Harris county, that was grown and gathered in the year 1860, baled with roj>os, and have been reposing in his gin house ever since. He was offered 47} cents for it in 18(55, but would not sell because he thought the revenue tax of 8 cents per pound was unjust, and ho said he had rather burn the cotton than sub¬ mit to such injustice by the government. He had at the close of the war upward of 300 hales of cotton, and still has a lew more left. F.ar and Brain. ! The substance of the following state wonts with regard to the ear and brain is from a paper in the New York Alt „7 cal Journal, by Dr. Andrews surgeon j to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, Now York. | Ear diseases are much worse than tboso of the eve. They art a principal ! cause of deaf mutism. They are also among the most frequent diseases of childhood, being developed indiphtheria, , whooping-cough, scarlet fever, measles, | small-pox, typhoid fever, influenza and tubercular affections of the lungs. j Indeed, a simple cold in the head or •ore throat rapidly of spreads the nostrils along and the mucous membrane fe. aX o' “So imiiortant is proper attention to the ear during and after acute exanthemata (diseases attended with rash) that a j - physician who treats such cases, and neglects to give thrn attention, cannot be said to perform lus duty to hu, pa But the most serious fact al>out these disoases frrows out of the very and intimate the i eonneetion between the ear brain. Most of the bony wall which i contains the internal ear lies 111 direct contact vnth the membrane of the brain. | Some parts of the wall are so tbin as to ' be transparent. There are also open¬ ings through it for the piussage of nerves and blood-ve , and often j»arts of it are wanting through arrest of develop ment, H U ™Sv-toX , , ear T^d ‘ bnun-toe more so, er the child. These may eaiiM simuar imihunniatiou of the meinbiui.Sr m ti till rnntion of large veins and abaci sst of the brain. Nearly on. half of the latter are due to this eaus nn uic inflammation of the ear—show l ug use If perhaps only in a slight headache ben L vastly more dangerous than a ute.— Youlh’t Com Stanton. TOPICS OP THE DAY. Thurman is said to be Vtui£ng bis fences for 1884, Patti— Cincinnati Music Hall—twe nights—$16,000. For military reasons England will op¬ pose the Channel tunnel. The Pope recommends that the pro¬ posed Spanish pilgrimage be abandoned. Gks. Sheridan favors the compulsory retirement of all officers sixty-two years of age. Cotton returns indicate for 1881 the loss of 300,000 bales by ravages of Ike caterpillar. Tiie English exports to America for 1881 were 20 per cent, less than those oi previous years. HntcK Hullivan pounded Ryan he is said to bavo had three offers of marriage. He’s a great masher. The appointment of policewomen on the New York force is now asked fur by the woman suffragists. Mns. Garfield will not reply to Mrs. Scovillo’s letter, appealing in bohalf of the assassin of the President. The address to the throne in tho Houso of Common lias been adopted, thus sustaining the government’s Irish policy. Thomas Nast, the well-known carica¬ turist, has a plethora of money, so we are informed, and purposes retiring to private life, Tub Fire Commissioners of Boston have ordered fire-escapes to be supplied by all manufacturers employing five or more hands. The Prussian Budget is made to a sur¬ plus of $9,000,000. This is chiefly due to tho working of the railroads bought by the Htate. Potatoes are being imported from Europe, and Now York dealers are some¬ what disgusted. Much invasions inter¬ fere with “corners.” Cuba, just now, is undergoing a severe drouth, to tlie great injury of the sugar¬ cane. We might spare her any quantity of water and not suffer either. Belle Boyd, the Confederate corrcs respondent, spy, and blockade runner, lives ijt f I ,7 ..L\ Corsican*. Texas, and fre r tv vt>. j >n 1) nun's baby ele i>0. Tho insurance on the Congressman is $5,000. Differ¬ iu favor of the babe, $295,000, Great distress exists among the peo¬ of Sweden, the mildness of the weather preventing the transportation of l>y means of sleighs, as usual. General Carr, against whom Gen¬ eral Wiloox preferred charges of a se¬ rious character, has been released from custody, the President refusing to en¬ tertain tho charges. France seems not inclined to recon¬ vene the Monetary Conference April 1, to a desire to avoid another fail¬ ure in her efforts to secure a uniformity views on the part of the Powers. The Government Printing Office, in of . the . scarcity * of 4 - money and i the about the change of manage- | is at work at a tremendous rate ont. books, pamphlets, and other stuff by the ton. l Senator „ Hill, of , Georgia, „ . wlio , baa . to a third operation for can-; in the mouth, reports that las con flition is now most favorable, and ex- • i rwinflilenctb 1 l 1 4 ■' ,M 1 - *v 1 ■ ->. >- • nout has been effected. , cure - « ah i. vrs t tnat lmt after alter au all tho tuoi portrait temperance ladies had painud of j Mrs. Hayes to hang up in tho White House, will not be used for that purpose, President Arthur feeling inclined to do l ' 8 hl , pleases about about the toe matter matter. * I 1,IE Sta, . ° of p 1 cmisylyama v , va ■ ,... has s Lgnn suit ngiust seventeen mil roads >euiusc ^ of their failure to return to the Auditor their annual report within thirty days ! TU.po.uiv !V f tor tho expiration of the financial *5.0001 year. for e^U ^ » Mr. Sootillk proposes to lecture in various localities on the subject “Mini ,, rn Polflies.” In these lectures he will lnol a e ntally J to tlie Guiteau trial. ^ ^ ^ gmmUy , lwllev , tl the , public have had enough of tho Guiteau { j trial. j ___ It seems that Egypt is advancing somewhat ........— in — civilization. -------------- The — present . ™" Khedive spends ’ 1 but * *500,000 on a „ year, —— whereas his predecessor spent $ 10 , 000 , IkXl. He has but one wife, and grunts eoiisessious to all religious deuomina ^ ^ ’___ Patti and Minnie Hank both got j Kvngdis during the Opera Festival at Cincinnati, and that's why things got so terribly mixed up. All prima-domnas get laryngitis once in a while, and those who do not hereafter complain of l&rvn iritis U occasionally are not what vou might ■ Cereal estimates of the Department of Agriculture of crops of 1881. as com- pared with those of 1880, Bhowa^reduc tion of 31 per cent in corn, 22 per cent, in wheat, 21 per cent in rye, app 9 per cent, in barley. The total value’ crops in 1881 is $1,465,000,000, again M $1,361, - 000 The in 1880. late Ix>rd Beaconfield L id £4, 000,000 for England’s 177,000*shares in the Suez Canal. Owing to tim recent wild speculative mania in France, the price of the shares was forced to £140, and if Her Majesty’s Government had cleared out at that figure, it would have realized £24,780,000, or a pr m of £20,- 780,000. b I Tije Memphis Appeil say-ia i||d new day has dawned for the South, that iu its light prejudices are vai king, and with them the hatreds and t he narrow ideas of the past, and that [ intelligence, reason and common sense a ready to make available the resoii’ces which science and experience b* e brought within reach. J --—*----js About two-thirds of the/counties iu Indiana have been anth f z d to take observations of the weathc . *n 1 as soon as the instruments and supplies are for¬ warded by the General Government the service will lie inaugurat'd. Indiana will be the first State td make these observations by counties, although other States are moving in the m> tter. All persons, including «iiicers of the law, are opposed to the 1 tbihty of prize fighting, and the newspanns of the land have a great deal to say'ngainst it, but all newspapers take the pins to publish detailed accounts of suib affairs, and with hardly a single exception, readers are not satisfied until they know just how each round came oui, and who was finally whipped. Prof. Henry 8. Vennu: has published a card in the Cincinhsti Commercial declaring that he is a success as a weather prophet. However, imtoad of predict¬ ing weather a year in advance, he will hereafter print a monthly paper at Mon¬ treal which shall coAaiu predictions, weather maps, etc,, W the ensuing month. Thus you art when a man gets so he can't tell hi truth, he turns to editing a newspaper.! A brute, by name >hn "Wilson, ol Taunton, Mass., has b • the habit oi tying a heavy rope r .. the neck of his grown-up dartg’ ad dragging her around after him; r this he was fined ten dollars, and t *1 paid it with her own money, gt one of the Chris j liana who rdur for evil, although rhon f‘ com n to carrying te*b>a4usi_ thing aecor< e common way thinking. Illustrative of tin destitute condition people in Souther n Illinois, a cor- j raisod, not even grass, I There There are farm who are as near si ta vat ion as they well can come without ivctually starving. They are living onanyttmng sl>ul they can con¬ into food to keep and body to¬ Their situation might be im¬ but one would lliave to see it to fully understand it.” At Lafayette, Indian W Worried an old Boldier John Baker was jtJ to Mrs. * Smith, (j *n who v t, had been num '8 hi-rw some time past, anti to whom he considerable of a boltrd bill. Baker his death was but h few days dis . and he wished to reward his kind bv T le&viDK Her the pension v ' llKb he had hr several e years been re mving from the governmi mt. He died khe da v ^Bowing tlie 0t ‘ re) non y> ftud thc - widow, it is said, lias besides the monthly pension, a claiAu for $2,000 hack ‘ pension ^ • I_ \ Charley T^toUel boot ., ‘’ lftok , ’ who , saved . two . men it . the .. recent . T York tire by climbin £ a telegraph , H q 0 nn q cutting a wire i ope, has re 0 , UVll a mClkl from the American Hu mane luaueSoatj Society which union makes! him a a col oncl mtlie life-savingbngatne. Another ., gold medal will be shortly given to him. j He has received in money s $89 and the Humane Society will present! eiahi him with a unrse ^ He has saved nersons iu ' 1 ,Ue s m “ Y ? tor tor H sum I - mers past His father is an African, las j mother a Sioux Indian, • ; -♦ “I : Rev. Talmaoe’s charge thaj tl^ father , of Robb J. Ingersoll, iu lifij fed and i dofUoUlo, s l"-' ke a kmd word v opari.g, Lxsvrife.j v oj.d-novo, has re eeived the attention of Mr. Jcthn F. In gcrsoll, of Waukesha County, Wiseon am, who has printed a most sekhing 4** re- 1%- He says that Ids father a mm Lster on $500 a year, and bad to live sparingly, tliat lie w-as kiud to his fam d v ’ aild ** h°oert, while ho did not . taught, p 0 p 0ve t he doctrines the father was ^ good and obedient boy as he | ever ever q. -anew uow >• yi r ingersoll endeavors ^ shftme the Kev . Talinage f for going to ( , , p 6 1 gra ' e a ^ : " n ’ ° j ashes of the white-haired . dead. ; ----- - , : SrEcmATORS in Cincinnati Opera Festival tickets were gloriously stuck- ! some to the extent of $1,500. and others for less amounts, but all lost more or j less should in be. their When speculation. lot of This buy is as it J j a men up with a view to securing “ corner ” at i a the expense of the masses—extorting j »».ov , T a-o .ta «. k- .*«S 1 it it is uu. jizsiice tnat they should l, se, . and who that had heavily. bought reserved One Hebrew esfczen, heavily j seats at a big advance, stood about the door, late at night, offering his tickets at 35 cents apiece, and not one of them had cost him under $7, and some of them as high as $24. People, rather than pat ronize him, shoved him aside and paid 81 for general admission, went in and stood up, so outraged were their feelings over the affair. We never like to see persons losing money, but sometimes it is a good thing for the general public for would-be oppressors to suffer se¬ verely the fruits of indiscretion. A touching incident occurred at th« » **-«. nigat. feuperintendent Dodos mounted a coal car, and addressing the wailing throng of women and children around him, said: “ Mv poor friends, ’ it grieves me to state to you that for the present our search for the bodies of those you know and loved will have to be aban¬ doned. You know what fire in a coal mine means, and it may take months of watching to subdue it. We will close the pit now.’’ The speaker’s voice quiv¬ ered with emotion. When he finished a beautiful little girl of fourteen years, Annie Crowder, the only daughter of one of the victims, uttered a piercing scream and rushed to the mouth of the pit, crying: “Oh, do not leave my dead papa to burn down there. Let me get into the cage and go down after him. Let me save him.” The strong arms of the miners held her back as the fragile thing ? tried to . make , , her to , the ,, and way cage, more than one blackened face w as made blacker as. the hand went up to wipe away the tears. Men sobbed aloud and turned away to conceal their emotion. The little girl, finding her progress barred, swooned at the mouth of the pit. Belief in Witchcraft. Ludicrous as the powers appear to us at the present day with which witchcraft in former times was credited, such pow¬ ers seem never to have been denied or disputed by the great minds of the past. A witch was all that was abominable, and to be hold in the strongest loathing; yet few had the wisdom or the courage to contradict the possibility of her exer¬ Judge, cising the arts she pretended to. The condemned as he passed trembled sentence her on the fell woman, lest gaze should bring upon him and yelling his household sorrow or death. The crowd, as it half stripped her to undergo the water-ordeal, shuddered as it saw upon her exposed bosom the marks which, it was supposed, proved that she allowed her “familiar” to draw upon her life’s blood. The villagers who went miles out of their way to avoid her haunts, never for one moment believed that the object of their fear was power¬ less to work them evil, and was either a half-mad woman, the victim df a hideous delusion, or else the actress of a knavish item ws, rile ends. To all the old crone, with her tall list, crutch stick, and black cat nestling on her shoulders, was one who had dealings with the devil, and who, through the £.jS2S might of Satanic aid, could scatter 3 tho ; to effect evil, it was alleged, was unlim jted. The great man is he who rises superior to the end prejudices of his age; but before the of the seventeenth century—with Reginald the exception Wagstaffe, of Bodin, Erastus, Scot, John and Dr. Webster—there were none who had witchcraft the boldness or and knowledge palpable to brand as a base super¬ stition. We find Lord Bacon gravely prescribing drako moonshade, “henbane, hemlock, man > tobacco, opium and other soponferous medicines ns the best ingredients for a witch’s ointment From the pages of his “History of the World,” 1 W e see that the gifted and practical Sir Walter Raleigh was a firm lieliever in learned oeicien, £ in h^fSeTaffi ins lauie ialK, 1 ” wh,le pleasantiy discoursing on the sub ject of witches, shows that lie also held the same faith. Sir Thomas Browne, the kindliest of physicians; Sir Matthew Hale, the most acute and spotless of Judges; Hobbies, the skeptic; “the em ment Dr. and More, thoughtful of Cambridge,” Boyle, all and the patient Igjf® were *** capaoiv, or &onu pioor, ana mat its dis c . lp !e S merited sharp and quick punish ment. was ’'“t until the dawn of the mghteeuth century that men came to m coneiuMou that tho devices of “witches and witch-mongers were only many tr eks and fables, and utterly unworthy of credence. The last judicial execution in England took place in the veav 1. 1th when a woman anil her little i i "ere hanged at Uuutmgdon ?’!' «>uL to Satan.” Since ; that date, however, various cases have occurred of women, accused as witches, being drowned while undergoing the ordeal by water at the bauds of their iu tiundated, ^yet infuriated neighbors.— AVas'cr a M - .bo s.obo Co,. . ».«. “Some people think that snakes only shed their skins at certain seasons of the year,” said.the keeper “ That’s a mis take. JJ, ^ fe ‘ “ £m rigid h a t * through the “Does it pain them?” “Nota j l»,„I it To. rf.«ge does not increase in size as the reptile grows, as with us. While the old skin is gating smaller by degrees, and a new one , ** unaerneatb, the ot it ^‘Tt i, u \ol2ns looseie ttrouuu ^ounTthe me lip. uus, She .mu tue reptile rubs itself against and the earth or the rock in the cage, turna tne up D-'T part r------------------- over the eye and the tower - part ; over the throat. Then it commences to gbde around the ghiss case all tlie tune I this takes three days ; occasionally they j jf* rid of the incumbrance in a few aours, I don't believe they have a bit of intelligence. For ali I teed them and ! ‘-are f~r them, they would as lief bite me i 2 0 { the thing—not that thev won t but that they can’t get the I chance.” 1 THE BLACK DEATH. ; fit use of Ibe Annual Outbreak of the Plague. I j It is generally supposed, says tlie Chicago Tribune, that the inumi -.tioa of the low lands of the 1 iplnates river is t ^ e olii y ‘‘ause of the outbreak of the plague, or black death. the Tiny are a con¬ The tributing, but not pestilence only cause. has real cause or the been known for years to the Persian and Turkish Governments, but they have done nothing toward its prevention. The black death is not an uncommon disease iu that part of Mesopotamia lying south j ! west from Bagdad, between the right SK» fbSS ! auce there ever since tlie year 187*2, be* tween the months of December and June. In Nedjeff, or Medsched Ali, is the grave of Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Alaliomefc. Irom there leads a desert road, marked out by the bleached lames of camels and human beings, to the so-called Lake Euphrates, which re¬ ceives its water through the Hintieh ft canal. To the northwest of this lake situated the city of Kerbela, where is to lie found the golden the mosque and the grave of Hussein, son of Caliph Ali and the daughter of the Prophet. These two cities are the real breeding-places of the dreadful disease. To Nedjeff and Kerbela the Shiites, or religions follow¬ ers of Ali and Hussein, chietly Persians, send the dead bodies of their friends and relatives, be because they believe that to buried near Hussein's or Aii's grave will assure their souls certain admission to paradise. Caravan after caravan cotuns ea £ a camel on each ^aded side, with arrive two felt-covered there daily an q deposit their ghastly freight for in ferment-, which, during months of travel from the Persian highlands, has been decomposing pestilential and odor. is filling tlie air with its The coffins are placed in shallow trenches and covered with about an inch or two of earth. But this is not all. The whole country around Nedjeff has become one vast graveyard, and, in consequence of the frequent floods occurring in the Eu¬ phrates, all the lands on both sides of the river are inundated, the light cover¬ which, ing of earth is swept from the coffins, being made of light material, fall to pieces, and thousands upon thousands of corpses are left rotting under the rays of recode, an Oriental gradually sun. The absorbed waters finally by the or are soil, poisoning all the wells hi that coun¬ try. From 12,000 to 16,000 corpses are sent Shiites. there annually for interment by the The Jews send annually sev¬ eral thousands of their dead to be buried near the grave of their prophet Ezekiel, which is also near Kerbela. Beside these caravans there arrive flotillas of pilgrim boats loaded with corpses on the Eu¬ phrates by way of the Semawat branch and the Bar-i-Nedjeff. Not only are they tilled with this pestiferous freight, but the coffins are even hung outside of the boats, loading them down to the wa¬ ter’s edge. The constant arrival of these caravans and flotillas with their freight added of decaying human corpses, and to this the careless burial, must bt * regarded ay the cause of the outbreak of the plague", and the fatalistic negli¬ gence of the Persian and Turkish Gov¬ ernments, which do not interfere until the disease has become epidemic, ex¬ plains why it has not been suppressed during time the last ten years. For a long a special treaty has been in exist enee between these two Governments relative to the transportation of these corpses, but so far it has been a treaty on paper only. The people of Amort*., are in as much danger as the rest of the world. It is about time that the civil¬ ized nations of the earth should make this question of tlie transportation of corpses under an Oriental sun an inter¬ national question, and force the two Governments directly interested to exe¬ cute the provisions of their treaty in good faith. “Don’t You Believe Him. The Arabs tell a story to show how a mean ma n’s philosophy overshoots itself, Under the reign of the first Calip there ^ “ merchant in Bagdad ^ually rich ail( j avaricious. One day be bad bar gained with a porter to carry home for him a basket of porcelain vases for ten paras: said the As they went along he to man: “ My Mend, you are young and I am 0 ]q ; you can still earn plenty; strike a nara from your hire.” * replied porter 4 ‘ Willingly the ^ until, when they reach the bouse, again, a" the porter had only single para the to re ceive. As they went up stairs mer chant said: « if you will resign the last para, I mil give you three pieces of advice.” “Be it so,” said the porter. “ Well, then,” said the merchant, ’fast- “if any one tells you it is better to be ing than feasting, do not believe him. If any one tells yon it is better to be poor than rich, do not believe him. If any one tells you it is better to walk than ride, do not believe him.” astonished “ My dear sir,”replied the porter, “I knew these things before; if you will listen to me, I will give yon such advice as you never heard. ” The merchant turned round, and the S25JSSSfb2f: ^ ^ .. If ^ one tAh yQn tbat one o{ yotlr vases is unbroken, do not believe him.” j Before the merchant could reply the porter his made his escape, thus punishing : employer for bis miserly greediness, _ iIoraamemb „ ot the barthought p e wou ]j .^lopt a motto for himself, and, after ters, and much posted reflection, against wrote the in large wall, let- the j up following, “ Satan Culque," which may be U ^ u ' sl ated ’ “ Let eve r v one have !iLs , - own ” A . countrv client, . coming in, ex pressed pressed him him- .elf elf much much gratified gratified with with the the ma maxim, xim, but but added, added, ^’, “ “ Then Thm You You don’t don’t how hoTr spell spell it it right.” “ Indeed Tn ! ought it to be quick, spelt ?” The visitor replied, “Sue em There is an incorrigible little darky down old, and in Washington, is Ga. horse-thief, He is 9 years known as a as well as being willing to steal anything else. His mother has tried to reform him by whipping him for the first half of the day, and hanging him up in a bag and smoking him the other hall, but the inhabitants of Washington despair of hia being a trustworthy citizen. POPULAR SCIENCE. Butter globules in milk may be seen under a microscope. Gaseous ammonia is exceedingly im¬ pervious to radiant heat. If a galvanic current pass through any conductor it evolves heat. The seeds containing the richest oils belong to the genus crucifer®. Intensity of color iu flowers of the same species increases with the altitude. Tee human body is composed chemical of four¬ teen or more of the common elements. Vermillion i3 manufactured from red sulphuret of mercury, commonly known as cinnabar. Of reptiles possessing the snakc-like form we have three species indigenous to this country. It is estimated that a drop of human blood con tans 1,000,000 corpuscles in a cubic millimeter. It is said that the formation of fogs and clouds arises from the presence of. dust in the atmosphere. A new celluloid is said to be obtained from well peeled potatoes, treated with a solution of sulphuric acid. The raw materials of which dynamite is made are sulphuric acid, saltpeter, glycerine, and infusorial earth. Grape sugar possess the property of fermenting and or breaking up in to alcohol carbonic acid, on the addition of yeast. It has been suggested that noxious insects may be driven away by cultivat¬ ing the fungi that are destructive to them. The raising of pyrethrum, from which insect powder is made, is carried on in California and various other parts of the couutry. From the peats of Brittany have been obtained, by means of reagents, benzine, resinous matters, acetic acid, and other substances. A man can live on seven meals a week, but his supply of gaseous nourishment has to be renewed at least 14,000 times in twenty-four hours. In determining the illuminating power of gas it should not be conducted ishes through a rubber tube, since this dimin¬ the illuminating power. The vaccination of sheep against splenic fever, according to Pasteur’s new method, is very successful, and is being practised with great vigor in France. Explorations in Spain and Nor a Africa by Kobelt, of Frankfort, an i thority have on living and fossil shell-fi , convinced him that the two cor, hi nents at Gibraltar, were formerly but connected not oni; anil" as far east as Oran Carthagena. A newly described mineral, white an 1 friable with a bitter astringent taste and readily soluble in cold water, has been named Ilesite after a gentleman of Lead ville. It was discovered iu Park County, Colorado, and contains manganese, iron, zinc, and sulphur. A memoir of much interest and im¬ portance upon the use of anfesthetics has be"n eon.mnnioated to Academy Bert. of Science by ’ Mods, f fed anaesthetic By experiment with different been able agents upon animals he has to ascertain in the case of each substance what is the quantity just suf¬ ficient to cause insensibility and how much suffices to produce death. He finds the fatal dose of chlorform, ether, amylene, of ethyl bromide of ethyl and chloride to be always exactly double the anaesthetic dose. The range between these extremes Mons. Bert terms the working about zone, and he says that a mixture the middle of this working zone, properly administered, will produce a safe state of insensibility, which may be maintained long enough for any surgical operation. * Womcn’g Masculine Idols. Every man who fills an effective pub¬ lic position has an especially good feminine op¬ portunity frivolity and of moralizing frailness. upon A handsome actor, a good-looking popular preacher, a charming singer, finds the women go down before him much as the ladies do before the hero of Patience. As very High Church young ladies delight in standing up out of reverence to very young curates when they enter the church, so there are many women who would be charmed to go down on their knees when one of the Ifftroes of society enters a drawing-room. Good looks are not always necessary, though as a rule women prefer their idols to be hand¬ some. Excessive notoriety will do in¬ stead. The men who, with no personal charms—with, as in some recent in¬ stances, a positive unpleasantness about them—go through society worshiped and adored by the women, must indeed be inclined to adopt the true Guy Liv ingstonian view of the other sex, TBese ladies who sneak after the man of mush¬ room notoriety, imploring him to come to their afternoons, begging him for his photograph or a copy of his poems, or an autograph letter, or a lock of his hair —must appear to him very “poor little beasts” indeed. But however he may despise them, he can, to a certain extent, understand their motives. They want other women to see him talking to them, to meet him at their houses, to be aware that he has written letters to them and given them his photograph. The idea these women entertain must be that they obtain a second-hand distinction by be ing associated in people’s minds with the idol of the hour. Women have from ft’SSS^tobfthftoSaTS all time regarded it a s sufficient honor jwjng — eat men q^is is but a modem ren of ’the old story. They have m ade it the fashion to sit in a doming ^reles around their hero, and gaze upen him with meek eyes of wonder, much as if n.- pr „ Persian Persian Drince. prince, and and tt they __ is is of his his humble humble slaves. slaves. But But there there none none the the charm charm caar ? of of °‘T£L danger danger in in m this, this, VTto and and perhaps perhi not mucll excitement; for it is ; h all dime ^ tn p U blie, and has become a prominent most feature in the programme of drawing-room entertainments .—-London World. A Fixture, “ You seem to have beoome « fixture here,” said the young man, as he dropped in to the old tailor’s to have some ro¬ pairing done. “ Well, perhaps fixed so, was old the reply, “for I have your pants for you sverv spring and fail for the past ten year*.”