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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
A J. HARP, Publisher.
Time Makes Changes.
Docs trdtible rise, and lifeuppoar
A, prison with fio open gate,
And fettered l irdsmstance and fear
Attend thy ways f— In silence wait
And look to God; It well will be,
For time mukes changes pleasantly.
let no corroding passions rise
To vent hot words to add to pain;
Warm lies the light in Southern skies
To chase the clouds of winter rain
And heart-content awaits for thee,
For time makes changes pleasautly.
Mrs. Burke's Pudding.
by mauy n. riiEscorr.
[ I It had always been the custom iu
Sirs. Capulet’s day to bake one of her
I best plum-puddings during Christmas
V week for the char-woman, Mrs. Burke,
I who was never likely to taste such a
I dainty at other seasons. “Why should
1 we keep all the good tilings to ourselves,’
I she used to ask, “eat plum-pudding
I whenever wo fancy it, and this poor,
I hardworking woman never know the
I taste of such a morsel?” It was also the
I custom of the house “to build,” as
I Harry Capulet used to say, several of
I these rich puddings at the same time;
I they would keep for weeks or months
I without spoiling, and thero thoy were,
I at a moment’s notice, if diuner company
[ I arrived unexpectedly when on washing or iron-
ing days, it was inconvenient to
I concoct nice desserts. When Mrs.
Harry Capulet took the man-
agement of affairs after his
mother’s death, her husband’s cousin,
who had been regent during tho inter-
| regnum, said to her at Christmas-time:
■‘1 hope, dear, you will continue Mrs.
Burke’s pudding; she has received it for
so many years, she will feel injuied, I’m
afraid, unless you do.”
“Oh, certainly,” answered Mrs. Harry,
who was of an economical turn of mind;
“I shall give Mrs. Burke a pudding, but
not one of these. What are you think¬
ing about—waste all these delicacies on
a char-woman?”
“Gingerbread pudding, with a few
raisins added, will satisfy her quite as
well,” putin Mrs. Harry’s sister.
“What they call a poor man’s pud¬
ding ?” asked Mrs. Harry.
“Yes—the very thing.”
“But, my dear,” expostulated Sue
Capulet, “Mrs. Burke will know; she
has been accustomed to the best. I
have made it a principle to send her as
good as I kept; I hated to scrimp her at
Christmas time.”
“Oh, you’re too extravagant, Cousin
Sue. Besides, you give an old ignorant
char-woman credit for all your own vir¬
tues and tastes. I don’t think it worth
while to waste so much money upon her;
a poor man’s pudding is more appropri¬
ate for the circumstances.”
“Noblesse oblige,” insisted Sue. But
Mrs. Harry laughed, and ordered tlie
poor man’s pudding to bo baked the
same size as her own plum puddings.
“lean hardly tell them apart, cook
has given them all such a rich brown.
Surely the proof of the pudding is in the
baking as well as the eating.”
But Sue sighed. “Mrs. Burke is
English. You won’t bo able to deceive
her about au English plum-pudding.”
“I’m not going to label it, and she
I can take it or leave it. Beggars shoul iu’t
I he choosers, I’ve hoard,” cried Mrs.
I Harry, who couldn’t keep her temper as
I well as she could keep other things.
“That was a pudding!” said Mrs.
I Burke, one morning after Christmas,
I having come iu for somo work. Mrs.
I Harry looked at Sue. “I think,” con-
I tinued Mrs. Burke,” “they grow nicer
I every year, Mrs. Capulet. This one
I just melted in your mouth; it was too
j good "There for poor folks."
I” cried Mrs. Capulet, as soon
I as Mrs. Burke’s back was turned, “what
I did I tell you, Sue! Afttr educating
I Mrs. Burke up to the English plum-
I pudding | This is all the good it does
I to educate the lower classes, you see.”
I I hope it isn’t blarney in Mrs.
I Burke,” hazarded Sue.
A mnn convinced against his will,
Lof the same opinion still,”
quoted Mrs. Harry.
After this, whenever Sue and Mrs.
Hirry disagreed, her sister would say,
'Remember Mrs. Burke’s pudding,’
Sue.” - However, the mattor faded out
°f their minds in time, and perhaps they
OU ‘d never have thought of it again if
j r Gus Blake hadn't happened drop
- to
lnu P<m them. Now. Mr. Blake was
somebody worth while in Miss Lily’s
eyes. She had met him here and
(here, danced with him at germans,
^chted Uuched with with him, him; picnicked with had him,
sent her once he even
them some flowers; she had somo of
now > pressed in a book of love
son nets. Ho wa8 of thoge cordial
one
People who shake hands as if they were
' n 8 ove. Miss Lily than
j J"' 1 was more
ot his society; she intended to
M L< him. But it pity that
6doulJ was a
ar rive on the only day in the
w e when they had
**’ a picked-up din-
^/Thcrc "ttft is atany one of the Christmas pud-
•’ rate ’” said Mr8 - IIarr y'*
' Wllt redeem the dinner.”
' 1' Qus I!1| iko was very affable as
befo U Ca ' ul Li| y Ban g duets together
r nncr '’ ®h« had also
ove t , to show him
!ho f ro >mds, the view of tho river,
clovcf§ they hunted for four-
togathWj and she told his
fortune with a daisy. He was
mentary and gallant. Lily felt as If a
crisis was at hand. They met Sue, with
her hands full of wild flowers, coming
from school.
“A neighbor?” ho asked, with his
most indifferent manner, as sho just qod-
ded and hurried by.
“Oh, no. That is Sue Capulet, Har¬
ry’s cousiD. Sho used to keep his house
before he married.”
“Indeed.”
“Yes. She’s rather prim in her ways,
and opinionated, like all country peo¬
ple."
“Ah! she must be very disagreeable.”
“Perhaps; but one needs to live with
her to' find it out."
“Andjou live with her?”
“Yes. She will live hero I suppose till
somebody marries her.”
“Then she has a lover?”
“I never heard of one."
“And yet she is not precisely ugly,"
with a wicked twinkle in his eyes.
“No, not at all; only commonplace,”
conceded Lily.
Tho dinner progressed as far as tho
dessert. It was a picked-up one, to be
sure; but what could any one expect who
came without announcing himsolf, Mrs.
Harry assured herself. Mr. Blake was a
famous diner-out; he knew, moreover,
how to make himself agreeable over a
a dinner of herbs, and then there was
her English plum-pudding to top off
with. How plump and delicious it
looked as it came upon the table, and
what royal odor it emitted. She cut it
with pride in her mien. She tasted it
and shot a quick glanco at Mrs. Harry,
but said nothing. The guest was quietly
nibbling at it and talking brilliantly.
Presently Liiv, who had been listening
to him, attacked it. Sho turned pale,
and gave her plate a little angry push.
Then Mrs. Harry, having helped every¬
body else, settled herself to the enjoy¬
ment of her pudding. Sue, regarding
her, saw a look of consternation gather
upon her face. She uttered an excla¬
mation as if she had b jen wounded.
“Sue,” she cried, angrily, “you carried
the wrong pudding to Mrs. Burke.
This is the poor-man’s pudding,” regard¬
less of her guest.
“I carried the pudding the cook gave
me,” returned Sue.
“No wonder Mrs. Burke thought it
too good for poor folks!” put in Lily,
sourly.
They both glowered at Sue. They
were obliged to repress their wrath before
their guests, but they were too full of
indignation to talk rationally or co¬
herently. If Mr. Blake g-uessed that
there was thunder in the nir, he was as
facetious and anecdotal as usual, ignored
the atmospheric changes, and did not
hurry away. Bnt when ho was obli ged
to take his train at last, the thunder-bolt
burst about Sue’s head.
“So you carried your point, after all
my directions to the contrary,” says
Mrs. Harry; “Mrs. Burke had her Eug-
lish plum pudding in spite of me.”
“I had nothing to do wish it,” re¬
turned Sue; “it was as much a surprise
to me as to you.”
“Pity Harry hadn’t been here,” said
Miss Lily, ignoring Sue’s version. “If
his wife isn’t to be mistressjn his house,
it is time ho knew it. A poor man’s
pudding to set before Mr. Gus Blake,
one of the most fastidious of men 1”
“I’m very sorry,” said Sue. “It
wasn’t a nice pudding.”
“Nor a nice thing for you to do in an¬
other’s house.”
‘ ‘Mrs. Capulet, I had nothing - what¬
ever to do with it, ” protested Sue.
“Susan Capulet, I don’t believo a word
you say.”
“Aud if I were sister, you or I should
leave tlie house.”
And so it happened that Sue packed
her trunks, and Harry Capulet had such
a version of Mrs. Burke’s pudding that
he did not dream of recalling her.
Sue went to a friend’s house in the
city, who liad promised to find her a
situation.
In the meantime Mrs. Capulet’s ser¬
vants confided the story of the plum¬
pudding to Mrs. Burke herself, and Gus
Blake’s part in it. Mrs. Burke felt it her
duty to write Mr. Blake and repeat tho
whole affair, and through him to lielp
sweet Miss Sue, who would never hurt a
fly, out of her trouble.
Mr. Blake smiled over this letter. So
they had made it Hot for Miss Sue. He
had suspected as much, lie went to
call on his friend, Mrs; Barnes, and re
quest her co-operation. He was shown
into tho music-room, and met Sue.
“So,” he said, shaking hands, “this
is the result of Mrs. Burke’s pudding."
And then Mrs. Barnes entered.
“I came,” he said, “to consult you
a i_» ou t the affairs of a friend of mine who
has come to grief. Her case is even
worse than that of the man in tho South
who burnt his mouth eating cold plum-
porridge.” consultation
The upshot of tlie was
that Sue had a position, a little later,
i where Mr. Blake was intimate enough to
drop in at his pleasure and carry tlie gov-
erncss ofr to thu n i ,,! ™> or for 11 few ll0Urs ’
j recreation happened in the Park that behind liis day span; Lily
and so it one
and Mrs. Capulet received tho wedding-
j cards of Miss Susan which Capulet all and owing Mr.
Gustavus Blake, was
to Mrs, Gurko’s pudQIlifl'— llttptt’ >
ELLAVILLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY
LONDON CITY.
Tinsel Splendor of the Lord
Mayor’s Position.
How tlie Government of the Great Me¬
tropolis is Conducted
A London letter to tho New York
Commercial Advertiser says: A greater
difference between tho modo of election
and the functions of a lord mayor of
London and a mayor of New York it
would be difficult to conceive. In your
mayoralty your c tizens vote direct for
the candidates for tho mayor’s office,
and, when elected, that functionary is
tlie executive officer of the whole
city. Here things aro totally different.
There is no popular election here,
an 1 the lord mayor, when chosen merely
ru es over a tiny, infinitesimal por¬
tion of the vast London of to-day, viz.:
tho so-called “city” proper, an area ex¬
tending from the Tower of London to
the Temple, and from Holborn to tho
river—a mere island in a constantly de¬
clining population. Thero are some 50,-
000 bona fide inhabitants of the “city”
proper, and some 4,500,000 outside
who are without any municipal institu¬
tions. It seems difficult to realize so ex¬
traordinary a condition of things, and
yet this is the state of London to-day.
Threatened men,it is said,live long; and
the same seems to be true of threatened
institutions. For tin's little “city” cor¬
poration which controls vast wealth and
which arrogates to itself a position it is
no longer entitled to occupy has been
threatened for some time by radical on¬
slaughts, and yet it still lives aud had
its annual gala day last Tuesday.
Nor is the lord mayor selected by a
popular vote, for the city corporation is
perhaps the closest and least popular
body in the country. A lord mayor is
eacli year sel< cted by rotation from
among tho city aldermen who have
served the office of sheriff. The persons
who make ilie selection are the “livery
men” of the various city guilds, who
meet for that purpose on December 29.
In past times these so-called livery men
were genuine traders carrying on busi¬
ness within the city of London. To-day
many of them have no connection what¬
ever with the city; the livery companies
are now bo lies of wealthy men, into
whose tanas possession of money and
profession of tory politics aro the neces¬
sary conditions of entrance. Every al¬
derman is tlie livery man of a guild, aud
the court of aldermen have the right to
grnnt'powers to the livery companies to
increase their livery, i. c., to increase
the persons who can purchase the legal
right to vote in tho election of city offi¬
cers and parliamentary representatives.
Thus the whole government and suffrage
of the “city” is based on money, and a
more corrupt arrangement probably does
not exist in the world.
There are twenty-six aldermen in the
“city,” each representing one ward,
Somo of these wards are absurdly small,
one of them containing less than 800
constituents, so that a lord mayor of
London may have been originally
elected by less than 150 votes as an al¬
derman. When in office the lord mayor
is a judge of the central criminal court
(thougli lie may bo as ignorant of law
as a Hottentot of the differential
calculus), a justice of the peace, and
chairman of the court of aldermen, the
court of common council and the court
of common hall. lie is also a member #f
the privy council, chief butler at a royal
coronation and dispenser-in-chief of
civic hi spitality. When I add that it
has sometimes happened that a lord
mayor could not speak the English
language without some painful
errors common to cockneydom,
the reader will havo sense
of the charming incongruity of things.
A lord mayor lias a chaplain provided
for him to look after his spiritual wel¬
fare, but witli strict injunctions to avoid
mention of all ugly texts, such as that
describing the difficulty of rich men en¬
tering into the kingdom of heaven. The
lord mayor is further allowed £10,000
($50,000) per annum for his ordinary
year’s expenses, the use of £40,000 worth
of city plate and a huge clumsy gilt
carriage, which is said to be constantly
needing large sums for repairs to prevent
it from falling in pieces. The lord may¬
or has robes and a civic chain, and the
aldermen and councillors have robes
also. The common council is composed
of 209 persons. It elects most of the-
officers of the city and has unlimited
control over tho cash.
A Governor Disconserted.
Gov. Porter of Indiana is noted for his
childlike and bland methods when he
goes to speak during an electioneering
tour. He always assumes the familiar-
ity of knowing all people. On one oc ■
casion he went clown to Franklin,
twenty miles below Indianapolis. He
arose to speak with his face wreathed in
smiles, and began:
“Ladies and gentlemen, it affords me
a great pleasure to meet my old friends
whom I have knowu so long.”
At this point some shrill voice in the
audience shouted:
“Name’em; name’em, Governor."
This so disconcerted the Governor
that ho did not recover from it ail (he
evening ,-J£ami <M V Star.
New York Doctors.
Tlioro urc at present, it is estimated,
almost 5,000 physicians in this city, or
one for every 800 of its inhabitants,
which is certainly a bountiful supply,
If tho satirical saw, “The more doctors
the moro illness,” bo true, New York
should be overrunning with patients.
But it is not; indeed, it isquito a health-
ful town, which may account for tho al¬
leged fact that tho majority of our
doctors hardly cam a decent livelihood
by their practice, being often obliged to
depend on credit. Many aro constantly
forced out of their profession in order
to get a living; but their places aro
regularly and rapidly supplied. Nearly
8,000 make, it is said, from $1,500 to
$3,000 a year, and some 1,500 make
from $3,000 to $5,000; only a few
hundreds reaching the last figures, and
then when they have passed middle age.
Forty or fifty perhaps have incomes from
$20,000 upwards, and these are so con-
stantly heard of that one might infer
that the amount is rather the rule than
the rare exception, Most of the
physicians who are pecuniarily pros¬
perous are what are called fashionable
physicians--that is, they are in at¬
tendance on rich families of social
position. Not a few of these get $50, -
000 to $60,000 a year, and occasionally
a handsome present from a millionaire
whose life they have saved, though it
may not have been worth saving. Dr.
Jared Linsly, who was with old Cor-
nelius Vanderbilt during his last illness,
received $25,000 for his services, and
Dr. McLane, who went abroad with Mr.
William II. Vanderbilt, towards the
close of his life, and was called in nftor
tho railway magnate had his last attack
of apoplexy, is understood to have re¬
ceived something like $50,000.— Neu>
York Commercial.
({naiut Bedsteads.
A writer in the Cosmopolitan gives a
curious study of bed and bedsteads.
One is reminded of tho fir-pillow craze
iu reading that, “During the Middle
Ages beds were made of coarse canvass
and filled with straw and leaves. These
could be opened and the litter, re-made
daily, as is the custom to-day with the
mattresses iu the old-fashioned inns of
France and Italy.”
In the time of Chaucer we are told
that, “As a general thing, the young
men of the house and the guests slept on
tho tables and benches in the great hall,
where woolen coverlets and blankets
were provided for warmth, Servants
and attendants slept upon the floor.”
Lat r on, in the time of Tuders, tlie
“four-post” bedstead, an immense piece
of furniture having a canopy supported
at each corner by tlie posts, became the
fashionable sleepiug-^iuch. On some of
the earlier beadsteds. the columns termi
nated with figures representing the four
evangelists. • *
In a medimnal ballad there is mention
made of “the four gospelers on the four
pillars, and heads of angels all of one
mould.’ Tlie invocation still in use in
some of the English country places is an
echo of this old custom:
“Matthew, Mark,Luke anil John,
Bless i he bed that I sleep on,
Two angels at my head,
Four angels round my bed;
.Two to watch and two to pray,
And'two to carry,my soul away.”
Growth of the Human Heart.
Investigation shows that the greates
and most rapid growth of the human
heart takes place during tho first and
second years of life, the second year
showing its bulk to be exactly doublo
what it originally was; be.ween the
second and seventh year it is again al¬
most doubled, a slower rate of growth
now settling in until the fifteenth year,
tlie augmentation of volume during the
intervening seven or eight years being
only about two-thirds. In the period of
maturity which then approaches, tho
growth of the heart again makes pro-
gress, the in<r asc keeping pace with
the advance toward maturity of tho
other portions of the system—thus, a*
compared with the size at the ago of
fifteen, two-thirds have been added by
the age of twenty; following the
year, the rate of development again be-
comes slower^ but au increase in volume
is perceptible up to the fiftieth year,
The annuul gain in bulk (luring that
period is supposed to be about .001 of a
cubic inch, and tlie maximum volume
thus attained is estimated at from six-
teen to seventeen cubic inches.
Garfield Wanted Flour.
At Pittsburg Landing, in 1862, a line
of teams came down from tho army for
rations. There were so many wagons to
be loaded that great despatch was
ncecessary. A fine looking soldier,
wearing a blue overcoat, presented his
requisition. The commissary saw him
take up a barrel of flour and toss it into
a wagon as if it required no effort. “I
suppose you will require a receipt for
these provisions,” said the soldier to tho
commissary.
“Yes, your commanding officer must
receipt for it.”
“Can’t I sign it?" |
“Oh, no; it must be signed by acorn-
missioned officer.”
“Very well; I'm. a brigadier-general.
My name is Garfield.”— Baltimore Ameri-
can,
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
■lot IVi.tor for N|ir» in.
Hot water is tlie best tiling that can
bo used to heal a sprain or bruise, Tho
wounded part should be placed in water
ns hot as can be homo for fifteen or
twenty minutes, and in all ordinary
cases t i, 0 pn j n w jR gradually disappear.
Hot water applied by means of cloths is
a sovereign remedy for uouralgia or
pleurisy pains. For burns or scalds ap¬
ply cloths well saturated with cool almn-
water, koeping the injured parts covered
from the air.
Sign* of tlie Tongue.
The tonguo is tho indicator of tho
system. A white coated tonguo indi¬
cates febrile disturbance; a brown,moist
tonguo indicates disordered digestion; u
brown, dry tongue indicates depressed
vitality, as in typhoid conditions and
blood poisoning; a red, moist tonguo
indicates debility, as from exhausting
discharges, a red, dry tonguo indicates
pyrexia, or any inflammatory fever; a
“strawberry” tongue, with prominent
papillae, indicates scarlet fever or
rothelm; a rod, glazed tonguo indicates
debility, with want of assimilative
power of digestion; a tremulous, flabby
tongue indicates delirium tremens; hesi¬
tancy iu protruding the tongue indicates
concussion of tlie brain; protrusion at
one side indicates paralysis of tho mus-
cles on that side .—Health and Home.
Trm:io<arr JViimlnicM.
Some disorders are organic; others,
functional only. In tlie first case, the
organ, could we look in upon it, would
He seen to be diseased; in the latter,
however violent the symptoms—and they
may be an ore violent than in the former
case—the organ would show not tho
slightest trace of unsound ness.
Paralysis is generally due to some or¬
ganic disorder of the brain or spinal
cord. But there is often an apparent
incipient paralysis, which causes tho
patient much painful apprehension,
which, however, is the result of only
somo functional disturbance. There aro
numbness and tingling, sometini'S in one
upper extremity, and sometimes in both;
sometimes in both upper and lower ex¬
tremities; and sometimes on one Bide of
the body. It occurs more frequently in
women, but is far from being confined to
them. It is not strange that a patient
should feel apprehensive, for even some
physicians havo been deceived by such
cases, especially in the severer forms.
ID-, ©finerod thus describes a case:
“On waking, the patient has a feeling
in the arms and hands—commonly of
both sides—of numbness, deaduess,
'pins and needles’; sometimes there is
severe pain. There is also a loss of
power; the hands and arms become use¬
less, and he cannot hold things; this
may sp jar predominate that the patient
comes to lie treated for a supposed par*
alvsis.” He further says that the symp-
tomsjm'ore commonly begin in the night,
but.occasionally in the daytime,
Dr. Suundby of London, our authority
on this subject, regards these symptoms
as {h iro ]y functional and as due mainly
to some disorder of tlie stomach. IIo
gives among other cases, that of a
clergyman who had removed from the
city to tlie country, a man of hearty
habits but of little exercise. His tongue
was badly coated, his breath offensive,
and he complained of headache, irrita-
bilitjy, And especially of numbness of tho
right arm and hand. A former physician
had assured him that he was suffering
from organic disease. But under ap¬
propriate treatment all the symptoms
passed away, and he lias now for years
enjoyed tlie best of health.
Sucli patients havo little ciuso for any
depressing fear of a paralytic shock;
t my are no more liable to it than those
not so ulloctcJ. — Youth's Companion.
The “Praying Grasshopper.”
Apropos of ,a singular visitation of
locusts in Spain,—a rain of grasshop-
pers, the Spanish papers call it—which
was so dreadful that at Valencia a child
was smothered in a writhing mass of the
insects, a Frenchman of science, M.
Ful hurt Dunr nticl, gives an account of
tlie “religious” grasshopper of sou'hern
France, which the people of tho Midi
call the Proga-Diou, imagining that tho
insect is engaged in prayer.
When the Prega-Diou walks it pre¬
ceeds with a si wand solemn gait, like
a pilgrim with his staff. But it docs not
walk a great deal. Its ordinary ntti-
tude is that of an ecstasy of prayer, its
arms raised towards heaven. This pious
attitude, however, is altogether a de-
ceitful one. Tho Prega-Diou is not en-
gaged in prayer, but is simply awaiting
his dinner. His forelegs, so devoutly
held upward and crossed, arc provided
with tiny spurs or teeth, with which ho
catches, as in a vise, small flies and
other tiny insects, who, M. Dumonticl
observes, are deceived by the grasshop-
per’s hypocritical attitude,
Moreover, this praying grasshopper
has worse faults than hypocrisy. He is
a cannible, and kills and eats his own
sisters and brothers. The wifo kills her
husband if he turns out to be less strong
or less nimble than his “better half.”
When there is a family quarrel, there is
always a decapitated body at the close
if it. The Prega-Diou, in spite of his
oaceablo and devout exterior, is the
»»»*««>*••
.SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Hydrophobia is unknown iu Lapland,
hut Pasteur has just shown that the
dogs may bo inoculated with tho dis¬
ease.
A German astronomer has found rea¬
sons for believing thuj tho zodiacal light
and tho aurora borealis result from tho
reflection of sunlight by water and ice.
Physicians are now using anilino oil as
i local ancesthetic, when simple opera¬
tions, such at tho opening of a felon, are
to bo performed. Tho fiugor in such a
case is dipped for a short time in tho oil;
and although the flesh may subsequently
be cut to tho bono, it is said thero is
absolutely no plan.
A Neapolitan physician has described
a case of hysteria, prolonged and aggra¬
vated, in which the nails of tho fingers
and toes were spontaneously shed. This
was preceded by tingling, especially in
the thumbs and grout toes, followed by
suppuration in the bed of tho nail. Tho
curious affection of tho nails is supposed
to havo been a result of disorded nerve
functions.
A simple and effective mothod of
bleaching bones, so as to give thorn the
appearanco of ivory, lias boon intro¬
duced. After digesting tho bones witli
ether or beuzine to recover the fat, they
are thoroughly dried and immersed in a
solution of phosphoric acid in water con¬
taining one per cent, of phosphoric
anhydride. In a few hours after these
operations they are removed from the
solution, then washed and dried, with
the result as stated.
An interesting experiment showing
the influence of electricity on tho
growth of roots has been made in Ger¬
many by Professor Holdcficis3. Plates
of copper were thrust upright into the
earth and connected by wires with simi¬
larly placed zinc plates about one hun¬
dred feet distant, an electiic battery be¬
ing thus formed, with the earth between
the copper and zinc in tho circuit. Both
potatoes and beets planted between such
plates give an increased yic’.d—beets 15
per cent., potatoes 25 per cent.—as com¬
pared with tho other parts of tho same
field.
M. d’Arsouval, an able Frencli physi¬
ologist, has published some valuable in¬
vestigations concerning the heat pro¬
duced by muscular action. This fact, well
known to physiologists, is shown by
dissecting out a piece of live muscle,
with nerve attached, and stimulating iu
some manner to produce violent tetanic
contractions. M. d’Arsouval has shown
that heat is produced when the nerve is
not sufficiently irritated to produce any
contractions of the muscles whatever,
though, of course, in diminished amount.
The interesting query therefore arises,
as to whether heat is a primary or
secondary fact—i. e., is directly pro¬
duced b^ muscular contraction or results
from the transformation of sonfb other
agency, ag electricity within the‘nerve.
Value of Deep Breathing.
Deep breathing and lioldiug the breath
Is an item of importance. Persons of
weak vitality find an uninterrupted suc¬
cession of deep and rapid respiration so
distressing that they arc discouraged
from persevering in the exercise. Let
such persons take into tho lungs as much
air as tiiey can at a breath, and hold it
as long as they can. They will find a
grateful sense of relief in the whole ad-
domimd region. Practice will- increase
tlie ability to hold the breath.and the
capacity’of the Jungs, This is done by
taking’and holding the long breath and
then forcing more air down the trachea
by swallows of air. The operation may
be described by that of a fish’s mouth iu
water. To those who have never
learned it it will be surprising to what
an extent the lungs may be packed.
Caution at first is needful, but later
practice will warrant large use of tho
treatment. The whole thoracic and ab¬
dominal cavities will receive immediate
benefit, and continuance with temper¬
ance in eating and good air and right
exercise, will bring welcome improve¬
ment.— San Francisco Call.
Remarkable Conceit of Mormons.
Tho Bov. William Lamb, of Salt Luke
City, related to the Baptist ministers in
New York recently the condition of the
religious life of the Mormons. He has
lived in Utah for several years. “The
majority of tlie Mormons,” he said, “ar e
no more hypocrites than Christians are.
They are honest and earnest in their be¬
lief and they know tlie Scripture
thoroughly. As a rule they believe in
polygomy if they do not practice it, and
their faith in their own relation fills
them with an unbounded conceit that
makes the conversion of an honest
Mormon impossible. This is recognized
by the ministers of all denominations
who have worked among them. Each
Mormon expects to have a world to him¬
self in the next life, under his sole con¬
trol and peopled by his wife and children.
Christian work among the Mormons can
only be conducted effectively among the
young.”
___
Nothing to Say.
Clara was telling mu about your sing
ing at Mrs, Hobson’s party, Mr. Feather
ly,” remarked Bobby.
“Yes?” snid Featiieriy complacently;
“and wliat did she say?”
“Oh, she didn’t say anything. She
list laughed.”-—Min Ytrk &m.
VOL. II. NO. 19.
Ou Life’* Voyage.
As on the stream of life you float,
Let Truth lio helmsman of your boat
hot naught bnt Duty fill its sails,
Take IIopo os ballast in all gales;
Though tempest roar and billows roll
If Faith he anchor of your soul,
If it to Clod in prayer you cast,
Ills Ijovowill hold 'gainst every blast
And when you reach the port above
You’ll find tho Hook of Ages, Love.
— A. C. Millar, in Current
HUMOROUS. r ~
Tho most striking view of a mule is •
rear view. j
Tlio wings of a house ought to acceler¬
ate a flight of stairs.
Night keys, as a rule, have their hard-
es^work to <lo in tho morning.
An exchange has an article on “Why
Bees Make Honey.” They make it to
cell.
If every man was as big as he feels
there wouldn’t ho standing room in the
country.
II,ns n poor show in this world—the
dime museum manager who doesn’t fre¬
quently change his attractions.
“Pa, why is a girl called a belle?”
asked Clara. “Oh, I guess it’s because
of her tongue,’’ unfeelingly replied Pa.
A scientist says that a man who has
been struck by lightning cannot swim.
He might have added that he never tries
to.
Bnilnib, wishing to find tho proverb,
“Make hay while the sun shines,” took
down the Bibio aud turned to tho book
of Timothy.
( i Pitch your voice in a low key," says
a writer on etiquette. We presume eti¬
quette can be temporarily dispensed with
when trying to wake tho boys in the
morning. _
Some one lias discovered that “a mule
cannot Imiy if a brick bo tied to his tail.*
It is extremely doubtful if the man who
undertakes to make the combination can
do much braying—or breathing either—
about ten minutes later.
Regaining a Lost Memory.
The loss of memory iti the aged is n
familiar example, says Dr. M. L. Hol¬
brook, anil can only be accounted for by
a deterioration of the brain elements and
a diminution of blood supplied to them.
One of the worst features of such cases
is the fact tl an an old person is not, for
along time aft r decay lias begun, aware
of it. I am now treating a case of loss
of memory in a person advanced in
years, who did not know that his memo-
ry had failed most remarkably till I told
him of it. He is making vigorous effort
to I ring it back again, and with partia 1
success.
The method pursued is to spend two
hours daily, one in the morning and one
in the evening,in exercising this faculty.
Tho patient is instructed to give the
closest attention to all that lie learns, so
that it shall be impressed on his mind
clearly. lie is asked to recall every
evening a 1 the facts and experiences of
tlie day and again tho next morning.
Every name heard is written down and
impressed on his mind clearly, and an
effort made to recall it at intervals. Ten
names from public men uro ordered to
be committed from memory every week.
A verse of poetry is to he learned, also a
verse from tho Bible, daily. He is asked
to remember the number of the page in
any book where any interesting fact is
recorded. These and other melhods are
slowly resuscitating a failing memory.—
Bouton Herald.
A Scientist’s Kite.
The interesting experiment of flying*
kite of sufficient size to carry a man was
not long ago m ade by M. Maillot, and
has been described to the French society
of aerial navigati n. The kite was of
octagonal shape with a superficial area
of 86 square yards, ‘ a frame weighing
1,5 0 pounds, and canvas and cords
weigliing 99 pounds, The huge ap-
paratus lifted one hundred and fifty
pounds of ballast to tho height of thirty-
two feet. Tho cord by which it was
held back was eight hundred and twen¬
ty feet long and was securely fastened
to the earth. The kite was kept at tho
proper inclination—varying witli the
force of tho wind—by means of cords
fastened to four sides and maneuvered
by three operators standing on tho
ground. It was originally planned to
have these cords manipulated by a man
suspended from tho kite in place of the
ballast, but this dangerous part of the
experiment was not carried out.
Disposed Of.
Bobby was evidently very much per-
plexed. “1 want to ask you, Mr..
Featherly,” lie finally snid during a lull
in the conversation, “about youi house
and lot."
“I have house and lot, Bobby, =
no
replied Featherly, a trifle uneasily. ‘ -5
sold them some time ago.’’
“Sold ’em,” repeated Bobby,
“Then pa must have made a mL-
take. I heard him say that you drank
’em up." ___
A numerical Error.
A beggar-worn ill to a geutleinan:
“Take pity on me, dear sir; I am the
mother of twelve children.”
“What ago is the oldest?”
“Very nearly two, dear sir
Bull.