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SANDERSVILLEv GA., WlSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1885.
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Mayor,
Wm. GAei.ji hr*.
Aldermen.
Wm. Ktvuxu,
4. U. Mato,
W. H. Lawson,
B. T. Walmrr,
Morrir Happ.
Clark and lYeaeurer.
G. W. H. WMRAKRR.
Marshall.
3. E. Wbddok.
TOWN OS’ T«NNTt.I»BJ,
Intendant,
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Aldermen.
3. V. Mrrkison.
J. D. Pbanklw.
J. M. Brow*.
J, U. 1‘kitohabd,
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B. H. B. Mterar.
Marshall,
3. O. Hamilton.
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JEHNIGAIV.I
Narcotic IMants.
In Vick's Floral Magnsiac we rend of it
flower which crcutoa liuighter. It grows
la Arabia; the flowers tiro of a bright
S allow and tho seed resembles small
lack beans. These are dried by the na
tives and pulverized, and it is said that
smalt doses make a person beiutvo liko a
circus clown or a madman, for ho will
dance, sing and laugh most boisterously,
and carry on in a ridiculous way for an
hour. Tho stage of excitement is fol
lowed by exhaustion and sloop.
This reminds us of an experiment wo
made many years ugo. AVe had seen Pro
fessor James It. liuchanan experimenting
with pulverized herbs by placing them
in tho palms of tho hands of a class of
medical students. While they sat in a
sort of expectant mood, waiting for
something to turn up and holding va
rious powdered herbs in closed fists,
every now nnd then some of them would
tell of tho symptoms which were being
produced upon him. It was to us then
a new nnd surprising revolution thnt
medicines could thus act without being
taken into the stomach, and we arc not
yet fully satisfied ns to the way they act
under euch circumstances. Hut having
seen Professor Buchanan's experiments
we were led to try it ourselves on a cou
ple of boys about seventeen years of age.
Powdered Cannabis Jndicn from the same
plant which gives hashoesh, a narcotic
used by the natives of India, was placed
in one hand of each of the hoys, while
they sat quiotly waiting to see what
would turn up. One of them soon com
menced to titter and then to laugh bois
terously, and soon he became so hilarious
with excitement that we thought best to
take the drug away from him. IIo soon
sobered down. During the period of ex
citement we triod to get him to say why
he was carrying on in such n way, but
he was utterly unnblo to give any ex
planation for it other than he simply felt
that way. The other boy quietly nodded
oil to sloop in his chair.
This experiment illustrates two im
portant things: first, that medicine can
exert an action in this curious manner,
and second, that a medicine will
act differently on different persons,
according to temperament or idi-
osyncracy, or susceptibility, what
ever you choose to call it. Furthermore,
it may be remarked that both the cxhil-
irating and the stupifying results ob
served in these cases arc known to be the
effeots of hasheesh upon tho human sys
tem when taken internally. —Health
Monthly.
Nature's Transformation.
A tadpole, the larva of a frog, has a
tail and no legs, gills instead of lungs, a
heart precisely liko that of a fish, a
horny beak for eating vegetable food,
and a spiral intestine to digest it. With
the approach of maturity the hind legs
ar, then the front pair; the beak
fallB off ; the tail und gills waste away •
th'a,-lungs are created; the digestive up*
' " • ’ ’ ' ,J ' C, ‘ - —’—f
psratus is changed to suit the animal
diet; the heart becomes reptilian in
type by the addition of another auricle;
in fact, skin, muscles, nerves and blood
vessels vanish, being absorbed atom by
atom, and a new set is substituted,
LATEHT NEWS.
A rKItlllFIG CYC MINK.
Phllndelplitit' Pn M nnd Camden* N. J f ,
NiiftVrern-ltaltiinnre a*n' . "
w.R»■u... 0 : n vu " ert
A torriflo swooping up tho Dola-
7 nn \ Philadelphia near Greenwich
■•Dint, dcmoliRhlng a portion of tho works of
tho Ponnaylvahi* Bali manufacturing Company
and injuring seYoral employed. It then took
itd coutdo acrodd tho river, wrecking the riVor
dtcnmhoat, Major Reybold, and tho ferrybont
Pour lens. Tho atorm blow Pilot Emory Town-
rond and Captain Eugene Reybold, of tho
steamboat Reybold, into tho river drowning
the former and painfaUv injuring tho captain.
Tho Pcorleas wad swept clean almost to tho
wnter’d edge, and a horso and wagon were
hurled into tho water and sank together to
tho liottom. The Htonu then passed over to
tho .Torsov side, striking John Dialogue's ship
yards, below Kaighn’a Point, and destroying
tho building of tho establishment, and it Ihnti
took along the New Jersey rivor front, detnoh
(idling all tho buildings in its path up to Rridgo
avenue, Camden. At this point tlio oyolono
took an easterly course to Fifth street, Camden,
embracing in its path all that sootlon of the
ettv between Second and Fifth streets to the
Delaware river, whloh washes tho northern
section of tho city, passing over tho river,
skirting Petty's island. Tno storm passed
over to that part of the twenty-fifth ward of
Pbilndolphia known as Richmond. Loss of
life is reported in Camden aud Philadelphia.
1 lie lower part of Baltimore was again visi
ted, for tho third time this season, submerg
ing buildings. Oroat fears are entertained of
sickness in the track of the storm in the lower
districts of tho city. Other sections of the
east suffered from tho oyolono and storm.
Henry Conover, assistant cashier of tho
Manufacturers and Traders 1 bank, Buffalo,
N. Y. f died suddenly a short time since, and
Investigation has shown that ha was a de
faulter to the oztont of about $75,00t).
Charles L. Kxinnkh, of* Baltimore, has
been dlsbarrod from practice as an attorney
boforo tho interior department for extorting
fllogai foes.
Five American steamship companies have
declined any longer to carry tho United
States mails. Postmaster-General Vilas says
that "these lines, probably undor the
lead of the Pacific Mail company,
entered Into a combination appar
ently to force the distribution among
them of the $400,000 appropriated by Con
gress for mileage compensation for carrying
the mails." Ho says further that arrange
ments have been mado by which tho publio
will suffer no inconvenionce.
Referring) to tho regrets that had boon
expressed in some quarters that General
Grant was not to be burlod in his uniform,
with ono of his swords by his side, nnd to tho
supposition that none of his uniforms or
swords were available for that purpose, bo-
cause they wore all turned over to tho gov
ernment some months ago with his other
military relics, Adjutant General Drum said
to a roporter that any or all of thorn were nt
the disjiosal of Mrs. Grant wliilo thoy re
mained in the war department awaiting tho
action of Congress.
Ex-Suroeon General Wales, recently
found guilty by a court-martial for culpable
inefficiency and neglect of duty, has boon
sentenced tosuaponsion from rank and duty for
flvo years on furlough pay, and to retail! his
present number in his grade during that
period.
The provost of Glnsgow assorts that a sys
tem of corrupting young girls similnr to that
ex|)oeed recently in London exists in the
Scottish city.
A native soldier {who was reported nt
Bombay for misconduct shot and killed his
wife and two sergeants, and then put an end
to himself.
It is reported that O.mnnn Digna, second in
command to tho late False Prophot, was
killed in the Russula buttle. The late Mnhdi’s
followers aro everywhere demoralized.
A leading English paper—the London
Saturday Jieview—contains a column attack
on tho dean of Westminster Abbey because
of tho loading it for commemoration services
over General Grant—thereby ‘‘conceding
him tlio one mark of honor an Englishman
holds the highest attainable and that is pecu
liarly English."
The Colombian rebels have suffered a sig
nal defeat at Burranquilla, their stronghold,
and Prastan, their leader, has been captured.
Returns just received put Ireland's popu
lation at 4,034,843, a great decrease, owing
chiefly to emigration to America.
—Cholera exists in Marseilles. Twenty-two
deaths occurred there within twelve hours.
Consternation prevails all over France at the
prospect of a repetition of lost year’s torriblo
experiences.
A mob attacked the Salvation Army wliilo
it was parading the boulevards in Pxris. The
attack was very violent, and the police had all
they could do to rescue tho Salvationists. The
leaders of the inob urged on their followers
with the cry, ‘‘Down with the English 1" The
uniformed Britons were looked up iu a police
statiou for protection.
—In tho whole of Spain on Saturday there
wero reported 3,820 new cases of choloru and
1,401 deaths. The military Governor of Gra
nada has succumbed to the postilonce. Cholera
is raging in tho convict settlement at Cartlia-
gena.
—Advices from Kuchan say it is rumored
that a conflict has taken place botwcon the
Russians and the Afghans near Meruchak.
Whether true or false, these rumois are l>c-
lieved on the frontier. Numerous Afghan
traders have been expelled from Askabad, ow
ing to tho prevailing agitation.
—The statement of tho publio debt shows
tho decrease during the month of July to bo
$8,HC2,789.96. The total debr, less available
cash items, is now $1,590.(121,289; the net cash
in tho treasury is $44,052,929; the debt, lesd
cash in tho treasury August 1, 1885, $1,478,-
571,359.
—Secretary Whitney has appointed Com
mander McNallu, Lieutenant Commander
Train and Lieutenant Buckingham a commit
tee to thoroughly investigate the organization
of tho Navy Dopirtmont and its methods of
doing business generally; to examine tho cler
ical force and its claims for efficiency, and
whether it can be reduced; the system of keep
ing accounts, and whether it can bo improved;
and, finally, to ascertain whether tho work Is
not duplicated and how to simplify it.
—A devil flsh was captured at Galveston.
Its weight is about two tons, and as it lies
spread out on the beach, dead, it has overy
appearance of an enormous bat or vampire.
It is fully sixteen feet wide from extreme
edges of tho pectoral fins and fourteen foot
long. Tho mouth is four feet wide and is
protected on e ther side by formidable appen
dages rosembling horns, with which it scoops
in food.
—Tho steamer C. O. Kelly, of the Upper
Ottawa Towing Company, whs burned at Pem
broke, Ontario. Four of the crew lost their
—The total subscriptions to the Egyptian
loan amounted to $1,000,000,000. The amount
of tho loan was but $45,000,000. In Paris the
subscriptions reached $245,000,000, and in
Berlin they amounted to $250,000,000. The
London subscription figured up $525,000,000.
Tho script of this loan is now quoted at 3^
per cent, premium.
—Tho Freni h troops in Tonquin are suffer
ing terribly from dysentery and fever. The
deaths now average twelve per day. Tho
Temps, com H on ting on this fact, urges the
Government to recall the troops who ha7e
served eighteen month*.
—It is stated that Lord Coleridge of Eng
land, being threatened with action for breach
of promise by an American woman, is about
to marry.
SWEPT BY A TORNADO,
BEVRnj^ p K0PIjE KU.T.K,, AN „ OVER
A UUNDHKII INJUltKI).
Hundreds of House* ltnlned or Bnntnded
In Camden* N* Ji
A terrible tornado sttept Up the bfclaware
rivor Monday afternoon, Wrecking ttoro steam
boats that were in mid-fitrqAm, tOro aldng the
Water front for a Way, afid then Wrecked, or
damaged sdirto hundreds of buildings on sev
eral htreetB of that city. Then, crossing tho
river to Port Richmond, it did much further
damage, and finally spout its strength further
up tho Delaware
The peculiar cloud was first notioed bv tho
passengers on the Roybald. It extended in a
spiral shape from near the water's odge up
ward and was lost iu the leaden sky. They
could see it whirling along the Pennsylvania
shore liko a column of smoke, and gyrating
liko a top. It struck the Pennsylvania Walt
Works, at tho lower end of Philadelphia.
Roofs of houses in tho neighborhood were
twisted off and swept skyward. The heavens
Seemed to bo ehroW’ilcd in a heavy pall, and it
became amost as black a« midnight. The river
aasumed a leaden hue, aud waves began to
rise and were lashed Into Liam as the monster
wind flew ovor them. Tlio ferry and tugboats
hastened to shore, and tho people along tho
banks looked at tlio torrUdo phenomena with
white faces, and wondered if everything on the
river would bo swept out of existence.
It passed directly ovor tho Reybold, and With
the rapidity of lightning, splintered her.
Tlio tornado struck tho ferryboat Poerloss.
Tho boat was in midstream nppoaito Hunter's
Point, when the tornado struck it sqnaroly
amidships, Tbe boat whs lifted completely
out of the water ami whirled around liko a top
for an instant, and then dropped back into the
water with Us prow still pointing toward tho
Pennsylvania shore. In that brief moment,
however, hack pilot house and rear cabin wero
all carried away and sent whirling into the
stream.
Tno tornado then struck across tho river
and passed up through Camdon with frightful
rapidity. Tlio sight, witnessed from the busi
ness houses on Delnwarn avenue, was pro
nounced one of the most terrihlo ovor seen. A
dense leadon-hued cloud, liko a bursting col
umn of smoko rose iu the sky. It cut a swath
through Camden from Second to Fourth
streets. It took everybody unawares. It
howled and shrieked through tho city. Roofs
and chimneys flow in every direction. Many
people were struck by the flying debris and in
jured.
On dozens of streets tho largo trees that lay
across tho r< a<lway are sandwiched with tho
tin, slate and shingles of roofs of houses that
wero torn off by tlio tornado, and in many in
stances carried a considerable distance by tho
violent wind.
Along the lino of Second street, as far as the
oyo can reach, tlio telegraph polos have been
blown down, and in some instances they lay
directly across tho street, and tho wires form
nut works, through which it is difficult to pass.
Within the Inmnds mentioned abovo there is
much destruction, amounting to a loss of
several hundred thousands of dollars. But tho
immediate places wlioro tlio scenos of desola
tion aro greatest are along Second and Third
and Fourth streets, and on Micklo Penn, Arch,
Stevens, Washington, Bridge, and othor cross
thoroughfares.
From Camden tho tornado sped up tho rivor
bank, and crossed tbe rivor to the Philadelphia
side at Port Richmond, tho great coal shipping
port. It struck tho upper part of the place
and domolinhod about 200 buildings. Home of
the houses nre lcvolod. Others have great
holes blown through thorn a* though they had
boon iMimbnrded by heavy cannon. Others
are twUted entirely out of shape.
In spite of the immenso destruction the loss
of life will ho small, although a score aro in
the hospitals suffering from broken arms.
From Port Richmond tho storm whirled up
the rivor, where it Bpcnt its strength in a short
time.
In its ravages in Camdon scores of dwelling
housos wero unroofed aud somo of thorn
thrown down, and tho damage to tho business
property along tho river front is enormous.
Hundreds of families wero rondored homeless,
and one victim, Charles Daizey, was killed
outright at tho American Dredging Company's
wharf. Another, Harry Stevens, had his log
cut off by it flying piece of timber, and will
probably die. Tho path of tlio storm through
Richmond was marked with death and de
struction.
The tornado’s track was almost due north
from the Port Richmond coal wharves. Abont
150 dwelling housos wero wrecked or so badly
damaged ns to be rendered unfit for habita
tion, and 200 families wore driven from their
homes to be cared for by their neighbors. A
numlior of peoplo wero seriously and some fa
tally injured. A girl of ten years, Liz/.io Mo-
Vey. was killed at her homo, 174 Melvalo-trout,
in sight of her mother, who was herself pinned
to the floor by fallen rafters, a few feet from
her dying child.
The tornado is described by tboso who wit-
nosHod its progress upon tho river, where it
could be scon to advantage, a* an immense,
black ennc-Rhnpt d cloud, with its apex resting
upon tho water and its huso mingling with the
rain clouds, which hung in douse massos from
the «ky.
AT OTHER POINTS.
Chicago and its vicinity wore visited by the
groat storm ot Monday, and much damage was
done to property.
Advices irimi various points throughout
Maryland show the storm to have been tho
most disastrous that hu< ever visited that sec
tion. A tornado swept a path two bundled
yards in width through Cecil county. Houses,
mills, and bridges wo e earned away, and a
number of person • were injured.
The tornado visited Smyrna, Del., destroying
much property for miles in a swath 300 feet
w do. Stock was killed and orchards and corn
fields destroyed. No lives are known to havo
boon lost.
In North and South Carolina and Georgia
much damage was done.
MAUO 8. HEATS HER RECORD.
Slio Itlnku. n ltllln Over a Slow Truck In
CIcvuIimiiI in -’-.OH 3-1.
Tlio plimiomonal record which made Mail
n. tlio queen uf the turf liaa been broken 'Hi
wondorful mare lowered her own record at tin
Cleveland, Ohio, Driving Park on Thursday.
Two yoar« ago sho trotted a mile on*the
same track in 2:(V99£. and soon after mado her
famoii* record of 2:U1) W, in an exhibition mile
ftt Lexington, Ky. Thursday’s performance
was a milo in 2:08^. Maud 8. drew a new
and stylish rod sulky. After exhibiting herself
and making a mile in 2:28, the mare was then
given a little rest and then put to her work.
At the first quarter tho watches showed 32 V,
and tho reporters and judges were satisfi. d
that sho would make hotter than 2:10. As
pretty as a picture she flew along tho back-
Btrateh. and when the hair was reached iu
those who knew tho time wero con
vinced that the mare’s record of 2.-09V would
ho broken. At tho third quarter tlio watcht-s
showed 1:35%, and tho crowd hold their
breaths in expectation.
Blair called the maro by name twico, and
then gave her the whip. Tho maid as well as
her driver knew that tho record was being
beaten. Blair gavo hor a dozen sharp, heavy
strokes with tho whip. At a wonderful rato
she oarao down tho homestretch. Sho did not
vary an inch from her course. A few varda
from the wire she was seen to weaken and her
speed was reduced. She saw the wire. She
heard tho applause that thundered from tho
crowd. She lessened her speed roniaikably
the moment the wire was reached, and came to
a full stop at the first turn.
CAAIKTO LIFE IN niS COFFIN.
A terrible incident iu the cholera epidemic
is reported from Spain. A devoted priest, who
had labored zealously among the stricken
people was finally prostrated by the scourge
himself. The disease passed through all the
regular stages and the priest apparently died.
The frightened people who wero about him
made only a hasty examination of the body
and placed it in a coffin, screwed down thq lid,
and left it over night, to be buried in the
morning. When the bearers came in tho
morning a fearful sight presented itself. The
cofliu had been up-et and had fallen from the
table to tho floor. The body was twisted
around and partially doubled showing that it
bad been writhing in mortal agony. The face
was appalling iu its expression of hopeless
horror. The hands wero bleeding.
It is feared that many cases of premature
burial may have occurred during the present
epidemic in consequence of the great fright
among the people, which causes them to get
rid of the dead at the earliest possible moment*
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Sandwich island, have a baseball
league.
Naw Yohk audience, are mid to be the
tttoet impartial iu the country.
CttioAao claim, that it cost. *40,000 per
seawitl to run tbe Chicago club.
f A nodi) Honolulu plsyer IU ltbdde ialnrid
els it lilggol- Salary than the governor ot
hut State.
bvKii itOO ball player, have aignifled their
willingness to Join the proposed Ball l’layer’.
Protective union.
Tub names of tno two local baseball club,
of Sdarla, Ga.. aro “Tho Paralyzing Jim
Dandle.” and “The Get There Elia”
A bam. game was played near Fall River
recently whore the .triker nnd catcher «tood
in Mnxsachiuott. end tlio fielder. In Khod.
Island
TH* Unsterrt clubs of tho league nave won
the majority of the gaum. With tho tVeeteril
clubs. In the American nmociatlon the re-
vorie is tho cam.
Til* Houthorn league teams continue td
play good ball. Home of the best talent In
tho country i. now employed there, and
"dubs" can find no place.
The desperate atruggle going on between
the New York, and Chicago, fir aupremnev
I. really the oxclllng tiling about tho league
this year. Itoth club, evidently with that
pennant, and that they are playing desperate
ly for It Is Indicated by every game.
J. P. Wtettt.K, of Attica, N. whild
practt.tng recently with the Attica nine a*
lhat village attempted to throw a curve ball,
and In so doing twisted hi. arm in such a
manner as to break tho bono just above the
elbow. Tho map wo. heard forty feet away.
In tho seventh inning a recent Chatta
nooga-lilrmlngbam game at Chattnmsiga,
Tenn., Bohannon, Birmingham’, catcher, In
trying to .teal third, fell and broke hi. leg,
Till, wiu th. aecond bull player who lmd
broken hi. leg on tho Chattanooga grounds
within two week., Lot. boing the find.
Aocordinu to a banoball authority tho
KnlrkcrlMieker club, of New York city, or-
ganlMsl In lstfi, was tbe ono from which the
succeeding club, derived their rule, of play
ing. Prior to 184ft baseball wa. played under
vnrioua rides, and to a largo extent was
merely a schoolboy', game, just as rounder.
—it. English source—i. now.
MUSICAL AN0 DRAMATIC
Mins Moohe, an American, ha. taken tho
first prim for singing at the Parte Cotuorva-
tolre.
Mahie Vah Zanut, the American singer,
receives £50 for attending fushiouabie parties
in Ixmdon.
Huoti Conway's “Dark Days," which ha.
been dramatised in England, will bo produced
In New York next October.
Mod.iebka Is said to Iw at work upon a
Polish translation of (Shakespeare, to which
•bo will devote several yours.
The concerts of ancient Nethorlniidi.lt
music had a groat artistic success at the ’ ‘in.
ventorie.” exhibition In London.
Vkhdi’h 0{>era of “Iago,” upon which he
ha. been laboring for year*, is likely to bo
produced at I .a .Seals In Milan next Beiuon.
Mahiiahet MatiiKit and Mary Anderson
will contend for theatrical honor, in New
York city next season. Both will play Juliot.
Robert Fhanz, of Halle, the song writer,
ha. Just celobrutod his seventieth anniversary.
In his own vein be rank, next to Schubert
and Hchumumi.
Minn F.ksis. Eli.si.eh ho. eecured from
Messrs. Munbiirg and Overton a now comedy
drama for next season, called “Woman
Against Woman."
The cable states that Milo. Carlotta Pott,
will soon publish a volume of personal remi
niscence. under the title, “An Artist's Tour
Round the World."
BahaII BeunhahutIs about to make n trip
to Mouth America and Australia, und fours
are entertained by hor friends that site cannot
endure tbe voyago.
Tiie Plauklngton prize of *1,000 for the
best compositions to uo sung at the nutiomil
•uingerfust ut Milwaukee in July, Is80, has
lieeii awarded to Karl Joseph lirambrach of
Bonn, Germany, for kis oratorio entitled
"Columbus."
Minn Emma Thuhnhv, who has since her
return from Europe lived In close retirement
on account of the death of her mother and
■l.tor, bus consented to aocept an engagement
to sing in concert under the management ot
Max Btrnkocch.
The king of Bavaria has written to Miss
Mary Anderson’s manager asking for the
terms upon which she will consent to play
“Pygmalion and Galatea” in his theatre for a
short season for his sola beuofit, himself to ho
the only S|ieeUttor.
A (iHAND piano, presented to the Princess
Beatrice, is a unique affair. It Is Iu a black
case, ornamented with gold. Tho sustaining
pedal onuhles thu player to prolong tlm sound
of one or more of tho notes, on tho organ
principle. The pluuo 1ms so elastio a touch
that ail tho gradations, from tho most sub
dued w niimer to the greatest fortissimo pas
sage, can be accomplished with fine effect.
personal"mention.
General Hiikuidan will go on tho retired
list March rt, 1895.
John Roach, the shipbuilder, is soventy-
soven years of ago.
Wilkie Collins, tho English novelist, is
a coufirniod morphine cater.
Farewell Noble, tho originator of tho
Bluo Ribbon crusade, is to visit America
soon.
Du. Gatling, of Gatling gun fame, is an
enthusiast on the subject of American coast
defenses.
It is estimated by a Washington corre
spondent thnt Miss Cleveland’s book will net
her from $40,(XH) to $50,000.
A Isondo.n letter writer hints that Lord
Tennyson would write better poetry if ho
paid less attention to his black bottle.
Fhehioknt Cleveland has sent u sub
scription of $250 to the fund for rebuilding
Music hull, Buffalo, which was burned in
March lust.
The three men who pay taxes on tho high
est assessed value of personal property in
Great Britain nre Giles Lodor, $15,000,000;
Richard Thornton, $14,000,000, and Baron
lJonel do Rothschild, $13,500,000.
The great French chemist Ohevreul is just
100 yettrs old. Ho is a total abstainer from
all snirituous liquors, aud is in full possession
of ail his senses, frequently lecturing to the
students of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Excepting President Lincoln and General
Grant himself, Colonel Markland, of Wash
ington, is believed to be the <wily person in
tho United States who ever held authority to
pass to all points within the lines of the
Union armies without hindrance or question.
General Joseph E. Joiinhton is now sev
enty-eight years old, His hair und beard are
white as snow, save for occasional dark
threads that withstand the encroachments of
time. He dresses in black and wears a bell-
crowned hat of light color. He is about
medium height, stands erect and walks vigor
ously.
Miss Braddon, the novelist, is a pleasant,
matron-like woman, above the medium
height, fair, and with a complexion that sug
gests more of horso exercise aud tho air gon-
ensraily than pons ami ink and hard work
in a library. Her eyes are small, her mouth
large and characteristic, lips firm, and chin
strong.
A SERMON BY TALMAGK
‘The Insignificant Becomes Mo
mentous/*
EARTHQUAKE IN TUNKKXTAN.
Dispatches from Tas^ikend., in Asiatic Rus
sia, say that a great earthquake has visited
that region. It damaged most of the houses
in the town of bislteerzek, and ruined the
cities of Suluk and Belovodsk.
In the latter placo a church was shaken to
fragments while it was crowded with worship
ers, a large number of whom were killed.
Tlio earth opened in great fissures in BeJo-
vodsk, and many people were swallowed up.
Later advices say that fifty-four persons
were killed and sixty-four injured by the
earthquake. Shocks continue to be felt, and
the inhabitants are pauio stricken.
Florida gets an award and special
mention on her educational exhibit at
the Exposition.
^Sehnon by tho Rev. 1*. De Witt Talmage,
Subject: The insignificant btieotM mo
mentous.
Text: Ruth it 8: “Andshe wont and came
j and gleanod in the field nfter the reapers; aud
I hor hap was to light on a pait of thu field be
longing unto Boas, who was of tho kindred
of Llimelech. *
The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive at
Bcthlohetn Is Itut'Vdst tiithL It aos the custom
when a sheaf fell frdut a lortu In the ImrteSt
•field for the rba|x>f* to refuse to gather it up;
that wits to t)o left for the poor whd might
happen to bomd Along that way. It there
were handfuls of grain scattered across the
field after tho main harvest bad been reaped,
instead of raking it, as farmers do, it was,
by tho custom of tlio land, lort in its placo.
so tlint the noot coming along that way might
ffh’ftt it and gttfc their brurtd. But, you say,
‘‘What is the uso of all thoso harvbst fields to
Ruth and Naomit Naomi is tbo old arid
feeble to go out and toll in the sun; and can
C l Mat Ruth, the young and the
utlful) should bin her checks nnd blister
her hahds in the harvest fieldf Boas owns
a latgo farm add he goes otlt to see the reapers
S R her ill the grain. Comitig there, fiaiit ba
nd the I worthy* sUn-brdwriod feEi^rs, be
beholds a beautiful woman gleaning—a wd-
inan more fit to bond to a harp or sit upon a
throne than to stoop among the sheaves. Ah,
that was an oventful day. It was lovo at first
sight Boas forms an attachment for the
woman gleaner -an nt turbulent full of un
dying interest td the church of God in all
ages; while Ruth with an ephah of nbarly a
bushel of barley goes homo to Naomi to tell
jV? r ' adrenturas of the day,
-lUHt Ruth, who loft hor nativo laud of M .ab
in darkness, and traveled, through an undy
ing affection for her mother-in-law, is in the
harvest fiold of Bool is affianced to one of
tho host families in Judah, and becomes in
after time the ancestress of Jesus Christ, the
Lord of Glory I Out of so dark a night did
there ever dawn so bright a morning t
I learn in the first place from this subject
how trouble develops character. It was he«
roHvement, poverty and exile that developed,
illustrated and announced to nil ages the sub
limity of Ruth’s character. That is a very
unfortunate man who has no troubles. It was
sorrow that made John Runyan the better
dreamer, and Dr. Young the better poofc,
and O'Connell the better orator, and Bishop
Hall the better preacher, and Havelock the
better soldier, and Kitto tho better encyclo
pedist, and Ruth tho better daughter-iu-law.
I once asked an aged man in regard to his
pastor, who was a very brilliant man: “Why
is it that your pastor, so very brilliant,seems
to have so little heart and tenderness in his
eormonsf" “Woll," he replied, “the reason is
our pastor has never had any trouble. Whoa
misfortune comes upon him his style will be
different." After uwhile the Lord took a
child out of that pastor*! house; and though
the preacher was juxt as brilliant os he was
before, oh, the warmth, tho tenderness of his
discourses! The fact is that tronblo isn great
educator. You see sometimes a musician sit
down at an instrument, and his execution is
cold aud formal and unfeeling. Tho reason
is that all his life he has been prospered. Rut
lei misfortuno or bereavement come to that
man, and ho sits down nt tho instrument and
gou discover tho pathos in the first sweep of
Misfortune and trials are great educators.
A young doctor comes into a sick room whore
there is a dying child. Perhaps he is very
rough in his prescription, and very rough in
his manner, and rougli in the feeling of the
pulse,nnd rough in his answer to the mother's
anxious questiou; but years roll on, and
there has oeen one dead in his own house;
and now he comes into the sick room and
with tearful eye ho looks at the dying child
and ho says: “Oh. how this reminds me of ruy
Charlie I" Trouble, the great oducator,sor
row—I see its touch in the grandest painting;
I hear its tremor in the sweetest song; 1 foe!
its power in tho mightiest argument. Gre
cian mythology taid that the fountain of
Hippocroue was struck out by tho foot of the
winged horse Pegasus. I have often noticed
in lire that tho brightest and most lioautiful
fountains of Christian comfort and spiritual
life havo boon struck out by tho iron-shod
hoof of disaster and calamity. I soo Daniel’s
courage best by tho flash of Nebuclmdneroir’s
furnace. I seo Paul's prowess host when I
find him on the foundering ship undor tbe
S lnre of the lightning In tho breakers of
iolito. God crowns his children amid tho
bowling of wild boasts and the chopping of
blood-splashed guillotine and the crackling
fires of martyrdom, it took tho persecutions
of Marcus Ourolius to develop Polycarp nnd
Justin Martyr. It took tho pope’s bull and
the cardinals' curse and tho world’s anathema
to develop Martin Luther. It took all tho
hostilities against tho Scotch covenantors and
tho fury of I.ord C'lavurhouso to develop
James Remsick nnd Andrew Melville nnd
Hugh McKail, the glorious mnr^yrsof Seotrh
history. It took the stormy son and tho De
cern her blast and the desolate New England
coast and tho war whoop of savages to show
forth tho prowess of tho pilgrim father—
•‘When amid tho storms thoy sang,
And the stars heard, and the sea;
And tho sounding aisles of tho dim wood
Rang to tho anthems of tho froo."
It took all our past national distresses and
takes ail our present national sorrows to lift
up our nation on t hut. high career, where it
will march long after tho foreign aristocracies
that havo mocken and the tyrannies that
have jeorod shall l»o swept down under the
omniiKitont wrath of God, wiio hates despot'
ism and who by tho strength of his own red
right arm will make all men froo. And so it
is individually and in the family and in tho
church and in the world, that through dark
ness nnd storm nnd trouble, men, wonted,
churches, nations, aru doveloj)0(L
Again I see in my text the beauty of un
faltering friendship. I suppose there wore
plenty of friends for Naomi while she was
in prosperity; but of all her acquaintances
how many were willing to trudge off with
her toward Judah when she had to make
that lonely journey I One—tho heroine of
text One—absolutely one. I suppose
when Naomi’s husband was living and they
had plenty of money nnd all things went
well, they had a greaf many callers; but I
suppo.-e that after her husband died und her
| property wont and sho got old nnd poor she
1 was not troubled very much with callers. All
thu birds that sang iu tho bower while tlio
sun shone, have gone to thoir nests now the
night has fallen. Oh, these beautiful sun
flowers that spread out their color in the
mornitig hour; but they nre always asleep
when the sun is going down. Job had plenty
of friends when ho was the richest man in
Uz; but when his property wont nnd tho
trials came, then there wero none so much
pestered os Elinhnz tho Temanit© nnd BlldaS
the .Sliuhite and Zoplmr the N'amathite. Lite
often seems to bo a mere game whore the
successful pulls down all the other men into
his own lap. Let suspicions arise about a
mau s character and he becomes liko a bank
in a panic, and all the imputations push a’t
him and break down in a day that, character
which in duo time would have had strength
to defend ifself. There amputations that
nave been half a century in building, which
go down under some moral exposure os a vast
temple is consumed by the touch of a snlphu-
rous match. A. hog can unroot a century
plant. In this world so full of heartlessness
and hypocrisy how thrilling it is to find some
friend as faithful in days of adversity as
in days of prosperity. David had such a
friend in Huslmi. The Jews had
such a friend in Mordocai who never forgot
their causo. Paul had such a friend in Onesi-
Phorus who visited him in jail. Christ had
such iu the M*:r— ^ »,» m on the
cross, Naomi had such a ono in Ruth who
cried out: “Entreat mo not to leave thee or
to return from following after thee; for
where thou goest I will go aud whero thou
lodgeet I will lodge; thy people shall be my
poople and thy God my God; where thou
aiest wili I dio, and there will I be buried.
The Lord do so to me and more also If aught
but death part thee aud me.”
Aguin I learn from this subject thut paths
which open in hardship and darkness often
come out in places of joy. When Ruth
started from Moab toward Jerusalem to go
along with her motion*-in-luw I suppose the
peoplp said: “Oh, whub a foolish creature to
go away from hor father’s house, to go off
with a poor old woman toward the land of
Judah. They won’t live to get across the
desert. They will be drowuoa in the Dead
Sea or tbe jackals of tbe wilderness will de»
per Annum.
NUMBER 1C.
•troy tliWi” It Was a Tory dark morning
when UutU stnltml ell with Kuoini, hut bee
hold her iu my text IU the harvest field ot
Boa. to bo aklaucod to oue of the lords of th*
laud, and become oue of the grandmother, of
Jesus Christ, tbe Lord of Glory. And so M
often i. that a path which often start* very
darkly ende very brightly. Wheu you
started out tat heaven, oh, how dark wm tbe
hour of conYiction—Itow Htnni thundored
and devfie tormented a!ud thu darkness thick
ened. All the sin. of your life pounced upon
you and It nets the darkest hour you ever
mw when you first found out your slnx.
After a while you went Into the harvest-field
2 f God', mercy; you began to glean in the
eld* of divine promise and you had mors
sheaves tneff yon could carry, m the voice of
God addrenod yotf raving, "Blotted is the
man whom transgressions tern forgiven and
whose sin. are covered,” A very dark start
ing In conviction; n very bright ending in
the pardon and the liopo and tho triumph of
the Gospel.
So, tofy often In our worldly businoM or In
Out spiritual meet we start off on a very
dark path. We rrrtfct go. The lle.h may
Shrink back but there is a vole, within or a
♦ole* from above saying: "You must go,"
And We havo to drink the gall, and no ha Vo to
carry the cross, thel we havo to traverso the
desert, and we have M break through ths
thorn hedge, nnd wo nre poutfdM'and llollod
of misrepresentation and abuse, nnd Wo have
Ip Arm our way through ten thousand oh*
staclos tlffii have been slain by our own right
arm. Wo have to' font the rivor, wo have to
climb the mountain, wd have to storm th*
CMtlo; but. hlessod be God, tho day of rest
and reward will como. On the tip-top Of th*
eaptvlred battlements wo will shout the vic
tory; If hot Id this world, then in that world
where there Is no gall to drink, no burdens to
carry, do battles ft light. Mow do I knowitf
Know it! I know it because God says so.
"They shall hungel do more, neither thiret
any morn, neither shnll the min tight on them,
nor any heat; fur tho I-ami) which is In the
midst of the throne shall lend them to living
fountains of water, and God shall wipo all
tenhs from their eysa.” It was vory hard for
Noah to 8d(ltd!s the scoffing of tho people in
bis day while ho WM. trying to build the ark.
and wm evory morning daheKl about his old
boat that would nuver be of gny practical
use; but when the doluge came and tbe tops
of the mountains disappeared like the tmeia
of sea monsters, and ths eleinonts lashed up
in fury, clspped their hande ovor a drowned
world, then Nuah In the ark rejoiced In his
own safety and in tho safety of his family,
and lookod otlt ah ths wreck of a ruined
earth. Doholcl Christ, ildiltlded of iwrsocu-
tors, denied a pillow, worso maltreated than
thu thieves on either side of the cross, lliiiunn
hate smacking its lips In satisfaction after
It had been draining ills last drop of blood;
the shouted dead bursting Irom the xcpiil-
oliroa nt Ills cruelllctlon. Tell me, oh Goth-
seniane and Gulgothn, were thereover darker
times than those!” Like the IHidmlgbt sea
against tho rock the surges of Christ's an
guish I»ont against tho gates of eternity to be
echoed back l>y all tho thrones of boaven and
all the diingeuus of bell. Buttbodny of re
ward comes for Christ; nil the pomp and do
minion of this world are to bu hung on Ills
throne, uncrowned heads aro to how boforo
him, on whoso head are many crowns and all
the celestial worship Is to come up at his foot
the humming of the forrest, like the rushing
of tbs waters, Ilka the thundoring of the seas,
while all heaven rising on their thrones boat
time with their scepters. “Hallelujah for ths
lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah,
the kingdoms of this world liav* become of
our lord Jesus Christ."
"That song of lovs now low and far,
Kre long shall swell from etar to star;
’i hat light, the breaking day which tipe
The goiden-splred apocalypse."
Again 1 havo to learn from my .object that
events which seem to be most Insignificant
may lie momentous. Can you imagine any
thing more unimportant than the coming of
n |Kmr woman from Moab to Judahf can
you imagine anything more trivial than the
tact that this Iluth just happenened to alight
—as they say—Just happened to alight on
that fieldof lioazf yet all ague, all genera
tions have an interest in tho fact that sho
was in bocomo an ancestor of the Lord Jesus
Christ and all nntlons and kingdoms must
look nt that ono llttlo Incident with a thrill
ot unspeakable and eternal satisfaction. Ho
It is In your history and in mine; events that
you thought of uo importance at all have
beon of very great moment. The casual
conversation, thnt accidental meeting—you
did not think of it again for a long while;
but how It changed all the phase of your life.
It seemed to be of no importance thutJuba) in
von tod rude instruments of music,calling them
harp anil urgan .but thoy wore the introduction
of all tho world’s miiiHtrelsy; and ns you hear
the vibration of a stringed Instrument oven
niter the fingers have lieen taken away from
it, so all music now of lute and drum aud
sonnet are only the long-conttnaod strains of
Jttbals harp and Julians organ. It seemod
to be a matter of very little Importance that
lubal Cain learned tlio usee of copper and
Iron; hut that rude foundry of ancient days
has Its echo in tlio rattlo of Birmingham ma
chinery and tbo roar and hang of factories
on tho Merrimac. It seemed to lie a matter
of no Importance that Luther found a llildo
In n monastery; but as he opened that BIblo
and the brass lids fell book they jarred every
thing Irom tho Vatican to tho furthest con
vent iu Germany and the rustling of the
wormed leaves was tlio sound of the wings of
tho Angel of Reformation. It seemod to be
a matter of no Importance that a woman,
whoso tismo has beon forgotten, dropjiesi a
tract in the way of a vory bad man by the
mine of Richard Baxter. Ho picked up the
tract and road it and it was tho means ot his
salvation. In after days that man wrote a
book callod “The Call to the Unconverted"
that was the means of bringing a multitude
to God, among othors lTiilip Doddridge.
Philip Doddridge wrote a liook called "The
ltiso anil Progress of Religion" which has
brought thousands and tons of thousands into
tho kingdom of God, among others the
g reat Wilberforce. Wilberforoe wrote a
ook called "A Practical View of Chris
tianity," which was the means of bringing a
great multitude to Christ, among others Leigh
Richmond. Leigh Ricbmuud wrote a tract
called “The Dairyman’s Daughter," wliich
has lieou the moan) of thesalvation of uncon
verted multitudes, and that tide of influence
started from tho fact that one Christian
woman dropped a Christian tract In tho way
of Richard Baxter-tho tidoof influence rolling
oil through Richard Baxter, through Philip
Doddridge, through tho great Wilberforce,
through Leigh Richmond, on, on, on, forover,
forever. Bo tho insignificant events of this
world socm, after all, to bo moot momentous.
Tho fact that you came up that street or ttiii
street seemed to be of no imfiortauco to you,
and the fact that you went inside of somt
church may soem to bo a matter of very
great insignificance to you, but you will find
it tlio turning point iu your history.
Again I see in my subject an illustra
tion of the beauty of female in
dustry. Behold Ruth toiling in tha
bnrvost field under the hot sun, or at noon
taking plain bread with the reapers, or eating
the parched corn which Boaz handed to lier.
The customs of socioty have changed, and
without the hardships and exjiosure to which
Ruth was subjected every intelligent woman
will find something to do. I know there is a
sickly sentimentality on this subjoct. Iu
sor.to families there aro persons of no practical
service to the household or community, and
though there aro so many woes ail around
about them in the world, they spend
their time languishing over a now pat
tern, or bursting into tears at midnight
over tho story of some lover who shot him
self! They would not deign to look at Ruth
carrying back tho barley on her way home
to her mother-in-law Naomi. All this
fastidiousness may soom to do very well
while they are undor tho shelter of thoir
father’s house; but when tho sharp winter of
misfortune comes, what of these butterflies?
I orsons under indulgent parentage may gut
upon themselves habits of indolence; but
when they come out into practical life their
bouI will recoil with disgust and chagrin.
Ihoy will feel in thoir heurts what tho poet
bo severely satirized when ho said:
many
rithovt
“Folks nre so awkward, things so impolite,
They’re elegantly pained from morning until
night”
Through that gate of indolence how many
men aud women have marched, useless on
earth, to a destroyed eternity! Spinola said
to bir Horace Vero: “Of what did,” your
brother die? ’ “Of having nothing to do” was
the answer. “Ah!” said Spinoia, “that’s
enough to kill any general of us.” Oh. can
It bo possible in the world where there is so
much suffering to bo alleviated, so much
darkness to bo enlightened aud so many bur^
dens to be carried that there is any person
who cannot find anything to do? Madam©
do Btaol did a world of work in hor time;aud
ono day while she was seated amid instru
ments of music, all of which sho had ma»-
THE MERCURY/
Entered m ssoond-elsss natter at th* I
dwiylll* Posted c., April 17, INh
SaitarsTllta, Washington Co«ntf 9 in*
mu—» by
A. J. JEENIGAN,
raorawfOB ajtb Publish—*
Bubaerlptlon^^M.^.. 91JV pm T«
to rod, and amid manuscript books which dm
had written, somo ono said to hor: “How do
you (lifd time to attend to all these thingif*
“Oh,” sho replied, “these are not the thlnga I
am proud of. My chief boast is in the fact
that I have seventeen trades by any one oi
which I could inako a livelihood if neoea*
nary.* And if In secular sphere there lata
much id be done, in spiritual *"
how vast tfw field? How
dying all nrorTrtd about us
one word of comfort? Wo want more AM*
E lls, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas, Biota
»nrs, more Deborahs, consecrated—bottyf
mind, soul—to tho Lord who bought tfcMB
Once more, I learn from my tubjeat tha
value of glonningn. Ruth going Into tbit
lmrvost field might bAro said: “There is a
straw rtfldl there is a straw, bntwhat if m
straw? I cu/i’t got any barley for myself or
my motlier-in law out of those separata
straws.” “Not so," said beautiful Rutfc
Kh* gathered two straws and she put them
together/ and more straws, until she goh
enough to titkke a sheaf. Tutting that
she went and gathered more straws until sha
had another suonf, and another and another
and another, nnd then she brought them all
together, and sho threshed them out, and sha
had an ophnh of barley, nigh a bushel. Oh
that we might all bo gloanors! It is all tha
straws that inako (he harvest, it is the penca
that inako tho pound, nnd it Is all the Impor
tunities of doing good that make a life of
fulness if rightly employed. Elihu BurrHh
learned many things while toiling iu a blacfc*
smith’s shop. Aberoromblo, the worid-ra*
Downed philospher, was a philosopher la
Scotland, and lie got his philosophy, or tha
chief part of it, while as a physician he waa
waiting for tho door of the sick room to opMk
Yet how many thorn are In this day who my
they life »> busy they havo no time for mental
or spiritual improvement; tlio great duties off
life cross the tick I liko strong reapers,
carry off all tho hours, nnd there is only betit
and tlioro a fragment left, nnd that is not
worth gleaning. Uh, my rriouds, you could
go Into the busiest day and busiest week of
your life and find golden opportunities,whkh
gathered might at last nmko n whole sbmt
for the Lord’s garner. It is the stray oppoa*
(unities and the struv privileges which,taken
up aud bound togetW nnd beaten out, will
at lost (111 you with much Joy—yoa, more icy
than Ruth felt whon slm took home to'her
mother-in-law, Naomi, the ophah of baftay*
There are a fow moments left worth tha
gleaning. Now, Ruth, to tho field. May eachi
one havo a measure full and running —
Oh, you gleaners, to the Hold! And if them
bo In your household an aged one or a slek
relative that in not strong enough to coop
forth aud toil in this field, then lot Ruth tdfch
homo to feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaninga
“He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing
precious seed, shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him."
May the Lord God of Ruth and Naomi ba
our portion forovor.
Tbe Herb Doctor's Paradise.
United States Consul Wright, of San
tos, Brazil, encloses In a letter to tha
■tato department notes upon tbo medici-
nul plants of that country. The com
pilation is tho work of S. S. Schindler,
a native-born citizen of tho United
States, who is now in Brazil. From Mr.
Schindler's notes it appears that tha
country abounds in herbal remedies, and
thatalvelos, the now cancer cure, is but
one of hundreds of plants possessing
properties of valuo, ns yet almost un
known to inutoriu medics.
Alvolos is a shrub, Mr. Schindler
writes, discovered by an omiuent physi
cian of Pernambuco to bo n specific for
cancerous ulcorH. Tho juico is a pow
erful caustic. Applied to cancer, it pro
duces an irritating effect, which in
creases to a strong inflammation, and a*
length cicatrization takes pluoo. Tho
manner of application is this; A camel's
hair brush is dippod into tho juice,
which iB applied to the cancer and al
lowed to dry. Twenty-four hours after
ward a little lint dipped in water is a}>-
plied to the cancer, and m another twen-
fonr hours tho juice of alvolos is tried
again. Dr. Velloso advises for a speedy
cure tho application of the juice every
day, using an infusion of tobacco in
stead of tho arnica and water. This
courso of treatment is more rapid. Tho
inflammation is much stronger, but can
bo regulated by tho physician according
to tho nattiro of tho cancer nnd its prox
imity to vitnt organs. Mr. Schiudler
says that tho nlreios treatment has
proven successful in overy cose of cancer
of tho lips, tonguo, nose and brflost
where it hns been triod.
Baycuru, Mr. Schindler says is a curi-'
ous plant of Brazil, which buries itsolf
in tho sand, a number of leaves rising
abovo, sevcu inchos long by two inches
wide. Tbe flowers resemble a saxifrage.
Tbe plant is sometimes for days to
gether coverod by tho sen. The root is
six to soven inchos long, one incli thick,
and of tortuous shape. Externally it is
chocolato brown, internally, flesh
colored. It is an unfailing rem
edy in all kinds of enlarge
ments and glandular swellings.
Tho juico of tho fruit of thu cajuotro
tree is one of tho most powerful blood
purifiers known.
A decoction from tho bark of tbe root
of tbo calungn schrub is a remedy for
dyspepsia and intermittent fevers.
The leaves of the cainupa plant con
tain a narcotic principle, and the juice
of the root and fruit is found excellent
for rheumatism and livor diseases.
Boiled fruit of tho urvoro do pao tree
makes a powerful poultice for ulcers.
The fruit of tho cabacinho has au ad
mirable effect upon dropsy.
Tbo most stubborn coughs yield to a
tea made frem leaves of uialvarisco
shrubs.
Papaw has been found to possess the
property of destroying the false mem
branes of croup and diphtheria.
Pupaiuo is uuothcr diphtheria cure.
Poracary is a suro antidote for bites of
snakes.
Sapucareira bark makes a decoction
which seems to be nature's remedy for
kidney ailments.
There are no less than 312 plants or
trees in Brazil which possoss strong med
icinal properties. Mr. Schindler's cata
logue of them contains a remedy for
every ill known to human flesh, and the
wonder inspired in tho reader is that
people should ever dio in that country.
A Child Killed by a Fowl.
A remarkable futility to a child one
year and nine months old has just been
investigated at Little Heupston. On
Friday the deceased was taken out by a
neighbor’s child, and almost immediate
ly was heard to cry, as if in great pain.
The mother rushed out, und observed a'
large game fowl standing upon the head
of hor child, who was lying upon Its,
back in tbe road. It soems that the child
had pulled tho tail of the bird, which
had immediately thrned upon it,
knocked it down and struck it savagely
three or four times in succession with
his spurs. Tho post-mortem examination
showed that the spur of the fowl, which
was two inches in length, had penetrated
the child’s sknll behind the ear, and all
efforts to save its life were unavailing.—
Liverpool Courier.
Acomvdino to the Brtek and lile Re
view, floating brioks are made of a very
light silioioua earth, day being Some-
rimes added to bind the material togeth
er. They can be made SO light that
they will float on water, whue their
strength eauala ordinary f