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HEALTH INTELLIGENCE.
[From Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly.]
It seems singular that professional
men will continue to use chloroform
when ether is as efficient and so much
safer.
In congestive and inflammatory eye
remedy.
T|tB Health Officer of Providence,
R. L, reports that in that city typhoid
and intermittent fever do not occur dur¬
ing the same seasons, and appear to be
antagonistic.
The method of routing insects or mag¬
gots Irom the ear by tho use of
anaesthetics (ether or chloroform held on
a sponge over the ear) is said to have
originated with Dr. J. E. Blake, of Now
xork City, in 1862.
much subject to dyspepsia and lung af¬
fections; but their “favorite” disease, if
it may be So called because of its preva¬
lence, is rheumatism.
The Baltimore Gazette, relates that a
lady who had been vaccinated borrowed
a day. pair of The earings from a lady friend for a
owner, on resuming tlieir
use, was astonished to find that she was
thoroughly vaccinated in the ears.
In Acute sickness when milk and beef
preparation tea disagree, called the French Albumen hospitals water, give made a
by dissolving tho white of an egg in a
pint of[ water, and adding glycerine to
sweeten, and lemon juice to flavor.
The editor of tho Medical Call says
he hM often been called to children in
spasms diarrhoea, or suffering from vomiting or
tho whole trouble being due
to nursing from the breasts of a mother
or nurse that had had a “lit of anger.”
Forty thousand dollars’ worth of
chewing-gum is gathered every year in
Maine,| children most and factory of which girls; is but for school this
even
delicacy being is subject to adulteration, pine
"as sometimes worksd into the
mice gum.
^^HHktMENTs. lar power of insects, made to test the that muscu¬ the
smaller the insect prove
the greater propor¬
tionate muscular power. A bee is for
its weight thirty times stronger than a
horse, for a bee harnessed to a wagon
can pull twenty times its own weight.
111., THEjpook is to be placed County in Hospital, part under of Chicago,
ment of Homeopathic physicians, manage¬ and"
in
part bo under “regulars.” It remains to
seen whether by this arrangement
familiarity better will breed more contempt, or
acquaintance heal the breach be¬
tween the two schools.
Thotjgh consumption is very prevalent
in professional £M| Petersburg, singers Russia, it is said that
never die of that
disease there. It is therefore inferred
that the exercise involved in singing and
the deep respirations which it neces¬
sitates have much to do with maintaining
a healthy condition of the lungs.
Once more a “regular” physician
announces in the Medical Record his
#Hpenco Efcnlon which for the Eclectic Code of
tioaof lie golden simply calls for the adop
! rule and good manners
amongst medical men. The acceptance
of aSetter making such an avowal in so
prominent an organ of tho old school
shows that some leaven of progress is
leavening _ the whole lump.
editorial in the Boston Journal of
Chemistry about “Boston water,” attrib
taste hhff un pleasant ^iisliy cucumber
smell” to a diseased condition
of fish which become coated with a slimy
membrane when the water supply be¬
comes diminished by drought, this slime
sloughing afforded off when them. a fresh supply of
water is A mere Hake of
this slime will contaminate a barrel of
water.
—To make fishballs cut or
; codfish in small bits, taking care to
ove every piece of bone ; let it soak
ill cold water for an hour ; rinse it in an
V Miii a- water ; let it cook slowly for twon
[-five minutes ; season with milk, but
ir and eggs, ; mix with this about
iuble the quantity of boiled potatoes ;
Id milk or cream to give the desired
hount of moisture ; shape in round
fckes, roll in flour and fry until brows
I hot lard. If the lard is not hot when
py are put in they will soak up the fat
bd will be unpalatable.
Tl ho ® Conyers - i 9 r i
TOPICS OP THE DiT.
“ Inconsistent with veracity” is the
new English phrase. j
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Jefferson Davis is $21,000 ahead on 1
the Bale of his book.
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The Pond bill will !
swamp many - :
little saloon in Ohio.
The capital atoefc of railroad, in Texas
i» estimated at *247,000,000. ’
come~Gerrnany’s ________ _
It has turn to object
to the im portation of America n pork.
John bTgougX the temperance
lecturer, is suffering from neuralgia oi
the stomach. 1
Sergeant Mason’s family—Betty and
.
the Baby—will remain in Washington j
for some weeks yet. ;
Will Mr. Rounds accept his j
wointment ap- :
? ’ Mr. Round is a printer.
,
m course he will accept.
!
Cincinnati will hold another exposi.
t.ion this year. Although the last one
seemed to be a success, financially, it was :
not.
S. P. Rounds, the new Public Printer,
besides being a thorough business man,
is a practical and artistic printer by
trade.
Navigation on the St. Lawrence
Biver was opened before the 1st of
April—the shortest winter ice-lock on
record.
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■A NIAGARA 1 ALLS hackman died, the
other day, whose estate is valued nt
$38,000 —and lie was the poorest of
th&rn lx tv ill nil tiu.
StiVTIstics of idiocy may be compiled
by ascertaining the number of persons
who have paid money for Guiteau’s
autograph.
It is time for the report to start the
rounds that the peach buds have been
a However, it ., is . only , a question .
o a few days.
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The recent blizzard, extending from
Southern Dakota to Manitoba, wan very
severe, and there has been much suffer
ing and many deaths.
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The statement is current that ice will
be plentiful this summer, notwiihstaud
ing the warm winter. We are glad to
know something will be abundant.
The Governments of France and the
United States have agreed to notify the
other powers interested of an indefinite
postponement of the Monetary Confer
ence.
De Lesseps is charged with building
boarding houses and tilling cemeteries.
Of course this is carried on in connec¬
tion with the building of the Panama
Canal.
A cane was voted to the greatest liar i
in Warrington, Missouri, and a grocer
carried off the prize. The two editors
in the town received but three votes be
tween them.
School boys caught lighting in Wash
ington arrested and fined '
are in the
Police Court. They are bound to have
good morals in Washington if everv
thing else goes to perdition.
Anthony Comstock is waiting for
some one to draw a big prize in a lottery
before ho shuts down on that manner of
swindling, and under the law, confiscate
the “prize.” That’s why he is still j
waiting. j
It is hoped the coming warm weather
will prove a scorcher on the sunflower
idiocy. If there is anything at the pres
ent moment that is really saddening it
is the remembrauce of Oscar Wilde’s in- |
vasion of America. 1
Mason MAW^nlnrifv s popularity attained nffcnv , t by reason ! |
ol his attempt to kill Guiteau, is en- j
couragement for the Sheriff wno is to i
perform that duty. But it is hardly
necessary to say that there will be no
“Sheriff fund” started staited after alter Uia the inh job is
coup e ei. i
Prof. Tice, the weather prophet, the j
predicter of earthquakes JL and elucidator
»fo r *ne,, P a wet summer,
which will be a consoling fact to those
who fear that all tho water is coming
down and being wasted at this season
when it is not needed.
The villa Queen Victoria inhabits al
Mentone is a modern structure, sump
tuously furnished, and filled with all the
most modern appliances for health and
comfort. It was built by Mr. Henfrey
the same whose villa was occupied by
her Majesty during her visit to Baveno. ;
The Confederate Government never
made but four silver dollars, one of which
was sold in New York a short time ago
for $800, and another, which is held by a
man in Texas, is held at $3,000, bnt for
which an offer of $1,100 has been made.
They are mementos of what “might
have been.”
Frank J. Moses, ex-Governor of
South Carolina, has been photographed
for the Rogues’Gallery at the New York
police headquarters, as a swindler, and
sent to the Tombs Prison. The dis
tance from a Governor’s office to a
Rogues’ Gallery is perhaps not so great
as we had imagined.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY APRIL 14, 1882.
In some parts of Manitoba, specula
t *° n *? wdd - * 8 saad to be com
mon for a settler to sell his farm at from
So, 000 to $10,000—$25 cash, balance in
twent Y *° thirty days. The calculation
of tbe P urchaser 18 tliat within the time
specified he may dispose of the land at
an a ™ce; if not he only loses his $25.
Although General Skobeleff has re
““f me “ l m »™>oner-n the ** “Pl” reorgan. 1 " 1 -
ization of Turkestan, there is perhaps no
In nf us^remark ^ 7 ° M
ica . ^ of w hich leads timt
the poplar being there is money in
e 1 f°^ ire neld- And a11 came from
that , , llttIe . ban d uet speech, strengthened
by a “ wea dhrap of the crathure.”
The resignation recently of Keeper
Blodgett, of Sing Sing Prison, is evi
dence of the brutality meted out to
those who are so unfortunate as to land
in penal institutions. Blodgett testified
last week before the Board of Inquiry,
that he resigned because he could not
stand the evidences of brutality around
him, and would not be Keeper there
again for $1,000 per month, on account
of hearing the moanings and wailing of
the convicts being paddled.
The following is considered as Mr.
Longfellow's finest sonnet:
“Asa fond mother, when the day is o’er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half And leaves willing, half reluctant to be led,
his broken playthings on the floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassured and comforted
By Which, promises of others in their stead,
though more splendid, may not please
fio Nature deals with us, and takes away
Scarce knowing if we wish to gp or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
j£ ow f ar tjle u n j tnowa transcends th e what we
know.” **
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There are Jews coming to the United
States from Russia, Irishmen from Mun¬
ster and Ulster, cordially detesting one
another; Republicans and Democrats
from France, German Socialists and Im
perialists; Italians, some of whom be
Jieve that the Pope lias been cruelly
wronged, and others that he should be
driven from Italy. To assimilate all
* ht,se and blclld them into a harmonious
lc)ulo geneous political society is a task
which no other country in the would
could successfully undertake.
Two weeks before his death* Longfel
* ow wrote with his own hand to a lady
who sent him flowers ; “I have been
arranging these wonderful flowers under
tbe lamp in my library. I can only think
°f tUe floral games of Toulouse in the
times of the Troubadours, and were I a
g° od Troubadour I would write you a
letter in verse to-night, but I am worn
and weary so that I find it difficult to
write even prose. Thanks is a little
word, but it has much meaning when
there is a heart behind it, and thus I
send you mine for those Newport
flowers.”
The titles of Mr. Longfellow whose
death was chronicled a few davs since,
were Master of Arts, from Bowdoin;
Doctor of Laws, Harvard, 1859; Cam¬
bridge, England, 1868, and Bowdoin,
1874; doctor of Common Law, Oxford,
1869. He was Professor of French,
Spanish, Italian, and German, as well as
Librarian in Bowdoin; in Harvard he
was Professor of Spanish, French, Belles
Lettres; he was a member of the
American Antiquarian and of the Maine
aild Massachusetts Historical Societies;
a mem - ber °f the Historical and Geo-
8 Ta phical Society of Brazil; a member of
the Royal Spanish Academy at Madrid,
and a member of the Academy of Sciences
at St. Petersburg.
It is said that a woman is at the bot
tom of the Herzegovina rebellion. Mis*
Alice Hurtley, a beautiful female of un
certain antecedents, made her appear
B w,T“' \ an Eughsh SiT’ newspaper ****** cor
respondent, who introduced her to
everybody as his wife. She is a diminu
tive creature, but of remarkable beauty,
with fine bine eyes and light hair ent a
l a George orge Sand. Her ner nersonal personal charms eWm<*
and , enthusiasm m behalf of the Bosnian
cause secured her an extraordinary
popularity, and made her a conspicuous
figure in the revolt against Austrian
rule, whieh she urged with al 1 the re
sources at her command. Nikita, Prince
Montenegro, is said to be infatuated
witb ber . and she is apparently destined
to P la J an important role.
Few people have any idea of the im
mense quantities of oleomargarine con
sumed under the name of butter. There
are, hi Cincinnati, three oleomargarine
dealers—a man, his wife and mother—
who stand in market and sell on an aver
R S e fully 900 pounds a day of stuff
called butte* but which is nothing 1 ut
the vilest oleomargarine. Barrels con
taining this so-called butter are branded
“butterine,” but they are kept well
back under cover, and the “rich golden
rolls ” are piled temptingly in tiers on
the improvised counter and sold at e
figure considerably under the regular
market price of butter. These dealers
comply with the law insofar; as labeling
oleomargarine is concerned, but ‘ ‘ lie
like old salts ” to their customers if
charged with handling the vile stuff,
This is only one of thousands of similar
cases in Cincinnati and other cities,
which is not only an imposition on dairy
men and farmers, bnt an outrage on
consumers.
tf The
vanceme
jsz^jrssrjSLrs!^ ii cud has been and
womler the reached,
if hmitation has not been placed over or
igmality. But as the old and familiar
pass away, the new and wonderful con- |
tmually appear. The march of process
since the world emerged from the dark
ages, was slow for centuries. But dur- (
1
ing the nineteenth century it has gone
forth with the rapidity of lightning and ;
with the force of a giant. New applica- J
eleSs process has bre“hed upon all of the
ancldonvertedtheminto new
factos liave^een in hfe Medicine and theolouv 6
largely revolutionized Even
ias
wealth. The trawlers have searched
ever, available ,d cprae, ot this
planet for new objects of interest. As
tronomers heavens have diligently of swept the
in search new worlds Yet,
m the face of all the positive advance
merit, we are asked by Tennyson to stop
and •
“ Contemplate all this work of Time,
The giant laboring in his youth.”
The results of the last few years have
shown, is the development of scientific
invention, an activity Some wholly unparalleled
in past ages. new and startling
scheme is thrown up at every step we
make. A writer says, “ Every man and
woman project, seems specially endowed for some
and grasping at the future as. if
certain that it held some grand prize
that could be secured by individual or
combined effort. We now only stand on
the threshold of mechanical discovery
and in our infancy in the great world of
scientific development. The wonderful
results of the past are only stepping
stones to the vast future that lies before
us. We certainly have been advancing
with rapid strides and with an increased
ratio during the latter part of the present
century. What may be the grand
achievements of scientific discovery,
what wonderful developments of practi¬
cal results may not be expected before
its close? We can easily surmise the
possibility of some new and inexpensive
motive power, that will displace all of
the present methods. Perhaps it may
be electricity, perhaps a new combina¬
tion of gases, using the atmosphere, or
water, or both combined. It is possible
that we may navigate the air with the
same ease and certainty that we now do
the sea, only with an accelerated speed..
How anxious do we peer into the
future.” These prophetic words are
quoted from one who even proposes to
overcome friction. We have not yet
seen the great age. It is imbedded in
the future. Or it might be better to say
that it is germinating in the present, and
will arise in its splendor to meet the
future. But in all the grandeur of this
physicial advancement of the world, let
no man be forgotten. He should stand
out, superior to all, the “finest finish"
of his age, and
“The herald of a higher race.”
—Indianapolis Herald.
Why Novelists Prefer England.
The hard experience of American
authors makes the task of writing hooks
for the enlightenment or pleasure of the
reading public on this side of the
Atlantic so uninviting that the wonder
is, hot that we do not have a large class
of writers, but that any one thinks' it
worth his while to devote time and at¬
tention to this work. An American
novelist commonly depends for his profit
on the sum he receives for the sale of his
story of to the publishers of one or another
the widely circulated monthly period¬
icals. \J/hat they pay him is a matter
of trade, and the price given must vary
very be greatly, though as an average it
may said that $1,500 for a story run¬
bers ning through from eight to twelve num¬
would be a tolerably high rate of
remuneration. After the work has ap¬
peared in this form, it is the custom to
republish it in book form, the author re¬
ceiving a commission on the sales. If
from these he nets $500, he may consider
himself exceptionally fortunate. Assum¬
ing that an author writes two novels in a
J ear > and if the work is faithfully and
be over $4,000 per annum, a small
return when the talent required for the
service is taken into account. Novel
wr iting is, however, a monkey-making
employment when compared with the
f eburDS received tor some other forms of
literary work. For example, it was not
until Ins fourth book had been published
that Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson received
a p ^ nay in return for the literary work
, “dnri^ S!
receiwd SSbta. ^nTbuit^ b!« S b£ mefi
amount. Mr. James Russell Lowell was
compelled to publish his first book of
poems at his own expense, and at the
f. nd of a Y ear . in making up the pub¬
lishers , accounts, it found that only
was
forty-five this copies of it had been sold. In
instance it would be unnecessary to
say whether it was Mr. Lowell or the
American public that was at fault. As a
contrast to the foregoing if may be said
that according to cpmmon report Mr.
William Black has of late years received
from £3,500 to £4,000 for each novel
that he has written. From this one rea
son may be drawn why Henry James,
Julian Hawthorne, and other American
novelists prefer to make their home in
England .—New York Times.
You know Scollops, the drag clerk ?
Well, sir, the other night he went to a
ball, where his best girl’s father also
appeared, to see that young Scollops
didn’t waltz with his daughter, and if
that boy didn’t put on his Arctic over¬
shoes and lead the girl right out be¬
fore the old man’s face. Hostess came
to bim. “Mr. Scollops,” she says,
“for pity’s sake, why are you dancing
in your overshoes?” And if Scollops
didn’t wink toward the old man, glow¬
ering in the corner, and say, “Because
a soft dancer turneth away wrath.”
Broke up the party; hope to die if it
didn’t.
SK\X?j£ &£ & 5££S
h _ There were occasions when
regimental f wagons *i could not "get there,”
bl t it wa8 0 / J0n rare occasions that
the sutIer - 8 agon8 CO uld not pull
through _ It is true, ho asked a big
price * for his cakes, cheese and canned
following but he had taken big risks in
the regiment. All things con
B i dere d, the sutler did not deserve the
P* risk8 whlch ° nly brave “ en take - and
^expenses sometimes , devoured his
p f°^' krge S 8 they 8eeme d ' Very feW
° f them any ^ , amOU ? , of *
3s«s ssfgspf” f
£ “‘SZ'hfe “S, 8 tg o™B^Sto^CX X Sed 13e“
»d to
s t a nd. At a given hundred moment from would twen- sud
tv-five to one men
de nly appear at the sutler’s tent, or hut,
and g0 through him like a hurricane,
The b i ow fell so quickly that there was
no dodging it, and the guards arrived
too late to make an arrest or save any
thl “g
At the remount camp at Pleasant , V al
ley, in 1865, thirty men fell upon the
sntler’s cabin about five minuted after
roll-call. It was bolted, a stout log contained hut; se
ctirely barred and and
$700 worth of stores. The olerk, a
young man of nineteen, slept within,
armed with two revolvers. There was a
grand yell, a crash, and all was over,
In five minutes from the first alarm a
guard was on the spot, but too late,
The only articles left m the hut would
not have sold for $50. The clerk was
outside m his night clothes, robbed of
liis arms and cash, and cheese, bags of
nuts, boxes of candy and cases of tobae
co and canned goods had disappeared as
if taken up by toe wind. A strict search
was at once begun, but not stolen so much as a
nickel’s worth of the property
could be discovered. A hundred men
wer« were suspected nnil and nnestioned questioned, Vint but not not
aeacuy } vengeance. “-Richardson , a.brigade . , of
n 186 ‘'’
infantry, . , a sutler was cleaned out with at noon their
in the midst of 4,000 men
eyes open, and a thousand dollars woith
onW°a only a doSen dozen ?en pen-holders hddera oould oould blVund be found
striMSs
„»e „f fho m co„M be iaen.iSed,
The Spider as a Balloonist.
In speaking of the intelligence dis
played by birds and beasts, Seth Green
argued strongly in favor of the reasoning
power of insects especially, and related
from his own experience the manner in
which a spider constructs a balloon. If
you anchor a pole in a body of water
leaving the pole above the surface, and
put a spider upon it, he will exhibit mar
velous intelligence by his plans to escape,
At first, he will spin a web several inches
long and hang to one end while he allows
the other to float off in the wind, in the
hope that it will strike some object. Of
course this plan proves a failure, but the
spider is not discouraged. He waits
until the wind changes, and then sends
another sflken bridge floating off in an
other direction. Another failure is fol
lowed by several other similar attempts,
until all the points of the compass have
been tried. But neither the resources
nor the reasoning power of the spider is
exhausted. He climbs to the top of the
pole and energetically goes to work to
construct a silken balloon. He has no
hot air with which to inflate it, but he
has the power of making it buoyant,
When he gets his balloon finished he does
not go off upon the mere supposition
that ff wm carry him, as men often do,
but he fastens t° it a guy rope, the other
end of 'which he attaches to the island
pole upon which he is a prisoner. He
tnen gets into his aerial vehicle, while it
is made fast, and test it to see whether
its dimensions are capable of the work of
bearing him away. He often finds that
he has made it too small, in which case
he hauls it down, takes it all apart, and
constructs it on a larger and better plan.
A spider has been seen to make three
different balloons before he became sat¬
isfied with his experiment. Then he
will get in, snap the guy-rope, and sail
away to land as gracefully and as su¬
premely independent of his surroundings
as could well be imagined. Mr. Green
stated that he had repeatedly witnessed
such actions by spiders, and that he feels
convinced that it is reason that enabled
them to free themselves from their prison.
—Rochester Democrat .
The Fireplace in Summer.
The aching void of a black and empty
fireplace in summer time has proved a
source of annoyance to many generations
of sensitive housekeepers, and various
ingenious contrivances have been evolved
to render its yawning blackness less op¬
pressive. It may be that practical, un¬
imaginative minds can scarcely appreci¬
ate the possibility of a fire ready laid in
a prosaic grate being made to look pic¬
turesque or artistic. Yet an English
writer enthusiastically describes such a
cold fire apparently waiting the applica¬
tion of the match. hlightly protruding
between the lower bars was a crumpled
piece of greenish-tinted paper; over this
lay a small faggot, with its binding
loosed, of dry twigs; upon this was judi¬
ciously placed a lot of clean, knobby
coal, the whole surface mounted by a
maguifieent yule log, carefully selected
for its shape and the picturesque dis¬
tribution in its upper surface of some
moss-covered broken bark. Aesthetic
housekeepers, who are puzzled to know
how to fill up their empty fireplaces in
the summer time can try the effect of
this admirable device, worthy, aceoidiug
to this writers’s view, of being studied
with advantage by a painter of still life.
“ What a pity flowers can utter no
sound,” says Beecher. 1 You bet it is !
£f the sunflower coaid speak some of the
fools in this country would hear some¬
thing drop.
The following are™ few^nelmens 1"?
from the St «pe^mens taken taken
A little girl but four vear« old was
rescued from a saWkeener who Ld
selling to her a botUe ot rum the
precocious little toner P was Wa3 nlaced placed m in a a
homo for children
Thomas Smith father was" of a littl*
fifteen years old arrested bv the
P^g walking-match son to at be the a American contestant Insti- in a
tute Building, where one hundred miles
w f re ****** twenty-four hours, and
be -
3fUSS? ,£f ek S* , WP“ tt
the floor. The children Xb smed Ax years
two and wallowm-^u a halt and six months’
were yomits and excre- "little
ments, and were all starving The
child of two and a half yems was totaUv
blind. The baby shortly died the other
two were cared for in public institutions,
and the unnatural parents were sent six
months to the Penitentiary
The Society rescued a little girl only
eight vears old whom a mam named
Geo. Walker was in tjie act of abducting.
The girl was restored to her parents and
the kidnapper punished. ’
Four children, Mamie, John William
and ten, James, and aged six respectively’thirteen,
seven years, were rescued
from their parents, Thomas and. Ca,the
riae Wilson, who occupied a hut, in a
Xew York locality known as “Hell’s
Kitchen,” and who have since been sent
to The the Penitentiary for highway robbery,
interior of the hut was a counter
p ar t of old Fagin’s quarters, and the
children were being subjected to the
sa me training that young Oliver re
ce iyed. They were sent to the New
Y drk Catholic Protectory.
John -<onn Rosa jxosa nnrl anci Defer 1 eter nil all nn/W under seven
years of age, were taken from tlieir
fortably housed in an Asylum. They
were all naked and were found crouch
ing in a CO r ner to escape the blows of
tlieir father and mother, both of whom
were in a beastly state of intoxication.
Patrick and Maria were committed. Nu
morons other cases are detailed in the
ber, another which XOTSS? little girl
m a was
delivered from a lather attempting an
unnatural crime, and still another in
which was saved a little motherless boy
named Husley, compelled by his father
to slee P through December in an open
cellar on Twentieth street, where
bis ears and hands were frozen, and
where he was frequently bitten by th
rats. It is of little consequence in whose
name the Society does this humane
work. It is of little consequence what
the motive that prompts it. So long as
the hungry are fed, the naked clothed,
and those who perpetrate the inhuman
ity are punished, so long ought the Hu
mane Society to be encouraged and sus
taiued.
The story 'the of John Duncan, of Alford,
£ 1)gland , “weaver-botanist,” has
beea re ceived with the warmest sym
f p a t b y ) by scientists and scientific socie
ies }ie world over. Although only a
weaver, toiling at the loom for his
daily bread be has by „ lifetime of in
dustry and earnest devotion to science
bnowledge'of add ^ d very materially to the botanical
his country; and quite re¬
cently pres ented his large and very val
uable ‘ herbarium to the university of
Aberdeen His scientific labor, how
ever brought him no pecuniary reward,
and ext reme old age found him depend
en £ f or jjjs daily necessities upon par
oehial relief. Recently the worthy old
botanist ’ s ue eds have attracted much at
tention, and a fund now subscriptions raising for his has re¬
lief by voluntary respectable
reached the proportions of
about £325. Her majesty, the Queen,
presented £10. The money subscribed
is to be placed in the hands of a board
of trustees, who null make ample provis¬
ion for Mr. Duncan during the remain¬
der of his life, and on his death will de¬
vote any sum remaining to the promo¬
tion of science. The weaver-botanist is
now in his eiglity-seventh year, and in
feeble health.
Equal to the Emergency.
A young women while going from her
home to a postoffice, was accosted by one
of the la-da-da gentry, who asked if he
might accompany her down town. She
objected and commanded him to leave
her. The rowdy still followed her and
she sought refuge in thinking a neighboring
house. In a few minutes, the way
clear, she started out for her destination.
When in the postoffice she recognized
her assailant, and he followed her out.
When on the sidewalk he stepped to her
side and inquired: “Are you from
Canada ?”
“No,” she replied, “I’m from Ire¬
land;” and with this last remark she
dealt him a stunning blow in the face,
felling him to the sidewalk.
“My God,” cried a woman who wit¬
nessed the act, “ have you killed him ?”
“I don’t know,” answered the young
lady as she walked on. After reaching
her home she discovered that her hand
and sleeve were covered with blood, and
she then concluded that she left a mark
on the impudent fellow’s phiz .—Bay
City ( Mic hf% Tribune.
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Dr. McDermott, of Monticello, Ark.,
has invented a flying machine. It .does
not fly yet, but is expected to. Mr. Mc¬
Dermott was led to undertake the work
through pride. He says : “It is morti¬
fying that a stupid goose or a buzzard
should go at will above the earth, and
man, the greatest of God’s creatures, be
obliged to crawl around like a worm. I
hope before I die to give a flying chariot
to lady in the land. ”
every
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Edinburgh University has 3,237 stu¬
dents, tbe school of medicine taking ths
larger proportion—1,628.
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 15,
HISTORICAL.
Kor “ ~
£~ B 7 A‘ TX* tW ° lfth cen- ”
tury.
n™ first domesticated in
£g7pt v , ' Tbe ti Greeks , and Romans did not
possess it
OnS hundred and ten monasteries were
suppressed m England by the order of
Heni T V -
The ori g illal name of the city of Al
was
Beaverwick.
Paraoetsus is said to have cured a leper
b J ke epmg him for sixty hours in a bath
of hot mud.
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s.
Uintai States who pos.ee.ed the art of
tbetr potter
Caesab was one of the best judges of
P ear la tha t ever hyed He could at once
. lue of earlwhen
lie ook Z lt *- 8V lna band ? a P
lu -
T H ^ 18 . a fair y m vthol °gy- simil ar to
» Euro - -
t ° f P e a “°ng the native tribes
r. J ; ^ th °
* stition of the changelings.
tbe rei g n Titus 3,000 men were
®°“5 ell ed to fl ? ht 88 g la diators, and 10,
000 during . the reign of Trajan.
Both
Emperors were noted for their clemency,
According to Spanish historians eight
centuries of warfare elapsed, and 3,700
battles were fought before the Moorish
kingdoms in Spain submitted to Chris
Ban arms.
Philip Srsozn, when accused of the
assassination of Alexander I. of Tuscany.
kille4 himself through fear that torture
might extort from revelations injurious
to his friends.
In their general bearing toward so
ciety and in the nature and minuteness
of their scruples the early Chriatains
bore a greater resemblance to Quakers
than to any other existing sect, aLm,
There l was w as a a Question c l uestlc ’ u among <h the n
early i Christians - , as to festivals^ the propriety of
wearing in military laurel
god.
In 1596, David Black, a Protestant
minister in Scotland, delivered a sermon
in which he said that, as to the Queen of
Scotland, they might as well pray for
her because it was the fashion to do so,
but no good would ever come of it As
JUSliXXZ &
and the door fastened. Next morning
t be ashes are carefully examined for foot¬
prints and the soul of the dead is said to
have passed into the body of whatever
animal the imagination traces in the
ashes.
One method used by the Anglo
Saxons for ascertaining the intentions of
fate was to take slips of wood from some
fruit-bearing tree, mark them, and after
a solemn prayer, shake them together
and throw them into a white garment
spread for the purpose. The number of
marks lying uppermost decided the
greater or less degree of fortune to come.
In 1386 Nicholas Lillington, Abbot oi
Westminster; then himself nearly seventy years his
old, prepared with two of
monks to go armed to the sea coast, to
assist in French. repelling a threatened invasion de¬
of the One of his monks is
scribed as so large that when sale his armor
was afterward offered for no one
could be found of sufficient size to
wear it.
A Bolt From a Clear Sky.
The Hawaiian earthquake of 1837 is
described for the first time by an book. eye
witness, in Missionary Coan’s new
On the 7th of November, 1837, at the
evening prayers, we were startled by a
heavy thud and a sudden jar of the
earth. The sound was like the fall of
some vast body upon the beach, and in a
few seconds the noise ot mingled thrilled voices
rising for a mile along the shore
us like the wail of doom. Instantly this
was followed by a like wail from all the
native houses around us. I immediately
ran down to the sea, where a scene of
wild ruin was spread out before me; the
sea, moved by an unseen hand, had, all
on a sudden, risen in a gigantic the wave, speed
and this wave, rushing in with
of a racehorse, had fallen upon the
shore, sweeping everything not more
than fifteen or twenty feet above high
water into indiscriminate ruin. Houses,
furniture, fuel, timber, canoes, food,
clothing, everything floated wildly people, upon
the flood. About two hundred
from the old man and woman of three
score years and ten to the new-born in¬
fant, stripped of their earthly all, were
struggling in the tumultuous waves.
So sudden and unexpected was the
catastrophe that the people along the
shore were literally “ eating and drink¬
ing,” and they “ knew not until the flood
came and swept them all away." The
harbor was full of stragglers calling for
help, while frantic parents and children,
wives and husbands ran to and fro along
the beach seeking for their lost ones. As
wave after wave came in and retired the
stragglers were brought near the shore,
where the more vigorous landed with
desperate efforts and the weaker and ex¬
hausted were carried back upon the re¬
treating wave, some to sink and rise no
more till the noise of judgment wakes
them.
A Miniature of Aaron Burr.
Burr lived until 1836. I remember
that as 1 was walking one day, in Maid¬ my
early boyhood, with my father in
en lane, he pointed out to me a little,
shambling old man, with rumpled white
cravat, hair whiter than his cravat, and
rusty black coat—a very forlorn and
doleful-looking creature. “ When you
are older,” my father said, “the time
will come when you will remember that
you have seen that man ; that is Aaron
Burr. ”— Richard Grant White, in the
Century Magazine.
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Delhi, India, used to have 2,00ft,000
of inhabitants. It now has only 200,»
000 .