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priH.ISHIf.H EVERY THURSDAY.
Ballarci <*> A-tlalnaon.
rKOI’HIHTO**-
|t would I* Mi|>|r >'•• <! that the Pn*«i-
Hh<l lb** ii"iub<i“ of th'* cabinet
would rwHv th> Im*.'**' mail in Wa>h
iitgton Thia b not mi, however. I hat
dwtiiu tiou fall- upon » j»n>-ioii attorney,
wli/w daily mall fr< •jii«-ritl> ininil'cr* 300
latter*
(‘urea of m mtn a are reported a* having
taken place in pari* lifter a •ingle appli*
cation of Dr D< lain•'» method of fr<> z
ir»g the Mkiti also'* th' painful part* with
a apray of ehlotide of m' thyl Tin - "|**r
ation i* said to Ih appli* abb id*o to fa*iai
neuralgia If th' latter !>■ tru*, Dr. De
tune ia a iienefa* tor to the human race.
< hi< ago ha* reached th'* arm" of ama
teur photography. Some ingenious |ht
aim baa invent'd a hat, in whl< h a cam
era ia connalw), *o that the
wearer can lain a picture a*
in walk* along the atre't. Th*
young men are utilizing the invention to
•r. urr [icrtrait* of all th* pretty girl*
Un v meet
Dakota i> cry ing aloud for *pin«t< r*.
•nd the editor of tlw Fargo Argus «ay«:
“We can a<<on>m<-late 10.000 girl* with [
hu*ban<l« in Dakota on ninety <lay»‘ no ;
U<<. We hav< publish'd 2.000 letter*;
from a* many young women, and made
ae many inatihe*.’’ With nil thin talk it
m> strang' to learn that Major Edward*,
editor in i hies, and Major Plumley, man
aging editor ol the .L*/"«, are both un
■Mrried, although they have looker! over
tlx 2000 love letter*.
Dr. Daverqiort, a Brazilian travclei,
relate* how butter is made in that conn
try. They fill a hide with milk, and it
ta tightly 'lonrrl and lu-tily shaken by n
athletic native at either end. or it in
dragged about upon tin* ground after u
gallofring horse until th* buttci come*.
In Chili Uli* till'd hide* are placed u|>on
a donkey’* l»ai k, and hr* i* trotbsl about ,
until thr butt< r i rrnrr - In Morocco a
filled goatskin i« rolled ale ill and kneaded
by women until tin Mitin > Ifer t is pro.
dliced.
The English trarir journal* lire jubilant,
just now, over th* growth of the Indian
wheat export. One re|H>rt* the r XJiort
of wheat from India in 1875 at 1,200.000
hundred weight, while in 1884 it had in
crease*l to 10,000,000 hundred Wright, ‘
the value of the i xpirt lor the two year*
rnqiei tivr ly la ing £669,000 and £3,175,
(KM) This need not alarm American
wheal growers, for the Indian w heat doe*
not make the best flour, ami need* to lw*
mixed with th* harder gradea of Ameri
can wheat.
People who wear *|H* ta< le«, anil the
iiumla r i* im n using daily, may not be
aware that two men claim the honor of
having invi-nted the*, aids to vision. One
ia Spina, a Florentine monk, ami the
other, Roger Bacon. An Italian anti
quary say* Spina was indebted for his in
formation to on** Salvino, who died in
1818. A manuM ript epitaph in the |a>*
taw-ion of tin* antiquary reads: ‘‘Here lie*
Salvino \rmoto d’Annuti. of Florence,
the invent"! of *|**i ta* le* May Gori
pardon hi* *iu*. The year 1318."
■•Curiou* how one’s feeling*get blunter!
by the sight of blood and horrors," mink
Sir < hath * Wilson, in hi- lira narrative
of the Nile < vpcrhtion There wa* one
striulge im i<|< nt. An unwounded Arab,
armed with a *|a*ar, juni|a*d up and
i-liarged ail oflicer. The officer grn«|**d
the*|»*nr with his left hand, and w ith Ids
right ran In* sword through the Arab
body ; and there for a few second* they
vtriod, the ofllr r r being unable to w ith
draw hi* sword until a num ran up ami
shot tin Arab. It was a living emlvodi
merit of one of the old gladiatorial fro*
voe* of Poin|M*ii. It did not, Mange to
•ay. Mini horrihl* rather, after what
hail |ra.**ed, an everyday occurrence. 1
used to wonder before how the Boman*
could look on at the gladitorial tight*. I
do so no longer."
In cutting through a gorge in tlw Blue
Ridge mountain*.mar Buncombe county.
North Carolina, recently. a party of eon
victa, m charge of ( apt. \\ (' Troy. at
work oxi a railriuni, found an ancient
hermitage dug out of the side of the
mountain, in a M-cludvd plaee. It was a
rude hut, construct's! w ith *f few pole*
and boards with one window with a
Singh |wne. Hxt, to admit the light. The
only i-M i-upant* were an old hennit. who
ha* lived there more than fifty years, a
largey»Huw dog, a big cat. anil a rac
ouon. The upimarances were thos< of a
happy family In conversation with the
old man V aj>t Troy found him very ig.
uorant. lb never had teen a steam
etigim or a railn.ul, and wa* greatly
diaturiwd las auw the lalairvr* interfe red
wth his home. Hi* lad -clothe* were
la-gv l« arskin* *e*ed t-.wiher. with a
beautiful buck hide a* hi* facnv *pt* ,ai to
uw on big mx-asion* The bracket* on
the wall* were of iinm n*e deer horns, inti
the gun ruck over th- door was of the
•ami material. The old fellow is a great
v.nger, and atmiM-d the captain grvatlv
• ith vc.al music.
A batiouai abceys-abcaring contest ia ta
1 take place in Hi. Louis. April 7-B, under
the auspice* of the Missouri Anaociation
of Wool-Growers At Uua couteat oom
|a* tit ion will be open to sheep-owner*
from all aretiooa of the V nitnd States,
and in carb claaa. fine wool*, middle
wools and long wools Fifteen hundred
dollar* in cash are off* red aa premium*
for fleeces Everybody derirous of enter
ing the contest must maki his entries on
or before April I. and have the sheep on
h»ml for in*ja* 1 1***! by th' < omnidtees on
th'- first dav of th' contest Additional
information will b> furnished on written
application V> A J Child, aocretary, 20»
Market »trei t St. Louis. Mo.
Some idea <rf the eanstant demand that
t here is for place irt Washington may be
gathered from th' numerous application*
that there arc lor even the smalleat posi
tions in the gift of th'- government. One
would •'•arcely nippoM*., say* a corre
spondent, that there would be great de
mand for p'sitiona paying t***’ a month,
a* do the w at* hinen * |*o*itionsin the de
partme-it*. but there is a scramble for
pla* * * which pay even less than that. In
th< variou* departin'nt * there are em
ployed a hundred or two of womenwho***
duties are to *< nib the floors and sweep
1 the rooms in th'- great buildings which
dot Washington. These women get for
theirwrvicc* the princely salary of |lsa
month. They go on duty at the closing
of th* depnrtiiu nts and work far into the
; night sometime*, getting <lown on tlieir
j kin's in the hallways and scrubbing by
■ hand the filthy floors liegrimmed with the
dirt of the street and the saliva of to.
hue* o i hew* r*. Certainly not a pleasant
ociupntion nor a very profitable one; yet
the demand forthene place* ia incessant
»nd urgent.
Tin most reient estimate that has
liein made by the French engineer* in
regard to the projiosed African inland
sen is that the undertaking could be con
siimmabd in the maximum |w riod of five
years, at a co*t of about |30,000,000, it
being suflii ienl to ( nt, in the alluvial
part of the region travelled, a canal aver
aging some so to 100 feel in width,which
would be further widen'd by the action
of the current. It appear* that the cstu
ary of Owed .Mellah, which i* to be tin
beginning of the canal leading to the
place to be inundated, offer* n port, cov
ered at high water, of ade<|Uat'* breadth,
which might easily be excavated, and
would form a port sheltered bv nature
from all th* winds from northcast to
south, passing by the west; the winds
from north'a*t to south, passing by the
cast, would not be dangerous to the
I break waters. The navigation of the
canal, it is also said, w ill offer no difli
i nlty, as the i anal would form almost a
'traight line. The pro|s**cd inland sea
would be fifteen time* as large as the
Lake of Geneva.
Chlneae Burglary.
It i* u custom among the Chines'* to
give several dollar* to tin- man who is
first to report to a family the fact that
their son has received the degree of Ku
Yan. A numb' r of men determined to
avail themselves of the opportunity of
making money which such a custom pre
sented. These men armed themselves
with knives and pistol*, which they con
cealed under their < lothing. Others of
them held leaflets, which are regularly
sold in the street during an examination.
These leaflets contain the names of tho
successful candidates. Thus prepared
they pna'eeded to the house of a mall
mimed ilo. The foremoyt man went t<
the dixir to congratulate the family on
its good fortune. The second report was
close ut his heels, and then foPowed the
men with leaflet* The men marched in
side, and tlwn revealed tlieir true mis
sion. They then robbed the hou- of
some thousand dollar* in money and
clothing. On coming out their congratu
lation* were long and loud At tin door
they fired off their crackers, thus thor
oughly deluding the neighbors, and amid
tin noise and uproar of n pretended fam
ily rejoicing p>t away. The hard part of
the luck i* the fact that u> member of
the Ho family had got a degree A
CAiii'i Mail.
I’ostponed.
‘‘Gentleman," *aid u colleg* president
at a meeting of tin Faeualty. "we must
take means nt one* to stop tie name of
f(s*t ball. It i* bringing our grand old
institution into disrepute.”
•lu*t then a great noise wa* h< :i I < ut
side, and the president demanded the
cause of it.
"New* has just been receivtal,’’ ex
plained oiu of the younger prof*-***»rs
a|ailogvtii ally. "that our men have
wre*t'sl tin foot l«!l championship from
Princeton."
••Good!" shouted the president, flush
ing with ex. itenient, "I didn’t dan* hope
it 1 think . nt'iH '-i. w b, tt. t
be too—er hasty in this matter."—/ 'a
A Little Misunderstanding.
Angry Pur, ha** You told n. the
hor* wasn't balky
Ndler N l didn’t.
Angry Pm, ha*. : Yv»U ccrtainlv did.
A oil *aid that when it came to p .»
that horse wa* there every time.
Slier- Ye*, that * wh t I *.,:* t H *
there, but the trouble ■* le *t.,y- I
u*od to build a iwutirv uuil-: b.n \ e
) i >.
IXEQUALLED CRIME.
The Adage that “Murder Will
Out” Again Confirmed.
QueHtionx Rawed by the Discovery of a Ter*
nble Triple Tragedy in Ireland.
The remit of a trial which recently ter
minated in Cork, Ireland, adds confir
mation U> the old adage that "murder
will out.” William Hheehan waaconvict
"l of the murder of Catherine, Hannah,
and Thoma* Sheehan, his mother, sister,
and brother. The crime was c ommitted
in October, 1877, but wa* not discovered
till the summer of 1884. At that time a
fanner named Broderick discovered at
the bottom of a well seventy-two feet
deep the bode s of the three Sheehans.
They were fully ind'-ntified by their old
neighliors by their clothing and articles
in their pockets. The skull of each was
broken, clearly showing that they were
not drowned, but had been thrown into
the well after they were murdered. It
was known throughout the neighborhood
jhat the four Sheehan* were living on a
farm belonging to a widow, a near rela
tive, during the fall of 1877. On a cer
tain day then* was no one living in the
house but William, who stated that the
remainder of the family had left for
America, which was to be their future
home. Their friends thought it strange
that they should leave without saying
anything about the matter, and the won
der was increased when neither they nor
certain relatives living at some distance
from the farm received any letters from
them. William affirmed that they left in
the manner they did because they object
ed to his marrying a Mis* Browne, the
daughter of a neighboring farmer. The
night after the alleged departure of the
three Sheehans for America William gave
a musical party at the house, which Mia*
Browne and her brother attended. In a
few days William married the girl, and
continued to live on the farm till July,
1883, when he was evicted for non-pay
mentof rent. He then left with his wife
for Australia.
After the finding of the three bodies in
the well, John Daune, who with his wife
and Ron were working for the Sheehans
during the month of October, 1877, was
arrested on suspicion, and being thor
oughly frightened, related the story of
the murder. He stated that he and his
family lived in a cottage on the farm, and
that on the morning of the disappearance
he saw William Sheehan, accompanied
by David Browne, brother of the future
Mrs. Sheehan, strike Thomas Sheehan to
the ground with a blunt instrument, lo
cally called a "griffaun,” after which the
two men entered the house and killed the
women in the same manner. The three
bodies were then taken to the burn and
the door locked. David Duane, son of
John, confessed that on the night of the
musical party he was attracted to the
house by the music and a desire to have a
good time, that he quietly seated himself
beneath a window, where he could see
and hear without being observed. He
jemained in his place till the party broke
ap and the visitors went away. Not
wishing to be discovered then for fear of
jeing reproved, he still sat quietly. Soon
tie saw AVilliani Sheehan, David Browne,
and a man he did not know go to the
barn, open the door, take out three bod
ies, drag them to the well on the next
farm, and throw* them in.
The officials being in possession of this
evidence traced William Sheehan to
Auckland, New Zealand, where he was
arrested and brought to Cork for trial.
On his passage home he told many con
flicting stories about the disappearance of
his relatives. His father-in-law attempt
ed suicide as soon as he heard of his ar
rest. Sheehan was convicted chiefly on
the testimony of the two Duanes, but
there was much circumstancial evidence
to corroborate their testimony.
This remarkable case serves to raise
gome interesting questions. A numerous
family drank for six years the water fur- I
nished by n well that contained the bodies
of three human beings. Its tastes and 1
smell finally became so offensive that they j
were obliged to clean out the well or to j
fill it up. How many wells in this coun
try that have been abandoned and filled
up on account of the condition of the
water they furnished contained hu
man bodiee? The three persons whose
bodies were found in this well suddenly
disapjH’ared. and it was reported that
they had gone to a distant country. How
many persons that suddenly and myster
iously disappear without any apparent
cause, and from whom no tidings ever
come, are murdered? Unless a body
is found under circumstances that serve
to make it probable that a murder wa*
Committed, no one is accus'd of commit
ting a crime, and in the majority of cases
no one is suspected. Still, if a murder is
deliberately planned it is a very easy mat
ter to dispose of a body. A week rarely
passes that someone of considerable prom
inence does not mysteriously disappear
from this city. Hundreds of obscure
persons disappear in the course of a year,
whose absence is never noticed even by
persons who lived near them. In a large
city there is a vast population who have
no regular abiding-place. Many of them
nrght drop out of sight forever and never
be m.<s<xi by more than two or three per
son* who might desire to be rid of them.
I How many murder* arc committed of
1 which the public never have any knowl
. edge ?— Chieagu Timet.
The Thirteen Snperatltion.
M. Leaclide, tell* us. among many oth
er things, that Victor Hugo confessed to
the (xmesaion of only one superstition.
Nothing could induce him to form one of
thirteen at table. Whenever a thirteenth
arrived at the last moment it was M. Les
clide’a business to pick up his hat and
depart. The vitality of this hoary super
stition, which no doubt originally grew
out of the story of the last supper and of
the tragic events which so quickly fol
lowed it, is remarkable. Any one who
j takes the trouble to refer to the accepted
table* may see for himself w hat is really
the expectation of human life. It will
be found that, in order to obtain a math
ematical probability that one out of a
given thirteen healthy persons will ex
pire during the following twelve months,
the average age of the thirteen must, in
default of the presence of one or two on
the verge of centenarianisin, be very
great indeed. It must, in fact, lie about
eighty-eight years, and it is scarcely
necessary to say that, in practice, the
united years of a festive party of thirteen
never amount to the requaite 1144. Ths
annual rate of mortality among males and
females of all ages is only one in forty
one, and forty-one, therefore, instead of
thirteen, should be held to be the un
lucky number. This has been demon
strated over and over again ; yet the num
ber thirteen still remains ominous to
thousands of excellent people in all class
es of life. In Paris there are streets in
which twelve bis does duty instead of
thirteen, and the householders who thus
ingenuously sought to circumvent fate
would not for the world let the proper
number be painted upon their doors.
Some years ago Prince Napoleon tried to
to laugh his countrymen out of tho su
perstition, but his effort* did not benefit
his cause, for, with characteristic perver
sity, he used to invite twelve friends to |
carouse with him on Good Friday, where
by he grtively scandalized right-feeling
people, whatever their theological views.
In America similar but less aggressive at
tempts have been made to correct popu
lar error, and numerous thirteen clubs
have been established, the members 1
pledging themselves to dine thirteen at ]
table on ever opportunity. In France,
too, there is a thirteen club, the head
quarters of which are at Senlis; and in
England there is a little coterie of thir
teen men who dine together monthly at a
house numbered thirteen and pay 13s.
each for their dinner and 13d. each to i
the waiters. Yet still the superstition is
us lively as of yore, all over Europe and
America, and probably it will continue to
flourish and to make people uncomforta
ble until the end of time.— English
Paper.
A Dangerous Counterfeiter.
The “pen-and-ink man" is still a mys
tery to the officers of the secret service,
says a Washington letter to the Boston
Traveller. The most strenuous efforts
have been made to catch him, but he has I
eluded their vigilance so far, and there is
not the slightest trace of his identity or
locality. The “pen-and-ink man” is the
person known in police circles who makes
counterfeit money with pen and ink so
cleverly as to pass it without detection.
The secret service has about fifty speci
mens of his handiwork which have passed
the scrutiny of the bank clerks and tell- '
ers, and been detected by the experts of
the national bank redemption agenev of
the treasury department. The “pen-and
ink man” devotes most of his time to ■
twenties and fifties. He has made a few
$lO notes, but the bulk of those captured
are of the denominations indicated. The
secret service officers believed for a long
time that the “pen-and-ink man” was
some < Xpert who merely employed his i
leisure time in counterfeiting. They j
have given up that theory and are now*
firmly convinced that he is making a
living at it. The reason given for this
is that the officers have information that
he produces one of these counterfeits
each week, which return* him only fair
wages. "The pen-and-ink man” is a
wonderful expert, and his is an instance
of a man who prefers doing wrong at less
wages than he could earn by doing right j
in a respectable avocation.
Easily Avoided.
M. and Mme. Prudhomme find their
new rooms ill-heated by the furnace, and
decide to buy a stove to keep them
warm.
M. Prudhomme reflects:
"Stoves are sometimes dangerous. We
must be careful not to run any risk of
asphyxiating ourselves by coal gas.”
He reflects some mon*:
“Ah! That’s easily avoided. We will
never light it."
He smiles at his cleverness, and buvs
it.— French Fun.
An Unfounded Suspicion.
Mrs. Clapper—Arthur, I fear you do '
not love me.
Mr. Clappef—What a ridiculous idea. ;
What makes you think I have ceased to
love you?
“Because you show signs of impatience i
when I talk to you.”
“H’m! Well, my dear, be assured that
I love you”—(a pause)—“still.”—Phila
delphia Cali.
C.OING TO THE SOUTH.
A Great Army of Welcome
Tramps in Louisiana.
Their Services in Taking Off the Sugar
Crops and Building the Levees,
A recent letter from the Parish of Plaq
uemines, La., to the New York Sun says:
"The army of wandering laborers —like
tin w ild birds which have their summer
and w inter haunts—come to us about the
first of November and go North about
the first of April. Many people call
them tramps, but they are si kind of wel
come tramp, which is more, I suppose,
than could be said for the real, sure
enough tramp. We rely on this labor to
take off our sugar crops and to build our
levees, the latter work being usually done
at low water in winter. In February and
March it comes in handy in planting cane
and digging the ditches and canals by
which our fields are drained. Os course
we get a good many no-account men,
but by weeding the poor ones out we at
last reach Darwin’s survival of the fittest
and get a pretty good gang organized.
The nucleus of this army starts
in Canada, is added to in New
. York and on the lakes, takes in a
large corps of recruits at Chicago, and
when it reaches Cairo commingle* with
the legions from the great Northwest and
California and sweeps on to New Orleans.
Its transportation is free. Some few
; work their way on the Mississippi river
steamers, but the great majority beat
their way on freight trains. Most of the
men have money to provide just food
enough to exist on, and as soon as they
reach the city they are distributed by la
bor agents to the various plantations and
works needing hands— nd then how
they do gormandize! You are not able
to tell what a man really is until he has
been on the place long enough to get over
the prostration caused by over-eating.
The fare is not usually very tempting,but
Uiere is always a full supply of meat,
bread, beans, rice, potatoes, coffee and
molasses. A blanket and a little hay are
also furnished, and the barracks, or cab
; ins, generally have a fireplace or stove,
with fuel supplies. Take it altogether,
it is a pretty rough mode of life, but the
men seem light hearted and contented. I
often wonder if the millionaires who
come on Pullmans to the South in winter,
and go on Pullmans to Saratoga in sum
mer, really get more enjoyment out of
life.
You will find in this army men of all
nationalities, trades, and professions.
Not a few doctors and lawyers have I
seen putting cane on the earner, and not
a few doctors of dentistry using a cold
chisel chipping the huge teeth of a spur
wheel. And all these men have histories.
A man’s name, or the name he gives, is
written on the time book, but it is never
heard among these associates of a mo
ment. The place he comes from or some
personal peculiarity christens him with
the appellation he bears here and proba
bly elsewhere. Frenchy, Dutchy, Pad
dy, Scotty, and New* York, Chicago, and
Frisco are common nicknames, or if he is
small Shorty it is, and an auburn tinge is
sure to give the name of Reddy.
Now* and then I hear some interesting
incidents from the lives of these wander
ers. A foreman I now have told me of
how near he was to getting into trouble
last summer in Sedalia, Missouri. He
reached there in the morning and took a
room at the Atlantic Hotel, and a few
minutes later a stranger wa* given a bed
in the same room. Mr. M said his
f roommate seemed to be a taciturn kind
of a fellow, but otherwise noticed noth
ing peculiar about him. After dinner he
; wished to see a friend off on the train
and hastened to the depot. The train
was a little late, and before it came in a
policeman ajipeared and arrested Mr.
; M for murder. Though conscious
of innocence, a stranger iu a strange land
he could at best but feel uneasy. He
was taken to his room, and on one of the
beds lay his roommate in a pool of blood
—dead! M hen the coroner arrived the
'lead man, who was lying face down
ward, was turned over, and the examina
tion commenced. It seems that an hour
before that the man had been seen to
i take a hatchet from near the well in the
yard up to his room. It was evident that
he had tried with a dull pocket knife,
which was found by his side, to cut the
arteries of his wrist and then to cut his
throat. He had also stuffed a silk hand
kerchief as far down his throat as possi
ble. and then had wounded his head by
self-inflicted blows with the hatchet.
i The coroner found that none of the
ghastly wounds was fatal, but that
death was caused by the stoppage of the
air channel with the handkerchief. A
verdict of suicide, of course, released
Mr. M from his close shave.
Too Staid.
Farmer Sparrowgrass: “Say, Mariah,
t I ain t goin to have Jim Lawson nosin’
around here no more. Are vou listen
in’?”
Mariah: “Why, paw, I thought you
said always he was such a good young
man—so staid in his habits.”
Fanner Sparrowgrass: "Well, that’s
1 just the trouble with him. He’s staved
| up here half the winter nights burning
my coal an ile an’ I’m goin’ to kick
He’s too stayed fur me; are vou listen
in’!”—Rambler.
THE FAMILY PHYSH IAX.
Belt For • Npraln.
Prof. Brinton says that the best thin,
for a sprain is to put the limb into a v
sei of very hot water immediately, th.a
add boiling water as it can be bort.
Keep the part immersed for twenty min
utes, or until the pain subsides; then
apply a tight bandage and order rest
Sometimes the joint can be used j 8
twelve hours. If necessary, use a silicuta
of sodium dressing.
A Simple Rtnirdy.
Lard as an application for bruises i>
considered indispensable at our house. If
put on as soon as possible it will usualh
remove all soreness and prevent discolor,
ation that follows such a hurt. If th e
bruise is severe it muy not cure it en.
tirely, but will help it in any case.
blow on the face followed by a black
and blue spot is especially annoying, b ut
unless so near the eyes as to settle black
under them, lard will prevent such dis.
coloration. Try it when next you an «
unfortunate as to get a bruise.
Coffee and Indite at ton.
Observing physicians learned long am
that coffee is a hindrance to digestion*
but scientific evidence was needed, and
so M. Lavid, according to La Mahhn
Practician, has been making experiment
on dogs to determine the exact fact with
the following results:
“To a dog which has eaten 210
grammes of meat he administered 30
grammes of coffee and 15 grammes d
water. After three hours he killed the
dog, and found the mucous membrane of
the stomach pale, discolored, and pe
foundly ansemic. The vessels of the in
ternal superficies, like those of the peri
phery, were contracted; 145 grammes d
the meat remained undigested; the coffee
then had retarded the stomach digest
ion.”
If coffee will thus delay the digestion
of a dog, notably strong, especially in
the digestion of meat, who will attempt
to dispute that it must be equally injur
ious to human stomachs? It is a well
recognized fact that dyspeptic* are ei
ceedingly common in all countries where
tea and coffee are frequently used, as in
this country, England and Holland. X»
dog of common sense would continue
the use of the fragrant beverage after be
coming aware of the above fact; but how
many tea and coffee topers will exercise
as much sound judgment in reference to
the matter as the average canine?— Qjd
Health.
The Bright Side.
There was never a night so dark tbit
some would not speak of the dawn, and
never a day so bright that some wouli
not think of the midnight. It is well
that the enthusiast be balanced by the
conservative, perhaps, on the principle
that a little shade improves the tone of
almost any picture. It is, however, I
thankless mission that the grumbler en
ters upon, and his is a work that shadou
his own mind and heart more than thil
of any other. Most of us see enough of
the hard side of life, hear enough of the
woe arid weariness, adversity and ani
mosity, disappointment and disaster ij
life, without being formally reminded
thereof. The newspaper finds
readers when it announces a ship’s wreck
than when it chronicles a launch. Iu
column of obituaries is more sought ta
than its wedding announcements. A
firm’s failure is read by a hundred per
sons to one who would read of an "open
ing”; and a man who steals SIOOO it*
ceives more newspaper notoriety that 1
thousand men who should deposi: sloo.*
000 each. It is the natural elasticity d
the mind and heart that keeps the aw
age man hopeful while the sad and evi
things of life are running before his eye
or are lieing poured into his ears. Then
should be a systematic effort on the ptf
of all people to see the bright side, speai
of the hopeful things. When a majohu
of business men talk the dark side#
finance there is a panic; when a majentj
of laboring men see the dark side of 1“
there is a Nihilistic tendency. There >
too much danger in every direction ft
any encouragement of the already W
active tendency to see the evil in bus
ness and society. Let us see the brigh
side and call other people's attention* 1
it.— Boston Traveler.
Cremation in Germany.
It has taken the Germans rather long*
make up their minds as to cremation ;h**
at present they are beginning to tiiink *
riously about it, and if they adhere*
their favorite motto of “Slow and sure,
we may in some future day see the I*?*
crematorium chimney nse in
churchyard of the empire. That ft
number of those who have decided*
favor of the movement is greatly ine~*
ing was recently shown when a petit;
the introduction of cremation, cieitau*
23,365 signatures, was laid before ft
Reichstag. The following intereoft
details about the professions of the <
scribers shows in what quarters crer.:***-'
finds most favor. The list wa* signed’
1.942 physicians, 1.046 lawyers and P* 1
fessors, 849 schoolmasters, 1,015 Go r
ment officials, 10 Protestant clergy® 11
rabbis, 361 women, and 6,000 workifl
men. the remaining number being c
up by merchants, manufacturer-, trs®
men, and others.— Pall Mall OasetU.