The Duties o( I'arenU.
Wc should so live t!iat when the Mitn
mons comes to tin a parent It will find
us prepared. Like n thiol In the night
Man hour w lion we think, not, 1 kc a thun
deTbolt from a clear sky, the call may
come to ns. Let the n ght-lanip, there
fore, Ihj trimmed and burning, and the
alum when ve ran lav hold i n it at
anv time. H it, above all, we should
mako ourselves conversant with those
little parliamentary nilos whjph must
govern the coDdtict of the parent in bis
or her social contact with Die child. A
lew suggestions upon what constitutes
and shown good breeding in wis urr.ncn
M I ITI . 1.!.. -I
oi society, rcauuy illuming auu rui
trasting the cultivated parent and dis
tiniruishing him or her from the vulgar,
the snide, the plebeian, ths canailles (as
we say In nance), me James i row ami
the sans culottes parent, might not be
ill-timed or inopportune
In wipinir a child's nose be extremely
eareful to leave the nose. Some parents
use so much unnecessary strength, tn
dolnff this that they tind when it is
too late that they have wiped the nose
of a pet child into space. Nothing
gives more need leu pain. Nothing can
be more pitilul tuau the child s iirst
i.i- f .t ,i;.um..intmnnt u-i...n
he starts to wipe hi nose and discovers
...... ' .
that it is gone, Pause, fund parent.
while tbe wipe is in its incipieney, and
resolve that you will spare his nose. It
can be of no use to you, and the loss of
It will be a constant source of annoyance
to the child,
Teach vour ch Id the t entity of frank
nrss and o"n candor toward all. Im
press npon him the beauty of be'ng
what you appear to I e, and hate de
ception everywhere. It vou will fondle
him and dote on, h m in society and
jerk bim laldheaded in tho seclusion of
the home circle, ho will readily under
stand what you
mean, t lnldien soon
learn that if you hug their 1 ttle gl.- entirely cheeked, and no sound is pro
ards flat while visitors are aho.it, and dinted. But if you bold your mouth
then, when the home life is agalu ie- wide open while you sleep, so that the
snined, you throw them down cellar
and wear out a taMe leg on their ehui,
by limbs, that life is leal, life is earliest,
and the square-toed, open, frank policy
Is not geno ally in use.
Patents should Impress upon tho r
children the beauty of sidf-sacrillce and
self-abnegation, if'they know what that
is; I dou t If there should be but one
piece of pie, give it to "poor sick
papa." it may kill him, and alter the
luneral your y ning life will be one pro
longed hallelu ah and rose-t uted
whoop'emup'lua ane,
Parent should not be (ostanlly sus
pie ous of their children. I his will in
evitably breed hypociisy and iinrellabll
ity. ' If you fear that vour sou is play
Ing pln-)ool, do not break down your
constitution and bring on delirium
tr,.tn,i. h.nx.o.rnnn,! Ih. .wiUMil...
watch ng all night for him. He will
look upon you w.th distrust, and no
doubt at last tell yoit to go and soak
yojir lead
Do not constantly tell your boy "how
tall" ho Is that ho "grows like a
weed" and finally make him think he
is a giraffe. If you keep it up you will
finally mako a round-shouldered, awk
ward, bashful bean-pole out of a mighty
good-looking boy. it every tali Doy in
mis country will agreo to lick every
woodon-hcadod man who tells him
"how be does grow," I will agree to
hold the coat of said tall boy. 1 am
now dealing with a subject on which 1
hapnen to be Informed. The same rule
applies to girls as well. If you want to
mako your daughter fall over the piano
and yearn to climb a tree whenever she
sees anyone coruo toward tho house,
tell her "what a great swalloplng torn
boy she is getting to be." In this way,
ii parents act judiciously tnd tn con
cert, we can soon have a nation of
young men and women whose manners
and carriage will be aa beautiful and as
symmetrical as tho plaster cast of a
wro too---4Ktt AV, in Denver Opinion,
Uucrr alnty of tbe Lw.
llore is another instance of the glorl-
eus uncertainty oi the law, I he rase
r.f tho father who caught diphtheria
from sucking a tube to draw out t'je
"dipbtberiau matter" in his child's
throat and brought an action agalu t
the doctors in consequence, has already
been twice tried the first trial ending
in a disagreement, mo second in a ver
dict for the doctors. A divisional court,
yesterday, ordered a third trial, which.
Just to complete the Illness of the thing,
will no doult end in a verdict for the
father. We will refrain, however, from
pre ml icing the legal aspect of the case,
and win content ourselves with po ut
Ing out that a very interesting question
of ethics was involved in the argumeut
yesterday. Lord Colerldgo had assumed
that the paternal instinct would have
niauo the lamer suck the tube in any
case, and did not ihiuK. tncrerpre, that
his not having been warned of tho dan
ger made any difference. But the
judges decided yesterday that the fath
er ought to have been told of tho dan
ger and thus to bavo "had tho alterna
tive presented to hint whether be would
suck the tube or not." And this is
clearly tho vlow that most schools of
ethics would take of the matter, for
whore was the virtue of the sclf-saori-
nee oi it was not d, dated tv tbe rev
on? Vail Mall Vazette.
! " A Japanese Monument,
The growth of modern liters in Japan
has been Bigniflcautly indicated of late
la the erection by a Japanese land-owner
of an imposing monument to C. D.
lUchardson, an Knglishuiau, who died
In 18&1 during the fierce struggle
again? t tbe outside Nations. Mr. Rich
ardson was backed to death by tbe
guards of a Japanese nobleman, and
Lis companions were cruelly maltreat
ed. The affair was one of the causes
of the bombardment of Kagosheemaby a
British squadron. In which 1.6(H) Japan
ese were killed and wounded and tt,000.
(KXj worth of property was destroyed.
Then indirectly also the murder led to
aha suppression or feudalism In Japan
through the agitation which followed,
and th- monument now set op Is ap
parently a recognition of that reform
as much as of the man whom It honors.
It Is placed on a mound on the spot
where ha fell, and Is Inscribed with
verses recording bis virtuos, and pray
ing "that the thoughts of tbe blessing
bo brought us may gladden his heart La
the lana of thehades." Chiaiyt Jrib-vne.
Easy Lesson In Science.
When you lie down to bleep you have
vour choice or doing either one or two
thing vou tan sleep like a Christian or
a liend; Liit you can l do both. In the
case of a Christian the act of breathing
is sin)pl; the atr passes to and rro be
tween the lungs and the limitless ex-
pan so of the universe through the chan
pels of the none. There is anotlier
channel through the mouth, which com
municates with the lungs, mid thoso two
channels unite hi a little cavity just be
low the Velum pendulum ralati. or. as
the doctors sometimes call it, the soft
palate, which is attached by one end to
the bone covering tlieroor or the mouth,
This bone is bounded in front and at tlie
sides by the alvelar arches ami the
gums; behind it is continuous with the
soft palate, or, as it is commonly called.
the Velum pendulum palati. This roof
of the mouth, which is covered by
dense structure formed by tho perios
teum and mucus membrane of the
moutb, is sometimes called the bard
palate. Well, now, one end of the soft
palate if I may be allowed to use tbe
professional name is fast to tbe bard
palate. The other end dungs out in
infinite space, like the leg of an old lady
b,:kinK 0,,t ' aerriage. wildly feeling
fop 1 1 in rrrtiinl U'if n nna ftit 1 Ii m
for the ground with one foot. This
loose end of the soft palate is lightly
and easily moved hy the air as your
mortal breath breezes rtsoir along the
avenue to and from the lungs. The
lungs, mv dear child, are your breath
ing things your bellows, to speak pro-
icsslonally, like rrot. Millivan, the
great slugger.
Now, when a sleeping Christian
breathes, he breathes through his nose
alone. When the air passes through
the nose it gently presses tho swaviug
end or the palate down upou the tongue,
The vibration is greatly impeded, if not
two currents of air pass in and out
through the nose and the mouth, the
soft pHlate is right in the path of a
respiratory cyclone, it is thrown into a
state of violent vibratory commotion, it
Imps and Uutters about like a robe de
nun on me ciouiesune on a raw ana
gusty day in March, and you snore like
a policeman. According to the rapidity
I or slowness of the vibrations, t lie snore is
sunn ana sonorous or proioiimtry deep
and guttural, (hi, II you snore, or
think you do, vou know now how you
can easily prevent it. Tut a base ball
in your mouth when you lie down; or
you can sit up all night and keep awake;
or you can fasten your mouth shut with
screws and thongs of leather; or, vou
may sleep out on the pathless prairie,
far from any human habitation, and no
0110 Will CBrO HOW IUUCU VOU Snore.
whl caro how much
Ihe Talking Dog.
It was a Market struct restaurant. A
solemn man entered, followed by bis
dog, seated himself and askod for the
bill of fare. It was given bim.
The dog meanwhile had climbed uoon
tho chair on the other side of the table,
and was travel v rei'ardinir his master.
"wen, said the solemn man, reflect
... ..'. o . -- - ------
ively, "gimme two fried eggs, turned
over."
"Gimmo the same," said the dog.
The waiter gazed at the doer with
amazement mingled with horror. The
solemn man continued:
"Then I gness you can give mo a sir
loin steak, very rare, with fried pota
toes." "(jiinme the Name," said the dog.
Tbe waiter's face assumed tho color
of cold boiled veal.
"Cup o' coffee, plenty o' milk," went
on tho solemn man.
"(iimmo tho sanie," said tlie dog.
The waiter shuddered, and turnin?.
fled for tho kitchen.
A man with a squint, at an adjoining
table, was much interested in the scene.
Ho had observed it closely, nud linally
spoke to the solemn man:
"It must a been a learlul lot o work
to learn that dog to talk, mister,"
"It was," said tho solemn man.
"I should smile," said the dog.
"What 'ud yon take for him now,"
said tho man with a squint.
'Wouldn't sell him," said the solemn
man.
"You'd better no!," said tho dog.
"Tho man with a squint was much
Impressed. Ho began making wild
offers, and when lie reached a thousand
dollars, tho solemn man relented.
Well," said he, 1 can't refuse that
I li.rtu to part with him, but vou can
have him."
"He'll be sorry for It," said tho dog.
The man with a squint drew a check
for the amount, which ho gave to tbe
solemn man. The latter was about
leaving when the dog cried again:
"Never mind-111 get even. Til
nevor speak again "
llo never did.
The gentleman with a squint was tho
proprietor of a dlmo and freak museum
on Market street.
Tho solemn man was a ventrilomiial
croon. nun rrancuco Argonaut,
Vltroroui SetMi Corn.
It has boon noticed by every farmer
that corn when planted exhlbiu all de
grees of vigor in growth, ewn upon
soil that cannot possibly bo unlike in
fertility. -It has bocn suggested that
such vigor is attributable to seed itself,
and that if certain precautions are tak
en, seed ot uniform vigor may be more
closely approximated to size, or weight
will not etermine this, but it might be
possible to call in the aid of specific
gravity, and thus discriminate between
iigm ana uense seed, ii seed or any
aina is put in brine it win be round that
a greater or less quantity will not sink,
but remain floatW uion tho surface.
while the other will sink to tbe bottom ;
and it Is from these last that tbe most
vigorous plants must come. It is a
most Important thing in successful crop
growing to have seed of uniform grow
ing, and tbe great loss In grain produc
tion results from this very cause. With
improved machlnory, rotation of cros,
better understood methods of fertiliza
tion and cultivation, if a way of obtain
ing more uniformly vigorous seed could
be chanced npon, it is not beyond the
bounds of reason to suppose that better
crops can be raised in the Uunited
States than In Egypt and India with tbe
rude, barbario ways and implements of
the centuries.- i'Uttland UrniM.
rtRSOSlL AND LITERARY.
Henry ward ueocber can t save
anything out of an Income of nearly
511X1,000 a year. a. r. aun.
,- Kx-United States Senator Davis, of
est Virginia, nsod to be a brakemau
on ihe railroad which he now nearly
owns.
- -The coincidence is noted that Mr.
Blaino was born in Brownsville, l'a.,
and Mr. Logan in Brownsville, 111.
Chinugo Herald.
(ieorge Augustus Sal a, in his jour
nalistic career or thirty-live years,
claims to have written over 7,000
"newspaper essays.'
A twelve-year-old school-girl was
lately married to an eigbty-year-old
physician, at Boykin, S. C, wita her
parents' consent. St. Louin Post.
Most of the Japanese newspapers
are modeled alter the r.ngiish journals,
but one of them reads from the bottom
of the column npward.
Airs, ureeiy, tne wiie or tho ex
plorer, is only twenty-eight, is a small
brunette of most pleasing, though now
somcvhnt careworn, features. Chiaujo
Journal.
A large library devoted exclusively
to newspapers is to be established by
the authorities of tho city of Vienna.
This, it Is said, will be tbe only institu
tion of the kind In the world.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
American, writing from Long Branch,
says that Ueneral urant will soon
write, from a strictly impartial .stand
point, an account of General Lee's sur
render at Appomattox. ' '
When grieving over the nomlier of
books that are published, It win be
satisfaction to relied upon those that
are not. A single publishing bouse re
ports the rejection during the past
month or one hundred and liny manu
script works of fiction.
Harvey Wakehchl, who died re
cently in Oolchrook, Conn., at tho age
of eighty-two, had a passion lor saving
all sorts of articles that people general
ly threw away. In bis barn ii a huge
pile of newspapers, and It is said that
every newspaper be bad received in six'
tv years lies in that heap. Hartford
1'Oit.
In the year lC04tho second edition
of "Hamlet" was printod, and proba
bly revised by its author. In the same
year a laud suit was begun at Wetzlar,
near Cobleutt. This lawsuit is still go
ing on, and the Duke of Brunswick is
defendant. I'erhaps Shakeseare had
the spirit of prophecy when he wrote
the words. "The law's delay." This
is the best instance of it on record.
Mi's, ( usier, the widow of Cenoral
Custer, is at the Ocean Hoi se, Swamp-
seott, accompanied by her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Calhone. Hy a singular, as well
as sad coincidence, both these Indies
lost their hiisbnmls iu the same battle
With the ludians ou the Yellowstone,
and it is said that both received the
news of their widowhood the same day
aud hour. Mrs. Custor rarely refers to
nor dreadrul sorrow, and lives under It
patiently aud meekly. .V. T: Herald.
HUMOROUS.
' I could but love thee when I saw
thy 'ace," writes Lilla Cushman. We
thought you aetod rathor quncrly, Lilla.
That is w hy we ran. I'fiiliuU-lplria Call,
-Several young girls have been ap
pointed station agents ' iu Minnesota,
nud enginoers are keeping a sharp look
out for miss-placed switches. St Paul
Ueraia.
A cook and hou eninid.had a little
dilllculty in the kitchen tho other day,
aud presently matters became so quiet
that you could hear a rolling-pin drop.
imcaao inoune.
The girl who succeeds in forcing a
young man to spend his last cent in
treating her to ice-cream renders her
self liable to arrest for robbing the
male. Philadelphia Chronicle.
Mabel's mother saw the little girl
running from chair to tablo and f om
table to bureau and all around, looking
wish both eves for something. "What's
the matter, 'Mabel?" "Why, I've lost
my fink and can't remember where I
put my tlmble "
At the Rink.
the went to the rnllnrokatttig' rink.
And put the sliders on;
A strap or two aliom hr shoo.
And then she's off snd (roiio.
She slid, she slode, slip gild, be glixte,
Uutiold by fear or fetter,
Hut it iHst tho s-entlo maid was "throwed,
And Ihe roller-skate i:iset her.
Exchange. '
"No." said Mrs. Brinvto an iuouir-
ing stranger, "we don't have malaria
ero, I admit, but it's the best boaixlinir'
house on the bay shore, and m v daughter
bally makes lemon pies that can t be
beat 'rouud these parts.' When the
visitor had gone, Mrs, Briny said to her
uniigiitcr; --non, oano, i guess we ii
nave to lay in a stock ot that maiary,
for all of 'em as comes hero keep askin'
u wo ve got it.- uoaien Vay.
"Yea," said the young man to the
lecture committee, " I want to deliver
a temperance lecture iu vour town
"You don't look likes man who has
bad exporiouce in drinking," remarked
tho chairman, suspiciously. "Have you
everboen a drunkardP" I lectured
all through the South last winter, and
in Florida, where I saw a swamp-snake
fifty feet long. I' ' ' Pardon my curi
osity, sir," interrupted the chairman,
hastily; "when do you want tbe ball?"
Uraphic.
The wayfarer who is obliged to
fake "pot-luck" at all sorts of eating
housos is not the happiost of morta a.
There is something wrong with tho fare
usually, and when tbe beef is not over
done it is apt to be underdone. A steak,
placed before such a traveler at, a hotel
one day last month.was so "rare" as to
be actually raw. "Waiter?" said the
guest. "Yes, sah!" "Waller, take
this beef out, please, and kill It." Tho
poor waiter crawled into a napkin-rimj
aud disappeared.
A Finished Education.
Mrs. De Jones Your sou is in Can
ada. 1 believe.
Mrs. Von Brown Yes. the dear bov
preieried the climate, llo has more
time to study too.
Mrs. Do Jones lie is very finely od-
ncated. I understand. Strange he'evcr
went into a bank. Did hu ever ro
through college?
Mr. Von Brown-No. Do went
Uiro;;gh the bank. The O'niMic.
J
rroof of Death.
If most peoplo are afraid of anything
it is of being buried alive. That cases
do happen where it is very difficult even
tor the experienced physician to uo
termine whether a person is really or
but apparently dead without bis having
recourse to means while they would at
once settle tbe dispute, would place
life it it really still existed in jeopardy,
may be judged from tbe fact that the
rrencb Academy some ten orntteen
years ago offered a prize of 40,000
francs for the discovery of some means
by which even the inexperienced may
at once determine whether in a given
case death had ensued or not A phy
sician obtained tne prize, lie baa dis
covered tbe following well-known pbe
nomenon: If the hand of tbe suspect
ed person is held toward the candle or
other artificial light, wit h the nngers
stretched, and one touching the other,
and one looks through tbe spaces be
tween tbo Gngers toward the light
there appears a scarlet red eolor where
tbe fingers touch each other, due to the
still eirculating fluid blood, as it shows
itself ' through the transparent,
not yet congostod tissues; but when life
is extinct this phenomenon at once
ceases. The most extensive and tlior
ougb trials established the truth of this
observation, and the prize was awarded
to its discoverer.
When electricity, or rather its appli
cation in medic. ne, came in vogue, it
was first thought that it would be
means or deciding whether a person
was dead or not. J'his assumption was
based upon the lact of electro-muscular
contraction.. Hut experience soon
proved that for ono to throe hours after
death has taken place, and in some
cases where rigidity but slowly ensues
for a still longer period, the muscles! of
a dead indiviilii il respond as well to the
electric stimulus as those of the living
being.
Dr. Mix Huch now publishes fn the
Central, 1. Aeu mlilkd., A iil, amodih
cation of the above, and what promises
to be a reliable and scientifiu proof of
death, for thus lar no scientific te&t ex
isled.
W bile in the living the temperature
of the surface over a muscle iu the act
of or immediately after contraction de
cidedly increased, this increase is utter
ly wanting in the dead, and even dur
ing tbe time (one-half to throe hours) in
which alter death tbo muscle still re
tains its contractility. Having placed,
therefore, a surface thermometer on tbe
skin, and having waited until the tem
perature has continued at one and the
same height for about five minutes, the
muscle just below tho bulb of the ther
momoter is made to contract by elec
tric irritation. If, then, tho column of
mercury does not rapidly ascend we have
the most definite and tbe scientific
proof that life is extinct in the body;
while if tbo temperature increases it is
Just as certain that there is still life.
Jndor normal condition the skin for a
considerable distance increases by sev
eral degrees in temperature if in the
muscle below is caused a powerful elec
trical contraction; and this phenome
non is also observed in paralyzed limbs;
while in the doad nerves tho produ.-tion
of heat, as induced by motion, has for
ever ceased.
The method, it is true, has not vet
been tested in the cataleptic case re
sembling death; but it is to be supposod
that as long as there is the faintest
trace of circulation so long will in
creased activity in any part of the body
produce a corresponding increase of
neat. Apropos, this observation leads
us to another interesting fact It is
well-known that all over in nature
rapid motion calls forth heat, and this
is tho more apparent the more friction
attends to motion. Two stones or two
metals rubbed together will soon induce
warmth, and the Indians are said to be
able to start nre by tho violent fric
tion of . two pieces of wood with each
other. It is said that no law of nature
knows an exception, as no amount of
motion or friction will elicit tbe least
warmth in the decomposing tissue. But
that some mysterious process of heat
regulation is still active within the dead
tody may be seen Irora the fnct that, no
matter what the temperature of tbe
surrounding atmosphere, tho surface of
the body will go on decreasing its. own
temperature until the state of rigidity
is emiea and active decomposition com
mences. Akdic d and Surgical lie
porter. Milk Diet.
Milk should enter largely into the
diet of children. It contains case no,
or flesh-forming material, cream and
sugar, wnicn are neat producers; nun
eral salts, for the bony structure; and
water as a solvent for all the other ma
terinls necessary in nutrition. It should
be used with discretion, however; not
drunk immoderately, but taken slowly
as food, after the pattern given by
nature. Milk as taken is a imid, but
as soon as it meets the acid of tho gas
trio juice, it is changed to a soft curdy,
chccse-iiKo substance, and t'.en must
be digested, Ana the stomach is over
tasked if too much be taken at once.
A large glass of milk swallowed sud
denly will form in the stomach a lump
oi uense, cneesy euro, wnicn may oven
prove fatal to a weak stomach. Under
tbe action of the stomach this cheesy
mass win turn over ana over like a
heavy weight, and, as tho gastrio juice
can only attack its surface, it digests
very slowly. But this same milk, taken
slowly, or with dry toast, light rolls, or
soft, dry porridge, forms a porous lump
through which tbe gastrio juice can
easily pass, and which breaks up every
tirao tho stomach turns it oyer. Milk
sj-.ould be slightly salted, and eaten
with breadstutls or sipped by tho spoon
ful. Cow's milk produces less heat
than human milk; a child would .grow
thin upon it unless a little sugar were
aildoJ. Wheat flour has such un ex
ess of heat-producing material as
would fatten a child unduly, and should
have cow's milk added to it to reduce
its fattening power. Philadelphia Call
In Alabama is a China tree ten
feet in circnmfcrence. Its top was torn
away by a storm; bnt six feet tip the
trunk two more trees have taken root
an I grown up as high as the old tree is.
Holt way np the trunk of the original
treo a peach tree stands oat"
An observer says most of the
centenarians in America are from Ire
land, though there arc many amon? the
colored people.
A Case of Like Cares Like.
An old bachelor friend of mine who
lives up town has had a dreadful expe
rience lately.
"Keruark these sunken eyes," said he
wi'.h a wan smile, "see this wasted vis
age, that flattened check, and this
pinched nose. It's all on account of
neighbor who has got into the habit of
giving summor-nlght parties. But I've
cured her, I reckon," and he chuckled
savagely.
"Summer-night parties?" I echoed,
Interrogatively.
"Yes; Mrs. Blank, who lives next
door to mine, is a votary of fashion in
a small way. But as her husband isn't
wealthy enough to send her to Saratoga,
she conceived the idea of making
things lively in town for a whilo by gc
ting up ice-cream evening parties. Ice
cream, as everybody knows, means
girls, and girls mean flirtation and mu
sic, and pandemonium generally. The
racket began some three weeks ago. I
smoke a pipe and read or chat till bed'
time. andVeiierallvFo to sleep bv 10:110,
Well, sir, just as 1 would be off in tho
first blissful doze, tliere would come a
tremendous racket. All of a sudden,
bang! bang! would go the cheap hired
piano, and some wretch who makes be
lieve to sing tenor, or possibly a fiend
in a clawhammer coat who professes to
sing bass, but only succeeds in emit
ting a hideous series of grunts and
rears, would begin the circus. Tho
windows being open, every one on the
block was treated to the infliction of a
free concert In one short week I heard
the score of a dozen prime operas mur
dered, a raft of solos torn to shreds,
and Heaven knows bow many anas
from the best composers rendered in
way that would make angels weep. I
lost mv sleep on an average of three
nights a week."
"Not much. I went to Mr. Blank
and told him that unless he called his
wife oh I was a dead man. Ho laughed
at me; then he swore and then he
ordered me out I told him I would
get square and I did,"
"How?"
"I went down town the next morn
ing and bought ot a dog fancier a
canine that wus warranted to howl
enough to turn the edge of a razor. Oh,
be was a beauty! I lis teeth were set
back as far as his ears, and when he lay
back, set up his snout and howled, you
could hear him to Harlem. I chaiut-d
bim in tbe back yard, and that night
there was a concert. Ho took his feed
quietly, and I thought he was really
going to sleep, but he was only saving
uimself for a good timo later on. About
10:15, sure enough; Lang! bang!
pumpettv! whack! thump! squirr! rick
ety! rack! br r r rip! went the
piano, and out on the night floated the
strains of a wheezy soprauo in
Rome day a some day a
Some day I a shall a meet you,
when my dog caught on. He thought
it was a duct, and he did bis part of tbe
business right up to the bundle. Every
time tbe singer caught breath that
dog gave a series of yelps and howls
that made tbe windows rattlo and my
soles tingle. He really spoiled tbe
effect of the song, I think, for a moment
later tbe music stopped and -somebody
Hung a boot, or something that scunded
dke it, into my back-yard. But that
made him howl the louder. He got
well Into the kennel and lay down with
lis head a little on ono side, nice and
jasy like, snd there he bowled so lusti
y that I felt 1 had got him cheap at the
money.
"VV ell, lie kept it up for three nights.
Then old man Blank came round to my
bouse and said he guessed there
wouldn't be any more parties this sura-,
ntcr as his wife had concluded to go to
hu country for a spell, and if I would
call off my dog he would call off Mrs.
iilauk. So we called it square and now
I get my night's rest. But another
week of it would baye made a total
wreck of every soul in tho block." Ar.
r. Star.
Stealing Eagles.
A farmer named Beter Gow, in Dun
wich, is in possession of several young
eagles, whose eyrie is in a tall treo on
his farm. Several boys in Dutton have
oada hankering for these eagles for some
time, but Mr. Gow said no would not
part with them at any price. The boys
were determined that he should, and
one uight this week they appeared at
the foot of tho tree with pikes attached
to their legs, after tho mode of the tele
graph erectors, and a stout strap to
uuckle around tho . tree to assist in
climbing. The boldest boy in the
crowd climbed the tree, and when about
sixty feet from the ground, just under
the eagle's nest, his strap dropped and
lodged where It could not bo got Ho
was in a predicament. He could not
get down without assistance, which the
boys could not give. Various plans
were suggested, but to no purpose. So
towards morning, when tho boy in the
tree got tired of hanging on "and was
abont to drop, they went to Mr. Gow's
house and besought him to come out
with a rope and help save the life of tho
youngster in the tree. . Tho old gentle
man forgot the iniquity of their act and
ran to the barn, took the rope out of
his hay-fork and went to tho tree at a
two-forty gait The question was:
How to get the rope up to the boy?
After considerable cogitation the lad
up In the tree was seen tearing
his shirt, and the problem was solved.
The shirt not being sufficient his pants
were next made into strips and tied to
gether. They reached the ground; the
roe was attached to it and drawn up,
and down came tbe lad from his preca
rious position as naked as when ho was
born. Mr. Gow provided tho youngster
with a pair of pants and ahorse blanket
to keep the musquitoes from eating bim
up on the way home through tho
swamp. These boys think stealing
eagles a poor spec. Toronto News.
She looked just a bit anxious as she
apeared on the wharf at tho foot of
Woodward avenue yesterday and asked:
"Anybody jumped in hero to day?"
"No, ma'am." "Will you please do,
me a favor?" "Yes'm." "Mv husband
has threatened to drown himself, and I
don't want him to. I can't stay here
and watch because I'm going on an ex
cursion. In case ho comes won't vou
please discourage him. He's verv c'asv
discouraged, and I can go on my trip
and feel like enjoying myself." The
man promised, anu she went awav in the
.kM of spirits. Detroit Pre Prrst.
Medern Samaria.
The modern village is very insignia,
cant Josephns says that it reoehred
its name of Sebastia from Ilerod. k
honor of Augustus. Tbe city has bee
sa :ked and plundered times without
number. Upon it extreme summit
Ahab had Its famous ivory palace, and
this acropolis constituted the capital of
tho ten tribes, until they were carried
captive into Assyria. The modern re
mains, which are the finest I have seen
tn the Holy Land outside of Jerusalem
ouly date back nominally to tbe time
of Horod, of course, but ft is doubtless
true that Horod employed mnch of th
material of former ages in creatine hW
splendid structures; in which event th
debris, represents a pre-Herodian an
tiquity. Against the city for its idolatry
Micah and Uosea launched forth the
invectives of prophecy: "I will niak
Samaria as a heap of the field, and as
plantings of a vineyard; and I
will pour down the stones tberouf
Into the valley, and I j
discover the foundations thereof,"
"Samaria shall become desolate, for
she hath rebelled against ber God; they
shall fall by the sword, their infante
shall be dashed to pieces," etc. There
have been numerous literal fulfillments
of these predictions. ioking dowt
into the valleys as wo rode around the
hill, we frequently discovered broken
columns nnd building rubbish.
We rodo completely around tho hill,
a circuit of about two miles, tracing the
remains of Herod's magnificent colon
nade. There were evidently four rows of
columns clear around the hill, support
ing a porch above. Tbe porch has
vanished, but a great many of the mas
sive columns are still standing. Other
pillars aro broken in two, lie prostrate,
or are utilised in the construction of
stone walls. Wo counted nearly 100,
and Mr. Floyd says that tbe great
majority bavo either been dostroyed.by
tho natives or carted away to Europe
to occupy niches in museums. Tn
level place at tho extreme top of the bJM
was adorned by sixteeu very large col
umns. It was doubtless in the general
inclosure that the great temple of Haal
stood, which was utterly destroyed by
Jehu, after ho had received the heads
of Ahah's seventy suns in baskets at
the gate of .Jezrecl, and mercilessly
slaughtered sll the priests of Baal, as
recorded iu the tenth chapter of the
Second Kings.
It was very near Samaria that Elishi
dwelt when the hordes and chariot f
Naaman, tbe Damascene leper, halted
before the door of his humble home.
Now, as then, leprosy holds carnival is
Damascus, and is regarded as incura
ble as it was by the King of Israel whei
he rent bis clot lies under tho impressloa
that tho audacious Naaman was a tool
of Benhadad's to pick a quarrel with
him. Grasping, penurious Gehazi was
made to inherit tho leprosy of tbe Syr
ian captain, which "should cleave unto
bis seed forever." Perhaps some of the
modern Nablous lepers are tbe inherit
ors of this fearful legacy of Gehaxi.
My impression is that it was dreadfully
stupid of Naaman to put confidence ia
the word of a native like Gehazi.
What terrible agony there must hay
been in Samaria during that memora
ble siege of tbe indefatigable Benbadad.
After having traveled through tbe
Orient it does not seem at all incredi
ble to me (hat the peoplo resorted to
doves' dung for food, until it actually
became a costh' luxury (II Kings vi,
20).
Not only did Kit ah and Elisha work
onders in Samaria, but even tbe Apos
tles wrought miracles and preached
there. The revival which was started
by Philip, who far eclipsod the witcher
ies exercised by Simon the Sorcerer, in
duced the Apostles who had remained
behind in Jerusalem to ro-enforce him
by sending Peter and John thither.
Ihen was tho Holy Ghost given, whiek
Mmon sought to buy with money (the
first impulse of an Oriental when he
thiuks there is no chance of getting a
thing as a free gift). We were shown
the ruins of an interesting cathedral,
known as the Church of St John, ia
which, it is claimed, the beloved dis
ciple met his death. These ruins art
architecturally interesting. Jerusalem
lor. U. nines-Democrat.
' Itch.
This is a well-known disease of Hi
skin, inflamed and irritated, appearing ia
small watery pustules or vesicles, is
which a small insect a species of acari,
is found. It is contracted only by con
tact though it may be developed by
uncleanly habits, by filth of the body,
as the first case must have been. It is
seen between tho lingers especially, and
in places exposed to unusual heat or
friction. It is believed by standard
authors that most of such diseases re
sult from crossness of living; or, as
ono says, "the absence of water, soap,
flesh-brushes, and coarse towels, and
by the use of fried pork, salt ham.
sausages, old cheese, fried cakes, cooked
burnt fats of all kinds; stimulating
drinks, as hard cider, acid wines, and
ardent spiiin."
Of course, while prevention is best "
something may be dono for the removal,
though much nas been done in the past
to drive tho disease in, and actually
poison the system, such as the applica
tion of lead, mercury, arsenic, turpen
tine, oorrosive sublimate, gunpowder
and whisky, gin and salts, white and
red precipitate ointments, etc., etc.,
applied with tho intention of killing
something, whilo the escape of .the
patient is a marvel. ,
Now, it is quite certain that cleanli
ness will do nioro good and less harm
than these violent poisons, such an ap
plication ai soap-euds, thorough wash
ing and correct habits. If ono caa
not wait and work for three or four
days and must do something fashion
able or "scientific," sulphur applied"
e eternally it need not be combinod
with lard, but with glycerine, or even
w ater will effect as much good as the
poisonous irritants, and bo far safer.
A little -a fourth of a tablespoonful
morning and night in water may be
taken at the ame time, using tho ap
suds with great freedom. "Cleanliness
is uct to godliness." And here I may
a Id, never drive any eruption in; never
tiintpt to make the skin smooth bv
any doubtkil applications Dr. J. u.
lUmfunl, in Golden ltule.
A well drained farm is said to im
I'M'.e the health of domestic animal
a I've upon it