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A MOOTED , POINT. Iottira Who Nay That fnin-r An Not ienerllr t'aiueil l7 Hiniikliig. General ("irant'ii condition and the cause to which iho cancer has at tributed luivo occasioned nun.li com roent among smokers of this city. Some of th more t mid one have r.duced their dully allowance of c!eirs, an I othors profess to have no fears of any truublw. A World reporter ycst-rday Interviewed many physicians, aid they all agreed that the danger of cancer from smok ng is tery :gnt milieu. and that in only a small per contact of canes of epithel o niucan the origin bo clearly trace I to the use oi tomtcco. Some physician, in fait. i:iy -hut there Isreallv'no Mich thing an " mokers' raneer," and one young doctor at Bcllo vuo Hospital stopped pulling h o gar e'te long enough to ns-.ure the reporter that 'all thin talk aliout 'p pc-cnn :er' In bluff and gut." Older .urgeons, however, say Mat, wjiilo very rnr. a few cm'4 of smoker's cancer do occur. Dr. Ste; h -n Sin t'l. one of the oldest surgeons at Bellevuo Hospital, sn'd that there were not probably more than a dozen eases a year of ep tholioiua of the lip treated atlhat institution. "And all of these can not be by any meaus attributed to smoking." ho co.itiniiol. "Some of tho pat cuts are women, nnd some of them men who do not smoke. Continued pressure and t-oiisci.u-nt Irritation up m any part of tho skin are apt lo bring on epithelio ma In those predisposed to It- The pressure of the crown-plate of a net of false teeth or the irrltitt on canned by a broken tooth rubbing against the I'p may start the trouble. Where smok ing in responsible for itn occurrence it will bo found that long-.-ontintied pressure of the p pe-nteni upon tho lower lip results In the formation of a fissure or sore spot. It gradually de velop into cancer, often before the sufferer known what the trouble in. One caso came to my not.ee recently iu which the patient d'd not smoke, but wan in the habit of carrying an unlight ?d cigar in hin mouth." "Did the nicotine poison hin blood nd thus produce a eaiieerP" "No; I think it wan due lo the prc.s turo of tho oigir upon the lip nothing more." "What do you think Is tho smokor's best preventive of cancer?" "To let pipe ami cignrn novorely alone in the best plan 1 can suggest" "Do the eaten of cancer of the lip often result fatally r" "No, not if taken in t ine. Rut peo- IiFe genenilly wait tint 1 it 1 too late icforo attending to It. The d 'weaned jmrt i cut out, but tho maladv recurn at Interval of a few months and death frequently renultn after throe or four yearn. Tho most not id cuno which 1 can recall I that of lie. Dr. Budington, the Brooklyn clergyman. You remember, he lingered a long while, and died after a groat deal of Hufleilng and several operation had been performed. I do not think ho wan u smoker. The present alarm about cancer from smoking In over done, rronnure of the cigar or pipe may bo the direotmg cause of cancer, but it will be found that lu the ma jority of cane there In a predlsposi tion to the disoaso In the person at tacked. Tho.se utllieted With cancer of the lip do not always sutler fnun much pain, and I know of quite a number of inntauoea whero there wa compara tively little or no suffering from the ilinei'm.1. Very often, perhaps In the major ty of cases, epithelioma result from the iiegneraion oi mo tissues in cidental 1 1 old age. There seem to l a a genenil d i'ay of tho membrane. You will find that most of those in whom canocr appears' nro above lifty yean old. A World reporter callo I upoa Dr. Bulklcy at the Skin and Cancer Ho. i tal in Thirty-fourth street. In re- Hiioiine to questions lie nil d: "I think the alarm about the d sastrou.s ojnne- queneen of tobacco smoking are much greater than the facts warrant. Cancer of the lower I p in comparatively rare, and can not always be traced to smok- in i. although 'nine cancer Is a mime long ago g.ven to tho disease. The ef fect of modem te smoking on Iho av erage man ure not seen at all. In por tion of average strength I con sider threo cigars a day the num ber they can generally smoke with safety, and the strongest man 1 ever saw could not consume moro than ten a day with Impunity. Ppos generally collect nleot no in the bowl or stem, w hich escape to the mouth, and, com ing in contact w.th tha mucous mem brane, Is apt to get Into the system and cause local cancers on the lips or tip of the tongue. Excessive smoidng of ten brings on what is called 'smoker's pntch.' D oonsist of irregular white patches, which appear ou the des of the tongue and the Ins'deof thechceks. This is of .en, although not always, preliminary to cancer. If a person stops smoking when 'smoker's patch' appears, the trouble soon yields to treatment; If not, cancar will prob ably set in. Hut. as I sa'd. the disoaso rs comparatively rare. Epithelioma of the lips is almost exclusively seen In males. It ha been asserted by several writers that where It ooeur in females it Is found that they smoke. Dr. War ren, of the Massachusetts Ueneral Hos pital, in Boston, reports that In his ex perience of forty years at that Institu tion the whole number of cases of can jer of tho bp were seventy-seven, of which only four were female. Forty four of tha men were smokers, and of the four women three admitted that iey smoked pipes." To what extent does the disease pre vail in this cUvf" "Cancer from smoking Is not very ommon In New York City. I havenut with comparatively few cases. (Juite possibly a dor.cn would cover all that I have encountered in clghten or twenty years practice hero." "Ilovr does It manifest Itself and de velop?" lt commonly comes as a fissure, abrasion or broken surface on the lips, It hardens and relumes to heal, and is covered with a darkish crust, beneath which the surface is mo'st and bleed ing, accompanied by stinging pa n. At'Vv progre?ics. measured by months rather than by years, the sore spot enlarge and t ussive granula tions appear. Commonly a swelling of onu of the gland beneath the jaw oo curs. Almost all applications to such a soro are inelli otivo to heal It, ami of ten only irr.tato it. ('austln appl.ea t ons but In rcase tho growth. In ear ly s'Hges the patient suffers but littjo pa n. Whoa once thn spot become ir r.t itcd the spread of the disease H more ra:.d, and in lis later stages of- t- ii progresses very quickh. If opcr- a ed on early, thorouzhly sna rap illv, however, cancer of ihelp In entirely curnblo. What other risk does flie to'mcco sm ikcrriin?" "As do f. om tlio liabil ty to heart troubl.s. et -.. which the heavy smoker incurs. 1 would nient oil two canes of blood do soiling wheh recently came un ler mv notice. Thev were of a most neroiH natuie, and wL-ro occasioned by tho lips of the persons cmning in contact with c gain that had been male bv wo:kmen tinted w.th the poison. There have bi?en numerous inventions in pipes, cigar- holders, etc.. br night fo ward tor the purpose of keeji ng tlie nicotine away from tin nm iker's mouth. But the trouble with all the e thing s that. while very irood at lirst, th -v soon he com-j wor.-e than useless, , The smoker irets careless and let I he nicotine atvu mulute in the M'in, nun ineme n urops in'o the mouth (f tho smoker. The only .arrangenti'iit wh c!i I have cv r seen w:i:i h cleanses lo')a--co smoke of th s po:o i is atta ned bv pass ng the sinok.; through water, wh ch adies out the lncot no. J hat Is the pla i of the Turkish 'ho ikuli,' but very few Americans 1 ku that style of smoking very long. l)n tho whole, it is safe for a man to smoke uood c eixn in modera t on. carefully avo.d ng dniggod and lixe I up preiarnti()iin ol toiirceo, whether in c jra s or cijiarettcs." Dr. Fordvee liaikjr, of No. 4 Kast Thirtv- ighth street, did n 4 attach much im port a nee ot the connection letwcea ouoking and ciinc-r of the lip nnd tonirue. "1 do not meet more than three or four cases a year in my p ac tice." he added, 'nnd lean not sav that they are dun to pnioking. If the diseased part in cut out thoroughly tho cancer in eradicated and does not usually rctirn."Ar. )'. World. COLD FEET. Tim ru anil Method, of Cure of Tliln I'nploMsnnl Cumpla nt. 'There are many causes, 'a general de rangement and weakness of tho body being among them. As tho action of tho lungs, In breathing, in tho great source of tho heat of the bodv, the 3xygen of the air combining with the arbon of tho food, actually boing burned, ns certainly wood Is In the stove, both nliko produc'tig lien', it In plain that all causes which impede the action of the lungs, junt to that extent. must prevent the necessary warming of the body. 1 need not say, perhaps. that when the blood In not iu a proper oondition. not sullicieutly warm, it will not oirculute with itn usual activ Itv, of course not boing ablo to reach the extremities. In consemicnco of which they must remain cool or cold. When, therefore, the chest In so de formed, so crii pled by corsets, or otherwise, that the lungs can not bo tilled with air, for the purpose of meet- lnsr the blood from the heart so iiurn ing tho Waste m 'tiers of the body as to nroduoe heat, it Is certain thai there will ke less than tho natural prod no t on of heat, tho extremities tirst suffer ing. Such a deformity of the chest will allect tho warmth of the whole Iwdy, while tight and narrow Lands, woru so tightly just below the knee, instead of above, a far Letter place, will more csoeo ally affect the feet. since a proper supply of warm blood from the heart Is not allowed to reach them. Any derangement of tho stom nch, In consequencj of the uso of im tinnier food, any local, internal Irrita- t on, centralizing the blood, any cause which determines it to the head, as care, anx ety, excitement, menial toil "burnin'T the midnight o I, must drive the blood from the surface anil the extrem ties, producing coldnoss of the feet. The oure consists mainly in lmprov the circulation of the blood, which is "the 1 fo." Tho rule to "keep tho feet warm (bv exercise) nnd the head cool" (by templ-ranco and abstemi ousness) is. in tho highest degree, im portant. ' This In effect h( by correct habits of living, by cleanliness, Dy trie tion of tho surface, this being effectu ally done by tho daily use of tho tlesh- bnwi. l.argo nnu weii-umng ooois, tho case and comfort of all of our gar ments, etc., will favor the warmth of the feet and the coolness of the head. beside promoting health In a general wav. in extreme cases, it is well to oa"k to the feet at n'ght In quite warm water, to which a little salt or mustard mav bo added, to stimulate, this to bo followed by a dasli of cold water, w th thorough wiping with a coarse crash, w.th tho use of iho tlesh-brush. In this connection, I will say that those who are accustomed to "toast the feet in the oven" do so at their cost, each time aggravating the difficulty. ' Tho unwiso custom of earn in-' a "hot stono to bed" is noarly related to the former, in its unfavorable effects, since the feet should generally be made to afford their own warmth. This is done by exercise, as In brisk walking, or at night, rubbing tho bottoms brisk ly on a rough mat. walking about the room on the toes and front part of the feet, thus bringing the blood to them, with consequent warmth. Instead of this hot br.ck or stono, the feeble and aged may well have a good and warm flannel blanket bag made, large enough to hold both feet, and long enough to come above the knee, wearing this till the feet ar comfortable. J here Is hothlng artitioial about th's arrange ment, noth ng to increase tlie coldness of the feet -v. JJ. liana ford, in (JoUUn A'miV. What strange creatures we are. to be sure! A sailor soon forgets the ter rors of tha tea. and ships again ere he has been ashore a month; the convict is almost ce tain to return to the pris on from which hs was release! but a short t me back, and the widow will marry the second time if sho gels too chance, and aha Usually gets the chance. "ABOU NAODARA." A Cnmlo rr Printed la th Arabia tan ((!( anil I)lgnril fur CIrouUtloa Throughout th Orient. Few rersons are probably aware that Egypt has itn Punch, or sat'rical news paper, rcpeL-tingwhich I have obtained some curious part culurs. Its name in Arabic is A!oh Saddara, which may be Interpreted ai mean'ng "Tho man with tho blue rpo'Jtacles." The individual thus signified exists In the person of an Italian named Sanua. who 1 ves in 1'aris, where he prints his jour nal in Arabic and Trench for surrepti tious distribution in Kgypt and all oth er countries in which t :e former lan guage is spoken indeed. In Ind.a and any other part of the world where its contents may be of sufficient interest to be translated. The print had a curiously character istic beginning. M. Sanua. who was a teacher of Arable and Italian in the schools of Cairo, wro'.e, in 1870. some simple corned es in Aralc for the ainu cmont of tho poorest elan-s, end old a ned tlie permission of the then Khedive, Ismail Pasha, to cstald'sh a small open a r theater in the gard-ns ofKbck eh. Innocent as tho satires were at first, they t-oon became the means of drawing attention to tho n buses committed by the governing classes, and especially to the oppres sion and extortion pract cei upon the po;r Arabs. Fortune sm led upon the ingen oun playwright, nnd he invested the bulk of h's profits in Im nrov'n his thent-r, hopng there by to fcure a be.ter audi ence than that for which bin comedies were written. Unfortunately for him. the authorit es did not Appreciate what ho was doing for their convenience, or, poss.bly, they obji ctcd to paing for Beats at a theater where their act'ous were somewhat to;i freely d seussed. No doubt the shafts of the wr ter flew home. Tho highly popular place of amusement was sooa closed bv public, authority, and there was an end of tho theatrical speculat on but not by any means of M. Sanua. The stage, humble as it was. had mudo him known to fame, and he was not slow in taking ndvnntage of the flow of the tide. He took the name wh'ch his humble patrons had be stowed upon him, "The Man With the Blue Spectacles." and u-ed it as the title of a weekly journal, which ho im mediately founded, and which was not larger than a sheet of foolscap. It circulation ran up to filtv thousand coon after it was started, revealing the existence of what nrght well have neon doubted to exist namely, public opinion, nnd that ngainst tlie ruler of Kgvpt and his coumelors. . There wa only too great scope for the detector of abuses. The question of the sup pression of the noxious little sheet was brought before the authorities, who, however, nt first dee tied to let It alone. Wiser would it have beeii to cease to regard it as dangerous to publio tran quility, for tho abuses to which Atmi Saddara d rccted attention were too notorious to be denied. Some h ghly olnced ollloinls, however, felt them selves aggrieved, and a decree for tho suppression of the journal was issued after it had been in existence for a twolve-month. Even after the promulgation of the order of suppression, however. M. Sanua exorcised Inn irgcuuity to evade it. start ng no less than six other newspa pers, one after the other1, with fresh titlos. but with a similar object the detect on and bringing to light of abuses in the administration. ; All his ffortn. nevertheless, were vain, and he himself, as well as his journals, was banished from tho land of the Pharaohs. lie then threw h tuself upon the hospi tal ty of France, and Immediately brought out ALon Saddara in a moro v ruleut form. Not only did he attack the m sdoings of olllcials, but he de nounced the then Khedive Ismail and all his works in the most violent terms, making odious compnr sons between him nnd his disinherited brother, the exiled Halm. M. Sanu.i now added po nt to h s nttacks bv nva'ling himself of the French talent for caricature, lie cave pen and ink cartoons of the sub-h-ct-s of his diatribes. These were far behind the brilliant drawings p ibl shed by his London confrere; Lut, being a novelty in Egypt, whither the Journal found its way under cover, they formed an attraction to natives and fore gners alike. It continued to be priuted in both Arabic and French. Altou Saddara st 11 appears, but. In consequence of the bad state jf allairs. Us circulation lias uwinuieti uown 10 t.tHhi. Its contents are eagerly read aloud in many a village of Egypt. Its worst feature, however, nt pit-sent is the extremely hostile tone which it is adopt n; toward. England. The caricatures as well as the let- ter-pres are devoted partly to aielull-worsnip ana parity io ad vocating tlio substitution or iTinee llal.m for the present Khedive, In one numl)cr Achmet Mohammed is de feating General Hicks by sheer force of brave onslaught, while in another Alnm Sa tdara is Introducing to tne Sultan a host of despoiled Egyptians, who tloek to him with their grievance aga'nst their English oppressors, Aga n. Bakri Bey in deplored rising, at a bnn met of the cincl of mo Aiexan- dr a police, to drink a toast to the de liverance of the country on the day when the fore gner shall have disap peared from the land. An unfortu nate group of Brit;sli ollleer. all pos sessing the traditional long whiskers and prominent teeth with which the French caricatur st loves to depict En- El somen, is In the foreground. Poor ordon Is also the object of attack, M. Sanua a organ having prophos.ed long sinco that he would fall a prisoner to the victorious Mahdi. Tho latest number I have seea do- . . f n.cls tnginna as an unioriunaro cuu fonn'cre, with all the plagues cf Egypt in her basket already, stooping to pick up that of the Soudan in add tion. to the amusement ot all the European powers. If the other illustrat ous were as much to the point, the journal would be tolerable. It general tone however, is In the worst taste, the ob- out being to render England r dic.i ous in the eyes of Oriental. M. Sanua states that it has a certain c reu lation in India, where he savs b.s arti cles are translated and larg ly quoted in the native press; out tnis is pro. a bly Idle boasting. London Tinu. METERS. And Now tha Klrrtrle Meter Dliplaj th Kcoentrlrltlos of tha lias Mtrr. It has h'tliorto been supposed that the gas meter is the most vie ous and dishonest p ece of machinery in exist ence. A machine that will swear to the cansumntion of, say. 2.000 feot of tas in a vacant house where no gas whatever has been burned h is no con nc ence ana no sens-) of the itiiicrcuce between right and wrong. Oilr-r ai t -cles employed in the artificial ilium n i ton of bouses have bej-n found tract able and honest. If you have six pounds of candles locked up in our house when you spend a mon h -m the tountry tliey will not burn tli)in 1' s up tlui ing your absence, and o i will find them on the helf whe i you re turn, unless, indeed, mice or IliKsu n burglars have stolen them. So. to . a con of kerosene o 1 does not burn in less it in willfully brought into cuntact with tire, and so long as the kerosene can is left untouched in the closet it will never be guilty of consuming itself for the mere pleasure of exnp. rating its owner. When the electric light was intro duced people naturally supposed that it would prove to be an honest as well as a briil ant light. It was known that cl-jctrio meters would be placed in houses where electricity was to be used, but no one dreamed that tho electrio meter would imitate the pas meters. Peoole gave tip gas and adopted the electric light in its place, remarking to tho gas compnn'es in a scornful tone: "Aha! lihtt! and saying to themselves: "wo shall now be charged only for the amount of light that we actually use." It will thus greatly dismay the eloo-trlcity-consum ng publ c to learn that an electric meter iu use in this city is now charge ! w th having falsely repre sented that 5W.21f worth of. electricity was used during last month in a house from which all the electric lamps had been removed for considerably moro than a month. Tho bill, based uron tlie test niony of this mendacious meter, was, of course, disputed by the tenant to whom it was sent, and tho d spute has brought to light the ap palling fact that electric meters can not be trusted. It would be interesting to know if the particular electric meter which made a false charge of f'J.2!) had ever been associated with n gas meter. If it had spent any time in a cellar in the society of a gas, meter it was quite possiblo that it was corrupted by the vicious influence and degrading exam ple of tho latter. That the gas meter does exert a most demoralizing inllii ence upon those who associate with it is sulliciently proved by the diame ter of the managers of gas companies, not one of whom ever.declines to profit by tho false test mony of meters. Per sons using the electrio l'ght can not be too careful to remove their gas meters from the cellar before introduc ing the electric. The probability' is that the electrio meter is honest when left to itself, but that it is weak and jasily led away by bad companions. If, on the other hand, it should turn out that the electrio meter is as in herently t o ous as the gas meter the slectrio light will become as unpopu lar as gasl'ght, and the public will ourn nothing but o 1 and candles. N. Y. Timed. THE LANGUAGEOF THE FUTURE. Aa Effort to Maka Our Printed Literature Correaponil W.th tha Spoken l anguage. A socioty has been formed in New York to reform tho orthography of the English language. It is complained that our printed literature doesuot cor respond with the spoken language; in other words, it is not, phonetic There iro some forty-two pr.mary sounds iu the English language, but its alphabet contains only twenty-six letters. Some id these are silent in many words, and Dtliers have two, three, and in some sases four different sounds. A perfect phonetic language would have as gnor letter for every sound. The child now spends the better part of its school lite in learning how to spell, and not one educated person in a thousand can give the orthography of every word cor rectly. With a true phonetic alphabet the child could learn to spell as soon as it could distingusii the sounds. Our little ones would then be saved the drudgery of learning how to satisfy the unnatural requirements of a barbarous orthography. But the imped ments in the way of reform are prodigious. We have a printed literature that would at once become obsolete if our alphabet was increased to forty-two letters, each representing a single sound. Then old-fash oned philologists object to any change, because with a reformed ortho graphy the origin and history of words might be lost. Then, if in a hundred years the Engl.sh speaking race in creases to a thousand ru llion, what a world of trouble would be imposed upon myriad of school children woo wil be forced to commit to memory a misleading orthography. There are those who be lieve that the languages of modern Europo are gradually becoming as similated, and w. II tinallv merge into a universal language. We are con stantly incorporating into our spoken tongue useful words from the French, German, ltal an and Spanish vocab ularies, and foreign nations are also assimilating English . words, ludeed. the interm ngllng of languages is far more rapid than is generally suspected. As a matter of fact, we know that the present English language is a composi tion of primary languages as distinct from each other as are the lan guages of the present nations of Eiuoo. The same remark is true of the languages of Spain, France and Uerniany. It Is quite true that philolo gists trace back all the languages of the Aryan raeo to a common origin. When tha members of that raoe were scattered into different parts of the earth a differentiation grew up, and hence the diversity of modern tongues. Telegraph and steam transportation is helping to restore tho unity of tongues of the different Aryan nationalities and it is not an unnatural expectation that eventually tho human race will have one common language. The necessity of telegraphio codes suitable for every nation will help this nni- vcrcaliaing the speech ol mankind. LkmortM XonUuy. CLIMATE AND INTELLECT. Tha Influenra fllinata 11 on Intellect, ami Intellect on Cllmala. A great deal his beeu said about the effect of climate upon Intellect, and not much of tho effect of intel'eat upon cli mate, or, to be more exact, of the pow er in mental activity to resist orcontrol climatic Influences. Some philosophers have held that there Is an occult sym pathy between mind and matter, and that a great accumulation of mind upon one point that is to say, the di rection of a strong current of desire for or against some operation of nature would bo effective. For Instance, if all the people in a wide district suffer ing under drought should unite in a common longing, a sincere mental strugglo for ra n, that nature would feel the subtle influence through all its being, rain would come. Unfortunate ly the experiment has never been tried, for common consent at any moment has never been attained there is al ways someb3dy who has hay out But this at least we can say, that it Is safer to have the desire of the general mind in the right direction. Now two of tho vulgar not ons of this latitude are that we need "bruc'ng up," and that snow is a useful product, conse quently that the more severe cold weather wq have and the more snow, the better off we are. And people go on Leliev ng this to. their deaths every year. As to snow, there is a senti mental notion of its beauty as well ns of its utility. And a good deal can be said for it from an artistic point of view. But we are not placed in tb's stern world merely to indulge our sen suou.sncss. We are put here to make the most of our powers, in view of a hereafter; and long life is a duty, be sides being, in the Old Testament view, a reward of virtue. It is probably nec essary to have snow at the poles in or der to keep the poles cool, and insure a proper c rculation and change of air round the globe, just as it is necessary to keep the equator so hot that it is as unpleasant to sit on it as on a kit hen stove. Snow, indeed, might do little harm in a land where the sun never shono. But in th s region, where the sun does shine, where half the winter days are clear, the only e !p3t of the presence of snow is to fill the atmosphere w.th chilling moisture, lung fever, pneumo nia! and that sort of thing. The picas anter the weather, the more sunshlno we have; with snow on the ground, the worse is our condition. And yc it is in vain to argue, this with people. They are wedded to traditional ideas and full of prejudice, and it teems im possible to convince them that snow in this region is harmful. It does no good to demonstrate to them that but lor snow we sho ild have a royal w n ter climate. Ou a small scale we see occas'onnllv what it might bo. Thero were such days in January last. The snow had d sappeared. tlie sun sho le with the light, uit not the heat (like an electric lamp) of May, and the a:r was pure, exhilarating, but not damp and grave-like. It would havo been perfect but for the chill that came down from the vast snow-fields of Can ada, where cold and snow are wor shipped and feted all winter. And yet, after such experience, people, convinced, go back to snow. The ig norance of this scientitlo age is d s couraing. The other vulgar notion Is that a hand-to-hand struggle with extreme cold for months does a person good bntoes him up. It must bo admitted that up to a certii n point any struggle or tr.al is invigorating to the mo:al and intellectual nature. But wo see what too much indulgenco in this leads to. Th j Esquimaux is but little raised above the polar bear and the seal. His whole existence is jiht un effort to keep alive, to get blubber and skins enough t generate and keep in his body vital heat He can think of noth ing else; he has room 'for no other mental clloit. We see tho same thing in the d uries and accounts of the polar exploration fanat cs. It would be the most painful read.ng in the world II it were not so monotonous, r-acn ono tells exactly the same story the story of his physical struggle to keep alive with the thermometer fifty degrees below zero. Soon the mind has noother occupation than this struggle. It al most oea-ses to work in any other direc tion. This is intcro.ting to us at first as a study of the capacity of the hu man organism to resist the unrestrained attacks of nature. The experience of a person who should in this latitude, in wiuter, retire to nn ice-house, with a hatchet and a supply of frozen hash, a whale-oil lamp, and a fur overcoat and body-bag, and sit on the ice in the darkness, and record his feel ngs,' the gradual lower ng of the vital powers, the concentration of the m.nd up in the numbness of his legs, wou'd doubtless have a physiological iuterest. But tho second experimenter would not interest h's readers so much as tho first with his narrat ve. Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper $ Magazine, Matrimonial Prospects. Wilson Candless, one of the most poverty str'ekon young men. - ot Gal veston, applied to Colonel R chley for the band of his daughter. "lathe first place 'I've sent in my application to President Cleveland for position in one of the departments. ' Have you any other resources?" asked the prospective father-in-law. "i ou Let 1 nave. I m seriously thinking about giving up smoking." Tar exclaimed the young lady. "that's enough for us to begin with. ain't it?" Teiai Sitings. According to an English newspa per, an officer returning from a day's shooting left his game in the custody of h's dogs whom he locked up with it while he went upon some urgent busi ness away from home, and soon forgot both animals and game. He was de tained fur davs, and when he returned both dogs had died of hunger, having refrained from touching the game. They bad neither barked nor whined during their confinement, evidently fearing to betray the trust of" theii master. a a a There were forty-nre different kinds el pie at a dinner given recently in Greely. CoL STRALSUND. CbaratrUtln of th Btona Braaklng 8chlaiwigar. In a region of such great prosperity and wealth we scarcely know what to make of a cluster of hovels by the road side within sight of the slendor spires of Stralsund. They were built like gypsy huts, dug out of the hill-side and roofed with turf. A half-dozen ragged children were playing with a large dog cart, and the great ugly beast accus tomed to draw the vehicle growled from his turf kennel as wo passed. Our driver, whose local prido was shocked at the sight of this wretched camp, hastened to explain that tho pcoplo wre nothing but Sclileswigcrs, road-builders by trade, w ho were engaged to break stones to repair the chauasee: A littlo further on we came upon a score of these people at work, lor fully a mile ahead of us there was a line of stone heaps along the road, and the stone breakers were energeti?nlly hammering the'r way through this mass of flinty field stones. Sheltered from the sun by rude awnings of matting, young girls, bright-eved and ruddy-checked.pounded away with henvy hammers on tlie large fragments Into which the men nnd women broke the pieces still smaller, and piled them in regular heaps. There was something coquettish In tho dress of tho young girls, which was quite out ' of harmony with their occupation. A bright handkerchief wound turban-like ' around the head set off the deep brown of their faces, and gave a softness to the weather-roughened skin. A bodice of strong cloth fitted closely to the plump figure, nnd a short petticoat was girded closely to tho legs, showing bronzed feet and ankles, well modeled and graceful, through neither small nor soft. Chatting merrily as they hammered, they wore the picture of health and con tentment Their hands, somewhat pro tected from tho rough stonos by flaps of thick leather, showed to what a coarse and mdo occupation their lives had been devoted, for they were as hard an I knotted as those of the men, their fellow-laborers. Here was a life-work for a woman! wielding a heavy sledge hammer nil day long, lifting and hand ling rough stones from the time she has . eaten her black-bread and raw onions In the morning until she retires to the straw heap in tho mud hut nt night. Why women should be engaged In such convict labor In a country where prosper ity is the rule was a problem which - wo were unablo to solve. We found out, artcr a chat w ith them, that the Schles w gors nro famous for their skill in road-building, and are sought for tho country over to repair the ehatmees. They said that a smart stone-breaker could earn forty marks a week (about tcp dollars). "If the men didn't spend all they earn in a pprce every pay-day, we'd bo woll off," grumbled an old woman, whose face was the texture ot a dried fig, and her bunds all gnarled and calloused like some strange animal's claws. "It is a free life, wandering wherever work calls us, and we should bo able to live at our easo lu the winter but for the money that goes for schnapps."!. D. Millet, in Harper's Magazine, EGYPTIAN LOANS. How tha Khatllva Manages Whan Ha Wants to Borrow Money. . ' An Egyptian loan of the Ismail ' Pasha's period generally passed through three stages. In the first,' ad vances were required by tho Treasury for current expenses. They were ob tained from the banks or wholesale usurers at Cairo, who charged from twelve and one-half to twenty-five per cent interest on them, according to the necessities of tho Government ' As the Treasury bonds a.-curuuluted they declined in value, and at the times of severe financial pressure, they have fallen as low as sixty-live. Puis- was the chrysalis 6t.igo of the loan, gener ally distinguished as tho "floating debt" period. The second stage opened with the negotiations in Paris and London for "funding the, floating debt,'' 'as it was humorously called. The financiers, while they were driving tho hardest bargain they could with Ismail's agents, bought up in Cairo the depreciated Treasury bonds, which they knew, of course, would be paid off if the intended new raid on invest ors should succeed. To minimize risk nnd simplify matters, it was sometimes stipulated that tlie Treasury bonds should be received as cash in payment of subscriptions. As compared with the innocent bona lido subscriber, tho syndicate had, in the third stage of the transaction, various material advan tage:. If the price to the public was ninety-three, the syndicato would have secured beforehand an option to take all it wanted at, say, c'ghty-eight While the public paid tneir ninety-three in cash, the syndicate would pay their eighty-eight in paper purchased at sixty-five. When the loan was a suc cess, the syndicato behind the scenes could quietly increase their subscrip tions, and compel tffo public to buy In tho open market at an artificial pre mium. In other words, tbey could fleece the lenders with one hand and the spendthrift borrower with the other. Under this pleasant system, Lsmail Pasha borrowed, between 1862 and 1873. rather more than 68,000, 000 fully as much as the total revenue of Egypt in the same period. But, as has been said, he received only soma -io,000.000 in hard cash; and when he , defaulted in 1875 there had been re paid in interest more than 35,000,000. Meanwhile the capital of the debt had increas d to 72,000,001 Bluckwood'i Magazine. No machine of travel that man ever invented can equal the speed of wild fowl. The canvas-back duck flies two miles a minu,e. The broad bill goes slightly slower. Teal can fly at the rate of one hundred miles an hour, the wild goose about ninety. Chicago Journal. Field-Marshal Von Moltke has just fmblished an historical sketch of Poland, n which he holds that Poland might have continued frej had she not clung to serfdom. Chicago CurrtnL Philadelphia has three millionaire newspaper men.