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AK INCOMPLETE REVELATION.
KfCH&RD A. JACK OJf IN OCTOBBK CKW UBY.
While Quaker folks were Quaker still, soma fifty
Tears no.
When coats were drab and gowns were plain, and
speech wai staid and slow.
Before Dame Fashion dared suggest a single fris or
CUD,
There dwelt 'm'A Pen Holds peaceful shades, an
old time Quaker girl.
Ruth Wilson's garb was of her sect. Derold of for
below.
She spoke rebuke to vanity, from bonnet to her
toes:
Sweet red-bird was she, ail disguised In feathers of
me aoie.
With dainty foot and perfect form and eyes that
. areami oi love.
Rylvanaa Moore, a bachelor of fortr years or se.
A quaintly pIouk, weazened soul, with beard and
-nair or tow.
And queer, thin less, and shuffling walk, and
drawling nasal to a e,
' Was protnpteJ by the spirit CJ ntis this tnald bis
own. v-
He knew it was the spirit for he felt it In his breast.
As oft before In meeting time, and sure of bis re-
ouefct.
Procured the petmlt in due form. Oc Fourth -day
oi mat week
He let Rnih know the mersage true that he wis
moved to speak.
"Ruth. It ha Jxen rerealei to me that thee and I
must wed,
I have spoken to the meeting, and the members ail
have said
That our union seems a righteous one, which they
will not gainsay.
Bo, if convenient to thy views, I'll wed thee n-xt
Third-day."
The cool possession of herself by friend Sylvanus
Moore
Aroused her hot resentment, which by effjrt she
forbore
(8he knew be was a godly man. of simple, childish
mind).
And cbeckeu the word "Impertinence," and an
swered him in kind:
"Sylvanus Moore, do thee ga home and wait until
I see
Toe fact that I must t4 thy wife revealed unto me."
Aud thus she left him there alone, at will to rumi
nate. Sore pnzxied at the mysteries of Love, Free Will
and Kate.
YihAl Paralysis Is.
So common has become the occurrence
of paralysis in recent years that many
use the word for a slang expression; but
for all that a vast majority of the people
who think at all of paralysis reckon that
. it is a disease of itself. That some med
' ical men so regard this condition is
plain from the fact that death is fre
quently certified to have been caused by
it. The incorrectness of this notion,
will, however, be plain when the condi
tions which give rise to paralysis are
clearly set forth, and this we now pro
pose. A carpenter, blacksmith or some me
chanic, whose business requires him to
wield a hammer, finds some morning
that he cannot raise his hammer arm, or
perhaps while at work the man suddenly
feels his arm become numb and weak, it
falls to his side, and he is no longer able
to work. The doctor to whom the man
applies says a "bachial monoplegia from
muscle tire," which means simply that
the man has overwrojght his hammer
arm and it needs rest. To these cases
the very appropriate name of "artisans
palsy," is given. Again, a poorblooded,'
nervously constructed person, most
likely a woman, meets with a great shock
or has to endure an unusual and .pro
longed mental or physical effort. Soon,
and perhaps without warning, the indi
vidual loses the use of some part of the
body, often of the vocal apparatus, and
the patient is unable to speak above a
whisper. The doctor says "hysterical
paralysis," or "hysterical aphonia," lots
of voice. Now just how this comes
about we fancy it would puzzle the most
learned doctor to say. Concerning this
condition, however, as well as the one
before mentioned, this much is krown,
viz: that by appropriate treatment they
reeover perfectly and promptly, very
good evidence that no part of the ner
vous apparatus is broken. The faith
curea reported from time to time are
probably cases of the kind last men
tioned. It sometimes happens that an intoxi
cated person will fall asleep with the
head resting upon the arm or with the
arm banging over a chair back. When
the person wakes the arm is numb; it
tingles and is paralyzed another
"brachial monoplegia." But really
pressure upon the trunks of the nerves
which supply the disabled member has
affected those nerves so that they are un
able to perforin their usual duty. The
nerves which go out from the brain and
spinal chord to the extremities are quite
comparable to the wires which are
stretched from place to place for electrio
communication, and pressure upon one
section of those nerves produces results
very like those which follow an interfer
ence with the wire. The case just given
illustrates very well a large number of
cases of palsy from pressure, for pressure
upon the brain, or spinal cord or the
nerves which have their exit therefrom
will produce a palsy whose extent will
depend upon the extent of the pressure,
and whose durability will depend upon
the chances for removing the pressure.
Pressure upon the nerves wnich supply
one side of the face produces a very
characteristic paralysis, and one that
causes many laughable mistakes on the
part of tyros and non professional peo
ple by their attempts to detect the
affected side.' Pressure upon the brain
or spinal cord is mostly due to the pres
ence of tumors; to fractures of the skull
or bones of which the backbone is
formed, and to blood clots within the
skull or spinal canal. Patients who re
cover from diphtheria, scarlet fever and
some other acute sickness are frequently
paralyzed in some part. These cases
generally recover by appropriate treat
ment, aud it is quite probable that many
cases would recover spontaneously.
The remarks before made concerning
certain cases which recover will apply
equally to the cases just named.
People who work in lead are liable to
a peculiar form of paralysis, which is ,
first seen, as a rule, in the muBcles o.
the forearm, on account of which the
patient is unable to extend the hand
upon the arm. At times the whole mus
cular system is involved. Change of
occupation and the use of remedies
which will assist the elimination of the
mineral from the system is the proper
course for such patients. Analgous
forms of paralysis are caused by arsenic
and mercury, probably by their action
upon the nerve structure of the spinal
cord. Woorara, the Indian arrow poi
son, will also produce paralysis itintro
duced in the system in sufficient quanti
tities. The paralyzing effect of large
doses of alcohol is well known. Certain
conditions of the circulatory apparatus
predispose to extensive and often incur
able paralysis. The arteries are elastic
tubes. By age, hard work, care and the
prolonged use of alcoholic drinks these
tubes lose their elasticity and become
brittle. By some event which deter
mines an unusal quantity of blood to
the brain one of these inelastic tubes is
broken, the poured oat blood clots, as
before mentioned.and a paralysis follows
immediately:
Owing to certain systematic conditions
fibrin, a substance ' normally suspended
in the blood, lodges upon the flood
gates valves of the heart. ' Presently
a part of this matter is dislodged and
washed . into the bipod; -- perotmaee it
reaches au artery in the brain which will
not allow it to pass. This at once cuts
off the blood supply from a part of the
brain, one of the immediate symptoms
of which is palsy of that part of the bxain
wbich receives its nervous supply from
that part of the brain. These paralyses
are usually extensive,and are not readily
distinguishable from those just men
tioned. The presence of worms in the bowels
of children is believed to produce paral
ysis in some cases. Such cases, being
due to known removable cause, are de
scribed as reflex paralysis. They are noi
seen alone in children, but in adults as
well. Finally, changes in the structure
of the brain or spinal cord produces pa
ralysis, varying in extent with the extent
of the of nerve structure involved. Such
paralysis is especially obstinate in
those of advanced age. Change of struc
ture in the spinal eord usually produces
disability in the legs. Now, these are the
most common causes of paralysis, and,
from what has been said, it will bo ob
served that paralysis is not a disease of
itself. Neither is it always incurable.
A Curious Experience.
"One of the most curious experiences
that ever befell me," writes au English
government official, "was when I was
governor of a jail in Lancashire. Of
course, the most ignorant, as well as the
most degraded, came my way. One of
them was a woman of sixty, a murderess.
The chaplain could do nothing- with her
be very seldom can with those who are
condemned to death; they have some
thing else to listen to besides mere
words. Days, and even wetks, before a
timber is raised or a nail has been driven
in, they hear the gallows being put up.
This poor creature, however, was not
troubled in that way; she had not the
imagination for it. She had not even
the instinctive foretaste of her fate that
the dumb animal feels on the tbreshhold
of the slaughter-house. There was no
'good-bye to make, for she had neither
relative or friend in the world; the world
she was to leave on Monday. On
Sunday night she sent for me. It had
been a pouring day, as most .November
days in Lancashire are, and as I entered
her cell the sound of rain on the roof
heightened the melancholy effect of t' o
scene to an extraordinary degree. To
those who knew the circumstances of the
case, she was scarcely an ooject oi pity,
for the murder she had committed was a
roost brutal and appalling one; but it
was impossible to behold her without
sharing her wretchedness. She was
standing under the barred black window
with her eyes fixed upon it, listening ap
parently to the splash of the storm, but
she turned quickly round as I carae in
and faced me. 'Guv'nor,' she said, 'is it
true that I am to be hung to -morrow?'
It was not easy to reply to such a ques
tion in words, and I only inclined my
head crravely. ls
it far from here I
mean the gallows?'
directly in front
'About fifty yards;
of the gaol gates.'
the place well; I
hung there when
Ay. ay, I mind
saw John Norris
I was a young
walk to it, won't
gal. Then one will
one?'
There was a
touch of disappointment in her tone
which I could not understand, though I
guessed the reason of it afterward. Yes,
we shall jrs&.' 'Very good! I've been
thinking ijt summat as I should like to
do. Will, you grant me a last favor,
guv'nor? I told her, of course, that any
thing that lay in my power, and which
my duty permitted me to do, would be
done for her. 'Well, to morrow will be
wet, you see, that's certain. Now, never
in all my life has it happened to me to
walk under a silk umbrella. Will you
let me do it just this once?' I gave her,
of course, the required assurance, and
her warders reported that she went to
bed in good spirits and passed an excel
lent night. Her first words on being
awakened iu the morning were to inquire
if it had rained, and on being informed
that it did, she expressed her satisfac
tion. The rest of the sad ceremony
seemed to interest her very little, but
never shall I forget how her dull hard
face brightened up at the sight of the
new silk umbrella that was presented to
her. She held it over her head to the
gallows' foot, with a hand, if it trembled
at all, did so with conscious pride. Bow
Bells. A Canadian Romance.
Thiity six years ago there livod in
that pleasant little town down the river
called Sorel very little it was then a
youth and a maiden. The name of the
youth was George Beaupre, the name of
the maiden Mary Ann Pearce. They be
longed to families of moderate circum
stances. He with the strength and de
votion of honest young manhood, loved
this young maiden, and wooed her with
that earnestness which only such a lover
can. He was given every encourage
ment; was, some pay, actually accepted;
was congratulating himself, at least, on
the smooth coursing of true love, when
suddenly a rivtl appeared, and every
thing for him turned black. The rival
was one Jacob Savage, of the same town.
Pretty soon she aud Savage were married
and settled down in the plaoe, and then
young Beaupre 's hope died out. He
tried to work on as before, but ceuld not.
He closed up his basiness, settled np his
affaire, and started to the far West, to
ward which so many adventurous spirits
were about that time shaping their
course.
From that day to within a few weeks
ago he had not set foot in this part of
Canada. He had worked hard, saved
carefully, prospered and laid up proper
ly worth at least 0200,000. He had never
married. He was getting up toward six
ty years of age. Several weeks ago he
took an idea to come back once more to
see his friends, and he started east. He
searched out relatives in Sorel and Mon
treal, but found few that he remembered.
He inquired for the woman who, aa a
girl, had so many years before thrown
him overboard for a rival. They told
him she was widowed; her husband had
been dead many years; she had been liv
ing several years in Montreal; went to
call upon her; met her, and then He
found her getting old, in poor circum
stances, with several children, but that
made no difference; he saw only the girl '
of thitlv six yeirs before. On Saturday.
tliey were married by bis lordship Bishop
Fab.e, tbc -wealthy- bridegroom being
content with no other dignitary than the
highest in that part of the country. He
has bestowed all the happiness that
wealth and affection can upon his bride
and her children, and in a short time
they will go to his home in the Black
Hills. Montreal Star.
The Four Blind Musicians of Unloutown.
The four blind musical brothers of
Uniontown reads more like the captain
to a tale in the "Arabian Nights" -than
a eimplo statement of facts. A family of
this siuguftr description have, however,
been living ia a suburb of Washington,
D. C Uniontown is a little settlement
that has grown up across the east branch
of the Potomac, within easy reach of the
navy yard. It is a sleepy tumble-down
village, whose chief claim to aristocracy
is the nomenclature of the streets, which
bear the name of every president to
Buchanan. Its chief citizen is, perhaps
Frederick Douglas, who owns a fine
country place near the river's bank.
Some years ago a family moved into
this village from Baltimore of the com
mon name of Smith, but of very extra
ordinary family make-up. There wt re
or had been twelve or fifteen children,
every other one of whom in regular suc
cession had been born blind. Of this
numerous and singular progeny, all who
were born with sight died but one a
girl and at present only five children
are left, this girl and four blind broth
ers, named James, Ignatius, George and
Alfred. They are all smart and happy, ,
all are masters of some trade and all are
musical.
When in a frolicksome mood each in
turn will play on the family fiddle while
the others dance. One of the brothers is
quite an accomplished musician, and
supports himself by giving lessons on
the piano. The others play merely for
recreation. Two are broom makers by
trat'e and make a broom which is famous
through the neighborhood for its excel
lence. The remaining brother is a cabi
net maker, with a special knack at coffin i.
The oldest of the brothers has a high
reputation in Uniontown. Not only can
he make the best broom in all that
region, and make the violin sing, but he
is endowed with a wonderfully acute
sense of touch. It is said, for instance,
that he can tell a five from a ten dollar
bill by feeling the two notas.
One of the brothers is married and has
a large family. The sister is the wife of
an elderly carpenter. They all live to
gether with their widowed mother and
seem to be a happy and affectionate
household.
House-rianls In Slek-Rooms.
In a paper read before she Pennsylva
nia State Medical society, Dr. J. M.
Anders spoke of the beneficial influence
of plants and flowers in sick-chambers.
He took the following position :
"First, that plants exhale aqueous
vapors with great rapidity, the rate be
ing carefully estimated at one-fourth
ounce by weight per square foot of leaf
surface for twelve diurnal hours. Second ,
through this process of transpiration
they have the power to increase the hu
midity of the atmosphere of an apart
ment to any degree that may be desired,
by simply regulating the amount of leaf
surface. Third, that the vapor emitted
from plants is most probably changed
and medicated to some extent by passing
through the plant, and is presumed to
possess greater sanitary value than ordi
nary humidity. Feurth, recent experi
ments by the writer, the results of which
have not yet been published, render it
highly probable that flowering -plants
have the power of generating and emit
ting ozone."
The doctor recomnfends to invalids
who are confined to the house the culti
vation of plants, not only as a pleasing
mental recreation, but as healthful in iu
effeots.
A New Educational Idea,
Professor Wait of Cornell university,
has now in successful operation a novel
method of instruction, which he has in
vented and developed himself. About
two years ago he began giving instruc
tion by letter to a personal friend, who
was unable to enjoy the advantages of a
.university course. The plan worked
well. The text book chosen was divided
into a number of sections. On each of
these Professor Wait prepared an elabo
rate syllabus, enlarging on the subject
from every point of view, and furnishing
a list of questions. The pupil took each
syllabus separately, mastered as much as
p'ossibe of it, and sent by mail to the
professor the points which had proved
too difficult to be mastered. Provision
was made for a thorough examination at
intervals, which could also be conducted
by mail. In this way the idea grew,
until now Professor Wait has a class of
thirty-one professors in colleges in the
United States and England, and com
plete courses of instruction have been
prepared in various studies.
The Growth of the Jews. Instead
of dying out, the Jewish body shows in
creasing vitality. They cannot be
stamped out 01 swallowed 'up. They
pass from country to country to become
practically masters wherever they go.
They get the land in Germany and Hun
gary, and grow rich in Russia; they are
t:e great bankers in London and Paris
and the centers of Earopean commerce.
In ten (recent) years the Bothchilds
furnished 100,000,000 in loans to Eng
land, Austria, Prussia, France, Russia
and Brazil. They increase faster than
Christians, and of every 100,000 persons
only eighty-nine Jews die to 143
Christians. Central Presbyterian.
Holarla and Xarshet.
The theoretical notions of malaria
form an instructive page of medical his
tory. Until aboat 1823 it was always
tnaugnt to be associated with marshes
and swamps, but in that year Dr.
William Ferguson brought to England
numerous proofs that it occurred abund
antly in elevated and rocky regions.
Such evidences have gone ' on accumu
lating, and it is &ow well known, that
malaria has no necessary, oonneetion.
with the marsh, tut the profession 'is
still profoundly impressed with the be
lief that malaria is an actual or material
poisonous substance. To Homer it waa
the arrows of ApolK iu anger; to the
mediaeval folJt-lore itVaa the mitiebief of
elves and spites; ad if scientific medi
cines does not now permit us to person
lfy the malaria, it teacher us at least to
materialize it. Although the fevers
which malaria produces are quite unlike
the levers that are contagious or com
municablu, the present scientific guides
of the profession are resolved to find a
material virus or poison as the cause of
them. The malarial poison was sought
for, in the early days of chemistry,
among the various gases of the marsh,
but the ehemical search proved fruitless.
When the' raieroscope oinie in, the
miasja was diligently looked for in the
soil of malarious localities, and in the
vapors overhanging them. From 1849
to the present year, some twenty differ
ent vegetable organisms or their spores,
of very various degrees of complexity,
have been described each in its turn as
the malarious miasm and as the specific
cause of remittent and intermittent fe
vers; and the quest for a material sub
stance assumed to be the cause of malar
ial fever is regarded with much favor in
the best scientifio circles. Meanwhile, a
body of opinion, which takes due ac
connt of all the manifold associated cir
cumstances of malaria throughout the
world, has been forming and yearly
growing in volume, that there is no ma
larious miasm at all; that "malaria," ia
deed, is a profound disorganization of
the nervous meohanism . that presides
over the temperature of the body, and
that this upsetting of the heat regulat
ing center is likely to happen when the
body has been exposed during the day te
extreme solar heat and to fatigue, and
exposure at sundown and in the night to
the tropical or subtropical chill which
will be severe in proportion to the rapid
cooling of the ground and the amount ef
vapor condensed in the lowest stratum
of the air. There is no more beautiful
mechanism in nature than that which
keeps man's internal, heat always about
33 degrees, day and night, summer
and winter, in the Arctic regions
or in the tropics; but even that
most wonderful of ail self adapting
pieces of meohanism, if it be taxed too
much, as by extremes of day and night
temperature, will get out of gear; and a
fever, still retaining something of the
diurnal periodicity, will he the result.
No one can. read the powerful criticisms
of Surgeon Major Oldham of the Indian
medical service, without discovering
this rational explanation of malaria to
have the best facts and the best ef the
logic on his side.
The decision of this point of theory
one way or another, has the raoat mo
mentous issues, not so much for the
treatment of malarious fever as for its
prevention. It Us, in short, a question,
on the otherband,of common prudence ia
warm countries, oftener moist than arid,
and more often level than mountainous,
against exposure of the body to the di
rect action of the eua's rays and to the
nightly chills that follew; or, on the
other hand, of a fatalist doctrine of veg
etable spores or organisms of the low
est grade making ceaseless war upon
mankind. The world has a way of find
ing out the truth by its own experience
upon a large scale. It settled the insane
theoretical objections to the value of
cinchona bark, and it will probably form
its own opinion on the relative merits of
the vegetable-spore theory of malaria
and the theory of exposure and climatic
vicissitudes. It will be a regretable cir
cumstance if in this matter the profes
sion has to follow publio opinion in
stead of leading it. Quarterly Review.
Slain far Fashion's Sake.
During the last two or three yeass, or
since fiokle-mindetT fashion has decreed
that birds as well as feathers should be
used to ornament the heads of the elite
of feminine society, a new source ef
revenue has been opened to the natives
I of Southern California. Santa Barbara.
being "the land of flowers," is necessar
ily the home of the delicate little hum
ming bird, which lives upon the dis
tilled pollen or bee food f onr gaudiest
flora. In a glass case upon the oounter
within the drug store ot A. M. Ruiz, was
discovered two rows of dead humming
birds, each with their little "feet turned
up to the daisies." "The trade is a re
cently developed one," said Mr. Ruiz.
"It is less than three years old, but it is
growing steadily. We do not propose
to engage very heavily in it, as it is not
exactly in our line, which is drugs and
perfumery, but we find a profitable mar
ket for all we can obtain'
"How do you obtain these humming
birds?' queried the reporter.
"The little boys bring them In. There
are four or five little Californiaas who
live in or near town who are experts with
sling-shots, a skillfully manipulated im-
Erovement upon the contrivance usatl
y Davjd to kill Goliah. Small pebbles
or a teaspoonfnl of small bird shot is
used, and, when, propelled by our little
humming bird hunters, usually bring
down the bird. These little hunters
brins in on an average about iive birds a
day."
"Why do they not use nets? It would
not destroy or in j ore the delicate plum
age of these little birds."
"Nets would be better, I believe, but
the little Spanish children are used to
the little sling shots and as are as skill
ful with them as are their father wIUi
the tiara, and woo to the humming bird
at wbioh one of these little boys dis;
charges a charge of pebbles or bird
shot."
"Is there money in the business?
"No, not worth speaking of. I pay 10
to 15 cents each for the birds and then I
dress them and ship them to San Fran
cisco. Then I am paid at the rate of 50
cents each for the female common bird
and 75 cents each for those male birds of
the brilliant plumage."
"Is there more than one variety of
humming bird in the market?
"Yes, we havev four. There is the
fiery,' or that bird you jwe there with
mo rea naming taroat. xnen tnere is
the sulphuretted or yellow bronzed bird.
T a. a m a a
-next to tne orainary male, wuicn has a
red and green plnmage, and last the
brown,, trnbronzed female bird."
"What is the extent of the trade?"
"Last year we sent off less than a thou
sand biras; we could have found a mar
ket for at least three times the number
ported." i
In continued conversation it was dis
covered that while San Francisco obtains
a large proportion of these delieate little
birds, the best and prettiest are selected
and. shipped direct to the fashion centers
in Paris and London, where they com'
mand a high price. Santa Barbara
Press.
"Old" Whathlsname.
i
How unnke wemen do men meet the
enemy, age? The first time a man no
tices that the years are mastering him he
is singularly surprised, but it never en
ters his mind to undertake to dodge old
Father Time, or to keep him at a respect
ful distance. One night he is at the the
ater, and before the curtain rises he is
entertained in his indolence by the chat
ter oi two youthful snips who just sit in
front of him. Suddenly he hears his
cwn name mentioned and is startled by
the strangeness of it. It is the younger
of the gabblers who refers to him, and
the referenoe is surprising. 1 The man of
forty hears himself spoken of by the boy
ot seventeen a "Uld Wilson, or what
ever may be his surname. I
The little three-lettered adjective falls
upon him like a 100 pound weight of as
tonishment. "Old Wilson, be repeats
over and over to himself, trying to get
accustomed to the qoeernaas of the un
flattering appellation. Sitting there in
the blaze of the lights, with the throng
of play-goers about him aud the music
filling the air with sentiment, he loses
himself in reminiscences of his youth,
which he never before dreamed had
slipped away from him.
He -doe9 not hear the overture or see
the curtain rise. He is away in the
primrose spring,, young again. He is
retracing those forty years in memory.
He is trying to think when he first no
ticed lines upon his face and silver in
his hair. He is looking' at himself men
tally to see if he is really old. He thinks
of it as he goes home, and that evening
becomes to mm forever afterwards the
milestone which marks the boundary of
his youth. He may have been old to
others be'ore, but never until then .was
ho o d to himself. He cannot think of it
for a long time without a sudden sinking
of the heart, strangely enough lie ac
cepts the charge of being old without a
disputations word or thought. Never
once does he say: "Oh, infidel mistake!
Oh, pagan no such thing!"
The next time he finds himself protest
ing against some little plan for recrea
tion wbioh he once delighted in he
thinks of himself in his character of i!)ld
Wilson," langhs gravely and says, a lit
tle sadly, that ha jjeJieves he is getting
old. From that time he speaks of it often
ahd without violence to his feelings. Ho
drops into elder ways quite submissively
and loosens his grip a little ftpoo the
wOi'ld. Ho docs not resent the usurpa
tions of age. He submits because it is
his destiny and because his religion and
his philosophy both teach him that it is
folly to flgkt the inevitable. But he
never sits in a theater again that be does
not experience anew that sudden sinking
of the heart at hearing himself cal'ed
old.
Taking Care or Clothes.
If the. little Dakota wife's young hus
band gets a good wetting in his best
olothes, she must put them into shape or
show him how. Hang the coat on a
chair-back and the pantaloons over a
towel-horse. Do not hang them on
pegs, or they will dry all a-twist and he
will look as if be had been distorted with
a spasm of St. Vitus' dance. It will
not take one long to fold the coat, turn
the collar up, double the sleeves, bring
the skirt up to the collar the cloth f old
ded on cloth double down the back and
leave the length suitable for packing
well. Coat sleeves should be gently, bat
firmly, stretched full length, and when
the garment is to be laid away in a ward
robe they must be doubled with the
crease of the elbow. Pantaloons must
be folded just the same as when they are
bought, but at nrst get out the crease s
from the knees. To be : kept looking
well they must be occasionally damp
ened with a sponge well wrung out,
placed in the same folds, wrapped in
brown paper, and laid under a weight,
say a trunk.
Clothes cost eo much they should be
well cared for. We add these sugges
tions for the benefit of these women.
We have learned a great deal about the
care oi men's wear from the wife of the
poor little preacher whom wjo see every
Monday morning from our window hang
ing out and dusting and sponging and
renovating "bis" one humble suit of
clerical, best black. In spite of her
ennning and handy touches, they begin
to wear a sooty tint, but her love-anointed
eyes do tot detect the ravages of time.
Sse, poor martyr, thinks they are jet
black, lustrous, satiny, beautiful, and
consecrated, every thread aud every
stitch.
Opossum Hunting In Australia.
Prof. H. N. Mosley in his "Challenger
Notes," speaks of a visit he made to the
domain of Sir William MoArbhur, at
Camden Park, forty miles from Sydney,
New South Wales, and gives his experi
ence in hunting the opossum. He says:
The park rs 10,000 aeres in extent. Here
I went out en several occasions to shoot
opossums by moonlight, r The opussums
are out feeding on the trees at night, or
are out on the ground, and rush up the
trees on the approach of danger. They
are very difficult to see by one not acous
tomed to such work, but those who hab
itually shoot them discover them with
astonishing ease. In order to find
animal. One places himself so as
successive portions 6f the tree bet
his eye and the moonlight, and
searching the tree over, at last he catches
toTfeet
ween I
tnus
sight of a dark mass crouchincr on h
branch, and usually sees the ears pricked
up as the animal watches the danger
This i& called "moonincr" the opossums.
Then, with a gun in one hand, one fully
realizes for the first time the meaning or
the saying. "Possum up a gum-tree."
The unfortunate beast haa the toughness
of his skin alone to trust to. "Bang!" and
down it came with a thud on the ground,
falling Head first, tail outstretched: or it
clings with claws or tail, or both, to the
branches, swaying about wounded, and
requires a second shot. It must come
down at last, unless, indeed, the tree be
so high that it is out of shot, or it man
ages to nip a small branch with its pre
hensile tail, in which case it sodetime
contrives to - hang up xjt"0. When dtad
and remain out of reach. Nearly all the
female opossums which I shot had a sin
gle Young one in the pouch. The young
seemed to be attached with equal fre
quency to the right or left teat. I shot
the animals in the hopes of obtaining
young in the earlier stage, but found
none such.' Among stockmen, and even
some well-educated people in Australia
there is a conviction that the young kan
garoo grows out of a sort of bud on the
teat of the mother within the pouch.
We killed about twenty opossums in a
couple of hours on each occasion on
which I went out.
Poison Iu the Treasury Department.
Nearly all the employes of the Nation
al Bank Redemption agency are females.
There are 120 of them. As we walked
through the rooms where millions of
bank notes were counted every week. I
noticed -that nearly all the occupants
looked tired and had a listless look.
although it was only about two in the
afternoon. I also noticed a number of
pretty young girls, and some who were
not pretty and not girls, who had sores
on their hands and wrists. There were
several also who had sores on their faces
and heads. I asked Mr. Rodger s if the
cause of these eruptions was to be found
in the work npon which the "countess
es were engaged, lie replied: "It is.
Very few who spend any considerable
time in counting money escape the sores.
They generally appear first on the hands,
but frequently they 'break out. on the
head, and sometimes the eyes are affect
ed. We can do nothing to prevent this.
All of the ladies take the greatest care of
themselves in their work, but sooner
or ' later they are afflicted with sores.
The direct cause of the sores is the ar
senic employed in the manufacture of the
money. If the skin is the least abraided
as the arsenic gets under the skin, a sore
will appear the next morning. The
habit that every one has of putting the
hand to the head and face is the way the
arsenic poisoning is carried to those por-
none ui tue uuujf . och ue.u, aaiu iu.r.
Rodders, stopping by the side of a young
lady, and picking up a glass vessel con
taining a sponge. "This sponge is wet.
and is used to moisten the fingers when
counting the money. Yon see how black
it is. 1 hat's arsenic. Every morning a
new piece of sponge is placed upon the
desk oi every employe, but before the
day is over it is black as this. I have
known palf a dozen cases where ladies
have been compelled to resign their po
sitions. There were three ladies here six
years before they were afflicted with sores.
About three months ago they were so
visited by them that they wero obliged
to quit work. They have been away ever
since, and the physician's certificate in
each case says that their blood is poi
soned with arsenic. But," concluded
Mr. Rodgers with a smile, "although
there is danger in the work there is no
difiiculty in filling all vacancies that
occur. These ladies get $75 a month."
Washington Correspondence Boston
Traveller.
Tho Marriage of the Elder Biwlh.
The Baltimore Sun in a late issueays:
"The encyclopedias speak of the late
Junius Brutus Booth as the oldest son of
the great tragedian of the same name,
without mentioning the fact that the
elder Booth had been twice married, and
had one son by his first wife. In the old
Cathedral cemetery in Baltimore the
elder Booth's first wife lies buried. Her
tombstone may yet be seen there, with
its inscription. The stone is four feet
above the ground. It is 50 feet from the
bed of Winchester street, and between
Winchester and Calhoun streets. The
inscription which it bears is as follows:
'Jesus, Mary, Joseph, pray for the soul
of Mary Christine Adelaide Delannon,
wife of J. B. Booth, tragedian. She died
in Baltimore, March the 9th, 1858, aged
CG years. It is a holy and wholesome
thought to pray for the dead. May she
rest in peace.' This lady resided in Bal
timore for a number of years before her
death. She had one son, Richard Jun
ius, who is understood to be yet living
abroad. His mother was a French wom
an, married to Booth in Belgium, and
divorced from him in Baltimore. Junius
Brutus was the oldest son by the second
wife, who was a Miss Holmes, of Read
ing. England, and who was the mother
of Edwin, John Wilkes and several other
children."
The Egyptian Workman.
The suppleness of the Egyptians in
general is prodigious. Most workmen
use almost as Olten tneir ieet as tneir
hands. The turners, who make moucha
rabiehs, hold each bit of wood with the
great toe, just as they oould do it with
anv sinele finger. The women who col-
j lect in the streets rags and bits of paper
take them up wuu meir great wo juaisu
dexterously as our rag gatherers do with
their crook. GeneralW they seize an ob
ject with their great toe, then bear it to
their baud, with which they throw it
into the basket behind their shoulders.
But I have seen one that simplified the
movement by lifting the foot without the
least difficulty, and with a rapid move
ment, as far as the basket. The Egyp
tians move their legs just as our arms; it
seems that all theirmembers are attached
with the same suppleness and possess
the same flexibility. It is an anthropo
logical peculiarity that brings them near
enouch to apes to gladden the hearts of
ansmutationists. Five Months at Cairo
and in Lower Egypt.
Washington was the father of his
country, and blowing out the gas on re
tiring is one of its smothers.
I3CDCSTOIAL HOTES.
Fourteen millions of the national debt
was paid last month.
Printers'- type and engravers' blocks
are-now made from celluloid.
The domestication of buffalo calves is
being attempted in Arkansas.
The whole country, with the exception
of Wall street, is prosperous.
One hundred thousand persons . find
employment at fan making in Japan.
Florida has 630 factories, working 2712
bands, with a capital invested of $1,1)7,-
030.
The largest creamery in the world is at
I7e-Andovfir. Ohio. - It woiks up milk
ct 1500 oowa.
The United States treasury now holds
more money in its vaults than ever be
fore since it was established.
A new substance as brilliant and hard,
and withal fireproof, has been invented
to supersede celluloid.
A South Carolina inventor, named lie
Clain, proposes 'making wash tubs,
buckets, etc., of annealed glass.
A St. Helena, M. T., paper estimates
that that place has lost $100,000 by lidd
ing over last year's hop crop.
Distilleries with a capacity of more
than 1000 bushels per day, will not be
taken into the Western whisky pooL
This year Colorado raises more wheat
than it will use. Pretty well for that
section of - "the great American desert.
There are about thirteen hundred
thousand acres of Government land in
Missouri, subject to sale and homestoad
entry.
The publio credit is higher than that
of England, and the Secretary of the
Treasury is about to recommend a two
peroent. bond.
Kansas has raised a fine sorghum crop
his season, to supply the demand of the
recently established sugar factorial in
that state.
A man who had started a steam laun
dry at Corpus Christs, Texas, found the
competition of the Mexican women too -
much for him.
In England the tendency ii to a de
creased acreage devoted to wheat cul
ture. In -nine years this decrease has
reached 28 per cent.
A Grange co-operative store at .Meri
dian, Miss., which started buainean in
1879 with a capital of sold last
mc ith $5860 worth of goods.
I he James River Iron Works at
Lynchburg, Va., which originally cost
$296,000 have just been sold for 75,
000 and are to be turned into a nail fao
tory. The distrust of "business paper" has
bad the effect to increase the supply
of money loanable on collateral, and
Wall street is .deluged with money.
The semi-annual dividends payable in
Boston in October, aggregate $7,480,-
G01. Last April they amounted to $8,-
144,776 and in October of last year to
$7,000,000.
It is found that tea and cocoa are Cey
lon's most paying crops. Cinchona, too,
is rapidly increasing in production. .
Crop prospects there are decidedly bet
ter than last year.
The chronio borrower thinks it strange
that with money down to 2 per cent, per
annum in New York, and dull at that.
he is finding it so difficult to obtain lit
tle aeeommodations on long time.
This is indeed a prosperous country.
Once was the time when our wealthiest
merchants were not ashamed to carry
home their marketing. Nowadays the
poorest paid clerk would scorn to do it.
A machine has been invented and set
in operation down in North Carolina
which rolls out several thousand cigar
ettes per minute.- . This will tend to
eheapen cigarettes and intensify, the nui
sance of cigarette smoke.
York farm, on Chester river, Kent
county, Md., owned by S.Merritt Wilkins
and containing 400 acres, has a peach
orchard of 18,000 trees, which from 1875
have produced 311,500 baskets of fruit,
bringing in $103,000. In 1873 the sales
netted $66,000.
Picking up the bones of dead buffaloes
is one of the industries of Texas. The
bone mills of St. Louis pay $14 a ton for
the best grades of this harvest gleaned
by the squawa, who - wander about the
plains in search of the bleached ikele
tons. The St. Joseph I Mo.) Herald at last
speaks a good word for ex-Senator Tabor.
It complains of the way in which ho has
suffered from the wild vagaries of the
humorists, and expresses the hopo that
the republicans of Colorado will elect
him governor of the state.
A party of Philadelphia capitalists
have 1000 acres in sorghum at Rio
Grande, N. J., and expect to turn outl,
000,000 pounds of good sugar this sea
son. The sorghum seed is fed to pork,
and in addition to the sugar the farm is
expected to yield $30,000 worth of pork.
Two-thirds of the cattle raising in
Wyoming and Montana is in Engliaa
hands. It costs $3 to raise a three-year-old,
and the animal is then worth $40.
The more cattle a man owns, the scaaller
the oost of raising and caring for each
animal. Most of the grazing is done on
public lands.
There is great activity in woslern
Pennsylvania in all the territory from
which a flow of natural gas can be ob
tained, and the Pittsburg Post reports
several large enterprises of capitalists
based upon the use of this fuel. Taren
tum, on the West Pennsylvania railroad,
is to be the site of several large glass
manufactories, employing millions of
dollars in capital.
The charming Madame V., st the
coast, changes her dress three or fonr
times a day. Walking one day along
the beach, she meets a friend who does
not bow to her. "Woll, don't you
recognize me?" she exclaimed; aud the
other answered: "Ob, I beg pardon;
but as you had on the same dross two
hours ago, I did not believe it could be
won
you.
Nebraska has probably reach ! the
climax of absurdity in the way of nam
ing towns. One of the towns in th&t
state has just been named Basel; aJL
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