THE OEEGON SCOUT.
JONICS A: CIIANCHY, l'libllnlicnu
UNION,
OREGON.
Gross Superstitions.
In my grandfather's family tlio old
cook was accustomed to bako cakes in
largo rounds, which sho cut into four
with a sharp knife, each quarter being
put to bako by itself. Sho was most
careful that during baking tho pointed
end of each of theso quarters should
not bo broken, othorwiso a death might
shortly bo expected. Even tho slipping
of a picco of Bonp from a person's hands
when washing has been construed to
mean that tho death of somo relative is
imminent, as. indeed, is also tho persist
ent burning of a iiro on ono sido only of
tlio grate.
Every ono knowB that to dream of
losing teeth means that somo calnmity
may bo looked for. If tho eyes of n
corpso aro difficult to closo, they aro
said to bo looking for a successor ; and
!r t- - T i -1-1 ..lit
ii 1110 iiinus uo not, uccomo qmcKjy huh,
it is supposed that somo ono of tho fain
ily will bo soon also among tho dead,
If tho houso-door is closed upon tho
corpso beforo ho friends havo como out
to tako thoir places in tho carriages,
Sheffield peoplo say another death will
happen before many days ; and if, at a
funeral whero tho mourners walked, tho
procession went in a scattered or strag
gling manner, this was thought in tho
West of bcotland to betoken tho samo
misfortune. Even if tho mourners
wulkcd quickly, tlio omeiLwas bad. To
walk under a ladder betokens misfort
une, if not haniintr, as it does in IIol
land. To meet a funeral when going to
or cominpr from a marrinRo was consid
ered very unluckv in Lanarkshire ; for
if tlio funeral was that of a woman, tho
nowly-mado wifenwould not livo long :
and, if it was that of a man, tho fato of
tho bridegroom was scaled. If ono
heard a tingling in his cars, it was tlio
"deid bells," and mows of tho death of
a Inond or neighbor might soon bo ex
pected. If knocks wcro heard at tho
door of a patient's room, and no person
was fpund thero when tho door was
oponed, thero was littlo chanco of re
covery ; and, if a man caught a glimpse
of a person ho know, and found, on
looking out, that ho was nowhero to bo
seen, this was, says Mr. Napier, a sign
of tho approaching death of tho person
eocn.
Ear and Brain.
Tho Bubstanco of tho following state
ments with regard to tho oar and brain
is from a paper in tho Now York Medi
cal Journal, by Dr. Andrews, surgeon
to tho Manhattan Eyo and Ear Hospital,
Now York.
Ear diseases aro much worso than
those of tho eyo. They aro a principal
oauso of deaf mutism. Thoy aro also
among tho most" frequent diseases of
childhood, boing dovolopod in diphtheria,
whooping-cough, scarlet fover, measles,
sinnll-pox, typhoid fover, inlluonza and
tubercular alleotions of tho lungs.
Indeed, a simplo cold in tho head or
soro throat rapidly spreads along tho
mucous mombriino of tho Nostrils and
pharynx to that of tho ear. Says tho
into Prof. Clark, of Harvard Univorsity,
"So important is proper attention to tho
ear during and after acuto exanthemata
(diseases attended with rash) that a
physician who treats such eases, and
noglooln to givo this attention, cannot
bo said to perform his duty to his p.i
tiotit." But tho most sorioua fact about thoso
diseases grows out of tho very intimate
connection between tho ear and the
brain. Most of tho fumy wall which
contains tho internal carlios in direct
contact with tho mombriino of tho bruin.
Home parts of tho wall aro so thin as to
bo transparent. Thero aro also open
ings through it for tho pussugo of nerves
and blnod-vossols, and often parts of it
nie wanting through arrest of develop
ment. Hence, purulent inflammations of tho
ear extend readily to tho brain the
more so, tho younger tho child. These
may cause similar imilanunation of the
membranes, inflammation of largo veins
and abscesHos of tho brain.
Nearly one-lmlf of tho latter aro du."
to this 'cause, chronio inllammution ol
tlio ar showing itself perhaps only in
n hliglTt headache being vastly more
duugcrotiH than aeuto. 'fiutWn Com
panion, Aversions or Appetite.
Dr, Oswald calls attention, in tho
Popular Sulcnco Monthly t to tho fact
that an antipathy to u special dish indi
cates tho presence of a constitutional re
pugnance, which it is not wiso to disre
gard. Ho says :
I know a Belgian soldier on whom
common unit, in any combination, and
in any doso exceeding ten ponuy weights,
acted as a drastic poison, and thousands
of Hindoos cannot taato animal food
without vomiting.
Similar effects havo obliged individu
als to abstain from onions, sago, parsnips
and oven from Irish potatoes. Dr.
l'oreira mentions tho case of an English
boy who had an inoumblo aversion to
mutton :
" Ho could not oat mutton in any form.
Tho peculiarity was supposed to bo
owing to caprice, but tho mutton was re
poutodly disguised and given to him un
known ; but uniformly with the samo
result of producing violent vomiting and
diarrhea.
" And from tho sovority of tho effects,
which were in fact thoso of a virulent
poison, thero can bo littlo doubt that, if
tho ue of mutton had been persisted in,
it would Boon havo destroyed tho boy's
llfo."
Wo know a lady whoso missionary
work in Burmuh has attracted tho atten
tion of English-speaking people, who
could not eat rice. Oneo when she wan
visiting in England, her hostess, think
ing tho aversion a mere whim, put n
taulo-MKX)nful of rico in tho soup.
Though the soup was (drained bef.tre
being served, and not u grain of rico was
to bo soon in it, vet tho moment tho lady
tasted it sho exclaimed, " Oh, thole's
rico in this noup I" unit was obliged to
leave tlio table.
. m m
Very appropriate yut during wiu the
ornamental nuorljiHOM lug It letter 111
added to onui funny Hotter by u ludy
lovur of Kliukeniort, which romf,
"Out. vl limned kiiu:. out my "
TAKING THE CENSUS.
Fun
on Jefferson Aventio and nmnneratlT8
In tlio Seventh Ward.
"bay, old fellow, tlio n?xt lime n
census of births and deaths is to bo
taken, don't you fail to pet a job in
ono of tho big-bug wards!" exclaimed
jolly Nick Tislor to a reporter a few
days ago.
"Don't hclievo I'd like it. Always
makes mo sick to go around mixing
beer."
"There's lots of fun in it."
"What in drinking fifteen or twenty
kinds of beer?"
"No in taking tho census. You'll'
novcr know how cussed lazy somo
peoplo aro until you tako a big book
under your your arm nnd go around
asking questions. I've been nround."
"Whoro did v
.on iind tho laziest
ono?"
"Upon Jefferson avenue. Oh, I
don't know as she is real lazy, but up
thero they're so stuck up thoy wouldn't
como to tho door if you rung tho bell
all day, for fear you'd think thoy was
tho servant. At ono house I rang tho
bell seven times tho girl was out to
tho shed, I s'poso, and tho woman
was a-settin' in tho bay window about
four feet from me, and looking at mo
all tho time.
"At another I10U80 I seen tho women
up stairs at tho window as 1 went up
the front steps. A fat, good-looking
girl caino to tlio door nnd 1 commenced
llring questions at her.
"'Any children been born hero
during tho last year?' says I.
" 'Don't know, says she, I hain't
boon horo but three weeks. I'll go
and ask missis,' nnd away sho toddled
up stairs. Pretty soon sho caino
toddling back and says:
"Missis wants to know what you
want to know for?'
" 'Toll her 1 am taking tho city cen
sus, as required by law each year,'
says I, and away scooted tho girl
again. When sho trot back sho said:
"Yes.'
"How many?' says I.
" 'Only one,' says sho.
"'Hoy or girl?' says I.
" 'Girl,' says sho.
" 'What's nor niunoP' says I.
" 'Dimple,' says sho.
" 'That's her baby namo,' says I.
'What's her real, full name?'
" 'I'll ask missis,' says she. and up
sho wont.
" 'Beatrieo Branseombo Brown.'
savs she.
"When was she born?' says I.
"I'll ask missis,' savs sho. and I
whistled 'The Watch on tho Khino'
clear through boforo sho eauio back.
" 'Day beforo Christmas,' says she.
" 'What is her father's nnmoP' Bays
" 'Mr. Brown, of course, says sho.
" 'What's his lirst niunoP says I.
" 'I'll ask missis.' Tho irirl was fat
and slio'd begun to pull' by that timo,
and she waddled as sho wont ui tho
stairs.
" 'Benjamin llruco Brown,' says sho.
" 'What does ho do for a living?'
says I.
" 'Keeps a store,' says sho.
" 'What's her niothor'e namo?' says
" 'I'll ask her,' says sho.
" 'Botholinda Borthclot Brown.'
savs sho.
"Just then tho woman camo to tho
hend of the stairs, and says:
" 'booms to 1110 you ro asking a
great many impertinent questions.'
" iaiw roquires it,' says J. 'Whoro
were vou bornr
"Butlulo.' 0
" 'How old aro you?'
" 'Nono of your buslncs! Matilda,
shut the door!'
"Oh, it's fun! Saw wo got ten cents
apiece for births and deaths and that
lay I made just hfty conts. Up in
Dutchtown you can mako $u" or 7 a
day." Detroit Free Press.
Tho Mississippi Problem.
Capt. Cowdon says in a lato loiter:
l'ho city of Now Orleans, goographyi-
eallv, is the best located city on tlio
sphere. Slio is near tho gulf, and has
all the Mississippi basin at her back.
bho has an area of land -',000 miles
north of her by 1,500 miles wide, all
of which has untold facilities for agri
culture, nuinufaoturing, grazing, and
conunoreo. one, iiko jnow ion;, has
water lines in her rear that reach out
and drain the numerous tributaries to
her main ditch, tho groat Father of
Waters. Porhaps you hayo noticed
that Boston has deep water in front
and rallwiu-s in the roar: and, practi
cally, it is tho samo with Baltimore;
whtlo Now lork has tho six by seventy
foot Erie canal and lakes behind her
Hudson river, and to tho fact of tho
cheap water transportation of Now
lork, slio owes iter success as a rival
city to Boston and llaltlmoro; and,
now, thon, should is aw Orleans have
doopor ocean vessels than eithor of
thoso threo cites, and with water llow
ing to hor doors, why wouldn't sho
iucroaso enormously In her commer
cial poworP
Hut there are two great problems
which yearly, monthly, weekly, daily,
and hourly confront tho peoplo of
Louisiana, and they aro those:
1. unn Louisiana got rid of her
overllowsP
2. Can Now Orleans harbor shins of
fifty foot depth P
Not long since I crossed the river at
New Orleans a mile above Canal street,
to "Harvey's Canal." Tho milo-wido,
muddy, turbid stream was moving to
tho gulf at about the rate of threo miles
per hour, ami, when full, it has to run
down n slope of about seventeen foot
in going to the gulf, at tlio river a
mouth, I'.'O miles distant. I lauded at
Harvey's eanal-doek, which is not
vet opened to tho Mississippi river on
s niii'lh end, by doiiio low rods. 1
walked south for less than 100 foot,
when, down there in tho canal, 1 saw
gulf water Just twelve feet lower than
tlio river, omy a lew runs norm 01
whero I stood. You ask why don.i
they cut tho bank two Dillon wide and
tif toon feet deep, straight to the gulf,
only lifty-llve inllenhouth, and thereby
Irani tlio noon water 01 1110 river,
and ho iiioreiuo the ontllow that tho
bottom of the river will deepen up to
It louky loltoiii ornhoaliiP Well, now,
Biieloni uliuon, you liiivu tun, vurn.
Why don't tlioyf
nut, now, while mi coma no done,
thorn porhup it u bettor place. It U
vl1 ten miles southeast of Now Or
leans, on tho cast sldo of tho river, at
tho Lake Borgno canal outlet. Thoro
tho gulf Is six miles cast, while whero
1 stood it was miy-nvo miles away,
and wero a side mouth mado there at
tho Lako Burgno outlet, two miles
wide and fifteen feet deep, at most,
tho outflow of tho surface water of tho
river would be so great that thero
could not be any overllow, and, con
sequently, tho problem of how to dry
Louisiana is easily solved. When
that is done, thon tho Uarvoy or Bara
taria gulf-water ship canal could easily
ho mado five hundred feet wide, fifty
foot deep, and straight as a pole, duo
south to the gulf, lifty five miles, and
through which could pass tlio biggest
ship that could bo mado. Gulf water
should boused, and thus keep out tho
settlings of tho Mississippi river.
These settlings now drop, after meet
ing tho gulf water, threo miles out
from tho river's mouth, and are roaoh
cd up on the sea bottom just like tlio
thread in weaving cloth, and the ships
can't plow through it when drawing
more than, say, twcnty-livo feet, and
wero it not for tho constant dredging
or passing of tho screw propellers of
depth, tho degth .would bo but about
twenty feet; so tho nvormon told mo
in Now Orleans quite recently.
Flowers on the Kansas Prairies.
Barbaric splendor of the scenes in
Aida and 1 Ajricainc seemed repeated
as tho glorious panorama of blossom
ing grairio unrolled day afBir da?.
Can you picture to yourself ton acres
of portulaca? or wholo hillsides cur
tained with what seems a superb
variety of wistaria, except, that it
grows on a stalk instead ot hanging
from a vino? Do you know how it
fools not to bo able to step without
crushing a llower, so that the littlo
prairie-dogs, sitting contentedly with
their intimato friends the owls on tlio
littlo heaps of earth thrown up around
th'jir holes, havo every appearance of
having plantod their own front yards
with the choicest floral varieties?
Think of driving into a great field of
sunllowors, tho horses trampling down
the tall stalks, that spring up again
behind tho carriage, so that one out
sido tho field would never know that
a carriage-load of peoplo wero any
whero in it; or riding through a
"grovo" of them, tho blossoms tower
ing out of rcaeli as you sit on horse
back, and a tall hedgo of them grown
up as a barrier between you and your
companion! Not a daisy, or a butter
cup, or a elovor, or a dandolion, will
you see all summer; but now llowors
too cxquisito for belief; tho great
white prickly poppies, and the sensi
tive rose, with its loaves dohcato as a
maiden-hair fern, and its blossom a
countless mass of crimson stamens
tippod with gold, and faintly fragrant.
Even familiar llowors aro unfamiliar
in nizo and profusion and color. What
at homo would bo a daisy, is hero tlio
size of a small sunllower, with petals
of dolicato rose-pink, raying from
cono-sliaped centre of rich maroon
shot witli gold. A had brought
with her numerous packages of seeds
and slips, nobly bent on having rib
bon llower beds and mosaic jiarlerres
about the house; but she sat on the
steps and throw them broadcast, ncvot
knowing, in the profusion ot llowon
that would havo been there anyway,
whether hers over came up or not.
And how beautiful whoro tlio grasses
the most useful ono tlio niostbeuuti
ful of all; tho dolicato littlo "bullulo
grass," for which tho prairie is fa
mous, waving its "tiny curled siclo of
feathery daintiness as if its beauty
wero its only excuso for boing, yet
bravoly "curing" itself into dry hay
as It stands, when tho autumn winds
begin to blow, that the happy flocks
may "niblo, sharp-toothed, tho rich,
thick-growing blades" all through
tho winter, without their beings gath
ered into barns. Alice Wellington
llollins, in Ilurptr's Magazine for June.
Bismarck's DreaiM.
Aro Austria and Bussia working to
gother for England's humiliation F
Tho roport that these great powers
"havo come to an understanding about
tho Orient," must be classed among
tho many statements of the day that
aro Important if true. Austria has
never been friendly to Uussia. She
has always stood opposed to Kussia's
ambition in the direction of Constanti
nople. During the past decado a dip
lomatic controversy between Vienna
and St. Petersburg has gone on almost
without lutormissiou. Vet it is as
sorted that the most amlcahlo relations
now exist between tho two govern
ments. Ministerial oflicials of Austria aro
claiming for Prim. Joseph till the
credit ot having ell'ectcd 11 settlement
of the Anglo-ltiisfJ.'in dispute. Eng
land was lorced to back down, thoy
say, because Austria intorposed at
Constantinople to prevent the conclu
sion of an Anglo-1'i.rkisli convention
which would open th.i Dardanelles to
English war ships. Tho British cab
inet became alarmed at this hostile
demonstration from an
unoxpoctod
quarter,
If Austria's attitudo is not niisren-
resented, perhaps wosuo the beginning I
of a movement for ilia realization of
Bismarck's dream, wlweh eliminates
Turkov from tho powors of Europe,
extends Austrian rule to tho Bosphor
11s, and annexes part of tho German
provinces of Austria to tho Gerniau
empire. For Russian consent to this
grand scheme, Austria, with tho con
sent and support of Bismarck, could
afford to favor Uus-sta's plnu of reach
ing sidt water by way of Afghanistan.
Ctinximati TiUUS'Htar.
The Missouri Mult'.
"It's rather strange," olnorved n
passenger from Pittsburg, 'ahat Eng
land should send clear over to Missouri
to buy mules for use iu tho Soudan,
wonder what that's for?"
"Tactics, mv dear sir, taotlot," re
plied a military looking man; 'Eng
land's policy Iu Egypt is to get up ulose
to the eueiii uud tlioii turn tail an J re
retreat slowly uud in good older.
Hero Is where tho mule Is oxnoutod to
get In hU work." CJiiongo IleraUl,
t'nlo or (uudulciit Uclui; of rllwy
ruitir In tlit litiaU of oouiU ihould n
ultt) vlwck. Aifuy Hi.
Fiormxo the tiErovs.
V Survivor of t!i Indian Mutiny TolIHow lie
roiicht Ills Wn Hiroush India and Wa3
Suut Up In Iloleaxaered l.ticknow.
Thero Is an entry in tho books of tho
nsano department at Blocklev which
cads: "Feb. 20, 1884, admitted: trans
crrod to insane department Sept. 6,
IbSt; James E. Dockroy, aged 45
ears; nativity, Now York; occupa--ion,
teacher; social state, widower;
liagnosis, and hero there is a
jlank, which was yesterday tilled up
jy Dr. llichardson verbally by tho sia
lic word "dementia." This is a spo
jies of partial or temporary insanity,
ivhioh. in the case of James Doekrey,
akes the form of almost total oblivion
regarding comparative recent events,
while his memory of circumstances
rt'hich occurred p'nor to his present
illliction seems to be nearly if not
dioroughly unimpaired.
James E. Doekrey has a history
which, without any hesitation and
with but ono misstatement, he related
renterdav afternoon as ho sat in Dr.
itiohardson's ollice, on tlio Qhird tloor
af tho men's wing of tho insane de
partment. A short, broad-shouldered
man of powerful build, somewhat fal
len away from protracted confinement,
t very intelligent face, covered with a
Hubby iron-gray beard, straight hair
3f the same c.dor, brushed away from
tho faeo and cut straight around, as if
in the old-fashioned nautical manner
by means of a basin, and a pair of
gray 03 cs which, but for a weakness of
tho lids, rendering them somewhat
bloodshot, would have Ueou very mild
and intelligent.
"Iu 185C, when the terrible mutiny
of tho Sepoys broko out in India," said
he, "I was in Australia, near the town
of Melbourne. Tho news camo to us
of the horriblo deeds of tho brutal
blacks, and my blood boiled to go and
light against them. Although 1 was
born in America, my father was a
Scotchman from the city of Aberdeen
and my mother an Irishwoman, so I
not only had lighting blood in me, but
could almost think thoy wero my own
fellow-country people the Sepoys were
mascereing. 1 had been in India sev
eral times, and could speak one or two
of tho dialects quite lHiontly. I there
fore shipped on a trader for Bombay
on tho condition that L should leavo
tlio ship when I arrived. As soon as I
got ashore I joined tho Volunteer
iiaval brigade, under tho command of
an oihcer named btowart. wo
marched through tho peninsula toward
Calcutta. But beforo wo got thero
many a time we thought wo never
should arrive. Tho volunteer naval'
brigade was part of tho army underSir
Henry Ilavolock, nnd it would bo no
news to toll you how that army was
cut to pieces and decimated long bo
foro it reached tho coast.
Wo literally foujrht our way
through the country, leaving thousands
of our men, women and children on
tho road, killed by the most cruel and
cunning enemy (,in the world. Tho
sights 1 saw during that terrible march
will never be eradicated from my
memory. Dolicato women staked
alive and their limbs torn from thoir
bodies while still living, children tied
by tlio feet to two animals and thon
torn in halves tho horriblo atrocities
aro still fresh in tho minds of many
who wore but children thou, and it is
not so long ago but that most adults
remember the story. Wo camo hand
to mind sovoral times with tho black
devils, at Kootapoor and at Shanghai
and Hodar, and then at Cawnporo,
until, on tho 17th of October, 1857, wo
reached Lucknow. Thoro wo wero
nearly ovorpowered, for thoro wero
only a few of us loft. Wo had to fight
our" way through tho streets of Luck
now, keeping together and holding
our own as well as wo could. Yoii
must remember that, although these
Sepoys wero nioro than half savages,
Jhoy had had tho advantage of mil
itary training under European ollicers.
So wo had to keep our oyes very wido
opou when fighting against woll-ariii-ed,
well-trained forces far outnumber
ing us anil combining tho European
with eastern war Tactics. Besides,
they wore natives, and could
stand the terrible0 climate better
than wo.
"Well, wo managed to fight our way
through thoui till we reached tho res
idency, whoro wo found a weary and
horriblo rosting-placo for nearly a
month. Men and women woro there
already. Tho place was ill-adapted
for a barricado, but thoy had mado it
comparatively seeuro for so long as
the ammunition held out. Day after
day passed away, and watchful
sentries, carefully saving their powdor
nnd bullets, would only use them to
pick otl' some too zealous Sopoy who
seemed to bo inclined to creep too
near to our barricades. At night wo
would count our dead for tlio priva
tion and horrible atmosphere killed
somo noarly every day and burned
them 111 tho yard as far from tho build
ing us possible. And oach night spe
cial precaution was takon to guard
against the oxpoeted incendiary of tlio
blacks or a possible assault on our 011-
'teobied garrison.
r "i think 1 win novor lorgot
tho
joy
with which wo poor, starviinr.besieured
folk heard tho distaut sounds of tho
Highland bagpipes, nor tho shout
which burst upon the postilouco-thiok-cued
air when the British red-coats
rushed along through tho streets of
l.ueknow yelling with tho rngo of
avongors, and released us from our
prison. I seem to havo gotten mixed
up soniowhoro there, and I guess near
ly all of us diil, for wo woro half mad
with starvation and constant watch
ing. Anyhow, I was taken to Calcut
ta to recuperate my health, and as tho
mutiny was supprcsod shortly aftei
that, and I was only a volunteer. I
thought I'd had enough of soldiering
for :i time, anil gave up tho army. I
wont to Bombay when my health was
bettor and remained in business for
some tune, but 1 had a roaming spirit
ami had to take to my old calling tho
sea -again tit the cud of ajoutayear."
Mr. Doekrey, in answer to a quos.
tlon if ho considered tho sea his pro
fosiion, said:
"No, tdr. I am by profession a nlor
gynuiu. 1 have beoi. so much on thu
boa, though, that perhaps I know more
of it than anything else."
"Do you remember how you camo
lioitJi'"
"No, sir. All I know is that it must
hnve been near tho Fourth of July, for
I remember to have heard tho boom
ing of guns, and on inquiring what
they wero firing for was told tho date.
After that I remember nothing till I
found myself here. I havo a wife
living somewhere iu Canada, but I
can not remember where."
Dr. Hlchardson said that Mr. Dock
rey's case was most satisfactory. Ho
is very considerably improved siivo
liis admission. He is a Freemason and
an Odd-Fellow, and his last question
to the reporter beforo saying good-by
was:
"Havo you over traveled cast?"
Philadelphia. Ttvics.
Wolseley's Administrative Powers.
It has never been my good fortune
to accompany a forco on campaign
under tho command of Lord Wolseloy,
and I write, therefore, under somo
disadvantage. But the expedition
which ho conducted from Malta to
Cyprus when ho went to organize tlio
British administration of that island
was at least of a semi-military charac
ter, and tho opportunity ottered of
watching his methods as well as a
commander as a civil orjeanizor and
administrator. His leading character
istic struck mo as equanimity. There
wero many temptations to irritation,
in tho detective commissariat arrange
ment, in the characteristic obtrusivc
ness of tho Turkish authority whom
wo wero dispossessing, in the hazy in
defiteness ot the situation generally.
But Wolseloy, decisive, nay, incisive
when occasion demanded, never be
trayed a sign ot temper. That ho was
energetic one could discern, not loss
than tliat his powers of hard work
and of fruitful hard work wcro ex
ceptional; but there was no gustiness
in tho energy, and ho slid through his
hard work with apt, bright dexterity.
Ho novcr fussed; and ho novcr entang
led himself in tlio labyrinth of trilles.
Tlio absence of all friction in his
administrative methods, stood ac
counted for partly by his own idiosyn
crasy, partly a phrase, indeed, " of
tlio othor reason becauso of the per
fect organization and thorough inter
working of his stall'. 1 traveled out
from homo with Wolseloy and his
stall. Tho latter had to be gathorcd to
gether hurriedly, but its members mot,
blended, and set to work in the saloon
carriago between Dover and Calias,
as if thoy had stepped into it out of a
department in which thoy had been
co-operating for years. Whilo thoy
settled minor points of detail, their
chief meanwhile slept serenely, easy
in tho perfect assurance based on ex
perience that his subordinates would
deal with these as ho would desiro
thoy should bo dealt with. It was
clear to mo thus early, and the im
pression but grow iu distinctness, that
Wolsoley was the man who decided,
who decreed, the centurion who, said,
"Do this;" and that ho had recruited
for the fulfillment of his behests a set
of men on whom lie could rely as in
telligent and devoted executants, and
to whom, therefore, ho could ami did
coufido tho functions assigned to each,
reserving himself as tho chief, unham
pered by a multiplicity of details, for
tho big work of resolving and direct
ing. In all this he was making no ex
periment. Ho was sure of his "ma
chine;" it was of his construction; he
had selected every cog and pinion of
it; and had tested its cllicieney, both
in parts and as a whole. Archibald
Forbes, in Tho English Illustrated Mag
azine for May.
Must Bo Enforced.
Abraham Stockton, who, during
many years, lived in tho southern part
of Arkansaw, was, iu lienor to his
great learning and also to thejact that
ho had once killed a mad dog, elected
justice of tho peace. Tho peoplo wore
very anxious to seo a case taken bo
foro the old man, for overy man know
that Stockton's opinion would bo one
which tho supremo court could not re
verso. Tho opportunity camo. A man
named Eukford sued Mr. Cliolsoy.
The litigation grow out of a dispute
concerning tho ownership of a lot of
sheep. A jury was empaneled, the
ovideneo was takon and the lawyers
made their spooohos. Tho verdict of
tho jury declared that tho sheep should
bo equally divided. Beforo discharg
ing tho jury, tho magistrato said :
"Gentlemen, you've did your duty,
but you ain't mado no provisions fur
the cost in this thing. Tho constitu
tion of tlio United States says that
when jurymen mako sich a oversight,
thu judge shall tako tho matter into
his own hands. Gontlouien, I'll charge
you two dollars a pieco. lhavo hoard
a heap o' peoplo talk about tho judge's
charge to the jury, au' I reckon some
o' you will talk about this one, but if
can't make tho jury pay"
"Can't 1? Wall, now il's fuuny if
wo don't. Thoy don't git a bito to oat
till tho thing's settled. Boys, git
vour pops an' keep your oyes on tlio
jury. Tho laws of this stato havo got
lo bo euforcod." Arkamaw 2'iavcicr.
Aristocracy iuho Old South.
If wealth is measuiod by net in
como, thero uover was much wealth
in tlio South. Tho very nature of tho
property forbade it consuming its
own production. But if tho number
of slaves is taken as tho standard of
wealth, thon whero thoro was ono man
owning 500 thoro wore 50,0"P who did
not own 100, and in that ratio, clear
on through the negro population, still
leaving thousands" owuing none.
Bo that as it may, wealth was not
tho staudard of tho best society'. If
thoro was any undovlatiug rulo it was
family lineage, oven whilo tho best old
families possesed tho largo proportion
of tho aggregate wealth though to no
large extent individually. In other
words, family lineage, when supple
mented by dignity and good conduct,
was always a passport into tho best
society, whether with or without pro
porty, whilo those without this iln
oago wero never oxoludod who pos
sessed other qualifications, Thoro
wero but fow formalities of any sort,
and social Intercourse was ut all
times natural an f easy. Tins is u
simplo and true staimont of faets, yet
thoy have been loaded down with
every ponslblo caricature. Mr. Fal
coner in the Current,
you say anything oulen tho way, 1 11
whalo tho whole kit and bilin' o'yor."
"Vour honor," said a lawyer, "you
LEECHES,
The History nnd Present Condition of a Fci;
liar Trade.
Of tho two firms in London andl
thero aro only two to whom the forn
oign leeches aro consigned from Ham
burg, one practices as a dental sur
geon and tho other sells pipes.!
louacco, anu oinor trilles. fioth are)
1 aru JM
1I001T- 1
of stillicient standing to recall
beaux jours paws of tho trade.
great tunes of indiscriminate bk
letting, when, whether the patient
suH'ered from .1 black eye, a headache,
a liver, or a heart, ho lost a couple of
ounces of blood and was declared to
bo better. Now scarcely one is used
whero a century ago a hundred flour
ished, and tho sixpenny leech of oven
so recent a date as 18G0 has fallen to
something loss than a halfpenny at
wholesale price. No completer proof
of the proof of popularity of tho
leech with tho early practitioner can
btfallbrded than by the fact tho verb
"to leech" means to treat with medi
cine and to bleed, whilo the doctor
himself, even so late as the days of
Shakspearo, borrowed the namo of his
favorite instrument of healing. Tho
slender, meager, hungry leech comes
from Turkey, within a radius of fifty
miles of Constantinople, and from
Huda-Pesth, whero tho country peo
plo bring them in, like watercress, by
thousands from the ditches and sell
them to tho dealers. They are found
there in all ditches and ponds, nnd
wlierever thoro is pure running water,
weeds for shelter, and muddy banks
and bottoms. Thoy aro, as a rulo,
netted in nets prepared with bait,
though wo aro also informed that it is
not rare for tho hardy peasant to walk
barelegged through tho water and
strp thoin oil" as fast as thoy can ad
here to the calf. However thoy aro
caught, by plain, honest fishing or
by human artifice, from Biida-Pesth,
without distinction of ago or size, thoy
travel to Hamburg, where they lio iii
vast ponds or reservoirs until tho
timo for their selection arrives. In
theso reservoirs thoy lie generally for
u year? and during all that timo, if
they aro properly cared for, they
bhouhl receive no " food, or rather no
nioro than thoy can find for them
selves in tho water. But this is a rulo
that is not always observed as it
should bo, for thoro aro many mer
chants who give them blood, and
somo liver, and some, so that nil tastes
may be satisfied, the entire body of a
horse thrown among them: with tho
result that on arrival in this country
their appetites are fatigued, and they
aro found to need certain stimulants
to performance. From Hamburg,
when their timo of probatiou is over,
thoy are imported here direct in bags
and boxes, and at the buck of tho
surgery in Pentonville or among tho
pipes and tobacco of lloundsditeh
thoy lio in shallow earthen vessels
tightly covered with gauzo or linon.
tho halting stage on tho way to tho
wholesale druggist and tho hos
pital. With tho importer thoy rare
ly tarry for more than four or livo
days, but aro sent out almost as fast
as they como in, in small Vvooden
boxes similar to those used by
fruiterers for honeycomb. From tho
wholesale druggist thoy pass again to
the chemist and apothecary, and when
tho perils of travel and tho variations
of climate they go through aro con
sidered, tho intending purchasor must
not bo surprised if ho finds himself
asked sixpence for an animal that cost
tho tirst dealer a shilling for a couple
of hundred. Many die on tho voyago
and many in the "short time thoy re
main with the importer, and though
in theory tho select leech will stand
an extreme boat or cold, many of tho
livo-and-twcnties and fifties ordered
by tho chemist, carefully treated as
they are, do not livo to fulfill what
seems to bo tho solo oieason of their
existence that of drawing blood.
Tho leech should novor properly bo
applied more than once, and can bo
applied anywhere. It tills in about a
quarter of an hour, and will absorb
altogether from forty to eighty-livo
grains of blood, or in all about half an
ounce. There is an ingenious instru
ment known as tho artificial leech,
onco occasionally used, but ngw
scarcely ever met with. It consists of
a small, sharp steel cylinder worked
,bv a spring, with which a circular in
cision is made, and with an interior
glass cylinder capable of being ex
hausted by a piston worked by a screw.
It is not a good instrument, and is, as
wo say, not used now. Thoro is a
specimen to bo seen in tho museum of
tho College of Surgeons among tho
"Surgical Instrument Series." Iu
England there is a less poworful spo
cios commonly found, though now
never used. It is known as tlio horso
leech, from its habits of attacking tho
membranes lining tlio mouth and nos
trils of animals drinking at the pools,
it haunts. It is in its way venomous,
and, when applied 10 tho human sub
ject, inflammation, leading to erysip
elas, has been known to follow its bito.
Thero must bo something in our wat
ors unfavorable to tho growth aud
culture of tho parasito, for not only is
tho indigenous leech useless, and in
deed harmful, but tho foroigu spoci
nens which efforts have boon mado to
acclimatize havo novor como to any
good. Thirty years ago a prominent
English firm projected and founded a
farm at Norwood for tho breeding aud
cultivation of tho Turkish and Hun
garian leech, but, eithor from ignor
ance of troatiuont or chungofulnoss of
climate, thoy all sickened and died,
and the schoino collapsed. Cornhil
Magazine.
Jay Gould's Abstemious Habits.
Anv wido-awako newspaper man.
whoso duty it has been to report public
.....,- 0...1 ,..i,n ima in the d schariro
uuiiiiuuis, aim , 0
of his duty taken tho trouble to keen
an eye on Jay Gould at such of tho banj
quota as tho niony king has attended,
must havo noticed how sparingly ho
eats. Ho loavos many of tho daintiest
ditdioa untouched, and contents himself
with noup, a "loco of roast or a bit of
gamo, ami ft $s olarot. I am told
that ho lives equally plain at homo.
"Coinplox dUhes muddle tho brain,
ho say s, "and I have to keop my brain
clear." Thoro aro a good mauy speeu
liitor who wish he atq more heartily.
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