ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
A .Muttrr Which I)i-cri-s tlir- Thntichtrul
CiinliliTiitliin or Agriculturists.
Hoxv to get -rood roads may well he
discussed hy farmers' clubs, ami should
he thought about hy every fanner.
How important this matter is, is shown
"hy the following statement made hy
3Slr. Rudolph Hering, president of the
.Enquirers' Cluh, of Philadelphia: A
load whieh one horse can draw on level
iron rails will require on smooth, level
asphalt road, one and two-thirds
horses; on had Belgian pavement,
three and one-eighth horses; on good
t-ohhle-stone road, seven horses; on had
cobble-stone road, thirteen horses; on
ordinary earth road, twenty horses; on
and road, forty horses.
Good roads not only save horse-llesh
hut vehicles. Take what are ordinar
ily called "good roads" and "had
roads," and a vehicle used on the first
only will last twice as long, at least: as
one used on the latter only. No one
can douht that country roads would he
fifty per cent, hetter than they now are
if the money and lahor put upon
them were properly applied. How
to have that work and money
properly applied is the matter to
ho discussed, that the host methods
may he ready for adoption when the
season for road-making comes.
Whether or not the road-hod should he
only surface-drained, or underdrained
with tile, or hy putting in a corduroy
foundation; whether or not gravel or
plank should 1"' Used; how best to use
gravel, or plank, or tile these are
points to ho decided. The fanner's
cluh should also discuss specifically the
repair of each highway in the neigh
borhood. T his will lead, among other
things, loan understanding whether or
not it will he proper to shorten a high
way hy straightening it; whether a
road that now goes around a hill should
ho carried over it hy grading down the
hill, or whether making a road longer
hy ocrrx ing it around a hill will he
compensated for hy the less grade; how
to keep weeds from growing in the
highways, to seed the adjacent land,
and many other points which, thus be
ing (settled, would greatly add to the
improvement of the roads. American
Agriculturist.
FEEDING SWINE.
Ilmr linen Can lie .Xli.tle to (iron- I'rollt
uhly Dtirlni; ('old Wi lli her.
It has heeu found advantageous to
feed swine oft oner than twice daily,
and during the winter the first food
should ho given moderately early, and
the evening feed should he given not at,
four or live o'clock, as is the custom
with many, hut at ahout G:'M. Four
teen or lifteou hours between the even
ing and morning foods are periods alto
gether too long for comfort and profit,
as the appetite is liable to become rav
enous, tile animal gorging itself unduly.
It : a great mistake to suppose that
it is onlx required to rush the food into
the hog's stomach, regardless of quan
tity or intervals between. The stomach
is of quite moderate capacity, and when
crammed the process of digestion goes
on like a horse laboring at a load he
can not move, the work being done
tardily and only partially completed.
In eases of incomplete digestion a por
tion of the food given is lost, passing
oil' through the bowels and going to the
'manure pile. The art of feeding, there
fore, does not merely consist in shovel
ing out corn, without judgment or lim
it, but in studying the natural capacity
for digestion, and feeding to this ca
pacity, or a little inside of it, that all
the food given may be put in shape for
assimilation.
Under entirely can-less management
hogs are not usually found to gain in
weight during cold weather. Many
farmers do not expect their hogs to
grow to any considerable extent during
winter. That they can be made to grow
profitably has often enough been
proved. Xulional J. ire-Stock Journal.
.John M. AouT, of Martinshurg, V7.
Va., died recently, aged ninety-one
years. He not only was the oldest man
in the town, but had boon a church
member sixty years, had never used
tobacco, and never-drank whisky or
other intoxicants, and was never heard
to utter tin oath N. 1 . Sun.
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by Derangement of the Liver,
Kidneys and Stomach.
If your Liver is out of order, then your
wb ile system U deranged. The blood is
nnpi.re, the breath offensive; you have
headache, feel languid, dispirited and
ncrvutis To prevent a more serious con.
clilii n, take at once Simmons
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t. mutants and take Simmons Liver Regulator.
Suie to relieve
If you have eaten anything hard of
digestion, or feel heavy after meals or
sleepless at night, take a dose ami jou
v. ill feel relieved and sleep pleasantly.
If yeu are a miserable sufferer with
Constipation, lyhiei-lu and
Ulliollsness, seek relief at once in
Simmons Liver Regulator It does no.
require continual dosing, and costs but a
trine It will cure you.
if you w ake up in the morning with a
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NUi wo ON ETIQULI re. .
TIow Yii'i Citit Mnlcp Voiirrfe'r ropul:ir with
1'rli'inU mill stnwisrr.
When you are invited to dine at the
house of a friend or acquaintance, it is
not considered good form to reply that
you would enjoy it above all things;
hut, unfortunately, you are very hun
gry anil do not see how you can possi
bly accommodate him. At all events.
never make matters worse hy adding
that you will be pleased to come some I
other time on Fast Hay, for instance. 1
On being asked to "take something,"
whatever that may mean, it is hardly j
proper to inform the inviter that your
stomach has some rights which vou are i
hound to respect, and if it is all the
same to him, you will take as an equiv
alent the money which the "some
thing" would cost.
A the generality of mankind stands
in pressing need of exercise, it is a duty
you owe to society to furnish others
with all the exercise you can possibly
vouchsafe to them. Hence, when walk
ing the streets, trail your cane or um
brella, so that the man behind you shall
be kept hopping ami skipping about
like an insane kangaroo, in order to
keep hiinelf from tripping over your
oll'onsive weapon.
It has been pointed out that the seats
in a rail ear are death-traps which have
a fashion of shutting up and holding
the occupant until the tire in the over
turned stove ,has time to cremate him
or her; consequently it will he seen
that you do a kindness to others, es
pecially to women, by preventing them,
it possible, from obtaining seats. If
they are made to stand, of course they
escape the dangers incillent to the per
ilous seat. The knowledge of having
performed a kind act always tills one
with supreme pleasure, especially when
lie can contemplate his good act in a
comfortable position.
As it is very trying to one's eye t to
read print in the ears, it is proper for
you to prevent your neighbor from in
juring his eyesight by reading his news
paper. Therefore put a stop to his read
ing, either by talkingtohiin continually
about something no niattiT what, so
that it interests yourself or read to him
detached sentences and "good things"
from your own paper. He may not
thank you: but what of that? l?ocause
he is ungrateful, must you therefore
forgot your duty to your follow man?
When you are enjoying your cigar
alone, and a friend drops in tell him
Mill would ask him to smoke, but you
fear that the smoke of two such cigars
would sull'ocate both of you. Your
friend will greatly enjoy your pleas-
intry, and ho will also be happy because
of the opportunity you have given him
to inform all his acquaintances, and all
yours, that vou smoke mighty poor
jars. Besides, you save a cigar.
When one is tolling you a long and
dry story about the wav his housemaid
joes on, put on a melancholy look and
put a stop to his story at the earliest
convenient moment by asking him some
iiTovelant question, as, for example,
what he thinks of the late strike, what
his opinions are of a possible war in
Europe, or what are his views on white
mice or the eventual restoration of the
Jews. Your doleful faee will show him
that you sympathize deeply in his suf
ferings, ami your clover turning of the
subject of conversation will convince
him, if he had any doubts before, that
his story is too painful for you to listen
to it.
When the shopman has given you too
much money in change, say nothing,
but put the money in your pocket. It
is always mortifying to be told of one's
errors, men it, snouiu no reinemnereu
the opportunities of being paid for one's
forbearance are too infrequent to be
neglected.
These are onlv a few of the many nice
points of etiquette that might be men
tioned; but they will suffice to show
that one who knows nothing about eti
quette can write as well upon that .sub
ject as upon any other with which lie is
equally unacquainted. Boston Trim-
script.
CIGAR STUMP SALES.
The Iti-iiiiirkiililn Industry Currleil On hy
l.iitiTirnuiLr 1-iiriiiniis.
Among the curiosities of Paris is the
market for cigar stuinos in the Place
Mauln'rt. Me.got, by profession a col
lector of those stumps, initiated me one
line morning into the mysteries of his
peculiar calling. Every day from eight
to ten a. in. the market is full of life. A
kilogramme (two and oue-lifth pounds)
if stuinns from Londros cigars is worm
JO cents to fiO cents, according to the
length of the . stump. I lie ends ot cigars
it 1 and emits each only bring from 15
'.outs to .1J cents a kilogramme. There
.ire four or live wholesale dealers in
ir:w stuinns. who have their head
quarters in the wine shops of the vicinity,
mil who there ileal Willi tne iuriiisuors,
mostly poor old men and women and
ragged hoys. Some oOO persons earn
their living after this fashion. The
.mount annually produced by the tratlio
is said to reach "Sl.'iO.OOO. Much of the
Hibaceo thus scraped together is sold to
workmen, and much is also said to be
axported under the title of "Tahae do
Paris." There is one old fellow in the
Maubort quarter who, some years ago,
occame so rich at this humble business
)f selling cigar stumps that he had an
Mutual income of $3.0.W. But my frienu
Megot turned out badly. Not satisfied,
I suppose, with what he win able to
;lean by the public way, ho was recently
aught "in the act of stealing in the shop
f a tobacconist. Ho said, hy way of
reusing himself, that he had never
icard of a law which forbade taking
....if 'I'l.i. u utiii'li. mbrht HHkx fur
ui excue; hut tlie Pari police are a
ig-hoath-d lot, and wouldn't see the
loke. They walked poor Mug ofl lo n
.He place of durance which they Uuro
. tUUllnWwrt A?t, in Ml
muku Sentiiiil.
RAILROAD HORRORS.
Rrrisrit of the Morn N tublo DlmntcM of
Thl Uricrlptliui.
18-12 May 8, oil passengers burned to
death near Belleville, Krance.
1833 May 0, 4li persons killed. HO in
jured, at open drawbridge, Xor
walk, Conn.
lSot October 21, -10 passengers killed
on the Great Western in Canada.
185G tluly 17. G2 persons, mostly chil
dren, burned and 100 injured on
North Pennsylvania railroad.
1837 March 17, (50 persons killed on
Ureal Western of Canada at Dcs
Jardine Canal.
1857 dune 28. 11 killed and 100 in
jured near I.owishan, England.
1859 June 27. HO persons killed and 10
wounded by a washout on Mich
igan Southern, near South llend,
lml.
1859 August 2, 13 persons killed on
Albany, Vermont & Canada rail
road in Tomhannock creek.
1859 December 31, 1 ' persons killed
at a bridge near Columbus, (!a.
18G1 August 25. 23 persons killed. 100
injured at Croyden tunnel, near
London, England.
1SG2 October 13, 15 persons killed, GO
injured near Winchburg, Scot
land. 1SG2 duly 15, 50 persons killed, GO in
jured on the Erie road near Port
darvis.
18G7 December 18, 19 persons burned
to death near Angola, Lake
Shore; December 11. 13 lives lost
at Uanlan bridge, Vermont Cen
tral railroad.
ISr.S April It, 20 persons killed. GO in
jured at Carrs Kock, near Port
darvis.
1SGS August 20, 33 persons burned at
Abergele. North Wales.
18G8 August 20. 21 persons killed, GO
injured on Northwestern railway
of Bohemia.
1869 July II, 10 persons burned a
Mast Hope, N. Y., on Erie
road.
1871 July 3, 15 persons killed, 20 in
jured at Harpcth lliver. Tenn.
1871 August 2G, 30 persons killed, 5C
injured by collision at Kevero,
near Huston, Mass.
1871 February G, 22 lives lost by the
burning of an oil train at New
Hamburgh, N. Y.
1S72 December 21, 19 killed by a tram
falling into a ravine at Norwich,
England.
1S71 September 10. 21 killed, 10
wounded by collision at Shipton,
England.
1ST 1 September 20. 13 drowned by a
train plunging into the Cherwell
r'ner, England.
1S7G January 21, 13 killed by collision
on the Great Northern railway,
England.
1S7G September 2G, 25 killed by acci
dent at lilock Lick station, Penn.
1S7G December 28, over 100 live.
were lost by the disaster at Ash
tabula, O.
1879 December 23, 200 drowned by a
train breaking through the Tay
bridge. Scotland.
1881 March 3, -10 emigrants killed in
collision at Macon, Mo. Wreck
ing train proceeding to scene anil
ditched and 9 persons killed.
18S2 January 13, collision on the Hud
son river railroad near Spuyton
Duyvil; 8 lives lost, including
Senator Webster Wagner.
1883 March 30, loss of 33 lives by n
railroad accident on the Cincin
nati Southern railroad near Ma
son's Station, Ohio. June 2G, If
Chinamen killed by an aeciden'
on the Northern Paeilie railroad
in Montana. July 28, accident
on the Koine, Watertown it Og
densbiirgh road at Carlyon; 22
persons killed; over 10 injured.
November 29, 18 persons kill
ed at St. Meon, France.
1881 January 2, 25 persons killed by a
ra lroad collision iiearToronto.
May I, col ision near Councils
ville, Pa., ,14 lives lost. Jun G,
1 I persons killed by an accident
on the Missouri Pacific railroad
near Muieola. Juno 17, 1 1 per
sons killed by disaster at New
Laredo, N. M. June 28, a train
falls through a bridge near Cun
ningham, Mo.; 20 persons killed
or wounded. July 1(5, accident
on the Manchester and Shelliehl
railway, England; 25 lives lost.
November 1 1, 13 persons perish
in a collision at llanau, Austria.
18S5 January 30,railroad disaster near
Sydney, N. S. W.; 10 persons
killed. June 8, a train derailed
by robbers near Kaslofl", Kussia;
70 persons killed and wounded.
October 18, collision betweei
three Pennsylvania railroad
tniins near Jersey City; 12 poi
sons killed. December 15, col
lisiou near Austell, (la.; 12 lives
lost.
188G January 13, train wrecked at
Valdivia, lvu; 30 soldiers per
ish. March 10, collision be
tween Monte Carlo and Mciitono,
Italy; 20 persons killed. Sep
tember II, collision on the
"Nickel Plato" road neitr lluf
falo; 2tt lives lost. October 23,
disater near llio, Wis.; 13 pas
sengers burned to death. No
vember 3, train wrecked near
Nikolaiev and Odea, Kusia; 40
soldiers killed. December 18,
collision at Charkow, Hiikaia; 13
persons perish.
17 January 4, collision uour Tiffin,
Ohio; 20 lives lost. Fobruary It,
over 90 patueugors burned and
maimed by bridge disaster at
WuiMUtock. i.-Trou (S. Y.)
Time.
m m i ii i
At ft recent exhibiliou In England,
whein iriizei were jfiveu for walking
liotvea, tlw mI tttt.intid wwover ttvu
miW u twur. ....
SPOILING A GHOST.
ITow n riitrkt- lVddlrr rrlRtiiriint Two
"Sun'rnitunil Visit mi Is."
Many a ghost story would have met
with an untimely end, had a man of
spirit arisen to hunt down the super
natural visitants. Sonic .years ajo, a
little town in Iowa became greatly ex
cited over a succession of strange sight?
and noises, which had occurred in
Horse-thief (.rove, where two criminals
had once been buried. The reports ran
that at twelve o'clock every Friday
night blue anil white lights were seen
to rise from the graves anil disappear
in the branches of the trees above.
An enterprising peddler, spending a
night in the town, determined to in
vestigate the ghostly phenomena, and
having provided himself with a pistol,
slipped down to. the grove. An eager
and expectant crowd stood on a hill at
a coincident distance, waiting to set;
the lights, and, says the invest gator, I
made up my mind to give them an after
piece that night, as I lay snugly con
cealed under the bushes near the graves.
I did not have long to wait before 1
heaid the sounds 1 had been expecting
the trampling of feet near me. Look
ing up cautiously, 1 beheld the sons ol
my host, two very niischim ous lads,
carrying a rope and a lantern withblui
and white glass. Every thingwas plain
to me now. The boys would creep
a narrow and deep ditch to the graves.
Hy the aid of a rope tunning oxer a
iiullev fastened in the trees, thev could ;
run the lantern up anddoxvn while con
cealed in the brush some distance oil",
rclxing on the superstitious fear of the
others to prevent discovery.
After they had every thing arranged
and had run the lantern up once, I com
menced saying something in a terrify
ing voice. They dropped every thing
and started through the bush Jike
frightened slice). I fired a few shots,
gave a blood-curdling yell, and quietly
slipped back to the house. Next morn
ing the excitement was terrible to xvit
ness. My host's house, being the
nearest, xvas crowded with men xvear
ing an axved expression, as if they ex
pected a dire calamity. After hearing
the various conjectures and sugges.
Hons, I arose and told my story. My
statements were borne out by finding
the rope and lantern. Nothing but
their extreme youthfiilncss saved the
perpetrators from something worse
than the gentle caresses of a hiekorx
switch. I left the next day. but I'll
xvarran that xvas the hist of the ghost
of "Horse-Thief (irox-e."--0iiii Ike.
DIDN'T KNOW DAKER.
A Hunk Scene froni XVIili'h tli l.eiuli'r
fun Ilia v u XX'holosoino l.i ssiiii. I
Yesterday forenoon as two men who i
had lived neighbor to each other on
High street for a year and walked doxvn
town together a hundred times, met on
(Iriswohl street, one of them re
marked: "Say, Croon, drop into the bank with
me for a minute. 1 xvant to be ident
ified." "Certainly, certainly," repli d Green,
and they entered the bank and xvalked
to the toller's xviudow.
"You identify this man as linker, do
yon?"
"liakor? Baker? Yes. I believe that
is his name."
"Do you knoxv it to be?"
"No -o, but I'x'e heard it xvas. He
lives next door to me."
"Hoxv much of a family has he?"
"He's got a wife, anyhoxv, and 1 sec
some children around."
"What does he do?"
"Lot's see. He's got an ollico of sonic
sort doxvn town here, but I can't say
what he does."
"Will you positively identify him as
Baker?"
Why well no, I guess not, 1 think
he is, but he may be Barker, or Hark
urn, or he may not be. the one 1 think I
knoxw Excuse me, Mr. Baker; I'd be
glad to oblige, you knoxv, but I don't
knoxv you, you know-." Detroit Free
l'rtss.
A Satisfactory Settlement.
Gentleman I hoar, Uncle Kastus,
that you and Dolphus have dissolved
partnership in the xvhite-xvash business.
Uncle Hastus Yes, sab; xve is dom
quit.
Gentleman Well, what kind of a
.settlement did you make?
Uncle Kastus (scratching his head)
Well, yo' see, sab, de 'raiigcinent am
dis. Deni what owes de lirni am to set
tle xviv Dolphus, an' deni what tie linn
oxvos am to settle xviv me. Dolphus
Mowed dat war a fa'r 'rangeineut
sbar' an' shar' nlUw'.Drukts's Trav
elers' Muyuxinc.
There is a folloxv making tho tour
of the Western dime museums this
winter advertised as A It Pasha, 'the
Transparent Turk and Human Wiudoxx
Pane," The itilvcrliscinenl has the in
teresting information: "He xvas on the
stall" of the Sultan of Turkey at the
terrible battle of Plevu-i, when a huge
cannon ball from the cruel Russian
artillery, swift on its errand of death,
passed completely throiiglr this brave
ollicer's body. Admirable surgical
skill saved his life, and a pane of
French window glass xvas lilted in the
gaping cavity with such admirable
nicety that xve noxv have the greatest
marvel of the age. Sun, moon and
stars shluu through him; daylight
and gas light shine through him; you
can see through him; you can road
through him." A'. J'. Sun.
A juror at Oooiiou Court asked to
Ihj excused from serving on the jury
on account of having to go home to
bury his dead mother in-law. Judtfu
!Iittch!n 4id it xvas a legal e.eu, as
any man ought to he unou! to bury
his (lead niolhO-ln-luxv or hs sUtur-lu-luxv,
Alkew (Uu.) JJunner.
CRUEL REVENGE.
trow Uoh Ittirilt'ttn (.ot t:ven tth n Mrs
Jestlr lint er.v Impolite (irtitleiir.n.
Once, in the dead heart of the piti
less xvintcr 1 had drawn my good txvo
handed Lecture xvilh the Terrible Name,
and xvas smiting all the coasts of Penn
sylvania with it, sparing neither (pro
nounced nyther) young or old. and
xvcaring at my belt the scalps of many
a pale-face audience. One night I
reached Erie the pleasant just as the
clocks in the Lord Mayor's castle
struck txvcnty-oiie. It xvas bitter bit
ing, stinging cold, ami there was no
ambulance at the station, while there
xvas a good hotel there. 1 xvont in a d
registered, and a man of commanding
presence, tailor-built clothes and a
broxvn beard of most refuted culture,
followed me, and under my plebeian
sera xv 1 made the register luminous xxitl.
his patrician cognomen. 1 stood a lit
tle in axvc of this majestic being, about
as little as 1 usually stand in the pres
ence of any majestic creature, and when
in a deep has, commanding voice lie
ordered a room 1 had a great mind--something
that I alxiays carry with me
when I travel to go out and get him
one. The gentlemanly and urbane
night clerk, who also seemed to be
deeply impressed as is the habit of the
nighfelerk xxith the gentleman's re-sponsiblo-to-any
amount toot on,
Sawinbel said he xvas sorry but he had
but one vacant room and it contained
but one bed, "Still," he said, as be
came a man who xvas bound to stand
for his' house if it hadn't a bed in it.
"it xvas a very wide bed. very xvide
and quite long. Two gentlemen coulu
sleep in it quite comfortably, and if"
But the Commanding Being at my side
said that was quite altogether out of
the question entirely. Quite! He xx-as sor
ry for the-here he looked at inc. hesitat
ed, but finally said gentleman, but He
couldn't share His room xxith him. He
xvas sorry for the gentleman and hop
ed he might find comfortable lodgings,
but He couldn't permit him to occupy
oven a portion of His bed. Then the
dork begged pardon, and xvas sorry,
and all that, but this other gentleman
had registered fuvt, and it
was for him to say what dis
position should be made of this lonely
room and solitary bed. 1 hastened to
assure the majestic being that it xvas
all right; he xvas welcome to two-thirds
of tho room, all the looking-glass and
one-half of the bed. "No." he said,
very abruptly, "1 will sit here by the
stove and sloop in a chair. 1 thank
you, sir, but I would not sleep xvithiny
own brother. 1 prefer a room to my
self." I meekly told him that I didn't
knoxv what kind of a man his brother
was, but no doubt he did, and there
fore I must conclude that he xvasn't a
lit man to sleep xx ith. But his brother
xvas out of the question, and if he
wanted part of my couch, he might
have it and xvelcomc, and I xvould agree
not to think of his brother. "No sir,"
he said, "I will sleep in no man's bed."
1 said 1 xvoiildn'f either, if I wasn't
sleepy, but when I xvas sleepy, 1 didn't
care; I'd sleep xvith the King of Eng
land or the President, and xvouldn't
care a cent who knew it.
Well, I xvont to bod, I curled up un
der the warm, soft blankets, and heard
the wind shriek and wail and whistle
and yell hoxv like, all creation the
wind can blow in Erie and as the night
grew colder and colder every minute,
I fell asleep and dreamed that heaven
xvas just forty-eight miles west of Dun
kirk. Ahout 2:30 or 3 o'clock there
came a thundering rap at the door.and
xvith a vague, half-xvaking impression
in my dream that soinbody from the
other place xvas trying to get in, I
said:
"What is it?"
"It is I," ansxvered a splendid voice,
which 1 recognized at once. "I am
the gentleman who came on the train
xvith you."
"Yes," I said, "and what is the mat
ter?" The splendid voice was a trille hum
ble as it replied:
"I have changed my mind about
sleeping xvith another man."
"So have I!" I hoxvlcd, so joyously
that the very winds laughed in merry
oho. "So have I! I xvouldn't get out
if ibis warm bod to open that door for
iny oxvn brother!"
I will close this story here. If I
should xvrite the language that went
down that dim, cold hall outside my
door you xvouldn't print it. And xvlien
next morning 1 went skipping doxvn
stair as fresh as a rose, and saxv that
inajcstii! being knotted up in a hard
arm chair, looking a hundred years old,
I said:
"Better Is a poor and xvise child than
an old and foolish King, xvho knoxveth
not hoxv to be admonished. For out of
prison he conieth to reign, whereas,
also ho that is born in his kingdom he
coincih poor." This alo is vanity.
llobcrt ., Jlurileltc, in Brooklyn luiylc.
The report of President Battle, of
the North Carolina State University,
to the board of trustees, shoxvs that the
university is of great benefit to poor
voung men. There are noxv at the in
dilution more than a hundred youths,
Dr. Battle says, "xvilh hands brown
with toil, some cooking for themselves,
ithers hiring their own cooks, some
m county appointments free of tuition,
ithers going into debt for it, xvith
threadbare clothes, in the coldest
tvoathcr, without great-couts, hovering
ivor scanty llres, but xvith thellamesof
noble resolution
burning in their
ui'easts. '
Whon oayouiio pepper is higher
diiin Scotch smill' tint siiuir is used to
ululterato it. When the revurao la the
Mtsv the pepper goes Into the snuff.
It's u puor rule that won't work both
BITTEN BY DOGS.
Jinny AtnerlcHtu Who l'rlvutrly I'ntrontio
l'itstrur'4 llyilropholilp Institute. I
Surgeon Charles A. Siegfried, of tho
United States Navv, has returned from
Paris, xvhere he lookeil into the Pasteur
system of lighting hydrophobia, xvith a
viexv toils introduction into a Govern
ment hospital in this country. He says
that medical opinions in France differ
as to the elllcacy of the inoculations,
but that the records of cases seem to
establish the value of Pasteur's work.
The number of Americans who resort
to Prof. Pasteur's institute is not sus
pected by their countrymen. Many
make the trip privately, especially if
they belong to xvell-to-do families able
to pay the expenses without, publicity.
Besides, bitten persons are alxx'ays loth
to admit their nerx'ousness, and there
fore go to Paris ostensibly for pleasure,
while their real errand is to
get inoculated. Pasteur hu
mors their desire for secrecy, and
permits them to register under assuineil
names, even xvlien he knoxvs xxho they
really are, which is by no means al
xvays. A note of introduction from tho
American Minister is required, as a
matter of form. No fee is charged, but
voluntary contributions are accepted,
ami those go into a fund for the main
tenance of the hospital. Past "iir per
sonally takes no pay.
A young New York lady xvho xrent
through the process assumed forthe oc
casion the name "Marietta Byrne,"
Her pet dog had bitten her and then
died in convulsions, so that she did not
know for a certainty xvhelher or not
she xvas in danger of the dreaded
rabies. She rode to Pasteur's house, at
14 Hue Vaqiielin, xvhich is an insig
nificant building in the midst of the
various schools in the Latin Quarter.
She xvas accompanied by her father,
xvho presented her credentials andgavo
all the particulars of her case to a clerk,
xvho recorded them in a big book.
Then she xvas shoxvn into an anteroom,
and directed hoxv to prepare her
self for the operation. This consisted
simply in arranging her attire
so that, xvithont delay, tho surgeon
could inject the virus under the skin.
Thou she xvas placed in a line xvilh
seventeen other bitten persons, all
xvoinen or children, for this day xvas set
apart for them men having had the
previous day. All marched into the
room xvhere Pasteur and his assistants
were in readiness. One surgeon stood
beside a table on xvhich xvas a glass jar
containing the protective fluid. Over
the top of this vessel xvas stretched a
it filtering paper. Beside it lax a hypo
dermic syringe. The man thrust the
sharp, delicate no.zle of this instru
ment through the paper into the liquid
and tilled it in that xvay, in order that
by no possibility could it be vitiated by
centai1, xxith the ah. Having thus
charged the syringe, he hanihM it to
the principal operator, xvho deftly in
serted it obliquely through the skin of
the patient and quickly injected its con
tents. It xvas like the puncture, of a.
neetll", and not very painful. Tho girl
bore it. xvithont ilinching, but some of
the children, as well as tho more
ignorant adults, cried and struggled at
it. She had to return for additional in
jections during several weeks. N. Y.
Sun.
BY RAIL TO THE OXUS.
(Inn or the Mont Itomuiitlo Chiipter In
tho Situry nl Modern 1'roKrox.
The poets of Asia have sung for cen
turies of the beauty and fruitfultiess of
the Zarafchau valley. The fact that,
the environs of Samareand, liokhara
and Khiva aro among tho most fertile
in the world has counted for little in
their development, for almost pathless
deserts separate them from the lands
that xvould gladly buy their produce.
Steam cars, hoxvever, have come at
last to supersede the costly camel cara
vans that, since the Czar overpowered
the Kanatcs, hax'e often been sent to
the Russian frontier.
When it xvas announced a short time
ago that the Trans-Caspian railroad
had reached the Aniu-Daria at Chanl
jui, the telegraph from Khiva and Bok
hara at once reported that a number ot
caravans xvcre loading xvith silks, leath
er, furs, carpets and wool, xvhich they
xvould take to Chardjui en route for
Europe. Mr. Lansdell told us two years
ago that Central Asian cotton xvas. of
line quality and could he raised in
ou.irinous quantities. It now appears
that as soon as it xvas positively known
that the railroad xvould ho advanced to
the Aniu-Daria. the planting of cotton
in Bokhara xvas very sensibly augment
ed. Thus the pulse-beats of Western
commerce are beginning to bo felt in
the remoter regions of the Moham
medan world, revivifying countries
long dormant that in the ago of Alex
ander the Great xvcre the seat of an ad
vanced and powerful civilization.
The ruins still exist of those great
canals that centuries ago led the waters
of the Murghab throughout the Merv
oa!s, fertilizing the soil ami fitting it
to bo tho abiding place of a large and
nourishing population. Since the rail
road reached Merv the Turkomans
there have begun the work of cleaning
out and restoring these old works or
irrigation, and tho day is rapidly com
ing xvlien ancient Merv will lose the
sad and arid aspect that noxv predom
inates in all it- borders. The railroad
that General Aniionkoir pushed forward
through billows of sand and a treeless
desert will be tho moans of restoring to
Merv the verdure and fertility she once
poseossed.
Tho history of this railroad enter
prlso, xvhioh h kindling the spirit of
tho xvotftoru world amid tho ruins of u
iIimmi civilization of tho far East, is
dot!nd to make one of tho most Inter
eating and romaiitlu chapters in tho
story of modern progress.. -A'. Y. Sun,
O