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IV. .
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Not Fit to be Kissed.
'W hat ails papa's mouf ?' said a sweet
little girl.
Her bright laugh revealing her teeth
white as pearl.
"I love him and kiss him, and, sit on
his knee,
But the kisses don't smell good when
be kisses me !
"But, mama" her eyes opened wide
as she spoke
"Do you like nasty kisses of 'bacco and
smoke ?
They might do for boys, but for ladies
and irirls
1 1 don't think them nice," as she tossed
UC1 UUUb VUI IS.
"Don't nobody's papa have nioufs nice
and clean ?
With kisses like yours, mam ma that's
what I mean ?
I want to kiss papa, I love him so well,
But kisses don't taste good that have
such a smell!-
"It's nasty to smoke, and eat 'bacco,
and spit,
And the kisses an't good, and an't
sweet not a bit I"
And her l.lossom-like face wore a look
of disgust
As she gave out her verttict, so earnest
and just.
Yes, yes little darling, your wisdom
has seen
That kisses for daughters and wives
should be clean ;
For kisses lose something of nectar and
bliss
From mouths tint arestained and unfit
for a kiss.
Prehistoric Men of the Nine
teenth Century.
This beading may at first glance
seem to be either a "bull" or a joke,
but it is penned in sober earnest.
While there can be no reasonable
doubt, in view of modern discov
eries, that man existed on the earth
at a much earlier period than six
thousand years ago, it is a curious
fact that in some districts even in
our own day he is very much what
ho was in that prehistoric time.
The comparative age of deposits of
weapons aud other memorials
cannot, therefore, in all cases be de
cided by the rudeness or perfection
of their manufacture. This is well
illustrated by certain facts in regard
to the remoter highlands aud islands
of Scotland, recently brought out
in one of the "lthind Lee tn res ou
Arelneology," by Dr. Arthur Mit
chell, of Edinburgh, which we find
reported in English journals. Ac
cording to his statements a species
of pottery of the very earliest type
is at this day in common use in the
Lewis, one of the iuuer Hebrides.
This primitive ware is made by the
women with the hands alone, except
when the vessels have narrow necks,
in which caso a stick with
a curve is used to give form
to the inside. What ornament
these vessels possess is giveu, as
in the archaic specimens already
referred to, by the finger-nail, a
pointed stick or a piece of thread.
The rudest pottery ever discovered
among the relics of the stone age,
remarks the lecturer, was not ruder
than this, and no savages now known
make pottery of a coarser or ruder
character. Thousands of people in
this Island of Lewis, we are also told
people, described as well-conditioned
physically, mentally and morally
are living iu huts of the "behive' '
class, a kind of hive-shaped pile of
stones, the walls of which are double,
of unhewn stones, with turf be
tween, six or seven feet thick, and
containing neither table nor chairs,
the apartments are separated by a
tunnel like passage, through which
you have to creep, stones being used
for seats and the occupants sleeping
on a part of the floor marked off for
the purpose.
These startling facts, as an English
critic remarks, "show that stone-age
lottery may exist side by side with
Sevres and Wedgwood; that people
may, in the most luxurious and com
fortable community in the world,
live in prehistoric huts, grind the
corn in querns, and eat their meals
out of bowls baked in the embers,
and not to be distinguished f oni
the rude vessels of the cavemen;
and that this rudeness of external
conditions may exist among certain
sections of a people in the very high
est stage of civilization, and have no
relation to inferiority either of capa
city or culture; for the laborer whom
Dr. Mitchell found eating his break
fast out of a 'craggan,' the meal of
which it was composed having been
ground by hand in a quern, had
probably received a fair education at
a parish school, and possessed at
least the average intelligence of his
race and class."
Why Men Smoke.-No habit adopt
ed by a whole race of men indeed
by all races of men but must have
a raison d'etre. The dhudeen of the
Irishman, thechibouk of the Asiatic,
the calumet of the Indian, the cigar
of thejwhite American, would not. exist
simultaneously on every part of the
globe if in the use of tobacco there
did not slumber some spell of great
potenoy over men. The lazy man it
seems to make lazier j the nervous
man it makes more nervous ; the
brain worker it inspires, and on the
artist it bestows visions of beauty.
All lecturing against it have proven
vain. The habit spreads with popu
lation over Australia and Polynesia,
and in a couple of centuries from
now smoking will be as universal as
eating. It behooves us then, to see
that something be done to insure the
rehabilitation of the better qualities
of tobacco.which seems deteriorating
so fast. Mantilla is ceasing to. pro
duce a decent cheroot, tobacco cul
tnre is dying out there like wine cul
ture in Madeira. One thing is cer
tain, that the substitution of the ci
garette for- the cigar is exceedingly
dangerous.
The American rifle, team beat the
Irish team at Creedmpor on the 21st
inst. by 11 points.
OREGON CITY,
Charles I.'s Death and Burial.
In January,- King Charles was
taken to London, and there was
tried and beheaded, as you know,
lou and I have not the time to in
quire (and, perhaps, between our
selves, are not clever enough to de
cide,) how far this could have been
helped, or what excuse they had who
did it. The only thing we can be
sure of is, that Charles was not a
bad man, nor Cromwell an ambitious
hypocrite though I do not think the
one was a martyr, nor the other a
spotless peer. It was on the 30th of
January, 1749, that thi3 terrible
event took place, and, after that oc
curred the saddest scene that old
Windsor ever. saw. Four of the
king's faithful servants (he had
faithful servants all through his ca
reer), " the Duke of Kichmond, the
Marquis of Hertford, and the Earls
of Southampton and Lindsay," re
quested leave to bury him, and car
ried the body back to the Castle.
They took with them that Bishop
Ju xon who attended the king on the
scaffold, to read the service over him
now. Bat the Governor of the Cas
tle, who was a certain Colonel
Whitchcott, would not allow the bur
ial service. He told them that "the
Common Prayer-book had been put
down, and he would not suffer it to
be used in "that garrison when he
commanded." You will see from
this that persecution was not all on
one side, but that whoever was up
permost in these violent times did
his best to crush his neighbor. You
could not fancy anything more
heartless than the Puritan's refusal
to allow these heart-broken men to
say holy prayers over their king's
and their friend's grave except, in
deed, the refusal of that same kiug
to let these same Puritans live along
with him in the native England
which had room for them all. When
the faithful lords found it impossi
ble to change this decision, they
went sadly to St. George's to find "a
place to lay him, but found the
chapel so bare, so naked, so altered,
that it was only with hard ado that
they found a vault iu tho middle of
what had once been the choir, where
they could lay the king. Here they
fonnd a little space for King Charles,
close by the great leaden coffin
where Henry VIII. lay peacefully,
unwitting who was coming. The
Duke of Richmond murkud ont
roughly upon "a scarfe of lead" fie
letters of his name and the date.
Then, nil in silence, at three o'clock
in the January afternoon, when it
was no more than twilight in the
cold and naked chapel, they carried
the coifin, then coveted with a black
pall, of which "the fouro lords"
curried the corners, with a forlorn
attempt at state. As they came down
the castle hill toward the chapel with
their burden, it began suddenly to
snow and the snow fell so thickly
and so fast that soon the black pall
was all white. Was there ever a
more mournful sight? In the dim
capcl that snow-20vered coffin would
be the one spot of wintry lightness.
" The Bishop of London stood w eep
ing by to tender to 'that service,
which might not be accepted." Thus
they laid him in the dark vault to
molder with the other royal bones,
dropping the whiteness of the snow
covered pall (an emblem, they said,
of his innocence) into the black gulf
with him not a word said, not a
prayer except in their hearts,' the
Puritan Governor of the Castle -landing
by to see his orders executed.
When all was over, he locked up the
empty, echoing chapel, and took the
keys away. Windsor has seen weep
ing and sorrows like every other old
house where men for generations
have lived and died, and more than
most, for in the old days suffering
and sorrow were apt to follow in the
paths of kings ; but never has our
venerable Castle seen so melancholy
a sight.
If the story of the Stuavts had
been a drama, a great tragedy such
as Shakespeare could have made,
no doubt it would have ended here.
JUrs. OHi7tant, St. NicJiolas.
I'"rult for Food.
If a child's digestion becomes im
paired and the gastric juice become
weakened or defective in quantityby
over-eating or bad food, the Avhole
al imentary canal becc mes clogged and
filthy, and furnishes nests for such
worms as will breed there. In this
weakened condition of the system
they cannot be destroyed by the pro
cess of digestion, and hence great
harm comes from them. Now, it is
an interesting fact that fresh, ripe
fruit is the best preventive for this
state of things. Dr. Benjamin Rush
pointed this out a bundled years
ago. He made a series of experi
ments on earth worms, which he re
garded as more nearly allied to those
that infest the bowels of children
than any other, with a view to test
their power of retaining life under
the influences of various sub
stances that might be used as worm
medicines. The results, proved that
worms often lived longer in those
substances known as poisonous than
in some of the most harmless articles
of food. For instances, in a watery
solution of opium they lived eleven
minutes; in infnsion of pink root,
thirty-three minutes; but in tho
juice of red cherries, in five minutes;
gooseberries, in four minutes;
whortleberries in seven minutes,
and rasberries in five minutes. From
these experiments Dr. Rush argued
that fresh, ripe fruits, ot which
children are very fond, are the mos
speedy and effectual poisons for
for worms. In practice this theory
has proved to be correct.
Ex-Qoeen Isabella and Ex-Queen
Christana are intriguing in Spain to
have 40,000,000 and S36,000,000 re
rectively returned, to them..
' .
OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 29, 1876.
Polygamy from a Philosophical
Point of View.
The economic aspects of polygamy
have been studied by J, H. Beadle,
during several visits and brief resi
dences among the Mormons, and he
has contributed an interesting arti
cle about it to the Popular Science
Monthly. He considers the system
economically a failure, in Utah, and
from ethical and physical ret-ions
both. The reasons at the outset are
obvicus. 1 Polygamy tends to multi
ply the helpless, to increase the con
sumers disproportionately to the
producers, and &o eventually to eat
up accumulated savings and prevent
the accumulation of further surplus.
If all the children should take their
places among the earning class, in
time this would correct itself, but
forty per cent, of the race die before
reaching tho age of self-support, so
that forty per cent, of the increase
is an absolute and the whole a pres
ent loss. But in the condition of
polygamy in Utah there is a larger
percentage of mortality among the
feeble children. It is true that more
children are born in polygamous na
tions than in monogamous, but nev
ertheless population does not in
crease as rapidly, as a comparison of
the statistics of the Turks, Persians
or Hindoos with those of the Eng
lish, German or Russian will show.
Owing to this continual dispropor
tion of consumers, and the conse
quent steady draft on the surplus, a
polygamous community, in the cli
mate and on the soil of Utah, cannot
get rich. Mr. Beadle further as
serts that individuals don't have an
even chance to improve their condi
tion. Brigham Young is not worth
over $000,000, not a large fortune
for a man with 120 wives, children,
sons-in-law and grand-children cling
ing to him. Utah's assessed prop
erty is $28,000,000, of which half be
longs to the Gentilo minority, so
that the average among the Mor
mons is about $140. The average
individual wealth in Massachusetts
is 1,4G2 and odd cents. Mr. Bea
dle says that an old lawyer of Salt
Lake thinks that in ten years nearly
every man among them will be bank
rupt. Polygamy, by its introduc
tion of the element of uncertainty
in the family, dissipates social en
ergy weakens cohesion aud fellow
ship, and, making a priesthood es
sential, submits the community to a
paralizing tyrranny, which cannot
but prevent prosperity.
. . m
How Tight They Wear Them.
The extremities to which fashion
has advanced in London in female
attire are really deplorable. A lady
on whose truthfulness I can depend
confides to me tho following particu
lars: She was asked the other day to
inspect the wedding trousseau of a
3'onug lady of high rank. The dresses
were very numerous and beautiful,
and every accessory of attire was in
the height of fashion, if not of good
taste. "But where," inquired my
friend, ' is the under-clothing?"
"Oh," said the milliner, with a
smile of pity, "ladies wear none now-a-days.
They wear these instead,"
and she pointed to three complete
suits, not of armor, but of chamois
leather.
It is only over tho chamois leather
that the skirts from Worth can be
strained tight enough. At Bristol,
the other day, the Mayor gave au
entertainment to the Lord Mayor of
London, and the occasion seemed so
important that one lady guest sent
to Paris for her dinner dress. It
was so tight when it came that she
had to take off garment after gar
ment before she could get into it at
all. And then she had to sit down
at tabic. I am told that her suffer
ings were considerable during the
repast ; but her worst misery -wa3
the reflection, " How shall I get up
agaiu ?" Eventually she did get up,
thanks to the gentlemen on each
side of her, who pulled down the
refractory garment bv main force.
At the very last drawing-room at
Buckingham Palace a similar catas
trophe took place. A lady made her
bow to the Queen a little too low for
her " kicking-strap," (as a man
would call, but I dare say Mr. Worth
has some prettier name) and it
slipped down so far that she conld
not get up again. The Lord High
Chancellor himself had to come for
ward and set her straight. Harper's
Bazar.
Jules Janiii's Widow.
Mme. Jules Janin, widow of the cel
ebrated critic, died of a cancer in the
breast at her residence in Passy re
cently. She made the acquaintance
of her husband in this singular man
ner: Being out one evening on the
streets of Paris under the protection
of her maid, she was accosted by
Janin, who had been dining freely.
He annoyed her to suoh a degree
that she was obliged to threaten a
call on the police. Some months
afterwards, at a soiree dansante, he
was suddenly confronted with the
women whom he had so rudely treat
ed. Escape was impossible. He
was introduced. She cut him up
with stinging sarcasms, but he ad
mired her more for them, and in the
course of a year the acquaintance
having ripened, be formally propos
ed for her hand. She consented to
become his wife, stipulating that be
should in the future never acoost
young ladies accompanied, by their
maid. This is the pretty story told
of Luoy Hooper, and reading it one
is singular impressed with Mme.
Janin's want of good sense, since
she does not seem to have objected
to her husband's holding conversa
tion with any but respectable wo
men.
The steamer Bryant was wreck
ed on Prean Point, La., on the 21st,
The. cargo , was mostly saved...
The Wives of Great Men.
It was a saying of Rousseau's
that "a man is only what a woman
makes him," and this sentiment is
slightly varied is our own old Eng
lish proverb, which says that "if a
man would thrive he must ask his
wive's leave." The records of his
tory contain numberless examples
of women who have done for their
husbands what Aaron and Hur did
for Moses; they have held up their
hands and supported them at great
est crisis of their lives and so turned
what would have been a failure into
triump and success. - And they con
tain examples, too, of those who have
accomplished a far more difficult
task that of sustaining and cheering
when endeavor and hope were dead.
It is only necessary to mention the
names of Gertrude von der Wert and
and Lady Rachel Russell in proof
of this. It may not be uninteresting
to give a few instances of women iu
our own generation who have been
in their husbands helpers and fellow-workers
as well as sympathizing
companions, and who have thus tak
en a position which is unanimously
acknowledged to be a most proud
and honorable one that of a help -mate
to man. Among these the name
that is first thought of probable be
cause it has so recent! v been
brought before the public notice, is
that of Lady Augusta Stanley, the
wife of the Dean of Westminster.
Herself the daughter of a peer, and
one of the most intimate of the
Queen?s personal friends, she posess
ed a largeness of and a strength of
intellect which won respect and kind
ly feelings from all who came in con
tact with her. She svmDathized
mosfc-heartly with her husband.both
in thought and and work, while the
poor of Westminister found in her
tenderness and kindness a frequent
alleviation of their miseries. Everv
one will remember the testimony of
John Stuart Mill to the worth of his
wife which is to be found in the ded
ication to her memory printed at
the commencement of one of his es
says: "To the beloved and deplored
memory or her who was the inspirer
and, ic part, the author of all that
is best in my writings the friend
and wife's exalted sense of truth and
right was my strongest incitement.
aud whose approbation was my chief
reward- I dedicate this volume."
It is said that such was Mr. Mill's
sorrow at her death that hecontinued
to reside at Avignon, the place where
she was buried, so that he might
continually visit her tomb, and he
never ceased to lament her loss.
Thomas Carlyle, ono of the greatest
intellectual lights of this century,
has recorded his te timony to the
worth of his wife on her tombstone:
"In her bright existance she had
more sorrows than are common, but
also a soft amiability, a capacity for
discernment aud a noble loyality of
heart which are rare. For forty
years she was the true and loving
helpmate of her husband, and by act
and word unweariedly forwarded
him, as none else could, in all
of worthy that he did or attempted."
The wife of Sir William Hamilton,
professor of logic in the University
of Edinburgh, was a true helper to
her husband; indeed it is more than
probable that without her many of
his best works would never have
been written. When he was elected
to the professorship many of his
opponents declared publicly that. he
would never be able to fulfill the du-.
ties of his position, as he was nothing
but a dreamer. He and his wife
heard of this and determined to prove
that it was not true. They therefore
arranged to work together. Sir
William wrote out roughly, each
day, the lecture that was to be given
the next morning; and as he wrote
his wife copied it out; and again and
again they sat up writing till far in
to the night. When Sir " William
was struck down with paralysis, the
result of overwork, Lady Hamilton
devoted herself entirely to him
wrote for him, read for him and sav
ed him in everyway.
.
Krupp's Cannon Factory.
The establishment of 'Krupp, the
great gun maker.extendsover several
hundred acres and employs 12,000
workmen. It is traversed by a rail
way five miles in iength and a tram
way of two miles. Its various
parts are connected by lines of tele
graph wires and not less than thirty
stations. The annual sum paid in
wages amounted some years ago to
400,000; it is now probablv much
greater. Considerable skill is re
quired in the manipulation of the steel
so largely used at Essen. When a
good workman is found it is desir
able to retain him; and so, as far as
possible, it is made worth Lis while
to remain when once he has been
employed. A pension fund has been
established to which every one em
ployed on the works must subscribe
a small fraction of his wages. To
the money thus collected the pro
prietor adds a sum equal to half of
that subscribed by the men.
Seaside Stockings. A watering
place correspondent writes : Stock
ings of blue, red and stripes are
worn this summer in the bath, knee
high, with a coquettish little white
seam down the sides, as if it was a
rip. What cunning has not woman?
She is aware that her foot is almost
always inferior to a man's in grace
and plant. A man stands like a
marble statue, with the blue veins
cut clearly ; a woman's foot is the
trade-mark of irresolution, and onlv
half developed,' and the toes take
hold of nothing. Her big toe points
upward and her little toe shrinks
into the sand.
Occident trotted a mile at Sacramen
to m 2:26 without a skipr. on tho
41st, JiDi. Xennent driving,
Russia in Tnrkey.
Of course the outside of the cur
rent troubles in the east of Europe
is all that is seen by the world, but
it is as well to understand that Rus
sia really opened this war in 1870,
when the Czar notified subscribing
powers to the treaty of Paris of 1856,
of his determination to disregard
any further the eleventh and thir
teenth articles. That was the real
opening of the present campaign.
England and Italy were obliged to
assent, which they did with a sullen
protest. France was engaged at the
time in war with Germany, and was
therefore helpless. - The Czar's pol
icy was to enfeeble Turkey by fo
menting disorders and Insurrections
in her provinces. For a time all
seemed to go as the Czar wished ; in
surrection followed insurrection, re
forms were neutralized by intrigues,
the army was uncared for, iron-clads
that were of no service absorbed im
mense sums of borrowed money, and
to cap the climax, the direction of
the Sultan's affairs drifted into the
hands of one who was Russia's un
resisting tool. The condition of
Turkey was indeed deplorable. She
had no credit, no army, no vigor of
administration, and her subject prov
inces turned to Russia for both alli
ance and protection.
But the fates have been against
Russia in working out her scheme to
destroy Turkey from the map. The
May revolution upset all Russia's
plan's. The Russian ambassador at
Constantinople proved not to be
master of the situation. The
old Turkish spirit revived. The
ambassador was called to St. Peters
burg. Though Herzegovina suc
ceeded in its resistance to the Porte,
Servia's attempt has been a failure.
The troops whom Prince Milan has
been fighting against are not para
lyzed by Russian influence, as they
were in the case of Herzegovina.
Russia apprehended this result,
which was the reason why the Czar
tried so hard to restrain Servia from
the conflict, which turned' out so
badly for the province. If ServiaJ is
to continue fighting now, Russia ha-?
got to show her hand by joining her
as an ally. The western powers
stand in the way of this, and will so
stand to the last. Germany and
Austria and Italy have relations of
their own with the provinces. As
everything has gone so decidedly
against Russia so far, it looks now
as if it was too late for her to act un
less she means to defy the rest of
Europe openly. 31ass PJougliman.-
Iiow to Jlreathe Properly. ,
Most people breathe properly,
often more by accident or instinct
than by design, but on the other
hand hundreds or thousands do not
breathe properly, while many thou
sands at this present moment are
suffering from more or less severe
aliectious of the lungs, or throat,
owing to a faulty mode of respira
tion in other words, because they
breathe through the mouth instead
of through the nostrils. The mouth
has its own functions to perform in
connection with eating, drinking and
speaking ; and the nostrils have
theirs, namely, smelling and breath
ing. In summer time the error of
perspiring through the mouth is not
so evident as in the winter reason,
when it is undoubtedly fraught with
danger to the pers:n who commits
the mistake. If any one breathes
through the natural channel of the
nostrils, the air passing over the mu
cous membrane lining the various
chambers of the nose, becomes j
warmed to the temperature of the !
body before reaching the lungs, but
if he takes the air between the lips
and in the month, the cold air comes
in contact with the delicate lining
membrane of the throat and lungs.
and gives rise to a local chill, fre
quently ending in inflamation. Many
persons, without knowing the reason
why they are benefited, wear respi
rators over their month in winter, if
they happen to go out doors. By
doing this they diminish the amount
of air which enters between the lips,
and virtually compel themselves to
breathe throagh the nostrils. But
they can attain just the same result
by keeping the lips closed, a habit
which is easily acquired, and con
duces to tli3 proper and natural way
of breathing. We believe that if
people would only adopt this simple
habit in other words, if they would
take for their rule in breathing,
" tohut your mouth ! there would
be an intense diminution in the two
classes of affections, namely, those
of the lungs and throat, which count
many thousands of victims in this
country in the course of a single
year.
The Fall Term.
The public schools opened for the
fall and winter season yesterday, and
every child in Detroit felt happy for
an hour or two, if not longer. A
boy going down Second street from
the Cass school, at noon, met a boy
going up from the Porter street
school, and the Cass boy called out,
" Haint school bully, though ?" .
" You bet 1" was the prompt reply.
" How's your teacher ?"
" Nicest person vou ever saw. I
snapped Bix paper wads this after
noon, and never got licked once."
44 Just like mine," called the other.
" When she saw me sticking a pin
into a boy she smiled and smiled,
and I believe she's got a heart like
an angel.,'
Those lads may meet a week later,
and when they compare notes the
first one will remark :
" I'm licked reg'lar three times a
day, and for nothing at all."
" Soam I," was the mournful echo
of the other.
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Victor Hugo. -
M. D. Conway visited Victor Hu
go recently, and found the great nor
ehst hale and hearty notwithstand
ing the heavy sorrows that have
come over him. The loss of hi? wife
was the first blow, but that left him
still a charming family, and Madame
Druot, who had been their life-long
friend, and who was then, asshe is
now, his secretary, added something
like a maternal presence to the
household. He had four children,
two sons and two daughters, and ,
they were all remarkable for talent
and culture, and the daughters for
beauty. Both of the sons were liter
ary, and if they had not been over
shadowed by their father's lustre,
would have been much more distin
guished. Both of these sons died
lecently. One daughter alone lives,
the wife of au English officer. The
olier daughter died under strange
circumstances. She had jnst been
married to one of the editors of the
Rappel, and was walking with her
husband beside the sea inGuern
sey. Suddenly a wave leaped up on
the shore aud swept her away. Her
husband plunged after ' her, but
could not save her. The two bodies
were found afterward clasped to
gether in a last embrace," and so they
were buried. Notwithstanding all
these sorrows, Hugo still finds him-1
self surrounded by a lovely family.
The widow of his son Charles, a
most beautiful young lady, with her
two children a girl of four and a
boy of six. both clever and pretty
nestle around the grand, white
haired veteran, full of cheerfulness
and courage. "It is a scandal,"
says Mr. Conway, "that such a man.
as this should not be President of
the French Republic. Simply as re
gards looks it would be a figure of
the good time to see snob a man
drive down the Champs d'Elysees
amid the people he loves and who
worship him. 16 has1 been my happy
fortune to listen to the conversation
of some great men to Emerson, who
cannot be surpassed in dialectic talk;
to Carlisle, who is great in mono
logue but Victor Hugo impressed
me more than any other man to
whose conversation I have listened."
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Nervousness aud Nervines.
Nervousness, says Cassell's Maga
zine, is one of the prices we have to
pay for civilization ; the nervous
savage is a being unheard of. For
this disorder, which is partly of
mental and partly of a bodily na
ture, relief is sought in various ways,
and among these we may place the
employment of narcotics. The tem
porary relief afforded by these drugs
is very apt to lead those who suffer
from these nervous sensations to put
too much trust in and resort too fre
quently to them. In the long run
they prove most destructive to
health. Their use of late has be
come so frequent as to threaten soci
ety with a serious evil. It has been
boldly contended that chloral is to
be found in the work-boxes and bask
ets of nearly every lady in the west
end of the metrdpolis," to calm her
nerves." No doubt this is an exag
geration, but it is a fact that in New
York chloral punch had become an
institution scarcely a year after the
introduction of chloral into medical
practice. And now it turns out that
Germany " soberly, orderly, pater-
nally-ruled Germany" has such a
thing as morphia disease spreading
among its population. The symp
toms are not unlike those of opium
eating. Experience suggests that
persons suffering from this disease
should at once be deprived of the
drug. Their willfulness and liabil
ity to relapse, however, are so great.
that it 13 said that only about twen
ty-five per cent, have been seen to
recover in a large series of cases.
Drifted Into a Fortune
Charles R. Bishop, banker, of
Honolulu, on the .island of Oahu,
says the Albany Argris, capital of the
Sandwick Islands, formerly of Sandy
Hill, and wife a 'native princess
are on a visit to friends and relatives
in this country, and yesterday were
the guests of George Bradley, of
Fort Edward. Mr. Bishop, in com
pany with the late William E. Lee,,
lawyer of Sandy Hill, shipped in a
sailing vessel at Newburyport, in the
year 1846, bound for Oregon, and
after being adrift 237 days, drifting
about by contrary winds, landed ou
the island of Oahu, one of the Sand
wich Island group in the Pacifio
Ocean. These two young adventur
ers found themselves among stran
gers on a small island many, thou
sand miles away from home and
friends, and Oregon, the land of
their fondest hopes, not reached.
But this island, having been visited
and Christianized by American mis
sionaries many years before, these
young men found favor with the
king and court, and they soon estab
lished themselves in business. Be
ing prospered, they remained, and
Mr. Bishop, surviving his compan
ion, now returns to his native land
and home, after an absence of thirty
years, to enjoy a short visit with
those of his old friends, relatives
and associates who still may be
found amongst the living.
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"""The farmer who sent his son to
New York to become a clerk,, nor
writes asking the merchant whether
there is "anything in the boy'
"Yes," replies the merchant,, "lust
after he has been in a saloon."
Albert Rhodes asks in the Septem
ber Galaxy, " Shall we drink wine ?"
This invitation is too general. Let
Mr. Rhodes make it more personal,,
and he wiil find ont.
The schooner Idler won the New
York yacht club regatta on. the 2Dtlu
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