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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1888)
FOLK LORE. CONCERN"40 BEAUTIFUL MAKING A FALSE CONFESSION. Dr. W. A. Himm oa d Talks AU.1 tke Bell Aerawd CrimlMl. FROM OVER THE SEA. THE DI8EA8ES OF MONKEfS. Aa Animal Dealer Talks off ’the Ravacee off Toothache, SeaalskaaM aad PwgnaeHy, “The chimpanzee,” began Mr Frank J. MAKING MAPLE SUGAR. 1NE OF THE MOST DELICIOU8 MEM ORIES OF CHILDHOOD. Thompson, an animal dealer of New York city, “is like tbe other members of the ape . i family, a very tender and delicate animal, A requiring great care in captivity. ¡The I Trip to tho Oldtime “Bosh“—A Day Whei Patent Evaporators Wore Un monkeys proper, or the quadrum» nia known—Golden Drips off Indescribable Are Ssl*toi. tied—Articles off Cone- having tails, are hardier. Probably tho least affected by cold of any are the com swoetneoe—“It Ropeel” • mere« fruu* « .««> Tropic». mon Macaqne, the Khenua, and the Orient rnrtous beliefs <»“«rnln8 th* monkeys, oil natives of Asia. But, There is one thing that no mortal can imi The marine invezticcator at 8andy Hook, ,he most Iwautlfulof the lumln- easting his eyes seaward the other day, nevertheless, monkeys and apes require tate. I have seen and tasted a hundred sorts "a of ths sky or alr-have the greatest care In handling, and, even if manufactured sugar; but I will go without spied something which unaccustomed 7^*11 ages, and do still survive. eyes wonld not have seen. He. clapped with thia, their usual term of life is very my spring bonnet if I cannot tell tbe honest 7 bare left 0,1 record many of short, only a few yenra at the most. Of frotn the imitation every time. There is a his glasses, fine double extra power oues, lieiiefs- They grew and to his eyes and stood in a posture of scru course there are occasional exceptions, and ielieate bouquet of flavors commingled to ■EX* tlie Middle Ages. The I myself have kept or have known of make up maple syrup—live in number, I am tiny £or many moments. , at Christian art employed the mre, if not six. These I can tell, one from ‘It’s a bark,” says he, still focussing specimens 10 or 13 years old. „ an'ornament. Christ being “Mr. Crowley is believed to be tbe old the other, and glucose is not one of them. his glasses on the distant object. ,1, show» seated on tbe many est of the chimpanzees, having arrived at The most delicious memory of my girlhood A shadowy substance 'began to appear Jeb of heaven. on the horizon. The eye of the landsman the park on June 24, 1884, when he was is of a day when I was permitted to go with ba» been recognized as the would have simply noted that something but a little bit of a fellow, a foot and a my father to the “bush,” half a mile from I» nn(| divine honors and wor- 1 half orXwo feet high. Mr. Conklin used the house. The bush, or grove, was about that sailed was approaching. “heen paid to it. Ancient Greeks “She’s Nova Scotian,” was the laconic to let him run all around his office. He aeveuty-flve maple trees, scattered in groups . offerwl cokes of flour, meal and utterance that came from beneath the was donated by the Liberian minister, and singly up and down tbe slopes of a great jl5 to the rainbow. Iris, the who had bought him in Liberia from a glen, or perched on top a grand knoll. We binoculars. w - •and swift messenger of the gods, ‘•Then it’s the Strathay, nowThie,” was coasting vessel which had picked him up rode on a stone boat over tbe snow, for the Lutxnv ill early mythology, apd the equally laconic outcome* of a marine somewhere near tbe mouth of tbe Congo farmers could carry barrels of sap more ■ lesser divinities In Olympus. river, on the west coast of Africa. It is sasily on such a vehicle, and it did not cut •«icyelopedia who stood near. M ¡1* rainbow is recognized as Pretty soon the b&rk’s sails *loonfed?tap in this vicinity, and especially Miuth of into the snow. I rememi»er to this hour just , god, and Pava (god of wur) against the horizon and she came whoop the great river’B mouth, that the native where a crow eat jierched on a dead hemlock; initsshiningiirch. Mozambique ing along in a spanking breeze to the haunts of the chimpanzee are to be found. and as we went through the old orchard a I it aa tbe bow of Mouloucou lower bay. She was the Struthay, ninety There is nothing unusual in the pneu woodpecker, who was pecking a hole in a 'modi "'>d Turks as the bow of days from India’s coral strand, and she monia attack of Mr. Crowley. Monkeys ■tubbed limb, turned his queer head around .¿lot’ clouds.) In the Phlllp- bore a royal cargo. When Capt. Urqu and apes are subject to nearly all the dis and looked at me as much as to say: “Weill „ds rows are addressed to it, and hart got his quarantine papers be brought eases of man. and when sick they should who are you, any wayi” The crow said ■ prayers are said to It. It was his vessel in tow of a tug, her streamers be treated in exactly the same manner. I nothing, which is a crow’s way of saying a .jervirits of the sun in ancient flying, up tq a Brooklyn pier, and a long have had cases--at consumption, pneu great deal; for when a crow keeps still -you d a nlclie was reserved tor It in sea voyage was ended. - J monia, diarrhoea, bronchitis, catarrh, may be sure he is very busy thinking. In , temples, la Tahiti it is one of The ^trathay comes from ports whence croup, asthma, toothache, convulsions the maple tree by the brook there was a nn of tbe Gad Tnaroa, cleariug papers from America are seldom" aad-seasickness to attend to among my squirrel's bole, and as there had been some eat regarded ns the deity himself, issued. She has been in tbe dismal and monkey stock. warm weather, Bobby was abroad, and I 9 believed to be in some way con- “Only the other day I pulled out two mppoee gathering In from his caches or store frightfqUl. hot harbors of Alipee and rltb him, ■» many of modern diseased teeth from one monkey, whose Cochin, on the Malabar coast, in the r It indicate. Caribe consider it face was all swollen upat the time. Some bounce southern part of India. HONEST OLD DOBBIN. sket of the God Joulouka;" of the worst cases I have ever seen of sea CETLON’S BPICT BREESES. les, “the edge of the garment of Then we were In the bush, and the horse sickness were among these lively little She had lain for days getting the spicy animals. Horses, sheep and cattle do not was headed near the fire, so that he should being,” and Kamschatkans, breezes of Ceylon at Columbo, and tbe seem ever to be affected but monkeys be comfortable, and an old buffalo robs wee 1 Biloucay ” Its name In San- blood heat rays of the sun, and there took and all flesh eating animals, such as lions, thrown across his back, and a bunch of hay „ tbe “arm" or the “bow of in 1,000 barrels of plumbago. Then in tigers, bears and leopards, are very badly laid under bis nose. So all the morning God of tbe Elements. In Finnish ¡d“Ultko’B bo*v;” Tsigane peas- southern India, where the man eating attacked. Another disease which has not Dobbin munched his hay or took a nap be crockodile abounds, and sharks turn on been much noticed was one from which a tween bites, and I rambled about under the It tbe "ring of God,” and Sclv their bellies and swallow men at a crunch big gorilla in the Berlin Zoological gar nutb slope, where tbe snow had thawed tbe “seal of God;” Croatians, the ing gulp, she found 1.200 barrels of co dens died a few years ago. It was dis sway and the dry leaves lay in heaps in “rod,” "foot,” or “staveof God," coanut oil, which will be evolved into covered at tbe inquest that his death had little hollows t lababitanu of Archangel, the American soap, and a great quantity of been caused by u mass of pins which our , country, and to Arabs and “T^he folks,” that is my father and my tiro the matting that is made from the fibrous charitable visitors had fed him. It is the “bow of God.” It is big brothers, were patiently emptying buck bark of the cocoanut. Then the Strathay in ene part of Francs as the ets that stood by the trees, into pails, and “And talking about diseases,** contin was ready to make for civilization and ued Mr Thompson, “look here.” And he carrying the contents to the greet cauldron if« nd?” New York, and she came along with some went up (o one of the many cages in .|he kettles that hung over the fire, near by Dob i credit the saints with power rip-roaring breezes, a great commerce room in which he and the reporter were bin. There were none of the improved ways it Various saints have been Be- bearer, under a foreign flag. piitronymlc. In is “St. Mark’s sitting. Within it could be distinguished then, nor any patent evaporators; but there Only two or three vessels arrive from a little black mass, huddled up in a cor was genuine sap, that ran ouVof reel trees, parts of Italy and France; “8K Alipee and Cochin in the course of a year. ner, chattering and showing its teeth ring" la other localities of and we boiled it till it was thick, honest The freights of these are consigned to ths md his “bow” in still other “That is a bonnet monkey," Baid Mr. tyrup, every ounce of it Then we took it firms who virtually monopolize trade from Thompson, “which Is just recovering to the house, where my mother cleansed it nd in Spain also. In Belgium it this quarter. “St. Michael’s bumble bee;" In from an attack of pneumonia it had some with a cup of milk; for tho milk made ths There are no harbors at these ports, and days ago. I took it from that big cage iirt to rise to the top when it boiled. When "St. Bernard’s crown,” and in vessels are obliged to aqchor two miles i his “body;" in Provence and over there.” And he pointed to one in it rose, one must quickly skim, it off, with a off in the open sea. Though haven less which half a dozen monkeys were noisily greet long bandied braas>skimmer. “You I his “bridge.” It is “St. Leon- the land is fissured with many lagoons or playing romps. In the smaller cage it ire quick,” said my mother often, “and ,trn" In one place, hfs “carriage” backwaters. The country is low and had quiet, and although I expected it to your eyes are bright, now you may take the er. Basque folk lore records its sandy and covered with luxuriant vegeta die, nevertheless, with tender treatment, ■kimrner.” When it was cleansed, it must i the "arm of St. John.” One tion and vast forests of palm trees. From nourishing food and stimulants, it has "boil down” for awhile, till it would “rope”- me is the “bow of the prophet.” the latter are obtained the chief com come out all right. tordsnee-with the tradition that uid grain. Ob, sugary days of childhood I modities of commerce. The straight ■oy was a sign and a promise to “And there is another disease which is Oh, golden drips of indescribable sweetneesl A Group of Hindoo Pilgrims. b flud it connected with his name . The railway from Calcutta entere Benares stemmed trees are from forty to eighty at present very prevalent and that is pug For one whole hour we stood around, al place, and frequently shall also over a magnificent iron bridge just com- feet high, and the natives climb these nacity. Monkeys take to it as naturally ways conveniently near, to help test tbe boil g weather indication. Sicilians pleted across the Ganges. It springs by noble with tbe aid of a short cord, connecting as their more civilized descendants, and ing joy of robust stomachs and^a “sweet ‘Noah’s arcb; ’ provincial Rus- spans along great stone piers, the founda their big toes, which helps ascension by this little monkey here la an evidence booth.” Saucers and teaspoons we all had, ioab's legacy,” and It is named tions of some of which, I am told, are sunken itting them into grooves of the bark. of it.” and a small amount was in turns ladled into 1 of tbe Holy deluge” in Franche 330 feet below the bed of the river. We After the nuts are knocked off the thick As he was speaking, Mr. Thompsod our dishes, that we proceeded to stir and Regarded in muny lands as a paused at its northern end to let out several ■ husks are separated from the inner shell went over to the largest cage and pointed taste. When at last the liquid, held aloft, er from heaven, or a way to the hundred pilgrims. A strange sight they pre f>y sharp iron spikes, and then laid In pits out a little grayish female monkey, which came down from the spoon into the saucer in regions, the luminous bow is sented in their various conditions. There dug along the seashore, where the salt immediately came to tbe bars, evidently threads and strings, we cried: “It ropes I it l_aocordance with these beliefs, were old women, almost bent double with in > ater macerates them. When the husks expecting some peanuts or other deli il” .. “Well, ropsul _. . then, it will soon . _ grain," . . the rench mid in modern Finnish dl»- firmities of ago; there were young women, become sufficiently pliable they are taken cacies. On close inspection her nose was older ones would say. So we stirred all th«----- 'out and beaten with clubs, which com seen to be broken just above tbe bridge. • tbe "celestial arch,” while in more lustily, and ate all the more rapidly, it!»the “heavenly bow;” in Ar- with half naked babies straddled on their pletely parts the fli>er from the pithy “I’ve christened her 'Miss Slugger,’” tor we must know the moment it would grain. hips and leading others but a few years older; portion. It is then thoroughly cleaned e “bridge ot the Holy Spirit;" observed Mr. Thompson, “ and I have from liquid TO SOLID. , the “arch ot the Trinity,” and there were proud men, of noble, manly bear and dried, and known as kbair or coir, often wondered in what great prize fight First of-all, tho pure white scum that rose 1 Russia, the “bow of pardon.” ing, and poor men, cringing and servile in and is twisted into yarn and then woven she received her disfigurement." their poverty; there was opulent comfort, into matting. The kernels, by hydraulic Eddaic lore named it “Bifrost; “It is tbe liability to disease of the clean and foam like would thicken when *e between heaven and earth,” with servants bearing its bedding ymd its pressure, yield the oil now so much used monkey family which accounts for the ■tirred till cool. Then the true sugar began fine gear; there were others so weak* that by American soap makers, as it produces .small number of them carried around by to show a sign of turning from liquid to ich the gods journey. Later ____ lytbology rei* esented it os the they staggered under the weight of a single soap capable of floating upon water, " ircuses. Tbe least draught is apt to ■olid. Tho pot must now be quickly swung WindooH. male main and female,^ briDg 01 Thousands nf of Hindoos, femi the gods by which Iris traveled, basket or bundle which contained their ThnnsAndn on % fatal cold. Why if I had a off from over the fire In the great fireplace, worldly wealth. All, when stepping from are employed in these industries by th1* Ldtimpui inzee now I believe I could not sell and in torn we stirred the fiery contents m sou Irini, Bed viam Iridls the crowded cars, turned wistfully toward white merchants. They are very docile, ells, if gjs Suevius. e — 5<> -Jo manager wants them, for they re with a wooden “pudding stick." You do not tho holy city, their eyes betraying the de exist on rice, fish and fruits, and receive quire more care than they are worth. On know what a pudding stick was. You do itna-Huugary, the rainbow is the I which St. Elias descends from light felt that nop* at last they were about to equivalent to five or six cents for their this account it is impossible to place any not deserve to know, for having been born at «nd the thunder is tbe sound ot bathe in this holiest spot of the holiest of daily wage. definite price upon them.—New York so late a day. You should have been bom lot wheels. Central Aslan tribes rivera.--Carter Harrison’s Letter. Evening Sun. <ooner. There is no romance now. But speculators ’ mistake . It “St. Elias’ Bridge,” and Rus- pudding sticks and rolling pins every girl Two or three years ago a great specula Smoking Pip*-» In England. ants ot Kazan name it the “In- knew tho meaning of in thorn days. Wo tion took placo in the raw fiber, and Th. Gam. of War. Perhaps the customs connected with the thousands of bales were imported and idge." Inline portion ot Franco were brought up on much mush and many “Krlegsplel” (the game of war) is be doughnuts, and we girls knew all about It. I to be the shadow of a bridge habit of smoking and using tobacco in Amer held with the expectation that It would lite between earth and heaven, ica and in England are os interestingly char figure largely In mattress stuffing and coming almost as popular among British Manual instruction I Indeed, it was the rule laud and Slavonia it is tbe road acteristic of the two nationalities as any kindred uses. This was not realized, troops as It Is in Germany, where it was in those days. It is no new thing. And our and is thus confounded with the other traits. There is nothing undignified owing to the fiber's lack of elasticity, and Invented. There is scarcely a regimental mothers also knew bow to use their hands «y. Welch tradition represents about smoking a short “briar" or meerschaum speculators lost heavily. It is said that headquarters that has not the maps and But, as I said, one is always getting bom bow as the way by which the along the streets of London, Birmingham, the French are beginning to make cni- blocks and lead soldiers of which the too soon or not soon enough. But what la game is composed, and now the company be moon climbed to his elevated Manchester or any of the great English cities. rasses of it for their ironclads, ns it offers more, nothing ever stays as it was. I go now it is the way by which saints de A gentleman is none the less a gefitleman be more resistance than steel to a cannon end troop commanders are taking to buy to look for the bush, and In its placo is a earth to punish and reward men, cause be does this. Indeed, to smoke a cigar ball, and a greater value may be put upon ing them, and not a few sergeants’ messes street with houses, and no end of children have them. “Krlegsplel,” It should be peeking out tho windows They it is who ; to Lettonian traditions. Souls In preference to a pipe argues either expen it in the future. explained, Is really a game of instruction, descend to heaven thus in many sive tastes or the pecuniary ability to gratify Other articles of commerce seldom having most of the advantages of a sham have usurjied my place. Yea, they have nd it is frequently named a lad- them. Wbat would our ladies think of a heard of come from this far off shore. crowded nte along, and are the boys and girls ralne pensan ts say the angels do well dressed young man coming down Broad Ctu-cus, a fragrant root from which fight in the field, without its wear and of today; and it is they who hold tbe saucers it to draw water from tbe earth way about 4 in the afternoon with a nicotine sachet powder is made; citronella and tear, its waste of ammunition and the de and tbe spoons; and I have by sheer oompul eh the heavenly reservoir, whence blackened pipe in his mouth I Horrible sug lemon grass oils, also used in perfumery; lays consequent upon maneuvering in a sion taken to the pen. It is well, little ones opious showers. New Zealanders gestion! Yet in this country a man considers the button like seeds of nnx vomica, con- friendly country, where gardens and cul Tho world has none too many of you. It it a ladder by which their chiefs it in perfectly good taste to walk into an Itaining the principle of strychnine; carda tivated fields mnst be spared, navigation never will have. But, as for us we have Into the sky, and Philippine other's office with a cigar stump stuck firmly moms, cinchona and turmeric,‘a yellow of rivers left unobstructed and crowds of tbe past, and no one can take it away from , a ttairway by which the souls in one corner of his mouth. Moreover, be root used in dyeing, ar.d which is said to sightseers are ever in the way. us. And if one has tbe past one can make Topographical maps are made of the sugar from the trees that used to grow and lying a violent death ascended to does not take it out even to talk. Such be be used in the adulteration of mustard. neighboring region, usually on a scale of AnTpdiun folk tale relates that havior in London would give direst offense are now cut down. I call it the maple sugar Eight white people and 30,000 natives ■bed its threadlike steps to and would be construed into an intentional comjiose the population of Alipee. About six inches to the mile, heights of hills and of memory. Only some one there are that ■awing them to liberate a cap- insult—New York Press “Every Day Talk." seventy-five different castes are repre their exact contours are show? by curves, have tbe knack of making sugar, and can equidistant tbe one.from the other, woods imprisoned. sented. The climate is tropical, but and fresh water are recorded as they ex only make vinegar. One must not throw T to this idea of a celestial orl- away the past when once it is lived, for it is healthy. Melting eyes and well favored Baplatlng Stamped Tinware. ist, the depths, widths and shore line' of delightful property to have Deffl* old sugar lobow is sometimes regarded as forms are reported to be characteristics of In ihe process of forming stamped tin the Hindoo females. These are possibly streams, together with the character of bush I no ax shall aver cut you out of my 1 The Karens of Burpah out to their children as a demon ware flat sheets of metal are placed in enhanced by the limited inventory of ap thgir bottoms, for the Information of the loving heart—Mary E. Spencer la Globe- devour human souls. The un- powerful presses and forced by menns of parel, a palm leaf or two cogging the pontoniers, are carefully laid down. The Democrat _________________ 1 possessor of these will, they say, dies into shape. This shaping process whole body. The sailors are not proof game Is said to be invaluable as a means Bewltehiii(ly Dainty ilandkerehlera. ilon and violent death. It is also and enormous pressure on the metal com against their seductions, and rigorous of instructing the soldier in field work devour..human beinca, whieh pletely disintegrates the tin coating, measures have to be taken for their re and of training officers to successfully The bewitching attractions of dainty hand- operate their commands in a strange great thirst, and it is then that breaking the fibers and rendering tbe sur straint. The mate of the Strathay, a kercliiefs have no end. From the cobweb of over a pond drinking the ' water. face of the wares fractured, rough and un bronzed Scotchman, said to a reporter country. The officer has his map as the filmy India linen to tbe almost solid tracery pilot of a ship has his chart of a strange of French handwork in bud, leaf and blossom, finished. This defect is remedied by re '«Mett iu Glo'oe-Democrat. tarbor, and, if the map is correct. It there appears to be no style lacking or want plating, which reincorporates and reunites sadly: “Th’ weemen played the deevil wi’ the the surface, correcting all fractuosity and sailor lads I Ah, eoodna gang as'noor the ihould enable him to move with as much unsupplied. Plain hemstitched handkerchiefs precision and guard against certain con of sheer linen lawn are, and always will be, U“® of Hie Mntqnlto. making the ware bright-and new. The twinty days we were off th’ port, for ma of the musquito has been at last ware to be reflated is dipped into a cald time was taken oop watchin’ ’eml Why, tingencies as snrely as though he were on the pride of fastidious women of quiet tastes. ■ Profemor Webster says that ron of boiling tallow, so hot that the origi mon, we had to fawsten the chield’s familiar gronad.—Scientific American. They are, like all fine, delicate fabrics, tbe organic matter in the water, in- nal tin plating is softened up and melted hawnd an’ fate, an’ even then, wad ye wseutial possession of the gentlewoman. A Chlmpansee*« Grief. composing and poisoning people, from the surface of the sheet iron. Then think it, twa o’ ’em breaks loose, jumps These come in prices ranging from fifty cents Dr. Brown has given a description of the article so treated Is dipped into a pot toto‘»iggle tails,’ which, in due over the side and swums awa’ to tbeshoor the grief manifested by a chimpanzee on to f3 for fine goods. Tbe French embroidered " nmsquitoes, and the winged of fused tin, where it takes on a new coat an’ w’ never clapt een on’ 'em after I”— the death of Its mate. His grief was handkerchiefs are veritable works of art, and •way, leaving the water pari iled ing of that metal. It is then dropped a New York Evening 8un. shown by tearing his hair or snatching at tbe deeply wrought borders are seen In both it of their ability to remove the second time into the grease pot, which has the short hair on his head. The yell of white and delicate tints. The sheer lawn the effect of evenly distributing the coat If fish are kept in the water To Ilnlor« Faded Ink. rage was followed by a cry the keeper had' kerchiefs, with double hemstitching and em ing of tin, taking off tbe superfluous * ‘wiggle-tails,’ and grow large To restore furled Ink on parchment, etc,, neveiNieard before, a sound which might broidery, ore considered more elegant for metal. It is then put Into a A box of bran, — - —> awu AVI AUUS the HIV liivssai. a- - --------- 1-------------------- •wreasfood for I11U11. man. Thus ires« than lace trimmed styles, which are togredient of impure water be-1 where it is cleansed ot tbe thickest ot the the Bodleian library, at Oxford, has long be represented by hah-ab-ah-nh-ah ut rather under a cloud at present. Crap s lisas employed solution of hydrosulphide of tered somewhat nnder the breath, and grease, and finished by being rolled In ’Mui food. Without mumuitocs in handkerchiefs embroidered in yellow, lilac, J or swampy land would be dan- Hour and middlings, yhlch cowqdetel.v ammonia, which Is spread In a thin layer with a plaintive sound like a moan.— pink or blue silk, are lovely, but perishable. clcanves tho ware, leaving it smooth and over the writing with a camel's hair pencil. Professor E. 8. Morse in Popular Science 1 _N«w York Port ■lubrious.”—Boston Budget. —Scientific American. Monthly. briaht.—American Artisan. IINOU8 PHENOMENA. I proposed to show that no uncommon cir cumstance for persona to confess to having psrpetraMl crimes of which they were either certainly or probably innocent, and that there are forces in operation in tbe human mind which may prompt to the making of a false confession, even though by so doing life, liberty or property be put in danger. Thus there is a difficulty in the minds of some persona who exhibit no other evidence of mental aberration to discriminate between their thoughts or their dreams and absolute facta. They brood over some real or imagi nary circumstances until they bring them selves to believe in its reality. Buch a person, for instance, reads in the daily press of some shocking murder that has been committed, the peqietnitor of which bos escaped unrecognised, He reads it in one newspaper, and in another and an other bears it talked up among bis com panions and begins by wondering whether or not the murderer will ever-be discovered. He knows that murders have been committed by persons who at the time were in a state of somnambulism or who were suffering from an epileptic paroxysm. Perhaps be has him self In bis youth walked in bis sleep or has bad a convulsion, as his mother has told him. Suddenly the idea strikes him that he may be the guilty man. At first the notion is hor rible to him, but its very horror renders it attractive. He goes to the Academy of Med icine and reads up on the subject of epilepsy. There is scarcely a disease, especially of the nervous system, of which any person at some time or other of his life has not bad one or more symptoms. The quack medicine adver tisers are fully aware of this fact and make full use of it to frighten tbe ignorant into tbe purchase of their trash. Our incipient self accuser bos, therefore, uo trouble in finding what be is lixiking after, and be goes home fully convinced that he has had an epileptic paroxysm, during which he may have hpen a murderer. The transition from a possibility to a reality presents no difficulties to his mind, and he ends by fully believing himself to be tbe murderer for wtoan tbe police artf seeking. He visits the place where tbe crime was committed, questions the residents of the neighborhood in regard to all tbe particulars, and even Interrogates the police relative to their plans for securing the murderer and the secret evidenoe?tbey have in their pos session. At last suspicion turns toward him and eventually he is arrested. The accounts that he has read in tbe newspaper and tbe gossip ho has beard, that, regardless of his original idea that he hail per;>etrated the crime dur ing an epileptic fit, and* therefore in a state of conscientiousness, that forces him to make atonement, he confesses that he perpetrated tho murder and gives a full and circumstan tial account ofithe crime. Inquiry soon, how ever, shows that he could not by any possi bility have been the perpetrator, and be is, therefore, after a few days, during which the newspapers have given' the most sensa tional accounts of bis brutality and remorse, discharged from custody.—Dr. William A. Hammond. A GREAT COMMERCE BEARER FROM INDIA’8 CORAL 8TRAND.