KNIGHTED. When Doctors Disa- gree^ [Sarah I). Hobart ] Because she takes me as h^r very own, Claiming my fealty while life shall last, soul renounces all th’ unworthy past; "VV ith ruthless hand its idols I dethrone. I walk life’s devious path no more alone; Her eyes’ sweet magic binds my fancy fast. All aims ignoble from mv heart I cast, For youth's mad follies striving to atone. Because she loves me, flrm I hike my stand, Unflinchingly to battle for the right; All womanhood is sacred for her sake, For each oppressed a lance I freely break. I walk encased in armor pure and bright, Crowned with honor by uer spotless hand. j New York Medical Record. He stood by the bedside counting the I pulse, counting the respirations. The patient was in advanced life, and was suffering from broncho-pneumonia. ! “One hundred and six!” was the excla­ mation; “respiration thirty-six, an in­ crease over last evening of ten pulsa- ' tions and six respirations. Some slight lividitv of the extremities of the fingers. SOMETHING BETTER THAN FAME Heart's action a little irregular.” Dr. I Blank shook his head dubiously. “Mrs. Bro. Gardner Npeaks of Several Men Brown is not so well to-day.” A cloud Who are Happier Thau the Ancient | passed aver his countenance as he spoke Sage*. i these words; it was noticed by Jane, [Lime-Kiln C-ub.J ' Thomas, and Susan. A gloomy silence “De odder night,” began the presi­ j followed. The Cammann binaural tube dent as the club came to order, "de ole I w as applied to different parts of the man Birch cum ober to my cabin an’ thorax. Subcrepitant ronchi every­ cried bekase he had not becum a great where; small bubbling at the bases. an’ famous man. Dat sot me to finkin’.” “There is extensive consolidation,” he “Cicero was a greut man, but I can­ said; “this dull region is stuffed with not find it on record dat he el>er took the products of inflammation. It is a any mo’ comfort dan Samuel Shin does. hard tug for breath with the old lady.” Samuel has ’nuff to eat an’ drink an’ The supreme cortical cells of Dr. w’ar, an’ of an ebenin’ he kin sot down Blank's cerebrum were evolving this in a snug co’ner an’ eat snow apples an’ thought: “This patient will die; I shall read de paper. He am harmless to de j lose prestige in consequence; I shall community as he am. Make a great | lose the patroDage of this family.” man of him an’ he might invent a new What shall he do about treatment? sort o’ relignn, or originate a new The digitalis does not seem to be theory in pollytics, or do sunthin’ or working well; there is nausea. The other to upsot de minds of half de squills, senega, and ipecac do not pro­ people. mote expectoration. There is pain in “Demosthenes was a great man, but the head, and he fears that it is caused I can’t find dat a coal dealer’s collector by the quinine and whisky. In doubt could put his hand on him when wanted, and uncertainty he tells them to put as he kin on Giveadam Jones. You these medicines on one side, and writes can’t find dat his wife was a good cook, a prescription for some carbonate of or dat he had a bath-room in h’s house, ammonia. He directs full doses of this or a cupalo on his ba’n, or dat he rel­ medicament, and then, after starting ished his dinneranv better dan Brudder for home, in his hesitation comes back Jones does, while he had de same chil­ and advises the family to give only half blains an’ headaches an’ nightmares. the dose prescribed. With a heavy As Giveadam now' libs an’ circulates heart, which his countenance too plainly children kin play with him, wood-piles shows, he bids the Browns good-morn­ in his nayborhood am safe, an’ mo’ dan ing. one poo’ fam’ly am indebted to him fur What are Thomas and the Brown a shillin’ in money or a basket of ’taters. girls thinking about at this time? "This Make him a great philosopher an’ who man is fairly discouraged. He has kin tell how many rows an’ riots an’ done all lie can. He has no confidence broken heads could be laid to his door. in his medicines. He has made a com­ “Plato was a gn at man. but 1 can’t plete change, and now is doubtful about find dat he was fed on pertickle r fine the result of the change. He evidently beef or mutton, or dat his tailor gin him thinks mother is going to die. Mother, an extra fit, or dat he got a discount too, is discouraged. It is time to try when he bought ten pounds of sugar all somebody else.” to once. When Waydown Bebee gits Dr. Blank had hardly arrived home sot down in front of his cook-stove, a that morning when a messenger brought checker-board on his lap an’ a panful of a note from the Bro ms, stating that pop-corn at his right hand, wid five they had made a change: that Dr. pickaninnies rollin’ ober each udder on Blank might consider this note a note de floo’, he am takin’ a heap mo’ com­ of dismissal; thas Dr. Bluff would now fort dan Plato eber dreamed of. He has take charge of the ca.a1. no soarin’ambishun. He neither wants Dr. Bluff was not iu any sense a sci­ to save de world nor spite it. He makes entific man, nor had he any skill in the no predickshuns fur people to worry selection of his remedies. He stole a ober, an’ his theories nebber jar de good many useful hints from members dishes oil’ de shelf. Make him a great of the faculty and young graduates, man un’ his comfort an’ happiness fly with whom he now and then hold con­ away, an’ he sots himself up to teach sultations (and with whom he always an’ command an’ becum eberybody’s agreed >. but his diagnosis was hap­ antagonist. hazard and his treatment was hap­ “De man who sighs to trade fa’r hazard. He drove fast horses, and wages, a warm house an’ a peaceful I would bluster like an English country h’arthstun fur de glory of Bonapart am squire. All this gave him great popu­ a dolt. larity. Individuals had been heard to “De man who sacrifices his clean, say that they would rather have Bluff's humble cabin—his easy ole coat, his presem e iu a sick-room, if he did noth­ co’ncob pipe an* liis pitcher o’ aider fur ing more than talk slang, and tell them de gab of an orator or de delushuns of that they would be able to dance a a philosopher trades his ’tater fur polka in a few days, than have the most wind-fall apples. Let us purceed to scientific college professor who would bizness.” give them nauseous medicines, and tell them that their sickness was of a very Wi nun** and the Crofters. grave nature. [London Truth.] Dr. Bluff' was ushered into the room That insatiable’Nimrod, Mr. Winans, has slaughtered 196 stags in the vast of the sick Mrs. Brown. The diagnosis combined forests which he rents from and the fearful prognostications of poor Lord Lovat, Theo. Chisholm, Sir A. Dr. Blank were turned to ridicule. Matheson, and other proprietors, being There was nothing the matter with Mrs. an average of seven for each day’s shoot­ B., only “a little stuffing” in the chest. ing. Mr. Winans’ preserve extends to He "would clear out those pipes in less nearly 250.000 acres, and his rent is than no time.” Whisky and milk and about £17,000 a year. If one estimates his white emulsion of ammoniacum was fairly for extra expenses, it would ap­ all that was necessary. In less than pear that each beast, which he slays half an hour the vocabulary of banter costs him at least £130. Last season he and current slang was exhausted. The sick woman was a “daisy,” a “blooming killed 186 stags. A Mr. Colin Chisholm was examined rose of Sharon,” and a “gay old gal.” before the Crofters' commission Friday She had not “got through her sparking” last. Being asked "whether ho thought yet, and “if the present Mrs. Bluff another man would be found, when should ever be taken off he would im­ Mr. Winans was dead, to indulge to prove his opportunity,” etc. As for the same extent in what Mr. Winans dying—“fiddlesticks! she cannot die ‘calls sport,’ ” he replied that he did with that pulse.” He would “have her not think that Great Britain would out of that bed scrubbing tho kitchen allow such masses of land to remain in floor before a week.” It is needless to sav that the Browns the possession of a man that does no good with it; and added: “1 am not were all delighted w ith the assurance sure there are not men without con­ and the jocoseness of their new family science in the world as well as Mr. physician, whose encouraging words Winans.” Being then pressed as to rallied them to renewed efforts to pro­ whether ho objected to deer stalking, long their parent’s existence by often- I be replied, not if it was conducted in a repeated potions of whisky and milk. It is worthy of note, too, that the sportsmanlike way, but that he did not like Mr. Winans’ “way of butchering patient herself for a while felt the in­ gaano at all.” “What is his mode?” vigorating stimulus of a new hope. said one of the commissioners. “Gath­ Although the final result was as Blank ering the deer together and driving predicted, yet there always was a feel­ them to the muzzle of his gun.” ing on the part of the Browns that if “Does he stalk the deer?” “Him stalk! Bluff had been called a little earlier the You might as well send an elephant result would have been different. deerstalking.“ TAILORING TO-DAY. Now York Sun Interview. Tlie New Associate Fill ter. [ Inter Ocean. ] A certain Young Man camo from the West to a Great city, and having much Confidence in himself knocked at the Door of an editor, asking Boisterously for Work “In what Lino has nature 1 cst Qualified you to sweat at your Brow?” quoth the Editor. "I am,” Ke- «ponded the Party addressed, “Multi- dinous in the matter of Revamping the Ideas of Others.” "Come, be Received unto me. Then,” exclaimed Joyously the editor, “for I have Sought with most sad Disasters for lo these many Days that I might find a Humorist. Even such Shalt thou bo with Me.” And the Yonng man Humored. j ; , ' i t Vivid In Verbal l-.xi-relsc. [Detroit Free Fives. J “Mr. Smith do you know the char- , actor of Mr. Jones?” “Wall, I rather guess I do. jodgo.” “Well, what do you say about it?" “Wall, ho ain't so bad a man after all.” “Well, Mr. Smith, what wo want to know is: Is Mr. Jones of a quarrel­ some and dangerous disposition?” "Wall, jedge, I should say that Tom Jones is very v ivid in verbal exorcise but when it comes to personal adjust mout, he hain't eager for the contest. Pay your taxes or get into the army | is the law in Madagascar. “Tailoring is now an easier business than it was when I I < gan here twenty years ago,” said a Broadway tailor de­ cisively. "I have just begun to realize what Americans want. Tho tasto of the age has changed. There was a time when a patron—by which I mean a cus­ tomer wanted good clothes. He didn't kick much if the fit was not very good, but wanted tip-top cloth. Tlx snit that wore the longest pleased him best. But after a while I noticed that a chai'go was setting in. That change is now tiie fixed fashion. Men no longer exhibit particular care alont tho quality and textrro of the goods. What they want is a stylish lit. Not a good fit, mind yon. but a stylish one. If we cut a patron’s clothes after the prevailing mode be is satisfied. A thin or crooked f legged man with n long waist onght to have roomy trousers and a coat with rather u short skirt. If wo clothed him after that style ho would look well, but ho wouldn't take the clothes. So we make skin-tight trousers tlx»t make his legs look weak, and a long-tailed eoat that makes him look ridicnlons, and he is happy Ho will surely come barb to ns for his next suit if we make him v hat he thinks is a stylish suit.” George Eliot: “i weth, and an­ other reapeth,” is s n that applies to evil as well as go. STREET-CAR CONDUCTORS. LEARNING THE STREETS—KEEPING TRACK OF THE TRIP ON FOGGY NIGHTS—BLVN- DERS AND MISTAKES. Boston Globe. A new conductor is placed on a brother conductor’» car before he is al­ lowed to run a car of his own. If he displays a knowledge of his work after a couple days he is given a car and left to marvel at the ingenuity of the punch or the honest looking face of the elock­ shaped fare-teller, it was a week be­ fore I learned the streets and the order in which they came, but at the end of that week I could name every street from one end of the line to the other, back­ ward or forward, as fast as I could make mv tongue flv. It was a week of worry while I was learuing, though, for often j I hadn’t the remotest notion when I was coming to a street at which a lady had told me to stop the car. I would keep a straight face when she came to the door, with red cheeks and flashing eyes, and demanded the reason why I hail not stopped at her street, and I answered that I had forgotten, for that would lead all the passengers and any spotter on the car to suppose that I was a reg­ ular old-time conductor. See? “But even after the Greets are famil­ iar I find it difficult to keep track of myself at night, especially if it is foggy, or if it rains, or even if it is very dark. When a car is crowded on a very wet night and I am inside collecting fares, the only way to keep track of my posi­ tion is to duck down and peep out of the windows, watching for certain land­ marks. Sometimes it is a white house, or a residence standing alone in its yard, or a queer old tree, or a vine clambering on a house front, or a series of vacant building lots, or a big gilt sign, or a curve in the railroad track. After experience the new conductor cau tell you where he is at any time with­ out looking at anything outside of the car, by simply glancing at his watch. I've been fold bv some conductors that they could shut their eyes, ride a mile, and tell you to a car’s length to what point they had come. "The conductor must learn to observe the city ordinance requiring ears to bo stopped on tho further crossing, be­ cause by doing so the cross street is left clear for travel. Another thing to be learned is the method of using the indicators which have been introduced on many of the ears of the Metropolitan road. Tho indicator must be rung when a fare is taken up. ‘Not to do it j is wrong.’ There is one at each end of the car, and the one at the forward end is the one to be rung. I mention this fact because a green conductor I had with me a few weeks ago spent a week with me, and you could not imagine that a human being could be so stupid. He tried to run one trip alone, and he suc­ ceeded in ringing the wrong indicator repeatedly, in ringing the indicator when he intended to ring the bell to stop tlio car, in stopping the car at the wrong crossing, and, in fact, blundering at every step.” “What is the most difficult thing to I learn ?” “To run the car on time—neither too fast nor too slow.” FOSSIL REMAINS OF PREHISTORIC MAN. Boston Globe. A flutter has been caused in scientific circles by the announcement, in Tho Union Medicale of June 2, of the discov­ ery, on piercing a new gallery in a coal mine at Bully-Grenay (Pas-de-Calais), of a series of very remarkable caverns. In the first wi re the intact fossil bodies of a man, two women and three children. Beside them were petrified pieces of wooden utensils and remains of mam­ mals and fish, as well as stone weapons. A second subterranean cavern revealed eleven bodies of gigantic size, the fos­ sils of several animals, and a great number of various objects, including precious stones. Into a third and larger chamber the miners could not enter, on account of the carbonic acid it contained. If all this turns out to be as true as it appears to be, the existence of prehistoric man is a stern fact, even to the most sceptical. DON'T WASTE THE PENS. New York Sun. A German technological journal points out the fact that a vast amount of valuable steel is lost every year in the shape of pens that become unfit for writing and are thrown away. Pens are made of the very finest steel, ami it can be remelted ami used again for many purposes. They can be turned into watch springs and knife blades, and can be dissolved and made avail­ able in the manufacture of ink. Tho suggestion is made that the children of the poor should be tanght to collect castaway pens, and thereby save valu­ able material and earn money. JERR r GREENING'S SA YINGS. Chas. A. Wells in The Continent. “Th' smaller an' meaner a man is, tli’ bigger he alters talks.” "I b’lieve in honorin’ th' dead just th’ same's you'd honor 'em if they was alive.” "When a feller says it's ‘as broad as 'tis long,' be means that it's all square, I reckon.” “When I’m in danger from accidents o’ any kind. 1 alters prefers absence o' ' body t' presence o’ mind.” “ ‘Th’ more you stir up yer custom- ! ers.' sez a dry-goods man t’ me, sez ho, i ‘th’ longer it takes 'em to settle.’ ” EFFECTS OF ELECTRICITY. Chicago Herald. Health, so far as mere sun-tanning is concerned, is only skin deep. For that I matter, a person engaged for any length j of time in a close room, in near proxim- i ity to a «tong electric light, will soon become as darkly tanr.nl ai by expos­ ure to the rays of the sun. It is said linen may be bleached by electricity. J MISTA KEN IDEA The idea thnt lightning is not so de­ structive as it used to be in the United States. N'eanse the network of railroads and telegraph wires lessens the number of accidents, is met by tho record of the snmmer. Fatal thunderbolts havo never been more common. Taylor: An nnjnst accusation is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn • backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. GHOSTS EXPLAINED. COUNT RUMEOUDS HAT. METHODS WunderFiil Phenomena In the Air-— Heading By the fiery fyea of ii MonkeyKtranste l.lghto About Animals, Etc. [Cincinnati Enquirer.] BY WHICH BKNJAV1N THOMI “CORN-PONES” IN ITALY. Tuo TI.I k I^ of (hr |Vo|>|e SON, THE TITLED AMERICAN PHll.OSO- Corn-H read In the Amerieaa PHEB, INAl'Ul'UATED BEEOHHS. or the Word. Contemporary Review. Thompson aimed at making soldiers citizens and citizens soldiers. 1 lie sit­ uation of the soldier was to be rendered pleasant, 1ns pay was to be increased, his eh.thing rendered comfortable and even elegant, while all liberty consist­ ent with strict subordination was to be permitted him. Within, the barracks were to be neat and clean, and without, attractive. Reading, writing and arithmetic were to be taught, not only to the soldiers and their children, but to the children of the neighboring peas­ antry. He drained the noisome marshes of Mannheim, and converted them into a garden for the use of the garrison. For the special purpose of introduc­ ing the culture of the potato he extend­ ed the plan of military gardens to other garrisons. They were tilled, and their produce was owned by non-commis­ sioned officers and privates. The plan proved completely successful. Indo­ lent soldiers became industrious, while through the prompting of those on fur­ lough, little gardens sprang up every­ where over the country. Bavaria was then infested with beggars, vaga­ bonds, and thieves, native and foreign. These mendicant tramps were in the main stout, healthy, and able-bodied fellows, who found a life of thievish in­ dolence pleasanter than a life of honest work. “These detestable vermin had recourse to the most diabolical arts and the most horrid crimes in the prosecu­ tion of their infamous trade.'’ They robbed, they stole, maimed and exposed little children so as to extract money from the tender-hearted. All this must be put an end, too. Four regiments of cavalry were so cantoned that every village had its patrol. This disposition of the cavalry was antecedent to seiz­ ing, as a beginning, all the) beggars in the capital. Tht? problem before him might well have daunted a courageous man, but he faced it without misgiving. He brought his schemes to clear definition in his mind before he attempted to realize them. Precepts, he knew, were vain, so his aim was to establish habits. Re­ versing the maxim that people must be virtuous to be happy, he resolved on making happiness a stepping-stone to virtue. He had learned the importance of cleanliness through observing tho habits of birds. Lawgivers and found­ ers of religion never failed, he said, to recognize the influence of cleanliness on man’s moral nature. “Virtue never dwelt long with filth and nastiness, nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously attentive to cleanliness who was a consultative villain.” He had to deal with wretches covered with filth and vermin to cleanse them, to teach them, and to give them*the pleas­ ure and stimulus of earning honest money. He did not waste his means on fine buildings, but taking a deserted manu­ factory he repaired it, enlarged it, add­ ing it to kitchen, bake house, and work shops for mechanics. Halls were pro­ vided for the spinners of flax, cotton and wool. Other halls were set up for weavers, clothiers, dyers, saddlers, wool-sorters, carders, combers, knitters and seamstresses. In the prosecution of his despotic scheme all men seemed to fall under his lead. To relieve it of the odium which might accrue if it were effected wholly by the military, he associated with himself and his field officers the magistrates of Munich. They gave him willing sympathy and aid. On New- Year’s morning, 1790, he »ml the chief magistrate walked out together. With extended hand a beggar immediately accosted them. Thompson, setting the example to his companions, laid his hand gently on the shoulders of the vagabond and committed him to the charge of a sergeant, with orders to take him to the town hall. At the end of that day not a single beggar re­ mained at large. “Well, gentlemen,” said a long­ haired, washed-out individual at the public landing to a group of idlers, “I’ll be dogged if I didn’t fite right through this yer war, got starved, shot, hunted like a coon for five years, but I never got so scart as I did last evenin’. It happened over yander,” pointing over the river. "I've been hirin’ ole man Watson sence the war, and last night he up and lit out. Yea, and the ole woman came up to the house and says: 'Marta, Uncle Alick’s dead, sho', an’ dere's a guardin’angel hangin’ right over him,’ and nothin' would do but I must go down. Well, I went, and I’m dogged, gentlemen, when I took a look through that there winder I felt a feelin’ I w asn’t used to. There was the ole man black on the white sheets, and over him hung a kind of cloud of fire, w avin’ this wav and that, just like as if some spirit was a-hoverin’ round. I had an engagement about that time sharp, and lit out; but I sent a doct >r, and he said it was nothin’ out o’ com­ mon; phosphorescence, he called it, but 1’11 be dogged if it didn't hit me in a weak spot.” "Are such lights common?” asked un Enquirer man, who had been a listener to the above, of a prominent practi­ tioner. “Yes,” was the reply, “and all the ghosts, phantoms, spirits and so on come from these very natural causes, though it is almost impossible to ex­ plain them to superstitious people. Floating lights about dead bodies are very common, but only in rare instances has its appearance been notice 1 in con­ nection with the living higher ani­ mals. “It would be extremely difficult,” continued the physician, “to explain tho many curious lights that flash across the line of vision. In total darkness the most gorgeous scenes can be seen by closing the eves and pressing them with the fingers. Fire-balls, streams of light, specks and stars of the most brilliant blue, come and go, fade and reappear, changing from blue to yellow and green. These curi­ ous lights are also common symptoms of troubles affecting the kidneys, and in typhus fever they often appear to be on the bed clothes or furniture, and the patient will at times endeavor to push them away. When the optic nerve is cut a great flash of light appears; an electric current produces the same ef­ fect an experiment easily tried by placing a piece of silver and a piece of zine upon the inside of each cheek, and connecting them by a silver wire out­ side of the mouth. The sight seen is similar to that witnessed by the recip­ ient of a black eye at the very moment of conjunction. The stars are not seen until a few seconds after tho blow. “These curious lights, called by Phipson subjeetivo phosphorescent* , were the subject of much study by the scientists Ritter, Purkinje and Hjort. lleniger, the -naturalist,” continued the doctor, “who traveled in Paraguay some years ago, had a most singular ex­ perience. On one occasion he was be­ nighted in a forest, and a few feet above him he observed two vivid yellow spots that illumined a grotesque and hideous face among the leaves. He fired and brought down a monkey, and, as it was only wounded, he later made some interesting experiments with it, proving conclusively that the light was purely phosphorescent. In a dark room the eyes of this creature blazed with such intense brilliancy that they illumined objects within six inches of them, and print could be read—a most remarkable spectacle. Bartholin, a distinguished man of his time, has recorded an equally interesting case of an Italian lady, whom he calls mulier splendens, who suddenly discovered that by rub­ bing her body with a linen cloth in the dark it gave out a brilliant phosphor­ escent light, so that she appeared in a darkened room like a veritable fire­ STILL WEARING OUT HUMAN body, frightening her servant so that LIVES. sho tied from her, speechless with fear Chicago Herald. and amazement, thinking her mistress The revolution in the manufacture of was being consumed. has not only simplified the mak­ “Curious phosphorescent lights are »hilts often seen about patients previous to ing. but very materially cheapened la­ dissolution. Dr. Marsh states that bor. Toillustrate: Instead of giving about an hour and half before his sis­ the seamstress an entire shirt to make, ter's death they were struck by lumin­ she is required to be an expert in some ous nppearances proceeding from her one particular. The bosoms, collars head in a diagonal direction. She was and wristlets are first made. The body at tho time in a half recumbent position of the shirt is cut out, and while one and perfectly tranquil. The light was girl does nothing from morning until pale as the moon, but quite evident to night but stitch in the bosv as, her the observers who were watching over neighbor stitches on the collars of doz­ her. One thought at first that it was ens and dozens of shirts, which fall into lightning, but they shortly afterward the hands of another worker to be fancied they noticed a sort of tremulous “cuffed.” Another girl puts on facings, glimmer playing around tho head of tho but would be less rapid in her work did bed. They then remembered reading shc^ undertake to hem the tails, nor of a similar nature having been ob­ could the hemmer hope to' make her served previous to diss flution, and had present wages were she to experiment lights brought into the room, fearing in making and putting on the tags so prettily decorated afterward by somo the patient might observe it.” fair lady’s fingers. For all this work the girls are paid at the rate of $1 for ■till Nye and the Cerebro-Hplnnl. four dozen, or 25 cents for putting their “Bill” Nye writes from Hudson, Wis., i respective work on a dozen shirts' Tlie that he considers it his duty to keep I amount of work done per dav varies pretty quiet for a year at least, unless to tho health or disposition he wants cérébro-spinal meningitis to according the worker, but very few average $7 get tho better of him. “I’ve good offers,” of week tho year round.* Skilled hands lie says, ‘ from St. l’anl to Portland and a earn from to >?1(); many are forced from San Francisco to New York, in­ to subsist on $4. but the minimum is cluding Chicago and Detroit; but this $1. inter and summer the girls year I'll write a few sketches per week often at mighty good figures and get tho bal­ are on hand at 7:30 o'clock, have thirty for dinnpr, and then work un­ ance of tny North American spine into minutes til 6 in tho evening. shape. Then I'll see what I can do for a steady thing, whether 1'11 lecture or go W.71V DOCTORS DISAGREE^ y to horse trailing.” French Journal. I w o physicians were discussing in l-'.zz-I’reservlng by n Novel Method. the presence of their patient the nature of the malady that kept him confined to [Chicago Tribune ] A Nevada woman has a novel way of bus bed. “Mv conviction is that it is typhoid preserving eggs. During the snmmer she breaks the eggs, pours tlie contents fever,” said one. •‘Never!” replied the other. into bottles, which are tightly corked “W ell, yon will see at the post mortem and sealed, when they are placed in the cellar, neck down. She claims the examination !” contents of the bottles come out as AN OREGON NATî’RAL~RR[OGf!, fresh as when pnt in. Chicago Herald. On the Tyne mountain, Donglrp The False Prophet's Work. oonnty, southern Oregon, is a nrJar.%1 [Detroit Free Press.) bridge, with a sandstone foundation, The False Prophet may not have hit and covered with forest trees. A large the weather just right, but great ercek runs under it fhe span m from spoons! how he did lam it to Hicks eighty to one hundred and twentr feet Pasha. above the wa.tr. ** [Naples Cor. American Reguter 1 Indian-corn is the grand staple oflk peoples food in northern Ifali, , macaroni is more widely knni.“” southern Italy; hence the Alta ItJi are nicknamed mange-polenta l eaters), and the southern id* mange ■ macaroni < macaroni ■ eaS But it is an ordinary mistake of ’ ican and English traveler, to ' i,?"’ that all Neapolitans, and the -rrat^ of the people of the former k .wdn» the Two Sicilies (more than one-thirirf the population of all Italy,, t.at but macaroni morning, noon and niX’ I may say that out of tho half „4", inhabitants of Naples, not more than hundred thousand taste macaroni Jail ‘ with the exception of Sunday wh?’ two-thirds eat the favorite food It" too costly for the low classes to indul? in it daily. A great deal of Indian-nuS is used up in bread for the comm™ people; while in tho country .)Prh “ two-thirds of the peasants eat com bread in tho American sense of that word. 1 l ast December I was with a party of friends going over the plains of ¡L. turn to visit the famous temples when at noon we happened to pass near the railway then constructing, but now open. If was noontime, and the peas ant women were hauling carts as lam as those propelled by donkeys in th, city. These carts were tilled with golden yellow-aml-brown “corn-pong.• fresh and hot from the ovens. In Vain we endeavored to buv the delicion, looking loaves, for the picturesque- looking women said that they were for the railroad hands. Hon. Sir. Book- ■waller of Ohio was one of our party anil he seemed more disappointed than any one else, for he remembered, when a hard toiling boy in the valley of the I Wubiish, ill Indiana, how good corn­ bread tasted about noontime in the far­ away Hoosier state. But Indian-corn here is not merely used for bread •id polenta by the com­ mon people, it is eaten green in vast quantities. You will .see men here in Naples pulling around a large caldron on low trucks such as boys in America use for their little carts and wagons;and the sight of urchins and grown-up people munching the toothsome food is seen at every turn. The supply is continuous for nearly five months, as' there are three crops of green corn in the year. About mid June the first is in the market; then, s cond, in August and September; and the third, tow ards the end of November. 1 holndian-corn crop has sometimes been so plentiful that there havo been ship­ ments of it to England. Tin- Modern Averaae S onsressiiiaw [Joaquin Miller's AV ashington Dtter.] If w e could only got a law passed to keep congressmen ont of Washington it would be a better place. The annual inundation of unwashed, arrogant, hay­ seed congressmen is the greatest afflic­ tion that ever overtakes this city, and we have the malaria here some, have even had the small-pox. Of course, if this howling congressman did not de­ scend upon Washington with such» pomp and air, I would not feel it my duty to say this of those who otherwise might be my friends. But there is no disguising the fact that the modern average congressman is a nuisance. It is a fact, a shameful fact, and all his own fault, too, that he is studiously “cut” by the best society here in Wash­ ington. And society is a thing a con­ gressman desires. His face of brass is not accustomed to have many doors against it. He is u little lord at home, where his audacity is mistaken for ca­ pacity, liis brass for brains, and he does not like to be snubbed and kept iu his place in AVasliington. Of course, this was not always so, and it should not be so now. It would not bo so if the people would send up gentlemen to the federal capitol. But alas, the very qualities which have gained this modern average congress­ man his seat are tlie qualities which make him intolerable here among re­ fined, artistic and traveled people. He is a liar to start with, or he would never have beaten the quiet and unobtrusive gentleman whom the best people at home first thought of, and made them nominate himself instead, in convention. He is a trickster, a trimmer, a turncoat, a beggar of the rich and a bully of the poor, and yet he comes here to M ask* ington with his lips a nest of lies, his mouth a reservoir of tobacco juice, and wonders why honest and good people do not want him in their parlors. Let a law l>e passed to exclude him from the capitol. An Exceptional Case- [Exchange.] At West Point, once, Gen. Sherman, accompanied by tlio commandant of cadets, was making an inspection tour of the barracks. He wasn't looking for contraband goods, but while iu one of the rooms he got talking about hie cadet days. “ When I was a cadet, he said to tlie commandant, “we hid thing« in tlie chimneys during the summer months. I wonder if tlie boys