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fcMll ! Will >m??MOMIMII lllll ! They have great respect for the American flag at Andaman, Society Islands. When a man dies there, his body is painted red, white and blue. Observant travelers say that every country in Europe has three prices for everything sold there. The first is for natives, the second for Englishmen, and the third for Americans. It is needless to add that the latter receive the full benefit of the highest price. Some men don't know when they are well off. No ancient fable ever pointed o mnroi rrr^.afpr nfFr^fc than the story of two murderers in Missouri. They had been sentenced to prison for life, but, being dissatisfied, obtained a new trial. They will now be hanged on the 12th of March, unless the governor interferes. The relative efficiency of labor in the cotton mills throughout the world can be seen by reference to the amount of cotton which different workmen will consume per year. In India the average is 3.451 pounds per operative, in England 2,914 pounds, in Germany 1,200 to 1,500 pounds, and in the United States 4,350 pounds. The cost of gathering .and planting the cotton crop is computed to be $113,450,000, or thirty-six per cent, of its gross value at nine cents per pound. ? j. Uur mercantile inanue n uui 411110 "swept from the sea'' yet, as investigation shows that in the number and quality of our traveling ships we still stand second among the nations of the world. "We have G,234 seagoing sailing vessels of 2,138,8SO tons, and 13,802 sailing coasters of 2,100,000 tons; and we have 355 seagoing steamers, and 4,111 inland and coasting steamers. So we are not completely annihilated yet upon the wave, though Britanuia is a good way ahead of us. A representative of the New York Tribune has made public the fact that some of the liquor saloons of that city sell quinine pills to their patrons. A bartender who was interrogated by him on the subject said: "VVe sell lots of quinine. If we didn't keep it our customers would go to the drugstore for their liquor as well as their quinine. It would do no good to kick, so we set up the pills. Quinine to a certain extent ' acts on the system like liquor. Men who dnnK mucn or go in ior aay eM-iicmcm. until the ordinary stimulants fail to operate on their nervous system, often , take to quinine, opium or its compounds, chloral, absinthe, and so on," According to the Hong Kong daily Press, the empress of China has caused a great commotion among her counselors by her liberal ideas and her conduct. She has abated the rigor of court etiquette, has transferred her residence from the winter palace to the castle in Imperial park, takes boxing lessons, and does not conceal her opinion that reform in social an;l religious matters are reeded, and that China no longer can keep up he:* isolation from the rest of the world. The conservatives complain that her conduct is weakening the popular belief in the divine power of the im perial house, and are confirmed in tneir j belief that a womau Is unfit to rule a country. A singular sort of fertilizer for potato ' fields has been introduced on a Pomeranian model farm. Hitherto herrings and potatoes have been known as a palatable dish in family households. The manager of the farm in question lias hit upon the idea of blending them from the start, by planting his seed potatoes with a herring placed in every heap, and with so decided a success as to cause him to increase the area thus planted l'rom twenty j acres last year to sixty in the present i one. The expense he calculates at about | nine marks per acre, which is cheaper ! than the cost of any other kind of manure, and amply repays the outla}-. Of course it can only be employed near the sea coast. The King of Bavaria keep3 carefully nnf nf siorht. but contrives to provide vv*" " ?O ' matter lor more stories about his private' doings than any of the visible monarchs of Europe. King Ludwig's latest eccentricity is remarkable even for him; lie has been photographed. During one of his solitary walks in the Bavarian Alps he encountered an amiable o.v, which barred the way and refused to allow his majesty to pas% For a bovine subject to make himself so unpleasantly conspicuous was not to be endured; i wherefore the king seized a p'ank which happened to be at haud. and, placing himself in a position of attack, as with a bayonet,he prepared tochargc. - i Then, of course, the surly ox slicercu j off and allowed the King to pass, and he | was so pleased with his own exploit that j he had himself photographed in the attitude of charging. General Brisbin recently visited the Rosebud Indian agency to witness an issue of Uncle Sam's beef to the red children of the prairie. lie found that the 1 beef was issued on the hoof, and the , braves were armed with repeating rifles j and revolvers to do the butchering, j First one v^ung warrior would shoot a ! horn off, then another would break a leg, and so on. The poor animal would be tortured by slow degrees, his death bsing put off as long as possible so the sport might last longer. "Aud this was the government of the United States method of issuing beef to its Indians, encouraging them to be barbarous and cruel, making a gala day of its meat is- i sue, and giving the young warriors a chance to learn to shoot well and ride well, so that they, can kill my soldiers more readily and kill citizens better if they shoul:! go to war.1' A correspondent wishes to know the names and nativities of foreign-born i members of Congress. In the Senate | they are Beck (Scotland), Fair, Sewell I and C. W. Jones (Ireland), and J. P. i Jones (England). In the House of Representatives?Davis, Collins, MeAdoo, Downey and Lowry (Ireland), Ilahn and Romeis (Bavaria), Pulitzer (Hungary), Kelson (Norway), jVIuller (Germany), | West (England), and Farquhur (Scotland). ________________ A City of Mexico letter to the Boston Herald asserts that "the ancient volcano Popocatepetl has got into the courts. Not that it has been bodily transported into the halls of litigation, but it is the subject of a novel suit at law. For many years General Ochoa has been the owner of the volcano, the highest point of land in North America, together with all its appurtences. The crater contains a fine quality of sulphur, which the general has been extracting, giving employment to Indians who cared to stay down in the vaporous old crater. The property was at one time fairly profitable, but now it appears that the volcano was, some time ago, mortgaged to Mr. Carlos Recamier, who brings suit of foreclosure. The papers have been joking about the matter, some asking what Mr. Recamier intends to do with his volcano when he gets legal possession. He has been solemnly warned that the law forbids the carrying out of the country ancient monuments and objects of historical interest. Probably there are precedents in law for the foreclosing of volcanic property, but you nor I have never heard of them before. A scheme for turning, or, rather, deflecting, the gulf stream, which for the present, however, is likely to exist on paper only, has been .originated by 3Ir. John C. Goodridge, an inventor and engineer well known in New York. It has for its object changing the temperature of the Atlantic states, by obtaining more of the benefit of the gulf stream. Mr. Goodridge assumes that the reason that those states do not get the benefit of it now is, that they have between them and it a polar current, coming down along the coast of Labrador, through the straits of Belle Isle, and forming the cold western wall of the gulf stream. The existence of this current is well estab'ished, and, in fact, is one of the facts on which official sailing directions both in the United States and England are based. What Mr. Goodridge proposes is that it should be stopped in the straits of Eelle Isle by a dam at a point where it is about ten miles wide and loO feet deep. The dam, he says, could be built with the adjacent rocks, and the cost would not exceed $30,000,000. The ofTonf nf tViio wnnlrJ hn 1m pnlnillafp.e,. to I change the temperature of the coast from Cape Hatteras to Newfoundland. Nova Scotia would have a climate as mild as ! Cape May, and Block Island and Cape Cod would become winter wateringplaces. Moreover, the St. Lawrence would be open to navigation throughout the year. Mr. Goodridge also thinks, though not with much positiveness, that the deflection of the Arctic current might turn the gulf stream further southward, and thus cut oft enough heat from the British Isles to give them the climate of Labrador; and then, giving the reins to his fancy, he sees the queen abandoning her icy kingdom and taking refuge as Empress of India. But all this, says the paper Iron, is too much to expect for $10,000,000, and very thankful we ought to be that there are not enough insane men to raise between them even that sum for such a wild scheme as that of Mr. Goodridge. A Terrible Calamity Recalled. In the county court at Milwaukee, Judge Mason recently made a decision sustaining the demurrer made by the Newhall House Stock company in the damage suit of John Gilbert Douohue, and the case is now thrown out of court and at an end. This action is tlie last act in the terrible tragedy of the burning of the Ncwhall house three years ago. when one hundred people lost their lives. A few hours before the tire there was a merry party in one of the rooms on the fifth floor. John Gilbert, the actor, whose real name is Donohuc, who was a member of Minnie Palmer's company, then playing in Milwaukee, had been married the day before to a beautiful girl in Chicago named Gertrude Sutton. The actor and hi3 bride hunied back to Milwaukee to join his company. During the performance othe night of the lire the bridu sat in a box. and after the curtain ha 1 dropped on the last act there was a midnight wadding supper, attended by a host of theatrical friends, at the Newhall house. The party did not break up until nearly o o'clock in the morning. An hour later Mrs. Gilbert was lying dead, with many others, on tlie sidewalk, near the hotel. Her husband, maimed and bleediug, was being cared for near by, his life almost extinct, lie was taken to a hotel, and for days lingered between life and death, and constantly morning and asking for his young bride. .Mrs. Gilbert was taken with the unidentified dead to the morgue. Her mother came to Milwaukee, and the scene was a heartrending one when she visited the morgue to search for her child. The bodies were so disfigured that it was almost impossible to identify them. Mrs. *,Sutton could not find her daughter's body until John K. Rodgers, who went to the morgue with Mrs. Sutton, identified the body by the underclothes, which bore the initials of M:ss Sutton. In time John Gilbert recovered. It whs weeks before he was told the fate of his bride. A few months after the firn he brought suit for $20,000 damages against the owners of the house, asserting that they were criminally negligent in the care of their guests. The suit dragged along until a technical point whs decided against Gilbert, and the case has been thrown out of court. J. F. Antisdcl, the lessee <?f the hotel, left Milwaukee soon after the tire, lie is now keeping a small hotel in Michigan. The site of the hotel remained in ruins until a few months ago, when it was purchased by a life insurance company, and on it a grand edifice is now going up that will cost almost $1,000,000. Gilbert has married again and has played once or twice in this city sinco j that dreadful night. I " s$:fig -v^ A SONG OF THE FOUR SEASONS. When spring comes laughing, by vale and hill, By wind flower walking and daffodil? Sing stars of morning, sing morning skies, Sing blue of speedwell, and my love's eyes. When comes the summer, full leaved and strong, And gay birds gossip, the orchard long? Sing hid, sweet honey, that no bee sips; Sing red, red roses, and my love's lips. When autumn scatters the leaves again. And piled sheaves bury the broad wheeled wain? Sing flutes of harvest, where men rejoioe; | Sing rounds of reapers, and my love's voice But when comes winter, with hail and storm, And red fire roaring and ingle warmSing first sad going of friends that part; Then sing glad meeting, and my love's b eart. ?Austin Dobson. PINKIE'S REVENGE. BY IIELEN JACKSON. ' :"What a perfect shame that she got1 here to-day!" "Sh?sb?, she might hear you!" "Nonsense! She is down in the reception room. I don't suppose, if she is from the backwoods, she has got ears that can hear through doors." "Girls, I am ashamed of you. How can you b2 so unfeeling toward your own j cousin !*' ,lI don't care, mamina; she is sure to ' be awkward and dowdy. How can we i have her at the dinner-table to-night? I shall die of mortification to have to introduce her to Mr. Morris as our cousin." "Perhaps she will be too tired to come down to d iiner after such a long ride. It is a little awkward to add another to a set dinner party/' "Oh, mamma, bless you for the ; thought! You can tell her that she is ' too tired. You can arrange it, I know." j "Well, I )1 try." i These weie the sentences which fell on the ears of Priscil!a Bent as she sat j alone, waiting to see the aunt j and cousins whom she had come j all the way from Kansas to New j York to visit, of whose welcome she i felt as sure as if she had known them all her life. It was by a blunder of the j servant that she had been shown directly up stair? into the drawing-room, which communicated by folding doors with the room where were sitting mother and daughters. "Pinkie! What a name!" continued : the first speaker. "Whoever heard of 1 such a name, except for a dog?" "Her name is Priscilla," replied the mother, "but Pinkie was given to her by her father, when she was a little girl, on j account of her pink cheeks." "Well, I will call her Priscilla." "And I too." "Your father will not like it," said Mrs. Bent-. "But we must go down." A swift rush of three women down the staircase, three loud exclamations of j dismay at the sight of the empty recep- I tion room, looks of dismay and a smoth- ] ered whisper of vexation. "How stupid of Bea! Do you suppose ' ehe heard if" These were the opening scenes in the j swift little drama which here began so inauspiciously under Mr. Silas Bent's j roof this morning. And next to these i followed one which seemed almost a I justilication of all that the Misses Bent ' had said in regard to their cousin, j Slowly rising to her feet, grasping her | umbrella firmly in her left hand, rose a tall, an exceeding tall young woman, who exclaimed in a nasnl voice, "Well, I was jest a comin' to look ye up. I j didn't know as that fine black gentleman o' vourn had condescended to let you know I was here. I'm most tired to . death, I tell you: four days an' four nights in the cars h enough to kiil an j ox. But I'll be all right as soon's I g?t ; my coffee. I reckon breakfast's all cleared away by this time, but I don't want, much, only a cup of couee, if the cook ; ain't thrown it out. I'm real glad to see you. I s'po.-e uncle got my letter, \ didn't he?" And pausing in her breath- j less speech, pretty Prise: 11a Bent looked j sheepishly into the faces of her equally shame-faced relatives, it tuev naa not been too guiltily disturbed in their own j minds by fe.irsof having been overheard j in their inhospitable comments, they might have detected a stiange look on their Kansas cousin's face, a mixture of twinkle and terror. But they saw or heard nothing except what so thorough- ; ly corroborated their worst fears. Even Mrs. Bent herself, who had resolved be- i forehand to be thoroughly kind to the child of her husband's favorite brother, : was thrown oil' her balance, and, in j spite of herself, the welcome she gave was curt and cool. But nothing appeared to daunt the | terrible Pinkie. Radiant good humor ' shone in her face, her tongue ran like a clapper, and when the aiuner party was mentioned, Pinkie cried: ' "Not much I ain't too tired! I'll just bunk down, and by 0 o'clock I'll be as fresh as a rooster! We don't often get a chance to a regular dinner party out in : Emporia, and I don't mean to miss one this winter. Say?shall I wear my ve y best? I've read about the kind of i clothes you New Workers wear to dinners. But I've got some A No. 1 gowns, I tell you. Now, you just show me my room and I'll go ptraight to bed an' stay there till dinner-time. You let your black man bring me up a tumbler of milk, will you, nloujj about 1 o'clock, and a doughnut or h ud tack. I'm used to eatin' heartily in the middle o' the day." When the door was finally shut upon Pinkie her aunt and cousins exchanged looks. "Horiible!" criel the youngest daughter, Carrie. "It's worse than I over conceived. IIow could papa send for her?" "lie has not seen her since she was ten years old," said Mrs. Bent, dismally. "Of course he could not dream she would be like this. He has always said her mother was a charming woman, and they lived in Europe for several years when she was little. It is horrible, girls!" "Bunk down!" ejaculated the eldest daughter, Sophia. "Fresh as a rooster!" echocd Carrie. "Mamma, I shall go to bed myself and be too ill to appear to-night. I don't believe Mr. Morris wiil ever crcs3 our threshold again." "Then lie is welcome to stay away," said Mrs. Bent, hotly. "While this distressed consultation was goinj; wii between Mrs. Bent and her iln.w.'i'/iM PinL-in anIVi InoL-orl ill linr U till 11 l \J I f i.HVlt, oiuv/ .-v/. room, was holding one with herself? tears sparkling in her eyes, but her fjice was full of mirth. "I will!" she muttered. "I will do it! It will be good euough for them. I know I Ciin. It will teach them a good lesson, lint I'll have to work like a Trojan to get the dress ready. Let me see what I have got that will do. Ha! I have it! That old tableaux dress will be just the thing." "IIow lucky I brought it!" she | . ' . ' '.) " . ? / ' ~ ,:V & . ' chuckled, as she shook out the folds of the white muslin of the most antiquated couutry fashion. "Now I can go to sleep, and rest easy for an hour. 'Awkward and dowdy,'?tliut is what I will be," and in five minutes mischievous Pinkie Bent wns sound asleep. "Anxiety and vexation had made Carrie ill, and it was with a most unbecoming Hush on her harassed face that she appeared in the drawing-room a few moments before the dinner-hour. There sat the cousin from Kansas? Was ever such a figure seen in a New York drawingroom before? A plain while muslin, made in the shepherdess style, very full and very short, scarlet stockings a broad scarlet sash, aud worst of all. on the head a turban of white muslin, with a scarlet poppy flaunting in front! This is what the malicious Pinkie had done with herself, whose trunks were full of exquisite French gowns such as her cousins had never owned and not often seen. She knew at least that the opals on her soft white neck would command a fifirfcain sort of resnect. even from inhospitable relatives. "Thank heaven she wore them! That will show people she at least has money. That necklace couldn't have cost less than $1,000.'' "Yes," said Pinkie, nonchalantly. "Ma likes 'em best of all she's got. They're ma's. I like flowers better. I'm great on artificial flowers; always wear 'em every day." The guests were already arriving, Mr. Bent himself among them, he having, according to the fashion of New York business men, arrived home only in time to dress for dinner. His heart was so full of affectionate welcome for his niece, whom he remembered well as a beautiful child of ten, only half a dozen years a^o.i that he did not at first note anything but! the lovely uplifted eyes and the affection- ! ate voice. As the dinner progressed, even unobservant Mr. Bent became aware that his niece's attire was not what it should be, and that her voice was too loud. "But the women folks can soon straighten that all but, and the child's as pretty as a picture." So also thought the Hon. Mr. Morris, who, to Carrie's vexation, on being told by her that the young lady in white was a cousin, who had arrived most inopportunely from Kansas, had exclaimed: "From Kansas! How delighted lam. That is tli3 State of all others I am most interested in seeing. I am going out there in the spring. If all Kansas iadies have so wonderful a complexion as your j cousin, that is another reason for visiting j the region. Pray, present me to her, I will you? I should like to ask her many j questions. Perhaps, ah" ?he stammered j with ibe curious mixture of diffidence I nn/l nn/Jnnifv nno nftem aona in Tvnrrlia}!- I UUU UUUU^lbJ VUU V/AUV/U WWW 44* I men, "perhaps your mother will be so i very good as to let me have the pleasure | of sitting by her side at dinner?that is, if it will not disarrange your plans." "I am quite sure mamma will not re- i liquish the pleasure of having you chiefly to herself during dinner." quickly responded Carrie, her heart full of anger { and mortification. Nevertheless, several j times in the course of the dinner, Mr. { Morris heard the shrill voice, and thought to himself, "What a pity the American voice is so high-pitched!" When the gentlemen joined the ladies ; in the drawing-room Mr. Morris looked eagcrlv for the Kansas cousin. Not see- f ing her, he accosted Mrs. Bent with true j English blulfness: "I do not see your, niece from Kansas; I hope she has not j gone; I was counting on talking with her all the rest of the evening." With mingled resentment an.l confu- j sion, Mrs. He it replied: "My niece i went up stairs immediately after dinner." j' In truth, Mrs. Bent was in a state of nervous bewilderment. Without for a i moment suspecting the real reason of j Pinkie'3 withdrawal, she had perceived ! that the girl was greatly moved as snc ; canie quickly to her when they were en- j tering the drawing-room. "Aunt, I must ask you to excuse me. ] I am going up stairs to change my | dress; I am uotdre;scd as I should have been." "Never mind, child, never mind." Pinkie was gone. It did not take her long to finish her transformation touches. The dainty i while surah silk, with billowy reaches of white lace fio:n belt to hem, the soft, j cliuging gloves to the shoulders, the 1 opal bracelets, the white o.ilrich feather i fan, the white satin slippers?all were in j readiness. But at last Pinkie's heart failed her. "It was a shameful trick to play on them. I shall cry, I know I shall; and I'd rather die than cry before that Eng- ; lishman." At last she stole down slowly, hesitat- j ingly. Black Ben caught sight of her first, and reeled back with excitement, j It was an unerring instinct that led , Pinkie, on entering the drawing-room. ! to glide swiftly to tier uncle's sile, and putting both hands into his, say: "Dear I'ncle Sila?, won't you make my i r>eace with aunt, and ask your friends | here to forgive me.for masquerading at I your dinner?" Before she had half finished speaking, ! the company had gathered close around : her. "I must say," began Mrs. Bent, in an angry tone. But I'iukie went on resolutely: "1 could not resist the temptat'on to live up to the New Yorker's idea of a, Kansas girl, just for an hour or two. You know that I was exactly the sort of person you all expected to see from the West." She gathered courage as she saw smiles. ''Yes, you all know it," embracing the group in her appealing glance, "and we out "West all know it. Then, forgive me. You ask them to. forgive me. dear Uncle Silas, won't I you?" j But Un^le Silas was lauirhing too heartily. He bent over and kissed her forehead. "I ask them a'l to forgive me for j kissing you," he said. "A capital joke, ! Pinkie!" "The best bit of acting I ever saw," ; cried lion. Mr. Morris: "quite clever;; very neal. I'p >n my word, though, Ij do not think now, really. Miss Bent, I j should not have seen "through it; I don't think you could have deceived me." ' I should not have tried, replied Pinkie, very simply. Yet there was a i certain indeihinb e something in the tone | which made the Hon. Mr. Morris change color. There are no Avoi ds in which to despi'iix: the embarrassment of Mrs. Bent and her daughters. "Had Pinkie overheard -what "they had said about her?" They sounded her s far as they dared. But they never found out. To only one person did Pinkie ever tell the whole. That was to the Hon. Mr. Morris, after she h^d been for some weeks his wife. "I thought it was so unjust in them, Frank." she said?"so cruel. I'd just give thein a lesson, and let them see that ; manners may be only skin deep?easily I put on or off. But I'd never have done | it, Frank, if I'd seen you first?never. ...V; ' ' ;";' '. "'; . I wanted to run out of the room as sjod i as I saw you look at me." "You needn't have done so," replied j Hon. Mr. Morris, "for I thought as soon as my eyes fell on you that I had never seen so lovely a face before." "Did you, really?" asked Pinkie. "Really," answered the Hon. Mr. Morris. A Terrible Story of Mutiny. A Dublin correspondent telegraphs the particulars of a mutiny, and some terrible scenes which occurred some weeks aero on a ship belonging to the British mercantile marine, which has been doing duty as a Chinese transport in the Chinese seas. Our correspondent says: "The story is contained in a long letter to a Dublin gentleman which arrived yesterday. The writer is chief steward on the vessel on which the mutiny occurred; but as every effort has been made by the authorities in China to prevent the affair from becoming known, he desires his name and that of the ship o linwnvfli* la n I liUU bVS UC giTViUi 14V) uunvTvi) u | highly respectable man, and the truth | of the remarkable story he tells cannot I be doubted. The writer states that his ! steamer was chartered by the Chinese for $10,000 to take to Hankow from Amoy, J 600 miles, 25,000 Black Flag troops who I had been disbanded from the Tonquin war. On their march to Amoy j they had committed fearful murders and atrocities, and the government were very anxious to get them from Amoy, where they were a terror. At the embarkation about 1,000 were disarmed, but they crowded on board too fast, and the work of disarming had to be abandoned. Many of them were drunk, and carried liquor with them, and were fit for any mischief. The ship was crowded to excess, the bridge, poop, forecastle, between decks, and lower holds being packed. After getting underway with great difficulty, the Black Flags commenced gambling, havng plenty of money about them, and were all night quarreling, fighting, and murdering each other. Numbers were K *t\ r??? r\tm rl-inov/l ulivo nt* rlnnfl SnniA were stabbed, others were strangled, and not one of the ship's crew dared interfere. The writer himself saw three murdered men pitched overboard during the night. When morning came dozens of dead bodies were thrown overboard, some of them having been smothered, squeezed to death, or having died from want of water. A party of the Black Flags seized the water on board and guarded it, refusing any to the crew. A fearful crush followed on the ( other Black Flags trying to get at the water. The heat was fearful, and many died from thirst. The Black Flags destroyed all the food, threw the rice overboard, with the cooking apparatus, and threatened to kill the cooks. They eventually began to drink sea water. The sailors, who were fearfully parched, crawled down to the engineroom and got condensed water and drank it, though it was quite hot. Things became still more serious,and the Black Flags threatened to kill the crew, drawing knives across their own throats to omnrovr fn film snilors* their meaning. The}' succeeded in getting hold of the captain by the beard, aud held a knife to his throat. Eventually the vessel was put back to Amoy, where a British warship was anchored. The commander of the latter prepared to sweep the vessel's deck wiih his gatlings, and eventually boarded her. The mutineers were then standing on ^eck with black flags hoisted on spears. Two Chinese gunboats subsequently arrived and took off the Black Flags, those refusing to leave being thrown overboard and left to get to land as best they could. Six of the mutineers were at once beheaded and one hundred bastinadoed. Five dead j mutineers were afterward found in the | lower hold, having been crushed to . death."?St. Jame^s Gazette. Signal Revenge. Thirty-six years ago occurred the bat- | tie of Chillianwallah, at which the Eng- ; lish ran an appallingly uarrow chance of j being defeated by the courageous ! Sikhs opposed to them. Though Eng- j land did gain the dajr, it was only by an ! enormous expenditure 01 orave men s lives. A commemoration pillar is erected 1 to their memory, in the garden of the Chelsea hospital. j This battle, however, one of the severest ever fought by the British ou the soil of India, is also noteworthy because of the shadow of misfortune and dis- | grace overhanging it. The fourteenth 1 regiment of dragoons, in the midst of the engagement, suddenly turned in retreat, and nearly caused a panic in the army. Its commander, Captain King, overcome by shamj,afteiward committed suicide. Previous to his death he repeatedly declared that he gave no order for retreat, and knew no reason why his troops should have lied. But the order was heard by many officers and men, and the captain's word was not believed. Public opinion gave a verdict of cowardice against him. The circumstances of the battle have, | however, been recently revived,and new evidence has come in, which, if true, frees both officer and men from the worst charge which can be preferred against soldiers. In the regiment, says this exonerating voice, was a private who, for some reason, bore a grudge against his colonel. Though he had sought for an opportunity of taking revenge, none had presented itself. Hut the man was a ventriloquist: and at lasl his chance came. On the day of the battle, at the critical moment, when it was infamy to take one backward step, the ventriloquist threw his voice close to the colonel and cal ed: ''Threes about!" It was the signid for retreat. The regiment was a model or discipline, and had always obeyed as one man. It did so now with fatal promptitude, and. in the melee of the battlefield, its retreat was soon converted into helter-skilter flight. The soldier had avenged his flirt nirnnncn /"if cnmrnflfi'a \Y run <? ut L11W Vi. ?*?w. . honor, and at the risk of defeat to his country's flag.? Youth's Companion. Milk. "Wherever milk is used plentifully, there the children grow into robust men and women. Wherever its plo.ee i3 usurped by tea we hare degeneracy swift and certain. Dr. Ferguson, a factory surgeon, who has devoted a large share of attention to this subject, has ascertained, from careful measurements of numerous factory children, that between thirteen and fourteen years of age they i grow nearly four" times as fast on milk ! for breakfast and supper as on tea and j coffee?a fact which iliows the benefits , of proper diet. >'o diet is so suitable for j growing children as well-cooked oatmeal j porridge and milk, long the staple food : in Scotch families, but now, in many iu' stances, abandoned for diet very much inferior. Owing to its easy digestibility, it is of equal benefit to invalids, and more especially dyspeptics, who often j regain health and pick up llesh at | a wonderfully rapid rate on milk, or milk and good bread.? Chambers1 ] Journal. j THE HOME DOCTOR. I Hovr co Treat Whooping Conyh. "Whooping cough has three distinct ! Btages. and the treatment indicated varies in each: 1. The preliminary state. 2. The acute stage. 3. The stage of convalescence. , At first then, the symptoms will be those of a common cold of more or less i sevcritv. This is the time to call in a doc tor if there be whooping cough about, and more especially if the child has been exposed to infection. j Keep the patient in a quiet, clean, warm,* well-ventilated room, and on a lower scale of diet than usual. Do net force food. There is far tpo mch of i this food-forcing going ou in nurseries, ; under the impression that the strength j must be kept up: but if there be no appetite, there will be no power of digestj ing what is swallowed, and matters are ' made worse, and oftentimes the door is thm opened for tke most dangerous complication to walk in. j See that the child is warmly clothed, and kept warm at night, and the chest j covered with a piece of cotton wool, | with oiled silk over it. If there be wheej zing, a stimulating liniment should be l well rubbed in, and frequently, to both i back and front of the chest, and front of the neck. A morsel of flannel should i also be worn round the neck. The diet should be low and easily digested, and sweating should be encouraged at night. Some easily taken aperient will also do good?salts and senna, castor oil, or syrup of senna; the first is the best. Those who live far away from a medical man should know and remember in all cases of bad cough, when the. chest is choked with phlegm, and there is thus V t 4-1.:~~ nf mucil UirilCUlty IIJ UICUIUIU^, a, r'mm Ui mustard in warm water. Bathing the feet in hot water will also | do good at this stage. Get au ordinary cough mixture, but be | certain to tell the chemist it is for a child, and must contain no opium. Avoid quack medicines and mixtures in every shape and form, and do not give sleeping draughts; they arshighly dangerous at all times. The second stage should be somewhat differently treated. The cough mixture may be continued unless it blunts the appetite; the diet must be more nourishing, but still easily digested. The child should be kept quiet, nnd perfectly free from annoyance or excitement of any kiud, and from everything that tends to irritate. As regards medicine, it would be dangerous to suggest anything for this sta<.re; the best plan is either to leave the disease to nature, or let your family physician prescribe. If anything of the nature of a serious complication should arise, medical aid must be summoned as soon as possible. Whether, when the distinctive whoop is no more heard, danger of infection to other children is over, is a question that medical opinions vary on. It is better to be sure than sorry, however, and I I advise that the child who has had * * 1 1 ? wnooping cougn ue nepo uwa) u UU1 HO i former companions until it is once again well and strong. We may shorten the stage of convalescence by proper treatment. The class of medicines called antispasmodics do good in this last stage. Belladonna has been recommended in persistent whooping, but it is a dangerous drug, and should only be prescribed j by a medical man. A little dose of bromide of potassium, from three to ten grains, according to the age of the patient, will often secure a more quiet night. It should be given ! ?under medical advice?about an hour before sleeping time, simply mixed in a little cold waterTonics do great good at this time. If ! the child is pa!e and anaemic-looking, iron in some form is good. Erom three to ten drops of tincture of iron in half a wine glassful of water three times a day is an excellent tonic. But quinine also acts as a charm, and in may be given in conjunction with the iron. Or the citrate of iron and quinine may be used instead. Dose: from two to four grains in water. Dose of quiniue: from a quarter to half a grain thrice a day in a little drop of sherry. A bit of biscuit to be eaten at the same time. Cod liver oil is very TTiinnhlp in whoonin?? couirh. Begin with r-_ 0 _ a teaspoonfui of the brown oil three 1 times a day after food, and gradually increase up to a dessert spoonful or more, for cod liver oil is more of the nature of food thau medicine. j But cod liver oil Amalgamated with extract of malt is better far than anything else; it is pleasant to take, too, and so the child will not object to it. A change of air, as soon as the little 1 patient is able to bear it, will do much I good.?A Family Doctor, in CanelVs. The Biggest Medical Fee on Record. ; We complain now a days of doctors' fees, but ye who think that doctors charge too much, read this story of a very ancient doctor: ! The daughters of Proetus, King of [ Argos, were sick; they fancied they 1 were turned into cows. Melampus, a j shepherd, had observed that when his I sheep ate hellebore, they were violently purged. It occurred t^ him to send ' some of their miik to the daughters of 1 the king, or, as others say, he sent the Vw.iinJmrp it.sfllf to them. But which ! ever way it waj, Melampus succeeded in I curing the kind's daughters of their madness. After waiting a proper time | he sent in his bill: Proetus, King of Argos, To Dr. Melampu?, Dr. To curing daughtors of Bovins Hal.ucination, one-third the kingdom. Received Payment. Aiter much and anxious deliberation, the terms were agreed to, but the avaricious doctor th'jn demanded another ! third for his brother Bias. This was I I thought a little exorbitant, but was ' | nnally paid. History does not inform j us whether sickness was common in the j king's family.?Dio Lewis's Nwjgets A Curious Phase or City Life. "I fancy we loose five pounds of tea and cotl'ee every day by people who are j passing by dipping their hands into the ! open b'>xes at the doors and takiucr out | what they call 'samples*' " said a Y'escy j street jjroccr. ;'Of course, the boxes are ! rut there for that purpose, and we cannot j very well complain, and most of tbe persons who take the goods, no doubt, merely want to test their quality, but you would .1 e surprised to learn how ; many mothers of families keep their households supplied with tea, colJeeand : sugar, too, just in that economical way. j' They take a little out of every box they i pass, pretend to taste it, shake their heads and slip it into their pockets. Now, watch this old woman. I know ! her face well. She lays in her stores j about twice a week." The old woman j in question tested the grocer's tea, and acted afterward exactly as he described. Then she went to another grocery store a little further down the street and repeated the performance. '*lt is not so easy to take sugar, as only a little can be grasped at once, and. more stores are to be visited, but they manage to do it/' the grocer udded.?Kczo York Sun. . i " HOW IT HAPPENED. He held my hand? I knew 'twas wrong, And still I did not chide him; He clasped my waist? . He is so strong, And I so weak be3ide him I He bent his face # j v. '/ v Down close to mine? His brown eyes were so pleading t *? And maybe, too, He saw in mineBut eyes are so misleading 1 ( - ' His mustache brushed My reddening cheek? Oh, dear! how itdidticklel I had to smile? / I couldn't speak? I wonder if he's fickle! He kissed me? Well, * ? , k v. . . . yi If you must know, I'm sure I don't deny it I 1 . * And I kissed him? Well, maybe so? His actions would imply it. My foolish heart Was throbbing so That I could not prevent it. He said he loved me? I don't know? I wonder if he meant it! ?SomervUle Journal. DTTWAPATT PAPAQD1DU3 X tiiumil JL XlLlilU it XXI UJ( After dinner?A hungry man. Plays a leading part in life?The blind man's dog. Pleasant recollections?Collecting a bill the second time. It is officially reported that there are now in England upward of 30,000 blind, persons?but to which party they belong is not stated. O' > 1 -v The Piegan Indians are making trouble . out in Wyoming. The firjt syllable of their name is probably the cause of it.? JV. Y. Journal. . - \ '? r< The war articles in the Century are ' rapidly bringing that esteemed publication down to the level of a Powder.Magazine.?Life. The whale is said to be capable of liv- { ing a thousand years. Ho doesn't have to read the dizzy old jokes in the funny papers.?Fall liicer -Advance. The title to a dead whale is in dis- ^/' [ ] puteinthe Monterey, Cal., courts. But ' ' the title to a live wha'e is never in dis- ' putu amuug auuuuiuuyo. Take up the fidille and the bow Aiid play "Let the Eagle Scream;" Lay down the shovel and the hoe. . ' ' / Potatoes are dug by steam. ?Boston Courier., "One at a dime, bftase," remarked a ' German saloon-kefeper to a crowd tbat was scrambling for a tcn-cent piece on the floor.?St. Faul Herald. John Boyle O'Reilly says that if women ruled the world it would be a poem. . Perhaps so, but the average man don't ' / want a poem. Hs wants pie. ?New Jkdr ' ford Mercury. The average housewife will take more pains to keep a sickly fifteen-cent plant through four months of winter than'sbe will to keep butter on ice in summer.? Siftings. Supposing a man lost both his arms in the war, what is he going to do in case a mosquito alights on his nose??Maverick? : Call the first man he meets a liar.?Gorham Mountaineer. An exchange says that if clothes are brushed up, that is* the wrong way, they will not get shiny. We have tried this rule on a silk hat and can testify that it works like a charm.?uau. English entomologists are excited over the addition of a new butterfly to the British fauna, making a total of sixty- ! five species. What American belle is over there now??Boston Post. A remedy for cold feet is announced. Any improvement on the present style of wrapping them in the husband's undershirt and warming them against his spine ' will find a ready sale.?(Jermantoicn Independent. "You do get your daughters up most beautifully, Mrs. Hebe." "Yes; that is art." "And you get them into society so early. "That is mart." "And you find rich husbauas for them." "That is, smart."?Burdelte. St. Louis Matron: "Xow, young man, I tell you, you must not come fooling; 'round my daughter, Jeru3ha,any longer.' v>..~ .yitt frtrtf " Younf? Gilli A V U 4; xuj ivw %?w ^ _ pod: "All right, madam, that covers . the ground."?Rambler. "Tommy, is your sister Clarinda in?" "Mebby she is, and mebby she ain't. What's your Lame?" "Why do you ask?" "Waal, ye see, she said if Mr. Tampkins called she'd he iu, but if old Cruikshank came she'd be out. Which be you?" Mr. Cruikshauk departed. There is a man in Buffalo, who is provided with a silver wind pipe. Very few persons are so well fixed. Whenever he meets with financial reverses, he can soak his wind pipe, and raise the wind. As a general thing, the more a man soaks his wind pipe the less money he haa.? Siftings. ? About the most startling piece vi mieign news that has reached this country since the war is the announcement that more than 3,000 people in one province I of Kussia are employed in making accordeons. What makes this news so de| pressing is the fact that a great many of | the accordeons manufactured by these misguided Russians will be played in | America.?Norrislown lli-rald. j Fannie is a little girl who has a big | wax doll as a companion. A few days I ago a new sister came to her house, and ! after a few days she went over to a J neighbor's. '-Well, Fannie," said the i lady, "where's your wax doll?" "Oh," she answered, turning up her nose, "I don't have nothiu' to do with wax babies any more. We've got a meat baby at our house now, and that takes up all my time."?Merchant-Traveler. | THE LATEST CRAZE. We're not so fond o:f England, Or her pretty little wavs, As once we werj, and fur heliind We've left the British craza. 'Tis not the dainty French we love, Nor yet the dash of Spain, For Italy we never rav?, f They're all upon the wane. But now wo look for fashions to Celestials. anJ we clap I Our hands with joy whene'er we see An lb-carat Jap. ?Life. Vegetation on Coins. The microscopists have warned us against coin3 in whose interstices varii ous species of algaj flourish. A microi scopic examination ol batik notes, even the newest and crispest, show that they are hot-beds for the growth of cryptogainio vegetation. One Hungarian proI fessor has discovered on bank notes at j least seventeen species of parasitic plants i whose names alone really frighten one. Let us l?astcn to congratulate all who have no bank notes in their pockets.? Dio Lewis. I