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THE HAUNTED ISLAND.
Accepting an invitation from n yacht
ing friend to go on a summer cruise,
some years ago, we found ourselves, oue
balmy afternoon, sailing along the iron-
bound const of Maine, and enjoying the
* beauty of the eoauery, with the ocean on
our right, and innumerable islands,
some of them bold and rocky, others
green and inviting, upon our left
My friend, whom I shall call Dais
Drummond, waa a man of 85, and had
a sad wanderer since, at 16, he left
i to go into tha navy aa a Midahip-
Though all that knew him felt that he
history of deep interest, than
boo# who eared to ask him of tha
ad, excepting that be same of a
good family, and at 88 had resigned from
the navy to enjoy a fortune left to him.
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“Tun
I said, easing how, aa I thought,
tact Irmly he steered hie pretty echocoer
faeht among the dangerous sunken rooks
md macy islets that were now upon
rvery side, for we had beaded in shore.
"I know them waters ae I do my
mother's faee, and better, lor I
be answered, and after a moment con
tinued, ae he pouted to a lordly villa a
y league away:
"Do you am that mansion yonder,
looking oat from that foreat T"
I answered in the affirmative, and than
added:
" A second one, too, a league down
the mask" '
— " Tee; in the one I wm born ; m the
other I had my hope for the future
daahed to the earth forever."
He spoke bitterly, and 1 saw that he
waa much moved, as he gaaed upon the
two old houses, both of which, as we
drew nearer, seamed mumbling to de-
esy.
" Colonel, well drop anchor under the
lea of yonder wild-looking island, which
I remember is said to be haunted, and,
if you ears to accompany me, we will go
over and have a look at the old home
steads, for I have not been here for
Velve yeers."
Of course, I wee only too glad to go,
pd, half an hour after, we landed on
he main shore; and, ascending to tha
tUt above, found ourselves in what had
■Me been tha handsome grounds of a
Ine old mansion, but which now was
loaolstc and time-worn.
^ “ There is my home; no one dwells
here now, for my father out me off from
my inheritance, and left file place to a
distant relative in England; and yet,
itrange to say, yonder other homestead
is mine, for it was left me by the only
being I ever loved; but I have not
dgred come here until to-day."
We stood together, gazing upon the
two old mansions whose broad acree
joined together about half way between
the homesteads, and, being in a com
municative mood, Drummond went on,
in his easy way :
“TH tell you the story, Colonel,
though I never speak of the past, aa it is
sad to think of it, X can assure you.
" I was born in that dd place, aa I
told you, my father and mother coming
there a year before my birth, and they
were English.
"Of his past, or my mother’s, my
father never spoke, and I remember him
as s dark-faced, stern man of 60, and
nearly double the age of his wife.
“ He never went from home, lived in
luxury, seemed to possess mUmUad
means, and was a very stern, silent »"an
while my mother was s sad-faced wom
an : and. Op to my 17th gear, when she
bad, I remember she often wept, sad
neoMd ever to have some deep grid at
teerl
" Procuring a tutor lor i
U that he had dons hri
VOL IV. NO. 30.
md I was allowed to do just as I pleased;
ind I bunted or fished more Qian I
itudied. V
“ One day I went, fromTiTmotive'of
dare-deviltry, alone to yonder l«land >
which every one shunned on account of
its being said to be haunted by the
ghosts of a crew lured to wreck there
by a false beacon. ’
“I found no ghosts there; but I did
find a perfect little fairy, a maiden of lC
years of age, and five years my junior.'
"Her father had lately moved to the
other homestead, you see there; and
having dwelt on the asa shore in En
gland the little Fidels was s perfect
sailor; and alone. In her light canoe,
had fearlessly paddled over to Haunted
island, which, as you see, is a mile from
the mainland.
“1st once made her acquaintance,
and sailed her beak horns, with her canoe
in tow, and from that day, children
though we were, we were lovers, and to
gether we hunted, fished, sailed and read
hooka; for wnen away from her studies
the wss as wild ss a young Tmliai.
"A few months after our meeting I
reot ired my Midshipmen T i wanrani, ^n<if
left home t> enter the navy ; but each
year I got s short leave ; for there was
oot s naval academy in those days ; and
my every visit but infatuated me more
with the little Fidels Claire—1st such
was her name.
" At length I came home when in my
2 id year, and then it was I asked
Fnlele to be my wife; for she had
grown to he a beautiful maiden
of 17, and under n skilled |niw nsas
was accomplished and refined, though
her untamed ■pirit would often break
out at restraint.
" Lake me she had no mother, and her
father, like mine, wm a hermit in hie
own house, and I had never met him,
s Dili together we ooeght him in hie li
brary, end I boldly told him who I wee,
how I had met his daughter, and asked
lor her hand.
" His brow grew black as I spoke, and
I noHeed that he IramUed; but he odd,
ks low, stern tones :
" * Toung man, your father haa,
doubtlaea, hidden from you what ha k,
« haa been, er you would never come
here to oak for my child to be your
BARNWELL, C. H., S C., THURSDAY, MARCH 31,
It was just sunset ss we landed at the
Haunted island, and, making our way
among the bushes, we suddenly came to
a dead stand-still, for there, not fifteen
-paces sway, stood a womaa olad in snow-
white; „• ; — -
Hear auburn hair hung in wavy masses
adown her back, her face was darkly
bronzed, but beautiful, and her glorious
dark eyes were turned upon us with a
look I shall never forget, while her slen
der," graceful form was swaying aa though
she were about to fall. __ t
“ Oh I Heaven have mercy I It is Fi-
dele’s spirit 1"
Tbs cry came in mortal agony from
tha lips of Dale Drummond, and his
face wm m pallid as the dead, for ho
is a skeptic in all superstitious dog-
nun, and yet before him, as I did also,
beheld the one he deemed dead.
" No, Dale, I am not a spirit, but Fl-
dela Claire in flesh and blood,” and,
speaking in low, musical tones^she came
toward os, evidently deeply moved.
" Not dead 1 Thank God !” And he
tottered forward and held forth his arms.
But she drew beck, saying, sadly :
" No, Dais, that is not my place, but
hera.”
" Fidels, what do you mean ?" And,
seemingly forgetting my preecEcc, he
continued: " None but your image has
ever been in my heart ”
"And your wife
" I Have no wife, Fidele ; nor ever did
have."
“Do you mean this. Dais Drum
mond f" • . •
" Upon my boner, yes."
" Ah | how I have been deceived t
My father told me he wm married, and,
loving him etill, I gave up all for liim,
sod came hers to this lonely place to
live, letting the world believe me dead."
She spoke more to bervelf than to
turn, and, with bar hands clasped, her
eyes dowooMt; but at her words he
•prung toward her, end I tuned ewey
end went on an exploration of the island,
'saving the two together.
Darkness cams on, sod at last I re-
Uased my way, but hearing my nsras
called, went in the direction of the trad.
I stood in
and then
"* What do you mean, mrf
"' First, years ago I know your fa
ther ; wo both loved the same maiden,
be turned her
to dm
"’Thai I never forgave him, for I
knew that he woo her from me by false
hood, and then broke her heart
" ’After that ho left England, and un
til I met him here, some months ago.
Anew not what had of him; but
now I know that he bought yonder
house, and lives there in luxury, upon
the gold ho gained by piracy,’
’’ I will not attempt to describe what
passed. Colonel, for I gave him the lie
direct and be and hie servants drove
me from hk house; but 1 sought my
father, and from his stern bps learned
that he had gained hk money as a Cap
tain in the slave-trade; that he had won-
CoL Claire’• intended bride from him,
and that she had died of a broken heart
when she knew that ho wm a slaver ;
but 1m had again married, and my moth
er’s Us also had been made wretched by
what she discovered of her husband’s
pMt
"So indignant wm I toward him
that ha drove ms from his house, and
swore that not a dollar should I ever
have of his, and he kept hk word; for,
at his death, with the exception of Hie
mansion, it went to charity ss an atone
ment for his sin*.
’’ When I next cams home, after hk
death, both homesteads were deserted,
for Ool. Claire and Fidele had gone,
the servants knew not where, end I then
became wretched tucked; bat,
two years after I received, when my
eel wm in the Mediterranean, a letter
from a lawyer, telling me that thi
Colonel had died and left hk vast prop
erty to his daughter, and she, too, dy
ing, bad made me her heir.
"I wm astounded, I can assure youj;
but with the lawyer's letter ease one
inclosed from Fidele, eeying that she
bad always loved me, and, dying, had
left ms her wealth that 1 might be hap
py with the wife I had chosen, and, if I
loved her memory, to accept the inherit
ance.
“ I resigned from the navy, Ookmal,
sought tha lawyera, and found that my
inheritance wm a very large one; I also
sought the spot whme poor Fidele was
buried, sad erected above her a
■ant, and now, alia* long yean ef
left me by the one
I wm live unAO I,
Wt M go MOM to
I wfl] show you t
fi/st BMt her."
*uug little eottege that bed been the
s-lf-eecrtfletng and beauttful ertVs
home, and which wm meet comfort.-hi
Only one, then I heard, wss in h r
ssoret, and that om wm the faithful
servant who had charge of her old
homestead, and each week he brooch*
her f iod find all she seeded, and notdy
kept her secret.
Hu* my roaeanoe has ended, kind
rseder, fur, on# month after the strange
meeting on Haunted island, Dels Drum
mond and Fidele were mamed, and, the
old mansion having beenpotirsly repaired
and it furnished, they went there to dwell
m soon m they had returned from their
bridal tour; and often have I visited
them, and, in my wanderings around
the place, have psaMil many a thought
ful hour in the fair exile's cottage on
Haunted
amoTHKm
LIMM-KILM
QAMXUimm-B
CLUB.
During the past week the Committee
on Internal Harmony has been busy
with pen and Ink, and as a result Broth
er Gardner wm asked to submit the fol
lowing maxiniH to the dub for adoption:
"■"iAdversity makes heroes; but we
doeri want any advareity.”
" Misery lube corui>aoy ; but do com
pany bain't worf ’soshatin’ wid."
" De man obleeged to borry an ax am
nebber situated to lend a spade."
"It’snone o* yer bixneas who Hht
next doah, if he doan’ steal your wood.”
" Bread cast upon de waters may re
turn ; but 8-per-cent, interest, wid a
good indorser, am mo’ like bixneea.”
'* De man who kills your ohiokens am
ready to respect you if you kill his dog."
Brother Gardnsrfiniahed the reading,
placed the paper under a weight, and
then said:
" It seems to me dot abstract maxims
am like woolen mitt— in July. I have
no doubt dat one
oould sot down an’ von ,
The Story of Nobody's Cofi
(Told by Himuif.)
I wm crouchins her* in tb* ihsd
An boor or mom ago,
Trying to dry my drsbblsd I
W* pomy-otU bat* tb**
‘When thr^ngb an open door
I uw Out kitten itny,
Tip-toeing out on th* icy walk
In a aort at wayward way.
I oould ae* within tha door
Behind him left ajar;
How cheery a fir* ia in the grata,
How oosy carpet* am
Buthte
And followed In taring V.rtn
He la caught—ee*, how aae
Ctoee to her dlkea waist t
I can hear her aram to ohlda.
Tat pet him— M poor Mow-mow I"
Her mantle to round him, eoft with fwt |
He must ha pairing now.
Bat I am Nobody’s oat t
Think what auoh Uf* mnal ba I
Tha re's never a ■
Nor a Wt of meal for am
I wonder If I oould I
Tta long teno* I have triad.
Tet whan I waa Uttla girl Qald-Loafi*’ oat
Mymnteawashwprlda.
She would by hw praMy <
Closa to my throat, and aay:
Keep ringing, Xitty-fny!’.
And I grow largo, and wild,
md fierce, because I am glraa no I
Kind word* by aay ahlld.
But I know tf I
Bar call m* by my nama.
And avoid fool bar hand am my
I should grow good and taoM
Oh. I would parr ao rwaal
That aha would I
Xaag ringing, Kitty-gray P»
P'u th* mow te Assy an to* r
I moat tty to find a rat.
Or I ahna b* aopparteas aB
I am XohodyV-Hshadyt call
—norm Doty Balsa, fit Wid* A
woman
" A girl without s heart I" exclaimed
a lady as she looked after e beautiful de
parting guest
" Tve heard of n * men without a
try,’ end of a • man without a shadow,’
but I don't think a prison could live
without e heart P said the niece of the
Wy.
" I don’t mean the organ we share in
common with tha lion end the ax.
used the word ‘heart’ in a higher
I can easily believe that the girl who
baMk St the offers she has refused, and
the mortification she 1>m inflicted
those who have paid her the highest
compliment s men can pay
euuld play th# cruel hoax of which Junk
just boasted. If there hod been a spark
of humanity in her heart she would have
spared poor Roy West the fresh disap
pointment from which ha k now suffer
ing—if her mean fend cruel letter has
reached him P said the lady.
And whet had this rich and baautifu
girl done for which this gentle
wss eenauring her so severely ?
She had a lovely friend—unlovely
girls often have very lovely friends—
named Maud Wes too. Maud had a boy-
<*>t lover, whose visits her father had
forbidden because of a ba
feud with hk father. Mead’s own
thoughts were more on her books then
on lovers, and, like an honest and gen
erous girl, she said so, kindly, to Boy,
who wm then preparing for a voyage,
and a winter in Cuba for hk health.
Unwisely, but very naturally, Maud
told all that had passed to Janie Sewal
—the flirt—dwelling with regret on the
deep feeling the young fellow bed mani
fasted in the matter.
Now, ss his time for sailing approached,
it occurred to Janie that she could get
Some fun out of him, ss she had done
out of thoM who had placed themselves
at her mercy.
She sat down to her riohly-carvec
desk and wrote:
" Mr. Win: ■ A friend of Mias
Weston feels very sure that she hM re
pented the words she said to you at your
last meeting. If you have suffered from
them, she hM suffered more. Pardon
her apparent coldness, and do not leave
your native land without seeing her.
oall to mind VX) mottoes, marimfi an’ j jj er father k severe, but sht k true to
sayin’s dat would read off very fine, but
it would be a useless task. When you
have told a man to be honest, industri-
“4 ous an’ forgivin’, you have got de es
sence of. all de maxims^ebeff written, an’
you have given him all de burden he kin
b’ar up under. De work of de commit
tee will not be lost, howeber. We will
lay de maxims aside until an opportu
nity offers to send dem to soms Common
Council or odder public body.”—Dedrotf
FVee /Yes#.
Ex-Bcfrbintxndent Kjttlb, of New
Tort, sent the following toest to a so
cial gathering:
Oar FabUe
ObW
Cmttl •* oa* Sara mj la tote teafi at ft* free,
Bate"fioa*"fork* •‘AH," as Wa “tor" I
Moral principle doM not pertain alone
to matters of businssa. It k seen in the
4
pupils
and
life,-Mrs. JC J>.
Ckaplkb, kt YoMa
in the
to me
my own
yd<’
Of oonrsn,' this roused hope in the
poor fellow’s hearV-And, against the ad
vice of his mother and sisters, he insist
ed on driving opt x alone that afternoon—
s thing he haa not done for a month.
He wm not prepared fbc the look of
surprise with which Maud met him.
•’I’m sorry you came again, Boy," she
said, with a rather stately air. ’’ Father
will be displeased—and—blame me—
and—beside, I did not oars to see you
again—myself. ’’ —
__ The poor fellow hhd no heart to begin
e defence of hk apparent intrusion. He
drew the note from hk pocket, and said
onlv. " Thk k why I came. Maud."
She read it with deepening odor; and
than, giving him bar hand very kindly,
■aid, " Boy, thk k a cruel hoax, and I
leal indignant, both ou my ovrn account
and yours—for you are my friend yei, I
know^ who wrote this, and I will never
eaD her my friend again ! I hope you
will have a pleasant voyig^ Boy, and
reins and drove toward home. He wm
not only disappointed, but he was vexed
and chagrined to think that any woman
was so moan and cruel a*to make sport
of what was so sacred to him.
Nor oould he relieve his mihd by talk
ing of the matter at home. No one there
knew hk.feelings toward hk school-
friend; and hf was a young man now,
and no longer a school-boy, to carry hk
complaints and grievances to hk mother
and skiers. <*?
The next day he was restless and
feverish ; and the family thought he had
injured himself by driving'when he was
*o weak. " But he would go alone, and
no one oould help it,” said hk mother to
the physician.
He had had more than one attack of
hemorrhage, and hk physician feared an
other. He called in a friand to consult
with him. He saw only nervous pros
tration. and felt sure he would rally be
fore the time for sailing.
While medical skill and family love
were doing everything possible to
■itrengtnen him, he announced one day
that he wss not going to Oub^ ^Hc said
he dreaded the effort, that he had not
atength to take the steamer; and be
tide that, he did not want to go—that
Massachusetts climate waa native air for
him, and that if he oould not live here,
with all hk home comforts, he certainly
' mid not live in Havana without them.
Hk father argued and hk mother
pleaded ; but hk purpose wm fixed. Hk
only reply to their arguments
“Please never My 'Cube
again ; but let ms stay hare in
room in peace."
One night Jutue Bewail wm roused
from her healthful sleep by the sound
of e horse's feet, and by the pulling of
the doctor's ball opposite bar hone.
Abe roM sod looked out into the dear,
calm moonlight, and heard a man my:
*’ They went you to corns m sooc as’
l* risible. Mrs. West thinks he’s sink
ing very fast”
"Oh door I" she said, "I’m afraid
that's Boy. Poor fallow I how hard it k
for one so young, and full of—happi-
DMt No, he Mto't happy; but he’s
young and loves Ufa How hard to
give it up! I do pity him I I wish I
hadn’t—but that wm ouly fun ; I meant
no harm. Poor fellow f ■'—
And the "girl without a heart" went
beck to her soft pillow, and in five min
utes wm sleeping m if there war okther
sorrow, nor sinlrnM, ear death la the
world.
Next morning the village peopleware
startled by the solemn tolling of the hell
“ One, Two, Throe T—through ell the
years, of childhood, early youth to man
hood ; neseing ik eolMn slanging, which
rohoed from the bilk around, at ••
ty-turret" (
Men stopped each other oa the
or asked in stores sod pastoAce, ** Who
did the bell toll for r end were an
swered ;
•’ It’s David West’s sou that wm to
sail soon far Cuba. He died of con
sumption. He rode oat only ten days
ego, end drove the hone himself."
There k no doubt that Boy wm in
consumption, and that hk life wm wan
ing fast when Janie Bewail played that
cruel heax upon him. That wm nek the
cause of hk death, but it surely hast
ened it
Who would core to bear about in her
heart the memory of such an act—to
feel that she bad wounded a dying heart
and marked it with a soar that wm car
ried to t he£raveJ^___ <ii _ >M—
Wheat and pork may be good for
"side speculations," m Sellers says,
hut if a man wants money by the ton he
should go into ostriches. Hero are the
figures : An ostrich hen will lay eighty
eggs per anucm, from which can be
hatched eighty young ostriches. Of
these fully seventy will be hens, end
each one of them will in turn ptodnee
eighty ostrich chickens annually. In
two yean the ostrich breeder will have
6,312 oatriche*—or, say, 6,800, for per
haps the cat will succeed in killing a
dozen. Them birds will. be worth
$1,175,000. To thk must be added the
value of a year’s crop of feathers, which,
according to the Ckli/bm&m, will amount
to $680,000 store. At the end of two
years the ostrich fanner wOl thus be
worth $2,206,000, after deducting, as has
been already said, twelve birds m a pos
sible result of oat deprodatioga.
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DAT OB QUAMU TtVAMD.
My idea of a guano Uland had always
been that it was very rocky and covered
with a white substance rosfemblifcg mor
tar before tb* sand k mixed with ii I
imagined, too, thai it exhaled an odor
differing somewhat from tha orange-
groves of Tahiti. Had I not been told
that I wm on a guano island I would not
now have known it from the surround
ings. Instead of being rooky the sofl
wm mellow and dark, and everywhere
vegetation wm moat luxuriant. The sfr
wm remarkably clear and purs. Dar
ing a walk around the island I then
learned that there ere two kinds of
guano; or, rather, that of certain quali
ties which all guano poeeeosM acme of
these qualities predominate in that
found in a given locality, while guano
taken from islands differently looafc
possesses in a much stronger degroe
some other eseentisls. Thus the guano
of the islands off the eoest of South
America, exposed to the rays of a tropi
cal sun, where the snrlaM of the lend k
never cooled; and where rein seldom or
never talk, pomeaoM the etroogeet ai
moniaoal properties. Not only the a
cretions of birds are deposited there, but
the birds themselves come than to dk;
and eggs have frequently bean taken out
a little below the cruets which form over
these deposits that are almost pore Un-
a strong, pungent odor, end k white end
light brown in color. But the guano ef
the islands of the Southern Pacific
mode op of dsnnmpomrt coral, forming
mostly phosphates of Ik
It k entirely inodorous
brown solar,
loom. It k believed
which in large
klende, living, es they
tiraly oa fish,
on the coral, end also leave the
the flah, which they cannot eat
deoompoM the coral, and tktM lens the
phosphates which give to the gnano its
rains.
coral in the loltowiag
k quite a toma of
who gathar tha aarth to
than eeraea it to thee
Inaaoalk
******
Mm k
allowing only tha
of the earth to pi
tog the coral to Ih
k then sacked, sad shipped to
burg, whence it k reehtpped to
pork of Europe.—TAe Oaii/omiaa.
Judge Whiting wm Chief
Wisconsin shout forty
Weodle wm
Whiting wm noteontodmeda
tent man, but, though hk
were sluggish, hto
trustworthy.
Woodle wen
rLBASANnUBM,
TnUontt not tha king ef
mania. *-
▲ tyB mm to »thing that goes with
out saying. ^
It to • terrible sold wmre whan aha
■wings hat handkerchief at your rival
Whbh a pedestrian roofings on a par-
good Arotts
They frequently get near
the pole;
It to a difficult thing for a dog with
out a toil to show hto i
he minkaaf hiss.
To nmmrn
your well-filled mattress to be dons <
by a cheap upholsterer.
T—ATri men think the
the neck bands of their shirts should ba
property oalled choler buttons.
An
whan arraigned for!
hk rash act on tha ground that ba had
got wet and wm hanging himself np to
dry.
M HxBe* »itfito (W r*e," Mi JMts Hm;
• qwM, m4 ta*i tov* to r*plp |
Wkj ar* jam Hk* yam* fatter'* meml
OtrvttmpT Ym’i* ufiar to* wa”
’’ Wht do you build sort a fiat roof
to your booMf* aakad a man of atrknd.
“Because,” whispered the other, "I
went to put e mortgage ou it as boos m
it k finished.”—GaivetUm Newt.
A Galvmtos darky rushed into a
doctor’s office, and breathlessly am
claimed: "Ooasa ou, doctor, right oft
Dar k aomeliody in mjr house whom in oa
awful fix-laid ap to bod e-groaain’ and
k it?" "It’smo.
Ter aaa, boas. I didn’t hah nobody to
id. m I
A BOLAND BOB AM OLTTBB.
An editor of considerable note wm at
a crowded evening party in Ohioego,
in an np-rtoirs corridor. To
him a Ltdy, in a magnificent drees,
sparkling with jewels, coma with great
she wm naknown
to him, he naturally supposed she had
recognised him by tha light of hk
genhu, shining on hk Hyperion brow,
m i know him by reputation. Ha wm
* to roosive her'
Are you a wtotarJ' she de-
"NoI" mtortod be, ^
looks of thundm, "me yon tits
traveled on horseback,
non occupied a
Whiting had a vary shapely foot
which ho wm suspected of
wail m anybody). Judge Woodle had
club fa* (m to which ha
of being very sensitive). On the
■kn I speak of Judge Whiting wm tying
stretched on the only bed those wm to
the room, with one of hto shapely feet
extending out of the bed. Ha looked
up and aew Judge Woodle looking at the
to* intently.
| "What are you looking *f* aaid
Judge Whiting.
" At your foot, Whiting," aaid Woo
dle. "And do you know, if I had yon
feet I would ba almost willing to
your heed r—Nmo York Ftoto
MBAIM WMIOBTM.
The weight of tha human brain, ao
cording to tha eminent Munich
mist, Prof. Bkohoff, k on an
1,862 grammes for man and 1,219
grammes for woman. Tha diffarei
between tha avenge brain-wtoght of
rn*n end woman thus amounk to 148
grains, or 10.69 per eeni The brain-
weight of man axoeedi th* of all ani
mals except the elephant (4,500 grains)
and the large Oetaoe* (2,600 grams).
The brain-weight of the large* ape k
hardly a third of man's. Prof. Bkehoff
hM worked with a considerable amount
of material; his data comprise the
weights of brain' of 660 men and 847
women. —Nature.
MTAMUM BTOMACmtO AMD OOMDTAL.
The well-known fragrant garden
vest, the sweet-scented or lemaa>erbens,
aeema to have other qualities than thoM
of* beauty and odor, for whieh it to
usually cultivated. Tha anther of a
recent work, "Among tha
People," ifaaorihM it
1 in Spain, whan it to Be-
m a fine toomsihin and ea
ri either used in tha floras of a aaid
to which they
day; quartan, to
which these are two days between their
once. A fourth kind.
ratio, i
- Tn New York
toouaenfi mdm of while paper five to*
throe mourn wtds every week * the
ceased by malaria. They mainly
vail toi
large portion ef
In thk country tha diasme hM 1
confined chiefly to tha We* and Booth.
New York and New England have known
it almo* wholly by report • Not tha
la* few yean, however, it hM shown
itself to New Tort and
Thk la* rammer it took* j|
tensive epidemic to Maattlfeneetta and
Bhode Island, seizing
both of theM Btatia.
It k probable th* the Ojpidemic hM a
connection with tha greet took of
which hM left tha bottoms of mi
ponds and marahea bare, thus expoatag
a large amount of decayed
Periods of nn wanted dryness
erelly periods of
The low water toi
such times a larger proportion of
composed matter, for thw
from a much wider ara^ K -
itermittant fevers begin with a
ohm, daring whieh i
ter and the whale ]
*T‘ _
The remedy to