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TUE LIUTs"dIr Uo0)L'.
In many a village window burn
The evening lamps,
They shiWp amid t)ie 4ews and damps,
Those lighti of home' W
Afar the wanderer see them glow,
Now night ts nekr;
Thej* gild his path with radiance clear,
Sweet lights of home. -
Ye lode-stars that forever draw
Tho weary heart,
In stranger lands or crowded marl;
- 01 lights of home.
- J When my brief da of life I o'er, \
Then may I see,
Shine from the heavenir house for nie
Dear lights of home.
anaa,s as D)octoru.
Mn. 0. Delaunay, in a recent com
munication to the Biological society,
observed that medicine, as practised by
anima#,' is tbLoroughly e'apifcal,b
that the saine inay b said of hat p;fici
tised by inferior human races, or, in
other words, by the majority of the
huma! species. Animals iusti'ictively
choose such- food as is' best suited to'
them. M. Delaunay maintains that
the human race also. shows this-instinct
and blames medical men for not paying
sufficient respect to the likes and.dis
likes of the patients, which he believes
to be a guide that may be depended on.
Women are more often hungry than
men and they do not like the same kinds
of food; nevertheless, in asylums for
aged poor, men and women are put on
precisely the sawe regimen. Infants
scarcely weaned are given'a'diet suit
able to adults, meat and wine, which
they dislike, and which disagree with
them. M. Delaunay investigated
this question in different asylums of
Paris, and ascertained that children do
not like meat before thoy are about five
years of age. People who like salt,
vinegar, etc., ought to be allowed to
satisfy their tastes. Lorain always
taught that with regard to food peo.
ple's likeings are the best guide.
- A large number of animals wabh
themselves and bathe, as elephants,
Fitags, birds and ants. M. Delauney
lays down as a general rule that there is
not any species of animal which volun)
tarily runs the risk of inhaling emana
tions arising from their own excrement.
If we turn our attention to the ques
tion of reproduction we shall see that,
all mammals suckle their young, keep
them clean, wean them at the proper
time and educate them; but these ma
ternal instincts are 'frequently rudim.
entary in women of civilizea nat.ons.
In fact, man may take a lesson* in hy.
gieno from the lower animals. Animals
get rid of their parasites by using
du3t, mud, clay, etc. Those suffering
from fever gstrict theii' diet, keep
quiet, seek darkneRs and airy places,
drink water and sometimes even plunge
into it. When a dog has lost its appe
tite it eats that species of grass known
as dog's grass, chiendent; which acts
as an emetic and purgative. Cats also
oat grass. Sheep and cows when ill
ieek out certain herbs. When (logs
are constipated they qat fatty substan
ces, such as oil and butter, with avidity
thing is observed in horsea, An animal
suferig fom hroicrheumatism al
ways kepa a spsil nthe sun.
The wrirathaerglryorgan
ized ambulanoes. L atreille, cut the
- anenne ofan at an loher ntscame
and coee h one atwith a
transparent fluid secreted from their
months. If a chimpanzee be wounded
it stops the bleeding by 'placing- its
hand on the wound or dre#sing it with
leaves and grass. When art animal has
a wounded leg or arm hanging on, it
completes the amipuation by, meaps of
its teeth. A dog on being stung in
the muzzle by a viper was ob)served to
plunge its head repeatedly for several
days iznto ruinnn water. . This u1n}mat
event,ually t'ecovered. A sporting dog
was run over by a carrage. During
.three weeks in tvinter it' remaied lying
In a brook, where its d-ood was taken 'to
it; the animal recovered. A terrier dog
hurt its right eye; itremained lying
under a counter, avoiding light add
heat, although habitually it kept cloge
- to the fire. It adopted as a general
treatment, rest and abstinence from
food. The local treatment consisted in
licking the uippel' Bturface of the paw,
which it applied to the wounded eye,
again licking the paw when it,becatne
N, ~ dry. Oats also, when.hurt, treat.theps.
4 ~ selves by this simple method of coniin
ntous Irrigation, M. Delouney.oites
the case of a cat which remained for
'- 7 some time lying on the bank of a river
also that of anofhdr eAt which had ife
singular fortitude to remnain f ,r forty
eight hours under a jet of cold water.
Animals suffering from traumatic igver
treat themselves by the continued ap
plication of cold water, which M. Ve
launay considers to be more certin
than any of the other inethods. 'In
view of these interesting facts,--weihte,
he thinks, forced to admit that hygiene.
and therapeutics, as - praetioed by ai.
mils, may, -im the interests of -psychole~
ogy, be studied with advantage, He
could go even further and say that
veterinary medioine, and, perhaps,
human 'medicine, could - gatheu' from
them some useful indication, precisely
becausec themy are yron ted Aby instinocis
which are efficacious, in the preserva
tion or tho restoration of the health.
noavana.
ThA island of Cuba has Havana as its
prificipal t 64490 almost as
,refulal dAliiladd1jhWr,4hence it is
quite easy to find your way about;
rather is it easy to find the direction p
which you wish to go, for if you startto
go on foot you find your progressy no
means rapid, for the apology for a side.
walk Is only ibout 2j feet wido sk .that
oie i om0Aa4tl4 obj4ged to take to the
'stree,.w)iqh is opriespondingly narrow.
There is one shining exception to the
ordinary thoroughfares. It iq the Pase6
491 Ysab,el, a fine ,street but 201Y feet
wide, with a drive o.n ead& sid of a park
filled with tre,&,, statuary and shriberg
laid out in broad walks. It runs' lopg
the site of the ancient fortifications of
the city, and the part of the ton lying
o10ne Idois 9till called the part 'in-i
alurol"otphe other side "estramu
8,'i'ltiiugh tie walls have lon'g siici
disappeared. There is also the. Oalle do
Ia Reins, runni4g -at right anglef * tW6
aseo del Tsabel ioutthrough the now
part of the city or the "estramu*s."
The continuation of the Calle de. la
Reina, the Paseo de Tacon, is now being
laid out. At present it shows all the
ugliness of construction, but if the plans
are carried out it will some day nake a
beautiful drive. The Calle de Ia liina
passes the Campo de Marie, a large
square surrounded by a high wooden.
picket fence, each post of., which is
capped by a cannon-ball. Here are held
the military parades, and it seems * 4 if
all the space would be needed, for the
number of soldiers seen in the street is
bewildering. They are dressed in linen
uniforms and the corps is designated by
the color of the braid on the cuff. They
prese;nt anything but an imposing ap
pearance, for they are small of stature
and their uniforms are usually quite
wrinkled.
The shops in Havana are quite difler
eut in construction from those in the
United States. There seems to be no
such thing as a show-window to display
the goods; in fact, there are no windows.
The shops are lighted and aired by the
means of wide doors, which occur at
frequent intervals in the front of the
block. This arrangement also facili-'
tates the entrance of dust, and as the
streeta, although paved with square
blocks of stone, are quite dusty, the
goods Inside get a libetal' allowance.
The frequency of the doors and the
signs painted on the walls constitute the
only point of difference between the
business block s and the dwelling-houses.
Within the city all seem to bulld on the
same plan; the wall rises diroucly from
the sidewalk, thus making more appar-,
out the narrownems pf the-sicwalk, as
you are constantly grazing the wall of
the building as.you pass along. Thd
doors and windova occur with geomet
real regularity, and the only chance for
the display of individual taste is in the
painting, for the 'WiAlls ,are all of 'stone
3overed with moi't'a r pla%teriand then
painwd. L4glit eolora preal, yellow
ind blue being the favorites; this witi
jhd number of church towers and domes
gives quite an oriental appearance to the
iity as senm from the harbor. The
uniber of c'hurch buildings is astonish
ing. ,As you pass along the atreets their
im posing fronts of weather-worn stone
irresistibly claim-your atetion. They
ire usu,alIy ornapnt either with
ieulptuiros s'on the corn rs and over the
loors, or the whole front is covered with
3lhboratOiv cArved representations of
some incident)nm religious history. tis
ipity there Ts'no portable and adequate
guide to, the city, which should give
mobh' iuformation'i dbout thes principal
3hurc.hes as would enable the traveler
wvhose time isi li,mited to us'e his hours
bo the begt advantage.. But time' is po,t
v alued highlfin' Spadilsh America. The
3athedral where the bones of Columbus
are said to rest, faces a small square
from which you get the fill effEct of the
rropmt., *go.,necessi4y.of co$ygring the
popil0l oWegtgfim aarthqialg9 seems
50 have hampered the architect, for
there is no cornice to speak of and the
Goirers al-'9ebbed far lihort of where
they should have been to have carried
cout the desig dymmetrically. The in
terior is fi holly imveined marble
of various ol %r. Ther-195ty vaulted.
geiling~supported by hug0e; rle pil
Iars, tietessellatedi $oor anm the posi
tion ~f the altAr sbdwed tleskill and.
taste lf the arOhiteqt,4yiIloehe richer
adrdents of the sitar And.the shrines
on the sides bespeak gibingltit present
resources. As we entered the mass was
being chanted by a full chorus of male
voices stationed behind the altar, and
the effect of the .strong sonorous voices
As they sounidbo tthrough,the ocgrch was
grand dild solemgn: an elenidift' of beauty
which enhanced' the offrect was the ac
compainment on an exquisitely toned
organ iilaced higli up, over the entranbe
to the iiave. l1Iany di the churches and'
puil.dipgs jesignied ,jor, , cccpelastical
phmrbu(sds Ai'e iiow ?ving oth4r ends.
At' tire' titne of the expulision of the
monks nearly all, the~ monapterips were
confiscated and put to.othier uises, W!ho
university is hotised, jn a formepr monas
tery and 2000 students pass .in undogj
the LMin motto .etolling,1thi woith of
a dy of a'r&erdU 'h'an's lie,
Europe insured all the way thrtoughaum~
der one policy.
I will be 100 'yedi old on the 22d of
next month, if 'I live' that 16Og," said,
Mrs. Daphne Nevins/f of Chicago, tga
're rter..- .
. s. Neviua,is a colored. aay liting
on the second floor of 800 Clark street.
She is about five fe6t sii,6iclght inches
tall,* ahlmost perfectly! brect, and ot soare,
build. In complexion and physio no
my she,il purely: African. Her a ,.
is neat, her voice low., but firm, her an
guage good, an4 ler ,nanner quiet, A
Bible,and refined.,,
"Yes, sii'," h9esala.:, "I was born
Mare 17 Outh r1nd couht,
V i Ao. .bove -o d
"How can ydf be so certain about
your age?" J .4, - A
-.Well,:you nee, the Ransoms always
p ut down the birth of -their slave chuf;
uninstheir family .Bible, -ust as they,
did thre:birth, of their own children.
an.d,whe I begn. to. -.g.tujpretty o.
they always looked at that Bible to e
how old , waoi :Theni.I remember '
day: f the month, lleoause mygrandfoif,
Spem,. there,.wa brn op March 21, and&
I was, born on March 22. So,there aint
, dout about it."
- "YoU were born a 'slave, of course ?"
"Yes, sir' I belong to Mr. Harry
Rander luntil he died, and then to Mr.
Ambrose Ransom, his son, until he diq
and then to his children,"
"Where have you Lived ?"
. "Well, sir, I was 25 years old w4en
Ambroie Ransom died, and his childteu
tooi me away fiomVirgiiia to Franklin
county, Missouri. They sold'mo to Mr.
Huff, who took me to Saline counWi,
and I was hisslave there when Lincoln
set us all free. After the war, when I
was 80 years old'"I iAoved to . .ven
worth, Kas.,- and lived there eighteen
years. For the last. two -years I have.
lived in Chicago."
"What soit of constitlition did yop
-have when- you were young ?"
I "A remarkable good one. With the
-exception of chills and. fevers, I have
never had any sickness in my life; I
used to be anighty strong, too. I re
membAr that it wa4n't any trouble for
me, in my yolu * days, to lift three
bushels Qf corn off the ground and put
them on a horse's back, I take atter
my m6ther, you see. She*was 112 years
old the last I heard of her, and how
much longer she lived I never knew. I
It
was living out Weat then, and didn't
hear frOm her often. But my five
children didn't live to any great age.
They are all (lead now, and I have only
five grandchdldren -living that I know
of."
"What sort of health do you enjoy c
UQW ?"
,"Very good heaWth, indeed. I never
havo ay sort of. nioness, except now a
and then a -dull headache. My hearing i
is almost as good as ever,. and my saght '
is good enough for me to sew about as t
well as ever. My appetite is good, and v
I sleep first-rate, unless I drink coffee.
I can't say I sleep as long as I used to, a
because I lie awake a good while after P
I go'to bed. Bit when I do sleep I- Y
sleep as well.as ever," . a
"Low good is your memory I" s
"Well, sir, I remember things that. A
happenedwhen I was a 4lpild, just as if a
I saw themW now ;"but I an a little for- el
getful about what happened ;mterday
or a week ago ". , ' -era y i
",Do-y6u i'aejber' anytfihig aboAt
the revolutxOnary .war, oi'the gicat men
of that t1=n,?"
"Almost nothing. You see, I 1as g
only a little girl, living away off in the P
wilds of Oumborland county, and didn't t
have any echhoce to see anything. I'do ii
remember though, that once, when I ti
was a child, I saw some 'of the soldiers ii
gding to the war." . h
"How .do you feel about (lying ?' n
"Oh, I am ready to go at any time. d
I am expecting it every day. But death Y
has no terrors for. me. I was converted o
down in Missouri atiout fIfty years ago, y
and for three days I was so happy that c
I almo.stdied 1of joy." ., ti
S"Are you mnaking' any preparation to c
celebrate your 100th birthday ?"~ u
"Oh I my I no. You see I am :just a I
poor old woman, Sand I- doni't; expect p
anybody to tiake any more notice of mc til
iu.this world."a
a late census, Indicate a falling birth
rate in Franee.- The population Is not
deptoe,aig, but eh,e raLer of increase is 'a
on suchy a descending scale that, ifit. 9
iihail continue, before fifty years spre a5
oypr tlhe country will have sun1k, if not
to the level of a second rate Power, at -a
lest 'tod he- btom'bfi 'tie list of the t:
great Powers. The average annual lii- t
crease In France is 25 to every 10,0p ,.
inhabitantil, while It Is '101'In Great
Britain, 115 ,,in -Germany, and still
greater In Russia and in the United .$
Nates. It is fnrther dmonstrated tha~t e
the,.stal Increase is notAlue t49 a higly
efethrate tou'f6%(r inerlages than ~
in other Euro'peaui' Countries. It must, ~
therefore, ke due alone to the compar
atively small number of births In FrduITob !$
This deony Ias been gomng ou for!
fit.y years, eand unless France. gdtl
trahsfusion of blOecl"sosiuehow and from e
sogiwir it,isoply. a figstion of time 1
when the deaths will outnumber 'the- i
birthA. If we ruay suppose that the a
population'of thei Upited Statecs androf t
the various countries of -Europe are d4i ~
olined by no way's ol' exd,eptional 'Yndl-' '
adies, and.,tbat thaey will preserve their
present froiitiers. and g'o on increasing
at . their present rate, their. numbers. )
will, by the year -1982, be as follows;,1
United States, 190,000,000; Russia,' ,
168,06),0b0; Geila, 8,000,000;'
es au 0,000 0; AustriaH i.
So sthat Franceg w1iche a 'centary ago
was real {f,ru9(aton, hayir~ gI
A St. Petersburg letter of lato datj says:
It will- be-aurprisiug to AmerIc4as- tW near
tha; by, far'the g porton of news re
terrIng to the W , 1sts reaches. us froni
abroad.'. An faoe,We,who reside here have
few.'mai0kf . ing any lobat!Iutorm
ation about them . - attribute thig-tb twc
re,gopis-g forI'e sjlenebbfth pre* and
the siall importance Whlch issifane at.
tach to.te -movemilt. The Alhilist rei
pond 1184 , pre clroiateOi abroad,areivery
much .exaggerated, ~l1ny of them hating
ko:, fo#ndatift "wh 4ver. - common
street row le'turned a revoiution, and
a fire at a small,g ry or hotel tore
pprcys ag d move
ent, It woild be
Nlhilism 'and INllls i
82t'l but ifi.My, w -
k:Qjgs.oX peop' opt ttype.,
svery0 try, there ',adLs6at1af1ed por
ti6n 01ftepopue p9plt , o' %y glio Vet to
kg; gs a d y breakingout
lato petty eblom1Oal' - ighting news
paper. (wgraoiThe ated iYA-Ruisla
vp-do n.iher. TI%J6avemeits-are too
well guarded.. Mk'knqw to permit of a
revolutiion andlne .P is not open to
ahini. 'ley tbere ot and continte
' pIdt.
Let-.usseij who; a 'the individuals
'orming.the ihilist army. Very few of
,hpm are Ryssians, nqe of them have ady
Inanclal or social standing, and all of them
re expeotih, the time.:.' when, having
,ausqd anarchy, they will be able to rob,
Aillag6, burn and murder. There is no
l(u4t hat Nihilsmg owee_ its origin to the
lisgraceful . behaviOr. of 'those of the
vcalthy nobles who reside abroad. While
hey were hving ih luxury their agents, in
order. tajb. an mqrp ..p9ney for theiri
nasters, wre drivng the working classes
o desperation by cruelty in various forms.
['hey complained and were turned Into the
treets. They burned the nobles' prop
irty in revenge. They we, as a natural
onsequce, sent '1 Biberia. When a
ap"rer could not or dio mot,w4nt io find
vork, i joined .thejr ranks;'as did con
'lots and all classes ot O)ssipated men and
iromen.
When the first Nihilist distu"bances oc
urred the Govern:ent, instea of inquir
ag Into their grievances, treated them
iarshly and cruelly. This was just what
he revolutionary leadets wanted. They
iad been made martyrs and bad attracted
he sympathy of other dlashes,- which had
dtherto kept aloof from the movement.
allude to the student. clases of both,
exes. Thinking that the people were ill
reated and thinking t hit they were suffer
ag young men and women came to their
id, ani at the present moment the dan
erous element of the anarchists is com
osed exclusively of students.
The peaeantry know nothing whatever
f the movement;' three -quarters of them
over heard the word Niwilism, and would
LVO baolivo Ut PO&oD" I'xi, who are
uttacious fenough to raise their voices,
juch more their hands, against the holy
er'on o the Ctar. Years and genera
ons must pass before the bulk of Russians
rill believe that any Czar could do wrong.
Call NIlhillshi reform, strip It of assas
ination;and crime, and advance, a -liberal
rogramme adapted to thd country, and in
our ranks within a year would be found
It clasa6 of RuAiats. from the Czar him
A1f arid' his .Ministers.. downwaids.
sassinatiou, pillage, robbery and anarchy
re strange to the country, and those who
igage in them, or who lacit others to
iem, must and will be se6rely dealt
ith.
Glass Eyes.
"Do we have many applicatious for
lass eyei? Well, I uhould say so," re
lied a well-known optician to a ropor
ir's inquiry. "If there were more profit
it we might subsist on the sale of
rem alone. This coast beats everything
that line, for there,.are more accidents
ere than anywhere else, and a great
iany of such character. as to injure or
estroy the eyes. Why, Lord bles
our innocons heart, they average about
no to every 600 or 600! The reason
ou don't notice the glass eyes is be
mae sometimes it is impossible to dis
nguish them from the real ones, esye
ally when they arein the socket. At the
tmost, it makes you think the person
cross-eyed. You ace, it there are
lenty, of musces left a glass eye will
mrn as naturally and quickly and nearly
s far as a real eye, and it~ is only where
lre muscles have all been cut away that
we eye look~ deard and remains alw a
tilonary, producinugj en fooet which'
ill' make the average man quake iii his
oots. Then there are a great -inny
cople who wear them for vanity's sake
ecause one:ofathe eyes has shrunken
wayrind become smaller tharn the ether.
'lien they simply put on one of these
hells and it would puzzle an expett to
all which is the .glass and which the
sal eye, as they oaih be matched to any
lmsde nowadays anid hh in those eases
,glass eye moves equlyawela
ie real eye. - ulya ela
"You see, we have to make thenm all
~rts of abrapes, with a piece notched out
ere and a p ieee notched out there to
uit the exigencies of the case. Then
e, have to have large eyes rand sinall
yes, wide eyes and nlarkow eyes, and
?Aqd eyes arniopaque eyes. . We sqme
unes comes aocops a man wbo wanta an
ypas rygpasa Asmill-siized saucer, and
'a iitoideAfo largelr, if as large, as
Lra bean. 3No, it is not painful to
rear one if it id ltted to a lIiq0, but
yea atteniontc p id 16ftting
hmi.biJ.Th3 ebl 'b 'aen ont
very night on retiring and the cavity
rashed both at night and i the m'horn
rig, but Very few people do ad, though
as a inatter of' oleanliness. Well, we
i1 have our own' 'aet.es, and I suppose
here run in that direction. But can't
sell yon an eye to-day? Well, good
ray. Call again when -yo 'want' a glass
"AIrAnIUonrADL attired your g 'lady
sked. her cJtor, the. other day, If he
lid inl6t tik that lh peat weight of
hSIAtge lbatatis b'oinn vIn style
iad's Ltendency to Iba*Gleeiheof the
itain. '"ot.atill, 'hydear Mish; la
fies who halve -br'Ans .d 't wear those
arge hate.".
The persistence of the mnagnetic broper'
y'is6rnd i11 ei'tatn ti'eed;fs attributby
4i'krdqd4 to 4heitAupotatSer by'Ught
g -of small patoie;b irdh holdlin Bus
~ensibn withs het adttr,'whidhr makes
p what is known as theo dust of the ajr,
9, "9 Says You Do.'
at upasire .caging. her dress" sa
the freoled-foded l1ttle girl, tying he
doll's bOnnet-stilings and casting her cy
'about, fora tidy large 'enough to servo as
-shawl for that doubleij6inted :young per
son.
!0, your mother needn't dress up fo
moi rplied thefemale.agent of the mu
slonty Ooety, taking a self-satisfied vies
of iherdefin the -mirror. "un up an(
tellber, to come .down just as she is In he
every day' clothes and not stand on cere
Mony
O& but she hasn't got on her every da:
elpthes. Ma, was all dressed up in he
nOw brown silk, 'cause, she expected Kim
41 p*oad to da. Di ond alway
19 her nlo
meUA to got loft
When inasaw you coining she said, 'Th
Dickens I' and I guess she was mad aboi
-sonmething. -Msaid it you saw her ne
dress she'd have to hear all about the poo
heathen, who don't have silk, and you'<
ask her for more 'money to buy hymi
books to send 'em. 'Say, do the nigger
ladies use hymn book leaves to do thei
hair up on and make it frizzy? Ma says
abe guesses that's all the good the books do
e5, if they ever get any books. I wisI
my doll was a heathen."
"Why you wicked little girl, what dc
you want of a heathou doll?' inquired the
missionary iady, taking a- mental mven.
tory of the new things in the parlor to get
material for a homily on wordly extrava
gance.
"bo folks would send her lots of nice
things to wear and feel sorr., to have. her
going about naked. Then she'd have hair
to frizz and I want a doll with truly hair
and eyes that roll up like Deacon Slider
badk's when he says amen. on Sunday. I
ain't a wicked girl, either, 'cause Uncle
Dick-you know uncle Dick, he's been out
West and swears awful and siokes in the
house-he says I'm a holy terror and he
hopes I'll be an angel pretty soon. ' Ma'll
be down in a minute, so you needn't take
your cloak off. 8he sald she'd box my
ears if I asked you to. Ma's putting on
that old dress she had last year, 'cause she
said she didn't want you to think she was
able to give much this time and she needed
a new muff worse than the queen of the
cannon ball islands needed religion. Uncle
Dick says you'ought to go to the islands,
'cause you'd be safe there and the natives
be sorry they was such sinners anybody
would send you to 'em. He says he never
seen a heathen hungry- enough to eat you,
'less 'twas a blind one, and you'd set a
I)ibd pagan's teeth on edge so he'd never
hanker after any more missionary. Lfncle
Dick's awful funny and makes pa and ma
die laughing sometimes."
"Your Uncle Richard is a bad, depraved
wretch, and ought to have remained out
West, where his style is appreciated. He
sets a horrid lexamplo for little girls like
you."
"Oh, I think he's nice. lie showed me
how to slido down the bannisters, and he's
teaching me to whistle when ma ain't
rond. That's a pretty cloak you've got,
ain't itV Do you buy all your good clothes
with missionary moneyf Ma says you
do."
Just then the freckle-faced little girl's
ma came hito tlis parlor and kissed the
missionary lady on the cheek and said sihe
was delimdted to see her aud they procot
ded to have a 'real sociable chat The
little girl's ma can't understand why a per
son who professes to be so charitable as
the missionary agent does should go right
over to Miss Dimmond's and say such ill
natured things as she did, and the thinks
tLenussionary is a double-faced gossip.
Infeatfons oa8 Inptio..
Dr. McAldowie ho" 'usidered the
uch-lebatei question i a iur r pulmonary
consumption is an intections disease in the
light of his own infirmary and private
practice. He is of the opinion that it is
iec.tins, although it ls not so frequently
communicated by infection as it would,,
were the lunge less well protected;
they arc against the access of germs.
Lie mentions four cases where the wife,
previously healthy and with no family
hist,ory of tubercular disease, became
affected while, attending to her phthisical
husband, nnd two cases in wich persons
suffering fronm the pneumonic form of the
disease appeared to communicate the
tubercular form to healthy pers-ms.
Phthisis is not often communicated in this
mannor by ordinary intercourse, because
the germs are sifted out in the air
passages by the vibrating action of the
cilia situated there, and are removed by
expectoration. The germs floating in the
air are, moreover, commonly dry, and of
feeble infective power. Theo lungs are
liable to infection only when the inhaled
germs escape the filtermng action of
the bronchi and reach the air-cells,
where they come in contact wi th a surface
highly favorable tdr their absorption.
This happens only under exceptional
conditions. 'The parts of'the alveoli most
exposed to the attacks of mnbiled germs
are those near the entrance, at thie points
where.the smali bronchial tubes lose their
cyhlirical character and become covered
on all sides with the coils; and pathol
ogical obilervation has proved that these
are frequent starting-points in phthisia.
The IIonsely Woman.
"What ladies are the easiest t,o wait
upon?"
-"The homely ones," replied the clerk,
emphatically. Seeing a look of incredu-'
lty upon the reporter's face he continued:
"It's so; J am not bracing you a bit.
Tlhe prettier they are the harder they are
to please. A handsdrne girl has been so
flattered and cajoled and poetted, from in
fancy up, that she has lost her head. She
enters with a flutter, and must be shown
half a hundred different coemetice. iThen
she settles down to a twenty minutes' vi
bra'tion'betweeni thoem all. She is change.
able, fluctuating and peovish, and if you
venture to make a suggestion she skips
from the store, as though fired from the
niouth of a - Jannon. 'Now, on the other
hand, a homely girl has a mind of her own.
She is not constantly cloyed with admir
ation and -ettingsfrom hier admirers, and
l'ha aruink'but precious little from the
golden bowl of adulation. , But she knows
what she 4ants, asks for i't decisively,
and leaves you with a smdle that *otad
be charming if her mouth were only's yard
and m.half smaller' and her teeth a little
loss like elephant's tusks, God grant us a
prosbarity of homely girls. Life would
still be endnrable without prett,y faces, but
Ileaven shelp us It we lose 'our homely
'ones.''
atvtng up Ga. Light.
As the twilight was deepentfg into th
darker shades of night, a reporter stood a
the corner of Madison avenue and Thirty
sixth street, New York, a few eveninA
. ago to witness the sudden trapsformatio
from .Cmmerian darkness to noonday bril
r ~hanoy In the palatial residence of J. 'ier
, pont Morgan, the well-known member c
r the banking firm of Drexel, Morgan & Cc
I Weary of waiting for the uptown electri4
lighting district, to be laid out and circle(
r with wires to be connected with uptowr
residences, Mr. Morgan gave the fire
order for an Edison isolated plant amonj
the mansions of the millionaires who in
habit Fifth, Madison.anct Lexingtqn aven
.u The plant Is ,or 269 A and 116 1
.a P8., or 9alnia
In. a aHlug, Allb W%- frobi 6*ek
ogidow in the dwelling - on tie' evening
in question, there brokb 'forth a flodd of
mello* light that gave the appesaance of i
general illumination. The Star man wal
received kindly.by Mr. Morgan as he en,
tered the mansion, and the mysterioui
illumination was explained to be the per
fection of electric lighting.
"I have abandoned the use of gas," sald
Mr. Morgan, "with the exception of a few
Jets at various points for use when the
electrp engines are not working. The
different lamp circuits throughout the houst
are protected by the usual Edison safety
guards against fire, while switches, each
designed to cdntrol a large number of
'lamps, are conveniently arranged in the dit
terent rooms, so that the lights can be
turned on and off in quantity, in addition
to each lamp being.lighted or extinguished
separately."
"Your house must have been thoroughly
wired," said the reporter.
"Yes," was the answer, "in every por
tion of the house and stables."
"How are the li;hts distributed?"
"They are distributed In the following
order: Main halls and stairway, 39; attic
rooms and halls, 14; dome over stairway,
20; servants' ball and butler's pantry,
closets, etc., 15; third floor, 20; second
floor, 40; drawing-room, 42; reception
room, 11; library, 10; sitting-room, 22;
dining-room, 22; stained-glass skyhghts in
dining. room ceiling, 22; conservatory, 42;
basement, 28. collar, 28; stable and car
riage-house, 6, and engine room, 4, making
a total 01 885 lamps."
After contrasting the Morgan mansion
with Its more dimly lighted surroundings,
and admiring the simplicity of mechluniam
which controlled the electric force, the
reporter called nport President Naton, at
his cosy offices, 1o. 65 Fifth avenue, and
asked him how many of the up-town
palaces were prepared for the introduction
of I he electric lighting system.
"We are wiring the up'own mansions at
a very rapid rate," was his response.
"Among others the hcmes of William H.
Vanderbilt and his son, Cornelius Vander
bilt, are thoroughly wired, as aro the
residences of John Sloan, R. L. Stuart.,
W. 1. Hutchinson, Ogden Goelet, it. L.
Belknap, Robert Goelet, H. Lamp and
the Hawthorne, one of the largest and
most fashionable apartment houses in the
city. The Dakota apartment house,
Seventy-second street and Eighth avenue,
is being wired for 5000 lamps, and orders
for public and private houses in the uppor
district are coming in daily."
"Old Winay."
You must know that Old Wildey was a
wild duck that, four years ago, came
one fine day in Decomber to the mill
pond, among the other ducks, and swam
with them until they got almost to the
place where Grandfather fed them; then
it was afraid to come any nearer and
would fly away again, and thus it hap
pened that every night when he called
the tame (ducks to the shore to feed
them, Old Wildoy came a little nearer
and a little nearer, till one night she
came to the grassy bank and looked at
the other ducks eating up the grains of
[ndian corn that Grandfather fed to
them, "But, as she was a wild duck,
andu id rnt kno that Jicas corn. was
fit to eat, she just . 'ood looking at
them eating it. Well, one night she
walked np among the other ducks, and
turned her head to one side,'and looked
at the grains of corn with one eye; then
she tnrned her head to the other side
and looked at the grains of coi'n wilth
the other eye; then she took a single
grain up in her bill, and held it a mo
ment aud then swallowed it: then she
carefully picked up two or three more
giains, and ate them and flew away.
This delighted us grandchildren very
much. The next night she seemed to
have found that corn was as good for
wil clucks as it was for tame ones; so
she walked up among the other ducks,
aid when Gran fother tinw tlien
down the corn she ate it up as fast as
ever she culd. In the course of a few
weeks, - when Grandfather called the
ducks she would fly out of the water,
and wonld be the first .one that would
come to be fed, and before spring came
she would eat out of his hand. So it
went on till the early part of May,
when the leaves were out and the mead
ows were dotted over with golden dan
delion, and blue in spots with tufts of
violet. Then we all noticed that Old
Wildey would oecasionally leave the
other fleck and fly away out of sight,
and after awvhile return again, until one
day, about the middle of May, she dis
appered and we saw her no more.
Hpwever, about the first of November,
a flock of seven wild ducks ivore seen
on the iake, and when the tame ducks
came home to be fed, o'ne of the wild
ducks left the flock and came up and
ate corn with them. It was Ol Wileyl
And so it has been every year since,
About the ,ndale of May, when the Ice
begmns to break up in the Northern
lakes, Old Wildey leaves her wInter
home to go north; and every. autumns
about th-e first of November, she returns
to her old home in PennsylvanIa. Each
year, Grandfather and Granmother
and the aunts and gandohildren, won
'4i
der if Old Wildoy. will come back. This
e time, when aunt Hanuih came in and
t told Grandfather that Old Wildey had
'come-back, he put aside his newspaper
s and went to the feed-room for some
. corn and called out, "Come along home,
my duokie', when Wildey just flew out
f ofthe water and came up to him and
ate the corn out of his hand. Although
she had been away for six months, she
had not forgotten the voice that called
her, or the hand that had fed her during
the winter.
Footprnts on the Faledsnow.
A few of the citizens of Salt Lake
wereelectrified by the
Sof a numbor of gigantic and,
hit erto unknowd footprints on the sur
face of the recently fallen snow. From
the' fact that the prints ommence ab
ruptly in the midst of the street of one
of ofur blocks, and, after various erratic
wanderings,. vanish in another as abrupt
ly as they begin, we are forced to thO
cun elusion that the unknown authors of
the mysterious traces were supplied
with means of werial transportation.
The footprints are of two distinct sizes:
measuring respectively three and four
feet in lengtn, and twelve and fourteen
inches in width. The general outline
of these esoteric records of our nocturn.
al visitors presents a graceful curve,
approximating to the eliptie at the too.
or forward portion of the impress, con
tracting gradqally towards the heel, and
ending in a single long auid slendor line.
This latter mark is evidently the soratc4
of an immense spur or spine with which
the birds are probably provided a
defensive weapons. It is noticeable
that the smallest prints, probably those
of the hen, show the longer impress of
spur, indicating that she is the warrior
of the tamily. The surface of the prints
shows also the imprs,of a web-like
covering, crossed with interlacing and
knotted tendons and at once classes the
authors among the aquatic fowls of the
genus An8cr. The absence of toe or
claw marks is most noticeable and some
what mystifying.
11a61TAta Gum.
From an article written by Dr.
W. Riegler, published in the Woch
enschrift des Niederocet, Gewerbe
Vercins. we gather the following infor
mation regarding this new article of
commerce, which promises to become
of considerable importance In view of
the ever-increasing demand for India
rubber, and the rapidity with which the
trees that produce both the latter and
gutta percha are necessarily being de
stroyed. Balata is a product of the
Mimusops balata (Nat. ord. Sapotece,)
a tree of large dimensions growing on
the banks of the Orinoco and Ama.on,
in South America. The milky juice is
procured, like caoutchouc, by incision
of the trunk. It dries very quickly o.a
exposure to thd air if the atmosphere is
dry, and can be readily moulded into
shape by first being softened in water.
This gum, in its general properties,
appears, to be of a character interme
diate between India rubber and gutta
percha, possessing the elasticity of the
one and the ductility of the other, with
out the intractability of India rubber or
the brittleness of gutta percha. It is
tasteless; heated, It diffuses an agreeable
odor, and can be cut the same as gutta
percha. Heated to a temperature of
120 degrees Fab., it becomes soft and
capable of beihg welded. lIs meiting
point is 270 degrees Fahi.- a temperature
much higher than that necessary to
melt gutta percha. It is entirely solu
ble, cold, in benzole and bisulphide of
carbon. Under the action of heat it is
likewise soluble in turpentine; In anhy
drous alcohol and ether, however, It is
partially so. It is acted upon by neith
er the caustic alkalies nor concentrated
hydrochloric acid; but, like gutta per
cha, it Is attacked by concentrated
sulphuric and nitric acids. Subjected
to friction it becomes very electrical.
It is probable that It will be extensiveiy
employed as an insulating medium for
telegraphic purposes, for which its
superiority over gutta percha has already
been proved by trial. In balata, says
Dr. Rtiegler, we have an article that
gives promise of being of the highest
utility; not so much on account of its
possessing new properties, as because it
is a new member of a group of the use
ful elastic gums; and which, occupying,
as before remarked, an intermediato
place between eaoutchouc and gutta
percha, may become under certain cir
cumstances more valuable than either
of these substances.
J)Ia t, nie Le.
"Fath'er " began a Casa avenue lad the
other night, "is Mr. T. a good man 1"
"Yes, may son. I regard him as one of
the best men In Michigan."
"Do you believe he would lie I"
"What, young- nian, are yq.u crazy?i
Why, sir, Mr. T. would n'ft telhbghe for
all the gold on earth. What makes you
ask that question V"
' 'Why, when a mail says he sawa 8p?Ig
robin on the 15th day of February wh .,
do you. call it?"
"Did he say'ho saw one ?'
"Hie did,"
"(Oh I I heard hin tell 'three different
men so. Didn't he he, father V"
"N'n-o, i thiuk pIot, ' mused the father ;
"but let It be a great moral' lesson to you
all-the, same. it-isn't once in a thousand
years that a robin ,comnes up bero fromn
Tennessee at that date and exibits haiself
to a single citlzeni and rttag *(hige after.
noon exprosl" -