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PECULIAR NFRVOU9 AFFICTION.
tHlant mt the luovlalol
Krom the New York Suur If Kroech
Wen are m eutijevt a other folka to
Bervoua hallurluaOun touching l!
yniptoma of dim-aw thrre U likely to
be Meepread alarm In i-ame a lo
locomotor ataxia. I. CJoncrlin ba
publlahed In the Journal de la Saul- an
account of the nymphim forerunning
aixl anitanyti:K thai diaeaae, () hi
article tu found Its way Into popular
lay publication. Dr. Oonrelm
down 8 leading aymptoma of the dls
In ita early atatcea, and Intimate,
that where three ot them are well de
fined the patient la almost certainly on
the edge of the dlseaae. One ayniptom
ta he Inability ef the peraon affiled
to stand firm and erect with hla eyea
cloned. Another la the ayniptom of the
talra, o called from the fact that
the patient la In conwlant fear ot falling
aa he descends a a airway. The third
symptom la found In the way the pa
tient troasea hla Wa. He lifts the leg
In this act much higher than ia neces
sary to clwur the knee of the other leg,
and the toea describe in air an arc ot a
large circle. The fourth ayniptom la
the confused and hesitating manner In
which the patient movea when sudden
ly commanded to rise snd walk, and
the painful effort he makes to keep his
equilibrium when suddenly ordered to
halt In his march. In the first cam un
der this symptom the patient seems
uncertain ot his equilibrium. In the
second, under the same symptoms, he
tends, when suddenly halted, to lean
tar forward, or, with a view to counter
acting this tendency, to lean back at a
perilous angle. The fifth symptom is
the inability of the patient to stand
Arm and erect upon one toot, at first
With his eyes open, then with his eyes
cloeed. A man In normal health can
ordinarily preserve bis equilibrium
upon one foot with his eyes open, but
It takes some practice to enable him to
stand still upon one foot with his eyes
eolsed. The eyes are an Important ad
junct In preserving one's equilibrium,
whether In walking or in standing. In
the case of a person stricken with loco,
motor ataxia It Is difficult to maintain
equilibrium upon one foot with the
yea open, and Impossible to maintain
It for a single Instant with the eyea
closed. All these symptoms are to be
noted with the fact In mind that persons
In good health are likely to be nervous
ly affected by the knowledge of the ex
periments with the view to discovering
such symptoms sre In progress. It la
aJso Important to remember that a por
son of sound health, but unused to
smooth floors, descending an uncar
peted sUirway of polished hard wood,
1b likely to be seised with a fear of slip
ping, and Instinctively stiffens the an
kles as one does In walking on Ice. A
steep stairway, too. Is alarming to old
persons or to nervous persons when
they make the descent.
SPOKE WITHOUT LOOKING.
Hew m Muay Urocer Loat a Desirable
Cuatnmer.
She la Just one of the very prettiest
women In the whole Southwest, and
she has come to Washington to Bpend
the winter. Her skin is like the heart
of a white rose. Her eyes well, her
tyes are just the color of Mrs. Joseph
Thompson's ?ycs down in Atlanta, the
color of the high light In a glass of
old sherry, and her hair Is as red as a
frosted oak lent. She is sensitive about
that glorious hair, and this is a story
of something that happened to her a
lortnlght ago. She had planned a din
ner to celebrato her going to house
keeping, and a canvas bacs duck was
Implicated In it. So she went a-niar-ketlng.
and found her way into a shop
or stall where game is sold.
"Have you any canvas backs?" she
said to the salesman. The man hesi
tated for Just a moment. Then from
the back of the shop the proprietor's
voice bawled out:
"No; but there's a nice red-head."
And then an astonished clerk was
left staring after an extremely indig
nant woman who swept out in a blaze
of temper and dead-leaf hair. Wash
ington Post.
How She Found a Norn da fin me.
Miss French (Octave Thanet) thusex
plains how she got her nom de plume:
"Octave was the name of a school friend.
It is both French and Scotch. I thought
If 1 could find another name to go with
it that was both French and Scotch 1
would adopt that. I was riding on a
r train one time when we stopped at a
- -way station, and on the siding near
- -where I sat was a freight car painted
red. On the side was chalked the word
'Thanet.' What it meant or how it got
there I have not the slightest idea, but
I decided then and there to adopt it.
Lots ot people still think that Octave
".Thanet is a man."
Where England Fight Beat.
The prospect of another Ashantee
" war recalls Sir Wilfred Lawson's sum
mary of the English campaign in 1873.
He asked in the house of commons
what England had gained by her vic
tories over the Ashantees. "An old
umbrella and a treaty," he made an
ewer to his own question. He was re
minded that there had been no treaty.
He remarked that he was not sorry, as
the treaty would have been worth no
more than ths umbrella.
An Orient! Conch.
i An Oriental couch, says an upholster
er, may be easily made of home materi
als. Take an old packing box and place
It on a mattress; cover with verlaine
or some cheap Turkish looking cloth.
Make a dozen square pillows covered
with similar stuff ot different patterns,
and thai corner of the room will be In
Style.
Can't Beat the Engtlah. Sparrow,
After seviYM years of tireless war
fare, and thsAtyment of many thou
sands of in bounties, the farm
ers of Berien county, lilchigah. havs
given up fighting the English .harrow
ITS PERILS ARE MANY.
tb tr I ratial twin
rroaa tlol J f Water.
From the Detroit Free Press: The
recent scrldviit to the steamer Missoula
tends to show wore clearly than any
thing that occurred the vat area of
Lake Superior, and the possibility of a
it ssrl'a crew reaching land after Ship
wreck and yet being unheard of for a
couple of weeks after starting on
toyace. The shores of Michigan, wls-
cccstn and Minnesota on ths big laks
sre traversed by railways and tele
graph Hues, and the towns and small
settlements on the American side of ths
lake, even to the Islands, furnish ready
nusns of communication with ths
larger cities; but not so on that part of
the Canadian shore north of ths lakes,
where a wilderness inhabited by a few
Oshermen and Indians exists. This Is
especially true of the Canadian shore
Just above Sault Ste. Marie, and for a
long atretcb of country to the north and
east of the point where the Canadian
Pacific railway turns In to the shore ot
the lake and traverses It on toward Port
Arthur and Port William. When the
Missoula broke bor shaft and was ren
dered helpless she wss less than
twenty-five miles from Caribou Island
on the course down toward Sault Ste.
Marie. She was somewhat off ths reg
ular course of vessels bound down from
the head of Lake Superior, but If she
had been able to make any headway
toward the Sault, or care for herself at
all on the course she was following, she
would have been picked up very soon
after the accident by some passing ves
sel. But a southerly wind drifted her
out of the course of even the few ves
sels trsdlng to Canadian ports at the
head of the lakes, and she was working
over toward the wildest part of the
Canadian north shore territory when
her crew was compelled to abandon her.
A glance at the chart will show that
Brule point, where the crew of the Mis
soula first made land, is scarcely more
than seventy-five miles from Sault Ste.
Mnrle, where 15,000,000 tons of freight
passes through a canal in a single sea
sr n, and yet the men In one of the Mis
soula's yawl boats spent nearly two
days working along the shore of the
lake before they found any more sign of
life than a deserted fisherman's shanty,
In which they built a fire and dried
their wet clothing. The fishing season
l as closed, but even fishermen are
scarce in this territory during the most
actlvo periods. It Is not strange, there
fore, that the men from the Missoula
were nearly a full week In finding means
ot communicating with the owners of
the vessel after they had landed on the
dreary north shore of Lake Superior.
Didn't Know Ilia Neighbor.
Jonathan has been Into the Maine
woods eighteen seasons, and his occu
pation there has been gathering spruce
adm. He builds a cabin in the fall
when he is about to begin work In a new
territory. It Is generally a small one,
but he takes great pains to make it one
that can easily be kept warm. One
year he passed fte months without see
lng a human being, and at the end of
that time he found that another man
tad been in camp less than two miles
from his all winter. They did not see
each other's tracks for the reason that
the other fellow was trapping, and con
fined his Journeytngs to a valley where
a large stream and its branches gave
hlra a field for his operations. Two
miles away Mr. Stone lived in his little
cimip on the edge of a big spruce
growth, and In following this he went
away from, instead of toward, his
neighbor, the trapper. When they had
finished their season's work and got
acquainted coming out, they told each
ether ot the lonesome evenings passed
ii. their respective camps.
Political RlKhta In AuUrntli.
An agitation in favor of increased
political rights is in progress on the
Western Australian gold fields. An
association, termed the Gold Fields'
National league, has been formed, and
a platform adopted demanding facili
ties for political registration, parlia
mentary representation on the basis of
population, a reduction of railway rates
and of customs duties, especially on
the necessaries of life, improved rail
way communication and full considera
tion for the interests of the gold fields
as against the seaboard and agricultur
al districts.
Named by IWjarrt Taylor.
Mount Clair, In Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, was named by Bayard
Taylor during the course of a spring
day ramble In 1S47. Taylor s associa
tion with the place should be sufficient
to incite a desire to speii the name as
be spelled It. The railroad company
spells It "Mount Claire, which spelling
originally must have been a blind guess
by somebody who, perhaps, thought that
it wasn't correct. It was near enough
to pass.
Kam'i Duel to Death.
An interesting duel was witnessed In
Pike County, Pa., not long ago. The
duelists were prize rams, and their
method ot combat was unique. They
would repeatedly back off from each
other to a distance of about forty feet.
and then dash forward until their
heads collided. This plan they co
Unued until one ram dropped dead.
Charle A. Dana- Brother.
Junius Dana, who is by two years the
Junior of Charles A. Dana, lives quietly
at Warren, O., where he Is a director In
a national bank. His life has been
very active one and typically American.,
Junius Dana is a frequent visitor to
New York and a special roo"m In hla
brother's house Is ever at his disposal
Two Chtneae Girl Student.
There are at present two Chinese
girls at the University ot Michigan.
One ot them, Miss Shie, has been elect
ed secretary of the senior class. The
ultimate object of these women Is to
return to China as Christian medical
missionaries.
CURIOSITIES OF PRINTING.
( Mat M aa Ih.at.lla Ik HirttlpUct arf
Iba Art rmanillia,
Chlaa. the "cradle of the arts," lalro
the honor of the Invention ot printing.
Away bark In the year Ml. nearly l.ooo
years before Gutenberg Issued ths first
volume ot his famous bible, the Chi
nese wf re using the "block system ot
printing, and in the tenth century. 400
years liefore Kurope had become ac
quainted with the "art preservative."
tbe almond-eyed Celestial typo were
better versed In the science of setting
movable types than were the American
printers of ths days of Benjamin Frank
lin. The "block system" of printing,
which was so well known in tbe flowery
kingdom less than six centuries afur
the birth of Christ, did not And IU way
to Europe until about the first of the
fifteenth century, when "devotional
manuals.'' each bearing a portrait and
few lines in printing, became popular.
These cuts and printed lines were taken
from engravings made on a single
block, the very earliest dated specimen
of that character made in Europe bear
ing date of 1423. There Is still a ques
tion as to who was the first European
printer to use the movable types. It
is not a question as to what European
Invented movable types, for It la known
that the honor belongs to the far east.
The honor of being the first to adopt
the system appears to rest between
Laurens CoBter of Haarlem (died 1440)
John Faust and John Gutenberg. In
the above list some Include the name ot
Peter Schoffer, a son-in-law of Faust.
Dutch authorities claim that Coster was
the first to use movable types, and that
Gutenberg, who was at one time a
workman in Coster's shop stole the
Idea from him. The Germans give Gu
tenberg the honor and set the date of
his first successful practice of the art
at 1436. The first entire European book
ever printed from movable types bears
the name of Johann Faust on its title
page. It bore the name of "Tractatus
Petri Hispanl" and was printed at
MenU in 1442. As Gutenberg did
not put hla name on all of his books, or
the date when they were issued, there Is
some doubt when the first appeared or
how many were issued. Gutenberg's
great work was his Latin bible, which
appepared In 1456, and which is often
catalogued as the "first book ever
printed on movable types."
THE FORTUNE TELLER KNEW.
Dlilii't Need Hefond Sight to Foree
What Wii tlolntr to Happen.
"I suppose everybody has visited a
fortune-teller at least once In his life,"
remarked a drummer to a New York
World reporter, "but I'm willing to bet
that few men have ever had Buch an
experience as I ran up against the other
day. I was walking through a side
street uptown when I chanced to see a
clairvoyant's sign in the window. As
It had Just begun to rain and time was
hanging rather heavily on my hands,
I thought it was an excellent opportun
ity to satisfy a curiosity I had often
felt. My ring was answered by a frowsy-haired
girl, who ushered me into a
rather shabbily furnished room.
"I was Joined by an elderly woman of
motherly aspect There was nothing ot
the proverbial fortune-teller about her,
and I was more than astonished when
She Introduced herself as a celebrated
clairvoyant. But her gentle smile and
old-fashioned manner soon put me at
my ease, and I felt almost as much at
home as if I had been in my own house,
Her motherly eye detected that ray
overcoat was rather wet, and she in
sisted that I take it oft and le aer
hang it by " fire in the other room.
"I felt so comu-etable that it was with
real regret I saw h. at last terminate
the interview by going Into the other
room for my coat. She was a very en
tertalning talker, and told me the same
stereotyped things that fortune-tellers
have been telling ever since the begin
ning, the majority of which are sure
to happen to every man and woman
who ever lived. As tor the particular
things she told me, only one, so far
has turned out true. She said I would
lose a large sum of money. I never
thought anything more about the affair
until the next day, when I felt for my
bank roll and found that the wallet
had been taken out of the Inside pocket
of my overcoat."
Word In Books,
The total number ot distinct words
In the new testament, excluding prop
er names, ana tueir uiruin,
i . u : A I ; la
4,829. The vocabulary of the old testa
ment Is much larger. Accoraing to
Gesmin's "Lexicon," the old testament
contains 5,810 distinct words, not
counting proper names and obsolete
roots. A tew comparisons with the
above may not prove uninteresting to
the readers of this department. The
"Iliad" and the "Odyssey" together
contain 9,011 distinct words; Milton
used 9,028 different words and torms
of expression in his entire works, and
Shakespeare, the peer or an language
twisters, used over 15,000, or one-third
more than was used by all the writers
of both the old and the new testaments.
In Rnsala.
Russian Official You can't stay In
this country, sir.
Traveler Then I'll leave it
"Have you a permit to leave?"
"No. sir."
"Then you can't go. I leavei you
twenty-four hours to make up your
mind as to what you shall do." House
hold Words.
Immortalized In Street Kame.
When Paris either loves or loses some
one whom she delights to honor, the
Inevitable ceremony of new signature
tor an old street Is proposed and carried
with acclamation. A movement to sub-
.n vA mi) ainntlat M. Pasteur's
name for the present Boulevard De
Vauglrard Is already on toot
HOW HE KNEW.
Mm the VI II J Hate Had Nothing le
tmf AlM,l It.
They sat upon tbe silent beach si
lently, observes the New York World.
A big, silver-crested wave and tbe
sweet, serene silence broke simulta
neously upon the beach. The young
man shuddered as this execution sug
gested to his fevered mind his own pe
cuniary condition, and as the big wave
receded and lost Itself in the deep, dark
depths of the ocean, his silvery voice
burst out upon the stilly morn in riot
ous oceans of flowery eloquence. But,
Ilk the wave, he could not move her
rocks. A sweet, sad smile emerged
from his full, sensitive mouth, played
fitfully about his handsome face for a
moment and was lost In the lovely yel
low of bis bilious beard, and a look of
pain sat rigidly upon his marble brow.
His Hps moved convulsively, in an ef
fort to speak again, but as his full, free
sllvery voice ventured out upon the golden-standard
silence there was a shock,
and he drew it hurriedly back. At
length, with supreme effort, he drew
himself tightly together and stuck. He
was pleading for a lock of hair a token
of love. How earnestly, how eloquently
he pleaded! What plaintive pathos and
perspiration attended his burning
words! Who could resist him? A lock
of hair! It was but a small thing, she
ruminated, supposing that the wnoie
suit cost $.")0. She gave it to him
pressed it Joyfully to his heart.
He
She
loved him! O bliss! Oh. my! Oh, yes.
"Darling!" he murmured, in a softly
modulated, melodramlc voice, "I love
you! I worship vou! Tell me. dearest,
that you love me in return. I never
loved another," he added, as the thirty
ninth vision of unrequited love strode
hurriedly through his mind.
A heavy blush mantled her brow for a
moment and then slid slowly down her
hair and fell sloshily Into the sand.
'I do love you. George," she answer
ed, fervently. "I adore you.
'And I knew it, sweetheart," he gur
gled; and under the influence of mat
Elyslan Joy and his unpaid board bill,
combined with an effort to press her to
his bosom despite the sleeves she wore,
seven large beads of perspiration Btood
out upon his classic brow and then ran
consecutively down upon his subjacent
features.
'Knew it?" she repeated, interrog
atively; and a shade of disappointment
swept horizontally across her mobile
face, removing large clusters of snowy
whiteness where It swept. She had
entertained a certain clandestine Joy
in the thought that she had played her
part well and kept him without refer
ence to what the true sentiments she
entertained for him were. Now she had
prlma-facle evidence that she was mis
taken and that she had been Kept m
the dark herself, and she was aggrieved,
"And how," she questioned, poutlngly.
"did you know it?"
"I knew," he rejoined, pressing the
bit ot hair to his Hps, "I knew that you
adored me by your locks," he breathed.
ecstatically and all at once. And as he
folded her to his palpitating breast the
tide chased itself hurriedly out and the
silent crab , buried its blushing face
in the sand and spake not.
A Cruel Kat In'llan Woman,
Tn nprsnn the beeum Somru
was
small, with a graceful, softly-rounded
figure, a complexion of dazzling fair
ness, large black eyes full of animation,
delicately-chiseled features and a hand
and arm of such perfect symmetry that
native poets sang of them as matchless
wonders of beauty. Her dress was al
ways In exquisite taste and of the cost
liest material. She spoke Persian and
Hindustani fluently. Her manners were
charming and her conversation spirit
ed, sensible and engaging. But as a
set-off to this long array of personal at
tractions her character was detestable.
She was cruel, vindictive and treacher
ous. If one of her servants displeased
or disobeyed her she would order his
nose and ears to be cut off In her pres
ence and watch the mutilation with
gusto while she placidly smoked her
hookah.
When one of her dancing girls of
fended her by attracting the attention
o favm-itn officer she. In a fit of
furious Jealousy, ordered the unfortu
nate girl to be buried alive. There was
a small vault under the pavement of
the saloon in which the nautch dances
were held and In that vault the begum
saw her victim bricked up. " When the
horrible work was done she com
manded the rest of the nautch girls to
come out and dance over the grave In
which their still living sister was m
tombed. According to one account
denied by some of those who have in
vestigated the story the begum, that
she might extract tne last urops oi
fiendish pleasure out oi me cup oi re
venge, had ner coucu jnsn-cu iUJ
over the valut Chambers Journal.
Duel Between Women.
Another of those strange spectacles
which are occasionally visible in Paris
Btreets namely, a knife duel between
women, was to be seen last night in a
locality near the Central Manteis. war
guerite Sonnet accused Louise Mouginot
of having attracted away from her a
grocer's drayman, known familiarly as
"Big Louis," owing to hla herculean
ouild. The rivals met in a bar in a
street called the Rue de Crlmee, and,
iter having exchanged a heated dia
logue and exhausted the vocabulary of
vituperation, they went outside, tucKea
nn their sleeves and petticoats, drew
knives from their hose and began to
hack at each other. Sonnet soon had
the unDer hand, for she stabbed Mougl
not in the throat and breast, causing
her to fall as If lifeless to the ground.
The iniured woman was taken to the
hospital in a dangerous condition. Son
net, who is said to be an old hand at
knife work, managed to elude the police.
who will have little difficulty in eventu
ally discovering her retreat, as she is a
notorious character in the district.
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