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.. J. r:r - THE JOURNAL. "WEDNESDAY, APltIL 19, 18SJ. eUa natter. OH, LOVED A XD LOST! I rtt beside the aa this autumn day. The aky and Uilo an ru lihinglv blue, Anil melt into eauh oth-r. Down'the bay The stately ships Unit tv, so still and sloV That, on the horizon's erge, 1 scarce may know Which le the niK across the wave that glow, And which the cluds that tloat tlio azure through. From beds of golden rod and asters -teal The south wind, soft as any breath in Mav; IliKh iu the sunny ait-tue white ulls wheel. As noiseless as tlif cloud they pois- below; And In the hush, the low- waves come and go As if a spell entranced tliem, and their flow Echoed the beat of oceans far away. Oh. loved and lost 2 Can von not stoop tome This perfect morn,, uvm !ieven and eartU are one? Tne south winds breathe of ou; I only see Alua. the virion -ueet can liauRhC avail!) Your image in the cloud, the wave, the sail; And heed nor calm, nor storm, nor bliss, nor bale, Bemembering you have fone beyond the sun. One look into your eyes; one clasp of bands: One murmured, "Ixj, I love you a-J before ;" And I would jrive you to your viewle lands And wait mv time with never tear or sigh; But not a whisper comes from earth or sky, And the ole answer to my yearning cry Is the faint wash of wa es along the shore. Lord I Dost Thou see how dread a thing 1 death, When silence such a-, this is all it leaves? To wutrti iu ugony th parting breath. Till the fond ecs' are closed, the clear voice still; And know that not the wildest prayer can thrill Thee to awake them, but our grief must all Alike the rosy usVns, the rainy eves. Ah I thou dott see; and not a pang is vain ! Some joy of every anguish must be born ; K'se this one planet's weight of loss and pain Would tay the stars in sympathetic woe, Apd make the suns move pale, and cold, and slow. Till all was black and void, Thv throne below. And night shut down wlthonf.a gleam of mom. But mark 1 The sun goes radiant to his goal, While winds make music o'er the laughing -ea; And, with his set, the starry lio-t will roll Celestial .splendors over mead and main; lrd! Can Thy worlds be glad, and death en chain? Kay! 'tis but crowning for immortal reign. In tlio pure realm where all abide with Thee. What star has seen the sun at cloud less noon? What chrysalis knows aught of wings that soar? Oh. blsed souls! How can I hope the boon Ot look or word from you, the glorified. Until for me the shining gates swing wide? Welcome the day when the great deeps di vide. Ana we are one in life for evermore! Kdma Dean Proctor, in youths' Companion. "GHOSTS" FOUND OUT. Most of the frights that come to hu man nerves originate in mystery. Ob jects are trembled at simply because they are unknown or half known, and C&U90K are fancied in fear, with an al most instinctive leaning toward the su Eernatural. Few cases of " haunted " ouses have been known where patient inquiry and search could not " lay the ghost," and the following story, told of one of the old baronial castles in the north of England (the favorite abode of ghosts), shows how extremely simple the solution of a most lrightful mystery Kay be. Not many years ago the property re ferred to descended to a branch of the female line one of the heroes of Water loo who, nothing daunted by its evil name, was determined to make this cas tle his place of residence. Certain noises having become a subject of real terror to his peasantry, he resolved to deep in the castle on the night he took possession in order to do away with these superstitious fears. Not a iiabitable room could be found, except the one occupied by the old gar dener aud his.wiftv in the western tur ret, and ho ordered his camp bed -to-be set up in that apartment. It was in the autumn. At nightfall he repaired to his gloomy abede, leav ing his servant, to his no small comfort, at the village lp. After having found everything comfortably provided, he turned the large old rusted key upon the gardener and his wife, .who took leave of him to lodge at a farm hard by. It was one of those nights which are checkered with occasional gleams of moonshine and darkness, when the clouds are riding on a high wind. He slept pretty well for the first two hours. Then he was awakened by alow, mourn ful sound that rati through the apart ments. This warned him to bq,up and accoutred. 'He descended the turret stairs with a brilliant light, which, in coming to the grand floor, cast a gigantic shadow of himself upon the hijjh embattled walls. Here he stood aud listened. Presently a hollow moan ran through the long corridor and died away. This was fol lowed by one of a higher key, a sort of scream, which directed his footsteps with more certainty to the spot. Pursuing the sounds, he found him self in the great hall of his ancestors, and, vaulting up on the large oak table, set down his lamp, and folding his cloak about him, determined to wait for 'all that was terrible. The night, which had been stormy, suddenly became still. The dark flitting clouds had sunk be "neath the horizon, and the moon threw her silvery light through the chinks of the moldering pile. As our hero had spent the m irning in the chase, nleep came unbidden, aud be fell asleep on the table. His dream was short, for near him issued a hprrid groan. Amazed, he started up and sprang at the unseen voice, thrusting with a fearful blow his sword in the arras. The blade was fast 'and held "him to" the spot. Behind 'the waving folds there lay the cause con cealed. He left his sword, and retraced his steps to the turret. "When morning came, a, 'welcome erovd-greetihg-him, nskedif' he had met the ghost. " Oh, jes,.' replied, the knight, "dead as a door-nail behind the screen he lies, where my sword has pinned, hmi fast. XrIDg IUK WICUUMlug um, auu. v.s u uu,, the disturber out!" With such a leader, and broad day to boot, the valiant throng tore down the screen where the sword was fixed, when lo! in a recess lay the fragments of a chapel organ, and the square .wopden "trunks made for hollowed sounds, were used as props to" stay the work when the nail was coated round with oak. The wondering crowds laughed aloud at the' mysterious voice. It was the northern blast that found its way through the crannies in the wall to the groaning pipes that had alarmed the country ' roaad or eeitury past " - Very few ghost stories have such a solid foundation as the one told of Jo seph r.,"Ehip?roP6lGenuany, a merry gentietnanrand as brave at' heart' as he was sturdv in biceps. He was a bosom friend of the Elector ot Saxony; a royal scamp, whose bump of reverence hardly equaled his love for the flesh. Joseph was a good Catholic, and hi3 friends of the church Were in considerable fear lest the Elector should lead him from the true faith. They tried almost every device to break the com panionship between them, butTall to no purpose. Finally a jealous Jesuitfather dWuised.himself in Satanic'attire and silently entered the Emperor's chamber late in one dark night. Clinking heavy links of chains, and placing himself near the bed, where the dimiight from the solitary taper could fallupdn his figure, the very'mvsterous visitor began haranguing, in -very sepulchral voice, the startled Emperor. i . "Renounce, O, Emperor, thy iritfmaey with the Elector of Saxony, or prepare tor eternal damnation!" The muscular magnate, not caring lo be bored with unearthly cal.ers at an unseasonable hour, leaped from his mad catching up in his.tM''Ms phantom visitor, launc) d him out ot the wmdow, saying: "lteturn to Purgatory, whence you came!" A broken thigh was his ghoatship's rewai d. A man who bought a haunted house in Colosse, N. S., sought an explanation of the mysterious noises with a hammer. He pulled off a few clapboards, when an explanation flew out, followed by several hundred more. About a bushel of large black bats were discovered, cozily making themselves at home in various crannies of the building, and making the people decidedly " not at I home" bv their clatter and noise at , night. Those bats, when disco vered, took all the romance out of that haunted house and cut a long story short. Practical jukers have often played thn ghost. They are the last pereons wha take kindly to a joke played upon them selves. An English servant girl, how ever, was once taught to respect the old sauce for the gander." The coachman of Commodore rorter, famous during the war of 1812, died, and a few days after the colored serv ants were alarmed at the appearance of his ghost. Every night about seven o'clock they would rush upstairs iu great fright, declaring that Nathan's ghost was in the cellar. Knowing that some one was playing a joke, the Com modore watched. That night he sa one of the house-girls enter the cellar window, dreised in1 a Jong night-gown, her face sprinkled with flour, and a lighted candle in her hand. The next night the Commodore dressed to re semble the deal man, with blackened hands and face," and a wood-saw in his hand waited for the ghost. As soon as he heard footsteps he be gan sawing wood. The girl entered the cellar, and the wood-sawyer, stopping his work, said, in sepulchral tones : "Miss Jane, de Almighty send me for you!" With a shriek: the fright ened woman rushed from the celler, ran out of the house and. took to the woods. The lesson, though severe, was such as she deserved. She never again played the part of a ghost. Some years ago a gentleman's family hired a spacious old mansion house in a retired region, and took up their abode there. It was in a lonely situation, separated from public view by the long rows of old trees which bordered the road and the avenue. One night, as a young lady of tne family was preparing for bed, she hwd a strange, hollow, murmuring sound, as of distant voices. Though startled, she finally decided that it was voices of men in the road, and settled herself as for the night. But scarcely had her head touched the pil low when she heard the sounds again, and springing to her feet she went di rectly to a corner closet, whence they seemed to proceed. When she opened it a strong gust of damp wind blew in her face and almost extinguished her lamp. Then came the sound of distant talking again, and she thought she caught the words, Poor thing! Poor thing! Too bad! Too bad!" She was for the moment paralyzed with terror, but resolved not to rouse the family if she could possiblv avoid it, feeling sure the sounds could be ac counted for in some natural way. A few nights after the unearthly noises were heard again from the same closet-corner, but nothing could be found there to account for them. The lady's brother, determined to unravel the mystery, oc cupied the loom one night, and before morning, opening the closet, he dis tinctly heard the words, "Poor thing! Too bad! Too bad!" uttered intones not only hollow but also painfully plain tive. It was subsequently discovered that in the extreme corner of the closet was a section of old tin pipe. In the closet of the nursery was the other end ef this speaking-tube. The nurse occupying this room had been particularly annoyed by mice in her closet, and had set a trap there. Hearing the little captives scratching about as they were caught in their wiry prison, she and one of the other servants had risen upon the nights referred to to secure them and to make the traps ready for other victims, re peating the woids hetrd. This was the key to the mystery. Bailouts Magazine. Staring Off a Rub. In time3 of severe panic people have been known to refuse Bank of England notes and prefer local notes. In country districts of Scotland the old one-pound notes were greatly preferred to sover eigns. It is said that when there was a run upon the Bank of England in 1765 the device was resorted to of paying the country people in shillings and six ponces. One acute -Manchester firm painted all their premises profiisely,arid m iny dapper gentlemen were deterred from approaching the counter- Astory is told of Cuuliffo Brook's Bank. When there was an impetuous and unreasona ble rush for gold, Mr. Brook obtained ft number of sacks of meal, opened them at the top, put a good thick layer of coin upon the contents, then placed them un tied where the glittering coins would be manifest to all observers. One bank procured a number of people as confed erates to whom they paid gold ; these confederates then slipped round again to a back door and funded the" gold, and thus the effect of a stage army was produced. At another bank the "Chief Cashier himself examined every note with the most searching scrutiny, hold ing it Tip to the light, testing the signa ture, and making 'believe thtt, on ac count of alarm as to forgery; there was ueed of the most scrupulous care. When he had completed his pretended exam ination he handed the note to one of his subordinates very deliberately, with, in slow and measured terms: "You mr.y pay it." O her plans were to pay the'money very languidly, counting it twice over, so as to be sure the sum was right, and to give a sovereign short, so that the customer should complain and the counting have to be done over again. At one of the banks pece measures in verted were placed in the window facing the street, a pile of gold upon the top, after the manner of the fruit exposed to sale at street corners in the summer. At another the coin was heated in shov els over the fire in the parlor behind and handed out as "new" at a tempera ture of 300 deg. Fahrenheit. The clerk in cluirge, accommodating his phrase ology to the occasion, cried out loudly every half-hour: 4Now, Jim, do be gettin' on with them, sovereigns ; folks is waitin' for their money." "Coming, sir, coming," was the ready reply, and the "folk" thought the power of pro duction boundless. It is always the simple-minded and the uninformed who constitute on such occasions the chief -portion of the throng, just as the people who go to extremes are the half-educated ones. The crowd were easily per suaded the proof that all was right was burning their fingers. London So ciety. During the past season the soh rlam sn.twn has heen so nmlific in the Shrewsbury River, New Jersey, that the n bottom of the nver could not bold it. The consequence is tin immeiise growth of small clams, varying from half an inch to an inch in length, lying so close lo the surface that they have .been I washed ashore in immenso quantities, and ne along the beach between nigh and low water mark, in such numbers as to threateu disease, as tljey rapidly decompose. Thousands of bushels have been carted off 'the shore "by farmers for fertilizing purposes. m The only reason a. roan at Cairo had H or shooting at a boy was to see if h would iumr. The bov funmed. and all might have been lovely if the shooter hadn't been sent jp for two years. ' Qaackcrj in the Profession. There can not possibly be a "system or "curev in medicine. There are no rule-of-thumb methods and no myster ies in true science. If we do not know wh"at1fremedy""srand howit actsj we have no right, as honest man, to employ it. The time has passed for the work ing of cures by charms and the recourse to nostrums. ' We pauder to the credul ity of the unskilled coumunity when.we show ourselves credulous. We patron ize and encourage quackery when we extend professional recognition to a quack. Every mm is a quack wheth er qualified or unqualified who em ploys a remedy without knowing why, or who adopts a "system" in medicine. The profession must speak out clearly and strongly on this point and without delay.' From the highest places in soci ety to the lowest ranks of the people, there is just now a grievous readiness to "believe in" quacks and quackery. We have ourselves to thank for this most adverse "feeling" and "influence." It is the stirring of the viper we have brought in from the cold, where phvsi cians and surgeons of more robust in telligence than those of to-day left it the viper we have warmed and fed and brought back to life; and now it is pre paring to rise and sting the hand that caressed it. The way to encounter the charlatanry which is making head against, science is to. be. at once more candid and "more conspicu ously honest in our dealings with the public. We must lay aside the last vestige of the robe of mystery.and show by our words and works, our conduct and policy, that medicine is not a sci ence that admits of inspiration, and that the practice of healing is not an art which can be acquired by the unlearned. There is no system or cure, or charm or nostrum, known to the profession ; our calling consists solely in the rational study and treatment of disease on common-sense principles. For those who pretend to a sort of inspiration we have no professional friendship ; and toward the promoters of systems and "pathies we can have no leaning, or any feeling other than that of suspicion, if not pity and contempt. They can have no place in our professional intercourse, and we can have nothing to say to them or their work. This is the only sentiment worthy of the medical profession in its dealings with medical quacks, and the time has come when the revival of its old spirit is most earnestly to be desired. Jjondon Lancet. Mme. Jfilssdn's 'Misfortune. The thunderbolt which fell upon Mme. Nilsson ou Wednesday last may easily be imagined. Her husband said to her, " Ma jKtite Christine, you must now sell all your property in America and in England. I have a plan which will render us immensely rich;" and she replied, "Tu es fou, quelle idee!" Whereupon he jumped up, seized both her wrists, and said, "Mad! But look into your looking-glass, Christine; you are mad; your eyes are starting out of your head. You must absolutely try to get calm ; I'll send for the doctor." Of course, she could then not doubt what had happened, all the more that it was not the first time he had had a similar attack. When they were in America, suddenly au idee fixe occupied his mind ho could speak of nothing else ; but then she kept him at home, away from eyery possible excitement, and by great care cured him. She tried again now. Five days and five nights she never left him; during all this time he never shut an eye, speaking continually, quietly, not excitedly, about the millions which he was certain to make. The worst is that the disease is in the family f an un cle and a cousin of his having died mad. But until now, at least, M. liouzeaud's folly is calm; he only insisted that his wife, under his dictation, should write the whole night the plan of his new bank. During the last forty-eight hours not only did he not sleep, but he neither ate nor drank, and no opiate had any effect upon him. It may not be amiss hereto state that he never touched Mme. Nilsson's money for any speculation in fact, he was a partner of an aijcnt de change, and the remises brought to his share from 4,000 to G,000 a year. Mme. Nilsson, when she married, and gave up singing in France, had about 80,000, earned in Europe and America, of which, however, through unproduc tive speculations, she lost very nearly half. Not entirely, because her Ameri can properties seemed now to revive ; anyway she has the income of about 40,000. Her husband wa3 transferred to the house of Dr. Goujon, into whose house alone during last week four bour siers were brought. M. Rouzeaud, al though quite ignorant of the place where he is kept, and continually complaining that not letting him come out makes liim lose a fortune, is, according to the testi mony of the doctor, much better. Al though she goes there every day, she is not allowed to see him. London World. Juvenile Precocity. The following letter is the production of probably the youngest child who ever wrote a letter. One of the peculiarities of it is that she inherited her father's handwriting. In less than a week she was able to imitate him so closely that the two could not be told apart. The epistle is an interesting example of the precocity of American children, the spelling and punctuation being better than that of children many times her age: January 29, 1882. Dearest Grandpa: I was a week old yesterday afternoon, and papa said, if I was a good girl last night, that I might write a letter to my own grand papa to-day. I was good hist night, and mamma had a good night, too, and she and I are both "doing well." Papa is doing well. too. I like my two grand mammas quite too utterly much. I want to see my grandpapa, and see if he is really and truly an "elderly gentleman," as mamma's mamma says he is. I like your picture ever so much, dear grand papa, and don't think you look elderly at all. Mamma says you are coming' to see me soon, and 1 am so glad. I want you to come as soon as you can, and stay a long time, and you and I can talk over old times together. Won't that be preciously precious? They haven't told you anything about me in their letter to you, so I am just going to tell you about myself. I have blue eyes, and hair of an auburn hue. I am per fect in all respects, physically and intel lectually (papa taught me those two big words this morning. I eat a great deal, and nurse says I am a little pig. I sleep some, but don't cry at all, except when very hungry. I have one (1) nose, two (2) eyes, two (2) ears, one (1) mouth, ten (10) fingers and ten (10) toes. I take an inventory every morning to see -that they are all right. Now, I want to send my love to all my nice relations, and I must stop now, because I am tared. I shall be so glad when you come. We are all well and happy. I hope you will love me, dear grandpa, as much as I love you, and that you will soon answer this fiiet letter from your loving grand daughter. . Fxokxnce. P. S. Ain't you ladj'm a girl? 'Detroit Free Press. Why should we make a rule for aes thetes that does not apply to others? Boston Post. We should not. We shouldTdemand just as much sense from them as from any one else New Haven jicyisicr. ii f A'Milwaukee man has bought 4,000 acres of land in Gautemala. He says he is bound to have room for himsetf and family to move their ieet whe1hey feel like iL-L -MtfnU Free Pretty - There are thirty-five, tpa schools for girls in Chicago. Our Young Readers. TWO FACES. Did von oversea our pot. When t-hc Miiilt-8? When the dimples in her cheek Play ix game of bide and seek. And the nose in dainty way Lifts its hoiiiiv retroiisj. And the eyes In I mjjhter dart Their sweet arrow through your And the cunmnir, rosy lips Lift their rogif b. pouting tips From the chin, While within Shin two rows of milk-white pearl O! this toothsome little girl Have you seen her when she smiles Then the point where we agive U That upon this earthly hall Just the sweetest thing of all Is what she is! Did you ever see our pet When the crie' When a B.vift and tangled frown Bends the curving eyebrows down, And a grief she cannot speak Wts the roses of her chek. When, like weeping summer skies. The blue hea on of her eyes. Clouded de p with woe an 1 fears, Sends a rain of sabs and tears Down her nose, Down horelothes. While her w g of golden brown Bobs in sorrow up and dowu Have you sen her when she cries? Then the point where we agree is That upon this earthlr ball Just the sweetest thing of all Is whatsls: -WvUAwalm. ABOUT WILD ANIMALS. Most youngsters who pay their way into a circus-tent know at sight ever' animal that is likely to be found there, and, as soon as they have nodded recog nition at him, are sure to ask: "What can he do?" For this reason, almost every danger ous creature in the best recent collec tions has been both wild and tame. The lions, the tigers, the panthers, are as large and terrible-looking as ever, and it would be just as dreadful a thing if they should get loose among the specta tors. It is worth while, therefore, to see them all p'ayfully submissive to a little man or woman with a mere whip in hand. A direct consequence of all this is that the more a wild beast can be taught, the more he is worth, but there is no telling how stupid some lions and other savages are. The very best of them, even after all kinds of good schooling, retain a lurking disposition to make a meal of their keeper, or of anybody else, if a good opportunity is given for it. " Tani mg" is a process which has to be con stantly renewed, for the tamest tiger is a tigers till, aud there has been no change in his boru conviction that all other liv ing creatures are "game" for him. The best lion and tiger " kings" of to day say that every time they enter a cage containing these fierce creatures they carry their lives in their hands. " Gentle?" remarked one of these venturesome folks the other day. "Those tigers of mine? Why, do you see that whip? I know, as well as I know anything, that if I drop that whip when I am in that cage they'll be on me. Their idea of obedience is con nected with the whip, first; then with my voice; then with my face. Severity? Cruelty? No use at all. I never use cruelty in training them. Only pa tience. When I take on a new cage of beasts I work to get them used to me; feeding them; cleaning the cage; talk ing to them; all that sort of thing; be fore 1 go in among them. Then t do that. It's a ticklish piece of business, going in the first time; and I pick my chance for it when they're specially peaceable. I go right in, just as if it were a matter of course, but I keep my eyes about me. It's a humbug that a man's ej'c has any power over a wild beast. Your eyes are to watch their motions thatVall. They'll find out quickly enough if you're getting care less. They're sure enough to be watching you all the time. Are they intelligent? Well, there's as much difference among 'em as there is among men. I can train a really intelligent lion, right from the wild, in about four weeks, so he will do all that the lion kings make them do. A lioness always takes a couple of weeks longer, and so does a leopard or a tiger- You can't get a hyena well in hand inside of two months. They're the meanest of brutes. They never understand any thing but a club. The easiest to train, because they know the most, are pumas. I can teach a puma all it needs to know in four weeks. Affec tion? Teach those fellows to love you? That's all nonsense. They'll fawn and fawn on you, and you'll think you've done it, may be. Then you go into the cage, if you want to, without your whip, or when they're in bad temper, and find out for yourself what they 11 do. See that dent in the side of my head and those deep scars on my arm! There aie more down here," patting his leg. "Got 'em from the best trained lions you ever saw. It's awful, sometimes, to have one of those fellows kind o' smell of you and yawn and shut his jaws, say, close to one of your knees! See my wife there? She's the 'Pan ther Queen,' just as I'm a 'Tiger King,' and that fellow yonder's a 'Lion King.' Her pets are playing with her now, but they' ve scratched her well, I tell you. There's great odds among them, though, and that young puma with her head up to be kissed is what you might call gen tle. Only they're all treacherous. Every lion king gets sick of it after a while. I could name more than a dozen of the best who have given it up right in the prime of life. Once they give it up, nothing'll tempt 'em inside of a cage again. You see, every now and then some other tamer gets badly clawed and bitten. They've all been clawed and bitten more or less them selves. The strain on a man's nerves is pretty sharp sure death around him all the while. And the pay isn't any thing like what it was." It may be true that the strictly pre datory animals of the cat kind are nev er to be trusted, but the now three-years-old hippopotamus of the leading American "show" seems to have formed a genuine attachment for his keeperT a young Italian. He is savage enough to all other men, and when out of his den for his very limited exercise, it is fun for all but the person chased to see how clumsily, yet swiftly, he will make a sudden "charge" after a luck less bystander. After that, he will crustily and gruntingly, obey his keeper, and permit himself to be half enticed, half shouldered, into his den again. There should be more room for brains and, consequently, for affection in the splendid front of a lion than between the sullen eyes of even a very youthful hippopotamus. ( The " keeper" question is one of prime importance in collecting and man aging wild animals. Trainers of the right kind.arescarce. and although high pay hardly can be afforded, it will not do to put rare and costly animals in' the care of stupid or ignorant men. Such qualities as courage, patience, good tem per and natural aptitude for the oc cupation are also needful, and they are not always to be had for the asking. Unless the right men are secured, however, the failure of the menagerie is only a - question of time: As for the "specimens" themselves, it is much easier to obtain them than it once was, owing to the better facilities for transporting them from, the several "wild-beast countries." Catching them in their native wildernesses has lieen a regular trade for ages. . The market, price of a menagerie ani mal of, any kind varies from time to time, like that of other merchandise, according to the demand and supplv A writer stated recently that zebras are sold at a little over $5,000 a pair, gnus at about $800 ji pair, while rhinoceroses casf some $6,000 per pair, and tigers about $1,500 each. A short time ago. 1 -however, and perhaps now, a very good "uneducated" tiger could be bought in London for from $200 to $800, The same beast, the moment he takes kindly to learning and promises to be sparing of his keepers, doubles and trebles in value. There is no telling what he would be worth should he show further signs of intellect or good morals, but he is like a human beiujr in this respect i the more he knows, the more it will pay to give for him. The same rule applies to the entire list, trom elephants to monkeys, so that no precise idea can be given of the probable cost of a menag arie. From "Men-und-Animal Show$7 in St. Nicholas. The Typhoid Fiend. It is much to the honor of modern medicine that it busies itself in the work of ascertaining how to prevent disease, and imparting that knowledge to the people. It is probable that the time will come when a great class of diseases which now afflict humanity will be eradicated. What are known" as zymotic diseases are beginning now to be under stood as never before. Disease germs, the conditions of their origin, growth, and development now form a most in teresting subject for investigation and. study by such able physicians and scien tists as are constantly engaged in widen ing the field of knowledge. It is stated that thousands of cattle have recently been vaccinated at Paris as a protection against the anthrax or charbon, a da-, ease which has carried off annually great heids of cattle, and has extended to the human race. It is confidently predicted that the time is not distant when similar prevention will be extended to such dis eases as scarlatina, meales, diphtheria and typhus, which are due to the growth in the human system of minute organ isms. An eminent German physician has re cently called attention to the sanitary relations of the soil, and has shown, in an address to an association of natural ists and physicians, that the order which so long' placed sickness-giving and health-promoting properties first to air, next to water, and last to the soil, should be reversed. He asserts that the condition and character of the soil has more to do with the health of any locali ty than either water or air. It is stated as an established fact that many millions of minute organisms ex ist in porous soils within the area of the head of a pin. By meaus of the micro scope they are now made visible, and their growth and influence traced. It has also been ascertained that there ex ists a soil air continually in motion car rying up the germs of disease. Soils may be made healthy or unhealthy. Re cent examinations have shown that the Roman Campagna, now regarded so un healthy, was once traversed by an in tricate net-work of underground canals which in ancient days made it the healthful seat of elegant villas. The authority referred to gives numerous in stances of the deleterious effects of air currents from the soil on which palatial residences are erected. It is not uncom mon to hear of a locality in a city which experience has shown to be peculiarly liable to a certain disease. It 'may iu appearance seem clean and salubrious. Close investigation will generally show that it has at some time been the dumping ground for the refuse of a city, and is loaded with disease germs of a special character. It is well understood that what is known as "made ground" k never healthy, but is constantly sending up the agencies of disease. So well is this understood, that in certain cities a topo graphical map is kept showing the dis tricts which have been filled up. which are universally the typhoid and fever localities. There is a wonderful amount of popular ignorance existing in regard to the agencies of disease. Many a man builds an elegant house which is but a death-trap for his family.. Perhaps twenty years ago the site was the mouth of a sewer. He digs a well right through beds of fever-infected soil, and thinks because the water is clear that it is pure. Then he connects his bath-room and kitchen with the city sewerage, and in vites into his bed-chambers tHe typhoid fever, and yet wonders why he and his are stricken with disease. He has com plied with all the conditions that ty phoid fever, diphtheria aud malaria re quire to propagate, and yet he is sur prised that his family, never sick in the old home, commenced dying in the new one. Absolutely pure and healthful drink ing water is rare in any city. Well wa ter, however sparkling, is nearly alwa'S filled with those microscopic organisms which only need introduction into the human system to commence their work of death. The ground upon which any old city stands in time reeks with dis ease. The first requisite of any city should be pure water convej-cd from a source far removed from all the influ ences which a crowded population breed aand intensify. Rain water fil tered or boiled is safer than any other kind. Enough is known of such diseases as typhoid fever to make it certain that they might be eradicated. We owe them to our ignorance and errors in living in house-building. We make our bodies hot-houses for the development of disease-germs which might be 'excluded, and many of what we think are improve ments are but nursing and fostering arrangements of disease. We cover up filth and think we have buried it, when, in fact, we have but enabled it to fester and germinate poisons destined sooner or later to do their fatal work. Indian apolis Journal. Terra Alba. . The extent to which this fine white earth is employed in adulterating pulver ized sugar, confectioner-, flour, prepared cocoa, spices, milk', etc., is incalcula ble. Dishonesty gives the law to many a traffic and manufacture in these days, and compels those who would rather be honest (so they imagine) to " do as others." A chalk' taste in the delicate white cracker, a tastelessncss in bread, a whity scum in the teacup from a spoonful of snowy sugar, with many another uncompr'ehended indication, betray the presence of the ever-present adulterator. Two-thirds their weight of terra alba has been obtained from lozenges. The ingredient Ls imported from Ireland, and that largely, costing only about $1.25 per cwt. Jo urnal of Chemistry. Silk Seda Crackers as Dinner Cards. At-a recent dinner party in this city some odd dinner cards were used. They wjere exact imitations of square soda crackers, made of pale silk, filled with down and sachet powder. The edges were slightly colored, as a cracker id browned iu the taking, and the print of the cutting stamp was copied by'tliJ silk being stitchca together in places. In the center, where the name of the manufacturer usually is, was the name pf the guest. As they lay upon the pure white linen by the "plates, tney looked like' such fresh, good soda crack ers that it was a disappointment to find that they woald not break and crumble into brittle mouthfuls. N. II Sun. A five-year-old daughter of Dr Pickens Taylor. Vf GeoViria. was taken down with a spi'll of intermittent, h became necessary to administer. 4qui; nine, which.he did in the form of MitaJ capsules. In order to induce he'f ' tc take them he told her that they rwerr "little humming-birds' eggs, and werr very nice." When the quinine ha taken effect she told her father wity. great glee that the little birds had hatched, and were singing in her bea Harper's Magazine. SCIENCE AND INDUSIVIY. There are 2,S00 men employed in te Burden, Irou-works, iu Troy, N. Y., and all are kept extremely busy. Im portant improvements are making to tho works at a cost of $40,000, and when completed .150 men will be added to the working force. Mezofanti, the wonderful Italian linguist, who knew sixty-four and talked forty-eight languages, turned his atten tion to language because, when a young priest, he tound a foreign sailor dyinjj who wanted to confess, but could find no priest who could understand him. M. Eckstein, ot Austria after com parative testa with various disinfecting agents, unhesitatingly recommends chloride' of lime as decidedly the best for water-closets, cess-pools, etc. He attributes its efficacy to its rapid action in decomposing hydrogen compounds. M. Millet, a brother of the late dis tinguished artist, is the originator of an idea for using thin panels of natural woods for the covers of books veneers, such as have long been used for furni sure and wall decoration. These veneers are cut so thin that over one hundred are needed to make a pile an inch high. The great milk traffic of New York from Orange and other counties had a small beginning in 1813. In 1849 or 1850 the first regular milk train was started. It created much religious excitement at the time in consequence of the train run ning on Sunday morning. The milk trains are now by far the most profita ble on the roads. It has been determined by experi ment at a. point down the Hudson River that what is known as " snow ice," in contradistinction of " clear water ice," will last lpngest. A ten-pound lump of the former Ia-sted three hours longer than a similar piece of the latter after b5th were dropped into water which was contained iu a vessel supposed to be air-tight. The practice is common among the engravers and watchmakers of Germany of hardening their tools in sealing-wax. The tool is heated to whiteness and plunged into the wax, withdrawn after an instant, and plunged again, the proc ess being repeated until thcsteel is too cold to enter the wax. The advantages claimed for this method aro that the steel becomes almost as hard as the dia mond, and when touched with a littlo oil or turpentine, the tools are superior for engraving, and also for piercing the hardest metals. The calculations made by Prof. Langley, concerning the heat of the sun, show some remarkable results. Thus; a sunbeam one centimetre in section is found, iu the clear sky of the Alleghany Mountains, to bring to the earth in one minute'enough heat to warm one grain of water by one degree G. If would, therefore, if concentrated, upon a film of water I2500lh of a 'millimetre thick, one mellimetre wide, and ten millime tres long, raise it eighty-three and one third degrees in one second, provided all the heat could be maintained. And, since the specific heat is only 0.0032, a ship of that metal of the same dimen sions would, on a similar supposition, be warmed in one second to 2.603 degrees C. a temperature, in fact, sufficient to melt it. PITH AND POINT. A light purse makes a dark heart. Air castles are built with sunbeams. Wilkins. Some Princeton College boys offered to saw wood for a poor widow, but she replied that if they would relay the four rods of sidewalk torn up by their crowd she would ask Heaven to see to the wood-pile. Detroit Free Press. Tiffin, Ohio, has three lady law yers, the youngest of whom is named Sams. She is one of Uncle Sam's girls, and if by chance she should marry a client by the name of David, she would then become one of the Sams of David. N. 1'. Com. " What your daughter wants," said an overcandid music teacher to a millionaire whose education was not equal to his fortune, "is capacity." "Indeed!" was the astonished reply, "well, I'll order one immediately, no matter what it costs." There is a young lady who is six feet four inches tall, and she is engaged to be married. The man who won her did-it in these words: "Thy beauty sets my heart aglow I'd wed the right or wrong; man wants but little here be low, but wants that little long." Dan ville Tribune. A Scotch minister was once busy catechising his young parishioners be fore the congregation, when he put the first question to a stout girl whose father kept a public house: "What is your name?" No reply. The question hay ing been repeated, the girl replied: "Nane o' yer fun, Mr. Minister; ye ken my name weel eneuch. D'ye no say when ye come to our house on a night, BGt, bring me some ale?' " A curious subscriber wants to know "why haven't you got off something funny about the small-pox? You're away behind the times." Dear, fun loving man, if,ypu have discovered any thing funny about the small-pox, trot it out to the hospital. All the humor in a whole pest-house wouldn't furnish fun for one paragraph. Go out and catch it, and then have a good laugh all by yourself, if you think it's so funny. Burlington Ilawkeye. J. A. P. "Would you like to pub lish, in Sitings, a composition written by a boy on a mule?" We do not wish to encourage boys to write on mule, and therefore can not use the manu script. Boys should write at home on a slate, and when on a mule should give all their attention to steering the quad ruped. Now, if you had anything writ ten by a mule on a boy -there would doubtless be something original in that, aud we would gladly publish it. Texas Sttings. l I don't know what ails me," ex claimed Fenderson. "Almost every afternoon I feel terrible pains all through me!", "What did you eat for dinner to-day?" asked Fogg. "Not any more than usual," replied Fenderson. "I ate a plate of turtle soup, a bit of baked bass, a couple of slices of roast pork, some stewed kidneys, a little lob ster salad, a sweetbread or two, some pudding and pie, a few nuts and raisins, a bit of cheese, coffee, and a few other things I don't think of just now." "I congratulate you, my boy!" said Fogg; "yodve a strong constitution. Noth ing's the matter with you. If you weren't in prime health that dinner would have killed yotr." Boston Tran script it He'd Read the Papers. He was a plain old man from the country; he wore an old style, broad brimmed hat, and his clothes were homespun, but when a slick-looking stranger stepped up to him on Vine street and professed to know him, and aslied all about his wife and family, and wanted to know when he came down and when he was going back, the old man declined the proffered hand, and drawing back, said: "That's all right, young man; never mind the prelimina ries : git-right down to business 'twonce. You've got some goods at the depot and want to pay, the freight. Hain't .got nothin' but a hundred-dollar check. Would I hold the chect and let you have $60 43 'to pay the freight? Or pVapa you've just.drawed a prize in a lottery, and would I jes' step around with yoq and see you' git the money ; or p'r'aps bat the confidence man had' slipped aay; the granger was too well posted, altogether. As the old man gsaed after lits retreatim? figure he chuckled owt: ''Slipped np that time, Mr. Bunko; I'm posted I've read tne papers."- amnaii nuiuruay -y. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! fllja fc. IT CURKS SPA VI VS. SPLINTS, K1NC BOSKS, t UKBS AND ALLSIMILMCBLKM. ISHES AND RE MOVES THr. H US i It WITHOUT BUST cK-1SG. PTKrunAi IX. qpPiMxVpy KENDALL'S SPAVIN OVBII It has cured thousands of cases and Is destined-to cure millions and millions more. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUE1! Is. the only positive cu-e known, aBd.tosbow what this remedy will do we give here as a sample of cases cureU by It, a statement which tras ., GIVJEN UWDE& OATH; ' to Whom It May Coueern. In the year 1875 I treated with 4Ke3dall's Spavin Cure," a bone spavin of several months' grow tn, nearly half as'lnrjce as ahen- eg, and completely stopped the la.iueuess and cemo-cl the enlargement. I have worked the horse ever since ery baril, and be iieterhat linen iaiue, nor could I eer "ee ahy difference iu the size ot" the hock joints since I treated him with "Kendall's Spavin Cure.'' It. A. G.UXKa. Enosburgh ,w ills. Vt.. Keb. i5. 'VJ. Sworn aud subscribed to before me this 25th day or Feb., a. d. 1ST!. John G.Jknnk. Justice or Peace KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUB1; ON J1UMAN FLESJI it haHbten ascertained, by repeated trial to be, the very best liniment ever used for any deep seated pu in of long standing or of short duration. Alio for COH2TH, BUNIONS. FROST-BITS or any bruise, cut or lameness. Some are afraid to use it on human .Jtesh simply because it-is a horse medicine, but you should remember that what is qood for BEAST is qood for MAN, and ice know from Experience th at "KENDALL'S Sl'AVIN CURE" can be used on a child 1 year old with perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on human Jlesh and it docs not blister or make a sore. Try it and be convinced. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CU11; Read below of Its wonderful effects as a liniment for the human family. Hematite. Mismjuiu, August 20, 1. II. J,Kksdau.i6 Co., Gktts: I am so ovcrjoved iu view of the result of aa p ulication of jour Kendall' Spavin Cure that I feel that I ought for Humanities' ake publish it to the world. About thlrtv-tlvc yc-irs ago while ridlnp a young' ugly hore, I was injured! in one of my testicle, and from that time to three weeks a:;o aslow but cpii!tant enlargement has been the result, giving ma a great amount of trouble, almost entirely preventing me from horiehnck ridin?. which was tny usual way. of traveling. I -aw a notice of your Kendall' Spavin Cure, never oneo thought of it for anything except for horses, but after receiving the medicine and reading over what it was good for, feeling terribly exercised about mv difficulty, for 1 tmd.consiiltvd, many physicians and none gave me anv ttpeeidc but'when it could, be endured no longer to remove it ith the knife. I applied your Kendall's SpaVin Cure as an experiment, ami it wa !o painful iu it application that I concluded not. to repeat it aud thought no more abi ut it until near a week, and lo and behold one-half the size, was gone, with joy I could scarcely believe It, I immediately, ap plied it over aaim and have made in all about dozen applications running over a s.pace of two weeks and the terrible enlargement is almot gone. In view of which 1 cannot expres my feeling of delight. It has been a (iod send to me. may he send to others with like troubles, Joun Kicx. Pastor of Hematite Congregational Church. 1. S. You are at liberty to put this in any shape vou may please. I am. not ashamed to have my name under, over or by the side of it. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUB1! Kendall's Spivin Cure is sure in its effects, mild In its action as Jt does not blister, yet it Is-penetratine and powerful to reach any deep seated piinf or to re move any bony crovvth or any other enlargement if used for several days, such as spavins, splint-', callou-. -prains. swelling, any lameiieas aud all enlargements of the joints or limbs, or rheumatism in man aud for any purpose for which a liuimout i u-ed for man or bcat. It i- now know n to be the best liniment for man ever uied acting mild yet certain in its effects. It is used iu full strength with perfect safety , at all seasons of the year. Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think give positive proof, of its virtues. Socemedy ha-met with -u-!i untpi illli-d ucess to our knowledge, fur beast as well as man. Price $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $". ALL DRUGGISTS hare it or can get it for 70a, or it will be sent to anv address on receipt of price, bv the proprietors, 48 Dr. li. J. 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