Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1883 — Page 7

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It is stated by the London Times that Avenger O’Donnell is 45 years of age, served in the < American rebellion, lived for some time : in Philadelphia, and kept a public house on the Canadian border. He lost his money by investing in silver mines and Fenian bonds. “Hb will probably be tried by a citizens’ jury,” is the closing sentence of a story about the capture of a desperado in “Citizens 1 jury ’’ sounds well, but the term is employed to designate the most informal of tribunals known in the West.— Harper’s Weekly. 1 Slade’s salary for traveling around with Slugger Sullivan’s show is to be SI,OOO per month. He is expected to stand up six evenings a week and let the Boston man bruise him. The length of the engagement is not stated, but it will probably last as long as ■Slade does. Aw exploringexpedition, equipped with four canoes and a score or more of men, is to be sent into the Florida everglades by the New Orleans TimesBemocrat. The everglades have never ■been thoroughly explored. Hundreds of Seminoles are supposed to be living in their recesses, and to hold negro -slaves. The Alps.appear to answer the same purpose in Europe that the Niagara ' -whirlpool does in America. A German professor in the university at Boon was killed while climbing them, the other day, and scarce a season goes by that half a dozen or more foolhardy idiots are not dashed to pieces. Both institutions are valuable assistants of the foolkiller. . Thebe i firemen of the steamship City of Berlin were recently folio-wed by - customs i inspectors in New York to a shop on-Spring street, where -six packages of lace were found on-each mau. Afterward thirty-six other packages were i discovered in tthe building. As none of it was marked at thef time by the officers, the charge of smuggling could not be proved against the accused, and they were discharged. There are about thirty blind newsdealers in New York city. Most of them own their own stands and are doing a good business. Some of them are so active and dexterous that many of their customers do not suspect that they are blind. It is said that nearly all of them are experts in detecting false coin, and, what is more wonderful, can determine almost instantly the valu<« of most foreign silver coins presented to them by customers in payment for newspapers. Prince Bismarck was guarded during his stay at Kissin ggen by six Bavarian gendarmes, six Prussian policerhen, one Bavarian commissioner of police, one Prussian police councillor from Berlin, four detectives from Munich and two from Wurzburg. Their duty was to watch the Chancellor during his three hours’ walk on the promenade, and to prevent unknown persons from approaching his villa by day ‘or night. Sir Thomas Wade, after a residence of upwards of twenty years in Pekin, believes its population to be less than lialf a million; and a French physician, who has made systematic observations, estimates it at 400,000. Yet the geography books give it at 3,000,000. At the junction of the Han river with the Yangtsze are two cities, Han-yan-fu and Wn-chang-fu, and an enormous perpetual fair, H&nkow. Thv. population of these has been set down at 3,000,000, but from a visit to the spot Sir T. Ward estimates it at about half a million. A firm of lawyers in London advertises the proposed sale in England for an “old ancestral estate” which Illas been owned by the famly of the present holders for more than four centuries. It is set forth that the ■estate includes an entire village, of which the buyer will be the absolute -owner, and that he “must necessarily take a high social position in the county,” because he will find himself surrounded by the family properties of neighboring noblemen and gentlemen. If the person should happen to be shrewdin driving a bargain, perhaps he could get some ancestors thrown in, so that, like the Major General in the. “Pirates of Penzance,” he could enjoy the melancholy pleasure of weeping in the event of his happening to casually disgrace them. Gen. Putnam (of wolf killing fame) is buried in the pretty viHage cemetery, half a mile southwest of Pomfret, Conn., an inclosure of several acres, With quiet air, green turf, somber firs, and dry sandy soil. lifi a secluded corner of the yard, among many broken, mossy tombstones, a heavy table of

marble lies on a wall of brick that lifts it but five or six inches from *the ground. The stone is about six feet' long by two and a half wide) and marks the ■ grave of Putnam; Fully a third of it has been chipped off by relic hunters. Just north of El Paso, Texas, there is a bold and picturesque mourttain—the last and most southern spur of the Orange range. On the day of the Java disaster a gentleman on this mountain heard rumblings in its recesses, and felt a number of severe and distinct shocks. There could be no mistake, and the shocks came at intervals for some time. There is scarcely a doubt that the Javanese earthquake was as distinctly felt in portions of Texas, Arkansas and the Indian Territory as was the Lisbon disturbance in •New England. v At one of the Big Four Cattle Company’s ranches near Socorro, Texas, Joel Fowler, a large cattle dealer, met Ponly Forrest and Bill Childes, with whom be had previous trouble. Forrest and Childes began firing at Fowler, who returned the fire, killing Childes. Forrest then ran into a house occupied by a Mr. McGee. He went to the door and asked Forrest to come out. Instead of doing so he fired, killing McGee. Fowler then set fire to the house rather than take the chances of shooting with Forrest. The imprisoned man pot a ball through his own heart. All three were buried in the same grave. Among the curious things exhibited at the Louisville Southern Exhibition are thirteen medallions or castings of iron representing Christ and the twelve apostles. These were cast from native ores nearly one hundred years ago, at the old Bellewood furnace, upon the Cumberland river, in Eastern 1 Tennessee, in molds made of green sandstone. Considering the rudeness of methods and the infancy of art in that section and time, they have a finish, smoothness and polish that is remarkable. The delineation of features, the eyes, brow, chin, etc., are nearly, if not quite, equal to the very best grades of chisel work. Barbara Miller, the colored woman who was hanged at Richmond, Va., recently, for the murder of her husband, had a vision the night before telling het that three angels would appear in time to save her from the scaffold, Either the angels did not travel on Richmond time or they hod made a mistake in dates, for they failed to arrive, much to the disappointment not only of Barbara, but of many negroes, who waited, open-mouthed, for the expected rescue. Barbara, however, was not without consolation. After singing “Nearer, my God, to Thee,” she said she was going direct to heaven and the sngels, and was wafted ini® the unknown with a song of jubilee on her lips. Since sneaking back from Moscow with his crown, the Czar has net made himself very conspicuous with tthe glittering bauble. The possession of the crown has pleased the devoted subjects who were chagrined becaused this monarch went so long without one, but if has had no effect upon the discontented and turbulent elements. Nihilists arc as numerous and as active as ever. The Czarina lately detected one of the imperial chamberlains in the act of plac ing Nihilistic documents in her apart ments. Fearing banishment to the Siberian mines, or possibly death, hr committed suicide. Arrests of army and navy officers suspected of revolutionary syinpathies take place daily,;and the Czar is as nervous and apprehensive as before his coronation. Half .flu merit of a crown is in wearing it, and it can hardly be regarded as a priceless boon so long aa it can be enjoyed onlj in secret. *

Story of a Tramp.

He was a tramp of the first watermuddy w ater —and he looked hungrier than a pancake-turner in summer. Hi wanted work, and when he applied for it the lord of the manor asked him how much he’d charge to saw it, split it and pile it in the cellar. “One dollar a day and my feed,” he answered. < He was engaged and he went to work. He wrought and ate, and at the end of the week neither the tramp nor the' wood-pile had grown a pound thinner., He could eat more than a buzz-saw with sixty teeth. He stayed three weeks and then went up to the captain’s office to settle. The proprietor gave him fifty cents and a receipted board bill. Then the proprietor chuckled. So did the tramp. Then the proprietor set the dog on him and went down cellar to see if the wood had been split into right lengths. There was no wood there. The proprietor found it in the bushes, where no saw had corrupted it and no steel had broken through. The proprietor heard the dog bark. The tramp was up a tree. “If I ever come down I’ll swear not to work so hard again if I never wear a white vest and patent leather boots!" he ejaculated. The proprietor went to .bed and left him there. The next day the dog waj found under the stoop, dead. The tramp’s conscience had smittem him and he had begun to saw the wood The sight had killed the dog.— Neu York World. • _

THE BAD BOY.

“What Jis this I hear about your ather creating a panic in a dry-goods dore,” said the grocery man to the bad soy. as be took a butter, tryer and run :t into a pumpkin a few "times. “They oil me that he had about a hundred .’emale clerks treed on the shelves aad m the counters, and all of them screening bloody murder, and that a floorwalker hit him over the he id with a i oil of paper cambric, and somebodv turned in a fire alarm. Howl was it?” “Well, if you will keep watch for pa, it the door, I will tell yod about it,” said the boy. "Somebody ha? told pa that I was at the bottom of the whole business, and when a mau loses confidence in his boy, and rolls up atrunkstrap and carries it habitually, it stands a boy in hand to keep his (ye peeled,, Yon see, }>a has been in a habit lately of going to the store a good deal and lai 1 v girl Any girl that will smile on - par-and- -look' sweyt, catches him. and he would sit on a siool in front of the^coun ter ten hours -a day, pretending toxvant to buy some kind of fringe, or corsets, or something, and be would faiwy talk the aim off the girls. Ma didn’t like it at all, and she told pa he ought to be ashamed of ifimself, cause the girls w-as only making a fool of him, and all the people in the store were l.iffin at him, but pa said for her to shut her yawp, and he kept on trying to find excuses to go to the store. Ma told me about it, and she felt real sorry, and, by jinks, it made me mad to see fin old man, old enough to have gout or paralysis, going round mashing clerks in a store, and I told ma if she would let me I would break pa up in tliaLsort of business, and she told me to go ahead and make him jump like a box-ear. So ’tother day ma gave pa a piece of ribbon to match and a corset to change for a larger size, and a pair of gloves to return because the thumb of one of ’em ripped off, and told him to buy four yards of baby flannel, and see how much it would cost to have her seal-skin coat relined, and to see if her new hat was done. Pa acted as though he didn’t want to go to the store, but ma and me knew that he looked upon it as a picnic, and he blacked his boots and changed ends with, his cuffs, and put on his new red necktie, and shaved hisself, and fixed

up as though he was going to be married. I asked him to let me go along to carry the packages, and he said he didn’t unind if I did go. You have seen these injy-rubber rats they have at the rubber stores, haven’t you ? They 1 ook so near like a natural rat, that you can’t tell the difference unless you offer the rubber rat some cheese. I got one of those rats and tied a fine thread to it with a slipnoose on the end, and when pa got into the store I put the slipnoose over the hind button of his coattail, and prtt the rat on the floor, and it followed ihim along, and I swo* it looked so natural I wanted to kick it. Pa w-alked along smiling, and stopped at the ribbon counter, and winked at a girl, and she bent over to see what he wanted, and then she saw the rat, and she screamed and craw ed up on the shelf where the boxes were, and put her feet under her, and said: ‘Take it away! kill it!’ and she trembled albover. Pa thought she had gone into afit ’cause she was paralyzed on his shape, and he turned blue, and went on ’cause he didn’t want to kill her dead; and, as he walked along, the rat followed him, and just as he bowed to four girls who were standing together, talking about the fun they had at the exposition the night before, they yaw the rat, and they began to yell, and climb up things. One of them get on a stool and pulled her clothes tight around her ankles, so alive rat couldn’t have got in her stocking, let alone a rubber rat, and the girls all squealed just like when you tickle them in the ribs. Pa looked scared, as though he was afraid he was breaking them all up with his shape, and he kept on and another flock of girls saw the rat, and they jumped up on the counter and sat dow‘n on their feet, and yelled ‘rat’ Then the othe-s yelled ‘rat,’ and in a minute about 100 girls were geting up on things and saying ‘shoo,’ and one of them got on a pile of blankets, and the pile fell off.on the" floor with her,and the men began to dig her out. Pa’s face was a study. He looked at one girl, and then at another, and wondered what was the matter, and fiaal-y the-floer-walker came along and see what it

was, and took pa by the collar and led him out of doors, and told him if he ever came in. there again he would send the police after him. I had gone by the time pa had got out on the sidewalk, and he picked up the rubber rat and found it was hitched to his coat, and he went right home. Ma says he was w mad that he stuttered, and she thinks I better board around for a day or two, She tried to reason with pa that it was intended for his good, to show himithat he was making a fool of lEimself, he does not look at it in that light. Say, do you think it was wrong to break him up that way. He was going wrong entirely. ” “Oh, I.don’t know. You and your ma are the best judges. But I would have liked to see them girls climbing up the side of the stere. But what is the trouble with the minister?” said the grocery man. “He was in here this morning with the tail iaf his black coat sewed up, and when I asked him to sit down he said he was standing up almost entirely now, and when I asked him if he had seen you lately, he saidLhe had, to his sorrow, and he never wanted to see you again. I hope you have not done anything you will be sorry for. ” “It wasn’t me at alh It was Duffy s dog,” said the boy, as be broke out with a laugh. “You see, the minister felt as though he had been cross to me, when I asked questions of him, and he met me on the streets and apologized, and said, hereafter he would try to show a Christian spirit, and would answer any questions I might ask hitn. So I began to ask him how he thought it was that Daniel had such control over the lions when they cast him into the den. I told him I thought Daniel bad chloroform on his handkerchief, and When the lions got a sniff of it they didn’t want any Daniel in theirs, but he said that wasn’t it. He said it was the power of man oVer- the brute creation, and showed the efficacy of pray or. He said

Daniel prayed three times every day, and then looked the lions right in; the eye, and a lion wouldn’t have gall enough to ekt a man that looked straight inhis eye. To illustrate, he said he could look a vicious dog right in the eye and the dog would turn tail and tun, and just then we passed Duffy’s, and the dpg barked and growled, and the minister said he would demonstrate to me the power of the human eye over the brute, and he went right into Duffy's yard. Well, I know that dog,, ’cause Duffy used to raise melons, and I went right up a tree. I didn’t want thaf dog to think I was trying to play any Daniel business on him, because every little while Duffy has to take a file and pry pieces of pants out of that dog’s teeth, so I got upon a limb. The dog looked at the minister a minute, and the minister looked at the dog, and when the dog began to lick his chops I says to myself, ‘Daniel, you better be getting hence,’ but Daniel didn’t get hence till it was everlastingly too late. But I guess he would have saved his coat if he hadn’t tried to pull the dog over a picket fence. The minister is usually a very deliberate man, but when the dog began to tangle his teeth up in his coat tail, he felt, that it was good to be somewhere else, and he begun to go away to look some other dog in the eye. I guess. Duffy’s dog is not the right kind of a dog to look in the eye. I think some dogs is different about being looked in the eye. The minister looked like a flying trapeze performer when he come over that fence. They needn’t tell me our minister never belonged to a gymnasium, ’cadse he couldn’t get over a fence that way, and always have been a good little boy who never stole melons.— l eou)d tell by the way he got over the fence that his neighbors used to raise melons when he was a boy. Well, Duffy was taking a nap, but he woke up and came out and called the dog off', and the minister went off with his hand on where his coat was tore, and when Duffy chained up the dog I came down. I am not yet convinced about that Daniel business, and until the minister demonstrates it I shall hold to the chloroform theory. And so the minister wouldn’t sit down. I thought that dog’s teeth had been filed.”— Peck’s Sun. '

A Millionaire’s Meanness.

A very unpleasant story is told of Stewart’s dealing with the man who furnished the marble. According to report, the contract was made for a certain price. It was during the hard times, when everybody’ was scraping and worrying, and the contractor -soon found that he was not only not going to make money by the operation, but was likely to lose eveiything he had. He laid the facts before Mr. Stewart, who coolly replied that he had nothing to do with that; that, if affairs had gone .in another direction, so that the contractor wsuld have made treble or or quadruple what his anticipation was, he, Stewart, would have been no way benefited, but would have been bound by hs contract. Later on the contractor came to him and told him that he lad spent every .dollar he had and he had yer much to do. Whereupon Stewart said that he would advance him the money upon a mortgage, and did so. The man went on and completed his agreement, and then, never dreaming that Mr. Stewart cared to hold the quarry, went to him hoping to be thanked and have things made easy, instead of which Mr. Stewart told him he must have either his money or the quarry. The contractor told his wife of it, and she said: “Why, nonsense, Mr. Stewart cannot be such a man as that. I will go down With you.” They went together, and, as the gossip runs, Mr. Stewart’s response to the womanly interest of her husband was so brutal that the man fell dead in the office. How much truth there is in this story I do not know, but it is generally believed, and I have heard it in many places. If it is true, it is simply an illustration of the fact that with Mr. Stewart at all times and in all places business was business, when he gave he gave, what he loaned he loaned, but what he advanced on a mortgage he held unless the money Was repaid.— Boston Herald. -

Topnoody Squelched.

“My dear,” said Mr. Topnoody to his wife, “do you want to go to the boat race at 3 o’clock ?” “No, I don’t. I’ve been working in the kitchen all morning and Um tired, and, besides, you know as well as I de that I don’t like athletics in any shape.” “Of course, my dear, you don’t; but your tongue is so athletic I didn’t know 1 but that yon might want to give it a chance to —” “Shut up, Topnoody. I won’t stand it.” “Sit down, love.” “I’ll do as I please.” “Will vou go to the boat race, dear?” - “No, I tell you.” “Why not, my dear?” . “Topnoody, I 'despise puns, and yon are a pun, but I’ll use one to tell you why I won’t go. When you were a beau of mine years ago I liked yon because I didn’t see you very often, but now, when there is barely a trace of youi former, self, and I have to have you around always— to take in a beau trace every day, so to speak, it makes me want to break somebody’s skull, and—” Topnoody fell off his chair in a faint. —Merchant-Traveler.

How to Use the Magic Paper.

For taking off patterns of embroidery, place a piece of thin paper over the embroidery to prevent‘soiling, then i lay on the magic paper, and you put on ; the cloth you wish to take copy on, to embroider, pin fast, and rub over with : a spoon handle, and every part of the raised figure will be shown on the plain doth. To take impressions of leaves on paper, place the leaf, smooth side up, on a sheet of this paper, cover with i a piece of waste paper, and rub as be-1 fore. Upon removing you will find a beautiful impression of the leaf or fern. Beautiful designs maybe made in this way, with the different variety of leaves and ferns, 1 by blending the different colors, similar to spatter work.— Dr. Chases Receipt Book.

How to Read.

Why is it that not one person in ten can read aloud, easily, and with pleasure to others ? We know that one gets hoarse, another mumbles, or stammers, a third takes all the interest out of whatever is Selected, and how comparatively few are really good readers. In lipge classes of young Indies, six out of sixty may be able to read So as to be distinctly understood, but that is a large estimate. Often a quotation cannot be heard by the meinbers of the I same class. And yet these girls are so noisy at table or in their rooms that they are continually requested to try to moderate their voices. Children recite with clear, sweet tones and distinct Utterance. Why is it so uncommon in mature persons ? By remembering a few simple rules, ' every one can read well. For instance: First find out the spirit of the piece, I and suit time and tone to that spirit, j Do not read a dirge with high, quick i notes, or drag in monotone over a comic dialogue. I Next, find the important ideas to be brought out, and accent the important j words, so that one could get the story I if only these words were given? Make these words, and try the effect on a friend.

Then drift on the clauses that have no special importance; that is, let them run along easily, without emphasis. The conjunctions and prepositions are but links to bind the clauses together, and seldom require a special stress. Breathe deep and full; let out the breath slowly; learn to control it by inhaling, then holding it. No one can read well till he breathes properly. Rules for breathing are to be found in every work on elocution. Practice daily. "Open your mouth, for the back of your throat must be open, or you will have a nasal twang. Dwell on the vowels; be distinct on the final consonants, that is the secret of distinctness. Be natural; read as if talking; to do this, learn to look off the book and address somebody or something, if only the old clock in the corner. Feel what you read; see what you describe; this is the secret of impressing others. Let your face express the emotions you would portray. Punctuate for yourself, that is, understand the wonderful effect of oratorical pauses. Stop a second or two after mentioning a new name, as you do when introducing a stranger. I remember Charlotte Cushman’s reading of “In there came Alice, the nurse.” She paused after Alice, —then the last words were an explanation. Everyone saw old Alice, and felt her presence. . .' To make your voice flexible, recite the vowels with rising and falling inflections. Let me offer now a practical drill. “John -Gilpin was a citizen — Of credit and renown; A train-band captain eke was he. Of famous London town.” Spirit of the piece ? Cheerful narrative. Prominent Ideas ? John Gilpin~a pause, to let your audience tinderstand who you are speaking of—was a citizen of credit and renown. What else? A train-band captain—(eke was he) —that clause, as if in parenthesis. Of what? Of famous London town. By asking these questions, the tone in answering is natural.— Youths Companion. 1

On a Frersland Boat.

.It was pleasant to take notes I lof the various little pictures ■ made by the tangle of brown-' sailed, broad-beamed craft. We had ' even time to observe the lightsome and ; free ways of the Dutch female sailor— : not romantically disguised as a boy, but i sporting a distinct (tarry more or less) \ costume of her own; not so very differ-] ent either from the real boy—or rather, ’ his dress, in one important particular, is rather a lame imitation of hers. He I ] wears a pair of baggy breeches so very ■ voluminous and petticoaty that one has ] ] to turn to other peculiarities of dress in I order to be on the safe side.of judgment. : [ There is one way of telling the boy ! j from the girl, however, as far as you ! can see them, as he does a" deal of vig-! I orous looking on and smoking, while ' [ she does some verv pretty pulling and ■ hauimgmndqroiing the~boarabout, M ] harbor especially. We saw one athletic young maiden shy a coil of rope for a ; youth on another boat to catch. He did not get his hands out of his capacious pockets quickly enough, so the rope ; caught him playfully about the ears ;' whereupon ensued a rattling interchange of compliments (probably) be- ; tween these two at first, and then the female sailor belonging to the lubber’s boat “sailed in”—-to use a strictly nautitical term; and then it soon developed into a partie carree, as the old man as the rudder of the rope-slinging maiden’t .■boat opened fire. He was a master-hand at profanity, that aged mariner. It was just getting hot and deeply interesti g ; to us on-lookers, when our boat 'd • I out, with a welj-directed broadside oiinvective from our crew, bestowed impartially and liberally on all concerned, for not getting out of the way.— Geo. i H. Boughton, in Harper's Magazine,

To Preserve Flowers.

The following directions are given for the preservation of flowers in their form and color: Insert their stems in water in which 25 grains of ammonium chloride (sal ammonia) have been dissolved. Flowers can be preserved in this way from fifteen to thirty days. . To preserve them permanently for several months, dip them into perfectly limpid gum water, and then allow them to drain. \ \ * The gum forms a complete coating on the stems and petals, and preseiwes their shape and color long after they have become dry. Madrid has received the title of the classic borne of consumption. It is said that last year 1,000 persona died there from this disease alone. The frequent sudden and violent changes of temperature cause a host of plumonary complaints, while the number of victims to the zymotic diseases seems to show that the city is no better drained than it should be.

CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

Some curious facts were related regarding hydrophobia before the Academy of' Sciences, Paris, by M. Bert. It seems that inoculation with mucus from the respiratory passages of a mad dog caused rabies, l>ut that with the salivary liquids did not. Reciprocal transfusion of blood betw'eCn a ■ healthy and a mad dog caused no rabies l in the former. ’ A malignant tumor, Les Mondes states, was produced on the cheek of a rnanby the bite of a large black-fly,which was killed in the act. The pustule was cauterized, and the patient took internally, in twenty-four hours. 500 i grammes of Spanish wine. 300 grammes Jof rum, end 200 grammes of Chartreuse without experiencing the least symptom of intoxication. A cow will give more milk and make ' more butter on a bright sunshiny day I'thahduring one of a dull, dark charac- . ter. The animal eats more heartily, digests better, while the vital forces are active during the pleasant day. These ! facts are not in themselves very im- ' portant, yet they suggest the query whether close stabling of cows in winter i or summer is better than giving them i the run of a yard or pasture lot. I M. Regnakd, a French savant, has ! been lately trying the effect-of “blood diet” on lambs. Three lambs, which for , some unexplained cause had been abandoned by their mothers, were fed on “powdered blood” with the most gratifying results. The Jambs increased in size in the most marvelous fashion, and attained unusual proporI tions for their age. The coats of wool j also became double in thickness. Encouraged by his success with the lambs, j M. Regnard is now feeding some calves ton blood.

At the Nuremberg Exhibition was I shown a novel use' of bricks of cork. These bricks have not only beenused for building purposes, on account of their lightness and isolating properties; but ; they are now also used as a covering.for boilers, and are said to excel even asbestos in preventing the radiation of heat. They are stated to be very cheap, being composed of small corks, refuse and isolating cement. At Nnremlierg the application of cork bricks was largely shown. The usual size of cork bricks is 16 by by 2) inches.. Dr. Merkel states that the height of ian individual after a night’s rest, meas- | ured before rising from the bed, is two inches greater than it is in the - evening, measured standing. There is i a gradual diminution in height, caused by the yielding of the plantar arches and of the intervertebral discs; and a sudden diminution when the individual rises, occurring at the articulations of low er extremities. The sinking at the ankle is 4 inch; at the knee 1-12 to i inch; at the hip, 2-5 inch. The shortening at the knee is probably due to the elasticity of the cartilages. At the hip there is, in addition, a sinking of the head of the femur into the cotyloid cavity.—Journal de Medecine de Paris. Dr. Formad. in a letter to the Medical Times, of Chicago, states that “by a German imperial order in military hospitals phthisical patients are separated from other cases as carefully as small-pox patients; so a gentleman tells me who has just come from Germany, i Even here the community begins to reI gard the disease as eminently conta- ! gious. I know of an instance of a ■ young woman suffering from phthisis ! being locked up and avoided, perhaps j neglected by the members of her own i family, for fear of contagion. I have learned of several consumptives who ■ have become worse from the mortification of having their friends avoid them, some even going so far as not to shake bands with them.” '■ "Sw .facts concerning rabies have I been presented to the French Academy lof Sciences by Pasteur and others. All : forms of rabies they hold come from ' the same virus; that is to say, whatever ! symptoms might be manifested in the victim the origin could be traced and I proven to be identical. It has been i proven that death after inoculation ■ with rabid saliva may be either from a i microbe found in the saliva, from much pus formation, or from rabies produced i and communicated directly. That' virus is contained not only in the medulpa obhmg^^Jmt in the brmn . andspinal cord. Experiments on animals show j that rabies may be produced very certainly and quickly either by the acta of ■ trepanation or inoculation -or by intraveneous injection. It was noted that as- - ter the first symptoms there was a recovery, but that when the acute ones . set in all hope of life was - over.

How Will Carleton’s Most Popular Poem Came to be Written.

“Under what circumstances was ypur poem ‘Over the Hill to the Poor House’ written, Mr. Carleton?” “While at school I was interested in visiting the almshouse and chatting with the paupers. Among the acquaintances i I made there were two very worthy old people whose children had abandoned them in tlieir old age. The father told me his story. The details were not of ! course the same as related in the poem, but in them was the idea afterwards elaborated.” “Did it not have a strong moral effect?” ] “It did. It was published in the Harper’s Weekly at the time with illustration. In two months a friend wrote me that the verses had produced on him such an effect that he immediately sent a check for SIOO to his parents whom he thought had been by him too mnch neglected. I have heard of cases where people have been taken out of the poorhouse by penitent children. In this connection I might instance the case of an old man who died a pauper st Cleveland. When his satchel was opened and its meager contents examined a copy oi the poem was found carefully rolled up. From these and numerous other affecting incidents, I believe that the poem has done some good. ‘Betsy and I Are Out' has come back to me at numerous times. When stopping at a hotel in a large city recently, the proprietor came up to me, and in a demonstrative manner told me that those verges were the means, of reuniting himself and his wife.”— Denver Tribune.