Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 November 1886 — Page 7

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JSCIENCE AJfD PROGRESS.

rHE BALLOON WHICH WAS, STEERED TO LONDON. V£

'Prosperous Condition of the AmorleM Oriental Association—The Silver Question in Kng Iantl—The Brilliant Voyaf# of Le Torpillenr.

Full particulars of the successful balloon [voyage from Cherbourg to London have come to hand, with illustrations. The airship was built to be a steerable one, and it was found to be

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practically. The journey was

made by P. Lhoste, a skillful and daring I young French aeronaut. He and a companion left Cherbourg at 11 at night and crossed the channel. At the first glimpse of dawn they saw that they were approaching the Isle

Wight. The balloon was named Le Torpillcur. It was of the ordinary construction, except in some of its appendages. First, it was provided with the helix or steering apparatus ahown leneath the car in Fig. 1. This brings Che machine down.

BALLOON AND FLOAT.

Next it had afloat which could be let down Into the ocuen, and traveling through the water would convert the free balloon into a captive

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This float is also seen in Fig.

1. There was besides a conical reservoir holding eighty-five gallons. When the balloon was near the water's edge a rvtil could be lei down, niid salt water drawn up till the reservoir was filled. The reservoir was a temporary ballast to hold the balloon from shooting tip into the higher regions when the sun should warm tho air and the inflating gas. Lastly there was a triangular sail, which the aeronaut spivad, and which filled with wind and helped drive them along at the rate of nine knots an hour. Fig. 1 •hows tho balloon near the surface of the t*«i, its float dragging and the air navigators Ailing their reservoir with milt water.

FlO. 2.

Fig. 2 is a double illustration. It shows •first, a sectional view of the route taken second. a llut map of the same. The navigators rose first to a height of l.IUM) feet, and kept it. *jp at that height till nearly morning. Then iney row* to a height of 4,2X feet. During *h« night tliey witnessed marvelous phenomsua in the way of shooting stars. W When they brought tho balloon down, it came to within HtO feet of the surface of the water. The float is arranged with orifices that fill with water when it is submerged. l' This makes weight and retards the balloon by drugging on it. When it was desired to raise the balloon again tho float was emptiod.

They crossed the Thames at an altitude of feet, and landed at Tottenham station, just out of tho city. They steered the machine partly by means of the sail, taking .advantage of the direction of the wind. This -suct'.vsful ex|ioriment in steering a balloon has been hailed with welcome tho world

The Silver Money Question. The English government has appointed a royal commission to inquire into tho propriety of restoring silver to Its former position, as a measurer of values, in connection with gold. Bi-metalism, it will lie remembeml, was the rule of the commercial world for nearly seventy-flvo years. What is meant is, that the majority of the leading nations agreed to permit free coinage of gold and silver, at a ratio of fifteen and a half parts of the white to one of the yellow. The only leading nation which made gold the sole standard of values was Great Britain. Since l.sjrt every debt due a British subject was payable in London in gold. But on the continent and in the United States the payment mild be made in silver as well as gold. When Germany, after the war, exacted $ 1,000,000,1* from Franoe, tlie latter was forced to pay In gold, and Germany took advantage of this payment to follow the example of England, and made gold the sole unit of vain*. Denmark, Scandinavia, Italy, and for a time the United States, followed tlw example of Germany, and tbc result was that gold increased in purchasing power, which fact showed itself in the cheapening of •very article tbo value of which gold measured. This included silver. Tho result has been

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great distress in the business

world, as no otto liked to produce goods on a falling market* The United States partially rsmotiet land silver, ami, because of that fact, has enjoyed better times than has Europe. India, that has an exclusive silver currency, has been terribly distressed, because it has bad to pay its debt* to England in gold, and the rate of exchange has been ruinous. This is why England is taking steps to remonetto silver, and so check the ruinous fall in prices. (Should this be accomplished, financier* predict a new em of ucospcrity for the whole world, —DemonM*,* Monthly.

The American Oriental A*«oelatloa* This fe an association formed to delve into the unV* 1 treontm of ancient Indian, Persian, hv ac and Sanscrit literature. It is composed of college professor*, students, «k»M it an.! Bod A Yiuiu* iSttdkUit te L-l t-Hf .ivo at Yet the fwei remains that theme fe* e«MUk able uutr* of th- The «xiatioo inert*** in and Inkjet. Its object* are of a eaimfor Amsrkmn scholarship. We have not many ericm scholars at preMnt* but we shall aj more in the future

Mint Zelia NutUll has made mmm vary important discoveries la deciphering imint Axtec hhsrvagiyphfca.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Bare Ton Will Lesrn What Ton "Want to Know. In this column the questions of oar eorr gpondents will be answered if there is an answer to be found upon this mortal plane. It is a large undertaking, but oar question editor is equal to it.

The Highest Kennthln.

What is the highest mountain in the world? How high is it? SCBSCBIBEPMt Everest, in the Himalayas. It is29,002 feet above the sea.

Expenses of the City of New York. Can you give me the figures as to the cost of running the government of the city of New York!

STATISTICS.

The amount allowed for 1886 was between $83,000,000 and $34,000,000.

James G. Blaine's Alma Mater. Will you settle a disputed point between myself and a friend? Did Mr. James G. Blaine receive a college education* If so, where? B. J. A.

Yes. Mr. Blaine was educated at Washington and Jefferson college at Washington, Pa

Prince Louis Napoleon. ..t?

Who is the young Prince Napoleon now traveling in this country incognito? R. He is the son of Prince Napoleon, commonly called I'lon-Plon, and the Princess Clothilde of Italy.

Parish.

Will you please state what is a Louisiana parish? I often see the word used, but never knew what it meant. P. H.

In Louisiana the word parish is used to designate what in other states are called counties.

The Seventh Day.

Why do Christians keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh, as laid down in the Commandments?

The first day is recognized as the day on which Jesus rose from the dead. The origin of the change is lost in obscurity.

What is a Bonanza?

What is the etymology of the word bonanza? I11 Spanish, calm, fair, worthy prosperity. In mining, a sudden and extraordinary widening of a silver vein anything remarkable for its paying qualities.

What is Butter?

Why does churning cream convert it Into butterr (Jream is tho fat or butter of milk, con-f-iiii.ed in little globules or cases of albumen. By churning this film or envelope of albumen is broken and tho butter is set free.

Plants that Kat.

Can you tell me if there are plants that eat and digest food like animals? NATERE. The common pitcher plant of our swamps and the sundew and fly catcher of the south entice insects by means of a sweet liquid, imprisoning them in their cups. When retained tho insect is moistened by a secretion from minute glands of tho inner surface, and is apparently digested.

What is Horsepower?

Will you be good enough to state for the benefit of one ignorant of a familiar term what is horselower?

Ono horsepower is such power as will raise 33,000 pounds ono foot high per minute, or 550 pounds per second. This is continued force. A burse can only exert that power for about six hours, therefore one day's work of ono horsepower is equivalent to the work of 4.* horses.

The WaMiliigtun Tamlly.

Did Oen. Washlnton leave any direct descendants? Who are his nearest relatives? C. D. W. Col. E. B. Ball, of Washington, D. C'., is said to bo Washington's nearest living relation. Washington's mother was aMiss Ball. Col. Ball Is grandson of Col. Benjamin Ball, who was not only related to Gen. Washington through his mother, but married Washington's niece. The chain of Col. Ball's relationship is therefore from two sources. He is said to bear a strong resemblance to the Father of his Country.

The Boiling Point.

What is the direct cause of the boiling of water! B. The boiling point is attained at 213 deg. Fahrenheit, the temperature at which the elastic force of the vapor of any liquid is equal to tho pressure of the atmospheric. At 21*2 deg. temperature steam begins to be formed at the bottom of a vessel of water, and, rising through the liquid, throws it into commotion. In high altitudes water boils at a lower temperature, because the atmospheric pressure is not so great.

The Church 111 Family.

Who was the founder of the Churchill family of which lxrd Randolph Churchill, the eminent English statesman, is a member? Whom did he marry? J. C. W.

The founder of the Churchill family was John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. His sister, Arabella Churchill, was a mistress of King James II of England. Through her influence John Churchill secured the command of a regiment in the English army. He afterwards became a distinguished general. Lord Randolph Churchill is a younger brother of the present Duke of Marlborough. He married a daughter of Leonard W. Jerome, a New York stock broker and founder of Jerome park at New York.

Andover Theology.

Will you please state the questions at issue between the theologians who advocate the old and new theology? CBOK-RMAS. 1. The Andover or new school of theologians contend that there is a state of probation for all those who died before the coming of Christ, or who were ignorant of His existence through no fault of theirs. The old or orthodox contend that all are damned unless possessing a knowledge of the Savior before death. &, The discussion arose from a division in the American board of foreign missions in reference to the requirements in faith of missionaries. Tho (rid doctrine fat unacceptable to the heathen, since it precludes the possibility of their meeting hereafter the souls of all their ancestors. The question is: Shall missionaries preach the old or the new doctrine!

The Kvac nation of Mexico by U»e Frettclu Was the evacuation of the French from Mexico demanded by Um United State* govern nt. at at Uk dose of the war of ttte lebeUfcm? dr.-M-ST.

Justin McCarthy, in his "History c. Our Own Timos,^ says that Mr. Seward notified the fYench ml -.-©erat Washington that the presence of i.ch troops in MeyW* was obnoxious to the United States g. v^rnmcnt, and immediately wot a prot. n: general with a larger force to the Adam Badeau, who Is now pub ing "Grant In Peace," says tint Gen. Grant was (fo as at forcing the withdr. -d at _hfir Mestleo in 1865 tha *^nua$ mt StM«U«a to Texas and tent On.Seto 8eld on a nus' to Mexico. He say* that Mr. S»w^.4o|p^laaypttri»tegf thta matter, preferriagtr idflo*-t»*! 'tat, as

Y0DNG FOLKS' COLUMN.

PICTURES OF THE QUEER NESTS SOME BIRDS BUILD.

A Brave Girl—"Talking In Their Slaep." Bailed Cities—The little Grebe's Island Nest and the Flamingo's Chimney Pot

Nest. Ornithologists have discovered some queer bird's nests in their hunting trips. One of the oldest as well as prettiest is the nest of the little grebe. This is a water fowl found in Europe. It is sometimes called the (labchick.

The odd thing about this bright little bird's nest is that it is really an island. The bird weaves together the stalks of water plants fill it makes a regular raft. Upon these it builds its neSt in the edg€ of lakes and marshy places.

OBEBK'S NEST.

The mother bird lays her eggs and sits upon litem. The nest floats about among tall reeds and rushes, quite safe. But the best part remains to be told. If any saucy boy finds the little grebe upon its nest, and makes as if he would disturb it, the bird plunges one foot quickly into the water, uses it for an oar, and actually rows her raft nest out of harm's way in less than no time.

The little grebe is a bird that has no tail at all, and her legs are placed so far back that she stands almost upright, like a penguin, and can scarcely walk upon laud at all. But in tho water she is so at home that she even builds a boat nest

Did you ever see a picture of a flamingo's nest? Tou have seen perhaps the brilliant scarlet bird itself at a zoological garden, or at least you have looked at pictures of it. The flamingo is found along the coasts of Florida.

FLAMIWGO'8 NEST.

The bird is a great clumsy creature, with legs so monstrously long that it does not know what to do with them. It cannot make around nest and sit upon it like an ordinary bird, so what does it do but build agreatchim ney pot of mud, high and long, lay its eggs there and half sit, half stand upon them till they hatch. The sight of it upon its mud nest is an odd and funny one. The picture shows what it is like.

TALKING IN THEIR SLEEP.

"You think am dead," I-*" '§1V" The apple tree said,

"Because I have never a leaf to show— Because I stoop, And my branches droop,

And the dull gray mosses over me growl But I'm all alive in trunk and shoot The buds of next May

I fold away—

But I pity the withered grass st my root." "You think I am dead," The quick grass said, "Because 1 have parted with stem and blade)

But under the ground *''J I am safe and sound

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT*

With the snow's thick blanket over me laid. I'm all alive and ready to shoot, '.\r Should the spring of tho year

Come dancing here—

But I pity the flower without branch or root.*' "You think I am dead,"..j,. A soft voice said, "Because not a branch or root I own?

I never have died, But close I hide

In a plumy seed that the wind has sown. Patient I wait through the long winter hour* a a in

I shall laugh at you then. J.

Out of the eyes of a hundred flowers 1" —St. Nicholas Age of Animals^ The elephant is believed by the East Indian? to live 300 years, and instances are on record of elephants having been kept in captivity a» long as 130 years, their age being unknown when taken from the forest. Camels livo 40 or 50 years. Some birds attain great age, such as the swan and the eagle, which has been known to live 100 years. Parrots have been known to live 80 years. A tortoise lived 130 years and then perkbed by accident Water animals also attain great age, such as the carp, which has been known to live 200 years, and a pike has been known to live in a pond 90 years. It is said that in 1497 an enormous pik* was caught in a lake near Hulbronn, in Switzerland, with a brass ring attached to it. recording that it was put in the lake in 1230. There are indications that the whale lives 400 years.

mutt In th: or itself, and that no demand was tto evacuation occurred fn 18BT, two yean after the don of tha

Buried Cities.

1—1. The dove rises early in the morning. Can Ada come and see me to-day! 3. Can you take her at 2 o'clock! 4. Papa ran after my little dog. 5. I gazed, amazed, at baas in the garden. 6. The little cub at the circa was very cunning. 7. There are for sale many pieces of china. &. We went to view hill, meadow, spring, field and form.

Each of the following anagrams may he transposed to form thenameofafamousman: 1. C. will love more. 9L I fed regal jams. 3. A pale barn poett No, no. 4. I mm Jan 25. Flinnbert 5. A wit-mill, Tfpi. & A soft hen's for Jem. 7. No, call a Brahmin. S. Butcher Mariai chops.

A Brave Girl.

Reeently aNew York girl of 1". who had taken htmom in "First Aid to the Injured," was in Faibborgh, K. Y., when a boy wa» tferownfroma wagon and his leg broken. Sbe at once |mt her knowledge into use, set tihs kg, and I* recovering fast Pity there ai* not more girts iim thafc

*£3T- GOOD HEALTH.

Gymnastic Exercises and Massage TreatHMt to Kmp Ion Walk The massage treatment consists in pinching the mu9des and twisting them this way and that going from head to foot, all over tho body. The patient lies naked upon, a slab, and the masseur or operator performs his pow-wow upon him- It is delightful to the patient after It is over, but exhausting to the operator. A machine has lately been invented to take the place of hand manipulation. One of the New York Sun's young mat tried it as follows:

The principles of massage treatment have been known ever since cannibals were discovered kneading each other's stomachs to help the digestion of big dinners, but the process was never so popular as it is now. The reported treatment of the president by a masseur has given the business a boom, and massage artists are in a fair way to get rich.

But while the masseur is wearing the flesh off fat people, he is himself losing strength and flesh by the hard and slow work. Necessity has just become the mother of another invention, whereby a sort of massage treatment is applied by machinery run by steam.

The principal machine consists of two rubber pads about five inches long and two inches wide, placed parallel to each other, and fastened so that they adjust themselves to any part of the body. They vibrate longitudinally—that is, like a shoe brush, 1,200 times a minute. The patient, without removing his clothes, lies down on a lounge, and the masseur applies his robbers without exerting his own muscles much. A reporter tried it. The masseur clapped the machine on the region of his liver, and then moved it slowly up to to his lungs, giving the stomach such a two-horsepower shaking up that a good breakfast was nearly frightened away. The masseur said he could "do as much work with the machine in five minutes as the hand masseur could do in an hour."

In another corner of ihe room there is a machine on the floor which keeps several bootjacks wobbling in all directions. An invalid was sitting in a chair before the machine, with one foot in a jack, which kept tho toe seesawing with the heel, with the ankle joint as a pivot, litis was another style of massage.

Cure for Diphtherial'^

Rectified oil of turpentine (oleum terebinthir.ae rectiflcatum) is said to be an infallible remedy for diphtheria. For children the doso is one teaspoonful in the morning and the same at evening.

Adults should take one tablespoonfuL Afterward drink a little lukewarm milk to allay the burning in the throat.

For children the second dose can be mixed with milk, which will render it easier to take.

The result is really marvelous. The inflammation of the abnormal diphtheritic spots in the throat grows lighter at the edges, and in this way they gradually shrink until in twenty-four hours they disappear entirely, leaving no sign. A gargle of chlorate of potash maybe used with advantage every two hours between the first dose and the second—one ounce chlorate of potash to forty ounces distilled water. Marvelous cures are said to liave been wrought by this simple remedy.

H'l Gymnastic Exerclscs.^*^

First, »n introductory course of posturing, and light exercises with dumb bells and bar balls socond, leaping, the horizontal beam, vaulting (bar and horse) third, parallel bars, trapeze, swinging rings, ladders, horizontal bar, the plank, escaladingft fourth, climbing l$Le polsuifixed, slanting and turning), the pair of poles, the rope, the rosary and mast By one hour's daily exercise for eight months twelve men, from 19 to 20 years of age, gained under this system an average of three-eighths of an inch in height, ten pounds in weight, two and seven-eighths inches in client, three-fourths inch of forearm and one and throe-fourths inches of upper arm.

Horseback riding is an excellent exercise, too much fallen into disuse, and lawn tennis Is one of the best and most graceful of all.— Popular Science News.

.A To Keep Well. Simple, good food, good temper, a doily bath and plenty of sunlight and air will keep you in health.

GOOD MANNERS.

What an Invitation or Party Call Is. Etiquette. In that invaluable book, "Don't," Maj. Bunce tells everybody what not to do in conversation and manners. In reference to that common and horrible American fashion of saying "I am through," when one means that he is done or has finished, "Don't" says ^4 "Don't say I am through, when you 'ate announcing that you have finished dinner or breakfast." "Are you through?" asked an. American of an Englishman, when seated at table. "Through!" exclaimed the Englishman, looking in an alarmed way down to the floor and up to the ceiling—"through what?"

Again: "Don't reject bits of bone or other substances, by spitting them back into your plate. Quietly eject them upon your fork, holding it to your lips, and then place them upon the plate. "Don't eat with your knife Never put your knife into your mouth."

In a foot note, Major BuncelSafi, about the direction not to put the knife into the mouth: "This advice has beat declared unnecessary for people of any degree of social culture, but the fact is that while eating with the knife is much less common than formerly, instances of it may still be witnessed.®,^

Beceptlon Bays.

In accordance with the custom already well established in the large cities, ladies everywhere are having particular days of the week or month in which their friends may call on them. This is a great convenience, enabling bn«y women to attend to their other duties without dreading the intrusion of a caller at an inopportune time. On days other than the reception date, no ordinary caller can fi«i»n the lady's time, and die need not be surprised if she is not admitted. Women physicians and other feminine professionals usually have one evening in the month for being at home to their friends. Very busy women can adopt the same rule. The day az*i hours of reception are printed on the visiting cards.

Invitation or Party Call.

WbatisnMsntby aa favftatiou call, aad whac PRARPOR to it intended to serve? MAKT C. W.

A call, after being invited to an entertainment, such as an afternoon reception, an evening party or a dinner, is intended as a recognition by the pa son invited of the compliment paid him or her by the host. They are often called party calls, but invitation call is better, inasmuch as one's calls embrace recognition of a variety of entertainments. In fashionable society ladies owing a very Hrgn number of calls often give a reception, inviting all those to whom they are indebted. This throws all they invited into debt for a QRD to the bestesa.

Troe, high breeding is that which always n£raias from hurting another's feelingp.

CALIFORNIA RANCH LIFE.

How the Women Wltlle Away the Tim*. *. Not a Desirable Existence. The women often show the wear and tear of their isolated positions, without compensating social interests, more titan do the men, who are surrounded by men interested in the same pursuits. Love of luxurious clothing amounts to a passion in tho women of all

About their homes they go dressed

as elegantly as if in the fashionablo streets of San Francisco. This is the result of the wish of husbands, sons and fathers for the visible display of their wealth speedily shown. Too hurried to build the good homes which they need, all rushing along the heated raco course that leads to sudden wealth, they deck their women as means of establishing their claims to social importance, and to compensate them for the real hardships of their lonely lives during much of the time.

Tho religious, educational and moral tono of the community is largely upheld by women, and a reverential bearing is adopted toward them which is beautiful and very gratifying, without doubt. The immense size of the ranches, however, tends to isolation, and the maddening monotony of the life is very trying to tho moral stamina—one day is much like another for months during tho heated term, day after day, week after week, Sunday included.

With the nearest neighbor five miles away, what cheer is to be found in the last Parisian styles, eighteen months late, or in tiger's eye jewels in bracelets and brooches, all the way from the Cape of Good Hope and "too lovely for anything," just sent as the latest thing out from Tiffany's or of a chased silver tea service, with accompanying pottery of tho Doulton make or a lovely pug, King Charles, with trappings to match tho Parisian suits, when the jewels and dresses are to be seen only by the Chinese cook ana Mexjcan and Indian vaqueros, neither of whom can speak ten consecutive words in English and tbo tea service to be used on a pine table built in the dining room, ungraceful as a Gothic death's bead and crossbones or of a King Charles, when there is not even one feminine heart to be wrenched "by the black beak of envy?"—Mrs. M. J. Gorton in Brooklyn Magazine.

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The Effects of Massage.

A fat, lazy man will get a good deal or benefit out of hard rubbing and manipulation. Jim Cusick, who was John C. Heenan's old trainer, once told me that he was firmly convinced that the cures montioned in the Scriptures as having been made by the "laying on of hands" were really made by being rubbed well by tho hands of good, strong healthy men. All athletes who have trained know the value of such rubbing, for they depend on it to harden and invigorate their muscles. Massage consists of exercising, sweating and rubbing the patron, and when it is done by a competent person is very beneficial. At the same time it is but an aid to and not a perfect substitute for voluntary and self performed exercise, because the mind must aid the body in nny work to get tho best results. A man being "massaged" is but a passive agent in the hands of tbo manipulator. When he does his own work his mind is actively in sympathy with it, and the results ore not only more quickly obtained but are far more lasting. President Cleveland is from forty to fifty pounds heavier than he should be. Until that much lighter, every pound of fat that he loses will be to his physical gain but ho must not expect to keep at his proper weight and retain his health merely through submitting to massago. Tho best exercise ho or any one of his build can take is obtained by horseback riding. As soon as he finds himself-twenty,, pounds lighter he should ride daily from tmt to twenty miles. After his ride which should be» on a rough actioned horse, he should be toweled and then trind rubbed vigorously, and, if he is carcful of his diet, ho can oasily keep himself in good health and at his normal weight.—New York Sun Interview.

The Statue on Bedloe's Ialand. The work on tho iron structure that is to support the Goddess of Liberty on Bedloo's island has progressed far enough to enable people to form some idea of thesizo of the statue. I am sorry to say it, but a first view, as well as any view from a distance, is likely to be disappointing to those who form their ideas of it from the figures representing its size or tho chromos distributed by tho committee in charge of it. People who ride up and down the bay are already beginning to say that it will appear to be insignificant in size as compared with what they had expected. There Li nothing around it by which the eye may be aided in comprehending its SUK, except an occasional ship or schooner at anchor, ami tho masts of these vessels, especially if the vessel be between the spectator and the pedestal, make the disappointment all the keener.—Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.

Ingenuity of the Gallic Etymologist. Already the ingenious French etymologist is nt his wicked trade in tho matter of the derivation of newly invented telephonic language. The phi-ase "hullo," now generally in use as tho most effectivo mode of summoning a listener over tho wire, has been corrupted in French into "alio", whereupon tho ingenious Gallic etymologist has suddenly suggested that "alio" is really a form of Gallons." This is corruption worse corrupted. —Brooklyn Eogla

The Klrnt Keen Twlnjfe.'

As thewflRon advances, the pains and aches by which rheumatism makes Itself known, are expericnced after every exposure. It Is not claimed that Hood's Knrsnparllla Is a specific for rheumatism—we doubt If there Is, or can be, such a remedy. But the thousands benefited by Hood'sHnrsnpari 11a, warrant us In urttingotherswhosufferfrom rheumatism to take it befor the first keen twinge.

Hood's

CORSICA'S BRIGANDS.

Hatred In Corsica Is Keen Personal, Grudges Handed Down from Generation, to Generation—Almost Impossible

Stamp Out llrigandage.

MANY HIDINO PLACES.

The configuration of the island is also of! great assisUuico to tho bandits: in fact, i% would be almost impossible for them to leads the wild life of outlaws elsewhere than ilk Corsica. Impenetrable forests, precipitous rocks and unexplored caverns render tho task of tracking these outlaws a work of tho greatest difficulty and

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In Italy, on the other hand, brigandage to only another namo for highway robbery and has not even the excuse of a desire to wreak personal vengeance that exists in Corsica. For centuries the Italian brigands liavo caj ried things with a high hand. Villages have been pillaged and ransomed, mid Bologna once paid to tho bandits 10,000 crowns in gold annually to purchase immunity from these raids.

Pope Leo is said, on ono occasion, to have given absolution to 2,000 brigands at once, for these gentry aro nothing if not pious. Indeed, it is told of tho notorious Mario Sciarra, that beforo murdering bishop ho fell on his knees and cravcd ths letter's blessing.

Even at the present day it is not considered safe for travelers to visit the ruins of ancient temples of tho neighborhood of Naples with* out a military escort.—Paris Cor. Now York Graphic.

Catching Cold.

Catching cold is much more preventable than is generally supjKwed. A ]crson in. good physical condition is not lis bio to colds, and will not fall victim to them until he is grossly careless. Keep the feet warm and. dry, tho head cool, tho towels and cluwt well: protected avoid exposure with nil empty stomach tako caro not to cool off too rapidly when heated keep out of draughts wear flannels and with the oxcrcfee of a little* common sense in various emergencies colds will be rare. If coldsweroa pennl offense we should soon find away to prevent them.— Youth's Companion.

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Catarrh in the Head

datarrh Is lnflammatldtt of the mucous membrane, attended with increased secrstion. Thus catarrh may affect the head, throat, bowels, or any part of the body wbere tho mueoot membrane Is found. Bat catarrh of the bead Is by far the most common, coming ea so gradually that often Its presence is not suspected till it has obtained a firm bold on Its victim. It Is caused by a oold, or a succession of colds, combined with

Impure Blood.

When firmly established the disease ft exceedingly disagreeable, causing flow from the nose, dryness of the throat, headache, loss of appetite, roaring and buzzing noises in the ears. etc. In Hood's Sarsapartlla may be found a prompt and permanent cure for catarrh, it purifies and enriches the blood, soothes and rebuilds the diseased membrane, and thus soon cure* the disease. At the same time it refreshes and tones the whole system. The remarkable success of this peculiar medicine entities It to your confidence, Ohre Hood's SarsaparfHa atriaL

TRACKING THE OUTLAWS A WORK| OF THE GREATEST DIFFICULTY. 'J

The fact that an entire battalion of "chas-^ seurs a pied" has been recently ordered on A1 military expedition against a single family of banditli in Corsica has again callcd attention to the singular stato of affairs existing inr that quarter of the French republic.

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The namo of this pugnacious family is Bellacoccia, and comprises moro than fifty per* SsV sons, old and young, women and children.'* This is not the first military expedition that!* has been sent against them, and they have led this lawless existence for over thirty years. They only mari*y among each other, and even tho youngest members of the tribe. know how to handle a gun. Their boldness, is amazing, and they often visit Ajaccio in, disguise, but tho inhabitants are so afraid of them that they never, or scarcely ever, report their movements to the authorities Through tho fear they inspire they are abfo to obtain provisions and ammunition, and. when the "gendarmerie" get on their trail thevare invariably warned by friendly vil-. "f lagers.

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divided by a chain of mountains running north and south, their sides being covered^ with a vigorous vegetation that reminds one* of tho forests primeval of tho now world., On leaving Ajaccio to go to Bastia the roadt at onco rises at a sharp angle to tho villag* of Bocognano, which was tho starting point of tho column that has gone in search of the Bellacoccia.

It must bo borne in mind that tho Corsican banditti do not resemble those of other countries. In nearly every case they hava taken to tho forests to avenge some personal wrong. Hatred in Corsica is keen. It seems to spring in the soil, flows in tho blood and is handed down from one generation to another. Each individual feels it to bo his mission to administer justice accordirtg to his own ideas. In spite of tho influence of tho French, tho Corsican character still tains many of its original features, and tho peaceful villager will direct a brigand on his way, warn him of tho dangors that threaten him and even defend him in tho hour ot need.

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For this reason it has been found to bo im* possible to stamp out brigandage by means of local militia. The Corsicaiis affect to curse the bandits, but in reality they feel kindly towards them. This no doubt arises from the fact that deadly weapons being carried by tho entire population of the island murders aro common, and tbo assassin flics to the mountains and finds rcfugo with tho bandits. Perhaps tho only measuro that would lay tho ax at the root of tho evil would be tho passage of a decree forbidding the wearing of deadly weapons. Could such a law be enforced it would go far toward effecting the moral regeneration of Corsica.

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