Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 May 1897 — Page 6

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OX BLONDIN'S BACK.

WAS THUS HENRY COLCORD CROSSED NIAGARA FALLS.

tlie Wonderful and Blood Chilling Feat of the Great Rope Walker—How He S|j Lost ITifl Balance When a Alan Who Bet sg He Would Fail Fulled a Guy Rope.

m. Henry M. Colcord, the artist, has a studio in the Auditorium tower. He has a weakness for high places. Colcord is the man whom Blondin carried upon his back on a slender manilla rope across Niagara falls. This Chicago artist knows what it is to look downward 260 feet and to feel the peculiar sensation incident to suoh a hazardous feat. "I crossed with Blondin three times,"

Bald Mr. Colcord, "but now not a deed to the whole city of Chicago could tempt ma to go out a foot over thait fearful gulf. Why I did it in my youth I cannot explain, save through implicit confidence in Blondin or utter failure to realize the attending, danger. "Blondin and I were with the RaveII pantomime troop for along while. Afterward they were succeeded by the Martinetti troop. We played at Niblo's every, winter and traveled the rest of the year. When we were at Cincinnati, the thought® of crossing Niagara falls on a tight rope came to Blondta. He asked me to go with him, and I consented. The rope was made* in New York and, was 2,500 feet long. The1? actual walking distance across the river was 2,100 feel*, &<nd the height above the water was 360 feet.

ot 1868 and was left out all winter with out injury. Blondin mode his first crossing In the summer of 1869, and subsequently went over blindfolded. His crowning piece of daring was walking on stilts. How he did it is something that I have never been able to explain, and I doubt if Blondin himself could give a satisfactory explanation. It required a masterful nerve. "One day ho said to me, 'I want to carry you across on i»y back.' I thought he was, Joking and turned off the subject. He, urged, and I finally consented. There werei £0o,000 people present on the afternoon that I put my arms around Blondin's neck and plaoed nay legs in two barrel hoop iron hooks which he attaohad on either side of his belt. I will not attempt to tell all I. felt as we we at out over that abyss. I cannot tell it. I know that I kept my eyes open and looked Mown without feeling dizzy. It was a supreme moment, and perhaps the situation gave me the nerve that carried me through the ordeal. I looked to the farther shore and could see the tense forms ot the multitude. They stood silent and fearful I do not believe one person in that throng enjoyed the perilous scene. "In order that Blondin's limbs might not be hampered in aotion all my weight was thrown upon his shoulders', my legs resting very lightly in the hooks. For this reason my arms becariio so tired tihat be-' fore we got out 40 feet I was compelled to dismount three times to rest myself. The first time I did this I heard a hoarse mur-', mur from fche crowd. When I dismounted, I plaoed my hands lightly on Blondin's shoulders and stood with ray right foot on the rope, the left leg pointing outward and downward to be used as a balancing medi-, urn. Reaching the last guy rope on thei Canadian side, from which we had started, there were ahead of us 40 feet of line unprotected by lines. With his foot resting on the last guy rope Blondin said to me: 'Harry, whatever you do as we cross this unsupported place, do not attempt to balance yourself. Be perfectly passive, as though you were a part of my own body. If I lean, lean with me. On yon depends the safety of our passage.' Then he stepped out toward the swaying center. In a moment he had lost his equilibrium. He leaned away ovor to the right. To me it eecined our bodies werte parallel'with the earth. I nerved myself, however. In a moment he regained his equilibrium and then leaned as far to the left. Blondin could not regain his balance readily. "His movements were not unlike those of a boy who attempts to walk on a rail of a track. He started and ran, his object being to reach the first guy rope on the opposite side, where he knew that he oould socure a steady foothold and regain his poise. Ho reached the place. At that instant I felt something shake beneath me. There was a momentary but violent oscillation of the rope, and Blondin had started to run again. He made the knot of the next guy line, and there secured a firm footing. 'Get off,' ho said. I dismounted and stood as I had done before. This time it was ho who was exhausted. He stood there like a statae. Beads of sweat were on his face. His veins stood out like oords. "We reached land in safety. As we drew near the American shore every man, woman and child within 100 feet of the line's end had arms outstretched to receive us. Their lips were parted and their eyes had something of almost agony in them. I have believed to this day that there were people in that crowd undergoing a greater nervous strain than either Blondin or myself. "There had been an enormous amount of betting on the result ot the crossing. Many did not believe that the feat would be accomplished. It was one of these who, seeing success probable, had gone to the shore end of one of the guy lines and pulledit hard enough to break it at the main cable just as BJcudin had' plaoed his foot "upon the knot, Nothing but the magnificent nerve of the rope walker saved him and ma from being hurled to our death in the river below. "At the tame of our first crossing together the Washington Grays, a New York military organization, were present. A woman had seen the man who attempted to break the guy rope. The Washington Grays sent out a description of him and offered $1,000 reward for his capture, but he was never found."—Chicago TimesHerald.

IT'S A POLYGLOT COUNTRY".

Hcreules and Alans, Huns and Moravians, Servians and Ruthenians, and very many more land seeking tribes essayed to court the love of incivta Hungaria.

The Magyars alone, a Finnish Ugrian tribe, probably from central Asia, entering Hungary by the pass of Vereczke, in the northeast Carpathians, 1,000 years ago, have been able to wed themselves in good ar.a lasting marriage to the country, abounding in the tm»suresof a fertile soil, a varied snrface and a benign climate. They also founded a true nationality and a genuine stnte. The peoples inhabiting Hungary before the arrival of the Magyar* were not so much conquered as relegated by tjjent -They were, and always remained. what the stately law term of the Hungarian tripartitum (code of law) called them—ppgnicolne: dwellern, not cit'.yrr" jprojje^yphyaxaJiv, so nationally.

Hungary has alwao» been a unit, not a union. Not every aggregate of people speaking the same language is a nation. True, from what we-are pleased to call the ethnographic point of view, Hungary offers indeed a most pftctaresque spectacle of endless varieties of speech, costume, customs and folklore.

There are towns-in Hungary, and small towns, too, wher&from seven to ten idioms are constantly being used. On the Galican frontier there is in a lovely valley the old town of Eperjes. The number of its inhabitants does not exceed 12,000. To this day the good people of Eperjes are in the habit of talking or being talked to in six different languages and several dialects. An ordinary household will include a Slovak manservant, a Hungarian coaohaaan, a German cook and a Polish chambermaid. What is still more remarkable, each layer of society will tenaciously cling to its own language for centuries. A mile or two from Eperjes there are the famous salt mines of Saros. The low Frisians, who were called there as settlers' by the Hungarian kings over 600 years ago, still preserve their old Germanic dialect intact to the present day. The same phenomenon ef polyglot communities mey be found in very'many other towns of Hungary.— Nineteenth Century.

LOST IN CARS.

Articles* Left In Sleeping Apartment* by the Passengers. Some curious things are pioked up by sleeping oar porters, and a goodly proportion of them are turned over to persons in authority, to be (restored to their owners if called for. The Pound1' bureau of a palaoe ca* oomp&ny often affords an lnterest-

"The rope was stretched in the summer*• study. An innumerable variety of

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tioketed articles there displayed bears ocular testimony to the freaks of absentmlndedness. There are pathetic as well as amusing suggestions in these lost articles, for some of them are obviously mementos of tender associations. A baby's tiny worsted shoe, for. instance, found in a Bleeping berth where no baby had been, teHs its«own touching little story.

Each article, as soon as it is handed to the custodian of the "Found" bureau, is made imto a neat parcel and marked with the day and hour of finding, name of the sleeping oar, number of the train and the name of I the finder. Most of these mislaid personal effects are found under the seats or in the'lavatories of the cars. Fully twothirds of the women's belongings vfrhich are picked up by sleeping car porters are toilet articles or jewelry left in the lavatories. It was only a few days ago that a porter found two valuable finger rings in a washbowL They had been sucked into the eeoape pipe together and fortunately became wedged there so that they were not carried away by the outflowing water. The owner of the rings said, when they were ^restored to her, that she was "sure that she [had put them in her satchel" and seemed quite indignant ot the temerity of the porter in insisting that he had found them in a washbowl.

Umbrellas, oases and shawl straps constitute a majority of the "finds" in sleeping cars. They are seldom reclaimed, although kept by the oompany's custodian for a year. Some of the oddities in the bureau's oollectlOn may be enumerated as follows: One white satin slipper, a woman's bead and lace bonnet, chafing dish, pair of trousers, two hair switches, one sot of false teeth, silver candlestick and wax candle, one fine linen nightrobe, package of perfumed letters tied with pink ribbon, an ear trumpet, one crutch and three or four caged birds.

Once in a great while a pockotbook containing money is turned in at the "found" bureau., Such "finds" are quickly called for. The loss of money is usually discovered before the loser leaves the oar, consequently if it has been mislaid on that particular car it is searched for then and there. Passengers usually feel for their money the first thing after awaking in the morning, and, finding that all right, apparently do not tax their minds with anything else. Occasionally, however, men who carry their money loosely in their pocket® lose it by pulling it out with a pair of gloves, a handkerchief or a notebook. Not long ago the conductor of a sleeping car which had just been emptied of its passengers in the Grand Central station found $400 in bills lying on the platform just outside the door. He took it to the office of the general superintendent, and it was called for within an hour.— New York Times.

On Catching Heat.

Some dootors hold that there is more danger from going from the cold outside and into a hot room than from the hot air into the cold. It is further declared that it would be more correct in most cases to speak of "ca'tching heat" than of "catching cold."

Dr. William H. Pearse, writing in The Scalpel, says chat he ventures to differ from the popular belief that there is special danger in going from a hot room into the I open air, holding, on the contrary, that the heat of the room or house is a great preservative from chill or "catching cold"

on going out into the open air. In Russia, in central Europe, Canada and the northern Unitod States houses are made very warm with a dry heat in the winter, yet men, women and children go out into a temperature below zero. The stimulation and heightened condition of the circulation and nerves and ultimate molecules of protoplasm give a great power of resistance to the outer intense cold, preventing "chill" in the first exposure until exerq^se, with its infinite motions, as it were, takes up and maintains the conditions of resistance.

Dr. Pearse says that he has walked at midnight from a highly heated mansion across Boston Common, in his. dress ooat only, on a calm, starry night, the temperature about zero. He suffered no inoonvenienoa and felt 6ure that the stimulus of the heat of the house gave Mm power of resistance to the cold.

The Medical Record declares that Dr. Pearse is undoubtedly correct in his observation that one can come from a hot room into the cold outer air and run but little chance of catching cold. The danger is rather in entering a hot room from without, especially an unventilated hot room.

t*mo Towns Where From Seven to Ten Idioms Are Spoken. Hungary is the basin of the Danube and Its tributaries, bounded in a semicircle by the Carpathian mountains. No other country of equal extent possesses the same physical unity. With very few exceptions, all rivers ef Hungary flow, directly or indirectly, into the Danube, and in prehistoric times Hungary waa indeed an immense lake, which, by crumbling masses from the-Carpathians, has in the course of they go. A large number of books were untold centuries been leveled up to a vast examined and were found to contain the plain. This physical self contentedness of I ijacilli of pneumonia, diphtheria and many the country designated it, as it were, for a other sorts, some of which were harmless, proud and self contented nation. Legion Even new books fresh from the publisher's was the.nuinlier of tribes and peoples pour- hands were found to contain germs. There lug into Hungary through' the passes of

Dangers In Circulating Libraries. A foreign medical journal has been publishing facts about the dissemination of disease through books from public libraries. It is, of eouree, impassible for librarians to ascertain where books have been or to know the conditions of families into which

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tiie north or the plains of the south from ting the fingers with the lips or tongue the time of Alexander of Macedon to that -vrhen turning the pages of boohs. This is of Alfred of England. Gepides and Goths,

very many persons who practice wet-

exceedingly dangerous thiug to do, not

only to the person who does it, but to all others who may usg the book afterward, especially if the person so doing has any form of disease in the system. Invalids of all kinds are likely to be great readers, and the consumptive or those suffering with cancer may unwittingly deposit on the pages of the volumes they peruse the deadly germs of their own malady. It has been suggested that library books be subjected to intense heat at intervals frequent enough to insure their immunity as transmitters of disease.—New York Ledger.

Similarity.

Mr. H.—I wonder why love and war an bo frequently associated in proverbs? Miss W.—I suppose it is because engagements are oommon to both.—Boston Traveller.

LAMPOONING DAYS.

HAVE HAD THEIR RUN AND PASSED OUT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Xhe*^e*'ot "English Barda and Scotch Reviewers" When Byron WTote His Bitter Satires—The Way They Manage §uch

Matters Is France.

It is said that "Ianthe" and "The Maid of Athens" are the only two surviving persons wht)m Byron had described or referred to in his poems. Whethe^his be accurately true or not,the generations against whioh that brilliant literary Ishmael waged such a constant and such a futile war has almost entirely passed away, and with it has passed the fashion of lampooning one's rivals—and even of extolling one's friends—in verse. Time was when a spice of personality was an indispensable attraction in a book meant to catch the public ear, and if a young or inexperienced author neglected this important point the publisher would be sure to urge the necessity of catering for the general taste and would perhaps himself suggest a worthy subject for an epigram. We are not referring to the Curlls of a century and a half ago, but to the very honorable and generous publishers with whom our grandfathers had to do. The literary controversies whioh were so rife in the age of "English Bards apd Scotch Reviewers," but which are nowadays comparatively rare, were gloated over by an eager public, and it is not to be wondered at if the publishers, who had their fingers continuously upon their customers' pul^e, preferred such books as were calculated to stimulate the fever of curiosity. These personal references were, of course, very various in their character. No lady could complain of being immortalized as Ianthe, but we can imagine that a considerable number of Byron's victims would have given a round sura to be excluded from his bitter satires. It must have been a "bad quarter of an hour" fpr the Scotoh reviewers wheu they read the retaliation which one of their company has brought upon them, almost as uncomfortable as the five minutes in which the poor, ill treated governess read the description of herself, commencing with the words, "Born in a garret, in a kitchen bred."

Few of Byron's friends or acquaintances escaped without a single splutter from his pen of gall, and some, as is well known, felt the injury very keenly. But at tho same time he knew how to speak favorably both of the living and the dead. It is a strange instance of the vast power wielded for good or evil by the maker of simple verses that one lady is at the present moment enjoying a comfortable annuity to which she had no other claim whatever than that of having been extolled by Byron in a few complimentary staneas. To do Byron justice,'he rarely "showed up" his contemporaries unless they had previously turned their pens against him, whereas there were j5dets in those times who hated in verse for nb better reason than that their victims took a different view of politics from their own. Shelley's outburst against Castlereagh, and many of Peter Pindar's unmeasured diatribes, exceed in their bitterness anything which we shotfld consider justifiable today./ When we say that the fashion of personal allusions among poets has passed away, we do not mean that the circumstance is unknown in the present generation. The laureate's escapade in Punch, in whioh he applied the lash tothe shoulders of a brother poet, is not lilRly to be forgotten, and he has taken several other occasions of belaboring his critic, and the race of "irresponsible reviewers" in general. It is but a short time ago that two of our most popular poets took up the cudgels to one another in the public prints, and overclouded their genius by a mist of hard woi-ds and recriminations perhaps quite as virulent as anything that Byron wrote of a rival. There can be no doubt that personal allusions of the kind which we have instanced are in every sense objectionable, and that the decay of the' fashion is matter for much congratulation. Two reasons in particular might be given which would amply suffice to condemn- the practice. In the first place, it is so very easy to lash oneself into a rage by the whip cracking of our own rhymes and meters, just as certain animals are said to do by the application of their tails.

It is quite possible to work oneself into a literary fury against a literary rival, while at the club or in tho street we should take him by the hand and exchange tho idle gossip of the day. Again, it is beyond all question that literary wrangles have a tendency to .debase literature itself. There is no such thing as sublime personality. The only lofty satire is that which is thoroughly general in its application. A better poet who is either prejudiced or angry necessarily descends from the back of Pegasus and holds on, if at all, by the tail. In other words, his verses limp, his ideas grow commonplace, and the savor of his poetry is destroyed. English poets in particular do well to let this species of satiro alone, for, though as a rule an Englishman is an admirable fighter, he is decidedly limited in his mastery of weapons. Poetry is a foil that should always have the buttons on, but we have a too straightforward way of taking the buttons off. In France they manage these things differently. There they can cross foils wthout hurting each other. It is a national characteristic. Moliere used occasionally to hit living persons very hard, but we read of one instance in which he completely disarmed the resentment of the object of his satiro by reading his play to him privately before it was put upon the stage. He had satirized his man in such a polite style that the latter was easily persuaded to take so much individual atteution as a compliment. The thing would have been impossible in England. For us, at all events, the day of personalities in literature is past, and we imagine that no sensible Englishman regrets it. Even flattery is in questionable taste. But that a man should be lampooned by his fellow on account of a mere difference of opinion is no longer to be tolerated.—Saturday Review.

A RELIC OF ROYALTY.

It Is found1 In One of the Principal Cbarehes of Now Xork. Though few are aware of the fact, members of the congregation of old St. Paul's church gaze every Sunday at the arms of the future king of England. On the canopy of the old fashioned pulpit, which is one of the pepper box style of a century ago, are the three ostrich feathers and the crown that for many generations have constituted the arms of the Prince of Wales, the heir to Britain's throne. The feathers stand out gracefully in the center of the oak canopy. They are all carved wood, handsomely gilded, and form an attractive ornamentation to the pulpit With these royal arms over his head, the minister,v.:ho officiates in St. Paul's church on Sunday reads the service^of the American church.

It is argued that these royal arms have survived the storms of the Revolutionary days. An incensed mob traveled through New York city when independence had been declared, destroying every sign that represented the monarchy from whose chains they had cue themselves free. Nothing was regarded as sacred by this mob.

The ifyal arms were everywhere at that time—on the windows of stores whose proprietors had been proud of this means of reminding the public that at one time they had supplied his majesty's ships with salt pork or hard tack, on the lampposts at the street corners and swinging from the front porches of the old inns. Windows on which the royal symbols appeared wen ruthlessly smashed by the mob, the lampposts were hurled to the ground and the inns deprived of their signs in

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order

It Tf*?.a tajne when ta.be^a eBxat of. royalty

brought a man into dangerous prominence, and many wise storekeepers escaped mob violence and saved the destroying party the trouble of smashing their signs by doing the work themselves.

The royal arms of England were bard to find in New York city when the mob had completed its tour. Some few signs escaped the ruin, but not for long. They were smashed as soon as attention was called to their presence.

The lelicin St. Paul's church vras passed unnoticed and has survived to this day. It is certain that the mob somewhat overlooked its existence, for no respect for the sacredness of a church edifice would have deterred it from laying the pulpit in ruins had the presence of the feaDhcrs and crown of Wales been pointed out.—New York Times.

MASTODONS IN ALASKA.

Indiana Say That These Monsters Are Still Roaming About There. The Alaska News prints a story which ought to be of interest to scientists, and which, if it is true, will go one 6tep farther to prove to us that wonders never cease.

According to this yarn, the journal in question has learned of the existence of living mastodons near the headwaters of White river, the Stick Indians positively asserting that not later than five years ago such animala had been seen by them.

One of the Indians said that while hunting one day in that unknown section he came across an immense track, sunk to a depth of several inches in the moss, and from the description as the Indian marked it out to him in the sand it much resembled an elephant's track and was larger around than a barrel.

Upon striking it the Indian followed up this curious trail, which to aH appearances was very fresh, and, tracking from one immense stride to tho other for a distance of some miles, ho came in full view of his game.

The hunter gave one look, then turned and fled as though pursued by the evil one. These Indians, as a class, are the bravest of hunters, and, with no other weapon than the spear, will attack and slay the St. Elias grizzly. But the immense proportions of this new kind of game both startled and filled the hunter with great fear, an4 he imagined his only safety led in swift and immediate flight.

He described it as being bigger than a post trader's store, with great shining yellowish tusks and a. mouth large enough to swallow him in a sdngle lump.

If such an animal is now in existence, it inhabits a section of very high altitude and one tout rarely visited by human beings, and these only Indians. What lends

The curtain had been up for several minutes, and the play had fairly started when a carriage drove up to the door. Two men and two women alighted. They were in evening dress, and also in particularly good humor. They had evidently had a good dinner and were ready and willing to bubble over with enthusiasm. They were looking for comedy and were ready to laugh. As they passed through the door one of the men said, with a chuckle: "I'll bet it's great. I always laugh at Crane."

When the curtain was rung down after Crane, in the part of the wornout, world wearied man had quietly breathed his last, the little party soberly put on their wraps and started out. As they passed through the door one of the women said: "Well, how did you liko it?"

The man savagely kicked a programme out of his way o«d replied in a gruff way "I've been bunkoed." "Why, how?" asked the woman in surprise. "Well," and here he wrapped his heavy coat around his throat, "I canve here to laugh, not to cry," and then the party passed out into the night.—*?ew York Tribune. li

A Boy's Religious Instruction. Laurence Hutton, contributing a scried of recollections of his boyhood days, undei the title of "A Boy I Knew," to St. Nicholas, says: All the boy's religious training was received at homq, and almost his first textbook was "The Shorter Catechism," which, he confesses, he hated with all his little might. He had to learn and recite the answers to those ldng questions as soon as he could recite at all, and for years without the slightest knowledge as to what it was all about. Even to this day he cannot tell just what "effectual er.lliiig," or "justification," is, and I am sure that he shed more tears over "effectual calling" than would blot out the record of any number of infantile sins. He made up his youthful mind that if he could not be saved without "effectual calling," whatever that was, he did not want to be saved at all. But he has thought better of it since.

A National Sons Written tender Hot Fire. "The Star Spangled Banner" was written by Francis Scott Key at the time of the ^lish^vhiie otherV are objure littie attack on tort McHeiur, made by Ad-

nuraT Cockburn on fcept. 13, 1814 Key ^n(1 of them are gf recent was held as a prisoner a little boat moored to the commander's vessel. Through the whole day and uight, exposed to the fine from the shore, Key watched the flag OD the fort, and at the break of day on the 14th saw it was still waving— "our flag was still there." Then, taking an old letter from his pocket, he rested it on a barrel head, and at fever heat wrote the poem which ho called "-The Defense of Fort McHenry."—William George Jordan in Ladies' Home Journal.

Anxfous.

Bobbie—Mother, were all

the bad men

destroyed by the flood? Mother—Yes, my son. Bobbie ^vho lias just r^et-lved a whipping from his father)—When is there going to be another Aoodf -Ti^Bits.

PSUED0 MEMORY.

ITS MANIFESTATIONS AND CAUSES THAT ARE ASSIGNED.

Curious Illustrations That Have a Familiar

Appearance to Many of Us-What Som.

Famous Men Have Said Concerning This

A celebrated artist telle a story of how, When he was playing with pencil and paper, he suddenly began to draw a portrait of a face that he"seemed to remember. But hj never discovered the origin^ until when, on a vieit to a country house, he discovered the face among the portraits of the ancestors of the family. On .inquiry he found that his grandfather had once been engaged to be married to the yirl, but had been obliged to give her up on the pressure of her relatives.

Dr. Arnold Pick tells of a man who bad chronic attacks of pseudo memory. Whenever he was present at a social gathering or visited any place that was new to him, the incident, with all itf familiar circumstances, appeared so familiar that he was convinced of having received the seme impressions before or having been surrounded with the same objects under the same conditions of weathea^ etc. If he undertook any new occupation, he seemed to

First ImpTessions of London. First, six days on the ocean then a faint blue coast that gradually turns to a rich green. A little later Southampton, dry land, and England. After that a short journey through country divided by hedges have gone through it at some previous into a green and gold checkerboard tfme and under similar oonditions. This thatched roofs disappear, and chimney pots feeling sometimes .appeared at the time,take their place and flourish until you sometimos at the etid of a few hours, and come to the Thames and black barges in sometimes not until the next day, but almidstream waiting for the muddy tide to ways with great distinctness. In this case turn, between banks of masts and smoke- an explanation may perhaps he found in stacks then the Gothic buildings of par- the man's possession of a very powerful liament, and "Big Ben" and Charing Imagination, which, being constantly exCross station, and iu another moment ercised on a number of possible situayou are in London, riding through the tions, led to the recognition afterward of never ending restlessness of its streets in a similarities in actual experience. cab that you can afford, with your hatbox I an examination in other cases it may safe by your side and your trunk up by the be that there is an actual memory of events driver, and Lo |fcon, with its history, on that occurred in early childhood and reall sides of you, its wooden streets and mained for a longtime forgotten by the polished sidewalks and bright shop win- individual himseir and his friends. Cardows, and at every corner small sweeps penter tells of a clergyman who went with and big policemen, providing clean and a party of friends to visit a castle that he safe crossing, while push carts dodge in did not remember he had ever seen before, and out between steaming bus horses and hansom cabs. This is always my first impression of London.—Jesse Lynch Williams in Scribner's.

As he approached the gateway he became conscious of a vsry vivid impression of having seen it previously, and he seemed to himself to aoe not only tho gateway itself, but also donkeys beneath the arch and peoplo on the top of it, and it was for some time in-'the beliet that he wsis the victim of a delusion or nrank of memory, until, on inquiring of hfe mother, she informed him that when he was 18 months old she had gone to the castle with a large party and taken him in the pannier of a donkey, and that the elders of the party, Jsaving brought luncheon with them, ate It on the roof of the gateway. t'

IN MANY TONGUES.

Ihe Strange languages la Which Services Are Held In New York. No loophole of an excuse for not attending religious services on the plea of un familiarity with the language in which they are held is now left open for the foreigner in New York. Let him come from whatever country he will, he can be taken, almost without exception, to some church or mission in this city where the tongue of the prcachtv will not be strange to ears. Some of these foreign congregations are well known and have been many years

almogt never hoard of in a

the first impression. But to this view it Regular preaching services "in Chinese sre may be objected that there is a conviction that the former state was experienced a long-time before, sometimes, too, with the belief that it occurred in a remote and otherwise forgotten past. Sometimes, no doubt, there 1s an actual memory of Mreams. The-latter iarnost often the case when some incident during the day recalls a dream of the previous night that had keen forgotten on awakening in the morning. Another explanation founded on the theory of hereditary memory is not impossible. This would include the case of the student who blacked his shoes. From a scientific point of view this explanation is perfectly rationaL

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formation. German, French and Swedish churches have long existed in New York, and many of them have made their influence powerfully felt in the charitable work of the city. The great -number of Hebrew synagogues forms a class by themselves, but in addition to these there arc several Christian mission cSrarchfcj in the different Jewish quarters where the services are conducted in Hebrew.

The majority of Itnlirafe being Roman Catholics, attend- the yai iobs churches of that faith which happcii to be in their neighborhood. There are, however, a few Protestant Italian eoiuipunities, one of the mqst flourishing being the church in Broome street under the eontrol of the New York City wiissia^.' The services, entirely in Italian, are uutjer the charge of the psstsr, AiJtciiio. Ari'ighi. Tic Judsoa

Memorial Baptist church and' Si. Barnabas' ofcapel, Episcopalian, baw regular Italian services, and the Methodist denomination maintains two congregations, ona In Bleecker street and the other in East One Hundred and Twelfth street, the heart of "Little Italy."

The Armenian language £M»4fc»lKi3plft may be heard in Seoond street, near the

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that he had of things that never happened I other Armenian mission is under the to him, but a more exact definition tolls charge of the Adams Memorial (Prespytens that it consists in the belief that a new state has been previously experienced, so that when the state is produced for the first time it seems familiar. Or, as Wendell Holmes says, "All at onee a conviction flashes upon us that we have been in the same precise circumstances as at the present instant once or muny times before"— a sort of feeling that makes some people think they are ghosts. He adds jocularly that the feeling cannot be the memory of a previous state.of existence, for he gives the case of a student who, when bl&oking his shoes, had the conviotiou that lie had often done so before, and he mentions as an explanation the fact of the hralu being a double organ. One side of the hrr.Jn receives the impression before the other, and in the second case there is the memory'of

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Interesting Sntyeot. Parish house, in East Forty-secend street. Services in a modern Syriao dialect s®® alAn Irishman once referred to what has hold in the latter place for a little colobeen called pseudo memory as the memory

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Syrians from Mount Lebanon. A n-

rian) ohurch and is at Thirtieth tfUect and Third avenee. This neighborhood, by tho way, has become the rallying point for most of the Armenians In the city, and, large numbers of tbemr live thereabout within a few blooks' radius. While the Spanish are as a nation Roman Catholics, there are «t least two Spanish Protestant churches in this oity. The Congregational and Presbyterian denominations have each a sturdy Welsh congregation, where the peculiarities of the Gaelic tonguo sound strangely to American ears. Religions instruction in Arabio to a little band of Christians who speak that as their native tongue goes on every Sunday dawn in Washington street. The Russian Orthodox church in Second aveene is attended by tho few Russians and Greeks in New York

carried on at St. Bartholomew's Parish house, and probably elsewhere, in connection with the many Chinese Sunday schools. And even after this list, which seems a considerable one, has been given, there doubtless remain other places in the city where Christian religious worship is held in languages yet more unfamiliar.— New York Tribune. A -.

FOR DYSPEPSIA'S VICTIMS.

Said to Be Effective Tn a Large Majority of Cases. The number of people afflicted with this peculiar and uncomfortable sensation aft-

A memory of things that our ancestors er eating is by no means small. It means have done is consistent with strict reasoning, and we have something almost amounting to memory of this kind in tho case of animals* Darwin tells of dogs that were taken to Central America and taught

This kind of memory occurs in different forms. A sudden turn of the road in a strange Gountry brings us face to face

a certain credibility to the Indian's tale is with a landscape that seems familiar, that at no very distant period the Yukon Meeting a person fqr the first time, we country was inhabited by these animals, feel as if we had already seen him. Readand hundreds of their massive skeletons ing a book that we have-never seen before, were found strewn along the creeks.

A Warning: to Mr. Crane's Admirers. The public has como to look upon "William H. Crane as a funmaker, a comedian oleur through and a man who under no consideration is to bo Laken seriously. His plays have always been jovial, hearty and wholesome, with never a tinge of sadness in them.' The departure he made this year in choosing a play in which in the last act he dies has upset to some extent this belief that he cannot portray tho tragio side of life. A striking instance of the feeling of the public on the matter happened at the Fifth Avenue theater recently.

the thoughts or the language, or both, seem as if they "had already been presented to the mind. Again, a funeral service, a procession or some pageant, all at once the whole soene seems familiar.

Many remarkable cases of this kind of memory are told. An inhabitant of New England, when on a visit to England, went to see the home of his ancestors. He thought he recognized the village church and the landscape, but he believed he must have seen a picture of them before. However, on passfng through the churchyard his attention was especially attracted by a tombstone on whioh the name inscribed seemed familiar. Ou inquiry he discovered that the young girl who was buried there had been engaged to one of his ancestors, who, according to an^ sooount given in a book written on the family, used often to pay visits to the tomb of his loved ona Hereditary memory is the only clew in this case, if we except a vivid imagination. A similar story is told of a Yorkshireman who went on a visit to Somerset and there recognized and remembered well hunting the red deer. He £ad never done so himself before, but his father had hunted the red deer in Somerset for several years in the early part of his life.

simply that either be cause the person la fatigued or because the food is indigestible or bscause the nervous system is out at or* der the act of digestion is either wholly arrested or is very improperly carried on.

to hunt deer in a pan^icular wr.y, and the People troubled in this way can observe progeny of these dogs, when they were taken out without th^ir parents, hunts at once according to th^e particular method without being trained.

two or three plain rules which will entirely prevent the difficulty and will be of great benefit to their general health.

First, eat nothing until there i9 a positive appetite for food. It will be far better to skip one's dinner entirely and far lea# injurious to the general health than to eat when weary, whan excited, when nervous, or when the appetite is not present. If great hunger comes on in the mldflle of the afeterncon, an apple or & piece of "bread and butter will have a relish and flavor undreamed of under ordinary cihovmistances and will prevent the faintness which might arise before the regular iiou* for a nourishing supper.

Second, eat something which require* considerable chewing, especially at the beginning of a meal. This krvolvertha use of dry foods, but it does not mtan tl&l entire absence of liquids from tho mad. Tho reason why food that has «ohe chew® ed is valuable is because in the process ef mastication a large amount of saliva is se« oreted, and this is an Important faoior la digestion.

If liquid is desired at mealtime, it it not likely to do great harm if it is not too cold, providing it is not swallowed at the same time the dry food is put in th« mouth. The man who washes dovm each mouthful of bread with a swallow of milk, tea or coffgfe has no saliva mixed with hia food, whereas if he thoroughly masticates his mouthful of dry food, swallows it and then taken his swallow of milk he will interfere far less with the proper process of digestion.

Dr. J. H. Kellogg has made some interesting experiments, showing the amourt of saliva secreted by the glands of the mouth while dry food is being chewed.

Apiece of parrafin chewed for five minutes produces two-thirds of an ounoeof sa« liva one ounce of granose, a dry food prepared from wheat, increased in weight to two ounces one ounce of bread chewed for five minutes caused the production of one ounce of saliva one ounce of r&w apple produced 134 ounces.

Third, eat digestible food only. Digestible food is a varied term and is determined by the individual. Articles which are perfectly harmless for one individual are very serious hindrances to the physical well being of another. Experience is the chief guide, and when articles of food cause distress and seem to hurt you the part of wisdom is to let them alone.—Nevr York Telegram.'

Tennyson and Fields.

The late James T. Fields had the good fortune to hear Tennyson read one of hia own poems and was so kind to his American audiences as to try to show them how the laureate managed the matter. Tennyson's manner, so imitated by Mr. Fields, struck us usually as very queer, for tho pout, it seems, struck an attitude, elevated his voice and proceeded to a delivery that) came near to veritable chanting. The piece, of course, was a high pitched lyric—I am sorry I forget what—possibly it was from "Maud." Now, a lyric is almost all musio and does not chiefly address the understanding. And if wc have no notes to it and. no voice for singiug, but are reduced to the necessity of delivering it in speaking tones, surely we must contrive some kind of elevation of manner, some raising and elation of tho voice, some special modulation, more than usual surrender to the rhythm, more than usual neglect of grammatical relations and of the dictionary pronunciation of words.—Journal of Pedagogy.

Brain Waves.

The latest discovery, or rathor late»fc^ theory, in science—that of brain waves—« was described in the presidential address, delivered to the JJritish Society For Psychical Research by Professor William Crookes. He entered, before launching his theory, upon an elaborate calculation as to the vibrations which produce sou«d ami light. Then ho applied a similar law to the subject of thought transference, and suggested that it was quite conceivable that the Intense thought concentrated by one person upon another with whom he ia in close sympathy should induce a telepathic chain along which brain waves should go straight to their goal without loss of energy due to distance.

Gothic Headgear.

The curious fact was mentioned in .*» recent lecture on oostume that in meditev&l times, when the Gothic style of architect ture prevailed, women wore what mighfc jV' aptly be called Gothic headgear. The tall cones, some of them measuring fully four feet in height, with veils depauding. were in the same lines as. the castles and tombs of the day. The lecturer oommentud, too, on the extravagance of those former days, which far exceeded the criticised lavishness of our own tiiuas. When has the nineteenth ccntury equaied the expenditure of Fraocois I, who paid $360 a yard for his coveted cloth of gold?—New York

Post.

Tfle distinction among animals of requiring least sleep belongs to the elephant. In spite of its capaeity for hard work, the elephant seldom if ever sleeps »ere than four or occasionally five hours. For two hours before midnight, and again for two hours after 1 o'clock, these misbora ihountains sleep.

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"Coiuo, Willie, papa's going to read yon a dialect story before you go to bed." "I say, mamma. I haven't done notliia todgy."—:XuB&cai.Sfr't,