Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 12, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 August 1884 — Page 2

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rar? fisherman's iahit. BY GIDKOX GUDQKON. F?e aned in many waters, On many a summer's day. By many a murmuring river.. In many a tangled way; And the voice of the brook has never Iiost its pathos and charm for me. As it ripples and runs forever To its home in the mighty sea. These were the days the angler In the flash of innocent youth, Told all his simple story Told nothing bat the troth: 1 fished the stream near the mill-dam Hoar after hoar in vain: I've not a trout in my basket: To-morrow I'll try it again. But now, alas! this bosom Is shockingly changed; I feai I've learned to talk like others In angling montbs of the year TFishing! 1 rath r think so A hnndr d in half a day Two-pounder and strong such monsters, Each took me an hoar to p ay," pve learned to "stretch" like othersf Ive gone to the stream and found A small boy fishing before me; Then Kpne on the pleasant k round I've labvkd slumbered, and bid him Call nr when he had caught Just enj agh to fl 1 my basket. And d iUfl my fish were bought. I told how I fell from the boulder, Howtvswam in the turbulent brook How ii one pool four-and-twenty "Spei kled beauties" I took. If en mUy rave of the joys of angling Bat ftt them not despise

The pm& esthetic pleasure

That dwells m suvh augiing lies.

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WodEH's Rights. It was half past twelve before the dozen friends who had been dining with me left the house. The evening began with argument, which by degrees, was relieved by light yet bitter banter. Some of the ladies

began to make rise of those most expensive words, "indeed," "really' and Imust saylw or "if yon will allow me

to say I etc And I am ashamed to say that I myself the host became so animated as to desire to prolong the discussion instead of putting an end to it before anything extreme should be said cm either side. My gueets were my nearest relations nephews, nieces and young cousins. One niece was the wife of a rising young Member of Parliament, a man supposed to have a prosperous future before him. Another was one of the sweetest young girls I ever met. One cousin was a Sister of Mercy, who had no home ties left and dedicated herself to God's poor. And the subject over which we grew so eager was the "Rights of Women. " To my surprise the wife of the M. P., m more than ordinary agreeable, clever young woman, took the most decided line against her sisters. The Sister of Mercy only sat and listened, and often laughed heartily. The youngest and the weakest, a pale little creature who spent all her time in nursing her children and arranging her fair tangled fringe, was our bitterest enemy, and loud were her compliments against the bitter subject of women; though I happen to know that very morning she had gone in tears to her husband to entreat his interference with a refractory nursery maid.

But I am old enough now never to

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as betraved into usinff strong ex

pressions myself. I remember asserting that Solomon's virtuous woman contented herself with giving him a first-rate dinner, and keeping his garments in order, and the children altogether out of sight. The argument grew hotter. Electoral disabilities had to be exhausted, then the vexed question of university honors, medicine and woman's degrees. Finally J almost shouted: MIn my opinion woman's mission is submission V ' After that they left me. I felt too much excited to go to bed at once, so I resorted to the calming influence of a cigar. My wife died twenty-five years ago. Our married life lasted Ave years, and . when she died I gave up pshaw ! It was not that that made me give up the Militia, and Parliament, and Quarter Sessions, and the old schemes for paying off the mortgages and all that to go abroad. The old church is not restored yet. However, this is nothing to the purpose, lam meditating an essay on woman in general, not on individual and if the world lasts another thousand years, it would tever produce again a woman such as she

"Of course, 65,000, 700 and 66. And it was the Time and not the Daily Nevis, remember that, and the date was April 12th. You had put down the 11th. "And was I accurate about Peel?" ' "Yes, I have found his very words. They are just what you want, only I think 1 would make .the other two points first." "I meant them for a peroration. w "Yes, but don't you think this one that I have found will do better ? See this quotation. It will enable you to fulfill the ungrateful duty of annihilating one of our own side withmore grace : "You urge me as a judge; but I had rather You would have bid me argue like a father. Oh! had it ben a mr.-mffr, not my child, To smooth his fault I should h ve bejn more mi d. A rart nl slander sought I to avoid, And In the sentence ray own life destroyed. Ala?! I looked when norae f you should say I was too strict to make mine own away, But yon grant le :ve to my unwilling tongue Against my will to do mysel. this wrong." "It will do. "Did you notice an inaccuracy in B's speech last night? He said that Lord Palmerston was distinctly of his opinion. Here is Palmerston's speech on the same subject Bead it, dear'" Bravo, Jennie! you have surpassed yourself to-day. Now we must turn." "Already I Ohf Jos, I wish I could go to the gallery"! "You could not stay late enough to hear me.w Then in an eager whisper, she said, as the brogham pulled up, "Good-bye, God speed you ! That picture faded away as the little brogham trotted out of it. The next showed a London drum. The hostess standing at the head of the stairs receiving her guests ; a lady, exquisitely dressed, sitting on the sofa, with two or three men around, and a buzz of po

litical murmurs.

himself ; never thought Pelham would come out like this !" "Well, Lady Pelham, I congratulate you heartily. We all look upon Sir Joseph as the rising hope of the party." "You should have heard the roars of laughter with which his Shakspearian quotation was received. Harvard, you can tell Lady Pelham what it was. I do not remember the words, but he took so fatherly a tone to poor WM that from a man of his age the effect was inimitable." Two members were talking together in the ante-room. "Best speech of the session I I never believed there was so much in that lazy fellowPelham." "it is all his wife's doing. She has brought out his dormant powers." m m m ' The shadows are passing over the wall again. I bend forward eagerly. What is it? What a blurred looking picture! It is raining fast, pouring, with the hissing sound of rain on the pavement. It is so dark that I can only just distinguish a narrow alley, such a den of pestilence as Shoreditch can best show. On the right stands a public house, I see faint light through the chinks of its dirt-encrusted shutters, and hear loud tones and evil words within. A man reels to the door, and looks out, nothing but rain and black mud, and a horrible stench from the rushing gutters. He shuts the door with an oath and goes in again. "Take care, missus!" A faint glimmer from a lantern shows me two figures picking their way through mud and filth a rough looking man, whose old fur cap is drawn low over his brow, and behind him a woman, dressed in the coarse gown and white cap of an English Sister of Mercy; a little black wooden cross on her breast, and a long cloak around her. The face, on which the yellow light shines, is homely with a slightly worn expression, and eyes full of kindly sweetness. "I am very glad to have arrived," she says, cheerfully, shutting her cotton umbrella, and about to step into the house. A man from within pushed her back roughly but not unkindly. "Do you know what you undertake, miss?" he says, "Five of em two

The cigar is very soothing; I will only make a few notes on the back of ' an envelope heads of subjects with their consequences arranged like a ped- , igree under them. I believe with the creation of Eve a most important point. Here my pencil rolled away from me and 1 think I must have fallen asleep, and yet I should be sorry to swear in a court of justice that all which followed was only a dream. My a.dy haw recently added to the house, and the shadows flickered strangely over the wide white plastered Kall-tfert faced my great easy chair as I sat by the fire. v It became suddenly quite dark, then a circle of light danced into the center of the white wall, and grew larger and brighter, till I saw as if in broad dayy light a scene which might have been reflected from a magic lantern. Ring-a-ring-a-ring I Oh! that indescribable sense of hurry who that has ever experienced it does not recognize it? It must be the division bell of the Hons of Commons. There go the

Honorable Members running fast. The scene represents the exterior, two policemen stand at one of the doors. Two m three members hop stiffly out of the way of the Honorable Members. Bing-a-ring-a-ring. It has stopped now. There is a pause, the pigeons i peck scout and plume themselves, and the policemen pursue their endless wait A brougham trots up at a round pace, an anxious face looks out watch

ing; finally a voice calls to the footman: "John! Sir Joseph is them" A tall care-worn member of the opposition jumps into the carriage "Bound St James9 Park." he calls out, and away they go. A lady takes her husband's hand . Aftcrerlv and speaks:

"Hrearethe notes, Joseph. Now, whatever you do, do not forget 65,000, 700 and 6&" "You are sure."

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brothers, wives and a child. And it's black small pox." UI know; let me pass! Thank you for your warning," she answered gentlyThe man mutters something and draws back. She goes in. I suppose some days, even weeks must have passed in my dreams, for I awoke to find my little circular picture foil of daylights. It is the same alley, but a narrow pathway along it is swept clean and dry, and here and there strewn with straw. At the door of the public house stands a group of people , surrounding the Sister of Mercy. Two of them seem as if their hearts were of speech ; on the arm - of one hangs a weakly woman, the other stands alone, They press her hands, one man raises the rough sleeve of her gown and kisses the hem, with tears raining down his cheeks. Kindly words she says to all, a little practical advice, a little exhortation. They listen as if she were a saint from heaven, and then she goes her way. One old man exclaims as she disappears: "Well, if there be a God, He will hear our blessings on that there Sister." The shadows gathered so quickly over my picture that I hardly saw her totheendof the street. I leant my head on my hand and tried to make out these visions, but I seemed strangely unable to fix my thoughts. "Exceptional cases, nothing but exceptional cases," I heard myself mutter, andtthe words half aroused me. I felt for my pencil to make another memorandum, when my attention was again arrested. ShadowB rose up one after another like thin curtains from my magic circle, and a new scene presented itself to my gaze. A charming boudoir furnished with every luxury, the walls, hung with crimson silk, full of rare pictures and cabinets of precious china. A white bear-skin rug before the fire, on which was seated a young lady, who leant her arms on the lap of an older woman reposing in a deep arm chair. iThey were very like each other, but

it was doubtful whether the elder lady could ever have been so lovely as her golden-haired child. The girl held out to her mother a clearly written letter, saying in a broken voice", "Mother, I want you to see what I have written to him." Her lips smiled bravely, while the tears were streaming unheeded down her cheeks. The mother took her letter. I seemed to be reading with her eyes, for 1 heard no voice, yet I know what that letter contained : My Dearest Harry: Your letter came to me this morning, and it is so difficult to answer that I hope you will be patient with me. We have known each other so long, and loved each other so dearly, that it grieves me bitterly to refi&e to marry you. Yes, dearest, it is to refuse that I write, and perhaps you will think me hard and pedantic for my reasons, and perhaps unfeeling and unkind. Oh, do not think so, for I have been crying all the time I have been writing this, and I can scarcely see to write now. It goes to my heart to grieve you so. And must I, need I tell you why ? Harry, if you do not grow more steady, you will break my heart. I have read your letter over and over again, and tried to believe what you say, that T could save you, I am only a girl, and full of faults. I could not hear of my husband gambling, or see him helpless from drink without terror, disgust, horror. I dare not, Harry; your salvation is in higher hands than mine. Do not lean on a broken reed. We have no strength in ourselves. I am doing this I am sending you away from me but it is break ing my heart For I love you, my darling I love you as I know that you love me. Do not try to see me, or to alter my determination, for it cannot be altered. Good-bye, my darling; I will pray for all God's blessings on your head. Good-bye, good-bye, Maude. Then the shadows stole lingeringly over the article, folding it softly out of sight. Again I must suppose a lapse of time, perhaps years. It is war time, anxiety' and trouble are brooding over the land. The shadows flit past. It is the same room, with the same figures, but differently occupied. Dressed in deep mourning, mother and daughter hav been picking lint A little packet of letters lies, on the table, and low sobs burst now and then from Maude. There lies her own letter, worn, and yellow, and old. It was found in his breast and sent home with a lock of his chestnut hair, accompanied by a letter from his colonel full of bitter grief for the young officer whom every one had loved, the steadiest, the best, the bravest, the most zealous, whose influence had raised the whole tone of his command. "Maude Tell Maude that I owe all to.her under God." Those were the last words he uttered before he was laid in a soldier's grave. See, the shadows are stirring again, moving to and fro in an agitated way. What is coming. now? It is dark at first, then slowly, as my eyes got accustomed to the gloom, I saw before me a death bed. Upraised on the white pillow lay an aged woman. her face beaming with a light more divine than of earth, her pale hands crossed on her breast Bound her stood her sons and daughters, and her children's children, and not one among them who has not wept bitter tears that so soon they should see her face no more. Only one more little glimpse, and light poured over the picture, which disappeared in a golden glow. I hid my dazzled face. "Charley!" A voice spoke my name in tones that thrilled my soul, and a sound of distant music filled the air. I raised my eyes. In the midst oij the glow stood the form of my wife.; Her robes were as white as snow, hei golden hair fell like a halo around her. her lips parted in that sweet smile that! never could fade from my heart "Husband,' she said, "you have seen visions, sent to teach you the secret of) woman's mission influence, the power of the weakest." "And their rights? "The reward of their labor. Prayers and blessings, the fruition of self-sacrifice, gratitude, reverence, love. These are the rights of true women." The sweet vision passed away, and I was left sitting in my chair with the blank wall opposite to me, and the embers in the grate slowly burning out. Sweet Maudie, energetic Jeanie, my good cousins we would have thought it of you all ? Well, well ! one lives and learns. I wish I had come home soon enough to see my mother once more. They said she asked for ma In this world all must have its fitting place, and all be adjusted so well that the revolutions of our circular globe do not produce a second chaos. What were the tree without its leaves or the flower without the stalk? What were women without man, and in Heaven's name where were men without woman. Temple Bar. J)id Not Succeed. It takes two to make a slander one to listen, the other to report. If mankind would act as a Bussian general once did. the race of scandal-mongers would die of enforced idleness. A Russian once tried to tell Skobeleff of certain scandalous reports about him. "One of your officers," he began, "is spreading lies about you. May I give you his name? "No, no; not a word," answered the general, sharply. "My officers fought like heroes. I love them. One word of mine was sufficient for their going to death." When the Bussian, thus silenced, had left the room, Skobeleff called his servant, and asked : "Did you notice well that face?" "Yes, general." "If so, then remember for that man I am never at home, never! Do not forget my order!" Eighty years ao North arolina had as many Representatives in Congress asNew York. North Carolina now ha nine, or one less than she hud in 1800 while New York has thirty-four.

A BIG THING 1JT BIVALVES.

Single Oysters Weighing Throw Ponnds Mtiglo Clams that l ive Men JLugged iuto a Dining-lloom.

"Speaking about shells," said an em

inent conchologist, holding up a magnificent orange shell as if it were a gem,

and breathing upon it preparatory to polishing it with a chamois skin, "reminds me of a practical joke that some

than it was before beinig subjected to the operation, and the printing-ink is somewhat duller. Otherwise the two pieces present the appearance of the original if again brought together. Some time ago the information of how to do this splitting was advertised to be sold for a considerable eum. We now impart it to all our readers gratuitously.

About Earthquake.

. i ; 1 i.u. Ai . eartnnuafce was to be expected on a

I'll iiim in i luiiri ii fr a in aar.Ti nrrop mt T.na &

largest size, and, lifting it with the

certain day was sufficient to send thou-

greatest difficulty, placed it before ono tTHTl Ku Ti . " i 77V?Sn" of theEnglishmenrwhose eyes began 6'iL? 'lin

to open as he saw that the dish con-1 A 7 ' , . ..;uui.L

tained six oysters on the half-shell that : "WW"T"'

u i.u 11 1 oling bivouackers returned home, dislooked as though they would weigh n f T 'T nA; rpiA appointed of their earthquake. In a

from Old Point for the occasion, vou

three pounds anieca Thev were brought U4 auu.

fmm hM TWf 4 Via country vnere sucn aisturoances are

frequent few people would think it worth while to be robbed of a night's aot mi silt n 4-', il f 1'.

proportions. They projected from the "i. 1 - j T ? xt

see, ana are wnat are cai ea coons

nearly a foot in length, and of gigantic

saia tne president. 'They're are a little Ksi,- i r undersized, but it's late in the season.' Pjfoa to visitors, who, for their

" 'Those ore not all for me?' said the CVii horrified Briton. est the gronn,! should suddenly get up

Certainly,' replied the president, J""!" -a 8wauow luem

'and if you want any larger ones say ITr Tia

tbe word.' " , 3, "'"'K""" , uecae oxr ,r oun

"Finally the victim lifted the rreat Mue reuueeu tneneigiw at tna,

morsel that looked like an underdone P"a,e. . Doa,st . locality

avuicu jl naci cwice aesuoyeo, ny some

ham, got it half way to his mouth, and ? . Tf i,,., "1 ST TT then with a shudder dropped it. 'Good ree Man& feet, with his scientific

heavens!' he said, you don't mean to Uieaaureenis. say that you eat nixot these? I can't praf' m a

were simply the results of underground

an earthquake had

London in 1749 men of

science again began to conceive the

laugh to have seen those men look as the waiters came in. The course was baked clams, a la Rhode Island, and, as before, it took two men to bring in

each plate, piled with clams so enor

mous that it took one's breath away.

ro one, lou see 1 havnt been edu-1 L A1 7 - , ,a r w

MtAri Tin frt it T mtiaf rr.V it. im iuai ei buuunts mm vuicttuues

"He was urged politely, but it was ,. . "

an impossibility; the oysters were re- r " ,? - t 1

J 3 " L " - 1 1X lUll III JUUUU

jLuawu turn ujo ueiD course urougiiu on,

I tell you it would have made a horse " i" " " w lftiili tn m time mn lnnlr n due to subterranean electricity. Anax-

agoras, if they had lived a thousand

years earlier, would have told them as much. But between these two dates

the errors that prevaled upon the sub

ject were frightful enough to produce

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and the Englishmen looked on in down- V w T- 1 T f,1!" right horror. By actual measurement aJ Meaoum, which "caused the hair to

each clam was nearly a foot in length, T , -V r1,.

pounds. By the time half a dozen ennand Atoanzor-were accused by

Unni-. j frv ;fim cot ti10m doctrine ot the Koran that earthquakes

in helpless amazement, while the rest ame tr?m tJ?e motion of the great bull

pretended to pitch in. Did they eat "f"" "B",,UB "ua them? I should say not. Nobody no- Unfortunately, however, it happens that

tiio3 fhntv. ,A finA1U wAn tVuvir ho1 xxwiaxi lootnoo uvmiux uic ouiu.

eaten some small clams that had been But on W item of doctrine

tv u; i 4. a. mere or less m wac votunte maes luue

stArft wor ftwftv TIia rxt difference among so many, as queer

on wocnnii ..iinAo, ma opinions about earthquakes were com-

one of the guests being urged to try ou .ut dragging the "learned Arabicks" into the muddle.

struggling through a door with an "ir oruwuBiiinaeii appears lo enormous half-shell of a clam, that Have suspected much of the true nature

nntiiflJIv woirrhnA ORO nnnnAa. T 11a ui ml lu4ululeB aa " la -luuerauuuu ai

wn utLa t ti,- oKia inA nft kta present, and left m his "Popular Er-

tl! AcKA TWliofcmoT. whn rurB Precise uirecwons icr meir manu-

looked so utterly dumbfounded that Mature, so that in the next century

the whole party broke into a roar of a 'Tiu t 40mi" wjiiiiuiir laughter. They then saw thev were ahst enjoyed the pleasure of seeing an Mno a J ;va 0a m tn won earthquake composed of sulphur, wa-

"But how about those big clams? 'f fx

Were they made up?" asked the visitor. ?"u. uu ""rl ; tc J w nt it wao u,A rr,w ity m his own back garden.

"Tim, T iaM iha firf nf nAwlv. The science of earthquakes has not

riiamrArof1 oIiKIa n oma nf tlio Pftrtifin Jou guuo ou x ao w ucicimmo iiio

that had ever been brought to New aot ? hf connection between

York for the East. They hive been """J. '" AV 55

eral public A naturalist traveling some wufy LUO WU1VU tut5B

u x. 4. aA suueerranean uisuir ounces mase muse

tl,ttf. tJha ooinrtfca no t.hav 11,1 be exceedingly great, and the energy

were considered delicacies, and were in the PS8eS3 must increase as they proreality giants of the soft clam race, ceed, if we accept the supposition that Just think of a common soft clam about the disaster in Java, for example, has ft w in ltli ntinW o. mo of any relation with the one which has

flesh weighing more than six pounds. es,olatei on6x ?f the fest isles of

In taste thoy don't seem like ordinary -""'J; a a i ""u clams, but rather like crab boiled, or and draws a line, commencing on the Sont.hA aaH-wfttflr rawfiVi nr western shore of CJreat iintam, and

whip-lobster. When you go claming proceed thence by almost any route

for thoa ffiantn vah have, a dav'a worlr " miuuBu

ahfi nf vnn Tn iha firnt lftA vnn Isohia and Java and then on to Japan,

can get at them only on certain times ifc m be seen t,how, verv arbitrary a

,i i 1 , i;a a I course tne fiarinquaite onextry must

then vou want a cane of men or dreda- take assummg a connection between

1 supposition encounters a cumcuuy irom How to Split a Sheet of Paper. the degrees in which the energy de-

It is one of the most remarkable dares itself at different places. N. Y.

properties of that wonderful product, SeraKt

paper, says the British and Colonial 'Jhe Cost of Koyaitr.

Printer and Stationer, that it can be A RamnlA nf what rovaltv costs tha

uuuv iuw iwu vr even mree um w, now- ,w1a nf araf. Ttritain aloriA. AVlnta-

ever thin the sheet. We have seen a ker giveB the following annuities to the

Ul IrllO -LI lUH U ULVU, J.VILH tUUS ill' VQ fomilfT-

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viuou .uiw uuiou jjotta, ui tmw iiuui i gej Majesty

THE FAMILF DOCT0K.

friends of mine got up a little while England hfts been yMted b earth. ago. lou see, we had a club of shell- nt -t

men and met in each other's houses beeTdSTdS Mt TJ f ' in-dv.UCe,a 1 W6 ga? throughout England in 1089; another a dinner, to which each i member was al- m tlfroughfc tfie oounl m i274, by lowed to invite a friend. Two of the which Glabsfconbu Wfl8 dtroyed; the guests at the last dinner were English- kn th fc t rA IT 0fhem TT"? R hat time on November 14, 1318; a ?f B 1 ? K 6tng 1'A.mer,.ca5 slight shock in London on February 8, XfaTl vi u 6TA M 1U1-ed 1749. and a severe one on March 8 ;fnd f JSaS' ' lt,asdecidedt,.8lvo the latest recorded, a very slight one a aVnw8ayT dld 80 in the northwestern part of Englard on wAof,i f ' We,meflt me1?- November 9, 1852. England, as will be !fll Tii' a,nd abon'twfn 7 seen from the above instance!, has had 1 J a d T ' f f , little Practical experience of earthmen being seated on the ricrht and left i t Ai r i kA T; i . i quakes, and they loom, therefore, large of the r resident, as sober-faced a pro- fi. u xi 1 Au i Vaoo- rtl wr j F with all the terrors of the unknown.

a fi r 11 . i i j i a added t hnse of the truly terrible. .i!?1!? The mere word a madman that an

leaves. One consisted of the surface

on which the engravings are printed; another was the side containing the

letter-press, and a perfectly blank piece

on either side was the paper that lay

between. Many people who have not seen this done might think it impossi-

Prlvy purse 60,000

Salaries oz nousenoiu i5i .aw

Expenses of household.... 172,f00 Royal bounty, etc. 19,500 Unappropriated 8,i 40

485,000

Prince of Wa'es 40,00 Princess of Wales 1000

ble ; yet it is not only poasible, but ex- Sl ' St m SS

tremely easy, as we shall show. Get a I princess Cbri-tiau of Bcnleswig-Hol- '

Hteln o,uw

Princess Lou se (MarcnioneHd or

Lome) 6,000

Duke of Connaugiit 25,0 0 Duke of Albxuv ,000

Du hess of Cambridge 0,000

Duchess of Meckitmburg-Strelits.. 3,000 Duke ot Cambridge 12,000

Duchess of Teck 5,000

Inter- Ocean

piece of plate-glass, and place it on a

sheet of paper: then let the latter be

thoroughly soaked. With care and dexterity the sheet can be split by the

top surface being removed. But the

best plan is to paste a piece of cloth or

strong paper to each side of the sheet

to be split, when dry, violently and

without hesitation, pull the two pieces

asunder, when a part of the sheet will

be found to have adhered to one and

part to the other. Soften the paste in water and the pieces can be easily re

moved from the cloth. The process is

Careful in Selectim, "I want to present Augustus tfith a

cane," said a young New York lady,

"What do you mean by size?" was

generally demonstrated as a matter of e qjfson; "we canea of different curiosity, yet it can be utilized in va- , , . .

rious ways. If we want to paste in a 7es' n t V C" w i J scrap-book a newspaper article printed ff e,ul in e'ectin them' 1 sll0uld on both sides of- the paper, and possess lle to. 3??d dear Augustus a cane with only one copy, it is very convenient to ,ad ?.enufh to ohok W know how to7 detach the one side from Philadelphia Call

the other. The paper, when split, as I The weak may be joked out of anymay be imagined, is more transparent j thing but their weakness.

Tbkbg tjkam Heart Actioh.-p Dr. Bowditch ht.s used the following for mula for tie past twenty-five yean: R Pulv. digitalis, gr. x;pulv, colchici sem.t gr. xx; sodii bioarbonas, gr. xxx; M. et div. in chart Na xx. Sig. On powder three or four times daily.

' Death from Gluttony. Two ease are reported in an exchange. The first is that of a railway clerk, who appeared well when he went to bed en Christina night, but died before morning. The medical man who examined the body found the stomach largely distended with undigested food which had stopped the action of the heart. The other case was that of a negro from Sierro Leone, in whose stomach whol6 potatoes were found. Peof. Knaj'p, of New York, recommends the wearing ef cotton pellets moistened with glycerine and water, deep in the ettr canal, when there is ft defect in the :oatural ear-drum. They protect the deeper and inner parts of the ear against unfavorable atmospheric iivfluerces, prevent drying of the mucous membranes, arrest profuse discharge, and improve hearing. They must be renewed once a day or week as the case requires, and may be worn a life time with benefit and comfort. To Abort a. Style. Dr. Louis Fitapatrick, who has recently returned from Egypt, where all kinds of eye affections are extremely common, writes to the Lancet, that he has never seen a single instance :in which the stye continued to develop titer the following treatment had been resorted to: The lids should be held apart by the thumb and index finger of the left hand, while tincture of iodine is painted over the inflamed papilla with a fine camel's hair pencil. The lids ahould not be allowed to come in contact until the part touched is dry. A few Buoh application in twenty-four hours are. sufiicient. Goon Pood And Good Digestion. All persons who like good and wellcooked food should digest well, ot they i. ' X XX A 1

uttuuui prupttny eujoy iu x tajtes away all 'ihe comfort of eating to know that the stomach will refuse to comfortably dispose of the luxuries presented to it To all whose digestion is in the least degree languid, we say, relieve yourself by taking vitalized phosphites ; it will bo a permanent blessing to you, and strengthen your digestion as well as your nerves. Many hardworking persons, especially those ea gaged in brain-work, would be saved from the fatal resort to chloral and other destructive stimulants, if they would have recourse to a remedy so simple and so efficacious. This is no secret xemedy; it is used by all physicians. All who are troubled with their digestion, or with nervous weakness, go to your druggist and get a bottle of vitalized phosphites. Hearth and Home. Eating Lemons. A good deal has been said through the papers about the healthfulaess of lemons. The latest advice is how to use them so that they will do the most good, as follows: Most people know the benefit of lemonade before breakfast, but few know that it is more than doubled by taking another at night also. The way to get the better of the bilious system without blue pills or quinine is to take the juice of one, two, or three lemons.

as the appetite craves, in as much ice water as makes it pleasant to drink without sugar, before going to bed. In the morning, on rising, at least half an hour before breakfast, take the juice of one lemon in a goblet of water. This will clear the system of humor and bile with efficiency, without any of the weakening effects of calomel or Congress water. People should not irritate the stomach by eating lemons clear; the powerful acid of the juice, which is al ways most corrosive, invariably causes; inflammation after awhile, but, properly diluted, so that it dees not burn nor draw the throat, it does its medical work without harm, anct, when the stomach is clear of food, ha abundant opportunity to work over the system thoroughly. Health and Home - Advice to Base-Ballists. Do not wait for the ball to rebound, before striking it It may not rebound. Do not depend too much upon the judgment of the pitcher; lie may be indiscreet. Try to hit the ball before it passes beyond the range of your bat If it hits you on the end of your nose do not try to knock it off. Have a little patience and it will fall off. If it shotdd become imbeded in your brain, go on with the game as if nothing had happened. Don't lei the bat slip from your hands when you miss the ball unless you are certain it will hit the umpire. Never knock a ball out of the catcher's hands. Most catchers don't like it

if you can manage it, try to sena tne ball among the spectators. They like to be noticed. Have a lew rotten bats on hand, so as to create a sensation by breaking them. The ladies will be tickled. If

yeu could manage to have a string attached to the part which flies o$ it would be all the better.

Always sneer at the pitcher of a

rival club. It makes him feel good.

If he plugs you in the eye, you must

take it as a joko.

When you make a good strike, throw

your bat in the air, look at the spectators, appear perfectly cool, and get pat out SL Lo uis Critic.

A Pretty Strong Kreatlu Do you tain t Mr. O'Baffertv was in

his right mind when he died?" asked

the lawyer in a disputed case.

"To my notion, he was not, sor. 44 What are your reasons for believmcr

that he was not in his right mind at the time of his Inst breath ?n

"Because, nor, whin he drew his last

breath, he didn't draw it wid a cork-

screw, .wiver oeiore. in his who! a

loife, did he draw anything that had a

strong smell of whiskey about it wid-

out us in' a corkscrew." Tora

ings.

The most censorious are crenerallv

the least judicious, who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the xnarit of another who hM enough of hia own. Rule of Life.