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 ?• ««Wo€ • *»•â-¼â€¢ bent ^«y jkwv of *«»niption, ia re' inouwble. 'I'lg* yield to he girl, bath, nd paioleiBlT tic or Brive ^°f,,Pamplileti rid'a IMspanI 3 Maia Street, et it will do in aaureweneve, •ThefoUowing 1 cat hundreds 5 any benefit," of McBrides, complainta, ' for over nx 33'8 'Favorite good than any Ivise every uek • we. It never • In»ggi8t« e's a wayâ€" for â-  IThls. laiahall, Mioii. trated Eleotro. itrio Appliaaoes I men (yoasg or debility, lou of Ld all kindred tism, neuralgia, iiaeasea. Clom- vigor and man- is incurred m d. Write^them hlet free. A.Fa04. 1. Woolleii,tUlk,Ow a keta. DnndM- O at Full deatsriptim Ulor systea o( »ROP. MOOOY, or those kbont to ill be greatly beoefit- culars of thii adTei- onto, C »n»d». and, good bolldiiigi i. Oanaington. r E D vholeeala mHtkiBOH BOOtoU^Mrrew IS LAUT, Insarter, CTAIi aava of BT7BBKS werr Ai Js the last fo« rean inted WART BTBO. 00.. ig St., Wert ToroirtB. AWARE HAT Olimas Rug )ag that LorOlaid's :ut; that Ixrtllard'« i .•illardS SnaAtSn U insldered a iorilbwfc n de St. SMtiTacoato. 1 phanged on eownit- M real aatateatlov br money fro» farm and eaUtei maa- 1 1^ r8ter«B«Mon loxygen Asthma, Dy»peBt». \iral«is,IUieninatuni, i kion, ect. e«o-_,52!S I 11 ne»T0O» Dm**** f- xe. Those who sre led diseaws^odd King Street We««i Iln Canada. I«^ t ^n Victoria, n« [past and tas**" '*^Send T50. tef • terms and tern- liptLon Company. [MontreaL e, the *wst JWJJJ: lgwithaSpiT^SP'J« lli'TBuas *.. 5t Toronto, 0»fc â€" I SAW^MJf'PIt rilNGLB-MU'lA ItATS-MII'I^' Ining this P»P*- fksjorontc lontreaU ,t Venfc MOW Ohlsa* Faiia RES| I adjoining *•• [e of the M**!!, ii4 ^«i» at -»** 1, Toronto,0«^^^J All He AP Soap Co. €tf.T FOREICMJIOTB. ^^^ i large Bailrood Sfafi«iâ€"G%Mitie Bailroad Schemeâ€" ^ator ChMtiute .^iiboiking Occnrreiieeâ€" e At» The Eoglisb city of Birmingham now baa ♦kplsreeet railroad station in tfae world. iJlgjaat finished at a,ooet of f2.000^QOO. It is said that nspbtba reaidnm ia to beex- «rin en'ed with by Biunan naval cffioen, iith the view o^ ming it to htat the boilen of the iKiperial Black Sea fleet Should the "nit be 8t:sfactcry, the use of coal wOl be abandoned in favor of the more potent fael. The Geroian government is reported to be hisHy satisfied with the new torpedo beat •bich vas tried at the recent manoeovrea of the fleet. Besides poeeesBing great strength and f peed, the boat has water compartments which enable it to be suddenly filled and its deck £onk to the level of the sea without gerionaly impairing its rapid motion. The extending destitution in Paris is at- teet^d by the amount of the budget of the public ae8is*ance for next ^ear, as just sub- mitted to the Paris municipal council. Its total is 42 000 000 francs, beingsrmef 500.. OOO francs more than the budget for thi^ year, It is calculated that the number of iodividnals requiring assistance in various forms will be 406 000. An imf osing sculpture of a lion was un- veiled at Belfort, the other day, as a mem- orial of Col. Denfert Locherau, who defend- ed the town in 1870, and the Thiers, who saved it from anntxatlon to Germany by tbrfatening to renew the war Eooner than Bacrifiee it. Belfort was the only siege in which the Germans were unsuccessful. It opened its gates ocly on the armistice which followed the capitulation of Fdris. In the middle oi tne pencrmance of Wag- ner's "Gotterdaromernng" at the Court theatre at Munich the other night, a gentle- man named HnmmeJ, an architect from Tiecna, suddenly beeame mad, and just as the^muaic of the third act was commencing be made a \iofent attack on a lady who was sitting near him. Seizing her by the throat the lunatic nearly throttled her. when the police interfered, and with difficulty suc- ceeded in removing him from the house. Journalists have been excused from serv- isg on juries in India, the judge, in so decid- irg, following the precedent laid down by another judge in NataL He went so far as to »ay that all reporters should be excused from serving on a jury because, through their presence at prel'minary examinations and inquiries, for the purpose of publishing the same as news, they might be m possess- ion of facts which might ccme out in evi- dence, and probably they would have pre- judged the case. The German and Ruesian newspapers have referred to another gigantic railway scheme believed to be entertained by the Rnsaian goverrment â€" to wit, a great Pacific railway running frem Ekateriogbnrg, through Tobchk, Yfiniseisk, and Irkutsk, to Nicbolaievtk on the Amoor, with oiie hrinch to Iikutck and Kiakhta, another to Herat aod Icdia, and a third to Bckhara and Kash- ^ar. This wonderful! scheme is to have 21,- COO versts cf road, and to cost 1 million of rabies, or 50.000,009 rubles per year for twenty years. Iirespective of the large number of books recintly ordered by the civjl administration to be withdiawn from public circulation, the holy synod at St. Petersburg has also now established a new Index Expurgatoriusi in- cluding over seventy boiks and religions tracts, mostly distributed by the Pashkov- ites. Pasbkcff hin:self was veiy lately ex- pelled the country. A large number cf Eng- lish evangeliol tracts were a short time ago seized and burnt, although they had al- ready been approved by the ecclesiastical eensors. In that healthy seaside lecort, Swansge, iale cf Purbeck, Dorset, with a popnlatif n of 2 350, there were living no fewer than 148 perstns between the age of 70 and 92, in Kovember, 1882, and the r umber at present is about the the same. The rumes of these peracns were taken by the rate collector, as- sisted by a native inhabitant, who is now Bfied 80. The oldest inhabitant, now 94, may by seen daily, taking his walk alone. In Doreetshire. the proportion of people over 70 to the populatjefti is one in 51, whiUt in Swanage it is one in 16. Lieut. Lndovisi, who struck and insulted a brother officer, and shot him dead in the duel which followed, was tried by ccuri- martial at Home the other day for the form- er offense, and condemned to two years' military Eeclusicn and the forefeiture of hi? ccmmissien. The court-martial took no cognizance of the duel f( r, while the penal code regards duelirg as a crime, though a very venial one, the regulations of the Italian army compel an.officer to fight with anyone *ho inanltor challenges him, on pain of ex- pchion from the army. "Water chestnuts" (eaten by the old lake dwfllersin Switzerland) are largely grown China. Every canal is fnll of floating in islands of them and the g .therina looks like the picture of Athelhey in flood where yoving and old are going about after the apples in boats. Instead of boats put tubs, each pushed with bamboo poles by a yellow mat or woman, and paint two or three upsets, fcr John Chinaman is full of fun, and those who have seen a water chestnut harve|iting say that everybody is en the brtad grin, and accepts a ducking with the same good humor vith which he ^ives one. A curious instance, says The PaU MaU Gazette, concerning the extraordinary variety oiicfluencea which affect Englieb trade ii ifforded by the late trade report from Shef- field. w ing to the drought in Queensland, which reduced the flocks of one great holder from 27,000 to 5.000, large orders forsheep- ahears and other hardware had been can- •^eled, much to the inconvenience of the (spital of cutlery. On the other land, the fncc( B3 of the 100 ton gun at Spczia in smaah- |fg the armor-plates supplied by Kmpp w "kely to lead to the placing of new ItiLan »ders for compound arnor-platea with the Sh«ffield platemakers. The mcst perfect and comprehensive ap- Plicatiin of electricity to lighting ships of *»r has befn attained on board the British â- jon clad Colossus by the use of the Anglo- '"lerioan Brush system. The most remote 1 J"-a of the vessel are illuminated, incande- •ffnt Jauips being used below decks and wree powerful search Ii4?ht8 and incadescent pd aim lights above. The interior illnm^ wi^a fnmoadoflSO ampen and an eleotro AoMnfanetqiialtoao voU,. Tb» Anmit f^{-"i'^,.'JU «» «*• rf 400 revolni^ » minuta with 40 poonda pf«M« of ateam The London VegetMrian Society gave »• dinner to abont 120 ladiaa aiid gentlonaD at the Health Exhibition the other day. The object of the dinner, iHdoh ta one of a aeriea, waa to ahow how an ampio and vsried diet conld be procured witiioat the nae of any tort of ammal food. The menn faiclnded. amoas other diahea, "ChestDatina de Lyon" soap pea fritters, and fried oniona, and barley Enddinsr. After the dinner Dr. Bidge de- â-¼ered a short addreaa in wbieh he laid •tress upon the faot that it had bsen abond- antly proved that a vegetarian diet waa not only poMiUe but profitebte, and expreeaed bis conviction that the excesnve uae of con- dimenta waa tefaloanae of « large proportioa of dyspeptic illnesa. It waa also believed that yegetarians lived much longer than fleah-eat- ing members of the oommnnity. Another murder haa been committed in Vienna, somewhat resembling that in the Matzlelnsdorfer strasse the 8«ene on this occasion beina the ScbaeflEiBr Gaaae, which ie in a much more central part of the aty. Euly on Saturday morning an invalid bach- elor of 46, named Kost*er, a retired officer, whose only attendant waa an old woman, was attacked by a youth of abont 20, who had been seen fcr some time prowling about the neighborhood, and who tooK advantage of the absence of the oil woman to i nter the house and attack HerrKoatler withahatohet, completely shattering his skull. He next searched all the drawers, finding only a silver watch and about 1 flerin in money. He then left as quietly as be came. Oa the housekeeper's return Herr KostUr was found C3nveyed to the I ospital, wh( re he died soon afterward. Un the 16%h inst., a woman named Scbinke was s-milarly murdered in her own shop. Both murderers are still at large. What do the Chinese Eat I When I was at Lake View, in August, at the New England Assembly, and having a "real nice time" telling the childrrn about China in the headquarters of the C Y. E: B. IT., one day, I was accosted by a bright little girl, who wished to know "what people eat in China, and whether those dreadful atoriea about eating rats were true." I answered as well as a few words would serve me, but did not ratisfy the cnrioaity of the eager inquirer. Later, I devoted a half hour to talking about the "Daily Food of the Chinese," to some forty boys and girls and here I repeat the matter for the sake of others curious to learn the truth â€" trusting a little natural indignation and plain speaking may be excused me. Americans are fond of wonderful stories. Nothing plea«es them more than to hear something revolting or strange about other people. Nations and races who lesemble themselves, are not worth attention. Hence, travellers â€" kr owing fellows, all of them â€" possibly find it profitable to startle them with account slas marvellonsias they are false. Not that these accounts any always wholly untrue, but that solitary instances and occurrences are magnified to represent habits and cuatoms of a whole pecple. Belonging to this class of accounts, are those relative to the use as food in China, of certain animals. I find that many Ameri- cans believe that dog soup, cat fricassee and rat a la mode, are to be found daily en every table in the Empire. Tne fact is that there are some pecnl.ar people in China, as else- where, credulous and superstitious and some of these believe that the flesh of those animals I have mentioned poesesses medical properties. For insi amce, some silly women believe that the flesh of rats restores thO; hair. Some believe that dog meat, also cat meat, renews the blood, and quacks often prescribe it. Then it is alto true tbat there are very poor people who have no money to buy proper food, and therefore subsist upon what they can get, rather than starve. Bat I have lived fifteen years of my life in China, and havo had experience at public banquete, social dinners and ordinary meals, and in ccmpany with all classes of people, but I have never seen oat, dog or lat, served in any form whatever. "What then do the Chinese eat?" Our gardens are prodigal of vegetables our ponds, rivers and lakes swarm with fish; our faim-yards are crowded with pigs, lAnd fowls, ducks and geese our fields are gild- ed thr e times every year with ripening rice. In acme eections of the Empire wheat and barley are produced but rice is onr usual substitute lor bread. These articles make up the everyday, food of the people. But there are certain things unknown to your tables that are considered great delicacies by everybody, one of which I tave told you about abrc ad y â€" edible birds' oeats. Another is sharks' fins. The Chinese do not keep many cows, and it is true that beef is not esteemed as good as poik, and that many will not eat beef on account of religious scruples. Milk, butter and cheeae are iJmost niiknown articles of diet. The Chinese think it is robbing the calves to take milk from the cows.â€" [You Phou Lee, in November Wide Awake. ?.*'icn is effected by 150 Ughte of 20 and ^^ ghts of lO-candle power. At the recent ^»at Portsmouth the three dycamoe and j^ --.otueciea oy lou ig ^1 ghts of lO-candle power. ^»at Portsmouth thethree «.,...».»- ^•"e" Were run for six hoars continuously â- DLAH nr A J AS. â- Â»tv •ruii- "WaaraaUj I, girls oome Throwlnt? down tb? Gauntlet. From time Immemorial throwing down the gauntlet has been a symbol of defiance, a challenge to battie both in real contests and in the mimic warfare of tournaments. Virgil in the Fifth Book of the iSaeld, as we have seen, represents Enteilus as casting a gauntlet on the ground before entoring the lists with D^es. In the Middle Ages, when the leaders of opposing armies eh aT lenged each other to sii g'e combat, a herald bearing a glove was sent with the message, Shakespeare makes Henry lihe Fifth, when heengues nnd« an incOgidto in a wordy dispute with one ofhia scldisra on the eve of the battle of Aginoonrt, exchange gloves with him as a proof that if they both sur- vive the battie the quarrel shall be setUed with blows. Amongst the Highlanders the custom of employing the glove aaaa^of challenge given or vengeance to be takra lingered long. " Did one of them break faith The surest remedy was for the m- lu/ed person to appear at the nextmeetng place, bearing a glove upon tiie pomt of a lance, and prochum the perfldjr. The sym- bol arouse J so keen a sense of right, 'Oter- ventiy appealed to their rough justice, that the offender waa often slain bv his own clan to wipe out the disgrace brought upon them," To bite the glove was the swe pre- lude of a quarrel Stem Bntherlord right Utt'essld^^ BSblth.sBtoTe and shook his head. â- â-  writes Soott in the "Lay of the Ust Mill- gtreL"â€" American Queen. going ti an;«it inquiek." AfaMfamtture van stood in the yard of the old Estez oonnty insaas asyfatm at New- ark yesterday aftenoon, and the remark was made by one of the patients as she sprang in aao to(A a seat The other fe- male patients oanght tiieuifcction, and, to tiie great relief of the doetw and attendants followed like a flock cf sheep until the van waa filled. Then the van was driven to the new asylum buildings, on South Orange avenue, near the Kmifs of the city. Abont 150 women and 100 men were removed, and although excitement ran high among the in- mates of the aqrlom from the momoat the change was announced,, the only trouble ex- perienced was with one woman who inaisted that she owned the old building and refused to leave it. A doaen trips, of the van ao- onaplished the removal of all the inmate. With eome of them a great deal of per- suasive talking was required to get them in- to the van, and one of the nude patients would get in only on being told that they were going to church. Then he saia, 'Good, I'll go, and 111 pray for Newark once more. Newark needs praying for." One old man took command of the forces as "Gen. Grant," and eadeavoured to marshal his companions into line. The curious scenes were repeated when the patients arrived at the new building, and the great- est tact was' needed to keep down the excitement. Some of the patients screamed the names of their relatives with delight; when they saw the new structure, and evi- dently thought they were returtune to their old homes. Due woman looked around curiously and then, putting her hands on herlipi, said^ "This will do very nioely. This u my house and I want it distinutly understood." Some of the patients were delighted with the elevatcr and wanted to stay in it and ride up and down, while others shrank in terror from it and Had to be taken up the stairs. The new building is an imposing struc- ture extending three bundled feet oa South Orange avenue, with two wings of nearly equal extent. Over the main doorway is the word "Betreat " carved in relief on the capstone m masrive letters. The old build- ing on Camden street is a rambling frsma structure. It is proposed to use it as the city hospital.â€" [New York Herald. WEALTH ra THE GCTTEB. The Flekers np of Oneonsldered Trlflea in tbe Streot. Notwithstanding som^ drawbacks and oc- casicnal periods of stagnation the rag busi- ness of the United States, particularly of the west, appears to be flourishing, and has reached wonderful proportions both as to quantities handled and in value. The mis- erable creature with bag or basket in btmd collecting what can be found in the alley- way does not seem much in the world's concerns, but to tbe wholesale dealer the ragged, bent old collector is a much more importart item in the business community than many might suspect. In these days of vast figures we are not apt to be very much surprised when we hear of a wholesale dry goods or hardware firm doing a business aggrtnatiug $1,600,000 a year, but that a mere dealers m rags and wastes could under any cfxcumstances reach tbat figure does seem a litl le startling. It is neverthelets the case, and is but another illustration of the wonderful business spirit and possibilities of the great west. There is one firm of rag and waste dealers in this ri^y doing a business amounting to $1 000,000 a year, a^d the business is con- stantly increasing. There is another firm of paper manufacturers in this city whose business, exclusive of what it supplies to its own mills in Wisconsin, exceeds nialf a mill- ion dolUurs annnally. There are several houses deaJing exclusively in rags whose business ranges from $100,000 to $500,000 a year, while there are several smaller ones whose xsuetom is by no means contemptible, but, on the contrary, in most cases quite np to the average volume reached by the more assuming retail dry goods, hardwares, boot and shoe, clothing and grocery stores, a great many of which think they are doing remarkably well if they have a business of from $25,000 to $50 000 a year. There is not a rag dealer in the city, and there are thirty-six of tbem, according to the direc- tory, tbat does not control a business of frcm $5,000 to $10,000 a year, and a note- wcrthy peculiarity of the trade, they claim, is that there is hardly ever, if ever, any one in it who fails or compels a compromise with cheated creditcra, although they have to pay cash for their goods every time, carry a stock ranging frcm $1,000 to $100,000 or nibre, and sell on two, three, four and six months' credit. It ia estimated the total amount of this business done in tbe city exceeds $5,000,000 annnally, even at the nnusuaUy low figures at which some grades of rags are held in the market at present. The number of hands employed is not less than 5,000, iucluding 1.000 set aside as the quota engaged, bag or basket in hand, gathering up what they can and where they can throughout the city and its suburbs. WUl Blood Stains Wash OntI To the present day the superstition is rife tbat blood stains cannot be washed out. During the French Bevolntion eighty priests were massacred in the Carmelite chapel at Paris, and the stains (called) of theur blood are pointed out to-day. Sir Walter Scott, in his "Tales of a Grandfather" declares that the blood stains of David Bimio, the Italian private seoretuy of Mary Queen of Scots, who waa stabbed in Holyrood PahMe by certain Protestant leaders of her court aided by her husband, Damley, are still to be saen. InLaacashlrethenativesshowastone called the 'BIoodTStone,'whiohwassom%rked ahow Heaven's displeasase at some of Crom- well's atrocities at GaUow's Oroft. In "Mac- beth," act 5. some 1. Shrkespeare alludes to the idea: "Yet here's a spot." The truth abont blood not washing out can easily be explidned. In tiie first place, if that of a murdered person, it is not often attempted, b the next place, Uood omtaias oxide of iron which ainks deep into the fibre of wood, end proves indelible to ordinary washing. Thus it is trae that stone of porons nature and wood not of thehardeat kind are sua- ceptiUeto the stain of blood prodnead by tbeoxideofhronwhiohtha blood oontuna. But the blood of a pig is as good as that of a amrdend In a llttie two-etoryanKeokak street and avenna^ St. Lioi*. in a kitdien A TALE OF eSISLT IWBIMW. atsMasUy- rlAaftta two-etoryi Orwpm avenna^ St. Lioi*. in a KRonen on the tower floor, WiUiam Klifttieh came to his death under oiroomstaaoes full of (grialy horror. He waa married"a ooapte (^ years since to a pretty yonog woman, a typioal dennaa bknide,witii soft Uae eyes and ctaild like faoe, with whom his Ufa, acierding to the common testimony rf those who knew them, waa a home-spun IdyL KKttich waa a oarpenter, a ha(d*working and saving man, whose amUtion has been to own his own honse. About a month since Klittioh had money enough ahead to be^ to bnild. He was in the habit of getting np at night to go over to the new place, ooly half a square away, to aee that no me waa :attam|ting any depredation, and henoe it waa that when Mrs. Klittich awoke at 5.30 this morning and found her husband absent from her side aha paid no attention to the fact. A little later she aroae and dressed, and as she did so she noticed a smell of bomiog meat which pervaded the houae. Wonder- ing she went out into the kitohen, carrying her bedroom lamp with her. There was a light in the kitchen, a creeping, flickering light that shot up and down and flared, now dimly, now fisicsly, and it was some moments before the young wife realized that her dead husband was wrapped m fire. Shriek upon shriek rang out then, and in a few moments the family living upon the upper floor ran in- The flunes hissed away int.) u sickenuig steam as bucket after bucket of water wu oast upon the dead, and then for the first time. The fiightened man and women bad time to look at what was before them. B:lt upright in the chair sat the corpse, with hii arms arrested at his sides as though death had come while he was lifting them to hJs head. His clay pipe lay m a pool of water at his feet, and later his revolver was found a little behind the chair. His right side, his heatL his back and arms weie simply a charred and blackened cinder that had been flash. His clothes wera burned away mostiy, and tbe back of the cluur even had given way to the fire. The pose of the corpse waa not that of one who IumI died in great agony. The lips were serene and the burned mustache gave a jaunty air to the mouth, as though the last thought that had played asroas the dead countenance had been a pleasant one. When the reporter saw the body some effort at decorum had been noade. A sheet with horrible greasy stains had been cafct over the formless horror, yet despite the faot that lovilig hands had been at work, the view was awful. Instead of the normal ghastliness of death this body was marked with black baked chars, and there was a ghastiy effect where the right ear and the hair had all baked into one pitch-like whole, intensely distressing to look upon or remember. The shirt and trousers and the underclothes were burned chiefly on the right side over the heart, and the flame had slowly eaten its way through the chair back and through all of the trousers not protected by the pr.iSBure of the boly from the air. The Coroner held, an inquest and post- mortem this afternoon,and after an exhaust- ive examination of all the incidents of the tragedy.camiB to the conclusion that Klittich hi^^her died suddenly in his chair whila S^i^ing,or had shot himself in the stomach, where it was found the bullet missing from the revclver had gone that his pipe had dropped from his relixed mouth and that the had fallen inside his vest, where it had speedily kindled into, a flame. A CHECKERED CABEEB. 'CIiawed" by a Tlser. Bttton by a Moocaa. sln,Stmok by USbtntnic. Tried for Murder, and OyUUKs Natural Deatk. The death of Thomas Stewart in Berrien county removes a siagulu character from the scene of life, writes a correspondent from Milledgeyille, Ga. He firat appeared taere in 1845. He was not remarkable for any- thing except for scrawninesa, being of small stature, lean and of a clay bank color, the result perhapj of private meals off of the chimney clay. But as time sped by he be- oune a hero in that tfaen'wild country; at least he was a hero in one sense, ' The family with whom he lived resided not far from the Alapaha swamp. One day he and another boy were sent to the swamp to feed a sow. When within a short distance of It a large American tiger or j %• guar sprang out of the bushes and brought Stewart to. the giround. He fell on hia face, and the jaguar seemed to be in no hurry to kill him. Indeed, the brute waa engaged just then in watchingthe other boy flse'ing in the direction of the house. Bnng satis* fled as to the direction the other ' oy took, the beast then took Stewart's Lu.td In its mouth and closed on it, but its teeth slipp- ed over matead of penetrating t e skull. It bit the boy's skull several tiu^ a. With the same result, and the boy, with a pres«ice of mind wonderful in one" so young, did, not once flinch while the animal was tearing huge furrows through his scalp. The tiger, after holding its nose near the boy's face an instant, as S litteniag if he was breath 'ng, seemed satisfied that hewasdead, and hasti- ly covering him up with pine straw ran hur- riedly after the other boy. As soon as the creature was out of siiht Stewart sprang to his feet, and, taking a wide circuit, ran with aU the speed he cOaid command, and finally reached the house In safety. The other boy reached the house some tinie before the tiger canie in sight of it, and the brute, see- ing that he was too late^ hurried baok to hia first prey* If Stewart had moved while tbs tiger was biting hu ski^ or If he had breathed while the beaat waa Ustsning, with its nose dose to his face, he woidd have bean torn into fragments; Imt the boy, having heard of many of the peculiarities of this ferocious beast, was prepared to profit by tiie know- lemce. Xne neighbors raUied at once, and were snooessfnlin klUihg the jaguar, which they found a little fsrther on in the swiamp. A few years after the above oopurrenoe, Stewart, while feedlns a cane mill, had one of hii hands caanit and drawn in between the rolleis and so badly maahed that the hand and a portion of the arm wittered. Liter on he was in the field at worii, when a thunder storm earns up and he waa struok Iqr hghtning and left for dead. He oama to, howovar, and was all right ih a few days. ij thai time ho waa old unto hioMelf a wife, but the parants of his giil«idaalriMM«M alHaaoo, «o «}isgr do- dded on elopement. In those days^ even, a hero ooidd got married witiiout s^ms, so he started for his fntara wife, aooceeded in gettutg hair from the house, and the happy K' r were on tiieir way to the paisoa's when wart was bitten.on the foot .by a mooca* aia, a dangerous rept^e. Even that did not stop him. They proceeded to the parson's and were united in wedlock Stewart did not die from the snake bite. History oes not say whether the snake died. Next we Iwarof Stewart, he was tried for his life for thomarderof a man named "Whatlw, The eTidcnos vai all against Stewart, and everybody thought he would bans. He waa defended by the now venerable Judge Hansell. of Thomaiville, Ga.. then a young lawyer just "starting out" So able was the defense, so pathetic- ally did the young lawyer dwell upon the many hair breadth escapes of the prisonar, who seemingly had b sen preserved through them all through providential intervention, that the jury brought In such a vwrdiot as sent him to the penitentiary for six years. While in the penitentiary he learned the painter's trade, and after satisfying the sen- tence of the law, rotnraed home. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLAn£ The sawdust and refuse of the sawmill is now made to yield fourteen gallons of tur* poitine, three or four gallons of rosin and a quantity of tar per cord. Givllizitionhas Its drawbacks. It is said that not only has the acuteueas of vision of civib'zed man fallea below the standard com- mon among savage nations, but at the same time the eyes of civilized man often depart from the normal, or approximately spherical fwmation, 'either becoming flattened from front to back so as to bring the retina too near the siurfase, or elongated from front to back, so as to remove the retina too far from the surface. Mercury is firmly believed by the Giinese to possess wonderful virtues. They hold that it not only prolongs life, but expels bad vapors, poison, and the gloom of an uneasy nund. The dootrineof the transmutation m mercury into other metals prevailed 2,000 years ago. Cinnabar was known to the Chin- ese in the seventh century bsfore the Caris- tian era. Two ounces of soda dissolved in a quirt of hot water will make a ready and useful solu- tir^n for cleaning old painted work prepara- tory to repainting. This mixture, ui tlra above proportions, should be applied when warm, and the wood work afterwards wash- ed with water to remove all traces of the soda. The average specific gravity of bricks i 1,841; the weight of a cubic foot, 115 pounds which absorbs one fifteenth of its weight of water; the cohesive force of a aqtiare inch is 275 pounds; it is crushed by a toroe of 562 pounds on a square inch; the weight of a cubic foot of newly built brickwork is 117 pounds; the weight of a rod of new brick work is sixteen tons. Two methods are in use in Philadelphia to prevent chemical obstructions in water pipw. One is to coat the interior of tbe pipe with coal tar pitch, which does well enough for large mains and keeps the passage tolerabljr cleur for more than a quarter of a cautury. The other method is the one called "bDWer- barff," which conaiits in subjecting the pipes at a high temperature to the action of staam or air, so that there is a film of mtgnetic oxide acquired by the metal, which insures a clean surface for a long time. In a communication to tfae Physiological Society at Berlin Dr. Falk stated, as a re- sult of hia researches on drowning, that when rabbits are suddenly plunged into wa- ter having a temperaturo of 40 or 50 ° F., cramp of the expirator/ muccles occurs and respiration ceases. fbe methods of restor- ing the apparentiy dead have no relation to the effect of cutaneous stimulation upon respiration. Cold watv dashed upon the chest acts on the heart alone on the nap? of the neck it acts upon the lower brain. A German technical journal says that the advantage gained in having the flesh side of the leather soles of boots and shoes outside Is nnainly the peculiar facility It affords in the application of graase for preserving the laather, since the pores ara so much larger, besides permitting the introduction of fins sands or iron fingers, etc., which increase the resistance to wear. Again if the more c mpaot portion of the leather be outside, when the outer layer is worn away it leaves the interior in a soft and tender state, which abn^es very rapidly, while if the soft side be first exposed it may be protected, as above mentioned, and when removed leaves a com- pact layer, even when worn down almost to the thinness of paper. She Might Have Been Queen. P|News has reached this city of the death of Mrs. Bamice Panahi Bishop, the wife of Cnarlos Beed Bishop, at her rasidence in Honolulu, Sudwioh Inlands. Fjr years she had been afflicted with a cancar, to which her untimely end was undoubtedly due. Mrs. Bishop was the highest chief in the Sandwich Islands, her maiden name be- ing Barnice Pauahi. Oa the death of Kaoae- hameha V., the last of the original line of native kings, in 1872, she waa offerod tha throne, but declined it. When king Luna- liio died in 1874 she was again reoogoizad as tiie heir to the throne, and again declined preferring to remain in private life. Yean ago she became tbe wife of Charles H. Bish- op, a native of Nejr York, who went fo the Sandwich Islands in 1847, and after pursuing various branches of bosiiiess, finally settled down as the senior partner in the banking firm of Bishop ft Co, He has acquired a large fortune, and his wife was the wealtJi- woman on the Islands in her own right. She was a woman of wide culture, the leader of the best society in Honolnlu,aud her elegant, graceful and g«aierausho^»itality is rember- od by all Aoiericans of ohuaoter who hav vialted the Islands. She had travelled ex- tensively, both in Europe and the United States, her last visit to this oonntry having been made in 1876. When travelling abroad she Invariably registered herself as "tbe Hon. Lady Bishop. She was about fifty jrears of age. The detriMtor may, and often does, pull down others, but, he never, as he se-ms to snpposo, elevates Umself to their position. The most he can do is maliciously to tear IfRun them the blsssiuff whioh ho cannot en- joy himislf. I I .,r