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Tol )a oi tirst claae ' t nearly meefc ly » as follows wit a jui saik, j thj'isaiid cons good e^^a quali- !.:amura weight I .•..!'el jrotectiiig c at •t.i'vi^ raniiar.g aiid| pei!cl as c^n be I «"oaId«03t conj. and ViQ could I f them. i'Tiiin Men, hit tiverage jury] a the ro3t jast fiiiiids of tatir reemtii.i-.uiorg of Dr. i'i.-rcfc'a â- J'hey area'i un-i !-;;e U-atrr-iueiy i h'-i ni-.-diieaes, .t,H peculiar to: tLe palf, hag- ' â-  (lit; A jpttlki-i ;^ laii^h again! J} huii^iohold.: ni such word. iiusiguaieut. me tenl' a ofj it frum^iumanj it lariiB in I :-.'!!' h3 f the} of to-day or- c )mplamt orj ula con^UIDp•l )i th? lungf),] ' • kindred af-J ir.-^n Mediaali Of DiUggistB.! ieU.ova rjapaal oiors cured it i\tmpa- I'.-i Diapon-j â- lr!Ju,_]S. Y.l iien a Wiieel| i or t);- Vir-I r.jii: .1 thstj rs' â€" \vJiich isl "ly oftuepluo !i t'le iuvuiceij into Ontario.] 'af iTn7iirted| â- Xavy 'stock,! ti.iid tliatlhsi \v.. -I Virgiiiial a man be-! ork City, save I :;;Te Kiro. audi OTEL opposite I ^legatt rooma I lillicn doIlarBi â- an p],in. KIO" "Ui. t'-.e best. I ted I ulroadsl !iv- better I en K nl thaal ;.f ci.' f the Bur-j [ifrt min will I hat djufh 'Tee- 1 :i ii ueTer fail* I )ve b:a3bbf| propoaalj ©"I ;ort. f AiDiEhir.! )ri^t3d kx4 i.ECTRIC \y^, to â-  » vOUii. aebdp* red *;roiiblfl(L 2.; paralysi* I ipiute rcdSo^I lOud gasjan^j thirty days j at onoa W| Th«lr Feed SB d Thdr Wet*. BY cHAs.^[rAac.. ' in luidertakiDg ill* titing s abort tfeii^i save not in mind the of lt« vmrioas aSlmei Jwtetlerty dragging or w!u» cnrirg" him of bia "diaeMMSBL' ra^^her having hiro, as wq. do at the start, in btalth, 1 l»«n)d ©fideiw* thow how We nay prevent diaeaae. ' Jfn » ki^ -ex- Iyfrificp, dia'tifg "from ^Srly ' BbyBbod Uthfn I thonght, tB moat per80,E8;tliink jto dav. that the p»ircipaJ, if not,4be |rn]y,'tbin? is to feed high »n4 often, I [find that with horses as â- with men, more [of th«m decline, tecome "seedy," ema- datfd, and sorry sights to behold, from loreifecdirg, cr. what ia nearly the asme fthne. underworking, or f rom a combina- [ticn of the two causes, than from any I lack of fee d cr care, as the term " care " lis rr irmonly interpreted. Mos: J trstns kve a horse, and I have ivervEeldrm found an owner who would not go hungry rathe'" than have hia horae go withf ut feed. He will Bay, "I will feed rov borse before I will myself," and, in jrEctice, too, will do it. To be sure, there jp ttldrm ary ccnllict between the twoneefJs: we are all able to eat too I much and too often, and incline to serve prim^lp in the same manner. These Ithi igs we do, whatever else is sacrificed (or neglected. E\en ' hfcid case?," men whohaverot the m«ai:B tortrchaeea jDoi animalâ€" that is, a valuable oneâ€" J and who cor 3« quently are seen driving Irawrv-bcned, consumptive creatures, and [win the name cf starving themâ€" even thcfe, as 1 have found upon diligent m- «juiry, often take scrupulous care to feed three times a day, and to give their poor dysppptic hoi EOS more food th'^n they can p jssibly digcEt. They do this, all the mtre heranse appearances are against them, and if it does not come to their cars, they feel sure that their neighbors anri all who p:'ES or meet them on the rxid, are aajingsouiething about "poat- maat." If eoiresentlemen's driving horses had iMOire of this sort of diet â€" outdoor air and freedom from surfeit â€" they would not so -won fall into the hands of "five dollar jockejs. " How often our eyes are pain- el at the sight of what was once a horae tbe proud of and whr se owner really i .iedight^d in him, fragging himself along, .iTifl looking as if it would be a mercy to B id Jiia life. H is old owner speaks of th« ease Forrowfully, and says, "When 1 oTned 'Jim ' he never looked like that he srot nil he could eat. and I never over- wrkedhim." He doesn't add the f ur- tlier f:ict that under his treatment the horse legun to decline, and at an age, too, when he should have been in hla prime, and that he put him away in con- s'{\ierc« ' Although the horse has many I advantages over his owner, so far as he [has less exciting causes of disease â€" still, as we all know, his disorders are of aTr^nt »he same nature, so far as they go. Jle has fewer diseases in number and fre- -^tuency than wo fiiid in the human fam- lily and this comparative exemption from di.sease bears a pretty close relation to the plainness of his diet. In my recent work entitled " Natural Care of Consumption," in which 1 dis- ttii=^sthe advantages of irh eat meal, un- bolted and unsifted, over fine flour or any .«ther modification of it, in the treatment |«'r prerention of dyspepsiaâ€" a disorder â- vl-.ich i% at the root of alniOEt ail the in- |ternal diseases of man and beast â€" 1 make US3 of tJ)e following language: "That i!!Of1. T?obJe oi all animals next to man, â€" and in some aspects far superior to him, â€" the horse, in his finest and most deli- eate state, iinds a perfect food in the whole grain, chewing it hinifolf. 1 may, in the minds o,f some, be weftke.^ing ray argurnenr hy comparing the digestive ap- (7oraiuscf man wich that of the horse, 1)iiV T am dtsircu.-* of inij rejsirg upon the ,iirtr,d- f my readers ilia wtll kncwn but jifupeifrctlv cDi'sidered fact, that our Jlvirro f;:rc'pr3 â€" who cote en their ten- fthousand-iK'lIftr animals, ard would feed fthera on the finest of fl ;ur, would place i before them the nioat ccstily and complic- ated cooked dishes if it were desirable, or even nut p ^micioris in a healthy point of view. â€" really keep their dearest pets on bread ani( water and that, because of this, and the abaence of all the hot, stim- ulating articles, solid or fluid, indulged in by their owners, then regular and mod- erate diet of uvcdoLed food, and their su- perior hygiene in certain essential mat- ters, our horses are saved, in great mea- sure, from becoming fdt, sick, inean, wheezy, or dyspeptic, liice their masters and mistresses â€" men, women, and child* ren." And yet horses do, after a'l, f tll prey to all these degraded condition!. In apite of the naturalness and wholesomeness of r.heir diet, as to variety and quailty, and in face of the most solicitous and pains- taking care, we too often see them the subject of tedious and painful disorders, and of course there is a reason for it. XON-VENTILiVTION. Oae of the principal causes of disease among horses as among human beings is foul air. i a large stabies this cause op- erates effectually, for seldom is there any good arrangement for ventilating, least of â- ill, any efficient means for maintaining e^en an approximately pure atmoaphere. On the contrary, every preoantiou is ta'cen, in most stables, to prevent the en- trince of fresh air, without which the viiiated air must reinain tmchanced, lo:ided, as it is, with the foul emanations from the urine aoaked floors and from the lungs and bodiea of the animals imprison- ed therein. Here, as nowhere elae, is il- lustrated that most stupid of jdl ecpno- to the overestimate x{- i^ neceaaity of keeping ti^ tempftratfrp of the stable at a high point. tJtfqaesfionably horaea wooM eat more, would n oed aaor e food, freah aiz. if^ in eonaeqaenc^^.tli* temper- stnre fe!idtud'^1^«s«g^^'a«tcl»l degreea colder hot he is a mean maa who wotild cfa6st Ida horaea out rf the **bi«ath of Ufe " for the aske of a litde aanng ill hsy snd grain. Linng themaelTea in jdr- tighfc apartmenta^ snd, often enongh^^i*- nocent of all knowledge of the neoeeaity for a conatant cbsnging of the sir in their own homes, stable keepers are, of cdurae, gniltleaa of all blsme in the matter ref br- red t o. They k now that tlte warmer the animala are kept,-bymeaina o" doae atsblea and blanketa, the leas food they require, and, unaware of the pemieiotu influence exerted upon the general health of the animals, this settles the question. With good ventilation, however much the tern- peratnre^of the air might be lowered, the horges wonld more than eompenaste for the' extra feed, in im{»oved digestion, vigor, and general health. Horse BobbiDS* Henry Bergh, of New York, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animala, ha^ pabliahed a let- ter strongly condemning the cruel faahion of bobbing horses' tails. He â- writea The cruel fashion of "bobbing" hones' taila is being revived. It was a fashion- able craze about a generation ago, and was not entirely stopped until our so- ciety succeeded in getting stringent laws enacted agaioat cruelty to animals. ' The "lKbbing" ia mainly done by the wealthy people of course. They think that it makes their horaea look mefte stylish, and to satisfy this caprice, God 'a noblest animal is made to suffer the most barbarous cruelty that devilish ingennity caii devise. Of late the olii,:ers of this society have noticed a great many horses with "bobbed" tails, and they were near- ly all of them in fashionable turnouts. The men who perform these cruel acta are blacksmiths or horse doctors. The animal is taken into a blacksmith ahop or out of the way place late at night or early in the morning. While one or two men stand guard outside, the doora are barred and the horse is securely tied by the legs so as to prevent kicking. Its tail is then tied to the loft cr ceding and a space of about an inch ic shaved atadintancecf about eeTan inches fromthehorse'shody. Aknife is placed on thia spot by tlieso-callea veo- erinary surgeon, and another man strikes the knife two or three blows with a mal- let, driving it through the flesh and the bone until the tail is scyered. The suffering of the horse is excrticiat- ing, its groans almost suggesting human agony. An iron, heated to white heat, is pacsed over the severed end so as to stop the future flow cf blood, and an iron ring, red hot, is used to cauteries the flesh to the extent of half an inch from the ex.- tremity of the horse's tail. This ia done to prevent the flesh from growing over the end of the tail, for the cauterized bone is crisp and haia and might disease the flesh. Disease and death often follow this cruel treatment, because the men who perpetrate it are quack veterinary surgeons and blacksmiths, who are as ignorant of the anatomy of a horse as they are cruel. These men work very secretly, and, though we have brc ken up several places where they practised their cruelty, we were unable to catch the fiends at work. Snperfliioiis Girls. Notice was given a few weeks ago of twenty vacancies in the London post- oiiice, says ' The London Globe," that were to be filled with women, and women desiring the places were summoned to undergo a competitive examination in arithmetic, haniwriting. and dictation. The result was that as many as fourteen hundred women presented themselves for the ordeal. A few months esirlier five hun'^red girls, of ages ranging from 18 to 20, iinderwent a similar examination for a similar number of vacancies. Here we have a total of nineteen hun- dred women on one hand, and not above forty places on the other. Tha-. is to say, 1,800 of these applicants were super- fluous. The matter becomes mora com- piicated the further it is examined, since she girls already employ ed as clei'ks ne cessarily displace an almost equal number of young men. Now, what is to be done about it ' It is one of the social problems that are des- tined to baffle mankind for all time. Is the supeifluous girl, like the poor, to be always with us? To answer in the af- firmative is to take issue with one of the greatest philosophers, for he has written that "Nature makes no mistakes." And yet everything that is necessarily super- fluous is a bad mistake. But it is by no means certain that each one of these 1,860 girls who failed to se- cure positions in the London postcffije were so many suneiflaities. They were not needed in that particular field of ef- fort. But, were they not needed some- where? The chances are that, as the 1,860 dis- aopointed ones walked out of the post- oflice, tearing their hair and gnashing their teeth, 1,860 citizens of London were engaged in similar painful exercises be- cause of their inability to obtain cooks equal to making bread, or parlor maids equal to duating 'without breaking the chins thst csme vfwt witii the'CoiiqciMwr, or governasses that under^and the fine art of bending the twi^ without deform- ing it. TheLai^estRoom in the W^rld. The largest room in the world n^der one roof an4 unbroken by pillars ifi at St. Pebersbmrg. It ia e^feetlong^hjlDOt inhreadth.. ;By.daylighi it Sfi im9df for^.-' Im military I dilplsya, and. a .ba$t^(Mi:(catt tl^naand wax tapeta are- reqaiisd^to Cght' it:' '^?fa!6?rol^^thoateraotare is- a/«fftigl^ ar^h^f "fioik^d it «xhibits xeniitlikble engibe^/iMa in the wofaitest:^ to graai 'WSIc^-L^tTilS There ia but one plaee in the Uniief States wane gMLoattoii: is stadoiT Unial fi^ mpmhaago t^ .l^usy mm f$^ to 4qp)aiid vpqn I^D||^d fqr ^^^^^nn ^ict^ii naea, bgt s ,ro*iHif actoj^ h*f ,. J*cn erec^ at the tcwpedo atstidh,^ jlf^lfport, and nbw pirddtic^ sU tWu re^ii^h^ jEor iea-goin^ nMn-^M-irir snd toipMo«a. ' Mr. Fronde ia goit^ ton^d 'le i^vld, psrtly far tJie sake of his heslt^j^ snd partly beeanae, sa he aajs; "I.hsve grown tired of the chatter whish nty laat Tolumea on Carlyle Ivufe. brought. ^rth, C Slid I thought that i^ %)a. montb^ at shy I rate, the world wonld forget tne«xiatience cf BO unlucky a peraon as the biographer of Carlyle." PiarUes who -hsve retttfned fco the Pacific coasi from a tour â- thkoagh the. Superatition Monfeaiha, in' Arizona Terri- tory, report the diacpvocy o^ extei^ve atone rums, 8omeof.thein.in alm'tsb in-' acceasible places. The Valla look w if they had been battling with the elementa for cientnries, The prehiatbric people of whose existence they are the only remain- ing evidence muat have been numeroua. The aea coaat Of California has been vis- i'-ed thia resson by seversl vsrietiea of birds whicl have never before been known to leave the mountains, ^hia haa generally been supposed to indicile a severe winter, but, according to acience, the migratioa is more probably due to the prevailing scarcity of all kinds of seeds in the mountains this aeaaen. The camphor laurel, a native of China, and the tree from which most of the camphor of oonmerce is obtained, seems to have been introduced successfully into Caiilornia, one tree in Sacramento having attained a height of thirty feetr. The wood of which smells strongly of cam- phor, is light and durable, not liable to injury from insects, and much vored by cabinetmakers. In Texarkana, Ark., a few days ago a man was literaiiy smoked to death. He was a little under the influence of liquor, and upon returning home found the door locked, when he attempted to crawl into the flue, head down. The flue being of an irregular width, the man stuck fast before he descended far, and was held until lelleved by death, which was caused by the smoke from a small fire oc the hearth. Alhama de Granada, recently destroyed by an earthquake, posaessed the most romantic situation and the moat romantic history of any town in Sjiain. It stood high upon the verge of a gigantic cleft in the mountains, the result of volcanic action. From its position it was josily regarded by the Moors as the key of their kingdom of Gran?. da, and when captured in 14821 by the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Alhambra was felt to be foredoomed. It was that event which gave origin to the mournful ballad, "Muy Doloroso," translated by Lord Byron, with the sad refrain at thei close of each stanza, " Woe is me, Alhama " i»«»»ti., snd .g^.to- CLIPPINGS FOR THE CrRIOHS. A case of scarlet fever in. a canary has been deECnbed by Dr. Ogston, of Aber- deen, Scotland. The city of London contains more Jews than Jerusalem, more Irish than Dub- lin, and more Roman Catholics than Come. A species of wild potato, indigenous to the mountains of Arizona, has recently been discovered. They are about the size of walnuts, and grow ab an elevation of about 8, 000 feet. "To bite the thumb" at any person im- plied an insult hence, in "Romeo and Juheti" Sampson says, "I will bite my thumb at them 'which is a disgraca to them, if €hey bear it " According to Mr. J. Harrington Douty, of the asylum at Worcester, hhgland, an imperfect supply of oxygen, or simply breathing a vitiated atmosphere, may suffice to produce the mental disorder known as melancholia. According to an old law of Pennsylvania a hanging cannot be witniessed by more than thirty-seven persons. These include a jury of twelve appointed by the judge of the circuit court, two spiritual advisers, the sheriff, twelve special deputies, three members or the condemned man's family, and seven representatives of the press. When the ancient tower of Kuktatt Abbfy foil, in 1779, Whitaker, a few davs afterwards, discovered, embedded in tho mortar of the falten fragments, several little smoking pipes, such as were used in the reign Of James I. for tobacco, a proef of the f actj which has not been gen- erally recorded, that long prior to the introduction of that plant from America, Ub!e practice of inhaling the smoke of some indigenoos vegetabla prevailed in England. When both parents have eyes of the same color, eighty- eight per cent, of the children follow their parents in this fea- ture, and of the ttrelve per cent, born with eyes other than the parental colpr a part must be attributed to intermittent heredity. More femalea than malea have bhttk or brown ey^s in the propor- tion vH forty-nine to to forty-five. With different colored eyea in the two parenta fifty-three pwr cent;, of the children fol- low the fathers in bmng dark ^yed, and sixty per cent. â-  fioHow tcor poiattr in ^jpeing 4ark ^ecL.^ -lit Vd L: BtbUeaL. dayki th* IckjKrii.^bgiiui neslected to put oil in their lamps: i In cobplettfly inanetiver in it. si!S«*nty- ^di iMtes tite f«(ribudt"Hitfitf. flnk» on f^iibiiiBe it :«â-  aneh a dnitâ€" on our our pookefak* l«,'i|iafe«6rely ied^ itti^;-A|Mi^'4iMr«kok«f a great, faAbartiR ^^JJawylbihid jwte. I no a99A^ aMMipted to take my pkoe on. the aaddle, than the camel, whiish,was Ijrlng^ plone, into which position ha hiid- been foBeUi bkjj[an|^iuitjiig.'liiMan old village pomp Ml«itt^ worked. Attktf aame time. he tiu^ied hia.,Mehen«i|f lips snde, grinmng like s boll dog;, snd ahow- ing •; grinning cow; of tse^;: which he •oaght to dose apon niteb Ijgot; aboara withoiit acfide^tf; and had not^ iof^ t«- waitforiajise.. ^, .. ., The first movement, aa he lifted hil forelega, nearly aent me ove«l baekvnai the uejct; as Ute stnd^^tened his Innd le^a^ atSl more jMuly tipped ma over hiahead. I had been warned to hold tight, but ' it was only the clutch, of desperation .Bayed m0. Aft^r aevepd Inngea and plunges, ihe brute got fairly dh his legs. The reins conaisted of 'a rope 'round hia neek fir steering, and a s^ing ftotened to a ring thrust through hia noatiils,- to pull up hla head, and atop him when going too fut. My camel begs^ to move forward, and thereupon I oscillated and see-eawed as if seized with sea-sickness or cramp in the stomach. Involnatary as the move- ment Was, atn hour of it, would, I am aura, have made an abject a victim of me as the woKt aufferer on a channel pasaage. A heartless friend waa in front of me on another camel, which he set trotting. Instantly I became as helpless as a child, for my camel disregarded the strain upon his nostrils, and my fervent ejaculatibuB. My profane Arabic vocabulary â- was too limited to have the slightest efft c I swayed to snd fro, and was bumped up^ and down, until I was almost shiJcen to pieces. It would hasre been a positive relief could I have found myself at rest on the ground, bat the motion was so in- cessant I had not time to niake up my mind what course to adopt. lib ended, as even the experience s of tho worst kind must do, and I found myself still on the camel's back. Not so my humorous friend, who, to my great comfort, Lerf rmed a double somersault, and did not succeed in land- ing quite on his feet, 1 was told that I would become accustomed to camel-riding and might even get to like it. But my faith is not great enough for that. â€" [London Telegraph. encas, Stockholm. hibit«dafoeaa The Teleplioue in Russia. The most remarkable experiment in telephony yet attempted was recently carried into effect in Russia, where a con- versation was carried on between St. Petersburg and Bologju,. a distance of two thousand four hundred and sixty-five miles. The Blake transmitting and Bell receiving instruments were used, and con- versation was kept up notvrithstanding a rather high induction. The experiments were carried on daring the night, when the telegraph lines were not at work. The Russian engineers cf this company are so confident of further sucsess that they hope shortly to be able to converse with ease at the distance of four thcuaand six hundred and sixty five miles but to accomplish this aatonishing feat, they ,mu3t combine all the conditions favorable f.^r the transmission ojf selephonic 30undi«. If it is foncd po^.nble to hold audible conversation ai sach extraordinary dis- tances, it is possible that this fact will be speedily improved upoa, and we shall be enabled to converse freely between Lou- don and New York, and by-and-by be- tween London and the antipodes. Simplicitv of Political Life in Switzerland. As an example of simplicity of political life and manners, I found the May r of a prpulous Swiss rural commune, who was also a member of the Cantonal Parlia- ment, and while in ofii ce the responsible custodian of the commanial maps and registers, cutting hia hay at four o'clock in the morning, while liia wife and children tossed and spread it the follow- ing Sunday he presided with dignity at the ballot in the national church, oh the occasion of a plebiscite on some financial measure which required the assent of the majority of voters in the canton. After dinner, â- where he showed himself a courteous and agreeablis companion, he doffed his Sunday and official clothes, and in his blouse â€" carrying a heavy loswi of goods on his back, went up to his mountain farm, 4000 feet above his real-., dence, to milk his ten cows and prepare for making cheese the next inoruiog. The "Peasant Parliaments" of the Swiss Republics are lai^ely composed of such men, whose qualifications to be legislators c'lnsist, not in rank, wealth, or book learning, but in their intimate acquaint- ance with the circnmitances and wants of their fdUow-crtizens, among whom they live aa equals. The result, so far aa may be judged by the people'a contentment with their laws. Is satisfactory.â€" (Mac- millan's Magazine. Sm- Prof. Lwadstrom ex- tpmn reomtly foond **aMr.lRf%, JB«^«QiviMi fonnstion of Gousad, and remarkaiSa as the most Mtcient af aa aiir.^Meathuig. lani â- """^t' A. patMite-knonm- aa.^**,Hetvedora ohtia" .h»^. 'i?4» ijtf i^s^rance in ift*ily wlBryiji tfe Jwti, ^^ot. o thia psraaite, st. Ahneuinttdthinks, ialttgeiydtieaie patti»kMhireof thia thia yesr'a beetroot crop, which ahowed s d^ficjt^off^ percent, in the weight of the the roots,, Deaidea a djecrease ii| ^e yield Oi'MbcAiaiin». ht sonie bf^the northern diateicta, amonnting to Id w li per cent. J^i V^a M. Sohenrer-E^aat^er, a mix- ture of two parta calcium aulphate and one part ferric^ acrd ia ignited to atrorg redneas all the anlphnr of tho mixture is that j c=^«Ued. ,There remains a melted masa, soluble even in weak acida -with insolu- ble ferrio. oxide. The reralt ia aimilar witii other dialomic metals. The sulphur is given off at -first in the state of sul- phuric auhydridie; bat af terwaird as snl- phtirpns acid 4nd oxygen. M. Oocheri!, the French Minister of Postal ielegraphy, hu ordered that the recently completed pneumatic system of Puis be employed to convey orcGnary letters to the aeveial railway stations after the closing ^hours of the different post offices. An exlra charge of three deniers a letter ia required for this additional aervics. It i« expected that the pneu- matic ttibea will be still further utilized at an early Say by the post office. At a recent meetmg of the Chemical and I'hysieal Society; London, there was exhibited a collection of the Various salta obtained in tho extraction of cobalt and nickel from the .man|aniferouft ores of Naw-Caledonifc ' H^ieae orea, coiaining the metals in the form of oxidea, are extensively distributed over tho island, and are also to be found on the continent of Australia. The amount of nickle and cobalt in various samples ranges from 1 up to 10 per cent. It is reported that at a recent moating of the South Wales institute of Engineers Mr. A Steer read an iiutructive papeir on miner's safety lamps. He asid tha^ the Davy, Clanny, Mueseler, Marasnt, and various other lamps, when subjected to the apparatus for testing at different velocities, caused explosions in little more than five seconds, but that the Moi^anlamp, although placed in every conceivable position in relation to the appuatus, withstood the ordeal perfectly. The wonder is not that most residences in large cities are unhealthy, but that they are at all habitable. Generally the city house is immediately connected by a pipe of no great dimensions with drains of sewage miles in length and flowing un- der street after street. The conditioiis also are such that very frequently poison- ccs gases find a ready encrauce ^to the kitchen, the bedrooms, and the living rooms. There can be no healthy houses unless the conservancy and drainage sys- tems are placed entirely outside the main walls. Mr. Russell W. Moore, of the John C. Green Schoolof Science, Princeton, N.J., in a note on certain methods for detecting foreign fatB ih butter, says **If a process should ever bb devised to render cocoanut oil completely inodorous (and it should be extensively need as an adulterant of bat- ter) it would be seen tlial theKoettstorfer process would be utterly worthless as a test, and the Hehncr of sorcely greater value. â-  Thus entire reliance would have to be placed on the method of Roichert." Taking all the facts into considetration, it appears clear to Mr. H. C. Sorby that all the bright and beautiful tints of leaves in Aubuncn are merely the eaarlier stages of decomposition, and are due to the more or less cjnsiderable triumph of chemical forces over the wsakeaed or deatroj-ed vitality of the living plant. He adds that oae cannobbut feel that this is a very unpoetically way in^which t*: regard tbe magnificent lints or a fine Autumnal Lnd, scape, but it notUes^ true than that tbe colored clouds of evening mark the de- parting day. So very few alrticles of iron of unques- tionable antiquity have been discovered among the remains of ancient: Egyptian art, while objects of b'onze have been brought to light in abundance, that many have doubted whether irOn had been in- troduced into Egypt before the time of the Ptolemiea. But it ia very certain that other and neighboriiig peoples, who never reached so high a stage of -civiliza- tion as the Egyptians, knew well the manufacture and uses of iron, and it is scarcely possible that the builders of the monumental works of Old Egypt should have neglectedso useful a metal. BeEides there are chemical reasons why the iron remains are so few and the bronza relics so many. Yet it would seem that the ancient Egyptians bad a marked prefer- ence for bronze weapons, implements, and ornaments. A Swallow Story Hard to Swallow. A man engt^ed near Hnrleton lately in filling up an old mining shaft found that thousands of swallows had. built their nesls and made their homes in the shaft, and. they flew out in great numbers as he shoveled. ' J^ter Working a time he wem^ home, but teihrheid the foUot^ing nton^t^ ing. in e soener had he 'befgah- his work ^han oat ^th^.swalloiiv' -flew 'iiik' cloud's. tSoon.he vas/startted bya. coid,aiimT^ 4 wiQlKg!h|$)Ml^e:l4H% t^ad^.^ JMb* He supposed it came from It bnshj i^ear^by;- ' ' h?9king up beheld a cloud oloirda were trying" fe WlTfall'TJTr their eneniw we can that kiiMrW'%^tiht v ^9a iathared ap^b f«ek attfl shoÂ¥el 'J.^i^'^X'l ••"" s^- ,t Novel means of Detectinisr Crimi' nals. There have been many ordeals through which those suspected of crime have been obliged to pass among them may be mentionei the Ordeal of the Cross, the Ordeal of the Eucharist, the Ordeal of Cold Water, the Ordeal of Fire, the Or- deal of Touch and the Ordeal cf Ch«wing R ce. This, last is still in fa^iion in mmy parts of tndia. .The person is obliged to cbcw ri(» i4 '|jie presence of cffic)rs of the hiW.""^Cariitis' tt tt riray appear, such is the inflaenceof fear on the saUvaty glands thaii4$^tilfer^ift» aetnaUy gmlty,Uhere is "^hb^cmiton of saliva ia thir mefsth, and gMak^ in their claws, which thari!tfb(m^! m i in^WMible.: Sach cAi^nts conf oa wiUiont ai^y fufther ef-