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Markdale Standard (Markdale, Ont.1880), 12 Jun 1884, p. 3

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 ;j£f.^ -*, BIODS FACTS. 1 the tenth 8 entangi* wli»|i^ with hirpoMtt *a||" monwasprov«drti three times aa^ roral aorta of fiah*. Eoi8onoiu â- pibM. Bonous fleah.^^ rer, the Eng^ah eon food thatoort day, la now at the sot Dodge County g cyclone cellars i lied vault with an ctllar. out forty men ia now »t osemite road, ahoveh, )reparingitfortravdl. 1 twelve feet deep of Henry VII., iven years of age wm of wool, made in j, )lidays, or to pay a fo 'ga. ding in India ia ren il hospitality by »hi„^ the weddmg of the] leople were fed on the oad 37,000, and (n thji Jeanne Bernier's Carbine. I the French of Treibert Du- tale. Ic is a eoavenir that I riiisi I not a ' in 1870, in a farm-houBe of Cham **' the edge of the forests. Over the »;LSce were hang three gnni with maa- *r tta and glistening barrels. One be- Ldto the father, theothtrtothesonand L to the grandson. the window a woman of vigorons „j rire heanty wes spinning on a •„r!wheel. She was not yet forty. She ' J canebter-in-law, the wife, the aoth- L« three men took down their gnns and "nt furtively frcm the house after hav- "(irtt ombraced the Moman, who, after â- 'a leaning frcm the window, sent them Mi'-htarted salute. r ffhere were they going la it necesiary Tbe Germans had just invadsd the "left slnie, Jeanne Bernier, her arm* «ednpon ter brejst, g:zed sadly at a '"hiie that stretched along the wall be- " J pewter crucifix aid an imrgi of the (r^der ng Jew. If, with your finger, you L Id draw asidaythe crape tied around the airel you ' ' â-  vojld see a red Bpot, a stain o! the custom of taming 1 aa follows: Oar^J usual thing. In drin iver walks on the left, he can handle the right hand. In ms. ver would turn to theit i be between his own other waggon. 369, at a term of court Jacobeth Murtine and S secuted.^hey werei n on a chestle togethaJ r waiste, and her arfflell about his neck, and coi| il potare about half an 1 6 kyssed her and she k) ssed one another, as ye I bural curiosities of Ha ida, is an immense ookville, which, sevoi measures thirty-five I circumference: from| it has bat two large 1 iding out,- and at y-sris across. On one wtikof nature is ai â-  1 issues a continual ing some Rubterraneao ;oiiig on above the odd namss which pa leir children may be c!i imes. The Paritaiu r religious aspiratiotts ling modes of ntterano arEigraphs indicate: ed the Bible for appellatj sound, ajud ««lled Us pl-Toditus, or perhajMJ He delighted on 1 I ptaaomen expressing i liar in his religions J enoe, Repentance, or* stimes invented for enomination a lengthy j dmonitory, doct ' as F/ght-the-good-i iurea; llew-Ag8g-in-_ or bven If-Cbrist-hailJ â- had-beea-damned. the brother of the bone. The following ist of them apparentlj ;al aspiritions, and id seem, a religions les in recent registerj; 3, AfTetbility, Comfort, Equality, Faith, Pr •; Hope, Industry, Love, Ivieditation, I ic9. Patience, Peace,. ieccs. Repentance, iriety. Temperance, " 'isdom and Zeal. â€" â-  â-  aw Pala KInsc. iLiXE cures flitnl^ i cramps. promptly the worst lothache, lumbago, ith to all pain, whe| or local, be tested at the small ' at once a 10 cent I great pain lamedy. ountry dealers, ich requires to be vorth tbe sentinel. lie going around grombU h all the time; who r only used Dr. Careons 1, " IB a splendid Blood • i SO as to be happy* o deserve happiness, es are such as one in recommending »" that you get a three they are the only reU lOo. the daughters wiU ktion of the sons " dthat fljwed for the ccm try. ° v?hy nas it there, that ueeless carbine luest while the three guns were about to go Lork and make the powder talk also? there not in the neighborhood a hand ,ke it down, a finger to load it, a French Ljto aim at a German breast along its bir ffhfire was the owner of that oar- I He was dead â€" he was Jeanne's itther. One eveniug when he had gone jtto hunt Prussians, they had brought him ijktothefsraihouse, moitUly wounded by llbsll. He was now now sleeping under a thite stone, and all tbe noiee of war could t awake him. That carbine had done its it was no longer a weapon, it was a jily rtlic. eanwhile the Prussians were approach- ' every day floods of men and horses jtchei out and swelled, invading a ham- a village, a town, a wood, a forest, a j^a rain, covc^ng ocr mountains and [Citiec, reddeniag with a foam of blood f brooks and rivers and from every side jflowirg upon the plain. One night a hand rapped gently at the borof the farmhouse, that opened to give laion to a sharpshooter. He was a na- f the district, one of Bernier's friends. He Jeaime tbat her father, her bus- ,_J and her son were dead. iarpriaedand surrounded in the depths |tf a wood by thirty Prussians, twelve ahooters had resisted their attack. ^e'Bemicrs had fought and fallen like The father and the husband fell the it, Inmost at the same time, npon five or 1^ corpses of which they had made a ram- Leuing against a tree, Jeanne's son faced Ithefsry of his assailants. He was like an luk Dacked against an oak. He seemed in- Inlotiable, and eaoh time he thrust forth I is bayonet there was a dead man npon its l/olDt. ' XhM^-joaag Bavarian officer approached, and witlit smile on his lips, stretohed bim got nth « rifle shot, between the father and tb( grandfather. Tuns died the three Bamiers thus nre eitiDguiahed in an instant tiiree gener- itions. After having delivered hia message the ikpahooter, taking advantage of the dark- Kn of the night, said farewell to the widow Bd departed to join his.comradea. An hoir later, Jeanne took down her btber's carbine, put on the gatments of lb dead man, and in turn quitted tbat farm house that her family would never see She was now no longer either the daught- c, the wife or the mother she wai only a Pretcli womao. Wtat do I lay She wai mly a soldier. Tbe three guns were silent, and it was iie carbine, that, passing like a heritage lomtfae haad of her brother to that of liii lister, wa's aovoa to make the powder Wk. The first warble of the birds had sca'c ly isnoniced the day, when Jt anne, crouching Knid the bushes, aw on the edge of the for- « a ULIaa trotting slowly along on his likckhor-e. He « a3 a blender young man « ith a blonde aoMta-he and blue eyes. From time to tine he reaoved hia helmet shaking out his "uly locks to the breeze of the wood, 'rtathing with keen enjoyment the balmy "icraing air then he put spors to his horse wd murmured a musical Germaa soog. the »liile admiring the beautiful scenery of fiaace. Jeaane ta'lei to him; he halted. She 5nd;heftll. "Have avenged my father I" aaid she, ad disappeared. And all that day she ramwned concca ed m 'ieboshy thickets, her eyes open, her ear 'sterirg, aid her carbice in her hand. Not S3UDd save the chant t f the cricket or the V^ c-y 6* the crow. "«in the evening, at n-ghtfall, the neigh- '"^ofa hor»e mide her start. Jfaane dowiy )ai8ed her heal, jazmg througt, la-ge tern ai if behind a ja of not hoar re««o»» e to escape those las demonstrated nia| ice be lirtened to. ort to dangerous estic remedy will r ihe caie «f ooâ„¢? and peril their u' ipossible. 'Whfle o» flesh-eating â- nhstf* pop com cure â€" P" act r. It nerer f" just the taiMt Pa nlef s Cora Bx« »" is content withthej pact to what 6 not an artiat, »» h his reward «* at of a meoh«iufl» »^| I art. rodowmnythroft' he Blood Pb» •^. Urania*. It was a lif utensnt who wai advancing at 'w bead of six d rigoot s He was rosy aad ""It like those enormous Cupids, that, "Pon the smoky panels of the Mnnich brew- *â- .««. pour out beer for King Oambrinos to parpo«e«,_^ for the pr«s«i»i .He seemed soldered to his saddle as hu Ppe seemed riveted to his lips. Thron^h ^^ 'pectacles sparkled a shrewd glance that ««nded the vicinity, examined the bushes *?*the ditches, the stones, the briars and H* tnfts of grt s?. One mi«ht h»ve believed â- ^ mounted on a horse fabricated at Kur- ?lh8' When he halted the six dragoons Z^' One might have tboaght th«t one "le rein gmded that automatic o^val- /^ne brought her carbine to her ihoolder; » ball hissed, and the Uentenant, staM^g ?â- Â« (addle like a drunken man, suddenly ^Qt toward the head of the hightcned horse ad 5*^®^ off »* »* • W^ hmxiog away wad man. ' have avenged my husbMid," cried the :j». whUe tbe diHoons, thiakiwf ttam- ttTt* *o«t to be hnnmed in, vMiished afc "^»P,of their horses' speed. {J!!f%«a deet Jesmae fled MiroM tb« Jtie « M? Her gourd was empty md she bad mM Bi.J?"'»*»» »« k" !•«• Bot she bad ^m "**• A streamlet cave bsr wmtei t« door of the ooitajBTTtSl nL^ sentinel Atti.I^^j *** • Chrmsn mr^ .! "• *mdow a o^ptain of ,n. muiksof ihe Spree or tiie borders of ih! g'fe » *»ay er love letter that he Srii^ •dvnttih. eye. .nd raad ov« 1iS*SS Jearna .lipped alcnj and «pp oiofcelVith. ^^Now Jhero was only a corpse at the win. All the so'diersmshed iron the cottage, their gauim their hands, ready to repUse theemny. Bui the ,n3my had fled afar shouhnj ' "I have avenged m/ son I" Jeanne Benuer quittad the forjst that patro 8 lor.owed in every direcfoa. It was elsewhtri tiat she tooi her ta-biae. Wen not Prussuni to be foind everywhera? Bit what o; i she want furth. r Had she not avengei her father, her husband and h r son? Five days had elapsed since the death of the oapiain, but she was still braving the heroic but wretched life o! the woods. One day she dined on a cop of milk given her by a goatherd another t me, she, the rich farm owner, shared wiih an old mendicmt the bread of beggary. Lyiag one morning amid the heath and broimthat bordered the highway, Jeanne Bernier perceived a mate of soldiers waving aloat upe n the suniighted road. Wai it a cDmpaiy, a regiment, an army They were mora than five hundred, more than a thou- ssnl strong, and behind these foot soldiers the cavalry pleased emward in a cloud of dust. At the head of that formidable column 1 ode, stem and impassible, an old chief with a long white monsi ashe and a scarred vis- age. He was encrmously stout, and at each movement of his horse his huge body swayed like a barrel but his vigorous hand firoaly held a naked swcrl that sueme in the srn. Jeanne raised her carbine, and the Frns- s'ai General, lifting both his hands toward heaven, rolled like a mass beneath his horse's hflofsi But instantly, s'ruck full in the breast by a bullet, the handsome Jeanne Bernier feU in her turn npouthe golden broom, murmur- ing '*I have avenged my country " Names of Tessels. The London Naviieal Mogadne cays " The name borne by the largest number cf vessels is Mary. Tnere sre over 200 sailiag vessel i and 5 steamers named Mary, over 100 Mary Anns, and about 70u vessels in wbieh Mary is the first word of tbe name. Next to the Maiys come the El'zabeths, Janes, and Ssrahs, and then the Williams, which idone of male names exceeds 106. A very large number of the nsmes in the list are Cnristian and perhaps next to them is a clats of names in which the word Brothers ooours, indioatinfr. doubtless, a partnership in the vessels. There ara 80 Brothers (of which 26 hail from one port, St. John, New- foundland). 42 Two Brothers. 36 Three Brothers. 20 Four Brothers. 7 Five Brothers and Six Brothers. 8 Seven Brothers, 2 Nine Brothers and Ten Brothers. Not only do popolur statesmen, members of the re^al tamily, and distinguished generals furnish nunes, but in the Mercantile Matiae List one may see celebrated the last victory, the winoer of the Berby, and the sensation of the hour. Ten Gladstones attest tbe popuL arity of the pree«nt Premier, five Boacoos- fields, two Eatl Bsaconsfields, three Earl* of Beaconsfidd, and three Lord Baaconsfielda commemorate the last. Among the additions of last year was a Lord Wolseley, an Alces- tor, and a Tel-el Kebir. The great trial of twelve years ago has traces left in a Dr. Kenealyand a Sir Roger Tchborne: the Ashantee war in a Coomassie, a Black Watch, an Ashantee, and more than one King KofFee the Zalu war in two Cety- wayos, a Rjike's Drift, and a number of Zulus." Tbe t INSANE FBOM GKIEF. Beamm of a Maryland Hotbar De- tltroned toy tbe DeatbofBer Cblldren. A sad case of insanity, caused by a mother's devotion to her si^ children, has just been brought to light at Balcimore, M 1., DV the remov«3 of the victim to the asylum for the insane. About teven years ago Miss Ella Sherwood, a pretty voung girl re- siding in Frederick County, MJ.. »Mrn«»d a ^ouni farmer named James Douglas, of Hartford County. Mr. and Mrj. Douglas lc*tednear PleasautviUe, and two pretty children were the fruit of their miion. About three week, ago tie chUdren Hfid ♦hr#e and five years, were taken sick with SSSp'St^gi Mrs. D^^S them, and for days never Irf* **«" " ft OnMonday she became deUnons, and it wL ttSught she would die before her ojuld- J2J On*Monday night, about pWmght tS youngest chnSbfeathed.itslMt, and the nSt night the oMes* ohild ^•d. The hours. D.9 •w»»»«-_j ^^_^ .!„,{«„ hia ab- amitiiwfafe r-i^'ih m- wtn â- â- mmw^" ^^ I daji ••â- n^Mn^d aaa â- â- â-  "" "•"•â-  â€" _i rc* T^*^"" effor.s snilow bsinc oiUty9^ to transfer ft* seene of timir Sl'SSrlS ^â- '^- 'rtKrestook.r^SS can be oairied on at about hail tbe sa pense •tockselk on».tfa.rd higher than s*^^ Sth ife'^i?!"^*^ •• ^^""^y 'o comprtitiba with the Domuuoa as with the Xottsd states, and whenever plaurible grounds pre- sent themselves, charges are mlde that^e Cinadian cattle sre diseased. ^^Het summer It was aUeged that Canadian cattle cold in t«mbndgeshire, had foot and-mouth disease It has been amply proved, howtver, that the wtflo had been inspeoted snd foani bealthy bef or o embarkation that they wi re subjected to 10 or 12 days' quarantine oa board the ship that tney were inspected at Liverpool and declared Jo be healthy, and that after staying foirdays there, a dean Dill of health wai again siveo. Now as foo I and»moath disease manifests itself within three tiays of inceptoo, if these animsls I J^trj rea'ly snflFerIng from tbe msUdy in Cimlndgeshiri. th«y must have coitract d It after landing ia E igland. The Endnrance of Australian Horses. We (Co'onies and India) have hear J of a man who used friqnently to ride irom Bor- der Town, in the Tatiara, to Wellhigtm in one day, the dislancd being say 110 milf s. through tile desert, tbe character of the country being heavy in the ex reme, moit of the way lying through heavy sand. The time o:cupied was from twelve to fourteen hourj 1*30 to 130 miles on a good road would have been easier for aborse. Acothcr man rode from Acalby, near Kapunda, to near Corrency Creek, say 100 miles, in about fourteen hours. The sane man road from Kingston to Mr. A. M'Ferlaue's, near Wel- lington, say 120 miles in dxteen hours with- out unsaddling. Ahcrae wai takoi early one summer's morning from Wellington to Foltalock (then Malcolm^ station), muster, ed cattle for some hours, and returned to We^lingtcn at about four p. m., the distance travelled beins fully 50 nilea. Hewas then teken by another rider to Adelaide, which was reached between ten and eleven p. m The cnly refreshment the hcrse had on the road was two bottles of porter. The total distance travelled from morning was 115 miles. A rider left the Avenue station ab- out ten a.m., reached the Salt Creek late at night (about ten o'clorsk), got a fresh horse from the celebrated M. Martin, and started early the foPowing mcraing, and reached Adelaide in the afternoon (between four and five o'clock), having ridden about 130 miles the l^st day. A third rode from Salt Creek south-eaet, in about tTelve hours, having smarted at midnight, and reached Adelaide before noon next day. He rale the same horse, Percy, who was unmatched for cour- age, strenoth and speed, to Mount Barker the same day. the whole ride being about 150 miles. Another severe ride was once dons by a native of Sydney, who was one of of a party brinsfng horses down fiom New South Wales. Ttie horses broke away back on one occasion, and the man jnlloped for seve^l hours to head them. When he re- turned to the camp in the evening he was dreadfully exhausted, and could only just ask for a drink of tea, and while he was drinking it his horse fall down dead. The exact distanoe ridden was not known, but it was reckoned to be (ionsiderably over 100 miles. Oa most of these journeys the horses had little or nothing to eat. ' Bones on the Farm- It is well enough known that bone, when {(round fine, makes one of tde best and cheap est manures, especially on lands Ions; in use. The needs of farmers with abundant oapittl are well en'ngh met in the commercial fer* tilizers. Witu the Experiment Stations to analyze the samples, there is not much dan- ger of adulteration. The high price of this comminuted bone, two cents a pound and upward, deters many farmers |from using it on a large scale, even when there is no doubt that the invesment would pay. In a limited way the small farmer has the means within his reach of reducing several barrels of bone to a fine powder every year. A solution of potash will redocj bone to a fine condition, and make it available for plant food. Most farmers fctill lise wood for luel, and the ashes fiom the fifteen or twenty cords used in a year, if saved, would reduce all the bones crdinarily within reach of the farmer. The old-fashioned leach that used to stand at almost ev.ty farmer's back door for soip making wss a good coatrivance for reducing the bones. Bat any tight, etrong cask, or hex, will answer quite as well for this pnr- poBM. Water |pour.id npon the ashes makes a lye, or aOlntion ef potash, s'rong enough to deccNnpose the bones. The cask shonld atuid under cover, so that the qnau- tity of water 4plied to the bone and ashes may be under control. The time it will take to reduce the bme to a powder will depend opiu the amount of potash in the ashes, and atCention bestowed upon the process. It is essential that the ashes aiid bone sboild be cloiely pw k 'd in the mass, and that they be kept ma moist stite, addina water as it evaporates from the sorfaoe. TThe fiaer the bone befoi* ii u packed in the ashes the sooner it wiU ;be reduced. Tie process can be hastened by patting into the mass a few sionnds of donBiÂ¥n potash. But this is only necessary to save time. Ariies fami hi^JUf, or any of «he hard woods oontam sufficient S,t»h to decompose the bon«L When the Zmb is soft enough down witt a made or ahoval it dta be mixed with land plaster, dSdiJatFhSm, to make it convenient fShaSTit I?ka«»oent,.tedf«tili.«r 4S^towed^ disowtion in tim hai, orap. ^lisdasatop dressing to growmg crops m the aardenw field. *wfSquite sure ««»* any "-jl^oum. this preparation of »»«»• .^â„¢J^!1 and sessSovigcroas posh it rives t!» gardsB i*. But manffanners nsar -»J^*ff nAMd ttations use ooal mmii^ for fael. mQl tense OB Ihe waste boBsa, BmaUmuU Tala% and tamed Into iMMV""" ttan tAsB aaad aa a A'fiisfi^^idiBighMiMen invwitol li Mocmp ose 1 O f tihwsn p port u dl n w i i joists by aMddsaefMwjoHMiirtobtaasjMiad^be- tweentha appsr jiaBla.1 1m top tiles and the ti9i of Ibe joists «• ooverediby a layer densBt, raadering ths oeilbm seonrs againatfiNb J^ To malm pbstio earboos fiar batCsriej the fbUowiagxMN]i* is rsneiiimâ€" dedlqrIL Max Ni«Bdieia«slcy :â€" Ooed aokels giOBnl and mixed with cotl tar to a stiff dongta and prcssedihrto moulds made of iioiand bmsi. After diTiag for a few' da^a ln"-» closed place it is heated in a ftunice, where it ia protsetsd f rom the direct flasoes and bmned feebly at first, then strongly, the fira being gnuinally raiaad to a white heat, which is maintained for six or ejght honrj. The fire is then permitted so dowly go down, an I being perfectly cold the carbon is taken out of the fumaoe. In Naples asibmarine balloon has been in vented which will sink people to the bottom of the Mediterranean shore waters, whcrj they cui enjoy the natural aquaria there to be seen. It is a ballooiiLof steel, with three compattments-^Kme for the actuating me- chanism and| floating bladder, one for the captain and one for the paesengerj. lo the number of eight. Ther j are glass windows f F looking at the fishes, shells, and weeds, aiid the height of the balloon in the water is regulated by means of ths collapsible bladder. A^teldpl ooe connects the Lalloon, which is captive an i caio fl Mt away, with the skoro (r a b^at above. Hitherx) it ha9 puzzled eminen^i surgeons to account for sudden death canssd by ap- itarentiy inadcqoate wounds in the hearj, such as those made by the prick, without psnetration even, of a needle. Herr Schmey a student of the Physiological Institute, Ber- lin, has, however, just discovert that when a needle pricks a certain small spot on the lower borJer of the upper third of the sep- tum cordis, quite instant aueonsly the move- ments of the heart are arrested and fvrjver set motionless in death. " It is now the tuk of anatomical investigation," siys Prof. Kr jnecker, who verified the discovery oC his pupil, Herr Sjhmey, and communicated it to tbe Physiological Society of Berlin, "to demon3tr.ite with accuracy this vital centra, the existence of which has been pro re 1 ex- perimentally." Common salt, chloride of sodium, is the nioit widely -distributed substauoe, 'in the body it exists in every fluid and in every solid and not^ only is everywhere pr jsent, but in almost 'every part it constitutes the largest portion of the ash when the tiasui is burnt. In particular, it is a constant con- stituent of the blool, and it maintains it in a proportion that is almost who ly independent of tbe quantity that is consumed with the food. The blood will ttke up no score, however muoh we may take with our fool, and, on tbe other hand, if none be given, the blood pares with its naturil quantity slo vly and unwillingly. NoUiing caa demoiatats its value better than the fact that if album- en without salt is introducad into the intes- tines of an animikl, no portion of ,it is ab- sorbed, while it all quickly disappears if salt be added. The ooncTusion therafora is ob- vious that salt, being whol jsome, and indeed, necessary, should be taken in small qdanti* ties, and that abstentioa from it is likely to be injurious. CURE FOB HTDBOPHOBU. It. Faatonr^ Wondeiittl Otlwovary of tb XiBetaney of toeenlattoa. The Government has appointed a commi- sion to enquire into the practicability of pre venting hydrophobia by inooculation, as pro posed by Professor Pasteur. In an intenriew with a Figaro correspon- dent M. Pasmur says :â€" '£ havebsen devot- ing the last foar years to this subject I found out, in the first plaee, that tue virus rabique loses its intensity by transmission to certain animals and increases its in- tensity by transnussion to other animals. With the rabble, for instance, toe virus rab- ique inoreaMea; with the monkey it dedreasee. My method was as follows â€" I took the virus direct from tie brain of a dog that had died from aotud hydrophobia. With this virus I inocaUted a monkey. The monkey died. Then with the virusâ€" already weak- ened in intensity â€" tiken from the monkey, I inoculated a rabbit with the vims taken from the second monkey I inoculated a third monkey, and so on until I obtUned a virus so weak as to be almost hamdess. Then with this almost harmless virus, I inoculated a rabbit, the virus being at once increased in intensity. â- Then with the virus from the first rabbit I inoculated a second rabbit, and there was another increase in the intensity of the virus. Taen with the vurns of the seconl rabbit I moouUted a third rabbit, then a fourth, until the vims had regained its -maximum intensity. Thus I obtamed virus of different degrees of power, I then took a dog and in- oculated him, first with the weakest virus from the rabbit, then with the viras from the second rabbit and finally with the rabbit vims of maximum intsnsity. After a few days more 1 inoeculated the dog with virus thken direotly from the bra^n of a dos; tuat had just died of acute madness. Tae dog upon which I faal expirimented proved oom- pfetely insusceptible to hydropuobia. Tbe experiment was frequently ripeated, i Iways with the same sucoMsful result. "Bat my discovery does not end here. I took two dogs and inocalated them botn with virus taken directly from a dog that had just died of acute hydrophobia. I let one of my two dogs thus inoculated almr, and he. went mad and died of acute hydro- phobia. I sabj acted the second dog to my treatment giving him the three rabbit in- oonlations, beginning with the weakest and ending with tbe stroogast. This seoond dog was oomplelhly cured, or rather became oomphtety insusceptible to hydrophobia." M. Pasteur then went to a kennel and iiiinssoil a dog that had undergone this lattar opsntiuo. "Voyezr' said M. Pm- to my three â- ot Imve the dighteat fear of hydrophobia." •:â- : *jr;3aBS ;« opssatum. "voyesT' saia sa. iras- r, "eoBBue fl est Irien gentlL Whoever s bittsn by a mad dog has only to submit nr three ttfttie inocalatioaB and he need Om Pupba^.â€" Bnttw â- Â» of ab«a* une inp 0^ soger, one teaspoopsfal of orsam- tacUr* h^ tenvoaafnl tlaoiM, one pint of 4hNir, iiai^ â-  Hduiaro WiBVUB.â€" A half eufad of ^^^- â-  -Pdiiai %i*Vipii*5^awoe» » miM eaks^ ens «ab and half to anbiAbstlsi; Bakoln Ptbaia:«M «t-tta suet beaatifnl aenti- Of oar fatten haotauty, says the Bhwa-a pi fc atMiianj^ is thatwUdi pronq^ astoooMMrrsthe dus) of Che dear depart* ed, aid to regard tiisar lasi rjating plaie in Qod's-asn as a spot paoaUy taaUowed. Tbe ssnolltf -«{ tfafrobnrA lienohaaoed by tiM grave* of botied lova that Uanrouad ii snd thera is no more fitting piararjitioos for the soieasn swvis^s of tiwenBetuiy than a medita'-ioi anosK tin lonba. As'Gnv ex presset it in his Ebgy^. â- ^I'en from the tomb tbe voioe of Nature cries, K'ea ia our ashes live tbdr wontsd flzes." D wpite thenro Jdasi of ntiUtaria- s this im- moraliw of love cannot be wadioated from the soul, ao« is it dedrAbl* that it should be. It bee its origin in the sdf same feeling that aniuMks tm patriot, and in those bonis of human affejtim that forms the very foundation of tonety. Anything, therefcrs, tiiat tends to outraje or repress ths last solaoe of the afflicted soul is to be re- gretted, more especially where it appsars to ue the outcome d! mere wantonness and not jvsfeified by actual necessity. Last week we bal oooasion to chronicle the burial at sea of the remains o: Mr. Dand HiU Dow, a Kilmamodc gentleman, who died sudden- ly on his way to revisit his na'iive town, an^ the IsB^ rites, sttadge to say, were performed within two days of the vessel's arrival at Gravesend. A still more mdancholy case is that of Mr. James Hsndry, of the Nttioual Bank, Patrick, aad a magistrate of that burgh, wto left his I a ive ooun ry recently in the hope of rjstonng his hta th by a voyage to America. Sea-sickness, however, siruuk him down soon after s a 'ting, to which he succumbed when the vessel was but four days' sail from New York. The conduct of t le ship's offi Mrs to his auguishei widow, though quite within tbe'jr powers, has the appearance of being burd-bearted in the ex- treme. To her piteous pleadings tba' the body be left o i boa'd fcr the few interven- ing days they turned a deaf t a ' within two hours after decease the corpse was commit- ted to the deep. Thii haite was aurely un seemly and altogether unnecessary, gratuit- ously aiding to the poignancy of the grief 6t the sole bumxn being on boa-d to whom the dust was dear. In cases of oontsgioas or mal'gnaut disaase stem necessity ibust override all other consid r itions, but in caies such as we have just cite i it is surely poslb!e to place the remains in a mortuary on board, convey them to their destina- tion, and band them over to the sorrowmg rvUtives. Such aprovisioi, on s!»amships efpecially, should be easy of aoconplish- mcnt aid the wonder is tha^ things have been toIer.it )d so long in their present un- satisfactory condition. Law-Made Evils, And yet the mischiefs wrought by unin«: stractsd law making, enormous in their amouu' as compared with those caused by uninstmcted medical treatmiui, are con* spicuous to all who do but glance over its history. The reai^ mos!: ptr ion me while I recall a few m|liar instances. Cmtury after century statesmen went on enacting laws which made worsi the condition of the debtorâ€" raising the rate of interest "from five to six when intending to reduce it to four," as under Louis XV., and indireotiy productnK tradxeamt of e^ls of many kinds, such as preventing the reproductive use (^ spare ci^td, ana "burdening 'the small proprietors with a mnltitade of perpetual services." So, too, the endeavours which in England contnued through five handred years to stop forestalling, and which in France as Arthur Young witaecsed, pre- vented any one from bufine "more than two bushels of wheat at market," went en generatioa after generation increasing the miseries and mortality due to death; fcr as everybody now knows, the wholesale dealer, who was in the statute of "Dj PtStoribua" vituperated as "an open oppressor of poor people," is simply one whoss function it-is to equaliza the supply of a commodity by checkiog imduly rapid consumption. Of kindred nature was the measure which, in 1315, to diminish the pressure of famine, prescribed the prices of foods, but which was hastily repealed af tt r it had caused en« entire disappearance of various foods from the markets and also sach measures, more continuously operating, as those which sisttled by magisterial order "the reasonable ![ains" of victuallera. Of like spirit and fol- owed by allied mischiefs have been the many endeavours to fix wages, which began with the Scatate of Libourera tmder Ed- ward III., and ceased only s xty years ago when, having long galvanised m Spital- fields a. decaying industry, and foscered there a miserable population, Lords and Cjmmms finally gtve up fixing silk- weav- ers' eiminga by magisterial order. The Luxury of Life in India. We hare no idea of the extreme to which luxury may be carried, says a Calcutta let* ter. When I say luxury, I have in mind personsl hdplessness, acquired by long an I diligent study. Think of sleeping with a Kukah waving over you all night, operated a t'rdess c-xlie, as many o! the wealthy p'iopl in CilQUtta do. Solt- footed Hindoos move noiseleseliT along the marble floors, their spider I mbs cmoe.led in respectable sir jngs. Every want is attended to before yon cm gat a chanos 1 1 help yourself. Even if it is so email a thing a I putting on your hat or slippers, opening an umbrella, or washing aid dressing in the morning, there is a polite. attendant waiting at your side to aisiss. To us this multiplicity of servants is, at first, a nuisance. Wefeel that we might at 1^ a-t be permitted to mate bur own toilet in- peace, aad look upon taese s'lsnt but omni^ prjsenta toadautsas somauyspies. Bit when we rifieot that the servant ca mot'ea 'esdrop witboit a knowledge of the Eaglifh laa- gaaze,.oar independent spirit flpradnally suo- oumbs to the crma"e, aid we at length pass into a langnUI, dreamy state of acqaiescanoe, aeoepting tba most trivial and patty servi- oes^om these dusky creatorea as though always accostoased to them. R.a'ly help is to cheap here that it seems a pity not to avail yoorself o' a small army ofssrvaAta. I have yet to meet a mission* a^ fauaily in the Or:«B« thai did not em pl.ty at least tiiree or four, who take upon tbemielTes tiie eo^bo ssqponsifaaity of th« housework. v" "^^ I |i |l-: r* â- M ;^:%; .5 â- i Hi!..

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