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 A-:r is :?il P:-- YOUNQ^ fo|iK:s. A TALK ABOUT BKIDGES. on piers alternate (Concluded) The Chinese have built some remarkable bridges. There is one at Foochow which is called " The Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages," and is said to be eight hundred years old. The peculiarity of it is, that the stone is used as if it were timber. Instead of arches, there are hewn stones, three feet square and over forty feet long, laid across the tops of the piers, and on these are laid flat slabs of granite to fomi the flooring On each side of the bridge, throughout its whole length, are small shops. It is a quarter of a mile long, and has forty piers. At Ispahan, in Persia, there are three magnificent bridges over the River Zeinde- rud. The oldest of them_ is of brick, edged with stone, is about a thousand feet long, and rests on low stone arches. On each side there is a covered gallery, eight feet broad, several steps higher than the roadway in the middle. In cool weather one can walk on the roof of this gallery if he wishes. When it is too warm for that, the shade of the gallery is sought. For the hottest weather, when the stream is very low, there is a singular passage at the very water's edge. Imagine an archecl door cut through eve y one of the piers, and stepping-stones in the water, on a line connecting these doors. You first pass through a pier, then on stepping-stones you cross the water under an arch, then pa^ through another pier, and BO on. There is a bridge which is a standing joke across the Rhine, connecting the towns of Great Basel and Little Basel. Each town was to build half of the bridge. Little Basel ei-ected beautiful stone arches, reaching from its side to the middle of the stream. Great Basel, ten times as populous and wealthy, met them with a ridiculously cheap wooden bridge. And there the incongruous thing stands to this day, to point the moi-al of taxation the world over^^always the lighter burden laid upon the strong, and the heavier on the weak. The first cast-iron bridge erected in Eng- land is over the Severn, I at Colebrookdale. olppr -fivcf iiilli«» dollir*. built by Siephenaon. If a long iron bridge resting were made fast to them, the lengthening and shortening of the bridge, which is caused by the heat of summer and the cold of winter, would graduaUy push over the piers, and some fine day the whole woiUd tumble into ruin. To prevent this, not only is the bridge not fastened to the piei-s, but small steel rollers are placed on the tops of the piers, and the bridge rests on these; so that '^hen it lengthens or shortens the rollers turning allow it to slide back and forth harmlessly. The Chinese have used suspension bridges made of chains, for centuries. In South America, they are made of roi)es, and even -^i't^' THE LIME-KILH OLHB. onsartin HuBum natur' am a werry Brother Gardner as l-Wer and laid tack an It is fifty-five feet above span of one hundred feet. 1779. The first wrought-iron ed by Thomas Paine, the man whose reputa the water, with a and was built in bridge was invent- thing," said Toots quit shuffling his feet **'"'lttm so fuU of streaks a°' ^e^^^^, noshuns dat it am a wonder de Lawd doan eit discouraged wid us sometimes. A stat^man will riz up in de eavemn an' declar' dat we hev de greatest kentry on airth. Nex' mawin' if his coflfee am not uo to par' or his beef -steak Mn a leetle ofl, he am ready to walk out an' announce to de public dat our system of gov'ment am one which will eventooly bring de kentry to a state of poverty an' degradashun, iwy».o, "Dar'am a large class of peeple who, of a tough sort of vine. These, however, ^j^hen dey hep honey fur supper, bless de • ' " "airs, though they Towrl fiir his ffoodness an' am ready to sub- tion as an atheist had so completely over- clouded his fame as a statesman and his mechanical genius. This bridge was first put up at Rotherham, I England. After- wards the materials were used in a bridge which still spans the River Wear at Suther- land. Stephenson speaks of it as a start- ling piece of engineering.; For a long time the greatest iron arch in the world was the central one of Southwark bridge, in London, two hundred and forty feet span but this is surpassed by the very remarkable bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis, which has two arches of five hundred and twenty feet span each, and two of five hundred and fifteen feet, i If you imagine some steel staves, put together with steel hoops, so as to make a barrel twelve feet long and sixteen inches in diamhter, and then enough of these bairrels fastened to- gether end to end, just as gas-pipes ar e fastened, to make a tube ^bout six hundred feet long, and then this tube bent to a curve so as to form an arCh sixty feet high with a span of five hundred and twenty feet â€" you will have an idea of the pjeculiar feature of this bridge. Two of these im- mense curved tubes placejd twelve feet apart one within the other, as â-  you have seen a double rainbow, and connected by iron braces, form what is called a truss. There are four of these trusses to each span of the bridge. The whole cost of the structure was about nine millions. The building of this bridge involved an incident which lad to one of the prettiest engineering triumphs on record. When one of the great steel trusses had been floated out from the shore where it was built, and lifted into its place, it was found to be a tri- fle too long to fit. This subjected the en- gineer, Capt. James B. Eads (the same who is now constructing the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi,) to considerable mortifi- cation, especially as several rival engineers were looking on jealously and apparently hoping for the failuie of the work. To take down the truss, carry it back to the shore, shoi-ten it, and float it out and raise it' again would have involved a large loss of time and money. Captain Eads ordered it to be left where it was, till he could think about it over night. The next morning he ordered the building of a light wooden trough close under the truss throughout its whole length and then had the trough filled with pounded ice. You know iron, and almost every- thing else, in fact, contracts with cold, and expands with heat. In a little while the cooling of the truss shortened it enough so that it fitted easily into the place prepared for it ;and when the ice was removed and the metal became warm again, by its expan- sion it clamped itself up tighter and more securely than could have been done by any other means. Perhaps the most famous ot all iron bridges is the Britannia Tubular Bridge, over the Menai Straits, which separate the Island of Anglesea from the mainland of Wales. It may oe described as consisting of two squares, wrought-iron tubes, each one thousajid five hundred and thirteen feet long and about fifteen fciet wide by twenty -five feet high, laid side by side so as to rest on two abutments and tiiree piers of massive stone-work. The bottom of the bridge is one hundred and two feet above the water. The train runs inside of the tubes. The piers are continued in high towers above the point where the tabes cross them, partly for the purpose of giving the bridge greater steadiness by their wef^ht, and partly to serve as watch towers. The portions of the tubes which form the central spans were built on bIhhv, launched with flat-boats under them, floated down to the piers, and/tiien raised to their places by means of powerful hydraulic wesses. The engineer of this bridge was Rooert Stephen- son, son of George Stephenson, who invent- ed the locomotiTe. It was completed in 1850, and cost him three niillim dollan. There are one hundred and eighty -six thou- sand separate pieces of iron in the tubes, and seven million holes had to be made, to put in the rivets that hold them together. There is an iron tubular bridge, similar to the one just described, across the St. Lawrence at Montreal. It is called the Victoria Bridge is two miles long, and cost are comparatively small affairs, though they frequently span tremendous chasms. The South American suspension bridges sway fearfully from side to side, so that it fre- quently requires more nerve for a stranger to cross them than it would to go over the same chasm in a balloon. The First European chain bridge was built across the Tees, near Middleton, Eng- land, in. 1741. It was seventy feet long and sixty feet high, The largest ana finest suspension bridges in the world are in the United States. The first one built ,in this country was put up in 1576. It had chain cables. Later they began to make them of wire, and now all suspension bridges have cables made of small wires twisted together. A small suspension bridge was erected across Niagara River, a short distance be- low the falls, in 1848. It is said that com- munication between the two banks was es- tablished by means of a kite. The kite was raised, and allowed to fly across the river. Then it was made to tumble, and by means of the string the first wire for the bridge was draw across. Six yea.rs later this bridge was taken down, and one of the grandest bridges in the world was erected in its place. Two strong stone towers stand on the edge of each bank. Over the tops of these pass four cables, each of which is about a foot in diameter, made of small wires twisted to- gether. The cables sag down in the middle and their ends are anchored in the solid rock some distance back from the towers. The roadway, which is level, is hung between and below these cables, by means of small wire cables or ropes, which of course are longest near the towers and shortest at the middle of the sag. There are two roadways or floors to this bridge, one above the other. The upper one is for railway trains, the lower for carriages. The span, from the towers on one side to those on the other, is eight hundred and forty -five feet. There is a beautiful suspension bridge across Ohio River at Cincinnati, which has a span of one thousand and fifty -seven feet. And a still larger suspension bridge has been built across East River, to connect the cities of New York and Brooklyn. It has a span of one thousand five hundred and ninety-five feet, and the floor is one hundred and thirty five feet above the water. All three of these bridges were designed, and two of them were built, by the same man, John A. Roe- bling, who died in 1869. A suspension bridge with a span of one thousand feet was thrown across the Ohio at Wheeling in 1848, but it was blown down, however, in 1854. One at Rochester N. Y. was broken down by a heavy fall of snow in 1857. The finest suspension bridges in Europe are at Friburg, Switzerland, and Pesth, Hungary. One of the most romantic things in con- nection with the subject of bridges was the formation of a religious order in the twelfth century, called " Brethren of the Bridge," whose object was to build bridges and es- tablish ferries for the convenience and se- curity of travellers. Their three most famous works were the bridges of St. Esprit, Lyons, and Avignon, all spanning the Rhone, and all consisting of stone arches. The two first named are still standing. The third had a hard fate. Pope Benedict XIII., then holding his See at Avignon, had some of the arches broken down in 1385, for his own security. A few years later the in- habitants of the city blew up their end of the bridge, to free themselves from Bene- dict's garrison. In 1692 three arches fell for want of repairs and in 1670 a freshet in the Rhone, bringing down immense masses of ice, co' npleted the work of des- truction. But one kind of bridge remains to be men- tioned â€" the natural bridge. Eight of these are known in. the United States one in Rockbridge County, Va., one in Walker Lawd fur his" goodness an' am ready scribe SlOO towards de ereckshun of a new church. Nex' mawnin' when apple |».8S takes de place of honey, dey emagine dat ole Satin has got a fust mortage on ebery- thing, an' de wouldn't put up a nickel fur a church if dey had money to throw away. " Dar' am people who go about wid broad smiles on deir faces an' tell you dat dis world am all right. It's daily growm' let- ter an it's plenty good 'nuff fur anybody. An hour later, when de grocer or de butcher has called deir attenshun to a leetle bill which has run six months, de scene changes. De grin am gone, an' dis world am all wrong. "We plan fur a huckle-berry excurshun wid de feelin' dat our fellow-men am all right. We wake up to find dat excurshun spoilt by a rainy day, an' we at once declar' our fellow-men a set of thieves an' conspira- tors. " Dar am no accountin' fur what poo weak, vascillatin' human, natur' will do. We expeck men to be wicked, an' den hold up our hands ober deir deeds. We know dat all marriages can't be happy, but am scandalized ober divorces. De male sex de- mands de strictest vartue in woman, an' den turns about an' works deir downfall. We chide de selfishness of de world, but we hang to all we git. We denounce an' revile a man while he libs, an' turn about an' make a hero an' a martyr of him as soon as de bref leaves his body. We preach charity to all, but who of us forgives our fellow-man fur his shortcomin's " I tell you, my friends, we am a poo*, miserable lot, no matter what do color or previous condishun, an, de pusson who has de cheek to stan' up an' criticize his nayburs am perhaps de wust sheep in de lot. We've got to show de streaks in our natur' an' de fack dat de man who will lend you money widout security will also run away wid your wife must not be looked upon as any- thing out of the reg'lar track of human na- tur' Let us now purceed wid de reg'lar purceedin's. " A PKEMIUM. Waydown Bebee begged leave to announce his willingness to personally offer a premium for the best song on the close of the year, and on motion of Samuel Shin it was decid- ed that the club should ortce more try the experiment of encouraging colored poets to come to the front. It was reselved to offer a premium of $10 in cash for the best poem received up to January 1, and to limit all contestants to three verses and chorus. With each poem sent in must be an affidavit that the writer is colored, and that he nor she did not copy any portion of the said poem from any publislXd work. The points to be considered are 1st â€" Color of ink. 2d â€" Chirography. 3d â€" Whether postage was paid in full or not. 4th â€" Rhythm and meter. As soon as the details were settled W^hale- bone Howker sent to the Secretary's desk and entered the following as number one. " Oh de leaves am Mallin rove â€" De shrill winds of drear; Whicheber waj- we twm we am visibly reminded, Dat we orter git our coal in an' figfgef on our beer Chorusâ€" Oh de old y'ar am a-d\in' An' us ciill'd folks amsighin' Kase we know how de cold will creep around. De chillblains will affect ug, An' dem bunions will deject us, An' de fellin' of hard-upness will abound. The Kan who Sm Qene t»Jhe Col. Gilder, who started for the North Pole by way of Winnipeg a while ago, was at last accounts nearing Fort Churchill, on Hudson Bay, where he hoped to find the Eskimos who sometimes visit that trading post. These are the Chesterfield Inlet na- tives who accompanined Lieut. Schwatka to King William Land. Gilder lived among them for many months, and he expects to enlist some of them in his service before he starts on his formidable undertaking next spring. Upon their superior ability as Arctic travellers he relies largely for the success of his enterprises, aind without their cooperation he cannot attempt the journey. If CoL Gilder succeeds in piloting a party of Eskimos into regions where they see no certainty of ample food supplies, he will do what other explorers have tried to do and failed. Lieut. Stoney says in the report just published of his twoyears' work in Alaska, that one party which he started overland to the Arctic Ocean was compelled to give up the journey because their Eski- mos, seeing poor prospects of game ahead, refused to go on. It was with the greatest difficulty that Lockwood persuaded his Eskim5s dog driver to accompany him on his famous trip, though they were well sup- plied with food. Lieut. Greely says his Eskimos could not understand the purpose of exploration, dreaded field work, and were driven along with the sledges only by prom- ises of large presents. In the two attempts made by Dr. Bessels of the Polaris to reach Humboldt Glacis from Lifeboat Cove, he was defeated by ts^ refusal of the natives to. keep on with him after they had reached hummocky ice. Dr. Hays said that when he started up Smith Sound, where Col. Gilder proposes to lead his Eskimos, the natives were puzzled to un- derstand the object of his journey, and told him they never thought of entering that region except to cateh bears, and then only when in danger of starving. When Schwatka and Gilder made their brillant dash to King William Land the Eskimos with them travelled over their well-known hunting grounds, where game was in abundance. It may not be so easy to induce the native to enter the vast reigon south of Smith Sound, where game is scarce and no human beings live. The opinion has been expressed that Col. Gilder will never return from his adventuresome journey. It seems more probable that he will not be called upon to meet any very serious dan- ger, owing to inability to induce the Eski- mos to face the perils and the arduous toils (Jf the journey he proposes. EESCUED DI MIDOCEAU. LATE tor over twelvp vT' tef down 400 fett;jS»^ ^tg sodrythatthey^S'^^^hi.'S'l make the drill Jo?k"^»ateri,"yJ The chestnut eons uously in the Buh^^ *»« Oregon, that i?t«l^«Uo], nuisance, and now ^^ " to school is perm^yP"}Pil»ho teachers diseoKHt""" An illustration ol t«, ness comes from If ewa^^'^dv sin, where a woman ^?"'^tv, little sum of mo2Mt" instead of buying V2*'agbli2 husband a fiddle "' lress,' It is said that theonlv car on the Pacific J collusion with the Tn»c. lined with boile75,?lT' Ik., shotgun and two revoW^"?« so secured that they cannot u ' without in an hourlC'!^ AbellinachurchinBiddei *av I Bean M an' a sadness has ar- autumn am blowin' sad an' County, Ala. one in Christian County, Ky., and five in California. The one in Virginia is the most famous, and has been often de- scribed. The largest is in California. It spans a branch of Trinity River, is three thousand feet wide, and has an archway twenty feet high, with a span of eighty feet. Perhaps you will ask me if these natural bridges are not older than a monkey bridge described at the beginning of this article. I cannot answer the question. You must in- quire of the next geologist you see. [the end.] Equinoctial. BT Hits. A. D. I. WHITSBT. •niesun of life has crossed the line, The sommer shine of lengthened light Faded and failed, till where I stand 'Tis equal day and equal night One after one, as dwindling tutura. Youth's glowing hopes hare dropped away, And soon maj barely leave the gleam That coldly scores a winter's day. » • ♦» » » « One side I aee the summer fields. Not yet disrobed of all their green. While westerly, along the hills, name the first tints ot froafy sheen. Ah, middle point, where doud and storm Make batUe ground of this my.Ble, Where, even matched, the night and day WageToond me tiieir September strife I I bow me to the threatening giOe I know, when that is orer, past. Among the peaoetnl harreat 4^s An Indian summer oomes at last. A news item states that " a giil in Wis- consi|i has Hved fifty-three days on air." She must have married labor agitator, and is unable to earn her own living. It is lucky for her that she a^Hve on air. Correspondent " And yon say your hus- band was killed by the Mexican authori- ties " Texas Widow: "Yes, murdered in cold blood." Correspondent: "£r â€" was he worth much " Texas Widow " We hope to get $100,000 for him from the Mexican Government." Bobb^ nth wic__.. ^,„ No, indeed, Bobby.' with ^cked boy»~;:do'yo^""li'S£^ i. •â-  •m Ma^ JOB don't want me to ' yonl" l^bb" "ThS'idtvVSth'SS;" WWte any more. He's^Z, ^J^" kj^ed hun this morning, and helddS J IT DOES NOT. The Secretary announced a letter from Dubuque, la., asking if the Lime Kiln Club pinned its faith to Prof. Wiggins. He was instructed to return answer that it does not. During the first three years of its existence the club paid a great deal of attention to me- teorology, but finally had to face the fact that nothing could be depended on except a prediction of bad weather. Uncle Isaac Skivers, â-  of Mississippi, a colored weather prophet, is just now coming to the front but the club has refused to encourage him in getting up a cyclone or bringing about an earthquake. LEFT IN TH8 LURCH. A postal card was received from the Rt Hon. Gherkin Smith, a gentleman who onc4 lectured before the club on "The Practice of Domestic Economy," stating that he was m jail at La Porte, Ind., on a thirty-dav sentence He had been arrested and sent up for losing his pocketbook and thereby ^mg unable to pay a two-days' board biU. He asked the club to forward bim ten dol- lars, and promised in return to shortly ap- pear .V\»«*7i* %d deliver hu new l^tuw ZvJt^lS?" ^^*"» Samuel Shin moved that the meney be forwarded at once, but the president replied. ' "Bruader Shin, you hey' had a narrer ^pe fum bein' fined $2,000. When de 5 â„¢, K *^ was heah a y'ar ago he stopped at my house, an' ourmeat an' taters ruS^Wt at least fo' weeks alriier dan nsoaL IfeiZ took awa^ wid him two of my Snnday wUte dm*8 anfa neck-tie which o6st me f ow Ws. K«cnb won't send him M^S nor wnte him any letters of oomwUtiS.' His present situation am a blessinMn^ gunje-jf not fnr him den fur a laSe Z^. ty of de public. As dar am no for3fer ne3S The Crew of a Slnkins Bark Saved by the Steamsblp Balgarla. A thrilling story of rescue from a sinking ship in midocean during a terrfie gale is told by the survivors who reached Boston on the steamship Bulgaria. "It was the roughest weather that I ever experienced," said Capt. Dakiii of the rescued crew. "I have been crossing the ocean twenty-two years and I never encountered such a wind. It was one of those circulai lies which it was im- possible for one to stand up against. The bark Antwerp left St. John, N. B. on Sept. 9 for Tralee, Ireland. We experienced vari- able and severe weather. The worst was on the 30th, when off the coast of Ireland, about latitude 51 ® longitude 22 ° The wind on that day struck us with hurricane force, and the lee side deck load, which con- sisted of deals, was all adrift. At 6 A. M. on that day we had fourteen feet of water in the hold, and we were obliged to throw the deck load over to ease the ship. At 8 A. M. the ship was full of water, and on her beam ends. I ordered the spars cut away for the safety of the crew, and after that we cut the fore and main topmasts. She then righted somewhat. At 10 A. M. we sighted a steamer bound westward, which proved to be the Bulgaria. We gave signals of distress, and she replied that as- sistance would be given us as soon as the state of the wind would permit. The Bul- garia passed around us several times, and at 3 P. M. sent us a lifeboat. The weather was such that it was necessary to make a connection by throwing a rope with a life preserver aboard, and then to drag us through the water to the boat. This was done at great risk of capsizing the boat; We were all rescued^ten of us in all. There were no passengers. A statement of the facts, giving our thanks to Capt. Bary and the officers of the Bulgaria, had been drawn up and signed by myself and the other officers of the Antwerp. I found it necessary to set tire to the Antwerp, as she was right in the track of the ocean steamers, and might cause trouble to others." been silent for over twenty- Its ringmg has begun aJ/T discordant, and thTtoSi' new pastor ordered the Uri!* lievang that his peopWouijy getting a new bell. The re^,l7 7* out his theory. ""^^•"'aWi Fifteen years ago a woman Ale., borrowed .s55fronafrie2 givmgher note. When it Zt when lh\ could.- The iX i7 andthehVrhadforgoS^S' " --'-ythe creditor reeeivedbaf^ mon^om the Government, and, paid the old debt. Simon Staggs, at the ksAnw uncle, Silas btaggs, attempted t« " two brothers, in Gilliman ccmtv administering strychnine to ther" â-  The victims saved their lives bv great quantities of melted lard! arrested and confessed the deed, aij he and his uncle hoped to inhetittii ty of the brothers. AUis Brown, a colored man oi.^ Tenn., recently married andtoolfc to a well-furnished house, llei handsome set of silverware, foiirdi carpets and chairs, elegant sets ol and bedroom furniture indeeii,^ she could desire, including a family The remarkable fact was that evaj in the house had been stolen. Fifteen years ago the bufelo Kansas and Colorado were mm thousands of these animals. Tlie«iii:| a party went out from Denver, aiia week's hunting managed to kiUttec herd of twenty -nine llat theyfodii! Park. It is said that there are m than 2,000 buffaloes now in ejisteint tematic slaughter has produced tiisi f ul result. The other day a citizen of N3pa,Ci:. in the river there what hetliooglit tainly the sea serpent. Closer showed that the serpent was a A«lti fisli, each about an inch and a iai' They were moving up stream in a sit 150 feet long and about 3 feet iA: constant commotion inthewaterre by large iish darting among then mi ing down the small frj" John Sanford, employed in the Sanford, Me., drew his monttf other day, and when his wife ' his supper at 6 o'clock he money at her suggestion, 8 o'clock and then went home ffhaeK his two children, ;both babies, OB r alone, apparently having fatoâ„¢ Their mother had run awayrti Sherbuni, an old admirer of hen â- i-he Kev. A. A. Horton of Stefie was walking home from Twna night when sbc men stopped to manded his money. He to cents They searched him fouSnoncWtoldhimtogo; he went Mr. Horton made J^ 'â- Gentlemen-excuse^the^- next time you hold i^ a sm that he is not a Methodist pwa*' The other day the Re^-.F«BJ| of North Washington Me .wn the wcods. came w[th"a big black bear. Though ,»? the clergyman ' HeToileJI for 1*1 fjffH Li Calcutta, In the tropical climate of India a laudable common sense regulates the costume. It would be extremdy uncomfortable to wear a dress-suitof broadcloth at a party. Gentle- men, therefore, who dine, say with the Vice- â„¢y.*PPO»r in the reception room infull even- ing dress, but, beforeentering the banquet hall they repair to an adjacent ap(u-tment, and change ^eir heavy claw-hammer or swallow- tail dress-coats for white lin6n jackets, so that the guests present an i^pearance not unlike tliat of the waiters in some of our restaurants. This arrahgemeht may not be strickingly piotoreaqne, but it is sensible and comfortable. Owing to the geniality of the guestsâ€" for the most part English officersâ€" otel life in Calontta is very pleasant. The curriculum throui|;h which the British army officers must ias8, and in whicbthey are ex- amined, ensures teir beiiu sdiolani, and, with v^ fow excep^oiu, fliey are gwitle- men. Hence, there, are no more pleasant parties than their mesiidinneft. The officers of EiAdiri^ regihients in bidia receive both British and Indian pajr, and most of them having also private means of their own, are thus enabled to live in good rityle. Indeed. in the thrse ««»t dtiet bt British Indiaâ€" Caicuttfc, Madras, i^td Bombay â€" theseeiety M military officers, their wives and families, maybesdd to be thebeit. At Hie table (fAoe of ike hotels tiiem' it £ttle ttastraint, and the gaests speak to mte another as they would at a private table. for his cow m i ' .L- hpat. shinned up a age, tne cieiy ""*â-  1,1,. wsp? rimarkable celerity, and th^« I IV not caring to take tb t.^ afterhim, looked him «^er^.^_Jl then Sled off. « J.^ came down and went home I ^^^^ ,,.,behadm^ad..rye.^^^^^, The other I missed a iffiW Francisco, a tram im-- -^ ^^^^ shouldpassanotherra'" „^^ ed directly towards one^^„_ track. One of « ^g",^f thought, dif^rfrat,^^- train,. blew-for down b«i^^;„^er. the engine ahead to m«,^ 4he force of the jU^^^^^j passengers. l^V^'^^r^ed, »"" ^ble to reduce «« JPj^tirelT when itcame, was comg^ the plucky and level unhurt. .„ ^. » box '"*j,, A rat was put^^^;, other' snake ^^^"^^^^^0, ft stantly the s.^ke«;'^„a died.!' the rat turned o^er ii« 1 sWaUowed by the «t"^e^^. .f another rat was put "^jt, bat onceattacKea u" «^%^(»i,*^ itself stnickite«J?ffectoaJ^^ after a while y/f^^nefor' seemingly n°neJ;^,h^tor.- ,M seem to ino rJ^ta nm* » " Do you believe in female physicians ""LP** time after expen" is harmless. Sister BaptiBt», in phUadelphj*. voted to the J^-g;,* da* her success vitn ^,, gi said to be notable tre»tm«o*."'af r^r^^ s^K^\ some ""^eiso^^ ii^'il fioy »" ;hecaimotcure.^^^*iti*f, has retired " been »j^.; and has for year» ^^ ifD^jj chronic with Jf^endsW";.*. aterelat.v^;^-"«'J'*»^ e pnysicittuo -; ^i,~n ne "' jattn" 'Yes, lor ladies. When I cill^ in Mrs. '"f" ^Xe iBtecei^t^ is »i Dr. Phillsbury to see my wife she talke d • drink, w ,.^ ^jucB scandal about the neighbors until Clara was perfectly cured and in the best of spirits " » Whooj Whooping-cough jever, affecting the ally manifesting iti he bronchial tubes ccurring in f requei s due to the rapid pt impossible to dra toughing ends, â- Â« ttrongly through 1 Contracted by the 1 Ii, rarely ends in rally its run is jionths. Asa ml iiims to palliate the complications, ant attack. Says FUn Ithat there are no |the affection may 1 A w^riter in the thinks that the pr directed too much J to the cause. 1 I scribed have simpl land sedative effect I not reaching the I severe epidemic I noticed on several nation of the sym I times a marked aj I to suspect some fluences at work. he found that the I ponded to a high I air, and the lattei Ozone being a i tive of putrefactii to treat his patiei L cines, taken inter favorable. The 1 further experien( almost every case A giri was t « charged witl 1le»dedthatsl drink, ,.^ ever he applied' vals.