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 mfmmrnmt HEALTH. i T ?i1 .^â-  •-;! ^IJ Foiflons. Poisom exiat in nature in the min^r^, Tegetable, and animal world. AiMUC u an instance of the first, strychnine of the second, the vims of certain serpents rt the third: Those of the vegetable world are most nnmerons, and are,,some of them, as violent as any. The essential prmciples of tea and coflFee are poisons, and form beautiful crystals. There are a few, including snake-poisons, that are not used as efficient medicines. That phyaidan makes a false claim who asks for patronage mainly on the ground that his remedies are veg table. There is no doubt that many of the best are of mineral origin. The poison of poison oak, c%lleil aJso poison snmach (the botanical name of which is Bhus Toxicodendron), and of poison ivy {Bhics Radieans) is particularly troublesome, from the fact that the slightest handling by susceptible persons, ignorant of their character, â€" say summer boarders from the city,â€" gives rise to a violent, burning itching, which is sure to be communicated to every part of the body that the sufferer may chance to touch with his affected hand. The poison oak is a woody shrub, that grows to the height of three feet or less the ivy, a vine that climbs on stone walls and trees. The leaves of both are trifoliate that is, they consist of three leaflets common ivy has hve. It is a sufficient protection to avoid eve'y trifoliate woody plant. Many poisons originate in chemical combinations. Thus oxygen and nitrogen, mechanically combined, constitute the air we breathe but combined chemically, in a certain proportion, they form nitrous oxide, or laughing gas combined in another proportion, nitric acid. Fresh meat may be made poisonous in various ways. The animal may have fed on noxious plants or it may have been sick before being slaughtered, and the poison may be due to powerful medicines adminis- tered or it may have been affected with a contagious disease, say, pleuro-pneumonia. Tainted meat also develops chemically a very violent poison. German sausages are pre-eminent in this respect. Diphtheria. Dr. Turner, of London, England, has made a study of diphtheria and has embodied the results of his enquiries in a report to the Local Government Board of London. He says " Almost nothing is with certainty known of the beginning of diphtheria, though much has been learned respecting conditions favorins; its spread and something, perhaps, of influences fostering its virulence." Among the influences "tending to enhance the severity of diphtheria," he mentions " over-crowd- ing, badly trapped drains, damp walls and floors." The saturation of the soil under the dwelling with fecal matter, or with water contaminated by excrement, he has found to be a condition especially favorable to the development of the disease in its most fatal form. It is, however, with cases " for which neither personal communication nor any of the above conditions can be assigned as the probable cause" that he deals in his report, as well as " with broad clmical and pathological resemblances between the maladies of lower animals and diphtheria in the human subject." Pigeons, cluckens,, swine, horses, cats and sheep suffer from a disease resembling diphtheria in all its symptoms. Children and others who have come in contact with them have been taken ill with diphtheria, and animals have been observed to be suffering from the disease some time after being handled by persons suffering from or recovering from diphtheria. Dr. Turner's observations lead to the conclusion that many of the mysterious cases of diphtheria which occur in places where the sanitary conditions are good, and where there are no human beings from whom the disease could be caught, have their origin in contact with animals ill of the disease. Several remarkable cases are mentioned by Dr. Turner of persons having to all appearance caught diphtheria from lower animals, and of animals catching the disease from human beings. The enquiry is an important as well as an interesting one and likely to lead to beneficial results. Votes- Water cannot amtiaty the thirst which at- tends cholera, dysentery, diai^oea _w^ some other forms of dteaae in fltot,:arl*iK- ing cold wrter seems to iccreaae the thmt an! indSce other disagreeable sensatipiili »ut the thirst will be perfectly and ple^MJ^ subdued by eating a comparatiyely srnaU amount of ice, swallowing it m m lar^ • pieces as practicable and as much as Is wanted. ,,' " M. Ginjeot states that of all measnres applied locaUy to boils, the best rMults are obtamed from tincture iodine, HepMnls the boil with a thick coating, and sometimes a smgle application is sufficient to catise the inflammation to subside; it is batter, how- ever, to make the application several times a day for several days. He does not i^so"" mend the early opening of boils, bit if evacuation of pus be necessary antiseptics should be used. A case is recorded in a German medical journal in which an infant was poisoned by the lead contained in a cosmetic on the face A the nurse. The child was five weeks old, and was constantly crying and suffering with colic. Its skin was of a dull bluwh tint. The nurse had long been in the habit of using a cosmetic which contained a large proportion of lead. It is stated that upon removal of the cause and appropriate treat- ment a cure was effected in a few days. Grime in France- The office of the French Minisfay of Jus- tice has recently published a series of stat is*^ics which tend to show that crime has two Roman soldiers, diminishing in the French G£H£BAL HEWB. are waraed Jflainst •ppwaoMpi^ tl»5fn. Sarah Parks of WestBromwiok, Ent., has been committed fortrial on the chevge of mw' dering her hnsband by throwing ?«»»«» overwme fnmitnre and tie bed on which he lay and setting it ga fire. The remains df a greit Roman building are being brought to fight at the ateambojt station of Fischen, on the Annnersee, m Bavaria. Already a frontage of lO) fee*, with eight separate rooms, has been cleared, and a cellar has been discovered; "Porce is no Hemedy," in English words TH£ TEBSIBLE OPIUM HABIT, The .ttct^t of (to opium baW* is »ot to be fixed- by careful inquiry. ^i^^WJwd, rf the importation of opium to tpte United Stat^ shows asteildy and large inorease. in 1879, 1879, and 1880 the imported ^huB reached 207,752 pounds, 2!8»654 ponntte,^ ai^ 370,000 pounds. In latear yews the statistics refer to the importfition of caaes instead'of potihds j but show the same result. Ib IwS 4,344 cases wete consumed in the .United States." in 1886 2,857, and » in 1887 3,362 cases. The legitimate uses of opium have, of course, increased with the growth of the country and the population. In its headed an article on the Irish questiw "» I medicinal uses opium is an unmjxed blew theCirfzcnfreoMtfeofHamlmigi !Eh*^ce â-  '• ' x. -, caused the suppression of the paper. They said the artide indirectly insited (he Social- ists to violence. While some men who were taking the places of striking hands in a Noi*ham]^on, England, shoe factory were going home from work they were beset by a mob a£ strikers, and in the midst of the exdtement George Arnold, one of the workers, staggered, threw up his hands, and fell to the pavement dead from heart disease. Laborers digging a cut for a railro^ near Canterbury uncovered an almost perfect cir- cular well built of flints. Xooal antiquaries say that ic is the opening to some subterran- ean passage used by the Romans when they camped there. The workmen had previous- ly found near the same spot the remains of Lockjaw. The medical name for lockjaw is tetanus. Sometimes it is only, or mainly, the muscles of the jaws that are affected in the disease, but commonly the rigid condition is much Iteeu gradually Republic. The figures cover the period of ten years, between 1875 and 1885 During that per- iod, the population of France increased by more than a million, yet the crimes commit- ted were less in actual number than they were in the preceding ten years. DI\nHng, too, the ten years between 1875 and 1885 into two parts, it is found that more crime was committed in the first five years than in the last. In the former per- iod, crimis against the person and against property i-mbined were committed on an average hy welve of every one hundred thousand iufiabitants in the latter the pro- portion was c'levcQ only. Of these crimes, the greater proportion were committed against property, only forty-one per cent, being directed against persons. It is interesting to note that the violent crimes, such as murder and assault, are more frequent in the Southern than in the northern legions ot the Republic. The hot- blooded people of Corsica and Provence are quicker to yield to sudden anges, and to nourish theapirit of revenge. TheCorsicanhas his feuds and vendettas, which the son in- herits from the father, and which often in- volve whole families for several geneiations in deadly quarrel. In the cooler climate of northern France, the chief offences against the criminal law are those directed against property. This is especially the case in the larger cities and towns, where the authorities are constantly busy following up burglars, incendiaries, and petty thieves. Another feature ot the facts given by the VHnistry of Justice is, that while the aggre- gate of native crime has decrease, that of crime committed by foreigners in Frsmceâ€" by Englishmen, Italians, German â€" has largely increased, the increase being from seventeen thousand in 1881 to twenty thou- sand in 885. Paris receives new foreign recruits to its criminal class every week. Many of the most startling crimes commit- ted in that city are committed by Italians and Germans. It does not necessarily follow that because the statistics of crime, extending over a period of years, shows a decrease in number, theretore the French population is becom- ing better and more law-abiding. In the cour$e of time the tendency is to make the laws milder, and to lessen the number and punishment of offences against it. The statJat-cs of the prison population of England jmrinff the last thirty or forty years shows a diminution, compared with the total population and this is to be partly, at least, accounted for by the fact that the old severe laws, which punished small of- fences with heavy penaUies, have in many instances been e.ther relaxed, or done away with aUogother. The French system of trying and punish- ing criminals is very different from that used in England. On the one hand, the ao cused is questioned and cross questioned in the French courts, and every effort is made to induce him to commit himself. In the I English courts he is protected from this. On the other, French juries are apt, even extensive, ofteS reaching to most of » in.»c»f of proved murder, to judge the more the muscles of the body. In its severer j form it is one of the most terrible of diseases. The mind generally remains clear to the last, unless it is blunted by opiates. The disease begins by a pinched look of the face. In a few hours the muscles of the jaws, neck, back, and chest become rigid, and the rigidity at length extends to the limbs. This rigidity is permanent, and some- times is BO great that the body could be tak- en up like a stick of timber or it may rest its weight upon its head and feet. From time to time spasms occur, lasting a few seconds, or several minutes. The seat of trouble is in the nerves, and hence a spaunn may be brought on by a i slight noise, a touch, or even a breath of air. As the muscles of respiration are usually I affected, the breathing is greatly im- peded, and often, for the time, rendered wholly impos|8ible, the chest being held as in a vise. Death frequently results from this cause, the system being previously ex- hausted by pain and lack of sleep and nour- ishment. Ii the patient survives beyond the twelfth day, he is likely to recover but no medicine is able to do more than pro- mote sleep and benumb the sensibilities. The cause is unknown. It may follow wounds or be' independent of wounds, the latter being the most hopeful cases. The, wounds may be severe or slight, but most wounds are not followed by tetanus. It is probable that, in persona of a peenliaf nw- vous susceptibility, and under certain not well understood conditions, a poison is de- veloped within the system. Hence, the only hope of a cure is to sustain the pataent wiw stimulants, nourishment, and sleep untfl the system cam eliminate the poison. In case of a severe wound, eapedslly in the neii^borhood of nerve centres, ^reat care should be exoraised in d in e sfa g the injnty, so as to bring the parts well together, and tiie parts diwd be kept eleaa witb ndid ««rW- ^add solution, or some other good antiseptic criminal guilty " with extenuating circum- stances " thi.t is, to give judgment that, while he ought to be punished, he ought not to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. It follows that the executions of murderers in France are less frequent than in Eng- land. It is also notorious that President Grevy is very averse to signing death warrants and will, if he possibly can, commute the death sentence of a criminal to imprison- ment. But there are cases of murder «o brutal and flagrant, that ev' n the mildtem- pered President cannot always prevent the extreme penalty, and so the guillotine con- tinues to do its work. A 225-ounce nugget has been unearthed by Chinamen at tiargravea, Australia. The news of the find leaked out through the transmission of it to the mint by Chinese agents. The celebrated Cair nugget of one cwt. was found at Hargraves in the year 1852, and recently, a few miles away at the Mait- land bar, a 460-ounce nugget was found. The lifeless body of a policeman was found hanging on a tree a few nights ago in the park around the Elizabeth Church, Berlin. At the door of the vestry a blood-stained chisel was found. He had evidently been overcome by burglars, whom he surprised in in an attempt to break into the church. The church lies in a frequented part of the city. Two brazen Roman helmets have been dug up by laborers digging a trench for a water course at Scbaan, in Leichtenstein, by the old Roman road to Coire. One had engrav- ed on the brass the name "Publius Cavidius Felix" of the century of Caius Petronius the other "Nunerinus Paponius" of the cen- tury of Lucius Turetudius of the Third Cohort, A confectioner of Newport, England, hav- ing missed from the bakehouse time after time dainty morsels, set a wateh, and a form resembling that of a boy was seen stealthily creeping along the roof of the adjoining bake- house. No attention was paid to cries to come down, and a gun was fired. The aim was good, and a dead monkey rolled from the roof into the road. English sportsmen are scandalized by the perfmmances of some shooters in Eppicg Forest who have maimed deer and let them go, and who shoot young deer as often as they do bucks of proper age. Three young deer and no bucks are alleged to have been shot in one day, and one young deer was found with one of ite hind legs shattered by shot iso that the bone and sinews himg to the limb simply by shreds of skin. One Paris reporter is detailed to follow women who have a Teutonic expression of countenance. Every such woman is sus- pected, it is said, of being a German spy, and all her movements are noted and pub- lished in the Lanteme, to which paper this repot ter is attached. Up to date he has (succeeded in detecting two alleged spies, one of whomis provei' to be s ch by the fact that she never passes a French soldier without looking at him, and the other must be a spy because she has a mysterious relationship with a blond man. Hashish is superseding morphine and vaporized ether, it is said, in the affection of the Parisian dilettanti drunkards. They have founded a Hashish Club on the Rue St. Michel, where they meet every Friday. The amount of the drug which each shall take it prescribed by a doctor, and the dose is prepared by a chemist, both members of the club. It is taken in pills, and not chew- ed, drunken, or smoked, as are the Oriental fashions. Each of the members is bound to describe to the others, either in writing or verbally, his sensations as the drug gains ite influence over him. The famous floating island of the Derwent- .water, England, has come to the surface again after a lon^ disappearance. This is a mass of decaying vegetation forming a layer of peat, on top of whk^ is a thin covering of clay bound together by the roots of vegetation. It rests on the clay bottom of the lake, but sometimes some force, suppose I to be io the gases generated by the decaying matter, causes it to rise to the surface. Its extent sometimes reaches half an acre, and it rises and f^ls with the water, until finally it sinks out of sight again, to be gone probably for several years. An iron column, 213 feet long and weighing over 6,000 pounds, part of a new lighthouse bung bnilt, was recently landed at Buhop Bock, England, and a storm coming up, was left lashed by a half-inch chain at each end to strong eyebolts. Three days after- wards the workmen returned and found that There is an English precedent for the Paris physician who secured a part of the skin of Pranzini, the executed murderer, ' the column had been tossed up by the waves L J, -^ J s_^- i la -r' nnt 1.4â€"4.1 i c 4.1 1- 1* ing, and is spoken of in the medical books as one of the most valuable remedies. But the testimony of driig dealers goes to show that the pernioious use of opium increases. The action of the drug and its enslaving power upon the senses is thus described "It is A STIMULANT NABCOTIC, and a moderate dose administered to a healthy person increases the force, fulness, j and frequency of the pulse, augments the temperature of the skin, invigorates the- muscular system, quickens the senses, ani- mates the spirits, and gives new energy to the intellecttial faculties. Its operation, while thus extendine to all parte of the system, is directed with peculiar force to the braiui the functions of which it excites sometimes even to intoxication or delirium. In a short time this excitation subsides. A calmness of the corporeal action and a de- lightful placidity of mind succeed and the individual, insensible to painful impressions, forgetting all sources of care and anxiety, Bubmite himself to a cuirent of undefined and unconnected but pleasing fancies, and is conscious of no other feeling than that of quiet and vague enjoyment. Doses which induce sleep after such an experience often are succeeded by nausea, headache, and tre- mors. But the recuperative energy of the body, if the dose be not too often repeated is such that there are no really harmful results. In doses insufficient' to produce THE FULL SOPOBIFIC EFFECT, the stimulant influence upon the menta- function continues longer, and the subse- quent calming effect is sustained for hours. Sleep not infrequently is prevented or ren dered to light and dreamy that the patient Willi scarcely admit that he has slept at all." These are the effeeto sought for and ob- tained by the devotees of the drug, but they are purchased at a fearful cost. The smoker of the Chinese pipe progreeses to- ward the final wreek with increasing pallor of eyes and face, that once seen can always be recognized. The morphine eater shows a somewhat similar condition, varied by a tendency to pimples and eruptions, the re suit of the paralyzing effect of the drug upon the bodily functions and secretions. In all phases of the habit the will power is entirely subordinated. The victim is help- less. Any delay in taking the usual dose results in horrors such as the snake-seeing drunkard never dreamed of. The stomach is gnawed by the terrible appetite as with the sharp teeth of some wild animal, pains rack the body and limbs. The heaid is also affected, and a general feeling of being on the very verge of total collapse investe the sufferer with a horor that is indescribable. DEATH OF A WILD im^ wlUTakeloiiiewiJ'S For over twenty years a -i t^^name of Richardson witw*"*!!* «|tMisi8tiDg of his wife, witx ** UJ cWM Added, have inhabited Sl**9l thicketo of Jasper and Haii "**« Texas, hiding whither and tMt? "" sion might require, Bubaistbjj oS'L" «5 1 products of thefoiest, such w»;?"«li, ftc, and whenopportunitvo«Fe»?!?"'«%. ing flesh ofdeid wildYnS^T'S wooded retreat, hedged in bv ** impenetrable thicket, this ebn^ ' lived untrammeled by the rnlMpH society. This life they led umiht' months ago, when, unwittingly T""" within three miles of Beaumont. tlTt^ apparenUy almost overcome with J^' and hunger, and unable to wanderSS* were captured by passers by and W*' and had it made into two card cases. In the Scotland Yard " Chamber of Horrors" is a portion of the skin of one Bellingham, who murdered a Mr. Perceval, tanned into leather. It originally belonged to the Burgeon who dissected the remains of Bellingham after bis execution. In palUng down part of a private museum at 22 S'ho square, London, the ot^er day, the workmen found a recess that had been closed wp f r half a century. On the panell- ing inside was written in the handwri-iingof Sir Joseph Banks, who accompanied Capt. Cook, the distiovf rf-r, on his voyages: "In- s.rumente used, carvings, weaprns, and heads collected by Capt. Cook during the voyage of the Endcjivor.â€" J. B^nks." Among the relics in the recess were two mummied, tat- tooed heads of New Zealand chiefs, a wooden bowl, with a lip, used for handing around human blood in the days of caunibaliBm models of native ranoes. beautifully carved above-mentioned oasee'lMrTi been ei'si^w^y 1 «.noe paddles aad a earved wocrfont Wsptre, dealt wiA not one of ^hSl^l^Z I with the words, prMOQMhly seratched im iV A/t SMM. The naoM^MkhT^JS^^!^ « ^y^h ^^^^' "Mwie-for me by Wanga. ^eiMimkU^ -r-J. C" -• '-*' -- • '.Ife^J-C'l O :•- ill 20 feet to the top of the rook, where it was swaying about like a piece of timber. Two days afterwards, when they were able to land the workmen found thn a blacksmith's anvil weighing 150 pounds which they had left in a hole 3i feet deep and only 2^ feet in diameter, had also been washed by the waves completely out of the hole. Eighty-eight men, who are called "rebels belonging to a certain religious sect," have been beheaded at one tame in Chang Chou, Chinai The offence of this ject seems to be that they appear in the streets ak venders of children's toys, the chief of which are cash swords, diggers, and dragons, eaoh' formed out of 180 of the oaab coins, strung together in van us shapes. They are uia to Itavo annoyed the people a great deal by cheating the diildren, and to have oamed mudi dis- turbance ^y higgling about prices, and a Chinose pi^er nairdy adds HxcTirsionB in Paris Sewers. Excursions through the gorgeous sewers of Paris â€" strange as this conjunction of noun and adjective must sound â€" are now all the rage in the fashionable world of the city. A few evenings since I was invited to accomp- any a select party. We started from the Palace Chatelet at 3 o'clock, and descended a little winding staircase, the steps and walls of which were covered with a green cloth, fringed by a red border. There was not the slightest danger of soiling our clothes or of encountering the least disagreeable odor. On arriving at the foot of the stairs a fine display of fruits and vegetables was the first thins' to greet our eyes. These products were from Gennevilliers, and were grown in gardens that are watered by the sewers. We got into a wagon, in which were seats for twenty persons. Off we went, shoved along by solid-looking fellows, all neatly dressed. Above us was a mass of tubes and pipes. They are the water pipes, tho two largest containing our drinking water from the Vanne, and water from the Ourcq, which latter is used for washing the streets and sidewalks. Then there were the pneumatic tubes in which we could hear the rattle of the despatch boxes. Suddenly we heard the passengers in the wagon ahead of us ut- tering cries of admiration. e were under the Rue de Rivoli, but soon we reached the crossing of the Pont- Neuf This tunnel was lighted from end to end with garlands of colored lamps. The effect was fairy-like. The same effect was produced under the Rue de Louvre, the Rue de Richelieu, and the Place des Pyramides, where precisely tinder the statue of Joan of Arc appeared in luminous glass the arms of the city of Paris. We paued along, still following the Rue de Rivoli, where each he use has its number in the sewer, just as in the street until we reached the Place de la Concorde. There the electric lighte, crossing their fires with the reflection of the VenetiMi lamps, turned the square into a sort of a ball room. Nothing was wanting, not even mu- sic. We all got out of the wagons to em- bark in boats, furnished wiw cushioned seate. The music was in the first boat, which was decorated with flags and lamps. The boate were started. We followed the entire route of Rue Boyale by the light of fifty dazzling electric Iwmps. After a quar- ter of an hour in this boat we landed at the foot of a starcase, which we mounted, and in three minutes we were above the ground at the Madeleine. It was muoh warmer in the streets than it was in the sewers, where the temperature, summer and winter, is always uniformly pleasant. TheBeaaoaWby. I- here The Church appointed a committee rented a house for them and nni^'r furnish them with all the BuuteH life, but old gray hesds shook at S^" of the committee. That man will di v* I said, if you put him m a house whe» D protected from the elements -tre.*!!' I this kind will km them:aU'twS5' plenty of rain and sunshine, coldandfcL" a hollow log or grassy meadow to 6l«»" I But the fated hand of civilization wJtLt I placed on them. In a comfortable h^\ tender hands of the first ladies of thel jI nurted them j preachers prayed for th I they were furnished medicine bythedufcj'l hand of an allopathic physician, fedZ^ best the market afforded, but notwithisM I ing all the kind treatment the predictir»il the gray heads became true, and the tiul spirit of the man, the child of nature all an inhabitantof natare's wild forests wnZ I its way to the happy hunting grc'unSrfl eternal rest. The surrivora will ^enl witness the strange sight of seeiae tit I father and husband laid to his eternal mL in the bosom of mother earth, in a coSil made by skilled workmen of some great cin I and paid for out of the coffers ofjiffersil county, while they look on and wondalikd some dumb creature at the strange prxiceedl ings. The survivors of this strange faoijjl will now, no doubt, betake themstlfes itl their former retreat, as the toil and wonj f and work especially, is exceedingly distijtj. ful to them. INDIA AS A WHEAT PEODdCEfi. Consal-Cleiieral BoBham Sayssbe it a Rail geroDS Competitor of the Fntted States. The report of U. S, ConsulGetdl Bonham at Calcdtta, British India, treats ii length of the wheat Interests of that conitij. The area devoted to wheat in 1886 ni about 27,500,0' acres, and the total vieM 289,000,000 bushels. As compared Vil the wheat of ' the Pacific coast, the Incliu wheat is inferior, but when exported tt Europe it is mixed and ground with when of a superior quality, by which process i fair marketable grade of flour is obtsusei The method of cultivating the soil isintiii| main the same as it was centuries ago, and there seems to be great difficnltr ii I inducing the farmer to invest in modem agricultural implements, and yet with si the simple and primitive methods theli- dian farmers can, iu the opinion of the Coi. s ul-General, successfully compete with thi« of the United States in the prodactioioi wheat. This is due to the fact thattkl Indian farmer's outfit represents a of not more than §40 or §5J, and his hirei help works, feeds, and clothes hiaiielloi about $2.59 a month. A tableisanneied, showing that the export of wheat fros British India has increased from 300,00 )c»t in 1868 to 21,000,000 cwt, in 1885, andtkat the increase of 188C over 1885 amounts m about 5,000,000 cwt. The Consul-General says that some of la predecessors have claimed that the I bâ„¢ States has nothing to fear from India as« competitor in the production of wheat. H this view he does not concur, and behe« that to-day India is second onlyto the Ldi»1| States in wheat growing. rurilie!iii»fei| wheat growing in India is yet in its intascy. and further development depends prina- pally upon the means of transportanoimi the seaboard. He fears that with the cnaf I native labor of India and the consuat? growing facilities for transportation t» United States will find her a fornmlaO'l com[)etitor as a producar of wheat Count Tolstoi Sane and fiealtty' There is no truth in the story that;""'?? I the great Russian novelist is out of msnu^l A Russian journalist, who has just paw " a visit, describes him as perfectly m^' and perfectly sane. The statement m had renounced literature and set to wor earn hU living in some other mec4«^! trade U equally baseless. He is busy ing a series of tales and sketches for w terteinment of the less cultivated ci»» Buesian i eaders. .i^ i I When he first took up his ^n "'!^ hiscompatriota who could ««•?: ^^ were, he remarked to his visitor, to oe ed Of the thousand. They »" °f^ milUons but Russians possess n" "?Ld- emture within the reach of the cap»a»,^ the great majority of thein. Tolstoi It ill* I fondness for agricultural purBm-i- ^^ which gave life to the story " "^jajSJ. engaged in some branch of nwnuw "• mi» " Bridget, I tlnk I'U shave off me sal- ways.^' femarked Mr. Hoolahui, sadly. ' "Why» Micky r ««.â€"«» J ".T*» t'ys is banning to Mk me Why I Suwe the j " P»* *»«*el« onto tbat Magt." A lAlto horw la ifitM ,T31if3 }d..^j»*)ra ilis3l3C I'u, ' j Be^ts a jadoon -«tti^^' i» Us gUoe empToy«d in supplyiiig this ^!^^\^^' fondness for agricultural pur8UiB.ne^ ^^ ilii' ' He spends two or three hours » day ' labor of one sort or another. /^""Tieit, I plough is the form of it which bf » of and he pronounces it the most aewis i earthly occupations. " " It â- xhe crushed strawberry '^^^/tM so fashionable for a time has been «» by a shade caUedspUled molasses. ^^ When'iobed for the evening the g^ J^w Soarody u atom of drws o" *Sog(ii* Nor bUme them, for what is w I^J"" Batadresjthattosmtedforis*" In the superstition of saUoj m» a connection between w^i'^.^S" pieachets. Both are believfw "" fnok to the vessel carrymg them. A farmer Mked by tim â- onoomw;-" â- â€¢ ., *o make ef the lad. "WeU,tf we-U miJ^e him aministor. ^^^^»r tbeeohoolmaster, "^^l«ft^j7^ tliiW' ^hen," said the faJtf^^• ^--â€" jTidiojJmasterWtey" krmer bringing his son " » P*i I by the eohoohnaster whatw kerf the lad. "WeU,rfbeg^ t!]^ tke If or fh^ l««latlaa â- ^^^tiie Polw S« Xp^kei*. Norway, IS ^^SrKorwegian whalera i â- ^v^ att*iWg,»lepgthc .^fe.^tSkl'e-Tu^lf i^^'SSii killed the whal »**.«. *»^tn= :?ftptor is i -IJS^,1^'^ttnisMr,S^ •W^„ J of the whaling md he P^Tnew harpoon whereto b««»^^i'r«^rfiUed with m|»i»on ,When th, J!nsd the bomb »«n«^i' ^zTi explodes, and thegai cav P-Tliui orev.nts him front sinki ^^t'S^lous and hazardous ?wiU the most perfect oi nnJCenarrationrelatedby an e ier even than usmd on a £ S -The little fleet of i Off whaling steamers must try [?J*;.andofftheygoiatheeari t^ito andfro, battling with t KrivaU, Not a wha e was Evwhere, and the seaincreasin fid developing almost into as Wd and steamed homeward Kd,M,allbutone, He musti er The waves tossed the p (kearf»eU;the harpooneronv Lke care not to be thrown he Lto the frothing waters, -let tthingtobe seen or heard bul fount^ms and dumb thunder of «veBand the shnU whinmg oi growth the steamer. The Capt land the search fruitless, and tui «rd. The vessel arriving at the harbor, a big whale shot u ImoBt touching the bow of th heharpooner, surjprised at first, ter up to his business. A flas y'mthe very moment the ha iried to the handle in the Jut strange, the bomb didn't ex Ce animal, suffering intense agi ht to sea, towing the steamer nst the towering waves, a storm, the whaler went tag speed, though ite engine wa [or eight miles the terrible rac( Uy the masts and the chimney of fin the mean time being visibh Lters. The vessel was strong, Id the crew tried men, who di kse to let go, I" But what's that A fishing bo jel upmost, and two men cling Tthe wreck To cut the line i men was the harpooner's firsi Jien we will lose the whale, th le harpoon, thousands of crowns' I second. It must be done, ai nntes we can be back and sav i his conclusion, and on the v( _Jlo, there, what is up The 1 le whale sank out of sight, th '~ing aimless on the rolling wa nothing more to do. The a J, sinking slowly to the bott pt two human lives were savec lalers considered themselves ^ded for their terrible race an their game as welL" ^Gimich Dissensions- linister's Wife â€" I think these lions are awful, my dear, ai |Miiu8terâ€" They are not pies on Jones has gone to far. Ice, as pastor, isn't great enou| Boat his expulsion, 1 shall re.d« [Wifeâ€" I would, indeed. Whi kt for to:day iMinisterâ€" " Whosoever shall 1 thy right cheek turn to him Struggling With His Men Jobby was spending the afterr H|ts, and for some moments I out of the window in btful sort of way, ?hat makes you so serious ked his aunt, r' Why, ma told me that I must T to ask for anything to eat ai I to remember it, " An Anxious Wife. rCharley," said a young wife, K*I*"y8ich person as the foo PJtt. I guess not I don't 1 â- "^y, who was reading the n fWeU, Charley, all I wante R» toi t go out after dark an |7(i« find out." i.Iinphy'8Saroa8tio Way of J^^^^^' y« certainly a Ift^y y" jumped into my b's lJ»jn.thonerin^.Kater s V» y" "" a dangero _•"?:. 'nd yer tongue, lW j ?* nathrally as p« i**S?" you say Mother i^joompUaieatery nature. SkJrfj v*° ^^^ yez for t* %^ ^^' '" '^^^ '»3t* ?***»" *« PoUce |«^ZfS!*«*tfonto'emI tVaSSl.*' bow t^^X£?^^G^ Her; cal and be said ti to get UtUs ili'US 'L fe... .i*92i ,**.â- : iii iilili^ fc'.va.;^... â- â- .„.... .„._