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*"v ytjiitttf f . I j i ^ A|)M|Ani| VIM J liAlTIA halt W( . . « /% _ *% , ., ,, ligG da| kimnoh ^ie^of lay on my comfortable— veil, on my Motion of floor— wishfully dreaming .of the possibility of some good angel letting down a bagftil of provender as they did once to some of the apostles, a. palefaced young man appeared at the door. ^ He was trembling all over, and seemed to be almost on the verge of delirium, fa** hIam sick," said he, in a pitifhl tone, 44 and I want to get to the hospital." 44 There is no hospital here/' said I: 44 there is no money to support a hospital any longer; it has oeen closed up." 44But i tell you I am sick and hungry. What am I going to doP" 44 When did you get your last mealP' 44 Up to Fort Sanders yesterday." £p " You don't know your luck to have fallen in with a meal so lately as that. It ought to last you a week here." The poor fellow began to cry. "What can I ao if I get nothing to eatP" 44 DoP" cried a gruff voice from the other end of the place. 44 the best thing you can do is to get under a locomotive." It was a cruel remark, yet I almost forgave the fellow who made it, knowing that he had been . existing Ifor five days on some dried apples which he stole out of a grocery barrel. The stranger whined, 41 1 suppose I'll have to die, then." " - "Bunposg so. n — " " . , v man walked" sadly awayf He was welldressed, and had the air of a fellow who had been well brought up. But he had " lost his grit. About two hours after that conversation I was walking along th8 railroad track when I saw the mangled body of my visitor of the morning, the head torn off the trunk and the limbs smashed into a pulp. He had taken the advice of the man who spoke to him. and had dejiber- „ th*own-iiiTiiseir undm: trie wneels off the engine. That was rather a harrowing episode, and I only recall it to show a phase of , human nature in its very hardeBt aspects, when the law of self-preservation asserts itself in the presence of calamity. Under some kinds of pressure mankind becomes, 44 more fell than anguish, hunger or the sea." I'saw a crowd of idle laborers on the railroadlooking curiously at the torn remains as they lay there under the beating sun and not one them would turn over g^nifl heel to fetch a covering to hide the ^terrible sight from the public gaze. When called on to help pack the fragments into a box, they walked away with some contemptuous remark about thepoor soul who could not stand the buffets of that rough world.

A few nights alter that I witnessed a «4SSP|waf *8mers and customs of the overcrowded dog kennel. It occurred in a dancehouse, where the lamps shone o'er, not fair women and brave men, but an assemblage of cut-throats, gamblers and women such as few lampj ever had the privilege of making visible. I had taken refttge in the sheriffs office that morning, and about evening that functionary was aioused from his lair by an intimation that the vigilantes were on the war-path, and that they Mhad two horse thieves and a murderer I in hand. Sheriff Jim quietly turnrd over on his other side, muttering that he would see about it in the morning; but I was curious to see a real live f vigilant, so I went forth into the darkness to take a peep at these ominous birds of night. Adown the main street came a forI midable looking body of men, all 1 masked. Instinctively I approached the gang* us I had often done in street par rades, but a score of stern voices cried : I "Away from here, and mind your buslI neea." I obeyed without a murmur, for I there was something grim and solemn I in the attitude of those avenging angels. I Hearing the lively tum-tum ol a guitar I and the squeaking of a fiddle in a danceI house, I flew thither for Bhelter. and beI hold a gay throng of revelers, evidently I mad with whisky, whirling around in I wild quadrilles— a veritable dance of Invar locks and witches, as fantastic as Bthat in the celebrated ale-vapor dream fof the Scottish bard in the 41 haunted I kirk." Plainsmen, clad in tattered (buokskin garments, Indian fashion, were ■plunging furiously through the Bet with ■gay gamblers in nobby attire, and for■lorn looking types of femininity arrayed ■in suits of "frayed magnificence." A ■loud, mad, motley crowd, such as Satan ■might have piped to, and all engaged in ■celebrating the liberation of a desperado ■called Charlie Martin, who bnd that day ■been acquitted by a jury 44 of his peers" ■on the charge of Cold-blooded assossina■tion, Charlie himself was the loudest ■of the revelers, and was the hero of the ■hour. I Just as the mirth and fun was at its weight, and the murderer was celling for ■i round of drinks for the crowd a man ■mtercd and tapped him quietly on the Shoulder. 44 Come out for a minute," said ho, ■4 there's a friend of yours at the door Wants to speak to you." | Charley stepped out, and the man Booked the door behind him. I bnd managed to slip out unnoticed, and there B Bftw a semi-circle of men in masks waiting to receivo the'.r victim. Without a word they gagged him, and without a word they dragged him away to ■he end oi the street where a tripod had |>e ' i • etc d. The fellow struggled and ?ht like a Hop for his life. He fought I the nocwo was fastened round ids Beck, and until the life was choked out If him. lit was a strange contrnst to this grim ■sen© to go back to the dance house ami ■c the TcvelorB continue their orgy, all ■nconscious of the dreadful deed that Bad been done fust outside at their fesBvity. And when the sun rose that Horning it rose upon a wonderful silent ■ fy. Men talked in whispers and pointed H the dreary sight, while groups ol men ■andered around to the 44 Elephant Birr a I " where the body of a horse-thief Bm £ in fall view. ■The other horn-thief they dismissed

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Tim fasting of Dr. Tanner in New uto Drflramea MofJau Jjtonf o/tSS city, an follows: Kelsey, on the second °f 3W, 1820, declined to eat tmy thing, ^ he sho" ^^eVmUdbe toSl^S With an appetite. Forthe first six weeks he went regularly to the well in the morning ana washed his head and face, and took a bowl full of water into the house. With this ho occasionally rinsed his mouth, and drank some of it. His parents were of opinion that he did not drink more than a pint oi water in twenty-four hours. Compulsory means to make him take food were found unavailing. On one occasion he went three days without taking even water, but cn the fourth morning he was observed to go to the well and to drink copiously and greedily. On the eleventh day of his fast he stated to his friends that he had not felt so well nor so strong in two years as at that moment, and consequently denied the necessity of taking food. For the first six weeks (forty-two days) he walked out every day, and sometimes spent the greater part- of the day in the woods. He walked steadily and firmly, and his friends remarked that his step was unusually clastic. He shaved himself until about a week before his death, and was able to sit up in bed to the last day. His mental faculties did not seem to become impaired as his general strength declined, but, on the contrary, his mind was calm and collected to the end. His voice toward the last, became feeble and low, but continued distinct. Toward the close of his ' life he did not go into the fields, nor during the last week even to the well, but still he was able to sit un and go about his room, During thf Vr" •" » M . r «- ' ■ U) UUil/. uiuJ, and to war a cue l&st olackish. His general appearance was so ghastly that children were frightened at the sight of him. He died on the twentyfourth of August, 1829, having lived fifty-three days without food. At the time of his death Mr. Kelsey was twen-ty-seven years of age. This case was perfectly authenticated. The post-mortem proved the man died of starvation, and that proved the sincerity ,

Singular Animal Friendship.

Mr. Adams, of Van Shaick island, says the Troy Press, is the possessor of a bay horse and black Newfoundland dog, who have formed a wonderful atr tachment for each other. They arc inseparable companions, and one is not easy if the other is out of its Bight for a moment. Whether in the stable or the pasture the dog sleeps with his equine friend. If the horse is harnessed the dog is on the alert and follows wherever driven, and when the horse stops the dog is close at his head, and it is a pleasure to witness them exchange caresses. The horse will scratch the dog's back with his teeth, which delights him greatly, and in return the horse's face gets a thorough smoothing from the tongue ol the dog. Sometimes in Bport in the air, but the dog does not whimper, but retaliates by watching his op--poitunhy to give the ear of the horse a pinch with his teeth . They will fight for each other wickedly, If the dog is attacked by other canines he seeks shelter under the horse, and the teeth and feet of that animal are active in his defense. What the result will be if one of those devoted friends should die before the other is a matter ol some concern to the owner, who values both very highly.

Hake Friends,

Life is very critical. Any word may be our last. Any farewell, even amid glee and merriment, may be forever. If this truth were but burned into our consciousness, and if it ruled as a deep conviction and real power in our lives, would it not give a new meaning to our human relationships? Would it not make us far more tender than we sometimes are P W ould it not oftentimes put a rein upon our rash and impetuous speech P Would we carry in our hearts the miserable suspicions and jealousies that now so often embitter the fountains of our lives ? W ould we be so impatient ot the fault of others P Would we allow trivial misunderstandings to build up a wall between us and those who ought to stand very close to us? Would wc keep alive petty quarrelB, year after year, which a manly word any day would compose P Would we puss old friends or neighbors on the street without recognition, because of some real or fancied slight, some wounding of pride, or some ancient grudge P Or would wc be so chary of the kind words, our commendations, our sympathy, our comfort, when weary hearts all about us arc breaking for just such expressions of interest or appreciation as we have in our power to give P— Christian at Work.

Through Flood and Fire.

Sometimes, when I look back over tuy life, I am amazed to see how the pages of its record are dotted wi? h hairbreadth escapes. I escaped the dangers and hardships of the Revolutionary war, by waiting until the war had been over about sixty years before I got born. When the Brooklyn theater burned I was in Burlington. When the yellow fever broke out in New Orleans *1 was in Minnesota, and immediately Bkipped out for Canada. When I wns a boy at school one day all the boys in school were flogged all around for robbing an apple orchard, and the flogging didn't do a bit of good, for ovcry beggar of them had the cholera morbus all that night, just the same. And IP I was attending another school twenty-three miles distant. When all of my brothers and sisters were down with the scarlet fever, I was down South in tho army, and when I read the letters from homo, I laughed aloud to think of my great goodlortune, and that I would only have to , bo shot at onco or twice a week, instead of having to take mediofao throe times a day. When a man comes to the office with a little bill, nine times out of ten I am out. And If, by souio astonishing blunder, I am in, then Indeed 1 nm more unfortunate, but the tnnn is in no bettor luck than before.— It. J. LunUUv. " Three men wore knocked down, and 1 ahorse belonging to Elihu Wells was j killed instantly by lightning at Hush- I vllle, Ind. i

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i rose from the opposite end of the table! \ and holding the printed form of affirms- , tion in his right hand, went up to wher6 j Mr. Brad laugh stood, and repeated the I prescribed form of words to him, but in i a voice inaudible to a majority of those ; present. Bowing somewhat stiffly to l the clerk of tjxe house, the no-longer- \ disputed junior member for Northamp- - ton, with much deliberation, signed the ; roll of parliament; whereupon Sir Ers- , kine May preoedeq him a few steps to the- speaker's chair, saying: 41 Mr. . Bradiaugh, member for Northampton." l The speaker, as in duty bound, held out i his hand; Mr. Bradiaugh touched it ; formally, and still with the downcast look upon his face, passed out behind I the chair, amid the same unbroken i silence which had reigned during the very few minutes occupied by the proceeding. Alio win gjhimself but sufficient time to traverse the corridor, which runs parallel with the house, Mr. Bradlaugh came boldly into the chamber, ooklng now well pleased, hurriedly » mounted to the end of the bench on the i third row from the floor on the liberal side below the gangway, and, without a friendly hand held ont to welcome him, realized his triumph over parliament, and took his seat for Northampton.

An Item-Gatherer.

Some supposed friends of a newspaper have peculiar ideas as lo what kind oitems a - - - M- " '* , • turn ta*xd BU1U ; -r- - . - '« heap of live items. I'm on the streets all day ; I'll come up every once in a while and post you." 14 All right; fetch on your item; but, remember, we want news." Next day he came up, beaming all over. 44 I've got a live item for you. You know that bow-legged gorilla of a brotner-in-law of mine, who was in business here with meP" 44 1 believe I remember such a per1 ^ ^ve rgoTnews"from Nebraska, where he is living, that he is E'ng to run for the legislature. Now, t give him a blast. Lilt him out of boots. Don't spare him on my account." Next day he came up again. 44 My little item was crowded out. I brought you some news," and be hands in an item about his cat, as follows: 44 A Remarkable Animal.— The family cat of our worthy and distinguished fellow-townsman Smith, who keeps the boss grocery store of Ward No. 13, yesterday became the mother of five singu-larly-marked kittens. This is not the first tithe this unheard-of event has* taken place. We understand Mr. Smith is being favorably spoken of as a can pidate fck alderman." The editor p roans in his spirit as he lights a cigar with the effort. It is not ftas* made" the " paper what it is, but it is not independent enough for a place like Galveston. Many readers will Bay this sketch is overdrawn, but thousands of editors all over the country will lift up their right handB to testify that they are personally acquainted with the guilty party.

The Color of tbe Sea.

The changes in the color of the sea have attracted the attention of seafaring men from the earliest times. They struck wilh wonder the Phoenicians when first they ventured out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic; they excited the astonishment of Columbus and terrified his companions, while in search of the far-famed Indies; and they are no less a surprise to the modern navigator, to whom the march of dis- ' covery has left few unexplored regions in store. One of the most remarkable : and most widely distributed contrasts of color is ttiat which is known to exist between tbe intensely blue seas situated between the tropics and the green seas of higher latitudes. It appears as the result of recent observations, and more ; especially of a series of experiments made on board the German frigate Gazelle, that there is an intimate relation between the color of sea water and the proportion of salt held in solution by : the latter. On comparing the specific gravity of green water " with that of blue water, it was found that the latter is always heavier than the former, and, therefore, at the same time more salt, the two differently colored waters being supposed to have the same temperature. In other wordB, the greater or ! lesser intensity of the blue color of sea water may be taken as a direct index o < its saltness and of its specific gravity, so that when we observed the color of the water successively change from deep blue to a bluish green 'and a dark freen, we may conclude that the water ] as become at the same time less salty i and less heavy.

Curious Intermittent Spring in Guatemala,

M. I)e Thiersant, charge d'affaires of France in Guatemala, gives, in La Nature , the following account of a phenomenon witnessed by him in the lastnamed country. At about ten miles from the capital, near a town called Nojapa, on the lowest declivities of the volcano ol San Salvador, there is a spring known in the country under the name of Rio Huido (fleeting river), which, for a period of seven consecutive years, furnishes enough water to form a true river. The waters of this spring are crystalline and wholesome, and, it is said, are excellent for certain diseases like leprosy, and for strengthening the system when debilitated by the climate. As soon as the seven years are completed, these same waters disappear at a certain definite hour, the spring ceases to flow, and the river bed, becoming completely dried, exhibits thereafter nothing but sand and dust. The intermittent periods have been as follows: From 1066 to 1873 the water flowed; from 1873 to 1880 the spring ceased ; and in the month of January of the present year, the spring began to flow again. Some woodchopper. at Canton. 111., sent a boy to the top of a tall tree, whioh they had cut almost through, to sway it tho dirtoiion which they wished it to Tall. The plan was successful, except that six bones of tho boy were broken.

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I 4 Vf 0la JlVftTY y f tf A ■ hew^r^ oocaakroally, but then should be no violent changes in attire. It should always present the same general appearance. I say you should know your newspaper. It is difficult, doubtless, lor the unpractioed eye to tell one paper from another by merely looking at the face of the type. But the printer will do it. Of a hundred papers that he knows he will pick ont any one he wants simply by a glance at Its general contour, without looking at its head, or stopping to read a word it says. He will almost hand it to you in the dark. He will do more than that. You may cut out a piece not more than two inches long, anywhere from the body of the paper upon* which there shall be nothing whatever to distinguish it from any other similar piece of paper, and he wifi tell you from what paper you out it. It is no guess work. He knows to a certainty . He will swear to it in a court of justioe, with no more doubt or hesitation than you would have in saying that von saw a train of oars standing at the depot yesterday. A bank teller will denounce a counterfeit as far as his eyes can see the paper. A Bhoemaker will pick out a pair of boots whioh he has made from a thousand others, all of which you would say were precisely .alike. You can't deceive the tailor as to who made the coat which is on your back. Tbe small boy about the railroad depot, when he hears the whistle afar off, will tell you that is No. 0 Northern n ' \ Jn. intuition about all u>m«v . — . . . . — . _ fs w... y of knowing one newspaper from another, by simply seeing its countenance, might seem improbable, if I did not also call your attention to other similar things. Now tbe face of a newspaper may have a pleasant and cheerful look, or it may be dull and forbidding. When beautifully printed, the most commonplace things will be read with pleasure, while the genius of Shakespeare and Dickens lUgmiue timpages of miserable mechanical work. -ffTnnraacmeiy printed and carefully arranged pai>er with an indifferent editor, will outstrip in circulation and surpass in reputation a botched job in the press, with the most brilliant of writers. There cannot be a good newspaper without mechanical excellence. There may be poor ones with mechanical excellence, but there cannot be a good one without it. It is an infallible test. There may be good taste without newspaper ability, but there cannot be newspaper ability without good taste. A beautiful thing, in beautiful print, is a joy forever. ~The fascination which belongs to the face of a handsome type, like cliarity, covers a multitude of sins. Even children in a primary school will hang eagerly over the bright pages of the toy book, when neither argument nor coaxing will fix their eyes on a j^^d^^l^^waj^of as' tney in deman ding beautiful things for our comfort and convenience. We are educated to believe in the power of tho press. Its influence can i-carcely be rated at too high a standard. It is the lever which in modern times moves the world. That which the ancient philosopher declared he could do if- he had something to stand upon, the press does by its own intrinsic force. It is true the old philosopher had reference to physical substance, and the power which he sought was mechanical. I But it is not in human strength, either mental or physical, to add to or take from one yot or tittle of the unseen yet mighty and omnipotent power which holds this earth in its orbit. The influence of the press is not with substance. It has not moved mountains. They are all here still. Yet the enterDrise oi man under the enlightening influence of the press has tunneled mountains and bridged them with iron ways, that the newspaper might go on the wings of the wind to the uttermost parts of the earth. It has spanned the sea with the electric spark, that the newspaper might gather the news on the instant at home and abroad. It has made all human knowledge simultaneous in all parts of the globe. It has annihilated space and abolished time. The newspaper is ubiquitous. It is everywhere, in every man's home, for a man has no home who has no newspaper. He may have a place to stay, and so do the Digger Indians, but there can be no home without a newspaper. There can be no general diffusion of knowledge witnout it. It is light and life in the world. It moves tu«* world in all its enterprises, in all its great Christian philanthropies, in all its ma* esty of wealth and {power. In olden times, in the days when our Revolutionary fathers were laying down their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for the establishment of that free system of government which their sons have been patriotic enough to maintain, the press, as it now exists, was an almost unknown institution. It was a factor then, as it is now, in arousing the people to noble and patriotic pur-

poses, but in a far different and less effective way. There were no great revolving presses throwing out their Srinted sheets by the thousand, as snowakes flutter from the clouds. There was no spider-web net- work of railroads taking them up damp from the press, and scattering them through every city and hamlet at the bro&kiast hour. There were no lines of telegraph penetrating to every nook and corner in the land, gathering every scrap of information, and concentrating it dally and nightly in the lap of the newspaper. Things went slower, but they went just as sure. They got itall, but it took them more time. There were fewer people, there were loss and simpler wants, therq were less jost ling and i there was less hurry. But there was lust as much intelligence and just as tiiueh virtue. It was not diffused as it is now. The people were not universally intelligent as they are now. Education was not common as it is now. The position of an editor is one of the greatest responsibility. Ilia audi- new is confined to no sect or creed. It is not cramped up in any public hall, or hemmed within the pews of cathedral oi church. IBs voice is not stayed by county lines. He cannot see his people. He cannot feel their responsive touch.

it tut r ami forth tliouvht'on fch? " wings of the wind^ H^sucaksto the • pwph, to tbe pnipit, to the bar, to e Mamas *nd to the president. He is 1 gyyH'y tiMjfrfor thwtookto . torn for inlgcinjrtiaBWMl oouasd. Tbt 1 wbo rapfccubitt»eir, whe kaowa hii profeejkm, Mid l» equal to U, »Ua<3» r 011 th*c the print* • or pope. Hoi, tbe leader, .nd. if hi* Editors we bora, not made. Yon £ 1 cannot grind them out in heaps as you j do doctors, or lawyers, or clergymen. There is no college where they are . taught. There if no curriculum for r them to study. There are no pro feasors - of newspapers. There are no diplomas j there are no degrees far an editor. I Perhaps I should say that none of the } ordinary schools in which other profas- . sionu are taught, answer for the newsi The beBt school is the printing . office. The best teacher is the clink of i the type and the atmosphere of the ootn- . posing room. The tact of an editor can- ■ be taught at an academy. There are ( no books or masters to fallow. Like , the artist, the editor must have genius, , mid genius is not borrowed or taught. : But though you cannot teach editors in schools or academies, yon can teach boys. And after you have taught the boy in school, you may teach the editor r in a printing office. But be careful not to insert him at the wrong end of the shop. Start him down uuouw vi*» *oii- [ era and the lye brushes, ana ne will work his way out to the sanctum. When , he gets there he will know how to stay i there. But if you start him at the sanc- | turn, the probabilities are that he will f soon find himself in the cellar. It is ; one of the evils of our times that not l only with regard to this, but equally . with regard to all trades and professions, the young men are un willing to begin : at the bottom. The grades ofa printing office should be inexorable as the grades [ ot an army. There shcnM h* • - K- «. r ot uie ucrr Draper press proves tuc position I here take. The best, tbe ablest | and most successful editors this land has produced came up from the rule and the composing stick. I hatfe , known scores of tramping jour pnnterB . who had every qualification for brillian success in journalism, except the one of t steady habits, men of wide learning, or | sparkling genius, and commanding intellect. And I never yet saw a strictly educated m&UJWb** •mam r artj "COo starchy and stiff- They . are too nice and precise. They are too i learned and profound . A profound newsL paper would die in a week. Two things > are certainly /md equally fatal to a ► newspaper, ignorance ana profundity. , But I think of the two it can stand ignoj ranee the better, for there are a great ; many people who are ignorant, and [ very few who are profound. Daniel [ Webster once undertook to write an ; editorial for a newspaper. It was seve» , columns long and solid with statesmanship and wisdom. But the editor ad- ( vised him to deliver it in Congress and • let the newspaper off. It sometimes happens that a schoolmaster out of a job, or ambitious of fame, seeks laurels and cash in the editorial sanctum. These are the worst failures in the whole lot. They invaiiably run out their tongues when they write, use kver^ sentence be- | fore it goes to press. They are designed to succeed better on monthly or quarterly publications, or those which come out onee a year, than on the daily press. If anything is calculated to worry the patience of an editor, it is to see a schoolmaster laboring over a paragraph. The erasures and interlineations, the stopping and starting, the tearings up and beginnings again, the consultations of the dictionary, the wise look at the wall, the doubt about grammar, and the greater doubt about ideas, are fearful to behold. I state an exact truth when I say that 1 have seen some of these edu cated gentlemen spend two precious hours in trying to put a simple state ment in a paragraph of ten fines, and fail. A surplus of grammar kills them. And yet the editor must not fail in grammar. His sentences must be clear cut, precise and perfect. But he must do it without exertion, and with the same ease and freedom that lie would engage in conversation. This faculty he fets when be goes through the grades, [e cannot bring it with him from any other profession. There are possible exceptions, but they are rare, exceedingly rare, and only prove the rule. The shoemaker had better stick to his last, the schoolmaster to his school and the editor to his sanctum. No mau can be an editor who does not understand all the details of his business, lie must be competent to fill any gap in any place at any moment. He must know how to do all that is needed to he done on a newspaper. He must be able to write a leader or a paragraph at a moment's notice, or without any notice at all. He must be a man of quick perception, of prompt decision and force of character. He must lx> a leader. He must command the ship.

i ~ Curing the Bite of a Copperhead.

A little daughter of John Telford, of Moon township, Pa , was bitten by a copperhead snake. Her mother took her to n grocery store near by, where a Sail mackerel was applied to the wound, and a pint ot whisky forced down the child's throat. In the meantime a chicken was caught and ripped open alive; the mackerel was taken off; the wound and the poison had turned it green ; the warm entrails ol the chicken were then applied, and another chicken killed, and subsequently placed on the wound; the entrails of both were turned green. By this time the child was stupefied in consequence of the liquor she had drank, but seemed to suffer no pain. She was taken home, and the leg that had been bitten was placed in salt j and water. These prompt remedies had | the desired effect, and the child was considered out of danger. Turkish officers do not oqjoy the eon- 1 deration at home ©uioyed by their profession elsewhere in Europe. A Turkish captain is regarded by his senior officers with but little more respect than a ! private, and is sometimes struck hy colonel or general in a moment of angt-r. Even a mnjor is barely secure from such treatment. The pav of an officer under-tho rank ot general is very inadequate and irregularly received. The himilica ot officers in garrisoned towns are generally with thexu, and the latter arc often sorely pushed to feed their charges. They may he seen daily wilh baskets returning from market seedy and partially button less. i

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I Am«l horrible <*** of fa »<4v ftwiinr i June nfcrt if- ©s fc the victim it Gt/xge Whitman, mm of Howard WMiuiaa, ngecj fourteen ' yeans. Hit aatLvriuxj: were u*- | ribk in the extreme, and the nafa and [ ftgow endnred bybim airawt dnmhim ; a«e, waa in tU hahitof btf&ing fa the " Bc&uylkiii, and aface vacation commenc- , ed hi gone fa the wafar several tW a day. Three waeka ago he was swimming with several of his schoolmates, ; .and while diving he experienced a tick- ; ling sensation fa one of Ids ears. Directly after he had a little pain, but it was only momentary, and soon passed away. He probed far the object with a ; snarp piece of wood, but could find , nothing- He liiasfni and went home, , and no more attention was paid to the , matter. Some time after he had a terr rible headache, and from that time up . to within a few daye ago he experienced nothing but an unceasing amy. The boy fa naturally small and delicate lor ; his age, and the awful strain upon his ' nervous system was enough to greatly reduce him and render him almost crazy. Sometimes there was a slight Alleviation, but it invariably increased, ( and always with increasing pain. No ! physician was employed, his parent© thinking he was afflicted with earache. f wnsmuicy, and his cheeks their rosy, healthful hue. Laudanum was reccsnj mended as a remedy far earache, and ^ enough of the liquid was poured into I his auditory passage to lay him into ( that sweet sleep that knows no waking. No relief was experienced by the froT quent application ot laudanum; and rabbit's lat was next recommended. The animal was obtained and a lot of fist , rendered. This brought no relief, and J only greater and more - 2i*t ihat tue ooy ww -«.n<,%. « ... ^ . gia, because he only experienced the pain in fits and starts. When it first f commenced tbe one side of his head felt k as if some small object was wriggling ; and twisting in his ear. During this | time he often thought the top of his head was about bursting open. The r properties of molames to "draw" are well known and a drop was poured into his ear. At eleven o'clock at night he had another attack, and the pain he then r describ&ble. Sleep was impossible, i Dying quietly down was not to be . thought of. Up and down the room } and through various parts of the house L the boy paced all night. At six o'clock next morning he felt something press . bard against the lobe of his ear. His I mother was called, and, winding a [ handkerchief around the head of a small [ pin, probed into his ear. She saw someL thing protrude. She reached far it, gut L a firm hold, and pulled out a whiteooking object, over two inches long, . which proved tto be a fish, one of the species used by many of the disciples of Iza&k Walton for bait. Immediate relief was experienced. The boy felt as if a weight of fifty pounds had been removed from his head, and immediately began to get better.

A Diet of Eygfr, m uum

Tor eggs "whiclT are imported annually from France into England, it would seem not only that the cosiness of poul-try-farming is better understood across the channel than fa England, but also that the English are even more fond than the French of thiB article of food. It is not uninteresting to have the opinion of a popular medical writer in France upon the merits and dismerite of a diet of eggs. After explaining the chemical ' composition of a lien's egg, and laying due stress upon the large proportion of albuminous matter contained in it. Dr. Valoureux goes on to assert that some prudence should be exercised in indulging an appetite for eggs. Of all the 600 different modes of preparing them for the table, the most wholesome is that of simply boiling them. But it is necessary even in accepting this rule to qualify it by adding that the egg should not be boiled too much, as in such cases it becomes very much less digestible. Another injunction is that the eggs should not be eaten without taking some liquid at the same lime; and the doctor recounts a story of a certain modern Blue Beard who was said to have killed four or five wives successively by inducing them every morning to eat two eggs without drinking anything at aD. Moreover, eggs are not lo be devoured in large quantities at a time, unless the person making the experiment wishes to have a painful experience of the maxim, that an egc is equivalent to a quarter of a pound of meat. Apropos of this latter warning, the Frenchman might have added, if he has known it, a very modern Devonshire story of a laborer who was ordered by the village doctor to eat eg£S, and whose employer gave him a shi lung to enable him to comply with this order without going to any unwarrantable expense. A few days afterward *he good-natured employer" called to ask how the sufferer was. He had followed out tbe doctor's injunctions with alacrity, but, instead of being arty better, was a great deal worse ; and further inquiries elicited the fact that he had bought eighteen eggs with his shilling, and had at once set to and finished them at a sitting.

Called His Sister Names-

On one of the hottest corners of W oodward avenue, Detroit, at high noon, a small boy with a boothl&ek's kit sat under the full blase of a sun pouring down for all it was worth. The boy perspired, roasted, blistered and almost melted, but he had stuck there for half a i hour when a lady passing by baited «i<d said : 44 Little boy, aren't you afraid ofbeit g sunstruck "Yes, ma'am," was the prompt re4 Then why dont you get into the shade?" •4 1 oanV' " Did any one tell von to wait I ItereP" No, marm, but Tin doing it on my own liook. It's awful hot aim I'm most thud, but I've got to stand it." She iooked to see if tie was tied, and ! was about to go and regard him as the h. n of a brutal fattier in a saloon around the corner, when the lad explained: "There he is now ! That hoy is the chap I was wailing for, and I had to sit out here to see him when he turned tbe comer He's the feller that called toy sister a poke- eyed rabbit, and I'm going u> jump in on him and lick him most to death! I wish you'd hold my box so I can get the bulge on him More he suspecis anything,"— /Vee