tq (Khalham Record.
H. A. LONDON, Jr.,
EUITOB AJf I) I'liOrRIETOB.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
ADVEllTIfiINO,
Out M oara. one '.csei iiuu.
Ora nuare. two insertion,.
XeBqaare. oaonuimS.
11 01
On mry, on jr.nr,
Oho ctiy .six uiuuthi
One ropy. ILrae mratlu,
VOL. V.
PITTSBOttO CHATHAM CO., N. C, APRIL 19, 1883.
Fnr UralTrtiMuieDi liberal coMrarti irlf
lame.
Mi, Fiit. or;nn it h sunn
Mr wi-'p w'lli'Mii a ImviIt
r'min I: hi u West, t'rotn Bceishcba to Dr.n,
Siy. w ib ii n-vpr heard
I . N 1. 1 n in - it in youth he ipitte
)r nil In) :i, o he. ore 'i ja rulteo?
tic in tm !iluli n pr're
Fo!- knew If lc anil r tune
'Vim g' e Lis Mimxrtt to 10 iie,
IIm i. fill hi ii b ini's to buy a name,
And c:n1 throj-h life n paralytic,
l'o earn ilie pr ie ol bar J and cikio,
Is it no IirttiT d ne,
To I'ino nrnl a e p through forty
llr Im-ed by I'd v, lie lenral by nom
t.ii'p'i lilti aw i)', have wine t'T tefl
An. I Hike tne in h'iiI 1 up iindauuted,
I'ciiii-i.t lliut all wo nk won grauleu?
tint I'nte wil' n t permit
The "' Cil of to die,
Nor Miller S"rs to win from wit
lis kui r Inn i tlic ky;
Nor Ii t un hide, whi'e'er our pTcniare
1 he won is iiit undi-raoaOi a uiouaure.
Go tlu'n, Hud youth, ami shine!
(in, a orifice to Fume;
Tut love, j -y, hi'Hl h. upon the shrine,
An I hi' to inn the fl.une!
Thy li ipliiiM H'if tor pinit barter,
And dio lo i'uu.o bu Ikuoiu I mart
A. W. Emtrton.
The Doctor's Experience.
"If you please, uncle," said Nanny
Junlner. "1 would like to speak to
you."
Old Doctor Juniper dropped Ms
newspaper in dismay; the spectacles
fell limply off hi nose.
"You don't mean to tell me," said
lie, 'tliat them cider-bar'ls sprung a
leak ag'in!"
"No, unde," 6ald Nannie, nervously,
pirating the frill of her apron, and
changing color as she spoke.
"i'hen the red cow is got astray,"
groaned tlie doctor. "It does beat all
how carriers the neighbors are about
their bars."
"The red cow is all right, uncle,"
6;uM N anny. "It's about myself that I
wanted to speak."
Doc tor Juniper drew a long breath
of relief.
"Oh!" said he, "about yourself?
Well, If it is a new dress, you've had
two already since Thanksgiving Day;
ami if you want to take lessons of the
wax-llowor woman, I think it's all
stuff and nonsense. So there! Just
hand mo up the paper, Nanny, there's
a good girl, and see what a nice blue
berry dumpling you'll make me for
dinner."
"Uncle," persisted Nanny. "I don't
think you understand. I I am nut
satisfied!"
"Not satisfied ?" repeated the doctor,
opening his small, blue eye3 to their
utmost capacity.
"I should like you to pay me wages,"
went on Nanny; "because, uncle,
don't you see? I'm doing all the work
of the, house, and saving you the ex
pense) of a hired girl, and I haven't a
penny that I can call my own; and if
it's ever 80 small tin- allowance, uncle,
don't 'you see that it would save inctlie
mortification of oming to you for ev
t ry yard, of tape and paper of needles
that I want?" '
"Nonsense!" roared the doctor.
"I shouldn't ask for it, uncle, if I
dMn't feel 1 deserved it," pleaded Nan
ny. "Kubbish!" said her uncle.
"Six dollars a month isn't such a
great deal of money," urged Nanny.
"And I haso lived here eight years al
ready for nothing, you know."
"For nothing, eh ?" said Doctor Ju
niper, severely. "I s'pose your board
and lodging don't count; nor yet your
clothes. Ah, the parson was right
when be preached, last Sunday week,
about the rank ingratitude of the hu
man race. There never was anything
I ke it never'.. 4
Of conrse I'm "Very much obliged
for all that you have.done fur mo, un
cle," said Nanny, "But I'm two-and-twenty
now," and I really feel that I
can earn a Tittle money of my own.
And if you think six dollars is too
much, I shall be very thankful for
five,"
"Ah, lpdeed!" said Doctor Juniper,
satirically. "Quite moderate, I'm surel
Hut. you see, our ideas don't ezaekly
agree. If 'you ain't satisfied with
tilings as they be, you're welcome to
letter yourself."
"Uncle!" cried Nanny, he blue eyes
brimming over w ith tears.
""What I say 1 mean," s.tid Doctor
Juniper, resuming the study of his
newspaper. "And now I'd like . the
chance to read a spell afore I go ont
into the maj ile-pasture."
And, surreptitiously eyeing her de
parting figure over the rims of his
glasses, the old man chuckled to him
self: "I calcMate I've settled that busi
ness. Wages, indeed! Times has come
to a pretty pass, when my own niece
wunU .wages for doing my house
work." '
At for Nanny, she went quietly Into
tbe kitchen, where she prepared the
foul for roasting, made a little bread
satire for it, eimivteil her mule's favo
rite blueberry-pudding, and then re
treated tij) stair.. wIhto she, packed
the little trunk, whirfi had once be
longed to her motlur, and whose sur
face was decorated w-jth "A. J." fur
Antoiuclta Juniper in brass nails.
"I can't live so!" said Nanny. "My
boots are nil -at Hies, a id I nch- Juni
per thinks two pairs a vrnr are eiioii';li
for anvbodv. Mv dressrs aren't lit to
bo seen, and Uncle Juniper is always
saying that his mother's calico in.v:
I lasted year al ter year. I ean"t even
l put a livc-cciit-p'ece in t!i contribu
tion-plate at church, without facie
Juniper's aceusingineof extravagance.
If ho won't pay me the wanes whit-h I
am sure I earn, I will go down to the
Lako View House and help Mrs.
Daiicsb.iiy make pics and pudtl.ingi
for her boarders. She told me, long
ago, that .-die would give w ton dol-
lars a month, during tiio biify season.
to assist her."
Doctor Juniper relished his rousjt
chicken and blueberry-pudding as on'y
an elderly gourmand aim relish the ap
petizing edibles of this world.
Nanny sat opposito him, looking
rather distraite and thoughtful. And
when he hud sopped up tho last of his
put'ding-sauce with a piece of bread,
wiped his mouth, and folded up his
nankin, she spokoout:
X'acle, I'm going away to-morrow "
"Be you?" said Doctor Juniper.
"To tarn my own living," said Nan
ny. "Humph!'' commented Doctor Juni
per. "Well, suit yutirsejl' suit your-
solf!"
"Mrs. Danesbury is going to pay mo
ten dollars a month," explained Nanny.
"But I'd rather stay with you at half
tbe price, if "
"I'll see you further!" said Doctor
Juni er. " I won't pay you a rt l
cent!"
"Very well, undo," said Nanny.
And so she went away.
"She needn't think sho's g'Mng to
wind me around her little finger," raid
Doctor Juniper. "I can get plenty of
housckcept rs f.'r less niotny that that.
Audi won't be inipoMil unnii!"
The doctor got his own breakfast
the next mornirg. It wasn't so easy
as ho had u!.iio.--cd it would be. The
(ireintjktd and Milked, the coftVc-pot
tipped over, the, fish was scorched, and
the cps overboiled.
"Hang it all!" said the doctor.
'Things don't ta-ti; right anyhow.
There nnibt be a knack in cooking,
after all."
He left the unwashed dishes on tho
table, saddled the ro.in horse, and set
off immediately after he had swallowed
the last drop of the llavorless coffee,
in search of "help."
Tho Widow Keene was all smiles
when ho slopped at her little red cot
tage.
"So Nanny has gone, has she?" said
tho widow. "Wal, thero ain't no de
pendence to be put on gals. And you
feel tho need of a reid helpful com
panion? I did say, when I buried
Keene, that nothin' should induce mo
to marry again, but "
The doctor reined up Old Uoan so
suddenly that that meditative steed
jumped off all four legs at once.
"Hold on!" said he. "I wasn't
tall.in' of matrimony. I ain't a
marryiu' man. All I want is hired
help!"
Do you mean to insult mc?" said
Widow Ke.-ne.
And she slammed tho door in his
face, and Doctor Juniper rode on, much
marveling at tho narrow escape ho had
had.
"I'll try Miss Mahala Dickerman,"
he concluded. "She p'n't a widow. .
WiJows are naturally sly and tricky."
Miss Mahala Dickcruiuu was more
reasonable. Yes, sho would come.
But she required her Sundays to her
self, every Wednesday afternoon, the
use of a horse and wagon to take her
to church, and fourteen dulhirs a
month.
"But what is to become of me on
Sunday ?" Doctor Juniper venturod to
inquire.
Miss Mahala didn't know. She had
her soul to look after that was very
certain. And she couldn't reconcile
his Sunday business to her conscience.
So Doctor Juniper rodo away once
more, solemnly shaking his head.
"What's come to all the women V"
said tho doctor.
Betsey Crowe was the next person
on whom he called a sharp-nosrd
gossip, with a high, shrill voice, and
spectacled eyes.
"I think I kin suit ye, doctor," said
Miss Crowe. "I've lived housekeeper
to several families. My terms is twelve
dollars a month and the privileges of
a tome, and a young gal under me.
Her wages will be four di liars extra."
Doctor Juniper grew a tallowy
white,
"Da you s'pose I'm made of money?"
said he-
"Them's my terms," &aid Miss i
Crowe, "and I wouldn't vary from
'em, not for the president of the
United Siates!" I
"There's an end of the matter, then," .
said Doctor Juniper.
"Juit us you please," said Betsey
Crowe, tartly.
Louisa Henley would not undertake '
the place unlers her mother and eleven -
ears-old brother eoul 1 come as com-
: l,anv for Jier. Mrs. Cackle expected
the washing to bo put out, and a clean
ing woman engaged for every Satur
day. Maria Michcls hinted at the
privilege of filling tho vacant rooms
of the house with summer boarders.
And the upshot of it all was that Doc
tor Juniper cniuo homo in desperation,
without any help whatsoever.
lie telegraphed to his cousin, an
ancient female, somewhere on the edge
of tic! Adirondack, to come to tho
r.'seiio. She came. But she was suli-
' j'l to the rheumatism, to epileptic
fits, ::nd to an undue fondness for tho
brandy-bottle, and at the end of a
month. Doctor Juniper was glad to
ship her oil' to a "Home for Aged
Women" in New York. And then,
: subdued by much discipline, he walked
down to Mrs. Danesbury's and asked
; to see Ninny
1 Xanny tamo In, all smiles and
dimples
"fleally," said the doctor, to himself,
j "I hadn't iii idea the girl was so
; pretty'"
j She welcomed her uncle with tho
', most affectionate of kisses
"Nanny," said he, "you wpre right,
1 and I was wrong I'm sorry I ever let
i you go away. If you'll come back to
; the old I, ii in. I'll pay you ten dollars a
! month and be thanMul to you "
"Oh, uncle, I t.iuV said Nanny,
' laughing and blushing. "I've prom
ised to marry Hugh Daneshury."
, Doctor Juniper's lace fi 11.
Ila .'h Dan'-sbury!" said I.e. "That's
the voting fellow that works at the
. mill, ain't it?"
j "Yes, uncle," said Nanny,
i "Then co.ne, both ol you," said Doo
, tor Juniper. -Ilugli shall run tbe
i farm on share:, and I'll pay you ten
dollars, jit -t t lie same. I can't live as
I've In en livin". 1 .1 sooner take laud
' anum'"
Su tho young people were married,
and came to Jumper (arm to live.
"And un.-le's a drf,d easier to get
. along with tiian ever he was before!"
; sa.d Nar.ny.
Tor Doctor Juniper had profited from
his experience. Jtlnu i'-nst Unices.
PEARLS OP THOUGHT.
Jealousy i.s a secret avowal of our in
feriority. The only rose without thorns is
friendship.
Wo ought not to judge of man's
merits by his qualifications but by the
use he makes of them.
Though we travel the world over to
find the beautiful, we must carry it
with us, or we find it not.
Bashfulncss may sometimes exclude
pleasure, but seldom or ever opens any
avenue for sorrow or remorse.
Attrition is to the stone what good
inllitenee is to the man. Both polish
while they reveal hidden beauties.
Cares are often more difficult to
throw off than sorrows; tho latter die
with time, the former grow upon it.
The leader will fail who acts on the
counsel of those whose intelligence and
means of information is inferior to his
own.
Zeidous men are ever displaying to
you the strength of their belief, while!
judicious men are showing you the'
grounds of it.
There is a wonderful vigor of con
stitutionina popular fallacy. When
the world has once got hold of a lie, it
is astonishing how hard it is to get it'
out of the world.
If a man be gracious and courteous
to strangers, jt, shows he is a citizen ot
the world, and that his heart is no
island cut off from other hearts, but a
continent that joins them.
There are few men who, were thev
certain of death on their seventieth,
birthday, would think of preparation.
To-morrow may bo the gate of an eter
nity, and they go on in their fully.
He Had Confld nee In 0yples.
A band of gypsies camped in Mis
souri. A farmer in the neighborhood
was painfully twisted by rheumatism
and they straightened him out with 1
mysterious lotions and ceremonies. '
This won his confidence. They told j
him that a largo sum of money was i
buried on his farm, but they did not
know exactly where. Their instruc
tions were to bury all the cash he had
for eight days, and then dig it up,
w hereupon the place of the concealed 1
treasure would bo revealed. He '
obeyed, and at the end of the pre- j
scribed time his $5000 and the gypsies
were gone.
I'LIPPIJGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
About seven centuries before the
christian era Southern Italy was so
thickly set with Gre ian cities as to be
known as Magna Gra eia.
Thero is a creek several miles from
Waynesboro, Ga., which is so highly
impregnated with lime that it will
1 take the hair off a horse's legs in pass-
ing through it.
The silver or' -fthe Nevada mines
is so intimately associated with b a I
that nearly one-half of the miners who
handle it become afflicted sooner or
later with wrist drop, palsy, or half
paralysis.
Mr Kdward Atkinson says it would
require 10,000.000 persons, using the '
spinning wheel and hand loom of less
than a century ago. to make the otti n j
cloth used by our people, which is now j
manufactured by 1 f.0,000.
Among tho Chinese no relics are
more valuable than the boots that have !
been worn by a magistrate. If he re- j
signs and leaves the city a crowd a '
companies him to the gates, where his
boots are drawn off with great cere - no -
ny to be preserved in the ball f
justice.
1
A Tennessee doctor has a curious
Indian relic. It is a ring, made of
pure silver nicely engraved and weighs
twenty-three pennyweights, and, con-
sidering tho primitive tools with
which the Indians must have worked,
the engraving is said to be remarkably
well done. The general design,
although smaller in circumference,
resembles in a marked degree the
bracelets most in favor with th" socie
ty belles of to-day.
The slaughter of a plow ox i3 pro
hibited by law in China, and a viola
tion of the law is punished by two
months' imprisonment and lo i Mows
of the heavy bnttikio; except iu cases
where tbe oiVender is the owner of the
animal, when the i;npri.-.oninent is one
month and the number of b.iw
eighty. Mandarins who fail to take
notice of such olVenc-.s nru also pun
ished. The ox is thus honored above
other beasts because ho is annually
offered to Confucius: and because of
his services to man in pi " ing and the
entire dependence of the husbandman
on mm, man :;hou.d refrain from !
doing him harm.
It is related in Dr. Font's Health
Monthly that l'a :1 Ih.rt saw at I
Geneva a curious specimen of humani- j
iv iiiai, woum no worm a Jortune to a
Bowery museum or a travelling show.
It was a child live years old, or some
what more than one child, for it had
two heads, two chests and four arms,
but only one abdomen and one pair of
legs, the fusion of the two bodies into
one occurring at about tho waist.
Each head has control of the log (n its
own sitle. The two faces are much
alike, and tho two intellects already
understand several languages. The
fooit w hich one takes does not satisfy
the hunger of the other, and they cat
and sleep alternately. One has had a
fever without the other being ill.
A New York restaurateur being
asked why it is con.Mdered so difficult
to eat two or even one quail a day for
thirty days, replied, Because the
human stomach is an intelligent and
sensitive member of society. If you
were to feed it every day for thirty
days on a pound or two of sawdust,
you would not wonder if it rebelled,
would you? No. Wi ll, quail and the
white meat of all birds is very much
like sawdust. It's dry ; it's indigesti
ble. It lies there on the st.unnHi, and
of course the stomach do-su'l like it,
and when vou want to add more to it
the stomach is very apt to rebel and
make you sick. You may try to coax
that important, functionary with bribes
of FI'sin 1111,1 lll:lt tiul-t "' tl'iH,
but
there is a limit to even that. So vou
see why quail won't do for a steady
diet"
A Minstrel's Conversion.
"Senator Bob Hart," the negro
minstrel, used to be a great favorite
in the West. His stump speeches
and his excruciating Latin were his
chief stock in trade, but thev were
enough to give him a better income
than half the professional men get
Well, a couple of years ago, when he
was almost dead with delirium
tremens, he staggered into a revival
meeting and was converted, and since
the n has been known as the Hev.
J. M. Sutherland and a more eon-
sistent.
earnest Christian exhorter
never lived.
He has for nearlv two
years been in the employ of the City
Missionary society, which pays him I
(20 a week, on which he supports !
Lis wife and daughter. Chii agoans
can remember when Bob Hart got
$300 a week during an entire season
in that city, lie works among the
poor poopl
.d preaches several
Hi. I twic(- on Sundavs.
times a wet
Ho ha-sn't touched a drop of liquor
since tho night from which he dates
his conversion, clrnrlartd Hun.
t'ESSUS VITAL STATiSTHS.
A Yr.f'i Ih Hi' I nltrrt stf.
'like - nf I'cntti. anil Otllrr
ltilf.tlMi tnrii.
An article in the New York Sun
says that aeording to the last census, .
Toi'i.Wi persona died in the United ,
States during 18f. The death rate 1
for the whole Union was therefore j
15.1 to tho thousand. That is a low i
rate, and yet it was mud, higher than
that given in 170, which was only
12.S per thousand, while the death
rate according to 'he census of 1800
was 12.5.
But the apparent increase in 1880
was due entirely to more complete
returns of deaths, and even tin; figures
for that year eantut be regarded as
accurate. Kxcvpt i i a comparatively
small number of c.iiiiinuiiities, vital
statistics are not gathered in the
United States alii r a scientific system.
The a -tnal mortabty of the Union is
probably .somewhere hot w een eighteen
and nineteen p-r tie "-rn!. instead of
a little over lift" Ml. Hut that is a low
ra'e -i- i iiinpared with European
i ,..,,i,it i-i..- 1 1,,. ,1,. if, ril . I.irthe l in. i
j(f ,:nl;il liNi ,, ,,.
I ,.,.;,, iu ,, ,r Scotland.
,, r, , - ,
21.3 in ls,S.
0f the 7-".'..! deaths recorded in
j the census returns i'l".l'.l were of
i w hites, out of a Mai white pupuia-
; t ion of bl. l'2.17. and lH''.7i'2 of
j negroes, out of a total colored popu-
: i..; ( n'Miii 1 Ti,.,
lath in of ('i,7.'i2'bi. Tho apparent
death rate, there! n-o.wai 1 1.74 among
the whites, and 17-2 among the
negror s.
Of the deaths reported Ml.Oii v,rrf
of male-i and of females, the
total living population having been
2V-K.-2') males and Cl.'.i'i.t'aJ
feina'ix. For every thoiisan 1 deaths of
females there wen- I,n7t of males.
The pr quirti f males dying in
infancy was also -rr ater than that of
fcni.il s. of the ::'.'t,''. 1 males who
I
! died bM.it wen
j ag , while of tin1
died 1 oV' 2 wt
;d r live years of
!.-7l females who
died BJV.'i "ere under livo years;
that is, the proportion of deaths under
livo ytars of a;r to all deaths rec: nled
was H'J.51 per thousand among males,
whil ; am in.; ovna'cs it wa only
".s.s.-,. Nciiily half the male mor-
! tali
was a:uo: ; iy young chil livn.
The cause of (bath wire rep-Tied
in only Tdd.MJ caes, and the follow
ing table gives the number of deaths
from each of tho ten principal causes:
('ll!ISIlfMiliiill . - - . 91. ."jl
I) ii.ii i'iin ;s
l:ill ! ll 'hpikIM .... f. j jl.J
ii-.. -. a nl n mm svso in 8 '.I 70
l)n ol iv pi n'"i v hi -trill - 1"7 fl1'!
imc en--i'f aimiHi vi.m-iiii . . yi 0-i i
K i me ( ph. ml) lever - - 2.2 '0i
Mi -n-Ii- T7i
Si- rift lover . - - . . 16 -I Hi
YViHKipiiij; titiigh 112 ii
Consumption was, as always, the
great scourge, and it carried off a con
siderably larger proportion of females
than of males, the deaths from that
cause being Py'il'J males to e",'.l:12 b
males. It is very i:i dmi tive to o!
st rvc that the mortality from consump
tion in the North Atlantic and Lake
regions w as highest in the small towns
and agricultural districts, while on
tho Gulf coa-t it was greatest in the
city of New Orleans, with its wretched
sewerage, and drainage system.
Enteric or typhoid fever is also more
especially a disease of the country
rather than the city. The better
drainage which ordinarily prevails in
the large towns makes liiem hss liable
to that fever than the sniail T com
munities and scattered settb'ments,
where necessary preciu: ions aga'nst
the pollution of the water supply are
not generally taken, and accumulations
of tilth in vaults and cesspools are
common. Malarial fevers likew is"
were more prevalent and more fai;.l
proportionately in tho smaller com
munities than iu t'ne great cities. Tho
same was the case with diphtheria.
The report of the number of deaths
due to accidents and iujuries is inter
est ing:
11 rn and wald& . .... 4 76
piMwif l 4 J0
Kapo-nrp ' il i .loot .... 1 2nrt
(llel.lietnollll.lll- ..... 2 2S9
1,8-ifl
1 I iiilu i 1 ....... - 4')
Inpii i'M liv ui'irlancy - . 120
i: iir.a l iHTiiVi.ti ..... 2 'H'.l
S W ition ....... 2. .!
Sni i.lii i.j rlio .tin ..... 4T2
S .u-i If liv (tronu) .... 15.5
SMiitiilt! by .i'ia.'U ..... 340
O. i.er sni.ului ...... l.A.'iU
Suu-tick4 ........ 5-37
Oilier kcoiJ, nm ami injuries . 13,980
I?reily.
Few writers know when to stop
writing; they say too tiiu. h. Martin J
Luther rl.se 1 bis speech before the
diet of Worms with these words: "Here
I stand. I cannot do otherwise. Gxl
help me. Amen." Suppose he had
said: "The position which I at present
occupy 1 shall continue to maintain.''
The latter is grammatically correct
You ran praise it, but lit erary art con.
deinns it as weak and unworthy. Go
l a k to the Old Testa nent "Let
there bo light and tiiere was light."
Beyond the nak 'd grandeur of these
words art cannot go. And, in fact,
brevity is a.i art and one worth culti
vating, too.
THE FAMILY UOLTOR.
The T'e and Aliute of llmhln.
Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, medical di
rector of the Boston Union gymnasi
um, gave in one of his talks on physi
cal training, general rulci for bathing
as follows: "A warm bath, with libera'
use of Castile soap is best for cleanli
ness, and nicht the best time. Twir-f
j a W(.rk js ofton Pnogh Too frequin, I
warm baths debilitate the (n-stem. A I
cool sponge or wet cloth bath should
be taken daily for its tonic effect and
always in a warm room. If strung
and vigorous, the best time is the
morning; if not strong, the cold bath
had better bo omitted and the tepid
substituted. After exercise, if greatly
fatigued, take no bath, but rub down
j vigorously with a dry towel. If tbor
j oughly warmed up, but not tired, takf
I a tt pid sponge bath standing. Never
j take a tub bath, except when bathing
j for cleanliness. A warm shower bath
I followed by a cool sprinkling is prefer
I able to a cold bath after exercise,
j Vigorous exercise renders Turkish and
j hot ba'hs unnecessary; those should
he reserved for medical cases. Skin
disorders are frequently caused by ex
ecs -ivo bathing and the use of too
much soap. Although general rules
for bathing could be given, every mail
must be guided by his own physical
condition and his occupation."
ColcU Mart f inal ihnn rinsnri,
Dr. F. II. Bosworth in a lecture on
"Colds and their Consequences," given
in New York, said:
Neglected col. Is, if we could trace
them through all their insidious influ
ences to their ultimate result, have
been responsible fur a far grt ater loss
of life than has been caused by any ol
the terrible scourges which, in the
form of epidemics, have decimated
continents, carried terror and dismay
throughout wholu slates and have
called forth the active sympathy and
generous charities of a continent.
This may seem a somewhat startling
statement, that this simple cold should
outweigh iu its consequences the
mortality uf thn-e terrible visitations
b'fore whi h the bravest heart uucoii
s ioii-ly .shu ii. ),; mid yet I believe it
is no o crdraw n picture, no exaggera
tion. One neglected cold follows Upon
another, each recurring with increased
frequency, the parts involved approach
ing nearer to the vital organs, and
finally some latent tendency is devel
oped, some constitutional weakness
makes itself manifi si. It does not
strike its victims withthe sudden blow
of the scourge, but working its ill
effects through months, and perhaps
years, stiil strikes with a no less certain
aim in the one case than In the other.
1 do not come before you as an alarm
ist, nor do I intend to draw an exag
gerated pictuie, yet that it is a true
one I think cannot be questioned. That
we survive colds and moreover main
lain our health, is not an extremity
lillicwlt matter. It depends in a large
part on certain common seme in mat
ters of personal hygiene. Perhaps in
these none is so important as the pro
per regulation of tho clothing.
The lice's Sling.
If we press the abdomenen of the
nee wasp, so as to cause the sting to
protude, it is but natural to think that
the sharp, dark-colored instrument was
the sting itself. This, however, is riot
the case. Tho real sting is a very
slender instrument, and armed on one
edge with a row of barbs.S exactly docs
j the sting resemble the niauv-hurbed ar.
row of certain savage tribt s that, if the
savages had possessed microscopes, we
should certainly have o ijectured that
they borrowed the idea of the barb from
the insect. What we see with the un
lided eye is simply tho sheath of tho
sting. Mmy savages puis n their
arrows and spears, and here also they
have lieen anticipated by the insect.
Hut the sting is infinitely superior to
the arrow poison. No poison that has
yet been made, not even the terrible
wourali, or curare, as it is soinctiiiit s
sailed, can retain its strength after
long exposure to air. The upas poison
nf Borneo, for ex -.tuple, loses its poten
cy In two or three hours. But the
venom of the sting is never exposed to
tho air at all. It is secreted by two
long, thread-like glands, not nearly so
thick as a human hair, and is then ro-
i wived into a little bag at the base of
stinf.
When the insect uses its
i weapon it cont acts tho abdomen,
thereby forcing the sting out and com-
pressing the venom-bag. By the force
j of the stroke which drives the sting
' into the foe its base is pressed against
l the vea m-bag and a small amount of
tbe poison diiven into the wound. As
! a rule, if the bee or wasp be allowed to
j remain quiet, it will withdraw its sting,
j hut as tie pain generally causes a sud
i len jerk, the barlied weapon cannot be
1 witlidiawn. and the whole apparatus
if stiug. poison-bag, and glands, is torn
jut ol tbe insect, thereby causing its
leath, (JtiixJ WtrnJf,
Alone.
The nn dliinfs out aero-a tbe e,
'JTi" o.il i liurcli hi 11 chime- inoirily,
13 il I llm imtitlfi) -ijn in ii'isery,
And null If id Mid hik) 1 no;
For he Iiiih K''i'' liei lovrr tnif,
Acnfei ll.e ocean, wiilu iul i lu
Nnw tail litjr leiir-i like, evf ni't;; He w,
And tints &!:e u:.kf-i ii r tii"nn:
My lovn I a- H""c! All, w II a rlay!
My heart isHtcep'il in misery!
And mu-t it now bu iliu- tomyef
Ah, woe! Ah, woe is me!
The brr altein on the sounding shore
Aid Icnping Mih with ceiibi'h'M roar,
And the imiidi n watc c, bv her door
Willi -ad and umious eye
Tho wiii... I' niin fuilj uioumi her there,
Ami llei ki wiili himw In r raven hair,
L it h'iII niH Hntfl:f in despair
And uiuiiii iih niiii u .ilit
Sly lute h t-K'Hif; Ah, well a-duyl
.Mi i f ot is lii id wch ini-erN !
And must it now hit t u- I'.iruye?
All, woe! All, woe U tile!
The dark cloud drive r. I lie -liif.
She sef- tlic nieoii mroi'g tlic in rie;
Ilili on ih" miii t- In r lover lies,
lie ne'e! will -p- ak ay-U'i'
Sho khff Is h- hi I ab al"llf
A'-o'e lie- ii I w n I- .-;i;h met innun,
Uut the mtii!i.ir& Ic-ari is tin tied lo Htone.
Ji-i tin nil liop'i ii nil).
M . i.nc is ili a.l' Ah, Wflba-iliV
My heart i.t -Ii r i d in mine y ;
And it niu-t ntov l.e thus lor ne.
Al?, woe All, woe is n,f ''
(l. ii 'c Milrh.dl
Fi'X'JEYr PARAGRAPHS.
Trousers cover a multitude of shins'
Cannot 1,-nvvi rs be termed f males v
A wife may he a blessing, hut a
iuinb w.fe is an unspeakable one-
It is a terrible di,,ck t i n -'s lee
ings. after singing -S.ih ation's Free."
to hear the announcement that "h"
collection vill now he t iken."
Th" qucs!io:i is asked us. If there is
anything that will bring youth to wo
men? Yis, indeed. An income of
say 2i will bring any number of
them.
A man who has happened to have a
good d a! of experience says; "Stand
inywhere but bu- four feet to the left
ii a woman when she hurls a bottle at
1 hen."
"Mr. Jones." asked Smith of the par
son, 'don't you think the wicked will
i:ae an opp rt unity given them in the
next world V" "Yes, certainly," re
plied th parson, ".in excellent oppor
tunity to g t warm. '
An agricultural journal recently
published a long article on "Sheep
Husbandry." but it didn't say anything
tbout the man who continually com
diluents bis wife, although he is most
assuredly a she-praiscr.
"If your boarding-house should take
tire at night what would yon do to get
Lhe people out ?" asked the lire mar
shal of an experienced matron. "Oh.
Ihere wool I be no trouble about that."
was the r. ply; "I would just ring the
break fa -t bell, and all the boarders
would be in the dining-room in three
minutes."
It is said that the Emperor of Rus
sia "chops wood for exercise." This
gives his wife more time to gossip over
the back fence with the next door
neighbors; but one would suppose that
the emperor got exercise enough dodg
ing dynamite bombs and other infernal
ilcvices contrived by the nihilists,
without resorting to wood-chopping.
Common Phrases.
The term blackguard has a very
summon place origin. In all great
houses, particularly in royal residences,
there was a number of mean and dirty
lepeudents, whose office it was to at
tend to the woudyaids, sculleries, etc.
Of these -for in the lowest depths
there are lower still the most for
n
wretches seem to have been sele,
-arry coal to the kit then, halls
ed to
i nd
jther apartments. To the smutty reg
iment, who attended the progresses
iiid rode in the carts wit i the pots and
kettles, which, witn every other article
.if furniture, were then moved from
palace to palace, the pcopJv, in derision,
gave the name "blackguards," a term
since become sufficiently familiar.
"To the bitter end" is clearly an old
nautical expression. A dictionary,
published in the first part of tho eigh
teenth century, has "bite," a turn or
part of a cable: "bills," the main pieces
f timber to which a cable is fastened
when a ship rides at anchor; "bitter," a
i urn f the cable about the timber
ailed "bitts," that it may be veered
nit little by little; and "bitter end" (of
i c.iblel is that part which is wound
iriutiid the Pitts when a ship rides at
tin bor. '1 he modern cant expression,
to the bitter end," may have taken its
rise from tho old nautical words, as
meaning the last coil of the cable, or
from tin; last end, the very "bitter"
dregs. It is a slang expression, anoth
er form of ! will light yon to the
.leath." In it bitter only means piti
less severe, like a bitter east wind, or
bitter foe.