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as weal eliu sitter. MY SECOND LOVE, I have a confession to make, my wife; I havo fallen in love atrain. And think the younjr ludy returns my lore! Oh, ain't 1 tbo worst of men? Ebe is vounrer than you, this new-found lor. And her cheek is softer, I ween; Her hair is fairer than threads of gold. And her feet arc the smallest I've Bccnl She loves me.

I think (though she says notao): For she sin lies when she sees my race, Ar.d often rests in my arms content. While I hold her in close embrace. I love her as truly as man e'er loved; I miss her what time she's away; And the smile with which she bado mo good-bye. It blesses me through the day. now, my precious, confess the truth.

Cornel Say you are jealous, do! Before I toll you my two truo lovc3 Are my baby llolle and you. Will S. Faris, in Current. THE SEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. If you should see, for the iirst time, the brokers in the New York Stock Exchange (founded neur the close of the last century), as j'ou may easily do, by bieppmiujj single llightoi stairs irom Wall street into either of the two galleries, 3-0U would be excusable for be-lieviug yourself in a niad-house.

The great room, or hall, about one hundred by forty feet, with walls and lofty ceiling handsomely frescoed and decorated, does not look in the least like a lunatic asylum; but the crowd of men on the marble lloor below you can certainly act like maniacs. There are hundreds of them, all very nicely and fashionably dressed, shouting, gesticulating, moving rapidly, nervously about, most of them with pencils or sUlographic pens anil small books in their hands, dashing down something every few seconds, and then lifting their arms and voices again, as if to add to the general confusion and uproar. Not a word, although tliey scream, is intelligible to you or to uuylody else in the galleries; you could hardly be persuaded that they are bawling except for the sake of bawling. If they really wish to be understood, they "must either be using a language you are unacquainted with, or talking a kind of gibberish peculiar to the Exchange. Can they bo serious or Bane? They are very serious, and they think themselves the sanest of the sane.

They are doing their regular business, buying and telling stocks. They are Bulls and Bears: the Bulls being "those trying to put up priees, and the Bears those trying to pull prices down. What sounds in the gallery so meaningless to you, and to every outsider, is ierfectly clear to the men on the Hoor. 'liev arc calling out: One hundred New York Central; Three hundred Burlington As Quincy; Two hundred Michigan Southern; One thousand Western Union; Seven hundred Northern Pacific Preferred, or Ten thousand United States Currency sixes. When a broker wishes to buy or sell, ho lifts his arm, to attract attention, and names the kind and amount of security.

Bids are made by shouts; when any one of these is accepted, the broker noIs in a certain way, and the matter is settled. The Inner makes a rapid memorandum of the transaction; the seller does the same, and the security, whatever it may be, is delivered either at the close of bank hours, or at the time agreed upon. From the beginning to the end of the year, all transactions are conducted in tliis manner. Hundreds of millions of dollars change hands with nothing more than a gesture, a shout and a nod. You would suppose that mistakes must constantly be made.

But this scarcely ever happens. The brokers are used to the din, and practice lias made them perfect in the dillicult art of doing busi- uess in the mulst ol apparent chaos. The Exchange has a membership of cloven hundred, about six hundred members being active. The rest are either old or elderly men who keep their seats (it is styled a seat, probably, because a broker very seldom sits down), though partly retired, or men of ample means who live or are traveling abroad. The active members are mostly young or youngish, very few of them being beyond middle age.

They certainly behave like big boys just released from school, so full are they of frolic and fun. Dignity and rcpoe is the last and least thing they care for or esteem. Indeed, thty are opposed to anything like the assumption of either. Often when some distinguished stranger is Introduced upon the lloor they ridicule him, and play jokes at his expense, even fastening papers with derisive phrases to his coat-tails, or hustling him rudely, or knocking his hat over his eyes. And the more distinguished a stranger is, the more boisterous and impertinent they are apt to be.

Their lortiveness is particularly shown -at t'hriMmas time, when hundreds of the brokers, mihic of them fifty years old and more, appear on the lloor blowing whistles and tin trumpets, winding rattles and beating toy drums often presents for their children after the manner of street urchins. As very little is done, usimlly, during the holidays, the can give themselves extraordinary liceiiM'. and so, perhaps relieve their minds from the strain they are usually under while on the Board. The scenes there at Christmas-tide are curious to Nowhere else in civilization, it may 1-e safely asserted, do solid men of business, a good proportion ol them millionaires, behave so ridiculously. Another day of amiable riot is what they style White Hat Da' in earl' September when they call in, as they put it, the white hats.

The summer having then fairly passed, they show their knowledge and appreciation of the fact by knocking oft and trampling on every white hat worn by am of their brother brokers at that date. No white hat is seen there then but comes to immediate grief. It isstrock off. trodden on, kicked around, so battered and marred that after passing the severe ordeal of the Board, it would not bring livo cents in an second-hand shop in Chatham street. Naturally, some of the owners of the forbidden and broken bats get angry at their treatment, although thev might have been prepared for it; but the brokers do the mischief so rollick-ingly, with -ueh an overflow of spirit, that, the vexation soon dispelled, they in turn become the unconipiomisinr enemies of their associates' white hats.

Fun, even when boisterous and violent, is contagious, and after a few minutes of this horse-play, tne frown wf the gravest brokers yield to sympathetic laughter. t. The price of membership, or a seat at the Board, as it is generally called, varies greatly, though as a rulo it steadily advances. Many years ago it was only a thousand dollars. Recently it was thirty-five thousand dollars; butthc long dullness of the stock market has caucd a decline from that figure of ten thousand or twelve thousand dollars.

The latest sale reported was at twenty-eight thousand dollars. When a broker owns a seat he cannot be deprived of it except by dismissal from the Exchange "for violation of its rules. Otherwise, it belongs irrevocably to him, and to his heirs, in case of death. This is a fortunate provision; for when brokers fail so badly that they cannot resume business, they still have their seatthe sale of which will give them something to live on, if deprived of tLeir income. Brokers are continually failing; as tbeyonust with the endless changes in tke market, and the risk they are always At a particularly wetted I they are in constant danger, and may forced to suspend any hour.

Wall street is as uncertain as the wind. When a broker has been honorably unfortunate, no matter what his losses, his fellows are willing and glad to come to his aid. They will accept almost any compromise he is justified in offering; they not infrequently cancel obligations duo them in order to get him started again. Such canceliugs are seldom taken advantage of but for a timo of stress. When the broker fully recovers himself, he is pretty certain to pay his creditors dollar for dollar, with interest Much as the brokers are misrepresented and abused, they are noted for their delicate financial honor, and thev are generous to a faulL Their pocket-books are ever open to every appeal for assistance or charity.

They give away more money than any other body of men in New" York, or in any city under the sun; and yet they mako no professions of benevolence. They aro inclined to be cynical in speech; but their cynicism rarely reaches their hearts. The hours of the Board are from ten a. m. to three p.

m. daily, Sundays and legal holidays excepted. To a stranger all its meetings seem tumultuous and frenzied; but they are very different. A trained eye sees at a glance when things aro dull. Ine sales aro sometimes enormous--more than one million of shares daily, representing one hundred million dollars.

It often happens that they are too numeroiis to be recorded. The' average, perhaps, two hundred and fifty thousand to three hundred thousand shares, though they are occasionally as small as one hundred and lifteen thousand to ono hundred and twenty thousand. When Wall Street is excited, when the Bulls or Bears have control of the market, the gallerie are crowded, as is the floor likewise. Nearly every broker then appears to be whoHy frantic. The Exchange looks like a mass of winding arms and jerking heads; a press of bodies sways to and fro; the din echoes and re-echoes from the wlls and roof; the roar is deafening; hundreds of throats are clamoring shrilly or hoarsely in their wild hunger for gain; Babel is revived and intensified.

The swinging doors of the main entrance on Broad Street, and those leading to New Street, are ceaselessly banging, as the human tide ebbs aud'llows. The telegraph in struments, if von could hear tuem, are all clicking like ma do, to agree with all clicking like mad, as thev ought to the madness raging around them. lite telegraph, messengers, being little fellow, make their way mysteriously through the packed throng, creeping under men's legs, and climbing almost over their backs, to deliver their dispatches telling of success or disaster, and enjoying the hurly-burly which they blindly increase. The delirium of speculation is at its height. Scores of men are selling large amounts of stocks that they do not own, and buying heavily what they have not the money to pay for.

What does that matter? Speculation is the greed of gold that is hoped for. Click, click click! Bang, bang, bang! Yell, yell, yell! Boar, roar, roar! The President waves his handkerchief to a boy, who observes the signal, and beats a gong vigorously. It is heard above the crash and strife and noise. Tho hand of the big clock above the desk is exactly at the point of Three; the Chairman pounds lierccly with his gavel, and a sudden comparative hush descends upon the Exchange. The brokers seem to return to their senses.

The transition is almost startling. Speculation with all its hopes aiid fears and anxieties, its terrible temptations and its numberless woes, is over until to-morrow. Junius Henri Browne, in Youth's Companion. A Cheap Hotel. Three of us walked into the office ol a hotel in a little town in Mississippi I one night, and when the landlord had been aroused from his nap behind the stove, a big dog kicked off the only bench in the room, and the smoking lamp turned up so that we could see each other, he sized us up and said "Gentlemen, I'm a poor landlord but a truthful man.

In the first place, I'll have to put the three of you into bed. In the next place, it's a bed sa dog-goned mean that you'd a heap better lie on the floor." "Can't we sit up in the room?" asked one. "Don't believe you kin. There is a dozen panes of glasses gone, the roof leaks, and there's no show to build a lire." "What, sort of tavern do you keep, anyhow?" "Poor miserably poor. I'm no landlord, my wife runs all to poetry, and the building is mortgaged for nior'n iLs worth." "How about breakfast?" "Well, you can count on bacou, 'taters and hoe-cake, with mighty poor coffee.

The table-cloth is full o' holes, we never use napkins, and may -be there won't be forks enough to go 'round." "See here! growied the drummer, you'd better get out o' this and give room to somebody who can keen a hotel "I know it- 1 know it, but where and how shall 1 go? 1 couldn't raise six bits to save my neck, and what town wants me? I haven't got no trade, am too weak to labor in the fields, and this kcepitf tavern seems to be the ouly opening for me." "Got any whisky?" "Nary!" "Any good water?" "Well, it's creek water, and purty sandy just now." "Any more wood to keep up the fire?" "Not a stick, but I'll cut some in the morning." The four of us stood looking at each other for a long minute, and it was Ilia, landlord who spoke first. He said: "Gents, it's no use too kick. I'm sorry, and that's all I can do. I'll light another lamp, bring out a pack of kcerds, and will play seveu-up while the hired man comes in and fiddles for us. It's only six hours to day-light, and eight to breakfast, and a sliilbug plujj of tobaker pays the bill for the hull three of you." But when we left the next forenoon he wouldn't even take that.

He said our society was recompense enough. Detroit Free Press. Everybody's Jioso One-Sided. A very singular fact has been observed with regard not so much to tho shape of the nose as to tho setting of it in tho face, so to speak. To be strictly correct, from the artist's point of view, ttyc nose should be accurately in the middle of the face, and at right angles with a line from the pupil of one eye to that of the other.

As a singular fact it is rarely or never found thus placed. It is almost invariably a little out of "the square," aud the fact of its being so is often that which lends a peculiar expression and piquancy to the face. A medical writer points out that there aro anatomical reasons why a slight deviation from the true central line mav be expected, and that nose which "lies accurately straight between the two eyes may be considered an abnormal one, and that the only absolutely correct organ is that which deviates a little to the right or left. Chicago Journal. A writer in the Chicago Saturday Evening Herald, speaking of "beauties," says "I never saw a beautiUil woman yet who did not leave the impression on mind that there was probably in the next street some poor girl Washing dishes who, if equallv well-clad, would look qwdlj beauiirsl" Row the Great Statue Was Made.

Charles Barnhard has contributed to the St. a very graphic and Eopular account of Bartholdi's great tatuo of Liberty, from which we mako the following extract: "In the first place, there had to be a sketch or modeL This was a figure of the statue in clay, to give an idea of how it would look. The public approved of this model, and then the first real study of the work was made a plaster statue, just one-sixteenth tho size of tho intended statue. "The next step was to make another model just four times as largo, or one- fourth the size of tho real statue. This quarter-size model being finished, then came the task of making the full-size model in plaster.

But this had to bo made in sections. For instance, the the first section would include tho baso on which the figure stood, the feet and the hem of the garment. The next section would include a circle quite round the long llowing dress, just above the hem. The third section would stand above this and show more of the folds of the dress, and reach part way up to tho knee. In like manner thewhole figure would be divided into sections.

"The quarter-size model was first divided in this way, aud then to lay out the full-size plan it was only necessary to make a plan of each section four times as largo as the section actually was in the model. Every part of the model was covered with marks or dots for guides, and by measuring from dot to dot, increasing tho measurement four times, and then transferring it to tho larger model, an exact copy just four limes as large was made. For each of tittle large sections, however, there had to bo a support of some kind before the plaster could be laid on. Having marked on tho floor an outline plan.of the enlarged section, a wooden frame-work was built up inside tfio plan. Then upon this frame-work plaster was roughly spread.

It soon resembled, in a rude way, tho corresponding section of tho" quarter-sized model, but was four times as large. Then the workmen copied in this pile of plaster every feature of the model section, measuring and measuring, again and again, from dot to dot, correcting by means of plumb-lines, and patiently trying and retrying till an eact copy only in proportions) four times as large was attained. "Tho great irregularity of tho drapery made it necessary to put three hundred marks on each section, beside twelve hundred smaller guide-marks, in order to insure an exact correspondence in proportion between tho enlarged sections of the full size model and the sections of the quarter-size model. Each of these marks, moreover had to be measured three times on both models, and after that came al the reraeasurcments, to prove that not a single mistake had been made. "When these sections in plaster had been completed, then came tho work of making wooden molds that should be exact copies both in size and modeling of the plaster.

These were all carefully made by hand. It was long, tedious and dillicult. Each piece was a mold of a part of the statue, exactly fitting overy projection, depression and curvo of that portion of the figure or drapery. Into these wooden molds sheets ot metal were laid, and pressed or beaten down till they fitted the irregular surfaces of the molds. All tho repousse, or hammered work, was douo from the back, or inside, of the sheet.

If the mold is an oact copy of a part of the statue, it is easy to see that the sheet of metal, when made to lit it, will, when taken out and turned over, be a copy of that part of the statue. "These sheets were of copper, and each was from one to three yards square. Each formed a part of the bronzo statue, and of course no two were alike. "In this complicated niauuer, by making first a sketch, then a quarter-size model, then a full-size model in sections, then hundreds of wooden copies, and lastly by beating into shapo three hundred sheets of copper, tho enormous statuo was finished. These thfec hundred bent and hammered plates, weighing in all eighty-eight tons, form the outside of the "statue.

They are very thin, and while they fit each other perfectly, it is quite plain that if they wore put together in their proper order they would never stand alone. These hammered sheets mako the outside of the statue; but there must be also a skeleton, a bony structure inside, to hold it together. This is of iron beams, firmly riveted together, and making a support to which the copper shell can be fastened." Sam Ward. Although Mr. Ward was a good American, lie was one of that class of Americans who, so to speak, bridgo over the Atlantic who help to mako the New World intelligible to the Id and the Old to tho New.

We have often expressed an opinion that this can not bo done by the American putting off from him what is charisteristic of his own nationality, and trying to bo (what he is not, aud can not become) a Eu-ropeau. But it can be done, and in tho simplest and most natural way, by the free intercourse of Europeans" with Americans. One of tho most hopeful of the signs of the time is that large numbers of Englishmen, and among them not the least distinguished, are reciprocating the interest which America has long felt toward Europe, and especially toward the mother country. Social reciprocity is, in fact, only another term for political reciprocity. Personal relations, constant, mutual and friendly, between large numbers of families on both sides of the Atlantic arc a perpetual and increasing guarantee of political harmony between tho two great English-speaking nations.

When Americans come to feel themselves at home in London and Englishmen in Boston or New York it will be hard to create a serious quarrel between tho two countries. Few Americans have done as much as Mr. Sam ard to foster good feeling in social life between the old and the new country, and his death is an event which may be regretted by more persons than those who have had the happiness of knowing him personally. Saturday Re-view. mam The Tope's Popo Pius H.

had a little pnppy slow of eleven months old which he called Musetta. "She was white, but not very pretty, yet clever and affectionate, with winning ways." One day as the Pope was sitting in tho Vatican garden transacting business, Musetta in her rambles clambered up the sides of a water cistern and tumbled in. The Pope's ear caught the piteous tones of her bark, and he sent bis attendants to look after her. They arrived just in time to save her life, and she came back to tho Pope with demands for his sympathy. Next day, in tho same garden, a big monkey broke loose and almost worried Musetta to death.

Tho Pope prophesied that his favorite was not destined to enjoy a long life. His prophecy was soon fulfilled! Ten days afterward the luckless Musetta was looking out of an open window when a wind suddenly arose and blew her over. She fell from a considerable height and was killed. The Pope moralized to his attendants: "Let men learn from the fortunes of beasts. We may escape twice, hut the third peril is fatal.

Amend yonr lives before the third call comes. Saturday Review. Exercise to the extent of great fatigue does more harm than EWorld. The Bab. But the most formidable religions movement the East has known in many years, an impulse which still operates with increasing energy and of which the end cannot bo conjectured, was originated by an obscure fanatic named Ali Mohammed, but who is known among his followers as tho Bab (or gate,) and whose faith, now entrenched and waxing throughout the empire, is denominated Babism.

He was the son of a grocer of Shiraz, and, like Mohammed, early began to dream dreams and see visions. He was educated at Kerbela, at the feet of a great Mohammedan doctor who early discovered in his pupil indications of mystic and supernatural endowment. From Kerbela ho went to Bushire, where tho spirit of prophecy fell upon him. Ho proclaimed the comingof the Twelfth ImaHu. Ho essayed miracles.

Those which aro recorded of hia seem better calculated to excite ridicule than wonder, but they were sullicient to gather round him a group of believers and followers. Tho del usion spread rapidly. With each accession of proselytes his pretensions of supernatural power and vision rose. Ho proclaimed himself the Twelfth Imaun. Iu no long timo he avowed himself to bo Mohammed returned to earth again, and claimed the dominion of all the Mohammedan people.

Lastly, as increasing multitudes thronged round aud worshipped him as the orator of tho holy prophet of God, ho advanced his pretensions to their final limit, and proclaimed himself tho earthly incarnation of God himself. It seemsstrango that the exorbitancy of his successive claims did not alieuato his proselytes, but it had, instead, tho ellect of attaching them more passionately to him. They wero determined that his native city should hear from his lips of tho mystic trausubstanliation which had made of tiio grocer's boy of Shiraz, whom tiie priests and ciders had doubtless often seen at play with other boys near tho city gates at evening, or barefooted iu the mosque kneeling at his prayers, a portion of tho substance of the Almighty himself. But a prophet is traditionally without honor in his own country, and tho bastinado was applied to the feetof tho Bab with such promptitude and energy that ho made a full confession of his impostures and was put iu prison. This persecution, however, only served to inureaso tho number of his believers, who were penetrated with the same fiery and warlike fanaticism as that which Mobamniejl infused into his followers.

There were mauy proselytes among the priesthood and the schism, hitherto local and obscure, broke out simultaneously in all parts of the empire. In 1850 tho chief priest of Zingan, a city on tho road from Tabriz to Teheran, publicly avowed his belief in the new faith, and an army was sent against him. With thousands of followers he took refugo within the walls of the city and maintained a scige for many months, but was at last overcome, and his entire garrison, including the women and children, was slain. Meantime, during the progress of tho seige, the Persians, maddened by tho obstinacy of his followers and alarmed at the spread of his doctrines, brought fourth the Bab to execution. He was bound to a post with ropes, and a file of musketeers, at the word of command, discharged a volley at him.

When tho smoke cleared away it was found that the bullets had cut the ropes which bound him, and he had disappeared. The soldiers and tho multitudes assembled to witness the execution were for a moment awed at what seemed to them a miracle. But in a few minutes tho fugitive was discovered, un-wounded, iu the guard house near by, where he had taken refuge. He was brought out again, and this time was shot If he had reached the bazar near at hand, instead of tho guard house, he would very likely have escaped, as he had multitudes of secret friends aud believers among trie people there, and they would have concealed him. It may be imagined than an occurrence so miraculous as his disappearance would have been hailed everywhere throughout the East as a proof of his divine mission.

As it is, Babism is a vital and augmenting spiritual force in Persia, and, having in view the impassioned and fanatical character of the people among whom it has struck its roots, ho would 00 a bold prophet who should venture to forecast its future. Trhcrau, (Persia), Cor. Brooklyn Eagle. The Power of Memory. Most wonderful is the number of remembrances to be found in every human mind, their variety and correctness; their removal from consciousness when they are not want and their return again and again when they aro wanted; tho facility with which they aro recalled, and their opportunate recurrence when they are sought for.

Wo need not look to extraordinary instances; the memory of every child, duly considered, is astonishing. Some thousauds of objects aro remembered; persons, with their names and characters; events, with their times and places; things, with their various qualities; words, with their proper signification. These are remembered after months and years; they are brought baek with little etlbrt and often come of themselves just as needed. Tho remembrances of most persons go back to tho years aud lessons of childhood, and include what has been witnessed in many hundred scenes, heard from mauy hundred persons, read in many hundred books. Much is forgotten, but much is remembered; and more might be remembered, and recalled more readily and correctly, if the laws of memory were promptly known and used.

The power of memory is increased by exercise. It is generally stronger in youth than iu old age. There is much difference in the beginning of life iu natural ability, sonic remembering everything more easily than others. The three most desireablo qualities of memory aro faculty, retentiveness and readiness; and all these are improved by practice. The first and second depend much on the attention given to what is to be remembered; the third on tho number, variety and arrangement of the associations by which it may be recalled.

There aro minds on which most impressions are so slight that they are soon forgotten. Others who have learned and retained much, do not remember things at the right time. Few have memories so quick, retentive and ready as not to need some special culture, and there are none whose memories may not be improved by attending to what is most important, and forming associations to aid recollection. Artificial memory is tho use of arbitrary arrangements to aid in recalling dates, words and facts which have 110 natural connection. They are found easily, when distributed in various localities on a page or a wall.

Such connections arc occasionally of use for time; but natural connections aro more lasting, and are on every account to be preferred when attainable. There seem to be some varieties of memories a special aptitude for remembering words, or numbers, or facts or argument-, or voices, or faces. There is some difference in natural perceptibility; but most of the differences in memory are to be attributed to the degree of attention given to various objects, and to habits of observing and thinking. Prof. Co twin.

Observation of a new roller skater: Sometimes, before sitting down, you kick out violently at nothing with great rapidity and the skate says "Klacketty! slambaug duin klicketlv bang wkoof!" An Hour in a Country Fostofilt. nave you a letter from Michael Mown? He's over iu Cannidv an' we're I expectin' a bit av a note from him. I The above inquiry was addressed to the clerk in a Northern Miehiga-i post-ollico by a lady who, upon receiving a letter, gave him a "thank ye, sor," and passed out. "See some strang.J folks hero in tho course of a year, don't you?" I ventured to inquire. "Well, I should remark.

That lady was a specimen, aud it she hadn't ro ccived that letter she'd have given me tho partie ilars of Mr. Mor m's history. No matter what branch of business a man engages in, ho will strike a class of people that wo call chronics, and the post-otlico always conies in for a generous share of them. In the dry goods business the chronic is tho lady who tumbles tho goods over an hour or two and then birys a yard of gren ribbon. At the grocer's he is the man who sits on the wood-box until half Ihe lights iu the store aro out, ami then wants a piece of pork, some lard and a pound of codfish." "What tlo you most disliko of your many customers?" "Book agents, by a large majority.

They'll come in. oily as a lawyer's talk an arm oil" you, and waut pou to eollect for them; ask you a ihousaud questions, and stand around when you waut to talk with vour best girl." I "Ever write letters for any of your patrons?" "Lots of them. The other day a fel- low came in that could ueitherread nor write. Ho was about half shot and I wanted me to write a letter to his girl i for him, and I wrote it, too, vou bet. They were going to bo married and he wauted her to be clothed iu her purple and fine linen when he arrived.

"How about handwriting?" "Just gaze on that," handing me a tatter addressed to JAMK.S MULVANRY Taimvortli County of Aildiugtou In Invite Cure of Wellington House The address covcre I the faco of tho envelop leaving no room for tho stamp, which was placed on the hack. The writing would paraly.o a schoolma'am and was done with blue ink. "That letter doesn't lack for address any way," I remarked. "That's where you are mistaken. Such people as the writer of that letter will cover an envelope with ink and then omit the State." "Howaboutreadingpostals?" I asked as he was posting up a notice to 'Please lick your own "Now, that's another piece of nonsense.

We don't read three a month, and even if we did we would bo complying with the postal laws. The only postal I ever read and rcmembored was sent by a lawyer to a doctor with this inscription: 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended and your account is not paid. Why is this? Just then the door opened and an exceedingly pretty girl cams in. The hint the cierk had given me regarding the staying qualities of book agents was as "seed sown upon good ground," and bidding him good morning I left, remarking to myself, "Two is company, while three is none." Cor. Ddroit Free Press.

The Quinine Habit. Said a distinguished medical practitioner, who has grown gray iu his profession, speaking of tho report that tho use of quinino as a stimulant is becoming a very common habit among men of business and ladies in society: "Yes. it is unquestionably true that the great increase in the sales of quinine during the last live years by retail druggists is very largely referable to what may be styled tho quinine and it is fully asfrequent among women in society as it is with men whoso nerves arc overtaxed by hard work. And I may say to you, though many will dispute it, that of the two the quinine habit is more rapid in its ravages when once thoroughly established, more diffi cult to break, and more dangerous iu every respect than the habitual use of opium or its preparations. Few save practicing physicians are aware of tho tremendous potency of this drug in its effects upon the nervous system.

As you know, depending upon the quantity taken, quinine possesses four very distinct properties being, iu very small doses, tonic and nervine; in moderate doses, directly stimulant; in large doses, sedative and soporific; and in very large doses, intoxicating producing a peculiar species of drunkenness similar in its features to masked epilepsy.in which, while performing customary actions aud talking with the coherence of a person iu full possession of his senses, the victim is really perfectly unconscious of what he is doing and totally irresponsible. There is no question that tho regular use of the drug as a stimulant is rapidly increasing among the higher classes, aud the fact is ono of the most lamentable that has come under my notice for years. The way a man gets into it in tho first place is very simple. He feels a littlouustruiig ami out of tune, perhaps, and so consults the family physician, who suggests a few doses of quinine. In a day or two he feels singularly improved his brain is clever and bright; his pliys ieal energies seem to have renewed their youth.

Elated with the result, whenever he feels down spirited or oui of sorts, he resorts, of course, to the remedy that has once served his purpose so well; and very soon has acquired tho habit of using the drug in regular daily doses. In three months. so insidious are its effects, the quinine habit is fully established, and the prob ability is that tho man (or woman, as the case may be) has not five years to livo. Worse still, so peculiai are tho effects of the salt on the nervous system, there is a strong probability that the victim will die ot suicide; for it is a singular fact that no toxic in the materia medica acts so directly and rapidly to produce suicidal predisposition and impulse. Morphia has no such effect, deplorable as its ravages are.

The morphia habit generally transforms the most truthful man or woman into the most inveterate liar iu the course of two or three years a romancer of tho wildest type. On the other hand, while quinine produces no perceptible effect on the veracity, it leads to a nervous irritability that is intolerable alike to iLs victim and his associates, and frequently ends in tho sudden development of suicidal mania. Again, a patient may be reduced to tho verge of the grave by morphia, and still recover a remnant of physical and nervous energy when the drug has been eliminated from the system; but when once the system gives way under tho cumulative influence of quinine the breakdown is irrevocable. In the course of an experience embracing thirty-five crises of the quinine habit in its latter stages, during the last two years, I have never seen a case in which the victim was good for anything after the habit was broken, and, as a rule, the patient collapses and dies if the withdrawal of the stimulant is persevered in. Knowing these facts, I cannot tell you how I dread to prescribe quinine to men a little fagged out with overwork, and I think it is timo that medical practitioners began to be as cautious with it as they are with morphia." N.

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lituton The Aniw and Navy Journal sum: The officers at West Point are undoubtedly put to much inconvenience in endeavoring to attend to their regular duties ami at the time to wait upon visitors to academy. It is for this reason, probably, and for the fu-titer reason that "isits of largo bodies interfere with the regular routine of military post, that such visits are not encouraged." A Houston doctor had a mockingbird which lived in the garden. When-eer he returned home bird would hy toutioe in front of the door-step aiid sing for hours. It appeared to bo in an ecstasy of delight whenever the doctor was at home. The doctor died of yellow fever, and after the funeral the family opened the doctor's room and found tho mocking-bird lying at the head of tho bed, -Tex'us Hitings.

An old man and his wifo from away back in Kentucky reached the Ohio Kiver on their way to visit some kinsfolk iu the BuekeyeState. Neither of them'had ever twin the river, and when they droe down to the bank, where they had been told they would find the ferry, the old man gazed in astonishment at the stream and shouted: "Gewhillikins, Susan Ann, the creek's nz, air we can ford it fur a week." He drove back to the hotel and was given some information which was valuable lo him. Cleveland Leader. Life in Florida has its drawbacks. In Hernando county, a few days ago, a Mrs.

Shiner was seated near the door of her residence sewing, and her child was playiug near at hand. Hearing a slight noise, she looked around and crouched within a dozen feet of her and her babe an immense panther, ready to jpring. With a shriek she sprang to her feet and dashed the heavy shears, with which she was cutting iier work, in the panther's face, snatched her child, aiid rushed back into the house. Tho panther, disconcerted by the sudden attack and noise, beat a deliberate retreat for the swamp. Chicago Times.

Suicide aud Sleeplessness. The circumstances attending tho death of the Dean of Bangor -albeit they ate infinitely distressing present no novel features. Tho reverend gentleman was a man of considerable intellectual "power," which is the samo thing as saying that he was constitutionally liable to intervals of mental depression. All highly intellectual nieu ai.j exposed to this evil. A pendulum will always swing just as far in one direction as it docs in the other Great power of mind implies also great weakness under certain conditions.

The arvel is not that great minds occasionally become deranged, butthatthey so often escape derangement. Sleeplessness means not merely unrest, but starvation of the cerebrum. The brain cannot recuperate, or in other words, it cannot rest Physiologically, recuperation and rest are the same thing. Sleep is simply physiological rest. Tho only cause for regret in these cases is that the blunder should ever be committed of supposing that a stupefying drug which throws the brain into a condition that mimic? and burlesques sleep can do good.

It is deceptive to give narcotics in acaeof this type. The stupor simply makes the danger. Better far let the insomnious patient exhaust himself than stupefy him. Chloral, bromide and tho rest of the poisons that produce a semblance of sleep are so many snares in such case. Sleeplessness is a maladvof the most formidable character, but it is not to be treated by intoxicating tho organ upon which the stress of the trouble falls.

Suicide, which occurs at the very outset of derangement, and is apt to appear asano act, is the iogical issue of failure of nutrition that results from want of sleep. It is curious to note how a sleepless patient will set to work with all the calmess and forethought of intelligent sanity to compass his death. He is not insane in any technical sense. He has no delusion. Ho does not.

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