The Wyandott Herald from Kansas City, Kansas • Page 4

5555SSSS FACTS FOR FARMERS. LIGHTING OF HOUSES. CARE OF FURNITURE. MISCELLANEOUS. ARAB FANATICISM.

Vrlf htfol Scenes of Seif-Torture Witnessed la Algiers. After an interval one of the players was "inspired by Aissa." With a yell ha threw aside his tambour, rushed into the center of the ring, commencing a frantic dance. The Makaddan (head of the order) arose, and taking his burnous from his shoulders endeavored to enfold the now contorted brother therein, but with fearful violence the other seized it, wound it about his person, tossed it over his head and stamped it under his feet. The noise of the drums grew louder, as the subject became more frantic We clung to our seats in cold terror as the voice of our guide came to us in a calm whisper: "No matter what happens only keep cool; they will not harm you!" Now another has become "inspired." The monkey screams are-repeated again nd again. The.ii are two now throwing themselve in inani acal ecstasy; the burnous is between DR.

EATON ON MURDER. Ha Tells of the Ways In Which the Sixth Commandment -la Broken. In a recent sermon upon the Tea Commandments Dr. Charles H. Eaton, of the Church of the Divine Paternity, took the Sixth "Thou shalt not kill' as his text.

These are some oi the things he said: "Among the popular forms of murder war must be placed first. The training of the world has been such that people have come to think that the law "Thou shalt not kill" only applies to individuals and not to the State. For an individual to murder is a crime, but for the people in a collective capacity to devastate the territory of their neighbors is considered perfectly legitimate. Individual murder is a crime, but wholesale murder is civilization. Wars of defense' sometimes become a necessity, but the larger proportion of wars have been and still are aggressive, being waged to gratify the ambition of some ruler or to preserve the balance of as it is called in Europe.

The pretext is frequently made of defending the interests of oppressed countries or that the wars are waged for religion, but such wars not only cause a great sacrifice of human life, but make many desolate homes and undermine religion itself. However much we seek to glorify the soldier's profession, it is at best a necessity and at the worst a murderous trade. "Other popular forms of murder arise from the narrow attic, the foul basement and the crowded factory, amid the cries of men, "women and children, whose lives are being, crushed out by a condition for which somebody is responsible. Through the burning days of summer, the cold of winter, in hunger and in rags, with white-faced children crying for bread, needle-women toil from twelve to fourteen hours before their daily task is done. The greed which to some extent underlies modern civilization shows Itself in the cruel disregard of the ordinary means of protection to workingmen "In refusing to put a roof over the heads of the workmen, the foreman of the shop said that men were cheaper than shingles, and that there were dozens eager to take the place of any man who should fall by the way.

SHOES FOR CRIPPLE A Queer Little New York Cobbler Who Dot a Bos bins; Basin ess. There's a funny little man who runs a queer little shoe shop in East Broadway. It is a "hole in the wall, and might properly be called a den. It is not a tidy place, either; but it makes no difference to its pinch-faced occupant, for he gets a lot of money by making boots and shoes for cripples. He does' nothing else, and seems to enjoy a monopoly of the custom of people with deformed feet.

'How much do you charge for such a pair of asked a reporter, as ho picked up a Congress gaiter ornamented with a 5-inch heel and a 2-inch sole. "Twelve dollars; but. he added, "I usually get $15. This pair of shoes, however, is for a poor man who can't afford to pay the regular price. Sometimes.

I get $20 for a pair, but not often." The little shoemaker said that a person desiring a shoe comes in and removes his foot covering, then he measures the distance between the bottom of the shoe and the floor to determine how much cork is needed in the sole. The measuring of the foot proper does not differ much from the measuring of ordinary feet. He makes only -three measurements one at the ball of the foot, one at the heel and one at the toe. Certain afflicted persons wish their shoes made with space between the heel and the sole on the idea that it gives the foot a spring it would not possess were the sole and heel one piece. Each customer has his peculiarities.

The man had just finished three pairs for a gentleman in the wholesale liquor business in this city, who formerly had his shoes made in Paris, London and Vienna without getting satisfaction. That gentleman has a short foot, but so deftly is it clothed that even bi intimate friends do not know that he is deformed. Instead of putting the cork which raises the foot on the outside he places it inside, thus making the boot well proportioned. The wearer's foot rests easily, the heel half way up the leg with a curved, sloping support for the instep and the toes about half way down the middle of the foot. The little man said there were many persons who have one foot shorter than the other, and if their shoes were made to fit the short foot it would give them the appearance of having had their toes amputated.

"There's nothing easier," remarked the little man, "than to prevent this by making the shoe for the short foot as long as the shoe for the normal foot, and filling in the space between the end of the toes and the end of- the shoe with light cork." More trouble is experienced in constructing shoes for club-footed people than any other. This is principally because the foot is turned in and upward, so that the sole is presented to the rear and the person has to walk on the side of his foot. Measurements of such feet can not be successfully taken. A casting has to be made of the foot and then a last formed from that the sole must be of cork and the upper carefully fitted into every curve and wrinkle in the foot. It requires much skill to make a shoe for a man whose foot has been cut off just above the ankle, for he is obliged to make a leg as well as a last.

The queer little cobbler was unable to say how many men with deformed feet had come under his eye, but he knew there were thousands of them. Some cripples wear ordinary shoes, while others use the old-fashioned iron lifts but these are cumbersome and even dangerous, for the wearer may trip and stumble. "Yes, I do a big business," said the cobbler, 'and it keeps four assistants pretty busy filling orders. People who are afflicted can't go into a shoe Helpful HiaU mOocsmUow for Tidy HoasewiTS. To keep the furniture looking well and in good condition is within the province of all housewives.

In these days there-is little excuse for a woman allowing her furniture to look dilapidated, for there are so many things that can be used to keep it looking welL There is no necessity for having a broken-backed chair or rickety table. since either can be so easily repaired It will take so little time to mend a broken chair or table that the hardest-worked housewife can do it and scarcely miss the time so spent. All the tools required for this work are a bot tle of liquid glue and some strong cord. Apply the glue to the broken parts with a brush that comes for that pur pose, bring them together, tie with the cord to keep them in place, and put away in a cool place until the glue hardens, which will take about a day. When well hardened, any superfluous glue on the outside of the break should be wiped off, and if the article is much worn a coat of varnish will make it almost as good as new.

As old-fashioned furniture, more particularly the table, is in such demand, the fortunate possessor of such an article can, with a little patience and time, make an elegant piece of furniture. If it is of varnished wood, and, the surface discolored, the most successful way of treating it is to first remove the varnish, which can be. done by rubbing it over with alcohol until all is removed. Then if the wood from which the article is made is oak, varnish it with copal varnish, and it will be a stylish piece of furniture for any room. Or, if liked better, it may be stained in imitation of any kind of To be sure, it does not need to be of oak to be stained, as with few exceptions all woods can be stained in imitation of the wood desired.

As red furniture is so much in vogue, cherry is one of the prettiest stains that can be used. Buy the stain, which comes bottled all ready for use, and apply to the wood as directed. When the stain has thoroughly dried in, go over the wood with copal varnish. If instead of the varnish the following oil is used as a finish, the furniture will look much better. Take oil, and put it into a glazed with as much alkanet root as it will cover.

Let boil gently and it will become of a strong red color; when eool it will be fit for use. When applied it should be well rubbed in until a dry polish results. This oil is excellent to keep red furniture in good condition, but more particularly is it applicable to stained wood. It can be bottled for use and applied whenever needed. Ink stains on mahogany or cherrj cause much annoyance to the housewife, as they seem to be so difficult to remove.

These may be taken out by adding a few drops of nitre to a tear spoonful of water, dipping a feather Into the mixture and touching the spots with it. When the stain disappears rub the spot at once with a cloth wet with clear water, then dry and polish. The washing and drying of the spot after the removal of the stain is to prevent a white mark appearing in its place. When white spots appear on mahogany they can be removed by rubbing with alcohol, but do not apply the alcohol to a varnished surface unless you wish the varnish removed. It will take out the spot, but as the alcohol acts as a medium it will at the same time soften the varnish so that the least rubbing will take it off.

A good furniture dressing for use in the household is made of one ounce of turpentine and a lump of asphaltum, half the size of an egg; melt in a tin on the stove, slowly, and when cool add varnish until quite thin. Apply to the furniture wilh a varnish brush. After cleaniug a room this dressing applied to the furniture will keep it looking as nice as any one could wish. Boston Budget. HOUSEKEEPING HINTS.

The Very Latest Imported Style of Artistic Dish-Washing The latest summer style of washing dishes is considered, by best mistresses of the art, to be the most successful yet introduced. The point to be attained is, of course, the largest number usually broken by accident during the process. After a private view of one of the last importations we offer the following hints to housekeepers: Collect from the dinner-table glass, silverware and china of all kinds in a promiscuous heap on the waiter. Stand your dish-pan in the kitchen 6ink, and from a distance of five feet hurl the articles, several at a time, into it. Much can be accomplished during this stage.

Fill the pan to the top, dropping spoons, knives and forks violently into the spaces between china and glass. Next turn on the hot water, letting it dash suddenly on top of the pile. If this is done properly it will certainly crack a glass or two. When the pan overflows stir the contents around for five minutes. Your fist, a stick, or a piece of soap on a fork will answer for the purpose.

Then draw the dishes, always two or three together (for the purpose of fine nicking), from the water and wipe hard very haM, all on the same towel. (This is imperative.) The thinnest tumblers, cups, can be leaned on and twisted most, as this will generally it unnecessary to wipe them again. The silver can be clutched -in one hand and rolled in the towel after everything else is disposed of. Very little can be done with silver. There is no joy in this part of the work.

When you have finished your dishwashing, according to the finest imported style, you will find that the labor of carrying the dishes back to the dining-room closet is much lightened. Any remnants can be thrown into the convenient ash barrel. Judge. A new recipe for sandwiches: Spread rye bread with butter and put a good layer between the slices of raw beef chopped very fine, a slice or two of chopped raw onions and green leeks. This sandwich will make the dull vlcnia an aspatLdag oggajiTo Rave the Bedroom Windows So as to Be eel to the Sunliffht.

That a healthy room is if not a light room, and that there some connection between dark nftea and disease, in addition to the fact that both words begin with the same letter and that they therefore sound well tog-ether, are generally admitted. When, however, we come to consider the principles orfeules which either do or-should guide the architect in his plans for either natural or artificial illumination, it will be found that they are rather empirical, and are not always or even frequently followed. M. Trelat's defi-. nition of a well-lighted room is that it Js one -in which light has been introduced in sufficient quantity and has been so distributed that objects in any part of it are clearly seen without special "effort.

This is much too vague for either scientific' or practical purposes. Must we require that a room aVinll Vfc A as 1tvYi4 Via Ann 4on In ouau ligu vuav wu? part of it without trouble- see clearly "the. eye of a 'fine cambric needle? That might be a proper requirement in a watch factory, but is unnecessary to demand it in living1 rooms. On other hand, it seems probable that to keep a living room healthy it needs hot only, the diffused light of day, but the entrance of the direct rays of the sun that is, we want sunning as well as lighting-. If we have an isolated house in this latitude, its east, west and south sides will be well sunned, while its north side will not.

For.sueh a house the rules for window-height and area, from a sanitaay point view, are that for rooms having" windows upon but one side the area of the openings should be at least one-fourth or one-fifth of the area of the wall' hi which they are placed, and the' distance, from the window to the opposite wall should not be more than one and one-half times the height of the top of the window from the floor. If we 8 peak of houses in a city we have to take into consideration the shadows cast by other houses and the width 'of the street in its relation to he "height of the houses upon It. The theoretical rule is that the height of building-s on 'a street should never exceed one and a half times the width of the street. Although, as stated above, the north side of the house is less sunned, yet north windows give a very agreeable light. They are preferred by those who work immediately in front of windows, as microscopists, draughtsmen, and arfl stronp-lv recommended for thft main source of lighting of school rooms, A.

.1.1. 1 1 3 1 iuuuu in case tuey suuuiu always be supplemented by windows in the east or west walls. For bedrooms 'south windows are preferable. Jnth'e lighting of school rooms the cfcjef as to direction is that the principal light should come from the eft of the scholars, and that they should never face the light. So long as these rules -are observed there can not be too much light in a school room and there need be no fear about cross lights unless the room is to be used as a drawing school, and even then it is easy enough to cut off the light from one side.

In living rooms, and more especially in drawing-rooms and parlors, the full benefit of the windows is, as a rule, not obtained. They are more or less obscured with curtains and draperies which are so arranged as to cut off precisely- that part of the window which is most important for illuminat ing purposes the top. Careful housekeepers do not want sunlight in their parlors, and so long as this is the case, it is probable that they will not have It, sanitary reformers to the contrary notwithstanding. In planning a "dwelling-, therefore, we should try to give' the windows of the bed-rooms such an aspect that they will receive the sunlight, and the same should be done Bitting and living room, while the apartments of Jstate can do very well without much natural illumination. Engineering and Building Record.

FASHIONABLE CORSETS. The Styles Now la Great Favor with Society Leaders. Fashionable corsets are now cut to give a long, slender waist with high bust; to do this, there are transverse aeeams, making a close zone about the ivoiof lina vrt Vk Innnr n4 4lni .1 A ntuov iiu TV ibU a vug uU v9 LlliA UU1U "the flesh above, while the lower parts fit over the hips like a cuirass. However, to arrange for all figures, corsets are made as gloves are, in three sizes, ehdrt, medium and long, the difference being in the length of the waist. Col- ored corsets are now in great favor, the light shades being used for Bum- iner, such as dove, pale rose, clean blue and scarlet; black corsets are also won, being liked by many as well as are black stockings.

A new fancy com- bines two colors in the same corset, as Gobelin blue satin corset with the bones covered with copper red, or a bjack corset striped with pistache green, white, with reseda; the belt-like piece is also made in contrasting- color to. that- on the bust and hips. Jean, coutille and satteen are the fabrics of washing- corsets that may be cleaned at hom.e, while those of satin need a professional scourer: Summer orsets of transparent canvas as thin lace are held to the figure by a zone of satteen. For nursing- mothers are corsets that have a slit down each breast that can be easily opened or closed by a single button. For stout figures are long- corsets with elastic pieces set in the lower parts of the and side lacings to adjust the hip pieces comfortably.

Bones are crossed on tha hips to hold the figure in' a good shape, and to the spoon- shaped front steels are now added three wide side steels. Pretty stitch-rng in colored silks is done on the steels, and embroidery in neat designs edges the top of the corset. Harper's Bazar. is low said a Rockland Captain as he picked up the office cat, jad looking- into her eyes found the certain of the eye almost entirely dosed. "When it is high tide," he continued, "you will find the curtain drawn wida nren It's a.

sura si cm -Eockland (Me. Courier' Gazette. In some sections sweet-potato vines are cured for fodder. They are claimed to be a good milk-producing food. The strawberry does its work on business principles.

It sends out runners this year to work up business for next. Western Plowman. Beauty and adornment add to the value of a farm. A few trees around the house may sometimes be oi more value than the ground. Where dry weather has injured the pastures keep the sheep off, as they graze very close, the effect of which would be felt by the pasture crop next season.

Seeds of all kinds should be fully ripe when gathered; and, sug-gests a correspondent of the American Agri culturist, it is also important to harvest them as soon as they are ripe. A man lately thoroughly cured a balky horse by simply hitching- him in the field and letting- him stay where tha load was till he was hungry enough to pull it home. The horse held out thirty-six hours. In turning weeds under the work will be thrown away unless they bti completely covered, as covering- th roots only and leaving- the tops out oi the ground will permit them to continue growing1. Tomato plants will be benefited by liquid fertilizers.

An application once a week, during early growth, may be given. When the plants are ready for blossoming, withhold the application. A clump of trees in the corner of a field, or in the bend of a creek, takes some of the plainness out of farm scenery, and keeps the sun from bearing down so hard on the fly-pestered cows. A merchant of Bay Shore, L. is the proud possessor of a hen which, it is alleged, has laid an egg nine inches long.

Half the width was well pro portioned, while the rest tapered to a point like a handle. Milk is the natural food for young calves, and for those to be kept as cows it is none the worse, but rather the better, for being skimmed. It does not fatten so much, and the bulkiness of this kind of food distends the paunch and thus gets the animal in the habit of eating a large quantity of food. This in a milch cow is the trait most important in determining her value. Hay properly cocked will sustain very slight injury Dy remaining out through a storm.

The cocks should be made high and small at the base; pressing the hay down firmly and evenly, and trim neatly. With the side of the foot knock the hay around the base well under, so that the water will shed directly- on to the ground. Should there be sign of rain when the hay shall have been out over one night, double the cocks, rake the scatterings and trim neatly. When running to grass pigs will stand more corn or corn-meal without producing irritation or inflammation of the stomach. A pisr or a hoar can never be fed entirely on corn or corn- meal without causing more or less in flammation of the stomach.

The rank jlcent coming from their excrement proves this. As soon as there shall appear any signs of stomach disorder pigs shut in pens should be put upon the ground, and they will at once be gin to root up the fresh earth and eat it as an antidote. It has been demonstrated that nut- bearing trees can be made to pay more than the interest on the value of the land occupied during growth, as well as to return a larger profit at the end of twenty-five years in timber than could have been made on such land in reg-ular crops. When a farmer has more land than he can cultivate, ha would find it to his advantage to plant a grove or walnuts, chestnuts or some Other valuable wood or nut-bearing tree. DIPHTHERIA IN FOWLS.

A Suggestion That the Human Disease Might Originate from Poultry. Dr. Paulinus publishes in the Bulle tin Medical a report of an epidemic of diphtheria occurring in one of the Grecian isles, which lends considerable support to the possibility that this dis ease may originate from poultry. For over thirty years no case of diphtheria had been seen on the island. Sudden ly the disease developed, and five fatal cases occurred in one family.

I he epidemic soon spread throughout the entire community, thirtv-six dvinsr from the disease. Upon examination to discover its source, it was found that a flock of turkeys had been received some three weeks before from Salonica. Two of the turkeys were sick on their arrival, and each of the others was attacked in succession. Dr. Faulinus found two of them, still sick, and inspection showed patches of pseudo-membrane on the mucous membrane of the vault of the palate and of the pharynx.

On detaching strips of the exudation by the forceps, the mucous membrane beneath was seen to bleed slightly. The glands of the neck were swollen, and in one of the fowls the diphtheritic process had extended to the larynx, as was shown by the hoarseness of the cry and the difficult breathing. One of the turkeys, which had recovered from the throat affection, suffered from paralysis of the legs, being unable to walk. The gar den where the turkeys were was at the northern extremity of the- town, and the first children attacked were in the immediate neighborhood; and there was a north wind blowing the greater part of the time, which the doctor be lieves disseminated the germs of the disease. He concluded from his ex perience that the diphtheria of the fowl is similar in its course and symp toms to the disease occurring in man and that it can be carried from the one to the other, sometimes through the medium of the air.

This suggestion that the human disease might originate from, or be spread through the agency chickens or other poultry, has been noted by other writers, as well as that cats or other nets may convey tha poison from one family to another. Boston Qlobe. A pair of clam shells two feet and ten inches long were sold by a South- ington, curio collector for sixty dollars recently A French writer classes all women by the size of their thumbs. Those with large thumbs are said to be more likely to possess native intelligence while the small thumbs indicate feeling. What irregularities there must have been to cause this! In the room of a railway depot in Iowa is the following placard over the clock: "This is a clock; it is running; it is Chicago time; it is right; it is set every day at ten o'clock.

Now keep your mouth shut. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, is buried on the outskirts of Lincoln City, Ind. A plain slab of marble about four feet high, almost covered with grass and dogweed, marks her grave. On the stone is the inscription: 'Erected by a friend of her martyred son, 1879." A Maltese cat and a large rattlesnake had a fight in a yard at Albany, Ga. Every time the snake would attempt to strike with its wicked looking fangs, the cat would give it a vigorous slap on the side of the head and it would be withdrawn.

This lasted for fully an hour, when at last the cat pounced upon the snake and killed it. The health of New York compares very unfavorably with that of London. The annual mortality in the British metropolis is about 20 in 1,000, while in New York it is 26 in 1,000. The popu lation of New York is also much more crowded, there being an average of 16 persons to a dwelling, while in London the average is only 7. Servant maid "Have you heard the news, ma'am? Last night thieves broke into a hen-pen in Long street, and cleared out all the poultry." Mis tress "Serves them the stupid people! Why don't they take proper precautions; but where did this hap pen?" Maid "At No: Mistress "Why, that is our house Maid 'Certainly; I did not like telling you at once for fear you might be "I think," said the minister, who was visiting the parishioner, "that it is easier to coax children than to drive them.

Gentle words are more effect ive than harsh ones." "I think so, too," said the lady, tenderly. Then she raised her window and suddenly shouted to her boy: "Johnnie, if you don't come in out of that mud-puddle I'll break your back!" Columbus Dis-patoh. It is reported that a "devil fish' or pocean vampire, weighing fully two tons, was recently caught in a fishing seine on the Mexican coast near Tam- pico. When dead and spread out on the beach it presented every appearance of an enormous bat or vampire. It was fifteen feet long and seventeen feet wide from the edges of the pectoral fins, and its mouth was five feet across.

An office boy, fourteen years old. recently ran off with $25 belonging to a London firm. In court he made this statement: "Some time ago I went to see Buffalo Bill's 'Wild West' and made up my mind to go to America, and as soon as got the cneclc cashed 1 started off, but, not having enough money to take me to America, I followed the show. I still intend to ero to America, and, even if I shall get ten years lor this onence, 1 shall go after ward." There is at Lone Pine, Inyo County, a rock that might be easi- passed off for a petrified elephant. A photograph of the rock shows as like as possible to the photograph of an elephant.

The trunk, the eyes, the head and body are all as well formed in the photograph as if the camera had been turned to a living animal. The wrinkles and folds in the skin of an elephant and the color are all repeated in the rock. The symmetry and pro portions of the living animal are reproduced in this remarkable freak of nature. While a party of gentlemen were standing near a livery stable at Ath ens the other day, talking, something struck the wooden awning under which they were standing and then bounced off into the street. This excited the curiosity of one of the par ty, as it was too far from anyone's house to throw anything on the awning and there was nobody on the street.

On examination the missile was found to be a beef bone that was somewhat decomposed. The only theory as to where this bone could have come from is that a hawk or a buzzard had got onto a piece of board ing house beef, and finding it too tough, had incontinently dropped it. A WATCH SPRING NEST. Hw a Wlee Swtea Bird Rullt a Habita- tioa for Her Family. A Returned Tourist: "This last trip, during my wanderings in Switzer land, I happened to be detained for a day in the little town of Soleure.

As the day happened to be a rainy one and there were few attractions for me indoors, I strolled into the little local museum. "The collection of curiosities was not extensive and I found little to interest me. I was about to leave in disgust and seek in the seclusion of my room the comfort which a pipe grants, when suddenly my eye caught something, which turned out to be a veritable curiosity. "It was a bird's nest, which at first had nothing out of the ordinary in its appearance, and had it not been for a metallic glint on a portion of it I would, no doubt, have passed it by. Upon examining it I found that it was made of what do you suppose? Watch springs.

'Upon inquiry I found that numbers of imperfect springs are thrown but of the little watch factories which abound in this district- Some bird seema to have considered them excellent material of which to construct her nest and with infinite care worked them together into as perfect a structure of the kind as one could desire to 900 The nest was picked up a- short time before my visit and was at once placed in the museum. The idea struck me that Switzerland is indeed a great country for watch-making, when the very birds know how to make use oi watch springs. Jeweler' Weekly. them; a bunch of broom is thrown into the ring; both struggle for it; between them it is lighted in the furnace; their hands and arms are thrust into the flames; one has -also seized a bundle of drv flax, has limited it. and to my horror I see him press, the laming mass to his bare chest and into his open mouth.

Soon he falls exhausted and another takes his place. This one seizes a red-hot iron from the fire; it burns his hair; smoke arises; I see him draw his hands across it, and lay it on his foot with yells and howls of pain; the master carries him away, and immediately another rushes forward. I have had enough and would leave the terrible scene; but this last fanatic fascinates me. He is young and beautifully built. His white "gan-fioura" and blue and gold jacket seem one garment as he whirls past me into the court, hair, arms, clothing, one dizzy whole.

What will he do what can he do more than the others? There is a cactus plant growing in a jar in one corner of the court, a species of prickly pear, with its tough leaves covered thickly with long thorns. This he seizes, as his wild dance brings him In its vicinity. The weird music swells and falls as the victim throws himself on the ground beside the tire. Crouching low before the altar, he places his forehead on the ground, and, this humiliated, he ravenously devours the thorny petals. As if this were not enough, he springs again to his feet, and seizing' one of the pots of coals, he twirls it about his head until the surface is glowing red.

The kneels beside it. In a second the cruel deed is done and we see the gray' impression of the boy's naked foot upon-the red-hot fire, while he is off and away with a cry of fiendish joy, unlike his predecessor, he takers his' place among his fellows, apparently without pain. It was too dreadful, too uncanny, to recount the spiked iron thrust into the flesh, the knotted cord, the jagged sword-blade. One would have forced out his eye, but Mohammed, by the mouth of his servant Makaddah, forbids the deed. Another threw himself upon a sword and a uAtrhninml mun UJ 1 i Vl fl US if it.

1 CJT "iiOill KS. 1UUI Wi M.A. a were harmless as earth, Then came a murmur among the spectators, the first I had heard, and the word "scorpion fell upon my ear. Truly I hud never expected to behold that most terrible of reptiles, whose sting is instant death and whose touch is sure poison. But it was true.

They brought them in an earthen vessel, and I must confess that American curiosity got the better of American manners, for "see them" w'a would, and see them we -did. In color, a pale pink, in form long and narrow, with many legs and a squirming side-wise motion like a crab. We shivered as the things were carried past; but horror of horrors was reached when fine, tall fellow seized one, fearlessly tore it to pieces, and devoured it'be-fore bur eyes. X. Y.

Commercial Ad. vertiser. AMERICAN BONAPARTES. Members of the Historical Corslcan Fam. iljr Kesidins; in Washington.

Two striking figures have boeomo familiar to people along the fashionable part of Rhode Island avenue and' out Fourteenth street. They are always on horseback, sweeping along at a brisk trot or canter, aud whisking around corners with a reckless grace. The one is a man of striking appearance, in high military boots and with the strong face of asoldier. His heavy shoulders bend forward in an un-American fashion for riding, but his strong limbs and bold carriage of his head attest that he would be an erect figure dismounted, and whon hia horse comes to a stand he sits his saddle as- erect as a statue. His large, round head is set firmly, and his heavy black mustache, brushed straight out on either side and waxed at the ends In the military style of France, and a black goatee, drawn down and waxed in the same style, give him a fierce expression, and bring to mind a historic portrait.

His mount is a blood bay of large build, which carries him at a sweeping trot. The companion who gallops on a smaller animal at his side is a little old lady, with an abundance of iron gray hair, and features that always attract attention. She is a daring rider as well as a good one, and she often presses her horse to a more reckless pace than is his wont. Sometime they are accompanied by a young girl, apparently their daughter. Nearly every day in the winter, when leas.eu-thusiastic horsemen restricted their equestrian exercises to the quadrangle of the riding academy, these two.

would face the cutting wind with a dash that showed them seasoned to the sport. The man's striking resemblance to Napoleon HI. marks him at once for one of that stock. They are Colonel Jerome Bonaparte and Mme. Bonaparte.

It is Mme. Bonaparte's love of this exercise that swings her husband mn nftan intn tha saddle. This active- out-door life gives her a youthful color i that disputes the accusation oi tier gray hair. The Colonel's hair i tinged with gray. Any one at all familiar with the portrait of the last Emperor of France is struck with the resemblance between the two faces.

Colonel Bonaparte rides a better horse, but he is not as graceful a rider a hi wife. Washington Lett, "Other forms of murder themselves in constant attacks the happiness of the home, upon show upon repu- tation and in gossip which takes away a good name and breaks down health by persecution. 'The spirit of the commandment also includes the murder of the soul, and this kind of murder may be practiced on ourselves or on- others. There are some things worse than physical death. "If the spirit of the sixth commandment were obeyed, the greater portion of the world's sin would disappear, human sacrifices would go on no longer, and plots, conspiracies, riots and revolutions would cease; in fact, the spirit of persecution would entirely disappear, prosperity would follow, science enlarge its boundaries, and manhood and womanhood would be ennobled." N.

Y. Herald. PATRICK HENRY'S DEATH. Passing Away in the Comforts of Christian Religion and Without Pain. The disease of which he was dying was intussusception.

On the 6th of June, 1799, all other remedies having failed, Dr. Cabell proceeded to administer him a dose liquid mercury. Taking the vial in his hand, and look ing at it for a moment, the dying man aaid: "I suppose, Doctor, this is your last resort." The doctor replied: "I am sorry to say, Governor, that it is. Acute inflammation of the intestines has already taken place; and unless it is rjp'ioved, mortification will ensue, if it has not already commenced, which I fear." "What will be the effect of this medicine?" said the old man. "It will give you immediate relief, or the kind-hearted doctor could not finish the sentence.

His patient took up the word: "You mean, doctor, that it will give immediate relief, or will prove fatal immediately?" The doctor answered: "You can only live a very short time without it, and it may possibly relieve you." Then Patrick Henry said: "Excuse me, doctor, for a few minutes," and drawing down over his eyes a silken cap which he usually wore, and still holding the vial in his hand, he prayed, in clear words, a simple, childlike prayer for- his family, for his country and for his own soul then in the presence of death. Afterward, in perfect calmness, he swallowed the medicine. Meanwhile Dr. Cabell, who greatly loved him, went out upon the lawn, and in his -grief threw himself down upon the earth under one of the trees, weeping bitterly. Soon, when he had sufficiently mastered himself, the doctor came back to his patient, whom he found calmly watching the congealing of the blood under his finger nails and speaking words of love and peace to his family, who were weeping around his chair.

Among other things, he told that he was thankful for that goodness of God, which, having blessed him through all his life, was then permitting him to die without any pain. Finally, fixing his eyes with much tenderness on his dear friend, Dr. Cabell, with whom he had formerly held many arguments respecting the Christian religion, he asked the doctor to observe how great a reality and benefit that religion was to a man about to die. And after Patrick Henry had spoken to his beloved physician these few words in praise of something which, having never failed him in all his life before, did not tbsn fail him in his very last need of it, he continued to breathe very softly for some moments, after which they who were looking upon him saw that his end had come. Prof.

Tyler's Life of Henry. Friend your uncle's will satisfactory to you, Brown Perfectly so; Tm a lucky dog! He left his entire fortune to an insane asylum. Friend "You mean that you are the unlucky dog." Brown No, I don't; the other relations are going to contest the will and I'm to be the attorney. Life. store and purchase ready-made monstrosities, and so they come to me." N.

Y. Telegram. THE MEGALOMANIAC. Iaeapable of Jncfcins; His Own Works, He HUghts the Lives of Others. "There is an immensity of trick in all that Shakespeare said Wordsworth to Charles Lamb.

"Why, I could write as well as Shakespeare myself, if I only had the mind to." "Yes," wittily replied Lamb; "all yotf lack is the mind." Wordsworth was a megalomaniac. It is said that he believed his doggerel poem, "Peter Bell," was as good as his incomparable "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality." Like many others, he was incapable of judging his own work. Every editor receives countless contributions from contributors who arp megalomaniacs, laboring under the delusion that they are great. Their articles are without originality, negligent of all grammatical restraints, an radically independent of the spelling book. And yet they think they can writo; and thousands of editors' regrets and whole stacks of rejected manuscripts can not undeceive them.

Never a week passes but some minister meets with a megalomaniac, who thinks he could excel him as a preacher. The severest trials of the family physician arise from the superior wisdom of their patients, or perhaps the good old aunts of their patients, who have some pet hereditary theory which they believe is better than the doctor's. The medical megalomaniac is the blight of every doctor's life. Yankee Blade. An Atrocious The conversation had turned on the husband's shortcomings.

'You have a bad memory, Maria. an atrocious memory," said the hus- band, wrathfully. "A bad memory, John?" replied the wife, "how can you say so? You know I never forget anything, and you know every word I have said of you is true. There isn't a woman alive with a more acocurate memory than mine." That's the trouble with it, Maria, replied John, as he jammed his hat down over his eyes and started down town through the pelting rain, "you remember millions and millions of things-you ought to forget. Dara suoh a memory!" Chicago Tribune..