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Domestic Animals.
Their intelligence, Affection and
Reasoning Faculties.
—A Sandusky cat suicided by delib-
erately jumping off the dock into tte
bay.
—A remarkable instance of the fidel-
ity and sagacity of the dog lately hap-
pened at Milford Haven. Two men
pamed Davies and Taylor were out in a
boat, which was swamped. The former
of these was the owner of a dog, and
while the men were struggling in the
water the animal caught hold of Taylor
with the object of supporting him;
finding, however, that it was not his
master to whom he was rendering this
assistance, he relinquished his grasp and
went to tire aid of Davies, his master,
supporting him until he was rescued by
& passing steamer, the other man being
drowned.
w+ —The cunning of partridges is illus-
trated by the following from the notes
of a sportsman : ‘‘In hunting partridges
before now I have sometimes been a
go)d deal amused with one of their
tricks. On my coming near the flock
the male partridge would rush toward
me with feathers stuck out like a frill,
with wings flapping, and making a ter-
rible fuss in every possible way. After
a time, though, I found that this was
only a trick, while my attention was
being drawn to the blusterer before me,
the female, with smooth feathers and
drooped head, was hurrying off with the
brood to a place of safety, and when
this had been accomplished there were
no longer any partridges in sight—male
or female,”
—An upright Indianian, on return-
ing home from a visit to the home of
his fathers and mothers in Kentucky,
says he saw 117 snakes about the size of
a lead pencil playing on a smooth bit
of sand bar at the mouth of a run that
empties into Bromwell’s creek near his
farm. They were gamboling on the
sand after the fashion of lambs or kit-
tens, Sometimes they would unwrap
themselves into a ball as large as his
two fists and go rolling around until
it would tumble into the water, and
then the little wigglers would unwrap
themselves and scamper out into the
land again. Three of them were Kkiiled
by being squeezed to death in the balls,
and finally they got to fighting, where-
upon their mother, who was lying on a
log watching their sport, came down
and stopped tue row. When he went
near where she was to get a better look
at the young racers, the mother opened
her mouth, and they all rushed down
her throat, and she chased him home,
Tie Moxey WHirs THE DOG. —
John Moore, of Savannah, had a big
stump-tailed bulldog with which he
made his living. The brute was un-
gainly and had pot the appearance
of an accomplished fighter, but he
always came out ahead and John took
the stakes. One day an Italian came
along with a hand-organ and a monkey,
and the dog man bantered the mus.cian
tolet the monkey fight the dog, offering
{0 bet him five dollars on the result. The
Italian took him up and a large crowd
collected to see the fun. The Ifalian
tossed the monkey onto the dog, and in
jess than a jiffy the little brute had his
teeth and his claws fastened like a vise
in the stump of that deg’s tail, and was
screaming like a hyena. The dog gave
but one astonished look behind as he
bounced to his feet and made tracks
for another country. The monkey
held on until Rattler sprang over a ten-
rail fence at the back of the garden,
when he suddenly quit his hold and sat
on the top rail and watched the dog's
flight with a chatter of perfect satisfac-
tion and danced along the rail with de-
light. The little Italian shouldered his
monkey affectionately, and walking up
to Moore said : “Your dog not well to-
day ; maybe your dog gone off to hunt
rabbeet. Your dog no like my mon-
key—he not acquaint. Maybe ven I
come again next year he come back and
fight some more.”” The dog did not re-
turn for three days, and cannot be in-
duced to fight even & common cur.—
New Orleans Times- Democrat,
How Lose AxmMaLs Live.—The
average of cats is fifteen years ; squir-
pels and rabbits, seven ; a bear rarely
exceods twenty years,
A dog lives twenty years, a wolf
tweaty, a fox fourteen to sixteen ; lions
are long-lived, the one known by the
name of Pempey lived to the age of
seventy.
Elephants have been known to live to
the very great age of four hundred
When Alexander the Great had
wonquered Porus, King of India, he
took a great elephant which had fought
waliantly for the King, and named him
Ajax, dedicated him to the sun, and let
him go with this inscription : *‘Alex-
ander, the Son of Jupiter, dedicated
Ajax to the Sun.” The elephant was
found with this inscription three
hundred and fifty years after.
Pigs isave been known to live to the
age of twenty ; cows live about fifteen
years ; sheep seldom exceed the age of
©en ; a horse has beey known to live to
the age of sixty-two, but averages from
attain a hundred years.
Cuvier considered it probable for a
whale to live a thousand years. The
dolphin and perpoise attain the age of
thirty ; an eagle died at Vienna at the
age of one hundred and four; ravens
frequently reach the age of one hun
dred ; a tortoise has been known to
live one hundred and seven years,
Swans and pelicans are long-lived.
EN ft it
Etchings and Echoes.
When woman's heart o’erflows with grief,
The streams of sadness quickly rise,
And instantly she finds relief
By dropping crystals from her eyes.
But man has not a woman's grace ;
When overborne by sorrow ’s throes,
He simply covers up his face
And blows in trumphet tones his nose.
—Paris workingmen are organiz-
ing against cheap labor from Prussia
and [taly. .
—Six hundred ostrich eggs have so
far been laid at the ostrich farm near
Anaheim, Cal. :
—New York highwaymen have way-
laid men to get the gold setting of their
artificial teeth.
—A Philadelphia man got up a good
deal of popularity for himself by
feeding his bloodhound a cat every
day.
—** Judge not that ye be not judged,”
is rendered in the Afghan testament:
“Do not do justice, lest justice be done
to you.’
—Qoyotes are reported to be so
tame at Mineral Park, Arizona, that
they come into town and play with the
dogs.
—The longest private telephone wire
in the world is said to be in
land. It extends from Glasgow
Wemyss Bay, a distance of thirty-two
miles,
— A North Chatham (N.
has a dog that climbs trees. It receut-
ly captured a raccoon after a
perate fight in the high branches of a
chestnut.
Seot-
to
Y.} farmer
des
—The French Republicans are al-
ready putting their heads together to
discover the best way of celebrating the
centenary of the French Revolution six
years hence,
~The city of Devil’s Lake, Dakota,
is not yet one hundred days old, but
already choice lots are sold at two thou-
sands dollars each, It has seven large
hotels and two banks,
—An old bachelor says ladies do not
faint from tight lacing, but from tight
hair dressing. In presence of an angel
in he says, suggest the letting
down of her hair ; she will at once dis-
fits,
play consciouness, carry her hands to
defend borrowed locks, and moan forth
the desire to be at once brought home to
the bosom of her family.
~A curious legal complication has
arisen out of the earthquake disaster at
Casamicciola. Among the victims were
a Signor and Signora Bonavita, who
left property worth a million dollars, to
which there is no direct heir. Their
relatives, in order to determine the
succession, have petitioned to have the
bodies distinterred, that by an ex-
amination of the external injuries it
may be ascertained, if possible, which
died first,
-—An exchange wonders how big bo-
nanza politicians from Colorado spend
their time in Washington. The first
week they stand around listening to
the hand organs and buying glasses of
beer with a fried oyster thrown in, and
after that they give big dinners every
evening.—N. Y. Herald
—Marie Amelie, Queen of Louis
Philippe, was the first lady who travelled
on the first French railway, that from
Paris to St, Germain, constructed, as
Thiers said, to amuse the Parisians,
«Pouring oil on the troubled waters
proved highly efficacious with many
vessels of the Glousester fleet during
the recent heavy gales, and probably
saved many of them from being badly
damaged if not entirely wrecked by Lhe
terrible seas. The effect is almost
magical, as the oil dripping into the
water prevents the sea from breaking,
and the vessel is enabled to ride safely
on top of the waves, — Gloucester Adver-
tiser,
—A county prisoner says he has al-
ways been taught to do in Rome as Ro-
mans do, and he finds fault because
now that he is in jail he is not allowed
to do as the jailers do.— Cincinnati Sat
wrday Night. .
— Leader of orchestra to young Irish-
man who wants to join—*"Do you play
by ear or note ?" * Nayther, be jabbers,
I play wid me hands,’ — Burlington
Free Press,
~In forecasting weather, Mr. Rollo
Russell points out that next to frequent
readings of the barometer and ther-
mometer locally, and a knowledge of
the distribution of atmospheric pressure
over an area as may be, observation of
the character of clouds, especially of
the cirrus variety,'is of the greatest
utility. Observation of cirrus can
plainly be made use of in a system of
telegraphic weather forecasts,
About Women,
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Matrimonial Memoranda.
Never taunt with a past mistake,
Never allow a request to be repeated
both.
“1 forgot’ is never an acceptable ex-
cuse,
If you must criticise let it be done
lovingly. :
Make marriage a matter of moral
judga.ent.
Never make a remark at the expense
of the other.
Give your warmest sympathies for
earh other’s trials.
If one is angry let the other part the
lips only for a kiss,
Let each try to yield oftenest to tie
wishes of the other.
Neglect the whole world besides rath-
er than one another.
Never talk at one another, eitheralone
or in company.
Never speak loud to one another un-
less the house is on fire,
Always leave home with loving words
for they may be the last,
The very felicity is in the mutual cul
tivation of usefulness.
A good wife or a good husband isthe
greatest of earthly blessings,
Never find fault unless it is perfectly
certain a fault has been committed.
Let all your mutual accomodations
be spontaneous, whole-souled and free
as air.
Consult one another in all that comes
within the experience, observation or
sphere of the other,
A hesitating or grum yielding to the
wishes of the other always grates upon
a loving heart.
Do not herald the saerifices you make
to each other’s habits or preferences,
They who marry for traits of mind
and heart will seldom fail of perennial
springs of domestic enjoyment.
The beautiful in heart is a
times of more avail, as securing domes
tie happiness, than the beautiful in per
son.
million
English Cirls,
A London paper, while not insensi
ble to the charms of the fair foreigners
who visit England, claims that young
Englishwomen of the middle and up
per ranks are physically stronger thas
their compeers in any other European
country or in the United States, Well
bred American giris are famous for an
elegant and refined type of loveiiness;
French ladies are the best dressed in
the world ; the youthful frauleins of
Germany have the best heads of hair
the Spanish girls the brightest eyes w
be found anywhere ; and in Florence
and Venice may be found, to this day
direct descendants of those Old-World
beauties still fresh and fair upon jhe
canvas of Titian. When, however, all
is said that courtesy to the foreigner
demands, young English ladies remain
stouter of limb, clearer of complexion,
and altogether more hearty than others
elsewhere, Plain food, sound sleep,
suitable clothing, exercise in the open
air, and the plentiful application of
soap and water, are the hygienic open
secrets for the preservation of health in
the human being, and the use of those
physical development and personal
beauty, have made young English wo-
men what they are at their best,
Heroic Wives,
Dr. Edward Eggleston's important
historical paper in . the BSeplember
Century, on ‘‘Indian War in the Colo-
nies,” says of the heroism of the wives
of the pioneers: “The women of
those times developed a readiness and
courage as remarkable as that of the
men. The Swedish women, near the
side of Philadelphia, while boiling soap,
were warned that the Indians were
coming. They tock refuge, soap and all,
in the fortified church, blew the conch-
shell horns to alarm the men, and when
the Indians tried to undetermine the
building, ladled the scalding soap upon
them, and so saved themselves from
destruction until their husbands arrived.
The renowned Hannah Bradley, of
Haverhill, in Massachusetts, who had
more than her share of captivities and
adventures, killed an Indian who was
rushing into the open gate of her hus-
band’s garrison, by throwing boiling
soap upon him ; and when the savages
came to capture her a third time, she
saved herself by shooting the foremost
dead. In 1676, the battle which Tal-
cott was fighting, in defence of Had-
ley, was decided by the promptness of
the women, who loaded with small shot
and nails a cannon that had just ar
rived from Boston and conveyed it to
the defender ; these it, to
the dismay and rout of savages, A
story is told of a maid servant in Dor-
chester who defeated an Indian single-
handed by the use of a musket and a
shovelful of live coals A young girl
in Maine, shut a door and held it, and
thirteen women and children had time
to reach a blockhouse while the Indians
were chopping down the door and
kill its defender. Twelve years after
Picklord's ingenious defense of his
use, at Oyster River, some women,
at the same place, imitated it, There
being no men in the garrison, they fired
an alarm, loosened their hair to appear
like men, and used their guns so
briskly that the savages fled. In 1712,
Esther Jones saved Heard’'s garrison
in the township of Dover, in New
Hampshire, by mounting guard and
calling so loud and confidently as to
make the Indians believe that help was
at hand. The stalwart Experience
Bogarth, of Dunkard’s Creek, in
Pennsylvania, in a hand-to-hand fight
in a doorway, in which two white men
were killed, slew three Indians with an
axe,
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Luminous Paint.
For some reason the luminous paint
made and used in England seems
to be of a much more brilliant quality
than that sold here. Several of the
railway companies on the other sideof the
Atlantic have tried it for painting roofs
of tunnels, and a car on the South-
eastern railway is said to have been re-
cently painted with it inside, A good
coat was given to the walls and ceiling,
and the light emitted from it is said to
have been so bright that the passengers
were able to read by it while passing
through tunnels, As the sudden change
from daylight to shadow on entering a
tunnel adds tenfold to the apparent
darkness of such places, an artificial
light capable of dispersing such gloom
must indeed be bright, and if the lum-
inous paint can really accomplish the
result claimed for it a simple coat of it,
without expen e for renewal or atten-
dance, would be superior for lighting
railway trains to any lamps now in use
for that purpose. Another common
application of the paint abroad is in
making luminous lettering upon guide
or sign boards, and from our own
perience of a wall
the
painted with
which, after lapse of two years,
still
shines at night as brightly as ever,
we should suppose that it might be ver)
well adapted for such illuminating tab-
lets in a sheltered position. Incountry
saa Ny
towns, for instance, where street
if used at all, are extinguished at
Mmmps
3
mid-
night, the cost of an application of lum-
to the guide
uous paint board would be
trifling and its
KE:
advantages very consid-
erable, - :
Why They Discharged the
Cook,
A man
tered
at Long Braneh recently
said :
“We
‘Bring me a plate.”
A plateful was placed before him, and
he set to work with great gusto, After
he had taken about a dozen spoonfuls
“Have
have,”
a restaurant and
you any clam-chowder ?"’
replied the waiter,
he drew a pair of opera-glasses from his
pocket and looked intently at the chow-
der for some time. Then he jumped
into the air and shouted : ‘‘Eureka!”’
“What's that,’’ asked the proprietor,
“I'vegot it!" yelled the diner. “Got
what 7"' asked the restaurateur. “A
clam 1” “Great Scott!” yelled the
proprietor ; *‘he’s got the clam I” And
before the diner could say a word the
proprietor picked the clam up in a pair
of gold pincers and bore it triumphant-
ly to the kitchen, threw it back into a
huge boiler of chowder and said : “Who
dealt the chowder to that dark-haired
man over there?" *1 did,” said the
assistant cook. “Then you are dis-
charged for dealing out the clam
that we use for flavoring purpose,’ —
Puck,
asian AII— san
A Free View of the Sun.
An old street scientist has been rent~
ing a venerable telescope to such cur-
jous passers by as desired to gaze at the
sun and would pay a nickel for the priv-
jlege. Quite acrowd collected each day
last week and patronage was liberal,
It became rushing Monday last when
the veteran fakir hung up a sign ‘One
day only—a free view of the sun *’ The
line extended half a block dows Fourth
avenue, from Twelfth street. Ola Dea-
con Pennyman, who lives in Harlem
and walks home to save car fare, con-
cluded to take advantage of the fee
show as he came by at noon. He took
position 163 in the line and at the end
of an hour he was number 3, His face
wore an expectant air and as he wiped
his brow, for it was hot, he asked the
exhibitor :
“How can you afford to do this for
nothing, my friend ¥"
“A wealthy and philanthropic man
who wishes to enlighten the people on
the appearance of the sun pays me so
much a day to show it; your turn
1"
The deacon bent down, craned his
neck as if he was going to cover all the
spots at once, and saw ““Smiggin’s Stove,
Polish.” The deacon solemnly followed
162 wise, sad men down the avenue,-
N. Y. Jour nal,
Never reflect on a past action which
was done with a good motive and with
the best judgment at the time.
yr
was felt in four minutes. She rallied
and recovered. The reporting physi-
cian says : “This undoubtedly estab-
lishes the value of ammonia as a cardiac
stimulant.” And yet how few recall it
practically. The substitution of cold
milk as a sustenance in surgical cases
requiring beef and whisky, with whieh
five or six years ago in some hospitals
the stomach was filled, was spoken of ;
also the marvelous success of that Lon-
don hospital where, by agreement, for
seven vears alcohol has been used in
but one case, and in that not with
benefit.
Sanitary,
How to Preserve and Restore
Health,
—A spoonful of lime water and a
spoonful of sweet oll beaten well to-
gether and applied with a feather direct-
ly to a burn, relieves thesmart and pre-
vents blistering. When this remedy is
not at hand, common baking sods put
directly on the burn and moistened will
give immediate relief.
-Dr, Clauston, in the annual report*
of the Edinburgh insane asylum, says
that in very accute cases of depression
and maniacal exhaustion, he has sub-
stituted eggs and milk for stimulants
with abundant success, A bad case of
acute delirium was cured by a diet of
four quarts of milk and sixteen eggs
daily for three months, He says: ‘I
preach the gospel of fatness
io ——
The New York Way.
There is a young woman from New
York here whe makes a sensation by
walking on Broadway unattended, driv-
ing in front of her an English pup of
large size, writes a Saratoga eorrespond-
i ent. This lady had a huge dark hat,
| with a pyramid crown and wide flaring
brim piled up high on a coil of bleach
yellow hair, shading a high complexion
| and regular featured face. Her coat
proved to be fallacious, Mental | looked like a suit of armor, being made
Causes greater waste of tissue with steel-like looking threads woven
than muscular, According to | all through, The skirts, falling straight
careful estimates, three hours of hard | from under this coat,
study wear out the body more than al
whole day of hard physical exertion.
“Without phosporous, no thought," is
a Crerman saving |
that labor with their hands has long been
labor
much
does
were alternate
| stripes of dead black and white, about
{ 6 inches in width, Her feet were hob-
bled with French slippers, with 4-inch
heels digging into the centre of her feet.
| She was driving her pup ahead of her,
| holding on to him by a steel chain.
of labor which thisorgan is required to | The dog wore a russet harness, with
perform. | a silver bell tinkling af his throat, A
brain are | great pink satin ribbon bow nearly cov-
| ered his right side. This striking-look-
of the | ing dog driver met with a misfortune
| just as she reached a group of
which | I The ch
the holel Piazza.
that af : ‘ 4
that of | from the collar and the dog
and the consumption
of that essential ingredient of the brain
increases in proportion to the amount
i
I'he wear and tear of the
easily
measured by careful
examination of the saits the liquid
in
mH
excretions, The importance
organ
11l receives,
brain as a working is shown by loungers
the amount of bloo on ain parted
8 pre
porticuately
body. i
was free,
noises in
the brain, though its average weight is | the street ‘
} ain, though ils averag ight 18 | the street and took up a position where
ortieth of the
a
greater than
th is
Une-lll
he blood goes to | He darted down among the
¥ i dg | 3 v v 1 ¥
body. This fact | he was able to defy his mistress. She
uld be sufficient to prove that | w
iid be suflicient to prove that | was in despair—quite ready to ory over
food, | the tr
At any mo-
chanics and | me
went the hoof of some cruel horse might
. $s n i t
WOT Kers require
food than me
more and ly awful situation.
1 better
: ( Firiuts 7 ol y}! s % .
BHOTers, — Los wrn dash out the brains of he
At thita ¥ ant 4)
Al thls moe the
r darling pet.
3 inevitable hero
Two Meals a Day. | came to the rescue, A young man left
| the crowd and advanced young
as he asked:
man or woman of 45 or over, t0 the
lady, stiffly his bat,
of any service i
in hard manual BLOT, raising
ous, sedentary and Miss Blank. can 1 be
» but two meals | rescuing your dawg ?"’
the second not She looked up and 1 gnized an old
bye at ¥ £4 . ¥ sryil ‘ i
being later than J in the afternoon, and | Lena, La
COoLY,
absolutely nothing afterwards, except im and eternal gratitude
| 3
h
it might be in some cases an yours
ink, such
orange
or lemon, orcup of warm ds The young men on
the piazza began
to book bets on the recovery of the dog
by Cholly.
as tea. broma, sugar water or ice
calm and
young man. He was
| dressed in a four-botton cut-away suit
of | of subdued English plaid,
cream. there would be such a change | He was a very
for the better in the way of sound sleep, | self-possessed
ling on waking of having rested, an
5 is a & 5 a
for breakfast, with
necktie and a white waistcoat.
a buoyancy a red
His
shoes were sharp pointed patent leath-
few except the animal and gintt with drab, white buttoned tops. A
willing to back to i black English Derby hat was set neatly
pots of Egypt. “Ben Wade,” | upon his banged, close cropped hair.
frequently called, one of the political | He looked at the dog and whistled.
lions of the
meals a day for twenty
tion dwring the
§
day, with a
$ . i TLE
temper and manner, t
| Or,
20
Bt
as hie 18
but
years, and if
all sedentary persons, those who are in-
doors a greater part their time,
would, after the age of 45, observe the
same inflexible rule, there can be no
doubt, vther things being equal, tha
long years of happy exemption from
the ordinary ills of life would be the
result. The reason is that the stomach
West, has taken two | The dog barked contemptuously, and
| took refuge in a perfect forest of horse
legs,
“Go in Cholly,” cried one of hisfriends
from the piazza,
Cholly just tuned and gravely lifted
his hat to his friends, Then he took
out a red leather pocketbook and beck-
oned to a colored boy down the street.
The boy came rushing up. Cholly
of
would have time to rest for recupera-
tion, and would thus be able to perform
its part more thoroughly, making purer
blood, giving better sleep and securing
good appetite for breakfast. let any
man try it for ten days, taking the
took out a crisp $2 bill. “My son,”
said be, ‘*do you see that dawg ? Well,
we want him. Get him, and this is
yours,’
The boy stole around to the rear.
Cholly continued to whistle, attracting
second meal seven hours after the first,
and abandon the practise if he can.—
Hall's Journal of Health,
Use and Abuse of Alcohol.
A lecture upon the use and abuse of
alcohol as a remedy was given recently
before the Boston medical college and
some invited guests by Dr. Day, super-
intendent of the Washingtonian Home.
From the lecture and discussion which
followed are given Dr. Day’s own con-
clusion and that of some of England’s
most eminent physicians, There is no
danger in stopping any man’s alcohol
abruptly. Those committed to prison
pever die from sudden enforced absti-
nence. Moderate, habitua! drinking is
more productive of disea: e than periodic
drunkenness, Cayenne pepper, prepa-
rations of ammonia, hot milk with salt,
ete., should displace alcoholics as tem
porary stimulants, as they produce no
reaction to lessen the chancesof future
recovery ; although even these continu-
ously resorted to for relief to a com-
plaining stomach, will uitimately injure
its tone. Alcohol is a narcotic by méans
of which so many fatally overtax stom-
ach, liver and brain. A single glass of
brandy will keep the temperature fall-
ing for four hours, in spite of feclings
to the contrary, Dr. T, C. Chambers,
physician to the Prince of Wales, says :
the attention of the dog until the boy,
running swiftly on his hands and feet,
after the fashion of his early ancestors,
soon caught the dog and carried it back
to its mistress. ”’
“Thank you, Cholly.”
“Don’t mention it,”’ said he as he
walked calmly back to the hotel porch,
““That is not'the way we would serve
a lady in distress in Texas,” said a
Southwestern sportsman as he came up:
**we would never hire man or dog. We
would never surrender the rapturous
pleasure of incurring physical fatigue
and danger for a lady in distress, We—""
“Yaas, I dare say, but thisis the New
York way, my friend.”
Where's Your Gimrer?-—Little
Johnny Yerger has cawsed a breach
between, Gus DeSmith, an Austin
society gentleman, and the Yerger
family. Gus called to make a friendly
visit after supper, he having previously
informed Colonel Yerger of the intended
honor. The whole family and Gus
were in the parlor, when Johnny riveted
the attention of all present by asking
Gus DeSmith: “Have you brought
your gimlet with you?” “Hush,
Johnny,” sald Mrs, Yerger. “Go to
bed, sir," remarked Colonel Yerger,
“What do you mean, Johnny ?" asked
G “1 don’t mean nuffin’;
“The effect of alcohol is always and i una ue
uniformly the arrest of vitality.” Phy- | nie event "
pop wt Hil te | Lh Svestug So bur us’ alle Foss
ater demonstrations. The Boston .
Medical Journal of & later year reports ~Collerettes of lace take the form of
the case of a patient arrived at the last | high ruffs or of a row of lace turned
stages of exhaustion after an operation, down over a ribbon passing around the
in spite of whisky freely admihistered ; neck, finished by two jabots side by
side, giving a square effect. :