A Mississippi Race, A ————————T Quite eight years afterward I took my passage one afternoon upon the good steamer Habakkuk FE. Dodge, bound from St. Louis to New Orleans. 1 de- seribe her as ‘‘good”’ because she was so described in the ‘‘sheddle’ in the hall of the Granite House, St, Louis; but so far as my subsequent experience went she turned out to be anything but good, although theskipper, a rank Ken- tuckian, declared that he'd fixed the voyage between St, Louis and Noo Or- Jeens in five hours less time than any ether boat, he had, and that’s a fact.” As 1 stepped on board I saw another steamer lying alongside the quay, which had steam up, and was adverti - sed to start with us; and the pilot, with whom 1 was already friends, guessed there'd be a race. This was not comforting, for I had pead in books of travel and adventure of midnight races between the high- pressure boats of the Mississippi, and the chief associations in my mind with these events were the bursting of boil- ers, blowings up, conflagrations, and horrible collisions with snags, However, I had taken my ticket, my baggage was aboard, and the presence of two or three hundred other passen- gers solaced me with the idea that after all these werp but travelers’ yarns, or by the steamers. Little was I acquain- can people, whose monopoly of ‘‘big things’’ in catastrophes, as in all else, makes them living exponents of the proverb that ‘familiarity breeds con- tempt.” We started at midnight, and I was relieved to see that the St. Louis. the opposition steamer, was still at he moorings, although her smoke stack were in full operation and her bell and whistle were going furiously. To fread old ground in the shape of describ- ing a Mississippi steamboat voyage does not come within the scope of this paper; suffice it, therefore, to say that we rea ehed Mempnis, which is about a third ef the way, without mishap, and with- r oN the St, Lows. Off Blues Point, however, miles below Memphis, about midnight, there was a visible excitement neighborhood of the glass tearing house, and I, who was the only passen- ger awake, went up to inquire the rea- SOM. “Look skipper, his right gut turning his head, St. Lo we head of her, but them were so powerful siow in gettin them molasses at Memphis.” I looked and beheld, amid blackness of the night, what seemed to be some unearthly fiery creature round- ing the point we had passed some five minutes previously—the two side lights | representing the eyes, the glare of hes furnace a horrible mouth, and the dis- | tinctly audible beats of her huge pad- | dies simulating her angry pantings to | come up with us, i “‘Keppins is spry, and that’s a fact,” said the skipper, lighting a huge cigar; | “and I reckon he won’t spare an inch Lawis along; | some 81 Lar, pointing { hand over hi MES, ougnter the dense of timber to send the St. but the old Hab, she’s got legs, too, and ef Keppins beats us, as he oughter do, considerin’ his boat's new and this’ere has been runnin’ five years, it'll be by accudent, I'm thinkin." “Accident!” I thought with a shud- | der, “‘that means to say that this reck- tess fellow is going to send us along at | full speed until we either blow np or catch fire;” the latter seeming to be the most probable to me, when I thought that we were but a huge mass of dry | woodwork heaped like spare fuel about a seething fiery furnace, However, here I was, so I quieted my fears as best 1 could, and even took | sufficient interest in the race to take a | quiet bet with the skipper that we | wonld win. Our furnace roared, our stacks pou- red forth volumes of smoke and sparks, our huge paddles thrashed the waters until we shook and throbbed as if the boat herself was audibly expressing her interest in the race. “See sir, he's firing up,’ said the skipper. “Let her have it, boys,” he roared down the tube communicating with the engine room; ‘‘four more revolutions a minute, and $5 a head if we whip ber,” Out eraft seemed to bound over the sullen. black waters; the irregular, fan- tastic outlines of the trees on the banks sped by us hike affrighted phantoms. Still the fiery eyes and mouth of the 8t. Louis grew bigger and bigger and the sound of her pantings more and more distinct. Our skipper was almost beside him- self. Cigar after cigar he smoked and threw away; he pulled his broad hat over his brows and flopped it back again ; he plunged his hands into his pockets and withdrew them with a jerk, as if they had been stung, all the while mut- tering execrations and charitable wishes, any single one of whieh, if it had taken effect. would certainly have sent the st. Lowis and all on board her to the bottom, Suddenly, as the nose of the enemy was within a steamer’s lenghth of our stern in a parallel line about 300 yards away, there was a sharp click at our feet, followed by a rattling of chains, “Steering gear’s snapped, sir," roa- ged out a vocie from somewhere amid the black recesses of onr stern. What the skipper said upon reception of this news 1 need not repeat; but he subsequently roared down the com- munication tube ma voice of frenzy, «Stop her!” Our paddles stopped, but our way on was considerable, and we drifted ahead for some yards ere it was patent that the Habakkuk E. Dodge was out of the race, ot Whipped yer this time,” was wal- fod over the waters to us from the St. Lowis, which was now directly a- beam of us, Our skipper had not framed his stinging retort, when a sheet _ of fume leapt into the air from where the St. Lowis was followed by an un- .sarthly roar, then fora second or two i { 3 a dead silence, then a confused cry of agony from many directions, “Lower away the boats!” yelled our skipper; and although this was done smartly enough, their progress from our boat to the scene of the disaster was considerably delayed by the frantic exertions of our passengers to get into them, for the fearful-roar and the blaze of light had awakened them, and nothing but absolute exertion of force could make them believe for some minutes that the accident had not hap- pened to us, EE ———— Among the Geysers. The Surgeon of the expedition to the Yellowstone Park tried his hand at story telling whale the party was encamped st Norris Geyser Basin, The story was of a professions] nature, aud nothing will give it credence so well as the tact that the surgeon has an established practice in St. Louis, and is a gentleman of rep- utation, With this in view 1t may not out of pisce to give the points of the narrative, which he related with circum- stantiality. Geologist Dayton was speaking of pebbles of agate, chalcedony, wood opal and quartz found about the Yellowstone region, and more particularly in the geodes, which are numerous in the vi- civity of the great moraines in Paradise Valley Eh ——— — — The surgeon's story: ‘Very wonder- | ful are those same geodes.’' said the | gurgeon, *‘and with aknowledge of them {1t 18 not so very difficult to account for { the chaloedony and the wood petrifica- | tions hereabout. Two of the passengers | in the stage as we were driving toward {the Mammoth Hot Springs allighted {and went aside to gather specimens, | The driver had halted to let his horses | rest, and thé view was so pleasing that | none of us were in a hurry to move for- The passenger that 1 refer to picked a geode, broke it, and finding it | contained a crystal fluid, drank the cou- tents, The driver called out, we took | our places in the stage and started ov. In a short tinue the passenger who had drank the crystal fluid from the geode | began to act strangely, It was evident | that he was sick, though he made no | complaint, His actions distressed the other passengers, and as malady grew upon nim it was thought best to place him in a wayside hut, and one of | the stage hands with blankets, and 1 with my case of medicines and instru- ments, staid attend him, The wn | ward. his LO O6, - atient’s bebavior was singular; “My pi I have noted down the an SYImptoins and 1 will give the ‘niars dednections the susgeon read the part wl his therefrom, the facts being that the pa. ol dIAZLOsIS tient's limos stiffened, voice disappeared and an uncommon rngor overcame the body. All medicines were futile and death ensued in the course of an hour, “In the interests of science,” the sur- geon continued, ‘I felt it my duty to at and undertook a post-mortem examing- tion, Mr, Fraser, the stage hand assist ing me, = “One after another my instruments became dulled, and by the light of the candle I discovered that the body was the lungs, the vital parts and the veins I hastened the work as much as possible, and by miduight to show perfectly the situation of the organs in & diaphragm, Next morning at daylight we discovered that the body The hardening process began interiorly and the heart and organs of circulation were quite stroug, retaining, withal, their normal color, Pressure upon the surface of the cuticle made some im- pression, but of an uneiastic character; such dents as might be caused by bear. Kuow- ing all the circumstances, I cone uded that the fluid coutained in the geode had induced the petrification; it had gone | into the circulation, and so rapid was the hardening process that I question whether the man suffered any pain, “As Mr, Fraser was fearful that the authorities might subject him to deten- tion pending an inquiry in the death of the patient, [ agreed to his request that the body should be concealed until such time as it could be removed io some medical college—agreed to it all the more readily, as I judged that in a little while longer it would be turned com pletely into stone, The hair alone re- mains without apparent change. Ishall have a great curiosity to take home to St. Louis,” ‘““Are you sure, Doctor, that you were not imposed upon by being asked to treat a medical manikin-—one of those papier mache statues which are nsed to enlighten stadents of saoatomy?” re marked Mack, “If the Dretor were not so exoeeding- ly temperate in all things,” said Wilson, “I should advance the theory that he drank from his medicine chest some: thing which has induced this nightmare about a geolde.” I look chiefly at the commercial point,” said Barnes; ‘if the liguid in the geodes will tum human flesh to stone, why won't it transtorm othier sub- stances into precious stones? Why could not chemistry get at the ingredi- ents of this wonderful fluid? We might make diamonds and rubies at will, The Philosophot 4 stone is nowhere to the aradise Valley gcode,” “It kin,” said Nizon, * and I propose to change the dostor's name to Csnner, The caving line scema to be the thin for him, How much more pleasant it is to be made mto » statue theu » corpae. There is o future in the Lusi Gentlemen, { may soefl,” said the surgeon, “but 1 shall write a full ac count of the corse and sign my vame to it.” And he did, and thus laid the foundation for some in ting theories in the German journals, and of no little wonder among their readers, Aside from this there 1s suflicient evidence of the lithogenous charaeter of the water from the geysers, Sincethe completion of the Northern Pacific, the great body of Eastern tramps have turned their attention to that thoroughtare over which to make their regular pilgrimages from the land of the rising to that of the setting sun. Being a new road they can make longer distances before being discovered thao they can on the pioneer route, wheres they are often roughly handled by the train men. Several days ago there started from 8t, Paul two tramps, one veteran, whose only clothing was a few old rags whch barely hung to his body by shreds. His physiognony indicated that his beverage was stronger than water, His partner in the Western pil- grimage was a young man of fine physi. que and appearance, save a certain blase appearance, gained ouvly by dissipation. The nde west, until Lake Pend d'Orielle was reached, was made with- out any particular sensation—as far as the traps were concerned At times they rode on top of the passenger coaches, while at other times they ro’e on the break beams, This latter mode, to a novice in the busiuess, would furnish a more thrnilbng narrative than bargained for, The ride 1s effected by sitting on the break beam, a timber about four inches wide, and when the brakes are off, the beam, which is hung on linked iron rods, vacillates with every movement of the cosch. Equilibrium is maintained by placing the feet against the truss rods and grasping a cross rod with the hands, In this manner the two tramps traveled, By some means or other they managed to kesp a sup ply of bad whisky on hand, liberal quantity of which they consumed, re- maining in a semi drunken condition. At Hope station a short stop made, giving the tramps a chance to streteh their cramped lunbs, This wa on Thursday at 7:24 p. m, Asthe cams rolled out from the station the trams resumed their peailous positions, Sand Point was reached, and when a short distauce from the station the younger of tramps his balance; bul, naddied as his brain was, he realized that if he tet go his hold he would be | crushed to pieces, as the train was thea going ut the rate of thirty miles hour. With his feet dragging on the ties he maintained his grip the bar and held that position until Concolals was reached, When Conductor Downe ing made his usual round iospecting the cars the tramps were discoverad v their place of hiding, “ was § lost the ie al on $ i in and when ordered obeyed the summons, while the the ir i A Lhe ps man let go and fell on track, $ » up ns he condnel threw lantern a horrible sight met vy *¥y aa and legs clear up to the knees wo the bone, Lhe clear through, instep bones were worn while the flesh on the Gravel what His knee-joints were crushed, apd dirt had worked flesh remained, Conductor Downing and into little Dreakma sufferer as com fortable as possible, and when he re covered consciousness he gave his name as Tom Dallsm. aged twenty years, and said that ne was a brother to Frank Dallam, the editor and proprietor of the Spokane Rewmew, Although suffering untold miseries young Dallam said that if it had not been for whisky the acc deut would not have happened. He said his ride of fifteen miles seemed him as centuries, As his dangling legs struck the ties he said hours seemed to intervene, yet unconsciously he held on, suffering every agouy possible for a human being to suffer. Dallam’s pari ner seemed to take the matter ligutly, simply remarking: —*‘Partoer, if you had as much experience in brake-beam riding as 1 have you'd not tumbled ofl.” Deallam was hakenu to Spokane Falls and turned over to the care of bis brother, who had not seen him for several years and was not expecting him, Everything possibie to relieve the sulieriugs of the injured man was done, The surgeons say that in all probability, at toe very best, young Dallam will lose both legs, die, ——— A —— Inning in Sweden. We returned ‘in time te dress for o'clock dinner, which was the one for. mal repast of the day. There was nothing of the picnic about this. Host and guest appeared in full evening cos. tume, and seated themselves in what we should consider an orthodox manuer, The menu was exceptionable and the wines excellent, while three servants in florid livery waited at table, Our host took wine in tarns with each of his friends with somewhat of that stately courtesy which survives in Bweden, oven if it seems to be fading away else where, and then everybody took wine with overybody else and exchanged little compliments and bows and made themselves agreeable to the best of their ability. You take wine with yeur neighbor in this country in 8 peculiar fashion, It is not enough that you should bow and place your glass to your lips, You must, also, after hay- ing sipped the wine, bow again, or, rather, you must retain the glass in your hand, and slightly bending over it, look for a moment straight in the eyes of him or her with whom you are drinking. That is the custom, and a very pretty one it is, particulary when the eyes into which it is your duty to gaze have the depth of liqujd blueness which nature has bestowed upon so amy made and mattons in this north. ern , Dinner over, we returned to the drawing-room in the same order as we had left it, each gentleman giving his arm to the lady whom he had pre- viously escorted, and then his danghter went up to the baron sane kissed him and sei, *“Thank you,” and each of his guests said, “Thank yon,” and he shook them by the hand and hoped they had enjoyod themselves, and there wes a friendly word snd smile around that onropd i i se mig RELL hol ig they 8Uing 4p have above grouud, and throw them into the brush heap or burning. . How Oranges are Packed. —— mnudisp shipmen’. The argument in favor of this practice was that the wrapper absorbed the mowsture caused from the sweating ot the oranges and also prevented a decayed spec iinen from affecting the frat surrounding it, This old plan of thin paper is now many locahties by the them in kilo-dried sawdust made wood as free ss possible from rosin cork-dust, so that they do not contact with one another. WIrADDInE oranges belag superseded in $ from or in Come ig dry sand is preferable to the saw dust. Of | course, sand 18 not to be thought of when | the fruit is to be shipped on account of its | weight, i Progressive orauge growers now under- | stand the necessity of sweating the frat previous to packing it. Great loss 18 sus- tained when oranges are shipped before the | moisture created during the sweating pro- | cess 18 expelled. | A system adopted by many is as fol. | lows: First, clip the fruit-—do not pull it —and let the place of severance be as close to the fruit as possible. ‘L'hus clip ping is done Ly hand, also by a httle ia- strument callea a clipper, which not only | cuts the fruit from the limb but holds it safely In a little basket attached, so that it does not become bruised by falling to ground, When fruit 18 gathered, the step is w heap it up in a dry plac hore 1s Lhe the nt where | Tee maia three or four or more days, ac- Li Ow wt good venliiation and jet at cording and is phere, aad ral nours rales, Having the col a8 BO 48 we there motslure in moisture spread the harvested next step is to assort iL a8 LO size wr, placing in the same crate oaly such Or&NgZes 4s Are in these two re- spect. Ti oranges is rendered rapid uniiorm i Blzing i and i by Lh whic ly thie Ladd employment intervals sizes, As trough they f CAsYy i sizng-irougus, in al are cit hoes usuL three down $ who Oranges through the h inion voli fall f Tall » thew 10 catch then. Oceas DOXes 1 y i DY « Basiness In two Parts, A very small boy, with straw hat and barefooted, £13 il a tattered was engaged ature $ a hid A Species of opeupation whose 1 was not manifest, in held a tin box, and with his right hand he was making downward with the earnestness and regulanty of the piston rod of a steamboat engine, A man said “Say boy, what are you doing there?” ie boy did not look up to se: his interrogator was, His arm merely | went fasier in its curving sweeps, as he | answered laconically: : “Kotehin' flies,” *“What do you do with these fics? The boy ceased his gyrations and | turned round. “look bere,” said he, | “you's people bothers me too much. | Ef I tell you what 1 does with these flies, waat'll you gi’ me?” “A nickel,” said one. “A dime,” sald the man who asked the question, and *‘a quarter,’”’ said another, “All nght,’ said the boy, screwing | au his left hand awWoeps i I who | the top on nis box and shifting himself | about, while the flies returned to the top of the sugas-board again; **hit’s a go, but you's peoples got to put the | sugar up first.” They “pat up” the ‘‘sugar” in the boy's hand. There was a quarter, a dime, and a nickel, and when the boy was confident that the forty cents was | all there he picked up his box and | moved about a fool away 80 as to get a | good start on the crowd. The crowd watched his motions, and the man who asked him what he was doing, when he saw the suspicious action, said: “Hold on, boy, you haven't told me yet why you catch those flies.” “All nght,” said the boy, stealthily putting another foot of pavement be- tween himself and the crowd, “I'll tell you ef you really wants to know, why 1 Ketohes them flies,” “Yes, you,” answered the crowd in a breath, finally losing patieoce. “Well,” answered the boy, as he pre- pared to run, *“‘ketchin’ fiies is only one part of my business, Ketchin' suckers at forty cents is the other part. I think I does best on the suckers,” and he disappeared around the corner, mn— AP —————— What the Birds Accomplish, The swallow, swift and might hawk are the guardians of the atmosphere, They check the increase of insects that would otherwise overload it. Woodpeckers, creepers anil chickadees are the guardians of the trunks of trees. Warblers and fly- catchers protect the foliage. Blackbirds, crows, thrushes and larks protect the sur. face of the soll. Snipe and Woodcock pro- tect the soil umder the surface. Each tribe has its respective duties to perform in the economy of nature, and it is aa un- doubted fact that it the birds were all swepl off the face of tho earth, man could vot Live upon it; vegetation would wither and die; insects would become 80 RUMErous that no living thing could withstand their The wholesale diruetion odd sioned by grasshoppers undoubtedly osused by the thinning of the birds, such as grouse, praine hens, elc., which feed upon them. The great ipestumable servioe done the farmer, gardener and florist is only becoming known by sad experience. Spare the birds and save your fruit; the little hill of corn sod fruit taken by them i more than by the uantities of noxious insects they destroy. jong-persecuted Thz ¥achanted Yale, A AANA A correspondent says: Taleahuano, Chill, over a month whet, one day, strolling down among hipping, I gained the information a steamer of the South American make an exeur- Fernandez, better known the Eland of Robinson Crusoe, The island is distant from the harbor Valparaiso less than 300 miles, where a condor might easily fly between break- fast and dinner, The time given for the excursion was to be ten days,allow- g forty-eight hours for going aud | coming thas giving abundance of time *1 had been i that | company was going to i sion to Juan i is i 0! i i i ih after sailing waters of the Pacific over the calm the remote island wuld one, The sun was bathing the beautiful island with a flood of golden light as In little boats we went ashore and landed in the primitive manner of running the shore, 1 rg on the was on this lovely the celebrated Eng pier landed his books sland bie 11 iit Leil 3 ti 4 LiL “in “0 i i uninhabited th ’ i HH Wik tools, spot and Wil nade du s that Daniel irom the r Delos i kof | §4 pi Ways seen 4 Ww rane iii $i 2 ALY DEACH Along wi { ps frat # $i 0% LP US fe ‘ is i 5 Many re one, lorn goats island, and then families s increased so yusand and are to be fo Large are shot each year, 1 Valpar- jarge income v . 11% $s % 5 LAPMALY that to-day thu i thousands of these part of ol in evers of the island, them nhors skins, sold u ale a Of the lessee of the sland. R180, Source 10 [t was necessary to live on board the parts, where new beauties, themselves, he whole island is treams of day, % i) pure and liv- I remember all its damp water. ne that our collars dignity and the as straight as an Indian maiden’s tawny locks, we came within a wooded glen where sudden- f living water burst from out the mossy rock. Ii was pureclear as crystal, and of icy coldness. 1 think I never knew water of so fine a brand, It was more refreshing than thechoicest wine. There are no roads, no paths, but you pick your way along by nature's courses, Now you turn sharply and find yourself again within a deep glen where it would be no surprise to see nymph or giant issue forth. Here a stately tree filled with ripening fruit spreads its broad branches over the smaller trees and, close beneath it, ferns of wonderful beauty spring up, for where the land is musical with running streams and great trees fling their shadows and hang darkly over brooks whose spark- ling waters give birth to soft vapors, these ferns love to spring forth, per. chance to doubly reflect their beauty in some mirroring pool. It was a pretty spot which sets you thinking of Childe Harold's Temple on the bank of Clitinnus. i IP ———— 80 Intens their ked ous heat, had pe wall 0st all The Scaffold in Canada: Frederick Mann, who murdered four members of the Cook family, at Little Rideau, Canada, on the 24 of January last, was hanged on the 10th of October. in a small stone structure situated a few foot from the main road, near the banks of the Ottawa river and within a short distance of thé village of Rideau, resided Mr, B. W. Cook, a well-to-do farmer, aged about 70 years, With him were his wife, a little younger, and his grown up family, oousjused of William, a young man about 20; George, a few Fours Huh or; Fannie, about 20; Mag- gio, al iy h and Eaunn the eldest, apparently about 40 years of age. Thare was a son absent in Winsipog, for which place George was to have left a fow days reigned (sarge wera absent at a party at Lh. ute on News Year's day, They returned howe on the morning afterward, and were u few hours in bed when the terri. bie affair occurred which banished hap vs from their home forever, While the young people were resting alter the fatigue of the party, Mr. Osok t about doing the labors around the sme, Miss Exams Cook proceeded to he granary, sad was in the act of get. ing some flour for the morniog meal, Maan, who was lyiog in wait for hor, leaped from his hiding place upon her, and in a short, sharp straggle over. come her by sheer streagth, choking ier £5 death before shes could ery out, Her mother missing her from the kitoh- en went to se: what was kesping her, aud was pounced upon by the mard sre vas viliaio, who struck her a blow on the head with a hammer, thus stunning hers then he strangled her with a rope in the same manner as he had killel her daughter, whose yet warm body lay up- ou the grouud, After having killed the mother nad daughter Mann went into the barayard, where Mr. Cook was atteuding to the Pigs, and sprang upon him with an axe and killed him, Then going into the house, the murderer entered the bed- room of the sleeping young men, Wil- ism and George. He aitacked the in i ¥ i + 4 latter first, Beth slept in ths sume room, but in separate beds, wad with one blow the murderer disasied his vie. snd with another blow killed him sutrizht, A sharp ery or groan given i had of the fate of his brother the bed, on'y time to confront Mann, from 3 brouher's blood was dripping. sad not an instar ik, when crash the axe upon and such ree of the blow that histhigh-bove tured Tae ITA0CS Ae He in xa He 5 Wise wie 1% to tha ALL, " Was { wie i Wis a the muraerer with the axe, and Of them struck im oa the bask of leg, inflicting anoiher terrible wound; fought for Ife the of the stragglie brought Fannie, § Bisler, from her bed. : A"terrible sight met te gaze she did She rushed forward dear , and i oat moment, ention her, In the ile followed she ia the Was Dow juel ve TLL ipon Fooel i i He i, & ad th 1 MY 0 Epon Maggie the Biragiie wer for a moment Ax i BOVOTO #0 her grasp of overturoed t 5 riou il possess] ot and tic s ALG Wa oh 1% ¢ or 2 lay on the | Masa gl 10 giare desperave giri, wii head, and thre wc a or 0 ] 4 the ised ] ed wa class lampstand at follow lamp it in pieces on her head, vy #sister to fled down i OVE Hq HOOV MH ! ha ALAA her ner &@ . Was ad if ai, DF the ius sUIvoring retreated to the other room h be murderer thea the back stairs, The girls went down by the front way. At the front door the girls attempted to escape. Maan had meantime armed himself with a poker and stood in the kitchen door looking at them, as if irresolate whether 10 go oa wita the work of blood or not, Tas frigutened the already terrified girls still more, Ouae of them ran back upstairs 10 look after her brother and the other ran out on the road, where sae met Miss Pratt, the school teacher of the village. She begged her to run for usgistance. Toe teacher required no second appeal, but ran as fast as pussible to Mr. Ross's house, some 500 yards up the road. Meantime the murderer nad turned down toward the river and fled, Mann was captured by Detective Latour, of Lachute, Qaebee, at that placa, ss about 4 o'clock on the afternooa of January 3, follow, a The Value of Grapes, Grapes are an important article of food in many parts of Europe. The scantily pad laborer, who rarely tastes meat of any kind, has for nearly six months in the year a bunch oi grapes with his hard bread, and finds the relish excellent and nutricious. The “grape cure” attracts thousands of invalids to the South of France and Northern Italy at each successive vintage, and Dr. Herpin of Metz has publissed a very iu- teresting account of the curative effect of grapes in various disorders of the body, They act, firstly, vy introducing large quantities of fluids into the system which, passing through the blood, carry off by perspiration and other excretions the effete and injurious matenals of the body; secondly, as a vegetable nutritive agent. Employed rationally and meth- odically, sided by suitable diet and re- gimen, the grape produces most import- ant chaoges in the system in favoring orgauic transmutations, in contributing healthy materials to the repair and re- construction of the varions tissues, and in determining the removal of vitiated matters which have become useless and injurions to the system. Directed by a skilful physician, this valuable curative agent can be made to prodnce the most variad effects on the constitution. It also possesses the advantage of beiag acceptable to invalids, The treatment laste from three to six weeks. The
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