A BREAK AT MORGANIA.
THE LEVEE GONE AND THE LIVES OF
THE PEOPLE IN DANGER.
THE WATERS INVADE THE TUWN OF
BAYOU BARA.
NEw ORLEANS, April 22, — Gov.
ernor Nichols received to-day a de-
spateh from Martin Glynn, President
of the Police Jury of Pointe Coupee
Parish, dated Bayou Sara, saying: We
nave heen overwhelmed by storm and
ralp. Crevasses numerous along the
front, Upper (old) Morganza bas bro-
keo. Send a boat at once to save peo-
ple, or thers may be great loss of life.
Governor Nichols at once made ar-
rangements with the owners of the
stesmer Arthur Lambert, and barges,
then at Baton Rouge, and the boat
started immediately for Pointe Coupee
with several barges to render assist-
ance. Other boats will be sent up to-
night,
Governor Nichols was interviewed
this evening. He was much concerned
for the safety of the people in the
Point Goupe section, and stated that
Captaid Jackson, President of the In-
ternational Transportation Company,
had placed two steamers with barges at
his disposal. He had accepted them,
and they sre now en route for Mor-
ganza, He stated that he bad also
telegraphed to Colonel Wheeler and
Captain Jobn A. Grant, of the Texas
and Pacific Railroad, requesting them
to place the steamer Wheeler In the
same service.
Governor Nichols then said: **Con-
sidering the extreme emergency of the
occasion and the dire calamity of the
Morganza break, I have telegraphed
Sapator Gibson that such a great dis-
aster was sufficient to cause us to ap-
peal to the Government for ald. I
asked him to act as promptly as possi-
ble.”
A break occurred this morning in
the levee near Gardere, ten mlies below
Baton Rouge, left bank, At last ac
count tue crevasse was 25 feet wide
and seven feet deep, The crevasses on
the Yolnte Coupe front will submerge
a large section of that parish, and
back water will probably affect West
Baton Rouge and lberville.
The Times-Democrat’s Bayou Sara
special says: ‘‘After a most heroic
struggle to save our city from the food
we had to surrender to the great
Father of waters. The guards re-
ported that the levee had given away
at the foot of Fountain street. A gen
eral alarm was started and the people
responded promptly to the call. “This
break was closed, but on examination
t was found tha* the rising river was
running over the front levee, All that
human efforts could do had been done,
and at last the solemn cry went up all
along the line: “Give up, men; we are
gone,” aud then the confusion of the
people can be better imagined than
described, Every Impromptu boat
and rsft was brought into position.
Lanterns could be seen everywhere,
and the efforts of men, women and
children attempting to save their ef-
fects was & sight that was sickening.
Not a house in town has escaped. Toe
beantiful Fisher building, the home of
Mayor Irvine, supposed to be the high-
eat, is deluged. Our town is In ruins
Nothing but chaos and destruction
greets the eye at every view. To-day
it 18 raining bard, which makes the
picture more gloomy. The waler is
also running over a large extent of the
Pointe Coupee from the Tayior levee,
which has given way, and the Fanny
Yoor crevasse will probably prove a
serious one. The large levees, from
the last accounts, are intact, but things
look eritical.
The Picayune’s Natchez, Miss,
special says: A protection levee in
Vidalia has broken, submerging a num-
ber of houses. This morning the Lake
Coneordia levee gave way. At 5 p. m.
the break is 150 feet wide, the waler
going through like a mill race, This
break will flood the lower portiou of
Concordia parish, and cannot fail to be
disastrous.
West Melville: Rainfall in past 48
hours, 6} inches, Two crevasses oc-
curred ia the Atchafalaya levees to-
day—one, five miles above town, 80
feet wide; the other, at Oid Church-
ville, 48 feet wide, The water Is run-
ning over the levee at a dozen places Ip
this vicinity.
NEw OrLEANS, April 23.—The
Times- Democrat's Bayou Sara special
says: The great hercic struggle 1s
over, and a general surrender has been
made all along the line, The Polute
Coupee front has crevasses'at Preston,
St. Maurice and one just above Mor-
gansea, which will, befors many hours,
take away this grand levee, We have
had two days’ heavy rain, and the sit-
uation is beyond description. The
suffering in Pointe Coupe Is terrible,
1t is reported that people are resorting
to trees for safety, A relief boat
should be sent at once If possible.
Skiff loads of people are passing through
oir inundated streets seeking safety on
our hills, The situation in Bayou Sara
is frightful; not a house in the town is
above the flood.
The State’s Bayon Sara special says:
Another treak oecurred last night in
Polute Coupes levee, and the iadica-
vons are that the entire Polnte Coupee
front will be submerged. The water
now pouring through the crevasses at
Morgansea and in the vicinity will
overflow the greater portion of the
country between the Atchafalaya and
Miseiwnippi rivers, and extending from
Old river, above the Bayou Lafourche,
below, embracing about 700 square
wiles of territory.
Xo news yet received from the in
terior of Polute Coupes Parish, but re-
Jtef hosts are takiog care of all those
who have reached the levees. As Lhe
oritieal condition of the levees has
been known for some weeks, the hope Is
entertained that all have, in & measure,
prepared for the worst and that no lows
of life will result from the breaks along
the front.
An Arkanras City special says: The
Arkansas Valley route between Reed.
ville and Varner is submerged for the
third time during the past Ove weeks
Trains on that road have been aband-
oned south of ine Biol,
ike northwest wind, which blew
wery strong again last night, drovein
: the Louisville and Nashville road, and
all the trains have been abandoned.
The wind last night aeain caused
the lake water to encroach upon the
rear of the city, north of Chalborne
street, and some trouble Is experienced
by water from the canal flowing over
the banks of the old basin on both
sides, between Johnson and Galvez
streets, but not sufficient to do any
great damage. The rear of the Seventh
Ward, up to Roman street, from Ely-
sian Fields to St. Bernard street, snd
the entire rear of the Eighth Ward
are flooded and the water 18 rapidly
rising.
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51s: CONGRESS.~First Session
BENA1E.
—In the U.S. Senate, on the 21st,
Mr. Reagan troduced a bill to repeal
all laws for the retirement of officers
of the army and navy, the marine
corps and the judiciary, The World's
Fair bill was taken up, on motion of
Mr. Hawley, and after debate was pas-
sed with An amendment providing for
a naval review at the harbor of New
York, but omitting the provision for
ceremonies In inaugurating a statue of
Columbus, The vote was 43 to 13. A
conference was asked on the disagree.
journed.
In the U. 8S. Senate, on the 22d, Mr.
Plumb's silver resolution Was
sented, and Mr, Eastis moved an ad-
that all laws, limiting the coinage of
silver, ought to berepealed. The resolu-
tion went over for the present, Mr,
Mitchell spoke in support of his pro-
posed Constitutional amendment, pro-
viding for the election of Senators by
popular vote. A conference report on
the bill for a National Zoological Park
{fn the District of Columbia was agreed
to and the bill goes to the President,
The District of Columbia Appropria-
tion bill was passed, Afler an
tive session the Senate adjourned.
In the U. S, Senate on the 231 acon-
current resolution was adopted re-
questing the President to negotiate
with Mexico in regard to the irrigation
of arid lands 1n the Rio Grande valley.
Mr. Reagan spoke in support of hls Lill
to repeal all laws for the retirement of
on pay. A conference report
Oklahoma il was agreed
House bill lnefeasing to $250 000 the
limit of cost for the public building in
Wilmington, Delaware, was passed,
The Land Forfeiture bill was taken up
and the Senate adiourned.
In the U. 8S. Senate, on the 24:h, the
Pension Appropriation bill was re
to,
SLATE
Hamp.
The
bill appropriating $50 000 for a
statue at Manchester, New
shire, was passed—37 to 15.
ter service to the Navy Department
was considered, and the amendments
of the Naval Committee were agresd
to. Pending cousideration of this bill,
Mr. Hoar, from the Committea on
Privileges and E'ections,
Federal Election bill, and it was placed
on the calendar, The consideration of
the Revepae Cutter bill was resumed,
but at 2 o'clock the Land Forfeiture
bill came up as unfinished business,
Pending its consideration the
went Into executive session, and, when
the doors were reopened, adjourned,
HOUSE,
In the House on the 21st, A bill
was passed providing that soldiers who
lost their limbs during the war shall
be entitled to receive artificial limbs
every three years. A conference report
on the Oklahoma bill was agreed to. A
motion to suspend the rules and pass
the bill giving pensions to prisoners of
the late war falled to pass for want of
two-tiirds in the affirmative—the yeas
being 143, the nays 78. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 224, a bill was
reported from the Ways and Means
Committee providing for the classifica-
tion as woolens of all imported worsted
clothes, It was referred to the Com:
mittee of the Whole, The Senate
amendments to the World’s Fair bill
were concurred in, and the bill gees to
the President. The Legislative Appro-
priation bill was considered, pending
which tire House adjourned,
In the House, on the 234, the entire
session was occupied with debates in
Committee of the Whole on the Legis.
lative Appropriation bill. The discus.
sion took a wide range, snd the South.
ern outrage business was ventilated.
Adjourned.
In the House on the 24th the joint
resolution for the appointment of
Charles Devans, of Massachusetts, and
James C. Welling, of the District of
Columbia, to fill vacancies In the Re-
gency of the Swilbsouian Institution,
was passed, The Legislative Apopro-
priation bill was considered in Com-
mittee of the Whole, and the partisan
discussions of the 234 were coutinued.
The question of civil service reform
also received a large share of attentioa.
Without disposing of the bill the com-
mittee rose and the Houss adjourned
~The family of Lewis Prewitt, liv.
Ing near Lagrange, Kentucky, has been
attacked by a virulent disease. One
of his daughters has died, and two
other children ate in a eritical condi.
tion. The attending physician decided
that the disease was “tornado polson-
ing.” The germs, he said, were borne
on the recent torpado from some in-
fected district, probably hundreds of
miles away, and lodged in the vielnity
of the Prewitt homestead,
—Thres miners in shaft No. 2 of the
Spring Valley Coal Company, at La
Salle, Tllinois, were suffocated on the
morning of the 20th while fOghting
fire. While a large crowd were watch
ing » baptism by immersion at Spring.
field, Ohio, on the 20th, a spun of the
bridge om which they were standing
gave way, and twelve or thirteen were
severely injured, Two of them, Mrs
Lewis Myers and her young son are
not expected to recover,
«Farmers in the vielnity of Atchl.
son, Kansas, report that a sort of wire
worm fs doing great damage to the
wheat. The worm Is about an Inch
long and of the thickness of fine wire,
Wherever It works the wheat soon
withe:s,
A
FATAL HILL FIRE
| THE UNICORN SILK MILL AT CATA-
SAUQUA DESTROYED
FOUR DEAD AND MANY INJURED, BEV-
ERAL MORTALLY.
ALLENTOWN, Pa, April 24, —The
total destruction of the Unicorn silk
mill, the loss of four lives, the probable
fatal injury of several men and the
injury of about a score more tell the
story of the calamity which at an early
city. The loss of property is estimated
between 200,000 and $300,000, on
which the insurances aggregate proba-
bly $150,000.
It was shortly before six o'clock
when flames were discovered in the
second floor of the dyeing department.
To the alarm of fire the two steamers
of the town promptly responded, but
were unable to render timely service
owing to the nearest fire plug being far
away, and the difficulty in getting the
eugines down to the canal, which Is
but a short distance from the mill. At
half-past seven o'clock the flames had
spread to all parts of the large mill, and
| were then shooting high into the air
and from every window,
Projecting from the south end of the
| main building is the one.story annex,
{ in which plush machinery was put up.
The firemen had entered this annex
{and were playing & stream from It
into the burning interior of the adja-
| cent compartment. Joseph Loteglana,
{boss of the dying department, who
| had observed the precarious condition
| of the now tottering walls, entered the
| danger. The words of warning were
| yet on his lips when, with a great
{erash, the upper part of the south
| wall fell upon the roof of the annex,
| erushing it in and burying those be-
peath it under an immense mass of
brick and splintered timbers, ‘This
| was at 7.40 o'clock, and it was up-
| wards of an hour before the last of the
| unfortunates who bad been caught in
|the fall of the debris, was removed.
{ Two of them were dead when found,
{and two others died of their Injuries
| pital, at South Bethlehem.
The following 1s & list of the dead,
Joseph Loteglana,
| years,
silk dyer at the works, and leaves a
| family consisting of a wife and
child, About a year ago
| from Paterson,
and his body burned shockingly.
John Good, aged 28 years, employed
{as brokkeeper al Chatles
grocery store in Catasauqua,
| member of the Plax Fire
and leaves a family. He
opened
{ the alarm of Ore,
| formance of his duty.
He was a
Company
had. just
‘perished in the per-
A $500 lle in.
{eral years he allowed to lapse ooly a
few davs ago,
Charles Frick, aged 25 years, leaves
{a wife sand threes chillren, He was a
| member of the Poeaix Fire Company
{ and was the lest man taken out of the
i ruins. He died
| this afternoon, He was a
employed by the Uui
| Machine Company.
Ulysses Everett, of West Catasauqua,
wa Foundry and
frightfully burped all over the body,
He was taken to Si Luke's Hospital,
South DBasthishem, where he died an
bour after his arrival,
The seriously injured are Johu Pafl,
aged 22. an oiler in the employ of the
Central Railroad of New Jarsey., His
right leg is broken and the left side of
his body so badly burned that the flesh
peeled off. His face is badly scalded,
and he also sustained internal injuries.
He will probably dle,
Willlam Feustermacher, aged 30
years, an employe of the Catasauqua
Rolling Mill, badly burned and oruised,
and his skull fractured, One of Lis
legs is broken.
result in his death,
pital,
Michael Moran, of Water street,
Hokendauqua, buried about the head
and face, and severely injured inter.
pally. He is 30 years of age, and was
employed in the mill, He is a brother
of Join Moran, who was murdered at
Hotenguvgan on the night of March
4th,
Clifford Riegel, aged 22 years, em-
He is in the hos
National Bank, hit on the head with a
brick, and painfully Injured.
About twenty others were wounded,
but their injuries are not of a danger-
ous nature, though some of them are
suffering great pain from burns,
bruises and scalds
A TORNADO IN ALABAMA.
HEAVY LOSS OF PROPERTY RE-
PORTED,
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, April 21.—A
destructive cyclone passed over a por-
tion of Geneva county, Ala, late Sat.
urday afternoon. No towns were In
the path of the tornado, but a number
of farm houses with their out-buildings
were destroyed, The path of the cy-
clone was only a few hundred yards in
width and about 7 miles long. In its
course it swept everything before it.
Owing to the section visited by the
storm being remote from a telegraph
office the full extent of the damage and
the number of lives lost has not been
ascertained. It is thought, bowever,
that the loss of life wili not be great.
The cyclone appeared in the form of
a funnel shaped cloud, which could be
seen for many miles, and a nutaber of
farm houses were torn to fragments
aid seattered in all directions. Fences
were blown away, eattle killed, and the
loss of property will be great,
—A despatch from Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, says that the river rose 1}
inches during the past 24 hours, and is
now 24 inches above the highest water
. =George Mason und Joseph Han-
| serd went rowlug at Columbus, Geor-
| gla, on the 20th, They rowed Loo near
the dsm, and thelr boat was drawn by
suction against the rocks and broken.
The two men were thrown in the
water and Hanserd was drowned.
James Morgan, an operator in the
Erie tower Howells, New York, was
examining a pistol on the morping of
the 21st, and it went off. The bullet
entered the head of Frank Grier, aged
{ 12 years, killing him instantly, Charles
E. Graves, aged 52 years, died in DBen-
pington, Vermont, on the 21st, from
the effects of an overdose of morphine,
taken to alleviate pain from rheumas
tism. David Bly, Willlam Erb and a
Polander were severely burned by an
explosion of gas In Slope No. 4, al
Nanticoke, Pa., on the 20th, It 1s not
thought that their Injuries will prove
fatal,
~— Malignant diphtheria is epidemic
in the village of Vining, Minnesota.
There is a population of abou 150 per-
sons, nmine-tenths of whom are afflicted
with the disease. There have been
twenty deaths since April 1st, and
thirty altogether, The funerals of all
the victims have been public and
largely attended,
~The boiler at the Etna Mills In
New Castle, Pa. exploded on the
morning of the 234, killing George
Kiingensmith, John Welsh and Jobn
Murphy, and injuring Barney Regan,
L. Shifnocker, Lawrence Flynn, An-
drew Myers, Joseph Rounds and John
Meyers,
—itatbl Cohn, the Jewish Pastor In
Mt, Carmel, Pa., was atlacked and
perhaps fatally injured, on the 224, by
John Dorsey and John Handriban,
highway robbers, Iandrihan was
captured, John Voth, mght watch-
man of No, 8 breaker at Lauorel Hill,
pear Wilkesbarre, was shot at twice on
the morning of the 221, while making
his round, and the second shot shat-
tered the bones of his left arm and
wrist. The assassin escaped. John
Beecher, a miner, was robbed and
murdered near his home at Oliphant
{ Furnace, Penna., on the evening of
the 21st, His body was found on the
morning of the 224, with the back of
{ his skuil crushed in and his pockels
| were emptied.
—Wilillam Hooper and James Marlin
were killed and five others were bad y
injured on the 221 by the fall of a rock
‘in a shaft of the Great Eastern Mine,
pear Norway, Michigan. Michael and
Peter Clunsky, brothers, were fatally
burned by an explosion of gas in the
| Twin shaft, at Pittston, Penna. on the
i morning of the 224. On the moro
ing of the 224 thers was an explosion
iat one of the Colebrook furnaces, in
| Lebanon, Pa. The jacket at the fur.
i nace stack was blown out aod the
fron roof blown into the air,
Wm. P. Wright, engineer, was knocked
down and severely burned,
sheet
— Policeman Peterson came Across a
gang of toughs in Bt. Paul, Minnesota,
| on the evening of the 23d, and stopped
{ them. He was attacked and beaten so
| badly that it is thought that he will
| not recover. He shot and killed one
| of the gang, Neil Cashman.
members of the gang escaped. Ben.
jamin Horstman was shot and probably
| fatally wounded in Ballimore on the
123d, by Henry Seebecth, a saloon-
| keeper,
-A Rock Island passenger traln was
{derailed by an open switch in Des
| Moines, Iowa, on the 22d, and several
passengers were injured. The engine
| and one car passed over safely, and train
| men assert that the Switch was turned
| by means of an iron bar in the bands
| of a train wrecker, who was lying beside
! the track. All the circumstances are
| said to support the theory that it was
{ a deliberate attempt to wreck the train,
| either for revenge or for the sake of
plunder,
i ~ Mrs, Patrick McLaughlin, of Pitta.
| burg, aged 65 years, who Lad been
| visiting ber daughter, al Stockton, was
lon the 23d, struck and killed by a
Lehigh Valley train,
~The little town of Kyle, 20 miles
south of Austin, Texas, was visited by
a tornado on the evening of the 234,
Many houses were damaged and de-
molished , and several persons. were io-
| jured, There was great damage to the
! fences and crops.
|
~ Fires are raging In the Blue Moun.
tains, near Wind Gap, and at dierent
points along the Ridge. The station
of the Lehigh and Lackawanna road
at Katellen, together with the post.
office, and a store, are reported in
ashes, The people along the base of
the mountains are fighting the fames,
~The drug store of H, K. Doane, in
Delavan, Wiscousin, was wrecked on
the afternoon of the 24th by an explo-
sion of dynamite in the eeliar, Doane
snd an unknown man were killed, and
another man was badly injured,
~The boller at Cook Broa.® tile and
brick yards, near Flint, Michigan, ex-
ploded on the 234, Fredenck Cook,
aged 18 years, was killed snd two other
boys were Injured, George Baldwin
probably fatally,
~ Rain bas fallen In Texas for three
days, and the rivers and bayous are out
of their banks Dridges have been
swept away and travel is delayed. All
stock in the low Innds and cane brakes
has been drowned. The waters are
still rising.
~ An earthquake shock was felt in Sun
Francisco and other ports of California
on the worning of the 24.h, Cunsider-
able alarm was felt by persons aroused
from sleep. At Pajaro the railroad
bridge was thrown two feet out of
jine, Gas mains were d and
chimueys thrown down.
A farmer named Morrison living
near Sheiburne, Ontario, drowned three
of his children In & barrel of ram water
on the 24th, and hen tried tn drown
himself in a creek. Some of the neigh.
bors found him In the water and it is
said he is in a critical ecoudition, Xo
reason is assigned for the tragedy. Al
a gypry camp at Morrisville, Pa, on
the morning of the 256 h, Nosh Palmer,
the patriarch of the perty, shot aud
e1led his wife and then
od himaeif,
A KNOWINC COLLIE,
stands the English Language.
I saw this myself, down in Kentucky,
and thereunto I give my hand and seal
form. I was visiting a ¢ down
in the blue-grass region -{
his name. He has been ao
the Kentucky Legislature
Min
HINGE Was
H wapnber of
for years,
fine eattle, good horses, and oiler
pessions that belong naturally to tie
We were sitting out on the old veranda
fn the shade one hot August afternoon,
smoking.
A gplendid collie lay sleep
ing on the step. I commented
beanty.
“Yes,” said the legislator, “‘that’s the
smartest dog in all this country. Every
evening at six o'clock, punctual to the
minute, he goes by himee!! and brings
the cows from the pasture.”
Then the conversation turned upon
on
something else and we forgot all about
In a little while we heard a
commotion in the road before the front
the dog.
gate, and there was the collie with the
whole herd, which he had roused from
their siesta end cud-chewing
His tail waived
in the mid-
die of the afternoon.
eyes were blazing with pride, and a
smile of radiant exultation lighted his
He said as plainly as
“There ye see, ils
true; I can do it just exactly as I'm
billed."
handsome face.
aver a man spoke:
But pride goes before a fall, or some-
thing of that sort, a silly ol
whatever it is. Conner lool
the front walk in amazemen
stood up and shouted, as >
footer Kentuckian can shout:
“You, Ranger, take those cows straight
back where ye got ‘em from.”
down
Y
of =
| owner in Paris, and his pedigree was
| never ascertained. It is the fushion of
| English writers to deery the Arabian
| blood, and it i= trne that the present
| thoroughbred, owing to many years of
| good food and severe training, is » big-
ger, stronger, swifter animal then the
| Arab; but the latest and perhaps the
| highest anthority on this subject, Wil
liam Das the wgnifieans ad.
mission that all the best thoronghtmeds
¥, mukes
now on the English turf trace beek io
| one or more of the threes Arab horoes
whose uses have just been mention i.
The chiel reason why a good roadster
| must have thoroughbred or Arab blood
| in his veins is that from no other source
| ean he the
i
i
i rey #
This is even more important
1
|
derivs NECORSATY NeTVOus
| energy.
| than the superior bony structure of the
thoroughbred Arabian. Exactly
| what nervous energy is, nobody, 1 pre-
| sume, can tell; but it is something that,
| in horses at least, develops the physi-
| cal system early, makes it capable of
great exertion, and enables it 40 recov-
| er quickly from fatigue.
| more correctly, a similar capacily is
| continually mankind
| Readers of Arctic travels for exsmple,
or
The same, or
i
remarked in
| must often have been struck by the fact
that it is invariably the men, and never
the officers, who succumb to the labor
snd exposure of
| a sledge journey.
Loosely speaking, it may be that in the
| educated man, es] the man
whose ancestors also have been educated,
| the mind has acquired a degree of con-
trol over the body which eannot other
| wise be attained. Bo also with horses,
A thoroughbred is one whose progeni-
tors for many generations have been
called upon to exert themselves to the
etmmost; they have run hard and long,
and struggled to beat their competitors.
| — HH. C. Merwin, in the Atlantic Month-
«3
WIRY In
-
THE COLD-AIR CURE,
Has
§
Un-
language perfectly,
formation! His ears fell, he hung his
and started off down the road again
He was the most chagrined, dejected
wand humilated c.eature ye ever saw.
Twelve Millions Wasted.
A Chicago photographer writes the
Photographie Times, calling attention
to the great amount of money which is
absolutely thrown away every year by
the photographers of America. Hesays:
It is estimated that there is $40,000 to
£50,000 worth of nitrate of silver and
gold used by the photographers every
year in our little city of Chicago alone
and as much more in the great State of
Lilinvis, and $1,000,000 worth of nitrate
for the phot wraphers of the United
Nintes to use every year in
money could have been saved thet was
wasted, thrown away, in solutic
photographs.
prise every one of you, as it would
reach the enormous sum of §12,500,000
quite enough to retire every photo
dependent fortune, to
about the annual interest of this vast
sum, which certainly would have doubl-
od the whole amount that has been
wasted in the past twenty-five years
Say
ROAD HORSES.
roadsters are bred, the answer can be
given with more confidence, for the
source of their endurance and courage
is always found either in Arabian or
in thoroughbred blood.
terms were at one time more nearly
synonymous than they are now. A
thoroughbred is one whose pedigree 1s
registered in the English Stud Book,
in 1808, and the English race horse is
founded upon the courser of the desert.
Arabs were imported to England at a
very early period, but not in such num-
bers as to effect any decided improve-
ment in the native breed until the reign
of James I. This monarch established
a racing stable and installed therein
some fine Arabian stallions. Charles I
continued the same policy, and the
royal stud which he left at Tutbury
consisted chiefly of Arab bred horses.
Soon after his execution it was seized
by order of Parliament, but happily
the change in dynasty did not interfere
with the conduct of the stud. Crom-
well, as is well known, had a sharp eye
for a horse, and the best of the King's
Jot were soon “chosen” for the Lord
Protector. Charles IT, again, had no
Jess a passion for horses, and almost the
first order that he issued after lending
in England, was one to the effect that
the Tutbury negs should be returned to
the royal stables. He and many private
breeders besides added to the Arabian
stock in England; but it was not until
the first half of the eighteenth century
that the three horses were imported who
have exercised the greatest influsnce
upon the aoe of English thorough
breds. These were the Byerly '[urk,
the Darley Arabian, and, more especial.
ly, Godolphin Arabian. The last named
was a dark bay horse, about 15 Lands
high (Arab “orees seldom exces! 14}
hands), wits » white off-heel behind.
| A good many people are afraid of
| cold air, especially at night, shutting
themselves in close bed-rooms, where
| thelr systems are poisoned and their
| constitution gradually undermined by
breathing the bad alr. And even hos
or warm air that is pure, air in 4 room
that has ver dlation as well as heat, is
debilitaticg where breathed all might,
Pulmonary complaints are Inevitably
and exclusively caused by foul in-door
air, and cured by pure, especially by
cold, pure, out-door air. The
influence of fresh air so much in-
creased a Jow temperatures that
“colds’ are, n fact, far more curable
in midw nler than
was shot
i
remedial
is
oy
in midsummer, I
through the Jungs in Mexico,
| and have ever since been susceplible to
he contagion of a “‘catarrh factory,” as
a friend of mine calls the unvealilated
school-roowns and meeting-houses of our
country towns, In warm weather I
| avoid such man-traps as [ would the pit
of a gas well, but in winter I risk their
infection in assurance that its in-
| fluence can be counteracted by an extra
}
the
| dose of ice air,
On returning from a crowded lecture
| hall, a stifling sick-room, a stuffy omul-
bus, ete., I remove my bed to the draft
| side of the house, and cpen a window to
| the full extent of {ts mechanism taking
| care to go to sleep facing the drafi, I
| have often awakened in the moming
with my bead grizzled with hoar frost,
but without the slightest vestige of the
catarrh which had announced its ap-
proach the night before. Cold is an
antiseptic and a powerful digestive
stimulant. The hospitals of the future
will be ice-houses, Dyspepsia, catarrh
and fevers of all kinds can be frozen ou®
of the system, not by Jetting the patient
shiver in the snow-bank, but by giving
extra allowance of warm bed-clothing
with the additional! luxury of breathing
ice cold air, which, under such circum-
| stances, becomes as preferable to bot
miasma 8s cold spring water {oo warm
dizeh water. 1 have also found that the
best brain work can be done in a cold
room, and that stove heat has a tenden-
ey to stultify like = narcotic beverage]
Warm wraps make fires tolerably dis
pensable,
instruction of the Blind in China.
Rev. W, H. Murry, a missionary at
Peking, has devised a system for teach-
ing the blind, and has reduced the
Chinese language to 408 syllables. By
this system the blind have been enabled
to learn to read with marvelous facility.
The blind themselves are employed in
the stereotyping and printing of books,
which are produced at an amsszingly
jow rate, compared with books smboss-
ed for the blind in this country.
Among the Chinese the blind are re-
garded with great consideration, and
they are watched with interest when
they read with their fingers from the
books which they carry in (their
hands
—————— AI OI SIE
Some Peculiar Crabs.
running along like a
blown by a strong wind,"
sion Island there are
“climb to the top of