THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. able medium for the culture of micro-or ganisms can be found than warm sewage. Clases are cited in which hot steam introduced into old « esspools have resulted in an epidemic of diphtheria, Natural hy Plan," as an walter DisorpEnRs, “Let Alone NERVOUS giene, or the drugs, 18 against the abuse of founded, weltes a medical the fact that there, is a self-regulati tendency in the constitution of the hu mam organism, a healthward influence, which does not fail to assert itself as soon as the predisposing has been removed Health, , in the normal of all livi things, nature ceases to improve a cause of the disease in fact ny and chance to that original state of existence. Asthma, catarrh, and consumption dis appear on the removal of from stuffy, city sick-rooms to the air of the wilderness that formed the favorite. haunt of our sport-loving tors, Dyspepsia yields to ¢ from indigestible made food, ances disorders imply an al bination « Indoor | cise may have a gi aggravation principle predisposing cause the con incr > 4 no ' in their on The penal thus visited low-citizens who pudiate the charg the old-time sense of Foon Berors though not in st T. Cathrell Marvland during and f the nervous system seem yrether Une x ibnormal eircun ife and want of phy wd deal to do with the those troubl in tl and gen expresses tl Medical Journ ind Spee ally the 3 of the stomach itly to the amo lessness and genera + natur ! stomach, and ever thie SAN and ni for any and | Digesti and if twenty cum of time consumed the inter I am full; the emac: take a nutrition a pro: would standard Strinevill It played i The ban i out of tow deli ite the life small 1 Stauffer's At ti the bull spring grass in near the maiden getting 1 pel a tune was taking ture to wis, temperame nt ible with the his past note that passing on to hasten the jot. T "but the hu band was so mu that it did moving a the bull lustily as small boy w lifting far-reaching mouthing bounded of the flying boy the band was ready to play. The band played first burst and blare of band projected on the circumambient air the bull stopped short, threw up his head, and sniffed and snorted. The fly again, The bull turned a wildly toward the stone wall. He reached the wall, stopped, and looked back with terror in his eves. The band threw an- other installment of its into the horns. The bull gave one wild leap and went clear over the wall, fell into the ditch below, and broke its neck. It was not exactly a compliment to the band, but it saved Jimmy Strong. —[ New York Sun. just as ® sol 1 No Water on the Moon. viigetable, requires both the presence of air and the presence of water; we do not universe there me for which neither air nor water is essen tial; nothing is, however, more than the evidence which we are able to produce with reference to the presence or absence of the substances we have pamed, First, with regard to water. There are, no doubt, some reasons for thinking that there may have been once water on the moon, but it is now certain that there is no liquid on’ its surface, nor indeed can I find much reason to believe that there is even frozen water there, as has been sometimes supposed. It is certainly a singular fact that two constituants which are so abundant here should scem to be entirely wanting in the moon, and it is an interesting subject for specu. a8 to what ‘has. happened to the on the moon if it existed there. It is generally belie vod that as our satellite penetrated into there seized upon by the minerals which required water in order that they might assume their ap propriate crystalline forms. The water on the moon has therefore, according to this into a solid form, incorporated with the bodily tex ture of the It hax even been sur mised that a similar destiny awaits the broad and yet may bo water once interior, and was globe, iH on our own globe; deep though they seem, they ing minerals as must exist in the interior But whether this be the the absence of liquid fuct of ¢ cannot be questioned. The moon has been subjected to not, the care ever seen genuine ocean or sea any indication of t yresent existence of and wi itled to Any one has ever seen no water, that from th assert } ft aDsent water, in nm surface ¥ sailCil Os Were West In derived which Lid “sHithote 4 said to h Te iy which, begins to low incre and 0 1 distan fifty inches flaws from the v the water s LAE jets or mini waves, seeming the lashing explanati been Mr tenable by tate in a feeble way ft white Apa Several me of attempted, Milne, has been fhe scicutit He for the flow in this wise: The whole bay, he believes, ins a clay bottom, The water phenomenon have only that of one, sociotion secounts between here except at the shelving termination of the clay bed, which, of As the tide rises in the obstruction to this mode of Hence Course, 1s harbor the forced back by the waves and out of the mouth of the well. -{ St. Louis Republic Cucumbers are Greatly Maligned, “Cucumbers are a greatly maligned said a man who insists upon having vegetables freshly picked every ity of persons to be unhealthy; whereas if eaten within a few hours after they are wholesome-—quite as much so in my es. timation as lettuce, My family are all fond of them, and partake of thom freely throughout the season; but I should not allow them to oat them at all, unless I was sure of their freshness, It is just that that makes all the difference, My great-grandfather was hale and hearty at ninety-one, and I remember being t Id that his diet consisted chiefly of cucum- bers and tobacco. But I won't recon. mend thix menu as a rule for old gentle. mea; [only cite it to show that my fav. orite vegetable has its sanitary value in SOMO canis, of York une. DIAMOND MINES. SOUTH AFRICA, How They Are Dug For, Sorted, Valued and Sold tions Against Theft, The Kimberley diamond resent the most producti ive thus far placed on S500. 000 Cleaned the market 2, camis of these : i of their consolidated interests the product make the supply exceed the mand Thus it the carbon there are seans and 5,700 nati « made in search 3 ich is the ion of the g maintains crystals In the work employed abont 1.300 Eur Two of the ex of the blue cl ¢ of matrix of the diamonds, are described by Lord Randolph Churchill a ‘probably ti that greedy man has eve 1 1 st holes (rq g into t earth the In extract space 3 ME Duslios hill, but the native with cheerful equanimity, feel himself repaid by the high After passing through the search workmen Wages hie still in a state sudity, to their apartments in the d, where they find blankets to i fo wrap themselves for the night During the evening the clothes they have left behind them are yom the ao, carefully heir owners in the morning. A law of yyers in South Africa. Under the statute the ordinary presumption of the law in favor of the accused disappears, the ac used person having to prove his inno sence in the clearest manner, from five to frequently passed on of purchasing tiamonds from others who have stolen them. Io that region such a crime seems to be regarded as about as bad as homi- vide, Nevertheless, as has been said, gresit numbers of the gems are stolen, the great outlet for such contraband stones | being through the Transvaal to Natal Most ingenious ruses are adopted by illicit | dealers for conveying stolen diamonds | out of Kimberley. The boundary of the | Transvaal approaching within a few miles i of Kimberley, thieves can quickly get { seross it and be safe. Recently one of | them, a very notorious person, was seen leaving Kimberley on horse-back for the | Transvaal, He was seized on suspicion oy the police on the border and was thoroughly searched, Nothing was found on him, and he was perforce allowed to proceed, No sooner was he well across the boundary than, while yet under the syee of the detectives, he deliberately Sentences convicted from its stomach a monds, which, before journey, had been | animal in the ington Star, large parcel of dia the to th starting on administered form of a bolus WHY HE SWORE OFF, Stopped by Death. id the old drommer fi of « simplest kind, for money,” ‘Won't vou pate h i i companion, 1 nauce any 514 fut nnies{” Persist eoted, ‘Why not?” breathes hysteri i = toppled ther popular ve men shot found bint INCnD ar posits Mis, that th fall 1 examination shows takon fter the who iu Th po As a rule, a ms goes down g slighter for the instinct ively resists, as it slips or is pushed or collides with some t. But a in a vital wenkens the and men «ink at or reel and tumble with very little [Popular Science Monthly. body jn does when one oh je wound resistance, ontrol The Child's Habits of Speech, There are fow things more necessary iu the education of a child than to con trol its habits of speech, Nervous chil fully guarded against, It is amusing at times to note how many people have pet phrases which they fall oh upon in a sort of apologetic manner on all occa. sions, This isa Kind of aphasia, using the term in a broad sense to mean hetero. phemy as well as failure of speech. Ine stance upon instance might be enumera. ted of this strange weakness, A tutor in one of our largest colleges attracted the attention of all his pupils by the irrele vant ‘way in which he used the phease “In that way.” In geometrical demon. strations, if there was nothing to criti. cise, this phrase almost invariably fol. lowed * Well demonstratod-—in that way,” leaving the im on on a nervous pupil in an indefinite way that there ee been somethin not quite right in the method until the phrase became known as a set one, Still another person uses the phrase “Not cs and it i One BUS. of many quired the habit and procure INS H ¥ 1 Cluinees AR of sph dd of set is phrases i to what ost « of a go who felt | they i RELIABLE RECIPES, Pies Ann Biscurrs hi 1H 8 nice of bs ou lige in : Human Electric Curt current { man IL Ui htly 154% CRANGes OCCure i themselves Fortnig One Way to Gratify a Toad, There are few thing: more than to watch a toad submitting operation of a back-scratching at first look suspiciously a the twig which you are advancing t But after two or three passes down somewhat i * 3 i WA nearly double its ordinary size, as if to enjoyment. Thus he will remain until you make some sudden movement which startles him, or until he has had as much petting as he wants, when, with a puff of regretful delight, he will reduce him. self to his usual dimensions and hop away, bent once more on the pleasures of he chase, {Our Dumb Animals, Drove Wild Geese Like Rabbits, During the late storm a wholesale slaughter of wild geese took place up at Big Bend, It was very soggy ose night and thousands of geese lit in the vicinity, and the fog being thick they could not seo, and several partios went out with clubs and in less than an hour had suc: ceeded in killing an even 3,000 of the birds, Redding (Cal.) Democrat, THE CHILDREN. wily nis ind Express, Nice Legal Point. Toulouse, in have a ease under ir notice which will tex their discernment and legal wisdom It originated with a curious which ox ed, we read, a short time ago in the refreshment rooms of the Toulouse railway terminus, A customer, having finished his breoak- fast at the table d’hote, drew a hundred. franc note (820) from his pocket and ten. it to the waiter. The latter being too far off to reach it, an obliging neighbor took it with the object of pass. ing it onto the waiter, Accidentally, however, he let it fall into a sauce tureen that was being handed around at the same moment, Another gentleman picked it out of this receptacle, holding the sauced bank note delicately by the corner. Before he could give it to the waiter a large dog, smelling the sauce, seized the note and swallowed it, All the witnesses of the incident went to the police commissary’s office, the customer to whom the note be- longed demanding that the dog should be killed, so that he might recover his money, The dog's master, however, objected that the dog was worth far more than a hundred francs, sod the matter was left in suspense till the following day. By a singular coincidence, in the course of the nighs the dog, taken with some sudden iliness, died. The carcase was opaned, but no trace of the bank note was visi. ble. The magistrates of Toulouse have been called upon to decide who ought to sustain the loss of the bank note, —{ Lone don Tid-Bits, ; Typ ¥ yer ly ¥ Magan 4 to decide t inciden ure
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