THE DIPHTHERIA CURE.
Fublic Subscriptions in France and
Germany So That Poor Poople
May Benefit.
The remarkable discovery of Dr.
Roux, the devoted collaborator of
Pasteur, for the prevention and cure
of that most fatal of infantile dis-
eases, diphtheria, is now attracting
attention,
The remedy consists of subeutane.
ous injections of serum of the blood
of animals inoculated with the poison
of the diphtheria bacillus.
The which has attended
the employment of the serum has
RUCCEeSSs
BLOOD FROM A
HORSE,
3
been
erally adopted in nee
where publi:
have been opened, so as to place the
80 great tha being
ro
gen
fi0r-
and
many, subseriptions
saving fluid, which is necessarily ex-
pensive, within reach ot
well as the rich.
In the majority
sufferin
the poor
as
ee ir
throat icrobes
mtaminates the
more
or less spee
ulence «
of the
lily. ace
of the attack
anti-dir
later.
hours
where the ras
ive.
wher
is often
les, bro:
is a certain
ria pure
and will
serving 1
methods
fail tosave
Experiments
horses furnish
quantities of
tapped from
nishes a serur erfoet limpidity.
The operat es no pain what
ever to the and is performed
once a month, when about four quarts
of biood are procured, ihe of
which not weaken the animal
excessively. The horses operated
upon in Paris are young and per.
fectly healthy animals, but nre most.
ly unfit for harnessing, owing to de-
fects in the legs.
The treatment of a case of diph- |
therin requires fifty centilitres of
serum, which is injected by means of |
a small syringe fitted with a needle]
at the point. The operation
simple that in case of necessity any
person could attempt it. The liquid
causes a swelling about the size of a
walnut, which, however, subsides in
ten minutes, and the patient experi-
ences no pain beyond the prick of the
needle.
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NOrse,
O88
does
is 80
ROMANCE FROM NICARAGUA,
How an American Saved a Girl and |
Then Married Her. !
A very romantic wedding was |
sol. nnized at Blueflelds, in Nica-|
ragua, recently in which a St. Louis |
boy widely known in the best circles |
in the town, Louis D. Peugnet, was
married to a young lady whose life |
and whose sister's life he had gallan- |
tly protected during the worst time |
in the recent revolution in Nicaragua, |
says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Peugnet went to Bluefields
some time previous to the uprising,
and was engaged in business for St,
Louis houses throughout the isthmus,
When the trouble came on and the
riotars seized the town, yonng Peug-
net and several other Americans
armed themselves to protect the
ladies, who were eqposed to the most
eppalling perils. General Lecayo,
er commanded the Nicaraguan
groops, left his wife and her sister in
the village, not anticipating any
emoute, and it was these hapless
women who fell to young Peugnet's
charge. He got them safely into a
stone house, with a large, well
cellar, on one of the side
‘streets, and there during the whole
{ tho sack and the fighting be k
mitting no one to enter tle pramises
but known friends, and frequently
having to face deperate, drunken
rioters, who were searching for Mme,
When order was restored and it
was safe for the ladies to reappear,
Mr. Peugnet evidently found that
the close association of three days
vith the pretty young donna had
sealed his fate, and he propesed and
was accepted upon the raising of the
state of siege. There were paternal
and maternal consents and blessings
to be secured both in Niearagua and
Missouri, but the gallantry of Peug-
net's defense of the ladies in the one
place and his father's pride in the
young man’s pluck and endurance in
the other made all this mere formula,
The new Mrs. Peugnét comes of
one of the oldest and wealthiest Cen-
tral American families. is an
heiress, and connected that
carefully guarded line of the gente
with most of the Spanish-
American aristocracy between
City of Mexico and Bogota, She
educated in New York, at Paris
at Madrid, and besides the usual ac-
omplishments which young ladies
have, she is a finished
trained musi.
She
is in
fine’
fhe
WHE
and
r station
TATE
nam
Louis and
he poiit
'
traveler
ng a setler Lo a po
IBN Cnlis
ier brothe
witl
id the preamble
i benevolent
nds the stair
Att end the form
eraigned, your most ol
he is
perl ie
raises his hands in sup-
to Your Excellency in order
Excell:
misera
mney may deign to
ble ruins of
as a further token
signature of the
to be almost
approaci Our
house."
of
writer is
i111 kl
tiegible,
humi
ty, the
resis ll
SINK as
Slept and Died in a Coffin.
An interesting and original persos,
named Yaszary Kovacs, died in Hun-
gary Wednesday, He had been
# Honved in 1848, and then became
n popular comic actor. When too
old to go on the boards he discovered
a strange occupation, which harmon-
ized with the hobbies he entertained
ife. For a small fee
ried tir: wonden cross customary in
Of
The last time
(our correspondent says) he played
like a true actor, was at Kossuth's
funorsi., With his snow-white beard
and flowing white hair, the wooden
cross in his right hand, and the left
on hie sword, he was a conspicuous
and dramatic figure, For the last
twenty years of his life he slept in
his eoffin, which, with his own hand,
ho hid painted in the national colors
of Hungary. He died in the coffin,
and his las’ wish was that the lid
should be marely nailed down over
him, and that no one should touch
his dead body. London News,
Chinese Street Paving.
The street-paving in Canton was of
loose granite slabs laid crosswise,
about nine inches through, and as
long ns the street was wide. Although
presenting a somewhat irregular sur-
face, the face of each slab is generally
worn smooth by the treading of un-
shod feet. A drain ran down the cen
tre of each street, under the granite
slabs, into which, between the joints,
percolated rainwater, fluid refuse,
ard house slops. These liquids ran
out into the main*tidal canals which
intersected the city, and when they
did not ran, as was not in
the slabs and
| MIGRATION OF BIRDS,
Mysterious Instinct That Loads
Them Through Vast Distances.
The instinet which guides n young
bird, without either op
the help ol its parents, across vast
| expanses of land and water to
winter (quariers of species his
been described by the greatest nat.
uralist and snge of modern
“the unknown power." While
necessity of obtaining an adequate
amount of food is, un loubtedly, a
important factor in the cause of mi-
gration, it can only have a partial
operation, inasmuch the spring
journey northward is commenced
from a country teeming many
cases with An-
other inexplicable phenomenon,
whieh proves that
neither food climatic
difficulties for
change,
experience
the
its
tines as
the
HE
in
desirable supplies,
conclusively
supplies
the
furnished
which
the autumn
the
nor
create impulse
by the or
on regularly
between this
continent
is 08%
migration
during
country and
birds of the
Some idea of ¢ or
Fy
goes
garmong
BRING Species,
ent
y tO migrate may
power un.
derly ing tlie §
be gained when it
have |
f
an 10rsak
BWai
lows
rather ti
een
IOTMous
Acute Vision of Birds
Birds hay
haps thi
and
1iffused o
case with m
tiie
CTE
of
can
front
great uneasiness
hawk long belo sible to man:
0 too fowls 1
scraps of
$a
nag
n
y
I. Young
ao find their
& position and
t
hes
what pps 0 us tl
pieces { g 8 : ETHvE
from
chickens iso able
own food
how distant it is as soon as they are
hatched, whereas a child very
gradually learns cither to see or to
understand the distance
are n
: A $4
Knowing is
Ooniy
of ohjeet ®.
ean see quite well directly they
of birds that nest in trees or on rocks
are born blind, and have to be fed. —
{ Boston Cultivator,
Popularity of Science.
As scientific research has so much
to do with our daily life, sur com:
forts, our health and happiness, as
contributing so beneficently to our
commercial profit and safety, it is
not at all surprising that, not only
the scientist but the “average man,”
is constantly on the alert for every-
| thing pertaining to scientific affairs,
{find that the number of science
t schools in England has nearly doubled
| in the past ten years; the number of
{ pupils has also more than doubled,
{and the payments to science schools
{on the results of the e«zaminations
have increased by more Shan $30,000
since last year. This country being
more progressive than England, there
has doubtless been a much greater
advance. In fact, technical, indus.
trial and manual training schools
have been opened in overy important
city, and the demand for such prac
tieal education is constantly increas.
ing.~={ Atlanta Constitution.
“Torpedo Scissors."
“Torpedo scissors,” a new form of
torpedo net cutters invented by a
Danish naval officer, hava proved
successful, it Is said, In recent tosts.
They ure fised to the hoad of the tor
pedo and full apart on striking the
| net, cutting it so us to let the
do puss through and strike the
JAPANESE
slight grave, Her steps are mude
ROOMS MADE ANY SIZE TO SUIT |
ATA MOMENT'S NOTICE,
in Some Fine Homes Chairs and Ta-
bles Are Entirely Unknown=--The
Guests at Dinner Squaton theFloor
-=The Beauty of the Women and
Their Beautiful Surroundings~-=A |
Description in Verse.
The Japanese home has been well
lescribed as a sort of dolly’
nagnified to a thousand
“All wood and wicker
per!’
Almost every house in Japan
ever humble, has a garden
8 house
or dinmeoters,
\
:
i
and white pa-
how-
Some of
gardens are very
with huge leaved palms,
bending
colored shrubs and
blebeos, broad-wii
half-tamed crows and
birds enliven thi
The
beautiful
shady ma-
and bright
flowers Bum-
ered butterflies
bamboos
sweel hum
entrance
couple of
Here t
his boots and the
The
15d ’
gigi
ground he foreigner reme
Japanese hi
the
The Japanese
The dishes are en:
Iv Ix y with
another of fish
lacquer tray.
out of a bowl
your
comes another
8 a
git
nr
chopsticks
aed
or five heaps £ I
or wild fowl, some r
a few boiled lily
stewed seaweed.
oO
i chestnuts
and
is
£m
AiWayvs
GOING TO MAKE A CALL.
served with a good Japanese dinner.
and the waiting girls take care that
your cup is full. Still the dishes
come in. Raw fish, green salads
and sweet sauce. When you have
well eaten and drunk to the full, then
ten is served with small cakes, and
the Japanese pipe follows. The Jap-
anese householder is a social being.
The festive meal is prolonged by a
thousand jokes, rogrs of merry laugh.
ter and endless conversation,
In the houses of the wealthy the
girl musicians and dancers entertain
the guests during the dinner hour or
immediately after, oe you are
sipping your tea, perhaps, you near
a flap 8 bare feet on the polished
v.airs. It is the geisha or dancer,
She twines herself round the corner,
and at the threshold falls upon her
hands and knees and bows her head
to the floor in salutation to the
not being used more than in walk-
the serpentine of
the hands and arms
movements
and in her com-
skill,
The Japanese lady is a drean.
80 gober a judge of feminine beauty
as the Mr. New
York, uuthor of “Larger Outlooks on
Missionary Lands,”
tev, Simpson, of
writes
A Japanese woman is a
study. Rhe
Indeed
rina
eirls
i #
18 BINOst
11
nil
RiWuys
they seemed to
of
very 13
robe, with immens
» wings.
y
her
y gpleeves th
This robe is
person
aown
arouna
to #
ie
boson
27
¥
oo
WA
i
husband :
ride r
love
Bat
to her
eldest
of things
wn i
almost unknown
the Japanese wife learns t
Mr. Newman that
nal Japanese belle was a girl witha
white face, a long slender throat and
narrow cf
and small hands and feet.” But Mr,
MeClatehie has translated doe
scription of Lady Kokonoya, an ideal
Japanese beauty, as follows
y Jove
“aye the origi-
g 11 1 g
neces a peel smal itmbs
the
Her figure so trim
As the willow tree's bough is as gracefnl
and slim
Her complexion’s as white as Fuji’s hoar
peak
Neath the snows of midwinter — like
damask ber cheek
With a dear little nose,
And two ever black ax aloes,
And a pairof ripe lips which, when part
ed, disclose
Pearly teeth-her fine eyebrows obliquely
are ast
Japan that's a beauty i—her hair's
dark as jot
And i= coiled in thick masses on top of her
pate
in
There are eight styles of chignon, just
here I may tell
ese belle).
her part
Of kind Nature, she's called in the assist
ance of Art,
For rice powder to render more dazzlingly
fair
Her face, hands, neck and chin--cherry
oil Tor her hair
Just a soupeon of rouge to embellish her
ip.
Aud a hoet of cosmetics my memory that
wlip,
To complete the fair picture of bright
loveliness,
Add to all this the charm of her elegant
dress:
Satin, crepe and
brocade
Here contribute
their aid
Which hanes Tome os eva her shoulders, in
Allon raided bere ;
Next, res road velvet girdle encircles her
EW Oss
| And a halrp'n of tortoise shell, dainty to
Fre:
| Om her brow place a circlet of gilt filigree.
—
Curio ® Proper y of Aluminum,
the
: University
F minde a clive
ning alumingin,
{ glass be rubbed
s metal, very bril-
» obtained that
wparator at
i of 4
JOUR QIBCOYS
He has found ti
: f
piece Of thi
is AOn
rain Cho,
but
characlers
drunk
g these
Lat P Ais.
iv and go
re until
have
k to
sicep in 4 Hh ir, remain the
rning and go hom Ther
terrorized
invaria-
a
eyed,
m
been eases where mi
; Western towns and t
bly
Diy
n have
hey are
i ns GW DOTS i As
fact
‘inecinnati Enquirer.
PO ti
¥ 4 1
matier ol =e
are.” weit
fies 0m,
How to Air Apartments.
It is the general practice to open
eniy the lower part of the windows
of a room in ventilating it, whereas if
the npper part were also opened, the
object would be more speediy effected.
The air in an apartment is usually
heated to ahigher temperature than
the otter air, and it is thus rendered
| lighter, and as the outer air rushes
in, the warmer and lighter air is
forced npward, and finding no outlet,
remains in the room. 1fa candle be
held in the doorway near the floor it,
will be found that the flame will ba
blown inward: but, if it be raised
nearly to the top of the doorway, it
| will go outward; the warm air flow
ing out at the top, while the cold air
flows In at the bottom. A current
| of warm air from the room is generals
| ly rushing up the flue of the chim-
ney. if the flue be open, even though
{ there should be no fire in the stove:
therofore open fireplaces ave the best
ventilators we can havé for a cham
ber. with an opening arranged in the
chimney near the celling.—{New
York Times.
nn hom
Languages of “he World.
a —
It is estimated that the chief
languages of the world are spokes Sy
the following numbers of le:
Chinese, by over 400,000,000; Hin.
dustani, by over 100,000,000; Eng.
lsh, about 100,000,000, Russian,
72,000,000; German, over 60,000,000;
Spanish, 43,00000; rench, |
L000; Japancie re 40,000,000
over 25,000,000, ~[St, Lows § :
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